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US07840560B2	Macro delivery system and macro delivery program In a delivery information setting processing, for each macro, deliverability of the macro and a kind of macro data for constituting the macro are set for each process technology. In a registration processing, the macro data is registered in correlation with a macro name and a process technology name. In a delivery control processing, permission to deliver the macro is given based on the combinational condition of a macro name, a process technology name, a kind of the macro data, a macro revision, and a macro demander. In a first delivery processing, the macro data of the macro permitted for delivery through the delivery control processing is delivered to the macro demander.
US07840559B2	User terminal and content searching and presentation method A content searching and presentation method in a terminal of an original user having a playlist includes the steps of accessing a playlist of a different user from the terminal and obtaining the playlist of the different user; computing a similarity between the obtained playlist of the different user and the playlist of the original user, which is a playlist owned by the terminal, in accordance with a predetermined computation equation; and presenting, as a searched result, content that is contained in the playlist of the different user and that is not contained in the playlist owned by the terminal when the computed similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US07840558B2	Geo-tagged based listing service and mapping engine A unique system and method that facilitates searching for items offered for sale or otherwise in an online classifieds environment. The system and method involve allowing a user to search for such items according to the item's location or geo-tag information. The geo-tag information for each item can be approximate such as the city, state, or zip code or more specific such as the street address where the item is located. The amount of geo-tag information disclosed to any other user can depend on the type of item being offered. One or more geo-tagged items can be returned in response to a query. The items can be returned in a list or a map format wherein the items can be pinpointed according to their locations. The map of the area around and near the item's location can provide useful information to the user to facilitate determining which item(s) to pursue.
US07840557B1	Search engine cache control A search query containing at least one term is received at a search controller from a query server and preferably normalized and hashed into a representation of the search query. The representation of the search query is transmitted towards a cache containing multiple query result entries. Each query result entry contains a list of documents associated with the previously searched search query. The cache is then searched and query result entries for the search query are sent to the search controller from the cache. Subsequently, it is determined whether the query result entries are current versions for the search query. If the query result entries are not the current versions, then current versions of the query result entries are obtained.
US07840556B1	Managing performance of a database query Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for processing database queries, such as the following. A current database query to be executed is obtained, and a plan for executing the current database query is generated. A cluster that includes at least one previously executed database query is identified, based on similarity of the plan for executing the current database query to execution-plan information representing the cluster. Then, a query-execution characteristic is assigned to the current database query based on corresponding characteristic information representing the cluster, and performance of the current database query is managed based on the query-execution characteristic.
US07840551B2	Method and apparatus for automatically classifying data One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for automatically classifying data in a database. During operation, the system receives and executes a database operation. Next, the system automatically determines if any data was modified as a result of executing the database operation. If so, for each data item that was modified, the system automatically determines if the data item is associated with a classification-rule. If so, the system automatically reclassifies the data item according to the classification-rule. If not, the system leaves a classification of the data item unchanged.
US07840548B2	System and method for adding identity to web rank Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining one or more categories of web documents responsive to the selected search query and crawling a web graph of linked web documents to identify one or more web documents tagged as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query. The method further includes generating a result set of the one or more web documents identified as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query, ranking the result set and generating a list of ranked search results responsive to the selected search.
US07840544B2	Method for storing universal network performance and historical data One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for storing data collected from a network. The method may involve storing collected data only when a change relative to a previous value of the data is detected. For some embodiments, string data may be converted to numeric values, allowing the same change detection mechanisms to be used for both string and numeric values.
US07840540B2	Surrogate hashing Methods, apparati, and products are provided, including running a hashing algorithm against a portion of a file to generate a hash value, determining whether the hash value is substantially similar to a stored hash value associated with another portion of another file, the portion and the another portion being standardized, and identifying a location of the another file if the hash value is substantially similar to the stored hash value associated with the another portion of the another file.
US07840536B1	Methods and apparatus for dynamic journal expansion Method and apparatus to dynamically add storage for a journal in a continuous data protection system. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes storing a plurality of journal data streams for a journal in a continuous data protection system in first storage, where streams in the journal data streams contain linked lists of data blocks, determining when the first storage exceeds a selected fullness threshold, allocating second storage for the journal in addition to the first storage, and storing data for the journal in the second storage.
US07840532B2	System and method for storing large messages A large message can be stored by separating the message into an envelope portion containing information such as headers, protocols, and addresses, and a payload portion containing items such as file attachments. The envelope portion can be stored in local storage, while the payload can be stored to a persistent store. The message can be processed incrementally, such that the entire message is never in system memory. Once the envelope portion is processed, the payload portion can be read in increments without being processed, and those increments written directly to the persistent store. Alternatively, the payload can be streamed to the persistent store. A pointer in the envelope can then be used to locate and retrieve attachments from persistent storage.This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.
US07840529B2	Contents list providing apparatus and contents list providing method According to one embodiment, a contents list providing apparatus includes a list obtaining unit which obtains a contents list of contents stored in a contents server coupled to the contents list providing apparatus via a network. An updated list generating unit generates, based on the contents list obtained by the list obtaining unit, an updated contents list including an updated content. An updated list providing unit provides, to a communication terminal coupled to the network, the updated contents list generated by the updated list generating unit.
US07840521B2	Computer-based method and system for efficient categorizing of digital documents A method, system and computer-readable medium are presented for computer-based supervised classification of digital documents that can exclusively identify an optimal category for the single class model by dividing a calculated score of each category into groups (thresholds can be automatically decided from the knowledge base) and can further predict whether it will be subjected to human examination and whether feedback learning should be performed.
US07840514B2	Secure virtual private network utilizing a diagnostics policy and diagnostics engine to establish a secure network connection A secure virtual private network (VPN) is described herein. The secure VPN implements standard VPN software with diagnostics to ensure a client device coupling to the VPN is secure. The diagnostics include a policy, a library and an engine where the policy determines what the requirements are for permitting the client device to couple to the VPN. The library stores programs for checking if the client device has any problems. The engine gathers information related to the client device and executes the programs stored within the library. When a user attempts to couple to the VPN with a client device, the server initiates the policy, library and engine to check for issues, and then the user is informed of the issues and/or a mechanism automatically fixes the issues. After the client device is verified as secure, it is able to couple to the VPN for data transfers.
US07840513B2	Initiating construction of an agent in a first execution environment A method, computer readable medium and system for constructing an agent in a first execution environment that utilizes a set of canonical rules, comprising requesting a canonical rule set for an agent, supplying the agent with the rule set and requesting compilation of the rule set.
US07840504B2	Learning enhanced simulated annealing A Learning Enhanced Simulated Annealing (LESA) method is provided. Based on a Simulated Annealing (SA) framework, this method adds a Knowledge Base (KB) initialized at the beginning of the search and updated at each iteration, which memorizes a portion of the search history and guides the further search through a KB trial generator. The basic idea of LESA is that its search history is stored in a KB, and a KB trial generator extracts information from it and uses it to generate a new trial. The next move of the search is the weighted sum of the trial generated by the KB trial generator and the trial generated by the usual SA trial generator. The knowledge base is then updated after each search iteration.
US07840501B1	Behavioral analysis apparatus and associated method that utilizes a system selected based on a level of data A behavioral analysis technique is provided that utilizes a system selected based on a level of data. In use, a level associated with data is identified. In addition, a behavioral analysis is performed on the data utilizing one of a plurality of systems that is selected based on the identified level.
US07840499B2	Outbound document system and method A computer-based system and method enables an item to be mailed by providing a web site offering access to a mail delivery program, receiving a request for delivering the item with Extra service status, printing an identification number and a postage mark using the program based on address, postage, and other information entered by a customer, and sending an electronic data transmission to a postal service server informing the postal service that the identification number corresponds to the Extra service request. When the postal service receives the item, it accesses its computer records to locate the identification number. Delivery is then performed based on one or more Extra services requested and a corresponding electronic return receipt is made accessible to the mailing party, either by e-mail or on a web site. The postage mark and identification number may be printed on a label affixed to the item or may be printed directly on the item along with other information.
US07840497B2	Process and architecture for structuring facilities revenue bond financing A process and architecture may be implemented to structure bond financing or refinancing for facilities construction and/or renovation to improve economic and business terms for involved or interested parties.
US07840491B2	Method and apparatus for extending license of content in portable device A method and apparatus for extending a license of a content in a portable multimedia device includes receiving an instruction to extend the license, analyzing the received instruction for type of an extension of the license, and updating the data for controlling use of the content, which is included in the license, and payment data regarding payment for the extension of the license, based on the analysis, so that the license of the content can be extended in the portable multimedia device without the portable multimedia device having to be connected to an external device.
US07840485B1	Cash dispensing and check accepting ATM and method An automated banking machine system and method includes ATMs which accept checks and dispense cash to users. The ATMs are operated to acquire image and magnetic data from deposited checks to determine the genuineness of checks and the authority of a user to receive cash for such checks. Cash is then dispensed to the user from the ATM in exchange for the deposited check. The ATMs dispense cash responsive to communications with a transaction host. The transaction host provides transaction identifying data to the ATM. The ATM sends the transaction identifying data and check images to an image and transaction data server for processing.
US07840479B2	Method and apparatus for display of data with respect to certain tradable interests Computer display of exchange traded option trading system includes sorting information received from the exchange to provide the liquidity provider with trading opportunities based on the liquidity provider's portfolio. A first display provides a comparison of theoretical values to market pricing values for tradable interests in the portfolio and displays in sorted order tradable interests for which values are most out of line. In another display, pricing data of tradable interests in the portfolio as received from a primary exchange are compared to pricing data on other exchanges, and a listing is provided of tradable interests in which values are crossed, are the same (locked) or are one trade increment away from one another. In a third display, pricing values on any exchange for tradable interests in the portfolio that are crossed with the pricing value on any other exchange are shown. Trade entry is possible from the displays.
US07840466B2	Wireless communication device account payment notification systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for notifying a wireless communication device user regarding an account payment. One method comprises dialing a phone number of a wireless communication device, preferably a cell phone. A communication relating to an account payment that includes a balance due is then transmitted or delivered to a wireless communication device user. Optionally, at the same time or a later time, input from the wireless communication device user may be received regarding payment of the balance due. Such notification methods may be carried out by a host computer system which has a record of when the account payment is due and dials and transmits within a predetermined time frame. Generally, such methods will further comprise pre-registering or enrolling the wireless communication device user.
US07840461B2	Method, program, and system for computing accounting savings Method, system, and computer program product for computing accounting savings for a business related investment of a target product. The target product and at least one currently used product have at least one feature, and the business comprises at least one business related activity. The method comprises reading, from a database, business activities, target and current product features, their relation, and predetermined values of savings obtained by the features of the products on an activity. The difference of savings between the target and current product per activity is computed. During the process the read data are displayed to the user, who can then modulate the values or add new ones.
US07840441B2	Method, medium, and system for managing customer order alterations A method for managing customer order alterations in a manufacturing environment is provided. A new order that comprises a new product configuration is received. The new product configuration is a modified version of an original product configuration in an existing order. A first score for a first option for building the new product configuration from scratch is determined. A second score for a second option for modifying the existing product configuration to satisfy the new product configuration is determined. A best option is determined by comparing the first and second scores and selecting an option with a lower score. The best option is presented to a user. In another exemplary embodiment additional scores for additional options for building the new product configuration from other products in existing inventory are determined. The best option is then determined by comparing all scores and selecting an option with a lower score.
US07840438B2	System and method for discounting of historical click through data for multiple versions of an advertisement The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for determining the performance of a plurality of versions of a given advertisement. The method of the present invention comprises retrieving a first version of an advertisement and associated click through data, and retrieving a second version of the advertisement and associated click through data. A clickability score is calculated for the first version of the advertisement using the click through data associated with the first version, and a clickability score is calculated for the second version of the advertisement using the click through data associated with the second version. A difference in clickability scores is determined between the first and second advertisement. The clickability score associated with the first version of the advertisement is modified based upon the difference in clickability scores.
US07840435B2	Effective security scheduler The present invention provides a system and process for creating an effective work schedule for a security checkpoint. The process includes the step of analyzing passenger flow to determine the coverage needed to sustain required service levels, generally through simulating the checkpoint to determine required staffing levels. Another step to optimize workforce levels and schedules is to create workforce schedules that are based on optimized person-hours and key variables. The schedule staffs as needed to achieve the required staffing levels and may consider numerous other factors, including acceptable ranges for shift lengths; a maximum number of start times; and a percentage of part-time or seasonal employees. In a particular embodiment, the schedule is formed by using linear programming to solve for a tour assignment matrix (defining a schedule) from a demand matrix representing the needed number of workers and a coefficient matrix representing the availability of workers.
US07840430B2	Risk evaluation support device, program product and method for controlling safety network risk evaluation support device A risk evaluation support device is used for a safety network which serves to cause an output device to make a controlled device operable based on a detection signal outputted from an input device when the input device detects a safety condition. The support device creates a parameter setting table for correlating a danger source with the input and output devices and a PLC for risk evaluation based on configuration data of the safety network obtained through a communication part and device data on devices obtained from a component database. Operating data for the safety network are obtained according to conditions provided by the parameter setting table and a current risk evaluation value for the danger source is calculated based on the obtained operating data. The calculated risk evaluation value is outputted to a display part.
US07840420B2	Multiple patient monitoring system for proactive health management A system and method for monitoring a group of patients having a chronic disease or ongoing health condition. The method includes the step of collecting from each patient a corresponding set of measurements of a control parameter of the health condition. Each set of measurements has a collection date. A control value is calculated for each patient from the corresponding set of measurements. The method further includes the steps of generating and displaying a group overview chart having one data point for each patient. Each data point indicates the control value calculated for the corresponding patient and a time period which has elapsed since the collection date of the patient's corresponding set of measurements. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the additional steps of selecting from the group overview chart at least one of the patients represented thereon and transmitting supervisory instructions to the at least one selected patient.
US07840412B2	Audio coding An audio encoding scheme or a stream that encodes audio and video data is disclosed. The scheme has particular application in mezzanine-level coding in digital television broadcasting. The scheme has a mean effective audio frame length F that equals the video frame length 1/fV over an integral number M video frames, by provision of audio frames variable in length F in a defined sequence where length=F(j) at encoding. The length of the audio frames may be varied by altering the length of overlap between adjacent frames in accordance with an algorithm that repeats after a sequence of M frames. An encoder and a decoder for such a scheme are also disclosed.
US07840408B2	Duration prediction modeling in speech synthesis The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a duration prediction model, method and apparatus for duration prediction, method and apparatus for speech synthesis. Said method for training a duration prediction model, comprising: generating an initial duration prediction model with a plurality of attributes related to duration prediction and at least part of possible attribute combinations of said plurality of attributes, in which each of said plurality of attributes and said attribute combinations is included as an item; calculating importance of each said item in said duration prediction model; deleting the item having the lowest importance calculated; re-generating a duration prediction model with the remaining items; determining whether said re-generated duration prediction model is an optimal model; and repeating said step of calculating importance and the following steps, if said duration prediction model is determined as not optimal model.
US07840402B2	Audio encoding device, audio decoding device, and method thereof There is disclosed an audio encoding device capable of realizing effective encoding while using audio encoding of the CELP method in an extended layer when hierarchically encoding an audio signal. In this device, a first encoding section (115) subjects an input signal (S11) to audio encoding processing of the CELP method and outputs the obtained first encoded information (S12) to a parameter decoding section (120). The parameter decoding section (120) acquires a first quantization LSP code (L1), a first adaptive excitation lag code (A1), and the like from the first encoded information (S12), obtains a first parameter group (S13) from these codes, and outputs it to a second encoding section (130). The second encoding section (130) subjects the input signal (S11) to a second encoding processing by using the first parameter group (S13) and obtains second encoded information (S14). A multiplexing section (154) multiplexes the first encoded information (S12) with the second encoded information (S14) and outputs them via a transmission path N to a decoding apparatus (150).
US07840394B2	Method for generating a 3D earth model A method is provided for generating an invertible 3D hydrodynamic earth model suitable for defining target characteristics of a subsurface area formed by a plurality of formations and comprising drilling positions of potential and real wells. The method comprises constructing an initial 3D earth model by combining solutions for a set of single 1D models, each of the models corresponding to a real or potential well drilling position and covering the entire respective aggregate of formations along the wellbore, with solutions for a relevant set of 2D earth models which are constructed only for single formations, and optimizing the constructed initial 3D earth model by defining an optimal set of formations and an optimal set of calibratable model parameters. A method and system are also provided for application of the earth model construction method for predicting overpressure evolution before and during drilling. As the earth model constructed in accordance with the above method provides efficient inversion of data, in particular gathered while drilling, the prediction can be updated in real-time while drilling. The invention can ensure optimization of the drilling process and improves its safety.
US07840391B2	Model-diversity technique for improved proactive fault monitoring A computer system to predict a value of a signal from a sensor schedule loads across a set of processor cores is described. During operation, the computer system generates N models to predict the value of the signal based on a set of quantized telemetry signals, where a given model produces a value of the signal using a subset of the set of quantized telemetry signals, and where the subset is selected from the set of quantized telemetry signals based on an objective criterion. Next, the computer system predicts the value of the signal by aggregating the values produced by the N models.
US07840386B2	Finite element modeling method utilizing mass distribution The invention discloses differing embodiments of finite element modeling methods utilizing mass distribution to model an object. In one embodiment, the finite element model of the object may be partitioned into sub-models. A determination may be made as to which elements in the finite element model are structural and as to which elements in the finite element model are non-structural. Mass properties for both the structural and non-structural elements in each sub-model may be determined. The significant non-structural masses within each sub-model may be selected and added to the finite element model. The remaining insignificant, non-structural masses may be incorporated onto the structural masses by scaling densities of the structural masses. The scaled structural masses may then be added to the finite element model. In other embodiments, objects are provided which were modeled utilizing finite element models under the invention.
US07840384B2	Method and system for the detection and/or removal of sinusoidal interference signals in a noise signal A method and a system for the detection and/or removal of sinusoidal interference signals in/from a noise signal transforms a measured signal (x(t), x(μ·Δt)) composed of a limited number of sinusoidal interference signals (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) and a white noise signal (w(t), w(μ·Δt)) into a subspace containing its white noise components and a subspace containing its interference signal components. Following this, the individual sinusoidal interference signals (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) are determined using an estimation method within the subspace containing the noise components. The entire frequency range is split into several frequency bands (ν), in which the measured signal (x(t), x(μ·Δt)) consists of a limited number (p(ν)) of sinusoidal interference signals (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) and a white noise signal (w(t), w(μ·Δt)).
US07840380B2	Methods and systems for plume characterization A method for mapping, in three dimensions, the contents of a plume within an area is described. The method includes distributing spectrally sensitive sensors on a first surface of a vehicle, distributing spectrally sensitive emitters on a second surface of a vehicle, causing the emitters to output a signal directed through the plume and towards the sensors, receiving at least a portion of the emitter output at the sensors, communicating an output of the sensors, the sensor output caused by the received optical emitter output, to a central processing unit, and analyzing the sensor outputs and time-based vehicle positions to characterize the plume and an area surrounding the plume in three dimensions over a period of time.
US07840378B2	Mobile image capture system A mobile image capture system, a system comprising: a sensing unit for attaching to a vehicle, the sensing unit having a camera constructed and arranged to view a participant on the vehicle, the camera capturing at least one image; and processing electronics for storing data representing the captured at least one image or for relaying data representing the captured at least one image to a computer or a network.
US07840377B2	Detecting trends in real time analytics A system, method and program product for processing a stream of data to detect trends in real time. A system is provided comprising: a real time statistical processing system for updating a running value each time a new data event is obtained, wherein the running value is calculated based on a previously calculated running value and a difference DV between a current data event value (Vi) and a previous data event value (Vi−1); and an analysis system that analyzes the running value after it is updated to detect trends.
US07840369B2	Apparatus and method for correcting bias of gyroscope mounted on mobile robot An apparatus correcting a bias of a gyroscope that is mounted on a mobile robot and that measures an angular velocity of the mobile robot. The apparatus includes: at least one encoder respectively measuring a traveling velocity of a respective at least one wheel of the mobile robot; a modeling unit calculating an angular velocity of the mobile robot by using the measured traveling velocity; a bias presuming unit determining a confidence range by using difference values between the calculated angular velocity and the measured angular velocity, and calculating a presumed bias by using a value in a confidence range among the difference values; and a bias removing unit removing the presumed bias from the measured angular velocity.
US07840368B2	Test circuit for performing multiple test modes A test circuit includes a first reset pulse generator configured to generate a first reset pulse when a test mode is performed or when power is up, a test mode maintenance signal generator configured to provide a test mode maintenance signal activated in response to a predetermined consecutive test information data, the activation of the test mode maintenance signal being controlled by the first reset pulse, a second reset pulse generator configured to generate a second reset pulse when the test information data is received as a predetermined test mode reset data or when power is up, and a test mode selection signal generator configured to receive the test information data provided from the test mode maintenance signal generator and the test mode maintenance signal and to generate a specific test mode selection signal, the activation of the specific test mode selection signal being controlled by the second reset pulse.
US07840367B2	Multi-modality inspection system An inspection artifact includes a central portion and multiple optical and coordinate measurement machine (CMM) alignment features arranged on the central portion. The optical and CMM alignment features are configured to align the coordinates for an optical or a CMM measurement system to a common coordinate system. Another inspection artifact includes a central portion and multiple computed tomography (CT) alignment features arranged on the central portion. The CT alignment features are configured to align the coordinates for a CT system to a common coordinate system.
US07840355B2	Accident avoidance systems and methods Accident avoidance system for a host vehicle includes a global positioning system residing on the host vehicle for determining the host vehicle's location as the host vehicle travels, a communication system residing on the host vehicle operative to receive signals including information received directly from other vehicles indicating the locations thereof and traffic information received from an infrastructure-based station indicating the locations of other vehicles, and a navigation system residing on the host vehicle coupled to the global positioning system and the communication system. The navigation system displays images representing a vicinity associated with the host vehicle and showing indications of the locations of the other vehicles within the vicinity derived from the information received directly from the other vehicles and the traffic information received from the infrastructure-based station to thereby reduce the likelihood of a collision occurring between the host vehicle and the other vehicles.
US07840345B2	Positional information use apparatus A vehicular swept path processor and a map matching processor calculate a current position of a subject vehicle. A gyro sensor and a steering sensor output detection signals. A POI recognition processor makes a determination as to whether the vehicle stopped off at a POI or not based on the calculated current position and the outputted detection signals. When the determination is affirmatively made, i.e., the vehicle is determined to have stopped off at the POI, the POI recognition processor calculates a recognition confidence degree relative to an accuracy in the determination. A vehicle control ECU controls an in-vehicle device such that the in-vehicle device performs a predetermined operation corresponding to the POI in a mode according to the calculated recognition confidence degree.
US07840342B1	Road physical condition monitoring techniques Arrangement and method for managing information about the condition of travel lanes on which vehicles travel includes a sensor system arranged in each vehicle for obtaining information about the maintenance state of the travel lane, a communication system arranged in each vehicle and coupled to a respective sensor system for communicating the obtained information to a control station, and a transmission system arranged at or coupled to the control station for transmitting the obtained information to vehicles other than the one which provided the obtained information. A positioning system may be arranged on each vehicle to determine its position and the communication systems transmit the position of each vehicle along with the obtained information.
US07840335B2	Internal combustion engine with variable compression ratio In a variable compression ratio internal combustion engine in which the compression ratio is changed by changing the combustion chamber volume, the present invention enables to inhibit irregularities in the air-fuel ratio involved by changing of the combustion chamber volume. In a transition period during which the compression ratio is changed, the actual volume of the combustion chamber realized by a compression ratio changing mechanism is detected. A factor that influences the air-fuel ratio (for example, fuel injection quantity, cylinder intake air quantity or amount of EGR) is controlled based on the actual volume of the combustion chamber thus detected to make the air-fuel ratio substantially equal to that before and after the change of the compression ratio.
US07840329B2	Automatic transmission, and apparatus and method of controlling the same An automatic transmission includes at least an input section, an output section, first and second frictional engagement elements, and a controller. The input section receives an input torque from a drive unit. The first frictional engagement element has an engaged state allowing the output section to rotate at a first transmission gear ratio with respect to the input section. The second frictional engagement element has an engaged state allowing the output section to rotate at a second transmission gear ratio with respect to the input section. The controller controls at least a gear shift from the first transmission gear ratio to the second transmission gear ratio. The controller controls the first and second frictional engagement elements and the drive unit so as to cancel an inertia torque resulting from the gear shift.
US07840326B1	Vehicle control system and method using navigation data While a vehicle travels in a regular point, an absolute position of the vehicle is detected based on detection signals of a GPS sensor, a gyro sensor and a vehicle speed sensor. Then, a map matching process is performed such that the detected absolute position is corrected to be matched with a road map of map data. While the vehicle travels at a specific point, track position information of the vehicle based on the detected absolute position is stored independently of the map data. In particular, when the track position information regarding the specific point at which the vehicle is traveling at this point has been already stored, the information is sent to a light control unit, whereby the light control unit performs the optical axis control according to the traveling track indicated by the track position information.
US07840323B2	Collision recognition device for a vehicle A collision recognition device for a vehicle is proposed, comprising a pressure sensor with a first electrode and a second electrode, both having first and second ends, the second end of the first electrode being connected to a first terminal of a first resistor, the second end of the second electrode being connected to a first terminal of a second resistor During use, a first voltage V1 is applied to the first end of the first electrode, a second voltage V2 is applied to a second terminal of the first resistor so that a voltage difference between said first terminal of the first resistor and said second terminal of said first resistor forms a first status voltage indicative of circuit integrity. A first signal voltage V3 at the second end of the second electrode is indicative of whether said first and second electrodes are in contact. During a collision, the two electrodes are pressed together in the collision zone, which creates an electrical contact in this region. The signal voltage V3 thus changes, and a collision can be detected. A fourth voltage V4 is applied to the first end of the second electrode and a fifth voltage V5 is applied to a second terminal of the second resistor so that a voltage difference between the first terminal of the second resistor and said second terminal of the second resistor forms a second status voltage indicative of circuit integrity.
US07840312B2	Power control of a wind farm and method thereof A wind farm includes a plurality of wind energy installations which generate electrical energy to be output to a power supply system and a wind farm master for controlling the wind energy installations. Each wind energy installation includes a generator which is driven by a rotor, and the wind farm master includes a power control device having a plurality of loops. This plurality of loops includes a fast loop that includes a controller which acts on a first group of the wind energy installations and a slow loop that includes a controller which acts on a second group of the wind energy installations, the fast controller having a substantially higher dynamic than the slow controller.
US07840308B2	Robot device control based on environment and position of a movable robot The control apparatus for a movable robot comprises: environment information acquisition means (such as video camera 3 and microphone 4); a current position detecting means (15); a map storage (7); a control parameter storage (9) for storing control parameters adjusted to different environments; and control means (11, 12) for determining a current position of the robot on the map data based on a signal from the current position detecting means, retrieving control parameters suitable for the current position from the parameter storage, and controlling the environment information acquisition means or actuators for moving the robot by using the retrieved control parameters.
US07840306B2	Molding-system set-up based on molded-part attribute A molding-system set-up process has: (i) a receiving operation, including receiving an attribute associated with a molded part, (ii) a determining operation, including determining a molding-system set-up parameter based on the attribute associated with the receiving operation, the molding-system set-up parameter being usable for setting up a molding-system operation, and (iii) a providing operation, including providing the molding-system set-up parameter.
US07840303B2	Coating weight control system An apparatus for performing a coating weight control calculation and an apparatus for generating an activation timing of each process in coating weight control are separately managed. A strip welding point pass event, a completion event of scan measurement of a steel strip in a width direction by a coating weight gauge, and a constant period event are related respectively to activation timings of preset control, feedback control and feedforward control respectively of a coating weight. In a coating weight control apparatus and method, the activation timing generation apparatus is equipped with a function of calculating a timing of changing a pressure reference avoiding insufficient coating in accordance with response characteristics of a pressure as an operation terminal, and if a target coating weight is changed from thin coating to thick coating, generating a preset control activation reference in accordance with the calculation result.
US07840302B2	Methods of analyzing integrated circuit equivalency and manufacturing an integrated circuit Methods of analyzing equivalency with respect to split and limited release lots of wafers of integrated circuits. One embodiment of the split-lot method includes: (1) dividing a set of data regarding the split lot into control and experimental subsets, (2) summarizing statistics regarding the set and the subsets to an experimental unit above a site level and (3) performing a two-way analysis of variance with respect to the statistics to determine the equivalency, using the set for one way of the analysis of variance and the subsets for another way of the analysis of variance. One embodiment of the limited-release method includes: (1) designating a set of data regarding a lot fabricated by a normative integrated circuit fabrication process as a control set, (2) designating a set of data regarding the limited release lot as an experimental set, (3) summarizing statistics regarding the control and experimental sets to an experimental unit above a site level and (4) performing a Kruskal-Wallace test with respect to the statistics to determine the equivalency.
US07840299B2	Substrate collection method and substrate treatment apparatus When a trouble occurs in a substrate treatment apparatus, the substrate existing in the substrate treatment apparatus is quickly collected without exerting adverse effects on the subsequent substrate treatment to resume the substrate treatment early. At the time of occurrence of trouble in a coating and developing treatment apparatus, all of the substrates in the coating and developing treatment apparatus are collected to a transfer-in/out section using a transfer unit in the apparatus. In this event, each transfer unit transfers the substrate from each position at the time of occurrence of trouble in a direction toward the transfer-in/out section for collection. Further, the substrate under treatment in the treatment unit at the time of occurrence of trouble is collected after the treatment is finished.
US07840298B2	Method and system for advanced process control using measurement uncertainty as control input By taking into consideration the measurement uncertainties in the form of standard errors, the performance of APC controllers may be efficiently enhanced by using the standard errors as a control input. For example, the filter parameter of an EWMA filter may be efficiently scaled on the basis of a standard error of measurement data.
US07840286B2	Intelligent shelving system An intelligent shelving system integrates touch sensors, displays, lighting, and other components into shelves. Touch sensors can be used as limit switches to control shelf motion, to monitor items borne on shelves, to detect spills, and to control lighting and other devices and functions. Displays can provide information relating to objects stored in the shelving system and the operation and status of the shelving system.
US07840281B2	Delivery of cardiac stimulation devices Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.
US07840273B2	Device for electrically stimulating biological material A device for electrically stimulating biological material with an implantable electrode array placed in active contact with the biological material. The array has a two-dimensional arrangement of individual electrodes (Eij) that produce a stimulation field (S1, S2,) for the biological material when a stimulation signal is provided, and an apparatus for providing stimulation signals. Alternating field stimulation signals (Vij) are provided to the individual electrodes (Eij) and the electrode array has at least two tripolar or higher multipolar multipole elementary cells (T1, T2,; Q1, Q2,) from three or more adjacent individual electrodes each, and the stimulation fields (S1, S2,) produced by every multipole elementary cell for the biological material has a rotational component, and at least one of the individual electrodes pertains to at least two multipole elementary cells. Method of use, e.g. with retina implants are also provided.
US07840266B2	Integrated lead for applying cardiac resynchronization therapy and neural stimulation therapy An embodiment includes a main lead assembly having a proximal portion adapted for connection to a device and a distal portion adapted for placement in a coronary sinus, the distal portion terminating in a distal end for placement proximal a left ventricle. Additionally, the main lead assembly includes a left ventricular electrode located at its distal end which is adapted to deliver cardiac resynchronization therapy to reduce ventricular wall stress. The main lead assembly also includes a fat pad electrode disposed along the main lead assembly a distance from the distal end to position the fat pad electrode proximal to at least one parasympathetic ganglia located in a fat pad bounded by an inferior vena cava and a left atrium. The fat pad electrode is adapted to stimulate the parasympathetic ganglia to reduce ventricular wall stress.
US07840257B2	Examination of biological tissue using non-contact optical probes An optical system for examination of biological tissue includes a light source, a light detector, optics and electronics. The light source generates a light beam to be transmitted to the biological tissue spaced apart from the source. The light detector is located away (i.e., in a non-contact position) from the examined biological tissue and is constructed to detect light that has migrated in the examined biological tissue. The electronics controls the light source and the light detector, and a system separates the reflected photons (e.g., directly reflected or scattered from the surface or superficial photons, i.e., “noise” photons) from the photons that have migrated in the examined biological tissue. This system prevents detection of the “noise” photons by the light detector or, after detection, eliminates the “noise” photons in the detected optical data used for tissue examination.
US07840254B2	Electromagnetically tracked K-wire device Devices and methods for registering, dynamically referencing, and navigating an anatomical region of interest of a patient are provided using a tracked Kirschner wire (K-wire), where the K-wire includes a position-indicating element.
US07840253B2	Method and apparatus for surgical navigation A surgical navigation system for tracking a procedure relative to a patient is disclosed. The system can track a portion of the patient, an instrument, both, and both or either relative to image data, a coordinate system, an atlas, a morphed atlas, or combinations thereof. The system can include a minimally or non-invasive dynamic reference frame and/or fiducial marker, sensor tipped instruments, and isolator circuits.
US07840249B2	Clinical micro-CT (CMCT) methods, techniques and apparatus The present invention relates to a method and system (CMCT system) for improving spatial resolution imaging of CT systems. The systems and method can achieve improved spatial resolution while using CT X-ray dosage levels comparable to those currently used in practice. The system and method can be used for micro-tomography and/or micortomosynthesis of a local region and/or volume of interest in a patient head or another body part.
US07840245B2	Superconductive cable There is provided a superconductive cable capable of absorbing an amount of contracting a superconductive wire member in cooling by a simple constitution.A superconductive cable according to the invention is a cable including a superconductive wire member constituting a superconductive layer (a conductor layer 13, a return line conductor 17) by being wound spirally, a stress relaxation layer (an inner side stress relaxation layer 12, and insulating layer/outer side stress relaxation layer 16) provided on an inner side of the superconductive layer, and a cable constituting member (a former 11) provided on an inner side of the stress relaxation layer. The cable is constituted to absorb an amount of contracting the superconductive layer in accordance with cooling the superconductive wire member by a refrigerant in a diameter direction by the stress relaxation layer.
