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US07854405B2	Document disposal apparatus There is provided a document destruction apparatus including: a destruction section that destroys documents; a conveyance section that conveys documents to the destruction section a page at a time; a reading section that is disposed partway along the conveyance section and that, from a document to which identification information for identifying the document has been applied to each page at at least one of a conveyance direction leading end side and trailing end side, reads the identification information at each page; and an alteration section that, in a case in which the identification information has been read at the conveyance direction leading end side by the reading section, alters a conveyance direction of the page that has been read such that the page will be conveyed from the conveyance direction trailing end side.
US07854404B2	Process for yarn or sliver refining The invention discloses a process for refining yarn or sliver having a length of at least 1 meter, including the step of feeding the yarn or sliver and a liquid into a refiner, which includes refiner fillings having a body surrounding a central hole (7), and at least one inlet (1) for the yarn or sliver, and the thus obtained pulp-like materials and its use for making friction materials, paper, and gaskets. In particular, the refiner has a refiner filling (8), wherein the yarn or sliver is fed through an inlet positioned in the refiner filling. The present invention further relates to the refiner filling including at least one, preferably eccentric, inlet for yarn or sliver. The inlet comprises an inlet hole which includes an inclined slope (2) on the outflow side of the inlet, the inclined slope serving to guide the yarn or sliver from the inlet hole to the surface of the refiner filling. The invention further relates to a refiner including such refiner filling.
US07854402B1	Hydraulic system valving A mine dusting machine having a specialized scoop constructed with a floor, opposite sides and ends and adapted for carrying substantially free-flowing particulate material, a powered ram on the scoop for pushing the material therein toward the front end of the scoop, a hydraulic motor powered auger conveyor mounted on the scoop adjacent said front end for transporting the material toward opposite sides of the scoop, separate material flingers mounted on said front end at least adjacent each of the sides and being hydraulically motor powered to receive the material transported thereto by the conveyor and then dispersing the material with considerable force in a generally arcuate pattern in a mine, wherein the motors are hydraulically connected in series to a pressurized hydraulic feed line and wherein each motor has a case drain port, a hydraulic return line connecting the last flinger motor of the series to a PTO, a primary check valve in the return line for preventing reverse flow therein, a motor case drain line connected into each case drain port of the series and connected into the return line upstream of the primary check valve, and a secondary check valve in the drain line intermediate its conjunction with the return line and the last of the flinger motors of the series for preventing over pressurization of the motor cases in the event of an operator caused accidental momentary reverse “HP” flow thru the primary, check valve which has become partially blocked open by dirt particles or the like in the hydraulic fluid.
US07854392B2	System for fastening a rail for a rail vehicle A system for fastening a rail includes a sleeper having a supporting face supporting the flange of the rail and merging at its sides into respective levelling faces situated at a higher level than the supporting face, an angled mounting plate having a central portion on the underside of which is formed a support surface by which the angled mounting plate can be placed down on the respective levelling face assigned thereto, a supporting portion formed onto the central portion and pointing downwards from the underside of the latter and which can bridge a clear space between the flange of the rail and the levelling face, a resilient member which can be placed down on the angled plate and has two holding arms by which the resilient member can exert a holding force on the rail, and a clamping member which can exert a clamping force on the resilient member.
US07854382B2	Light collection assembly with self-retaining lens in electro-optical reader An assembly for collecting light from indicia includes a chassis having a port through which the light from the indicia passes, and walls bounding an interior compartment. A self-retaining frame constituted of an optical material is non-adhesively mounted within the compartment in an assembled position. The frame has an integral lens optically aligned with the port in the assembled position for optically modifying the light passing through the port, and a plurality of legs in gripping frictional interference engagement with the walls in the assembled position. A sensor is optically aligned with the lens, for sensing the light optically modified by the lens.
US07854374B2	Theft preventative mailbox with rear residential and storage vault door and remote unlocking activation mechanism What is disclosed is a secure mailbox having at least an upper compartment with a plurality of sides, a front mailbox door hinge-ably coupled to a front edge of a side of the upper compartment, a locking and unlocking mechanism being adapted to lock the front mailbox door to the upper compartment and an unlocking activation mechanism coupled to the locking and unlocking mechanism; an upper rear mailbox door hinge-ably coupled to a rear edge of a side of the upper compartment, a locking and unlocking mechanism being adapted to lock the rear mailbox door to the upper compartment and an unlocking activation mechanism coupled to the locking and unlocking mechanism and a lower compartment having a lower, rear mailbox door hinge-ably coupled to a rear edge of a side of the lower compartment, at least one trap door being located between the upper compartment and lower compartment.
US07854370B2	Collapsible storage device A collapsible container includes a plurality of wall panels. Each wall panel is connected to each adjacent wall panel at a hinged connection, and the wall panels are arranged so as to articulate at the hinged connections between a collapsed position and an expanded position defining a bottom wall and a plurality of side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The collapsible container further includes a deformed portion on a side wall disposed across a hinged connection. The deformed portion projects toward an exterior of the collapsible container to releasably lock the hinged connection in a convexly bowed position when the collapsible container is in the expanded position.
US07854359B2	Quick connect system for a bicycle rack assembly A quick connect assembly for mounting a bicycle rack to a vehicle bumper includes a mounting bracket securely connectable to the bumper and a pivoting arm integrally connected to the bicycle rack and mountable to the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket has a horizontal base member and a vertical wall extending from the rear edge of the base member. Along each lateral edge of the base member is a vertical side wall having through apertures for receiving portions of the pivoting arm. A latch plate is centrally located on the mounting bracket between the two side walls. The latch plate has notches formed therein for receiving a latch pin of the pivoting arm to hold the bicycle rack in the vertically upward position or the horizontal working position. An arcuate cam formation separates the notches. The pivoting arm has spaced side plates each having a side extending peg for disposition in the apertures of the side walls. One peg has locking tabs and the other peg has a through aperture for receiving a cotterpin to secure the pivoting arm to the mounting bracket when the latch pin is in one of the notches.
US07854357B2	Dispensing apparatus with locking cap A dispensing apparatus having a container, a rotatable dispensing structure or spout assembly and a locking structure or cap. The spout assembly is rotatable between a closed position and an open dispensing position and the locking cap is slideable between a spout assembly restraining position and a release position. The container includes a pair of side grooves, a pair of side ledges and a lateral groove. The locking cap includes a pair of runners for engaging the container side grooves, a pair of rails for engaging the container side ledges and a lateral flange for engaging the container lateral groove.
US07854353B2	Device for dispensing, especially atomizing, a preferably cosmetic liquid A device for dispensing, especially atomizing, a preferably cosmetic liquid has a dispensing head which can be manually depressed for dispensing of the liquid and can be turned to set the dispensing direction. In order to ensure simple and reliable handling, the device has a catch arrangement so that the dispensing head can be turned with a catching action. In a preferred embodiment, the catch arrangement has at least one catch cam, preferably several catch cams that are spaced in the direction of rotation. The catch cam or cams engage catch recesses with a catching action, especially radially relative to the actuation direction of the delivery head.
US07854349B2	Shave gel products Self-heating, post-foaming shave gels and shave gel products are provided. In some implementations, the shave gels include a non-ionic emulsifier system, e.g., including one or more fatty alcohol ethoxylates.
US07854345B2	Vehicular fuel tank arrangement A fuel tank arrangement for a vehicular agricultural applicator is provided. The fuel tank arrangement includes a fuel tank having an interior cavity defined by an uppermost wall, a lowermost wall, and a series of side walls extending therebetween. The interior cavity includes an expansion space defined upwardly in the vertical direction above a maximum fill line. The arrangement further includes a fill neck extending from the uppermost wall to receive the supply of fuel. The fill neck includes an uppermost end opposite a lowermost end that defines the maximum fill line. A bridge that defines a passage therethrough interconnects the fill neck and the expansion space of the fuel tank. A lowermost end of the passage is horizontally aligned at the lowermost end of the fill neck, and the passage extends upwardly in the vertically direction therefrom.
US07854341B2	Paint tray system A paint tray system has a paint tray with an upper circumferential land having an upwardly projecting dowel at each corner. A paint tray liner has a medial portion substantially conforming to an inside surface of the paint tray and a peripheral liner lip extending over the land. The liner lip has four corner holes receiving the four corner dowels. A paint tray lid has a peripheral lid lip extending over the land, the lid lip having four corner holes receiving the four corner dowels.
US07854339B2	Convertible container and plate Foldable container including a base having a first base portion and an opposing second base portion. The base has a base surface free of hinge lines between the first base portion and the second base portion. A sidewall surrounds at least a portion of the base and extends generally upward from the base with a non-uniform height to define a compartment. A rim having a first rim portion and an opposing second rim portion is disposed proximate the top edge of the sidewall. At least one transition region is formed in the sidewall to allow the first base portion to pivot between an open position and a closed position. When in the open position, the container defines a plate. When in the closed position, the first base portion defines at least a portion of a cover relative to the second base portion. A packaged product is also provided, including a foldable container and a cover member removably attached to the rim of the foldable container in the open position to contain a product therein.
US07854332B1	High-density disk storage and retrieval cylinder This invention provides high-density storage for data storage media such as compact disks (CDs), digital video disks (DVDs), and similarly shaped objects. The design consists of horizontal storage pockets within a storage cylinder. Multiple pockets lie on a horizontal plane, and each pocket has a pocket opening on the perimeter of the storage cylinder. The pocket openings on each horizontal plane are shifted with respect to the pocket opening below it creating a spiral storage pattern around the periphery of the storage cylinder. Pocket openings are centered on notches that run vertically along the cylindrical perimeter of the cylinder.
US07854327B2	Loading tray and thin plate container A loading tray 13 supports at least one thin plate safely and reliably. It comprises a first loading portion 18, provided on one side thereof, on which at least one thin plate is loaded; a second loading portion 19, provided on the other side thereof, fitted to the first loading portion 18 of adjacent loading tray 13 to form a housing space sealed off from the external environment, for sandwiching the thin plate within the housing space, and for loading the thin plate on the loading tray when the loading tray is placed upside-down; a hook 30, provided on one side thereof, for coupling with an adjacent loading tray 13; and a hook locking mechanism 31, provided on the other side thereof, for coupling with the hook 30 of an adjacent loading tray 13. As many loading trays 13 as the number of the thin plate is stacked to constitute a thin plate container 11. The thin plate container 11 can support the thin plate from both upper and lower sides.
US07854320B2	Package for holding and displaying shaving razors A disposable package is provided having a tub with a generally level bottom surface and a first shaving razor and a second shaving razor disposed within the tub. The first and second shaving razors each have a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. A first retaining member projects from the bottom surface and has first and second surfaces. The second surface of the first retaining member engages the distal end portion of the second shaving razor and the first surface of the first retaining member engages the proximal end portion of the first shaving razor.
US07854315B2	Conveyor plate with integrated roller A conveyor support plate includes an upper transport surface configured to receive objects arranged for travel on a conveyor system and a lower surface arranged opposite the upper transport surface. A pair of transversely extending walls and a pair of side walls connect the upper transport surface and the lower surface. A plurality of cavities are formed in the lower surface between the pair of transversely extending walls and the pair of side walls that terminate below the upper transport surface. The cavities are configured to receive a roller that extends through the lower surface to support the support plate during travel on the convey system.
US07854312B2	Push device for transferring glass articles A push device, for transferring glass articles from an intermediate supporting plate to an unloading conveyor, has at least one seat bounded by two flat supporting surfaces converging with each other and forming between them an angle of over 90°, and by at least one further supporting surface adjustable in position with respect to at least one of the two flat supporting surfaces; the article being retained close to a convergence area of the two flat supporting surfaces by a circuit for feeding compressed air between the two flat supporting surfaces.
US07854300B2	Hall display device for elevator An elevator hall display device. A destination floor registration device includes destination buttons and assigned car display panels. An elevator group supervisory controller includes a hall destination call registration section that registers a hall destination call corresponding to an operation of a destination button, an assigned car decision section that decides an assigned car to respond to the hall destination call, an assigned car display mode controller that sets a display mode of the assigned car, and an assigned car display that makes the assigned car displayed on an assigned car display panel in the set display mode. The assigned car display mode controller sets the assigned car display to a first display mode until a predetermined time elapses from start of display of the assigned car on the assigned car display panel, and sets the display of the assigned car to a second display mode after the predetermined time elapses.
US07854298B2	Acoustic septum cap honeycomb An acoustic structure that includes a honeycomb having cells in which septum caps are located. The septum caps are formed from sheets of acoustic material and include a resonator portion and a flange portion. The flange portion has an anchoring surface that provides frictional engagement of the septum caps to the honeycomb cells when the caps are inserted into the honeycomb during fabrication of the acoustic structure. An adhesive is applied to the anchoring surface of the septum caps after the caps have been inserted into the honeycomb cells to provide a permanent bond.
US07854294B2	Sound-attenuating earmuff having isolated double-shell structure An earmuff assembly with a double-shell structure is disclosed for use with a sound-attenuating circumaural headset. The earmuff assembly comprises a cup-shaped outer shell mounted on a resilient outer sealing ring and a cup-shaped inner shell mounted on a resilient inner sealing ring. By means of the two sealing rings the outer and the inner shells are brought into abutment with the head surface around an ear of a wearer. Both shells are structurally rigid. The sound attenuation performance is maximized by isolating the inner shell from the outer shell.
US07854289B2	Arrangement of a front hood having an adjusting lever on a vehicle The invention relates to a front hood arrangement on a vehicle, comprising a hinge mechanism that is located in the rear relative to the direction of travel and is embodied as a quadruple joint with a long and a short pull rod. The hinge mechanism allows the front hood to be swiveled during normal opening and closing while allowing the same to be raised in the rear zone during a collision of the vehicle. Such a hinge mechanism is provided with a spring element which actuates an adjusting lever during a collision while the adjusting lever acts directly upon the front hood and rests thereupon either directly or via intermediate elements. The joints of the quadruple joint located at the front hood end are hingedly fixed to a swiveling lever. In the neutral position, one end of the swiveling lever is removably fastened to the front hood while the other end thereof can be swiveled relative to the front hood about a pivot joint that is disposed in the area where the adjusting lever is associated with the front hood. The adjusting lever, which is guided by the pull rods of the quadruple joint and the swiveling lever that detaches from the front hood at one end, lifts the front hood relative to the neutral state in the event of a collision.
US07854287B2	Motorcycle air suspension system A suspension system for use with a motorcycle includes a device for producing a supply of pressurized air. The suspension system is operably disposed between a frame member and a swing arm of the motorcycle. The suspension system comprises a double-acting pneumatic cylinder.
US07854283B2	Optimization method for power generation systems Apparatus for controlling the power output efficiency of a power generation system based on an operator input. A processor is coupled to the input means and (i) receives the generated operator command, (ii) receives a plurality of detected ambient air conditions, (iii) receives a plurality of detected engine performance parameters, (iv) determines first and second engine control commands based on the received pilot thrust command, the detected ambient environmental conditions, and the engine performance parameters, and (v) outputs control commands to optimize the efficiency of the power generation system.
US07854282B2	Hybrid electric vehicle A highly energy efficient automobile that provides payload, safety and performance capacities similar to a comparable vehicle of a given vehicle class. The current invention is ideal for short to medium range urban and suburban driving. The current invention incorporates components in a unique and novel way, in which these components combine to form a system that produces an automobile that reduces overall air pollution while encouraging the commercialization of alternative energy sources. The current invention features an lightweight, low rolling resistance, digitally controlled and direct-drive electric propulsion system. A lightweight spaceframe with a suspension system provides a structure for mounting a low-aerodynamic-drag body system and other components. An intelligent power and thermal management system coupled with a removable auxiliary power module supplies the electrical energy required. While the preferred embodiment is substantially a passenger vehicle, the current invention may be scaled to other land vehicles.
US07854280B2	Preassembly unit for the drive of an industrial truck A preassembly unit for the drive of an industrial truck, with a fifth wheel on which the driving wheel is rotatably mounted around a horizontal axis and which on its part is rotatably mounted in a bearing member around a vertical axis, a drive motor arranged on the fifth wheel, which is coupled with a driving shaft of the driving wheel via a gearbox, optionally a steering motor on the bearing member in order to turn the fifth wheel in the bearing member around the vertical axis, a parallel rod assembly between the bearing member and a frame of the industrial truck, which permits an essentially vertical movement of the preassembly unit in relation to the frame, and a spring arrangement between the bearing member and a frame-fixed section, wherein at least one upper drag rod of the parallel rod assembly is articulated on the lower end of a separate attachment section, which forms an interface with a counter-attachment position on the frame by attachment positions, and that at least one spring acts between a shoulder of the bearing member and an abutment of the attachment portion below the attachment positions.
US07854274B2	Multi-mode drill and transmission sub-assembly including a gear case cover supporting biasing A multi-mode drill can include a transmission to transfer torque from an output member of a motor to an output spindle. A transmission housing encloses the transmission in an interior cavity formed by a gear case shell and a cover plate. The cover plate can be coupled to the outer shell via screws. A static shift rod can be supported at one end by the cover plate. A shift bracket can be mounted on the shift rod and biased to a mode position by a biasing member exerting a force between the shift bracket and the cover plate. A shift pin can be supported adjacent one end by the cover plate and biased to a mode position by a biasing member exerting a force between the shift pin and the cover plate. A spindle biasing member can bias the output spindle against the cover plate. The shift pin can actuate an electronic switch. A motor housing can be coupled to the transmission housing with fasteners so that the cover fasteners are not accessible.
US07854268B2	Deep water hurricane valve A storm plug for temporarily isolating an offshore well in deep water includes a retrievable service packer connected to a valve housing containing a movable isolation sleeve and a standing valve. The standing valve precludes the fluid flow through a portion of the isolation sleeve. The isolation sleeve being hydraulically actuated from an open position to a closed position. In the open position, fluid may flow through flow ports in the standing valve to an annular bypass area between the valve housing and the isolation sleeve. In the closed position, the isolation sleeve prevents fluid flow through the valve housing. The valve may be hydraulically actuated as compared to conventional storm valve that are set by workstring rotation. The running tool used to run the storm plug into the well may be hydraulically disconnected from the valve housing.
US07854266B2	Smooth bore latch for tie back receptacle extension A tie back receptacle extension includes a stinger having a smooth bore latch assembly carried thereon which includes a wedge device and a ramp, and the ramp outwardly displaces the wedge device to secure the stinger within a substantially smooth bore. A smoothbore latch assembly includes a spiral wound spring received in a recess, and the recess and the spring extending circumferentially relative to a stinger. A ramp outwardly displaces the spring relative to the recess in response to displacement of the spring relative to the ramp. A method of securing a stinger within a substantially smooth bore includes: providing a latch assembly on the stinger; inserting the stinger into the bore; and engaging the latch assembly with the bore, thereby securing the stinger relative to the bore, without the latch assembly engaging any recess formed in the bore.
US07854250B2	Control valve body of automatic transmission and manufacturing method therefor By pouring, by means of pressure, melted liquid of magnesium or magnesium alloy into a hollow portion which is formed using a casting mold, a valve body where a channel groove for hydraulic oil for use in a speed change operation of the automatic transmission is formed. In the above, the channel grove for the hydraulic oil is formed due to a convex portion which is formed on the mold so as to project into the hollow portion. As the magnesium has small heat capacity, variation of the temperature of the mold during the cooling and heating cycle can be suppressed. Moreover, as the magnesium melted liquid has no reactivity with respect to the casting mold, the convex portion is not deteriorated. This allows employment of a mold having a thinner convex portion formed thereon, and therefore formation of a valve body having a narrower channel groove.
US07854249B2	Soft top cloth with styling edge The object of providing a technical function edge and a styling edge is solved by the cloth for a soft top according to the invention which is designed to be stretchable over at least one solid element, wherein the solid element comprises at least one offsetting or indentation, and wherein the cloth overstretching the solid element is deformed by suitable clamping devices such that the cloth substantially follows the contour of the offsetting or indentation in the region of the offsetting or indentation.
US07854248B2	Vision panel for movable partition, movable partitions and related methods Apparatuses and methods are provided for visual inspection across a barrier such as a fire door. In one embodiment of the present invention, a first movable partition is disposed adjacent, and laterally spaced from, a second movable partition. A first vision panel is disposed in the first partition and a second vision panel is disposed in the second partition in substantial alignment with the first vision panel. The position of the first vision panel is substantially constrained with respect to the position of the second vision panel along a first longitudinal direction. The first vision panel and the second vision panel are enabled to exhibit a desired amount of lateral displacement relative to each other.
US07854247B2	Ultrasonic vibration bonding resonator An ultrasonic vibration bonding resonator includes a resonance body, bonding working portions having a bonding working face and provided at a point of maximum oscillation on upper and lower surfaces of the resonance body and support portions provided at two points of minimum oscillation apart from the bonding working portions to opposite sides in a direction of ultrasonic vibration as projecting from front and back surfaces of the resonance body. It includes a resonance body, tool-attaching portions provided at a point of maximum oscillation on upper and lower surfaces of the resonance body, a bonding working portion having a bonding working face and attached to one of the tool-attaching portions, and support portions provided at two points of minimum oscillation apart from the bonding working portion to opposite sides in a direction of ultrasonic vibration as projecting from front and back surfaces of the resonance body.
US07854246B2	Method and device for forming a weld joint The invention refers to a method and a device for forming a weld joint at the connecting surfaces between two parts. At the connecting surfaces a heatable element is provided, during warm-up the two parts approach each other, and the heatable element is also moved or positioned depending on the movement or position of the parts.
US07854239B2	High temperature valve A trim assembly for a control valve includes a seal for sealing a leak path, where the seal is provided to perform advantageously in high-temperature applications, e.g., applications including temperatures of at least 450° F. (232.22° C.). The control valve comprises a valve body and control element. The control element is disposed within the valve body for controlling the flow of fluid therethrough. The trim assembly comprises a valve seat and a retention ring. The valve seat is fixed to the valve body, and the retention ring is threadably connected to the valve seat. The seal can be effected by an annular graphite seal compressed between the trim assembly and the valve body, or by a metal-to-metal contact between the retention ring and the valve body.
US07854236B2	Vacuum insulated piping assembly method Method of assembling a vacuum insulated piping run for conducting a cryogenic fluid in which piping sections are produced in a first location and then assembled in a second location into a piping run. Each of the piping sections incorporates an outer cylindrical casing and an inner pipe for transport of the cryogenic fluid to form an inner annular region for containing insulation that can be radiation shield insulation and aerogel blankets. The piping sections are joined by welding the ends of the inner pipes together and then joining the outer cylindrical casing by a shell-like section. Points of connections are tested by vacuum testing techniques as each of the connections is made. Thereafter, the annular region is purged with a condensable gas such as carbon dioxide and subjected to a subatmospheric pressure.
US07854234B2	Method of setting up, caring for and later removing a temporary rasta hairstyle A method of setting up, caring for and later removing a temporary rasta hairstyle is described. This method includes one or more of the following steps: applying a roughness-increasing substance to the hair to roughen the hair, applying an adherence-increasing substance to the hair to increase adherence of hairs to each other, and subsequently setting up the temporary rasta hairstyle by intertwining hair strandwise. The cleaning of the temporary rasta hairstyle occurs preferably using a concave sponge, without disturbing the temporary rasta hairstyle. To again remove the temporary rasta hairstyle a composition that increases the combability is applied to the hair and the rasta strands are opened and unwound or untwisted. Multi-component kits and compositions for performing the method are also described.
US07854230B2	Heated medical instrument stand with surgical drape and method of detecting fluid and leaks in the stand tray A medical instrument thermal treatment system according to the present invention is in the form of a stand including a thermally treated tray to thermally treat medical instruments. The stand includes a frame to support the tray, while a drape including a sensing device is disposed over the tray to form a drape container or receptacle within the tray for collecting a sterile medium. The tray is thermally treated to heat the sterile medium in order to warm medical instruments or other medical items placed in the tray. The sensing device provides a signal to the system indicating the presence of liquid and/or leaks within the drape container to facilitate control of system operation.
US07854227B2	Nasal devices A nasal delivery device and method are provided for delivering substance to a nasal airway of a subject, in particular one of a liquid, as a suspension or solution, or a powder containing a medicament, especially systemic or topical pharmaceuticals, or a vaccine to the nasal airway of a subject. The delivery device is characterized by: a nosepiece for fitting to a nostril of a subject; a delivery unit including a substance supply unit and a nozzle unit including at least one nozzle fluidly connected to the substance supply unit for generating an aerosol spray for delivery to a nasal airway of the subject; and an aerosol interactor operable to interact with an aerosol spray as generated by the at least one nozzle.
US07854220B1	Stretchable tension paintball agitator with deflecting arms and displacement tips A spring tensioned paintball agitator using a stretchable tension device providing increased maintenance and replacement access. A base frame and a finger frame are provided defining a movement limit device to prevent overextension of the spring while maintaining a minimum spring position. The agitator includes vertical ball displacement tips for increasing ball agitation inside the hopper and contact finger having a variable contact face for ball position control.
