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US07771797B2	Photocatalyst material producing method and photocatalyst material producing apparatus This invention provides a new photocatalyst material producing apparatus and photocatalyst material producing method that can produce a large quantity of photocatalyst material of high quality by a chemical reaction in light high-field plasma in a highly oxidative high-concentration ozone medium state, instead of systems to produce a photocatalyst material by PVD and CVD, which are conventional dry deposition methods.In a photocatalyst material producing method and photocatalyst material producing apparatus according to this invention, a pair of facing electrodes are provided via a dielectric material in a discharge gap where gas mainly containing oxygen gas is supplied, and an AC voltage is applied between the electrodes to generate dielectric barrier discharge (silent discharge or creeping discharge) in the discharge gap. Thus, oxygen gas containing ozone gas is created and a metal or metal compound is modified to a photocatalyst material by the dielectric barrier discharge.
US07771790B2	Method and system for fabricating a nano-structure A method and system for fabricating nano-scale structures, such as channels (i.e., nano-channels) or vias (i.e., nano-vias). An open nano-structure, is formed in a substrate. Thereafter, a conformal material film may be deposited within and over the nano-structure using an optional first deposition process condition, and then the open nano-structure is closed off to form a closed nano-scale structure using a second deposition process condition, including one or more process steps.
US07771782B2	Method of manufacturing a high impact polarized optical element and polarized optical element including an integrally bonded polarizing film A method of manufacturing a polarized optical element comprises the steps of: providing a polarizing film comprising free hydroxyl groups; placing the polarizing film within a mold cavity: admitting into the mold cavity a liquid-phase polyurethane-based optical material containing —NCO functional groups reactive with said hydroxyl groups and comprising the following components: A) a liquid polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate prepolymer having a content of —NCO functional groups comprised between 5 and 50% by weight and an average functionality of 2 to 3, B) an isocyanate-reactive component comprising at least one organic compound containing at least two aromatic amine groups, and C) at least one organometallic catalyst; curing the liquid-phase polyurethane-based optical material to form a polarized optical element. The method allows to reliably manufacture a polarized optical element comprising an optical part made of polyurethane-based optical material and a polarizing film integrally bonded to the optical part even using thin freestanding polarizing films, such as PVA films, achieving at the same time improved adhesion properties of the polarizing film to the optical material.
US07771748B2	Pharmaceutical compositions of 5,7,14-triazatetracyclo[10.3.1.02,11.04,9]-hexadeca-2(11),3,5,7,9-pentaene The present invention is directed to controlled-release (CR) oral pharmaceutical dosage forms of 5,8,14-triazatetracyclo[10.3.1.02,11.04,9]-hexadeca-2(11),3,5,7,9-pentaene, 1, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using them to reduce nicotine addiction or aiding in the cessation or lessening of tobacco use while reducing nausea as an adverse effect. The present invention also relates to an immediate-release (IR) low dosage composition having a stable formulation with uniform drug distribution and potency.
US07771746B2	Methods for making sustained-release pharmaceutical compositions of ergot alkaloids having improved bioavailability and compositions thereof A method of improving bioavailability of ergot derivatives administered using sustained-release delivery systems includes combining an ergot derivative or mixture thereof with a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic swelling agent or mixture thereof and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The bioavailability of sustained-release formulations of the present invention is at least equal to the bioavailability of the ergot derivative or mixture thereof administered using a conventional delivery system. Sustained-release compositions that improve bioavailability are also provided. Methods and compositions according to the present invention may provide sustained-release characteristics while improving the bioavailability of ergot derivatives.
US07771738B2	Silver-based inorganic antimicrobial agent and antimicrobial product The present invention is to provide a silver-based inorganic antimicrobial agent that has excellent heat resistance and chemical resistance, that gives little resin coloration, and that has excellent processability.It has been found that the object can be attained by a silver ion-containing zirconium phosphate represented by Formula (1) below by limiting the production conditions to wet synthesis, and the present invention has thus been accomplished. Aga MbZrc(PO4)3.nH2O (1) In Formula (1), M is at least one type of ion selected from an alkali metal ion, a hydrogen ion, and an ammonium ion, a, b, and c are positive numbers and satisfy 1.5≦c≦2 and a+b+4c=9, and n is no greater than 2.
US07771734B2	Process to color and permanently restructure hair Process to simultaneously color and permanently restructure hair, wherein (a) an oxidative hair colorant is applied to the hair based on at least one developer substance and least one coupler substance, (b) the oxidative hair colorant is left on for 5 to 60 minutes, (c) the oxidative hair colorant is rinsed out of the hair, (d) an acidic intermediate treatment agent with a pH of from 2 to 6 is applied to the hair, (e) after an action period of from 1 to 10 minutes, the intermediate treatment agent is rinsed out, if necessary, and the hair is then rolled up onto curlers, (f) a keratin-reducing permanent restructuring agent is applied to the hair, (g) after an action period of from 1 to 30 minutes, the keratin-reducing agent is rinsed out, if necessary, (h) the hair is fixed with an oxidative material, (i) after an action period of from 3 to 15 minutes, the hair is rinsed with water, if necessary and then treated with an acidic rinse. The process is intended to enable better, faster, and gentler coloring of human hair, particularly natural hair, than was previously possible, as well as to maintain the color intensity of colored hair or to refresh (renew) it, and to improve the hair shine while simultaneously restructuring the hair.
US07771733B2	Compositions and methods for enhancing corticosteroid delivery The present invention comprises a composition, method of enhancing potency and method of delivering corticosteroids in a vehicle comprising at least two penetration enhancers, and solvents and emulsifiers. The propylene glycol and penetration enhancers are present in ratio to the total of the propylene glycol, penetration enhancers, and solvents and emulsifiers of at least about 0.70.
US07771729B2	Methods of potentiating HIV-1-specific CD8+ immune responses involving the concomitant administration of DNA and ALVAC expression vectors This invention relates to improved methods of inducing an immune response for the prevention or treatment of HIV-1 infection by using a nucleic acid vaccine in conjunction with a recombinant viral vaccine, e.g., a poxvirus vaccine, to potentiate and broaden the immune response. The present invention further provides a particularly effective vaccine regimen comprising a DNA vaccine used in combination with a poxvirus virus, especially NYVAC or ALVAC.
US07771728B2	Method for identification, isolation and production of antigens to a specific pathogen Described is a method for identification, isolation and production of hyperimmune serum-reactive antigens from a specific pathogen, a tumor, an allergen or a tissue or host prone to autoimmunity, said antigens being suited for use in a vaccine for a given type of animal or for humans, which is characterized by the following steps: —providing an antibody preparation from a plasma pool of said given type of animal or from a human plasma pool or individual sera with antibodies against said specific pathogen, tumor, allergen or tissue or host prone to auto-immunity, —providing at least one expression library of said specific pathogen, tumor, allergen or tissue or host prone to auto-immunity, —screening said at least one expression library with said antibody preparation, —identifying antigens which bind in said screening to antibodies in said antibody preparation, —screening the identified antigens with individual antibody preparations from individual sera from individuals with antibodies against said specific pathogen, tumor, allergen or tissue or host prone to auto-immunity, —identifying the hyperimmune serum-reactive antigen portion of said identified antigens and which hyperimmune serum-reactive antigens bind to a relevant portion of said individual antibody preparations from said individual sera and —optionally isolating said hyperimmune serum-reactive antigens and producing said hyperimmune serum-reactive antigens by chemical or recombinant methods.
US07771727B2	Conjugates of therapeutic or cytotoxic agents and biologically active peptides The invention features conjugates of therapeutic or cytotoxic agents and biologically active peptides and methods of use thereof.
US07771726B2	Use of synthetic glycolipids as universal adjuvants for vaccines against cancer and infectious diseases The present invention relates to methods and compositions for augmenting an immunogenicity of an antigen in a mammal, comprising administering said antigen together with an adjuvant composition that includes a synthetic glycolipid compound of Formula I, as described herein. According to the present invention, the use of a compound of Formula I as an adjuvant is attributed at least in part to the enhancement and/or extension of antigen-specific Th1-type responses, in particular, CD8+ T cell responses. The methods and compositions of the present invention can be useful for prophylaxis and treatment of various infectious and neoplastic diseases.
US07771719B1	Pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and therapeutic uses of antagonist antibodies to IL-17E The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides having sequence identity with IL-17, IL-17 receptors and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention. Further provided herein are methods for treating degenerative cartilaginous disorders and other inflammatory diseases.
US07771706B2	Method for monitoring protein translation Disclosed is a method for monitoring early treatment response of a cancer treatment comprising measuring by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), for example, proton MRS, the amount of Choline present in the tissue adjoining or surrounding the cancerous tissue before and after treatment; the treatment comprises administration of an angiogenesis inhibitor, for example, a VEGF inhibitor, whereby a decrease in the amount of Choline after treatment is indicative of a positive response. The decrease in the amount of Choline represents the decrease in the internal cell membrane as a result of down regulation of the organelles and their secretory granules and their transport vesicles. Disclosed also is a method for determining effectiveness of an angiogenesis inhibitor in the treatment of cancer. Also disclosed are methods of monitoring early treatment response in diseases where an angiogenesis effector, i.e., an inhibitor or promoter of angiogenesis, is employed. Also disclosed is a method for monitoring protein translation related to angiogenesis.
US07771705B2	Radiographic contrasting agents and radio-opaque polymeric materials for medical devices The present invention discloses a radiographic contrasting agent containing multiple aromatic groups, each of which is substituted with at least three halogen atoms. The radiographic contrasting agent can initiate a polymerization process. The present invention also discloses a radio-opaque polymeric material that comprises a biodegradable polymer having at least one radiographic contrasting moiety covalently attached thereto. The radio-opaque polymeric material provides enhanced contrasting intensity in radiographic imaging. The radio-opaque polymeric material can be applied on at least a portion of one surface of a medical device. The radio-opaque polymeric material can also be used to construct a medical device, a component thereof, or a portion of a component thereof.
US07771702B2	Sulfur-tolerant catalysts and related precursors and processes The invention provides active, affordable, durable, and sulfur-tolerant catalysts and related precursors and processes useful in hydrogen production. The catalysts have a wide applicability. For example, in one embodiment, the invention provides sulfur-tolerant catalysts which, when used in a catalytic fuel processor, will facilitate sufficient hydrogen generation within 30 seconds or so of automobile start-up to generate around 50 kW of fuel cell power. Catalysts of the instant invention are made by reducing a catalyst precursor comprising a support phase impregnated with one or more elemental transition metals, wherein: (a) the support phase is formed by dispersion of a monolayer on the surface of a high surface area alumina support; and (b) the monolayer comprises XOnYO2, where (1) XOn is a redox active metal oxide and n is either 1.5, 2, or 2.5 depending on the oxidation number of X, and (2) YO2 is a redox inactive metal oxide. Ni—V2O5—ZrO2/Al2O3 catalysts of the instant invention are preferred.
US07771698B2	Laser-based method for growing an array of carbon nanotubes A method for making/growing an array of carbon nanotubes includes the steps of: (a) providing a substrate; (b) forming a light absorption film made of a light absorption material on the substrate; (c) forming a catalyst film on the light absorption film; (d) introducing a mixture of a carrier gas and a carbon source gas by flowing the mixture over/across the catalyst film; (e) focusing a laser beam on the light absorption film to locally heat the catalyst to a predetermined/reaction temperature; and (f) growing an array of the carbon nanotubes from the substrate.
US07771696B2	Nanocomposites and functionalized carbon nanofibers A composition is provided in which carbon nanofibers are functionalized with at least one moiety where the moiety or moieties comprise at least one bivalent radical. The composition can include a nanocomposite, such as polyimide films. Methods for making functionalized carbon nanofibers and nanocomposites are also provided.
US07771690B2	Plenum crusher dust injection Methods for heating a solid material comprising a granular material are provided. Dust is removed from the granular material before it is heated. The dust is injected into the exhaust gas from the heater. The heated dust is recovered and combined with the heated granular material.
US07771688B2	Method for preparing titanium dioxide particles co-doped with nitrogen and fluorine A method for preparing titanium dioxide particles co-doped with nitrogen and fluorine includes the steps of: mixing boric acid with ammonium fluorotitanate in an aqueous medium to form ammonium oxotrifluorotitanate; liquid-phase depositing the ammonium oxotrifluorotitanate on a silicon-containing substrate; and thermo-treating the ammonium oxotrifluorotitanate on the silicon-containing substrate at a temperature ranging from 300 to 1000° C.
US07771686B2	Hybrid inorganic polymer systems An inorganic polymer which comprises one or more organic functional groups and which has the following empirical formula: Rm[M2O]x[Al2O3]y[SiO2]zXqPH2O, in which: R represents an organic functional group; M is an alkali metal; X is selected from chlorine and fluorine; m is >0; q is ≧0; x is from 1 to 1.6; y is from 1.0; x/y is from 1.0 to 1.6; z is from 3 to 65; z/y is ≧1.0; and P is from 3 to 5.
US07771676B2	Preferential oxidation reactor integrated with heat exchanger and operating method thereof A PROX reactor integrated with a heat exchanger and an operating method thereof capable of effectively controlling temperature of a preferential oxidation reactor so as to obtain optimal activation and yield. The PROX reactor integrated with a heat exchanger of the present invention includes a pipe having an inlet and an outlet, a heat exchanger cooling gas passing through the pipe, a catalyst part positioned at the rear end of the heat exchanger, upon considering the flow of gas, and shifting carbon monoxide contained in the gas into other substances; and a temperature sensor measuring the temperature of the gas coming out through the catalyst part.
US07771674B2	Multitubular reaction apparatus for contact gas-phase reaction The present invention relates to a multitubular catalytic gas-phase reaction apparatus, comprising a plurality of reaction tubes arranged in parallel, a baffle capable of changing the direction of movement of a heat medium introduced into a reactor shell to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the reaction tubes, a space that is disposed in a region including a part of a section where the heat medium flows in the direction of the face of the baffle and does not have the reaction tubes arranged therein, and flow-adjusting rods, disposed in between the space and the reaction tubes, having the same longitudinal direction as that of the reaction tubes.
US07771670B2	Apparatus and method for reducing and removing airborne oxidized particulates A method for treating air flow containing particulates and oxidized compounds of carbon, sulfur, iron, and other elements. The method includes supplying an air flow to a reaction zone formed between an electrically insulated electrode node having a plurality of point source electrodes and a grounded receptor. A continuous film of electrically grounded water is supplied on the receptor. The water is filtered after traveling over the receptor and collecting elemental materials formed in the reaction zones.
US07771663B2	Catalytic combustors keeping contained medium warm in response to hydrostatic valve Water in a fuel cell accumulator is kept above freezing by a hydrogen/oxygen catalytic combustor fed hydrogen through a mechanical thermostatic valve in thermal communication with the container and connected to a hydrogen supply. The system includes an ejector hydrogen/oxygen combustor and a diffusion hydrogen/oxygen combustor for warming a medium within a container such as water in the accumulator of a fuel cell in response to a mechanic hydrostatic valve which conducts hydrogen to a combustor responsive to the temperature of the container.
US07771662B2	Vial system and method for processing liquid-based specimens A vial-based system and method for handling and processing specimens of particulate matter-containing liquid directly in the vial. A processing assembly, which includes a stirrer and a particulate matter separation chamber, is releasably coupled to the inside of the vial cover. The processing assembly remains with the cover when the vial is opened to insert a specimen therein. Application of a particular external force to the closed vial detaches the processing assembly from the cover so that it remains in the vial, for access by automated or manual laboratory equipment, when the cover is subsequently removed.
US07771625B2	Method for producing surface-treated silver-containing powder and silver paste using surface-treated silver-containing powder A method for producing a surface-treated silver-containing powder comprises vacuum freeze drying a dispersion liquid, which is obtained by dispersing silver or silver compound particles (a) in a solvent together with a surfactant (b) of an alkylamine type or an alkylamine salt type, or a phosphate type having a phosphorus content of 0.5 to 10% by mass so that the surfactant (b) is adsorbed in the surface of the silver or silver compound particles (a), thereby producing a silver-containing powder (c) whose surface is treated with the surfactant (b). Moreover, a silver paste is produced by dispersing the surface-treated silver-containing powder (c) in a solvent, or in a solvent with a resin.
US07771612B2	Hydrogen generating composition In contrast, the alkaline compound included in the composition of the Document D1 is strong alkali, such as sodium hydroxide. Therefore, the oxide of an alkaline earth metal used in the amended invention is not disclosed or suggested in the D1 at all.In addition, the composition of D1 is an oxygen scavenger and it includes compound which enhance the reaction of oxygen with hydrogen, such as catalyst. Therefore, its hydrogen generating ability is lower than that of the claimed invention.
US07771608B2	Plasma processing method and apparatus A plasma processing method using a plasma processing apparatus comprising a vacuum processing chamber, a substrate electrode having an electrostatic chucking film for chucking a material to be processed, an electrostatic chucking DC power supply and a substrate bias high-frequency power supply connected to the substrate electrode, and a plasma generating unit for generating the plasma in the vacuum processing chamber. The high-frequency voltage Vpp applied to the substrate electrode is monitored, and based on the Vpp signal thus monitored, the output voltage of the electrostatic chucking DC power supply is controlled thereby to maintain the voltage applied on the electrostatic chucking film at the desired value while at the same time controlling the output of the substrate bias high-frequency power supply in ramp with time.
US07771606B2	Pulsed-plasma system with pulsed reaction gas replenish for etching semiconductors structures A pulsed plasma system with pulsed reaction gas replenish for etching semiconductor structures is described. In an embodiment, a portion of a sample is removed by applying a pulsed plasma etch process. The pulsed plasma etch process comprises a plurality of duty cycles, wherein each duty cycle represents the combination of an ON state and an OFF state of a plasma. The plasma is generated from a reaction gas, wherein the reaction gas is replenished during the OFF state of the plasma, but not during the ON state. In another embodiment, a first portion of a sample is removed by applying a continuous plasma etch process. The continuous plasma etch process is then terminated and a second portion of the sample is removed by applying a pulsed plasma etch process having pulsed reaction gas replenish.
US07771602B2	Method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetic recording media According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming patterns having protrusions and recesses of a ferromagnetic material onto a recording track section and a servo section on a substrate, forming a flattening film, a top surface of which is higher than that of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, onto the ferromagnetic material, and performing ion beam etching onto the flattening film up to a top surface of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, and determining an end point of flattening etching on the basis of a change in the total number of incident particles by means of an ion counter installed so as to be at an angle θ with respect to a perpendicular direction to the substrate in accordance with a material of the flattening film.
US07771584B2	Integrated unsupported slurry catalyst preconditioning process A process for slurry hydroprocessing, which involves preconditioning a slurry catalyst for activity improvement in vacuum residuum hydroprocessing units Preconditioning the slurry catalyst raises its temperature, thereby reducing shock on the catalyst slurry as it enters the hydroprocessing reactor.
US07771582B2	Method and apparatus for conducting a chemical reaction in the presence of cavitation and an electrical current Disclosed is a method and apparatus for conducting a chemical reaction. The reaction is conducted in a reaction vessel or mixing occurring in at least a partial liquid environment in which reactants are disposed. The reaction is conducted in the presence of cavitation and an electrical current.
US07771577B2	Process for electrocoating metal blanks and coiled metal substrates Processes for forming a coating on electroconductive flat blanks having two major surfaces and sheared edges are provided. Also provided is a process for forming a multi-composite coating on a pre-sheared, electroconductive, flat blank having two major surfaces and sheared edges. Methods for forming and coating metal blanks are also provided. The present invention further provides a pre-sheared, flat electroconductive blank having two major surfaces and coated with a multi-layer composite coating composition on one major surface. The present invention also provides a method for coating a continuous metal strip, optionally, thereafter forming a coated blank therefrom, and, optionally, applying a second coating to the blank.
US07771552B2	Method for manufacturing thin film capacitor A dielectric green sheet containing a dielectric ceramic powder, conductor green sheets containing a metal powder, and firing-assisting green sheets containing an inorganic oxide material powder are prepared, and the firing-assisting green sheet, the conductor green sheet, the dielectric green sheet, another conductor green sheet, and another firing-assisting green sheets are stacked in that order to prepare a laminate. The laminate is then fired. During firing, the bonding strength of the interfaces between the conductor green sheets and the firing-assisting green sheets is decreased and the oxygen partial pressure of the firing atmosphere is changed at least once so that the capacitor portion is separated from the firing-assisting green sheets. In this manner, a method for manufacturing thin film capacitor by which a high-reliability thin film capacitor can be produced at high efficiency and low cost without adversely affecting the characteristics of the thin film capacitor.
US07771524B2	Security ink In general, the invention relates to a security ink useful for producing indelible markings.
US07771523B2	Ink jet ink The present invention pertains to an aqueous inkjet ink comprising anionic self-dispersing pigment, a certain mixture of alkali metal cations and a certain humectant. The inks exhibit greatly extended latency.
US07771516B2	Method of removing ozone remaining in water The present invention provides a method of removing ozone remaining in water by separating residual ozone which remains in water after ozone is mixed in the water and kills microorganisms in the water including the steps of storing water containing the residual ozone in a pressure tank, supplying the pressure tank with compressed air, generating coarse bubbles larger than the residual ozone existing in water in the form of micro bubbles in pressurized condition, making the residual ozone in the form of micro bubbles adhere to the coarse bubbles, separating the residual ozone from water as the coarse bubbles go up, and discharging the micro bubbles from the pressure tank.Accordingly, the present invention provides a method of removing ozone remaining in water to remove ozone remaining in water inexpensively and efficiently.
US07771515B2	Method and installation for treating an aqueous effluent, in order to extract at least one dissolved gaseous compound; application to aquaculture in recirculated aqueous medium A method for treating an aqueous effluent comprising at least one dissolved gaseous compound, by partially separating said compound from said effluent, in order to obtain a treated aqueous phase.In the method, an upflow liquid column of the aqueous effluent is established by injecting and distributing into said column, at the bottom, a gas phase less rich in said compound than the aqueous effluent, for example air or oxygen, said gas phase being distributed in the column in the form of bubbles where the volume increases upward. A mixed liquid/gas stream is obtained at the top. The mixed liquid/gas stream is then separated into a liquid stream constituting the treated aqueous phase, and an offgas stream enriched with said gaseous compound, where the mixed liquid/gas stream is later separated under vacuum by establishing a gas headspace between the liquid stream and the gas stream, and by aspirating the latter.
US07771511B2	Oxygen concentration system and method The present system is an adsorption system for separating air into a concentrated gas component, which has an air supply, a compressor for receiving and compressing the air supply, providing a compressed air supply, and molecular sieve material for separating the compressed air supply into a concentrated gas component. The adsorption system delivers at least 5 liters per minute (LPM) of concentrated gas component from the molecular sieve material in which the system has a specific total weight per LPM <9 lbs/LPM. Additionally, an output quantity of the concentrated gas is delivered by the adsorption system and a purging quantity of the concentrated gas is dispensed into a sieve chamber of the adsorption system undergoing a purge cycle. The purging quantity has a value equal to or less than the difference between the maximum quantity and the output quantity, and the purging quantity is controlled based on the output quantity.
US07771510B2	Fixed bed hypersorber and fractionation of fluids using the same The present invention relates to a fixed bed hypersorber having moving ports for injecting and withdrawing fluids which can be used for fractionation of gaseous mixtures in a fixed bed filled with absorbents/adsorbents, where separation is brought about by contacting gaseous mixture in a counter-current fashion. The moving ports may take the form of pistons or pairs of tubes arranged concentrically, where one of the tubes has a straight slot and the other tube has a helical slot. Rotation of the tubes with respect to each other produces the moving port.
US07771508B2	Method for the treatment of air and air treatment system A method and system for the treatment of air, in particular for pneumatic brake systems of utility vehicles, is described. The method includes feeding compressed air to a compressed air storage tank through an air dryer, initiating a regeneration of the air dryer using regeneration air from the compressed air storage tank through the air dryer and discharged via a discharge valve, and calculating a theoretically required regeneration air quantity QReg,th. If a presence of condensate is not detected in a region downstream of the air dryer, a regeneration using the theoretically required regeneration air quantity QReg,th, is carried out. If the presence of condensate is detected, a regeneration is carried out using a corrected required regeneration air quantity QReg,corr, the corrected required regeneration air quantity QReg,corr being greater than the theoretically required regeneration air quantity QReg,th.
US07771493B2	Process for crystallising amorphous plastic granulates A process for crystallizing amorphous polymers whose Tg lies below the crystallite melting point. According to this process, amorphous or partially crystalline polymer grains are exposed in water for a period of at least 30 seconds to a temperature in the polymer crystallization range.
US07771491B2	Oxidation dye composition for keratin fibers, comprising at least one oxidation dye, at least one associative polymer, at least one nonionic cellulose-based compound not comprising a C8-C30 fatty chain, and at least one cationic polymer with a charge density of greater than 1 meq/g and not comprising a C8-C30 fatty chain Compositions for the oxidation dyeing of keratin fibers, for example of human keratin fibers such as the hair, containing, in a medium suitable for dyeing: a) at least one oxidation dye, b) at least one associative polymer chosen from non-ioninc, anionic, and amphoteric polymers, c) at least one nonionic cellulose-based compound not comprising a C8-C30 fatty chain, and d) at least one cationic polymer with a charge density of greater than 1 meq/g and not comprising a C8-C30 fatty chain.
US07771488B2	Prosthetic foot Embodiments of low cost prosthetic feet include a footplate with a connection mechanism embedded within a first foam element having a first stiffness. A second foam element is bonded to the footplate and has a recess in a proximal surface and a stiffness greater than the first foam element. The second foam element may have a portion extending past the terminal end of the footplate. A cosmesis encloses the components of the prosthetic foot. A third foam element that extends through the cosmesis into the second foam element may be provided. The third foam element may have a higher stiffness than the first and second foam elements.
US07771487B2	Anti-slip attachment and drainage system for prosthetics An anchoring system for a transtibial or transfemoral (above or below the knee) prosthesis. A gel liner is inserted into a socket, and the liner has a dual-strap attachment system including an upper strap and buckle attached upwardly to the liner and passing out through the socket, and a lower strap attached distally to the liner. The liner also has a port attached at a lower distal end for introducing a vacuum into the liner and for evacuating fluids (sweat) therefrom. To accomplish the foregoing, an annular centering puck is attached at the distal end of the socket (at the aperture), the puck having a generally concave side in communication with the aperture for seating the liner therein. The centering puck is formed with a dual passage there through that passes both a vacuum tube and lower strap outward from the liner to exterior of the socket. A vacuum pump is coupled to the vacuum tube, and the liner is securely anchored in the socket by total contact induced by the vacuum force of the pump, and further secured by the first strap and buckle inserted through the socket and fastened to the second strap (passing out through the puck and inserted through the buckle, tightened, and closed upon itself to form a suspension fit which prevents lateral, pivotal and proximal shift.
US07771485B2	Ball joint or cap implant for an artificial hip joint A ball joint or cap for an artificial hip joint is described that is suitable for carrying out a rotating or pivoting motion in an artificial hip joint socket, with a gap being provided for a natural fluid film (synovial fluid) between itself and the artificial hip joint socket, and with regular depressions without interconnecting channels between them being recessed in areas of its surface. It is proposed that its surface in the polar area is smooth and without depressions, that an area is provided in an intermediate area between the smooth polar area and its equator, in which depressions are recessed with hole widths between 1.0 mm to 3.0 mm, that adjacently in the intermediate area in the direction of its base edge, further depressions are recessed, the hole widths of which become steadily smaller, the closer they lie to the base edge, with hole widths between 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm.
US07771481B2	Total disc implant A total disc implant (TDI) is provided for total replacement of a spinal disc or discs in a human patient or other mammal, wherein the TDI is designed to maintain a substantially full range of natural motion (ROM) following implantation. The TDI generally comprises, in one preferred form, upper and lower end plates for affixation to adjacent vertebral bodies, with an intervening insert disposed therebetween. The end plates each include elongated part-cylindrical surfaces oriented generally perpendicular to each other, with one of said surfaces extending in an anterior-posterior direction and the other extending in a medial-lateral direction. The intervening insert defines concave upper and lower part-cylindrical seats oriented for respectively engaging these part-cylindrical surfaces, wherein these part-cylindrical seats are defined by offset radii to include a somewhat flattened central base region merging smoothly with upwardly curving radiused sides.
US07771480B2	Artificial disc prosthesis A visco-elastic motion-limiting artificial intervertebral disc prosthesis is provided that mimics the physiologic function of a normal spinal disc. The disc comprises upper and lower endplates having therewithin channels or openings for optionally receiving one or more motion-limiting members fitted on each end with an enlarged portion. One or more compression stops is provided between the upper and lower endplates. Additionally, an elastomeric cushion is disposed between the endplates and surrounds the motion-limiting members. Also, force transducers and microelectronics can be utilized to provide data to the surgeon or the patient regarding the load state of the disc.
US07771475B2	Spinal implant having deployable bone engaging projections Instrumentation is disclosed for inserting an interbody spinal fusion implant for implantation at least in part within and across the generally restored height of a disc space between two adjacent vertebral bodies of a human spine. The implant has an external housing and a substantially hollow internal rotatable member having bone engaging projections that are deployable through the housing to penetrably engage the adjacent vertebral bodies.
US07771471B2	Floating optic accommodating intraocular lens An accommodating intraocular lens comprising a flexible body and flexible optic, and a flexible skirt connecting the optic to the body. The body may have extending loop haptics.
US07771464B2	Overlapping coated stents method The present invention avoids a patient receiving a double dose of a therapeutic agent when a coated stent is overlapped with another coated stent within a vessel. A stent having a therapeutic coating on a portion of the stent is delivered within a vessel such that the portion of the stent not having a therapeutic coating is inserted within or overlaps a second coated stent. A radiopaque marker on the stent or delivery catheter guides positioning of the stent such that there is minimal or no overlap of the therapeutic coatings on the two stents.
US07771459B2	Fastener having torque optimized head Disclosed is a medical fastener that can be mounted to a bone of a patient. The medical fastener can include a head portion comprising a recess having a first portion, a second tapered portion extending from the first portion, and a third cylindrical portion extending from the second tapered portion. A threaded body portion can extend from the head portion. The first portion and the second portion can have a Torx geometry or star-shaped configuration. Also disclosed is a driver usable to mount the medical fastener to the bone. The driver can include a tip that is complementary to the recess and an end that enables the driver to mount to a drill or other device that can rotate the driver.
US07771457B2	Orthopedic plate for use in small bone repair The present invention relates to an orthopedic plate and screw system and instruments for surgical fixation of a small bone or bones. The plate facilitates three dimensional contouring to provide for a variety of applications and to accommodate individual variation in bone shape. The plate has a modified x shape including a central trunk portion including one or more screw holes along a longitudinal axis and a set of divergent upper and an oppositely extending set of divergent lower arms, each arm including screw holes which are placed at a radially equal distance but which diverging asymmetrically from the longitudinal axis relative to its paired upper or lower mate. The screws of the system are self-starting, self-tapping screws including the option of partial or full cannulation.
US07771437B2	Guide for medical devices A guide for controlling the orientation of a medical device includes a cannula having a lumen therein for the medical device, and a guide member having a passage therein for receiving and directing the medical device, the guide member being movably mounted in the cannula for movement. The guide member can be magnetically responsive to an externally applied magnetic field, or can be magnetically responsive to an externally applied magnetic field when a magnetic medical device is in the passage, and/or it can be mechanically responsive.
US07771436B2	Surgical navigation tracker, system and method An adapter can be easily used to assist a surgical navigation system to determine the effector axis or the effector plane of a surgical device. The adapter has a body with a geometrical feature, the geometrical feature has a known relation with a navigation tracker device that can be attached to the adapter. When the adapter is held against a surgical device in a non-fixed manner, the effector axis or the effector plane of the device can be tracked by the surgical navigation system. The method includes a calibration method to determine the known relation between the effector axis or the effector plane and the location of the navigation tracker.
US07771432B2	Insertion device and techniques for orthopaedic implants Instruments for inserting an implant in a space between adjacent bony portions include a pair of parallel guide members extending distally from a proximal frame portion. Tamps and impaction instruments facilitate advancement of the implant between the guide members to the space between the adjacent bony portions.
US07771431B2	Systems and methods for placing materials into bone A method for delivering material into bone deploys a cannula through soft tissue to establish a subcutaneous path into bone. The method deploys a cavity forming instrument through the cannula to form a cavity in cancellous bone. The method introduces a material into the cavity through the cannula, which includes the advancement of a tamping instrument through the cannula to urge material into the cavity.
US07771407B2	Method of producing disposable pants having discontinuous elastic elements A method of producing disposable under-shorts having a fit gather laminate at high speeds. The method includes disposing an elastic member (1) between a pair of upper and lower non-woven fabric sheets (6, 7) in the width direction, intermittently securing the elastic member (1) to portions of the non-woven fabric sheets (6, 7) and cutting a non-secured section of the elastic member (1). The method also may include cutting the fabric sheets into pieces of a predetermined size and shape, folding the pieces along a center line, attaching together the left edges and attaching together the right edges to form a fit gather laminate. The method may further comprise attaching a reinforcing sheet (3) to the under-side of the fit gather laminate (2), and disposing an absorber (4) on the upper-side of the laminate (2), and a back sheet (5) on the under-side of the reinforcing sheet (3).
US07771402B2	Wound irrigation containment arrangement A containment arrangement for safely and effectively treating a wound on a patient without contaminating attending personnel. The arrangement comprises a patient receiving first enclosure having a patient contacting periphery, a pressurizable source in communication with the patient through a wall of the enclosure for enlarging the enclosure, and a sealing means arranged in the patient contacting periphery. A hand manipulable fluid discharge nozzle is extendably arranged through the enclosure for providing controllable treatment fluid to the wound on the patient within the enclosure.
US07771401B2	Selective renal cannulation and infusion systems and methods Renal infusion systems include an infusion catheter having a bifurcated distal end with a first branch and second branch, the branches being biased to deploy laterally when unconstrained. Systems also include a delivery sheath having a lumen which receives the infusion catheter and constrains the first branch and second branch. A distal opening of the delivery sheath is formed asymmetrically to allow one of the first and second branches to open laterally while the other of the branches remains constrained. Methods of using renal infusion systems are also provided.
US07771400B2	Injection device An injection device with a travelling clutch which can be shifted between two different positions by the activation of an injection button. In the first position, the injection button and the drive sleeve is allowed to rotate relatively to the piston rod, which is blocked from rotation by the clicker element. In the second position, the drive sleeve and the injection button is axially movable while the piston rod is allowed to rotate.
US07771397B1	Needle cover assembly A needle cover assembly includes a manually operable member; a rigid needle shield (RNS) provided with an internally arranged resilient cap, in turn arranged to house and protect an injection needle; and a RNS remover assembly including a tubular shaped member surrounding the RNS, in which the tubular shaped member is arranged with at least one grip member capable of gripping the RNS in order to remove the RNS. The RNS remover assembly further includes a spinning attachment member having a distal end fixedly attached to the tubular shaped member and a proximal end rotatably attached to the manually operable member such that the manually operable member can be freely turned in relation to the RNS remover assembly but is locked in an axial direction.