US07840227B2	Location based handoff for mobile devices Mobile devices (121, 122, . . . , 12n) are handed off in overlapping cells (181, 182, . . . , 18n) by tracking a velocity (speed and direction) of movement of any number of the mobile devices (121, 122, . . . , 12n). Access points (141, 142, . . . , 14n) are each located in an associated operational cell (181, 182, . . . , 18n) and each operates at a dedicated frequency. The initial signal strengths are measured in advance at predefined locations within a defined space (16) to define signal strengths as location map (42). A nearby initial access point (typically the nearest) and at least two nearby (typically next nearest) access points are assigned for one of the mobile devices (121, 122, . . . , 12n), and the frequencies of each access point identified. A tracking processor (50) periodically scans the frequencies of the nearby access points to determine the location velocity of the mobile device and predict when a handoff will be appropriate. E.g., the actual signal strength measurements between the mobile device and the nearby access points are collected and analyzed to determine a proper time for a handoff of one or more of the nearby access points.
US07840222B2	Reverse lookup of mobile location Location-based services are provided in a communication system comprising at least a portion of at least one wireless network. In one aspect of the invention, particular ones of a plurality of mobile user devices associated with a wireless network are identified for which sufficient location-indicative information is available from which a general location of said devices can be inferred without performing actual location measurements for said devices. The delivery of location queries to the identified mobile user devices is prevented, such that a number of location queries required for provision of a given location-based service is reduced relative to a number of location queries which would otherwise be required without the delivery prevention.
US07840218B2	Method and system for radio coverage planning with local double grid approach A method for planning a radiocommunications network includes computing cell coverage in turn including dividing a region around a radio base station into a number of large environment pixels, for each large environment pixel, computing a first quantity indicative of the coverage within the large environment pixel, dividing each large environment pixel into a number of small environment pixels, and, for each small environment pixel, computing a second quantity indicative of the coverage within the small environment pixel, wherein each second quantity is computed for the respective small environment pixel as a function of the first quantity computed for the large environment pixel containing the small environment pixel, and of data describing the environment within the small environment pixel and within small environment pixels within the large environment pixel and arranged upstream the small environment pixel along a radioelectric signal propagation path passing through the small environment pixel.
US07840215B2	System accounting in a multiprocessor environment In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) assigning an attribute to each of a plurality of processors, and designating one of the plurality of processors as a proxy processor; (ii) when a user session begins using a first of the plurality of processors, sending a first notification message to a server; and (iii) when a rebooting of the first processor occurs: (a) suppressing a second notification message from the first processor in the proxy processor; and (b) sending a third notification message with the attribute to the server to enable the server to modify a user file in the server using the attribute.
US07840211B2	System and method of managing communications policy settings in a wireless network The present invention provides a system and method of modifying policy settings in a network having a plurality of subscriber devices. An embodiment includes a plurality of base stations, each capable of wirelessly transmitting across a geographic region and a server. A cell-phone, capable of roaming between regions, is operable to establish a wireless link with the base stations and through the base stations, with the server. The network contains a communication policy determining from which other communication devices a subscriber device can receive voice calls. The communication policy is updated, by the server, based on requests from the subscriber devices. Once a request is received from a subscriber device, the determination whether to update the communication policy can be based on a record of rejections respective to the caller requested to be blocked. Alternatively, the communication policy can be updated according to a trust policy maintained on the server respective to the subscriber device making the request; the trust policy represents the procedure to follow when a request is received from that subscriber device.
US07840210B2	Free busy calendar interface An electronic device having access to a calendar database comprising calendar event data identifying events scheduled for respective time slots and a method of using such a device are provided. The device is configured to generate on a display a calendar events detail user interface screen that includes a plurality of fields specifying information about an event scheduled to occur at a time slot, one of the fields being an availability status field displaying an availability status for the time slot, and in which the availability status options for the availability status field are dependent on a type of a remote messaging server.
US07840209B2	Reply voice message transmission system and method thereof Disclosed is reply voice message transmission system and method thereof for transmitting a reply voice message showing whether a voice message from a sender is received by receiver's pressing a predetermined key in a mobile phone in the course of or after hearing the voice message from the sender, in case that a voice message from the sender is transmitted to a receiver. The method comprises the steps of: a) registering a voice message from a sender; b) discriminating whether the registered voice message is confirmed by a receiver, and then storing the message in a database sequentially, in case that the voice message is not confirmed by the receiver; c) recording a reply voice message from the receiver in the course of or after hearing the voice message from the sender, in case that the voice message is confirmed by the receiver in the step (b); and d) transmitting the recorded reply voice message to a sender's mobile phone.
US07840205B2	Method and system for peer-to-peer enforcement The present invention concerns a method and a system for establishing a dynamic peer-to-peer communications channel between a first terminal and a second terminal. A first terminal and a second terminal are connectable over secured communications channels to a secured network. The first terminal sends a connection request for establishing a communications channel between the terminals. The connection request is analyzed by an analyzer module. Based on network parameters of the terminals, the analyzer module searches for a further network, and establishes a peer-to-peer communications channel over this further network. Security of the peer-to-peer communications channel may be maintained by means of a central unit of the secured network.
US07840202B2	Method and system for compensation of DC offset in an RF receiver System and method for processing signals are disclosed. The method may include converting, in an RF receiver, one or more analog samples, which are selected from one of a plurality of output paths of the RF receiver, to one or more digital samples. A digital feedback value may be generated based on an average of the one or more converted digital samples. A scaled version of the generated digital feedback value may be converted to an analog value. The converted analog value may be fed back to one or more of a plurality of input paths of the RF receiver. The one or more analog samples may be selected from among a plurality of output analog samples from the plurality of output paths of the RF receiver.
US07840198B2	Method and system for processing signals in a high performance receive chain Aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a high performance receive chain may include amplifying radio frequency signals in amplifier chains in a multistandard radio frequency front-end, comprising one or more shared processing stages, and combining, with substantially equal gain, a number of phase-shifted radio frequency signals of the radio frequency signals into substantially equal-gain-combined radio frequency signals. The substantially equal-gain-combined radio frequency signals may be demodulated to obtain inphase channels and quadrature channels. A number of inphase channels and quadrature channels may be processed in I-channel processing blocks and Q-channel processing blocks to generate an output analog baseband signal. The multistandard radio frequency front-end may be capable of processing Bluetooth® signals and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) signals. The amplifier chains may comprise a first amplifier and a second amplifier, where the first amplifier may be shared between Bluetooth® signal processing paths and WLAN signal processing paths.
US07840192B2	Method, system, and device for provisioned talkgroup identifier discovery A method, system, and user device are provided for provisioned talkgroup identifier discovery in a dispatch or similar network, in which a user is provided with a list of talkgroups provisioned for the user device. In some embodiments a new request message sent from the user device is implemented to effect a response from the network providing the information. In other embodiments the provision of the information is provided by a new message automatically sent from the network to the user device at a specific time. In yet other embodiments, the user device attempts to join every group to test which groups are provisioned for it.
US07840188B2	Semiconductor device In a multi-core semiconductor device, a data bus between CPUs or the like consumes a larger amount of power. By provision of a plurality of CPUs which transmit data by a backscattering method of a wireless signal, a router circuit which mediates data transmission and reception between the CPUs or the like, and a thread control circuit which has a thread scheduling function, a semiconductor device which consumes less power and has high arithmetic performance can be provided at low cost.
US07840181B2	Rectifier circuit and radio communication device A first bias circuit outputs a first direct-current voltage to charge a first capacitor based on a clock signal. A second bias that outputs a second direct-current voltage to charge a second capacitor based on a clock signal. A first MOS transistor has a gate and a source. The first direct-current voltage is applied between the gate and the source of the first MOS transistor to bias the gate of the first MOS transistor. A second MOS transistor has a gate and a source, and a drain connected to the source of the first MOS transistor. The second direct-current voltage is applied between the gate and the source of the second MOS transistor to bias the gate of the second MOS transistor. A coupling capacitor has a first end connected to the source of the first MOS transistor, and a second end to which an alternating-current signal is input.
US07840175B2	Method and system for changing learning strategies A method for changing learning strategies includes presenting a training course to a learner in order based on a learning strategy. A disparate learning strategy is received from the learner specific to the training course. The disparate learning strategy is applied to the training course. The training course is presented to the learner in order based on the disparate learning strategy.
US07840174B2	Bookmaking apparatus and image forming system using the same A bookmaking apparatus executes sheet bundle stacking and image forming operations while melting adhesive at start up. A temperature control device controls a heating device to heat an adhesive in the container to a predetermined melting temperature when the apparatus power is turned on. A sheet conveyance device conveys and stack sheets sequentially from a conveyance path to the stacking tray while the temperature control device melts the adhesive.
US07840168B2	Developing apparatus An amount-of-developer regulating apparatus configured to restrict the amount of developer carried on a developer bearing member. The amount-of-developer regulating apparatus includes a flexible developer amount regulation member having a contact portion configured to contact with a developer bearing member, and first and second holding portions configured to hold the developer amount regulation member and to contact with the developer amount regulation member at further upstream and further downstream in a direction where the developer bearing member is rotationally moved than the contact portion. With a pressure distribution of the contact portion as to the developer bearing member, there are a plurality of local maximum values in the direction where the developer bearing member is rotationally moved. Thus, the apparatus can be reduced in size, and also image concentration unevenness after long-term use can be prevented.
US07840165B2	Toner replenishing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and color image forming apparatus A toner replenishing apparatus that allows easy removal of a toner replenishing container and make contributions to downsizing of an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus having the toner replenishing apparatus are provided. A toner replenishing apparatus has a displacement mechanism for displacing a toner replenishing container from a position with the toner replenishing container held by a container holding member. The displacement mechanism includes a hook portion formed in a retaining member and an engagement portion formed in the toner replenishing container. The displacement mechanism effects displacement of the toner replenishing container in conjunction with a release of the toner replenishing container from a retaining action of the retaining member.
US07840163B2	Position detecting device and image forming apparatus A position detecting device includes a plurality of detecting units that detects marks on an object, a plurality of housing units that houses the detecting units, and a holding member that fixedly holds the housing units. A total expansion amount of the housing units due to temperature change is substantially equal to an expansion amount of the holding member between the fixed positions due to temperature change. The total expansion amount represents a total amount of expansion of the housing units from a fixed-position plane including a fixed position to a detection-position plane including a detection position in a direction parallel to a moving direction of the object. The fixed-position plane and the detection-position plane are perpendicular to the moving direction of the object.
US07840161B2	Fusing device and image forming apparatus using the same A fusing unit for an image forming apparatus includes a fusing roller and a pressing roller, each having an elastic layer on their outer peripheral surfaces. A pressing structure presses the fusing roller against the pressing roller. When a sheet of paper with an unfixed toner image passes through a nip portion where the fusing roller and pressing roller are in press-contact with each other, the toner image is fused and fixed to the paper. The fusing unit further includes a pressure release lever for regulating the pressing action of the pressing structure when the rollers are put in press-contact with each other.
US07840160B2	Toner cartridge with memory element, image drum unit with the toner cartridge, and image forming apparatus with the image drum unit A toner cartridge extends in a longitudinal direction, and is detachably attached to an image drum unit. A memory element is electrically connected to an electrical terminal. The toner cartridge includes a first end portion on which the electrical terminal is disposed and a second end portion longitudinally opposite to the first end portion. An engagement portion is formed on the outer surface of the toner cartridge in the vicinity of the first end portion. When the toner cartridge is attached into the image drum unit, the second end portion engages the image drum unit, and the engagement portion engages the image drum unit such that the toner cartridge is urged against the image drum unit.
US07840159B2	Image-forming device having a positioning structure An image-forming device includes a first frame, and a first supporting unit. The first frame includes a first plate-shaped part having a surface orthogonal to the first direction and supports a first image-bearing member. The first plate-shaped part is formed with at least two first positioning holes. Each of the at least two first positioning holes is defined by a first inner surface that extends in the first direction. The first supporting unit erects from the first plate-shaped part and includes at least two first fitting parts and a first contact part. The at least two first fitting parts fit into the at least two first positioning holes. The first contact part extends in the first direction from each of the at least two first fitting parts. The first contact part contacts and supports the exposure unit. The exposure unit is oriented in a direction in which the light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements is directed toward a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US07840158B2	Methods and apparatus for remanufacturing toner cartridges A device for detaching a drum from a cartridge, the device having a fixture for supporting the printer cartridge; a clamp for preventing printer cartridge movement while the drum is being detached from the printer cartridge; and a cutting device having at least one adjustable cutting edge, wherein the adjustable cutting edge may be adjusted from an unexposed position to an exposed position and vice versa. A method of removing a drum from a printer cartridge, the drum being attached to the printer cartridge by at least one drum gear assembly, the drum gear assembly having a cylinder with a hollow interior, the method having the steps of supporting the printer cartridge on a fixture; substantially securing the printer cartridge; and cutting the drum gear assembly from the hollow interior.
US07840156B2	Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and cartridge support member An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a main frame, and a tray being movable between an inner side position located inside of the main frame and an outer side position located outside of the main frame while supporting process cartridges. The tray has, in its interior, hollow portions through which outside air passes, an inlet that introduces the outside air into the hollow portions, and outlets through which the outside air introduced into the hollow portions is discharged so as to impinge on the process cartridges.
US07840154B2	Image forming device and cartridge An image forming device according to an aspect comprises: a photoconductive drum; a developing roller opposed to the photoconductive drum; a developer container; a cartridge; a second portion; and a second terminal. The cartridge comprises: a cartridge frame; a memory unit; a first portion disposed at an upstream portion in a vicinity of an upstream end in an attachment direction of the cartridge frame; and a first terminal disposed at least a part of the first portion and electrically connected to the memory unit. The second terminal is disposed at least a part of the second portion to contact with the first terminal and electrically connected to a controller disposed in the main body. One of the first portion and second portion receives the other of the first portion and second portion.
US07840152B2	Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, cleaning system, and image forming apparatus with cleaning system A transfer residual toner that has not been electrostatically transferred onto a transfer paper P at a transfer nip and remains on a surface of a photosensitive element is temporarily retained by an elastic blade of a toner retaining unit in a mechanical manner before reaching a latent image forming area. When passing through the latent image forming area, the transfer residual toner is returned onto the surface of the photosensitive member at such a timing that writing is not performed by an exposing unit on the surface of the photosensitive element.
US07840142B2	System and method for reducing standby power consumption The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for reducing standby power consumption in an electronic device. There is provided an electronic device (10) comprising receiver circuitry (16), and power supply control circuitry (18) coupled in series with the receiver circuitry (16), wherein a ground connection of the receiver circuitry (16) is coupled to a voltage supply connection of the power supply control circuitry (18).
US07840133B2	Method and system for hybrid protection in optical networks A technique for carrying out protection of data traffic in a multi-channel multi-section optical communications network by simultaneously using Optical Multiplexed Section (OMS) protection and Optical Channel (OCH) protection; the technique comprises selection of a working optical signal in an OCH protected optical channel, in case of a fault in a section of the network, by relying on an indication associated with OMS switching functionality that is required to overcome the mentioned fault.
US07840131B2	Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus comprises a flash that flashes and a controller. The controller obtains information regarding state of charge of the flash when an operation for preparing a photographic operation is conducted before the photographic operation corresponding to fully depressing a release button, calculates a first time until the flash reaches a charged state where the flash can flash on the basis of the information, calculates a second time after fully depressing said release button, and determines whether the photographic apparatus performs the photographic operation using the flash after the second time has elapsed or the photographic apparatus aborts the photographic operation on the basis of a comparison between the second time and a threshold. The second time is a difference between the first time and an elapsed time from a time point when the first time is calculated.
US07840127B2	Imaging device with T-shaped shake compensation actuator arrangement An imaging device makes camera shake compensation by relatively moving an imaging optical system and an imaging element in directions perpendicular to an optical axis direction. The imaging device includes a first actuator that relatively moves the imaging optical system and the imaging element in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction; a second actuator that relatively moves the imaging optical system and the imaging element in a second direction which is perpendicular to the optical axis direction and which intersects the first direction; and a first moving member to which the second actuator is attached, the first moving member that is moved together with the second actuator in the first direction by an action of the first actuator. The first actuator and the second actuator 6 are disposed to form a T shape.
US07840116B2	Broadcast receiving terminal Although a scheduled recording that is set by an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) specifies in advance a time slot for using the resource, reproduction that is set by the EPG does not specify a time slot for using the resource. Therefore, although it is possible to carry out resource allocations for a plurality of scheduled recordings in advance, it is not possible to carry out a resource adjustment in advance when the scheduled recording and the reproduction operation use the same resource. However, when an adjustment process is performed after the starting time of the scheduled recording, the adjustment process itself takes up some time, thus giving rise to the possibility that the scheduled recording may not start at the specified starting time. The resource adjustment for the scheduled recording and the reproduction is initiated ahead of the starting time of the scheduled recording. The amount of time ahead of the scheduled recording, by which the resource adjustment is to be started, can be specified by the EPG.
US07840110B1	Optical waveguide An optical waveguide fiber having a high threshold for stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The SBS threshold is increased by an acoustically antiguiding configuration of the fiber. An acoustic configuration comprises one or more acoustic regions having acoustic velocities decreasing from the centerline of the fiber. More preferable configurations have acoustic regions with smaller radial thickness and smaller differences in acoustic velocities among regions.
US07840097B2	Aiding apparatus, design aiding method, computer readable recording medium recorded thereon a design aiding program and design aiding system An apparatus comprises a retrieving unit calculating a degree of similarity of each of the plural pieces of feature information about the respective plural registered components extracted by a first extracting unit to the piece of feature information about the structural component extracted by a second extracting unit, and retrieving a registered component whose calculated degree of similarity is not less than a predetermined degree as a similar component of the structural component. Even if shape information about a component to be newly added to design data of a structure is in a form that is difficult to be used as the design data, it is possible to easily add the shape information about the component in a form that is usable as the design data to the design data.
US07840093B2	Image enhancement method and system for fiducial-less tracking of treatment targets A method and system are presented for enhancing one or more images of an object, so as to increase the visibility within the images of one or more structures within the object. The object may be an anatomical region of a patient, and may include one or more reference structures, for example skeletal structures or vertebral structures, and one or more treatment targets, for example tumors or lesions. An operator, for example a top-hat filter operator, selects at least a first neighborhood and a second neighborhood within the images. The operator selects within each neighborhood one or more pixels having an optimal pixel value, and eliminates the remaining pixels in these neighborhoods. When the operator is applied to the selected neighborhoods, only the pixels having the greatest pixel values remain in the selected neighborhoods, and the remaining pixels are eliminated in the selected neighborhoods. As a result, desired features can be located and enhanced in the images.
US07840085B2	Electronic video image stabilization This disclosure describes electronic video image stabilization techniques for imaging and video devices. The techniques involve determining motion and spatial statistics for individual macroblocks of a frame, and determining a global motion vector for the frame based on the statistics of each of the macroblocks. In one embodiment, a method of performing electronic image stabilization includes performing spatial estimation on each of a plurality of macroblocks within a frame of an image to obtain spatial statistics for each of the macroblocks, performing motion estimation on each of the plurality of macroblocks to obtain motion statistics for each of the macroblocks, integrating the spatial statistics and the motion statistics of each of the macroblocks to determine a global motion vector for the frame, and offsetting the image with respect to a reference window according to the global motion vector.
US07840084B2	Digital camera incorporating a sharpness predictor A method for determining a sharpness predictor for an input digital image includes determining one or more image metrics by analyzing the input digital image; and determining the sharpness predictor from the one or more image metrics.
US07840081B2	Methods of representing and analysing images A method of representing at least one image comprises deriving at least one descriptor based on color information and color interrelation information for at least one region of the image, the descriptor having at least one descriptor element, derived using values of pixels in said region, wherein at least one descriptor element for a region is derived using a non-wavelet transform. The representations may be used for image comparisons.
US07840073B2	Pictographic character search method To make searching for pictographic characters, such as Chinese characters, easier for novice learners of languages using pictographic characters, a subset of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character is generated. Then, the subset of the pictographic character parts is used to generate the pictographic character based on the subset of the pictographic character parts.
US07840072B2	Method and system for pattern matching Pattern matching can be achieved by considering only the position numbers of a source pattern and a target pattern within ordered sequences of possible source patterns and target patterns respectively. The position numbers of source patterns containing the target pattern form a number of groups. The number of source patterns within each group and the number of source patterns in the gaps between groups depend on the position of the target pattern within the source pattern, the length of the target pattern and the number of elements in the alphabet set. Each group also has a position number, its position within an ordered sequence of groups. The group position number of an input source pattern is compared to a series derived from the position number of the target pattern, the length of the target pattern and the number of elements in the alphabet set (9). If the group position number is a member of the series (10), then the source pattern contains the target pattern (11). Pattern matching can be performed on uncoded data or on arithmetic coded data.
US07840056B2	Paper sheet processor In a paper sheet processing apparatus comprising a function for determining the state of a paper sheet, an optical sensor generates template data by optically reading the state of an input paper sheet. A template data unit stores template data of a paper sheet. An image processing unit corrects gradation data of the whole paper sheet based on the gradation data of a predetermined area of the paper sheet obtained by the optical sensor. Based on comparison of the corrected gradation data with the template data, the state of the paper sheet is determined.
US07840053B2	System and methods for tomography image reconstruction The present invention is a tomographic reconstruction algorithm, which is highly effective improving image quality and accuracy by reducing or eliminating artifacts within images produced by limited data tomography. Using algebraic reconstruction techniques (ART), depending on whether or not an object has higher or lower densities, a current threshold value is set to either a high or low threshold parameter and then decreased or increased, respectively, to reduce or eliminate the artifacts in a reconstructed image.
US07840050B2	System and method for piecewise registration of timepoints A system and method for piecewise registration of timepoints are provided. The method comprises: selecting an image dataset of a first or second timepoint to be registered; defining a sub-volume in the selected image dataset; and registering the sub-volume with a whole-volume of the unselected image dataset.
US07840049B2	MR image reconstruction method and MR apparatus using propeller imaging In a magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction method and MR apparatus, for raw MR data are acquired with the propeller technique, and k-space sampling ensues in sub-data sets. The sample points of each sub-data set correspond to grid points of a Cartesian initial grid and the Cartesian initial grid of the sub-data sets can be brought into congruence by rotation: A Cartesian final grid is selected, and a calculation-based transfer of the data points of each sub-data set ensues to a respective new grid that exhibits the orientation of the respective sub-data set and the grid constants of the final grid, if the grid constants of the output grid differ from those of the final grid. A calculation-based transfer of the data points of each sub-data set, or the data points of a respective new grid (if obtained) ensures to the final grid by the application of a rotation module followed by transformation of the acquired data into the image domain.
US07840047B2	Method for reproducibly generating views of tomographic image data Provided is a method for generating views of tomographic image data. At least one view of an object area is generated by image filtering from tomographic CT image data by using a modulation transfer function and coordinate information. A filter algorithm is used for the image filtering and, if appropriate, further view parameters required for generating the view may be stored in a view file assigned to the CT image data. The view file is called up, and the filter algorithm as well as, if appropriate, the further view parameters are applied to the CT image for the purpose of renewed generation of the view.
US07840046B2	System and method for detection of breast masses and calcifications using the tomosynthesis projection and reconstructed images A method of detecting breast masses and calcifications in digitized images, includes providing a plurality of 2-dimensional (2D) digital X-ray projectional breast images acquired from different viewing angles, extracting candidate lesions and 2D features from said 2D projectional images, computing spicularity characteristics of said candidate lesions, including location, periodicity, and amplitude, applying learning algorithms to said candidate lesions to predict a probability of malignancy of said lesion, receiving from said learning algorithm a probability map of detections for each breast image, said detections comprising associating pixels with a probability of being associated with a malignancy, creating a synthetic 2D slice for each X-ray image wherein malignant regions are indicated by ellipses on a non-malignant background, and constructing a synthetic 3-dimensional (3D) image volume from said 2D synthetic slices.
US07840045B2	Method and system for parallel reconstruction in the K-space domain for application in imaging systems A method of performing parallel image reconstruction of undersampled image data in k-space. A defined partitioning of a k-space region into a plurality of segments is received. A segment of the plurality of segments is identified wherein data is sampled at less than a Nyquist rate. First imaging data is sampled at the Nyquist rate. A reconstruction coefficient is calculated for at least a portion of the identified segment using the sampled first imaging data. Second imaging data is sampled at less than the Nyquist rate. A value for a missing k-space sample in the identified segment is predicted using the calculated reconstruction coefficient and the sampled second imaging data. An image of the image area is defined using the predicted value and the received second dataset.
US07840038B2	Defect correction based on “virtual” lenslets A system constructs an image using virtual lenslets.
US07840036B2	Human being detection apparatus, method of detecting human being, and human being detecting program A human being detection apparatus includes a moving object detecting part for detecting a target region from the picture image as a region of the moving object and a target distance as a distance to the moving object, a head region setting part for setting the head region corresponding to the target distance, a sample storing image part for storing a sample image having a predetermined size corresponding to the head region of the human being, and a human being determining part for determining whether or not the moving object is a human being by comparing the head region in the picture image converted to have a predetermined size with the sample image.
US07840030B2	Method for determining the change in position of an object in an item of luggage A method for determining the change in position of an object in an item of luggage using two X-ray images. The method includes allocating points to individual features in each X-ray image, and extracting the individual features to produce a set of extracted points for each X-ray image. The method includes searching for clusters in each set of extracted points. For each X-ray image a valuation function that displays different values when points of a cluster are close than when points of the cluster are not close is used to determine the proximity of each cluster. This permits analysis of the movement of the object to be performed by observing the proximities of the clusters.
US07840027B2	Data embedding apparatus and printed material An apparatus embeds data into an area of image data. The apparatus determines whether colors of the area are specific colors, modifies image data of the area based on a determination result, and embeds the data into the area.
US07840009B2	Method and apparatus for storing and distributing encryption keys A first infrastructure system device other than a mobile station generates key material and forwards the key material to a second infrastructure system device other than a mobile station. A determination is made as to whether a mobile station for which the key material is directed is active on the system, and if so the key material is forwarded to a base station where the mobile station is active. The base station forwards the key material to the mobile station.
US07840008B2	Method and apparatus for decrypting a communication A decryption apparatus (109) comprises a key stream generator (111) generating a local decryption key stream. It furthermore comprises a synchronization value receiver (201) receiving key stream synchronization values. A synchronization processor (203) implements a state machine which may operate in a synchronized state (303) wherein the communication is decrypted using the local key stream, a non-synchronized state (301) wherein the local key stream is not synchronized, or in an uncertain synchronization state (305) wherein the communication is decrypted using the local key stream and wherein the local key stream is synchronized to each new received synchronization value. The synchronization processor (203) furthermore comprises a transition controller (213) operable to transition from the synchronized state to the non-synchronized state in response to a first criterion and to the uncertain synchronization state in response to a second criterion.
US07840006B2	Content distribution system and content distribution method Disclosed herein is a content distribution system including: a content distribution server; a sender terminal; and a receiver terminal; wherein the content distribution server including a communication block; a recording block; a content management block; a content encryption block; and a key management block; wherein the sender terminal including a communication block; a terminal detection block; a recording block; and an extraction block; wherein the receiver terminal including a terminal detection block; a recording block; a decryption block; and a content reproduction block; wherein, if the sender terminal is located inside a communicable range in which data can be transmitted and received with the receiver terminal, the sender terminal distributes the content and the receiver terminal, if located inside the communicable range, reproduces the decrypted content.
US07840000B1	High performance programmable cryptography system The present invention is a method and system for high performance programmable cryptography. In an embodiment of the invention, a cryptography system in accordance with the present invention may include a processor with memory, at least two field programmable gate array (FPGA) blocks and control logic which may be algorithm independent. Programming files storing one or more crypto algorithms may be maintained remotely to the cryptography system whereby the cryptography system may remain not cryptographically controlled when un-programmed. FPGA blocks may be field-programmed to allow execution of a desired crypto algorithm. Additionally, with multiple FPGA logic blocks, programming of a first FPGA block may be simultaneously performed with the execution of a crypto algorithm via a second FPGA block to enable enhanced encryption rate performance.
US07839991B2	Computer product, outbound-operation support apparatus, and outbound-operation support method An outbound-operation support apparatus extracts a set of materials corresponding to received contents of an operation from a material database (DB) and extracts a theme and a knowledge-level value having a success rate larger than a predetermined threshold value from a value DB. Thereafter, a set of customer identifications corresponding to each of the extracted themes and the knowledge-level values is extracted from another value DB, and customer information corresponding to each of the customer identifications is extracted from a customer DB. The extracted material and the customer information are associated with each another and transmitted to an outbound agent terminal.
US07839990B2	System and method of generating ring back tone Disclosed are a method of generating and transmitting a ring back tone and a system thereof. The method of generating a ring back tone in a first terminal based on an internet protocol comprises identifying a type of a network to which a second terminal requesting a call setup belongs, generating ring back tone data to be transmitted to the second terminal according to the type of the network, inserting the ring back tone data into a response message to the call setup, and transmitting the inserted response message to the second terminal.
US07839984B2	Commercial product routing system with video vending capability A traffic control system selectively interfaces members of plural groups, as buyer groups and vendor groups, for video communication through a dial-up telephone system, for analyzing and compiling data, scheduling appointments, implementing conferences, consummating sales and the like. The traffick-control system comprises a telephonic interface apparatus for interfacing remote telephonic terminals of the dial-up telephone system identified with the members of plural groups, a video recording unit for recording and playing video transcriptions, a storage memory for storing data on the members, including telephonic terminal numbers and area-of-interest codes and a control computer to selectively interconnect the video recording unit with the remote telephone terminals through the telephonic interface apparatus to record and receive video communication.
US07839981B2	Anti-scatter grid An anti-scatter grid for medical x-ray devices is provided. The anti-scatter grid comprising a number of first elements from a first material with second elements made from a second material integrated therein. In this case the first material is more transparent to radiation than the second material. The second elements are arranged in the first elements such that for stacking of the first elements a grid absorbing scattered radiation is formed by means of second elements for radiation arriving perpendicular to the direction of the stacking of the first elements. The advantage of this is that this anti-scatter grid is able to be produced simply and reliably with a large aspect ratio.
US07839974B2	ARC-sequencing technique for intensity modulated ARC therapy The invention is directed to a radiation therapy method, and in particular, to a method of conducting an intensity modulated arc therapy (IMAT). The invention provides a planning technique that translates traditional static fixed-field IMRT plans into deliverable IMAT plans and allows IMAT to be realized as a routine clinical delivery technique.
US07839973B2	Treatment planning using modulability and visibility factors A method for use in a treatment planning process includes determining a modulability factor, and determining a treatment parameter using the modulability factor. A system for use in a treatment planning process includes a processor, wherein the processor is configured for determining a modulability factor, and determining a treatment parameter using the modulability factor. A method for use in a treatment planning process includes determining a visibility factor, and determining a treatment parameter using the visibility factor. A system for use in a treatment planning process includes a processor, wherein the processor is configured for determining a visibility factor, and determining a treatment parameter using the visibility factor.
US07839972B2	System and method of evaluating dose delivered by a radiation therapy system A system and method of evaluating dose delivered by a radiation therapy system using a marker that indicates motion. The marker is associated with the patient. In one method of operation, the method includes delivering radiation to the patient, monitoring motion of the marker during the delivering radiation, and evaluating a dose delivered to the patient based at least in part on the motion of the marker. In another method of operation, the method includes delivering radiation to the patient, obtaining information relating to the delivery of radiation, estimating dose to the marker based at least in part on the information, acquiring dose received by the marker, and comparing the received dose with the estimated dose.
US07839965B2	High-speed serial data link with single precision clock source A clock generator is provided for a transmitter in a transceiver adapted to communicate data over a serial data link. The transceiver includes a clock data recovery circuit recovers a receive clock signal and outputs a reference clock signal. The clock generator includes a local clock, a frequency difference detector, and a fractional-N frequency synthesizer. The local clock outputs a local clock signal. The frequency difference detector outputs a fractional frequency difference signal based on a frequency difference between the local clock signal and the reference clock signal. The fractional-N frequency synthesizer outputs a transmit clock signal having a same frequency as the recovered receive clock signal.
US07839964B2	Bit pattern synchronization in acquired waveforms A waveform processing system performs operations that may include identifying a location of a specified bit pattern within a coherently sampled repeating pattern input signal. In some examples, multiple periods of a repeating pattern signal are acquired using coherent sampling techniques such as, for example, coherent interleaved sampling (CIS). In such examples, the sampled waveform may be converted to a binary pattern that can be searched to locate a match to a predetermined or user-specified bit pattern. In one illustrative example, the identified location may be used to display the sampled waveform. In another example, the identified location may be used to measure pattern-dependent jitter of the sampled waveform.
US07839956B1	Method and apparatus for DC offset compensation in a digital communication system A method of compensating for dc offset of a received signal transmitted over a channel having a plurality of paths, the received signal comprising a modulated data signal and a modulated known training sequence signal, the method comprising the steps of: constructing (104) from the known training sequence signal a first regression matrix; path-combining (106) the incrementally rotated elements of the first regression matrix to produce the elements of a trend matrix; deriving (108) a neutralized second regression matrix from the first regression matrix and the trend matrix; utilising the neutralized second regression matrix to compensate (110, 112) for dc offset of the received modulated data signal.
US07839954B1	Phase rotation of IQ origin Sampled IQ values at the origin are revalued by applying a minimum distance, or radius, away from the (0,0) coordinate in the IQ domain, and applying a rotation about the origin for consecutive (0,0) samples, thereby improving communication performance. A direction of rotation is able to be predetermined or dynamically determined according to a correction look-up table or an IQ trajectory.