US07854216B2	General purpose internal combustion engine In a general-purpose internal combustion engine having a throttle valve and a choke valve each installed in an air intake passage connected to a combustion chamber, air sucked in flowing through the air intake passage and mixing with fuel supplied by a carburetor to generate an air-fuel mixture that enters the combustion chamber of a cylinder and is ignited to drive a piston to rotate a crankshaft to be connected to a load such as a generator, there are provided an electric motor (actuator), a throttle valve opening/closing mechanism connected to the motor to open/close the throttle valve and a choke valve opening/closing mechanism connected to the throttle valve opening/closing mechanism to open/close the choke valve in response to operation of the throttle valve opening/closing mechanism, thereby enabling to move a choke valve without need to install an additional actuator.
US07854210B2	Clean room utility pouch A method of constructing a clean room utility pouch includes cutting dust-proof fabric in accordance with a pattern. The cut edges of the dust proof fabric are treated to eliminate loose particulates or loose fibers along the cut edges. Piping can be secured over the cut edges instead of treating, or in addition to treating the cut edges, and finished by securing the pieces together to form the utility pouch. In some embodiments, a mesh is secured to the cut edges to form a portion of the utility pouch. Air can then flow into and out of the pouch via a pouch opening and the mesh.
US07854208B1	Unibody support apparatus and method In a structure with two oppositely positioned sides, a unibody support apparatus includes a first preformed side support in the approximate form of a “C” and a second preformed side support in the approximate form of a “C”. A side support connector is connected with the first preformed side support and with the second preformed side support such that the side support connector is suspended between and by the first preformed side support and the second preformed side support. And at least one adjustable leg support, connected with the first preformed side support and the second preformed side support, is provided such that the height of the unibody support apparatus may be raised and lowered.
US07854207B2	Data processing unit and pattern forming method A printing and embroidering system having a positional data appending system that is adapted to append positional data indicating positions of a first image and a second image with respect to each other to first image data representing the first image to be formed by one of printing and embroidering and second image data representing the second image to be formed by the other one of printing and embroidering, a first image forming unit with a first fabric holding member, which is adapted to form the first image based on the first image data on a fabric being held by the first fabric holding member, and a second image forming unit with a second fabric holding member, which is adapted to form the second image based on the fabric being held by the second fabric holding member, wherein the first image forming unit is provided with a mark forming system, which is adapted to form a predetermined mark represented by the positional data on the fabric, and wherein the second image forming system is provided with a misalignment eliciting system, which is adapted to elicit a misalignment between a position of the predetermined mark formed on the fabric held by the second fabric holding member and a position represented by the positional data appended to the second image data prior to forming the second image.
US07854206B2	Seed meter A seed meter has a housing forming a seed-holding supply chamber and an outlet chamber and a thin feed wheel rotatable in the housing about an axis and formed centered on the axis with an annular array of radially outwardly open and axially throughgoing seats each dimensioned to hold a respective seed. Structure in the housing is positioned to prevent seeds from moving radially outward from the respective seats in the supply chamber but not in the outlet chamber. A pressure differential is applied across the wheel to move seeds in the supply chamber into the seats so that the seeds are expelled from the seats in the outlet chamber. The seeds are fed, one at a time into a seed conduit and/or to a conveyor for transfer to the seed conduit or to the down pipes of the seed coulters.
US07854201B2	Igniter assembly An igniter assembly includes, an electric igniter and igniter collar, and a resin fixing the electric igniter into the igniter collar. The electric igniter has an igniter main body and a conductive pin which extends from the igniter main body. The igniter collar has a first through hole formed in the axial direction and at least one second through hole formed separately from the first through hole and being provided to the igniter collar. The electric igniter is fixed inside the first through hole by the resin, and the resin is also charged into the second through hole.
US07854192B2	Device and method for preparing a drink from a food substance contained in a capsule The invention relates to a method of wetting and/or dissolving a substance contained in a capsule for producing a beverage consisting, by means of a piercing and injection element, in piercing the capsule and injecting a liquid under pressure into the capsule to wet and/or dissolve the substance; the piercing and injection element being arranged so as to inject the liquid into the capsule in the form of at least one thin layer extending in a continuous, divergent and multidirectional manner, covering a spray surface in an arc of a circle inside the capsule. The invention also relates to a device comprising a flow channel and a valve designed to close off the channel in a first position, called the rest position, and to open under the effect of the pressure from the liquid against an elastic element so as to free a passage as a function of the pressure and thus create the thin layer of liquid.
US07854189B1	Modular missile launching assembly The invention is related to a modular missile launching assembly, more particularly, a compact modular missile launching assembly that is easily attachable to smaller sized watercrafts, allowing for quick installation. The missile launching assembly is encased in a substantially rectangular container with a launching lid to which one or more missiles are attached. A hydraulic lifting device within the substantially rectangular container is used to lift the launching lid from a closed or stowage position to an open or operational position.
US07854188B1	Calibrated taper crimp die An ammunition case reloading die assembly, and method of use, that provides calibrated adjustment of taper imposed on the mouth of an ammunition case. A calibrating ring or cap bears indicia in the form of polygonal faces, splines or radially-directed markings. The ring or cap rotates with an upper portion of the die for threaded adjustment of the position of the die within the frame of a reloading press. The die has a longitudinal bore, a lower portion whereof is tapered for imposing a tapered crimp upon the mouth of the case. The taper of the longitudinal bore is preferably chosen to make each partial rotation of the calibrating ring or cap through one indicium correspond to increasing the taper imposed on the mouth by one thousandth of an inch per case longitudinal inch.
US07854171B2	Temperature compensated miniature pressure sensor The present invention relates to a temperature-compensated pressure sensor assembly for fitting within the valve stem of a vehicle tire. The assembly includes a substrate assembly defining a plurality of holes. A pressure sensor is mounted to the substrate assembly. The pressure sensor includes a first deflectable membrane defining a first chamber and a first cap mounted to the membrane to form a second chamber. A temperature compensation sensor is mounted to the substrate assembly. The temperature compensation sensor includes a second deflectable membrane mounted to the substrate assembly to define a third chamber and a second cap mounted to the other membrane to form a fourth chamber.
US07854170B2	Capacitance sensing circuit for membrane pressure sensor A capacitance sensing circuit for a membrane pressure sensor is provided. The sensing circuit has a controller, two switches in signal communication with the controller, a charge amplifier and a charge injector. The charge amplifier is connected to the switches via a sensor capacitor Cs and a reference capacitor Cr. The sensor and reference capacitors are arranged in parallel with one another and a parasitic capacitance Cp to ground. The charge injector and amplifier are arranged in parallel connection between the capacitors and the controller. The controller is configured to determine a charge imbalance indicative of a pressure difference between membranes of the pressure sensor.
US07854167B2	Stator core loosening diagnosis device and stator core loosening diagnosis method A diagnosis device for diagnosing loosening of a stator core of a rotary electrical machine. The diagnosis device has: excitation means for vibrating the stator core in the radial direction; vibration detection means for detecting the vibration of the stator core in the radial direction; means for frequency-analyzing an output signal of the vibration detection means that detects vibration generated in the stator core when the stator core is vibrated by the excitation means so as to extract a measurement natural vibration mode of the stator core in a circular ring natural vibration mode; means for estimating a circular ring natural vibration mode of the stator core from shape data of the stator core; and means for determining a clamping state of the stator core by comparing the measurement natural vibration mode and a determination criterion obtained based on the estimated natural vibration mode.
US07854166B2	Method for evaluating an instrument operating force Different loads are applied to the skeletal muscle of at least one of an upper arm, an upper limb girdle, and a lower limb of the test subject to cause isometric muscle contraction under each load and measure the muscle activity of the skeletal muscle. Then, an upper limit of the muscle activity in a region where a magnitude of the load and an intensity of the muscle activity have a linear relationship is determined as the limit in an appropriate muscle activity range that suits the test subject. Subsequently, the muscle activity of the skeletal muscle of a test subject operating an instrument is measured, and the test subject's force for operating the instrument is evaluated based on a frequency distribution where the frequency of the muscle activity of the skeletal muscle being exercised to operate the instrument is distributed with respect to the obtained limit.
US07854163B2	Wheel identifying apparatus and tire inflation pressure detecting apparatus with function of wheel identification A wheel identifying apparatus includes first and second triggering devices located on the body of a vehicle, a plurality of transceivers each of which is located on one of the running and spare wheels of the vehicle, and a receiver and a wheel identifier both of which are located on the body of the vehicle. The first and second triggering devices continuously transmit first and second trigger signals, respectively. Each of the transceivers monitors the strength of either the first or second trigger signal thereat for a given length of time, and transmits a signal indicating variation in the monitored strength. The receiver receives and provides to the wheel identifier all the signals transmitted by the transceivers. The wheel identifier identifies, for each of the signals, the wheel on which the transceiver having transmitted the signal is located through a comparison between the variations indicated by the signals.
US07854159B2	Sensor and methods for measuring of concentrations of components in a liquid A sensor for measuring the concentration of components in a liquid, exhibiting a base body with a deformation body, and a hollow chamber. The hollow chamber is on the one side deformable through the deformation body and on the other side rigidly closed. The hollow chamber is completely filled with a swellable polymeric network, which network exhibits a volume phase transition at a certain concentration of components in the liquid. The liquid can have contact to the polymeric network through at least one opening in at least one of the rigid delimiting sides of the hollow chamber. A mechano electrical transducer detects the deflection of the deformation body. The sensor exhibits a servo device (8) working on the deformation body (3), wherein the servo device (8) can be controlled through a control member with a comparator unit (9) such that the deflection of the deformation body (3) is compensated, wherein the corresponding control signal for the servo device (8) represents the measurement value for the concentration of components in the liquid (1).
US07854146B2	Method for production of an optical component from quartz glass The production of an optical component from quartz glass by elongation of a coaxial arrangement of a core rod and a hollow cylinder is known. The arrangement is thus introduced into a heating zone, such that the lower end begins to partly soften and the component drawn from the softened part. According to the invention, a pseudo-continuous method for the formation of the restriction in the inner passage of the hollow cylinder on which the core rod is supported, is disclosed, whereby an upper hollow cylinder is fused end on with a lower hollow cylinder to form an axial composite cylinder, a core rod is introduced into the lower hollow cylinder and the axial cylinder composite partly softened and elongated to form the optical component. A drawing bulb extending to the upper hollow cylinder forms, within which the inner passage at least partly collapses with formation of the restriction and the upper cylinder is then separated off from the drawn optical component at a separating plane and then elongated together with a core rod to form an optical component.
US07854144B2	Method of reducing gaseous inclusions in a glass making process Feed materials are melted in a first vessel to form a glass melt at a first temperature T1, the glass melt containing at least one fining agent. The molten glass is next cooled to a second temperature T2 less than T1 in a second vessel wherein an oxygen-comprising gas is not actively added (e.g. bubbled) into the melt during the duration of the time the melt is at T2. The molten glass is thereafter heated to a third temperature T3 greater than T1 and subsequently formed into a glass article.
US07854135B2	Fully articulated and comprehensive air and fluid distribution, metering, and control method and apparatus for primary movers, heat exchangers, and terminal flow devices The described method and apparatus pertains namely to the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) industry, though its many functions extend into any and all forms of air-fluid movement, metering, distribution, and containment. Essentially, the scope of operation of the method and apparatus encompasses all forms of scientific and engineering measurement dealing with fluid dynamics, fluid statics, fluid mechanics, thermal dynamics, and mechanical engineering as they pertain to precise, articulated control of air-fluid distribution and delivery. The described method and apparatus offers complete, comprehensive, and correct utilization of air-fluid movers and terminal devices under unique sensor logic control, from initial lab testing stages through to equipment cataloguing, selection, design and construction of any and all air-fluid distribution systems in entirety, whereas previously there was no such cohesive, total and terminal method of control for these systems or their components.
US07854128B2	Vacuum pump damping adapter The invention concerns a damping adapter (3) insertable in a suction duct between a service chamber (2) and a vacuum pump (1). The adapter (3) consists of a tubular duct wall (6) in the form of a flexible bellows surrounded by a damping sleeve (7) supported on two end flanges (4, 5). The flexible bellows' plys (6a, 6b) receive a passive damping elastomer (8a) on their outer faces, engaged between the successive plys (6a, 6b). This considerably reduces the transmitting of vibrations from the vacuum pump (1) to the service chamber (2), enabling applications in the microscopy field in particular.
US07854125B2	Components for a gas turbine engine An aerofoil assembly including an aerofoil and a spray element that supplies fluid to a gas turbine engine. The aerofoil has a first part with a leading edge when located in the gas turbine engine, and a second part with a trailing edge when located in the gas turbine engine. The first part has features that slide relative to and engage with complementary features of the second part to form a releasable arrangement.
US07854124B2	Combined control for supplying cooling air and support air in a turbine engine nozzle A balance pressure control is provided for flaps which pivot in a rear of a gas turbine engine nozzle to change the cross-sectional area of the nozzle. An actuator drives a sync ring to move the flaps through a linkage. A supply of pressurized air is also provided to the sync ring to assist the actuator in resisting forces from high pressure gases within the nozzle. When those forces are lower than normal the flow of air to the rear of the sync ring is reduced or blocked. A ring rotates with another ring to control both this air flow, and a supply of cooling air to an interior of the nozzle.
US07854118B2	Supercharged internal combustion engine A supercharged internal combustion engine system wherein the supercharger assembly includes an ejector pump driven by high-pressure air for pumping intake air into engine combustion chamber. Included are means for sensing engine power demand and controlling the supercharging action. A compressor and an air tank for providing high-pressure air for driving the ejector pump are also disclosed. During periods of natural aspiration the ejector pump can be by-passed to reduce flow impedance. The ejector pump can use a driving nozzle with a fixed throat or a variable throat, or a lobed nozzle. Effective supercharging is achieved even at low engine speeds. One of the objects of the invention is to obtain more power from small displacement ICE and thus providing automotive vehicles with sufficient acceleration in addition to good fuel economy.
US07854114B2	Increasing exhaust temperature for aftertreatment operation One embodiment of the present invention includes an internal combustion engine system designed to increase exhaust temperature when operating with a low mechanical load—such as idle operation. This increased exhaust temperature is provided to operate aftertreatment equipment. Exhaust temperature is raised by operating a portion of the engine pistons in a brake mode to increase loading on a remainder of the pistons operating in a combustion mode to drive the engine. Fuel provided to pistons operating in the combustion mode is regulated to maintain speed of the engine within a desired idle speed range.
US07854113B2	Catalyst temperature estimation device In a fuel cut period, an adsorbed CO quantity calculation section calculates the amount CATco of CO adsorbed on a catalyst, and an exhaust O2 quantity calculation section calculates the amount GASo2 of O2 in exhaust gases. CO oxidation reaction heat ΔHr produced when the calculated amount CATco of adsorbed CO reacts with the calculated amount GASo2 of O2 in the exhaust gases is calculated by a ΔHr calculation section, and used in estimation of the temperature of the catalyst.
US07854110B2	Integrated fuel gas characterization system A gas turbine engine that includes a compressor, a combustion stage, a turbine assembly, a fuel gas feed system for supplying fuel gas to a combustion stage of the gas turbine, and an integrated fuel gas characterization system. The integrated fuel gas feed system can include a buffer tank. The integrated fuel gas characterization system for determining the amount of energy provided by the fuel prior to combustion of the fuel in the combustion stage. The integrated fuel gas characterization system minimizes megawatt swings by adjusting the operating parameters of the gas turbine engine based on the rate of change in fuel gas energy content. The integrated fuel gas characterization system also provides improved turbine engine start-up reliability by tuning the turbine engine operating parameters using fuel gas energy content measurements obtained prior to actual start-up.
US07854100B2	Laminate floor panels Floor panels (2) are shown with a discontinuous surface (31) layer and core (30), which are mechanically connectable to each other along one pair of adjacent edges, said floor panels comprising at least two floor elements (1, 1′), which are connected with glue.
US07854099B2	System for attaching prefabricated architectural panels A system for attaching architectural panels to the outer surface of a residential or commercial building includes a vertically disposed stiffener attached to a panel and also to the outer surface of the building. The stiffener interlocks with a base clip which is attached to an adjacent upper panel. A vertically disposed bracket and a clip are each attached to opposite edges of the panel. The vertically disposed bracket and the clip engage a second clip and a second bracket, respectively, in an adjacent panel in order to attach the panel to the outer surface of the building.
US07854088B2	Animal trap The animal trap includes an enclosure for containing a number of relatively large animals. An entry path (game trail, etc.) extends from the enclosure to an automated drop gate at the entrance, or may comprise the enclosure with a gate at each end. At least one double articulated trip arm is placed along the entry path. The trip arm does not actuate the gate when moved toward the enclosure, i.e., when animals pass through the entry path from the drop gate entrance to the enclosure. However, animals passing in the opposite direction move the trip arm(s) toward the gate, causing at least one trip arm to close a circuit and drop the gate to close the trap. The trap is thus configured to capture a number of herd animals, e.g., wild pigs, passing from the gate toward the enclosure, before one of the animals turns back and trips the gate.
US07854087B1	Remotely operable bait deploying system and associated method A remotely operable fish bait deploying system including a remote controller adapted to be carried by a user, a fishing rod spaced from the remote controller, and a toy vessel anchored to the fishing rod. A first primary line is anchored to the toy vessel and extends rearwardly therefrom. A second primary line is adjustably connected to the actuator interface and trails behind the toy vessel. The actuator interface automatically adjusts a longitudinal length of the second primary line based upon instructions received from the on-board controller. A plurality of flotation members are directly coupled to the second primary line respectively and remain spaced from the first primary line. A plurality of auxiliary lines are directly anchored to each of the flotation members and terminate underwater wherein each auxiliary line is provided with a hook attached to a distal end thereof for holding bait.
US07854081B2	Display apparatus for file index A display apparatus that can be positioned within a file cabinet, a file drawer, a hanging file and/or any other suitable file index system. A container is formed by the sheet material. The container has an edge panel forming at least one releasable tab. Each tab can be released or positioned away from an outer surface of the edge panel. A label sheet or label assembly has printable labels and at least one identification label. The identification label has or displays an identifier that corresponds to a particular design parameter of the label sheet. The identification label can be attached to the tab. The container can house one or more label sheets.
US07854074B2	Magnetic end hook for tape measure, manufacture method and application thereof A magnetic end hook on tape measure, comprises a magnet (3) and a main body (1) of the end hook which includes a horizontal portion (11) jointed with a tape blade, a vertical portion (12) having a front surface (12b), a rear surface (12a) and at least one hole (121) for setting said magnet (3); wherein the magnetic end hook further comprising an gasket (2), said gasket has an adapted hole or groove (24) for receiving said magnet (3). A method of manufacture and an application are also described. Compared with the prior art, in this invention, the gasket, additionally set between the hole of the end hook and the magnet on the magnetic end hook, is resilient and can adjust the preferred distance between the magnet and the inner wall of the hole. Therefore, the magnet is mounted more firmly and the probability of falling or breaking is reduced.
US07854071B2	Customized shoe and insole, method and apparatus for determining shape of a foot and for making a shoe or insole A method and kit of parts for measuring the comfortable shape of a foot for a person. The kit comprises front and rear platforms of adjustable height and a supporting surface for accommodating the plantar surface of a foot extending between said platforms. The aforementioned components can be adjusted to various settings with a view to determining a comfortable plantar foot shape. The foot shape can then be captured by scanning with an optical or mechanical probe or scanner. A method of making a customized shoe and shoe last on basis of the captured foot shape is also disclosed.
US07854067B2	Low friction folding knife A folding knife has a slot disposed in the thickness of the tang with a roller cam extending outside of the perimeter of the tang and rotatably attached within the slot. A safety assembly disposed within the handle has a stud extending through a slot in the handle and moves the assembly between a safe and an unsafe position. In the safe position the safety assembly is forced against the tang thereby preventing opening. An adjustable bias element assists the blade in exiting the blade slot. The bias element is in spring communication with the roller cam. Applying pressure to the stud urges the blade from the closed position as the bias element is centered with the roller cam and the blade is forced to an open position by the spring force of the bias element on the roller cam.
US07854052B2	Part positioning device A part positioning device (41) provided with support pins (48) which support a magnetic tape recording/reproducing device (1), a measuring device (51) which measures the height and inclination of a top end face (3a) of a reel (3) of the recording/reproducing device (1) and turning operation devices (54) which turn adjusting screws (7) which adjust the height and inclination of the reel (3). The turning operation device (54) includes an engaging part (55) which engages/disengages with/from an engagement groove (8) formed vertically in the adjusting screw (7), a turning operation part (57) which is turned by manual operation, and a turning transmission shaft (59) which is bendable to transmit the turning of the turning operation part (57) to the engaging part (55). The engaging part (55) is disposed at a position facing the underside of the adjusting screw (7) and moved vertically with respect to the engagement groove (8) by manually pushing or pulling the turning operation part (57) in the horizontal direction (C, D). The turning operation part (57) is disposed on the front side where the operator performs operation.
US07854033B1	Apparatus and method for cleaning a mop A mobile machine for removing dry particulate matter from a mop, cloth or duster by agitation. A drum with flexible, resilient fingers rotates and agitates the mop, cloth or duster to loosen the particulate matter. An electric fan sucks ambient air and the particulate matter to a chamber wherein it is wetted by a liquid mist introduced by spray nozzles. The mist combines with the particulate matter to form larger particulates. The particulate matter and larger particulates are passed through a filter to remove the particulate matter and larger particulates, which drop onto a removable tray.
US07854028B1	Disposable toilet seat cover apparatus A disposable toilet seat cover apparatus is for use on the existing seat of a toilet. The apparatus is provided in a textured biodegradable water soluble material and resists slippage on the seat. A pull tab provides for the gas chamber within the valve assembly of the initially compactly folded apparatus to release a compressed gas to fill the seat cover/cushion. After use, the apparatus' biodegradable makeup provides for either discarding in a trash bin or for deposit into the bowl water, where the apparatus quickly deflates and dissolves. Any of the apparatus not immediately dissolved in the bowl water is easily flushed.
US07854027B1	Toilet flapper ventilation system A toilet flapper ventilation system includes a water-tight electric fan enclosed in a structure which slows the descent of the flapper section through the water in the toilet tank. A guiding system is used to direct the flapper section's rise and fall, and ensure its water-tight return to the flapper valve. The cusp at the lower end of the flapper section has an angled opening which directs the suction of the fan from the toilet bowl through the water discharge tube. The upper end of the flapper section is connected to a flexible, hollow tube which directs the air flow through a filtration system.
US07854022B2	Garments having seamless edge bands and processes for making same A garment having a fabric layer and an edge band is provided. The edge band and the fabric layer each include a sonically weldable material. The garment has a sonic edge weld securing the edge band to the fabric layer along a cut edge of the garment and an adhesive securing the edge band to the fabric layer. During manufacture, the edge band is placed on the fabric layer, sonic energy is applied so that the fabric layer and the edge band are simultaneously trimmed along a cut edge and welded to one another along the cut edge, and an adhesive between the fabric layer and the edge band is activated to adhere the edge band to the fabric layer.
US07854021B2	Attachable and detachable pocket cover An attachable and detachable cover for a pocket having an inner area. The cover may include a first portion disposed external to the pocket, generally conforming to a contour of the pocket, and removably secured to the pocket. The first portion may include a decorative element. In addition, the decorative cover may include a second portion disposed within the inner area of the pocket. The second portion may cause the cover to be retained by the pocket. Further, the cover may include a third portion connecting the first portion and the second portion.
US07854020B2	Safety drain holding system Safety drain holding systems are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system can include a medical support garment comprising a medical container holder having first and second ends and at least one pocket. The pocket is adapted to support at least one container for storing bodily fluid output from a patient to the container. The medical support garment comprises a belt including first and second ends adapted for releasable attachment to the first and second ends, respectively, of the medical container holder such that the pocket is held adjacent to the waist of the patient when the first and second ends of the belt are attached to the first and second ends, respectively, of the medical container holder.
US07854019B2	Garment accessory A garment accessory for attachment to a hem of a garment for prevention of entrapment of the garment beneath a foot or shoe of the wearer, comprising an adhesive-backed flexible and conforming film having a low-friction surface.
US07854018B1	Golf glove patch system A golf glove patch system has a backing sheet fabricated of a plastic material, a patch with a lower and an upper surface and with a peripheral edge taking a geometric shape, and an adhesive secured to the lower surface of the patch adjacent to its peripheral edge with a central free of adhesive. The patch is temporarily coupled to the backing sheet through the adhesive and is adapted to be removed from the backing sheet and placed on the glove and secured to the glove by the adhesive. The central extent of the patch is over a tear in the glove and is in contact with a portion of a user's hand.
US07854017B2	Protective garments that provide thermal protection A thermally protective fabric includes a composition of inherently flame resistant fibers, and interstices having insulating pockets of air, wherein at least some of the air is incorporated into the interstices through a mechanical working process.