US07771394B2	Intravenous catheter introducing device An intravenous catheter introducing device includes a barrel, a tubular grip member disposed to hold a needle seat in a position of use so as to permit a tip end of a needle cannula to extend forwardly of the barrel, a tubular plunger which is movable along a passage of the barrel, and a tubular receptacle which is retained in an accommodation compartment of the tubular plunger and which has socket and air-permeable ends and a flashback chamber. When the plunger is pressed forwardly to permit engagement of the socket end with a rear plug portion of the needle seat and to release the grip member from the barrel, a rearward movement of the needle seat by virtue of a biasing force of a biasing member will force the receptacle to move rearwardly so as to retract the needle cannula into the passage.
US07771371B2	Sports shoe with sensing and control Apparatus (20) is provided for improving athletic performance of a user, including a flexible insole (40), adapted for insertion into a shoe, the insole shaped so as to define one or more chambers (22, 24). The apparatus also includes a stimulator (50) and a control unit (30). The control unit is adapted to detect respective pressures in the chambers, and to drive the stimulator to apply a stimulation to the user responsive to the detected pressures and a desired parameter of athletic performance.
US07771367B2	Lancet wheel A system for analyzing a bodily fluid is described, which contains at least one lancing element, such as a lancet, stored in a first magazine, and at least one test element with a detection area, stored in a second magazine, the detection area containing reagents if necessary for use in detecting the analyte. The system also includes a housing, which encloses at least part of the first magazine and the second magazine and includes an opening for placement of a body part. At least one of the lancing elements and at least one of the test elements are located below the opening, and one of the magazines is located at least partly between the opening and the other magazine. The two magazines may at least partially overlap. The lancing element and the test element may be moved toward the opening so the body part resting on the opening can be lanced with the lancing element and the emerging bodily fluid can be collected using the test element at the same opening.
US07771354B2	High frame rate three dimensional ultrasound imager A three dimensional ultrasound imaging device, having an interpolator that creates up sampled ultrasound image information from a three dimensional ultrasound image information using interpolation; and a memory that stores at least one of the three dimensional ultrasound image information and the up sampled ultrasound image information. The three dimensional ultrasound imaging device can have a probe that sends ultrasound waves, gathers reflected ultrasound waves and creates ultrasound information and a processor that converts the ultrasound information to three dimensional ultrasound image information. The ultrasound imaging device may also have a display that displays the up sampled image information. The three dimensional ultrasound imaging device may use at least one of 2 image to 3 image interpolation, 2 image to 4 image interpolation, 3 image to 4 image interpolation and 3 image to 5 image interpolation. The three dimensional ultrasound imaging device may use two dimensional solids and three dimensional volumes. The three dimensional ultrasound imaging device may also create up sampled ultrasound image information that has a greater number of frames, a greater number of three-dimensional frames, a greater number of two-dimensional volumes, a greater number of three dimensional volumes and a larger amount of ultrasound information.
US07771351B1	Method and apparatus for eddy current compensation in a radio frequency probe Systems and methods are provided for determining a characteristic of an associated in vivo sensor within a living body. A transmit coil produces an excitation signal, having a first orientation, to excite the in vivo sensor to produce a response signal. A receive coil produces a current in response to the response signal. The receive coil is oriented to interact with signals having a second orientation that is substantially orthogonal to first orientation. The probe further comprises at least one eddy current compensation coil that produces a compensation field. A component of the compensation field along the second orientation has a magnitude at the receive coil substantially equal and opposite to a magnitude of a similarly oriented component of a magnetic field associated with eddy currents induced within the body.
US07771343B2	System and method for treating chronic pain In a method and system for treating pain or impairment a video imaging device obtains image frames of a continuous portion of the patient's body including a selected impaired member in proper spatial relationship to a facial image of the patient. A processor coupled to the imaging device processes the image frames to form composite image frames in substantially real time wherein the impaired member is replaced by a virtual image of a corresponding healthy member so as to depict the imaged portion of the patient's body performing healthy movement of the selected impaired member. An interface is coupled to the processor for controlling virtual movement of the impaired limb in the composite image frames, and a display screen is coupled to the processor for displaying at least some of the composite image frames in substantially real time synchronism with operation of the interface.
US07771340B2	Method and apparatus for modifying distance from a brachytherapy radiation source to sensitive anatomical structures A balloon brachytherapy applicator has either a single or double chambers, with the capability of “blistering” outwardly at a specified area on one side of the balloon. This is useful to move sensitive tissue farther away from a radiation source within a source guide inside the balloon. In one case a secondary compartment is formed on the primary balloon, and is separately inflatable so as to allow blistering as desired when needed. In another form the balloon comprises a single chamber but with a “window” or area in which the balloon wall is elastic, or substantially more elastic than the main balloon wall, so that inflation of the balloon up to a certain point forms a substantially regular balloon shape, and the addition of further pressure will blister out the elastic area to increase the distance between the shaft and the sensitive tissue in a desired orientation of the balloon.
US07771337B2	Self-centering tucker assembly for a folding roll An interfolding machine includes a first folding roll with a series of the gripper assemblies and a series of tucker assemblies uniformly and alternately spaced to interact with a series of gripper and tucker assemblies of an adjacent second folding roll. The series of alternately spaced gripper and tucker assemblies interact to grip, carry, and release a sheet of material in a manner so as to generate an interfolded stack of sheets. Each tucker assembly includes an outwardly biased tucker element that is operable to self-center in a slot formed in the folding roll. The tucker assembly further includes a roller mounted by a pin to the tucker element such that the tucker element rolls along a surface defined by the slot. Another embodiment of the tucker assembly includes a pivot spring and bumper to self-center the tucker element in the slot.
US07771331B2	Pivotal axis exercise device A pivotal axis exercise device which creates opposing forces to provide muscle resistance to selected muscle groups based on a personally selected exercise regime. The device is comprised of metal housing components attached with metal loops and cable loops to provide a pivotal axis point which may be gripped and pulled to provide resistance leveraging the pivotal axis point of the device, or which may be gripped along the metal housing components to vary the exercise regimen and to provide resistance to different muscle groups.
US07771325B2	Exercise bicycle A unique structure for an indoor exercise bike that provides strength in its design, as well as the flexibility to create an aesthetically appealing frame structure. The monocoque frame design, including two symmetrical halves joined together, forms a very strong, light shell that can take on a variety of shapes and sizes. The seat structure, handlebar structure, drive train and support platforms are all able to be readily attached to the primary frame structure to provide an exercise bicycle that is sturdy, easy to manufacture, and light enough to easily move when necessary.
US07771324B2	Climber mechanism An exercise apparatus to simulate climbing is described that includes such features as arm handles that move in synchronism with the motion of foot pedals to provide a total body workout; side handrails; a mounting step; linear foot movement at a simulated climbing angle; a three point support structure using a vertical support column; pedal track covers; a mechanism to provide constant resistance to pedal motion; and pedal impact absorption.
US07771316B2	Control apparatus and method for automatic transmission A control apparatus of an automatic transmission having first and second frictional engagement elements that achieve lower and higher speed gear stages respectively, includes a target value determination section setting a rotation speed difference between input and output sides of the frictional engagement element, a total torque capacity calculation section calculating a total torque capacity, a distribution ratio determination section setting a distribution ratio of the total torque capacity to the first and second frictional engagement elements, an individual torque capacity calculation section calculating individual torque capacities respectively required of the first and second frictional engagement elements, and an engagement control section controlling engagement conditions of the first and second frictional engagement elements in accordance with the individual torque capacity. The automatic transmission realizes an up-shift by changeover between first and second frictional engagement elements based on the individual torque capacity during a vehicle power-on travel.
US07771309B2	Control device for vehicle drive device A drive apparatus for vehicle is disclosed having a coupling device (switching clutch B0 or switching brake C0) operative to switch a transmission mechanism 10 between a continuously variable shifting state and a step-variable shifting state with both advantages including improved fuel consumption achieved by a transmission, enabled to electrically control a speed ratio, and increased power transmitting efficiency provided by a gear-type transmitting device in which drive power is mechanically transmitted. With the transmission mechanism 10, switching control means 50 allows a differential portion 11 to be maintained in the continuously variable shifting state or the differential portion 11 is preferentially placed in the continuously variable shifting state during a start-up of an engine. This allows an engine speed NE to rapidly increase beyond a given engine speed NE′ to immediately transit a given engine speed area NER, thereby suppressing the occurrence of vibrational noise of the vehicle during the start-up of the engine.
US07771303B2	Chain guide device A chain guide for guiding a chain includes a chain passage formed by an outer side wall and an inner side wall for surrounding the chain passage. A front end portion of the inner side wall is retracted to and is positioned at a rear side of a vehicle body than a front end portion of the outer side wall. Guide ribs are formed on an upper wall and a bottom wall and are brought into sliding contact with upper and lower sides of the chain. A discharge recessed portion which is opened frontwardly from the front end portion is formed in the inner side wall, wherein the chain passage is in communication with the outside through the discharge recessed portion. Mud or the like which is carried into an inlet falls in the inside of a vehicle body disposed outside the chain guide from the discharge recessed portion
US07771300B2	Devices for electrically assisting and actuating continuously variable transmissions An electrically assisted or actuated continuously variable transmission (CVT) with a first pulley having a first pulley portion for fixed connection to an engine shaft and an axially movable second pulley portion for placement about the engine shaft. A mechanism for assisting a mechanically-actuated CVT includes a nut connected to the movable portion and an electric motor having a screw that is engaged with the nut. The nut is moved axially by rotation of the screw with respect to the nut, assisting mechanical actuators in changing axial spacing between the pulley portions. A variable actuator for actuating a CVT includes a pair of disks coaxially engaged with the pulley portions, and a roller for contacting the disks at varying inclinations. An electric motor tilts the roller along the axis of rotation, causing the disks to rotate at differing rates to effect a change in axial spacing between the pulley portions.
US07771294B2	Throwing technique trainer This invention relates to a device and method for training an athlete to throw a ball, and particularly to a device and method that provides guides for optimally positioning an athlete's throwing hand and elbow prior to initiation of the throwing phase for throwing a ball.
US07771290B2	Golf club head and removable weight A golf club head and a removable weight that is received in a receptacle of the golf club head. The weight includes a cap and a slug. The cap is removably coupled to the receptacle and includes a recess that slidably receives a portion of the slug so that the cap and slug are able to rotate relative to each other. The slug includes an anti-rotation feature that prevents relative rotation between the slug and the receptacle.
US07771279B2	Game program and game machine for game character and target image processing On a display screen, a game image including a plurality of target images and a game character image is displayed. The target images moves so as to pass over the game character image. When an input is provided from a player onto a touch panel, input coordinates are detected. In response, display coordinates of each target image at the time of the input are detected. When display coordinates located within a predetermined range from the input coordinates are present, specified coordinates are determined based on at least one of a position represented by display coordinates and a position represented by the input coordinates. The game character has characteristic parameters which are varied in accordance with a positional relation between the specified coordinates and the game character image.
US07771272B2	Systems and methods for monitoring activities on a gaming table A gaming system includes a gaming table and a podium. The podium is located adjacent to a back portion of the gaming table and carries one or more optical readers. The readers are configured to read at least one wager placed approximately within a demarcated wagering area on a playing surface of the gaming table. The readers can be optical imagers, optical scanner, and/or video imagers. The podium and/or gaming table can carry a number of gaming automation components such as a card reader, a discard reader, chip tray, etc.
US07771268B2	Electronic game apparatus and method providing a secondary game triggered apart from a primary game A gaming device and method where there is a primary game and a bonus game. The player makes a wager and plays the primary game to obtain an outcome. Before, during or after the primary game a bonus game is played, apart from the primary game, which can trigger an separate, unrelated award. A bonus award display displays any award from the bonus game.
US07771267B2	Electronic game apparatus and method providing a secondary game triggered apart from a primary game A gaming device and method where there is a primary game and a bonus game. The player makes a wager and plays the primary game to obtain an outcome. Before, during or after the primary game a bonus game is played, apart from the primary game, which can trigger an separate, unrelated award. A bonus award display displays any award from the bonus game.
US07771264B2	Method and apparatus for conducting a wagering game of chance including a prize wheel game A system and method are provided for playing a game of chance. The game of chance may include, for example, a lottery-type game. A result of the game of chance is revealed to a player in another medium. In one example, the result is revealed during multiple game instances of one or more online games. In one example, the online game is a prize wheel game.
US07771263B2	Portable swing speed analyzer Provided is a swing speed analyzer for mounting on a swinging implement and comprising a first accelerometer, a processor and a shock attenuator. The processor uses an output from the first accelerometer to compute a swing speed of the swinging implement. The shock attenuator is comprised of a material that is sized and dimensioned to dampen an impact shock wave by more than 50% at 125 Hz. The material is preferably sized and dimensioned to dampen the impact shock wave from more than 1000 g to less than 500 g. Suitable attenuators can include viscoelastomeric materials such as foam. The swing speed analyzer can advantageously include any of a releasable attachment mechanism, a liquid crystal or other visual display, a second accelerometer, and a strain gauge. The analyzer can advantageously be attached to a golf club, a tennis racket, a baseball bat, or a hockey stick.
US07771243B2	Multiple slot terminal The present invention is directed to a dual terminal having first contact portion with an aperture formed through the first contact portion. A second contact portion, similar to the first contact portion and also has an aperture formed through the second contact portion and is arranged so that the aperture of the first contact portion and the aperture of the second contact portion are aligned. The dual terminal also has a circuit connector portion that is disposed between the first contact portion and the second contact portion and facilitates the electrical connection to the first contact portion and the second contract portion.
US07771235B2	Shielded connector with an inner shield tightly fitted into an outer shield A shield connector includes a housing that has a metal terminal, a conductive inner shield shell that contains the housing, and a conductive outer shield shell that contains the inner shield shell. The inner shield shell includes a first shell body in a tubular shape for covering an outer face of the housing. The outer shield shell includes a second shell body in a tubular shape, and a fixing portion which fixes the inner shield shell. The fixing portion has an annular wall which is formed inside of the second shell body along in a circumferential direction of the second shell body. An inner face of the annular wall is tightly face-contacted on an outer face of the first shell body of the inner shield shell over an entire circumference of the outer face of the first shell body.
US07771234B2	USB electric connector for transferring data between computers A (universal serial bus) USB electric connector for transferring data between computers includes an outer shell, a seat body, a terminal set, a bridge circuit board and a lid body. The outer shell has a hollow main body, in which a seat body is provided, on which a terminal set is disposed, one side of which is electrically connected to the bridge circuit board. The lid body is connected by sealing the bottom of the seat body. The electrically conductive legs on the bridge circuit board pass through the lid body and are electrically connected to the motherboard of an electronic device. By applying a USB electric connector for connecting two computers via a traditional USB transmission line, it is possible to inter-transfer data between two computers.
US07771227B1	Circuit board connector assembly A circuit board connector assembly adapted for connecting two printed circuit boards includes a receptacle connector having a receptacle insulating housing and two plug connectors each connected with the corresponding printed circuit boards and having a plug insulating housing. Two opposite ends of the plug insulating housing respectively define a holding cavity passing through a side surface thereof. The holding cavity is connected with the side surface by a slope. Two opposite ends of the receptacle insulating housing extend downward to respectively form two connecting arms spaced from each other. A free end of each of the connecting arms is bent inward to form a buckling portion. The printed circuit boards are electrically connected with each other by means of the plug connectors inserted into the receptacle connector. The buckling portions can be buckled into and slide out from the corresponding holding cavities along the corresponding slopes.
US07771223B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector is for electrically connecting an electronic package with a circuit substrate. The connector includes a housing with a plurality of conductive terminals received therein, a fastening device for securing the electronic package. The fastening device includes a pressing member for pressing and securing the electronic package and a retaining member for securing the pressing member. At least one of the pressing member, the retaining member are produced from ferrite stainless steel material, and has a layer of high temperature resistant organic thin film thereon.
US07771222B2	Card edge connector A card edge connector adapted for rotatably receiving a larger daughter board to a mother board includes an insulating housing defining an elongated slot therein, a plurality of contacts received in the housing, a pair of stopping arms setting to the ends of the housing respectively and a supporting wall integrating with the stopping arm and being longer near to the stopping arm. The stopping arms and the supporting walls are immovable when the daughter board rotating.
US07771219B1	IC socket with offset cam capable of preventing warpage of cover An IC socket (1) for receiving an IC package having a plurality of pins extending downwardly includes a base (2), a plurality of terminals (7) received in the base, a cover (5) mounted upon the base (2), and a cam (6). The cover (5) includes a carrying section (50) for carrying the IC package and a cam-receiving section (51). The carrying section (50) forms a plurality of through holes (500) for insertion of the pins of the IC package. The cam (6) is disposed at the cam-receiving section (51) for actuating the cover (5) to move with respect to the base (2) in a first direction A. The cam (6) is offset from a central line CL of the carrying section (50) which extends along the first direction A.
US07771218B2	Electrical coupler mating system An electrical coupler mating system includes a chassis having a plurality of walls, wherein a chassis housing is defined between the plurality of walls. At least one of the plurality of walls defines a first guide channel and houses a cam member that is located adjacent the first guide channel. A first electrical coupler is located in the chassis housing. An enclosure includes a second electrical coupler and a cam follower that is moveably coupled to the enclosure, wherein with the cam follower located in the first guide channel, the second electrical coupler is aligned with the first electrical coupler and the movement of the cam follower mates the first electrical coupler and the second electrical coupler.
US07771210B2	Connector with wipe The present invention relates generally to interconnections between electrical and electronic devices, such as integrated circuit packages, chips, wafers, substrates or printed circuit boards or similar electronic devices. The invention relates more specifically to springs, used to make connections to electrical elements and to applications of such springs in connectors or interconnection devices. More particularly the springs can be located adjacent to each other on small effective center distances to accommodate high-density electronic devices. Furthermore, the invention relates to connectors that comprise combs that are used in conjunction with such springs, to create and to control the wiping or scrubbing action, which can promote good electrical connection. Moreover, the invention uses such combs that are thermally matched to the electronic devices to improve the performance during thermal cycling procedures. Finally, this invention describes a number of connectors, test heads and test probes that utilize the above springs and combs.
US07771206B2	Horizontal dual in-line memory modules Horizontal dual in-line memory modules are disclosed. In one embodiment, the memory module includes a circuit board, a plurality of memory chips attached to a top surface of the circuit board, and a plurality of connector contacts disposed under a back surface of the circuit board and extending away from the memory chips, the connector contacts being electrically coupled to the memory chips, the back surface opposite the top surface of the circuit board.
US07771199B2	Bone cutting osteotome tool and method for preparing a surgical sinus-lift osteotomy A surgical tool for preparing a surgical sinus-lift osteotomy has a defined thread geometry in series with an osteotome tip to cut, crack and push bone from the sinus floor upward into the sinus cavity in a tactual, gentle and controlled motion. The apical osteotome tip is driven into a pre-drilled pilot osteotomy after the cutting threads are engaged and rotated until the sinus floor is cracked free. Once the bony sinus floor is cracked free, a fluid passageway can be pressurized with a sterile fluid at a defined pressure to release and push the sinus membrane upward into the sinus cavity to create a desired apical cavity for grafting while minimizing the risk of compromising or tearing the sinus membrane.
US07771195B2	Polar attachment devices and method for a dental appliance Systems and methods are disclosed for producing a digital model by providing a digital model of a tooth; providing a digital model of at least one attachment device having two or more portions, the digital model of the attachment device having the two or more portions extending through two or more surfaces of the tooth; and positioning the digital model of the attachment device on the digital model of the tooth to produce a combined computerized model.
US07771177B2	Ventilation assembly having a collar for the radial clamping of the fan motor, corresponding cooling module for the front unit, and corresponding motor vehicle This ventilation assembly for a motor vehicle comprises a fan (3), a support (4) for mounting the fan (3) in a motor vehicle and a securement (24) of the fan to the mounting support (4), the fan comprising a helix (6) and a motor (8) for driving the helix (6) in rotation. The securement (24) comprising a collar (26) for the radial clamping of the motor (8). Application, for example, to the ventilation of the cooling radiators of the heat engines of motor vehicles.
US07771174B2	Reciprocating slurry pump with a continuous feed rate In a two-cylinder slurry pump for the continuous feeding of, in particular, concrete, in which pump two feed cylinders remove the high-viscosity material from a pre-charging tank and deliver it to a feed line, a diverter valve is provided with a cross-section that narrows from an inlet opening assigned to the cylinders to a discharge opening assigned to the feed line, which diverter valve connects, in any position, at least one feed cylinder, over its entire cross-section, to the feed line, a support arrangement (20) and a plate cam (15) securely connected thereto being assigned in accordance with the invention to the diverter valve (11) on its side facing towards the cylinders (3, 5). The plate cam (15) comprises not only the inlet opening (21) of the diverter valve (11) but also an intake opening (23), which is arranged at sufficient distance from the inlet opening (21) to cover an opening of one of the feed cylinders (3, 5) completely. Additionally, a process for controlling this continuous-feed slurry pump is described.
US07771170B2	Turbine wheel The hub/blade junction of each rotor blade is placed with respect to the scalloping surface (F1+F2) such that this surface is supported as symmetrically as possible by the rotor blade. The turbine wheel with three-dimensionally curved rotor blades has scalloping in the area of the hub rear wall, and in consequence is subject to reduced stresses caused by scalloping deformation.
US07771167B2	Concealed rotary fan The concealed rotary fan includes a rotary vane, a drive motor and a base. The drive motor is assembled into the base. The first end of the drive motor with the revolving shaft can be assembled onto a front support in a rotary state. The second end of the drive motor is fitted with a crank link, the first end of which can be driven to make the second end rotate. The second end is screwed onto a pivot point on to the base. When the revolving shaft of the drive motor rotates, the second end of the crank link will rotate synchronously, enabling the drive motor and revolving shaft to rotate axially and obliquely along with the rotary vane. Thus, the rotary fan allows automatic change of the outlet direction through the axial rotation of the rotary vane, the outlet area being expanded to improve the actual applicability.
US07771165B2	Fan device A fan device includes a fan body having a connecting portion and two corresponding side portions, wherein each side portion is provided with at least a corner edge consisting of an aperture, a fan frame, a frame connecting end connecting with the connecting portion, a side wall for dividing the fan body, and a wrench having a wrench connecting end and an exerting end, wherein the wrench connecting end has two protrusion portions disposed on both side thereof. When installing the fan body in the fan frame, the exerting end is used to exert force to turn the wrench so that is abuts against a side wall thereof, thereby exerting force on the side wall and the exerting end to detach the connecting portion from the wrench connecting end.
US07771157B2	Bi-directional wafer transfer mechanism and method A wafer transfer machine transfers wafers from either of a first wafer cassette (55) and a second wafer cassette (56) having incompatible registration features into the other, and includes a support plate (30) having a top surface (38) for supporting the first and second wafer cassette. A first and second registration bosses attached to the top surface extend upward into registration features of the first and second wafer cassette, respectively. A carriage (1) is supported by and movable in opposite directions along a track mechanism (41A,B) that is attached in fixed relationship to the support plate (30). First and second wafer pushing members (10A,B) are supported by the carriage. Each wafer pushing member can be moved to push wafers in one of the wafer cassettes into the other by moving the carriage in one direction or the other.
US07771156B2	Method and apparatus for reactor monolith loading A method for delivering a plurality of reactor monoliths into an interior of a reactor includes providing at least one tubular member having an outer wall defining an interior space adapted to allow sliding movement of reactor monolith therethrough, and providing a plurality of engagement members located within the interior space of the at least one tubular member and spaced along a length thereof, wherein each engagement member is actuable between an extended position and a retracted position. The at least one tubular member is extended into an interior of a reactor such that a first end of the at least one tubular member is located near an opening in the reactor, and a second end of the at least one tubular member is insert into the interior of the reactor. The plurality of engagement members may be controlled such that each engagement member actuates between the extended position, thereby preventing sliding movement of the monolith through the tube, and the retracted position, thereby allowing the monolith to slide past the engagement member within the tube.
US07771153B2	Automated material handling system for semiconductor manufacturing based on a combination of vertical carousels and overhead hoists An Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) that allows an overhead hoist transport vehicle to load and unload Work-In-Process (WIP) parts directly to/from WIP storage units included in the system. The AMHS includes an overhead hoist transport subsystem and a vertical carousel stocker having a plurality of storage bins. The subsystem includes an overhead hoist transport vehicle traveling along a suspended track defining a predetermined route running adjacent to the stocker, allowing the vehicle to access a WIP part directly from a storage bin. At least one storage bin includes a movable shelf operative to move laterally from a first position along the carousel path to a second position near the vehicle. The storage unit is partially open to allow the movable shelf to move to the second position, allowing the hoist to access a material unit directly from the shelf for subsequent transport along the track.
US07771152B2	Rack module and method for rearranging stored goods in a rack module A rack module for, in particular, rod or plate-shaped storage goods accepted in transportation cases as well as a method for repositioning storage goods in a rack module is provided. The rack module is provided with several shelf spaces serving to receive the transportation cases as well as a storage and retrieval unit with a gripping device that can be displaced in reference to the storage and retrieval unit for repositioning the transportation cases. The transportation cases comprise pallets, with at least one lift truck for moving under and repositioning the pallets being provided, and a lifting device for raising and/or lowering one or more pallets, which can be operated by the gripping device of the storage and retrieval unit. Accordingly, the transportation cases in the form of pallets are repositioned by way of at least one lift truck, and for said purpose the lift truck undercuts at least the pallet to be repositioned and parts of the lift truck perform a lifting motion for raising the pallet, with the lifting motion of the lift truck again being caused by a gripping motion of the gripping device of the storage and retrieval unit.
US07771142B2	Cutting insert with elliptical cutting edge A cutting insert comprises an elliptical cutting edge. The cutting insert has a mounting hole through which a retention screw may pass, wherein the retention screw makes contact with the mounting hole in a seating plane that is perpendicular to the mounting hole. The cutting insert is adapted for use in a cutting tool comprising a tool body having a pocket partially defined by a floor that is parallel to a seating plane. The insert can have a shape complimentary to a tool body so as to cooperate with the tool body to form a continuous flute. According to one embodiment of the invention, the insert has a flank edge inboard with respect to the tool body. An insert according to another embodiment of the invention has a rake face with a positive cutting geometry.
US07771139B2	Concrete trowel transport system A self-propelled concrete finishing trowel has a transport system or dolly that allows the towel to be moved manually. The transport system includes wheels that are connected to a frame of the trowel by a connector such as a rotatable shaft. A single lift device such as a jack is coupled to the connector such that operation of the lift device translates both wheels relative to the frame. The transport system allows a user to quickly deploy the wheels for non-use transportation. The wheels are also located within the footprint of the trowel so as not to interfere with a finishing operation and are positioned to maximize stability.
US07771138B2	Multi-stage modular road paving equipment and method of manufacture and sales A multi-stage modular road building equipment system where a first stage base tractor is coupled to an intermediate stage, such as a spreading screw, and a third stage screed road paving tool attachment or other attachment such as a widener.
US07771136B2	Ball and socket joint A ball and socket joint is provided, for example, for an axle system of a motor vehicle. The joint has an essentially ring-shaped or pot-shaped joint housing (2). The ball (7) of a ball pivot (1) is received in the interior space of the joint housing (2) in a slidingly movable manner. The joint housing (2) includes a ball pivot-side and a housing cover-side housing half (4, 5). The two housing halves (4, 5) have an essentially circumferential axial stop (9). Based on the axial stop (9), the housing halves (4, 5) can be brought into contact with one another in the axial direction in an exactly defined manner. The reproducibility of tolerances in manufacture can be carefully controlled allowing manufacture at a low cost. The specific load-bearing capacity of the ball and socket joint can be increased or the dimensions of the ball and socket joint can be reduced.
US07771125B2	Retainer for rolling bearing, and rolling bearing A retainer for a rolling bearing, which is used for a food machine or a vacuum apparatus, containing an increased amount of a lubricating oil and enhancing a use efficiency of the lubricating oil and rolling bearing is described. The retainer consists of a molding, of a synthetic resin composition, which holds a rolling element of a rolling bearing. The molding is composed of a resinous porous article having an interconnected hole porosity not less than 30% and a lubricating oil which impregnates the resinous porous article. The resinous porous article has an interconnected hole are formed by molding a resin containing a pore-forming substance having a melting point higher than that of the resin and can be used as a food material, and by extracting said pore-forming substance from the molding with a solvent which dissolves the pore-forming substance and does not dissolve the resin.
US07771124B2	Bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has a wheel hub integrally formed with a peripheral wheel mounting flange at one end and a double row rolling bearing. The double row rolling bearing has an outer member integrally formed with a peripheral body mounting flange and with double row outer raceway surfaces. An inner member, including the wheel hub, is formed with double row inner raceway surfaces each arranged opposite to each of the double row outer surfaces. Double row rolling elements are freely rotatably contained between the double row outer and inner raceway surfaces. The double row rolling bearing is adapted to receive a predetermined preload. A separate outer or inner ring is arranged on at least one of the outer or inner members. A preload varying mechanism is arranged at an abutting portion between the outer and inner members to vary the preload applied to the bearing. The preload varying mechanism can be extended or contracted based on an output signal from a detecting sensor to detect the vehicle running conditions.
US07771119B2	Linear guide apparatus Inclined portions 15 which are provided at both end portions of a slider-side rolling element raceway groove 11 are each made up of a first crowning 18 which is formed into a curved surface shape with a large radius of curvature so as to be inclined moderately and continuously from the slider-side rolling element raceway groove, a planar second crowning 19 which neighbors the first crowning and extends towards an inner circumferential surface of a direction turning path and which is steeper in inclination than the first crowning and shorter in axial length than the first crowning, and a slope 20 which is provided between the second crowning and an end face of a slider main body and is formed steeper than the first and second crownings.
US07771115B2	Temperature sensor circuit, device, system, and method A sensor, device, system and method for sensing temperature includes a pull up circuit coupled to a pull down circuit for generating a variable pull up output current and a variable pull down output current varying according to circuit elements responsive to temperature change. A pull up transistor and a pull down transistor are respectively serially coupled to first and second switches for alternatingly respectively switching additional pull up and pull down current into the pull up output current and the pull down output current. A comparator controls the additional pull up and pull down currents in response to a comparison of a summed output voltage and a reference voltage.
US07771114B2	Electrical installation with a cooling element and method for operating said installation The installation contains a current conductor producing Joulean heat in the operating state, a cooling element and a monitoring device. The cooling element has a condensable working medium and an evaporator, which can be heated by the current conductor of the installation, and a condenser which has been withdrawn from the heating effect of the current conductor. The monitoring device comprises at least one sensor for detecting a parameter of the cooling element and an evaluation unit, which receives output signals from the sensor. In the evaluation unit, the output signals of the sensors are evaluated and a signal describing the state and/or the functionality of the cooling element is formed there. This installation is characterized by high operational reliability with a high current-carrying capacity and dimensions which are kept small.
US07771106B2	Lamp socket, backlight assembly having the same, display device having the same and method of assembling a lamp module A lamp socket with decreased number of components is presented. The lamp socket includes a socket housing and a power supply member. The socket housing has a connecting hole. The power supply member includes a first lamp connecting terminal and a second lamp connecting terminal. The first lamp connecting terminal is inserted into the connecting hole and includes a first fixing portion that extends through the connecting hole and a first guide portion that extends from an end portion of the first fixing portion toward a first inner wall of the connecting hole. The second lamp connecting terminal is inserted into the connecting hole and includes a second fixing portion that extends through the connecting hole and a second guide portion that extends from an end portion of the second fixing portion toward a second inner wall of the connecting hole.
US07771105B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for assembling the same Disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a method for assembling the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device has a display section for displaying images, a receiving container for receiving the display section, a power supplying section for supplying a power source to the display section, a signal converting section for converting signals from the display section and a fixing section for fixing the power supplying section and the signal converting section to the receiving container. The power supplying section and the signal converting section are disposed between the display section and the fixing section with directly facing to a rear surface of the receiving container. Accordingly, a total thickness and weight of the liquid crystal display device can be minimized and an assembly facility of the liquid crystal display device can be improved.
US07771100B2	Surface light source apparatus A surface light source apparatus including a point light source, a light guide plate which spreads light introduced from the point light source into a planar shape to output the light from a light outgoing plane, and a light blocking member which covers parts of the point light source and the light outgoing plane of the light guide plate. A gap shielding member is projected toward the light outgoing plane from a surface on a side facing the light outgoing plane of the light blocking member. At least a portion facing the light outgoing plane in the gap shielding member is made of a material having a light blocking property.
US07771094B2	Mounting bracket for electrical junction box, luminaire or the like Electrical fixtures, such as junction boxes or recessed luminaires, include mounting brackets that support the fixtures from structural members while fasteners, such as screws or nails, are driven through the mounting brackets, thereby facilitating mounting the fixtures. Each of the mounting brackets has a general U-shape that includes at least three generally planar sides. The top side is generally perpendicular to the other two sides, and the top side connects the other two sides and together. The three sides define (in cross-section) a structural member receiver opening. An inside dimension of the structural member receiver opening is such that bracket fits snugly around at least a portion of a commonly sized wood or metal structural member, such as a furring strip or joist, used in ceiling construction. In one embodiment, two of the sides of the structural member receiver opening define an acute dihedral angle to hood around the edge of a metal furring strip.
US07771091B2	Light control film A light control film having a refractive index n and an uneven, irregular surface pattern provides a reasonable level of light diffusion without a glare problem provided, for any cross-section perpendicular to the base plane of the film, the average of absolute values of slope θave of a curve along the edge of the cross-section contoured by the rough surface pattern (profile curve) is at least 78-34 n degrees and no higher than 118-34 n degrees, or the average of absolute values of slope θave of a profile curve to the length L1 of a straight line defined by the intersection of the base plane and the cross-section satisfies the following formula (3) or (4) for substantially all cross-sections. θave÷Lr×n2≧40 (3) 50≦θave×Lr×n2≦135 (4)
US07771086B2	Lighting device comprising a lamp unit a reflector A lighting device (1) comprises a lamp unit (10) for emitting light, a reflector (20) for reflecting the emitted light, and a housing (30) for accommodating both the lamp unit (10) and the reflector (20). Much heat is generated by the lamp unit (10) during operation of the device (1) if the lamp unit (10) comprises a lamp operating at a high power level, such as an ultra high performance lamp, which heat needs to be dissipated to the environment of the lighting device (1). For this purpose, the lighting device (1) is provided with a heat sink (40) arranged between the reflector (20) and the housing (30), which heat sink is thermally coupled to both the reflector (20) and the housing (30). The heat sink (40) comprises metal strips (42) which surround the reflector (20).
US07771082B2	Lamp with heat conducting structure and lamp cover thereof A lamp with heat conducting structure includes a lamp cover made of heat dissipating material. The lamp cover has a hollow configuration therein. An interlayer is horizontally arranged in the lamp cover. The lamp cover is divided into a first space and a second space therein by the interlayer. A LED lamp assembly is disposed in the first space of the lamp cover. A power plug is disposed in the second space of the lamp cover. The power plug has a control circuit board in the second space. The control circuit board has an electronic element disposed thereon. A heat conducting tab protrudes from the interlayer of the lamp cover towards the second space. The heat conducting tab has a heat conducting surface corresponding to the electronic element to thermally contact with the electronic element.