US07839946B2	Data communication apparatus and data communication method A data communication apparatus improves security against eavesdropping for secret communication by using Y-00 protocol. A multi-level code generation section generates, based on key information, a multi-level code sequence in which a signal level changes so as to be approximately random numbers. A level conversion section irreversibly converts the multi-level code sequence such that a converted multi-level code sequence does not constitute a mapping of the multi-level code sequence. A multi-level processing section generates a multi-level signal having a plurality of levels each corresponding to a combination between the information data and the multi-level code sequence. A modulator section modulates a multi-level signal in a predetermined modulation method and outputs a modulated signal.
US07839934B2	Method of selecting a reference picture In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a reference picture list having multiple reference pictures, reordering a reference picture index allocated to each reference picture in the reference picture list, and obtaining a field reference picture index associated with the current field macroblock. A frame reference picture index is determined based on the field reference picture index and the reference picture index, and the reference picture in field unit having a parity equal to a parity of the field macroblock is selected if the reference picture index is an even value.
US07839918B2	Method and device for estimating a frequency in the acquisition of a spread-spectrum code signal In a method for estimating a frequency deviation between a received spread-spectrum code signal and a local frequency signal, the received spread-spectrum code signal is despread using a local spread-spectrum code. The despread signal is integrated over a particular integration period. From at least two successively obtained integration values, a phase change value characteristic of the phase change between the two integration values is calculated. From this, the frequency deviation is determined.
US07839916B1	Systems and methods for communication in a global positioning system (GPS) device An apparatus and methods for communicating between or among global positioning system (GPS) receivers enhanced with wideband transmitters, which can include ultra wideband (UWB) transmitters. In one embodiment, WB pulses are precorrected by a transmitter to align with a clock common to both enhanced GPS receivers for autocorrelation, thereby simplifying WB or UWB receiver circuitry. One embodiment includes a circuit and method for adjusting the timing of a pulse by phase shifting the pulse by adjusting amplitude. The wideband pulses are used to communicate data between enhanced GPS receivers. A relatively long code can also be communicated between enhanced GPS receivers, thereby permitting the same WB signal to be used to determine range between the enhanced GPS receivers. The communicated data can include the absolute position of the enhanced GPS receiver, which when combined relative positioning from ranging data, can advantageously permit cooperatively positioning and/or navigation.
US07839913B2	Surface emitting laser, surface emitting laser array, and image forming apparatus including surface emitting laser A surface emitting laser that oscillates at a wavelength λ includes an upper reflector, a lower reflector, an active layer, and a spacer layer. The spacer layer is a laminated structure that includes a first semiconductor sublayer having a composition of AlxGa1-xAs (1≧x>0) and a second semiconductor sublayer having a composition of AlyGa1-yAs (1>y>0 and x>y).
US07839909B2	Heterostructure, injector laser, semiconductor amplifying element and a semiconductor optical amplifier a final stage The heterostructures are used for creation of semiconductor injection emission sources: injection lasers, semiconductor amplifying elements, semiconductor optical amplifiers that are used in fiber optic communication and data transmission systems, in optical superhigh-speed computing and switching systems, in development of medical equipment, laser industrial equipment, frequency-doubled lasers, and for pumping solid-state and fiber lasers and amplifiers. The heterostructure, the injection laser, the semiconductor amplifying element, and the semiconductor optical amplifier are proposed, the essential distinction of which consists in modernization of the active region and the leak-in region of the heterostructure, combined choice of location, compositions, refractive indices and thicknesses of the heterostructure layers providing the efficient functioning of the injection lasers, the semiconductor amplifying elements and the semiconductor optical amplifiers in the transient region of formation of controllable emission leak from the active layer.
US07839905B2	Carrier-envelope phase shift using linear media The carrier-envelope phase in a train of optical pulses is varied utilizing the dispersive properties of lossless plates while the total dispersion in transmission is maintained practically constant. The plates include sloped surfaces and are mounted for displacement such that the ratio of the thicknesses of the two plates through which the optical pulses will pass can be varied by displacing the plates so as to shift the carrier-envelope phase in the optical pulses. In one embodiment, the plates include a barium fluoride wedge and a fumed silica wedge, wherein the wedges are bond together to form a composite structure with thicker and thinner portions of the wedges inversely matched.
US07839893B2	Voice data transmitting and receiving system Voice clauses are divided and transmitted as packet data in divided clause units in a transmission side. The voice data is outputted as voice based on the received packet data in clause units in a receipt side. Thus, the meaning of speech is even able to be recognized in a deteriorated communication path environment.
US07839880B2	OFDM communication system and OFDM communication method In an OFDM communication system that performs OFDM data communication by dividing a band region into a plurality of bands and assigning each band to a mobile station, a base station monitors transmission characteristics of the bands and state of use of adjacent bands, then sets whether to use or not use guard band regions between bands for data transmission based upon the transmission characteristics, and the state of use of the adjacent bands.
US07839879B2	Method and system for supporting cross cluster extension mobility in internet-protocol telephony A method to support cross cluster extension mobility (CCEM) in a communication network, which includes a plurality of clusters, each of the plurality of clusters including a call manager, the method includes receiving a request for cross cluster extension mobility from a user on a first telephony device located in a first cluster; adding a second telephony device in a home cluster for the user, only if the first cluster is different from the home cluster. The method further includes performing extension mobility login for the user on the first telephony device; and configuring a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) service parameter of the call manager in the first cluster.
US07839878B2	Method of reducing power consumption of network connection apparatus and apparatus for same A network connection apparatus including: a plurality of line connection parts connected to network lines to transmit and receive packets; a transmission destination decision part for deciding a transmission destination on the basis of header information of a packet received by a first one of the plurality of line connection parts; a packet transfer part for transferring packets to a second line connection destination corresponding to the transmission destination decided by the transmission destination decision part; and, a power supply part for supplying power to the line connection parts and a power control part for controlling supply of power to each of the line connection parts from the power supply part.
US07839870B2	Device-to-device communication among customer premise equipment devices A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a device-to-device communication configuration. A message is passed from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the device-to-device communication configuration. The customer premise equipment device is initialized for device-to-device communication with any other customer premise equipment devices in accordance with the device-to-device communication configuration indicated in the message, which relates to physical layer and data link layer communications among customer premise equipment devices. In this way, the customer premise equipment device knows how to communicate with other customer premise equipment devices, for example, at the same subscriber location.
US07839868B2	Communication method and system for the transmission of time-driven and event-driven Ethernet messages A communication method for transmitting Ethernet messages in a distributed real-time system in which a plurality of network node computers, e.g. four network node computers (111, 112, 113, 114), each comprising at least one communication controller (121, 122, 123, 124), are linked via a communication system comprising one or more communication channels (109), one or more intelligent star couplers (101, 102) being disposed in each communication channel. According to the invention, a distinction is made between conventional Ethernet messages (ET messages) and time-triggered Ethernet messages (TT messages), the TT messages being transported with an a priori known constant delay time (Δ) between transmitter and receiver, and, when there is a time conflict between ET and TT messages, the transport of the ET message that is in conflict being delayed or aborted in order to be able to transport the TT message with the constant delay time (Δ). Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding communication system and a star coupler for such a communication system.
US07839855B2	Layer 2 address translation for service provider wholesale IP sessions A method involving receiving, at a network device, a first layer 2 network packet from a client, the first layer 2 network packet encapsulating a layer 3 network packet; forwarding the first layer 2 network packet to a server by associating the layer 3 destination host with a particular server connected to the network device, creating a modified first layer 2 network packet by overwriting the layer 2 destination address of the first layer 2 network packet with the layer 2 network address of the server, and sending the modified first layer 2 network packet over a network; receiving, at the network device, a second layer 2 network packet from the server; and forwarding the second layer 2 network packet to the client by creating a modified second layer 2 network packet by overwriting the layer 2 source address of the second layer 2 network packet with the layer 2 network address of the network device and sending the modified second layer 2 network packet over a network.
US07839850B2	Forming equal cost multipath multicast distribution structures Techniques allow network devices to set up multiple multicast distribution structures for a given multicast group and source. According to the techniques, a multicast protocol is extended to include an instance number in the control messages, where the instance number corresponds to one of a plurality of instances for the multicast group and source. The network device sends a join request for each of the N instances for the multicast group to a plurality of upstream routers. Each of the join requests specifies a different instance of the multicast group to be joined. The source device for the multicast group selects one of the N instances, for example using a unicast Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) hashing algorithm, and sends multicast content for the multicast group to via the multicast distribution structure corresponding to the selected one of the N instances.
US07839841B2	Apparatus and method for providing VoIP service based on IP multimedia subsystem Provided are an apparatus and method for providing VoIP service based on an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS). When a MS is located indoors, it accesses the IMS through a VoIP gateway. When the MS is located outdoors, it accesses the IMS through an IEEE 802.16 system. Therefore, the VoIP service can be provided over one telephone number allocated to the MS.
US07839837B2	Asynchronous speech data communication system and communication method therefor An asynchronous speech data communication system, which is capable of making a hands-free phone conversation at a high speed without causing annoyance in a vehicle, and a communication method therefor are provided. A vehicle-mounted hands-free system includes a speech communication terminal having a speech data communication function, an access point for enabling communication using an asynchronous wireless LAN with other electronic devices, such as a PDA and a mobile audio, including the speech communication terminal, and a communication control section for limiting the packet size of data to be communicated of the other electronic devices when there is communication of speech data by the speech communication terminal.
US07839830B2	Uplink scheduler for cellular packet access A method includes constraining total power received from cellular users accessing a base station through any one of a TDMA access, CDMA access, and a derivation of a TDMA/CDMA access, and scheduling users for access to the base station within the constrained total power in response to an optimization that for each time slot determines a group of time critical cellular users and their transmission power factoring in instantaneous location-dependent channel states and long term quality of service performance. In the preferred embodiment, the optimization includes an iterative solution of an NP-hard Knapsak problem with initialization of maximum transmit power per cellular user inversely proportional to at least one of an activity factor of a cellular user's channel, the cellular user's antenna gain, the instantaneous channel gain of a dedicated uplink channel for the cellular user, and other-cellular user to same-cellular user interference ratio, and directly proportional to total resource power consumption.
US07839816B2	Assembly, and associated methodology, for provisioning computer device with operating software An assembly, and an associated methodology, for provisioning a computer server, or other device, with an operating system or other computer data. The computer server is positioned at a build area that includes wireless local area network apparatus that broadcasts provisioning software. A mobile start cart is positioned at the build area to receive the broadcast data and to provide the data to the computer server to be provisioned. Provisioning of the computer server is made without need of an Ethernet connection, or associated Ethernet infrastructure.
US07839809B2	Uninterrupted multicast service in a radiocommunication system In a method for multicast service continuity in a radio communications system, each radio network controller has a first identifier of each multicast service whose activation was previously requested by at least one radio terminal (1, 11) via said radio network controller and is adapted to notify radio terminals in a corresponding coverage area of the start of at least one session relating to one of said multicast services, reported by a core network, said notification incorporating the first identifier of said service. With respect to a radio terminal (11) entering the coverage area of a drift radio network controller (15) after having been in the coverage area of a serving radio network controller (14), the radio terminal having previously requested activation of a multicast service via the serving radio network controller, the first identifier of said service is sent from the serving radio network controller to the drift radio network controller.
US07839805B2	System and method for wireless communication in a frequency division duplexing region A method and system for using half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in a Frequency Division Duplexing region to provide wireless connectivity between the half-duplex base stations and customers in multiple sectors of a cell. The method and system can use two physical channels to form two logical channels. Each logical channel shares both physical channels during alternating frames of time. The half-duplex nodes can include a millimeter-wave band frequency synthesizer configured to transmit and receive on different channels to and from the half-duplex base station. Re-use patterns of the physical channels are used for deployment of half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in the FDD region to minimize co-channel interference and interference due to uncorrelated rain fade. Additional methods and systems utilize full-duplex base stations and smart antenna to communicate with the half-duplex nodes.
US07839804B2	Method and apparatus for performing call setup for a video call in 3G-324M For quick call setup, terminal A sends to terminal B stuffing sequences for the highest H.223 multiplexer level supported by terminal A and at least one proprietary sequence. The proprietary sequence indicates support for quick call setup and contains video and audio codecs supported by terminal A. Terminal A monitors for stuffing and proprietary sequences sent by terminal B. If terminal A receives a proprietary sequence from terminal B, then terminal A sends an H.245 NonStandard request message containing the information in the proprietary sequence sent to terminal B, video and/or audio capabilities supported by terminal A, and entries for a multiplex table used by terminal A. Terminal A monitors for a NonStandard request message from terminal B, which contains video and audio capabilities and multiplex table entries for terminal B. Terminals A and B are ready to communicate upon each terminal receiving an acknowledgment from the other terminal.
US07839803B1	Method and system of teleconferencing A telecommunication system and method for communicating between at least two end users over a telecommunication network, where the communication is defined by a set of parameters. At least two entities, such as one or both of the end users and/or the service providers negotiate an agreed set of values for said parameters that define the desired communication. The entities also negotiate a warranty agreement with the network service provider defining at least one of the agreed parameters to be warranted including a compensation method to be applied should said at least one monitored parameter fail to meet the corresponding one of said agreed values. The agreed warranted parameters are monitored once the communication is established and, in the event of a failure of the monitored parameters to meet agreed values, at least one of the entities is compensated in accordance with the agreed compensation method. When more than two entities are involved in a communication, the compensation from an entity can be divided amongst the other entities according to an agreed scheme.
US07839787B2	Delay-based overflow routing in communication systems A communication system determines a delay variation between at least a first link and a second link. The communication system routes user communications over the first link if the delay variation is within a maximum threshold. The communication system routes the user communications over the second link if the delay variation exceeds the maximum threshold.
US07839768B2	Redundant ethernet packet network management Methods and systems for configuring nodes in a redundant network configuration include identifying a master node from a plurality of nodes in the network by sending a configuration packet to each node. The configuration packet includes an identification number representing the node in the network from which the configuration packet originates, where each node in the network has a unique identification number. At each node in the network, the identification number in the configuration packet is compared to an identification number for that node. In one embodiment, the node whose identification number is greater than the identification number in the configuration packet is designated the master node. A virtual break is created in the network at the location of the master node to prevent a packet from returning to the node from which it originates.
US07839751B2	Objective lens and optical system for optical pick-up An optical system of an optical pick-up is provided. The optical system includes an optical element including at least a phase shift surface among the surfaces thereof, and located closer to a light source than the objective lens. In this configuration, t1≦t2 is satisfied, where t1 represents a thickness of a cover layer of a first optical disc for which a first laser beam is employed, and t2 a thickness of a cover layer of a second optical disc for which a second laser beam, having a longer wavelength than the first laser beam, is employed. NA1≧NA2 is satisfied, where NA1 represents a numerical aperture for the first optical disc, and NA2 the numerical aperture for the second optical disc. The phase shift surface includes a first region that converges the first laser beam on a recording surface of the first optical disc, and the second laser beam on a recording surface of the second optical disc. The first region includes at least an annular zone structure having an annular zone group including a step that gives an additional optical path length to the first laser beam generally by two wavelengths, with respect to an inner refracting surface at a boundary between adjacent refracting surfaces, and a return step portion located at an outer position of the annular zone group.
US07839744B2	Write-once read-many information recording medium, information recording method, information reproduction method, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus A write-once read-many information recording medium is provided, which is capable of easily searching for a latest DDS and a latest defect list. At least one disc management working area is sequentially allocated in a predetermined direction on the write-once read-many information recording medium of the present invention. The latest defect list and the latest DDS are provided in a recorded disc management working area neighboring a border between the recorded disc management working area and an unrecorded disc management working area, where the latest defect list precedes the latest DDS in the predetermined direction.
US07839741B2	Method and apparatus for selecting an optimum write parameter, and optical recording medium for use by said method and apparatus The invention relates to a method for setting an optimum value of a write parameter for use in an optical recording apparatus for writing information on an optical recording medium by means of a radiation beam. The optimum value of a write parameter is found by curve-fitting a function and obtaining a characteristic write power level (PChar) from the curve-fitting function. It is then assessed if the characteristic write power level (PChar) qualify as an optimum value of a write parameter. If the characteristic write power level (Pchar) does not qualify as an optimum value of a write parameter then an iteration procedure is started, where the subsequent initial values of write power level (Pini, n), are given by Pini, n+1=A Pini, n+(1−A)Pchar, n, where A is a constant, and n is an integer. The invention also relates to an optical recording apparatus and an optical recording medium according to the invention.
US07839738B2	Method and apparatus for determining writing power for recording data A method and apparatus for determining an optimal writing power for recording data on a recording medium such as an optical disk, are discussed. The method according to an aspect of the present invention includes (a) performing an optimal power calibration (OPC) operation on a first area of the recording medium, and detecting a first writing power based on the OPC operation performed on the first area; (b) performing an OPC operation on a second area of the recording medium after erasing data on the second area, and detecting a second writing power based on the OPC operation performed on the second area; and (c) determining an optimal writing power for recording data on the recording medium based on the detected first and second writing powers.
US07839716B2	Apparatus and systems for VT invariant DDR3 SDRAM write leveling Apparatus and systems for improved PVT invariant fast rank switching in a DDR3 memory subsystem. A clock skew control circuit is provided between a memory controller and a DDR3 SDRAM memory subsystem to adjust skew between the DDR3 clock signal and data related signals (e.g., DQ and/or DQS). A initial write-leveling procedure determines the correct skew and programs a register file in the skew adjustment circuit. The register file includes a register for each of multiple ranks in the DDR3 memory. The values in each register serve to control selection of alignment of the data related signals to align with one of multiple phase shifted versions of a 1× DDR3 clock signal. The phase shifted clock signals are generated by clock divider circuits from a 2× DDR clock signal and use of a single fixed delay line approximating ⅛ of a 1× DDR3 clock period.
US07839714B2	Non-volatile semiconductor storage device and word line drive method A non-volatile semiconductor storage device, includes a memory array including memory cells, a plurality of word lines installed in the memory array, a sub-decoder including a pull-up power line, a pull-down power line and a plurality of drivers, a pre-decoder coupled to the sub-decoder, and generating a pre-decode signal; and a main decoder coupled to the sub-decoder, and generating a main decode signal. A potential of the pull-up power line and a potential of the pull-down power line are controlled in response to the main decode signal. The plurality of drivers drives the plurality of word lines in response to the pre-decode signal. Each of the plurality of drivers comprises a first transistor including a first node which is coupled to the pull-up power line, a second node which is coupled to one of the plurality of word lines and a third node which is supplied with the pre-decode signal, and a second transistor including a fourth node which is coupled to the pull-down power line, a fifth node which is coupled to the second node and a sixth node which is supplied to the pre-decode signal. The pre-decoder pulls down the pre-decode signal to a negative potential lower than a ground potential.
US07839711B2	Semiconductor memory device and driving method thereof A memory including; cells, wherein a refresh operation includes a first refresh and a second refresh, in the first refresh, a first potential higher than a gate potential in a retention is applied to the gate in a state having a source potential applied to the drain, and thereafter the gate potential in the retention is applied to the gate, thereby a first current passes to the cell, and in the second refresh, a second potential higher than a gate potential in the retention is applied to the gate, and a third potential higher than the gate potential in the retention is applied to the drain, thereby a second current passes to the cell, and a state of the cell is shifted to an equilibrium state in which amounts of the first and the second currents flowing during one cycle becomes substantially equal.
US07839708B2	Semiconductor apparatus and testing method using different internal voltages to output binary signals A semiconductor apparatus, configured to operate on different internal voltages generated from electromagnetic waves received via an antenna, to extract a command and data from the received electromagnetic waves, and to operate according to the extracted command, includes internal circuitry configured to generate and output binary signals according to a command input from the outside in a test operation for performing a predetermined test; and output circuits corresponding to some or all of the internal voltages and configured to convert the binary signals output from the internal circuitry into binary signals having same voltages as the corresponding internal voltages and to output the converted binary signals to the outside.
US07839707B2	Fuses for memory repair Structures for fuses to control repair of multiple memories embedded on an integrated circuit are provided along with methods of use. A set of fuses is shared to control repair of a plurality of memories. Some of the fuses are associated with a memory to be repaired. Others of the fuses identify how the repair is accomplished.
US07839703B2	Subtraction circuits and digital-to-analog converters for semiconductor devices A memory device that, in certain embodiments, includes a plurality of memory elements connected to a bit-line and a delta-sigma modulator with a digital output and an analog input, which may be connected to the bit-line. In some embodiments, the delta-sigma modulator includes an adder with first and second inputs and an output. The first input may be connected to the analog input. The delta-sigma modulator may also include an integrator connected to the output of the adder, an analog-to-digital converter with an input connected to an output of the integrator and an output connected to the digital output, and a digital-to-analog converter with an input connected to the output of the analog-to-digital converter and an output connected to the second input of the adder.
US07839701B2	Low voltage operation DRAM control circuits Circuits and methods are described for reducing leakage current and speeding access within dynamic random access memory circuit devices. A number of beneficial aspects are described. A circuit is described for an enhanced sense amplifier utilizing complementary drain transistors coupled to the sense or restore signals and driven by gate voltages which extend outside of the voltage range between VSS and VDD. The drain transistors are self reverse-biased in a standby mode. A method is also described for reducing leaking in non-complementary sense amplifiers by modifying the sense and restore gate voltages. Another aspect is a new negative word line method utilizing stacked pull-down transistors and a multi-step control circuit. In addition a level shifter scheme is described for preventing unwanted current flow between voltage sources while discharging control signal PX.
US07839699B2	Semiconductor memory device This disclosure concerns a semiconductor memory device comprising: a memory cell array having memory cells arrayed two-dimensionally; word lines connected to the memory cells of rows of the memory cell array; bit lines connected to the memory cells of columns of the memory cell array; sense amplifiers connected to the bit lines, and detecting data stored in the memory cells; a test pad passing a predetermined reference current from a power source, and transmitting a reference voltage based on the reference current; and test circuits connected between the power source and the test pad and intervening between the power source and the bit lines, the test circuits passing test currents according to the reference voltage via the bit lines.
US07839689B2	Power supplies in flash memory devices and systems Power supplies in flash memory devices are disclosed. A first section of a flash memory device includes non-volatile memory for storing data. A second section of the flash memory device includes at least first and second pumping circuits. The first pumping circuit receives a first voltage and produces, at an output of the first pumping circuit, a second voltage at a second voltage level that is higher than the first voltage level. The second pumping circuit has an input coupled to the first pumping circuit output for cooperatively employing the first pumping circuit to pump up from a voltage greater than the first voltage to produce a third voltage at a third voltage level that is higher than the second voltage level.
US07839666B1	Optimizing operation of DC-to-AC power converter In one embodiment, a power converter system includes an input terminal for receiving a DC input voltage. The power converter system delivers AC power to a load at an output terminal. A transformer is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal. The transformer has a first winding, a second winding, and a third winding. The output terminal is coupled to the second winding. A half-bridge circuit, coupled between the input terminal and the first winding of the transformer, includes a first switch and a second switch coupled at a common node. The first and second switches are operable to be turned on and off for causing current to flow in the transformer during operation of the power converter system. Circuitry is close coupled to the first winding of the transformer. The circuitry is operable to provide a current path for transformer magnetizing current and reflected load current when both the first and second switches of the half-bridge circuit are turned off, thereby preventing energy from being fed back to the half-bridge circuit.
US07839657B2	Position adjustable printed circuit board A circuit board assembly includes a mother board and a daughter board. The daughter board is defined by a plurality of frangible connections to the mother board and is disposed on a common plane with the mother board. After all the electronic devices are installed to the mother board and the daughter board on a common plane the frangible connections are broken to allow the daughter board to be moved to a desired position relative to the mother board. The electrical conductors that connect the daughter board to the mother board are semi-rigid to provide movement while maintaining a desired position of the daughter board relative to the mother board.
US07839652B2	Semiconductor device and printed circuit board For a multi-terminal semiconductor package, such as a BGA or a CSP, that handles high-speed differential signals, a high-speed signal is assigned to the innermost located electrode pad on an interposer substrate, and the electrode pad is connected to the outermost located ball pad on the interposer substrate. With this arrangement, the length of a plating stub can be considerably reduced, and the adverse affect on a signal waveform can be minimized. This arrangement is especially effective for differential signal lines.
US07839647B2	Insulating film, printed circuit board substrate and printed circuit board including same An insulating film includes a first polymer layer, a second polymer layer and an electromagnetic shielding layer sandwiched between the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer. The electromagnetic shielding layer includes a number of carbon nanotube films that are substantially parallel to the first and second polymer layer. Each of the carbon nanotube films includes a number of carbon nanotubes that are substantially parallel to each other. The insulating film can provide anti-EMI effect in printed circuit boards without employing additional electromagnetic shielding layers.
US07839645B2	Module having at least two surfaces and at least one thermally conductive layer therebetween A module is electrically connectable to a computer system. The module includes a plurality of electrical contacts which are electrically connectable to the computer system. The module further includes a first surface and a first plurality of circuits coupled to the first surface. The first plurality of circuits is in electrical communication with the electrical contacts. The module further includes a second surface and a second plurality of circuits coupled to the second surface. The second plurality of circuits is in electrical communication with the electrical contacts. The second surface faces the first surface. The module further includes at least one thermally conductive layer positioned between the first surface and the second surface. The at least one thermally conductive layer is in thermal communication with the first plurality of circuits, the second plurality of circuits, and a first set of the plurality of electrical contacts.
US07839643B1	Heat spreader for memory modules A heat spreader is provided for use with a memory module. The memory module has at least a first side with a first plurality of integrated circuits thereon. The heat spreader includes a first segment mountable on the memory module to be in thermal communication with a plurality of integrated circuits on the first side, and to be substantially thermally isolated from at least one integrated circuit on the first side. The heat spreader further includes a second segment mountable on the memory module to be in thermal communication with the at least one integrated circuit on the first side that is substantially thermally isolated from the first segment.
US07839642B2	Heat-sink brace for fault-force support A support system for an electrical device arranges the plurality of heat-sink assemblies in an orientation that allows the forces associated with an electrical fault that are transferred to the support structure to be reduced. The arrangement allows the electrical fault forces to cancel one another out such that the resulting net force applied to the support structure is significantly reduced. The size, strength and/or robustness of the support system can be reduced as the forces transmitted thereto are greatly reduced. The heat-sink assemblies can be arranged to facilitate ease of maintenance by allowing the heat-sink assemblies to be removed from a front access panel of the electrical device.
US07839640B2	Electronic device and a thermal connector used therein An electronic device comprises: a housing; blades each of which is detachable from the housing and on each of which at least CPU and a memory are mounted; first cooling devices each of that takes out heat generated in the blade outside the blade, each of said first cooling device having a heat release part in the form of an elongate column to be fixed to the blade; second cooling devices fixed to the housing to discharge heat transported from the first cooling devices outside the housing, each of said second cooling devices having a heat absorbing part, which is capable of containing the heat release part of the first cooling device; medium reservoirs each of which is put in fluid communication with a clearance, which is formed between the heat release part and the heat absorbing part when the heat release part is inserted into the heat absorbing part; a heat conducting medium stored in each of the medium reservoirs; pressurizing devices for pressurizing the heat conducting medium to supply the heat conducting medium to the clearance, and a detachable connecting part formed between the heat release part and the heat absorbing part.
US07839637B2	Air-cooling of electronics cards In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a card chamber, an air intake, an airway, an exhaust plenum, and at least one fan. At least one electronics card can be supported in the card chamber. Ambient air from outside the apparatus can flow into the card chamber via the air intake. The airway is located across the card chamber from the air intake. Air flows substantially linearly across the card chamber from the intake to the airway. The exhaust plenum is located adjacent the card chamber and the airway. The fan is operable to draw air from the airway into the exhaust plenum.
US07839635B2	Exhaust air duct with adjustable filler panel assemblies An adjustable filler panel assembly, configured for use in an electronic equipment enclosure, includes a first panel and a second panel, each adapted to block airflow. The first panel has pairs of horizontally aligned adjustment openings formed therein, and the second panel has a pair of horizontally aligned attachment members disposed near one end. The first and second panels are connected to one another in an overlapping arrangement to form an air-blocking panel assembly with the attachment members of the second panel being aligned with and connected to a pair of adjustment openings of the first panel. In addition, the first panel and the second panel are telescopically adjustable relative to one another such that a length of the air-blocking panel assembly is selectively adjustable to fill at least a portion of an opening in the electronic equipment enclosure, thereby blocking air from flowing through the opening.
US07839629B2	Fixture for a disk drive A fixture for fixing a disk drive inside a computer case is disclosed. The fixture includes a body, wherein at least a screw eye is set on the body to fix the body on the disk drive; at least a positioning brace and at least an elastic buckle extending from said body in a direction away from the disk drive to fix the body inside the computer case.
US07839628B1	Computer system expansion device adaptable for internal and external use Systems and apparatus for providing supplemental functionality to a computer system with an expansion card adaptable for both internal and external coupling to the computer system. An expansion card has a bracket for internally coupling to a host computer and a housing for external coupling to a host computer. The expansion card may receive power from the host computer via an edge connector when internally coupled and through a power adapter via a power port when externally coupled. The expansion card may further receive data from the host computer via the edge connector when internally coupled and through an external bus when externally coupled. When externally coupled, the expansion card is mounted within a housing that may be mounted to an outside surface of a computer rack to preserve space within the rack.
US07839624B2	Industrial computer chassis structure with power source disposed centrally An industrial computer chassis structure is mainly to partition at least two motherboard sections in the shell of the computer chassis, in each of which a motherboard tray capable of being pulled and drawn is arranged and is provided for placing a motherboard therein. Meanwhile, the two motherboard sections are horizontally disposed by being parallel with each other, in the space between which a power source arrangement section is formed. The power source arrangement section is provided for arranging power supplies of the computer therein. Through this kind of disposition structure, all motherboards in the motherboard sections can be close to the power source arrangement section as near as possible, such that a function of common usage can be achieved for both the hardware connection and the software system control.
US07839622B2	Trench capacitor device suitable for decoupling applications in high-frequency operation A capacitor device, an electronic circuit comprising a capacitor device, an electronic component, and a method of forming a capacitor device are described. In the capacitor device, a current-path region extends from one of two trench capacitor electrodes to a respective contact structure. The current-path region is obtainable by thinning the substrate from an original substrate thickness down to reduced substrate thickness either in a lateral substrate portion containing the capacitor region or over the complete lateral extension of the substrate before forming the first and second contact structures. The capacitor device exhibits a reduced impedance in the current-path region. This reduced impedance implies a low self-inductance and self-resistance that is caused by the current-path region. The low self-inductance provides an improved signal suppression over a broadened spectral range in a circuit configuration that employs the capacitor device as a bypass capacitor between a signal line and ground potential.
US07839609B2	Auxiliary lighting circuit for a gaseous discharge lamp A non-arcing electrical switch for use with an auxiliary light source for a gaseous discharge lamp includes a current sensing component, a timer power component, an off-delay timer, a voltage control component, and a phase control component. When the light output from the gaseous discharge lamp is interrupted, or during the initial warm up of the gaseous discharge lamp, the non-arcing electrical switch activates an auxiliary lamp to supply temporary illumination. The electrical switch has improved reset reliability and repeatability while decreasing the reset period required during momentary interruptions of the gaseous discharge lamp. Furthermore, the electrical switch requires no negative or minus power supply in order to initiate reset and operates at voltages of less than two volts.
US07839607B2	Method to reduce corner shunting during fabrication of CPP read heads A method is presented for fabricating a CPP read head having a CPP read head sensor and a hard bias layer which includes forming a strip of sensor material in a sensor material region, and depositing strips of fast-milling dielectric material in first and second fast-milling dielectric material regions adjacent to the sensor material region. A protective layer and a layer of masking material are deposited on the strip of sensor material and the strips of fast-milling dielectric material to provide masked areas and exposed areas. A shaping source, such as an ion milling source, is provided which shapes the exposed areas. Hard bias material is then deposited on the regions of sensor material and fast-milling dielectric material to form caps on each of these regions. The caps of hard bias material and the masking material are then removed from each of these regions.
US07839605B2	Electrical signal-processing device integrating a flux sensor with a flux generator in a magnetic circuit An electrical signal processing device includes at least one thin film flux generator and at least one thin film magnetic sensor. Each flux generator includes at least one conductive induction line that is connected to at least one lead of a pair of input leads, and a yoke that surrounds the conductive induction line. The yoke has at least one pair of pole tips, and a gap is disposed between the end surfaces of each pair of pole tips. A magnetic sensor is disposed in the gap, and a pair of output leads is connected to the sensor. An alternative embodiment may include two or more conductive induction lines that are connected to respective separate pairs of input leads. Alternatively, two or more conductive induction lines may connect to one another to form an induction coil. The flux generator and magnetic sensor are preferably formed on a single substrate to create an integrated device.
US07839603B2	Magnetic head device and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic head device performs a recording operation and a reproducing operation in a linear magnetic tape recording system having a plurality of tracks that are formed parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction of a tape. The magnetic head device includes a recording head block including a plurality of recording heads that are disposed in correspondence with respective tracks in a first area including the tracks that are adjacent to each other. The magnetic head device performs the recording operation on the tracks that are adjacent to each other at the same time with the recording head block.
US07839601B2	Method and apparatus for easy spring replacement in a deep slot storage library A deep slot tape cartridge library module including a main wall having two major surfaces; a pair of side walls in spaced relation to each other and each extending orthogonally to both major surfaces whereby the main wall and side walls form a substantially “H” shaped structure; an opening in the main wall, the opening extending longitudinally along the main wall a relatively short distance; a spring clip configured complimentarily to the opening and removably retainable therein; and a spring fixedly connected to the spring clip. A method for replacing a spring of a high density tape library where a spring assembly and main wall are utilized, the method including identifying a slot having a failed spring; emptying the identified slot of tape cartridges; extracting the spring assembly from the main wall; and replacing the spring assembly with a non-failed spring assembly.