US07856665B2	Apparatus and method for scanning capacitance microscopy and spectroscopy An apparatus and technique for measuring the electrical capacitance between a conducting tip of a scanning probe microscope and a sample surface is described. A high frequency digital vector network analyzer is connected to the probe tip of the cantilever of an atomic force microscope, and data collection is coordinated by a digital computer using digital trigger signals between the AFM controller and the vector network analyzer. Methods for imaging tip-sample capacitance and spectroscopic measurements at a single point on the sample are described. A method for system calibration is described.
US07856661B1	Classification of software on networked systems A method and system for the classification of software in networked systems, includes: determining a software received by a sensor is attempting to execute on a computer system of the sensor; classifying the software as authorized or unauthorized to execute, and gathering information on the software by the sensor if the software is classified as unauthorized to execute. The sensor sends the information on the software to one or more actuators, which determine whether or not to act on one or more targets based on the information. If so, then the actuator sends a directive to the target(s). The target(s) updates its responses according to the directive. The classification of the software is definitive and is not based on heuristics or rules or policies and without any need to rely on any a priori information about the software.
US07856659B2	System and method for user access to a distributed network communication system using persistent identification of subscribers A system and method for providing network access are disclosed. After connecting to a network at an access point, a user of a computing device registers for network access with a network provider. In response to the registration, the network provider sends a completion page to the computing device. The completion page includes a link to an embedded file such as a small, transparent GIF image. When the computing device retrieves the embedded file, the embedded file is associated with a header than includes an instruction to generate a network system identifier (e.g., a cookie). The network system identifier may be stored by the computing device and later used to identify the computing device as a registrant for network access with the network provider. The embedded file may also be sent at other times, such as after authentication of the user for network access.
US07856645B2	Displaying programming and non-programming contents on user-display systems across computer networks According to one embodiment, a system and method for displaying on a user-display system a program comprising a programming content including a plurality of programming content segments and a non-programming content including at least one non-programming content segment. The method includes receiving in the user-display system a first programming content segment of the programming content transmitted from a first source across a computer network, identifying at least one non-programming content segment associated with the first programming content, the identified non-programming content segment received in the user-display system from a second source across the computer network, and displaying the identified non-programming content segment by the user-display system.
US07856643B2	Apparatus and method for operating a multi-unit storage facility A system and method of operating a multi-user storage facility is provided. For each distinct user of the storage facility, the distinct user is associated with at least one storage unit of the facility. Video monitoring of the at least one storage unit is provided producing a video output. Each distinct user is provided over a digital communication network with private access to a view of the video output associated with the user. In this manner, each of a plurality of distinct users has access to a view of the video output associated with the user.
US07856636B2	Systems and methods of sharing processing resources in a multi-threading environment Systems and methods of sharing processing resources in a multi-threading environment are disclosed. An exemplary method may include allocating a lock value for a resource lock, the lock value corresponding to a state of the resource lock. A first thread may yield at least a portion of the processing resources for another thread. The resource lock may be acquired for the first thread if the lock value indicates the resource lock is available.
US07856629B2	Compiler apparatus A compiler apparatus, which can perform software pipelining optimization that has a considerable effect of reducing the number of execution cycles taken to complete a loop process, converts a source program into a machine program for a processor which is capable of parallel processing. The compiler apparatus is composed of: a parsing unit operable to parse the source program and then to convert the source program into an intermediate program which is described in an intermediate language; an optimization unit operable to optimize the intermediate program; and a conversion unit operable to convert the optimized intermediate program into the machine language program, wherein the optimization unit is operable to execute software pipelining, by inserting a transfer instruction, which is used for transferring data between operands, into a loop process included in the intermediate program so that a data dependence relation is changed.
US07856627B2	Method of SIMD-ization through data reshaping, padding, and alignment A method for handling Simple Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture restrictions through data reshaping, padding, and alignment, including: building a global call graph; creating array descriptors for maintaining array attributes; gathering array affinity information; performing global pointer analysis and escape analysis; performing loop-based analysis to identify a SIMD opportunity; building an array affinity graph; performing graph partitioning on the array affinity graph to construct an array reshaping plan; performing data reshaping on the array affinity graph; and performing SIMDization on the array affinity graph wherein SIMDization comprises automatic generation of SIMD code.
US07856626B2	Method of refactoring methods within an application A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for refactoring methods of an application. A rating for a method within the application is identified to form a rated method. The rated method is placed in a grouping based on the rating identified for the method. A data processing system is designated to process the grouping.
US07856624B2	Automated safe secure techniques for eliminating undefined behavior in computer software Automated (e.g., compiler implemented) techniques provide safe secure software development. One exemplary illustrative implementation addresses undefined behavior in the C and C++ programming languages.
US07856622B2	Computer program runtime bottleneck diagnostic method and system A computer program runtime bottleneck diagnostic method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform for providing a BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) POST (Power On Self Test) runtime bottleneck diagnostic function, which is characterized by the capability of recording the runtime length of each of the constituent code modules of the BIOS POST routine during runtime such that a diagnostic report in electronic form can be generate to show which one of the constituent code modules of the BIOS POST routine is most time-consuming during runtime to allow BIOS POST program developers to make modifications to the code to make it more optimized and thus more efficient to run with a reduced runtime length. This feature allows the computer platforms with the optimized BIOS POST routine to have a faster startup time and thus more competitive on the market.
US07856621B2	Method for synchronization of concurrently modified interdependent semi-derived artifacts Described is a method for synchronizing concurrently modified interdependent semi-derived artifacts. For example, one artifact can be a software model file and the other artifact can be a code file. A temporary artifact is generated and includes all the elements of a last synchronized version of the first artifact and all the elements of a latest version of the second artifact transformed as the first artifact. The temporary artifact and the latest version of the first artifact are merged to create a synchronized version of the first artifact. A synchronized version of the second artifact is generated and includes all the elements of the latest version of the second artifact and all the elements of the elements of the synchronized version of the first artifact transformed as the second artifact.
US07856618B2	Adaptively generating code for a computer program A program feature set is compared to a processor feature set. The comparison may be performed in response to restoring the program onto a system or requesting its execution. The processor feature set represents zero, one or more optional hardware features supported by the processor, whereas the program feature set represents zero, one or more optional hardware features the program relies upon in its generated code. Comparison of the feature sets determines whether a particular program may run on a particular processor. Programs may be automatically or manually rebuilt to achieve full compatibility. If the comparison indicates that the program requires a feature not supported by the processor, the program is rebuilt based on the processor feature set. Alternatively, the program may be rebuilt in response to a rebuild request, rather than the comparison. The program is preferably rebuilt from an intermediate representation (IR) stored with or locatable from the program.
US07856617B2	Method, system and computer program product for creating software for processing an insurance claim A method, system and computer program product are provided for creating software that can be used when processing insurance claims. In particular, the software generated is capable of recognizing and flagging certain situations or sets of conditions when they arise in an insurance claim that is being processed. These situations or sets of conditions, as well as the type of flag, or “edit,” that should be posted when each occurs, are defined in a decision table from which the software is automatically generated. A method of processing an insurance claim using the automatically generated software is also provided.
US07856610B2	Method and apparatus for semiconductor integrated circuit A design method for a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first step (S13) of grouping pins that configure a same net into a plurality of groups; a second step (S14) of defining sub-trunk wirings mutually connecting the pins that belong to a same group; a third step (S16) of defining a main trunk wiring substantially parallel to the sub-trunk wirings; and a fourth step (S17) of defining a lead-in wiring connecting at least the main trunk wiring and the sub-trunk wirings. Thus, a plurality of pins are grouped, and the groups are mutually connected by the sub-trunk wirings, making it possible to decrease the number of the lead-in wirings. Thereby, even when the number of nets is large relative to the area of a layout region, a probability of occurrence of nets where automatic wiring is impossible can be greatly reduced.
US07856609B2	Using constraints in design verification A method for generating a constraint for generating a constraint for use in the verification of an integrated circuit design includes identifying a target in a netlist (N) of the design and creating an overapproximate abstraction (N′) of the netlist. A space state (S′) is created by enumerating the states of N′ from which the identified target may be asserted. A constraint space C′ is then derived from the state space S′, where C′ is the logical complement of S′. The process is repeated for multiple selected targets and the constraint spaces from each iteration are logically ANDed. Creating an overapproximate abstraction may include replacing a sequential gate with a random gate. Identifying a sequential gate may include selecting a target in the netlist, performing underapproximate verification of the target, and, if a spurious failure occurs, selecting a gate further down the fanin chain of the currently selected gate.
US07856608B2	Method and apparatus for generating current source noise model for creating semiconductor device model used in power supply noise analysis A model generation method for generating a semiconductor device model used for power supply noise analysis, is performed by, calculating noise values for various circuit elements based on current source noise waveforms calculated in accordance with a current flowing from a power supply when a state of the elements changes, determining the time when the change of state of the elements causing the current source noise occurs in relation to successive timing windows each having a predetermined time width, and calculating noise by unit time and adding up for each divided unit time the noise value calculated for all elements whose timing window is present in the unit time, wherein a timing determination unit determines the worst case and other noise generation timing based on the noise generated in each unit time.
US07856587B2	Memory reduction in DVB-H applications A method of storing DVB-H data from a DVB-H data burst, the method comprising: identifying erasures in the data burst; and storing non-erasure data from the data burst in memory locations of a memory that would be used to store erasures.
US07856586B2	Method and system for providing short block length low density parity check (LDPC) codes in support of broadband satellite applications An approach is provided for encoding short frame length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. An encoder generates a LDPC code having an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) code. Structure is imposed on the LDPC codes by restricting portion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying other requirements such that the communication between bit nodes and check nodes of the decoder is simplified. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is supplied to encode the input signal according to a CRC code. This approach has particular application in digital video broadcast services over satellite.
US07856569B2	Method and device for a switchover and for a data comparison in a computer system having at least two processing units A method and a device are provided for performing switching and data comparison in a computer system having at least two processing units which each process data at a specified clock pulse, in which a switchover arrangement is provided and switching takes place between at least two operating modes, and a comparison unit is provided. A first operating mode corresponding to a compare mode is provided, and a second operating mode corresponding to a performance mode is provided. A synchronization arrangement is provided which assigns to the specifiable data a clock pulse information as a function of a processing unit, and at least the comparison unit takes into consideration this clock pulse information in the corresponding data.
US07856563B1	Managing disk drive power states Disk drive power states are managed. Information is received for use in determining a desired power state of a disk drive that is not currently being accessed. The disk drive is caused to have a spun up power state before the disk drive is next accessed.
US07856560B2	Digital information recording apparatus and recording/reproducing apparatus In a digital information recording/reproducing apparatus, information recorded on a hard disk with copy restriction thereof is protected from being copied onto other hard disks by means of a PC, etc., to be produced a large number of illegal copies, i.e., infringing a copyright.The information is recorded onto a hard disk drive through encryption thereof, with using an identification being number unique thereto, when it is recorded onto the hard disk. With this, normal reproduction is prevented, since the drive identification number necessary for decryption is different from, even if it is copied onto the other hard disk. Also, a version information of the hard disc is memorized in an information management circuit. When the information is illegally copied onto the other hard disc, the version information is changes; therefore it does not coincide with the version information memorized in the information management circuit. With this, illegal reproduction of the information copied can be prohibited in the reproducing operation.
US07856550B2	System and method for hardware manipulation in a computing device A device having an operating system including a power control policy for a component of the device and an effector program controlling power for the component based on the power control policy and power control hardware controlled by the effector program to implement the power control policy for the component. A method for determining a power state for a component, executing an effector program to produce a control output corresponding to the power state and controlling power supplied to the component so that the component enters the power state.
US07856546B2	Configurable processor module accelerator using a programmable logic device A configurable processor module accelerator using a programmable logic device is described. According to one embodiment, the accelerator module includes a circuit board having coupled thereto a first programmable logic device, a controller, and a first memory. The first programmable logic device has access to a bitstream which is stored in the first memory. Access to the bitstream by the first programmable logic device is controlled by the controller. The bitstream is capable of being instantiated in the first programmable logic device using programmable logic thereof to provide at least a transport interface for communication between the first programmable logic device and one or more other devices associated with the motherboard using the microprocessor interface.
US07856542B1	Paging cache optimization for virtual machine A system, method and computer program product for virtualizing a processor include a virtualization system running on a computer system and controlling memory paging through hardware support for maintaining real paging structures. A Virtual Machine (VM) is running guest code and has at least one set of guest paging structures that correspond to guest physical pages in guest virtualized linear address space. At least some of the guest paging structures are mapped to the real paging structures. For each guest physical page that is mapped to the real paging structures, paging means for handling a connection structure between the guest physical page and a real physical address of the guest physical page. A cache of connection structures represents cached paths to the real paging structures. Each path is described by guest paging structure descriptors and by tie descriptors. Each path includes a plurality of nodes connected by the tie descriptors. Each guest paging structure descriptor is in a node of at least one path. Each guest paging structure either points to other guest paging structures or to guest physical pages. Each guest paging structure descriptor represents guest paging structure information for mapping guest physical pages to the real paging structures.
US07856532B2	Cache logic, data processing apparatus including cache logic, and a method of operating cache logic Cache logic is provided for use in a data processing apparatus, the cache logic having a cache storage comprising a plurality of cache lines for storing data values. Control logic is arranged, in response to an access request issued by a device of the data processing apparatus identifying a memory address of the data value to be accessed, to cause a lookup operation to be performed to determine whether the data value for that memory address is stored within the cache storage. The control logic is further operable if the data value is not stored in the cache storage to perform a linefill process, the linefill process comprising performing an eviction to evict to memory of the data processing apparatus current content of a selected cache line, keeping the current content valid in the selected cache line whilst the eviction is taking place, and storing from the memory into the selected cache line new content including the data value the subject of the access request. Whilst the eviction is taking place, the control logic allows the current content of the selected cache line to be accessed by subsequent read access requests seeking to read a data value within that current content, but prevents the current content of the selected cache line being accessed by subsequent write access requests seeking to write to a data value within that current content.
US07856529B2	Customizable memory indexing functions Methods and apparatus related to memory indexing. Receiving indications of an indexing function for use with a memory. Performing indexing functions with a processor before addressing a memory location. Referencing a customizable lookup table to determine a memory location. Translating a computer program to control a computer system to use a desired indexing function. Determining desired indexing functions based on performance of a computer system.
US07856524B2	Transposing of bits in input data to form a comparand within a content addressable memory An apparatus and method of transposing one or more bits in input data relative to other bits of the input data to form a comparand for searching in a content addressable memory. The comparand may have one or more bits rearranged from their order appearing in the input data such that one or more bits from a first segment of the input data are replaced with, or substituted by, one or more bits from a second segment of the input data.
US07856523B2	Random Access Memory (RAM) based Content Addressable Memory (CAM) management A Random Access Memory (RAM) based Content Addressable Memory (CAM) architecture is disclosed. In an implementation, the CAM architecture includes a CAM data structure associated with a RAM to store one or more tags and associated data values. Each of the tags includes one or more bit fields which are utilized as an index for referencing a look-up table. One or more look-up tables may be realized for supporting memory operations facilitating efficient transfer modes available in the RAM.
US07856522B2	Flash-aware storage optimized for mobile and embedded DBMS on NAND flash memory Reliable storage for database management systems (DBMS) running on memory devices such as NAND type flash memory utilizes minimum I/O overhead and provides maximum data durability. A virtual page map is utilized between the flash memory and a page access component to record changes to the DBMS pages and prevent overwriting or data loss. There is no need for journaling and logging, and performance is increased by reducing the write and erase counts on the flash memory. The logical page numbers of the DBMS are mapped to physical page numbers in the page map, such that the virtual page map allocates an available page from the physical pages when changes to a page occur, and the updated information is stored in the allocated page. The allocated page number is mapped to the logical page number of the original page, thus maintaining a modified page representation while preventing physical in-place updates.
US07856510B1	Context switched route lookup key engine A key engine that performs route lookups for a plurality of keys may include a data processing portion configured to process one data item at a time and to request data when needed. A buffer may be configured to store a partial result from the data processing portion. A controller may be configured to load the partial result from the data processing portion into the buffer. The controller also may be configured to input another data item into the data processing portion for processing while requested data is obtained for a prior data item. A number of these key engines may be used by a routing unit to perform a large number of route lookups at the same time.
US07856505B2	Instantiating a communication pipeline between software An embodiment not only instantiates a pipeline that allows communication between first and second executable nodes regardless of whether the nodes have compatible or incompatible interface views, but also structures the pipeline based on the relationship between the interface views so, for example, the pipeline does not consume unnecessary overhead or introduce unnecessary data-transfer delay. For example, an embodiment compares a first interface view of a first executable node to a second interface view of a second executable node. A first communication pipeline having a first structure is instantiated between the first and second nodes if the first view has a first pre-established relationship to the second view, and a second communication pipeline having a second structure is instantiated between the first and second nodes if the first view has a second pre-established relationship to the second view.
US07856504B2	Server device, inter-server device connection method, program, and recording medium A procedure from when device registration is completed until an always-on connection session with a server apparatus is established is simplified. Upon receiving a start request for directly accessing a controlled device from a controlling device via a service server, a direct-access management server transmits a direct-access URI obtaining request to the controlled device. The controlled device transmits a direct-access-port NAT setting request to a router. Upon receiving a notification of a global-IP-address and port-number obtaining error from the router, the controlled device transmits, to the direct-access management server, an error code for giving an instruction for a new remote video-recording reservation using tunneling. Upon receiving the error code, the direct-access management server assigns a tunneling port in the server, creates a direct-access URI based on the information of the port and so on, and transmits the direct-access URI to the controlling device via the service server.
US07856503B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic content generation One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for synthesizing a data stream includes retrieving meta data from at least one decision tree, the decision tree comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, and generating the data stream in accordance with the meta data.
US07856499B2	Autonomic provisioning of hosted applications with level of isolation terms A method and a system are described that involve autonomic provisioning of hosted applications with level of isolation terms. In one embodiment, the system includes an infrastructure registry to provide a set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, an autonomic provisioning service unit to select a subset of the heterogeneous infrastructure resources, (the subset of resources to fulfill a service level agreement (SLA) with a corresponding level of isolation), and a monitoring unit to collect information about the subset of resources and send the collected information to the autonomic provisioning service unit.In another embodiment, the method includes providing a set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, selecting a subset of the set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, the subset of heterogeneous infrastructure resources is defined in a configuration template to fulfill a service level agreement (SLA) with a corresponding level of isolation, and allocating the subset of infrastructure resources in the registry.
US07856497B2	Method for determining an appropriate algorithm to apply for forecasting network access usage A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users (86) includes the step of allocating network access for each user for a future time interval (102). Features include forecasting network access (1100) of the users in a future time interval, and prioritizing the users for allocating network access to the users. The network access allocations represent network access allowances available to the users during the future time interval, and further may represent network access usage. Classes of users can be allocated network access first (1114), and then each user allocated network access from the class allocation.
US07856490B2	System and method for multiple spanning tree protocol domains in a virtual local area network A system and method that modifies the behavior of the IEEE 802.1D STP standard to thereby decouple the one data domain from the one control domain involves managing multiple spanning tree protocol (STP) instances in a virtual local area network (VLAN). The method includes the step of assigning a unique set of ports within the VLAN to each of the multiple STP instances. Then, each of the multiple STP instances are managed to keep each of the multiple STP instances separate. Finally, when a topology change is detected in one of the multiple STP instances, entries that have been learned on the unique set of ports assigned to the STP protocol instance where the topology change is detected are fast-aged or transitioned from one state to another.
US07856488B2	Electronic device profile migration A network comprising a first electronic device associated with a first profile that uniquely identifies the first electronic device on the network. The network also comprises a second electronic device coupled to the first electronic device. The first profile is migrated to the second electronic device such that the first electronic device is no longer associated with the first profile and such that the first profile uniquely identifies the second electronic device on the network.
US07856485B2	Systems and methods for providing customized media channels The present application describes systems and methods for creating customized media channels. A method of the invention according to some embodiments includes: (a) transmitting to a user device information comprising a list of music genres; receiving from the user device a message indicating that a user selected one of the listed genres and including an identifier identifying the selected genre; selecting one or more media content items in response to receiving the message, wherein the selection is based, at least in part, on (i) the genre selected by the user and (ii) profile information associated with a user identifier input by the user and/or a device identifier associated with the device; and transmitting the selected media content items to the device.
US07856483B2	Information management systems with time zone information, including event scheduling processes Information management systems with time zone information, including event scheduling processes are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a computer-implemented scheduling method that can include identifying a difference between a participant time zone and a user time zone, reviewing availability information for the participant and/or one or more selected time preference periods for the participant, and selecting a time range for an event. The method can further include reviewing one or more selected time preference periods for the user. Another aspect of the invention is directed toward a computer-implemented method for associating time zone information with a contact in an information management program application that includes selecting a contact, analyzing contact information associated with the contact, and determining a time zone for the contact based on the analysis of the contact information.
US07856477B2	Method and system for image verification to prevent messaging abuse The invention is directed to a system and method for determining if a “spam” message is originating from a messaging account by challenging a particular client's outbound email usage with a test that requires verification of content that is easily understood by a human being, not an automated computer program such as those used by “spammers.” If a limit on the number of recipients for outbound messages has been exceeded, a test is presented the next time a client attempts to send a message. The client must successfully answer the test within a relatively short period of time or else the ability to send messages will be disabled. Once disabled, the client can reinstate the ability to send messages by contacting a representative of the message system out of band, e.g., a telephone call to confirm legitimate outbound email use.
US07856474B2	Method and apparatus for identifying documents using a handheld device A method and apparatus for sending information to a data processing apparatus for identifying a document to share with a recipient. A handheld device is capable of communicating with the data processing apparatus. Human-readable information is captured from the document and stored in the handheld device as document data. A communications path is established between the handheld device and the data processing apparatus. The document data is sent to the data processing apparatus through the communications path. Reference documents are provided. Each reference document has reference data stored in a memory. At least a portion of the received document data is extracted as scanning data. The reference data is retrieved from the memory. The scanning data is compared with the reference data. When the scanning data matches at least a portion of the reference data of one of the reference documents, the one reference document is selected as the identified document for forwarding to the recipient.
US07856472B2	Instantaneous symbol lookup A computer program assists in the completion of text input provided by a user. For example, the computer program may maintain a list of n-tuples (where n>1), each of which includes n text strings. For example, each n-tuple may include a stock ticker symbol and the name of a company having that stock ticker symbol. As the user types each character, the program determines whether the text typed by the user so far matches any of the text strings in the n-tuples. The program provides the user with an indication of whether any matches have been found, such as by displaying a list of the n-tuples having text matching the text typed by the user so far. The program then allows the user to select one of the matching n-tuples. The program uses text (such as a stock ticker symbol) from the user's selection to complete the text input.
US07856470B2	Accepting an invitation sent to multiple computer systems A method and system for accepting invitations sent to multiple endpoints for an instant messaging participant is provided. The acceptance system allows multiple endpoints of a participant to be registered at the same time with an instant messaging service. The endpoint of the inviting participant sends an invitation to the instant messaging service indicating that the receiving participant is to be invited to establish a conversation with the inviting participant. When the instant messaging service receives the invitation, it detects that the receiving participant has multiple endpoints registered and forwards the invitation to each registered endpoint. When an endpoint receives the invitation request, it displays an information window asking whether the receiving participant wants to accept the invitation. Upon acceptance, the endpoint sends an acceptance to the endpoint of the inviting participant to establish the conversation between that endpoint and the endpoint of the inviting participant.
US07856467B2	Integrated circuit including at least one configurable logic cell capable of multiplication The present invention provides an integrated circuit including at least one configurable logic cell capable of multiplication comprising an addition means for adding a first input and a partial product; a first multiplexing means for receiving a first output of said addition means at its first input and said partial product at its second input with its select line being controlled by second input, said first multiplexing means providing a first output; and a second multiplexing means for receiving a second output of said addition means at its first input and said second input at its second input with its select line being coupled to said second input, said second multiplexing means providing a second output.
US07856466B2	Information processing apparatus and method for solving simultaneous linear equations First, calculations to solve a given set of simultaneous linear equations are performed using a conjugate gradient method and it is determined, each time the calculations are iterated, whether or not the calculations diverge. If it is determined that the calculations diverge, the initial value of a variable is set to the minimum value and calculations to solve the set of simultaneous linear equations are performed using a conjugate residual method. This allows the set of simultaneous linear equations to be solved even if it is not known whether or not its coefficient matrix is regular.
US07856457B1	Uniquely identifying an object before it is stored in a database Systems and techniques to identify records corresponding to a database system before they are stored in the database. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: generating a mapping that may be usable to identify a record in a database by reference to a database key. The database key may have a corresponding record in the database and the database key can be a unique value based on information independent of both the content and organization of a record. The technique can include generating a second mapping usable to identify records in the database by reference to a second type of database key. The second type of database key may correspond to a record in the database and the second type of database key can be a unique value.