US07771081B2	LED package and backlight unit using the same The invention relates to an LED package having a large beam angle of light emitted from an LED, simplifying a shape of a lens and an assembly process, and to a backlight unit using the same. The LED package includes a housing with a seating recess formed therein and at least one LED seated in the seating recess. The LED package also includes a lens having a predetermined sag on an upper side thereof, covering an upper part of the LED. The LED package and the backlight unit using the same can emit light uniformly without bright spots formed in an output screen, uses a simpler shaped lens with an increased beam angle, and minimizes a color mixing region to achieve miniaturization.
US07771077B2	Mechanism and cap for an electrically powered device, electrically powered device and lighting device with such a cap The present subject matter relates to a tail cap for portable lighting device such as a flashlight. The tail cap includes a locking mechanism which secures the tail cap on the flashlight as well as enables or disables the switch that activates, or deactivates the flashlight and/or its various lighting modes. The tail cap with the present multi-purpose locking mechanism allows the user to rapidly replace the battery, and ensures that the switch and contact pins return to the correct position, after the tail cap is reinserted. The combined use of a magnetic switch and O-ring gasket between the tail cap and main housing ensures complete waterproofing. The ambidextrous switch consisting of either a switch bar or dual push-button switch located on the rear wall of the tail cap allows ambidextrous use, even when the flashlight is mounted on a firearm such as a handgun, where the trigger guard would normally interfere with the operation of a switch mounted on the rear face of the flashlight.
US07771070B2	Illumination source In one embodiment, the invention is an illumination source. In one embodiment, the illumination source comprises an outer sheath formed of a resilient, substantially transparent or translucent material, and a luminous core housed within the sheath. In further embodiments, the illumination source comprises a selvedge for facilitating mechanical attachment and/or a reflective strip to enhance visibility.
US07771069B2	Three-dimensional lighted gauge A gauge assembly that is illuminable by a light source is provided. The gauge assembly may include a dial face having a translucent portion forming at least a perimeter of the dial face and a cover disposed behind the dial. The cover may define a plurality of graduated lines, at least one of the graduated lines having a first portion extending behind the translucent portion and a second portion extending outward from the perimeter of the dial face. The first portion may be visible through the translucent portion when the gauge is illuminated by the light source and obscured by the translucent portion when the gauge is not illuminated by the light source.
US07771059B2	Conformable retroreflective film structure The present invention includes conformable retroreflective structures. In some embodiments, the conformable retroreflective structures are also shrink resistant. The conformable retroreflective structures include a transparent plasticized polyvinyl chloride film having a first side and a second side; a first transparent polymer layer overlying the first side of the plasticized polyvinyl chloride film; a second transparent polymer layer overlying the second side of the plasticized polyvinyl chloride film; an array of retroreflective cube-corner elements underlying the second transparent polymer layer; and a plasticizer resistant adhesive underlying the array of retroreflective cube-corner elements. In some embodiments, the first and second transparent polymer layers are transparent, radiation-cured polymer layers.
US07771046B2	Eyewear with monitoring capability In one embodiment, eyewear having a monitoring capability, such as an activity monitoring capability, is disclosed. Activity, such as motion, steps or distance, can be measured by an activity detector. The measured activity can then be used in providing activity-related information to a user of the eyewear. Advantageously, the user of the eyewear is able to easily monitor their degree of activity.
US07771044B2	Frame construction for eyewear having removable auxiliary lenses Eyeglasses and clip-ons are improved by providing housings for magnets for securing the clip-ons in a uniblock also incorporating one or more of the following: part of a closing block, an end piece, and part of a hinge. The structure is more compact, neater in appearance, and of improved quality as compared to eyeglasses incorporating conventional structures, and is less expensive to manufacture than many conventional eyeglasses, especially in large volume.
US07771039B2	Ink jet printer An ink jet printer that performs printing by discharging ink droplets from nozzles of an ink jet head onto a print medium includes: a moisture adjusting unit that is provided at a downstream side of the ink jet head in a print medium transport direction and adjusts moisture of the print medium by moving moisture of a printing surface of the print medium, onto which the ink droplets are discharged from the ink jet head, to a surface opposite the printing surface; and a moisture adjustment control unit that controls moisture adjustment of the print medium performed by the moisture adjusting unit in accordance with a ratio of the number of nozzles, from which the ink droplets from the ink jet head are discharged, to the total number of nozzles.
US07771029B2	Printer with active fluidic architecture A inkjet printer that has an ink supply (112), a printhead integrated circuit (IC) (74) in fluid communication with the ink supply via an upstream ink line (67), the printhead IC (74), a waste ink outlet in fluid communication with the printhead IC (74) via a downstream ink line (106), an upstream shut off valve (138) in the upstream ink line (67), and, a downstream pump mechanism (114) in the downstream ink line. With a valve upstream of the printhead and a pump downstream of the printhead, the user has active control of the ink flow upstream, downstream or in the printhead IC. In the event that problems such as ink flooding, color mixing or printhead depriming occur, the user can follow simple troubleshooting protocols to rectify the situation.
US07771024B2	Printhead assembly with a thermosetting adhesive film for attaching printhead integrated circuitry The invention relates to a pagewidth printhead assembly. The assembly includes a molded polymer ink manifold defining a plurality of discrete fluid conduits therethrough. The assembly also includes a plurality of printhead integrated circuits (ICs) each having a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements for operatively ejecting printing fluid onto a printing medium. Each IC defines a plurality of discrete supply channels for supplying the nozzle arrangements with fluid, and has a bonding surface with a plurality of trenches etched therein, the trenches having a width of less than 10 microns to operatively attract a liquid adhesive by capillary action. The assembly also includes a thermosetting sealing film having a heat liquefied adhesive layer to adhere the bonding surface of the ICs to the lower member when said film is heated, so that the conduits and supply channels are in fluid communication with each other.
US07771023B2	Method of ejecting drops of fluid from an inkjet printhead A method of ejecting drops of an ejectable liquid from a printhead that has a plurality of nozzles, and a bubble forming chamber corresponding to each of the nozzles respectively. The bubble forming chambers contain a bubble forming liquid and at least one heater associated with each of the bubble forming chambers respectively. The heater has electrodes for connection to a power supply and heater elements configured for thermal contact with the bubble forming liquid. The heater element is supported within the bubble forming chamber by the electrodes such that it does not contact the bubble forming chamber. The method uses the steps of placing the bubble forming liquid into thermal contact with the heater elements, and heating the heater elements to a temperature above the boiling point of the bubble forming liquid to form a gas bubble such that a drop of an ejectable liquid is ejected through the corresponding nozzle.
US07771006B2	Liquid ejecting apparatus and capping member used in the same A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, a capping member sealing a nozzle forming face of the liquid ejecting head, and a suction unit applying a negative pressure to the nozzle forming face of the liquid ejecting head in a state that the nozzle forming face is sealed with the capping member so that the liquid in the liquid ejecting head is exhaust through a suction port of the capping member. The liquid ejecting head includes the nozzle forming face having a plurality of nozzle opening arrays, a plurality of pressure generating chambers communicating with the nozzle openings respectively, and a plurality of pressure generating members applying pressure to liquid in the pressure generating chambers respectively so as to eject the liquid from the nozzle openings. Each of the nozzle opening arrays has plural nozzle openings. The nozzle opening arrays includes at least one main nozzle opening array for ejecting a first liquid and at least one sub-nozzle opening array for ejecting a second liquid which is different from the first liquid in function. A defining member is provided in the capping member which divides the inner space formed in the state that the nozzle forming face is sealed with the capping member into a first liquid receiving portion corresponding to the main nozzle opening array, and a second liquid receiving portion corresponding to the sub-nozzle opening array, and defines the first liquid receiving portion and the second liquid receiving portion so as to communicate with each other.
US07771001B2	Liquid discharge apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program for controlling the same Disclosed is a liquid discharge apparatus that allows a discharge head to discharge liquid to a predetermined object. The apparatus includes the following elements. A plurality of discharge heads are detachable independently. A head switching circuit switches a target discharge head to another target discharge head among the discharge heads in a set switching order to allow the target discharge head to discharge liquid. A monitoring circuit monitors liquid discharge conditions of the respective discharge heads. The liquid discharge conditions of each discharge head include the frequency of use of the discharge head and the presence or absence of a failure in the discharge head. A life determining circuit determines the life of each discharge head on the basis of the result of monitoring by the monitoring circuit. A target head setting circuit sets each of the discharge heads having a remaining life to the target discharge head and sets the switching order so that the frequencies of use of the target discharge heads are imbalanced. A notifying circuit provides a notification for urging replacement of the discharge head whose remaining life is lower than a predetermined value.
US07771000B2	Setting method and image forming apparatus A method is provided for setting a target moving velocity of a carriage in an image forming apparatus wherein a recording head is driven at a driving frequency proportional to a moving velocity of the carriage. The method includes steps of: varying the driving frequency of the recording head proportional to the moving velocity of the carriage so as to measure an ejection velocity of ink droplets ejected from nozzles of the recording head; deriving a velocity range where the ejection velocity of ink droplets from the nozzles of the recording head is increased as the moving velocity of the carriage is increased; calculating a control error between the target moving velocity and an actual moving velocity of the carriage; and setting the target moving velocity of the carriage such that the actual moving velocity of the carriage is within the velocity range based on the calculated control error.
US07770998B2	Method and apparatus for color image forming capable of effectively forming a quality color image A maintenance pattern forming method includes conveying, generating, and forming. The conveying conveys a transfer member on a surface of a conveying member such that there is a spacing area between two adjacent transfer members on the surface of the conveying member. The generating generates a timing signal for at least one of a plurality of colors formed by a color image forming apparatus. The forming forms at least one of a process control pattern, a position adjustment pattern, and a blade curl suppression pattern onto the spacing area based on the timing signal.
US07770996B2	Transporting method and recording apparatus The invention is a transport method that transports a medium by causing a transport roller to rotate based on a corrected target transport amount, after correcting the target transport amount that is targeted based on a correction value and includes: printing a first pattern on a medium, printing a second pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of less than one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a third pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a fourth pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the second pattern, calculating a first correction value based on the first pattern and the third pattern, calculating a second correction value based on the second pattern and the fourth pattern, transporting the medium by correcting the target transport amount based on the first correction value or the second correction value depending on the relative position of the medium.
US07770995B2	Mobile telecommunications device with media edge detection A mobile telecommunications device comprising: a printhead for printing a sheet of media substrate, the sheet of media substrate having coded data on at least part of its surface; a media feed assembly for feeding the sheet of media substrate along a feed path past the printhead; a print engine controller for operatively controlling the printhead; and, a sensor for reading the coded data and generating a signal indicative of at least one dimension of the sheet, and transmitting the signal to the print engine controller; such that, the print engine controller uses the signal to initiate the printing when the sheet is at a predetermined position relative to the printhead.
US07770994B2	Image forming apparatus and its control method, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium A shifting amount of color compensation amount is calculated based on a shifting amount of color obtained from a shifting amount of color storage unit for each image forming unit, and shifting amount of color compensation in the pixel unit is performed by executing address conversion using the calculation result. A feature of an image to be processed is detected, and color density conversion compensation for performing shifting amount of color compensation in less than the pixel unit is performed according to the detected feature. Furthermore, half-tone processing or exceptional processing is selectively executed according to the detected feature.
US07770989B2	Element substrate, and printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus using the element substrate An element substrate has a plurality of printing elements, and a block selection unit which divides the plurality of printing elements into a plurality of blocks and time-divisionally drives the blocks. The element substrate includes a plurality of input terminals which divide the plurality of printing elements included in each block into a plurality of groups and supply a driving voltage to the printing elements belonging to each group, a delay circuit which externally receives an enable signal for enabling energization to the printing elements and generates a plurality of delayed enable signals having different delay times with respect to the enable signal, and a wiring which supplies the enable signal and the plurality of delayed enable signals output from the delay circuit to different groups in the order of the different delay times.
US07770985B2	Kitchen appliance having floating glass panel A kitchen appliance includes a door having an outer panel portion and an inner panel portion, with a plurality of mounting members being spaced about the outer panel portion of the door. A glass panel assembly, including a glass panel and a plurality of mounting elements, is detachably mounted to the door through the interengagement of the plurality of mounting elements with the plurality of mounting members. The mounting elements are adhesively secured to the glass panel. Neither the plurality of mounting members nor the plurality of mounting elements are readily visible normally when viewing the kitchen appliance such that the glass panel appears to float relative to the door.
US07770984B2	Track belt tension system and method A machine including: a frame assembly including one or more drive wheels and one or more idler wheels affixed to the frame assembly; a track belt disposed about the drive and the idler wheel; a hydraulic actuator arrangement including a hydraulic cylinder and accumulator affixed to the idler wheel that provides a force to tension the track belt; and a tension management system in operable communication with the hydraulic cylinder that maintains a pressure inside the hydraulic cylinder within a specified range.
US07770977B2	Floating bearing and clamp system for patient procedures chair mounting and positioning posts The headrest and side rails of a patient procedures chair are mounted on posts which are slidably received in elongated, self-aligning or floating plastic bearings. With this construction, any misalignment of the posts due to manufacturing tolerances will be accounted for as the bearings readjust themselves. Clamping devices engage the bearings and cause deformation to increase the frictional engagement of the bearings with the posts to the point where the posts are locked into place. In this regard, actuation of the clamps is accomplished by large knobs that protrude from the back of the chair for ready accessibility.
US07770976B2	Multi-functional auxiliary headrest A multi-functional auxiliary headrest for car seat is disclosed. The auxiliary headrest comprises a body mounted with a suspension strap at the rear side of the seat and one side of suspension strap being stitched and the other side having a male Velcro fastener, and the center of the suspension strap being a female Velcro, characterized in that the auxiliary headrest is provided with a securing strap or a securing strap stitched onto a seat cover, and the securing strap is positioned at the suspension strap at the back of the auxiliary headrest, and the securing strap and the seat cover are secured to the headrest at the car seat, the suspension strap of the auxiliary headrest passes through the securing strap such that the male Velcro can be freely mounted to adapt to the physical size of the driver.
US07770975B2	Locking device A locking device, such as a pawl and sector latch for a vehicle seat, is provided. The locking device includes a first fitting part having a body portion and an insert form-fitted in a recess in an outer periphery of the body portion. The insert has an outer contour having a plurality of teeth. The locking device further includes a second fitting part configured to be moved into a releasable form-fitting engagement with the first fitting part.
US07770972B2	Seat lumbar actuator An actuator assembly for adjusting first and second comfort features of a seat assembly includes a housing and a shaft mounted for linear and rotational movement in the housing. A main gear is mounted on the shaft and mounted for rotational movement in the housing. The shaft and main gear are linearly movable between first and second positions relative to the housing. A first cable assembly includes a first pinion gear mounted for rotational movement in the housing. A first rack is mounted for linear movement in the housing. The first rack engages with the first pinion gear such that rotation of the first pinion gear linearly moves the first rack. A first cable is connected to the first rack. The first cable is adapted to be connected to a first comfort feature. A second cable assembly includes a second pinion gear mounted for rotational movement in the housing. A second rack is mounted for linear movement in the housing. The second rack engages with the second pinion gear such that rotation of the second pinion gear linearly moves the first rack. A second cable is connected to the first rack. The cable is adapted to be connected to a second comfort feature. When the main gear is in the first position, the main gear is engaged with the first pinion gear. When the main gear is in the second position, the main gear is engaged with the second pinion gear.
US07770970B2	Modular child restraint system A modular child restraint system for use in vehicles comprises a base and interchangeable attachable seats where the seats are for different stages of childhood development. The system can further comprise additional bases adapted to other uses such as strollers and infant swings. A common engagement mechanism allows the various seats to be moved from one base to another. One such system comprises a base and a seat configured to rotate relative to one another when engaged. The seat can also lock in a position relative to the base. The base includes a visual indicator to show that the seat is secured to the base.
US07770966B2	Convertible passenger seat assembly A passenger seat assembly and method for converting the seat assembly between a three-seat configuration and a two-seat configuration includes a seat assembly base and first, second, and third seats mounted on the seat assembly base. The first and third seats define outboard seats and the second seat defines an inboard seat disposed between the outboard seats. The seat back of the inboard seat includes an upper portion movably mounted to the lower portion. The seat bottom is removable and repositionable between the three-seat configuration and the two-seat configuration to form a convenience area between the outboard seats. A power console movably mounted on the seat assembly base supports the seat bottom of the inboard seat and provides at least one power outlet for supplying electrical power. In particular, the inboard seat is convertible between a seating configuration and a non-seating configuration.
US07770963B2	Cab structure for construction machine A cab structure for a construction machine that includes a plurality of pole members and can ensure the rigidity of the cab structure for a construction machine is provided. The cab structure unit includes the rear-right pole member that has a length that is shorter than other pole member (rear-left pole member) and does not reach the level of a floor panel (joint panel) so that the recessed space is formed in the rear side of the cab (10). The rear-right pole member is joined to the first rear panel portion and the plate-shaped member as a reinforcement member that reinforces a part from the lower end of the rear-right pole member to the height position of the floor panel.
US07770960B2	Biaxial door hinge Various embodiments of this invention disclose a biaxial rear door hinge of a vehicle that allows the vehicle door to open outward and then upward. This biaxial hinge system allows the rear door in a sedan to mimic the look of a vertically pivoting front door.
US07770957B2	Seat apparatus for vehicle A seat apparatus for a vehicle, which includes an inner slide rail, an outer slide rail including an outer upper rail and an outer lower rail, a seat cushion provided slidably in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and configured to be flipped up to a wall portion of the vehicle compartment to be in a storage position, a hinge mechanism fixing the outer upper rail to the seat cushion, a bearing smoothly sliding the outer upper rail relative to the outer lower rail, a spring provided around a rotational shaft of the hinge mechanism for biasing the seat cushion in a direction to be flipped up, and at least one rotating member provided between the outer upper rail and the outer lower rail so as to receive a load in a lateral direction of the vehicle applied to the outer upper rail by the spring.
US07770956B1	Cargo bed extender A cargo bed extender extends the useful length of a cargo bed when the tailgate is open and has an outer shell that is attached to inner side of the tailgate. An end panel slides between the tailgate and outer shell when in a stowed position and is secured on catch hinges when in a deployed position. Side panels are attached to the end panel on hinges that allow the side panels to fold against the end panel and slide as a unit with the end panel between the tailgate and the outer shell. Outer shell end caps slide over the ends of the outer shell adding support and strengthen to the outer shell. Retainers 38 are fastened to the upper rear of the inner side of the pickup truck bed sidewalls to secure the side panel when in a deployed position.
US07770940B2	Coupling part for a plug connector arrangement A coupling part for a plug connector arrangement is provided. The coupling part having a coupling body comprising a receptacle into which a plug-in part can be plugged into in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the receptacle, in order to produce a fluid-tight connection. The coupling part has two spaced-apart locking elements which, in a locking position, penetrate laterally, opposite one another, into the receptacle in order to engage behind the plug-in part and which can be moved into a release position in order to release the plug-in part. A spring element is integrally formed with and connects the locking elements together. In order to develop the coupling part so that it is easier to handle, the coupling part is provided with an actuating element which is adapted to be moved relative to the coupling body. Movement of the actuating element causes the locking elements to be moved out of the locking position into the release position, in which they are spaced apart from one another to a greater extent than in the locking position.
US07770921B2	Airbag for protection of a vehicle occupant In at least one embodiment, the present invention provides a side airbag for protection of a vehicle occupant. The side airbag is adapted to be inflated by gas from an inflator. The side airbag comprises a side panel which forms an exterior of the side airbag. The side panel defines a vent hole for venting the gas to outside the side airbag. A closing panel is disposed about the vent hole. The closing panel is configured such that the vent hole is unobstructed to vent the gas during inflation of the side airbag until the side airbag is substantially inflated. The side and closing panels cooperate to obstruct the vent hole with the closing panel such that the gas is substantially not vented. When the side airbag is obstructed from substantially inflating, for example due to the proximity of an out-of-position occupant, the vent hole remains unobstructed to vent the gas.
US07770918B2	Curtain airbag and vehicle A curtain airbag for installation in the roof frame area of a motor vehicle exhibits at least one guide chamber which is located in the upper section of curtain airbag and which is connected with its inflatable area from the point of view of gas flow. The at least one guide chamber can be inflated on the outer side of the curtain airbag when this is in a mounted state. The upper section of curtain airbag is directed downwards when in the mounted state.
US07770914B2	Passenger airbag mounting apparatus An airbag assembly is described. The airbag assembly includes an airbag housed within an airbag housing and an airbag inflator. A B-ring that engages the airbag housing is also added. The B-ring comprises a base surface, a first stabilizing bracket and a second stabilizing bracket, wherein the first and second stabilizing brackets extend away from the base surface and restrict movement of the airbag housing in a lateral and vertical direction. The airbag assembly may optionally include a vehicle bracket that is capable of being attached to a vehicle structure. The second stabilizing bracket may be secured to the vehicle bracket.
US07770907B2	All terrain vehicle An all terrain vehicle includes left and right vehicle body frame portions and left and right suspension arms, respectively suspending left and right rear wheels, and capable of moving up and down together with the left and right rear wheels. The left and right vehicle body frame portions have a portion bent toward the center in a vehicle width direction, and a suspension arm support portion connected to the bent portion toward the rear of the vehicle and inclined to the center in the width direction of the vehicle. The left and right suspension arms are connected to the pair of left and right suspension arm support portions. The all terrain vehicle is provided with a more compact frame.
US07770901B2	Chuck for angular offset woodturning A chuck (1) for angular offset woodturning including a first member (2) adapted to be secured to a lathe, and a second member (3) adapted to support a work piece and secured to the first member in such that the second member is oriented with respect to the first member between at least two configurations. The first member having a first axis (4) coaxial with an axis of rotation of the lathe and the second member having a second axis (5), and in one of the configurations the second axis is coaxial with the first axis, and in the other configuration the second axis is angularly offset. The chuck further includes a releasable fastening member (12) incorporating alignment members allowing the second member to be secured in one of the two configurations and that in the other configuration the second axis lies relative to said first axis at one of a number of predetermined angular offsets.
US07770897B2	Dynamic seal A dynamic shaft seal assembly is provided including a dynamic seal for engaging a rotary shaft. The dynamic seal includes a base portion that is mounted within a casing and has an axially extending barrel portion extending from a radially inner end of the base portion. The axially extending barrel portion terminates in a radially extending leg portion which extends inwardly from an end of the axially extending portion. A generally conically shaped seal portion extends from an end of the radially extending portion and the seal portion includes a radially inner face engaging the shaft and a radially outer face having a stiffening bead integrally formed thereon. The stiffening bead reduces the seal's propensity for “bell mouthing” while the axially extending barrel portion provides improved shaft followability for the dynamic seal.
US07770896B2	Low-friction annular sealing assembly for a centrifugal pump, in particular an internal combustion engine cooling liquid pump A sealing assembly including a sealing member made of elastomeric material and PTFE; a supporting armature; and an annular L-shaped shield cooperating, in use, with the sealing member. The armature has a sleeve portion and a radial flange portion partly supporting a radial portion of the sealing member, projecting towards the axis of symmetry and made of elastomeric material with no supporting armature. The radial portion increases in axial size towards the axis of symmetry, and supports, on its free end, a sleeve made of PTFE, the sleeve having a cylindrical first end portion projecting axially, and a conical second end portion projecting axially on the opposite side to and by a greater amount than the first end portion to form an elastically deformable axial sealing lip extending, in undeformed conditions, farther away from the axis of symmetry as it comes away from the flange portion.
US07770894B2	Prize acquisition game device Provided is a prize acquisition game device in which a control unit constituted from a microcomputer controls a prize acquisition unit that moves in a game space with a plurality of prizes disposed therein, and controls the acquisition of the prize. The control device moves the prize acquisition unit to the target prize based on an operation signal, judges the success of the acquisition of the prize, and moves the prize acquisition unit that acquired the prize to apposition where the prize can be paid out to the player. And an obstruction unit for obstructing the prize while it is being transported, or when the prize is to be dropped in the prize payout slot has been provided.
US07770888B2	Paper-feeding device and image forming apparatus A paper-feeding device for use in an image forming apparatus that includes a tray on which a recording sheet is configured to be stacked, the tray having an upper surface and a lower surface both being exposed to outside. Two side fences that are movably attached to the upper surface are used for adjusting a position of stacked recording sheet. Two side-fence position indicators indicate a position of the side fences.
US07770887B2	Paper money guide apparatus The present invention relates to a paper money guide apparatus of an ATM, and more particularly, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a paper money guide apparatus of an ATM that can adjustably guide various kinds of paper money having different widths by a simple structure.In order to achieve the object, according to an aspect of the present invention, a paper money guide apparatus of an automatic teller machine guides ends of paper money when paper money stacked in a paper money stacking space is moved by a transfer plate. The paper money guide apparatus includes paper money guide plates that each include a guide piece guiding an end of the paper money and a positioning part being detachably positioned in a width direction of the paper money depending on the width of the paper money.
US07770883B2	Printer incorporating rotatable pick-up assembly of air nozzles A printer comprising: a support structure; a feed arrangement positioned on the support structure and configured to feed an endmost sheet of print media from the stack and including a movable pick-up assembly, the pick-up assembly having an array of spaced apart nozzles configured to direct air on to respective locations along said topmost sheet so that said topmost sheet can be picked-up from the stack by moving said pick-up assembly;a pair of rollers configured to engage with said endmost sheet fed from said feed arrangement; a printing station configured to print ink upon said endmost sheet engaged by said rollers; and an air displacement mechanism connected to the nozzles to displace air out of some expulsion nozzles and into some other suction nozzles, wherein said pick-up assembly is capable of rotational movement.
US07770882B2	Apparatus and method for processing sheets A method and apparatus are provided for processing sets of sheets. The apparatus includes a frame, a hopper for moving a stack of sheets, a pre-singulator for separating a portion of a sheet from the stack, a sheet peeler for peeling part of a pre-singulated sheet from the stack, a sheet picker for gathering peeled sheets into a set, and a sheet discharger for clearing the set of sheets. The sheet peeler may include at least one rotating drum. The sheet picker may include one or more augers.
US07770880B2	Image forming apparatus, sheet feeding source selection method, and recording medium A technology for selecting a sheet feeding source in an image forming apparatus including a plurality of sheet feeding sources is disclosed. A rank is acquired for each of the sheet feeding sources from a search order. The search order defines ranks for possible setups of sheet feeding sources. Each acquired rank represents a setup of a sheet feeding source, which setup is available in the image forming apparatus. A sheet feeding source that satisfies a user specification and whose rank is highest is selected from among the sheet feeding sources.
US07770878B2	Image forming apparatus Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a plurality of paper feed trays in which paper sheets are to be stacked; paper feed units each provided to each of the plurality of paper feed trays, the paper feed units sucking or discharging air in accordance with setting values corresponding to types of paper sheet to carry the paper sheets stacked in the respective paper feed trays toward a paper path; a storage unit to store the setting values for the paper feed units according to the types of paper sheet; an input unit to input a change instruction value for changing at least one of the setting values; and a control unit to change the at least one of the setting values stored in the storage unit into the change instruction value and to store the changed at least one of the setting values into the storage unit.
US07770875B2	Chain vise pipe clamp An aspect of the invention is provides a clamping shell for placement about an elongate pipe for accommodating a chain vise thereover, the clamping shell having: a pair of elongate generally arcuate half-shells, each half shell having an internal portion for engagement with the pipe, the internal portion including a non-uniform surface for frictional engagement with the pipe; and at least one of the half-shells of the pair including a pocket formed on an external surface thereof for supporting the chain vise therein.
US07770870B1	Tow ball winch mount A portable winch system mounted to a standard trailer hitch tow ball of a vehicle permits steep incline pulling angles of the winch without cutting into the neck portion of the tow ball. To achieve a broad range of inclination angles, the cup plate (socket that fits over the tow ball) and/or the ball-locking portion of the winch system includes relieved neck-clearance areas. In some embodiments, the cup plate and/or ball-locking mechanism includes neck contact points that are softer than the material of the tow ball.
US07770863B2	Seat apparatus for vehicle A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail fixed to a vehicle floor and an upper rail slidably supported relative to the lower rail and having a U-shaped cross section opened downward. The seat apparatus includes a supporting member integrally formed with a bottom wall portion and fixed, at both longitudinal ends thereof, to an upper portion of the upper rail and a side wall portion extending upward from at least one width directional end of the bottom wall portion. The supporting member supports a vehicle seat. The supporting member includes a curved portion integrally formed at an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction of the bottom wall portion of the supporting member and curved upward to be distant from the upper rail.
US07770833B2	Centrifugal brake device for use in bait cast reel A centrifugal brake device capable of preventing backlash of a bait cast reel by using the centrifugal force generated from a spool is disclosed. The centrifugal brake device includes a shoe housing engaged to one side of a spool and including a plurality of brake shoes disposed in a radial direction, a stopper positioned on an upper portion of the shoe housing to restrict the brake shoes, a stopper controller engaged to an upper portion of the stopper to control a lifting position of the stopper, a spool cover enclosing the shoe housing and including a brake ring engaged to an inner surface of the spool cover, the brake shoes coming into contact with the brake ring when the brake shoes are released from the stopper, a slide cam engaged to one side of the spool cover to control a lifting position of the stopper controller, with a spring being interposed between the slide cam and the spool cover, and an adjustment dial for gradually adjusting a lifting degree of the slide cam, the adjustment dial being provided with displacement portions on a surface thereof contacting the slide cam.
US07770832B2	Chipper device and method for chipping metal ingots A chipper device for chipping one or more metal ingots. The chipper device includes a cutter head and a guide mechanism associated with the cutter head. The guide mechanism includes a chute having a passageway. A feed mechanism is adapted to move one or more ingots sequentially through the passageway of the chute into engagement with the cutter head, whereby the cutter head chips the ingots into a plurality of particles.
US07770828B2	Method of manufacturing resin particles Method of manufacturing resin particles capable of manufacturing resin particles of controlled particle size stably and efficiently by removing bubbles from the surface of a molten kneaded product as the raw material for resin particles thereby sufficiently ensuring action sites for a surfactant on the surface of the molten kneaded product, is provided. The method includes a coarsely-pulverizing step of pressurizing a mixture of a molten kneaded product containing a synthetic resin and an aqueous medium containing a surfactant to 15 MPa to 120 MPa thereby removing bubbles attached to the molten kneaded product containing the synthetic resin, and a finely-granulating step of finely granulating, by a high pressure homogenizer method, an aqueous slurry containing coarse particles of a molten kneaded product passing through a pressure proof nozzle in the coarsely-pulverizing step and in a state where bubbles attached to the surface are removed.
US07770827B2	Cereal grain treatment and mash preparation for by-products An apparatus and method for dry treatment of grain comprises a grain peeler for mechanically treating pre-cleaned grain to remove flour bran and coarse bran to a peeling depth of about 4% to 9% with simultaneous separating of the flour bran; an aspiration separator separating coarse bran based on particle velocity and size; a grain mill; and sieve separator separating the husk bran of between 2%-3% of the grain kernel mass from endosperm flour by differences in particle size. An apparatus and method for mash preparation from the endosperm flour comprises mixing tank for mixing endosperm flour with water, enzymes, etc; a colloid mill for processing the batch using mechano-activation with oscillation frequencies between 1 and 200 kHz and with impulse duration of between 0.05 and 1.0 seconds and for 2 to 20 processing cycles, coarse particle sifter for separation of the coarse batch particles form the mash.
US07770819B2	Line maker A line marker includes a main body and a rod. The main body has a wheel axle set at a bottom of its front side and rear side respectively and the wheel axle has two wheels fitted at its two ends. The main body also includes a paint-spraying base having a positioning hole and a pressing block located below and paralleled the positioning hole with a proper distance for pressing a spraying head to start spraying. The rod is connected with the main body by its lower portion, having a lever fixed at its upper end, connected with a pulling line by its one end. The pulling line has its other end connected with the pressing block to activate it to move. So, controlling the lever to pull the pulling line, the pressing block can be moved to activate the paint spray can to carry out spraying.
US07770813B2	Spray penetration control method A spray penetration control method that controls penetration of fluid injected as a spray from an injector. The control method uses multiple successive injection events instead of single injection events to reduce overall spray penetration. Dwell times may be fixed or varied between successive injection events to reduce overall spray penetration. Also, the mass of fluid spray injected by the injector may be fixed or varied during each multiple successive injection event to reduce overall spray penetration and the number of successive injection events may be adjusted so that a desired total amount of mass is delivered in accordance with a desired penetration.
US07770805B2	Method for coding two dimensional optical identification with the same gray level and printing product thereof The invention relates to a method for coding a two dimensional (2D) optical identification (OID) with the same gray level and a printing product thereof. The printing product includes a 2D-OID, which includes a positioning block and a plurality of data coding blocks. The positioning block has a plurality of specific patterns arranged as an N×M matrix, wherein the specific patterns along a first edge thereof and the specific patterns along a second edge thereof are filled. The data coding blocks are disposed around the positioning block and include the specific patterns arranged as the N×M matrix, wherein the specific pattern in a center of the data coding blocks is filled. A specific number of the remaining specific patterns in each data coding block are filled to serve as a code for representation of data.
US07770801B1	Environmentally favorable reward cards A reward or retailer's card and a method of making a card having an overall recycle code of no greater than about 5. The card includes a core card stock made of a material having a recycle code of less than about 5. Variable indicia is printed on the card stock. A hot stamped substantially transparent foil layer is applied to at least the variable printed indicia on the card stock to protect the printed indicia.
US07770797B2	Method for processing data from barcodes Disclosed in this specification is a method for processing barcode data from one or more barcode scanners. The decoded data is reformatted in accordance with selected reformatting instructions and thereafter supplied to a software application for subsequent use. Preferably, the reformatting instructions can be customized by the end users, thus permitting the end users to adjust their system to receive previously unknown barcode formats.
US07770792B2	Methods and systems for managing stock transportation Systems and methods are disclosed for providing stock visibility during transportation of stock from between storage facilities. Such systems and methods can provide information identifying the location of stock while it is being transported to a new location and can provide the ability to alter the destination of stock while it is in transit to a new location. Upon the removal of stock from a warehouse, an inventory management system may be updated to indicate a transport unit of a vehicle that is being used to move the stock and, thus, provide visibility of the stock while it is in transit. In addition, through identification of the transport unit moving the stock to a new location, the vehicle transporting the stock may be rerouted to transfer the stock to an alternate location.
US07770788B2	Method and system for creating and delivering group messages A method and system for managing the creation and delivery of an electronic group message is disclosed. The electronic group message can be provided to two or more (i.e., a group) of signers to sign the electronic group message. Once signed, the electronic group message can be provided to one or more recipients. Alternatively, the electronic group message can be provided from a signer to a plurality of recipients, where different recipients receive different messages. One type of electronic group message is an electronic card known as a care card.
US07770782B2	Method and system to monitor hand hygiene compliance A system which allows healthcare providers to monitor hand hygiene compliance includes a data reader adapted to be worn by a healthcare provider. The system includes a portal trigger disposed at each door portal of a patient room which activates the reader to record an entrance event when the provider enters the patient room. The system includes a dispenser trigger disposed at each cleaning dispenser having cleanser in or at the entrance of each patient room which activates the reader to record a dispensing event when the provider causes the dispenser to dispense cleanser, the reader having a display which displays a number of dispensing events and a number of entrance events. A method which allows healthcare providers to monitor hand hygiene compliance. A system which allows a person to monitor hand hygiene compliance. A method for allowing a person to monitor hand hygiene compliance.