US07839593B1	Magneto-resistive biasing methods and systems A biasing device for a magneto-resistive element, including a first bias supply circuit coupled to the magneto-resistive element; and a first bias control circuit coupled to the first bias supply circuit, the first bias control circuit capable of controlling the first bias supply circuit to provide a first calibration mode bias signal during a calibration mode and a first operating mode bias signal during an operating mode, the first operating mode bias signal having a lower noise level than the first calibration mode bias signal.
US07839592B2	Magnetic head driving circuit with protection function A magnetic recording and reproducing device is a hard disk device which writes information onto a magnetic disk (not shown), or reads information therefrom, and includes: a reproducing head; a recording head; and a magnetic head driving circuit. The magnetic head driving circuit is a circuit, by which driving of the reproducing head and the recording head is controlled, and onto which the reproducing head, a recording head driving circuit, a control unit, and a variable impedance element are integrated. This magnetic head driving circuit is switched on a time division base to a read mode during reproducing operation, and to a write mode during recording operation. The control unit reduces the impedance of the variable impedance element during the write mode.
US07839589B2	Write current waveform asymmetry compensation A write current circuit (300, 400) adapted to drive a thin film write head (202) of a mass media information storage device. The write current circuit (300, 400) further includes programming circuitry (311, 411) driven such that parameters of the write current waveform can be varied, including the write current overshoot amplitude and/or overshoot duration. The present invention achieves technical advantages by providing the ability to program out or adjust for system introduced asymmetries in the write current waveform.
US07839578B2	Optical apparatus An optical apparatus includes an optical system in which two zoom lens units perform zooming in different ranges in accordance with a zoom position, and a mechanism for driving the two zoom lens units by a single driving portion. An urging force for urging moving members toward an interlocking movement member that is moved along the optical axis by a feed screw is cut off by regulating portions.
US07839573B2	Device for homogenizing radiation by means of irregular microlens arrays A device for the homogenization of radiation, preferably light, using chirped microlens arrays (cMLA) from the established regular microlens arrays (rMLA), chirped microlens arrays are an arrangement of non-identical lenses in one array. Non-identical means that the lens parameters of the lenses of the array, such as e.g. the radius of curvature, the free diameter, vertex position, and others, can vary from lens to lens or cell to cell. The parameters of each lens or cell can be determined by functions (analytically, numerically), the functions preferably being dependent upon the position of the cell or the lens in the array.
US07839572B2	Laminated lens package and method of fabricating the same A laminated lens package and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The laminated lens package includes a first lens layer including a first lens element formed at one surface thereof through a first mold; a second lens layer including a second lens element formed at one surface thereof through a second mold, corresponding to a location of the first lens element; and a polymer layer provided between the first lens layer and the second lens layer. Accordingly, desired refraction can be implemented by controlling a refractive index. Also, since no spacers are used, defects caused by adhesion of an adhesive agent do not occur. Thus, a fabrication process is simplified, so that productivity can be improved and a fabrication cost can be reduced.
US07839571B2	Color-separation optical system and imaging apparatus A curve representing a characteristic of a blue-light reflecting dichroic film DB and a curve representing a characteristic of a red-light reflecting dichroic film DR are configured to have shapes that track an ideal spectral characteristic of green. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a characteristic approximated to the ideal spectral characteristic without using a trimming filter having a dichroic film in an exiting surface of a prism. Since it is not necessary to use the trimming filter having the dichroic film, it is possible to prevent ghost and flare from occurring due to the dichroic film of the trimming filter. Accordingly, it is possible to embody an imaging apparatus having the ideal spectral characteristic with ghost and flare being reduced.
US07839568B2	Bi-stable projection screen A bi-stable projection screen includes a light diffusion unit and a bi-stable display unit stacked together. The bi-stable display unit, when actuated, selectively operates in a first mode or a second mode. When operating in the first mode (e.g., a transmission mode or a reflection mode), the bi-stable display unit receives a projection light from a front projection or a rear projection, and emits the projection light after modulation. When operating in the second mode (a non-transmission mode or a non-reflection mode), the bi-stable display unit is a pattern to become a part of a scene. The light diffusion unit receives and diffuses the modulated projection light to be perceived by human eyes.
US07839567B2	Deployable reflector in the form of a reuleaux triangle for a space observation instrument A deployable reflector (RP), for a space observation instrument is disclosed. The deployable reflector has a chosen number of deployable reflecting elements (E1a-E3b) suitable, once deployed in a first position, for together defining a reflecting area in the form of a so-called Reuleaux triangle (RD) with closed convex curve whose width is constant as a function of direction.
US07839558B2	Electrowetting display and methods for manufacturing the same An electrowetting display comprises a first substrate and a second substrate. A plurality of first conductive electrodes is formed over the first substrate. A second conductive layer is formed over the second substrate and spaced apart from the plurality of the first conductive electrodes. A plurality of cells is formed over the first conductive electrodes. Each cell is formed between one of the first conductive electrodes and the second conductive layer. Each two adjacent cells being separated by a partition. At least two cells include a first material and a second material over the first material. The at least two cells have two different colors. A shape of the first material is capable of being changed upon a change of an electrical field between the first conductive electrode and the second conductive layer.
US07839554B2	Multiple-quantum well structure with electric field control In one aspect, the invention provides a defect multiple-quantum-well structure for manipulation of reflection and transmission of light by way of optical control of spatial distribution of electric field across the defect multiple-quantum-well structure. The defect multiple-quantum-well structure includes a pair of terminal multiple-quantum-well structures and a central multiple-quantum-well structure. The central multiple-quantum-well structure is sandwiched between the pair of terminal multiple-quantum-well structures. Each of the pair of terminal multiple-quantum-well structures has a band gap profile, and the central multiple-quantum-well structure has a band gap profile. The band gap profile of the central multiple-quantum-well structure is greater than the band gap profile of each of the pair of terminal multiple-quantum-well structures.
US07839548B2	Video hologram and device for reconstructing video holograms The invention relates to video holograms and devices for reconstructing video holograms, comprising an optical system that consists of a light source, lens and the video hologram that is composed of cells arranged in a matrix or a regular pattern with at least one opening per cell, the phase or amplitude of said opening being controllable. The video holograms and devices for reconstructing the same are characterized in that holographic video representations of expanded spatial objects can be achieved in a wide viewing area in real time using controllable displays, whereby the objects are either computer-generated or created by different means. The space-bandwidth product (SBP) of the hologram is thus reduced to a minimum and the periodicity interval of the Fourier spectrum is used as a viewing window on the inverse transformation plane, through which the object is visible in the preceding space. The mobility of the viewer(s) is achieved by tracking the viewing window. The invention can be advantageously used in the television, multimedia, games and construction fields, in military and medical technology, in addition to other economic and social areas.
US07839547B2	Optical fiber illumination device and inspection apparatus An inspection apparatus includes a light source unit which irradiates illumination light onto a hologram of a medium from a predetermined direction at which diffraction light from the hologram is obtained, a first light receiving member which receives the diffraction light from the hologram, a second light receiving member which receives transmitted part of illumination light irradiated onto the hologram, having passed through the medium, and an identification processing unit which identifies authenticity of the hologram from the diffraction light received by the first light receiving member and identifies a defect of the hologram from the transmitted light received by the second light receiving member.
US07839537B2	Method and apparatus for multi-color printing using a rosette or diamond halftone screen for one or more of the colors A method and apparatus for processing image data representing a color separation or mono-color image includes processing the color separation image data or mono-color image data in accordance with first and second or more halftone screen processings at different screen angles and obtaining results of the processings and combining the results of the processings to generate composite image data of the first and second or more halftone screen processings. The resulting print of the composite image data forms relatively pleasing rosettes or diamond structures in the particular color.
US07839535B2	Printing device that performs image processing on image data, printing method, and computer program product A printing device comprising: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire image data; an image processing unit configured to generate display image data and printing image data based on the image data by with pixel value of a pixel at a first position in an image of the printing image data, performing an image process of modifying a pixel value of a first subject pixel of the printing image data at the first position or another position, the first position being determined according to a first parameter P1, with pixel value of a pixel at a second position in an image of the display image data, performing an image process of modifying a pixel value of a second subject pixel of the display image data at the second position or another position, the second position being determined according to a second parameter P2, and determining the second parameter P2 such that a ratio (P2/P1) of the second parameter P2 and the first parameter P1 is in a specified range that includes a ratio (Px2/Px1) of a display pixel count Px2 representing a size of the image of the display image data and a printing pixel count Px1 representing a size of the image of the printing image data; a display unit configured to display an image based on the display image data; and a printing unit configured to perform printing based on the printing image data.
US07839531B2	Printing control method When multiple print jobs that include banner printing are combined and prescribed manipulation settings are specified, data for banner printing is processed separately of the multiple items of print data and the multiple items of print data are combined into a single item of print data, and newly created data for banner printing and the print data that has been combined is output. As a result, it is possible to avoid problems that arise from the combining of jobs for which banner printing settings and settings for finishing processing or layout processing have been made concurrently, and a user can be provided with the optimum printout by adapting processing in accordance with circumstances.
US07839529B2	Data communication apparatus and method A document transmission apparatus reduces troublesome labor of an operator when transmitting document data, inputted from a scanner or the like, by various transmission methods such as electronic mail, facsimile, remote printing and file transfer. An address book containing a receiver and a plurality of transmission methods for transmitting document data to the receiver is generated. Upon transmission instruction, an appropriate transmission method is selected by the receiver, then document data is converted into data of an appropriate data format, and the converted data is transmitted. Further, a notice of transmission indicating that the document data has been transmitted is transmitted to the receiver of the document data by a method different from the transmission method of the document data. Thus, the document data can be reliably delivered to the receiver.
US07839525B2	Apparatus, system and method of providing internet print service via home network Provided are an apparatus, system and method for providing an Internet print service in a home network, more particularly, an apparatus, system and method for more conveniently providing an Internet print service via a UPnP printer in a home network. The apparatus includes a UPnP printer managing unit supplying an interface to provide an Internet print service and receiving a print job request from a UPnP printer control point; a job-processing unit making a request for a print service to an external Internet print site in response to the print job request; and a user-information-managing unit managing information necessary when the Internet print service is used.
US07839524B2	Electronic document print system, electronic document generation apparatus and method, print control apparatus and method, and computer-readable medium There is provided an electronic document print system comprising an electronic document generation apparatus and a print control apparatus. The print control apparatus included an identification information storage unit that stores output destination identification information corresponding to the print control apparatus, and a control unit that extracts output destination identification information from an obtained electronic document, causes a printing apparatus to print content data in the electronic document if the extracted output destination identification information matches the output destination identification information corresponding to the print control apparatus stored in the identification information storage unit, and performs erroneous transmission notification processing using erroneous transmission guidance data in the electronic document if no match is obtained.
US07839519B2	Imaging device An imaging device is configured to operable in a normal print mode and in an economical print mode. The imaging device includes an image storage, a cost calculating system that calculates a normal print cost representing a cost when the image is printed in the normal print mode, an upper limit setting system that sets an upper limit of the print cost. Further provided is an adjustment parameter determining system that determines an adjustment parameter representative of reduced quantity of consumable substances when the image data is printed. The adjustment parameter is calculated based on the upper limit and the normal print cost such that a print cost is suppressed below the upper limit if the image data stored in the image storage is printed in accordance with the adjustment parameter. A printing system is provided to print the image in accordance with the adjustment parameter.
US07839517B1	Image processing system, and image processing apparatus and portable information communication device for use in the image processing system The image processing system includes a portable information communication device that displays images based on received image information, sets a displayed image, for which specification input is made based on a timing at which the displayed image is displayed, as a specified image, creates processing indicator information that indicates contents of processing to be performed on the specified image set through the specification input, and transmits image information and the processing indicator information of the specified image and an image processing apparatus that is connected to the portable information communication device through a communication line, receives the image information and the processing indicator information of the specified image and performs image processing on the received image information of the specified image based on the received processing indicator information.
US07839516B2	Printing control method and apparatus When registration of favorite is designated in a group printer driver capable of comprehensively controlling a plurality of member printer drivers, a name input window is presented. When the name of the favorite is input, DEVMODE information is acquired from each member printer driver in the present member printer configuration (e.g., printers A, B, and C). These pieces of DEVMODE information are registered in one-to-one correspondence with printer IDs. If the registered favorite is designated, the registered DEVMODE information is transferred to each registered member printer driver to restore the set state. This provides a mechanism capable of efficient printing setting for a plurality of printer drivers.
US07839512B2	Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program Printing apparatus including a layout setting screen. The layout setting screen includes a layout selection area for displaying choices of a layout corresponding to a selected print media, a list display area for displaying a list of printing previews of a plurality of pages in accordance with the selected layout, and a preview display area for displaying the printing preview of the page selected in the list display area, on a larger scale than that in the list display area. If the choice of the layout in the layout selection area is changed while the layout setting screen is being displayed, the apparatus changes the display in each of the list display area and the preview display area to a display corresponding to the layout of the changed choice.
US07839511B2	Method, systems of devices, and computer program product for the document-related extension of a resource-structured document data flow In a method and system for enhancement of an input document data stream which comprises at least one input format file comprising format definitions and an input document data file structured in at least one of ranges and sub-ranges and containing variable data, the data stream is enhanced with finishing commands. In a control file, defining level structures that correspond to at least one of the ranges and sub-ranges of the input document data file. In a control file, associating the finishing commands with levels. Using the control file, the input format file and the input document data file the following are automatically generated by a computer program module. a) an output format file that contains the finishing commands in callable groups, and b) an output document data file containing the variable data and group calls associated by at least one of range-by-range and sub-range-by-sub-range.
US07839508B2	Surface plasmon resonance sensor and sensor chip A sensor chip has a metal layer formed on a surface of a substrate, where a plurality of microscopic concave part is formed in a measurement region of the surface of the metal layer. When light of linear polarization is irradiated onto the measurement region, local resonance electric field generates at opposing metal layer surfaces in the concave part. The reflected light thereof is received to measure reflectance. The light of linear polarization is irradiated so that the polarizing surface becomes orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the concave part.
US07839503B2	Method and system for a solar simulator System and method for testing solar cells is provided. The system includes a first light source configured to generate a first optical beam; a second light source configured to generate a second optical beam; a reflector for each light source, configured to collimate and direct each of the first optical beam and the second optical beam; a spectral filter assembly associated with each of the first light source and the second light source, the spectral filter assembly configured to (a) receive the first optical beam and the second optical beam (b) split each of the first optical beam and the second optical beam into “N” smaller optical beams, and (c) filter the “N” smaller optical beams; a re-imaging assembly for each spectral filter assembly configured to re-image the smaller “N” optical beam at a dichroic mirror that receives one or more N beams.
US07839501B2	Method, apparatus and system for measuring the transparency of film A method is disclosed for measuring four factors contributing to transparency of a colored film, namely, Haze, Scatter, Gloss and Bronze values by utilizing a diffuse sphere spectrophotometer.
US07839499B2	Hydrogen sensor A hydrogen sensor for detecting/quantitating hydrogen and hydrogen isotopes includes a sampling line and a microplasma generator that excites hydrogen from a gas sample and produces light emission from excited hydrogen. A power supply provides power to the microplasma generator, and a spectrometer generates an emission spectrum from the light emission. A programmable computer is adapted for determining whether or not the gas sample includes hydrogen, and for quantitating the amount of hydrogen and/or hydrogen isotopes are present in the gas sample.
US07839497B1	Phase compensator for coupling an electromagnetic wave into an optical condenser An apparatus comprising a phase compensator and an optical condenser in communication with the phase compensator. The phase compensator provides for phase shifting a portion of an electromagnetic wave. The optical condenser is shaped to direct the electromagnetic wave to a focal region of the optical condenser.
US07839494B2	Ophthalmic surgical microscope having an OCT-system An ophthalmic surgical microscope (100) has a microscope main objective (101) and a viewing beam path (105) which passes through the microscope main objective (101) for visualizing an object region. The ophthalmic surgical microscope (100) includes an OCT-system (140) for recording images of the object region (108). The OCT-system (140) includes an OCT-scanning beam (142) which is guided via a scan mirror arrangement (146) to the object region (108). An optic element (147) is provided between the scan mirror arrangement (146) and the microscope main objective (101). This optic element (147) bundles the OCT-scanning radiation exiting from the scan mirror arrangement (146) and transfers the same into a beam path which passes through the microscope main objective (101). Alternatively or in addition, the ophthalmic surgical microscope (100) includes an opthalmoscopic magnifier lens (132) which can be pivoted into and out of the viewing beam path (105) and the OCT-scanning beam (142).
US07839489B2	Assembly of a reticle holder and a reticle A system for use in a lithographic apparatus includes an assembly of a reticle and a reticle holder. The reticle includes a marker. The system also includes a position detector arranged to detect the reticle marker to position the reticle with respect to the reticle holder, and a storage container constructed and arranged to store the assembly during the positioning of the reticle with respect to the reticle holder. The reticle holder and the detector are arranged to be kinematically aligned with respect to each other.
US07839479B2	Thin film transistor array substrate comprising a first insulating layer completely covering the dummy testing pad, display using the same, and fabrication method thereof A display and a method of manufacturing the same, including a substrate including an image displaying part comprising a plurality of pixels, a dummy testing pad, and a first insulating layer covering the dummy testing pad.
US07839462B2	Pixel structure of liquid crystal display panel and method of making the same A pixel structure of a liquid crystal display panel and the method thereof is provided. The gate electrode and data line of the pixel structure are formed by a first patterned conductive layer, the scan line is formed by a second patterned conductive layer, and the common electrode and the pixel electrode are formed on a substrate. The common electrode, the pixel electrode, and the insulating layer disposed therebetween compose a storage capacitor. Also, the pixel or the common electrode has a slit structure.
US07839461B2	Electro-optical device substrate, method of manufacturing the same, electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device that includes a transistor and an insulating film over the semiconductor layer of the transistor. The insulating film has an opening portion that overlaps the channel region. The gate electrode of the transistor includes a body portion arranged in the opening portion of the insulating film and an elongated portion that extends onto the insulating film so as to cover the second junction portion of the transistor. The second junction region is located in an intersection region of a non-aperture region of the display pixel.
US07839460B2	Thin film transistor array panel for liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor array panel is disclosed. A gate wiring pattern is formed on an insulating substrate. A gate insulating layer is formed on the gate wiring pattern. A semiconductor pattern is formed on the gate insulating layer. A transparent conductive layer is formed on the gate insulating layer. The transparent conductive layer is patterned to form a pixel electrode. An opening is formed at a circumference of the pixel electrode. The opening minimizes misalignment during the manufacturing process and prevents shorts between a data line and the pixel electrode.
US07839458B2	Liquid crystal optical element having grouped concentric electrodes A first electrode of a liquid crystal cell (21) is composed of a plurality of concentric electrodes (31 to 34) of a concentrically circular shape, the plurality of concentric electrodes are divided into a first group of concentric electrodes (44) near the center and a second group of concentric electrodes (45) near the periphery, and a concentric electrode between the two groups is an independent single electrode (36). A first correction unit that corrects spherical aberration of a high density DVD is composed of the two groups and a second correction unit that corrects aberration of a conventional DVD is composed of the first group of concentric electrodes (44). In the case of correcting the aberration of the conventional DVD, the independent concentric electrode (36) is supplied with a voltage between the voltages respectively supplied to adjacent concentric electrodes (35), (37). In the case of correcting the aberration of the high density DVD, the independent concentric electrode (36) is supplied with a voltage equal to the voltage supplied to the concentric electrode immediately lateral thereto (37).
US07839451B2	Apparatuses and methods for a camera head enclosure device for facilitating improved imaging A camera head enclosure apparatus configured to allow the interchangeability of photo-electric pixel arrays used in various applications is provided. A personality plate configured to receive and secure a photo-electric pixel array of a particular configuration provided on a chip is provided. The exemplary embodiments allow a user to interchange photo-electric pixel arrays, and personality plates, while using the same camera head enclosure, thus enabling the camera head enclosure to be adapted to a different photo-electric pixel array eliminating the need to custom make camera head enclosures for each application. The camera head enclosure apparatus may include carriers configured to hold circuit boards associated with the particular photo-electric pixel array selected. Additionally or alternatively, the camera head enclosure apparatus may include an aperture adjustment assembly permitting alignment of the camera aperture with the photo-electric pixel array providing the capability to accommodate different types, sizes, and configurations of photo-electric pixel arrays.
US07839447B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus for performing efficient signal processing depending on the operational mode. In the finder mode, a CCD interface 21a decimates horizontal components of image data supplied from an image generating unit 10 to one-third and moreover processes the decimated image data with data conversion and resolution conversion to produce Y, Cb and Cr image data which are routed to and written in an image memory 32 over a memory controller 22. In the recording mode, the CCD interface 21a causes the image data from the image generating unit 10 to be written in the image memory 32 via memory controller 22 after decimation and gamma correction etc. The camera DSP 21c reads out the image data via memory controller 22 from the image memory 32 to effect data conversion for writing the resulting data via memory controller 22 in the image memory 32.
US07839443B2	Imaging apparatus and signal processing method for correcting deterioration of the image signal An imaging apparatus which enables correction of signal deterioration responsible for transfer deterioration occurred in a horizontal charge transfer path is provided. Provided that positions of “n” transfer packet formed in a horizontal charge transfer path in correspondence to “n” vertical charge transfer paths are expressed as a coordinate “i” (i=1, 2, 3, . . . n), a solid-state imaging device is exposed under exposure conditions, and reference charges generated in photoelectric conversion elements upon the exposure are accumulated in transfer packets located at odd coordinates. The charge accumulation packets accumulating the reference charges and other empty packets are transferred horizontally, whereby a reference signal responsive to the reference charge and an untransferred signal responsive to a charge in the empty packet are output. The thus-output signals are stored in memory. Deterioration of an imaging signal S(i) responsive to the charge accumulated in the transfer packet located at the coordinate “i” in a photographing mode during exposure is compensated for in accordance with the data stored in the memory and the imaging signal S(i).
US07839437B2	Image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and computer program capable of obtaining high-quality image data by controlling imbalance among sensitivities of light-receiving devices An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that has high-sensitivity pixel devices receiving a relatively large amount of light and low-sensitivity pixel devices receiving a relatively small amount of light, an exposure control unit independently controlling exposure periods of the high-sensitivity pixel devices and the low-sensitivity pixel devices, and an image generation unit performing image generation on the basis of an output signal of the image pickup device. The image generation unit compares a high-sensitivity pixel evaluation image generated using data output from the high-sensitivity pixel devices with a low-sensitivity pixel evaluation image generated using data output from the low-sensitivity pixel devices by obtaining a difference or ratio between pixel values of corresponding pixels in the two evaluation images, and performs different types of image processing for a region composed of pixels each having a small difference and a region composed of pixels each having a large difference.
US07839420B2	Auto stacking of time related images Digital images may be grouped based on attributes of the images. To represent this grouping, the representations of the digital images are arranged into stacks.
US07839415B2	Method and system for improved internet color The present invention provides a technique for providing color corrected images to a user over a network. In particular, the present invention allows multiple image providers to provide color corrected images to a user when the user's computer and its associated devices are not calibrated and/or characterized, or the calibration and/or characterization data is not available over the network to the image providers. This abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the rules requiring an abstract to allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure contained herein. This abstract is submitted with the express understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
US07839413B2	Dithering method for an LCD A dithering method for an LCD is disclosed and comprises a plurality of steps. First, a plurality of long-bit gray-level signals are received. Each of the long-bit gray-level signal is transformed to a short-bit gray-level signal and at least one LSB is obtained based on the bit length difference between the long-bit gray-level signal and the short-bit gray-level signal. A sequence of frames is generated by the short-bit gray-level signals, and the frames can be classified into different groups according to the LSB. The offset pattern is applied on the frames, wherein the offset pattern is displayed at the same polarity in the same column of each frame in the same group.
US07839408B2	Dynamic scene descriptor method and apparatus A method for rendering a frame of animation includes retrieving scene descriptor data that specifies at least one object, wherein the object is associated with a first database query, wherein the first database query is associated with a first rendering option, receiving a selection of the first rendering option or a second rendering option, querying a database with the first database query and receiving a first representation of the object from a database when the selection is of the first rendering option, loading the first representation of the object into computer memory when the selection is of the first rendering option, and rendering the object for the frame of animation using the first representation of the object when the selection is of the first rendering option, wherein the first representation of the object is not loaded into computer memory when the selection is of the second rendering option.
US07839403B2	Simultaneous generation of different data sets from a single acquisition run and dual rendering of images In a method and system for dual rendering of images, a first volume image is reconstructed with a computer. A second volume image is reconstructed with the computer. The first reconstructed volume image is adjusted for a desired rendering. The second volume image is adjusted for desired rendering. A dual rendering of the first and second volume images is displayed where one of the volume images can be seen through the other volume image. Also, a simultaneous generation of different types of reconstructed data sets out of a single acquisition run for those data sets corresponding to the dual rendered images is provided for. The diagnostic questions is shown in FIG. 5.
US07839397B2	Display driver and display panel module A display driver includes: a first memory circuit for storing a line of pixels constituting an image; a second memory circuit for storing pixels of the immediately previous line; an output terminal pair switch circuit which outputs voltages each corresponding to a value of a pixel stored in the first memory circuit to a plurality of output terminals respectively corresponding to the pixels; and an inter-terminal load determination circuit for determining, for every pair of selected columns of pixels constituting the image, whether or not a short circuit is to be established between two of the plurality of output terminals which respectively correspond to the two selected columns based on values of at least three out of four pixels belonging to the two selected columns which are stored in the first and second memory circuits. If the inter-terminal load determination circuit determines that a short circuit is to be established, the output terminal pair switch circuit temporarily establishes a short circuit between the two output terminals before the voltages corresponding to the values of the pixels are output to the two output terminals.
US07839394B2	Electronic pen device Various electronic pen devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an electronic pen with an improved ultrasound transducer (i.e. transmitter or receiver) is provided. In one embodiment an electronic pen with an improved ‘pen up/pen down’ detector is provided In one embodiment, an electronic pen with an improved structure for transmitting infrared light is provided. In one embodiment, an improved electronic pen that may be operated in pen mode or mouse mode is provided.
US07839387B2	Method, sensing device and optical pointing device including a sensing device for comparing light intensity between pixels A method for operating an optical motion sensing device comprising a light source and a photodetector device, said method comprises the steps of: a) illuminating a surface portion with radiation by means of the light source; b) detecting radiation patterns reflected from the illuminated surface portion by means of the photodetector device; c) extracting motion features from the detected radiation patterns by comparing light intensity between neighbouring pixels of said photodetector device by means of comparators with a determined hysteresis threshold; d) detecting and measuring displacement with respect to the illuminated surface portion based on said extracted motion features; e) determining whether the optical motion sensing device is moving or at rest; f) adjusting said determined hysteresis threshold of the comparators between at least a low and a high hysteresis values, consisting in selecting said low hysteresis value when the optical motion sensing device is moving and selecting said high hysteresis value when the optical motion sensing device is at rest.
US07839385B2	Methods and systems for enhancing television applications using 3D pointing Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a control framework for organizing, selecting and launching media items including graphical user interfaces coupled with an optional 3D control device for collection of the basic control primitives of point, click, scroll, hover and zoom which permit for easy and rapid selection of media items, e.g., movies, songs etc., from large or small collections. The remote control maps natural hand movements and gestures into relevant commands while the graphical display uses images, zooming for increased/decreased levels of detail and continuity of GUI objects to provide easy organization, selection and navigation among the media items by a user.
US07839381B2	Driving method for an electrophoretic display with accurate greyscale and minimized average power consumption An image is updated on a bi-stable display (310) such as an electrophoretic display in successive frame periods by accessing data defining a set of voltage waveforms for the successive frame periods. At least a portion of the bi-stable display is driven during the successive frame periods according to the accessed data so that a longer frame period (FT, 1302, 1304, 1402, 1502, 1602, 1702, 1802) is used during at least a first portion of the voltage waveforms, and a shorter frame period (FT′) is used during at least a second portion of the voltage waveforms. For example, the longer frame period may be an elongated frame period, which is the longest period during which each of the voltage waveforms has a respective constant voltage value.
US07839378B2	Detection of view mode A unit for an method of analyzing received image data to determine whether the received image data corresponds to a single-view or to multiple views is disclosed. The method comprises: dividing the received image data (200) into a number of structures (1-9) of data elements (224-234); computing a correlation between a first one (1) of the structures of data elements and a second one (2) of the structures of data elements; and establishing that the received image-data corresponds to multiple views on basis of the correlation between the first one of the structures of data elements and the second one of the structures of data elements.
US07839376B2	Time control circuit for backlight inverter In a time control circuit, a capacitor is connected between a connecting pin and a ground. A first current source supplies a first current to the connecting pin. A first comparator element has a non-inverse terminal connected to a voltage of the capacitor and a pre-set first reference voltage, and controls the initial startup time. A second comparator element has an inverse terminal connected to the voltage of the capacitor and a pre-set second reference voltage, and controls the soft start time. Further, a current bypass controller includes a current bypass path between the connecting pin and the ground, which connects the current bypass path after the soft start time and blocks it at an input of a protective signal. Additionally, a third comparator element has an inverse terminal connected to the voltage of the capacitor and a pre-set third reference voltage, and controls the shutdown time.
US07839372B2	Electrooptic apparatus substrate and examining method therefor and electrooptic apparatus and electronic equipment An electrooptic apparatus substrate and examination method therefor can be provided which can implement an examination without requiring bringing a probe into contact thereto from the outside and with satisfactory measuring accuracy. A substrate 1 of the present invention includes a video line 7 and transmission date portion 6 through multiple switching elements for writing a first potential signal in multiple pixels through a signal line. The substrate 1 further includes a display data reading circuit portion 4 having a differential amplifier 4a for lowering a lower potential and heightening a higher potential and outputting it to the signal line and a transmission gate portion 6 and video line 7 for reading the first potential signal and a reference second potential signal.
US07839370B2	Apparatus and method for driving display panels for reducing power consumption of grayscale voltage generator A display panel driver is composed of a grayscale voltage generator configured to develop a set of different grayscale voltages corresponding to grayscale levels of pixels within a display panel; and a plurality of grayscale selector driver circuits each of which is responsive to pixel data to select one of the grayscale voltages, and to provide a drive voltage corresponding to the selected one of the grayscale voltages for a selected pixel within the display panel. The grayscale voltage generator is allowed to output the set of grayscale voltages during a first period within a horizontal period, and prohibited from outputting the set of grayscale voltages during a second period within the horizontal period.
US07839367B2	Active matrix display devices An active matrix EL display device has pixels comprising an EL display element, a drive transistor and a storage capacitor for storing a voltage to be used for controlling the addressing of the drive transistor. Each pixel also has a light-dependent device for controlling discharge of the storage capacitor, thereby to alter the control of the drive transistor in dependence on the light output of the display element. A circuit is associated with the drive transistor for increasing the rate of discharge of the storage capacitor when the storage capacitor is discharged in response to the light dependent device output. This improvement in the rate of capacitor discharge ensures that good correction for differential aging is obtained at all grey levels.
US07839365B2	Control of current supplied by a transistor to a pixel in an electroluminescent display device In an active matrix electroluminescent display device, an overall brightness level of an image to be displayed in a frame period is determined. A drive transistor of each pixel is controlled in dependence on an input drive signal for the pixel and on the overall brightness level, for example using a signal processor (30) to vary the pixel drive signals. This arrangement can control the pixels to limit the maximum currents drawn by the pixels, thereby limiting the cross talk effects resulting from voltage drops along row or column conductors. If an image is bright, the pixel drive levels across the image (or at least a part of the image) can be reduced, so that the maximum brightness is reduced.
US07839362B2	Sticking phenomenon correction method, self-luminous apparatus, sticking phenomenon correction apparatus and program A self-luminous apparatus is disclosed wherein a deterioration amount difference between different pixels can be eliminated accurately to correct a sticking phenomenon while the self-luminous apparatus is used. In the self-luminous apparatus, a deterioration amount difference appearing between a correction object pixel and a reference pixel within a first light emission period of time is calculated first using a deterioration ratio derived from gradation values of the pixels. Then, a deterioration ratio for correction for the correction object pixel necessary to eliminate the calculated deterioration amount difference within a second light emission period of time is derived using a deterioration ratio of the reference pixel. Thereafter, the derived deterioration ratio for correction is converted into a corresponding gradation value, and the correction object pixel is driven to emit light with the converted gradation value.
US07839358B2	Apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel A plasma display panel sustain-discharge circuit. First and second signal lines for supplying first and second voltages and at least one inductor coupled between one end of the panel capacitor and a third voltage are formed. Energy is stored in the inductor through a path formed between the third voltage and the first signal line in a state where a voltage of one end of the panel capacitor is substantially fixed to the first voltage. The voltage of one end of the panel capacitor substantially decreases to the second voltage using resonance current generated between the inductor and the panel capacitor and the stored energy. Energy is stored in the inductor through a path formed between the third voltage and the second line in a state where a voltage of one end of the panel capacitor is substantially fixed to the second voltage. The voltage of one end of the panel capacitor substantially increases to the first voltage using the resonance current generated between the inductor and the panel capacitor and the stored energy.
US07839353B2	Arbitrarily shaped deployable mesh reflectors A method and apparatus for making a mesh reflector that may be used to produce a shaped reflector is provided. The mesh reflector may be an umbrella-style deployable mesh reflector capable of approximating both parabolic and arbitrarily shaped reflecting surfaces, including those with regions of reversed curvature. The reflecting surface may be provided by a soft mesh attached to a highly pre-tensioned net composed of two sets of substantially parallel chords forming a plurality of parallelogram-shaped facets. The net/mesh may be made to conform to the desired shape by pulling and/or pushing on it at each of its facet corners via a set of finely adjustable tension ties and/or compression rods, the distal ends of which react against a set of pre-tensioned catenary-shaped chords disposed on the aft side of the mesh. The net/mesh and the aft catenaries may be supported and pretensioned by a set of substantially stiff radial ribs connected to a central hub by a means capable of providing high deployment torque and a means for controlling and coordinating the deployment of the ribs so that they reach their fully deployed positions nearly simultaneously. Methods for fabricating the mesh and attaching it to the net are also provided.