US07856441B1	Search systems and methods using enhanced contextual queries Systems and methods are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. The context vector can be enhanced by the addition of terms related to one or more terms appearing in the context vector or the query.
US07856432B2	Systems and methods for searching and displaying search hits in hierarchies A method or system may search and display search hits as a hierarchy of objects in a computed-based environment. For example, the method may include performing a search on the objects based on search criteria entered by the user, and identifying search hits based on the search performed on the objects, each search hit corresponding to an object matching the search criteria. Further, the method may include providing a display including a hierarchy of objects and indicating the search hits identified from the search to the user, and providing a set of control buttons to permit the user to navigate the display and view the search hits.
US07856431B2	Reporting on facts relative to a specified dimensional coordinate constraint A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
US07856429B2	System and method for a digital representation of personal events enhanced with related global content There is provided a system and method for creating a digital representation of personal events enhanced with related global content. Personal event frameworks are selectable by the user and are provided with insertion points to receive media items therein and are structured to complement type of personal event. Media items are automatically reformatted as necessary. The instant invention allows the user to enhance the event framework by inserting related global content, wherein global content stands for media items matching either the date, location or event type. The additional content is provided from local sources or over the Internet.
US07856424B2	User interface for backup management Systems and methods for providing a user interface including earlier versions of data. In one implementation, computer program product is provided. The computer program product generates a user interface. The user interface includes a view display area for presenting a current view and a history view display area for presenting a history view associated with the current view. The history view includes one or more first visual representations of corresponding earlier versions of the current view. The user interface also includes an input control for initiating a restoration of the current view according to at least a portion of an earlier version of the one or more earlier versions.
US07856423B1	System and method for generating a crash consistent persistent consistency point image set A system and method for generating persistent consistency point images (PCPIs) is provided. A first set of statistics is obtained for a plurality of data containers. The PCPIs are generated for each of the plurality of data containers after the first set of statistics is obtained. A second set of statistics is obtained for the plurality of data containers after the PCPIs are generated. It is determined that modifying operations were performed to a data container while generating the PCPIs if the first and the second set of statistics are not equal, and it is determined that no modifying operations were performed to the data container while generating the PCPIs if the first and the second set of statistics are equal. The PCPIs are stored on a storage device in response to determining that no modifying operations were performed to the data container while generating the PCPIs.
US07856418B2	Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliance Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to video data stored in memory. Digital effects and filters are dynamically stored, modified, updated or deleted, providing extensible reconfigurable effects studio. Digital media appliance communicates wirelessly with other media appliances, computers, security systems, video storage, email, chat, cellular services or PDAs to provide seamless integration of captured video stream.
US07856414B2	Assured archival and retrieval system for digital intellectual property A system and method of use for permanently archiving intellectual properties (IP) in a digital archival system. An owner contributes each IP with an initial financial contribution including a discrete archival endowment which is sufficient to fund archival of the IP for an assured archival period. A plurality of discrete archival endowments can be pooled into one or more archival endowment funds, jointly managed for the maintenance of each archived IP. The endowment funds can be managed by a trustee separate from the management of the digital archive. Retrieval can be funded through retrieval fees or an endowment maintained separate from the archival endowment fund. Digital rights management can remunerate owners and revenue tracking can capitalize the value of each IP. Access to the archive system is preferably through a variety of membership options including owners, users, and partners.
US07856412B2	Reliability evaluation program and reliability evaluation device A computer-readable recording medium storing a program to make a computer execute a process, the process including generating normal/abnormal patterns of paths between a start point node of application procedure and a reliability verification point node based on a node information that stores an object related to a fact confirmation at application procedure as a node and a path information that stores processing executed between nodes as path; determining whether it is possible to reach the verification point node from the start point node only via normal paths regarding each normal/abnormal pattern; generating a calculation expression to find the reliability of the application procedure as the total generation probability of the normal/abnormal patterns which was determined as reachable; and calculating the reliability of the application procedure by applying the probability of normality of the paths stored corresponding to each path in the path information.
US07856383B2	Transaction allocation Systems and methods of allocating transactions among business objects are described. Allocation is accomplished using a multi-phase process. In a first phase, allocation of the transactions among a set of business objects is attempted. In a subsequent phase, allocation of transactions that were either unallocated, under-allocated, or over-allocated in the first phase is determined. The second phase includes using a set of allocation rules to identify business objects configured to manually determine allocation of the unallocated, under-allocated, or over-allocated transactions. The invention is applicable to a variety of business objects including people, organizations, accounts, tasks, or the like.
US07856382B2	Aggregate user defined function (UDF) processing for multi-regression An aggregate User Defined Function (UDF) processing used for multi-regression is provided. The aggregate UDF initializes storage space for multiple nodes of a database environment. Data is then extracted from a relational database and populated according to groupings on each of the nodes. Multiple rows or records are then processed to create a merge and multi-regression processed.
US07856375B2	Customized communication document creation system and method A personalized communication document pertaining to financial products or services is provided, including a method and system for preparing the same. The financial product and/or financial services are associated with a set of separate descriptions, characteristics and/or identifications, any one of which may be presented within a personalized content section of the personalized communication documents. The documents are generated automatically by a computing system such that different consumer entities can be provided with different personalized content for a particular product/service.
US07856374B2	Training retail staff members based on storylines Methods and apparatuses for manufacturer to present Web-based edu-games so as to train retail staff member about the manufacturer and its products and to access edu-game data and retail sales data from a database. A Website can be created to provide a point of interaction between the manufacturer, retailer, and retail staff member. By accessing this Website, the retail staff member is presented with the web-based edu-games and learns about the manufacturer and its products. The retail staff member can be presented with incentives by the manufacturer for completing the web-based training off time, which may prevent the retailer from paying for the costs of training the retail staff member. Alternately, retailers can also do training in-house (e.g., if required by statute). Manufacturers and retailers compare education levels to sales data to determine the effects of the training.
US07856372B2	Targeting content to internet enabled radio devices Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and content targeting and management techniques.
US07856369B2	Frequency based method for scheduling jobs with hard constraints A method is provided for generating a feasible schedule for n jobs given a duration and a revisit time for each job. The method comprises determining whether it is impossible to generate a feasible schedule, determining whether a round robin schedule is possible, calculating theoretical probabilities, calculating actual probabilities, creating a potential schedule based on the theoretical probabilities and the actual probabilities, and searching for a feasible schedule from the potential schedule.
US07856361B1	Lifenet A computer network system which links one or more life insurances, a selected funeral home, hospitals and the Social Security Administration to notify all concerned entities when a death has occurred. A hospital death notice is posted and automatically sent to a selected funeral home director who then notifies, the appropriate life insurance companies, Social Security Administration, pension providers and other concerned entities.
US07856358B2	Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image, and video content over the Internet The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted advertisement, search capability and/or other functionality based on the content of the file or podcast.
US07856353B2	Method for processing speech signal data with reverberation filtering Method for processing speech signal data. A speech signal is divided into frames. Each frame is characterized by a frame number T representing a unique interval of time. Each speech signal is characterized by a power spectrum with respect to frame T and frequency band ω. A speech segment and a reverberation segment of the speech signal is determined. L filter coefficients W(k) (k=1, 2, . . . , L) respectively corresponding to L frames immediately preceding frame T are computed such that the L filter coefficients minimize a function Φ that is a linear combination of sum of squares of a residual speech power in the reverberation segment and a sum of squares of a subtracted speech power in the speech segment. The computed L filter coefficients are stored within storage media of the computing apparatus.
US07856351B2	Integrated speech recognition and semantic classification A novel system integrates speech recognition and semantic classification, so that acoustic scores in a speech recognizer that accepts spoken utterances may be taken into account when training both language models and semantic classification models. For example, a joint association score may be defined that is indicative of a correspondence of a semantic class and a word sequence for an acoustic signal. The joint association score may incorporate parameters such as weighting parameters for signal-to-class modeling of the acoustic signal, language model parameters and scores, and acoustic model parameters and scores. The parameters may be revised to raise the joint association score of a target word sequence with a target semantic class relative to the joint association score of a competitor word sequence with the target semantic class. The parameters may be designed so that the semantic classification errors in the training data are minimized.
US07856350B2	Reranking QA answers using language modeling In a QA (Question/Answer) system, candidate answers in response to a question received are ranked by probabilities estimated by a language model. The language model is created based on an ordered centroid created from the question and information learned from an information source such as the Internet.
US07856345B2	Method for building and managing a web site A method for managing and/or producing an output, the method comprising the steps of providing one or more layouts, each layout being divided into a number of zones, the one or more layouts in combination at least substantially covering the output; providing a number of rendering elements, each being adapted to perform a function and/or an action; assigning one or more relations and/or one or more orderings between the rendering elements and the zones; processing the zones of the one or more layouts according to the one or more relations and/or the one or more orderings, and by means of the rendering elements; providing, for each of the zones, an output based on the rendering elements and the one or more relations and/or orderings; and collecting the output of each of the zones into a final output.
US07856344B2	Method for transforming overlapping paths in a logical model to their physical equivalent based on transformation rules and limited traceability A method for transforming paths in a logical model to their physical equivalent in a physical model is provided. A logical model is retrieved. All entities in the logical model are mapped. All paths connecting the entities of the logical model are mapped. Tables are created that correspond to the entities in the logical model for traceability. Columns are created that correspond to attributes of the paths in the logical model for traceability. A reduced logical model is created by reducing overlapping paths in the logical model. Virtual logic paths are created where an entity is rolled up, is rolled down, or participates in a many-to-many relationship in the reduced logical model. The reduced logical model is transformed into a physical model.
US07856337B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed of the shaft of a gas turbine A method (and corresponding apparatus) for monitoring the rotational speed of the shaft of a gas turbine having a number of spaced blades on or rotating with the shaft. The invention compensates for the errors which arise from the relative movement of turbine blade tips by deriving a correction factor for each blade and continually updating that correction factor.
US07856335B2	Device, method, and system for calibration of a flow meter used in conjunction with a ventricular assist device A blood flow calibration system 500 including a computer 400 operable to determine and store calibration data for a flow meter 124, a test system 530operable to simulate blood flow for the flow meter 124, thereby allowing the computer 400 to determine the calibration data, and a programmer 300 operable to transfer the calibration data from the computer 400 to the flow meter 124. The flow meter 124 preferably includes a power management circuit 348a,b operable to detect whether the flow meter 124 is powered. In the event that the flow meter 124 is unpowered, the power management circuit 348a,b is preferably able to supply power to a portion of the flow meter 124 in order to transfer the calibration data thereto.
US07856331B2	Scanner calibration The present invention provides a method and system for optimizing the time required for scanning a document with any conventional scanner. More specifically, the present invention will utilize calibration information from the initial power-up calibration or any other calibration, and the information from any previous scans to expedite or eliminate the need for future calibration requests. This process will save time for the user to obtain an optimal scan and increase the operable life span of the scanner by eliminating many repetitive scan cycles.
US07856328B2	Systems, methods and circuits for determining potential battery failure based on a rate of change of internal impedance Various systems and methods for determining potential battery failure are disclosed. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide battery systems that include a battery, an embedded processor and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium includes instructions executable by the embedded processor to measure at least one characteristic of the battery; to calculate a rate of change of internal impedance of the battery based at least in part on the at least one characteristic of the battery; and to determine a potential failure condition based on the rate of change of internal impedance of the battery.
US07856326B2	Methods and systems for providing a nutraceutical program specific to an individual animal The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing an animal with a nutraceutical program that is specifically tailored to address the deficiencies and/or needs of the particular animal. Blood is drawn from the animal and analyzed at a lab to obtain blood test results. The blood test results are scored to obtain at least one blood test score for at least one corresponding blood parameter. If the at least one blood test score falls within a normal range but outside of an optimal range, one or more nutraceuticals needed to bring the animal within the optimal range for the at least one corresponding blood parameter are identified. A prescribed dosage amount is then calculated for at least one of the one or more identified nutraceuticals for the animal. The calculation of the prescribed dosage amount is based on at least the blood test score for the corresponding blood parameter and a deviation of the blood test score from the optimal range.
US07856319B2	Diagnosis method of alcoholic steato-hepatitis using biochemical markers The present invention is drawn to a new diagnosis method for detecting the extent of alcoholic or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis in a patient, in particular in a patient suffering from a disease involving alcoholic or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis or who already had a positive diagnosis test of liver fibrosis and/or presence of liver necroinflammatory lesions, by using the serum concentration of easily detectable biological markers. The invention is also drawn to diagnosis kits for the implementation of the method.
US07856318B2	Method of classifying gene expression strength in lung cancer tissues The present invention provides a method of confirming the gene expression, useful in the decision of a five year survival rate of a patient with lung cancer and the use of a DNA probe kit in the method.A method useful in the decision of a survival rate of a patient with non-small cell lung cancer comprising confirming the expression strength of at least one gene selected from the group consisting ofin lung cancer tissues isolated from the patient.
US07856313B2	Electronic device, display processing method and program An electronic device, a display processing method and a program for displaying a direction and distance of a moving body outside of a displayed range of a map, seen from a certain position on the map and a moving direction of the moving body at a time, are provided. A calculation portion calculates a distance from a current position of a portable device 3 to the destination based on the current position information and position information of the destination included in map data; a moving direction specifying portion specifies a current moving direction of the portable device; a display processing portion determines a position, size and direction of an arrow on the map based on the current position information of the portable device, position information of the destination, a distance between the destination and the current position, and the moving direction and generates a map image to be displayed.
US07856306B2	Vehicle-mounted engine control apparatus A vehicle-mounted engine control apparatus can accurately measure the resistance value of a label resistor arranged in an exhaust gas sensor for correcting characteristic variation thereof by using a reduced number of wires. An electric heater of the exhaust gas sensor, which is powered from a second power supply wire, as well as the label resistor and air fuel ratio measurement elements are connected to the apparatus which is powered from an on-vehicle battery through a first power supply wire. A power feed voltage of the apparatus is input to a multichannel AD converter through voltage dividing resistors, so that a positive end potential of the label resistor is measured alternatively. A negative end potential of the label resistor is input to the converter as a divided voltage thereof with a fixed resistor. The label resistance value is calculated from a fixed resistor current and a label resistor voltage.
US07856304B2	Engine torque control A method of achieving a desired torque output of an internal combustion engine includes determining a first air-per-cylinder (APC) value based on a first APC relationship and determining a second APC value based on a second APC relationship. An APC error is determined based on the second APC value. Operation of the engine is regulated based on the first APC value when the APC error is greater than a threshold error. Operation of the engine based on the second APC value when the APC error is not greater than the threshold error.
US07856302B2	Work machine with transition region control system A transition region control system has one or more sensors configured to transmit a signal representative of a speed of a work machine moving over a first surface. The transition region control system also has one or more surfacing components configured to form a second surface generally coplanar to the first surface, wherein the second surface may include a transition region generally non-coplanar to the first surface. The transition region control system further has a data input system configured to transmit data representative of the transition region to a controller. The controller may be configured to determine the speed of the work machine based on the signal received from the one or more sensors and control the operation of at least one of the one or more surfacing components to at least partially form the transition region based on the speed of the work machine and the data representative of the transition region.
US07856290B2	Nesting negotiation for self-mobile devices Disparate robotic devices can be automatically recharged and reprogrammed by self-scheduling individual time slots for the available recharging area(s) of a charging station. These charging stations provide a nest to which each robot must return periodically for power. These nests can also provide new tasking or patches for the robotic devices. The charging station and the robotic devices are both provided with communications capabilities and a protocol by which they can negotiate to find a time slot in which the device can be recharged, as well as determining a correct connector and a battery type.
US07856274B2	Vestibular stimulation system and method An apparatus and method in which the portions of the labyrinth associated with the labyrinthine sense and/or the nerves associated therewith are stimulated to perform at least one of the following functions: augment or control a patient's respiratory function, open the patient's airway, induce sleep, and/or counteract vertigo. In one embodiment, the vestibular stimulating system of the present invention includes 1) a stimulation element that performs the actual stimulation of the tissue, 2) a sensor to detect a physiological condition of the patient, and 3) a power/control unit that receives the signals provided by the sensor and causes stimulation energy to be provided to the stimulation element at an appropriate timing, level, pattern, and/or frequency to achieve the desired function. However, the present invention also contemplates eliminating the sensor in favor of applying a predetermined pattern of stimulation to the patient.
US07856273B2	Autonomic nerve stimulation to treat a gastrointestinal disorder A method and apparatus for stimulating a portion of a vagus nerve of a patient to treat a gastrointestinal disorder is provided. At least one electrode is coupled to at least one portion of a vagus nerve of the patient. The portion of the a vagus nerve may include an esophageal plexus, a myenteric plexus of aurbach, a submucous plexus of the meissner, a principal nerve of the lesser curvature of the stomach, and a gastric branch of said vagus nerve. An electrical signal is applied to the portion of the vagus nerve using the electrode to treat the gastrointestinal disorder.
US07856270B2	Cardiac pacing using adjustable atrio-ventricular delays A pacing system for providing optimal hemodynamic cardiac function for parameters such as contractility (peak left ventricle pressure change during systole or LV+dp/dt), or stroke volume (aortic pulse pressure) using system for calculating atrio-ventricular delays for optimal timing of a ventricular pacing pulse. The system providing an option for near optimal pacing of multiple hemodynamic parameters. The system deriving the proper timing using electrical or mechanical events having a predictable relationship with an optimal ventricular pacing timing signal.
US07856268B2	Ischemia detection for anti-arrhythmia therapy An exemplary method includes detecting arrhythmia, detecting myocardial ischemia, determining whether the myocardial ischemia comprises local ischemia or global ischemia and, in response to the determining, calling for delivery of either a local ischemic anti-arrhythmia therapy or a global ischemic anti-arrhythmia therapy. Various other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
US07856263B2	Transdermal systems for the delivery of therapeutic agents including granisetron using iontophoresis A disposable skin-worn device for the transdermal delivery at least one dose of charged therapeutic substances, including granisetron, by iontophoresis, the device comprising a donor reservoir containing an amount of a therapeutic substance to be delivered transdermally by iontophoresis, a counter reservoir, a source of electric power connected in a circuit between the donor reservoir and the counter reservoir and a control system for controlling current flow in the circuit to enable at least one dose of the therapeutic substance to be delivered transdermally by iontophoresis and wherein the control system includes a control element selected from the group consisting of a sensor activated by an external signal and a switch.
US07856249B2	Combined mass storage and subscriber identity module providing information security and apparatus for use therewith A mass storage and subscriber identity module includes a frame and a mass storage device supported by the frame. The module also include a first connector supported by the frame and configured to be removably connected to a smart card and a second connector supported by the frame, electrically coupled to the mass storage device and the first connector, and configured to be removably connected to an electronic device. The module further includes an interface circuit configured to control access via the second connector to information stored in the mass storage device based on information in a smart card, e.g., a SIM card, connected to the first connector.
US07856248B1	Communication device A communication device which includes a voice communicating means, an automobile controlling means, and an OCR means, which further includes a caller ID means, a call blocking means, an auto time adjusting means, a calculating means, a word processing means, a startup software means, a stereo audio data output means, a digital camera means, a multiple language displaying means, a caller's information displaying means, a communication device remote controlling means, and a shortcut icon displaying means.
US07856246B2	Multi-cell data processor The exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a data processor having a processor engine composed of a plurality of processor cells, each cell including a local instruction memory and an instruction sequencer and being configured for selective connection with at least one adjacent cell enabling communication between cells. The processor engine is configured to be interposed between a radio frequency section and a baseband section to process data output from the baseband section prior to inputting the processed data to the radio frequency section, and to process signals output from the radio frequency section prior to inputting processed data to the baseband section. A plurality of communication-related functions are mapped into a corresponding plurality of regions of cells, and local instruction memory is configured to store program instructions for implementing all or a part of the associated function. As examples, one function may be a CORDIC function and another function may be a FIR filter function.
US07856244B2	Method and apparatus for controlling vector graphic in mobile phone Provided is a mobile phone including: a transceiver for receiving voice and data signals from outside; a voice processing part for demodulating the voice signal input from the transceiver and outputting the voice signal as a voice, and modulating a voice received from outside and converting the voice into a voice signal; a control part for processing the voice signal and the data signal received from the transceiver; a display part controlled by the control part to display a vector graphic; a memory for storing an operating program of the control part and a system program; a vector graphic processing part for producing and modulating a vector graphic in response to control of the control part and outputting the vector graphic to the display part; and a button including an input part for transmitting an input from outside to the control part, the input part performing the function of connecting to a wireless Internet service when pressed and controlling the size of the vector graphic when rolled.
US07856242B2	Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the audience member through the interactive device, querying the audience members, wherein answers to the querying may be entered by the audience member via the user interface of the interactive device, transmitting the answers to a central processor, storing the answers as audience data, processing the audience data into results, storing the results of the processing of the audience data and broadcasting the results of the processing of the audience data.
US07856231B2	Mobile communication terminal having a radio frequency calibration data recovering function and a method of backing up and restoring calibration data A mobile communication terminal, and a method of backing up and restoring calibration data thereof disclosed, thereby enabling a terminal to repair damage to radio frequency calibration data. The present invention includes a radio frequency calibration data checking unit comparing a checksum value of radio frequency calibration data stored in an internal terminal memory to a checksum of backup data value stored in a SIM card according when the terminal is turned on, the radio frequency calibration data checking unit determining whether the radio frequency calibration data stored in memory is the same as the data stored on the SIM radio frequency calibration data recovering unit for restoring the radio frequency calibration data from the SIM card.
US07856224B2	Systems and methods for recovering a signal of interest from a complex signal A system for recovering a signal of interest from a complex signal is provided. The system includes a plurality of different oscillators. Each of the plurality of oscillators is configured to facilitate improving a signal-to-noise ratio of an input complex signal by adjusting an oscillation frequency of each of the plurality of oscillators based on an input frequency of interest of the input complex signal.
US07856218B2	Direct conversion receiver In a direct conversion receiver, to cancel a DC offset generated in the baseband processing block, negative feedback arrangements comprising a gain control amplifier and a low-pass filter are respectively attached to the I and Q signal branches of the baseband block following mixer outputs. The gain control amplifier in each negative feedback circuit is gain adjusted so that the product G·B of the gain G of a primary gain control amplifier and its own gain B will be constant and thereby the DC offset is cancelled. This DC offset cancellation can be applied in a continuous receiving system with no intermittent time during a receiving operation. Capacitance elements located off-chip can be reduced to those to be used only in the low-pass filters in the negative feedback circuits, whereas many off-chip capacitance elements have been required to be inserted between each stage of gain control amplifiers in conventional baseband chains.
US07856215B2	Method and system for using a multi-RF input receiver for diversity selection Aspects of a method and system for signal processing are disclosed and may include receiving a plurality of wireless signals via a plurality of M receive antennas. Each of M phase shifters coupled to each of the M receive antennas may be set to operate in a bypass mode or with an arbitrary phase setting. Corresponding signal strengths of M signals generated when each of the M phase-shifters is coupled to each of the M receive antennas may be measured, while at least a portion of the M receive antennas are turned off. Selecting one of the M generated signals for processing without the use of an antenna switch, based on the measured signal strength. A signal strength of each of the generated M amplified signals may be measured while turning off at least one of the plurality of M receive antennas and without the use of the phase-shifters.
US07856198B2	Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus A toner cartridge includes: a cartridge main body having an opening; a toner chamber that is provided inside the cartridge main body and contains toner; an open-close member that opens/closes the opening by moving; and a regulation part that regulates movement of the open-close member in an opening/closing direction when the cartridge main body is moved in a direction where it is removed/attached to/from an image forming apparatus, wherein the opening enables movement of the toner between a position inside the toner chamber and a position outside the cartridge main body.
US07856191B2	Power regulator of multiple integrated marking engines A printing device is provided comprising multiple marking engines including at least one marking engine and at least another marking engine that during operation place marks on output media. A power supply is further provided that selectively supplies selected levels of power from the at least one marking engine to the at least another marking engine for selected times so as to rotate readiness from the at least one marking engine to the at least another marking engine for operation to and from a dormant state. Power from the power supply is selectively distributed to the multiple marking engines so that the at least one marking engine is readied for operation while the at least another marking engine is removed from readiness.
US07856190B2	Heating device, fixing device, method of controlling temperature of heating member, and image forming apparatus A heating device heats, by electromagnetic induction heating, a heating member disposed in a fixing device for use in an image forming apparatus. The fixing device heats and fixes an image on a recording material while nipping and transporting the recording material. The heating device includes an exciting coil that is disposed along the heating member and generates an alternating magnetic flux to heat the heating member by electromagnetic induction heating, a demagnetizing coil that encircles part of the alternating magnetic flux generated by the exciting coil and generates an electro motive force in a direction that cancels the alternating magnetic flux, and a demagnetizing regulator that is provided in a demagnetizing circuit including the demagnetizing coil and adjusts a current to be generated in the demagnetizing coil.