US07770778B2	Hemming working method and panel assembly manufacturing method A hemming working is performed by a positioning step of positioning a first panel formed with a projected portion for welding on a second panel formed with a flange portion; a first bending step of bending the flange portion; and a second bending step of pressing the flange portion on an outer side of the projected portion.
US07770762B2	Deformable flexible pouch and device for packaging and dispensing fluid products This invention is a collapsible flexible pouch that fits into a rigid bottle that is connected to a pump such that the pouch collapses while the bottle remains rigid as the contents of the pouch are pumped out. The pouch has a rigid upper part that serves as a seat for the collapsing pouch, the pouch also having one and only one contraction forming an annular concertina that seats on the upper rigid part of the collapsible pouch which collectively prevents blocking and clogging of the exit opening very effectively. An air inlet is provided in the rigid bottle to prevent a vacuum from forming around the collapsing pouch as its contents are dispensed.
US07770759B2	Liquid dispenser device A liquid dispenser device for being associated with a liquid reservoir, said device comprising: a chamber (10) provided with an inlet valve (5, 15), an outlet valve (27, 32), and a piston (3) that is suitable for varying the volume of the chamber (10); a liquid dispenser orifice (25); and a pusher (2) that is axially displaceable down and up between a rest position and a depressed position; the dispenser device being characterized in that the piston (3) includes an elastically-deformable portion (31) that is deformed by the pusher (2) in its depressed position, in such a manner as to open the outlet valve.
US07770734B2	Packing implement for goods transportation To provide a packing implement for goods transportation that facilitates packing in the transportation of the goods and is a combination of a baseboard and a holding sheet. The baseboard is a rectangular board for supporting an article to be transported at a fixed position, and has rising parts, falling parts and shape retaining parts. The rising parts are folded back upward from both end edges of a short side of the baseboard, the falling parts are folded back downward from both side edges of a long side of the baseboard, respectively, the falling part is constituted by a leg part orthogonal to the baseboard and a bottom part which is bent parallel with the baseboard, and a buffer space corresponding to a rising height of the leg part of the falling part is formed by the leg part bent so as to be orthogonal to the baseboard and the bottom part bent parallel with the baseboard. The shape retaining part is a corner part of the baseboard left between an end edge of the rising part and an end edge of the falling part. The shape retaining part is continued to the ring part and the falling part, is folded back parallel with the rising part when the end edge of the falling part is bent to a lower surface side of the baseboard, and is erected to hold the falling part bent when the rising part is folded back upward. The holding sheet is bridged over a surface of the baseboard and attached to both the falling parts, covers a surface of the article on the baseboard, is tensed by bend of the falling part, and presses and fixes the article to the baseboard.
US07770725B2	Capsule endoscope storage case In a storage case for accommodating a capsule endoscope in which a power supply can be operated by a predetermined magnetic force, when the capsule endoscope is retained by both a retaining portion provided in a blister pack and a hole portion provided in an inner cover portion while accommodated in the storage case, the blister pack, the inner cover portion, a sterilizing sheet, and a shield of the storage case are configured to cover an operable range for power supply of the capsule endoscope, and the storage case prevents malfunction of the capsule endoscope accommodated therein even if a magnet is unintentionally approximated.
US07770719B2	Self-correcting conveyor facility A self-correcting conveyor facility has a conveyor belt for transporting flat objects, in particular mail items. The self-conveying correcting conveyor facility has an elastic conveyor belt for transporting flat objects, in particular mail items. The conveyor belt rests on a correction roller, which is supported in a rotatable manner in a roller support. The roller support is supported in a fixed support in such a manner that it can be rotated about a support rotation axis. The fixed support is arranged in such a manner that an angle results between the support rotation axis and the belt axis of the conveyor belt. Displacement of the conveyor belt causes rotation of the correction roller. This rotation stretches the conveyor belt. The rotation produces a restoring force, which displaces the conveyor belt back.
US07770718B2	Systems and methods for providing an improved timing conveyor A conveyor includes a conveyor belt, a plurality of rollers, and a flight. The rollers have lower surfaces configured to engage a roller-engagement surface, and upper surfaces that substantially form a plane, such that the rollers engage the roller-engagement surface and rotate to move an object supported by the rollers over the plane. The flight includes a cam configured to engage a cam surface below the conveyor belt to impart a moment on the flight, and a projection that responds to the moment by rotating from a retracted position to an extended position.
US07770715B2	Screen conveyor for panel-pressing system A conveyor displaces a succession of identical screens along a closed annular path having a generally horizontal upper stretch and a lower return stretch spaced below the upper stretch. Particle mats are formed on the screens on the upper stretch. A press along the upper stretch downstream of the mat-former compresses the mats into rigid panels. A screen changer includes a unit for removing a bad screen from the conveyor and a unit for feeding a fresh screen to the conveyor and thereby replacing the bad screen with the fresh screen. One of the units is generally entirely within the path, below the upper stretch and above the lower stretch.
US07770706B2	Strut based overrunning pulleys Embodiments of the present invention include strut based overrunning pulleys that provide one or more of greater durability, lower heat generation, high torque loads carrying capability, potentially tunable vibration dampening, tunable to maximum permissible torque loads before elastic (repeatable) slippage, and/or ease of end of life assessment. In some embodiments, a pulley assembly includes a shaft; a pocket plate having a plurality of pockets; a notch plate adjacent the pocket plate and having a plurality of notches facing the pockets of the pocket plate; a plurality struts disposed in the pockets; a resilient member disposed within the pockets and biasing the struts towards the notches; and a body disposed about the shaft, pocket plate, and notch plate; wherein one of the pocket plate or the notch plate is rotationally coupled to the shaft and the other of the pocket plate or the notch plate is rotationally coupled to the body.
US07770704B1	Universal multiplate torque converter clutch system and method of use A multiplate torque converter clutch system, which is adapted for installation in torque converters of different automatic transmission manufacturers, namely, BORG WARNER, ALLISON, FORD, GENERAL MOTORS, and CHRYSLER transmissions. The present multiplate torque converter clutch system is provided in kit format including a hybrid lock-up piston/damper plate subassembly, multiple clutch plates including friction rings, a set of outer damper springs, and a set of inner damper springs. The present multiplate torque converter clutch system also includes a torque converter cover subassembly and a turbine hub subassembly configured to adapt the present torque converter clutch system to different vehicle engines and transmissions respectively. The hybrid lock-up piston/damper plate subassembly can be tuned to match a peak engine torque value by changing the number of damper springs. Advantageously, the present hybrid lock-up piston/damper plate subassembly is disassembled by removal of a single retaining ring to facilitate changes to the damper springs.
US07770703B2	Lock-up torque converter and method of locking up a torque converter A torque converter having an internal lock-up clutch which is activated by the elastic expansion or ballooning of the torque converter housing. This ballooning occurs due to the increased internal fluid pressure within the torque converter.
US07770695B2	Vehicle lift device including scissor lift and telescopic upper platform A vehicle lift device and method are provided wherein the lift device has upper and lower platforms that may receive vehicles for parking or storage. The lower platform may be selectively raised or lowered between two levels of a parking structure. The upper platform is mounted on telescoping supports. When the car lift device is raised to place the lower platform at the upper level of the parking structure, the telescoping posts retract allowing the upper platform to lower, thereby providing clearance between the upper platform and a ceiling of the parking structure. The posts retract by the weight of the upper platform, and no hydraulic assist is required. When the lift device is lowered to place the lower platform at the lower level of the parking structure, the upper platform engages the floor of the upper level of the parking structure and thereby covers the opening in the floor. The telescoping posts then extend as the lower platform travels to its lowered position at the lower level.
US07770693B2	Mat for acoustic apparatus An acoustic equipment mat is formed by arranging plural grain pieces of inexpensive silica gel in a single layer. When the mat is disposed under an acoustic equipment, the grain pieces have their upper ends in point contact with a bottom or the like of the acoustic equipment and have their lower ends in point contact with the underlying floor or the like. Hence, the mat 1a is notably reduced in the area of contact with the acoustic equipment or the like, so as to reduce the reflection of vibrations. In addition, the mat 1a is capable of extremely quickly dissipating, in the atmosphere, the vibrations directly propagated to the upper-end side thereof and the vibrations indirectly propagated thereto as reflected by the lower-end side thereof.
US07770685B2	Propulsion system for a work vehicle having a single drive pump and differential capability A hydraulic drive circuit for a work vehicle including a positive displacement flow divider positioned intermediate a hydraulic pump and a plurality of hydraulic motors.
US07770678B2	Hybrid vehicle drive control system A hybrid vehicle drive control system has a first clutch interposed between an engine and a motor/generator, a transmission including several gear position clutches arranged between the motor/generator and a drive wheel, and a controller. The controller selectively starts the engine using torque from the first clutch during a mode drive change from an electric drive mode to a hybrid drive mode. When an engine start command occurs during the drive mode change, the controller selects the engaged gear position clutch that has the maximum torque transfer capacity from the engaged clutches constituting a vehicle running gear occurring during an engine starting process as a second clutch to be controlled. Then the controller executes a slip control of the second clutch when the first clutch is being connected to start the engine during the mode change from the electric drive mode to the hybrid drive mode.
US07770673B2	Battery powered shuttle car A battery powered shuttle car (10) incorporates features and components that facilitate use and operation and effect efficient application in a mining environment. The shuttle car (10) incorporates at least one battery (20) that is secured to the vehicle frame (11) between one of a left front wheel (17) and a left rear wheel (17) or the right front wheel (17) and the right rear wheel (17). A battery change-over mechanism (51) facilitates battery replacement. Additionally, the shuttle car (10) may be provided with an integral discharge end (81) having a substantially fixed height (82). A full load indicator mechanism (83) provides an indication when the conveyor (16) is substantially full to maximize use and operation of the shuttle car (10).
US07770665B2	Use of cuttings tank for in-transit slurrification A system for preparing a slurry in-transit including a first cuttings storage vessel disposed on a transport vehicle, a module configured to operatively connect to the first cuttings storage vessel, and a fluid supply line in fluid communication with the first cuttings storage vessel, the module including, a grinding device configured to facilitate the transfer of fluids and reduce particle size of drill cuttings, wherein the system is operated while the transport vehicle is moving. A method of operating an in-transit slurrification system including using a first vessel disposed on a moving transport vehicle for cuttings storage, and operating the first vessel in a slurrification process while the transport vehicle is moving.
US07770656B2	System and method for delivering a cable downhole in a well A system for delivering a cable through a tubing string to a downhole location in a well, includes a plug and a receiver. The plug includes a first connector configured to be operably connected to the cable and further includes a plug housing adapted to fit within the tubing string. A check valve operably associated with a passage in the plug housing restricts fluid flow through the passage in a downhole direction and allows fluid flow through the passage in an uphole direction. The receiver is configured to be positioned at the downhole location and includes a receiver housing and a second connector configured to be operably connected to a downhole device. The second connector is adapted to communicate with the first connector when the receiver and plug housings are engaged.
US07770651B2	Method and apparatus for sub-sea processing A submersible process environment for sub-sea processing is provided. Such environment can include a modular encapsulated unit having an interior volume and one or more processing units disposed therein, a first valve in fluid communication with the interior and exterior of the unit, and a second valve in fluid communication with the interior and exterior of the unit. The first valve and the second valve can be in fluid communication with the processing unit, and the processing unit can receive a fluid from the first valve and discharges the fluid to the second valve.
US07770648B2	Completion method for well cleanup and zone isolation A completion method isolates a lower zone while circulation at high rates takes place above to clean debris out of the wellbore. Pressure fluctuation sensitive equipment in a lower completion is isolated with a tubing valve during circulation. This further prevents debris from clogging inlet pressure passages to equipment below the isolation valve during circulation to get the debris out. After circulation the packer is unset and the tubing valve is opened and a wellbore filter tool directs well fluids through a screen and captures the debris as the string is pulled toward the surface.
US07770641B2	Method for enhancing oil recovery with an improved oil recovery surfactant A method for enhancing oil recovery includes the step of providing a subsurface reservoir containing hydrocarbons therewithin. A wellbore is provided in fluid communication with the subsurface reservoir. A surfactant-polymer solution is formed for injection into the reservoir. The surfactant-polymer solution is formed by mixing a composition with at least one surfactant, at least one polymer, and at least one co-solvent or co-surfactant such that the surfactant-polymer solution is clear and aqueous stable. The surfactant-polymer solution is injected through the wellbore into the reservoir. A chaser solution is formed for injection into the reservoir. The chaser solution has an additional predetermined quantity of the co-solvent or co-surfactant. The chaser solution is injected through the injection wellbore into the reservoir to increase the production of hydrocarbons from the reservoir while maintaining the clear and aqueous stability of the surfactant-polymer solution.
US07770640B2	Carbon dioxide enriched flue gas injection for hydrocarbon recovery A process for enhanced oil and gas recovery. An enriched flue gas is synthesized from utility plant flue gas. The enriched flue gas is customizable for specific requirements; however, the gas is formed to have a high concentration of carbon dioxide. This is used as an injectant for enhancing the liberation of gas and/or oil from subterranean formations. The injection elevates recovery while sequestering carbon dioxide from the power plant source.
US07770634B2	Gas lift apparatus for flushing and snubbing well A gas lift production apparatus is provided for use in flushing and snubbing well operation. The apparatus comprises upper production string and lower production string. The upper production string includes at least one side pocket mandrel carrying a gas lift valve, tubular strings connected with every side pocket mandrel, a sliding sleeve installed as part of the production string below side pocket mandrels and a latch seal assembly threaded in the tubular string below the sliding sleeve. The lower production string includes a single bore packer below the latch seal assembly, tubular strings, a landing nipple and a bell mouth at the bottom of the production string. The upper production string are run in and removed as a single unit from the packer which is anchored within the well casing. It is emphasized that this apparatus is provided with three functions such as producing a gas lift well, flushing well and snubbing well operation. Application of the apparatus will prevent flushing or killing fluid from polluting the reservoir and increase production efficiency.
US07770623B2	Louvred shutter The invention relates to a shutter for a roller shutter assembly, the shutter comprising a series of shutter panels (10) and a plurality of connecting arms (20). The shutter panels (10) each have an upper edge (11) and a lower edge (12), a first face (13) and a second face (14), and the first faces (18) all face to a first side of the shutter and the second faces (14) all face to an opposite second side of the shutter. The connecting arms (20) each have a lower edge (21) and an upper edge (22), a lower one of two adjacent shutter panels in the series is pivotally connected to a higher one of the two adjacent shutter panels by at least two of the connecting arms (20). The lower edge (21) of each of the at least two connecting arms (20) is pivotally connected to an upper pivotal connection on the first face (13) of the lower of the two adjacent shutter panels, the upper pivotal connection being spaced below the upper edge of the lower shutter panel (10). The upper edge (22) of each of the at least two connecting arms (20) is pivotally connected to a lower pivotal connection on the second face (14) of an upper of the two adjacent shutter panels (10), the lower pivotal connection being spaced above the lower edge (12) of the upper shutter (11) panel (10). The at least two connecting arms (20) are spaced apart along the axes of the pivotal connections between the at least two connecting arms (20) and the upper and lower shutter panels (10).
US07770621B2	Air barrier composition for innerliners According to the invention, a processing aid is used to improve processing in a green (uncured) rubber composition, such as in downstream in-plant processing of an innerliner compound, and maintaining, or more preferably, reducing the air permeability of the cured composition, e.g., innerliner compound. In embodiments, another of the advantages of the present invention is that the processing aid according to the invention can be used in very low levels relative to the other processing aids and oils.
US07770613B2	Method and apparatus for loading catalyst Methods and apparatus are disclosed for filling solid particles into a vertical tube by conveying the particles downwardly into the tube along a loading tool that softens the fall of the particles and provides even filling of the tube. The loading tool includes a center member and a plurality of damper members that can be adapted in particular cases to the actual type of particles and the tube diameter. The damper members can be stiff or flexible since they do not occupy a substantial portion of the cross section of the tube at any particular axial location. In operation, the center member can be jerked during the filling operation while simultaneously being lifted up gradually as the tube fills or it can be sequentially lifted. The damper members reduce the falling velocity of the particles and divert the particles from falling in straight downward paths. This avoids bridge formation and breakage of the particles during filling.
US07770612B1	Pressure-actuated air gun A pressure-actuated air gun having an actuating port in the nozzle of the gun such that, when the actuating port becomes blocked, as by inserting the nozzle of the gun into a coupling on an article to be inflated or deflated, air is caused to pass from a source of pressurized air to the gun. When the actuating port becomes unblocked, as by disengaging the nozzle of the gun from the coupling, air is inhibited from passing from the source of pressurized air to the gun. An air pilot actuated valve is interposed between the source and the gun, and is controlled by air pressure that builds up when the actuating port becomes blocked by the coupling.
US07770611B2	Peelable seal closure assembly The present invention provides a peelable seal for a multi-chambered container including a first edge and a second edge. At least one of the first edge or second edge includes a stress bearing portion and a non-stress bearing portion.
US07770603B2	Flexible tubular pipe with an anti-wear sheath A flexible tubular conduit for transporting hydrocarbons comprising at least two metal sheathing covers which are separated by a plastic anti-wear layer. Each cover is produced by helically winding a metal longitudinal element. The anti-wear layer is produced by helically winding a plastic material strip. The plastic material comprises an amorphous polymer with a glass transition temperature ranging from 175 to 255° C.
US07770592B2	Valve with freeze-proof heated valve seat A valve comprises a valve body having a fluid inlet and fluid outlet, a valve seat located in the valve body between the fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a valve member movable towards and away from the valve seat for controlling the flow of fluid from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, and a PTC heater in thermal contact with the valve seat for heating the valve seat. The heater is integrated in the valve in a manner where the valve seat is used as an electrical conductor to facilitate operation and assembly of the valve, and a unique valve construction is provided for enabling self-draining to avoid accumulation of water or other liquid in the valve that might negatively impact performance of the valve.
US07770587B2	Interlocking container A case for storing a cosmetic is provided. The case has a base with a first latch portion and configured to support the cosmetic, a cover securable to the base and having a second latch portion, and an applicator for applying the cosmetic and having a third latch portion. The third latch portion engages the first latch portion and the second latch portion to secure the cover to the base when the case is in a closed position.
US07770585B2	Additive applicator Apparatus for applying an additive to cigarette filter tow material which is in, or exiting, a filter tow funnel, the apparatus comprising a flavor inlet, a valve, and a hollow needle positioned downstream of at least a portion of said filter tow funnel, the needle being in fluid communication controlled by said valve with said flavor inlet, whereby, in use, a flavoring is delivered by said needle into the path of said filter tow material.
US07770580B2	Device and method for respirating a patient by means of high-frequency ventilation A device is provided for respirating a patient by means of high-frequency ventilation, which has at least one device for setting a desired tidal volume by a user, and which has at least one regulating device for regulating an amplitude of the respiration pressure and/or at least one regulating device for regulating the oscillation frequency on the basis of the tidal volume determined. A corresponding method is provided for regulating a device for respirating a patient by high-frequency ventilation and a method is provided for respirating a patient.
US07770579B2	Characterisation of mask systems A method and a CPAP apparatus for characterizing a plurality of different mask systems, e.g., masks and hoses, are provided. The CPAP apparatus can be calibrated for different mask systems and hoses by including sensors configured to measure flow and pressure at a flow generator of the CPAP apparatus. When the flow generator is fitted to a new mask system, or any changes are made to an existing mask system, mask or patient interface and/or hose, a method for calibrating the flow generator for the new mask system, mask and/or hose is provided. The method includes determining air flow characteristics using flow measurements made during a first test period when the flow through the mask system is open, measuring or estimating pressure in the mask system during a second test period when the flow through the mask system is blocked and determining air flow characteristics of the diffuser of the mask system using the air flow characteristics of the air delivery hose determined during the first test period and the pressure measurements made during the second test period.
US07770575B2	Multiware sawing machine for the cutting of material in block form The sawing machine according to the invention comprises a double portal structure (11) with two pairs of uprights (11.1), along which slides a respective ram (13). The rams (13) bear four support shafts (15), superposed in pairs and each supporting a coaxial roller, respectively a plurality of coaxial pulleys (18), mutually juxtaposed in packet fashion, having coplanar races according to respective vertical planes. A shaft (15) rotates integrally with the respective roller, or with the respective packet of pulleys (18). The other rollers, or packets of pulleys (18) are idle. On sets of four coplanar races is wound a corresponding wire or cutting tool (19) in closed loop, to execute the cut in a corresponding vertical plane of a block of material (B).
US07770573B2	Portable camouflage blind for hunting What is disclosed is a portable hunting screen. The hunting screen comprises a frame, camouflage material, and an opening through which a weapon can be fired.
US07770569B2	Procedure and device for feeding balls into the projectile chamber of a handgun The procedure for feeding balls (14) to the projectile chamber (11) of a handgun (1), in particular to the projectile chamber of a paintball weapon, whereby the balls (14) are fed by means of a motor from a ball container (3), through a feeder tube (2) into a projectile chamber (11), is characterized by the fact that the motor is controlled as a function of the movement of the balls (14) in the feeder tube (2). The feeding of the balls (14) to the projectile chamber (11) is controlled in accordance with the procedure which is the subject of the invention. The invention has the advantage that the motor is controlled as a function of the actual conditions prevailing inside the feeder tube (2).
US07770559B2	Diaphragm carburettor with electromagnetic actuator A diaphragm carburettor comprises a diaphragm dosager (2) provided with a diaphragm (3) that separates a first chamber at constant pressure (4) from a second fuel dosaging chamber (5) intercepted by a valve controlled by the diaphragm, said valve being operatively connected with said diaphragm (3), the aforementioned carburettor also foreseeing an electromagnetic actuator (1) associated with said diaphragm (3) to control the opening and closing of said valve, where said actuator (1) also comprises at least one mobile coil (6) directly fixed to the diaphragm, and a fixed magnetic field generator (7) suitable for guiding said coil (6).
US07770557B2	Throttle body, method of adjusting opening of opener, and method of manufacturing throttle body A throttle body (2) includes a resin main body (3) defining a bore (7) through which intake air flows, a valve body (60) having a shaft part (20) rotatably supported by the resin body (3) and a valve part (4) for opening and closing the bore (7) of the main body (3), and a resin cover body (40) attached to the main body (3). The cover body (4) is attached to the main body (3) by welding.
US07770553B2	Manual working machine In order to provide a handheld work machine that does not require expensive start circuitry for the critical start-up phase of the combustion engine, and in which nevertheless the required constant supply voltage for the engine is present in order to achieve optimum starting behavior, a handheld work machine is provided with at least one combustion engine which in operation requires a supply voltage, and with a voltage generator that supplies a generator voltage that depends on the rotary speed of the combustion engine, which generator voltage is used to generate the supply voltage, wherein the handheld work machine is electrically connected to an additional voltage source that prior to starting the combustion engine provides the required supply voltage that at this point in time is not yet present.
US07770540B2	Exercise and perch system for domestic cats A collapsible and scaleable floor to ceiling post forming an exercise and perch system for domestic cats. Using integral platforms (37,44) that function as steps and perching areas (35). The post may be adjusted to different ceiling heights by adding or removing interchangeable sections (41,44) and provides fine adjustment with a telescopic section that is spring biased (28) to limit forces on the ceiling. The step/platforms are rotationally spaced by 120 degrees for an optimal rise to run ratio resulting in climbing comfort, ascend and descend speed, safety, and contemporary appearance. The post has a cross-section that forces step and loft mounting at 120° intervals using multiples of three cross-sectional facets. The assembly provides for a removable scratching area near the bottom of the post and padded perch area nearest the ceiling.
US07770539B1	Canine exercise wheel An exercise wheel is configured to support canines and provide an apparatus that will enable the canine to exercise within a confined space. The exercise wheel is supported on a three bearing stance that can be configured in a freestanding configuration or in a configuration that is mounted to the exterior wall of a dog kennel. In the mounted configuration, the dog will have an unrestricted access to exercise without leaving the confinement provided by the dog kennel. The exercise wheel is freely rotatable from a frame affixed to the kennel wall with a gap between the wheel periphery and the kennel wall being covered by a plastic seal. The circumferential periphery of the exercise wheel is formed of wire mesh to allow waste and debris to pass through.
US07770537B2	Stent coating device The present invention is a method and device, which is suitable for use in an operating theater just prior to implantation, for selectively applying a medical coating to an implantable medical device, for example a stent. Disclosed is a device for use with a stent deployed on a catheter balloon. The device is configured to apply a medical coating of a desired thickness to the surface of a stent only. This is done by use of a drop-on-demand ink-jet printing system in association with an optical scanning device. The device is further configured so as to, if necessary, apply a plurality of layered coats, each layered coat being of a different coating material, and if appropriate, different thickness. The section of the housing in which the stent is held during the coating procedure is detachable from the housing base. The detachable housing section may be easily cleaned and re-sterilized or simply disposed of.
US07770534B2	Changed condition indicator A system and method for indication of temperature exposures beyond a set of predetermined limits employs the salts of weak acid-strong base or of a strong acid-weak base compound as reactants. A device includes a housing and capsule. A first reactant and a liquid are included within the capsule. The liquid is chosen such that it expands upon freezing. The capsule is sized such that when the liquid freezes and expands, the capsule fractures. A second reactant is provided within the housing. The location of the second reactant and the method of attaching (if any) the second reactant to the housing may take various forms. When the liquid within the capsule freezes, it expands and fractures the capsule. Upon thawing, the reactant within the capsule escapes and mixes with the reactant located outside the capsule. A second embodiment is a time-temperature indicator. A flexible housing is used, allowing the user to manually deform the housing to fracture a capsule enclosed therein. The reactants combine to produce a color. The color is chosen to be a different color than the housing, allowing a person viewing the indicator device to quickly and easily determine the status of the object being monitored. The threshold temperature at which the device will indicate a changed condition may be varied. Exemplary temperatures include below the freezing temperature, at the freezing temperature, and above the freezing temperature. The capsule composition may be varied such that it melts at a predetermined temperature. Thus, the device may also be used to indicate whether a high temperature has been met or exceeded.
US07770531B2	Bumper assemblies for modular barges and methods therefor A system for protecting a modular barge, which includes a plurality of modular barge sections assembled together using male and female connections, is provided. Each modular barge section has a top surface, a bottom surface, a side wall extending between the top and bottom surfaces, and at least one male connector projecting from the side wall. Some of the male connectors are exposed at an outer peripheral of the barge. A bumper is coupled with the at least one exposed male connector. The bumper extends between the top and bottom surfaces of the modular barge section to which it is attached.
US07770530B2	Combination quilted patterns and quilting methods Combination quilted patterns of which at least one component pattern is continuous are sewn on a multi-layered web of material with the sewing heads on one bridge as the material is advanced longitudinally. The bridge might or might not also move longitudinally. Simultaneously, different patterns, either continuous or discontinuous, are sewn with another independently moveable bridge. The continuous patterns extend substantially the lengths of quilted panels on a web, and may extend without thread cuts or tacks along the web across the lengths of more than one panel. One pattern can be changed while the other pattern continues along the web. New patterns, intermediate quilted products and methods for quilting them are provided.
US07770528B2	Solid fuel burner, solid fuel burner combustion method, combustion apparatus and combustion apparatus operation method A solid fuel burner and its combustion method suited for encouraging fuel ignition and avoiding slugging caused by combustion ash, wherein a gas of low oxygen concentration (exhaust combustion gas) is used as a carrier gas of such a low grade solid fuel as brown coal. An additional air nozzle for jetting additional air having a velocity component in the circumferential direction of a fuel nozzle is provided in the fuel nozzle, thereby encouraging mixing between the fuel and air in the fuel nozzle. Further, the amount of air supplied from the additional air nozzle is adjusted in response to the difference in combustion loads. Under light load, the amount of air supplied from the additional air nozzle is increased so as to increase the oxygen concentration of the circulating flow formed downstream of the outside of the outlet of the fuel nozzle, whereby stable combustion is ensured. Under heavy load, by contrast, the amount of air supplied from the additional air nozzle is decreased, and a flame is formed away from the fuel nozzle in such a way that burner structures and furnace wall will be less subjected to radiant heat.
US07770526B2	Railcar man-way cover lift-assist system A lift-assist system for a man-way cover includes a unitary spring mounted to the axis of rotation for the man-way cover. The spring includes a coil portion on either side of the axle of rotation, with a unitary bridge portion spanning between the coil portions. The bridge portion of the spring presses down on a cantilevered extension of the man-way cover, called a duck bill. A first predetermined spacing is provided between the coil portions and the axle and second predetermined spacing is provided between the ends of the coil portions and the mounting of the axle. These predetermined spacings accommodate the variations in the coil geometry as the man-way cover moves from a fully shut position to a fully open position and vice versa.
US07770521B2	Method and apparatus for a projectile incorporating a metastable interstitial composite material A method and apparatus for incorporating nanophase elemental materials and metastable interstitial composite materials into projectiles, projectile fragments, ordnance casings, warheads and structural components. The projectile, fragments and casings include an elemental material capable of oxidizing. A coating material that is capable of preventing oxidation of the elemental material and an oxidizing agent may be present and be capable of reacting with the elemental material so that a self-propagating high temperature synthesis reaction from a stabilized solid material is yielded for the purpose of rendering terminal effects or thermal impact to a target at impact.
US07770518B2	Web apparatus for cleaning arcuate printhead arrangement Various embodiments of a web are disclosed.
US07770514B1	Outdoor cooking apparatus An improved outdoor cooking apparatus features a pot with multiple cooking inserts and burner frame that supports a burner element. One insert can be used for cooking an entire poultry carcass. Other inserts are perforated baskets that can be used to fry items.
US07770513B2	Puffing apparatus for producing cereal crackers An apparatus for making an expanded food product from a starch-containing raw material includes a heatable pressure-baking and expansion mold and a raw material supply system. The heatable pressure-baking and expansion mold comprises at least one movable mold element connected to powered driving system that moves the mold element upwardly and downwardly in a vertical direction. The raw material supply system comprises a sliding plate system for transporting a given quantity of raw material from a raw material source into the mold. The driving system comprises a hydraulic cylinder directly attached to the mold element. The vertical axis of the mold element and of the hydraulic cylinder falls substantially along the same vertical line. The hydraulic cylinder is connected to a central high-pressure oil feed line of a hydraulic oil pressure generator system that continuously delivers oil at a constantly high-pressure to the hydraulic drive cylinder. The hydraulic cylinder is connected to a central oil return line which flows the utilized oil back to an oil reservoir of the oil pressure generator.
US07770510B2	Shared water reservoir beverage system An apparatus for making and dispensing a plurality of beverages, the dispensing apparatus comprising; a plurality of beverage dispensing modules (32), each beverage module having a container (68) and a brewing assembly (30) for making a respective beverage and delivering the respective beverage to the container, and a housing (34) associated with the plurality of beverage dispensing modules and defining a chamber containing a liquid for supply to the beverage making assemblies to make respective beverages.
US07770492B2	Bicycle crank assembly A bicycle sprocket crank assembly is comprised of first and second crank arms joined to a spindle. One of the crank arms and the spindle may be fabricated as a unitary structure, or both cranks arms may be formed as separate structures and joined together. In either case the spindle has at least a first coupling end with an internally tapped axial bore defined therein and the second crank arm forms at least a first socket at its axle end. At least a first wedging sleeve is provided and is disposed about the first coupling end of the spindle. The first wedging sleeve conforms to the shapes of both the first coupling end of the spindle and the hollow cavity in the first socket. Either the coupling end of the spindle or the hollow cavity is axially tapered, and the wedging sleeve is tapered to match. The wedging sleeve is split in an axial direction, so that as the first socket is drawn onto the first coupling end of the spindle, the wedging sleeve is increasingly forced in between the inner radial surface of the hollow cavity of the socket and the outer radial surface of the coupling end of the spindle.
US07770488B2	Tilt-and-telescope steering apparatus A tilt-and-telescope steering apparatus includes a plate bracket, an outer tube, a distance bracket, an outer block, and a fastening arrangement. The plate bracket surrounds an outer surface of an outer tube and has tilt adjustment holes formed on both sides of the plate bracket. The outer tube surrounds an inner tube and has telescopic adjustment hole formed in at least one side thereof. The distance bracket surrounds the outer surface of the outer tube and has fastening holes formed through both sides of the distance bracket. The outer block is positioned between the plate bracket and the distance bracket, and fastens the distance bracket according to the operation of a control lever. A fastener couples the plate bracket, the outer block, and the distance bracket to each other.
US07770472B2	Device for detecting amount of pedal operation In a pedal operation amount detecting apparatus, a brake pedal and a clevis secured at an end portion of an operating rod are pivotably connected by a connecting shaft, a bush is arranged between the brake pedal and the connecting shaft, detectors are attached on an outer circumferential surface of an elastically deformable bush main body of the bush, and an ECU calculates a pedal tread force based on loads detected by the detectors, whereby a simplified structure, an improved mountainability, and a highly accurate detection of an operation amount can be realized.
US07770469B2	Differential pressure measurement device having a microwave resonator with a flexible member A differential pressure (dP) measurement device for use in flow measurement including a first microwave resonator (1) having a flexible or yieldable part or member (4) deformable or yieldable when subject to a differential pressure in such a way as to alter a resonant frequency of said resonator, and an electronic unit (12, 14) which is coupled to the resonator (1), and where the electronic unit is adapted to produce an output depending on a resonant frequency of the resonator (1).
US07770464B2	Device for dynamically load testing a sample The invention is a device for dynamically load testing a sample that comprises a bearing, to which the sample can be directly or indirectly connected in a detachable manner, as well as a counter-bearing that can be effectively connected to the sample by means of at least one actuator element. The at least one actuator element introduces dynamic mechanical loads into the sample which Act along a load path that is directed between the bearing and the counter-bearing and extends through the sample. The at least one actuator element features a multifunctional solid body conversion material system that undergoes deformations due to the supply of energy, and wherein the deformations are at least one cause for the mechanical loads occurring within the sample. The device according to the invention uses at least one actuator element that may be configured in two alternative forms.
US07770463B2	Shear stress measurement apparatus A shear stress sensor for measuring the shear force of a fluid flowing along a wall. A floating member, flush with the wall, senses a shear force of the flowing fluid. The floating member is mounted by support means to a base element that is placed in the wall, so that the floating member is flush with the wall and a shear force, sensed by the floating member, is translated via the support means to a micro-resonator. The force acting on the micro-resonator changes the shape and the refractive index of the micro-resonator, thereby changing the resonant frequency of the micro-resonator and causing a shift in the spectrum of wavelengths of light that is introduced to the micro-resonator. This shift in the spectrum of wavelengths is representative of the shear force of the flowing fluid.