US07839352B2	Wash destructible resonant tag A resonant tag for use with a radio-wave detection system for the prevention of shoplifting or the like, which has a coil and capacitor circuit formed on opposite sides of an extremely thin substrate of a biaxially-oriented polypropylene, with one of the capacitor plates formed on one side of the substrate and the coil and other capacitor plate formed on the other side of the substrate, and paper layers on both sides of the tag, whereby the circuit is destroyed when the tag is washed in water or dry cleaned.
US07839345B2	Top mount mast antenna reinforcement A mounting apparatus for a top mount mast antenna includes a secondary part to stabilize the antenna attachment screws extending through the antenna base into the fender panel of the automotive vehicle on which the antenna is mounted. The secondary part is preferably formed of nylon to serve as a retaining device for the attachment screws so that the screws do not loosen, which ultimately causes separation of the antenna from the fender panel and a corresponding deformation of the fender panel. The secondary nylon part allows a flexible installation that can be accomplished before painting of the fender panel. The secondary part fits into the opening in the fender panel to mount on the peripheral circumference of the opening and extend outwardly form the opening below the fender panel to be positioned for engagement with the attachment screws connecting the base member of the antenna to the fender panel.
US07839344B2	Wideband multifunction antenna operating in the HF range, particularly for naval installations A linear antenna for operation in the HF frequency range, particularly for naval communications is disclosed, comprising a radiating arrangement (H1, H2, H3, W1, W2), adapted to be operatively associated with a ground conductor (20) and at least one electrical impedance device (Z1-Z4), characterized in that it includes: a plurality of wire radiating elements with a predominantly vertical extension, forming a first and a second conducting branch (H1, H2) adapted to be operatively coupled to a feed circuit, and a return conducting branch (H3) adapted to be operatively coupled to a ground conductor (20); and a plurality of wire radiating elements with a predominantly transverse extension, forming connecting conducting branches (W1, W2) for connecting the conducting branches (H1, H2) adapted to be coupled to the feed circuit (12), to the conducting branch (H3) adapted to be coupled to the ground conductor (20), the radiating elements being positioned in such a way as to form, in a plane in which the antenna lies, two nested closed paths (P1, P2) between the feed circuit (12) and the ground conductor (20), having at least one radiating element in common, and—a plurality of electrical impedance devices (Z1-Z4) interposed along the conducting branches (H1, H2, H3, W1, W2) and adapted to impede the flow of current within corresponding predetermined frequency ranges in such a way as to establish selectively, according to the operating frequency, a plurality of different current paths along the conducting branches (H1, H2, H3, W1, W2), corresponding to a plurality of different electrical and/or geometrical configurations of the antenna (10).
US07839342B2	Multi-frequency inverted-F antenna A multi-frequency antenna A multi-frequency antenna comprising: a radiating patch having a first radiating element and a second radiating element; a grounding patch spaced apart from the radiating patch; a connecting element comprising a first connecting arm and a second connecting arm; a feeding line comprising an inner conductor and an outer conductor; wherein the first connecting arm connecting to the radiating patch and the second connecting arm connecting to the grounding patch; the first connecting arm locating in a first plane is perpendicular to the second connecting arm locating in a second plane.
US07839336B2	Antenna apparatus An antenna device reduced in size and increased in bandwidth. The antenna device comprises a first radiating plate and a second radiating plate arranged with a space with a predetermined width. A power supply part feeding a power to the first radiating plate and the second radiating plate is installed in the space. The first radiating plate and the second radiating plate are characterized in that they are similar to each other in plan view shape and different in size from each other.
US07839326B2	Portable terminal According to one embodiment, a portable terminal includes: a display unit that displays a present location of the portable terminal; a GPS receiver that calculates theoretical precision data determined theoretically by geometric arrangement of plural GPS satellites on the basis of location information of the GPS satellites, and performs a positioning process by which positioning data for indicating the present location of the portable terminal is calculated using arrival time of the radio wave; and a control unit that repeats the positioning process performed by the GPS receiver plural times to calculate a cumulative average of the positioning data, and calculates a difference between the cumulative average of the theoretical precision data and the cumulative average of the positioning data to display a cumulative average of the positioning data, when the difference equal to or less than a predetermined value successively continues predetermined number of times, as the present location of the portable terminal.
US07839324B2	Efficient ephemeris coding In one embodiment, a system is provided that is operable to: predict satellite states using historical satellite state data for at least one satellite of a satellite-based positioning system; derive sets of parameters representative of the predicted satellite states; differentially compress the sets parameters into sets of compressed parameters; transmit the sets of compressed parameters to a client device over a first communication channel; uncompress the sets of compressed parameters into sets of recovered parameters; selectively reconstruct at least one reconstructed satellite state in the client device using the sets of recovered parameters; and determine the position of the client device using the at least one reconstructed satellite state along with timing information of satellite data received over a second communication channel.
US07839323B2	Error estimation and correction in a two-channel time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter A two-channel time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC) system that provides for estimation and correction of offset, gain, and sample-time errors. Error in the offsets of the two ADCs that form the TIADC produces a spurious signal at the Nyquist frequency that can be used to minimize the difference of offsets of the ADCs. The difference in gain between the two ADCs produces spurious signals reflected around the Nyquist frequency whose magnitudes can be reduced by minimizing the difference in signal power between the two ADCs. An Automatic Gain Control loop corrects the scaling of the input signal due to the average of the gains of the ADCs. Phase error produces spurious signals reflected around the Nyquist frequency that are π/2 out of phase with those due to the gain error. Minimizing the difference between the correlation of consecutive signals from the ADCs reduces the magnitude of these image tones.
US07839308B2	Using codewords in a wireless communication system Systems, methodologies, and devices are described that can facilitate bandwidth efficient non-coherent signaling for uplink control channel transmissions. A communication device (e.g., a mobile device, base station) can be configured to utilize or generate a set of complex orthogonal codewords to facilitate transmission of control channel information using non-coherent signaling in a bandwidth efficient manner. A complex orthogonal codeword set can comprise a first subset of codewords where such codewords have a desirable cross-correlation property and another subset(s) of codewords that can include expurgated codewords, where the expurgated codewords can include discarded codewords and/or codeword pairs that produce a worst-case cross-correlation property. The codeword set and subsets are determined based at least in part on a predefined codeword criterion. A portion of the discarded codewords can be used for other purposes, such as erasure decoding, interference-level estimation, and/or multi-mode control channel operation.
US07839307B2	Video serializer and deserializer with mapping conversion A method for converting data received in either a Level A or Level B SMPTE 425M compliant format into either a Level B or a Level A compliant format, respectively, includes receiving and processing data in one of a Level A or a Level B SMPTE 425M compliant format. Inputting the received Level A formatted data into a storage device and reading out Level B formatted data at an output of the storage device, or inputting Level B formatted data into the storage device and reading out Level A formatted data at an output of the storage device. Back-end circuitry further processes the Level A formatted data when Level B formatted data is received or further processes the Level B formatted data when Level A formatted data is received. The storage device is operated as a line multiplexer to convert data in a Level B format to data in a Level A format and is operated as a line demultiplexer to convert data in a Level A format to data in a Level B format. Receivers and transmitters capable of performing the method are also disclosed.
US07839301B2	Surface condition sensing and treatment systems, and associated methods A surface condition sensing and treatment system includes a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic radiation (EMR) toward a surface material disposed upon a vehicle travel surface. Reflected EMR is received and signals indicative of the reflected EMR are processed to produce output corresponding to a characteristic of the surface material. Characteristics include friction, depth and composition, including ice present in the surface material. Sensing may be locally or remotely, automatically or manually initiated. The system may include a display and at least one computer with a database of surface material characteristics, historical, environmental and GIS positional information. Sensed characteristics processed with database information may determine a surface treatment, according to a selected outcome or level of service. A spreader system applies the surface treatment responsive to local, remote, automatic or manual command. The system may be mounted with a vehicle, and may sense surface conditions while the vehicle is in motion.
US07839299B2	Remote control device, remote control method, and remotely controlled device A remote control system detects an operating status of various devices through the Internet in real time. A remote controller, which enables a terminal device to control an operation of a device through a network, acquires and stores a latest address of the device by communicating with the device at predetermined time intervals through the network. A status notification request referring to the stored address is transmitted through the network. In response, the remote controller receives status information from the device, stores the status information received from the device, and transmits the stored status information to the terminal device through the network.
US07839296B2	Scale and readhead apparatus and method A scale reading apparatus includes a readhead that is moveable relative to a scale. The readhead includes an incremental channel from which a series of reference mark pulses are produced as the readhead is moved relative to the scale. A reference mark channel is also provided that produce a reference mark gating pulse when the readhead passes a predetermined (absolute) position mark on the scale. An alignment detection unit monitors during use, phase alignment of the reference mark gating pulse and reference mark pulses. The alignment detection unit is arranged to monitor the phase of the leading and trailing edges of said reference mark gating pulse relative to the phase of the reference mark pulses. The apparatus may be used in position encoders and the like.
US07839294B2	Bearing monitoring method A method for monitoring a bearing is disclosed. The method involves positioning a non-contacting bearing isolator adjacent a bearing on a piece of rotating equipment so that at least one operating parameter of said bearing is communicated to said bearing isolator; and, positioning an energy detector within range of said bearing isolator so that said energy detector is able to monitor said at least one operating parameter of said bearing by detecting at least one operating parameter of said bearing isolator.
US07839286B2	Method for carrying out IT-assisted customer-oriented airline baggage management The invention relates to a method for carrying out IT-assisted, customer-oriented airline baggage management, in which the transport route of the airline baggage between check-in and the sorting destination is monitored with the aid of legible information carriers. In order to provide passengers with specific information relating to what has happened to their airline baggage and, if appropriate, to allow losses to be identified quickly, video monitoring is on the one hand carried out with respect to the transport route and, on the other hand, the transport route of the pieces of airline baggage is tracked by successive readers on the basis of the legible information carriers which have been applied to the pieces of airline baggage.
US07839282B1	Capacitance probe for detection of anomalies in non-metallic plastic pipe The disclosure relates to analysis of materials using a capacitive sensor to detect anomalies through comparison of measured capacitances. The capacitive sensor is used in conjunction with a capacitance measurement device, a location device, and a processor in order to generate a capacitance versus location output which may be inspected for the detection and localization of anomalies within the material under test. The components may be carried as payload on an inspection vehicle which may traverse through a pipe interior, allowing evaluation of nonmetallic or plastic pipes when the piping exterior is not accessible. In an embodiment, supporting components are solid-state devices powered by a low voltage on-board power supply, providing for use in environments where voltage levels may be restricted.
US07839281B2	Explosion indicator for explosion-proof enclosures Indicator devices and systems for explosion proof enclosures are described. The indicator devices include a sleeve, a dome-like transparent member, a connector body, a first and second contact, a means for preventing the first contact from contacting the second contact, and an indicator. Upon an increase in a temperature or a pressure near the means for preventing (for example, within the enclosure), the means for preventing allows the first and second contacts to contact, thereby completing an electrical circuit from a power source to the indicator (such as a light or an alarm). The indicator systems include an indicator device coupled to an explosion proof enclosure containing critical equipment.
US07839256B2	Hot-stick capable cutout cover A cutout cover includes an arcuate top portion covering an insulator having a closed top and an open bottom with a slit extending therebetween. A midsection can connect the top portion to an open end adapted to access the cutout. The top portion is bell-shaped with an upper and lower dome, two opposing sides, and a slit between the sides. A fastener mechanism is attached to the two opposing sides with an aperture disposed on each of the sides for receiving a fastener.
US07839255B2	Composite transformer and power converter using same A composite transformer, having first and second inductors and a transformer, includes a transformer core that has a core leg around which portions of first and second windings are wound, and a base fixing the core leg, a first inductor core that has a core leg around which a portion of the first winding is wound and a base fixing the core leg, and a second inductor core that has a core leg around which a portion of the second winding is wound and a base fixing the core leg. The first and second windings are wound in a manner that flux are cancelled with each other, and are wound around the core leg of the transformer core in a manner alternately overlapping with each other, and are wound around respective core legs of the first and second inductor cores so as to be apart from each other to suppress any interference of magnetic fluxes.
US07839249B2	Splitter The present invention provides a splitter including a seat, a first inner core, a second inner core, a first coil, an outer core and a second coil. The seat has a bobbin, and the first coil is wound on the bobbin. The first inner core and the second inner core, disposed on the bobbin, are assembled with each other to cover the bobbin. The outer core and the first inner core are assembled with each other. The second coil is disposed between the outer core and the first inner core.
US07839246B2	Field structure and method for producing a field structure An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.
US07839235B2	Feed network device, antenna feeder subsystem, and base station system A feed network device, an antenna feeder subsystem, and a base station system are provided. The feed network device comprises: two first stage couplers, two phase shifters, and two second stage couplers cascaded on a Printed Circuit Board, wherein each coupler is a multilayered dielectric broad-side coupler, and the difference of phase between an output signal at the coupling port and an output signal at the direct connection port is 90° in each multi-dielectric broad-side coupler.
US07839228B2	Low-noise high-stability crystal oscillator Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide low-noise, high-stability crystal oscillators having controlled-amplitude differential output signals and DC level control. A crystal oscillator circuit has two feedback loops, one for setting the DC level of its signals, the other for adjusting the amplitude of those signals. The DC level feedback loop can set the DC component of the oscillator signals to a voltage midway between two supply voltages. The amplitude control loop sets the amplitude of the output of the crystal oscillator signal to be within a range. The amplitude can be set to provide a maximum swing without clipping the supply voltages in order to provide high-stability and minimal jitter. The amplitude control circuit can also be digital for improved noise performance. The time constants of these two loops can be separated such that instabilities are avoided.
US07839224B2	Oscillator with a stable oscillating frequency An oscillator of the present invention includes a constant current circuit in which a constant current generated in the constant current circuit varies positively with an on threshold voltage of a transistor included in the constant circuit; and an oscillating circuit in which the oscillating frequency of a clock signal generated in the oscillating circuit varies positively with the constant current supplied from the constant current circuit, and the oscillating frequency of the clock signal generated in the oscillating circuit varies negatively with an on threshold voltage of a transistor included in the oscillating circuit.
US07839213B2	Amplifier architecture for polar modulation The present invention relates to an electronic device for power efficient linear amplification. The electronic device includes an amplifier (RF-PA) for amplifying a phase modulated signal (PM). The amplifier (RF-PA) is adapted to be controlled by a first modulating signal (AM high) for modulating the amplitude of the phase modulated signal (PM) above a predetermined amplitude value. The electronic device is further adapted to attenuate an output signal of the amplifier (RF-PA) for providing amplitude modulation below the predetermined amplitude value.
US07839207B2	Integrated circuit and a method for recovering from a low-power period An integrated circuit, including: (i) a power gated circuit which power supply is shut down during a low-power period; (ii) a retention circuit, coupled to the power gated circuit during at least a portion of a non-low-power period, the retention circuit is adapted to store, during the low-power period, state information reflecting a state of the power gated circuit before the low-power period started; (iii) a first portion of the power grid, coupled to the retention circuit and to a first end of a power supply switch, adapted to provide to the retention circuit a supply voltage during the low-power period and during a non-low-power period; wherein the power supply switch is open during the low-power period and is closed during the non-low-power period; and (iv) a second portion of the power grid, coupled to a second end of the power supply switch and to the power gated circuit; adapted to supply a gated supply voltage to the power gated circuit during the non-low-power period. The first portion of the power grid is characterized by intrinsic capacitance that is larger that the intrinsic capacitance of the second portion of the power grid.
US07839201B2	Integrated smart power switch A device including a controllable semiconductor, sensor, and controller is provided. The controllable semiconductor is associated with a first operating parameter and a second operating parameter, wherein at least the first operating parameter is controllable. The sensor is in communication with the controllable semiconductor device and acquires data relating to the second operating parameter of the controllable semiconductor device. The controller is in communication with the controllable semiconductor device and the sensor, and the controller is configured to access device data associated with the controllable semiconductor, control the first operating parameter of the controllable semiconductor, and receive data from the first sensor relating to the second operating parameter. The controller determines a first predicted value dependent on the device data, compares the data relating to the second operating parameter with the first predicted value, and, if a first condition is detected based on this comparison, dynamically modifies the first operating parameter.
US07839193B2	Duty cycle correction circuits including a transition generator circuit for generating transitions in a duty cycle corrected signal responsive to an input signal and a delayed version of the input signal and methods of operating the same A duty cycle correction circuit is operated by maintaining a state of a duty cycle corrected signal, generating a first transition in the state of the duty cycle corrected signal responsive to an input signal, and generating a second transition in the state of the duty cycle corrected signal responsive to a delayed version of the input signal.
US07839190B2	Locking state detector and DLL circuit having the same A locking state detector includes a phase comparing unit configured to compare a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal to generate a first phase difference distinction signal to distinguish a first phase difference range, and a second phase difference distinction signal to distinguish a second phase difference range wider than the first phase difference range, and a locking state setting unit configured to generate a locking state signal in response to the first phase difference distinction signal and the second phase difference distinction signal.
US07839187B2	Counter and Frequency divider thereof A frequency divider includes a transmission gate, a first inverter, a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, and a second inverter. The transmission gate transmits a clock signal according to an inverted enable signal. The first inverter inverts the clock signal outputted from the transmission gate. The first switch circuit generates a first control signal according to the inverted clock signal and an output signal of the frequency divider. The second switch circuit generates a second control signal according to the clock signal, the inverted clock signal, and the first control signal. The second inverter inverts the second control signal to generate the output signal. The frequency of the clock signal is a multiple of the frequency of the output signal.
US07839182B2	Detector of noise peaks in the power supply of an integrated circuit A circuit for detecting noise peaks on the power supply of an electronic circuit, including at least a first transistor having its control terminal connected to a terminal of application of a first potential of a supply voltage of the circuit and having a first conduction terminal connected to a terminal of application of a second potential via at least one first resistive element, the second conduction terminal of the first transistor providing the result of the detection.
US07839175B2	Local clock buffer (LCB) with asymmetric inductive peaking A Local Clock Buffer (LCB), an IC chip including registers, some of which may include master/slave latches, locally clocked by the LCB, e.g., providing a launch clock and a capture clock each with an identified critical edge. The LCB includes asymmetrically inductively peaked series connected logic gates (e.g., inverters and/or NAND gates), each with an inductor between gate devices and supply (Vdd) or ground. The series connected gates alternate between having the inductor located between gate devices and the supply and located between gate devices and ground, providing asymmetric inductive peaking to maintain the sharpness of the critical edges. Optionally, corresponding logic gates in multiple LCBs may share the same inductor. Asymmetric inductive peaking allows reducing LCB power without degrading performance.
US07839168B2	Circuit with parallel functional circuits with multi-phase control inputs A circuit has a plurality of functional circuits (100a-f), each with multiphase control inputs. A control circuit drives the inputs for each phase in parallel. The control circuit (120a-c) comprises a chain of one-shot circuits (120a-c), each comprising a bi-stable circuit (121). The bi-stable circuit (121) of a first one-shot circuit in the chain has a set input coupled to the basic control signal input (126), the bi-stable circuits (121) of a remaining or each remaining one-shot circuit (120a-c) in the chain have a set input output of its predecessor in the chain. Each bi-stable circuit (121) has an output coupled to a respective one of the multiphase control outputs (14a-c) and a reset input coupled to the respective one of the multiphase control outputs (14a-c). Loading of the multiphase control outputs (14a-c) by the functional circuits results in a delay of the reset. Thus the pulse durations of the one shot circuits are adapted to the number of functional circuits to ensure sufficient signal development.
US07839163B2	Programmable through silicon via Through silicon vias (TSVs) in silicon chips are both programmable and non-programmable. The programmable TSVs may employ metal/insulator/metal structures to switch from an open to shorted condition with programming carried out by complementary circuitry on two adjacent chips in a multi-story chip stack.
US07839161B2	Low-jitter high-frequency clock channel According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a clock channel, a shielding tunnel, and clock repeaters. In various embodiments, the clock channel may be configured to carry the clock signal, and may include a portion of a metal layer of an integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the shielding tunnel may be configured to shield, in at least four directions, the clock channel from other signals, and may include portions of a at least three metal layers of the integrated circuit. The shielding tunnel may be connected to the positive and negative supplies in order to provide the required power for the clock repeaters.
US07839158B2	Method of detecting abnormality in burn-in apparatus A method of detecting an abnormality in a burn-in apparatus, which brings a heater and a temperature sensor into contact with various devices under test during a burn-in test and controls power consumption of the heater to adjust levels of temperature of the devices under test, wherein the temperature sensor detects temperature of a temperature control block in which the heater and the temperature sensor are arranged and with which a cooling liquid is in contact while the devices under test are not in contact with the heater and the temperature sensor, and the temperature sensor is diagnosed to be normal or not based on a result of detection.
US07839153B2	Communicating with an implanted wireless sensor The present invention determines the resonant frequency of a sensor by adjusting the phase and frequency of an energizing signal until the frequency of the energizing signal matches the resonant frequency of the sensor. The system energizes the sensor with a low duty cycle, gated burst of RF energy having a predetermined frequency or set of frequencies and a predetermined amplitude. The energizing signal is coupled to the sensor via magnetic coupling and induces a current in the sensor which oscillates at the resonant frequency of the sensor. The system receives the ring down response of the sensor via magnetic coupling and determines the resonant frequency of the sensor, which is used to calculate the measured physical parameter. The system uses a pair of phase locked loops to adjust the phase and the frequency of the energizing signal.
US07839144B2	Method for estimating insitu fluid viscosity from NMR measurements A method for estimating a viscosity of a fluid in a rock formation, the method including: performing a first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement with zero magnetic field gradient on at least a portion of a sample of the rock formation to obtain a first distribution of transverse relaxation time constants; estimating a first diffusive couple factor from the first distribution; replacing the fluid of the at least a portion of the sample with another fluid; performing a second NMR measurement with zero magnetic field gradient on the at least a portion of the sample containing the another fluid to obtain a second distribution of transverse relaxation time constants; estimating a second diffusive couple factor from the second distribution; and estimating the viscosity of the fluid using the first diffusive couple factor and the second diffusive couple factor.
US07839138B2	Adjustable force electrical contactor An apparatus for testing electric components supported on a test plate for transport along a of travel path through a test station includes an electrical contactor at the station for contacting the plate surface and at least one electronic component transported to the test station by the test plate for testing. An adjustable force applicator supplies contact pressure to the contactor to apply a substantially constant force over a large working travel range. The applicator can include an air cylinder having a force applying pin applying force to a position located between a working point of the contactor and the pivot point such that the applied force variation is reduced as a result of a lever reduction ratio between the working point and the pin position.
US07839133B2	Remote continuity and cable identifier and polarity checker system and method An electrical continuity test system with a tester and a remote probe. The tester includes circuitry for creating a pulsed current, an output for connection to a local end of a first test conductive element, to inject the pulses into the first test conductive element, an input for connection to a local end of a second test conductive element, and a visual and/or aural indication when the injected pulses are present on the second test conductive element. The remote probe includes an input for connection to a remote end of a first unidentified conductive element, an output for connection to a remote end of a second unidentified conductive element, a first visual and/or aural indication when the first unidentified conductive element is the first test conductive element, and a different visual and/or aural indication when the first unidentified conductive element is the second test conductive element.
US07839129B2	On-chip power supply voltage regulation An integrated circuit (100) is provided with power regulating circuitry (104) serving to actively regulate the voltage difference between a first power supply rail Vdd and a second power rail Vss being used to supply electrical power to processing circuitry (102). A voltage regulating capacitor Ca has one terminal connected to the first power rail Vdd and a second terminal selectively connected to either the second power rail Vss or a third power rail Vdda. Should a voltage undershoot be detected by voltage sensing circuitry 106, then the capacitor Ca is connected to the third power rail Vdda so as to dump at least part of charge Ca, Vdda in capacitor Ca onto the first power rail Vdd and resist the voltage drop. During normal operation, charge is accumulated into the capacitor Ca. An additional load device T2 is provided to lower the voltage difference should an overshoot be detected.
US07839121B2	Apparatus and method for managing power of battery packs in a portable device To manage power of battery packs, charging currents and remaining capacities of the battery packs may be detected. An order for charging and discharging the battery packs may be determined based on the charging currents. The battery packs may be charged or discharged in the determined order based on whether an external voltage is detected. The battery packs may be charged using charging voltages with associated currents corresponding to the detected charging currents.
US07839115B2	Power switching apparatus for natural energy power supply A power switching apparatus for natural energy power supply includes a AC power supply provided by an electricity plant, a converting power supply connected with the AC power supply, a power switch connected with the converting power supply and an external load respectively, a charger connected with the power switch, at least a natural energy power supply connected with the charger, configured for generating electric power and supplying the electric power to the charger, a voltage sensor connected with the charger, and a battery pack connected with the voltage sensor. When there is not sufficient power output from the natural energy power supply, the AC power supply and the load are connected so that the object of uninterruptedly driving the load to work when the natural energy power supply stops working is achieved and the reliability of the natural energy power supply is improved.
US07839106B2	System and methods involving dynamic closed loop motor control and flux weakening A method for controlling motor, the method including, receiving a motor torque command, calculating a first current associated with the motor torque command, calculating an estimated first current responsive to receiving a first regulated voltage associated with the first current and a motor speed signal, subtracting the estimated first current from the first current resulting in a first current error signal, and outputting the first regulated voltage to a voltage controller responsive to receiving the first current error signal, the estimated first current, and the motor speed signal.
US07839105B2	Circuit installation capable of full voltage activation, division voltage operation and delayed breaking A circuit installation that executes full voltage activation, division voltage operation, and delayed breaking brake to electric load by increasing the power to the load activated to promote its activation performance or reducing operation power in the course of operation by the load to save power consumption or limit operation performance of the load.
US07839092B2	Driving system having changeable output phase A driving system with a changeable output phase includes a PWM unit to generate a duty cycle signal, a first driving unit, a second driving unit, a first transformer and a second transformer. The first driving unit and the second driving unit receive an input power and the duty cycle signal to drive respectively the first transformer and the second transformer to transform the input power to a first driving power and a second driving power. At least one of the first driving unit and the second driving unit is connected to a power phase control unit which generates a phase switching signal to modulate the driving phase of the connecting driving unit so that the first driving power and the second driving power output from the first and second transformers have a same or different phase to drive loads at the rear end.
US07839090B2	Drive circuit for driving indicators in computer system A circuit is used to indicate different statuses of a component of a computer system. The circuit includes a port, an indicating device, and a control circuit. The port outputs different signals corresponding to different statuses of the component. The indicating device includes a first indicator and a second indicator each of which includes a positive end and a negative end. The positive end of the second indicator is connected to the negative end of the first indicator, and the negative end of the second indicator is connected to the positive end of the first indicator. The control circuit includes an input terminal, and a pair of output terminals connected to opposite ends of the first indicator. A polarity of an electric potential difference between the pair of output terminals is switched between negative and positive polarities according to the signal outputted by the port.
US07839085B2	Organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same An organic electroluminescent display (OELD) device includes: first and second substrates facing each other; a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of power lines on the first substrate, the gate and data lines crossing each other to define a plurality of pixel regions; a switching element and a driving element connected to each other in each pixel region; a first electrode connected to the driving element; an organic luminescent layer on the first electrode, the organic luminescent layer including a buffer layer as an uppermost layer; and a second electrode of a transparent conductive material on the organic luminescent layer.
US07839081B2	Emissive device and electronic apparatus having light transmitting portions of light shielding layer being smaller than partition opening An emissive device includes a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate; a light-shielding layer opposite the substrate, the light-emitting elements being disposed between the substrate and the light-shielding layer, and the light-shielding layer having light-transmitting portions that transmit light emitted from the light-emitting elements; and a partition composed of an insulating material and disposed on the substrate, the partition partitioning the light-emitting elements and having openings each demarcating the light-emitting region of the corresponding light-emitting element, wherein each of the light-transmitting portions overlaps the corresponding opening and is smaller than the corresponding opening.
US07839079B2	Organic light emitting display preventing voltage or current dropdown in power conductive lines An organic light emitting device includes a display unit having a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of conductive lines. The conductive lines include a main power conductive line disposed in a first direction to supply power to the sub-pixels, at least one division power conductive line connected to the main power conductive line and disposed in a second direction different from the first direction, and a sub-power conductive line connected to the division power conductive line and disposed opposite to the main power conductive line. A width of the main power conductive line is greater than widths of the division power conductive line and the sub-power conductive line.
US07839077B2	Organic light emitting display and method of fabricating the same An organic light emitting display (OLED) and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The OLED includes: a substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate and having cells divided into a plurality of cells and cutting patterns connected to the cells; an organic layer having at least an emission layer and disposed on the pixel electrode; and an upper electrode disposed on the organic layer, thereby minimizing the damage of the device and performing laser-repair.
US07839074B2	Organic electroluminescence device and anthracene derivative An organic electroluminescence device which comprises a cathode, an anode and an organic thin film layer comprising at least one layer comprising a light emitting layer and disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein at least one layer in the organic thin film layer comprises an anthracene derivative having a specific structure singly or as a component of a mixture, and an anthracene derivative having a specific asymmetric structure and providing an organic electroluminescence device exhibiting a great efficiency of light emission and having a long life, are provided.
US07839073B2	Light-emitting display apparatus incorporating combined first and second auxiliary electrodes arranged at intervals and method of producing the same A display apparatus includes a display substrate having an element isolation film surrounding peripheral edges of a plurality of first electrodes, and a laminated area composed of a second electrode and auxiliary electrodes and disposed on the element isolation film. Each of the auxiliary electrode is composed of first auxiliary electrodes arranged in a broken line pattern, and second auxiliary electrodes provided on the first auxiliary electrodes so as to cover areas where the first auxiliary electrodes are not provided. A wiring interval between auxiliary electrodes is smaller than a wiring length of an auxiliary electrode, and the film thickness of each of the first auxiliary electrodes is in the range of 5 to 30 nm.
US07839053B2	One-way rotational transfer mechanism, and ultrasonic rotary drive device incorporating one-way rotational transfer mechanism A one-way rotational transfer mechanism includes a rotary input member; a holding member including an axially orthogonal surface to the axis; a hollow-cylindrical rotary output shaft positioned coaxially around the rotary input member to be rotatable relative to the rotary input member, and including a cylindrical inner peripheral surface; a circumferential guide groove formed on the rotary input member; and a torque transfer ball installed between the axially orthogonal surface, the cylindrical inner peripheral surface and the circumferential guide groove, to roll on and be held between the axially orthogonal surface and the circumferential guide groove. The circumferential guide groove is shaped to make the torque transfer ball revolve around the rotary input member in a same direction as the rotary input member while trailing therebehind and to make the torque transfer ball press against the cylindrical inner peripheral surface when the rotary input member rotates.
US07839048B2	Electrical machine with double-sided stator A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes includes a ship propulsion motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a rotor with an inner rotor core and an outer rotor core; and a double-sided stator with an inner stator side and an outer stator side. The double-sided stator is concentrically disposed between the inner rotor core and the outer rotor core.
US07839041B2	Rotary actuators Embodiments of actuators (20) comprise an electromagnetically conductive housing (22); a rotor (24); a first stationary pole member (48); a second stationary pole member (42); a first permanent magnet (44) connected to the first pole member (48); a second permanent magnet (46) connected to the first pole member (48); and; an electrically conductive coil (40) situated within the housing (22) and configured to define a cavity. The rotor (24) comprises a rotor shaft (26) and a rotor flange (28). The rotor flange (28) comprises both a first flange segment (56) and a second flange segment (58) which extend in different radial directions relative to the rotor shaft (26).
US07839031B2	Spray cooled motor system A spray cooled motor system with a motor housing with an interior and an exterior, a stator mounted within the interior of the motor housing, a rotor mounted within the interior of the motor housing, a coil winding mounted within the interior of the motor housing, a plurality of atomizers configured to spray a coolant on at least one of the stator and the rotor, a coolant pump in fluid communication with the plurality of atomizers; and an output shaft extending through an output shaft aperture from the interior to the exterior of the motor housing.
US07839029B2	Linear motor In a linear motor, the stators and sliders are arranged to fill a predetermined relationship. In one configuration, two stators each include a plurality of stator blocks arranged in a moving direction of sliders so that projecting poles are maintained at predetermined intervals. Boundary surfaces are formed in adjacent stator blocks so as to be displaced relative to one another between the two opposite blocks by a distance Ld in the moving direction of the sliders. When a distance between end surface of the slider blocks is defined as L and the overall length of one stator block is defined as L0, the components are arranged such that Ld>L/3 and (L0−Ld)>L/3.
US07839028B2	Nanoelectromechanical systems and methods for making the same Nanoelectromechanical systems are disclosed that utilize vertically grown or placed nanometer-scale beams. The beams may be configured and arranged for use in a variety of applications, such as batteries, generators, transistors, switching assemblies, and sensors. In some generator applications, nanometer-scale beams may be fixed to a base and grown to a desired height. The beams may produce an electric potential as the beams vibrate, and may provide the electric potential to an electrical contact located at a suitable height above the base. In other embodiments, vertical beams may be grown or placed on side-by-side traces, and an electrical connection may be formed between the side-by-side traces when beams on separate traces vibrate and contact one another.