US07856180B2	Camera device Stereo photographs and panoramic photographs can be taken separately without enabling cameras to rotate relative to a casing in which the cameras are placed. A camera device capable of selectively photographing panoramic images and stereo images includes a casing (1D) fixed with a photographic lens (11D), and a casing (1U) that is fixed with a photographic lens (11U) and that moves relative to the casing (1D) while facing the casing (1D); wherein in cases in which the photographic lenses (11D) and (11U) are disposed in open, mutually spaced apart positions by relative movement of the case (1U), the optical axes of the photographic lenses (11D) and (11U) are placed in positions capable of photographing stereo images; and in cases in which the photographic lenses (11D) and (11U) are disposed in closed, mutually proximal positions by relative movement of the case (1U), the optical axes of the photographic lenses (11D) and (11U) are placed in positions capable of photographing panoramic images.
US07856178B2	System for compensating camera movement and a calibration method thereof A method for compensating camera movement solves the problem of the captured image becoming blurred due to involuntary camera movement in the following way. Firstly, a camera with a look-up table is provided. Next, after a trigger signal is received, the camera movement and the environmental brightness are detected to generate a movement value and a brightness index. A compensation mode and a set of parameters that correspond to the movement value and the brightness index are selected from the look-up table. Finally, when an image-capturing signal is received, the movement compensation modules of the camera are driven by referring to the compensation mode and the parameters to capture a sharp image in a best mode.
US07856167B2	Image playback apparatus and method, and program The present invention relates to an image playback apparatus and method, and a program for enabling a quick display of a last picture of moving pictures during fast forward playback as well as a first picture of the moving pictures during fast reverse playback. Concerning GOPs from a GOP at which the fast forward playback is started to a GOP#(N−1) that is immediately prior to a last GOP#N, encoded video data of I-pictures is stacked in a stream buffer, whereas concerning the last GOP#N, the encoded video data of all frames is stacked in the stream buffer. To the last GOP#N, only I-pictures are decoded and displayed. Thereafter the I-picture and the P-pictures in the last GOP#N is decoded, and only the last picture is displayed. The present invention can be applied to DVD players or the like.
US07856161B2	Optical fiber faceplates including convergent constituent imaging conduits and tiled imaging arrays incorporating the same An imaging module includes an optical fiber faceplate with an image-input face, a planar image-output face, and a plurality of adjacently fused, internally reflecting imaging conduits extending between the image-input and image-output faces. The constituent imaging conduits extend along conduit axes that mutually converge in a direction that such that an image inputted through the image-input face is reduced in size along at least one dimension for outputting through the image-output face. The imaging module further includes an imaging detector array including a plurality of photosensitive detector elements arranged in accordance with a predetermined array format. The faceplate is situated in front of the detector array such that light incident upon the image-input face is transmitted through the faceplate and optically communicated to the detector elements through the image-output face. Multiple imaging modules can be tiled in tight formations in order to form a larger format imaging array.
US07856154B2	System and method of super-resolution imaging from a sequence of translated and rotated low-resolution images A method and system for super-resolving images from low-resolution sequences comprising an image processor having an input for inputting multiple images of a scene with sub-pixel translations and rotations; one of the images of the scene being a reference image; and at least one memory comprising a gross translation estimation algorithm for estimating overall translations of at least one image with respect to the reference image on the image processor and aligning the inputted images according to the gross translation estimates on the image processor; a sub-pixel estimation algorithm for obtaining the sub-pixel shift and rotation of each image with respect to the reference image; and an error reduction algorithm for applying at least one spatial frequency domain constraint and at least one spatial domain constraint to the images to produce a high-resolution image.
US07856150B2	Denoise method on image pyramid The present invention is to provide a denoise method on Gaussian/Laplacian image pyramid, which integrates Pyramid analysis/synthesis algorithm, MMSE (minimum mean square error) filter and NL (non local) filter on the image pyramid to reconstruct and output a denoised image of an original input image through a plurality of iterative procedures, and utilizes an auto-adaptive noise estimation algorithm to find parameter of noise level used by the NL filter, so as to be easily embedded in mobile or handheld devices for obtaining better noise removing and anti-shaking results and remove noise much faster than the conventional denoise method, but only with less quality loss.
US07856147B2	Method and apparatus for processing a compressed image in an order other than the order of which it was compressed An image processing system that can receive compressed image data corresponding to a representation of an image and process that image data in an order that is independent of the order in which that image data was compressed. A first pass decoding identifies certain information pertaining to the coded units within the compressed image data. Based upon that information, the coded units in the compressed image data may be decoded in an order that is different than the order in which they were encoded, and portions of the image may be rotated by a multiple of 90° independently of other portions of the image, thereby reducing the amount of memory needed to decompress and rotate the compressed image data.
US07856142B2	Methods and systems for detecting character content in a digital image Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for detecting glyph pixels in a rasterized image.
US07856136B2	Analysis of patterns among objects of a plurality of classes A method for the detection and analysis of patterns receives an image containing object labels and performs relational feature development using the input image to create at least one pattern map. It then performs relational feature analysis using the at least one pattern map to create a relational feature analysis result. The pattern detection and analysis method further comprises a recipe for automation control and includes determination of a genetic anomaly.A relational feature development method receives an image containing object labels and performs core measurement table development using the input image to create at least one core measurement table. It then performs feature table production using the at least one core measurement table to create at least one feature table. It also performs PatternMap creation using the at least one feature table to create a PatternMap. The relational feature development method further comprises a PatternMap integration and update step to create an updated PatternMap.A boundary distance measurement receives an image containing object labels and performs structure object mask production using the input image to create structure object mask. It then performs inner distance transform using the structure object mask to create inner distance transform image and finds individual object centroid using the input image to create individual object centroid output. In addition, it finds object boundary distance using the individual object centroid and the inner distance transform image to create object boundary distance output.
US07856127B2	Ridge direction extraction device, ridge direction extraction method, ridge direction extraction program A ridge direction extraction device capable of extracting ridge directions accurately even in direction unstable areas is provided. In the ridge direction extraction device, a zone direction extractor calculates ridge directions and direction confidence of each zone, and a high confidence zone area determiner determines a high confidence zone area. A direction expectation calculator selects a propagation candidate zone and a reference zone, and calculates direction expectation of the ridge direction of the propagation candidate zone based on the ridge direction and distance of the reference zone. A propagation zone direction extractor recalculates the direction confidence calculated by the zone direction extractor based on the direction expectation of each propagation candidate zone, and extracts the ridge direction of a propagation candidate zone based on the direction confidence recalculated.
US07856120B2	Jointly registering images while tracking moving objects with moving cameras A method tracks a moving object by registering a current image in a sequence of images with a previous image. The sequence of images is acquired of a scene by a moving camera. The registering produces a registration result. The moving object is tracked in the registered image to produce a tracking result. The registered current image is registered with the previous image using tracking result for all the images in the sequence.
US07856116B2	Authenticating identification and security documents The application discloses identification and security documents and methods and systems for authenticating such identification and security documents. In one implementation, a document includes a first surface; and a second surface. The first surface comprises a first set of print structures and a second set of print structures. The first set of print structures and the second set of print structures cooperate to obscure the location on the first surface of the second set of print structures. The second set of print structures is arranged on the first surface so as to provide a reflection pattern. In one example, the reflection pattern includes a diffraction grating. The second set of print structures is preferably provided on the first surface with metallic ink. In other implementations a financial instrument or identification document is provided with an organic light emitting diode (OLED) array. The OLED array displays information thereon. The information is preferably correlated to the information on or in the financial instrument or identification document.
US07856114B2	Magnetic speaker grill A speaker assembly having a removable grill. The grill includes a perforated portion circumscribed by a flange. The flange has one or magnets disposed around an outer periphery of the flange. The speaker body has corresponding slugs disposed so as to align with the magnets of the grill upon assembly. The magnetic bond formed between the slugs and magnets keeps the grill attached to the speaker body during operation of the speaker assembly.
US07856113B2	Multi-microphone capsule A multi-microphone capsule includes a housing, a plurality of microphones disposed in the housing, and an acoustic seal also disposed in the housing, wherein the microphones include an omni-directional microphone, a uni-directional microphone, or combinations thereof. The microphones are placed front-and-back or side-by-side, or a part of the microphones are placed side-by-side and the other microphones are placed front-and-back with the part of the microphones.
US07856107B2	Hearing device with automatic determination of its fit in the ear and corresponding method The risk of inadequate hearing device provision for the hearing-impaired is to be reduced. To this end provision is made to determine the correct fit of the hearing device or the hearing device component in an auditory canal. To this end an acoustic measurement signal is output into the auditory canal. The measurement signal influenced in the auditory canal by the hearing device or the hearing device component is received and compared with a reference signal. Information about the fit of the hearing device is determined from the comparison. This information is transmitted with a status report to an external unit. Objective information about the fit of the hearing device can thus be obtained, particularly in the case of provision for children.
US07856104B2	System and method for ensuring secure communication between TV and set back box A random number or HDCP key is sent from a TV to a set back box (SBB) over a HDMI channel, and unless the SBB returns the same random number/key to the TV over a USB link, the TV will not communicate further with the SBB.
US07856101B2	Method for elliptic curve scalar multiplication The method for elliptic curve scalar multiplication is a method for fast, efficient multiplication of a point on an elliptic curve by a scalar. Two different parameters are used to assign separate projective coordinates to the x-coordinate and the y-coordinate. The x- and y-coordinates are projected by ZLx and ZLy, where Lx and Ly are exponential functions having a common base, i.e., Lx=gnx and Ly=gny, respectively. The use of projective coordinates reduces the number of inversions in scalar multiplication, thereby speeding processing time. Furthermore, since the parameters Lx and Ly are exponential functions, and since the base g is invariant, g−1 can be precomputed and stored. This practically eliminates any further inversions, since Lx−1=(g−1)nx and Ly−1=(g−1)ny so that inversions are simplified to exponentiation by substitution, further speeding processing time and reducing storage requirements.
US07856097B2	Echo canceling apparatus, telephone set using the same, and echo canceling method Providing echo canceling apparatus, telephone set using the same and an echo canceling method that do not require transmission/reception sound detection and are resistant to environmental noise.Echo canceling apparatus according to the invention includes a calculator 4 for subtracting a pseudo-echo signal pec generated from a reception sound signal from an echo signal ec that is based on an echo generated when the reception sound that is based on the reception sound signal is reflected on a reflective body such as a wall thereby outputting a residual echo signal rec. The echo canceling apparatus further includes a residual echo detector 12 for estimating a residual echo volume by detecting sign inversion of the echo signal ec and the residual echo signal rec and their amplitude values. It is thus possible to compare between the positive and negative signs of the input/output signal of the calculator 4 without using the transmission/reception sound detection to detect the generation of a pseudo-echo signal thereby accurately estimating the residual echo volume.
US07856092B2	Method and apparatus for handling disconnected call A method of handling an interrupted call on a communication terminal, which includes updating a task model table including a plurality of informational fields related to a task performed during a call placed on the terminal, and restarting the task at a location corresponding to where the task stopped executing when the call was interrupted using the informational fields in the task model table.
US07856081B2	Methods and systems for rapid detection of concealed objects using fluorescence This invention is directed towards finding, locating, and confirming threat items and substances. The inspection system is designed to detect objects that are made from, but not limited to, special nuclear materials (“SNM”) and/or high atomic number materials. The system employs advanced image processing techniques to analyze images of an object under inspection (“OUI”), which includes, but is not limited to baggage, parcels, vehicles and cargo, and fluorescence detection.
US07856079B2	Reconstruction method for computer tomography and computer tomograph It is an object of the invention to provide spiral computer tomography which has a high image quality. It relates to a reconstruction method for computer tomography of the heart, wherein the image is reconstructed from a data component of recordings of a partial detector path of a detector device and from a data component of recordings of a full detector path of the detector device, and to a computer tomograph having a beam source, a drive arrangement for driving the beam source in a spiral path around an object, a detector device for recording the radiation from the beam source which passes at least partially through the object, and a control device for reconstructing data components of a partial detector path and a full detector path.
US07856075B2	Clock supply circuit and clock supply method The present invention provides a clock supply device and a clock supply method by which the holdover characteristics that maintains with high precision the same frequency as the frequency observed immediately before an error can be achieved simply with the addition of a high stability oscillator. An output clock signal that is output from a conventional PLL circuit is monitored with a clock signal of a high-stability fixed oscillator, and the monitor result is written in a memory. A holdover reference generating circuit averages the result written over a certain period of time. When a frequency error monitoring circuit detects a frequency error in an input reference signal, a selector selects a holdover reference, instead of the input reference signal, and inputs the holdover reference to the PLL circuit. Alternatively, the holdover reference generating circuit may select the input of the PLL circuit at the time of an error, and then perform holdover.
US07856061B2	Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction A video encoding method includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07856060B2	Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method for performing inter picture prediction coding and inter picture prediction decoding using previously processed pictures as reference pictures A coding control unit (110) and a mode selection unit (109) are included. The coding control unit (110) determines the coding order for a plurality of consecutive B-pictures located between I-pictures and P-pictures so that the B-picture whose temporal distance from two previously coded pictures is farthest in display order is coded by priority, so as to reorder the B-pictures in coding order. When a current block is coded in direct mode, the mode selection unit 109 scales a forward motion vector of a block which is included in a backward reference picture of a current picture and co-located with the current block, so as to generate motion vectors of the current block, if the forward motion vector has been used for coding the co-located block.
US07856038B2	Light-emitting module installing thermo-electric controller There is provided a light-emitting module which suppresses wavelength drift. A light-emitting module according to the invention includes a stem and a cap fixed to the upper surface of the stem. A thermo-electric cooler is mounted on the stem and a base is mounted on the thermo-electric cooler. A laser diode is mounted on one side of the base. A thermistor that measures the temperature of the laser diode is mounted on another side. The other side includes an overhung portion that blocks radiant heat transmitting from the cap toward the thermistor.
US07856033B2	Methods and systems for adaptive communication One embodiment relates to a method for transitioning from an initial data rate utilizing an initial transmission variable to a new data rate in a multi-carrier communication system. In the method, a first function or a second function is selected to calculate a modified transmission variable, wherein the first function or second function is selected as a function of relative priorities of first and second communication parameters. The new data rate is implemented by modification of transmission variable. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US07856032B2	Multi-function modem device A communications device including a port that is capable of communicating with a user device, a controller connected to the port, a power line modem connected to the controller, and a network modem connected to the controller.
US07856027B2	Inbound blocking of data received from a LAN in a multi-processor virtualization environment An incoming LAN traffic management system comprising: an I/O adapter configured to receive incoming packets from an Ethernet; a plurality of hosts coupled to the I/O adapter and each having a host buffer; a data router configured to block information received by the I/O adapter into memory locations from an SBAL associated with at least one of the plurality of hosts and in accordance with blocking parameters for the at least one of the plurality of hosts, the data router including an expiration engine configured to expire the SBAL before it is full if at least one predetermined threshold is exceeded.
US07856026B1	Configurable central memory buffered packet switch module for use in a PLD Modules and methods are described for buffering packets to be switched in a system, such as a programmed device. The modules can be configured for different packet lengths, protocols, applications, and/or designs in a larger system. Techniques and mechanisms are further described for implementing a central memory and a linked-list addressing scheme. Accordingly, memory blocks of the central memory can be used for variable length packets and further reused at substantially the same time as they become available, thereby improving packet switching efficiency and/or flexibility.
US07856024B1	Method and apparatus for integrating routing and bridging functions An apparatus and method for routing data packets between a routed network and a local bridged network using integrated routing and bridging (“IRB”) functions are disclosed. In one embodiment a bridge interface between a host in the local bridge network and a bridging engine is IRB enabled. An unnumbered Internet Protocol (“IP”) interface is then added between the host and a routing engine in accordance with the IRB enabled bridge interface. Subsequently packets received from the routed network are forwarded directly by the routing engine to the host in the local bridge network via the unnumbered IP interface, thereby bypassing the bridging engine. Through use of an embodiment of the present invention, packet processing delay in each network device is reduced (because of bypassing the bridging engine), thereby decreasing packet latency in an ever growing network.
US07856018B2	Provisioning point-to-multipoint paths Establishing a point-to-multipoint path includes establishing a first label switched path from a source to a first destination, where the first label switched path is represented by a first label set comprising first node-label pairs. A second label switched path is established from the source to a second destination, where the second label switched path is represented by a second label set comprising second node-label pairs. One or more of the second node-label pairs are equivalent to one or more of the first node-label pairs. The first label set and the second label set are combined to establish the point-to-multicast path.
US07856007B2	Power line communication voice over IP system and method A power line communication system communicating over a medium voltage power line including a VoIP endpoint that transmits voice data and requests to establish a voice connection to a medium voltage (MV) access device is provided. The medium voltage access device may determine a response to the request, allocate voice data packets a higher priority than general data packets, and transmit the data packets over the MV power line according to their priority. The MV access device may provide one or more voice over internet protocol (VoIP) switch functions and, in response to the requests, grant or deny the requests based, for example, on the number of established voice connections.
US07856005B2	Impulsive noise suppression scheme in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing This invention provides an impulsive noise suppression method in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. The method comprises an equalization and de-mapping step for estimating a preliminary estimation of signal and a total noise estimation by utilizing ideal channel estimation, de-mapping, and pilot insertion technique on received signal; and a SNR comparison step for determining a SNR by dividing said preliminary estimation of signal and said total noise estimation and comparing said SNR with a threshold value.
US07856003B2	Local area network having multiple channel wireless access A communication network having at least one access point supports wireless communication among a plurality of wireless roaming devices via a first and a second wireless channel. The access point comprises a first and a second transceiver. The first and second transceivers operate on the first and second wireless channels, respectively. Each of the plurality of wireless roaming devices are capable of communicating on the first and second wireless channel. In one embodiment, the first wireless channel is used to exchange data, while the second channel is used to manage such exchanges as well as access to the first channel. In an alternate embodiment, both channels are used to support communication flow, however the first channel supports a protocol that is more deterministic than that of the second channel. Allocation of ones of the plurality of wireless roaming devices from one channel to the next may occur per direction from the access point. It may also result from decisions made by each of the wireless roaming devices made independent of the access point. For example, a decision may be made based on the data type being transferred or based on the current channel load. Such factors may also be used by the access point for allocation determinations. In addition, allocation may be based on the type of roaming device involved, such as allocating peripherals to a slower channel.
US07856002B2	System and method for wireless communication having a device coordinator selection capability A system and method for wireless communication having a device coordinator selection capability are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises determining a coordinator priority of each device based on a static priority table, the table assigning a priority to each type of devices. The method further comprises selecting a first device among the plurality of devices as the coordinator based at least in part on the coordinator priority of each device, and a coordinator candidate from the plurality of devices except the current coordinator, based on the coordinator priority of each device and probing results.
US07855995B1	QLM maximum likelihood demodulation The invention provides a method for implementing demodulation of quadrature layered modulation (QLM) communications using maximum likelihood (ML) demodulation algorithms which limit the demodulation loss. QLM layers communications channels over the same bsndwidth and with a differentiating parameter for each layer which enables a demodulation algorithm to recover the data symbols in each layer. QLM supports higher data rates than allowed by the Shannon bound. QLM demodulation algorithms are trellis symbol algorithms, trellis bit algorithms, ML algorithms, and other equivalent algorithms. Trellis algorithms rapidly increase in complexity with the number of layers of communications and with the order of the modulation. ML algorithms are less complex but have demodulation losses which rapidly increase with the number of data symbols. ML demodulation architectures disclosed in this invention limit these losses and are suitable to implement QLM for higher order modulations and for more layers of communications.
US07855991B2	Method and system for idle mode signaling reduction A method and a system for idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) are provided. The method includes obtaining ISR activation information of a source network, and setting an ISR status of a user equipment (UE) in a target network according to the obtained ISR activation information of the source network. Thus, the ISR status of the UE can be processed when the UE is handed over between networks.
US07855985B2	Wireless network system and method of transmitting or receiving data over wireless network A wireless network system and a method of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network capable of limiting transmission or reception of request packets by stations existing on the wireless network, where directional communication is performed in a high-frequency bandwidth, while a wireless network coordinator is being changed or while the wireless network coordinator is in a busy state. The wireless network coordinator includes a frame generation unit which generates a beacon frame for forming a superframe; a management unit which determines a state of a network and a wireless network station on the network, and inserts a result of the determination in the beacon frame, wherein the management unit sets a field of the beacon frame which indicates whether an accepting command which is transmitted by a station on or participating in the network can be received; and a communication unit which transmits the beacon frame.
US07855984B2	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device includes a transceiving module, an antenna module, and a switch module. The transceiving module includes a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The antenna module includes at least a first antenna for transmitting electromagnetic signals in a first frequency range. The switch module switches different connections between the antenna module and the transceiving module, and includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, and a first duplexer.
US07855968B2	Alarm indication and suppression (AIS) mechanism in an ethernet OAM network A system and method for propagating fault information in an Ethernet OAM network having multiple levels of OAM domains. An Alarm Indication and Suppression (AIS) frame is generated by a Maintenance Intermediate Point (MIP) node upon detecting a fault condition in a first OAM domain, which is transmitted to one or more Maintenance End Points (MEPs) of the first OAM domain. Upon receiving the AIS frames, the MEP nodes are operable generate another AIS frame for propagating to an adjacent higher level second OAM domain. Responsive to the AIS frame from the lower level first OAM domain, any alarms caused in the second OAM domain due to the fault condition in the first OAM domain are suppressed.
US07855959B2	Fast common overhead services acquisition for MediaFLO A technique for fast common overhead services acquisition for MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system, wherein encoding overhead information symbol (OIS) information in a first burst of MLC of each superframe, OIS comprises control channel (CC) information and reserved flow data comprising primary flow data, service information data, notification flow data, configuration flow data, and presentation metadata; encoding padding in second MLC burst; encoding parity bytes in third and fourth MLC bursts; encoding primary flow data in final MLC burst per superframe; encoding the remaining reserved flow data at the end of superframe; transmitting wireless data stream comprising first MLC at ½ forward error correction (FEC) rate and receiving it in receiver; determining a correctness of CC information by checking cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits at the end of each received data packet; and transmitter sending size wise remainder of reserved flows at the end of superframe.
US07855958B2	Determining priority of bearer channels in a wireless telecommunications network A method is provided of determining priorities of radio bearer channels in a wireless telecommunications network that offers various predetermined levels of quality of service. The method involves determining a numerical value representing a priority rating to be applied to a radio bearer channel. This is done by assigning each of at least two quality of service attributes of the bearer channel with a respective numerical value, then processing the values to provide the priority rating for the bearer channel.
US07855954B2	Speculative credit data flow control A method of speculative credit data flow control includes defining a low watermark value as a function of a number of open buffers in a receiving unit; receiving a data packet from a sending unit; determining whether the data packet includes a packet delay indicator; defining a first speculative credit value responsive to receiving the packet delay indicator; defining a second speculative credit value as a function of the first speculative credit value added to a regular credit value; generating a flow control packet including the second speculative credit value; and sending the flow control packet to the sending unit.
US07855953B2	Method and apparatus for managing forwarding of data in an autonomous system A method of managing forwarding of data in a first autonomous system (AS) is described. The first AS includes a plurality of border routers having inter-domain links to one or more remote AS's and an associated exterior communications protocol. The border routers use an interior communications protocol with other border routers in the first AS using primary tunnels. The method comprises the steps, performed at a first border router having a primary route via an inter-domain link to a remote AS, of constructing an alternate route to the remote AS via second border router in the first AS, instigating a backup tunnel to the second border router upon failure of the primary route and sending a failure message to the other border routers.
US07855949B1	Method and apparatus for bundling signaling messages for scaling communication networks Method and apparatus for bundling signaling messages to provide better circuit connection performance and scalability in circuit restoration during a network failure of communication networks.
US07855945B2	Optical pickup apparatus and optical element An optical pickup apparatus comprises first, second and third light sources to emit light fluxes of wavelength λ1, λ2 and λ3 for conducting recording and/or reproducing information for first, second and third optical information recording mediums having respective protective substrates of thickness t1, t2 and t3 and a diffractive optical element located on a common optical path for the first, second and third light sources. A converged-light spot is formed on the first optical information recording medium with m-th order diffracted-light ray of the wavelength λ1, on the second optical information recording medium with n-th order diffracted-light ray of the wavelength λ2, and on the third optical information recording medium with k-th order diffracted-light ray of the wavelength λ3 generated by the diffractive optical element respectively, wherein one of m, n and k is different from one of other two numbers.
US07855942B2	Method and apparatus for determining a recordable position of a writable disk According to an embodiment, an apparatus for recording data in a recording medium, includes a reading/recording unit recording or reading data on or from the recording medium, the read data including a position information, the position information indicating a last recorded position and a recordable position for new data to be recorded; and a controller examining whether or not an area corresponding to the recordable position has an already recorded data, and determining whether to change the recordable position to another position for recording the new data based on the examination result, the another position being physically separated from the recordable position indicated by the read data recording information, wherein the controller identifies another position for recording the new data if the area has the already recorded data.