US07770457B2	Pseudo porosity reference standard for metallic interleaved composite laminates The invention relates to pseudo porosity standards, and methods for their manufacture and use, which substantially mimic the effect porosity has on ultrasonic sound as it passes through a composite laminate, such as a metallic interleaved composite laminate. An ultrasonic inspection reference standard for composite materials having porosity may include a member having at least one thickness, at least one metallic shim, and at least one mesh. A plurality of metallic shims and meshes may be disposed in alternating layers within the member. The member may be manufactured from a fiber-free polymer resin using a stereo lithography process. Use of the mesh may produce a standard which transmits ultrasonic energy, with the mesh scattering and attenuating the energy. Use of the metallic shim may aide in modeling a metallic laminate. The manufactured reference standard may replace more costly porous, fiber-reinforced, composite reference standards, such as porous metallic interleaved composite laminate reference standards, in the aircraft industry and in other non-aircraft applications.
US07770456B2	Electromagnetic piezoelectric acoustic sensor An acoustic sensor comprises at least one resonant element. A driver comprises an electrical coupling means and an electromagnetic field source arranged such that the electrical coupling means transfers currents to the electromagnetic field source. The electromagnetic field source produces an electromagnetic field that drives the resonant elements to produce acoustic waves directed to a predetermined part of a test sample. Also provided is an electromagnetic detector for receiving the acoustic spectrum omitted from a test sample and an electrical circuit connected to the drive around detector.
US07770449B2	Resistive-type humidity sensing structure with microbridge and method therefor A resistive-type humidity sensing structure with microbridge includes a substrate, a sensing portion, and two measuring electrodes. An isolated layer and a bridge are respectively formed on the substrate. The sensing portion includes a resistive and humidity sensing layer. Two measuring electrodes are formed on the resistive sensing layer corresponding to the bridge, so as to fix the sensing portion on the first isolated layer for measuring resistance values of the resistive sensing layer. The material of the humidity sensing layer changes its volume according to humidity, the length of the resistive sensing layer covered by the humidity sensing layer is warped, and the changes of the length of the material for the resistive sensing layer causes variations of the resistance value. Finally, two measuring electrodes are used to measure the humidity value.
US07770437B2	Thiol or disulfide molecules having poly(ethylene oxide) groups for use in a self assembled monolayer bound to a metal layer for covalently immobilizing biomolecules in a biosensor An article is provided for immobilizing functional organic biomolecules (e.g. proteins, DNA, and the like) through a covalent bond to a thiolate or disulfide monolayer to a metal surface wherein an extra activation step of the surface layer or an activation step of the functional biomolecules or bioreceptors could be avoided. The article comprises mixed self-assembled monolayers of thiol or disulfide molecules of formula X1—(CH2)c—O—([CH2]t—CH2—O)n—R1—S—X2 incorporating poly(ethylene oxide) groups and two functional groups, X1 and X2. Preferably, one functional group resists nonspecific adsorption and the other functional group directly (without activation) reacts with functional groups on the biomolecules. The functional group X1 is selected from the group consisting of flurophenyl, fluorobenzoyl, fluorophenoxycarbonyl, nitrophenoxycarbonyl, C2-12 alkenyl, sulfonyl halide, isothiocyanato, isocyanato, carbonyl halide, haloalkylcarbonyl, and diazonium carbonyl. The poly(ethylene oxide) groups resist nonspecific adsorption and enhance the specific affinity interactions. A particularly preferred molecule is 2-(2-{2-[2-(2-{2-[2-(11-mercaptoyldisulfanyl-undecyloxy)ethoxy]ethoxy}ethoxy)ethoxy]ethoxy} acetic acid pentafluorophenyl ester. A sensor device including these monolayers is also provided to perform reproducible, sensitive, specific and stable bioanalysis.
US07770431B2	Methods and apparatus for insitu analysis of gases in electronic device fabrication systems Systems and methods are disclosed that include adjusting a pressure level of a sample gas in a testing chamber, for example, using a pressurized inert reference gas, and determining a composition of the adjusted sample gas. By adjusting the pressure level of the sample gas, the composition of the sample gas may be determined more accurately than otherwise possible. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.
US07770420B2	Lockdown door bar A door has a doorknob, and is hingedly mounted in a door frame having at least one vertical member. The door is capable of selective rotational movement between a closed configuration and an open configuration. The door has a first side and an opposed second side. The first side is oriented in a direction toward which the door opens. A barricade bar includes a flange member for selectively engaging the doorknob to prevent the separation of the flange member from the doorknob. The barricade bar also includes a frame member for coordinate engagement with the at least one vertical member. The frame member is rigidly coupled with the flange member. The barricade bar can be oriented adjacent the second side of the door so that the frame member engages the vertical member and the flange member engages the doorknob to prevent the opening of the door.
US07770417B2	Magnetic actuator, particularly for selection devices in hosiery knitting machines or the like A magnetic actuator, particularly for selection devices in hosiery knitting machines or the like, comprising a main magnet, which has at least two poles arranged side by side and separated by a discontinuity, and a selection electromagnet, which is provided with at least one pole arranged in alignment with the discontinuity and spaced laterally with respect to it. The selection electromagnet can be actuated to generate or eliminate or reduce a magnetic attraction force at the pole of the selection electromagnet.
US07770413B2	Body jewelry Various jewelry devices are provided for use in a pierced body part, such as the naval, and/or with devices implanted in a pierced body part. In one embodiment, a ring-shaped member is provided and it includes a first semi-circular member having first and second terminal ends, and a second semi-circular member having a first portion that is hingedly connected to the first terminal end of the first semi-circular member and a second portion that is fixedly mated to the first portion and that includes a terminal end that is adapted to removably mate to the second terminal end of the first component. The present invention also provides a connector for easily removably mating various jewelry ornaments to a jewelry device that is worn in a pierced body part.
US07770402B2	Thermally efficient CCD camera housing A system and method of cooling a CCD camera may employ a composite material housing design that allows the cold side of a TEC to be mounted relatively close to the CCD and the hot side of the TEC to be isolated from the housing cavity in which the CCD resides. An efficient heat transfer path may facilitate cooling the CCD to a predetermined or selected operating temperature and isolate the CCD from the heat loads generated by operation the TEC.
US07770400B2	Non-linear fuel transfers for gas turbines A method for controlling the rate of transfer between operation with gas and liquid fuel types to minimize the time in undesirable operational mode, thereby preventing excessive wear and damage to gas turbine hardware. The method includes completing a fuel prefill for the oncoming fuel type through the fuel system and determining if a total fuel demand for the oncoming fuel type is greater than a predetermined flow rate for the oncoming fuel type. The method also includes selecting a fuel transfer rate and transferring from the offgoing fuel type to the oncoming fuel type at the selected fuel transfer rate. Further, the method includes determining if the offgoing fuel flowrate has decreased below a predetermined flow rate for the offgoing fuel type, selecting a final fuel transfer rate and completing the transfer from offgoing fuel type to oncoming fuel type at a selected final fuel transfer rate.
US07770392B2	Apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger and an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust-gas turbocharger regulator which, as a function of a setpoint boost pressure and an actual boost pressure, determines a controlled actuating-variable exhaust-gas back-pressure. An exhaust-gas recirculation regulator determines, as a function of a setpoint air mass flow and an actual air mass flow, a controlled actuating-variable exhaust-gas recirculation mass flow. A first decoupling unit determines a decoupling mass flow in an exhaust-gas section. A second decoupling unit determines a decoupling exhaust-gas back-pressure. A first conversion unit determines a signal for the exhaust-gas turbocharger actuator as a function of the pilot-control actuating-variable exhaust-gas back-pressure, the controlled actuating-variable exhaust-gas back-pressure and the decoupling mass flow. A second conversion unit determines a signal for the exhaust-gas recirculation valve as a function of the pilot-control actuating-variable exhaust-gas recirculation mass flow, the controlled actuating-variable exhaust-gas recirculation mass flow and the decoupling exhaust-gas back-pressure.
US07770390B2	Configurations and methods for wave energy extraction A wave energy harvester (100A) includes an element (120A) that converts forward and/or backward of water in a wave (102A, B, C) passing the harvester (100A) into upward and/or downward movement to thereby increase the vertical amplitude of the harvester (100A) relative to the sea floor (104A, B, C). In most preferred aspects, the element (120A) is a hydrofoil that is coupled to the harvester (100A). Further preferred aspects include those in which part of, or the entire harvester (100A) has a neutral buoyancy, and where energy is extracted from the downwards movement of the neutrally buoyant part (100A) after a wave has lifted that part (110A).
US07770389B2	Machine to convert gravity to mechanical energy A empty tank submersed in a body of liquid will float to the surface, as the tank floats up it will do work. It is the goal of this machine to empty the tank after the tank has been submersed, and in the process of emptying the tank do less work than the empty tank does when it floats up.
US07770373B2	Core fiber detecting method and device in core yarn spinning The presence/absence of a core fiber in a core yarn is reliably detected to prevent production of a core fiber-free core yarn. In a method for producing a core yarn C by wrapping a fiber bundle S around a core fiber F, the core yarn C is spun with a core fiber F content being changed from that of normal spinning for a predetermined time period after the start of spinning, in order to detect whether the core fiber F is present. The core yarn C may be spun with a core fiber made of a drawn elastic yarn to detect whether the core fiber is present based on a thickness fluctuation of the core yarn that is caused by slackening the core yarn.
US07770361B2	Powder compaction and enrobing Powder, e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs by preferably mechanically compacting a powder and forming a film of material, preferably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
US07770351B2	Housing with a front frame covering the housing opening A housing with a front frame which covers a housing opening, wherein the front frame is assembled from four frame legs and four corner elements. The corner elements connect the frame legs which meet each other at right angles at the corner elements, with each other. The corner elements can have two walls, extending at right angles in relation to each other, with fastening receivers for screw connections with screw receptacles in the front faces of the frame legs of the front frame. The outsides of these walls facing the frame legs have plug-in and/or snap-in elements, which can be introduced and/or snapped into the plug-in and/or snap-in receptacles of the frame legs. The walls are connected with an outer wall and a rear wall, which complete the outside and rear of the front frame, a simple assembly of the front frame and the rear wall or the basic housing structure is achieved.
US07770349B2	Seismic clip for grid tee control joint A clip for bridging a longitudinal gap between a pair of grid tee lengths, the clip having a cruciform shape in plan view formed by a set of four integral arms, one pair of the arms extending along a first line in opposite directions from a center of the clip, and another pair of arms extending along a line perpendicular to said first line in opposite directions from the center of the clip, said arms when oriented for installation having an inverted U-shape cross-section proportioned to fit over a respective one of four intersecting lengths of grid tees having an inverted T-shape with a reinforcing hollow bulb at its upper edge, at least one of said arms having a longitudinally extending fastener receiving slot and other of said arms having locations for receiving respective fasteners, said slot and receiving locations each being arranged to receive a fastener and allow the fastener to be anchored into the bulb of an associated tee, said slot being arranged to allow its respective grid tee length to telescope within the associated arm.
US07770343B2	Prefabricated modular tower Prefabricated modular tower of the kind used as a support for wind generators and other applications uses reduced-thickness prefabricated elements which are reinforced with an internal structure of horizontal and vertical stiffeners, preferably made of reinforced concrete. The elements are tensioned both horizontally and vertically by flexible metal cables. The main advantages of the invention are that it enables fast construction of very high towers using a limited number of elements. The elements are not heavy and are easy to transport, all of which leads to savings in manufacturing, transport and installation costs.
US07770342B2	Hollow core floor and deck element A stress-optimized structural support which may be utilized as a beam or assembled with similar supports to form a building floor or roof panel or a bridge deck utilizes an open core element, made preferably of suitably treated fluted paper, upper and lower thin skin sheets, preferably steel skins, and a layer of concrete poured over the top skin. Modules comprising the hollow core element and the upper and lower skin sheets are fabricated to lengths required for building floor, roof or bridge spans and, when joined by welding or otherwise joining the upper and lower skin sheets of adjacent elements along their full lengths, provide a floor or roof deck structure of a large span with horizontal stresses distributed omnidirectionally. A post-stressing tensile system redistributes and reduces the load on the roof deck by about one-half. Small building decks utilizing the stress redistribution system can be combined to build a large span roof in which multiple tensioning systems are coordinated to simultaneously effect the load redistribution.
US07770339B2	Roof system for a modular enclosure A modular enclosure, such as a shed, may include sidewalls and a roof. The roof, for example, may include first and second roof panels that are separated by a seam. The roof may also include a truss that is sized and configured to support the roof panels. The truss may include a channel that allows any moisture entering the shed from between the roof panels to be removed from the shed. In particular, a portion of the first roof panel and a portion of the second roof panel may be at least partially disposed within the channel. Advantageously, the truss may be constructed from metal, which may allow a strong and sturdy shed to be constructed, and the roof panels may be constructed from blow-molded plastic, which may allow a lightweight and generally weather resistant shed to be produced.
US07770338B2	Method for producing triangular elements designed for the manufacture of structures and resulting triangular elements Triangular elements for forming geodesic structures each have three elongated leg members arranged end-to-end to form three apexes. At least one of the apexes is formed with a curved-shaped indentation which extends along an outer surface and perpendicular to the opposing side surfaces. The legs of each triangular element also include one or more outer grooves extending longitudinally along the outer surface. Each outer groove is sized to receive a seal member. An inwardly raised shoulder extends longitudinally along the inner surface. An inner groove is formed along a side edge of the raised shoulder and each inner groove is sized to receive a seal member. Panels are positioned over the opposing sides to form double-walled triangular element. Channels extend through the outer surface and raised shoulder of the inner surface. The triangular elements are arranged to form a geodesic structure and fasteners extend through the channels to secure adjacent triangular elements.
US07770336B2	Multiple-level rotary work surface A multi-tiered rotary workstation comprises at least two rotary work spaces supported at different levels, with associated workstation floors, substantial increasing the amount of work space available within a fixed floor space.
US07770334B2	Door assembly for a modular enclosure A modular enclosure, such as a shed, may include a door assembly. The door assembly may include a door constructed from blow-molded plastic and a hinge member receiving portion may be disposed on one side of the door. Advantageously, the hinge member receiving portion may be integrally formed with the door as part of a unitary, one-piece construction. A hinge member may be disposed within the hinge member receiving portion and the hinge member may pivotally connect the door to the shed. The door may include a reinforcement member, which is preferably constructed from metal and disposed proximate the second side of the door. If desired, the reinforcement member may be at least partially exposed on an outer surface of the door. In addition, the door assembly may include a flange that is sized and configured to prevent water from unintentionally entering the shed.
US07770331B2	Potential energy storage system The present invention relates to a stand alone system for generating electrical power using hydraulic supports on which a weighted object is mounted. A pump injects fluid into the supports to raise the weighted object and thereby store energy in the elevated object. A valve can be opened to deliver fluid under pressure to a turbine or hydraulic motor driven generator to generate electricity.
US07770319B2	Rotatable gun rest The invention is a device that allows a marksman to easily rotate and position a gun from the elevated position of a deerstand. The invention utilizes displaced parallel axes of rotation so that the marksman can maximize the mobility of the gun during shot selection while at the same time minimizing both noise and personal bodily displacement.
US07770318B2	Recoil system for the forend of a firearm A recoil reduction system for the front end of a firearm, such as a shotgun or a rifle. In a first embodiment, the recoil reduction structure is mounted in a handgrip member secured to the bottom surface of the forend member. Various types of springs and cylindrical elastomer members can be utilized in various handgrip members. In a second embodiment the recoil reduction system is mounted in the forend member. In a third embodiment, the recoil reduction structure is utilized with a rifle having a long gun stock. The long gun stock has a butt portion, a middle portion and a front portion. The front portion is located forwardly of the receiver. A primary recess is formed in the bottom wall of the front portion and the recoil reduction structure is mounted therein. A cover member positioned over the primary recess hides the recoil reduction structure from view. A handle member may be secured to the bottom surface of the cover member and it may retractable or rigidly positioned upright.
US07770314B2	Outdoor advertising system An outdoor advertising system to support and selectively display an inside panel assembly or an outside panel assembly comprising a substantially rectangular outer frame having a plurality of interior support members attached thereto, a plurality of stringer coupling assemblies to couple a plurality of stringer members to the plurality of interior support members and a plurality of adjustable attachment panel assemblies to attach the inside panel assembly and the outside panel assembly to the substantially rectangular outer frame.
US07770311B2	Mounting system for excavation buckets and implements A mounting system for excavator attachments or implements (10) having a pair of spaced mounting ears (12, 13) extending from implement includes a mounting pin receptor (19) engaged in each of at least one aligned pair of holes (14, 16) in the ears (12, 13), the pin receptors (19) each having an eccentric pin receptor hole (23) adapted to receive one of the mounting pins (17, 18). The pin receptors (19) are rotatable about their axes to vary, relative to the ears (12, 13), the position of the engaged mounting pin (17, 18). A locating plate (24) engaged with the mounting pin (17, 18) has one or more locating surfaces (32) to engage a cooperating surface on the ears or the attachment. The locating surfaces (32) and their engagement with the cooperating surfaces determines the relative position of the mounting pin (17, 18) engaged with the pin receptor holes (23).
US07770308B2	Covering for an elasticized band for a shoe provided with a tongue Described herein is a covering for an elasticized band for a shoe provided with a tongue; the shoe is of the type in which the upper, in a position corresponding to the instep of the foot, has a tongue contained between two sides flaps of the upper, and, inside the shoe, an elasticized band extends between the two flaps of upper in a position facing the tongue; the covering is constituted by a lining, which lines in bridge-like fashion the elasticized band from inside the shoe, and is fixed, on one side, to the upper, in the proximity of the edge of attachment of the tongue and, on the other side, to the end edge of the tongue itself.
US07770303B2	Marking template A marking template comprising a planar body portion having a central aperture, and a plurality of sets of apertures in the body portion, each set of apertures located a predetermined distance from the central aperture which enable rectangular patterns to be marked on a workpiece.
US07770297B1	Electronically actuated first-down marking system and associated method An electronically actuated first down marking system and associated method includes first and second marking assemblies positioned on a first sideline of a playing field, and third and fourth marking assemblies positioned on a second sideline of the playing field and opposite of the first and second marking assemblies. A mechanism determines a distance between the first and second marking assemblies, and a mechanism aligns the first and second marking assemblies with the third and fourth marking assemblies. The aligning mechanism and the distance determining mechanism are independently and simultaneously operable during game conditions. A mechanism determines whether a mobile game ball has penetrated a first down plane defined by the second and fourth identification marking assemblies.
US07770295B2	Cigar cutting apparatus A cigar cutter has a body formed of a pair of plates having aligning orifices defining a passage for the head of a cigar to be cut. A pair of opposed cutting blades, movable toward and away from each other within the body each have a cutting edge, which cooperates with the opposing cutting edge during toward movement to cut the cigar head. Each of a pair of bridges is affixed to one of the cutting blades and moveable therewith. A spring engages the bridges and biases them toward an extended position wherein the cutting edges are moved away from each other within the body. A latch automatically engages both of the blades approximate the inward terminus of their toward movement and maintains the blades in a retracted storage position wherein the edges are not exposed. The cutting edges are each inwardly tapered to cause the edges and the cigar to cooperate to force the opposing blades together during their toward movement to automatically sharpen the blades. Each of the bridges has a guide for receiving and guiding the other of the cutting blades during their toward movement.
US07770283B2	Method of fabricating a magnetic head A multi-step process for notching the P1 pole of the write head element of a magnetic head. In a first step following the fabrication of the P2 pole tip, a layer of protective material is deposited on the approximately vertical side surfaces of the P2 pole tip. Thereafter, a first ion milling step, utilizing a species such as argon, is performed to mill through the write gap layer and to notch into the P1 pole layer therebelow. The removal of redeposited material from the side surfaces of the P2 pole tip is thereafter accomplished and the protective material formed on the side surfaces of the P2 pole tip protects the P2 pole tip during the redeposition clean up step. Thereafter, the protective material is removed from the side surfaces of the P2 pole tip, and a second ion milling step is performed to further notch the P1 pole material.
US07770282B2	Method of making a magnetic sensing device having an insulator structure A magnetic sensing device for use in a magnetic head includes a sensor stack structure having a sensing layer structure and an insulator structure formed adjacent the sensing layer structure. The insulator structure includes a plurality of oxidized metallic sublayers, a plurality of nitrided metallic sublayers, or a plurality of oxynitrided metallic sublayers. The insulator structure may be a capping layer structure of a giant magnetoresistance sensor or, alternatively, a tunnel barrier layer structure of a tunneling magnetoresistance sensor or a magnetic random access memory. Advantageously, each treated metallic sublayer is sufficiently uniformly treated so as to increase the magnetoresistive effect and improve soft magnetic properties of the magnetic sensing device. A method for use in forming the magnetic sensing device of the present application includes the steps of forming a sensor stack structure which includes a sensing layer structure; depositing a metallic layer; performing, on the metallic layer, either an oxidation, nitridation, or oxynitridation process; and repeating the steps of depositing and performing one or more times to thereby form an insulator structure.
US07770272B2	Clamping-effective yarn cylinder A clamping-effective yarn cylinder comprises a yarn cylinder having a trench about 350 degrees around an outer periphery of the yarn cylinder; each of two ends of the trench being formed with a cambered wall; the trench being divided into four sections so that four molds can enter into the trench from the four sections which are divided by four radius lines; each section having teeth which are tilt to different directions so as to enhance the force for clamping the yarns; and the teeth for each section extending from two lateral walls of the section and having identical orientation; extensions of the teeth of adjacent sections will intersect to one another so that yarns can be captured effectively in the trench.
US07770237B1	Baby garment for accessing and protecting the umbilical cord A baby garment for accessing and protecting the umbilical cord for allowing the cleaning of and protecting a baby's umbilical cord. The baby garment for accessing and protecting the umbilical cord includes includes a piece of material having front and back portions and also having an umbilical-exposing hole being disposed through the front portion and about the baby's umbilical cord to allow a user to effectively clean the umbilical cord without the user having to remove the baby garment from the baby, and an oversized cover being hingedly attached to the front portion and being fastenably closeable and loosely disposed over the umbilical cord to effectively protect and not to irritate the umbilical cord.
US07770234B2	Sports garment A garment for protecting at least the upper portion of the body. The garment includes a sleeveless vest to cover the torso and made of a thermally insulating and ventilated material, and a short jacket with sleeves, such as a bolero-type jacket, covering only the upper portion of the torso and made of an impermeable material.
US07774853B2	Document processing device, and document processing control method thereof A document processing device comprises, an authentication unit adapted to authenticate the user, a history information storage unit adapted to store history information indicating that document data was processed after the document data was stored in a document management server, the history information including identification information for identifying the document data was processed after the document data was stored in a document management server, a user access right judgment unit adapted to judge whether or not the authenticated user has an access right to each document data corresponding to the identification information included in the history information, a display unit adapted to display information for enable a user to select the document data to which the authenticated user has the access right from among the document data corresponding to the identification information included in the history information, and a processing unit adapted to process to the document data selected by the user.
US07774846B2	Method and apparatus for controlling data propagation A filter driver or other control logic automatically monitors user input events and outbound network packets in a processing system. According to one embodiment, in response to detecting an outbound network packet, the filter driver automatically determines whether the outbound network packet corresponds to a recent user input event. If the outbound network packet does not correspond to at least one recent user input event, the filter driver automatically prevents the processing system from transmitting the outbound network packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774843B1	System, method and computer program product for preventing the execution of unwanted code A system, method and computer program product are provided for preventing the execution of unwanted code. An indicator is initially received which is representative of an amount of data to be read from a stack. An amount of data is then read from the stack based on the indicator, such that execution of unwanted code is avoided.
US07774825B2	Methods & apparatuses for controlling access to secured servers Methods and apparatuses for controlling access to a secured server based on at least one access criterion are provided. A method involves receiving a request from a submitter, for a requestor to access the secured server. The request includes data to verify access criteria. The method also involves verifying whether the access criterion has been met and authorizing access. Authorizing access to the server may include preparing an access authorization form and forwarding the access authorization form to an authorized access provider for access implementation. Verifying whether the access criterion has been met includes verifying whether access to the secured server is essential to responsibilities of the requester, the submitter is authorized to request access for the requestor, and the approver is authorized to request access to the secured server. The method also involves auditing authorized requestors and removing access authorization for each requester for whom the access criterion is no longer met.
US07774823B2	System and method for managing electronic communications A method and system are provided for allowing a user to efficiently manage communications. A system for allowing a user having a unique identity is provided, wherein the unique identity is associated with a plurality of electronic devices. The system includes a service for assigning a reference to a user's unique identity, wherein other identities can access the user's unique identity only by using the reference. The system additionally includes permission controls for allowing the user to control access to the unique identity by restricting authorization to a selected set of other identities. Groups of individuals may receive different levels of authorization such that some individuals may be authorized to make live contact and others may be required to leave a message. Preference controls allow the system user to select at least one associated, device from a plurality of associated devices for receiving communication upon an access attempt by an authorized user. The preference controls also allow a system user to select a preferred mode of receiving communication such as audio, video or text modes.
US07774815B1	Context-sensitive interactive television ticker An in-context interactive television ticker is provided. The ticker is rendered on a display screen that also shows a television program, and presents ticker content that is in-context with subject matter of the television program. The ticker remains rendered and context-sensitive to the subject matter of the currently shown television program, whenever there is a change in the television program, such as when the subject matter of the current television program changes, when a commercial interruption occurs during the television program, or when the television channel is changed. The ticker is interactive in that the viewer can perform various interactive operations with the ticker, including interacting with the ticker to obtain additional information related to an in-context item presented by the ticker.
US07774814B2	Simultaneous tuning of multiple satellite frequencies A system and method for receiving services is presented. The system comprises a first splitter having an input, a first output and a slaved output receiving a first signal at the input having a single polarization including a first service and a slaved service, wherein the first signal is directed to the first output and the slaved output and selected by a first control signal applied at the input, a first tuner receiving the first output and tuning the first service and a slaved tuner receiving the slaved output and tuning the slaved service. The method comprises generating a first control signal to select a first signal, receiving a first signal including a first service and a slaved service, wherein the first service and the slaved service are at the same polarization, splitting the first signal with a first splitter to a first output and a first slaved output, tuning the first service from the first output with a first tuner and tuning the slaved service from the slaved output with a slaved tuner.
US07774808B2	Method and apparatus for distributing geographically restricted video data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
US07774804B2	Optical disc apparatus and flexible cable used for the same An optical disc apparatus, comprising: a tray 20 being provided to be movable between a first position where an optical disc can be loaded therein and a second position where information is readout from said optical disc loaded; and a housing 10 supporting said tray to be slidable, and including an electronic circuit board in a part thereof, wherein the tray mounts thereon various kinds of parts including a pickup 30, a disc motor 31, and a control portion for controlling them, and is electrically connected between the electronic circuit board of the housing through a flexible cable, which is provided under condition of being bent within the housing, wherein a reinforcing sheet shaped 50 into waveform at the end portion thereof for dispersing the stresses is adhered in a part of a bent region of the flexible cable, which moves accompanying with movement of the tray when the tray moves between the first position and the second position.
US07774802B2	Disk holder, disk alignment mechanism and disk drive A disk holder, disk alignment mechanism and disk drive employing same that for permitting accurate alignment of a disk are provided.The disk drive comprises a disk holder 10 that comprises a plurality of holder plates 11 that individually hold disks D, a drive unit 62 that plays back disks D, disk selectors 41A and 41B that form a space above and below a desired disk D by raising and lowering the holder plates 11, and a drive base 60 that moves the drive unit 62 into the space that is formed as a result of raising and lowering the holder plates 11. Disk hold links 17 and 18 comprising catches 17a and 18a respectively that engage with and disengage from the center hole of disk D are provided on the holder plates 11 such that the disk hold links 17 and 18 are able to turn, and a disk hold arm 16 that allows the disk hold links 17 and 18 to turn is provided so as to be able to perform a sliding movement.
US07774797B2	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.
US07774788B2	Selectively updating web pages on a mobile client A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling the selective updating of web pages provided to a mobile client using, for example, AJAX technology. The system, method, and computer program product are optionally further extended to harmonize synchronization of data retrieved by other methods with data updated using AJAX. The use of AJAX technology is disclosed within the context of additional technology suites which may be substituted to achieve the same function. Additionally, the use of queuing AJAX updates is discussed.
US07774783B2	Method and apparatus for detecting deadlocks A procedure identifies multiple threads associated with a process and pauses execution of a first thread associated with the process. A determination is made regarding whether the first thread is attempting to access a first resource. If the first thread is attempting to access a first resource, the procedure identifies a second thread that has locked the first resource and determines whether the second thread is attempting to access a second resource that is locked by the first thread. A deadlock is identified if the second thread is attempting to access a second resource that is locked by the first thread.
US07774782B1	Limiting requests by web crawlers to a web host A host load server balances a web host's load capacity among multiple competing web crawlers of a search engine. The host load server establishes a lease for each pair of requesting web crawler and requested web host. The lease expires at a scheduled time. If the web crawler completes its mission of retrieving documents from the web host prior to the expiration of the lease, the host load server releases the load capacity allocated to the web crawler and makes it available for other competing web crawlers. If the web crawler submits a request for renewing its lease with the web host at the scheduled time, the host load server allocates another share of load capacity to the web crawler. If the web crawler does not submit any request at the scheduled time, the host load server terminates the lease and releases the load capacity for other web crawlers.
US07774771B2	Method and system for managing and organizing software package installations A method and system for managing and organizing software package installations are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a software package from a computer source. One or more properties of the received software package are identified. The identified one or more properties of the received software package are stored in a first storage module. And the received software package is stored in a second storage module.
US07774768B2	Method and apparatus for processor code optimization using code compression An improved method of optimizing the instruction set of a digital processor using code compression. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining an assembly language program to be used for the optimization process; calculating the static frequency of each instruction type from the base instruction set; sorting the instruction types by frequency; determining the number and type of instructions necessary for correct program execution; creating a compressed instruction set encoding; re-evaluating the compressed instruction according to the foregoing steps; and generating an instruction set encoding for the compressed instruction set. Improved compressed instruction formats and register structures useful in a processor are also disclosed. A computer program and apparatus for synthesizing logic implementing the aforementioned data cache architecture and pipeline performance enhancements are further disclosed.
US07774756B1	Method and system for creating a logical view out of remote method invocations A method for debugging an application on a source node, that includes creating a first Remote Method Invocation (RMI) by the application at a source node, associating a first debug object with the first RMI, sending the first RMI with the first debug object to a first target node, and receiving debugging information from the first target node, wherein the debugging information is obtained by executing the first RMI on the first target node.
US07774754B2	System and method for software application development using virtual path mapping A development-oriented split-source directory structure, that can be used with an application server and which solves a number of the problems associated with traditional Enterprise Archive (EAR) files. In particular, the split-source directory structure presents a clean separation between human-readable source files stored in a source control system and generated java class files. The two directories (source and output) appear like a single application. In addition, the split-source directory structure supports an abstraction layer and mappings that allow a physical file location to be mapped to a virtual location. In this manner, the system provides flexibility in how the build structure can be laid out for a particular application development.
US07774745B2	Mapping of designtime to runtime in a visual modeling language environment Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating runtime entities in a visual modeling environment. A method includes providing designtime graphical modeling language entities for use in a visual modeling program, receiving input defining an application definition at designtime as including at least a first and second designtime entities as components of a designtime version of the application, and generating runtime entities of the application. The designtime graphical modeling language entities include the first and second designtime entities, and the first designtime entity has an associated first runtime entity precompiled for a first platform. The input includes a configuration of properties of the first and second designtime entities, and generating the runtime entities includes setting properties of the first runtime entity in accordance with the configuration of properties of the first designtime entity.
US07774740B2	Application server The present invention is an applet server which accepts requests for applets from client computers. A request specifies the format in which an applet is to be delivered to the requesting client computer. The applet server has a cache which it uses to store applets for distribution to client computers. If the specified form of the requested applet is available in the cache, the applet server transmits the applet to the requesting client. If the applet is not available in the cache, the server will attempt to build the applet from local resources (program code modules and compilers) and transformer programs (verifiers and optimizers). If the applet server is able to build the requested applet, it will then transmit the applet to the requesting client computer. If the applet server is unable to build the requested applet, it will pass the request to another applet server on the network for fulfillment of the request.
US07774737B2	Performance in model-based OPC engine utilizing efficient polygon pinning method Methods, and a program storage device for executing such methods, for performing model-based optical proximity correction by providing a mask matrix having a region of interest (ROI) and locating a plurality of points of interest within the mask matrix. A first polygon having a number of vertices representative of the located points of interest is computed, followed by determining a spatial relation between its vertices and the ROI. The vertices of the first polygon are then pinned to boundaries of and within the ROI such that a second polygon is formed on the ROI. The process is repeated for all vertices of the first polygon such that the second polygon is collapsed onto the ROI. This collapsed second polygon is then used to correct for optical proximity.
US07774735B1	Integrated circuit netlist migration A method for migrating a netlist from one set of library cells to a new set of library cells with minimal time and effort and without loss of information within an ASCI environment. This methodology ensures that during translation logic equivalence and scan configurations are maintained in the new technology libraries. Additionally, a complete migration of the constraints from the original netlist to the new netlist is also performed. Designer engineers no longer have to start from RTL and execute a complete resynthesis to translate an original design from one technology library to a new technology library.
US07774730B2	Method of and system for designing semiconductor integrated circuit A method of designing a semiconductor integrated circuit by a computer, comprises: (A) reading an RTL data indicating RTL description of the semiconductor integrated circuit; and (B) providing a gating cell for clock gating during logic synthesis of the RTL description. The gating cell includes a latch circuit that latches an enable signal, which activates a target of the clock gating, in synchronization with a clock signal. The gating cell is provided separately from a timing exception path.
US07774726B2	Dummy fill for integrated circuits Methods and systems for correcting inter-level variations are disclosed. One approach addresses thickness and/or topological variations based upon layers in an IC design that do not allow the placement of dummy fill, in which dummy fill is added to certain layers of the IC to reduce process variations caused by other layers in the semiconductor devices. To accomplish this, layers in the design that cannot accommodate dummy fill are modeled to determine their topological variations. Other layers that are capable of receiving dummy fill are then analyzed to receive the correct quantity and distribution of dummy fill to correct for the topological variations from the non-dummy fill layers.
US07774722B2	Creation and manipulation of canvases based on ink strokes A canvas in an inking application is created and manipulated based on ink strokes. An ink stroke outside a presented canvas, even outside a user interface of the inking application, is recorded and the presented canvas enlarged to cover the recorded ink stroke. If the ink stroke begins on a command area such as a canvas size control icon, the command associated with the area is executed. If the ink stroke begins in a typed text area, lines are frozen and separated responsive to the first stroke. A new canvas is presented between the separated lines. A size of the new canvas is adjusted based on ink entry or a size of the first ink stroke.
US07774709B2	Interactive user interface for displaying correlation Methods and systems described herein may comprise determining, for each of a plurality of potential related companies, a correlation factor of a related company metric of the potential related company relative to a focal company metric and selecting at least one related company having a correlation factor relative to the focal company within a first range. The methods may also comprise displaying a focal company field listing an identifier of the focal company and displaying a correlation field listing identifiers for the at least one related company, where certain of the identifiers comprise a hyperlink. When one of the hyperlinks is activated, the company corresponding to the activated hyperlink may become the new focal company. The correlation field may list identifiers for at least one new related company having a related company metric with a correlation factor relative to the focal company metric of the new focal company within the first range.