US07839024B2	Intra-area master reactive controller for tightly coupled windfarms A wind turbine generator control system is provided for controlling output of a plurality of tightly-coupled windfarms connected at a point of common coupling with a power system grid. A master reactive control device employs algorithms whose technical effect is to coordinate the real power, reactive power and voltage output of the multiple windfarms. The controller incorporates a reactive power regulator that can be used to regulate reactive power, power factor or voltage at the point of common coupling and an active power regulator that can be used to regulate real power at the point of common coupling; such that each windfarm is not asked to contribute or violate its own operating capability.
US07839023B2	Methods and apparatus for three-phase inverter with reduced energy storage Methods and apparatus for a circuit including first and second energy sources, a rectifier coupled to the first and second energy sources, first and second energy storage devices coupled end-to-end across the positive and negative rails, and a single three-level inverter coupled to the rectifier for providing three-phase sinusoidal output voltages.
US07839021B2	Multiplexed direct current regulation output circuit having balance control circuit An exemplary multiplexed direct current regulation output circuit (2) includes a feedback circuit (22), a sampling circuit (30), a power control chip (21), a first output (27), a second output (28), a first half wave rectifier circuit (23), a second half wave rectifier circuit (24), a first filter circuit (25), a second filter circuit (26), a transformer (20), and a balance control circuit (29). The transformer is configured to provide low voltages to the first output via the first half wave rectifier circuit and the first filter circuit in series, and provide high voltages to the second output via the second half wave rectifier circuit and the second filter circuit in series. The balance control circuit is configured to control a voltage at the second output.
US07839016B2	Maintaining output I/O signals within an integrated circuit with multiple power domains An integrated circuit is provided with a power domain which can be selectively powered-up or powered-down. An output circuitry serving to buffer a signal generated by the core circuitry within such a power domain has its own output power supply voltage. An adaptive voltage sensing circuit senses when the core power supply voltage to the core circuitry falls below a threshold level and generates a voltage-low signal. If output signal retention has been preselected to be active for the output signal concerned, then the output circuitry responds to the voltage-low signal by maintaining the output signal state (output signal driven low, output signal driven high or output signal in a high impedance drive state). The retention mode is preselected by a pulse with its value stored within a mode latch indicating whether or not retention is required. Thus, when the adapted voltage sensing circuitry itself senses the voltage level for the core circuitry falling below the threshold, it activates the retention operation.
US07839013B2	Power supply device for vehicle and method of controlling the same A power supply device for a vehicle includes a battery (B1) which serves as a first power storage device, a battery (B2) which serves as a second power storage device, a vehicle load, a selection switch (RY0) which selects one of the first and second power storage devices and connects the selected power storage device to the vehicle load, and a control device (60) which, when a current flowing through the selection switch (RY0) is larger than a prescribed value, controls the vehicle load so that the current flowing through the selection switch (RY0) is made smaller than the prescribed value, and switches the selection switch. Preferably, when the control device (60) switches the selection switch (RY0), the control device controls inverters (20, 30) to achieve a balance between electric power generated in a first motor generator (MG2) and electric power consumed in a second motor generator (MG1).
US07839005B2	Light emitting diode with sealant having filling particles An exemplary light emitting diode (LED) includes an LED chip and a transparent sealant covering the LED chip. The sealant contains transparent filling particles and phosphor particles, wherein the filling particles are adjacent each other. Intervals are defined between the filling particles, and the phosphor particles are located in the intervals.
US07839004B2	Semiconductor device, semiconductor module, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and lead frame To provide a semiconductor device and a semiconductor module in which breakage of a semiconductor element due to a pressing force given from the outside is prevented. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a configuration mainly including an island, a semiconductor element mounted on a front surface of the island, a lead that functions as an external connection terminal, and a sealing resin that covers these components in an integrated manner and mechanically supports them. Further, a through-hole is provided so as to penetrate the sealing resin. A front surface of the sealing resin around the through-hole forms a flat part. The front surface of the sealing resin that overlaps the semiconductor element is depressed inward with respect to the flat part to form a depressed part.
US07838997B2	Remote chip attachment A method of attaching a pair of chips, each having primary contacts that can be mated to each other, involves forming one or more secondary contacts on each of the two chips of a shape sufficient to prevent an initial attachment material from contacting any of the primary contacts during a preliminary attachment operation, the secondary contacts further having a height that will prevent the primary contacts from touching when the secondary contacts are brought into contact with each other, bringing the secondary contacts into closer and closer aligned proximity to each other at least until the primary contacts touch in a first phase, and heating the primary contacts until material between each of corresponding primary contacts on each of the chips in the pair forms an electrical connection.
US07838989B2	Semiconductor component and apparatus for production of a semiconductor component A semiconductor component for radio-frequency applications has at least one substrate and one chip, and with contact pads is disclosed. In one embodiment, bonding wires connect the contact pads on the chip to the contact connecting pads. Signals are passed via these contact pads such that signals at high frequencies are passed via one or more contact pads and signals at low frequencies are passed via one or more contact pads. The chip is shifted on the substrate from a central position with respect to the totality of the contact connecting pads, so that the bonding wires for those contact pads via which signals at a high frequency are passed are shorter than bonding wires for those contact pads via which signals at low frequencies are passed.
US07838987B2	Electronic device, standoff member, and method of manufacturing electronic device An electronic device comprises a semiconductor device having a package substrate with bumps. The semiconductor device is bonded to a mounting substrate by flip-chip bonding. A standoff member supports the package substrate on the mounting substrate with a predetermined standoff between the package substrate and the mounting substrate. The standoff member comprises a hole provided in the mounting substrate, an insertion portion provided to be contained in the hole, and a standoff portion provided to contact and support the package substrate such that the standoff portion has a height, equivalent to the predetermined standoff, on the mounting substrate and enables relative displacement of the package substrate to the mounting substrate.
US07838981B2	Component assembly The present invention provides a possibility of mounting conventionally capped components, that saves much space. The component assembly includes at least one component having a cap, a substrate for the component and connecting means for mounting the component on the substrate and for the electrical connection of the component. The substrate has at least one recess. The component is mounted on the substrate in flip-chip technique, so that the cap is inserted into the recess and the component is connected to the substrate via connecting bumps in the edge region of the recess.
US07838978B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device and method is disclosed. One embodiment provides a substrate and a first semiconductor chip applied over the substrate. A first electrically conductive layer is applied over the substrate and the first semiconductor chip. A first electrically insulating layer is applied over the first electrically conductive layer. A second electrically conductive layer is applied over the first electrically insulating layer.
US07838973B2	Semiconductor device A semi-conductor device (100) comprises an exposed leadframe (10) with a die pad (11) and a plurality of leads (12). The die pad (11) has a substantially flat bottom surface (14) and a top surface (15). A semi-conductor die (2) is attached to a die attachment portion (31) of the top surface (15). Downbonds (5) connect the die (2) to a downbond attachment portion (32). Standard bonds (4) connect the die (2) to the leads (12). A plastic package (6) encapsulates the die (2), the standard bonds (4) and the downbonds (5). The top surface of the die pad has portions located at different levels, and step-shaped transitions between two adjacent ones of such portions. At least one of such step-shaped transition (36) is located between the die (2) and the downbonds (5). It has been found that such step-shaped transition provides good protection against downbond failure.
US07838969B2	Diode A diode is disclosed. One embodiment provides a semiconductor body having a front and a back, opposite the front in a vertical direction of the semiconductor body. The semiconductor body contains, successively in the vertical direction from the back to the front, a heavily n-doped zone, a weakly n-doped zone, a weakly p-doped zone and a heavily p-doped zone. In the vertical direction, the weakly p-doped zone has a thickness of at least 25% and at most 50% of the thickness of the semiconductor body.
US07838968B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating same There are disclosed TFTs having improved reliability. An interlayer dielectric film forming the TFTs is made of a silicon nitride film. Other interlayer dielectric films are also made of silicon nitride. The stresses inside the silicon nitride films forming these interlayer dielectric films are set between −5×109 and 5×109 dyn/cm2. This can suppress peeling of the interlayer dielectric films and difficulties in forming contact holes. Furthermore, release of hydrogen from the active layer can be suppressed. In this way, highly reliable TFTs can be obtained.
US07838965B2	ESD protected integrated capacitor with large capacity The integrated capacitor structure comprises a first branch with a first capacitor (60) and a second branch with a second capacitor (70). The second capacitor (70) has a higher capacitance density and a lower breakdown voltage than the first capacitor (60). The first branch has a shorter RC time constant than the second branch, such that a voltage peak will substantially follow the first branch. This first capacitor (60) has a sufficient capacity to store the charge of the voltage peak. In one embodiment, the second capacitor (70) is a stacked capacitor. The structure is suitable for ESD-protection and may, to this end, additionally comprise diodes (21) and resistors (22).
US07838960B2	Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument An integrated circuit device includes a high-speed I/F circuit block which transfers data through a serial bus, and a driver logic circuit block which generates a display control signal. A first-conductivity-type transistor included in the high-speed I/F circuit block is formed in a second-conductivity-type well, and a second-conductivity-type transistor included in the high-speed I/F circuit block is formed in a first-conductivity-type well formed in a second-conductivity-type substrate to enclose the second-conductivity-type well. A first-conductivity-type transistor and a second-conductivity-type transistor included in the driver logic circuit block are formed in a region other than a region of the first-conductivity-type well for the high-speed interface circuit block.
US07838959B2	Radio frequency (RF) circuit placement in semiconductor devices Semiconductor devices, methods of manufacturing thereof, and methods of arranging circuit components of an integrated circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an array of a plurality of devices arranged in a plurality of rows. At least one radio frequency (RF) circuit or a portion thereof is disposed in at least one of the plurality of rows of the array of the plurality of devices.
US07838956B2	Back illuminated sensor with low crosstalk A back-illuminated image sensor includes a sensor layer having a frontside and a backside opposite the frontside. An insulating layer is situated adjacent the backside and a circuit layer is adjacent the frontside. A plurality of photodetectors of a first type conductivity convert light incident on the backside into photo-generated charges. The photodetectors are disposed in the sensor layer adjacent the frontside. A region of a second type conductivity is formed in at least a portion of the sensor layer adjacent the frontside and is connected to a voltage terminal for biasing the second type conductivity region at a predetermined voltage. A well of the second type conductivity is formed in the sensor layer adjacent the backside. Trench isolations in the sensor layer start at the frontside and extend beyond the depletion region of the photodiodes.
US07838947B2	Read-only memory device coded with selectively insulated gate electrodes During fabrication of a mask read-only memory (ROM) device, a dielectric layer is grown on a substrate. Strip-stacked layers are formed on the dielectric layer, with each strip-stacked layer including a polysilicon and a silicon nitride layer. Source/drain regions are formed in the substrate between the strip-stacked layers, and spacers are then deposited between the strip-stacked layers. The strip-stacked layers are patterned into gates, which are disposed over every code position, with silicon nitride pillars being disposed on the gates. Additional spacers are formed on gate sidewalls. The silicon nitride pillars are removed, exposing the gates. A mask is then formed to cover active code positions, in accordance with the desired programming code. Insulating layers are then deposited through the mask onto the exposed gates. When the mask is removed, word lines are formed, interconnecting the gates without the insulating layers.
US07838946B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor structure and structure of static random access memory A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure is disclosed. A substrate with a first transistor having a first dummy gate and a second transistor having a second dummy gate is provided. The conductive types of the first transistor and the second transistor are different. The first and second dummy gates are simultaneously removed to form respective first and second openings. A high-k dielectric layer, a second type conductive layer and a first low resistance conductive layer are formed on the substrate and fill in the first and second openings, with the first low resistance conductive layer filling up the second opening. The first low resistance conductive layer and the second type conductive layer in the first opening are removed. A first type conductive layer and a second low resistance conductive layer are then formed in the first opening, with the second low resistance conductive layer filling up the first opening.
US07838939B2	ESD protection element According to one embodiment of the present invention, an ESD protection element for use in an electrical circuit is provided, including a plurality of diodes which are connected in series with one another and which are formed in a contiguous active area, wherein the ESD protection element has a fin structure.
US07838936B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof, and liquid crystal display device An active matrix substrate includes a glass substrate, a driver portion formed on the glass substrate in a protruding state, a stepped portion formed along a surface of the driver portion and a surface of the glass substrate, an insulating reentrant-angle compensating film formed on a surface of the stepped portion, for compensating for at least a part of a reentrant-angle shape of the stepped portion, and a wiring layer formed along a surface of the reentrant-angle compensating film and connected to the driver portion.
US07838928B2	Word line to bit line spacing method and apparatus In one embodiment, a memory cell includes a bit line arranged in a semiconductor substrate and a bit line contact region arranged adjacent the bit line. A word line is arranged above the bit line contact region in a trench formed in the semiconductor substrate. A generally U-shaped insulating layer is arranged in a bottom region of the trench and separates the bit line and the bit line contact region from the word line.
US07838925B2	Integrated circuit including a vertical transistor and method An integrated circuit including a vertical transistor and method of manufacturing. In one embodiment a vertical transistor is formed in a pillar of a semiconductor substrate. A buried conductive line is separated from the semiconductor substrate by a first insulating layer in a first portion and is electrically coupled to a buried source/drain region of the vertical transistor through a contact structure. A second insulating layer is arranged above and adjacent to the contact structure. At least one of the first and second insulating layers includes a dopant. A doped region is formed in the semiconductor substrate at an interface to the at least one insulating layer. The doped region has a dopant concentration higher than a substrate dopant concentration.
US07838921B2	Memory cell arrangements A memory cell arrangement includes a first memory cell string having a plurality of serially source-to-drain-coupled transistors, at least some of them being memory cells, a second memory cell string having a plurality of serially source-to-drain-coupled transistors, at least some of them being memory cells. A dielectric material is between and above the first memory cell string and the second memory cell string. A source/drain line groove is defined in the dielectric material. The source/drain line groove extends from a source/drain region of one transistor of the first memory cell string to a source/drain region of the second memory cell string. Electrically conductive filling material is disposed in the source/drain line groove. Dielectric filling material is disposed in the source/drain line groove between the source/drain regions.
US07838917B2	CMOS image sensor and method of fabricating the same A CMOS image sensor and method for fabricating the same, wherein the CMOS image sensor has minimized dark current at the boundary area between a photodiode and an isolation layer. The present invention includes a first-conductivity-type doping area formed in the device isolation area of the substrate, the first-conductivity-type doping area surrounding the isolation area and a dielectric layer formed between the isolation layer and the first-conductivity-type doping area, wherein the first-conductivity-type doping area and the dielectric layer are located between the isolation layer and a second-conductivity-type diffusion area.
US07838913B2	Hybrid FET incorporating a finFET and a planar FET A stack of a vertical fin and a planar semiconductor portion are formed on a buried insulator layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate. A hybrid field effect transistor (FET) is formed which incorporates a finFET located on the vertical fin and a planar FET located on the planar semiconductor portion. The planar FET enables a continuous spectrum of on-current. The surfaces of the vertical fin and the planar semiconductor portion may be set to coincide with crystallographic orientations. Further, different crystallographic orientations may be selected for the surfaces of the vertical fin and the surfaces of the planar semiconductor portion to tailor the characteristics of the hybrid FET.
US07838912B2	Semiconductor sensing field effect transistor, semiconductor sensing device, semiconductor sensor chip and semiconductor sensing device A semiconductor sensing field effect transistor uses an organic unimolecular film formed on a gate insulating layer. In the semiconductor sensing field effect transistor and a semiconductor sensing device, the gate insulating layer has a stack structure wherein a second silicon oxide layer is stacked on a first silicon oxide layer through a silicon nitride layer. A semiconductor sensor chip and the semiconductor sensing device are provided with a field effect transistor chip wherein the gate insulating layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode are integrated on a silicon board, a source electrode terminal wiring connected with the source electrode, and a drain electrode terminal wiring connected with the drain electrode. In the semiconductor sensor chip and the semiconductor sensing device, the transistor chip, the source electrode terminal wiring and the drain electrode terminal wiring are sealed so as to expose an edge part which is not connected with the gate insulating layer of the transistor chip and the source electrode of the source electrode terminal wiring, and an edge part which is not connected with the drain electrode of the drain electrode terminal wiring.
US07838906B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device 1 includes a substrate 2 having on a main surface thereof a central area and a peripheral area which surrounds the central area and is exposed, a semiconductor layer 4 which is formed on the main surface of the substrate 2, is made of a material harder than the substrate 2, is in the shape of a mesa, and has a steep side over the exposed peripheral area, and an insulating film 12S provided on a side surface of the semiconductor layer 4.
US07838891B2	Light emitting device having a plurality of light emitting cells and package mounting the same Disclosed is a light emitting device having a plurality of light emitting cells and a package having the same mounted thereon. The light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting cells which are formed on a substrate and each of which has an N-type semiconductor layer and a P-type semiconductor layer located on a portion of the N-type semiconductor layer. The plurality of light emitting cells are bonded to a submount substrate. Accordingly, heat generated from the light emitting cells can be easily dissipated, so that a thermal load on the light emitting device can be reduced. Meanwhile, since the plurality of light emitting cells are electrically connected using connection electrodes or electrode layers formed on the submount substrate, it is possible to provide light emitting cell arrays connected to each other in series. Further, it is possible to provide a light emitting device capable of being directly driven by an AC power source by connecting the serially connected light emitting cell arrays in reverse parallel to each other.
US07838887B2	Source/drain carbon implant and RTA anneal, pre-SiGe deposition A semiconductor device system, structure, and method of manufacture of a source/drain to retard dopant out-diffusion from a stressor are disclosed. An illustrative embodiment comprises a semiconductor substrate, device, and method to retard sidewall dopant out-diffusion in source/drain regions. A semiconductor substrate is provided with a gate structure, and a source and drain on opposing sides of the gate structure. Recessed regions are etched in a portion of the source and drain. Doped stressors are embedded into the recessed regions. A barrier dopant is incorporated into a remaining portion of the source and drain.
US07838881B2	Active matrix substrate, display device, television apparatus, manufacturing method of an active matrix substrate, and manufacturing method of a display device An active matrix substrate includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix pattern and each forming a pixel; a plurality of gate lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in parallel with each other; a plurality of first source lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in a direction crossing an extending direction of the gate lines; a plurality of TFTs provided corresponding to the respective pixel electrodes and connected to the respective pixel electrodes, the respective gate lines, and the respective first source lines; a plurality of capacitor lines each provided between the corresponding gate lines and extending in parallel with each other; and a plurality of second source lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in parallel with the first source lines.
US07838878B2	Semiconductor-based sub-mounts for optoelectronic devices with conductive paths to facilitate testing and binning The disclosure facilitates testing and binning of multiple LED chip or other optoelectronic chip packages fabricated on a single semiconductor wafer. The testing can take place prior to dicing. For example, in one aspect, metallization on the front-side of a semiconductor wafer electrically connects together cathode pads (or anode pads) of adjacent sub-mounts such that the cathode pads (or anode pads) in a given column of sub-mounts are electrically connected together. Likewise, metallization on the back-side of the wafer electrically connects together anode pads (or cathode pads) of adjacent sub-mounts such that the anode pads (or cathode pads) in a given row of sub-mounts are electrically connected together. Probe pads, which can be located one or both sides of the wafer, are electrically connected to respective ones of the rows or columns.
US07838877B2	Information recording and reproducing apparatus There is proposed a nonvolatile information recording and reproducing device with low power consumption and high thermal stability. The information recording and reproducing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a recording layer and a unit for recording information by applying a voltage to the recording layer to generate a state change in the recording layer. The recording layer being configured to include at least a first compound having a hollandite structure.
US07838875B1	Metal transistor device The present invention relates to a depletion or enhancement mode metal transistor in which the channel region of a transistor device comprises a thin film metal or metal composite layer formed over an insulating substrate.
US07838872B2	Organic thin film transistor array panel An organic thin film transistor array panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a data line disposed on the substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the data line and having a contact hole exposing the data line; a first electrode disposed on the insulating layer and connected to the data line through the contact hole; a second electrode disposed on the insulating layer; an organic semiconductor disposed on the first and the second electrodes; a gate insulator disposed on the organic semiconductor; and a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulator.
US07838863B2	Semiconductor devices having resistive memory elements Provided is a semiconductor device including a resistive memory element. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and the resistive memory element disposed on the substrate. The resistive memory element has resistance states of a plurality of levels according to generation and dissipation of at least one platinum bridge therein.
US07838860B2	Integrated circuit including vertical diode An integrated circuit includes a vertical diode, a first electrode coupled to the vertical diode, and a resistivity changing material coupled to the first electrode. The integrated circuit includes a second electrode coupled to the resistivity changing material and a spacer having a first sidewall contacting a first sidewall of the first electrode and a sidewall of the resistivity changing material.
US07838848B2	Patterning device holding apparatus and application thereof A patterning device holding apparatus includes a support platform unit with a plurality of first positioning projections and a gripper unit. The gripper unit includes a head portion and a plurality of second positioning projections disposed on the head portion, and a rolling member set at a base portion. The grapping and releasing of the patterning device is achieved by the rotation of the gripper unit about a pivot substantially parallel with the center axis of the rolling member. The first and second positioning projections corporately abut against the edges of a patterning device to fix the patterning device in place.
US07838846B2	Rocking toothbrush sanitizer A toothbrush or the like may be inserted, bristles downward, into an aperture in a cap removably attached to a body of the apparatus. A peg may be inserted into any one of the apertures in order to allow an electric toothbrush head or other non-standard type of toothbrush to be used. An internal ultraviolet (UV) bulb is located in the apparatus to sanitize the toothbrushes. A timer/control circuit may activate the UV bulb for three minutes and then shut off. To prevent the recurrence of bacterial growth over time, the UV bulb may be automatically reactivated by the timer/control circuit after six hours and activated for another 3 minutes or another amount of time, as programmed. A safety mechanism may interact with a spring-loaded microswitch coupled to the timer/control circuit to disable the unit if the cap is removed. The body has a rounded bottom and is weighted such that the sanitizing apparatus sits upright on a flat surface and returns to an upright position if tipped.
US07838832B1	Electron beam apparatus and inspection method using dual illumination beams with dynamically controllable offsets An apparatus for generating a dual-energy electron beam. The apparatus includes a first electron beam source configured to generate a lower-energy electron beam, and a second electron beam source configured to generate a higher-energy electron beam. The apparatus further includes a combining device for forming the dual-energy electron beam by combining the lower-energy and higher-energy electron beams. In addition, a first controllable electron-beam deflector is configured to provide a controllable offset of a first area illuminated by the lower-energy electron beam in relation to an image data collection area, and a second controllable electron-beam deflector configured to provide a controllable offset of a second area illuminated by the higher-energy electron beam in relation to the image data collection area. A moving stage and a time delay integration detection system are utilized. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US07838830B2	Charged particle beam apparatus and method for operating a charged particle beam apparatus A charged particle beam apparatus is provided, which comprises a charged particle beam column for generating a primary charged particle beam; a focusing assembly, such as a charged particle lens, e.g., an electrostatic lens, for focusing the primary charged particle beam on a specimen; a detector for detecting charged signal particles which are emerging from the specimen; and a deflector arrangement for deflecting the primary charged particle beam. The deflector arrangement is arranged downstream of the focusing assembly and is adapted for allowing the charged signal particles passing therethrough. The detector is laterally displaced with respect to the optical axis in a deflection direction defined by the post-focusing deflector arrangement.
US07838827B2	Monochromator and scanning electron microscope using the same An invention providing a scanning electron microscope composed of a monochromator capable of high resolution, monochromatizing the energy and reducing chromatic aberrations without significantly lowering the electrical current strength of the primary electron beam. A scanning electron microscope is installed with a pair of sectorial magnetic and electrical fields having opposite deflection directions to focus the electron beam and then limit the energy width by means of slits, and another pair of sectorial magnetic and electrical fields of the same shape is installed at a position forming a symmetrical mirror versus the surface containing the slits. This structure acts to cancel out energy dispersion at the object point and symmetrical mirror positions, and by spatially contracting the point-converged spot beam with a converging lens system, improves the image resolution of the scanning electron microscope.
US07838826B1	Apparatus and method for parallel flow ion mobility spectrometry combined with mass spectrometry Analyte ions entrained in a carrier gas are analyzed by parallel flow ion mobility spectrometry prior to analysis by a mass analyzer. An extended ion funnel is located in the vacuum system of the mass analyzer and has an ion focusing section and an ion mobility analyzing section. The carrier gas together with entrained ions is introduced into the ion focusing section where the ions are focused to the axis of the funnel by applied RF voltages. In the ion mobility section, the action of an RF quadrupolar field, the movement of the carrier gas and axial DC field, separates the ions on the basis of their mobilities. The mobility separated ions are released into the mass analyzer where the ions may be further separated on the basis of mass.
US07838824B2	TOF-TOF with high resolution precursor selection and multiplexed MS-MS The present invention comprises apparatus and methods for rapidly and accurately determining mass-to-charge ratios of molecular ions produced by a pulsed ionization source, and for fragmenting substantially all of the molecular ions produced while rapidly and accurately determining the intensities and mass-to-charge ratios of the fragments produced from each molecular ion.
US07838820B2	Controlled kinetic energy ion source for miniature ion trap and related spectroscopy system and method An ion trap mass spectrometry system adapted for portability and related method includes an ion source for generating ions from a sample to be analyzed, and a resistive drift tube coupled to an output of the ion source for receiving the ions injected therein. The resistive drift tube decelerates the ions to provide cooled ions having a mean translational kinetic energy of less than 5 keV. A miniature ion trap or trap array, such having apertures <1 mm, is coupled to an output of the resistive drift tube for trapping the cooled ions. A spectrometer is coupled to the miniature ion trap for analyzing the cooled ions.
US07838798B2	Shirt finishing machine with function for extending collar A collar iron buck on which the collar of a shift is mounted while being extended in a lateral direction and a press iron for press finishing the collar while pressing against the upper surface of the collar iron buck includes surface corresponding to the central part of the collar in its longitudinal direction that is notched in inverse triangular-shape as seen from a front elevational view. The right and left portions of the supper surface are communicated with the upper surface corresponding to the central part of the collar and corresponding to both ends of the collar in its longitudinal direction are formed into two horizontal plates. First resilient members support the right and left horizontal plates with a resilient pressure selected to be larger than the resilient pressure of second resilient members supporting the inverse triangular-shaped upper surface of the collar iron buck.
US07838785B2	Keypad assembly A keypad assembly for radiating light to a key button using a light conductive plate is provided. The keypad assembly having a key pad with key buttons includes: a light conductive plate for advancing light emitted through a side surface thereof into the inside thereof and for radiating light to the key buttons by a reflection pattern; a light emitting element for emitting light through the said side surface of the light conductive plate into the inside of the light conductive plate; and a reflecting plate formed in a side surface of the light conductive plate to which light emitted from the light emitting element is directed to reflect light into the inside of the light conductive plate. Therefore, by reflecting light that would otherwise be discharged outside the keypad assembly to the inside of the light conductive plate using the reflecting plate, the light can be used. Accordingly, a light utilization efficiency can be improved, the quantity of light emitting elements can be reduced, and power consumption can be reduced.
US07838782B2	Integrated aircraft scale and leveling apparatus and methods for use A combination apparatus for weighing an aircraft has a plurality of weight scales, each scale being adapted to be supported by a support surface in a position for receiving landing gear of an aircraft thereon. At least one riser supports at least one scale above the support surface, and the height of each riser is selected to position an aircraft on the scales in a level attitude while a weight of the aircraft is being supported by the landing gear on the scales. At least one scale may be recessed in the support surface, and the height of each riser may be adjustable.
US07838779B2	Wiring board, method for manufacturing same, and semiconductor package A wiring board in which lower-layer wiring composed of a wiring body and an etching barrier layer is formed in a concave portion formed on one face of a board-insulating film, upper-layer wiring is formed on the other face of the board-insulating film, and the upper-layer wiring and the wiring body of the lower-layer wiring are connected to each other through a via hole formed in the board-insulating film. The via hole is barrel-shaped, bell-shaped, or bellows-shaped.
US07838773B2	High performance telecommunications cable A telecommunications cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and a separator spline comprised of a principal dividing strip and a first subsidiary dividing strip attached longitudinally along a first side of the principal dividing strip and a second dividing strip attached longitudinally along a second side of the principal dividing strip, the spline separating the four twisted pairs such that they are arranged in a staggered configuration. A method for reducing cross talk between adjacent cables in a telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of, for each of the cables, providing a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors, winding an elongate filler element around the twisted pairs and covering the twisted pairs and the element with a cable jacket, the element introducing a visible distortion into an outer surface of the jacket.
US07838762B2	Solar cell A solar cell comprises a substrate configured to have a plurality of via holes and a first conductive type, an emitter layer placed in the substrate and configured to have a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type, a plurality of first electrodes electrically coupled to the emitter layer, a plurality of current collectors electrically coupled to the first electrodes through the plurality of via holes, and a plurality of second electrodes electrically coupled to the substrate. The plurality of via holes comprises at least two via holes having different angles.
US07838761B2	Method for manufacturing solar cell and solar cell manufactured by the method A method for manufacturing a solar cell includes (S1) forming, on a first conductive semiconductor substrate, a second conductive semiconductor layer having an opposite conduction type by means of ion implantation to form a pn junction in an interface thereof; (S2) treating an alkali solution on the second conductive semiconductor layer for texturing; (S3) forming an antireflection film on the textured second conductive semiconductor layer; (S4) forming a front electrode to pass through a partial region of the antireflection film and connect to a part of the second conductive semiconductor layer; and (S5) forming a rear electrode at an opposite side to the front electrode with the first conductive semiconductor substrate being interposed therebetween such that the rear electrode is connected to the first conductive semiconductor substrate. The second conductive semiconductor layer, namely an emitter layer, functions as an etch stop layer.
US07838750B2	Musical instrument sloped neck joint A joint between a neck and a body of a stringed musical instrument is described, wherein a neck receiving cavity in the body has a sloped major bearing surface. The sloped major bearing surface urges the neck laterally into a side surface of the neck receiving cavity as a connector pulls the neck into the neck receiving cavity. By urging the neck into a side surface of the neck receiving cavity, a second bearing surface is made in a different plane than the major bearing surface, which makes a more rigid joint between the body and the neck of the musical instrument.
US07838743B1	Inbred corn line BD0657BM An inbred corn line, designated BD0657BM, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line BD0657BM, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line BD0657BM with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line BD0657BM with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BD0657BM, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BD0657BM and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US07838739B1	Soybean variety XB39W09 According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB39W09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB39W09, to the plants of soybean XB39W09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB39W09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB39W09 with another soybean plant, using XB39W09 as either the male or the female parent.
US07838737B1	Soybean variety XB39N09 According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB39N09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB39N09, to the plants of soybean XB39N09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB39N09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB39N09 with another soybean plant, using XB39N09 as either the male or the female parent.
US07838735B2	Soybean cultivar 7803418 A soybean cultivar designated 7803418 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 7803418, to the plants of soybean 7803418, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 7803418 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 7803418 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 7803418, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 7803418 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 7803418 with another soybean cultivar.
US07838734B2	Soybean cultivar 7511119 A soybean cultivar designated 7511119 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 7511119, to the plants of soybean 7511119, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 7511119 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 7511119 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 7511119, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 7511119 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 7511119 with another soybean cultivar.
US07838733B2	Herbicide resistance genes The subject invention provides novel plants that are not only resistant to 2,4-D and other phenoxy auxin herbicides, but also to aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides. Heretofore, there was no expectation or suggestion that a plant with both of these advantageous properties could be produced by the introduction of a single gene. The subject invention also includes plants that produce one or more enzymes of the subject invention alone or “stacked” together with another herbicide resistance gene, preferably a glyphosate resistance gene, so as to provide broader and more robust weed control, increased treatment flexibility, and improved herbicide resistance management options. More specifically, preferred enzymes and genes for use according to the subject invention are referred to herein as AAD (aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase) genes and proteins. No α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase enzyme has previously been reported to have the ability to degrade herbicides of different chemical classes and modes of action. This highly novel discovery is the basis of significant herbicide tolerant crop trait opportunities as well as development of selectable marker technology. The subject invention also includes related methods of controlling weeds. The subject invention enables novel combinations of herbicides to be used in new ways. Furthermore, the subject invention provides novel methods of preventing the formation of, and controlling, weeds that are resistant (or naturally more tolerant) to one or more herbicides such as glyphosate.
US07838731B2	GTP binding stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants A transgenic plant transformed by a GTP Binding Stress-Related Protein (GBSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated GBSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding GBSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.
US07838728B2	Modulating developmental pathways in plants The invention relates to a method to modulate plant growth or development by modifying genes in plants. The invention among others relates to modifying RKS genes or gene products as found in Arabidopsis thaliana or other plants. The invention provides a method for modulating a developmental pathway of a plant or plant cell comprising modifying a gene or modifying expression of said gene, wherein said gene is encoding a protein belonging to a signaling complex comprising RKS protein, ELS protein, NDR/NHL protein, SBP/SPL protein and RKS/ELS ligand protein.
US07838727B2	Derivation of embryonic stem cells This present invention provides novel methods for deriving embryonic stem cells, those cells and cell lines, and the use of the cells for therapeutic and research purposes without the destruction of the embryo. It also relates to novel methods of establishing and storing an autologous stem cell line prior to implantation of an embryo, e.g., in conjunction with reproductive therapies such as IVF.
US07838722B2	Indirect printing of AGM The present invention relates to a method of applying absorbent gelling material (AGM) granules by indirect printing onto an carrier layer for use in an absorbent article, particularly diaper for babies or adults, training pants, pull-up diapers (diaper pants), sanitary napkins, panty liners or the like. These articles typically comprise the carrier layer with the AGM particles together with further layers, making up the complete article.
US07838719B2	Bandage for covering a wound with no adhesive-to-skin contact The invention relates to a self-adhering bandage that is secured in place without an adhesive/skin contact point. The bandage may include a substance storage area that houses a substance that is transferred to the dressing component when pressure is applied to the substance storage area.