US07855935B1	Weapon fire location systems and methods involving mobile device and/or other features Systems and methods are disclosed for processing information associated with weapon fire. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of processing information associated with weapon fire, including identifying a weapon fire incident, determining positional information regarding a source location of the weapon fire, and processing positional information regarding a device within a particular proximity of the source location of the weapon fire. Moreover, exemplary methods may include providing information for displaying the positional information of the source location of the weapon fire and the device together on a display. Other exemplary embodiments may include performing processing that provides one or more of source location of the weapon fire, device location information and/or other information related to the device for various uses.
US07855929B2	Apparatus for the dynamic detection, selection and deselection of leaking decoupling capacitors Embodiments of the invention generally related to arrangements of decoupling capacitor arrays in an integrated circuit. A decoupling capacitor array may include a plurality of bit lines that are electrically coupled to each other, a plurality of word lines that are electrically coupled to each other, and a plurality of decoupling capacitors, each decoupling capacitor coupled to a respective bit line and word line. The decoupling capacitor array may further include an access circuit electrically coupled to the plurality of word lines and a power grid, the access circuit being configured to either connect or disconnect the decoupling capacitor array to the power grid based on a control signal.
US07855927B2	NAND system with a data write frequency greater than a command-and-address-load frequency The invention provides methods and apparatus. A NAND flash memory device receives command and address signals at a first frequency and a data signal at a second frequency that is greater than the first frequency.
US07855924B2	Data processing memory circuit having pull-down circuit with on/off configuration A memory circuit includes a memory cell, a pair of conducting lines operable to signal the logic state of the memory cell and read circuitry operable to perform a read operation by detecting a voltage level of at least one of the pair of conducting lines. The memory circuit includes a pull-down circuit having an on configuration in which it is operable to pull-down a voltage level of at least one of the pair of conducting lines so as to affect the read operation and an off-configuration in which the pull-down circuit cannot affect the read operation. Control circuitry is configured to control whether the pull-down circuit is in the on configuration or the off configuration. The memory circuit can be incorporated in a data processing apparatus and a method of operating a memory circuit is provided in which a pull-down circuit is controlled to be in an on configuration or in an off configuration.
US07855913B2	Dynamically configurable MLC state assignment Memory devices and methods are disclosed, such as those facilitating a data conditioning scheme for multilevel memory cells. For example, one such memory device is capable of inverting the lower page bit values of a complete page of MLC memory cells when a count of the lower page data values is equal to or greater than a particular value or a comparison of current levels compared with a reference current level is equal to or exceeds some threshold condition. Memory devices and methods are also disclosed providing a means for determining initial programming pulse conditions for a population of memory cells based on the number of lower page data values being programmed to a logical 0 or a logical 1 data state.
US07855911B2	Reconfigurable magnetic logic device using spin torque Spin torque magnetic logic devices that function as memory devices and that can be reconfigured or reprogrammed as desired. In some embodiments, the logic device is a single magnetic element, having a pinned layer, a free layer, and a barrier layer therebetween, or in other embodiments, the logic device has two magnetic elements in series. Two input currents can be applied through the element to configure or program the element. In use, logic input data, such as current, is passed through the programmed element, defining the resistance across the element and the resulting logic output. The magnetic logic device can be used for an all-function-in-one magnetic chip.
US07855907B2	Mitigation of charge sharing in memory devices One embodiment relates to a memory element disposed on a substrate. The memory element includes first and second interlocked data storage elements adapted to cooperatively store the same datum. An output of the first data storage element is coupled to an input node of the second data storage element. An output of the second data storage element is coupled to an input of the first data storage element. An isolation element in the substrate is arranged laterally between storage nodes of the first and second data storage elements. The isolation element is arranged to limit charge sharing between the storage nodes of the first and second data storage elements. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US07855899B2	Controller with loop impedance modulation for power converter A control circuit is provided to generate a mode signal at light load of the power converter. The mode signal is coupled to disable the switching signal for saving power. The impedance of an input circuit is increased in response to the mode signal. Furthermore, a soft start circuit is initiated by the mode signal when switching signal is enabled. An external capacitor associates with the impedance of the input circuit determine the off period of the switching signal.
US07855892B2	Protective jacket of electrical device A protective jacket for covering an electrical device is provided. The protective jacket includes a first shell and a second shell. The first shell includes a front cover, a rear cover, and an elastic strip. The front and the rear covers are formed apart from each other and have an individual hollow for receiving the insertion of the device. The elastic strip is formed between these covers. A space is defined on the first shell by theses covers, and the elastic strip together. The second shell is configured to be disposed within the space of the first shell, and has a slot for receiving the insertion of the device. Therefore, the protective jacket conforms to the shape of the device and is capable of covering the device compactly for preventing damages due to collision and avoiding dust and mist pollution so as to increase the life of the device substantially.
US07855891B1	Modular heat sinks for housings for electronic equipment A housing for an outside plant telecommunication equipment (OSP) which uses modular heat sink assemblies. OSP housings contain electronic circuit boards on which are mounted electrical components that generate heat. Thermal conductors or mesas contact the electrical components to conduct heat from the components to the environment. Rather than create single purpose housings with cast thermal conductors, the improved housing uses heat sink plates which can easily be swapped out to accommodate a variety of electronic circuit boards that might be needed within a general purpose housing. Together with faster turnaround time to create a new design for a housing, lower manufacturing and inventory costs result.
US07855883B2	Electronic device with support legs An exemplary electronic device (30) includes a main body (40) and two supporting mechanisms (60). Each supporting mechanism has a support leg (62). The support leg is rotatably connected to the main body, in order to support the main body. The support leg has a pressing portion (625) exposed from a side of the main body.
US07855882B2	Fan unit and methods of forming same The described embodiments relate to fan units. One exemplary fan unit includes a housing supporting a motor. The fan unit also includes an impeller coupled to the motor and configured to be rotated by the motor. The impeller comprises at least a first structure configured to move air past the housing and at least one second different structure configured to force air into the housing.
US07855880B2	Low cost disaster resistant data storage module A disaster resistant data storage module is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the module is sized to fit into a standard drive bay inside the chassis of a personal computer or server. Standard sized hard drives may be utilized. For example a 2.5 inch standard hard drive may be placed in a protective enclosure which is in turn sized to fit in a standard 3.5 inch drive bay. Another aspect of the invention is to provide a highly reflective exterior surface or coating which reflects radiant energy from a fire but which simultaneously conducts heat generated by a data storage device carried within the module.
US07855878B2	Goal posts side key implementation scheme for offset hinge clamshell phone with thickness flip hardware compartment A mobile phone or other electronic device is provided with side keys inside the goalpost compartment at a location offset from the axis of rotation to optimize the use of internal limited space inside the goalpost. In the preferred form, side keys comprise keycaps positioned in the goalpost area, while the switches are located inside the hardware compartment and engaged by the keycaps via a pin providing a cam.
US07855873B2	Panelboard for fusible switching disconnect devices A panelboard for fusible switching disconnect devices. The panelboard includes a chassis coupled to a mounting enclosure, The mounting enclosure can be used indoors or outdoors. The chassis is configured to receive one or more fusible switching disconnect devices. Each of the fusible switching disconnect devices includes both a fuse and a circuit breaker-like disconnect in a single, relatively compact housing. The compactness of the housing allows the panelboard to provide a higher level of overcurrent interruption in a smaller sized mounting enclosure than conventional panelboards. For example, the panelboard can have an interruption per volume rating of at least about 33 amps per cubic inch, as compared to about 2 amps per cubic inch for most conventional panelboards.
US07855865B2	Circuitry protection arrangement A circuit and a method are provided for protecting sensitive circuitry from over voltage and over current during a double fault situation. The circuit may be used in a portable electronic device, and may include an over voltage protection component and an over current protection component. The over voltage protection component may be coupled across power supply inputs of a load of the portable electronic device. The over current protection component is configured in the circuit to provide over current protection to the load of the portable electronic device at least when the over current protection component provides over current protection to the over voltage protection component.
US07855861B2	Insulator barrier for noise reduction of a TMR magnetic transducer A hard disk drive slider comprises an overcoat layer, which covers an air-bearing surface of the slider. The overcoat covers an exposed surface of a tunneling magnetoresistance transducer. An adhesion layer is coupled with the overcoat layer and the air-bearing surface. The adhesion layer comprises a compound of nitrogen. The compound of nitrogen reduces noise in read data from the tunneling magnetoresistance transducer.
US07855854B2	Head with an air bearing surface having a shallow recessed trailing air flow dam A head has a slider with an air bearing surface having a left trailing air flow dam extending from a trailing pad along a lateral axis, and a right trailing air flow dam extending from the trailing pad along the lateral axis in an opposing direction. A sub-ambient pressure cavity is disposed adjacent to and upstream of at least one of the trailing air flow dams. The trailing pad and the left and right trailing air flow dams together laterally span at least 75% of the width of the slider. Each of the left and right trailing air flow dams is recessed from the primary plane by a step depth in the range 0.05 to 0.5 microns, and the sub-ambient pressure cavity is recessed from the primary plane by a cavity depth in the range 0.8 to 2 microns.
US07855853B2	Magnetic write device with a cladded write assist element A magnetic device includes a write element having a write element tip and a conductor adjacent an edge of the write element tip for carrying current to generate an assist field that augments a write field generated by the write element. A cladding material is disposed on at least one surface of the conductor.
US07855852B2	Clamping system for a data storage device A clamping system includes a stack of storage media discs that includes an annular outer disc surface. A clamp includes a clamp surface that faces the outer disc surface. A ring is disposed between the clamp surface and the outer disc surface. The ring has a crested ring face with a circular crest line that contacts the clamp surface.
US07855849B2	Methods and apparatus for temperature compensation for hard disk drive write overshoot current Methods and apparatus for temperature compensation for hard disk drive writer overshoot current are disclosed. A disclosed system comprises creating a first delay based on the temperature of the hard disk drive, creating a second delay based on the temperature of the hard disk drive, and creating a pulse based on the first and second delay.
US07855848B1	Head-disk interference detection using spin motor current Detection of head disk interference is provided by monitoring a hard disk drive characteristic related to disk rotation rate. A number of characteristics can indicate HDI. These include the magnitude of decreases in rotation rate, changes in the time-derivative (time-rates of change) of rotation rate or other changes in time-profiles of rotation rate, changes in spin motor current, differences between maximum and minimum values of spin motor current, changes in the time-derivative (time-rates of change) of spin motor current or other changes in time-profiles of spin motor current or combinations or indicators thereof. These approaches to detecting HDI provide several potential advantages. Detection of HDI can be achieved relatively early in a test or other procedure, can be performed relatively rapidly, can distinguish HDI from at least some other anomalies and can indicate the location and/or magnitude of HDI occurrences.
US07855846B2	Imaging unit and electronic device using the same An imaging unit, including: a lens housing section to accommodate a lens; a lens driving section, including: a moving member which supports the lens and moves the lens in an optical axial direction, and an electro-mechanical transduction element to drive the moving member in the optical axial direction; a camera-shake preventing section which drives the lens housing section to prevent camera-shake; and a rotation regulating section to prevent the lens from rotating around an optical axis.
US07855845B2	Optical control system including mount for optical component having independent multi-axial control An optical control system including a mount for an optical component is disclosed that provides the flexibility of independently adjusting the position and orientation of the optical component along and about one or more axes. In an exemplary embodiment, the mount includes a support element for supporting the optical component; one or more rotational adjustment elements for rotating said support element independently about one or more axes, respectively; and one or more linear adjustment elements for moving said support element independently along one or more axes. The adjustment elements may be manually adjustable and/or may be adjustable by an actuator. In the latter case, the actuator may be electronically controlled by a controller. The optical component may be a reflective, transmissive, or reflective/transmissive optical device, such as diffraction gratings, mirrors, beam splitters, and others.
US07855838B2	Liquid optics zoom lens and imaging apparatus A high performance zoom lens system suitable for use with a camera is disclosed. The zoom lens systems employs liquid optics and a movable lens group to provide optical performance over the zoom focal length range at focus distances from close to infinity. The system also provides compensation for undesirable thermally induced effects by adjustments of the zoom group and the variably shaped optical surface in the liquid lens cell.
US07855837B2	Viewing optical system and imaging apparatus incorporating the same The invention provides a viewing optical system comprising: a screen on which an object image by a taking lens is formed, an image erection optical system for erecting the object image formed on the screen, and an eyepiece lens system of positive refracting power for guiding a light beam leaving the image erection optical system to the eyeball of a viewer, wherein: the image erection optical system comprises a plurality of reflecting surfaces, the eyepiece optical system comprises, in order from a screen side to an exit pupil side, a first lens element of negative refracting power, a second lens element convex on both the screen side and the exit pupil side, and a third lens element that is of negative refracting power and has a meniscus shape concave on the exit pupil side, and the third lens element satisfies the following condition (1): 0.13
US07855836B2	Lens array, LED print head, exposure device, image forming apparatus, and reading apparatus A lens array includes a lens plate having a plurality of lenses arranged next to each other in a direction perpendicular to optical axes thereof, and a light blocking member for blocking light incident on the lenses. The light blocking member includes a light blocking portion and a plurality of light passing portions arranged at positions corresponding to the lenses. The light passing portions communicate with each other.
US07855831B2	Microscope objective A microscope objective including an front optical element, a plurality of optical elements spaced apart from the front element and from each other, as well as an adjusting unit. At least one of the optical elements can be displaced along the optical axis by the adjusting unit to adjust the focus of the objective. The focus of the objective is displaced relative to the front element along the optical axis and/or a temperature-induced imaging error of the objective is compensated for.
US07855816B2	Movable part locking jig and image forming apparatus incorporating such movable part locking jig A movable part locking jig is loaded into a cassette loader in a radiation image forming apparatus, and a lever is moved to project casing locking members from opposite side walls of a casing, thereby locking the movable part locking jig in the radiation image forming apparatus. Movable part locking members also projects to be brought into abutment against suction cups disposed near the cassette loader, thereby locking the suction cups. Then, the radiation image forming apparatus is moved to a desired location.
US07855811B2	Method of providing search results to a user A method of providing search results to a user via user interaction with a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data enabling the user interaction, said method comprising: (a) a user performing the user interaction with the substrate using a sensing device, said sensing device reading at least some of the coded data when operatively positioned or moved relative to the substrate and generating interaction data using the read coded data, said interaction data being indicative of the user interaction; and (b) said user interaction initiating a search and causing a first resource to be displayed on a display device, said first resource comprising search-results content wherein at least one parameter of said user interaction determines a search provider for performing said search.
US07855806B2	Banding profile estimator using multiple sampling intervals A method of integrating multiple sampling interval image data with timing information from a defect once-around sensor and the machine page sync signals to estimate a banding profile. By augmenting the sampling interval data with the timing data, proper phasing of each frequency over each sampling interval can be maintained. Specifically, when the data over the multiple intervals is taken, the defect source once-around signal and the page sync signals are also recorded. The combination of this information allows the algorithm to extract phase and amplitude information of banding defects from the sampling intervals using a new matched-filter based parameter estimation algorithm. Estimated banding profiles are then generated from the known frequencies, and the estimated amplitude and phase values.
US07855804B2	Tape creating apparatus A tape creating apparatus, including a printing device that prints characters on label tape that includes a winding margin portion that is wound around a periphery of a cylindrical member and a flag portion that is uniformly formed with the winding margin portion, wherein the characters are printed on the flag portion, a first input device for inputting a diameter of the cylindrical member, and a first setting device for setting a length of the flag portion and a length of the winding margin portion on the basis of the diameter of the cylindrical member as input by the first input device.
US07855803B2	Printing control apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium This invention allows the user to select files to be printed from arbitrary folders, easily designate a folder selected in the past, and confirm data files in the folder, thereby improving the operability of selecting a file to be printed. For this purpose, the display window has a folder view display area for displaying the tree structure of folders, and a file view display area for displaying a list of image data files stored in a folder selected in the folder view display area. When a new folder is selected in the folder view display area, a path representing the location position of the folder is added to the folder list. When a file having a print count of “1” or more exists in the file view display area, the file name and print count of the file are added to a file list associated with a folder list. When a selected-folder view display button is clicked, a list of folders registered in the folder list is displayed. If one of the registered folders is selected, a corresponding folder in the folder view display area is selected, and the file view display area is also updated.
US07855802B2	Time-efficient generation of color look-up table Color management which uses a color conversion LUT for transformation from an N-dimensional source device color space (N≧4) to a destination device color space, in which the color conversion LUT is constructed in a two-step process. In the first step, an intermediate color conversion LUT is constructed that converts colors in a three-dimensional device-independent color space through a gamut mapping step and through an inverse destination device transform so as to obtain colors in the destination device color space. In the second step, the overall color conversion LUT is obtained by applying a source device transform to color combinations in the source device color space so as to obtain color values in the three-dimensional device-independent color space, and thereafter performing three-dimensional color look-ups in the intermediate color conversion table.
US07855798B2	Printing system, image forming device, printing control method and printing control program More than one image forming devices (such as printer, copier, facsimile, etc.) which provide detecting means of environmental conditions (such as a temperature and/or humidity sensor) and sending means of the information of the said detected conditions and a print server are connected through a network. The print server judges the environmental situation of each device, selects the devices which are good for operation and sends the respective print data to the selected devices according to the said judgment. In this printing system the environmental conditions of image forming devices are judged uniformly and in highly reliable manner in order to avoid printing from the devices which are in dew condensation and/or waiting for the devices becoming ready to operate so that a large volume of printing matters can be printed in the minimum interval.
US07855797B2	Networked image forming system, including processing controller, image forming apparatus, and printer driver program for use therein An image forming system providing a plurality of image forming apparatuses and a processing controller for selecting at least one of the apparatuses and causing the selected apparatus to perform image formation, the plurality of image forming apparatuses and the processing controller being connected to one another through a network, wherein each of the image forming apparatuses includes an other-apparatus information storage section for storing information about one or more other image forming apparatuses as other-apparatus information, and the processing controller includes: an information acquiring section for acquiring the other-apparatus information stored in the other-apparatus information storage section of the selected apparatus through the network; a distributed-processing determination section for determining at least one of the one or more other apparatuses to be used for image formation in cooperation with the selected apparatus or determining that only the selected apparatus should be used for image formation, on the basis of the acquired other-apparatus information; and a commanding section for commanding the corresponding image forming apparatus(es) to perform the image formation, on the basis of the determination made by the distributed-processing determination section.
US07855794B2	Proxy printing system, information processing apparatus, and controlling method In a proxy printing system, one print job is transmitted to a first one of printers connected over a network, and when a print failure occurs in the first printer, a second networked printer processes the print job to perform proxy printing. The system detects a failure of the first printer attempting to process the print job and issues a notification. In accordance with managed history information for the first printer, the proxy printing system detects whether a printer that has previously processed a print job as a proxy for the first printer exists out of the networked printers. The system issues a notification indicating at least one detected printer as a proxy destination candidate. The system performs control so that the printer is used to execute proxy print processing, and updates the history management table after the execution of the proxy print processing.
US07855789B2	RFOG modulation error correction Systems and methods for performing modulation error correction. An example system applies common phase/frequency modulation to first and second laser beams, a first intensity modulation to the first modulated beam, and a second intensity modulation to the second modulated beam. Signals outputted are demodulated according to the frequency of the common phase/frequency modulation. Then the first of these demodulated signals is demodulated based on the frequency of the intensity modulation of the first beam, and the second of these demodulated signals is demodulated based on the frequency of the intensity modulation of the second beam. Then, rate of rotation is determined based on demodulated signals. Frequencies of the intensity modulations are unequal and not harmonically related, and intensity modulation encodes each light beam with a unique signature.
US07855788B2	Spectroscopy method and spectroscope To achieve an apparatus capable of measuring a light absorption coefficient f a sample with high sensitivity. A ring down spectroscope uses a wavelength-variable femtosecond soliton pulse light source 1. Pulse light is input to a loop optical fiber 6 through a first light waveguide 4 and a wavelength selective switch 5. Ring down pulse light is input to a homodyne detector through the wavelength selective switch 5. On the other hand, pulse light propagating in the first light waveguide 4 is split and input to light waveguides constituting a second light waveguide 20 through an optical directional coupler 8 and a first optical switching element 12. The pulse light propagating in the second light waveguide 20 is input to the homodyne detector as reference light and used for synchronous detection. The plural light waveguides constituting the second light waveguide 20 differ in optical length in accordance with the length of the optical fiber 6, and can slightly change the optical length.
US07855778B2	Method and apparatus for locating and measuring the distance to a target Embodiments of the invention comprise an apparatus for use with a laser range finder configured to direct a laser beam toward a scene to measure the distance to a target in the scene and having a range finder display for displaying data, including data that is indicative of the distance to a target, wherein the apparatus comprises a protective housing, a camera module in the housing, the camera module including a lens mounted in a front end portion of the housing, and a light path through the lens to image sensor, an image sensor operatively connected to the camera module for receiving images acquired by the camera module, electronic memory for selectively storing data of images from the image sensor, circuitry for controlling the operation of the image sensor and the memory, a camera display in the housing operatively connected to the image sensor for receiving the image data and providing a visual display of the image, and a switch for storing image data in the memory. Other embodiments include a projector in the housing for projecting the data displayed by the second display onto the image sensor to thereby capture the image data of the scene and displayed distance data together.
US07855777B2	Exposure apparatus and method for manufacturing device An exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate by projecting an image of a pattern, via an projection optical system and a liquid of a liquid immersion area formed on the substrate, onto the substrate, includes a liquid supply mechanism having supply ports for supplying the liquid on both sides of a projection area respectively and capable of simultaneously supplying the liquid from the supply ports, the image of the pattern being projected onto the projection area. The liquid supply mechanism supplies the liquid from only one of the supply ports disposed on the both sides when the mechanism starts to supply the liquid. The liquid may be supplied while moving an object such as a substrate placed to face the projection optical system. Accordingly, an optical path space on the image side of the projection optical system can be filled with the liquid quickly while suppressing formation of air bubbles.
US07855772B2	Fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device with high transmittance and wide viewing angle An exemplary fringe field switching liquid crystal display device (3) includes a first substrate (310) and a second substrate (320) disposed parallel to each other and spaced apart a predetermined distance. A liquid crystal layer (300) is interposed between the first and second substrates. A plurality of gate lines (332) and data lines (331) are formed on the second substrate, thereby defining a plurality of pixel regions. A common electrode (321) is arranged in each pixel region. And a pixel electrode (323) is arranged in each pixel region and insulated from the common electrode, the pixel electrode including a plurality of slits (350) arranged therein. The slits are separate from each other and maintain varied angles including oblique angles relative to the nearest gate lines.
US07855771B2	Liquid crystal display panel and active matrix substrate thereof An active matrix substrate is provided. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, pixel units, and connecting lines. The scan lines, data lines, pixel units, and connecting lines are all disposed over the substrate. The pixel unit includes an active component, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode. The active components are electrically connected with the scan lines and data lines. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are disposed at the two opposite sides of the scan line, and electrically connected with the active component. The third pixel electrode is electrically insulated from the active component. In the pixel units arranged in a same column, each of the third pixel electrodes is electrically connected with the second pixel electrode controlled by a previous scan line through the corresponding connecting line.
US07855767B2	Transflective liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a display area that can be seen by a user, and a peripheral area external to the display area. The display area and the peripheral area are provided with pixel electrodes including transparent electrodes and reflective electrodes. The reflective electrodes on the display area have holes exposing the transparent electrodes, while the reflective electrodes on the peripheral area have no hole.
US07855759B2	Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line which intersects the scanning line, a pixel electrode which is provided at pixel, and a thin film transistor which has a semiconductor layer having a source area electrically connected to the data line and a drain area electrically connected to the pixel electrode, a relay wiring which is laminated between the semiconductor layer and the pixel electrode and connects the drain area to the pixel electrode, a first shield layer which is laminated between the data line and the relay wiring and is held with predetermined potential, and a second shield layer which is laminated between the pixel electrode and the relay wiring and is held with predetermined potential.
US07855757B2	Liquid crystal display, method of manufacturing the same, and method of repairing the same The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (“LCD”), a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of repairing the same capable of obtaining a wide viewing angle and improving a success ratio of repair. The LCD includes a gate line, a first data line intersecting the gate line, a thin film transistor (“TFT”) connected with the gate line and the first data line, a pixel electrode connected with the TFT, a first conductive pattern partially overlapping with a first end of the pixel electrode, a second conductive pattern partially overlapping with a second end of the pixel electrode, and a storage capacitor, wherein at least one of the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern partially overlaps with the first data line adjacent to the first end of the pixel electrode and a second data line adjacent to the second end of the pixel electrode, respectively.