US07774706B2	System and method for mixing media content A visual display interface is provided that comprises an associated display icon. The display icon is dragged across the visual display interface in a movement so as to cause the mixing of a plurality of media streams. The output is a new mix of the various media streams.
US07774699B2	Parallel data transformation A method for transforming a starting data structure into a resultant data structure is provided. The data structures may be embodied in any language or format, including the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The starting data structure is separated into segments. The transformation may be analyzed to determine which loops are top level and separable. The starting data structure may be analyzed to estimate the most costly loop, then separated along the most costly loop. Segments are transformed independently, and transformed segments are recombined to create the resultant data structure.
US07774698B2	System and method for generating a frameless web display In a system and method for generating a frameless display, a processor may select one of a plurality of page configurations based on session data in response to a page request, and may display, in accordance with the selected page configuration, a unitary page including data of a plurality of applications, such that the data of each of the applications is displayed in a corresponding one of a plurality of data regions defined by the selected page configuration.
US07774696B2	Change approvals for computing systems Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for generating a change approval plan for a computing system. The computing system has at least one component and at least two user groups, and each user group has an approver. A request to change at least one said component is received. It is determined which components are affected by the change request. An initial set of approvals to be obtained from at least one of said approvers is determined based on dependencies of the affected components with other components, and based on the approvers required for each affected and dependent component. The initial set of approvals is rearranged into sub-groups such that components falling within each sub-group are dependent only upon components within a respective same group.
US07774693B2	Differential dynamic content delivery with device controlling action Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to the user; identifying a device controlling action; and executing the device controlling action to control a device for the user. In many embodiments, identifying a device controlling action includes identifying a device controlling action in dependence upon a presentation control instruction. In some embodiments, identifying a device controlling action further includes identifying a device controlling action in dependence upon a spoken key word. In some embodiments, identifying a device controlling action further includes identifying a device controlling action in dependence upon a classified structural element.
US07774690B2	Apparatus and method for detecting data error A semiconductor circuit includes a parity bit adding circuit configured to add a parity bit to a data to be read by a CPU; a register configured to hold the data with the parity bit; and a parity check circuit configured to execute a parity check of said data with said parity bit held in said register, and to issue a parity error interrupt when a parity error is detected. A parity bit inverting circuit inverts said parity bit held in said register in response to completion of said parity check.
US07774689B2	Encoding and decoding methods and systems An encoder for use in information processing applications includes an input configured to provide information bits to be encoded and a feedforward convolutional outer code encoder configured to encode the information bits to generate encoded information bits including the information bits and parity bits. The encoder may also include at least one interleaver configured to interleave the encoded information bits to generate an outer codeword. Further, the encoder may include a rate-1 1/(1+D) accumulate code based inner code encoder configured to encode the outer codeword to generate one or more codewords corresponding to the information bits.
US07774681B2	Data protection system The present invention provides systems and methods for logically organizing data for storage and recovery on a data storage medium using a multi-level format. The present invention also provides systems and methods for protecting data stored on data storage medium so that the data may be recovered without errors.
US07774680B2	Data protection system The present invention provides systems and methods for logically organizing data for storage and recovery on a data storage medium using a multi-level format. The present invention also provides systems and methods for protecting data stored on data storage medium so that the data may be recovered without errors.
US07774675B1	LDPC codes and expansion method A MIMO transmitter comprises a scrambler; an encoder parser responsive to the scrambler; a forward error correction encoder responsive to the encoder parser, wherein the encoder applies a parity check matrix derived from a base matrix; an interleaver responsive to the forward error correction encoder; a QAM mapping module responsive to the interleaver; an inverse fast Fourier transform module responsive to the QAM mapping module; and an output module responsive to the inverse fast Fourier transform module.
US07774674B2	LDPC decoder for DVB-S2 decoding The LDPC decoder includes a processor for updating messages exchanged iteratively between variable nodes and check nodes of a bipartite graph of the LDPC code. The decoder architecture is a partly parallel architecture clocked by a clock signal. The processor includes P processing units. First variable nodes and check nodes are mapped on the P processing units according to two orthogonal directions. The decoder includes P main memory banks assigned to the P processing units for storing all the messages iteratively exchanged between the first variable nodes and the check nodes. Each main memory bank includes at least two single port memory partitions and one buffer the decoder also includes a shuffling network and a shift memory.
US07774669B2	Complex pattern generator for analysis of high speed serial streams The present invention provides systems, devices and methods for generating user-defined test patterns within serial controller to facilitate signal testing and verification. These user-defined test patterns may be generated to more accurately reflect the actual traffic of a device-under-test or system, as well as allow a test engineer to more accurately test the boundaries of the device or system. In various embodiments of the invention, a programmable patterns generator is provided for generating user-defined test patterns that may be used during a testing procedure. This programmable pattern generator allows a user to define a particular test pattern by providing bit-by-bit test values, by defining a combination of canned sequences, or by supplementing one or more canned sequences with additional test bits.
US07774666B2	Analyzer The analyzer according to the present invention is an analyzer having a scan test function, and including scan paths each having flip-flops which function as a shift register when a scan test is performed, and a switching unit operable to switch between a first connection state, and a second connection state where the scan paths are connected in series to each other and further an output from the last stage of the scan path is connected to the input of the first stage of the scan path.
US07774660B2	Flexible row redundancy system A row redundancy system is provided for replacing faulty wordlines of a memory array having a plurality of banks. The row redundancy system includes a remote fuse bay storing at least one faulty address corresponding to a faulty wordline of the memory array; a row fuse array for storing row fuse information corresponding to at least one bank of the memory array; and a copy logic module for copying at least one faulty address stored in the remote fuse bay into the row fuse array; wherein the copy logic module is programmed to copy the at least one faulty address into the row fuse information stored in the row fuse array corresponding to a predetermined number of banks in accordance with a selectable repair field size.
US07774657B1	Automatically estimating correlation between hardware or software changes and problem events Automated estimation that a hardware or software change is correlated with one or more problem events. In addition to identifying that a change has occurred, one or more problem events are identified that have occurred after the change. Problem events are then correlated with the change using a distance measure between the change and the at least one correlated problem event. For most, if not all, of the distance measure, the greater the distance measure, the less the change is correlated with each correlated problem event. The distance measure may be a time interval, an activity-weighted interval, or any other type of distance measure.
US07774653B2	Method to secure an electronic assembly executing any algorithm against attacks by error introduction The invention concerns an automatic method to secure an electronic calculation assembly against attacks by error introduction or by radiation. The following are used: 1) Static information generated by the automatic process; 2) A dynamic part of the memory of the electronic system allocated by the automatic process; 3) Beacons and check points to mark out the code, introduced by the automatic process; 4) Beacon functions storing information in the dynamic memory; 5) History verification functions using the static information and the dynamic memory to check that no errors have been introduced.
US07774652B2	Circuitry and method to detect conditions of data A system may comprise a condition detection system that includes change circuitry configured to detect a change for at least one predetermined bit of an N-bit bus, where N is a positive integer, and to provide a corresponding change signal indicative of the detected condition. Match circuitry is configured to detect a match condition for up to a selected subset of predetermined bits of the N-bit bus and to provide a corresponding match signal indicative of the detected condition. Selection circuitry is programmable to provide a selected one of the change signal and the match signal as a corresponding output signal.
US07774650B2	Power failure warning in logically partitioned enclosures A method of providing a power failure warning in a storage system includes partitioning early power off warning (EPOW) control logic of a storage enclosure to be symmetric with a power distribution network power domain. A power failure warning system for a storage system having a plurality of storage enclosures includes a power system control module coupled to a power supply for control and management of input power to the storage system. An output stage of the power supply is dedicated to a first virtual storage enclosure within one of the plurality of storage enclosures.
US07774649B2	Self-service terminal A self-service terminal comprises a pc core and at least one module, which can be powered down independently of the pc core, the terminal has a control application and an agent arranged to monitor the fault state of the at least one module and cause a fault signal to be sent from the self-service terminal when the fault state of the at least one module is characteristic of a problem with the at least one module. The agent is arranged to determine if the module has been powered down; whereupon the fault signal is buffered until the module is powered up and a determination as to the fault state of the module is again made. The fault signal is only sent if the fault state still indicates there to be a problem with the at least one module.
US07774646B2	Surviving storage system takeover by replaying operations in an operations log mirror An apparatus and method for rapidly resuming the processing of client requests after a system failure event are disclosed. Accordingly, a surviving storage system, upon detecting a system failure event at a partner storage system, executes a takeover routine and conditions its system memory to reflect the state of the system memory of the failed storage system by processing client requests or commands stored in an operations log mirror. Then, the storage system converts the unused portion of the log mirror for use as an operations log, and resumes processing client requests prior to flushing any data to storage devices.
US07774641B2	Storage subsystem and control method thereof Provided is a storage subsystem capable of inhibiting the deterioration in system performance to a minimum while improving reliability and availability. This storage subsystem includes a first controller for controlling multiple drive units connected via multiple first switch devices, and a second controller for controlling the multiple drive units connected via multiple second switch devices associated with the multiple first switch devices. This storage subsystem also includes a connection path that mutually connects the multiple first switch devices and the corresponding multiple second switch devices. When the storage [sub]system detects the occurrence of a failure, it identifies the fault site in the connection path, and changes the connection configuration of the switch device so as to circumvent the fault site.
US07774637B1	Meta-instrumentation for security analysis A system and method for analyzing and/or testing member devices in a multi-device system. The multi-device system includes a device-under-analysis (DUA) and a device-under-observation (DUO). An analyzer that is external to the multi-device system generates and sends test messages to the DUA. The analyzer monitors the health of the multi-device system through the DUO and detects a system-wide impact of the DUA caused by the test messages. The analyzer analyzes the DUA based on the test messages and the system-wide impact.
US07774630B2	Method, computing system, and computer program for reducing power consumption of a computing system by relocating jobs and deactivating idle servers In a computing system where multiple servers are connected through a network and one or more jobs are run, a power reduction facility of a supervisory server relocates jobs according to predetermined conditions, thereby reducing the amount of power consumed by the computing system. For relocating the jobs, the power reduction facility obtains server-related information such as the power properties of the servers constituting the computing system and job-related information such as performance requirements for the jobs which are run in the computing system, and searches for one or more jobs to be relocated and destination servers, based on these server-related information and job-related information, to the extent that the performance requirements for each job are fulfilled. Based on the search results, the jobs are relocated to the destination servers, and servers on which no job is running, in consequence of the relocation, are powered off.
US07774623B2	Obfuscated state store for rights management system and the like A state store having state information therein is stored on a computing device. Information at least nearly unique to the computing device is obtained, and a number of locations at which at least a portion of the state store is to be stored at is determined. Pseudo-random file names and corresponding paths are generated based at least in part on the obtained information, whereby the generated file names and corresponding paths are likewise at least nearly unique to the computing device, and the generated file names and path are paired to form the locations. Thereafter, the state store is stored according to the generated locations.
US07774617B2	Masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor A mechanism is provided for masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor. With the mechanism, one of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute masking code that generates electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures that mask the electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures of the actual boot processor. The execution of the masking code on the non-boot processors preferably generates electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures that approximate the signatures of the actual boot code execution on the boot processor. One of the non-boot processors is selected to execute masking code that is different from the other masking code sequence to thereby generate a electromagnetic and/or thermal signature that appears to be unique from an external monitoring perspective.
US07774613B2	Security technique for controlling access to a network by a wireless device The present invention relates to a method for protecting the security of a computer network which is accessed through the use of wireless devices, among other means. Specifically, the present invention pertains to a method of using user-specific biometric data to identify users of wireless devices such as PDAs and yet prevent use by unauthorized persons and prevent changing of the biometric data by unauthorized persons. The method also prevents unauthorized access, and facilitates authorized access, to computer networks. Control of access to the biometric data and control of access to the network can be maintained in the network administrator or other responsible body and thereby also offers security against theft.
US07774612B1	Method and system for single signon for multiple remote sites of a computer network A system and method links first and second computers of a network to implement a single signon feature. The use has a first username for accessing the first computer and a second username for accessing the second computer. The first computer generates a link request having a plaintext component including the first username and the second username and an encrypted component formed by encrypting the plaintext component using an encryption process and a secret. The link request is sent to the second computer, which validates the unencrypted information then generates an encryption result by encrypting the unencrypted information using the encryption process and a second secret known to the second computer and associated with the first network computer. The second computer compares the encryption result with the encrypted component of the incoming link request to determine whether the link request is valid.
US07774609B2	Process for digital signing of a message A method and apparatus for the digital signing of a message to be signed, the message to be signed is transmitted via a communication network to a mobile radio telephone to be used as a signing unit. A message to be signed is transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver and then from the receiver to the mobile radio telephone via a telephone network. The mobile radio telephone user indicates that the message to be signed should be signed, and the mobile radio telephone generates a signed message. The signed message is then transmitted from the mobile radio telephone to the receiver and from the receiver to an addressee.
US07774608B2	Author signatures for legal purposes Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for establishing trust in an electronic document. An electronic document is received. State dependent content in the electronic document is identified. The state dependent content is content that is renderable to have a several appearances. The electronic document is presented to a user, which includes disclosing the presence of any identified state dependent content in the electronic document.
US07774607B2	Fast RSA signature verification An RSA message signature can be verified by verifying that se mod n=F(m, n). If a value K, defined as K=se div n is computed in advance and provided as an input to the computing device verifying the signature, the signature verification can be significantly faster. To avoid transmission of, and mathematical operations on, large values of K, which can themselves be inefficient, the RSA public exponent e can be selected to be relatively small, such as e=2 or e=3. K is based on publicly available information and can be calculated by the computing device signing the message, or by an intermediate computing device, and transmitted to the device verifying the signature without impacting security.
US07774606B2	Write accessibility for electronic paper A system and method to control the writing on electronic paper (e-paper). An e-paper device may incorporate authentication indicia as part of informational data written on e-paper material. The informational data is protected by a security methodology that is accessible to authorized entities. A reader device may be used to help make a verification determination of whether encrypted or encoded data has been altered. In some instances an output alert operably coupled to the reader device serves as a verification status indicator.
US07774599B2	Methodologies to secure inter-process communication based on trust A system securing inter-process communication (IPC) based on trust includes a user quota mechanism to provide resource management of IPC's. A single user is allowed to allocate a fixed amount of objects less than a system maximum. A trusted IPC mechanism mediates access to IPC objects by employing signed executables signed by a key and containing a list of trusted keys. A trust relationship is used among a set of subjects connected to an IPC to determine whether communication can be carried out between processes. In order for the processes to communicate via an IPC, either they have to trust each other, or a kernel must trust one process and that process must also trust the other process.
US07774593B2	Encrypted packet, processing device, method, program, and program recording medium An encrypted packet processing device capable of realizing a predetermined classification process according to a data type while reducing the burden on a processing device in a communication environment in which encrypted packets of different data types exist. A block specifying section specifies a location, in which information necessary for a priority level determination process by a priority level determination section is stored, in an encrypted packet. A specified block decryption section decrypts only a block specified by the block specifying section, and extracts the information necessary for the priority level determination process. The priority level determination section searches a priority level information database using the information extracted by the specified block decryption section as a key, and determines a priority level of the packet.
US07774589B2	System, method and program for selectivity rebooting computers and other components of a distributed computer system Selectively rebooting components of a computer system. One or more tables which list respective costs to reboot the components and respective likelihoods that reboots of the respective components will correct respective problems with the computer system are generated. Each of the costs is based on a time to reboot or delays caused by the reboot of the respective component. In response to a subsequent problem with the computer system, an order to reboot components of the computer system is determined from the table based on the costs and likelihoods that the reboot will correct the problem, such that a component of the computer system characterized by a relatively low cost and high likelihood to correct the problem will be rebooted before another component characterized by a relatively high cost and low likelihood to correct the problem. The tables are updated through actual experience.
US07774588B2	Host build and rebuild system and method Methods of building a host computer system. The methods may comprise the steps of discovering hardware components present at the host and determining whether the hardware components are certified. The methods may also comprise the step of determining whether a build of the host is requested. According to various embodiments, a profile may also be downloaded to the host. The profile may comprise an indication of an operating system, an indication of an application, and an indication of a configuration parameter. The methods may also comprise the steps of installing the operating system to the host; installing the application to the host; and configuring the host according to the configuration parameter.
US07774585B2	Interrupt and trap handling in an embedded multi-thread processor to avoid priority inversion and maintain real-time operation A real-time, multi-threaded embedded system includes rules for handling traps and interrupts to avoid problems such as priority inversion and re-entrancy. By defining a global interrupt priority value for all active threads and only accepting interrupts having a priority higher than the interrupt priority value, priority inversion can be avoided. Switching to the same thread before any interrupt servicing, and disabling interrupts and thread switching during interrupt servicing can simplify the interrupt handling logic. By storing trap background data for traps and servicing traps only in their originating threads, trap traceability can be preserved. By disabling interrupts and thread switching during trap servicing, unintended trap re-entrancy and servicing disruption can be prevented.
US07774581B2	Apparatus for compressing instruction word for parallel processing VLIW computer and method for the same An apparatus and a method are provided for a parallel processing very long instruction word (VLIW) computer. The apparatus includes: an index code generation unit sequentially generating an index code, which is associated with a number of no operation (NOP) instruction word between effective instruction words, with respect to each of instruction word groups to be executed in a VLIW computer; an instruction compression unit sequentially deleting the NOP instruction word which corresponds to the index code with respect to each of instruction word groups; and an instruction word conversion unit converting the effective instruction words to include the index code, the effective instruction words corresponding to the NOP instruction words.
US07774579B1	Protection in a parallel processing environment using access information associated with each switch to prevent data from being forwarded outside a plurality of tiles An integrated circuit comprises a plurality of tiles. Each tile comprises a processor, and a switch including switching circuitry to forward data received over data paths from other tiles to the processor and to switches of other tiles, and to forward data received from the processor to switches of other tiles. The tile is configured to control access to a resource of the tile based on access information associated with the resource.
US07774578B2	Apparatus and method of prefetching data in response to a cache miss A device and method is illustrated to prefetch information based on a location of an instruction that resulted in a cache miss during its execution. The prefetch information to be accessed is determined based on previous and current cache miss information. For example, information based on previous cache misses is stored at data records as prefetch information. This prefetch information includes location information based on an instruction that caused a previous cache miss, and is accessed to generate prefetch requests for a current cache miss. The prefetch information is updated based on current cache miss information.
US07774577B2	Memory device, memory controller and memory system An image memory, image memory system, and memory controller that are capable of efficiently accessing a rectangular area of two-dimensionally arrayed data are provided. The memory device has: a memory cell array that has a plurality of memory unit areas, each of which is selected by addresses; a plurality of input/output terminals; and an input/output unit provided between the memory cell array and the plurality of input/output terminals. Each of the memory unit areas stores therein data of a plurality of bytes or bits corresponding to the plurality of input/output terminals respectively, and the memory cell array and the input/output unit access a plurality of bytes or bits stored in a first memory unit area corresponding to the input address and in a second memory unit area adjacent to the first memory unit on the basis of the input address and combination information of the bytes or bits in response to a first operation code, and then, from the plurality of bytes or bits within the accessed first and second memory unit areas, associate a combination of the plurality of bytes or bits based on the combination information, with the plurality of input/output terminals.
US07774566B2	Physical tape interchange format A virtual tape server for executing a method involving a partitioning of a virtual tape volume into a plurality of virtual tape blocks. The virtual tape volume includes a virtual tape volume header having recovery information, each virtual tape block includes a virtual tape block header identifying the virtual tape volume and a block sequence number, and one or more of the virtual tape blocks includes the virtual tape volume header. The method further involves a formatting of a physical tape volume including each virtual tape block.
US07774564B2	Multi-processor system, and method of distributing memory access load in multi-processor system Disclosed is a multiprocessor system using a plurality of multi-chip packages mounted with at least one processor and at least one memory, wherein: the number of memory access to the memory by the processor is recorded, and if the number of memory access across different multi-chip packages exceeds the number of memory access within the same multi-chip package, the memory contents are swapped. A memory access load distributing method in a multiprocessor system is also disclosed.
US07774560B2	Storage emulator and method thereof A storage emulator and method thereof are disclosed. The storage emulator allows a host system to access a storage unit connected to a storage system as if the storage unit is directly coupled to the host system. The storage emulator includes a virtual storage emulating module, a storage-managing unit, and a communicating module. The virtual storage emulating module emulates at least one virtual storage unit corresponding to the storage unit on the host system and receives a storage accessing command from the host system. The storage-managing unit identifies the storage accessing command as either a self-sustaining type command or a non-self-sustaining type command. The communicating module communicates with the storage unit of the storage system via the network. If the storage accessing generates a self-sustaining command response in accordance with the storage accessing command and returns the self-sustaining command response to the host system directly. If the storage accessing command is identified as the non-self-sustaining type command, the storage-managing unit forwards the storage accessing command to the storage system via the network, receives a command response in accordance with the storage accessing command from the storage system, and returns the command response to the host system.
US07774550B2	Storage system and storage system control method A storage system of the present invention improves the response performance of sequential access to data, the data arrangement of which is expected to be sequential. Data to be transmitted via streaming delivery is stored in a storage section. A host sends data read out from the storage section to respective user machines. A prefetch section reads out from the storage section ahead of time the data to be read out by the host, and stores it in a cache memory. A fragmentation detector detects the extent of fragmentation of the data arrangement in accordance with the cache hit rate. The greater the extent of the fragmentation, the smaller the prefetch quantity calculated by a prefetch quantity calculator. A prefetch operation controller halts a prefetch operation when the extent of data arrangement fragmentation is great, and restarts a prefetch operation when the extent of fragmentation decreases.
US07774545B2	System and method of volume group creation based on an automatic drive selection scheme A method and a system for volume group creation based on an automatic drive selection scheme are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a redundant array of independent drives (RAID) includes processing at least one attribute data describing a volume group of the RAID. The method also includes automatically selecting a plurality of drives of the volume group based on at least one of an optimum tray distribution of the volume group, a spindle speed of each drive in the volume group, and an alignment of the plurality of drives in the volume group. In another embodiment, a system of a RAID includes a user device to communicate an attribute data describing a volume group of the RAID, and a drive selection module to automatically select a plurality of drives of the volume group based on the attribute data using a baseline selection algorithm.
US07774543B2	Storage system, method for managing the same, and storage controller The present invention provides a storage system, a method for managing the same, and a storage controller, to obtain a storage apparatus that uses iSCSI protocol, which makes it possible for each user to configure the necessary settings within the scope of their provided right.A storage system includes one or more host computers; and a storage controller that provides each of the one or more host computers with a plurality of logical volumes, each including a storage area for reading/writing data from/to, and also being either allocated or not allocated to one or more of the host computers, the storage controller including: a management unit that manages information relating to the plurality of logical volumes as volume information; an identification unit that identifies necessary volume information from the volume information based on a command from a host computer from among the one or more host computers; and an execution unit that executes, based on the necessary volume information identified by the identification unit, predetermined processing, on a logical volume from among the plurality of logical volumes, according to function information relating to the logical volume included in the necessary volume information.
US07774542B2	System and method for adaptive operation of storage capacities of RAID systems Apparatus and methods for efficiently operating on RAID systems. A fast access buffer comprising an off-disk fast access memory module supports RAID operations such as recovery or reconfiguration operations, thereby minimizing or reducing the need for on-disk destructive zones and/or reducing disk drive I/O activities. In some cases the fast access memory module to serves as a read/write cache, reducing the need for frequent disk accesses of a small number of data blocks. Fast off-disk memory such as RAM enables rapid operation on in-buffer data blocks. Access to the material stored in the RAID devices may be enabled, partially enabled or disabled during RAID operations involving the fast access memory module and some data access operations may be synchronized with RAID operations. In some cases, data may be served from the fast access memory module, thereby providing rapid access to material stored in a RAID device during RAID operations.
US07774536B2	Power up initialization for memory A memory device is described that enhances initialization of the memory device. In the prior art, initialization of synchronous Flash memory requires the release of hardware signal line, RP#, or an initialization command, LCR, and a following initialization time wait period of 50 μS to 100 μS. The improved memory device of the detailed invention begins initialization of internal values upon acquiring stable power. The initialization cycle of the detailed memory loops and continues until a command is received from the host controller and is immediately available for access. This allows the utilization of the detailed memory in systems wherein the host controller cannot supply an initializing signal (RP# or LCR). The detailed memory also allows for immediate availability of the memory upon issuance of the command allowing for a fast first access.
US07774534B2	Method of and apparatus for recording data on write-once disc and write-once disc therefor A method of recording, and an apparatus to record, data on a write-once disc, and the write-once disc used with the method and apparatus. The write-once disc includes a plurality of update areas in which to record a predetermined type of updated information, at least one main access information area (AIA) in which to record main access information (AI), the main AI indicating a final update area in which finally updated information is recorded, among the plurality of update areas, and at least one sub AIA in which to record sub AI, the sub AI indicating a location of the finally updated information recorded in the final update area.
US07774528B2	Device identification coding of inter-integrated circuit slave devices Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate identification of inter-integrated circuit slave devices using device identification coding. The communications system includes a slave device having a device identification code identifying one or more parameters. Communications circuitry in the slave device is configured to communicate with a master device on the I2C serial data transfer bus using the communications protocol. In response to a transmission of a device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit an ACKNOWLEDGE, and in response to a transmission of a slave device address and the device identification address from the master device, the slave device is configured to transmit the device identification code from the slave device to the master.
US07774527B2	Apparatus and method for controlling numerous slave devices in an integrated manner A device for controlling in an integrated manner multiple slave devices includes a key input unit that receives a key input by a user, a state determination unit that checks state information of the slave devices, and a control unit that interprets the input key based on the state information of the slave devices and controls a concerned slave device of the slave devices. A method for controlling multiple slave devices includes receiving a key input by the user, checking state information of the slave devices existing on the network, and controlling the concerned slave device by interpreting the input key based on the state information of the slave devices.
US07774518B2	Method for switching of KVM switch ports and related device A method for switching KVM switch ports comprising a plurality of computer ports and a related device are provided. A behavior of a mouse coupled to the KVM switch is detected. The behavior comprises multiple click on a specific button of the mouse. In response to the behavior, the computer ports are switched accordingly.
US07774513B2	DMA circuit and computer system A DMA circuit operates a plurality of DMA channels in parallel, enabling reduction of the circuit scale and fewer development processes. A channel manager circuit reads in sequence the control information for each DMA channel from control memory, performs analysis, and according to the divided DMA control sequence, performs state processing (DMA control). Further, the channel manager circuit updates the control information, writes back the control information to the control memory, and executes time-division control of the plurality of DMA channels. Hence the circuit scale can be reduced, contributing to decreased costs, and the number of development processes can be reduced.
US07774510B2	Near zero overhead command timeout scheme A method for handling input/output (I/O) commands in a storage system includes establishing first and second counters for counting unfinished I/O commands, and establishing a reference which is initially set to the first counter. The reference is periodically switched between the first counter and the second counter, and the switching interval is less than the I/O timeout value. Upon placing an I/O command into an I/O command queue, a copy of the current reference is made into an I/O specific control block and the current referenced counter is incremented. Upon finishing of an I/O command, the counter referenced by the I/O specific control block is decremented and the I/O command is removed from the I/O command queue. When switching the reference, a problem is detected in the event that the counter being switched to is above a predetermined threshold. Upon detection of a problem, a more explicit I/O check is conducted.
US07774505B2	Method for transmitting image data in real-time Disclosed is a method for transmitting image data in real-time between mobile communication terminals in a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system including a host mobile communication terminal, at least one client mobile communication terminal, an SMS server, and a PDSN assigning IP addresses. The method includes when an IP address is received from the PDSN, transmitting by the host mobile communication terminal an invite message to the client mobile communication terminal via the SMS server; receiving by the client mobile communication terminal an IP address from the PDSN, and transmitting a register message to the host mobile communication terminal via the PDSN; updating by the host mobile communication terminal a buddy list, and transmitting the updated buddy list to the client mobile communication terminal via the PDSN; and exchanging by the host and the client mobile communication terminals the image data in real-time based on the updated buddy list.
US07774503B2	Universal address recognition for text-capable communication devices A valid destination address is determined. An availability request is sent to each destination address from a set of destination addresses. The destination addresses are correlated with a destination party. At least one response to the sent availability requests is received. Each received response is uniquely associated with its own destination address from the destination addresses. Each received response indicates either a valid destination address or an invalid destination address. For each received response, a value associated with the destination address that is associated with that received response is recorded. The value indicates either a valid destination address or an invalid destination address based on the received response associated with that destination address.
US07774497B2	Apparatus and method for classifier identification A method for classifying an incoming packet. The method includes maintaining a database associated with patterns of fields, where the fields can be network addresses. The database can be developed by mapping each pattern to a unique numeric identifier. The number of unique numeric identifiers is equal to the number of patterns, and the size of each unique numeric identifier is substantially smaller than the field of each pattern. The database can be further developed by determining a range of one or more of the unique numeric identifiers to be associated with each pattern. The range for each pattern can be bounded by a minimum unique numeric identifier and a maximum unique numeric identifier. The method also includes using a field of the incoming packet to determine an associated identifier for that field, where the associated identifier is equal to one of the unique numeric identifiers. The associated identifier can then be matched with one or more of the ranges for the patterns, and the method can then determine how to process the incoming packet.
US07774491B2	Utilizing informed throttling to guarantee quality of service to I/O streams A system for utilizing informed throttling to guarantee quality of service to a plurality of clients includes a server core having a performance analyzer that compares a performance level received by a client to a corresponding contracted service level and determines if the client qualifies as a victim whose received performance level is less than the corresponding contracted service level. The performance analyzer is further configured to identify one or more candidates for throttling in response to an I/O stream receiving insufficient resources by determining if the client qualifies as a candidate whose received performance level is better than the corresponding contracted service level. The server core further includes a scheduler that selectively and dynamically issues a throttling command to the candidate client, and provides a quality of service enforcement point by concurrently monitoring a plurality of I/O streams to candidate clients and concurrently throttling commands to the candidate clients.
US07774483B1	Supporting a community of subscribers in an environment using a service selection gateway (SSG) A service policy manager may be used to enable a first subscriber in a community to administer rules on another subscriber in the same community. A service selection gateway (SSG) may then be configured according to the rules to provides services according to the rules. As a result, the services provided to a subscriber depend not just on the individual profile of the subscriber, but also potentially on the rules administered by other members of the communities the subscriber is a part of.
US07774469B2	Consistent cluster operational data in a server cluster using a quorum of replicas A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority of replica members, which ensures that any new or surviving cluster includes consistent cluster operational data via at least one replica member from the immediately prior cluster. Arbitration provides exclusive ownership by one node of the replica members, including at cluster formation, and when the owning node fails. Arbitration uses a fast mutual exclusion algorithm and a reservation mechanism to challenge for and defend the exclusive reservation of each member. A quorum replica set algorithm brings members online and offline with data consistency, including updating unreconciled replica members, and ensures consistent read and update operations.
US07774468B1	Network traffic admission control Methods and apparatus are provided for performing traffic admission control in a Differentiated Services (DiffServ) network environment. According to one embodiment, a predetermined portion of available bandwidth between a first network device and a second network device is reserved as a real-time bandwidth pool for real-time communication sessions among users of a first group of terminals associated with the first network device and a second group of terminals associated with the second network device, the real-time bandwidth pool corresponding to estimated bandwidth remaining available on a path through a Differentiated Services (DiffServ) network interposed between the first group of terminals and the second group of terminals. Thereafter, the real-time bandwidth pool is shared among multiple real-time communication sessions involving terminals of the first and second groups of terminals by selectively admitting application sessions based upon currently available resources in the real-time bandwidth pool.
US07774461B2	Mechanism for determining a congestion metric for a path in a network A mechanism is disclosed for determining a congestion metric for a path in a network. In one implementation, a congestion metric for a path includes one or more latency values and one or more latency variation values. A latency value for a path may be determined by exchanging latency packets with another component. For example, to determine the latency for a particular path, a first component may send a latency request packet to a second component via the particular path. In response, the second component may send a latency response packet back to the first component. Based upon timestamp information in the latency response packet, the latency on the particular path may be determined. From a plurality of such latencies, a latency variation may be determined. Taken individually or together, the latency value(s) and the latency variation value(s) provide an indication of how congested the particular path currently is.
US07774447B2	Performing simplified troubleshooting procedures to isolate connectivity problems A method and apparatus for implementing troubleshooting of a network connectivity problem between a client computer coupled to a local switch and an end point on the network utilizes a client_proxy module instantiated on the local switch. The module automatically runs a series of tests utilizing the IP and MAC addresses of the client computer source addresses and reports the results of the tests.
US07774445B1	System and method for managing zoning in a storage area network by comparing zone sets and identifying differences between zone sets In a storage area network (SAN), first and second zone sets are compared to identify differences, including zones appearing in one zone set but not the other, and zones in both zone sets but having different contents in each. A zone comparison user interface (UI) window is displayed on a SAN management computer system via user selection from a pop-up menu appearing when a SAN object is selected from a hierarchical object display. The UI window includes a differences display area to display zone set differences and includes fields for identifying a type of zone difference, a zone identifier, and identifiers of host computers and storage devices of a zone. Based on differences identified between the first and second zone sets, identifiers of those zones of the first and second zone sets having a predetermined difference type are displayed. Also displayed, for each such zone, are (i) identifiers of the host computers and storage devices of the zone, and (ii) a difference type indicator indicating which of the difference types applies to the zone.
US07774444B1	SAN simulator Embodiments of a SAN simulator that may be used with SAN management systems to create a virtual SAN with a configurable number of various types of virtual SAN objects. The virtual SAN may be accessed in performing various SAN management tasks in a virtual environment. In one embodiment, the virtual SAN objects may be generated in accordance with SAN simulator configuration information describing the types and numbers of virtual SAN objects to be generated. In one embodiment, to enter a virtual SAN object in the virtual SAN data representation, each virtual SAN object's object type and attributes may be checked in an object schema table to verify that the specified type of virtual SAN object is supported by the SAN simulator. One embodiment may include a SAN simulator explorer that serves as an interface between a SAN management server and the virtual SAN when performing SAN management tasks.
US07774433B2	Nested XOR roles A method and apparatus for managing a nested XOR role in a directory server is described. In one embodiment, a plurality of entries is defined in the directory server. At least one of the plurality of entries possesses a role. An entry is queried to determine its possessed role. A nested XOR role possesses at least two roles. An entry possesses the nested XOR role by possessing only one of the roles within the nested XOR role.
US07774430B2	Media fusion remote access system The present invention is a system that receives data in different formats from different devices/applications in the format native to the devices/applications and fuses the data into a common shared audio/video collaborative environment including a composite display showing the data from the different sources in different areas of the display and composite audio. The common environment is presented to users who can be at remote locations. The users are allowed to supply a control input for the different device data sources and the control input is mapped back to the source, thereby controlling the source. The location of the control input on the remote display is mapped to the storage area for that portion of the display and the control data is transmitted to the corresponding device/application. The fusion system converts the data from the different sources/applications into a common format and stores the converted data from the different sources in a shared memory with each source allocated a different area in the memory. A combined window like composite representation of the data is produced and also stored in the memory. The combined representation is transmitted to and can be controlled by the users.