US07838715B2	Drug deactivation system and method of deactivating a drug using the same A drug deactivation system according to some embodiments includes at least one degradable capsule exposed to at least one drug-retaining region of a drug delivery device and an agent. The agent is configured to render a drug ineffective upon degradation of the at least one capsule. The at least one drug-retaining region is configured to retain one of the drug and the agent and the at least one capsule is configured to retain the other of the drug and the agent.
US07838710B2	Selective hydrogenation process and catalyst A supported catalyst for selective hydrogenation of acetylenes comprising 3-15 wt. % Ni promoted with 0.005-0.2 Pd on a support. The catalyst is prepared by depositing nickel promoted with palladium on a support, containing one or more optional elements from copper, silver, Group IA (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr) and Group IIA (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra) and B (Zn, Cd,) of the periodic table of elements and characterized as: ComponentRange of componentPreferably wt. %wt. % Ni3-15 4-11 Cu0-I 0.0-0.6 Pd0.005-0.2 0.01-0.1 Ag0-100-5 Group IA 0-2.5 0-1.5 Group IIA & B0-250.1-5.
US07838709B2	Lubricating base oil and lubricating oil composition The invention provides a lubricating base oil with a saturated component content of 90% by mass or greater, a proportion of cyclic saturated components of no greater than 40% by mass of the saturated components, a viscosity index of 110 or greater, an aniline point of 106 or greater and an ε-methylene proportion of 14-20% of the total constituent carbons, as well as a lubricating oil composition comprising the lubricating base oil.
US07838695B2	Neuroactive substance and uses of one such substance The invention relates to a neuroactive substance which is characterised in that it has formula (O), wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are identical or different and are methyl or ethyl radicals. Preferably, the neuroactive substance comprises 6S-acetyl-4R,5R-dimethyl-1R(10S)-epoxy-2R-hy-droxy-7R-acetoxydecahydro naphthalene which can be isolated from Rhytisma fulvum cnidaria. The inventive neuroactive substance can be used as a pharmacological reagent in research work and is also suitable for use in the fields of industry (insecticides) and health.
US07838692B2	Alkyl acetal compound, process for producing the same, and lubricating oil composition A compound which satisfies requirements for the annealing property and the lubricating property simultaneously and a process for producing the compound are provided. The compound is an alkylacetal compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2). In the general formulae, R1 and R2 represent hydrocarbon groups, R3 to R8 represent hydrogen atom or hydrocarbon groups, i and j represent integers satisfying the relation that the sum of the integers is 8 to 98, and k represents 0 or 1.
US07838689B2	Method for producing phenolphthalein compound using ionic liquid catalyst composition A method for producing a phenolphthalein compound is disclosed, comprising: reacting a phenolic compound of the formula: wherein Ra is a hydrogen or a C1-C12 hydrocarbyl group, with a phthalic anhydride compound of the formula: wherein Rb is a hydrogen, a C1-C12 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen, in the presence of an ionic liquid catalyst composition and a promoter to form a reaction mixture comprising a phenolphthalein compound of the formula: wherein each Ra is independently a hydrogen or a C1-C12 hydrocarbyl group, and Rb is a hydrogen, a C1-C12 hydrocarbyl group, or a halogen; wherein the ionic liquid catalyst composition comprises a combination of an ionic liquid and a metal halide wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of a Group IIB, IIIA, VIII, or IVA metal, and a combination thereof.
US07838686B2	Preparation of pregabalin and related compounds Materials and Methods for preparing (S)-(+)-3-aminomethyl-5-methyl-hexanoic acid and structurally related compounds via enzymatic kinetic resolution are disclosed.
US07838685B2	Cationic amino acid type lipid The present invention provides a novel complex lipid having a cationic functional group derived from an amino acid. Namely, the present invention provides a cationic acid amino acid type lipid represented by the following formula: wherein, R1 is a hydrocarbon group having a cationic functional group derived from an amino acid, R2 and R3 are each independently a chain hydrocarbon group, A1 and A2 are each independently a linkage group selected from the group consisting of —COO—, —OCO—, —CONH— and NHCO—, and n is an integer of 2 to 4.
US07838683B2	Synthesis of irbesartan Provided are a method of making irbesartan via a Suzuki coupling reaction and a novel intermediate, 2-butyl-3-(4′-bromobenzyl)-1,3-diazaspiro[4.4]non-1-ene-4-one, for such process. The novel process includes the step of reacting such intermediate with a protected imidazolephenylboronic acid.
US07838666B2	Water-dispersible cellulose and process for producing the same A material is provided to give food products sufficient viscosity and stability (heat resistance, stable suspension, etc.). The material is produced from an inexpensive raw material by an economical process. Further, a novel gel containing cellulose as the main component is also provided.The present invention provides a fine fibrous water-dispersible cellulose derived from plant cell walls. For the production, a raw material having specific properties is used, and size reduction is carried out stepwise thereto. The water-dispersible cellulose can also be made into a dry composition by compounding with a water-soluble polymer or the like. This dry composition forms a gel when combined with a polysaccharide such as glucomannan or the like. The gel excels in heat-resistance and shape-retention and can be used to produce to novel food products.
US07838662B2	Microrna molecules In Caenorhabditis elegans, lin-4 and let-7 enclode 22- and 21-nucleotide RNAs, respectively, that function as key regulators of developmental timing. Because the appearance of these short RNAs is regulated during development, they are also referred to as “small temporal RNAs” (stRNAs). We show that many more 21- and 22-nt expressed RNAs, termed microRNAs, (miRNAs), exist in invertebrates and vertebrates, and that some of these novel RNAs, similar to let-7 stRAN, are also highly conserved. This suggests that sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms mediated by small RNAs are more general than previously appreciated.
US07838659B2	Herpesvirus ribozymes and vectors Hammerhead ribozymes that target components critical to HSV replication (ICP4, UL20, UL30, and UL54) were synthesized and shown to efficiently cleave target RNA encoding a portion of these components in in vitro assays. Several cloned cell lines stably expressing these ribozymes were established. HSV-mediated plaque formation was dramatically reduced in cells stably transfected with an anti-HSV ribozyme compared to non-transfected cells.
US07838656B2	Probe, probe set, probe-immobilized carrier, and genetic testing method A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 73 to 75 and complementary or modified sequences thereof or a combination of at least two of them is used for detecting the gene of an infectious disease pathogenic bacterium.
US07838652B2	Chimeric promoters comprising a Rice Actin 1 promoter and enhancer elements for use in plants The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules comprising a rice actin 1 promoter and a promoter enhancer useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants.
US07838648B2	Purified SR-p70 protein The invention relates to new nucleic acid sequences of the family of tumor-suppressing genes related to the gene for the p53 protein, and to corresponding protein sequences.
US07838641B2	Process for the production of alginate having a high mannuronic acid-content The present invention concerns a process for the production of alginate having a mannuronic acid-content of at least 80 mole %, wherein said alginate is produced by: a) adding algae or seaweed to water under stirring, in a ratio of 1:3 to 1:20 respectively, at a pH above about 2.3, while maintaining a temperature above 20° C. for at least 30 minutes, and b) separating said alginate from the solid material of the suspension in a) by a standard separation method such as filtration, and optionallyc) recovering said alginate from the solution.
US07838639B2	Antibodies to train R: a cysteine-rich member of the TNF-receptor family, and methods of treating tumors expressing said receptor Embodiments of the present invention encompass novel receptors of the TNF family. In particular, embodiments of the invention encompass TNF Receptor in the BRAIN (TRAIN) and isolated antibodies that bind to the same. In some embodiments, isolated antibodies that bind to TRAIN are useful in regulating cell differentiation, death, and survival. Other embodiments of the invention encompass pharmaceutical compositions comprising antibodies that bind to human TRAIN.
US07838638B2	Anti-IL-17 antibodies Anti-IL-17 antibodies are identified that are characterized as having a high affinity and slow off rate for human IL-17. The antibodies of the invention may be chimeric, humanized or fully human antibodies, immunoconjugates of the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof. The antibodies of the invention are useful in particular for treating autoimmune, inflammatory, cell proliferative and developmental disorders.
US07838624B2	Mixed halogen polymerization Synthesis of regioregular thiophene-based polymers (PTs) and their functionalized counterparts via metal assisted cross-coupling polymerizations utilizing mixed halogen substituted aryl halide monomer precursors. The described method provides a means to control structural homogeneity and regioregularity and the electronic/spectroscopic properties of functionalized PTs, and leads to improved performance of organic semiconductor devices such as OPVs and/or OFETs. Asymmetrical monomers can be used.
US07838623B2	Fused thiophenes, methods for making fused thiophenes, and uses thereof Described herein are compositions including heterocyclic organic compounds such as fused thiophene compounds, methods for making them, and uses thereof.
US07838616B2	Perfluoropolyether rubber composition and ion-conducting polymer electrolyte membrane A perfluoropolyether rubber composition is useful for forming a polymer electrolyte membrane, comprising (A) an alkenyl-containing perfluoropolyether, (B) a silicon-oxygen crosslinked structure having ionic conduction, and (C) a peroxide crosslinker. The silicon-oxygen crosslinked structure is obtained by simultaneously effecting oxidation and hydrolysis on an organoxysilane having an epoxy group and an organoxysilane having a mercapto group for thereby converting the mercapto group into a sulfonic group, and neutralizing the resulting sulfonic group-containing siloxane with a nitrogen-containing compound.
US07838614B2	Siloxane containing block copolymers, process for their preparation and their use for lubricants The invention relates to novel polyester-polysiloxane block copolymers, to a process for their preparation and to the use of these polymers as a base oil or as an additive in lubricants, especially silicone oils.
US07838603B2	Silicone-containing graft copolymers of blockwise structure The invention describes novel silicone-containing graft copolymers and processes for their preparation. In particular, it relates to silicone-containing graft copolymers P, which are obtained by grafting olefinic monomers M onto polyether-containing radicals of polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers S with (AB)n structure.
US07838599B2	Bimodal acrylate PSA for bonding low-energy and rough surfaces A Polyacrylate having an at least bimodal molecular weight distribution is disclosed. The polyacrylate is characterized by at least two maxima in the molar mass distribution curve, at points M1 and M2, with M1>M2, in which, viewed formally, there are at least two polymers, P1 and P2, each having its own molecular weight distribution, the polymer P1 possessing a most frequent molar mass Mmax(P1) and the polymer P2 possessing a most frequent molar mass Mmax(P2), where Mmax(P1)>Mmax(P2), at least the polymer P1 being based on a monomer mixture comprising at least one monomer type selected from the group of the acrylic esters and of the methacrylic esters of the general formula H2C═CR1—COOR2 where R1═H or CH3 and where R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain having 4 to 15 carbon atoms; and at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer type containing functional groups, wherein the functional groups of the at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer type are groups which are able to react for a thermal crosslinking reaction, and at least the polymer P1 has copolymerized monomers of the olefinically unsaturated monomer type containing groups that are reactive for a thermal crosslinking reaction, and is capable under the influence of thermal energy, where appropriate with addition of a catalyst, of entering into a crosslinking reaction.
US07838592B2	Starch-based coating composition There is provided a starch-based coating composition with excellent storage stability as a one-pack type paint, which can form coating films with excellent drying property, finished appearances, pencil hardness, mar resistance, adhesion, alkali resistance, solvent resistance and weather resistance, as well as coated articles that have been coated with the starch-based coating composition. The starch-based coating composition comprises as the binder a resin composition obtained by reacting (A) starch and/or modified starch with (B) an isocyanate group-containing compound obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound (b1) and a polyhydric alcohol (b2), or by reaction of these components with a resin obtained by radical polymerization of a mixture comprising an aromatic-based radical polymerizing unsaturated monomer, a hydroxyl group-containing radical polymerizing unsaturated monomer and optionally another radical polymerizing unsaturated monomer.
US07838589B2	Sealant material There is disclosed a sealant material for providing sealing to a substrate and preferably an interface. The sealant material may also include a material, shape, ingredient or otherwise for inhibiting the flow of bubbles throught the material.
US07838584B2	Golf ball The invention provides a golf ball having a core and a cover of one or more layer, wherein at least one layer of the cover is made of a material obtained by molding a mixture composed of (a) 100 parts by weight of a base resin and (b) 1 to 40 parts by weight of a saturated branched-chain fatty acid or a derivative thereof. The golf ball has a soft, pleasant feel on impact and excellent scuff resistance while retaining a good flight performance. Moreover, it exhibits a highly white appearance that undergoes little discoloration.
US07838567B2	Foams made from water-absorbing, basic polymers, method for the production and utilization thereof Foams composed of water-absorbing basic polymers, obtainable by (I) foaming a crosslinkable aqueous mixture including (a) at least one basic polymer whose basic groups have optionally been neutralized, (b) at least one crosslinker, (c) at least one surfactant, (d) optionally at least one solubilizer, (e) optionally thickeners, foam stabilizers, fillers, fibers and/or cell nucleators, and (f) optionally particulate water-absorbing acidic polymers, by dissolving a gas which is inert toward free radicals in the crosslinkable aqueous mixture under a pressure from 2 to 400 bar and subsequently decompressing the crosslinkable aqueous mixture to atmospheric or by dispersing fine bubbles of a gas which is inert toward free radicals, and (II) crosslinking the foamed mixture to form a hydrogel foam and if applicable adjusting the water content of the polymer foam to 1-60% by weight. Preparation of the foams by application of the abovementioned measures (I) and (II) and use of the thus obtainable foams in hygiene articles to absorb body fluids, in dressing material to cover wounds, as a sealing material, as a packaging material, as a soil improver, as a soil substitute, to dewater sludges, to absorb aqueous acidic wastes, to thicken waterborne paints or coatings in the course of disposing of residual quantities thereof, to dewater water-containing oils or hydrocarbons or as a material for filters in ventilation systems.
US07838565B2	Use of cyclohexenone derivatives in the manufacture of a medicament for treating diabetic complications A preventive and/or therapeutic agent for diabetes complications, which comprises as an effective ingredient a cyclohexenone long-chain alcoholic derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein, R1, R2 and R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and X represents a linear or branched C10-28 alkylene or alkenylene group. The cyclohexenone long-chain alcoholic derivative of the present invention significantly suppresses a reduction in a peripheral nerve conduction rate and alleviates the hypofunction of the bladder so that it is useful as a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for diabetes complications, particularly, for diabetic neuropathy.
US07838564B2	Stabilized compositions of volatile alkylating agents and methods of using thereof A composition and method for treatment of cancer. The composition for treating a skin disorder, comprising: a Nitrogen Mustard or an HX salt of the Nitrogen Mustard, wherein the Nitrogen Mustard or the HX salt of the Nitrogen Mustard is in a non-aqueous vehicle or carrier that does not include petrolatum or ethanol, wherein the non-aqueous vehicle or carrier that does not include petrolatum or ethanol does not include petrolatum or ethanol. The method comprises topically applying the composition of a Nitrogen Mustard or a HX salt of the Nitrogen Mustard to the affected skin, wherein the Nitrogen Mustard or the HX salt of the Nitrogen Mustard is in a non-aqueous vehicle or carrier that does not include petrolatum or ethanol, wherein the non-aqueous vehicle or carrier does not include petrolatum or ethanol.
US07838549B2	Linker compound, ligand conjugate, and production methods thereof The present invention provides a novel linker compound which minimizes any nonspecific hydrophobic interactions and is capable of easily adjusting the length to a disulfide group subjected to metal bond to thereby enable effective formation of a metal-sulfur bond; novel ligand conjugate and ligand carrier, and a process for producing them. The linker compound is of a structure represented by the following general formula (1) where a, b, d, e are independently an integer of 0 to 6. X has a structure serving as a multi-branched structure moiety including three or more hydrocarbon derivative chains, wherein the hydrocarbon derivative chains each include an aromatic amino group at an end thereof, and may or may not include a carbon-nitrogen bond in a main chain thereof. The ligand conjugate includes the linker compound having a sugar molecule introduced therein.
US07838543B2	MCH receptor antagonists The present invention relates to a melanin concentrating hormone antagonist compound of formula (I); wherein Ar1, L1, R1, q, X, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or enantiomer thereof useful in the treatment, prevention or amelioration of symptoms associated with obesity and related diseases.
US07838541B2	Aryl ureas with angiogenesis inhibiting activity This invention relates to methods of using aryl ureas to treat diseases mediated by the VEGF induced signal transduction pathway characterized by abnormal angiogenesis or hyperpermeability processes.
US07838540B2	3-aminocarbonyl, 6-phenyl substituted pyridine-1-oxides as p38 kinase inhibitors Compounds of formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, and their use as pharmaceuticals, particularly as p38 kinase inhibitors.
US07838536B2	Water-soluble zinc ionophores, zinc chelators, and/or zinc complexes and use for treating cancer Disclosed herein are novel zinc ionophores, zinc chelators and/or zinc complexes with enhanced aqueous solubility. Methods of treating cancer using at least one zinc ionophore and/or zinc chelator are also disclosed. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating cancer with combination therapy using at least one texaphyrin metal complex and at least one zinc ionophore or the respective pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives or salts thereof.
US07838526B2	Method of treating neurological disorders Essential tremor can effectively be treated with high doses of Riboflavin (vitamin B2), either on its own or coupled with one or more other B vitamins and/or coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). The treatment constitutes a significant improvement over prior treatment methods in that it not only alleviates essential tremor, but results in better performance of the affected body portion and may delay the progression of the disease. The preferred addition of other B vitamins and/or CoQ10 also provides balance to the nutrient energy requirements of a patient's body.
US07838524B2	Substituted pyrazolyl urea derivatives useful in the treatment of cancer The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions which contain them and methods for treating cancer using compounds of formula (I).
US07838516B2	15 β-substituted steroids having selective estrogenic activity The invention provides 15β-substituted steroidal compounds having selective estrogen receptor activity according to Formula I: wherein, R1 is H, C1-5 alkyl, C1-12 acyl, di-(C1-5 alkyl)aminocarbonyl, (C1-5alkyl)oxycarbonyl or sulfamoyl, R2 is H, C1-3 alkyl, C2-3 alkenyl or C2-3 alkynyl, each of which may be optionally substituted with a halogen, R3 is C1-2 alkyl, ethenyl or ethynyl, each of which may be optionally substituted with a halogen, and R4 is H or C1-12 acyl.
US07838501B2	Coumermycin/novobiocin-regulated gene expression system A chimeric transactivator comprises a transcription activation domain, a repressor protein DNA binding domain and the bacterial DNA gyrase B subunit. A target gene is operatively linked to operator DNA sequences recognized by the repressor binding domain. The addition of the antibiotic coumermycin results in a coumermycin-switched dimerization of the transactivator, which then binds to operator DNA sequences and activates transcription of the target gene. The addition of novobiocin switches off expression of the target gene by abolishing coumermycin-induced dimerization of the transactivator.
US07838500B2	Crystalline form of 1′-(1-methylethyl)-4′-[(2-fluoro-4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-5′-methyl-1H-pyrazol-3′-O-β-D-glucopyranoside, a method for its preparation and the use thereof for preparing medicaments The invention relates to a crystalline form of 1′-(1-methylethyl)-4′-[(2-fluoro-4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-5′-methyl-1H-pyrazol-3′-O-β-D-glucopyranoside, to a method for the preparation thereof, as well as to the use thereof for preparing medicaments.
US07838499B2	Benzylbenzene derivatives and methods of use Provided are compounds having an inhibitory effect on sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter SGLT. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing the compounds, synthetic intermediates, and methods of using the compounds, independently or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for treating diseases and conditions which are affected by SGLT inhibition.
US07838496B2	Template-fixed peptidomimetics as medicaments against HIV and cancer Template-fixed β-hairpin peptidomimetics of the General Formula (I); wherein Z1 and Z2 are template-fixed chains of 4 and 6 or 5 and 7 α-amino acid residues and salts thereof. They have CXCR4-antagonizing properties and can be used as medicaments. These β-sheet peptidomimetics can be manufactured by a process which is based on a mixed solid- and solution phase synthetic strategy.
US07838494B2	Differentiation- or regeneration-inducing agent for alveoli The present invention provides an agent comprising HGF for inducing differentiation of bone marrow cells into alveolar cells. The present invention also provides an HGF-containing agent for alveolar formation in pulmonary emphysema and the like in which alveoli are destroyed.
US07838492B2	Recombinant canine thyroid stimulating hormone and methods of production and use thereof The invention includes a nucleic acid having a sequence at least 98% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 1, which encodes the α subunit of canine thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). The invention also includes a nucleic acid having a sequence at least 98% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 2, which encodes the β subunit of canine TSH. The invention also includes a method of producing a recombinant canine thyroid stimulating hormone (rcTSH) subunit by expressing a nucleic acid having a sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and a nucleic acid having a sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in a transgenic insect cell modified to sialylate proteins and producing a sialylated rcTSH subunit. The insect cell may be a lepidopteran cell. The rcTSH may be used for diagnosis and treatment. It may be used to diagnose canine hypothyroidism.
US07838476B1	Generation of residue-free decontaminant using hydrogen peroxide, ammonia, and carbon dioxide A method for in situ generation of a decontamination solution adapted to decontaminate mustard agents by oxidation and nerve agents by perhydrolysis, comprising the steps of generating a stable precursor solution of aqueous NH4HCO3 by bubbling CO2 and NH3 into a container of water; and adding a peroxide component to the precursor solution. The step of bubbling CO2 into a container of water may be accomplished by bubbling fossil fuel engine exhaust including CO2 directly into the container of water.
US07838471B2	Blend comprising group II and group IV basestocks The invention relates to compositions comprising a blend of Group II basestocks and low volatility, low viscosity PAO basestocks. The blend is particularly useful for preparing finished lubricants that meet or even exceed the criteria for SAE Grade 0W multi-grade engine oils. The combination of these low volatility, low viscosity PAOs with Group II basestocks provide, in embodiments, the necessary performance criteria in automatic transmission fluids, automotive or industrial gear oils, hydraulic fluids, or any other high performance lubricant requiring a combination of excellent low fluidity and low volatility.
US07838470B2	Lubricating oil composition A multigrade crankcase lubricating oil composition comprising a mineral oil-based basestock of lubricating viscosity in a major amount and a non-hydrogenated olefin polymer in a minor amount. The lubricating oil composition also comprises a dispersant, a metal detergent, one or more other additives, and a viscosity modifier.
US07838469B2	Fusing materials for prevention of lost circulation A method is given for reducing fluid loss in downhole operations such as drilling and completion. A composition containing a fusing solid is injected into the fluid loss flow path; the fusing solid fuses at formation temperature when the injection pressure is released and the formation matrix surfaces forming the flow path close on the composition. The fusing solid is gilsonite, or a similar material, or resin coated particles. The composition may optionally contain one or more of fibers, flakes, an activator, and a dispersant.
US07838465B2	Method of synthesis of a superconducting material A method of synthesizing a superconducting material, comprising mixing starting materials comprising magnesium, boron, silicon and carbon; heating the mixture of starting materials to a temperature in the range between 650° C. and 2000° C. to produce a material comprising magnesium boride doped with silicon carbide; and cooling the resulting material to a temperature below the critical temperature of the material to render the material capable of superconducting.
US07838451B2	Alkali-free glass and liquid crystal display panel To provide an alkali-free glass excellent in the properties for glass substrates to be used for display, excellent in the resistance to reduction, and suitable for forming by a float process.An alkali-free glass consisting essentially of, as represented by mol %: SiO2at least 60% and less than 66%, Al2O30 to 12%, B2O35 to 10%, MgO0 to 18%, CaO0 to 18%, SrO0 to 18%, BaO0 to 6%, CaO + SrO10 to 25%, MgO + CaO + SrO + BaO15.5 to 30% and containing substantially no alkali metal oxide.
US07838447B2	Antimicrobial pre-moistened wipers A pre-moistened wiper that exhibits good antimicrobial kill at relatively small levels of antimicrobial agent is provided. In one embodiment, for example, the wiper contains a sanitizing formulation that includes between about 0.01% by weight to about 1% by weight of an antimicrobial agent, including a quaternary ammonium compound, and water. The sanitizing formulation is capable of being released from the wiper as a solution such that the quaternary ammonium compound is present within the solution in an amount less than about 2000 parts per million of the solution. The wiper can exhibit a log reduction for E. Coli of at least about 2.
US07838446B2	Wood enhancement agent treated engineered wood products A wood enhancement agent treated engineered wood product. The wood enhancement agent typically includes at least one of a preservative, a water repellant, a fungicide, an insecticide, a stabilizing agent, wax, an ultra-violet light inhibitor, and combinations thereof, and may also include an antioxidant. The wood enhancement agent is incorporated into the engineered wood product during a billet making process or after forming the billet. The wood enhancement agent may be applied simultaneously with a bonding agent or at a later time, for example applied to a scrim log mat during a pre-press process or inside a steam press chamber. Alternatively, the wood enhancement agent may be applied to a warm billet after steam press, or to a reheated billet, by dipping, spraying, or flood coating the billet, or by diffusion, vacuum impregnation, pressure, or a combination thereof.
US07838445B2	Multi-layer wrapping material with water vapor-permeable inner layer A multi-layered sheet material for wrapping metal goods to protect them from corrosion during storage has a water impermeable and water vapor-impermeable outer layer comprising a coated woven scrim and a water-impermeable and water vapor permeable inner layer comprising a micro-perforated film. The inner layer incorporates corrosion inhibitors. The outer and inner layers are bonded along their longitudinal edges leaving a space between the layers into which water vapor can migrate away from the wrapped metal product.
US07838444B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method of the same A fabrication method of a semiconductor device includes forming a silicon nitride layer on a compound semiconductor layer with a plasma CVD method and selectively treating the compound semiconductor layer with use of the silicon nitride layer for a mask. The silicon nitride layer has a refraction index of less than 1.85. The compound semiconductor layer includes Ga.
US07838442B2	Thin film solar cell and its fabrication A method for producing a solar cell including the steps of forming a p-type microcrystalline silicon oxide layer on a glass substrate using a PECVD method and raw gases comprising Silane gas, Diborane gas, Hydrogen gas and Carbon Dioxide gas. The method may employ a frequency of between about 13.56-60 MHz. The PECVD method may be performed at a power density of between about 10-40 mW/cm2 and a pressure of between about 0.5-2 Torr, and with a ratio of Carbon Dioxide to Silane of between about 0.10-0.24; a ratio of Diborane to Silane of 0.10 or less, and a ratio of Silane to Hydrogen of 0.01 or less. A tandem solar cell structure may be formed by forming top and bottom layers by the method described above, and placing the top layer over the bottom layer.
US07838437B2	Method for simultaneous recrystallization and doping of semiconductor layers The invention relates to a method for simultaneous recrystallization and doping of semiconductor layers, in particular for the production of crystalline silicon thin layer solar cells. In this method, in a first step a substrate base layer 1 is produced, in a step subsequent thereto, on the latter an intermediate layer system 2 which has at least one doped partial layer is deposited, in a step subsequent thereto, an absorber layer 3 which is undoped or likewise doped is deposited on the intermediate layer system 2, and in a recrystallization step, the absorber layer 3 is heated, melted, cooled and tempered. In an advantageous method modification, instead of an undoped capping layer, a capping layer system 4 which has at least one partial layer can also be applied on the absorber layer 3.
US07838432B2	Etch process with controlled critical dimension shrink Methods to etch an opening in a substrate layer with reduced critical dimensions are described. A multi-layered mask including a lithographically patterned photoresist and an unpatterned organic antireflective coating (BARC) is formed over a substrate layer to be etched. The BARC layer is etched with a significant negative etch bias to reduce the critical dimension of the opening in the multi-layer mask below the lithographically define dimension in the photoresist. The significant negative etch bias of the BARC etch is then utilized to etch an opening having a reduced critical dimension into the substrate layer. To plasma etch an opening in the BARC with a significant negative etch bias, a polymerizing chemistry, such as CHF3 is employed. In a further embodiment, the polymerizing chemistry provide at low pressure is energized at a relatively low power with a high frequency capacitively coupled source.
US07838425B2	Method of treating surface of semiconductor substrate A method of treating the surface of a semiconductor substrate has cleaning the semiconductor substrate having a pattern formed thereon by using a chemical solution, removing the chemical solution by using pure water, forming a water repellent protective film on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, rinsing the semiconductor substrate by using pure water, and drying the semiconductor substrate.
US07838412B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device wherein a metal pad is etched to form a trench in which a central part is concave in form, or to form a trench in the shape of a cylinder or a parallelepiped on the edge part of a metal pad. Accordingly, the contact area between a polymide isoindro quirazorindione (PIQ) or similar curable layer and the metal pad is increased and the bondability is improved. Accordingly, the technology of improving the characteristic of device by preventing the problem that the metal pad is excessively opened in a subsequent curing process and the layer of a lower portion of the metal pad is attacked is disclosed.
US07838411B2	Fluxless reflow process for bump formation A fluxless reflow process for bump formation is provided, which includes: a purifying process for keeping solder in a state of melting or half-melting for 40 s to 540 s; a ball-forming process for melting the solder completely to form ball-like bumps; and a cooling process. The splashing of solder can be avoided and the defect that there may be solder balls around the bumps can be eliminated.
US07838399B2	Plasma immersed ion implantation process using balanced etch-deposition process Methods for implanting ions into a substrate by a plasma immersion ion implanting process are provided. In one embodiment, a method for implanting ions into a substrate includes providing a substrate into a processing chamber, generating a plasma from a gas mixture including a reacting gas and a etching gas in the chamber, adjusting the ratio between the reacting gas and the etching gas in the supplied gas mixture and implanting ions from the plasma into the substrate. In another embodiment, the method includes providing a substrate into a processing chamber, supplying a gas mixture including reacting gas and a halogen containing reducing gas into the chamber, forming a plasma from the gas mixture, gradually increasing the ratio of the etching gas in the gas mixture, and implanting ions from the gas mixture into the substrate.
US07838391B2	Ultra thin bumped wafer with under-film A semiconductor device begins with a wafer having a plurality of bumps formed on a surface of the wafer. An under-film layer is formed over the wafer to completely cover all portions of the bumps with the under-film layer. An adhesive layer is formed over the under-film layer. A support layer is attached over the adhesive layer. A back surface of the wafer undergoes grinding. The support layer provides structural support to the wafer. The support layer is removed to expose the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer is removed to expose the under-film layer. The wafer is singulated into semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is mounted to a substrate by applying force to a back surface of the semiconductor die to press the bumps through under-film layer to contact the substrate while the under-film layer provides an underfill between the semiconductor die and substrate.
US07838376B2	Non-destructive inline epi pattern shift monitor using selective epi Integrated circuits using buried layers under epitaxial layers present a challenge in aligning patterns for surface components to the buried layers, because the epitaxial material over the buried layer diminishes the visibility of and shifts the apparent position of the buried layer. A method of measuring the lateral offset, known as the epi pattern shift, between a buried layer and a pattern for a surface component using planar processing technology and commonly used semiconductor fabrication metrology tools is disclosed. The disclosed method may be used on a pilot wafer to provide optimization data for a production line running production wafers, or may be used on production wafers directly. An integrated circuit fabricated using the instant invention is also disclosed.
US07838374B2	Method of manufacturing a bipolar transistor The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a bipolar transistor on a semiconductor substrate (11) which is provided with a first, a second and a third layer (1,2,3) of a first, second and third semiconductor material respectively, all of a first conductivity type. A first portion of the second layer (2) is transformed into a buried isolation region (15) comprising a first electrically insulating material. A first semiconductor region (6) of the first conductivity type, comprising, for example, a collector region, is formed from a second portion of the second layer (2) adjoining the buried isolation region (15) and a portion of the first layer (1) adjoining the second portion of the second layer (2). Then a base region (7) is formed on the buried isolation region (15) and on the first semiconductor region (6) by transforming the third layer (3) into a second conductivity type, which is opposite to the first conductivity type. Thereafter a second semiconductor region (8) of the first conductivity type, comprising, for example, an emitter region, is formed on a part of the base region (7). This method provides for the formation of a bipolar transistor with an advantageous decrease of the extrinsic collector to base region (6,7) capacitance by the fact that the value of this capacitance is mainly determined by the buried isolation region (15) which has a substantially lower dielectric constant than that of the collector to base region (6,7) junction.
US07838371B2	Method of manufacturing a FET gate A method of manufacturing a FET gate with a plurality of materials includes depositing a dummy region 8, and then forming a plurality of metallic layers 16, 18, 20 on gate dielectric 6 by conformally depositing a layer of each metallic layer and then anisotropically etching back to leave the metallic layer on the sides 10 of the dummy region. The dummy region is then removed leaving the metallic layers 16,18, 20 as the gate over the gate dielectric 6.
US07838367B2	Method for the manufacture of a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device obtained through it The invention relates to a semiconductor device (10) having a semiconductor body (2), comprising a field effect transistor, a first gate dielectric (6A) being formed on a first surface at the location of the channel region (5) and on it a first gate electrode (7), a sunken ion implantation (20) being executed from the first side of the semiconductor body (2) through and on both sides of the first gate electrode (7), which implantation results in a change of property of the silicon below the first gate electrode (7) compared to the silicon on both sides of the gate electrode 7) in a section of the channel region (5) remote from the first gate dielectric (6A), and on the second surface of the semiconductor body (2) a cavity (30) being provided therein by means of selective etching while use is made of the change of property of the silicon. A second gate (6B,8) is deposited in the cavity thus formed. Before the ion implantation (20), a mask (M1) is formed on both sides of the gate electrode (7) and at a distance thereof, whereby after the ion implantation (20) at the location of the mask (M 1) also a change in property of the silicon is obtained. In this way the device (10) can be easily provided with lateral insulation regions. Also the end regions of the gate electrodes (7,8) can in this way be surrounded by insulation regions.
US07838364B2	Semiconductor device with bulb-type recessed channel and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having a bulb-type recessed region, forming a gate insulating layer over the bulb-type recessed region and the substrate, and forming a gate conductive layer over the gate insulating layer. The gate conductive layer fills the bulb-type recessed region. The gate conductive layer includes two or more conductive layers and a discontinuous interface between the conductive layers.