US07855755B2	Interior rearview mirror assembly with display A video mirror system for a vehicle comprising an interior rearview mirror assembly having a transflective electro-optic reflective element that transmits at least about ten percent of visible light incident thereon and reflects at least about sixty percent of visible light incident thereon. A display module is disposed at a rear of the transflective electro-optic reflective element and comprises a plurality of individual light sources. A thermally conductive element may be in substantial thermal contact with the display module and is exposed at a rear casing portion of the mirror assembly so as to draw heat generated by the display module away from the display module and to the exterior of the interior rearview mirror assembly. The exposure of the thermally conductive element at the rear casing portion may be substantially not discernible to a viewer viewing the rear casing portion of the interior rearview mirror assembly.
US07855748B2	Reference voltage generation in imaging sensors The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate generating and/or maintaining low noise reference voltages for CMOS imaging System-on-Chip (iSoC) sensors. A primary reference voltage can be generated utilizing a low noise bandgap. Further, the primary reference voltage can be filtered via a low pass filter. The filtered, primary reference voltage can thereafter be distributed to a plurality of isolated domains. Each of the isolated domains can generate an independent set of reference voltages based upon the filtered, primary reference voltage. Moreover, subsets of these reference voltages can be employed by programmable digital to analog converters (DACs). Each of the reference voltages can be isolated from switching noise and/or clock glitches generated within each domain. Further, each DAC output can be buffered to have adequately low impedance with appropriate drive capability and requisite signal swing.
US07855746B2	Lens barrel, camera, and mobile information terminal A lens barrel including a plurality of lens groups; a plurality of lens retaining frames; a telescopic cylinder retained by a fixed base member and configured to retain a portion of the plurality of lens retaining frames inside of the telescopic cylinder; and a lens retaining frames driving device configured to drive the plurality of lens retaining frames. A portion of the lens retaining frames driving device for driving the lens-retracting frame which is one of the lens retaining frames is formed to project backwardly in a direction of an optical axis from a rear end surface of the fixed base member for retaining the telescopic cylinder.
US07855745B2	Imaging device capable of reducing power consumption An electronic camera is provided with a power-saving S-AF mode and a C-AF mode as focus adjustment modes. In the S-AF mode, focus adjustment is performed upon half depression of a release button. In the C-AF mode, the focus adjustment is repeated during a shooting mode regardless of the half depression of the release button to simplify the focus adjustment of a shooting time so that shooting is smoothly performed. When the electronic camera is set to the shooting mode, an AF controller obtains an Ev value representing subject brightness. The Ev value is compared with a threshold value stored in a memory. When the Ev value exceeds the threshold value, the focus adjustment mode is changed to the S-AF mode. When the Ev value falls below the threshold value, the focus adjustment mode is changed to the C-AF mode.
US07855742B2	Solid state imaging device with horizontal transfer paths and a driving method therefor In a solid state imaging device, signal charges are branched to be output to in the form of one or plural outputs. At a horizontal transfer speed not lower than a predetermined transfer speed, the imaging device transfers signal charges of color attributes classified by a branching section, to plural horizontal transfer paths, where the signal charges are converted into analog voltage signals, which will be output synchronously. At a horizontal transfer speed lower than the predetermined transfer speed, the analog voltage signal converted is output from, e.g. the horizontal transfer path which has been selected. Output amplifiers arranged on the horizontal transfer paths are differentiated in sensitivities in detecting signal charges, depending on color attributes of signal charges supplied, and output the analog voltage signals.
US07855738B2	Imaging device and imaging method for use in such device An imaging device which assures high-quality image information free from a line noise by extracting line noise information from a taken image, detecting an existence of an extrinsic line noise in the image, and correcting the line noise if it exists. The imaging device comprises a memory circuit for storing image pick-up outputs at imaging of a two-dimensional area sensor comprising photosensors or radiation sensors, an extrinsic line noise detection unit for detecting an extrinsic line noise in the image pick-up outputs stored in the memory circuit, and an arithmetic processing circuit for calculating an output quantity of the detected extrinsic line noise. The line noise is eliminated by correcting the image pick-up outputs on the basis of the obtained output quantity of the extrinsic line noise.
US07855735B2	Method of operating camera timing module A method of operating a timer module includes the steps of querying a non-volatile memory module to determine available digital image storage locations, each storage location having assigned thereto an image number; receiving a selection selecting one of the available digital image storage location as a starting location, and assigning an image number corresponding to the starting location as a starting image number; determining a number of image storage locations having an image number equal to or greater than the starting image number; instructing the image capture module to capture images a number of times equal to the number of image storage locations having an image number equal to or greater than the starting image number; transferring an image to the memory module each time the image capture module captures an image, the image being transferred into the memory module at a storage location corresponding to the starting image number; and updating the starting image number to correspond to a consecutively subsequent storage location. When a plurality of non-volatile memory modules are provided, a memory module physically closest to the image capture module is completely filled first before a memory module that is next closest to the image capture module is filled.
US07855733B2	Electronic camera and recording medium for images and image information and recording image reproduction program An electronic camera that generates a still image by photographing a subject, generates image information related to the still image having a data volume smaller than a data volume of the still image and records the still image and the image information, includes: a frame feed reproduction device that sequentially reproduces a plurality of still images recorded in advance; a high-speed frame feed reproduction device that sequentially displays a plurality of sets of image information recorded in advance; and a switching device that selects either the frame feed reproduction device or the high-speed frame feed reproduction device to switch between the frame feed reproduction device and the high-speed frame feed reproduction device.
US07855730B2	Printed photograph with high capacity encoded audio A data structure is printed on a photograph using infra-red ink. The data structure includes a two dimensional array of data blocks. Each adjacent pair of data blocks is separated by a gap and each of the data blocks has a data region holding encoded data. Each data region is confined by clock-marks and borders to facilitate location of the data region and recovery of data from within the data region.
US07855722B2	Liquid crystal display device and its driving method A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) includes: a liquid crystal panel having liquid crystal cells divided by scan lines and data lines and arranged in a matrix shape; a data driving circuit to supply an image signal to the liquid crystal cells via the data lines; a scan driving circuit to sequentially select and scan the scan lines and to control an on/off state of switching elements arranged in each of the liquid crystal cells; a timing controller to drive both the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit, based on an externally inputted signal; and a common electrode driving circuit to drive a common electrode of the liquid crystal panel. The common electrode driving circuit supplies a common voltage to the common electrode, the common voltage including a DC voltage for a first period of a first horizontal period (1H) and another voltage for a second remaining period of the first horizontal period (1H).
US07855713B2	Program, input evaluation system, and input evaluation method An input evaluation system for evaluating an operation input of an operator, including: a drawing section which generates an image which seems to have a depth, a first moving object moving in an object space in the image; an information acquisition section which acquires operation information from an operation section which detects at least one of an operation direction, an amount of operation, and an operation speed of the operator for an operation target while the image is displayed in a first display area; a movement processing section which calculates at least one of a moving direction, a moving amount, and a moving velocity of a second moving object based on the operation information, and controls movement of the second moving object in the object space; and an evaluation section which evaluates the operation input of the operator based on a positional relationship between the first moving object and the second moving object in the object space.
US07855704B2	Liquid crystal device, control circuit therefor, and electronic apparatus A liquid-crystal-device control circuit includes pixels corresponding to intersections between scanning lines in rows and data lines in columns, a counter that counts the number of horizontal lines included in a video signal supplied correspondingly to a region broader than pixels corresponding to the scanning lines in the rows, a determination circuit that determines which is greater between the number of horizontal lines counted by the counter and a value stored in a predetermined register, an addition/subtraction circuit that, depending on a result of determination by the determination circuit, adds a predetermined number to or subtracts the predetermined number from the value stored in the register, and a scanning control circuit which stores the value obtained by the addition/subtraction circuit in the register, and which defines start timing of the second field on the basis of the value stored in the register.
US07855694B2	Radio system, radio apparatus, and antenna device According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a radio system including: a first radio apparatus that has a first loop antenna; and a second radio apparatus that has a second loop antenna and that performs a radio communication with the first radio apparatus when the second loop antenna is opposed with the first loop antenna, wherein the second radio apparatus has a shield member that is formed of a magnetic substance and disposed to shield at least a portion of the second loop antenna with respect to the first loop antenna when the radio communication is performed.
US07855688B2	Removable mounting device for antenna A mounting device for an antenna device and its method for mounting, and removing the antenna utilizes a dock unit and a base unit. In addition to providing a mounting mechanism, the capture or mounting of the device incorporates a storage feature for the antenna cable to make it transportable. The apparatus provides a means for connecting an antenna to a housing, storing a cable in the housing, and capturing the housing to a docking mechanism while allowing for easy removal of the antenna, and cable storage feature.
US07855682B2	Time synchronization A transmitter of a platform is arranged to generate a transmission pulse, which is transmitted to a receiver of another platform and is also arranged to couple its transmission pulse to a digital receiver associated with its platform via an attenuator and a coupler. Another platform performs a similar task. Each digital receiver determines the time separation between its transmission pulse and a received pulse from the other platform. The determined time separation information is shared with the other platform, and each digital receiver then determines a time offset between the time at its platform and the other platform.
US07855680B2	Alignment method for multi-satellite consumer receiver antennas A method, apparatus and system for aligning an antenna reflector with satellites in a satellite configuration. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises aligning the reflector in azimuth and elevation with a first signal transmitted by a first satellite in the satellite configuration, and aligning the reflector in tilt with a second signal transmitted by a second satellite in the satellite configuration, wherein aligning the reflector in azimuth and elevation with the first signal and in tilt with the second signal aligns the reflector with at least a third signal transmitted from a third satellite.
US07855675B2	Method and device for detecting an environning aircraft A radar unit on board an aircraft scans a scan area of surrounding space relative to a runway to detect any nearby aircraft and a unit presents to a pilot an indication of such detection of the presence of at least one nearby aircraft. The technique involves determining: a heading of the aircraft, positions of thresholds of the runway, an orientation of the runway, a maximum relative bearing, a minimum relative bearing, a maximum elevation, a minimum elevation, a slant range for scanning the scan area from the heading, thresholds and orientation, predetermined vertical and horizontal angles of an approach center line of the runway, a predetermined length of edges of the scan area, and the scan commands enabling the radar to scan said scan area using the maximum relative bearing, the minimum relative bearing, the maximum elevation, the minimum elevation and the slant range. The radar unit is an air-air mode radar configured to detect a nearby aircraft that is in flight; and the scan area has at least one vertical area of space which is situated to one side of the runway and defined relative to a center line of the runway.
US07855673B2	Holographic imaging of natural-fiber-containing materials The present invention includes methods and apparatuses for imaging material properties in natural-fiber-containing materials. In particular, the images can provide quantified measures of localized moisture content. Embodiments of the invention utilize an array of antennas and at least one transceiver to collect amplitude and phase data from radiation interacting with the natural-fiber-containing materials. The antennas and the transceivers are configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic radiation at one or more frequencies, which are between 50 MHz and 1 THz. A conveyance system passes the natural-fiber-containing materials through a field of view of the array of antennas. A computing device is configured to apply a synthetic imaging algorithm to construct a three-dimensional image of the natural-fiber-containing materials that provides a quantified measure of localized moisture content. The image and the quantified measure are both based on the amplitude data, the phase data, or both.
US07855672B1	Compressed codeset database format for remote control devices A database of codesets for a remote control device includes codeset information blocks for derivative codesets and codeset information blocks for nonderivative codesets. A codeset information block for a derivative codeset includes: a bit indicating that the block is for a derivative codeset, a plurality of bits each of which corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of fields in a referenced codeset information block, and a pointer that points to the referenced codeset information block. The digital value of a bit determines whether information from the corresponding field in the referenced block will be used as part of the derivative codeset or whether such information is contained in the derivative codeset information block itself. The sizes of the fields in the referenced block are predetermined or are determinable, so a field in the referenced block can be located if its bit is set in the referencing block.
US07855662B2	System for detecting over axle weight vehicle A technique for recording the front image of vehicles which violate the regulation in the axle weight is desired. In general, the weight of the leading axle cannot be excessively heavy, so that the over weight axle is a second or more rear side axle. Further, the distance between an axle weight detector and a vehicle detector for taking a vehicle image is normally below 8 meters. Under these conditions, when the over weight axle is detected, the over axle weight vehicle is predicted to be a vehicle being presently detected, a vehicle to be detected next, or next to the next. From the images of those vehicles, vehicles having no possibility of violating the axle weight regulation are eliminated based on a license plate read from the vehicle image or the measured vehicle height. The images not eliminated are stored as over axle weight vehicle images.
US07855659B2	Providing sponsorship information alongside traffic messages A method and system for providing sponsorship information to a user of a traffic message receiver is disclosed. Sponsorship messages are sent to the traffic message receiver and include data to be stored in the memory of the receiver. The transmission of the sponsorship messages is performed as a background routine to the regular transmission of traffic messages. The sponsorship data stored in the traffic message receiver is provided to the user of the traffic message receiver based on a triggering event, such as the end-user entering a point of interest string into the user interface of his navigation system or receipt of a message that includes an activated trigger flag.
US07855654B2	Location recording system The present invention discloses a communication system and method for determining and recording the geographical location of an object attached with a short range wireless device, over a wide area, in a vicinity of a radio beacon that can be located by a remote control station, upon establishing or interrupting a wireless connection between said wireless device and said radio beacon. One embodiment of the invention relates to a system for search and rescue of a man overboard (person overboard), a quite frequent and fatal accident at sea.
US07855653B2	External voiding sensor system The disclosure describes an absorbent pad worn by a patient that measures one or more urinary voiding parameters. One or more sensors that measure voiding parameters are integrally formed with the pad, e.g., interwoven with the absorbent pad material or positioned to form one or more sensor layers between layers of absorbent material. The sensors store measured parameters as information in a memory, e.g., as a log, locally or in a separate device. In some embodiments, the pad includes an electrical stimulator that provides stimulation therapy for urinary incontinence based on measured parameters.
US07855645B2	Vehicle identification tag and methods of verifying the validity of a vehicle identification tag The invention relates to a vehicle identification tag and methods of verifying the validity of a vehicle identification tag. One embodiment provides a vehicle identification tag including a first portion having a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tag and a second portion, where information on the first portion and information on the second portion assist a user in verifying that the vehicle identification tag is a valid vehicle identification tag.
US07855644B2	Method and apparatus for disabling an active data tag device The present invention discloses a data tag device (100) which initially operates in an active mode (304). The data tag device includes tag circuitry including a interface element (104), a controller element (102), and a memory (106) in which tag data (116) is stored. A battery (110) is provided which is initially coupled to the tag circuitry by a connector means (130) which allows non-destructive removal and replacement of the battery. The data tag device is configured to detect the removal of the battery (306, 308), and disable the data tag in response (310).
US07855638B2	GPS based spectator and participant sport system and method A spectator sport system and method that displays different views of a sporting event and, in particular, uses the spectator's GPS position to assist in displaying a view from the spectator's position. The spectator, using a personal device, can zoom, pan, tilt and change the view, as well as change the view to another position, such as a finish line, goal, or a participant position. Vital information on the sporting event or a participant can be appended to the view. In some forms, augmented reality can be used, such as a finish line or goal, to enhance the experience. Additional service requests can be made from the personal device.
US07855635B2	Method and system for coupling an alarm system to an external network A communication system is provided that can be added to a legacy alarm system to provide a plurality of communication modes to a remote server system from the legacy alarm system and provide remote control and monitoring to a user of the system via two-way communication links. The communication system can be configured to communicate with an alarm processor of the legacy alarm system through use of a keypad bus typically used by the legacy alarm system for communications between the alarm processor and one or more keypads. Communication modes that can be provided by embodiments of the present invention can include, for example, communication over a public switched telephone network, cellular transmission, broadband transmission, wireless broadband, and the like. The communication system can monitor all configured communication modes and determine which communication mode is the best for providing communication between the alarm system and the remote server. Through these communication modes and by virtue of being coupled to the alarm processor via the keypad bus, the communication system can provide both transmission to the remote server of the status and alarm condition of the legacy alarm system as well as provide control signals from the remote server to the legacy alarm system.
US07855634B2	Barrier movement system including a combined keypad and voice responsive transmitter A keypad transmitter for mounting outside a controlled area which may respond to the voice or other biometric indicia of users by transmitting validatable codes to a controller of a barrier movement system. The keypad may be used to send a validatable code or it may be used in a learning operation of the voice responsive portion. The voice responsive portion includes speaker dependent voice analysis for some functions and speaker independent voice analysis for other functions.
US07855628B2	Magnet pole for magnetic levitation vehicles A magnetic pole comprised of a core (301) and a winding (314) for magnetically levitated vehicles is described. According to the present invention, the winding (314) is comprised of at least two discs (315, 316) that consist of conductor strips wound in several layers around said core (301). The individual layers are electrically insulated by way of first insulation layers (303, 310, 321) radially against each other and against said core (301), while the individual discs (315, 316) are electrically insulated against each other axially by at least a second insulation layer (317).
US07855618B2	Bulk acoustic resonator electrical impedance transformers An electrical impedance transformer comprises a first film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR), having a first electrical impedance and a first resonance frequency. The electrical impedance transformer also comprises: a second FBAR, having a second electrical impedance and a second resonance frequency, and being disposed over the first FBAR. The electrical impedance transformer also includes a decoupling layer disposed between the first and the second FBARs. The first electrical impedance differs from the second electrical impedance and the first and second resonance frequencies are substantially the same.
US07855617B2	Quadrature-directed quasi circulator A circulator capable of simultaneous transmit and receive operations, high frequency, high isolation and noise figure suppression comprising: an antenna port; a transmission port; a receiving port; three quadrature hybrids, two directional couplers; wherein transmit signal entering the transmit port are split into quadrature components and coupled separately and directionally by the two directional couplers to the antenna port where the coupled quadrature components of the transmit signal are recombined in phase, while the transmit leakage to the receive port are recombined destructively in phase; said arrangement simultaneously allows the receive signal entering the antenna port to be split into quadrature components by the antenna quadrature hybrid and transmitted through the directional couplers separately and entering the receive quadrature hybrid where the quadrature components of the receive signal are recombined in phase at the receive port; said arrangement reduces the insertion loss from the antenna port to the receive port.
US07855616B2	Radio frequency switch An RF switch includes first, second and third transmission lines for forming ports, respectively, and first, second and third slot line pattern portions connected to one another, for transferring signals to the first, second and third transmission lines, respectively. The first slot line pattern portion has a slot line pattern for transferring a signal received from the first transmission line to a connection point with the other slot line pattern portions, and a switching circuit for shorting the gap of a corresponding slot line and thus blocking the signal transfer. The second slot line pattern portion includes a loop slot line formed by a first and a second half loop slot line, a second sub-slot line for transferring a signal received from the connection point to the second transmission line through the loop slot line, and a switching circuit for shorting the gap of a corresponding slot line.
US07855607B2	Ring oscillation circuit, delay time measuring circuit, testing circuit, clock generating circuit, image sensor, pulse generating circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit, and testing method thereof A ring oscillation circuit, which can operate the ring oscillation due to a positive feedback stably and continuously, is provided and it is applied to an accurate measurement of delay time and a measurement of timing accuracy in a jitter of a clock signal or the like with a high accuracy. A ring oscillation circuit comprises a delay circuit and a monostable multivibrator. An output of the delay circuit is connected to an input of the monostable multivibrator, an output of the monostable multivibrator is connected to an input of the delay circuit, and the delay circuit and the monostable multivibrator configure a positive feedback loop. An oscillation starting circuit for starting oscillation upon receipt of an input of a trigger pulse for triggering oscillation is provided on the positive feedback loop, or in the inside of the delay circuit or the monostable multivibrator.
US07855605B1	Amplifier circuit An amplifier circuit includes three amplifier units connected in series. The first amplifier unit includes an input connector for inputting signals and a first transistor amplifier module connected to the input connector. The second amplifier unit includes a notch-filter circuit, a main filter circuit and a second transistor amplifier module. The notch-filter circuit allows only signals in a predetermined frequency to be transmitted from the first transistor amplifier module to the second transistor amplifier module and amplified. The main filter circuit filters signals in frequencies different from the predetermined frequency. The third amplifier unit includes a third transistor amplifier module and an output connector for outputting amplified signals.
US07855604B1	Protection circuit and method for RF power amplifiers in WLAN transceivers A transmitter system includes a transmitter with a power amplifier. An antenna communicates with the power amplifier. A protection circuit generates a sensed signal that varies with an impedance of the antenna and reduces an output of the power amplifier in response to the sensed signal exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US07855602B2	Amplifier arrangement and signal generation method An amplifier arrangement includes an output amplifier stage (OA) comprising a stage input (SIN), a stage output (SOUT) which is coupled to a signal output (OUT) of the amplifier arrangement, and a capacitive element (CE) which couples the stage output (SOUT) to the stage input (SIN). A driver stage (DR) comprises a driver input (DIN) and a driver output (DOUT) which is coupled to the stage input (SIN). The driver stage (DR) is configured to generate a voltage potential at a driver output (DOUT) depending on an input current at the driver input (DIN) and to provide a charging current to the capacitive element (CE) being higher than the input current.
US07855598B2	Electronic signal processor An electronic signal processor for processing signals includes a complex first filter, one or more gain stages and a second filter. The first filter is characterized by a frequency response curve that includes multiple corner frequencies, with some corner frequencies being user selectable. The first filter also has at least two user-preset gain levels which may be alternately selected by a switch. Lower frequency signals are processed by the first filter with at least 12 db/octave slope, and preferably with 18 db/octave slope to minimize intermodulation distortion products by subsequent amplification in the gain stages. A second filter provides further filtering and amplitude control. The signal processor is particularly suited for processing audio frequency signals. Related methods include filtering the input signal with an input filter of the second or third order high pass type, amplifying the filtered signal and further filtering the amplified signal with a low pass filter, which may be of the second order type.
US07855597B2	Class-D amplifier The invention discloses a class-D amplifier, which is used for driving a two-terminal load according to a set of analog signals. The D-class amplifier includes a pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit, a signal processing circuit and a driving amplifier circuit. The PWM circuit receives the set of analog signals and converts them into a set of PWM signals with identical phase. The signal processing circuit generates a set of pulse signals which are attached to the set of PWM signals respectively. The driving amplifier circuit is coupled between the signal processing circuit and the two-terminal load. The driving amplifier circuit receives and amplifies the set of PWM signals. According to the set of PWM signals, the driving amplification circuit drives the two-terminal in a filterless way.
US07855587B1	Asymmetric sense-amp flip-flop An Asymmetric Sense-Amp Flip-Flop (ASAFF) is disclosed that may achieve zero setup time and short clock-to-Q delays. The ASAFF captures input data at a clock transition by setting values of a first node and a second node in a manner that is input data value dependent. If the input data is at the first input data value, the first node is set and held at a first storage value after a first delay, and the second node is set and held at a second storage value after a second delay, and if the input data is at a second input data value, the first node is set and held at a third storage value after a third delay, and the second node is set and held at a fourth storage value, after a fourth delay. This internal-path dependent difference in delay enables ASAFF to achieve zero setup time.
US07855585B2	Local coarse delay units One delay locked loop circuit embodiment includes a delay line system configured to generate a clock output signal by adding a delay line system time delay to a clock reference signal, a phase detector, a shift register, and a control unit. The delay line system includes a coarse delay line to adjust the delay line system time delay by remote coarse-shifting, a phase selector configured to adjust the delay line system time delay by local coarse-shifting output signals from a series of local coarse delay units, and a phase mixer to adjust a particular time delay of the clock output signal by fine-shifting. The phase mixer does not receive the clock reference signal. The phase detector detects a phase difference between the clock reference signal and the clock output signal. The shift register controls the remote coarse-shifting, and the control unit controls the local coarse-shifting, based on the phase difference.
US07855581B2	Real time clock monitoring method and system Method for monitoring a real time clock and a device having real time clock monitoring capabilities, the device includes: (i) a real time clock tree, (ii) a clock frequency monitor that is adapted to determine a frequency of a real time clock signal, during a short monitoring period; (iii) a monitoring enable module, adapted to activate the clock frequency monitor during short motoring periods and to deactivate the clock frequency monitor during other periods, wherein the monitoring enable module is adapted to determine a timing of the short monitoring periods in a non-deterministic manner; and (iv) a real time clock violation indication generator adapted to indicate that a real time clock violation occurred, in response to an error signal provided from the clock frequency monitor.
US07855580B2	Phase comparator, phase synchronizing circuit, and phase-comparison control method A phase comparator includes an edge detecting unit to which a reference signal is input and to which a referred signal based on the reference signal is input as a feedback signal. The edge detecting unit detects an edge of the reference signal and an edge of the referred signal. The phase comparator also includes a phase-difference detecting unit that detects a phase difference between the edge of the reference signal and the edge of the referred signal. The phase comparator also includes a phase-difference-signal output unit that outputs a phase-difference signal for current control based on the phase difference. The phase comparator also includes an input-break detecting unit that detects an input break of the reference signal when an edge of the referred signal is again detected after an edge of the referred signal is detected and before an edge of the reference signal is detected.