US07774428B2	Automatic response time measurement of LDAP server operations A mechanism is provided for automatic response time measurement of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server operations are provided. The mechanism makes use of an LDAP server plug-in interface and LDAP server plug-in modules to automatically inject response time measurement code before and after each LDAP server operation during real time operation of the LDAP server in a runtime environment. In addition, the mechanism makes use of correlation tokens in the LDAP environment so that LDAP client and server operations may be correlated with one another in an end-to-end transaction. Mechanisms for passing correlation tokens between plug-in modules for the same LDAP server operation and passing correlation tokens between the LDAP client and LDAP server, and among LDAP client calls within a single session, are also provided.
US07774421B2	Mitigating address book weaknesses that permit the sending of e-mail to wrong addresses A computer-implemented method for mitigating address book weaknesses that permit sending of e-mail to wrong addresses includes determining prior to sending an e-mail message whether one of a plurality of recipients of an e-mail message should receive the e-mail message, the determining prior to sending the e-mail message including analyzing history information of a sender of the e-mail message to determine whether the one of the plurality of recipients is ordinarily connected with the plurality of recipients and whether the one of the plurality of recipients is ordinarily connected with a subject of the e-mail message, the analyzing history information including comparing the plurality of recipients to a database indicative of recipients that received e-mail from the sender, and, responsive to the history information, determining whether the one of the plurality of recipients is one of a new recipient and an ordinary recipient, and presenting the determining to the sender.
US07774416B2	Optimizing the expectation of a response in instant messaging with an automatic hierarchical instant message assistant A method, system and computer-readable medium for enhanced instant messaging in a data processing system are disclosed. The instant messaging application detects a number of instant messaging sessions of a first messaging participant with a number of other messaging participants and detects a hierarchy class of each of the other messaging participants. The application calculates an average response time for each of hierarchy classes. The application determines whether the average response time for each hierarchy class exceeds a predefined threshold. If the average response time does not exceed the threshold the application displays an indication of the average response time for the hierarchy class to each of the other messaging participants of the hierarchy class. If the average response time does exceed the threshold, the application displays an indication to each of the other messaging participants of the hierarchy class that the first messaging participant is unable to respond.
US07774415B2	Management assistance device, management assistance method, and computer program for managing responses to e-mails A mail sending and receiving unit provided to a terminal for person in charge receives inquiry mails to which uniquely identifiable receipt numbers are added, and reply mails sent in response to the inquiry mails. An e-mail storage unit stores the incoming e-mails received by the mail sending and receiving unit, and the receipt numbers added to the incoming e-mails. The mail sending and receiving unit sends reply e-mails which are created in response to the incoming e-mails stored in the e-mail storage unit, and to which the receipt numbers of the corresponding incoming e-mails are added. A management screen generation unit displays the inquiry mails stored in the e-mail storage unit, and the reply mails, as being associated with each other by use of the receipt numbers of the respective inquiry mails.
US07774408B2	Methods, systems, and emails to link emails to matters and organizations Methods, systems, and electronic mail messages (emails) are provided for automatically linking emails to matters or organizations. An email is received or constructed and linked to matters or organizations. The matters and the organizations are associated with matter areas and organization areas. Each of the areas includes matter data, organization data, personnel data, assignment data, and contact data. In one embodiment, the email is also interfaced to a billing system, a document management system, and a docketing system.
US07774402B2	Adaptive gateway for switching transactions and data on unreliable networks using context-based rules Application level switching of transactions at a gateway is provided. The gateway is configured to switch the transaction based on the application level content, a current state of a transport environment, and/or dynamic rules for switching transactions. For example, several possible service providers can be selected for the type of transaction, and the gateway can monitor not only the round-trip time through the network(s) to different possible service providers, but also the time required to complete the transaction at the application level and return a response. The application is chosen on the sending side of the network, and application level formatting is done on the sending side as well. The gateway uses modular code and data, and separate instances of processing code to allow dynamic updating. Rules for application service selection can be selectively uploaded to the gateway from a client. The rules for different available application services can be distributed across different gateways.
US07774394B2	Exponentiated polyphase digital filter The structure of a digital filter is provided through exponentiation of a polyphase digital filter. This exponentiation may be accomplished by determining an expression for the polyphase digital filter in terms of its polyphase components, and raising the expression for the polyphase digital filter to a power. The polyphase components are then arranged in a structure based on this exponentiated expression.
US07774393B1	Apparatus and method for integer to floating-point format conversion An apparatus and method for integer to floating-point format conversion. A processor may include an adder configured to perform addition of respective mantissas of two floating-point operands to produce a sum, where a smaller-exponent one of the floating-point operands has a respective exponent less than or equal to a respective exponent of a larger-exponent one of the floating-point operands. The processor may further include an alignment shifter coupled to the adder and configured, in a first mode of operation, to align the floating-point operands prior to the addition by shifting the respective mantissa of the smaller-exponent operand towards a least-significant bit position. The alignment shifter may be further configured, in a second mode of operation, to normalize an integer operand by shifting the integer operand towards a most-significant bit position. The second mode of operation may be active during execution of an instruction to convert the integer operand to floating-point format.
US07774390B2	Apparatus for collecting garbage block of nonvolatile memory according to power state and method of collecting the same Provided are an apparatus for collecting garbage blocks of a nonvolatile memory according to a power state and a method of collecting the same, and more particularly, an apparatus for collecting garbage blocks of a nonvolatile memory according to a power state and a method of collecting the same, in which an amount of power consumed by a portable device can be reduced by adjusting a garbage block collection operation on the basis of the power state of the portable device. The apparatus includes a power managing unit which collects physical blocks allocated to the nonvolatile memory on the basis of the power state of a portable device.
US07774389B2	Optimized garbage collection techniques Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing optimized garbage collection. A garbage collector is provided for managing a garbage collection process. An optimized garbage collection feature is provided that allows the garbage collection process to be suggested. When the optimized garbage collection feature is invoked at a particular moment, the system determines if collection is appropriate at the particular moment. If collection is determined to be appropriate at the particular moment, then the system performs the garbage collection process. If collection is determined to not be appropriate at the particular moment, then the system delays garbage collection until an appropriate time. A low latency mode can be used to automatically ensure that the garbage collection process starts sooner than it would in a normal mode. The latency mode in use can be changed at different points in time during the garbage collection process.
US07774386B2	Applying abstraction to object markup definitions Techniques for enabling a validating parser to interpret a schema, where that schema may have been extended to multiple levels, and to perform the validation of a structured document according to the extended schema while still allowing a consumer application to request objects or events that are cast at some different level of the schema (including the base schema). Validating the source document according to an extended (i.e., more specific) schema enables improved detection of syntax errors. At the same time, casting objects and events from the parsed document to a level requested by the consumer application allows the consumer to receive only those objects or events for which it is adapted, without requiring the consumer application to include extra code to deal with objects or events it does not recognize in the parser's output. Preferably, the parser simply discards those objects or events which this consumer is not interested in receiving.
US07774377B2	Range definition method and system A range-conversion method and system includes receiving data records. Each data record includes one or more data fields and a field value associated with each data field. One or more data fields are identified as a range-based data field. A plurality of text-based range descriptors are defined, such that each text-based range descriptor is associated with a range of field values for one of the range-based data fields.
US07774370B2	Controlling the validity status of communicated messages A method for managing a message communication system comprising providing a token log as a data structure that contains a user-extensible set of tokens and implied conditions under which specific tokens are considered valid. The method also includes creating a new token as a set of symbols and storing the new token in the token log together with information that implies one or more conditions under which the token is considered valid, which validity information implies one or more specific actions to be performed when a message accompanied by the new token experiences an event. The method further includes providing for distributing the new token to one or more external entities and providing a system operator with the ability to change a validity status of the token.
US07774369B2	Configuring computer systems with business configuration information A configuration server includes a configuration repository that stores a wide range of configuration information for possible use by application programs. The configuration repository may include configuration parameters, settings for the parameters, and meta-data of definitions and descriptions of the parameters. Configuration information is selected from the configuration repository and stored in a configuration directory for later use by application programs at runtime. The configuration information is accessed from the configuration directory when needed by an application program or a component thereof.
US07774364B2	Uniform name space referrals with location independence Improved techniques are disclosed for accessing content in file systems, allowing file system clients to realize advantages of file system referrals even though a file access protocol used by the client is not specifically adapted for referral objects. (For example, the client may have a legacy file system protocol or a proprietary file system protocol which does not support referrals.) These advantages include a uniform name space view of content in a network file system, and an ability to locate content in a (nearly) seamless and transparent manner, even though the content may be dynamically moved from one location to another or replicated in different locations. A file system server returns a symbolic link in place of a referral, and an automated file mounting process on the client is leveraged to access the content using the link. Built-in crash recovery techniques of the file system client are leveraged to access moved content.
US07774360B2	Building bridges for web query classification Described is a technology by which an intermediate taxonomy is processed (e.g., offline) with respect to a target taxonomy to determine relationship values between categories represented in the intermediate taxonomy and the target taxonomy. The relationship values are used to construct a bridging classifier for use in online query processing to relate queries to categories in the target taxonomy. The relation is based on each target category's relationship to one or more categories that were represented in the intermediate taxonomy. Further, only a relevant subset of the categories represented in the intermediate taxonomy may be chosen for use in the bridging classifier, e.g., based on relative probability scores and/or mutual information scores computed between the categories represented in the intermediate taxonomy and categories in the target taxonomy.
US07774356B2	Method and apparatus for application state synchronization A method and an apparatus that synchronize an application state in a client with a data source in a backend system in an asynchronous manner are described. A response is sent to the client based on a priority determined according to a history of received update requests. When a notification message from a data source in a backend system is received, an update request is selected from a plurality of update requests currently pending to be served according to the priority associated with each update request. A response is sent to the client over a network corresponding to the selected update request. The response includes state updates according to the changes in the data source and the current application state in the corresponding client.
US07774353B2	Search templates Searching a data store for parameter patterns specified in a query. A method includes receiving a query from a user including N parameter patterns. One or more alternatives are associated to one or more of the N parameter patterns. One or more templates are created. Each of the templates describes a number of microsearches. Each of the microsearches includes one or more of the N parameter patterns or the alternatives. Microsearches described by at least one of the one or more templates are enumerated. One or more sub-microsearches are performed by searching for parameter patterns and/or alternatives. Each sub-microsearch may have less than all terms needed for a full microsearch. Based on the results of the one or more sub-microsearches, one or more microsearches are eliminated from searching. The data store is searched using one or more of the remaining microsearches.
US07774350B2	System and method to provide and display enhanced feedback in an online transaction processing environment The present invention is a system for and method to collect, calculate, and display user feedback ratings in an online transaction processing (OLTP) environment. The invention utilizes a client, a network, a Web site host system, and rule-based decision making, to 1) enable users and other systems to submit transaction performance information for a buyer or seller; 2) enable users to view transaction performance information; and 3) enable users to view detailed transaction performance measures for buyers or sellers within specific performance categories. Rating the transaction performance of users of an OLTP environment can serve to improve users' trust in the OLTP environment, improve the reputation of online trading venues, and increase the value of these venues.
US07774347B2	Vortex searching Determining intersection points of parameter patterns. Parameter patterns are specified in a query. A method includes identifying a first parameter pattern from the query as occurring less often in the index than one other parameter pattern in the query. The data store is searched until a present location of the data store has been identified as including the first parameter pattern. Then the data store is searched for a location of another parameter pattern. If the present location is identified as including the another parameter pattern, then an indication is provided identifying an intersection. Otherwise, the method includes continuing searching remaining portions of the data store to find a location of the another parameter pattern at a new present location. At least one of the acts of searching above includes eliminating at least a portion of records of the data store from searching without being searched prior to being eliminated.
US07774342B1	Resolving queries based on automatic determination of requestor geographic location Resolving a query term includes receiving at least one query term from a requestor and determining a geographic location of the requestor. The geographic location of the requestor may be determined by accessing an electronic information store containing a requestor profile including geographic information about the requestor, where the requestor profile is used by more than one program. The query term is resolved against electronic information within at least one electronic information store to determine whether one or more matches exist and a result is generated that accounts for the geographic location of the requestor.
US07774330B2	Method and system of providing user augmented content A method for enabling users to share information across websites. A user may add some information to augment a posting on a first website to annotate its content. The information may be displayed on the first website as a related file and stored in a user augmented content system (UACS) database as an individual document. Another user may add some information to a posting on a second website to enrich its content, and the information may be displayed on the second website as a related file and stored in the UACS database as another individual document. The documents may be stored together with some keywords, and may be tagged, indexed and searchable. Users may easily find out who contributed what to the websites, and configure their websites to automatically receive content newly uploaded to the UACS database. If the augmenting content from the first website is relevant to the content on the second website, it may be automatically distributed to the second website.
US07774321B2	Partial XML validation Modifying a portion of an XML document stored in a relational database includes converting operations on the document into an operator tree. The operator tree includes a first operator corresponding to a first portion of the schema for the modified data and a second operator corresponding to a parent portion of the schema for the modified data. A first and a second portion of the schema are extracted from the overall document schema. A first validation of the modified data using the first operator with the first portion of the schema is performed. This forms a partially validated XML document portion. Next, a second validation of the partially validated XML document portion with the second portion of the schema is performed using the second operator. The XML document constraints are verified and the modified data is merged into the XML document, thus avoiding a full validation of the XML document when certain XML Schema types are absent in the modified data.
US07774313B1	Policy enforcement in continuous data protection backup systems Policy-based performance of continuous data protection on protected data. A write request targeted to a portion of the protected data is detected. In addition, a journaling policy data structure(s) is accessed. The journaling policy data structure represents policy for how frequently to journal write request to a backup medium and/or what backup medium to journal write requests to depending on one or more characteristics of write request targets. The journaling policy data structure is then used to determine whether the write request should be presently journaled and/or to identify the backup medium that the write request should be journaled to based on the one or more characteristics of the portion of the protected data targeted by the write request. The journaling policy may, but need not, be selected so as to preserve storage and/or network bandwidth associated with the journaling process.
US07774310B2	Client-specific transformation of distributed data A data store is distributed between a server and a client. The distributed data store includes global data. A transformation is applied to the global data to generate client-specific data based on the global data. The client-specific data is stored on the client which uses the client-specific data to perform tasks relating to the client-specific data.
US07774308B2	Anti-item for deletion of content in a distributed datastore An apparatus and method efficiently delete a first items within a distributed datastore. In particular, an already well defined procedure for insertion of data is used for deletion. Deletion of a first item is effected through the insertion of a second item. The second item can contain a deletion key or be denoted by an appended flag or modified associated meta-data value. The first item can be deleted upon arrival of the second item or subsequent to arrival through an offline garbage collection process.
US07774303B2	Method, article of manufacturing, and apparatus for generating a multi-dimensional record management index A record management system is provided for generating a multi-dimensional view for different measures. A set of records is retrieved in response to a set of queries. The set of records is maintained in a master table. The record management system generates a record structure foundation, including a query map and a master table index. The record management system then employs the record structure foundation to generate a multi-dimensional layout mapping for the measures that are to be represented in the view. The record structure foundation and measure values in the master table are used to convert the layout mapping into the desired multidimensional view. The record management system includes data storage units. These data storage units are coupled to a set of processing engines, which that provide for performing operations that result in the generation of a multi-dimensional view.
US07774301B2	Use of federation services and transformation services to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) of unstructured information and associated metadata Provided are techniques for transforming unstructured information into content in a uniform context. The unstructured information and metadata associated with the unstructured information are extracted from one or more source content repositories. One or more custom transformations are performed on at least one of the unstructured information and the metadata. At least one of the transformed, unstructured information and the metadata are loaded into one or more target content repositories.
US07774297B2	System and method for network security A system and method analyzes queries in a computer network, and identifies problem-causing queries that could be harmful to the system. If a query does not match any queries in a database, the query is transmitted to its destination. If a query matches a query in the database, that query is blocked from transmission to the destination. If a query is transmitted to its destination, and it is later determined that query caused a problem on that destination, that query is added to the database of queries. In one embodiment, a query that does not cause any problems is written to a pool of current up-to-date backup databases that may be used if the main system goes down. In another embodiment, the system tests variants of a query that caused a problem at the destination to attempt to discover other queries that could cause a problem.
US07774291B2	Network of networks of associative memory networks for knowledge management Associative memory systems, methods and/or computer program products include a network of networks of associative memory networks. A network of entity associative memory networks is provided, a respective entity associative memory of which includes associations among a respective observer entity and observed entities that are observed by the respective observer entity, based on input documents. A network of feedback associative memory networks includes associations among observed entities for a respective positive and/or negative evaluation for a respective task of a respective user. A network of document associative memory networks includes associations among observed entities in a respective observed input source, such as a respective input document. A network of community associative memory networks includes associations among a respective observer entity, observed entities that are observed by the respective observer entity, and observed tasks of users in which the observer entity was queried. Associations may be observed into and imagined from the network of networks of associative memory networks.
US07774290B2	Pattern abstraction engine The present disclosure includes a system and method for learning (or discovering and extracting) business knowledge from a collection of source code. The collection of source code is abstracted to generate an abstracted data stream, which is then transformed to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. The transformed data in XML format can be further converted to target formats or processed to satisfy different needs such as software system documentation, migration, impact analysis and security analysis. The disclosure also includes an implementation and operation for a pattern abstraction engine configured to receive an input data stream and format it for abstraction into a standard format using a pattern matching mechanism. The disclosure also includes an implementation and operation for a contextual pattern decoder engine configured to extract knowledge attributes and contextual taxonomy from classified blocks of an input data stream.
US07774272B2	Apparatus and method for simulating an analytic value chain A computer-implemented simulator models the entire analytic value chain so that data generation, model fitting and strategy optimization are an integral part of the simulation. Data collection efforts, data mining algorithms, predictive modeling technologies and strategy development methodologies define the analytic value chain of a business operation: data→models→strategies→profit. Inputs to the simulator include consumer data and potential actions to be taken regarding a consumer or account. The invention maps what is known about a consumer or an account and the potential actions that the business can take on that consumer or account to potential future financial performance. After iteratively performing simulations using varying inputs, modeling the effect of the innovation on a profit model, the simulator outputs a prediction of the commercial value of an analytic innovation.
US07774271B1	Electronic financial management and analysis system and related methods A computing system facilitating electronic bill presentment and payment features for authorized users via a user interface is introduced including an analysis engine. The analysis engine, in response to user interaction with the user interface, selectively performs user-defined analysis on at least a subset of retrieved billing information associated with one or more billers. The analysis engine further generates one or more user-defined report(s) based, at least in part, on the user-defined analysis.
US07774269B2	Future check financing method A Future Check Financing Method is disclosed. The method enables purchasers and others to present future-dated checks (or other payment vehicles) at the point of sale for purchases. The potential recipient of the future-dated payment vehicles and/or a check guarantee entity is able to make a lending decision based solely on the presenter's check writing history. The recipient of future-dated checks under the method will receive full payment (typically minus service charges) nearly immediately after completing the transaction with the presenter, rather than when all future-dated payment vehicles become payable. The check writing history may include negative check writing history for the presenter, but also may include positive check writing history for the presenter.
US07774266B1	Bond option modeling Systems and methods for determining a present value of an option on a security having a fixed cash flow leg based upon a Martingale. The Martingale may be based upon a ratio of the present value of the option and a numeraire. The numeraire may be a coupon annuity which may be based on coupons of the security post expiry of the option, accrual periods of the coupon, and spread-adjusted discount factors for coupon dates of the option. The spread-adjusted discount factor may be based on an instantaneous forward rate and a time-varying spread. The present value of the option may be determined based upon a spread, a notional value of the security, and an expectation of a maximum value of (1) a difference between an artificial strike coupon and a forward swap rate and (2) zero. This spread may equal a difference between the forward swap rate and a strike coupon or the strike coupon divided by the forward swap rate.
US07774265B2	Method and system for multi-enterprise optimization using flexible trade contracts A method of multi-enterprise optimization at a buyer computer includes accessing a forecasted demand for at least one item and generating one or more proposed flexible trade contracts using the forecasted demand for the item. The proposed flexible trade contract is communicated to a seller computer and subsequently executed after acceptance of the proposed flexible trade contract at the seller computer to create a flexible trade contract. Each proposed flexible trade contract may be a forward contract, an option contract, or a flexible forward contract.
US07774257B2	User interface for a financial advisory system A financial advisory system and a user interface for such a system are provided. According to one embodiment, information regarding a retirement income goal of an individual is received. Multiple input values for corresponding decision variables are also received. The decision variables include an indication regarding a target retirement age for the individual, an indication regarding anticipated monetary contributions directed toward the retirement income goal and an indication regarding the individual's risk tolerance. A probability distribution dependent upon the decision variables is generated based on simulated market return scenarios and representing a set of possible future portfolio values based on the plurality of inputs. Finally, feedback regarding the likelihood of the individual achieving the retirement income goal is provided in view of the input values by graphically depicting one or more of the set of possible future portfolio values relative to a graphical indication of the retirement income goal.
US07774252B2	Method and system for generating statistically-based medical provider utilization profiles A method and system for analyzing historical medical provider billings to statistically establish a normative utilization profile. Comparison of a medical provider's utilization profile with a normative profile is enabled. Based on historical treatment patterns and a fee schedule, an accurate model of the cost of a specific medical episode can be created. Various treatment patterns for a particular diagnosis can be compared by treatment cost and patient outcome to determine the most cost-effective treatment approach. It is also possible to identify those medical providers who provide treatment that does not fall within the statistically established treatment patterns or profiles.
US07774245B2	Building optimization platform and web-based invoicing system A building management and optimization system and method are disclosed. Building services data obtained at the building is received by a building optimization platform through a first communication network. The building optimization platform includes at least one server system for generating an electronic invoice based on the building services use data. A representation of the electronic invoice is transmitted to a user interface through a second communication network for web-based review, editing and approval by a property manager associated with the building.
US07774243B1	Method and system for predestination item transfer among agents within a materials handling facility A method and system for transferring selected items among agents within a materials handling facility. According to one embodiment, a method may include a number of agents moving along respective paths through an inventory storage area of a materials handling facility. While moving along a respective path, a first agent may select items from the inventory storage area to be delivered to a corresponding order processing area, where each of the selected items may be specified in a corresponding customer order and at least two of the selected items may be delivered to two different corresponding order processing areas. After the first agent selects a particular item, the first agent may transfer the particular item to a second agent, and the second agent or another one of the agents may deliver the particular item to the corresponding order finalization area.
US07774241B2	Simulation of conditions in a batching process The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for batching items (9, 11) of non-uniform weight into batches fulfilling certain weight criteria. The items (9, 11) are conveyed across a scale (10) registering the weight of each item individually, and subsequently, the items (9, 11) are combined into batches. In particular, the invention relates to a method of analyzing process deviations in a batching process, e.g. to detect faults in a batching system or in order to improve a batching process flow. One sophisticated application of the invention is to include a simulation of the batching process to accurately predict the results for the pack-sizes on demand and recommend the optimal ones to the operator.
US07774238B2	Online marketplace management system with automated pricing tool An online marketplace management system includes software for managing sales by a user on one or more online marketplaces that are operated by entities other than the user. Online marketplaces are online e-commerce sales (e.g., retail) outlets that act as aggregators where third-party sellers (e.g., retailers) can sell items through branded web portals of the online marketplaces for a fee or a percentage of the sales prices. The software of the online marketplace management system includes an inventory management tool for managing inventory that is offered for sale on the one or more online marketplaces, and a pricing tool that provides automatic pricing of inventory that is offered for sale on the one or more online marketplaces, the automatic pricing being based upon real-time pricing of like inventory available on at least one online marketplace from one or more third parties other than the user.
US07774237B1	Methods for identifying and revising high-risk orders based on identified errors A method for identifying high-risk orders associated with a customer that includes the steps of: receiving an order that includes a customer number, an order type and a plurality of entries; identifying a customer contract based on the order type and the customer number, the customer contract having a plurality of terms that correspond to the entries; comparing the entries to corresponding terms using rules; and identifying a high-risk order containing at least one error from the comparison. The method can also include assigning a result code or a result text to the order, which corresponds to the errors that are identified, and changing the rule set by adding or removing rules.
US07774236B2	Drive-through order management method A system and method for drive-through product order management. The system comprises a display and a processor. The display displays first customer product order information representative of a customer product order wherein the first customer product order information is positioned in a first position of the display. The processor correlates an indicator with the first customer product order information and positions the first customer product order information in a second position of the display.
US07774230B2	System, method, and computer program product for selecting and presenting financial products and services An apparatus and method are provided which use client information from a client to automatically select and present financial products appropriate for the client. The apparatus according to one aspect of the invention comprises an input device for inputting client information relevant to a need by the client for the financial products, for inputting information about the financial products, for inputting ancillary data which excludes the client information and the financial products information, and for inputting decision criteria pertaining to selection from among the financial products. The apparatus still further includes decision making logic circuitry for using the client information, the financial products information, the ancillary information, and the decision criteria to select a subset of the financial products. It further includes an output device for preparing a client communication which identifies the subset of the financial products.
US07774223B2	System and method for scheduling location-specific services A system for scheduling a location-specific service appointment, the system comprising a communication network, a target service location, a desired service type, a service provider grouping, and an availability calendar. The communication network interconnects data input devices, data output devices, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU unit comprises a precompiled service provider database. The target service location and the desired service type are input into the CPU and the service provider database, comprising a plurality of service provider resumes, is searched. The select service provider grouping is compiled based on matched service location information and service expertise information. At least one service provider resume is selected from the select service provider grouping and the availability calendar is then provided upon a data output device. The selected service provider resume, a selected calendar day, and a selected appointment time operate to schedule a location-specific service provider appointment.
US07774222B2	System for managing business processes through a plurality of distinct input channels A system is described for managing business processes through a plurality of distinct input channels, wherein the processes have a number of consecutive process phases. The system comprises a process management module which is configured to receive requests from a customer through any one of the input channels and to execute on the basis of these requests a business process. The system uses a process definition database for storing process definitions of each of the business processes and the process phases used therein. An interface module handles the communication between the input channels and the process management module, wherein a session service in the interface module stores session information about a particular one of the plurality of input channels through which a given request for executing a process phase was received.
US07774212B2	Systems and methods for dynamically determining data-identity information Techniques are presented for determining threshold probability or confidence levels for associating various types of health information with a set of users. Spatio-temporal information associated with one or more of the subjects is determined. Health information associated with spatial-temporal information is also determined. Candidate health-subject associations are associated with probabilities based on the spatio-temporally tagged identity and spatio-temporally tagged health information. Candidate health-subject associations with probabilities exceeding a threshold probability level are assigned as actual health-subject associations. Treatment plans, reports, remedial procedures and or other health related tests, procedures or the like are determined based on the associated health information.
US07774209B2	Stored value cards and methods for their issuance A method for issuing both a virtual card and a physical card to a cardholder comprises issuing a virtual card to a cardholder, with the virtual card comprising an identifier and an associated database record of a stored value. A physical card is also issued to the cardholder. The physical card includes an identifier that is different from the virtual card identifier, and the physical card is in an inactive state until the physical card is activated by linking of the physical card identifier to the database record of the stored value.
US07774201B2	Acoustic device with first and second gain setting units A purpose of the present invention is to provide an acoustic apparatus capable of automatically setting a gain which is suitable for both an averaged signal strength of input voice and an instantaneous signal strength thereof, capable of easily recognizing an effect by a user, which is achieved by switching a turn-ON and a turn-OFF of an automatic gain variable operation, and further capable of readily recognizing a change in gain values by the user. The acoustic apparatus is provided with a gain setting unit (20) for setting a gain from an averaged voice strength within a predetermined time period, and another gain setting unit (22) for setting a gain in response to an instantaneous signal strength thereof; and the acoustic apparatus adjusts a signal strength of an audio input signals (Si) based upon a gain “C” obtained by multiplying a gain “A” by another gain “B.”
US07774200B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting an encoded speech signal A method and apparatus for processing speech in a wireless communication system uses code excited linear prediction (CELP) speech encoded signals. A speech input receives samples of a speech signal and a codebook analysis block selects an index of a code from one or more codebooks. A prediction error between a predicted current sample and a current sample of the speech samples is determined. An innovation sequence is determined based on the prediction error and an index is selected based on the innovation sequence. The index is transmitted to the receiver to enable reconstruction of the speech signal at the receiver.
US07774199B2	Signal processing using pilot based coding An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a difference value and index information and entropy-decoding the index information and identifying an entropy table corresponding to the entropy-decoded index information and entropy-decoding the difference value using the identified entropy table and obtaining data using a reference value corresponding to a plurality of data and the decoded difference value.
US07774184B2	Brownfield workflow and production forecast tool Computer-based method and system are disclosed for conduction a brownfield assessment. The system/method involves a workflow manager that standardizes the tasks needed to be performed during the brownfield assessment and streamlines the completion of these tasks. The workflow manager incorporates expert knowledge and best practices identified over time for previous brownfield assessments. The expert knowledge and best practices are then applied automatically through operation of the workflow manager. Such an arrangement can result in significantly reduced completion time as well as more consistent deliverables from engineer to engineer and project to project.
US07774180B2	Method and system for identifying proximity areas between several digitally simulated geometrical objects The system for identifying zones of proximity between a plurality of digitally simulated objects comprises: (a) first memory (111) for storing data describing the geometry of the objects, (b) an initialization module (120) for creating a population of pions, and (c) a central processor unit (140) comprising at least: (c1) a unit (141) for selecting a percentage of the population of pions to be subjected to combats in pairs, (c2) a comparison and calculation unit (142) for evaluating the quality of each of the pions in each pair of pions subjected to a combat, (c3) a marking unit (143) for identifying in each session of the tournament which of the pions of a pair of pions subjected to a combat has won or lost, (c4) an iteration unit (144) for causing the pions that have been subjected to at least one combat to evolve, in association with at least one operator for producing an exploratory mutation, and at least one redefinition operator, and (c5) an extraction module (145) for retaining only the best pions from the population for determining the zones of proximity between at least two objects.
US07774178B2	Methods for on-line determination of degree of resin stickiness using a model for depression of melt initiation temperature In some embodiments, a method including the steps of: during a polymerization reaction producing a polymer resin in a fluid bed reactor, measuring reaction parameters including at least reactor temperature, at least one property of the resin, and amount of at least one condensable diluent gas in the reactor; determining from at least one measured resin property using a predetermined correlation, a dry melt initiation temperature value for a dry version of the polymer resin; and during the reaction, using a melt initiation temperature depression model to determine in on-line fashion a reduced melt initiation temperature for the resin (e.g., a temperature at which the resin is expected to begin to melt) in the presence of the at least one condensable diluent gas in the reactor.
US07774174B2	Branch merge reduction of RLCM networks Various tools and techniques are provided for reducing an original circuit network into a simpler, realizable RCLM circuit network. Branches of the original network are merged to reduce its total number of nodes. More particularly, the branches of the original circuit are merged so that the resulting reduced circuit approximately replicates the timing characteristics of the original circuit over the desired operating frequency range. The determination whether to merge two branches is made based upon one or more circuit characteristics associated with the node connecting the branches.
US07774173B2	Model parameter determining method in a simulation by applying a quantifier elimination algorithm A model parameter determination program stored in a storage medium used to direct a computer to efficiently and effectively determine a parameter of a model in a simulation, and includes a step of receiving input of data of a variable in a model of a system to be analyzed; a step of generating a constraint expression relating to a parameter of a model based on the received data and the model of the system; and a step of obtaining presence/absence of a solution and/or a possible range of a feasible parameter by applying a quantifier elimination algorithm to the constraint expression.
US07774167B2	System and method for providing diagnosis information The invention relates to a method for generating a system for providing diagnosis information, and to a corresponding system. The aim of the invention is to simplify the provision of information for diagnosing technical installations or technical processes. To this end, components pertaining to an automation system and having diagnosis interfaces for providing diagnosis information for diagnosing the respective components are collected in at least one group, and the diagnosis information of the respective group is provided by combining the diagnosis information of the components collected in the respective group.
US07774166B2	Analysis system An apparatus for analysing the condition of a machine having a rotating shaft, comprising: at least one input for receiving measurement data from a sensor for surveying a measuring point of the machine; said measurement data being dependent on rotation of said shaft; data processing means for processing condition data dependent on said measurement data; said data processing means comprising means for performing a plurality of condition monitoring functions (F1, F2, Fn), wherein said data processing means includes a Field Programmable Gate Array circuit coupled to said at least one input.
US07774165B2	State monitoring of machines and technical installations Provided is a method for monitoring measurement data by way of measurement channels. The measurement channels are processed in a plurality of time series of state values with mutually different time bases. Limit value ranges are ascertained in a learning phase and monitoring-related steps are triggered in a monitoring phase when limit values are exceeded. A good value extent is calculated for a time series with an upper and a lower limit value, with the inclusion of a limit value range which is predetermined in the learning phase and a state base value of the time series, which is determined in the monitoring phase.
US07774159B2	3D multi-degree of freedom detecting device and method for using the same A 3D multi-degree of freedom detecting device includes a first electromagnetic radiation source, a second electromagnetic radiation source, a first sensing module, and at least one second sensing module. The first electromagnetic radiation source is used to generate first electromagnetic radiations, and the first electromagnetic radiation source is a point source. The second electromagnetic radiation source is used to generate second electromagnetic radiations, and the second electromagnetic radiation source is a point source. The first sensing module has a plurality of first sensing elements for receiving different radiation energies generated by the first electromagnetic radiations and the second electromagnetic radiations from different spatial angles. The at least one second sensing module has a plurality of second sensing elements for receiving different radiation energies generated by the first electromagnetic radiations and the second electromagnetic radiations from different spatial angles.
US07774157B2	Checking of turbomachine blades A method of checking turbomachine blades is presented that may be implemented using a computer and a measuring device. Turbomachine blades compatible with embodiments of the method have a profile including a centerline, suction face, pressure face, leading edge and trailing edge. The method measures geometrical coordinates of many points on a blade section profile, calculates an aerodynamic parameter of the blade section as a function of the measured coordinates, verifies whether the calculated aerodynamic parameter value departs from a valid range of parameters from a reference blade, and validates or rejects the blade depending upon whether the value of the aerodynamic parameter falls within the valid range.
US07774146B2	Biological information measurement device and method of measuring biological information suitable for regular measurement of biological information A biological information measurement device stores, in a storage unit, biological data representing data of calculated biological information and measurement date data in association with each other. The biological information measurement device displays, as measurement frequency specifying information, information for specifying frequency of day(s) when the measurement was conducted, in a prescribed period from a current date based on a plurality of pieces of measurement date data stored in the storage unit and an output from a time keeping unit.
US07774145B2	Transcutaneous analyte sensor The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host. In some embodiments, a device is provided for monitoring glucose concentration in a host, including a continuous glucose sensor and an integrated receiver including a single point glucose monitor. In some embodiments, a computer system is provided that determines a rate of change of continuous analyte sensor data.
US07774144B2	System and method for identifying complex patterns of amino acids A method and system are disclosed for identifying and/or locating complex patterns in an amino acid sequence stored in a computer file or database. According to an aspect of the present invention, techniques are provided to facilitate queries of protein databases. For protein descriptions received in response to the queries, embodiments of the present invention may scan the received protein descriptions to identify and locate Replikin patterns. A Replikin pattern is defined to be a sequence of 7 to about 50 amino acids that include the following three (3) characteristics, each of which may be recognized by an embodiment of the present invention: (1) the sequence has at least one lysine residue located six to ten amino acid residues from a second lysine residue; (2) the sequence has at least one histidine residue; and (3) at least 6% of the amino acids in the sequence are lysine residues.