US07838354B2	Method for patterning contact etch stop layers by using a planarization process By performing a planarization process, for instance based on a planarization layer, prior to forming a resist mask for selectively removing a portion of a stressed contact etch stop layer, the strain-inducing mechanism of a subsequently deposited further contact etch stop layer may be significantly improved.
US07838346B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device Ni silicide is formed through simple steps. After forming a semiconductor film over a substrate, a Ni film is deposited over the semiconductor film while heating the substrate, thereby forming Ni suicide on the semiconductor film. Alternatively, after forming a semiconductor film over a substrate, a Ni film is deposited over the semiconductor film while heating the substrate up to 450° C. or higher, thereby forming Ni silicide on the semiconductor film. Alternatively, after forming a semiconductor film over a substrate, a Ni film is deposited with a thickness of 10 nm or more over the semiconductor film while heating the substrate to 450° C. or higher, thereby forming Ni silicide on the semiconductor film. Alternatively, after forming a semiconductor film over a substrate, and removing an oxide film on the semiconductor film, a Ni film is deposited over the semiconductor film while heating the substrate up to 450° C. or higher, thereby forming Ni silicide on the semiconductor film. Alternatively, after forming a semiconductor film over a substrate, and removing an oxide film on the semiconductor film, a Ni film is deposited with a thickness of 10 nm or more over the semiconductor film while heating the substrate up to 450° C. or higher, thereby forming Ni silicide on the semiconductor film.
US07838338B2	Fabricating process of thermal enhanced substrate A fabricating process of a thermal enhanced substrate is provided for fabricating thermal conduction blocks to increase the heat dissipation area. A metallic substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface is provided. A first shallow trench with a first depth is then formed on the first surface. A second shallow trench with a second depth is formed on the second surface, and a deep trench penetrating the first shallow trench and the second shallow trench is formed, where the metallic substrate is separated into many thermal conduction blocks by the deep trench. At least one metallic layer and at least one insulating material are laminated on the thermal conduction blocks, and the insulating material is filled into the deep trench and covers the thermal conduction blocks.
US07838333B2	Electronic device package and method of manufacturing the same The present invention discloses an electronic device package and a method of the package. In particular, an electronic device package and a method of the package suitable for a bumpless electronic device package with enhanced electrical performance and heat-dissipation efficiency are disclosed. The method comprises: providing a substrate having a plurality of vias and a plurality of electronic devices; forming a gluing layer on a surface of the substrate and fixing the electronic devices on the gluing layer, wherein the electronic devices have I/O units aligned with the vias respectively; forming a plurality of fixing layers in the gaps between the electronic devices; trenching a plurality of openings aligned with the vias respectively in the fixing layer; forming a plurality of metallic conductive units in the vias, the openings and part of the surface of the substrate; and forming a passivation layer over the other surface of the substrate.
US07838327B2	Organic light-emitting device including transparent conducting oxide layer as cathode and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting device including a transparent conducting oxide layer as a cathode and a method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting device. The organic light-emitting device includes an anode disposed on a substrate. An organic functional layer including at least an organic light-emitting layer is disposed on the anode. The transparent conducting oxide layer used as the cathode is disposed on the organic functional layer. The transparent conducting oxide layer cathode is formed by plasma-assisted thermal evaporation. A microcavity structure is not formed in the organic light-emitting device, thereby avoiding a luminance change and a color shift as a function of viewing angle.
US07838325B2	Method to optimize substrate thickness for image sensor device Provided is a method for fabricating an image sensor device that includes providing a substrate having a front side and a back side; patterning a photoresist on the front side of the substrate to define an opening having a first width, the photoresist having a first thickness correlated to the first width; performing an implantation process through the opening using an implantation energy correlated to the first thickness thereby forming a first doped isolation feature; forming a light sensing feature adjacent to the first doped isolation feature, the light sensing feature having a second width; and thinning the substrate from the back side so that the substrate has a second thickness that does not exceed twice a depth of the first doped isolation feature. A pixel size is substantially equal to the first and second widths.
US07838319B2	MOS transistor and manufacturing method thereof There are provided a MOS transistor and a manufacturing method thereof. The MOS transistor includes a substrate on which an insulating layer is formed, a gate embedded in the insulating layer, wherein the top surface of the gate is exposed, a gate oxide layer formed on the insulating layer and the gate, a silicon layer formed on the gate oxide layer, and a source region and a drain region formed in the silicon layer to be in contact with the gate oxide layer.
US07838316B2	Method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor laser element and a nitride semiconductor laser element A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor laser element, which has over a substrate a laminate including an element region constituting a cavity, an island layer separated from the element region, an exposed region separating the element region from the island layer, and an auxiliary groove provided along an end face of the cavity, and with which the cavity end face is obtained by dividing the laminate and the substrate along the first auxiliary groove, the method comprises a step of: forming the laminate over the substrate; removing part of the laminate to separate the laminate into the element region and the island layer and to form the exposed region provided continuously in the cavity direction of the nitride semiconductor laser element; forming the first auxiliary groove so as to be adjacent to the island layer; and dividing so that the island layer is disposed in a corner of the nitride semiconductor laser element to obtain a nitride semiconductor laser element.
US07838315B2	Method of manufacturing vertical light emitting diode Provided is a method of manufacturing a vertical LED, the method including the steps of: preparing a sapphire substrate; forming a light emitting structure in which an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer are sequentially laminated on the sapphire substrate; forming a p-electrode on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer; forming a structure support layer on the p-electrode; removing the sapphire substrate through an LLO (laser lift-off) process; isolating the light emitting structure into unit LED elements through an ISO (isolation) process; and forming an n-electrode on each of the n-type nitride semiconductor layers of the isolated light emitting structures.
US07838314B2	Organic light emitting display and method of fabricating the same An organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate, an array of organic light emitting pixels formed on the substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate. A frit seal interconnects the first and second substrates and surrounds the array of organic light emitting pixels. A film structure interposed between the second substrate and the array of organic light emitting pixels and contacts both the second substrate and the array.
US07838312B2	Light-emitting diode light bar and method for manufacturing the same In a light-emitting diode light bar of a light-emitting device, a first lead and a second lead are juxtaposed with a distance. A light-emitting diode crystal has a first electrode and a second electrode. Then, the first electrode is electrically fixed to the first lead. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second lead via a metallic lead. A light-transmitting body is used to package the light-emitting diode crystal and the metallic lead. Finally, via a hot pressing process, an insulating layer covers the first lead and the second lead. In this way, a light-emitting diode light bar is formed.
US07838309B1	Measurement and control of strained devices A method that includes measuring stress on at least one of a monitor substrate, a production substrate, and a proxy device on a production substrate to produce stress data, measuring shape on at least one of a proxy device on a production substrate and a production device on a production substrate to produce shape data, and inputting the stress data and the shape data into an elastic deformation calculation to determine a stress value for a production device.
US07838306B2	Adsorbent having differently modified surface areas, method for the production thereof and use of the same An adsorbent for whole blood in the form of essentially spherical non-aggregated particles. The adsorbent comprises a porous carrier material having an average pore size of ≦1.5 μm, whereby a maximum of 50% of the pore volume may be in pores having a pore size of >1.5 μm, whereby the outer surfaces of the porous carrier material have at least one surface modification M1 so that the outer surface essentially does not interact with blood cells, and the inner surfaces of the porous carrier material, e.g., the surfaces of the pores of the porous carrier material, have at least one surface modification M2 which interacts with substances present in blood.
US07838298B2	Method and apparatus for determining the fat or oil content of a sample A method and an apparatus serve the purpose of determining the fat or oil content of a sample. The sample is dried under the action of a microwave field and is examined under the action of a radio-frequency signal and of a constant magnetic field by means of nuclear magnetic resonance. The sample is exposed to the microwave field, the radio-frequency signal and the magnetic field at the same measuring place in a common measuring chamber. The apparatus has a microwave source for drying the sample, a magnetic system for generating a nuclear magnetic resonance magnetic field in the sample, and a nuclear magnetic resonance measuring arrangement for irradiating radio-frequency signals into the sample and for receiving excited nuclear magnetic resonance signals from the sample. The microwave source, the magnetic system and the nuclear magnetic resonance measuring arrangement are connected to a common measuring chamber in which the sample is located.
US07838296B2	Methods and apparatus for ultrasonic determination of red blood cell indices The present invention provides an apparatus and method for measuring the properties of blood using ultrasound. The present invention is particularly suitable for measuring HCT, HGB, MCV, RBC, MCHC, MCH or TPC of blood.
US07838287B2	Library of a collection of cells The present invention relates to combinatorial gene expression libraries and methods for making these. Such libraries are useful in discovery of novel and/or enhanced metabolic pathways leading to the production of novel compounds for e.g drug discovery and/or to the production of known compounds in novel quantities or in novel compartments of the cells. The expression libraries in particular are composed of host cells capable of co-ordinated and controllable expression of large numbers of heterologous genes in the host cells.
US07838286B2	Incubator An entry of air from the outside of an incubator into an incubation room is prevented. The incubator comprises an adiabatic box main body having an opening on a front face thereof, an adiabatic door mounted to the adiabatic box main body to be opened/closed, a transparent inner door which closes the opening to be opened, and a storeroom surrounded with the inner door and the adiabatic box main body to incubate samples such as cells or microbes. The adiabatic box main body comprises a metal outer box, a metal inner box, a heat insulating material arranged in the outer box between the outer box and the inner box, and an air layer arranged more inside than the heat insulating material. Pressure of the storeroom is set higher than that of an outside space of the incubator.
US07838282B2	Electrode compositions and configurations for electrochemical bioreactor systems Electrodes and configurations for electrochemical bioreactor systems that can use electrical energy as a source of reducing power in fermentation or enzymatic reactions and that can use electron mediators and a biocatalyst, such as cells or enzymes, to produce electricity are disclosed. Example electrodes in the system may comprise: (1) neutral red covalently bound to graphite felt; (2) a carboxylated cellulose bound to the graphite felt, neutral red bound to the carboxylated cellulose, NAD+ bound to the graphite felt, and an oxidoreductase (e.g., fumarate reductase) bound to the graphite felt; or (3) a metal ion electron mediator bound to graphite. Various biocatalysts, such as an oxidoreductase, cells of Actinobacillus succinogenes, cells of Escherichia coli, and sewage sludge, are suitable for use in the electrochemical bioreactor system.
US07838277B2	Method for rapid screening of bacterial transformants and novel simian adenovirus proteins Chimpanzee serotype C68 proteins, peptides, and polypeptide are provided. Also provided are novel adenoviruses derived from these proteins, as well as compositions containing these proteins and methods of using same for immunization and therapy. Further, a rapid method for screening recombinant transformants using a visually detectable method is described.
US07838274B2	Phospholipases and uses thereof The invention relates to a newly identified polynucleotide sequence comprising a gene that encodes a novel phospholipase isolated from Aspergillus niger. The invention features the full length nucleotide sequence of the novel gene, the cDNA sequence comprising the full length coding sequence of the novel phospholipase as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional protein and functional equivalents thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using these enzymes in industrial processes and methods of diagnosing fungal infections. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention and cells wherein a phospholipase according to the invention is genetically modified to enhance or reduce its activity and/or level of expression.
US07838272B2	Increased yield in gas-to-liquids processing via conversion of carbon dioxide to diesel via microalgae The present invention is generally directed to systems and methods for integrating gas-to-liquids (GTL) processing with biofuels production. In some embodiments of the present invention, carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by GTL processing is used to support grovel (via photosynthesis) of microalgae. In some such embodiments, the microalgae can be further processed to yield a diesel fuel that can be used either by itself, or mixed with fuel produced by the GTL processing.
US07838267B1	Increasing rate of enzyme catalyzed equilibrium reactions A method of increasing the rate of conversion of reactants to reaction product of enzyme catalyzed, reversible, i.e., equilibrium, reactions having water or methanol as byproduct includes removing water and/or methanol from the reaction mass during reaction by permeation of the reaction mass through a selectively permeable perfluorinated polymer or copolymer membrane.
US07838261B2	Method for preventing chemical crosstalk in enzyme-linked reactions, and associated system A method for biochemical analysis uses a micro-reaction array with at least two reaction chambers for materials which react together chemically or biochemically. The reaction chambers are smaller than 1 μl, the reaction chambers are filled together by throughflow, the chemical or biochemical reactions of the substances retained therein then occurs in the individual isolated reaction chambers, thus preventing an interference between the reactions in the individual reaction chambers and the reaction products remain enclosed in the relevant reaction chambers. In the system the planar array has at least two reaction chambers for substances, whereby the reaction chambers are closed with the goal of preventing an exchange of substances.
US07838259B2	Genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis W83 involved in invasion of human cells Compositions and methods are provided for detection and treatment of Porphyromonas gingivalis infection.
US07838255B2	Nucleic acids and polypeptides of C1 bacteriophage and uses thereof The full-length nucleic acid sequence of the C1 bacteriophage is disclosed in the present application. The specific regions of the C1 genome encoding the PlyC lysin have also been identified and sequenced. The invention relates to the pharmaceutical and diagnostic utility of these sequences and provides for development of pharmaceutical compositions for treating or preventing streptococcal infections in mammals, for compositions for decontamination of inanimate surfaces and for diagnosis of streptococcal infections.
US07838253B2	Methods of modulating cold sensory perception via a cold- and menthol-sensitive receptor (CMR1) The present invention relates to regulation of cold sensation and pain. More particularly, the present invention is directed to nucleic acids encoding a member of the transient regulatory protein family, CMR1, which is involved in modulation of the perception of cold sensations and pain. The invention further relates to methods for identifying and using agents that modulate cold responses and pain responses stimulated by cold via modulation of CMR1 and CMR1-related signal transduction.
US07838252B2	Methods and compositions for treating a subject having an anthrax toxin mediated condition Methods and compositions for treating a subject for an anthrax toxin mediated disease condition are provided. Aspects of the subject methods include administering to a subject an effective amount of an agent that inhibits cellular internalization of an anthrax toxin, e.g., such as a LRP6 modulatory agent. Also provided are active agents suitable for use in the subject methods, as well as pharmaceutical preparations thereof.
US07838251B2	Nuclear matrix protein alterations associated with colon cancer and colon metastasis to the liver, and uses thereof Proteins useful in the diagnosis of proliferative disorders of the colon are present in nuclear matrix protein preparations and can be characterized by molecular weight, isoelectric point, and amino acid sequence. The proteins may be identified, for example, by 2D-gel electrophoresis or by specific binding partners, such as antibodies.
US07838250B1	Highly sensitive system and methods for analysis of troponin The invention provides methods, compositions, kits, and systems for the sensitive detection of cardiac troponin. Such methods, compositions, kits, and systems are useful in diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of methods of treatment in conditions that involve release of cardiac troponin.
US07838249B2	Assays for rab5 activity Methods of determining intracellular levels of Rab5 activity are disclosed, as well as fusion proteins utilized in such methods and recombinant constructs encoding such fusion proteins. The fusion protein contains a Rab5-binding domain that specifically binds to an activated form of Rab5-GTP, and a tag conjugated thereto, wherein the tag binds to an affinity matrix for purification of Rab5-GTP. Also disclosed are kits for determining intracellular levels of Rab5 activity.
US07838245B2	Use of precursors of tachykinins and/or their fragments in medical diagnostic The present invention relates to the use of protachykinin and/or fragments thereof that can be isolated from body fluids, tissues or other bioiological samples and therefore, serves as a marker peptide for medical diagnosis of diseases/disorders of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression and/or conditions of pain, neurological, endocrinological, cerebral, muscular, local, systemic, chronic, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases comprising bacterial and viral infections, meningitis, sepsis, Crohn's disease, colitis ulcerosa, sickle cell anemia, ischemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, arthritis comprising rheumatoid arthritis, bronchitis, hyperalgesia, asthma, intoxication comprising bacterial intoxication, immunological disorders, poly/-trauma comprising cranio-cerebral trauma, tumors/cancer, stroke, stress, atopis dermatitis, HIV, Huntington's disease, burns, schizophrenia, Hirschsprung's disease, allergies, familial dysautononmia (Riley Day syndrome), hematopoietic disorders, gliomas comprising glioblastomas and astrocytomas, disorders of the blood brain barrier. The invention further provides antibodies for binding to certain proteins and their fragments, more specifically protachykinin and protachykinin peptides. In accordance with the invention, a kit useful for the above-mentioned diagnosis is also provided.
US07838230B2	Assay for measuring an enzyme's capability to modify supercoil topology of nucleic acids and modulators Provided are methods, such as high throughput methods, of assessing or measuring the ability of an enzyme to modify the topology (e.g. supercoil topology) of a target nucleic acid, the methods comprising the steps of: (a) providing a solid support to which a capture nucleic acid is or may be immobilized, which capture nucleic acid is capable of binding the target nucleic acid in a manner that is proportional to the supercoil topology of said target nucleic acid (e.g. by triplex formation); (b) incubating a test mixture comprising (i) the enzyme, (ii) the target nucleic acid, (iii) capture nucleic acid, in the presence of (iv) said solid support, such that supercoiled target nucleic acid bound by the capture nucleic acid is immobilized to the solid support, (c) determining the amount of target nucleic acid bound by said capture nucleic acid in step (b) e.g. by use of a detectable label. The method may be used to screen for modulators of the enzyme activity.
US07838229B2	Identification marker responsive to interferon therapy for renal cell cancer The present invention provides an identification marker responsive to IFN therapy for renal cell cancer and a means of detecting the same. Namely, a method which comprises preparing a genomic DNA of a human gene or a complementary strand thereof from a specimen of a patient with renal cell cancer, analyzing the DNA sequence of the genomic DNA or the complementary strand thereof to determine the gene polymorphism of the human gene, and evaluating the tumor-suppression effect of IFN therapy on renal cell cancer by using the polymorphism as an indicator.
US07838224B2	Gene expression profiling in biopsied tumor tissues The invention concerns sensitive methods to measure mRNA levels in biopsied tumor tissues, including archived paraffin-embedded biopsy material. The invention also concerns breast cancer gene sets important in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, and methods for assigning the most optimal treatment options to breast cancer patient based upon knowledge derived from gene expression studies.
US07838219B2	Method of increasing complementarity in a heteroduplex We describe here an in vitro method of increasing complementarity in a heteroduplex polynucleotide sequence. The method uses annealing of opposite strands to form a polynucleotide duplex with mismatches. The heteroduplex polynucleotide is combined with an effective amount of enzymes having strand cleavage activity, 3′ to 5′ exonuclease activity, and polymerase activity, and allowing sufficient time for the percentage of complementarity to be increased within the heteroduplex. Not all heteroduplex polynucleotides will necessarily have all mismatches resolved to complementarity. The resulting polynucleotide is optionally ligated. Several variant polynucleotides result. At sites where either of the opposite strands has templated recoding in the other strand, the resulting percent complementarity of the heteroduplex polynucleotide sequence is increased. The parent polynucleotides need not be cleaved into fragments prior to annealing heterologous strands. Therefore, no reassembly is required.
US07838210B2	Sperm suspensions for sorting into X or Y chromosome-bearing enriched populations Sperm cell suspensions comprising a motility inhibitor are disclosed. The cells contained in such suspensions tend to have a greater capacity for enduring the various process steps typically associated with the sorting of sperm cells into gender enriched populations, thereby resulting in post-sort compositions with an increased number of viable or motile sperm. Processes for forming such cell suspensions, as well as processes for staining sperm cells, are also disclosed.
US07838205B2	Utilization of electric field with isotropic development in photolithography Photolithography processing methods by which a photoresist layer is deposited, a portion of the photoresist layer is exposed to electromagnetic radiation to transfer a reticle pattern thereto, and the exposed portion of the photoresist layer is treated with thermal energy while being subjected to an electric field, wherein the electric field is configured to substantially limit diffusion of the exposed photoresist layer portion to anisotropic diffusion.
US07838200B2	Photoresist compositions and method for multiple exposures with multiple layer resist systems A method and a resist composition. The resist composition includes a polymer having repeating units having a lactone moiety, a thermal base generator capable of generating a base and a photosensitive acid generator. The polymer has the properties of being substantially soluble in a first solvent and becoming substantially insoluble after heating the polymer. The method includes forming a film of a photoresist including a polymer, a thermal base generator capable of releasing a base, a photosensitive acid generator, and a solvent. The film is patternwise imaged. The imaging includes exposing the film to radiation, resulting in producing an acid catalyst. The film is developed in an aqueous base, resulting in removing base-soluble regions and forming a patterned layer. The patterned layer is baked above the temperature, resulting in the thermal base generator releasing a base within the patterned layer and the patterned layer becoming insoluble in the solvent.
US07838196B2	Resist for soft mold and method for fabricating liquid crystal display using the same A soft mold resist for soft-lithography, a method for fabricating a soft mold, and a method for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device using the same where the soft mold includes a hydrophilic liquid prepolymer, a photoinitiator; and a surface active agent. A soft mold is formed by applying the soft mold resist to a back plate or a master plate and transferring a predefined pattern from the master plate to the soft mold resist. A display is formed by applying the soft mold to an etch resist layer overlying a thin film and transferring the predefined pattern to the etch resist, then etching the thin film using the etch resist as a mask. Additional processing step are carried out to form the LCD device.
US07838181B2	Photo mask and method for manufacturing semiconductor device using the same A photo mask includes a dot pattern formed between a line pattern and an island pattern. Methods of making a semiconductor device employing such a photo mask improves yield and productivity of the device.
US07838171B2	Metal separator for fuel cell and its production method The present invention provides a metallic separator for fuel cells capable of suppressing dropping out of conductive inclusions due to gaps formed at the interface of a base material and the conductive inclusions due to press-forming, thereby decreasing the contact resistance and enhancing the power generation performance, and also provides a method for producing the same.
US07838165B2	Carbon fiber synthesizing catalyst and method of making thereof The carbon fibers of this invention is characterized in that irreducible inorganic material particles in a mean primary particle size below 500 nm and reducible inorganic material particles in a mean primary particle size below 500 nm were mixed by pulverizing and then, the mixture was heat treated under the reducing atmosphere and metal particles in a mean particle size below 1 μm were obtained, and the mixed powder of the thus obtained metal particles with the irreducible inorganic material particles are included in the carbon fibers.
US07838164B2	Film electrode composite element and production method therefor, and fuel cell It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of producing a membrane electrode assembly using an interface resistance reducing composition which can simply reduce the resistance of the interface between an electrode and an electrolyte membrane in a short time at low temperatures at low pressure without polimerization while maintaining an effect of suppressing a fuel crossover even with an electrolyte membrane having high heat resistance, high strength, a high tensile elastic modulus and a low water content. This is achieved by a method of producing a membrane electrode assembly formed by sandwiching an electrolyte membrane between a pair of electrodes, comprising the steps of bonding at least one electrode to the electrolyte membrane sandwiching an interface resistance reducing composition containing a plasticizer between the electrode and the electrolyte membrane, and a membrane electrode assembly formed by sandwiching an electrolyte membrane between a pair of electrodes, wherein the membrane electrode assembly has a layer (A) at least between one electrode and the electrolyte membrane, and the value of the storage modulus C is 1 GPA or more when the storage moduli of the electrolyte membrane and the layer (A), which are measured with an ultramicro penetrometer, are regarded as C and D, respectively.
US07838163B2	Fuel cell A fuel cell including separators opposing each other and squeezing a power generating reaction portion. Each of the separators includes a gas passage, a gas passage dividing rib, and a protrusion formed in the gas passage. In a first separator, which is an at least one separator of the separators opposing each other via the power generating reaction portion, at a region of the first separator opposing a gas passage dividing rib of a second separator, which is a separator opposing the first separator, a squeezing rib is formed and replaces the protrusion. The squeezing rib and the gas passage dividing rib of the second separator squeezes the power generating reaction portion. At the region of the first separator, a contact area of the squeezing rib with the power generating reaction portion is adapted to be larger than a contact area of the protrusion of the first separator with the power generating reaction portion in a case where the protrusion were formed without forming the squeezing rib.
US07838141B2	Cerium-modified doped strontium titanate compositions for solid oxide fuel cell anodes and electrodes for other electrochemical devices The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells and electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolyzers, sensors, pumps and the like, the compositions comprising cerium-modified doped strontium titanate. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using anode material compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having anodes comprising the compositions.
US07838140B2	Stack and fuel cell system having the same A fuel cell system comprising a stack including at least one electricity generator for generating electric energy through a reaction between fuel and oxygen, a fuel supply unit for supplying the fuel to the electricity generator, and an oxygen supply unit for supplying the oxygen to the electricity generator is provided. The electricity generator includes a membrane-electrode assembly and separators which have a plurality of flow channels for passing fuel and oxygen and which are placed on both surfaces of the membrane-electrode assembly. The separators include a connecting portion with a straight part between rounded corners for coupling the flow channels at their ends. The connecting portion minimizes turbulence in the flow while maintaining sufficient effective area for contact between the fuel and oxygen with the active area of the membrane-electrode assembly.
US07838133B2	Deposition of perovskite and other compound ceramic films for dielectric applications In accordance with the present invention, deposition of perovskite material, for example barium strontium titanite (BST) film, by a pulsed-dc physical vapor deposition process or by an RF sputtering process is presented. Such a deposition can provide a high deposition rate deposition of a layer of perovskite. Some embodiments of the deposition address the need for high rate deposition of perovskite films, which can be utilized as a dielectric layer in capacitors, other energy storing devices and micro-electronic applications. Embodiments of the process according to the present invention can eliminate the high temperature (>700° C.) anneal step that is conventionally needed to crystallize the BST layer.
US07838132B2	PVD-coated cutting tool insert The present invention relates to a coated cutting tool insert of cemented carbide with coating including at least one layer of Ti1-x AlxN deposited by PVD-technique. The layer has x=0.4-0.6 with a compressive residual stress of >4-6 GPa and a thickness of 1.5-5, preferably 2.5-4 μm. Both the I(111) and I(200) are <7.5, preferably <5, times, the intensity average noise level. Good adhesion despite high compressive stress is obtained if the layer is deposited by cathodic arc evaporation technique at a bias in the range −90
US07838129B2	Compound and organic light emitting device using the same Disclosed is a novel compound which is capable of significantly improving a lifespan, efficiency, and electrochemical and thermal stabilities of an organic light emitting device, the production of the compound, and an organic light emitting device in which the compound is contained in an organic compound layer.
US07838123B2	Variable vapor barrier for moisture control in buildings Disclosed is a variable vapor barrier for moisture control of buildings comprising or formed from a material having a moisture permeance of less than 0.1 perms (grains/h·ft2·inches of Hg) at less than 50% average humidity, such as from 10 to 50% or 20 to 40%; and a moisture permeance greater than 4, or greater than 10 perms at greater than 60% average humidity, such as from 60 to 90%, or 70 to 80%. Also disclosed are articles comprising the variable vapor barrier and methods of their use.
US07838120B2	Anodic oxide film An object of the present invention is to obtain an aluminum or aluminum alloy member having a uniform and dense anodic oxide film having sufficient corrosion and impact resistances. Provided is an anodic oxide film which has been formed on the surface of aluminum or aluminum alloy, the film comprising cells which have grown in random directions relative to the surface of the aluminum or aluminum alloy and thus have no orientation.
US07838119B2	Medical assembly suitable for long-term implantation and method for fabricating the same A process for fabricating a medical assembly having a medical device at least a portion of which is formed of inorganic material is provided. The medical assembly is suitable for substantially long-term implantation in a host animal. The process includes modifying a surface of the medical device to form a hydrophilic adhesion-promoting surface. The hydrophilic adhesion-promoting surface is coated with an alginate solution comprising alginate and the alginate is reacted with alkaline earth metal cations.
US07838112B2	Modified gel particles and rubber composition This invention discloses a process for synthesizing a modified crosslinked elastomeric particle which comprises a two-step polymerization of a conjugated diolefin monomer and a vinyl aromatic monomer by emulsion polymerization, wherein the particle is synthesized by the steps of (1) polymerizing a conjugated diolefin monomer, alone or in combination with a vinyl aromatic monomer, and optionally a crosslinking monomer, to create a crosslinked elastomeric core having residual double bonds and an outer surface; (2) polymerizing a monomer of a vinyl aromatic monomer, alone or in combination with a diolefin monomer, to create a polymeric shell, wherein the polymeric shell is grafted to the outer surface of the polymeric core by reacting with the residual double bonds of the polymeric core; and (3) coagulating the core-shell emulsion latex solution to recover the particles.
US07838107B2	Aluminum-silicon carbide composite An aluminum/silicon carbide composite prepared by infiltrating a flat silicon carbide porous body with a metal containing aluminum as the main component, including an aluminum alloy layer made of a metal containing aluminum as the main component on both principal planes, and one principal plane is bonded to a circuit plate and the other principal plane is utilized as a radiation plane. The silicon carbide porous body is formed or machined into a convexly bowed shape, and after infiltration with the metal containing aluminum as the main component, the aluminum alloy layer on the radiation plane is further machined to form the bow shape. The aluminum/silicon carbide composite is suitable as a base plate for a ceramic circuit plate on which semiconductor components are mounted, for which high reliability is required.
US07838105B2	Microstructure and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is a microstructure comprising an aluminum anodized film bearing through micropores, wherein a surface of the microstructure is covered with a protective film for preventing hydration of the aluminum anodized film. The microstructure may be used as a porous alumina membrane filter excellent in filtration rate and its stability with time.
US07838103B2	Patterned member and production method thereof A first ink discharging is carried out onto picture element regions on a glass substrate, picture element regions being components divided off by a black matrix in a fine region. Drying of ink forms an ink film whose layer thickness is thick at a surrounding section and thin at a midsection. Further, second ink discharging is carried out on the first ink film and by drying ink discharged in the second ink discharging, an ink layer which has a flat surface is formed.
US07838096B2	Reinforced synthetic inlays and seams A reinforced seam/inlay and method for forming such seam/inlay to join pieces of synthetic turf material together are disclosed. The reinforced seam/inlay structure comprises abutted edges of first and second synthetic turf pieces having a backing joined together; a seaming cloth/tape material coated with an adhesive/glue, volatile solvent or heat activated material applied is positioned beneath the abutted edges of synthetic turf pieces wherein said abutted edges are adhered to said seaming cloth/tape material; and reinforcement fastener elements inserted through both the backing of the synthetic turf material, through the adhesive and the seaming cloth/tape material; or seam/inlay structure comprises of overlapping edges of first and second synthetic turf pieces having a backing joined together; the backing without seaming cloth/tape material can be coated with an adhesive/glue, volatile solvent or heat activated material or not and reinforcement fastener elements inserted through both the backing of the synthetic turf material.
US07838094B2	Smoke permeable food casing based on polyamide and water soluble polymers The invention relates to a smoke-permeable, moisture-resistant, tubular, biaxially oriented, preferably also heat set food casing containing a mixture of at least one aliphatic (co)polyamide and at least one water-soluble synthetic polymer, and having a water vapor transmission rate of between 40 and 200 g/m2·d. The water-soluble polymer is preferably a polyvinyl alcohol. Optionally, the mixture also contains additives which influence the optics, haptics, moisture storage capacity and peeling behavior. The casing is preferably tubular and seamless and is produced by extrusion of a corresponding thermoplastic mixture. The inventive casing is preferably used as an artifical sausage casing, especially for smokeable scalded-emulsion sausages.
US07838091B2	Aromatic polyamide, polymerization method thereof, and optical film using the same A novel aromatic polyamide compound, a polymerization method thereof, and an optical film for use in a flexible display substrate produced using the same are disclosed. The aromatic polyamide compound is a copolymer comprising a repeating unit of a para-substituted aromatic diamine and a repeating unit of a meta- or meta-para-substituted aromatic diamine. The aromatic polyamide compound is colorless and transparent, excellent in heat resistance, and excellent in processability such as the compound being easily dissolved in a polar organic solvent without the addition of an inorganic salt. Therefore, the aromatic polyamide compound is suitable for producing the optical film for use in a display substrate.
US07838080B2	Method for producing urea pellets A method for producing urea pellets having a narrow range of grain sizes and a sphericity >75% and a defined residual moisture ≦0.5% is provided. The method provides urea pellets having the properties required which meet the requirements of the automotive industry for use thereof in reducing emissions from diesel engines. The method includes spraying a urea-containing liquid having a temperature between ambient temperature and above the melting point of the urea into the high particle density region of the spray zone of a near circular gas, material flow of a spouted bed apparatus and onto the particle surface of the material, which is dried and granulated in the gas flow at a temperature of not more than 130° C. at a controlled heat and mass transfer rate while being separated.
US07838070B2	Method of coating gas turbine components A method of forming a metal coating on surfaces of internal passages of a turbine blade includes, in an exemplary embodiment, the steps of positioning the turbine blade in a CVD chamber, coupling a reagent gas manifold to at least one internal passage inlet, and coating the surfaces of the at least one internal passage by a CVD process using metal coating reagent gases to form a metal coating on the surfaces of the at least one internal passage.
US07838066B2	Ferroelectric media with robust servo marks and storage areas with low leakage current A single annealing process simultaneously creates local areas of ferroelectric imprint that can be used as markers, and areas with low leakage current that exhibit ideal symmetric switching on ferroelectric recording media.
US07838065B2	Method for preparing an electrode comprising an electrochemical catalyst layer thereon Disclosed is a method for preparing an electrode having an electrochemical catalyst layer, comprising the steps of: providing a substrate having a conductive layer thereon, immersing the substrate in a first solution having a conditioner to form a conditioner layer on the surface of the conductive layer, and immersing the substrate in a second solution having polymer-capped noble metal nanoclusters to form an electrochemical catalyst layer on the conditioner layer of the substrate. This method can reduce the amount of noble metal used in the electrochemical catalyst layer and is suitable for mass production.

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