US07774143B2	Methods for analyzing high dimensional data for classifying, diagnosing, prognosticating, and/or predicting diseases and other biological states A method of diagnosing, predicting, or prognosticating about a disease that includes obtaining experimental data, wherein the experimental data is high dimensional data, filtering the data, reducing the dimensionality of the data through use of one or more methods, training a supervised pattern recognition method, ranking individual data points from the data, wherein the ranking is dependent on the outcome of the supervised pattern recognition method, choosing multiple data points from the data, wherein the choice is based on the relative ranking of the individual data points, and using the multiple data points to determine if an unknown set of experimental data indicates a diseased condition, a predilection for a diseased condition, or a prognosis about a diseased condition.
US07774139B1	Weather collection system A method of collecting weather data includes determining probable occurrences of weather events. Contact information corresponding to a plurality of users is maintained. Weather collection devices are sent to the plurality of users prior to the occurrence of the probable weather event. Data is collected by the weather collection devices upon the actual occurrence of the probable weather event.
US07774138B2	Vehicle control device and method for controlling vehicle A vehicle control device includes: a first memory for storing a road condition data; a position detector for detecting a position of a vehicle; a first controller for detecting and controlling unusual behavior of the vehicle; a driving condition detector for detecting a driving condition; an information acquiring element for acquiring weather information; a second memory for storing a driving data; a data acquiring element for acquiring the driving condition, the road condition data at an attention point, and the weather information; a memory controller for memorizing the attention spot in the second memory; a first optimum mode determining element for determining an optimum vehicle control mode based on the driving condition, the road condition data and the weather information; and a second controller for controlling the vehicle to coincide the driving condition with the optimum vehicle control mode before or at the attention spot.
US07774124B2	Method for determining the composition of a fuel blend The invention relates to a method for determining the composition of a fuel blend from a first and at least a second fuel to operate an internal combustion engine with at least one combustion chamber, wherein fuel blends of different composition combust at different optimal ignition angles ZWmax with an optimal degree of efficiency ηmax. Provision is thereby made for the ignition angle ZW of the internal combustion engine to be altered, for the degree of efficiency η of the internal combustion engine or a parameter, which is a function of it, to be determined as a function of the ignition angle ZW and for the composition of the fuel blend to be determined from the change in the degree of efficiency Δη or the parameter, which is a function of it, when the ignition angle ZW is altered and/or from the ignition angle ZW as a function of the degree of efficiency η or the parameter, which is a function of the degree of efficiency η. The method makes it possible to determine the fuel mixing ratio in the fuel tank of internal combustion engines, which can be operated with different fuels.
US07774119B2	Shift control system of automatic transmission and method thereof A shift control system of an automatic transmission and a method thereof include controlling the off-going and on-coming clutches according to hydraulic pressures of the off-going and on-coming clutches calculated based on a flare amount when a flare occurs, controlling the on-coming clutch according to hydraulic pressure of the on-coming clutch calculated based on a shifting time interval when the flare does not occur and the shifting time interval is smaller than or equal to a predetermined time interval, and controlling the off-going and on-coming clutches according to hydraulic pressures of the off-going and on-coming clutches calculated based on an excess rate of change of a turbine speed when the shifting time interval is larger than a predetermined time interval.
US07774116B2	Device and method for controlling a passenger protection system of a vehicle A device for controlling a passenger protection system of a motor vehicle includes at least one structure-borne noise sensor, used to receive body vibrations, and an evaluation device, used to evaluate the structure-borne noise signal. The evaluation provides information about an impact object and/or the characteristics of the impact. The evaluation device is configured to analyze the structure-borne noise signal in relation to the frequencies contained therein, wherein the frequency spectrum contained in a signal section is distributed into a plurality of frequency ranges. The current signal energy is determined for each frequency range, and the signal energy of the frequency range is a standardized. The device also comprises a passenger protection system, which can be actuated according to the information relating to the impact object and/or the characteristics of the impact. Further, the evaluation device is embodied such that during standardization, the signal energy of each frequency range is established in relation to the signal energy of a specific reference frequency range, and the resulting ratio course is compared to predetermined threshold values.
US07774104B2	Electronic apparatus and electronic system An electronic apparatus detachably holding a portable apparatus, includes: a housing portion housing the portable apparatus; a guide mechanism guiding the portable apparatus to set one side of the portable apparatus as an axis and cause another side opposing the one side to revolve, when the portable apparatus is attached and/or detached to or from the housing portion; and a housing portion side connector to be fitted with or removed from a portable apparatus side connector provided at the portable apparatus, and the housing portion side connector is located closer to the other side of the portable apparatus than to one side thereof, when attached.
US07774096B2	Apparatus for dispensing and identifying product in washrooms An apparatus for the dispensing of product is provided. The apparatus includes a dispenser that is configured for dispensing product and a sensor in communication with an electrical circuit carried by the dispenser. The sensor is configured for detecting identification information about the product when the electrical circuit is completed by the product. Additional exemplary embodiments are also provided in which the sensor operates through optical detection, smell, physical contact with the product, or vibration instead of or in addition to the completion of an electrical circuit.
US07774090B2	Tool selection system and method Systems and methods to select a tool are provided. In at least one embodiment, a system receives first tool data defining a first tool and requirement data defining a requirement of a process to be performed within a manufacturing facility. The system stores the first tool data in memory. The system automatically determines whether the first tool data satisfies a selected requirement definition and outputs a first representation of the first tool if the first tool data satisfies the selected requirement definition thereby enabling a user to select the tool.
US07774088B2	Numeric control apparatus and numeric control machine controlling a number of systems Irrespective of operation mode of systems in which predetermined axes belong to, a multi-system numerical controller is provided that freely combines axes belonging to arbitrary systems, and then simultaneously operates axes belonging to a plurality of systems in a predetermined manual mode, or simultaneously operates a plurality of axes belonging to the same system in respective manual operation modes so as to safely take interpolation control in manual operation. The numerical control apparatus includes a plurality of manual operation controllers and independent of the systems; a manual-operation-mode selecting signal provided each for the manual operation controllers; an arbitrary-axis selection signal, provided each for the manual operation controllers or manual modes, for selecting axes from any of the systems; a manual-move-speed instructing signal provided each for the manual operation controller; a manual operation reset signal provided each for the manual operation controllers.
US07774087B2	Wire electrical discharge machine with deformation compensation ability A wire electrical discharge machine (WEDM) is disclosed, which comprises: a movable crane; a measure unit, mounted on the crane for measuring the deformation of the same; and a control unit, electrically connected to the measure unit and used for controlling the crane to move; wherein a lookup table describing the relation between the crane's deformation and position error is stored in the control unit, basing on which the control unit is able to perform a feedback displacement control on the crane with respect to its deformation.
US07774084B2	Computer-aided implanting of orthodontic anchorage devices using surgical guides A system for implanting a temporary anchorage device in a jaw bone of a patient makes use of a digital representation of at least a portion of the patient's dental arch, including teeth and corresponding roots, in order to select a temporary anchorage device (TAD) implant site that does not interfere with a tooth root. A surgical guide relates the information from the digital representation to an actual location in the patient's jaw bone. The surgical guide is formed to fit over at least a portion of the occlusal, buccal, labial, and/or lingual surfaces of the dental arch proximate to the selected TAD implant site and includes a physical and/or visual marker that indicates the selected TAD implant site.
US07774083B2	Methods and systems for position sensing Methods and systems for position sensing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes measuring at least three discrete point positions associated with a first component using at least one transmitter having a known position and orientation and in a line of sight with the three discrete point positions, the three discrete point positions having known distances relative to one another. The method computes a current position and orientation of the first component using data provided by the at least one transmitter and the three discrete point positions, along with position and orientation data from a last known location of the first component assuming that no sudden position changes since the first component has moved from the last known location. The first and second components may be a workpiece and a tool that performs a manufacturing operation on the workpiece.
US07774075B2	Audio-visual three-dimensional input/output Methods and apparatus for determining an object's three-dimensional location (i.e. real world coordinates) using the audio-video infrastructure of a 3G cellular phone or a 3C (Computer, Communications, Consumer) electronic device. A first detection device (e.g. a camera) is used to capture images of the objects. The captured image data is used to compute location data of the object in a first two-dimensional plane. A second detection device (e.g. microphone or infrared detector) may be used to collect additional location data in a second plane, which when combined with image data from the captured images allows the determination of the real world coordinates (x, y, z) of the object. The real-world coordinate data may be used in various applications. If the size of an object of interest is known or can be calculated, and the size of the projected image does not vary due to rotation of the object, a single camera (e.g. the camera in a 3G or 3C mobile device) may be used to obtain three-dimensional coordinate data for the applications.
US07774073B2	Modular programmable automation controller with multi-processor architecture An apparatus and method for forming a control node in a programmable architecture, is disclosed. The node includes a plurality of user-programmable, microprocessor-based modules connected together. The modules are connected to create a parallel-processing environment with a selected functionality. Hot-swapping of the modules can be determined in the node. Power is distributed throughout the modules in the node. The modules may be automatically programmed to accommodate a target independent device.
US07774070B2	Medical electrode assembly for electrotherapy and phototherapy treatment A method for combining the effective modalities of electrotherapy and phototherapy is provided. A medical electrode assembly is substantially transparent or translucent to visible, infrared and/or ultraviolet light so that light rays emitted by a phototherapy device can shine through and pass transversely across every layer of the medical electrode assembly to impinge upon the skin of the patient to which the assembly is attached. This includes an area of skin located directly underneath the medical electrode assembly and thereby enables the combination therapy to be achieved.
US07774065B2	Apparatus and method for testing and adjusting a bipolar stimulation configuration A system and method for measuring the capture threshold of a bipolar lead in order to determine an appropriate value for the stimulus pulse energy to be used with the lead by a cardiac rhythm management device. An appropriate bipolar stimulating configuration can also be determined. The method is particularly useful in testing bipolar leads used to excite the left ventricle such as when delivering cardiac resynchronization therapy.
US07774061B2	Implantable cardiac device with ischemia response capability A cardiac device is described with the capability of detecting cardiac ischemia using multiple sensing modalities. The device may be configured to modify its behavior in delivering therapies to treat bradycardia or tachyarrhythmias in response to detection of cardiac ischemia.
US07774057B2	Method and apparatus for device controlled gene expression for cardiac protection A gene regulatory system detects ischemia events and is capable of delivering a biologic therapy in response to the detection of an ischemic event or the reception of a command. The biologic therapy protects the heart from ischemic damage by regulating the expression of an exogenously introduced gene product. In one embodiment, the gene regulatory system includes an implantable system that emits at least one gene regulatory signal in response to the detection of the ischemic event or the reception of the command. The gene regulatory signal directly or indirectly regulates gene expression of the gene product.
US07774056B2	Device site stimulation for notification The disclosure is directed to techniques for delivering electrical stimulation for patient notification. An implantable medical device (IMD) may deliver patient notification stimulation via one or more device site electrodes, e.g., electrodes located proximate to an implant site for the IMD, configured as cathodes. Anodes for delivery the patient notification stimulation may be located in an electrode array that is provided by one or more leads and located distally from the implant site, e.g., an electrode array located at one or more target sites for delivery of stimulation therapy. In some embodiments, the IMD may inhibit the patient notification stimulation for a period in response to input from the patient, and then resume the stimulation at the end of the period. In this manner, the notification stimulation may be “snoozed” like an alarm clock. When the stimulation resumes, it may be different, e.g., more urgent, then prior to inhibition.
US07774048B2	Fluorescent endoscope device An endoscope device includes a light source unit that creates multiple excitation lights having different peak wavelengths, an illumination unit, and an imaging unit that includes an objective optical system and an image pickup device. The imaging unit is capable of acquiring images of fluorescent lights having different peak wavelengths that are emitted by multiple fluorescent substances contained in a living organism. The illumination unit transmits the excitation lights to a tip of the endoscope device, and the multiple excitation lights are then directed so as to illuminate a living organism that contains multiple fluorescent substances. A variable transmittance optical element or an array of different type of filters may be placed before the image pickup device to separately detect the multiple fluorescent substances. Specified conditions and transmittances for the variable transmittance optical element and filters are disclosed to insure that the multiple fluorescent substances may be separately detected.
US07774037B2	Non-invasive measurement of blood analytes An apparatus for the measurement of at least one analyte in the blood of a patient, which includes a light source generating broadband light and a light-transmission arrangement having a plurality of transmitting fibers is positioned for simultaneously transmitting multiple wavelengths of the broadband light from the light source to the blood of the patient. The measurement apparatus further includes an optical fiber arrangement having a plurality of light detector fibers for leading multi-wavelength light, in spectrally unseparated form, transmitted through, or reflected from, the blood and a light detection arrangement for receiving the multi-wavelength light in its spectrally unseparated form from the optical fiber arrangement, for spectrally decomposing the received light, and for determining amplitudes of selected wavelengths of the decomposed light. The measurement apparatus utilizes a non-pulsatile element of the patient's blood for determining the measurement of at least one analyte in the blood as a function of the amplitudes of the selected wavelengths.
US07774036B2	Automatic registration of images The example embodiments relate to a system for automatically evaluating oxygen saturation of the optic nerve and retina, including an image capturing system which includes a fundus camera, a four wavelengths beam splitter, a digital image capturing device, a computer system, and image processing software for registering and analyzing multi-spectral images of the retina, and for evaluating oxygen saturation level.
US07774035B2	Superconducting articles having dual sided structures A superconducting article includes a substrate; first and second buffer layers overlying the substrate, such that the substrate is positioned so as to be interposed between the first and second buffer layers, first and second superconductor layers overlying the first and second buffer layers. Further, the first and second stabilizer layers respectively overlying the first and second superconductor layers, the first and second stabilizer layers adapted to conduct current and prevent burnout of the first and second superconductor layers when the first and second superconductor layers are in a non-superconductive state.
US07774031B2	Portable electronic device with operation mode determined in accordance with power consumption and method thereof A portable electronic device with an operation mode determined in accordance with power consumption and an operation mode switching method thereof are proposed. The method examines the voltage required by different systems to control every power system independently. By examining the capacity of a battery cell unit and comparing the capacity result with a first reference capacity and a second reference capacity, whether to offer operation power in order to operate a mobile communication module or a digital camera module is determined. Therefore, when a digital camera module, which has high power consumption requirements, is off, the mobile communication module can still operate to effectively use energy provided by the power supply unit.
US07774029B2	Apparatus and method for controlling a function of a wireless terminal Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling a wireless terminal. The apparatus comprises a folder opening/closing detection module detecting opening/closing states of folder housings pivoting away from a body housing of the terminal in different directions and generating opening/closing detection signals, a key input module comprising input modules each having inner and external key(s), a display module comprising a first display module disposed in one of the folder housings and a second display module disposed in the body housing, a position detection module detecting a terminal position and generating position detection signals, a voice inputting/outputting module comprising input/output modules each having a speaker and a microphone and mounted on different sides of the terminal, rotary-type speakers each rotatably mounted inside one of the folder housings, and a control module controlling said input/output and display modules (including speakers) according to the folder opening/closing signals and/or the generated position signals.
US07774025B2	Printing content on a reverse side of a coded surface A method of printing content using a print medium, comprising the steps of: determining, using a sensor module, a print media identifier from the print medium, the print media identifier having been linked to the content, and the content associated with previously printed content on the print medium; and, printing, using a printer, the content on the print medium.
US07774016B2	Satellite communications interoperability module and down-conversion method A satellite communications interoperability module and method for frequency down-conversion. The module insertable in-line with an intra-facility link communicating a multiplexed signal between the outdoor unit (ODU) and the indoor unit (IDU). Electrical circuitry of the module transforming and forwarding the multiplexed signal over the intra-facility link, the multiplexed signal including at least direct current, a standard tone, and L-band data signals. Switching means of the module specifies operations performed by the electrical circuitry to transform the multiplexed signal frequencies, waveforms and voltages according to predetermined parameters compatible between the ODU and the IDU. An interoperability method for compatibility with a range of different indoor units applied by the interoperability module and or incorporated into an integral ODU is application of a second frequency shift upon the L-band signal output from the ODU primary down-conversion circuit.
US07774009B2	Mobile communication terminal for setting background music during telephone conversation and method thereof A mobile communication terminal for setting a background music during a phone conversation and a method thereof, the mobile communication terminal comprising a transceiver for receiving a message including information of a storing path of a pre-set call background music, and a controller for requesting and downloading the call background music on the basis of the received message.
US07774005B2	System and method for sending short text messages in mobile communication systems Disclosed are a system and a method for sending a short text message to both a mobile phone and a mail server. The system includes at least one base station for providing wireless network nodes of the first and second mobile phones; a short message service center for receiving a short message from the first mobile phone and sending the received short message to both the second mobile phone and an email address of a subscriber having the second mobile phone, if the email address is included in the received short message; and at least one mobile switching center for delivering a request for sending a short message which has been received from the first mobile phone to the short message service center and sending the short message to the second mobile phone upon receiving an instruction to send the short message from the short message service center.
US07774003B1	Providing location-based auto-complete functionality Common search queries can be provided to a mobile device that are associated with a current location of a mobile device. Once a location of a mobile device is determined, common search queries associated with the location can be automatically transmitted to the mobile device. The queries can be used to update an auto-complete function for partial queries or strings entered by a user of the mobile device.
US07773997B2	System and method for controlling quality of service in a wireless network A system and method for controlling Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless network on a per-user basis. According to the preferred embodiment, each user will have a QoS profile, listing the levels of service he is authorized to receive. The RAN assigns radio and network resources for the user, based on the applications that the user is running and the user's profile. A QoS server in the base station controller manages user QoS. When the base station controller receives a packet data call from a mobile station, the QoS profile and the application type that the mobile station is executing will be used to determine QoS parameters for the user's call.
US07773996B2	Apparatus and method for signaling communication resource allocation on a block basis Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing notification of communication resource allocation to perform an EDGE-based, or other, data radio communication service. A matrix representer forms a matrix representation of communication resource allocations made across a plurality of radio carriers. A bit map constructor constructs a bit map of the matrix representation. And, an RLC header is formed that includes a header extension that is populated with the assignment bit map.
US07773992B2	Timing transitions between wireless communication systems Interoperability between wireless communication systems, such as the IS2000-1x and IS856 systems, is facilitated by using supervision timers. A wireless communication device starts one or more supervision timers and performs an intersystem transition. When the wireless communication device returns from the transition, the supervision timers are used to estimate the duration of the transition. The wireless communication device then performs a sequence of tasks appropriate to the estimated duration.
US07773991B2	Reducing access latency while protecting against control signaling data processing overload A control signal data processing load associated with mobile terminals currently having a connection with a radio access network is regulated. The connection is terminated when the control processing cost for maintaining the connection exceeds the benefit of maintaining the connection to achieve shorter access latency. A connection activity level is determined for current connections between multiple mobile terminals and a base station. A current data processing load in the base station associated with the mobile terminal control signaling is calculated. A decision is made whether one or more of the mobile terminals is likely to request a handover of its respective connection to a neighboring base station. Based on the current load, the likelihood of requesting handover of the respective connection, and the connection activity level determined for the respective connection, a decision is made whether to terminate the respective connection.
US07773977B2	Data-sharing system and data-sharing method A method for sharing a data file among devices is provided, wherein the data file corresponding to a first data file stored in any of information-processing devices is transmitted to a file server, when a mobile terminal controlling a data-file-sharing operation requests registration of the first data file, as an object to be used by the other device. The data file is stored in a management region. The file server transmits file-sharing information including location information and attribute information of the data file. The file-sharing information is transmitted from the information-processing device to the mobile terminal which selects a second data file for reception on the basis of the attribute information, accesses the file server on the basis of the location information corresponding to the second data file, and requests transmission of the second data file so that the second data file is transmitted.
US07773975B2	Providing an indication of network capabilities to a user for special number calls Networks and methods are disclosed for providing an indication of the capability of a communication network for serving special number calls. Before a user places a special number call, the communication network determines the capability of the communication network for serving a special number call, and provides the indication of the network capability to the user. The user is thus kept aware of the quality of the special number service available to them through the communication network.
US07773974B1	Presence lite A service is provided to cell phone subscribers to improve reachability. A home location register node maintains state information on a subscriber's cell phone status. Cell phone status information includes: off; on, registered and available to receive calls; on, registered but busy participating in an ongoing call; on, registered but temporarily unavailable; and on, registered but unattended. Temporarily unavailable is further qualified: poor reception location, high interference, cell throughput saturation, intentional user disposition. Long term unavailability may also be inferred and indicated depending on the device and/or system status. When a call to a subscriber's cell phone cannot be completed or is not answered, the service annunciates the reason to the calling party. The calling party can then make a more informed decision as to when to reattempt the call and is more likely to reattempt the call. The service is provided in conjunction with call forwarding to landlines phones and/or voicemail.
US07773967B2	Multi-mode—multi-band direct conversion receiver with complex I and Q channel interference mitigation processing for cancellation of intermodulation products A Multi-mode-multi-band direct conversion receiver with complex I and Q channel interference mitigation processing for cancellation of intermodulation products (IMPs) are described. In one embodiment, a method comprising over sampling of the entire receiver passband to acquire the IMP source signals that can generate IMPs within the signal of interest (SOI), generate a coherent complex I-Q channel estimates of the interference, generating estimates of 2nd and 3rd order IMP products, sampling of the transmitter feed thru signal and blocking signals and computing the cross modulation products estimate, using the cross modulation cancellation to cancel of the effects of the on chip transmitter feed thru to support building a single transceiver chip with full duplex operation, and creation of an estimate of the DC offset in the receiver in a closed loop fashion to cancel the DC offset in the I and Q channels independently and simultaneously, and adjusting the rate of update to match system parameters.
US07773965B1	Calibrated quadrature very low intermediate frequency receiver The present invention is a quadrature VLIF receiver, including calibration circuitry, and methods to closely match signal processing of an in-phase signal path and a quadrature-phase signal path to optimize VLIF image rejection. The calibration circuitry includes a variable gain variable-phase calibration signal generator, a variable gain amplifier for each signal path, phase adjustment circuitry for each signal path, and switching circuitry to support calibration steps. The calibration signal generator supplies a calibration signal at the same frequency as mixer local oscillator signals; therefore, during calibration, all signals downstream of the VLIF mixer are at DC, which simplifies calibration measurements, thereby minimizing calibration times.
US07773957B2	Mobile communication terminal with rotational display unit Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal provided with a rotational display unit. The mobile communication terminal comprises: (a) a main housing comprising a first hinge axis formed on one end; (b) a connection member hingedly connected to the main housing so as to be opened from and closed into the main housing around the first hinge axis, and comprising a second hinge axis on the upper surface of the connection member and perpendicular to the first hinge axis; and (c) a rotational housing rotatably connected and opposite to the connection member, and rotated around the second hinge axis.
US07773955B2	Radio frequency unit analog level detector and feedback control system A Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a baseband processor, a receiver section, and a transmitter section. The receiver section communicatively couples to the baseband processor and includes a plurality of tuned RF circuits. The transmitter section communicatively couples to the baseband processor and includes a plurality of tuned RF circuits. In a calibration operation, the transmitter section applies a RF test signal to its plurality of tuned RF circuits. The baseband processor applies a plurality of tuning control settings to each the tuned RF circuit. The baseband processor, for each of the plurality of tuning control settings, measures an output of the tuned RF circuit. The baseband processor selects a tuning control setting for the tuned RF circuit based upon at least one measured output of the tuned RF circuit. Finally, the baseband processor is operable to apply a selected tuning control setting to the tuned RF circuit.
US07773954B2	Device and method for synthesizing transmission frequency in wireless terminal A device and method for synthesizing a transmission frequency (a Tx frequency) in a wireless terminal are provided, which are designed for stably operating a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) in order to synthesize a Tx frequency for a certain channel. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver for operating a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) in order to synthesize the Tx frequency when the wireless terminal requires the Tx frequency, and for transmitting the Tx frequency when the PLL is stabilized, a first signal generator for providing the RF transceiver with a first signal until the PLL is stabilized, a second signal generator for providing the RF transceiver with a second signal in a duration, for which the first signal is not provided, until the PLL is stabilized, and a controller for controlling the first signal generator to provide the RF transceiver with the first signal until the PLL is stabilized, and for controlling the second signal generator to provide the RF transceiver with the second signal in the duration for which the first signal is not provided.
US07773950B2	Benign interference suppression for received signal quality estimation A receiver circuit suppresses effects of “benign” impairment from the calculation of received signal quality estimates, such that the estimate depends primarily on the effects of non-benign impairment. For example, a received signal may be subject to same-cell and other-cell interference plus noise, which is generally modeled using a Gaussian distribution, and also may be due to certain forms of self-interference, such as quadrature phase interference arising from imperfect derotation of the pilot samples used to generate channel estimates for the received signal. Such interference generally takes on a distribution defined by the pilot signal modulation, e.g., a binomial distribution for binary phase shift keying modulation. Interference arising from such sources is relatively “benign” as compared to Gaussian interference and thus should be suppressed or otherwise discounted in signal quality calculations. Suppression may be based on subtracting benign impairment correlation estimates from total impairment correlation estimates, or on filtering the benign impairment in channel estimation.
US07773941B2	Method and system for positioning a relay in a wide area communication network A method and system for positioning a relay in a wide area communication network can enable improved operating efficiency of the network. The method includes processing a plurality of requests, received from a plurality of wireless communication devices, for connections to the network, where each device in the plurality of wireless communication devices can operate using a wide area networking standard and can operate using an ad hoc networking standard (step 305). A location in the network of each device in the plurality of wireless communication devices is then determined (step 310). An operating position for the relay is then determined based on an evaluation of the location in the network of each device in the plurality of wireless communication devices (step 315).
US07773938B2	Apparatus and method for FM wireless vehicle system interface A vehicle system interface comprises an antenna configured to receive a digital radio signal, a digital radio receiver circuit configured to receive the digital radio signal from the antenna and to obtain digital audio data from the digital radio signal, an FM modulator and transmitter circuit, and a microprocessor in operable communication with the digital radio receiver circuit and the FM modulator and transmitter circuit. The microprocessor is configured to generate a first message requesting a series of FM radio signal levels and the microprocessor is also configured to select a suitable FM radio frequency from the series of FM radio frequencies. The microprocessor is also configured to induce the FM modulator and transmitter circuit to broadcast the digital audio data in an FM radio signal over the suitable FM radio frequency.
US07773936B2	Method, device and system for implementing directional broadcast in mobile data broadcasting Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a device and a system for implementing directional broadcast in mobile data broadcasting. In the method, upon receiving a broadcast message from a content server, a network element processes the broadcast message according to first location information carried in the broadcast message and second location information in the network element. In the embodiments of the present invention, with the first location information carried in the broadcast message and the second location information set in the network element, upon receiving the broadcast message, the network element processes the broadcast message according to the first location information and the second location information, so that the content server may implement directional broadcast for a special location area without directly accessing a directional location area, which reduces the network complexity.
US07773933B2	Cleaning device and method for an electrophotographic photoconductor The present invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of preventing excessive charging in the toner within the cleaning device for effectively preventing generation of the black spots derived from the leak current. In the image forming apparatus comprising a cleaning device having a cleaning blade for scraping out the toner on a latent image carrier body surface and the image forming method using the same, the toner contains a titanium oxide as an additive agent, and with the premise that the fluorescence X ray intensity of the titanium oxide added to the toner before use is X1, and the fluorescence X ray intensity of the titanium oxide added to the toner within the cleaning device is X2, X1 and X2 satisfy the following relationship formula (1): X2/X1≧1.2 (1).
US07773926B2	Image forming apparatus One of aspects of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member rotating at a first circumferential speed, and an image carrier capable of having a plurality of toner images formed thereon in turn, each of the toner images having a color different from one another, for transferring the toner images onto the intermediate transfer member, the image carrier rotating at a second circumferential speed. At least one of the first and second circumferential speeds are adjustable in accordance with a driving mode selected from a group consisting of a monochrome mode and a color mode. Also, a first difference between the first and second circumferential speeds in the monochrome mode is greater than a second difference between the first and second circumferential speeds in the color mode.
US07773924B2	Image formation apparatus, an image formation method, and a computer-readable recording medium An image formation apparatus is disclosed to form a color image for imprinting, and the color image for imprinting is imprinted to an imprinting medium. The image formation apparatus includes an image formation unit for forming plural sets of marks for position error compensation for compensating for a position error of the different colors, which position error is generated when forming the color image on the conveyance belt, a detection unit for detecting position information about positions of the sets of marks for position error compensation formed on the conveyance belt by the image formation unit, a control unit for performing a position error compensation process based on the position information detected by the detection unit, and a storage process of storing the position information of the sets of the marks for the position error compensation detected by the detection process.
US07773920B2	Toner drop suppressing developing apparatus A developing apparatus includes a non-magnetic sleeve installing a magnetic field creating device, a developer carrier that carries and conveys developer including magnetic carrier and toner, and a development casing that contains developer. The development casing includes an opening that allows the developer carrier to be partially exposed and oppose a latent image carrier. The surface of the developer carrier vertically moves in the opening. An angle (θ) between an inner wall surface of the development casing, located in the vicinity of opening on the down stream side and the horizontal plane, meets the following relation, wherein μ represents a static friction coefficient of the inner wall surface in relation to the toner; Sin θ>μ×cos θ.
US07773918B2	Imaging apparatus having particle supply and collection apparatus arranged outside imaging apparatus A particle supply apparatus is disclosed that includes a particle accommodating unit that accommodates particles, a gas spouting unit that is arranged at a bottom portion of the particle accommodating unit and is configured to spout gas toward the particles, a conveying mechanism that applies suction to the particles accommodated in the particle accommodating unit and conveys the particles toward a supply destination, and a gas discharge unit that discharges gas contained within the particle accommodating unit toward an exterior side of the particle accommodating unit.
US07773906B2	Cleaning roller for a charging roller in an image forming device An image forming device is disclosed which has: an image holding member which rotates; a charging roller press-contacting and being rotated by the image holding member, and charging the image holding member; and a cleaning roller press-contacting and being rotated by the charging roller, and cleaning the charging roller. The cleaning roller has a core whose both end portions are rotatably supported, and a cleaning member which is formed from a roller-shaped porous elastic body and is provided at a peripheral surface of the core. Axial direction end portion sides of the cleaning member are formed to be thicker than an axial direction central portion of the cleaning member.
US07773896B2	Image forming apparatus and toner adhesion amount correction method According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a image forming unit, a measurement unit and a controller. The image carrier includes a central region on which a target image as an object of an image forming is formed and a peripheral region placed outward of the central region. The image forming unit forms a reference image on the peripheral region and the central region, before the image forming is started. Also, the image forming unit forms the target image on the central region based on a preset condition and a third reference image on the peripheral region, during the image forming. The measurement unit measures a physical quantity for the reference images.
US07773882B2	Optical code-routed networks Communication is provided between at least two of a plurality of stations. A signal is received from a first one of the plurality of stations, and the signal is coded using a first code that is assigned to that station. The coded signal is converted to obtain a further coded signal that is decodable using a further code that is assigned to at least a second one of the plurality of stations. The further coded signal is transmitted for delivery to at least the second one of the plurality of stations.
US07773881B2	Optical division multiplexing transmission and reception method and optical division multiplexing transmission and reception device An OCDM signal generation section generates an encoded optical pulse signal by encoded an optical pulse signal. The encoded optical pulse signal is then inputted to a wavelength disperser and the time waveform of the encoded optical pulse signal is shaped to be outputted as a shaped and encoded optical pulse signal. A WDM signal generation section generates an optical wavelength division multiplexing signal. A OCDM signal extraction section then decodes the OCDM reception signal by using the same code as the time-spreading/wavelength-hopping code for each channel and generates a decoded OCDM reception signal.
US07773879B2	Digital optical transmitter A cable television system (100) having forward and reverse paths includes, in the reverse path, a digital optical transmitter (200) for receiving an RF signal, converting it to a digital signal, and adding a digital pilot tone thereto. A laser is driven in accordance with the summed digital signal to generate a digital optical signal representative of the pilot tone and the RF signal. The cable television system (100) also includes an optical receiver (305) for receiving the digital optical signal and recovering therefrom the RF signal and the pilot tone. The optical transmitter (200) and receiver (305) are coupled by fiber optic communication media (110).
US07773875B2	Auto-focusing camera module having liquid lens Provided is an auto-focusing camera module having a liquid lens. The auto-focusing camera module includes a lens barrel having a liquid lens and a solid lens stacked and disposed therewith; an image sensor for focusing light that is passed through the liquid lens and the solid lens; a substrate provided in a lower end of the lens barrel to electrically mount the image sensor; and a power supply unit fixed integrally in the lens barrel and electrically coupled between the liquid lens and the substrate to apply a power source to the liquid lens. Therefore, the auto-focusing camera module may be useful to control its focus to coincide with high pixels and high performances of the camera module, manufacture a small final product by lowering the entire height of the camera module, enhancing the productivity of the camera module by employing a simple liquid lens to simplify an assembly structure of the liquid lens that is in contact with the substrate, and reduce the manufacturing cost.
US07773872B2	Camera having a function of predicting a future image plane position from a change in a plurality of past image plane positions and of time detection, a photographic lens to be mounted on the same, and a camera system A camera is provided which is configured to receive a photographic lens having a diaphragm. The camera includes a defocus amount detection unit configured to detect first information corresponding to a defocus amount, from light passing through the photographic lens mounted on the camera; an acquisition unit configured to acquire second information corresponding to an image-forming position from a lens position output unit provided on the photographic lens; and an image-forming position prediction unit configured to predict a change in image-forming position based on a change in the second information and a plurality of the past first information stored in a memory, wherein the image-forming position prediction unit predicts the image forming position in consideration of third information corresponding to time required for diaphragm driving that is acquired from a diaphragm driving time prediction unit provided on the photographic lens.
US07773868B2	Method and system for recirculating hot water A method of delivering hot water to a water fixture in which a supplemental hot water heater is installed before the cold water inlet of a tankless hot water heater. The supplemental hot water heater is used to recirculate heated water through the tankless hot water heater at a flow rate below the minimum flow rate of the tankless hot water heater (the flow rate at which the tankless heater's heating element is activated) so that water entering the tankless hot water heater is pre-heated by the supplemental hot water heater without activating the heating element of the tankless hot water heater.
US07773866B2	System and method for preventing tank overheating A system, apparatus and method for preventing a water tank from overheating. The apparatus includes a water delivery system for delivering water to a reservoir for receiving water. The reservoir includes a level sensor and an associated heater for heating water in the reservoir. The system includes a water dispensing system for dispensing heater water from the reservoir. A controller is provided to control the operation of the system.
US07773855B1	Method and apparatus for insertion of advertisements between viewings of recorded content, games and other media types A mini-TV or picture-in-graphic (PIG) window within a digital video recorder (DVR) menu may be repurposed after one or more activities, such as watching a digitally-recorded program, to display content other than live television content on a channel that was being tuned to before the one or more activities.

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