US07855575B1	Wide voltage range level shifter with symmetrical switching Described herein is the method and apparatus for generating symmetrical level shifted signals by a symmetrical level shifter. The symmetrical level shifter comprises an edge detector operable to generate transition edge based pulses from an input signal based on a first power supply level; a voltage level shifter, coupled with the edge detector, operable to convert the transition edge based pulses based on the first power supply level to edge based pulses based on a second power supply level; and a divider circuit, coupled with the voltage level shifter, operable to generate an output signal from the edge based pulses based on the second power supply level.
US07855563B2	Robust cable connectivity test receiver for high-speed data receiver A system is provided for detecting a fault in a signal transmission path. In one embodiment, the system can include a variable amplitude signal attenuator which is operable to modify an input signal by variably attenuating a signal voltage swing of the input signal. Desirably, the input signal is attenuated only when transitioning from a high signal voltage level towards a low signal voltage level d variably, such that a larger high-to-low signal voltage swing is attenuated more than a smaller high-to-low signal voltage swing. Desirably, a comparator, which may apply hysteresis to the output signals, may detect a crossing of a reference voltage level by the modified input signal. In this way, when the comparator does not detect an expected crossing of the reference voltage level by the modified input signal, a determination can be made that a fault exists in the signal transmission path.
US07855562B2	Dual sensor system having fault detection capability A sensor system (20) includes transducers (32, 34) each yielding an analog signal (37, 39) representing a parameter independently sensed by each of the transducers (32, 34). The signals (37, 39) are summed and the resulting transducer signal (46) is converted to a digital transducer signal (26) by a high resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (48). Concurrently, one of the signals (37, 39) is subtracted from the other. The resulting difference signal (56) is converted to a digital difference signal (60) by a low resolution ADC (58). When the digital difference signal (60) is within a threshold window (78), a fault signal (28) indicates a normal condition (80) of the transducers (32, 34). When the signal (60) falls outside of the threshold window (78), a fault signal (28) indicates a fault condition (82) of the transducers. The transducer and fault signals (26, 28) are concurrently output from the sensor system (20).
US07855560B2	Analog front-end coherent in-phase demodulation data acquisition system for resistivity image tools A method and system for measuring formation resisitivity is achieved by introducing an electrical signal into the formation. The current of the introduced electrical signal is then sensed, producing an analog voltage signal as a measurement of the formation. The introduced electrical signal is compared with the measured signal of the formation. The comparison is made in a quadrature demodulation device, producing an in-phase demodulated signal. A quasi-direct-current signal is extracted from the in-phase demodulated signal, producing an analog measurement related to the resistivity of the formation.
US07855549B2	Integrated process condition sensing wafer and data analysis system A process condition measuring device and a handling system may be highly integrated with a production environment where the dimensions of the process condition measuring device are close to those of a production substrate and the handling system is similar to a substrate carrier used for production substrates. Process conditions may be measured with little disturbance to the production environment. Data may be transferred from a process condition-measuring device to a user with little or no human intervention.
US07855544B1	AC low current probe card A probe system for connecting a measurement apparatus to a DUT includes an AC probe having an AC shield conductor and an AC probe conductor shielded by the AC shield; a first DC probe having a first DC probe conductor and a first guard conductor for guarding the first DC probe conductor when a virtual version of a voltage on the first DC probe conductor is applied to the first guard conductor; a second DC probe having a second DC probe conductor and a second guard conductor for guarding the second DC probe conductor when a virtual version of a voltage on the second DC probe conductor is applied to the second guard conductor; a first capacitive connection between the AC shield conductor and the first guard conductor; a second capacitive connection between the AC shield conductor and the second guard conductor; a third capacitive connection between the first guard conductor and the first DC probe conductor; and a fourth capacitive connection between the second guard conductor and the second DC probe conductor, each DC probe guard conductor having a virtual version of a DC voltage present on the respective DC probe conductor for DC measurements on the DUT by the measurement apparatus and the DC probe conductors providing an AC ground conductor for AC measurements on the DUT by the measurement apparatus.
US07855533B2	Charging apparatus A charging apparatus suppresses rise in temperature of an internal chip of a charging element. The output signal obtained from a current detecting portion for detecting charging current to a capacitor and from a voltage detecting portion for detecting a difference between a voltage (VC) of capacitor and a voltage corresponding to DC power supply is integrated by integrator. The charging is carried out by controlling power of a charging element to a predetermined value using an output signal of the integrator and at a time near the completion of the charging, the charging element is controlled by constant-voltage-control-circuit so as to charge the capacitor up to a predetermined voltage. Consequently, the maximum temperature inside the charging element is reduced, thereby providing a charging apparatus with high reliability.
US07855532B2	Power supply circuit with control switches to voltage multiplier having same frequency as clock A power supply circuit includes a first power supply configured to output a first voltage; a second power supply provided separately from the first power supply to output a second voltage; and a boosting circuit configured to use the first voltage as an input voltage to boost the input voltage toward a target voltage. The target voltage has a voltage width, and when an output voltage of the boosting circuit exceeds an upper limit of the target voltage, the input voltage is switched the first voltage of the first power supply to the second voltage of the second power supply.
US07855530B2	Battery charging system and method of reducing variation in battery charging cycle count A battery charging system includes a housing having a plurality of docking stations coupled therewith. A control device is coupled with a battery charging interface of each of the plurality of docking stations, and is configured to reduce variation in charging cycle count among a plurality of batteries configured to dock with the battery charging interfaces. A method of reducing variation in charging cycle count in a system of batteries includes receiving inputs associated with a charging cycle count for each of a plurality of interchangeable batteries docked with a common battery charger, and outputting a battery selection signal based at least in part on the inputs.
US07855528B2	Power supply for portable apparatuses A power supply for portable apparatuses includes a plurality of power supplies and at least one charging station. Each power supply has a housing, a power input portion, a plurality of power output portions, a storage battery, and a first circuit board. The first circuit board is electrically connected with the storage battery and both are located in the housing. The power input portion and the power output portions are electrically connected with the first circuit board. The charging station includes a base, a plurality of charging connectors, and a second circuit board. The base has a plurality of charging ports that can be connected with the power supplies. The second circuit board is located in the base. The charging connectors are electrically connected with the second circuit board. The charging connectors respectively correspond to the charging ports for charging the power supply connected with the charging ports.
US07855521B2	Motor drive circuit A pulse generation unit generates a PWM signal whose duty ratio changes according to a target torque of a motor. A back electromotive detection circuit compares a back electromotive voltage generated at a coil of the motor with a middle point voltage of the coil, and outputs a back electromotive detection signal that becomes high level at a timing of the zero crossing point. A phase adjustment unit compares phases of the back electromotive detection signal and a reference signal that becomes a predetermined level at a predetermined timing, and adjusts the duty ratio of the PWM signal by feedback so that the phase error becomes a minimum. A frequency adjustment unit adjusts the frequency of the PWM signal such that the frequency of the PWM signal becomes integral multiples of the frequency of the back electromotive detection signal.
US07855519B2	Method for driving of a fluorescent lighting and a ballast stabilizer circuit for performing the same A method of driving a fluorescent light, having: (a) receiving and full-wave rectifying commercial AC power; (b) dividing phases of the AC power full-wave rectified at step (a) depending on voltage magnitude, and performing switching control such that low-voltage portions of the divided voltages, having low phases, are used as heating power for heating filaments of a fluorescent tube, and high-voltage portions of the divided voltages, having high phases, are used as discharge voltage of the fluorescent tube; (c) switching on the low-voltage portions having low phases as the heating power for heating the filaments of the fluorescent tube in response to a signal output at step (b); and (d) switching on the high-voltage portions having high phases as the lighting power of the fluorescent tube in response to the signal output at step (b).
US07855517B2	Current driver circuit and method of operation therefor A current driver circuit comprises a digital circuitry having a current adjustment function and operably coupled to a current driver for providing a current to a current consuming device. The digital circuitry comprises, or is operably coupled to, a function arranged to determine a load impedance associated with the current consuming device. The current adjustment function varies a current limit applied to the current driver in response to a variation in the load impedance.In this manner, the load impedance (or temperature) of a current consuming device, such as a light bulb, is used to continuously or intermittently adjusting the current limit of a current driver circuit, such as a lamp driver, to minimize the energy dissipated in case of an overload condition.
US07855515B2	High-voltage high-power constant current LED driver device A high-voltage high-power constant current LED driver device, can drive LED cluster, comprises switch tube, current sensing resistor Rcs and inductor L, particularly, comprises a low voltage control circuit that detects the voltage drop on the said current sensing resistor Rcs to produce a control signal transmitting to the control terminal of the switch tube; the said current sensing resistor Rcs connects with inductor L in series and is positioned between the output terminal of switch tube and the current output terminal of the current driving device in series connection; the input terminal of the said switch tube is connected to a DC voltage source; and also comprises a diode D3 which the cathode is connected to the output terminal of the said switch tube and anti cathode is grounding. The device of the invention has the advantages of constant current, simple driving circuit and low cost under the high-voltage high-power application.
US07855514B2	LED indicator device for AC power plug or socket An LED indicator device is mounted in an AC power plug or socket and electrically connected in parallel with an AC power source. The LED indicator device includes a driving/current-limiting circuit to which an LED lighting circuit is coupled. The driving/current-limiting circuit includes a driving/current-limiting capacitor and a discharge resistor connected in parallel with the driving/current-limiting capacitor. The LED lighting circuit includes an LED, a protective instantaneous current-limiting resistor coupled to the LED, a rectifying diode connected in parallel with the LED, and a protective instantaneous voltage-limiting capacitor connected in parallel with the LED. The LED is lit to show the position and on/off state of the AC power plug or socket. Three LEDs emitting different colors and associated driving/current-limiting circuits and associated LED lighting circuits can be utilized to indicate incorrect power connection or short circuit of the AC power plug or socket.
US07855500B2	Electron emission device having a sealing member in contact with electrodes An electron emission display that can mitigate or prevent problems of an arc discharge and a wire disconnection due to increases in resistance at portions where a sealing member contacts electrodes includes: an electron emission device on which upper surfaces of electrodes are exposed, a front panel that is disposed in front of the electron emission device, the front panel being of a phosphor material, and a sealing member that seals a space formed by the electron emission device and the front panel by being disposed on the edges of the space in contact with the electrodes. The electrodes are formed on an entire surface of the electron emission device with a narrow width at an end portion of the electron emission device where the electrodes are connected to an external power source, and the sealing member contacts the electrodes closer to the space than end portions of the electrodes where the width of the electrodes is narrowed.
US07855494B2	Film-provided molded piece, method for and apparatus for producing the same An electric connection part between a bulb and a terminal is masked without using a special masking material when a lamp unit is produced through a primary injection step of molding a lamp main body and a lens part while using a movable mold and a fixed mold, a film forming step of covering the lamp main body with a film, and a secondary injection step of uniting the lamp main body and the lens part together with a resinous material. The bulb is incorporated through a step set between the primary injection step and the film forming step. In the state in which the bulb is incorporated in the lamp main body, the surface of the top of the bulb is covered with a film, and a part hidden by the shadow of the film is masked, and hence electric insulation properties are secured.
US07855492B2	Lamp holder for a dielectric barrier discharge lamp A lamp holder for a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamp (1), especially for use in a treatment system or reactor or housing or in an irradiation apparatus, for radiating a medium like a fluid and/or a gas and/or a solid material by means of the DBD lamp (1) is disclosed. The holder substantially comprises two end caps (21, 31) at the axial ends of the lamp (1) and an inner electrode (23, 24; 33, 34) with a screw fitting (SF) for exerting an axial pressure on both axial ends of the lamp (I) via both end caps (21, 31) and with axial bores (25, 35) into an inner volume (14) for guiding especially a cooling medium and for electrically contacting an inner tube (II) of the lamp (1). The holder has a comparatively simple construction and can easily be assembled. Furthermore, even larger tolerances of the lamp length can be compensated and a reliable sealing of the inner volume (14) against the outside of the lamp (1) is achieved.
US07855481B2	Stator lead retainer A stator lead retainer includes a stator lead retainer body having a plurality of through-holes extending longitudinally therethrough, each through-hole configured for receiving a stator lead. The stator lead body is constructed from an elastic material and is operable to accommodate stator leads of different cross-sectional shapes and diameters.
US07855480B2	Rectifier device for automotive alternator An AC generator, referred to as an alternator, is mounted on an automotive vehicle for supplying electric power to an on-board battery and other electric loads. The alternator includes a rectifier device for rectifying alternating current to direct current. The rectifier is composed of a minus-side heat-radiating plate on which six minus-side rectifier elements are mounted and a plus-side heat-radiating plate on which six plus-side rectifier elements are mounted. Each rectifier is mounted on the heat-radiating plate in the same manner, i.e., by forcibly inserting the rectifier element into a mounting hole formed in the heat-radiating plate. A disc portion of the rectifier element has an outer peripheral surface on which knurls are formed. The outer peripheral surface having the knurls is tapered so that the disc portion is easily inserted into the mounting hole while establishing a firm grip and a good heat-conductive contact between the rectifier element and the heat-radiating surface.
US07855479B2	Noise suppression structure of blower motor In a noise suppression structure of a blower motor according to the present invention, a noise reduction member is disposed inside of a peripheral wall part of an end bracket member in such a manner that the noise reduction member is located in a position opposite side of the peripheral wall part to which a connector part is provided, a metal terminal member extended from the connector part has an extension part extendedly provided along a bottom surface part of the end bracket member in a circumferential direction thereof, and the extension part of the metal terminal member has a connection part to which the noise reduction member is connected.
US07855473B2	Apparatus for phase rotation for a three-phase AC circuit An apparatus for providing phase rotation for a three-phase AC circuit. The apparatus comprises three phase input terminals and three phase output terminals, where a first phase input terminal is coupled with a third phase output terminal; a second phase input terminal is coupled with a first phase output terminal; and a third phase input terminal is coupled with a second phase output terminal.
US07855470B2	Immobilizer device and motorcycle including same An immobilizer device for a vehicle includes a key which has a transponder, an engine ECU, and an immobilizer ECU which receives a first identification information transmitted from the key and inputs the identification information to the engine ECU via a first identification information transmitting device. The immobilizer ECU includes a second identification information transmitting device which inputs second, different identification information to the engine ECU. The engine ECU includes a first and second identification information authentication devices which respectively authenticate the first identification information and the second identification information based on first and second comparison data set in the engine ECU. The engine ECU allows an engine to start when the first and second identification information are appropriately authenticated. The first identification information is based on random numbers generated by the engine ECU.
US07855462B2	Packaged semiconductor assemblies and methods for manufacturing such assemblies Packaged semiconductor assemblies including interconnect structures and methods for forming such interconnect structures are disclosed herein. One embodiment of a packaged semiconductor assembly includes a support member having a first bond-site and a die carried by the support member having a second bond-site. An interconnect structure is connected between the first and second bond-sites and includes a wire that is coupled to at least one of the first and second bond-sites. The interconnect structure also includes a third bond-site coupled to the wire between the first and second bond-sites.
US07855460B2	Electronic component to protect an interface between a conductor and an insulator and method for manufacturing the same An electronic component is provided with a first conductor, an insulator for covering a surface of the first conductor, a via hole penetrating the insulator, and a second conductor located on a surface of the insulator and electrically connected to the first conductor through the via hole, and includes a shielding film having conductivity, being interposed between the first conductor and the second conductor, and covering an interface between the first conductor and the insulator in the via hole by extending continuously at least from the surface of the first conductor constituting a bottom surface of the via hole to an inner wall surface of the via hole.
US07855458B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes a substrate, and a capacitor unit on the substrate. The capacitor unit has a laminate structure including a first electrode layer provided on the substrate, a second electrode layer opposed to the first electrode layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and the second electrode layers. The first electrode layer has a multilayer structure including an adhesion metal layer joined to the dielectric layer. The adhesion metal layer is provided with an oxide coating on a side of the dielectric layer.
US07855454B2	Semiconductor device structures including nickel plated aluminum, copper, and tungsten structures A method of activating a metal structure on an intermediate semiconductor device structure toward metal plating. The method comprises providing an intermediate semiconductor device structure comprising at least one first metal structure and at least one second metal structure on a semiconductor substrate. The at least one first metal structure comprises at least one aluminum structure, at least one copper structure, or at least one structure comprising a mixture of aluminum and copper and the at least one second metal structure comprises at least one tungsten structure. One of the at least one first metal structure and the at least one second metal structure is activated toward metal plating without activating the other of the at least one first metal structure and the at least one second metal structure. An intermediate semiconductor device structure is also disclosed.
US07855443B2	Stack structure of semiconductor packages and method for fabricating the stack structure A stack structure of semiconductor packages and a method for fabricating the stack structure are provided. A plurality of electrical connection pads and dummy pads are formed on a surface of a substrate of an upper semiconductor package and at positions corresponding to those around an encapsulant of a lower semiconductor package. Solder balls are implanted to the electrical connection pads and the dummy pads. The upper semiconductor package is mounted on the lower semiconductor package. The upper semiconductor package is electrically connected to the lower semiconductor package by the solder balls implanted to the electrical connection pads, and the encapsulant of the lower semiconductor package is surrounded and confined by the solder balls implanted to the dummy pads. Thereby, the upper semiconductor package is properly and securely positioned on the lower semiconductor package, without the occurrence of misalignment between the upper and lower semiconductor packages.
US07855442B2	Silicon based package A Silicon Based Package (SBP) is formed starting with a thick wafer, which serves as the base for the SBP, composed of silicon which has a first surface and a reverse surface which are planar. Then form an interconnection structure including metal capture structures in contact with the first surface and multilayer conductor patterns over the first surface. Form a temporary bond between the SBP and a wafer holder, with the wafer holder being a rigid structure. Thin the reverse side of the wafer to a desired thickness to form an Ultra Thin Silicon Wafer (UTSW) for the SBP. Form via holes with tapered or vertical sidewalls, which extend through the UTSW to reach the metal capture structures. Then form metal pads in the via holes which extend through the UTSW, making electrical contact to the metal capture structures. Then bond the metal pads in the via holes to pads of a carrier.
US07855433B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type and a resistor having a substantially U-shaped contour and being formed from an epitaxial layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate and having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. A first trench is formed around an exterior of the resistor to a depth sufficient enough to reach the semiconductor substrate. A second trench is formed in an interior of the resistor to provide the resistor with the U-shaped contour. First and second insulating films are disposed in the first and second trenches, respectively. A heavily-doped region of the second conductivity type having an impurity concentration sufficient to obtain a contact with a metal wire is arranged at both ends of the resistor.
US07855430B2	Electronic components on trenched substrates and method of forming same A method of mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes forming at least one trench in a surface of the substrate. The trenches formed in the substrate reduce a stiffness of the substrate, which provides less resistance to shear. Accordingly, the trenches reduce the amount of strain on the joints, which mount the electronic component to the substrate, which enhances the life of the joints.
US07855427B2	Semiconductor device with a plurality of isolated conductive films A semiconductor layer provided on a BOX (buried oxide) layer includes a first P-type region, an N+-type region, and an N−-type region which together form a diode. A plurality of second P-type regions are provided on a bottom part of the semiconductor layer. A plurality of insulating oxide films are interposed between the plurality of second P-type regions. When the diode is in a reverse-biased state, the second P-type region directly below the N+-type region is approximately the same in potential as the N+-type region. The second P-type region will be lower in potential relative to this second P-type region directly below the N+-type region, as the second P-type region gets nearer to the first P-type region. Electric field concentration can thus be relaxed at an interface between the semiconductor layer and the BOX layer, whereby improvement in breakdown voltage of the diode is realized.
US07855410B2	Semiconductor memory devices having a floating gate with a projecting portion and methods of forming semiconductor memory devices having a floating gate with a projecting portion According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device can be generally characterized as including a gate insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, a floating gate on the gate insulating layer and a word line disposed on one side of the floating gate. A first side of the floating gate facing the word line may include a projecting portion projecting toward the word line. A tip of the projecting portion may include a corner that extends substantially perpendicularly with respect to a top surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07855407B2	CMOS image sensor and method for manufacturing the same Embodiments relate to a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, and to a method for manufacturing the same, that improves the low-light level characteristics of the CMOS image sensor. The CMOS image sensor has a photosensor unit and a signal processing unit, and may include a semiconductor substrate having a device isolating implant area provided with a first ion implant area and a complementary second ion implant area within the first ion implant area; a device isolating layer in the signal processing unit; a photodiode in the photosensor unit; and transistors in the signal processing unit. A crystal defect zone neighboring the photodiode may be minimized using the device isolating implant area between adjacent photodiodes so that a source of dark current can be reduced and the occurrence of interface traps can be prevented, making it possible to improve the low-light level characteristics of the image sensor.
US07855403B2	Hybrid carbon nanotube FET (CNFET)-FET static RAM (SRAM) and method of making same Hybrid carbon nanotube FET (CNFET), static ram (SRAM) and method of making same. A static ram memory cell has two cross-coupled semiconductor-type field effect transistors (FETs) and two nanotube FETs (NTFETs), each having a channel region made of at least one semiconductive nanotube, a first NTFET connected to the drain or source of the first semiconductor-type FET and the second NTFET connected to the drain or source of the second semiconductor-type FET.
US07855399B2	Protection device of programmable semiconductor surge suppressor having deep-well structure A protection device of programmable semiconductor surge suppressor having deep-well structure is provided comprising one, two or four protection units, each of which is composed of a PN-junction diode, a PNPN-type thyristor and a NPN-type triode connected with each other. It is characterized in that in the diode area on the frontal side of the N-type semiconductor base is formed a PN junction with impurity concentration changed gradiently from top to bottom according to the order of P+, P, N and N+; and a group of deep-wells with P-type impurities are positioned at the interface of the PN junction, making the PN junction form a concave-convex type interface. The present invention can be used in the program-controlled switchboard to protect the Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC) board. The above improvement can further improve the anti-lightning and anti-surge performance and the energy discharge capability of the whole device. The device of the present invention can reach a level of 3000˜3500 V according to the anti-lightning performance test.
US07855395B2	Light emitting diode package having multiple molding resins on a light emitting diode die Disclosed is a light emitting diode (LED) package having multiple molding resins. The LED package includes a pair of lead terminals. At least portions of the pair of lead terminals are embedded in a package main body. The package main body has an opening through which the pair of lead terminals is exposed. An LED die is mounted in the opening and electrically connected to the pair of lead terminals. A first molding resin covers the LED die. A second molding resin with higher hardness than the first molding resin covers the first molding resin. Therefore, stress to be imposed on the LED die can be reduced and the deformation of the molding resins can be prevented.
US07855391B2	Lead frame and light emitting device package using the same A lead frame and a light emitting device package using the same are disclosed. More particularly, a lead frame and a light emitting device package using the lead frame which can be easily manufactured and employ a multi-chip structure. The light emitting device package includes a first frame including a heat sink, a second frame coupled to an upper side of the first frame, the second frame including at least one pair of leads and a mount formed with a hole, and a molded structure for coupling the first and second frames to each other.
US07855390B2	Package structure of light emitting diode for backlight A package structure of a light emitting diode for a backlight comprises a long-wavelength LED die and a short-wavelength LED die. The lights emitted from the two LED dies are mixed with the light emitted from excited fluorescent powders for serving as the backlight of a liquid crystal display. A partition plate is disposed between the two LED dies for separating them from each other. The effective light output of the package structure is increased because each of the two LED dies cannot absorb the light from the other.
US07855380B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same The invention primarily provides gate electrodes and gate wirings permitting large-sized screens for active matrix-type display devices, wherein, in order to achieve this object, the construction of the invention is a semiconductor device having, on the same substrate, a pixel TFT provided in a display region and a driver circuit TFT provided around the display region, wherein the gate electrodes of the pixel TFT and the driver circuit TFT are formed from a first conductive layer, the gate electrodes are in electrical contact through connectors with gate wirings formed from a second conductive layer, and the connectors are provided outside the channel-forming regions of the pixel TFT and the driver circuit TFT.
US07855378B2	Phase change memory devices and methods for fabricating the same Phase change memory devices and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. An exemplary embodiment of a phase change memory device includes a bottom electrode formed over a substrate. A first dielectric layer is formed over the bottom electrode. A heating electrode is formed in the first dielectric layer and partially protrudes over the first dielectric layer, wherein the heating electrode includes an intrinsic portion embedded within the first dielectric layer, a reduced portion stacked over the intrinsic portion, and an oxide spacer surrounding a sidewall of the reduced portion. A phase change material layer is formed over the first dielectric layer and covers the heating electrode, the phase change material layer contacts a top surface of the reduced portion of the heating electrode. A top electrode is formed over the phase change material layer and contacts the phase change material layer.
US07855365B2	Method and apparatus for detecting x-rays having improved noise discrimination A method and apparatus, such as a spectrometer, are provided for facilitating the detection of an gamma signal in a manner that effectively discriminates the gamma signal from noise. A spectrometer may be provided which includes an gamma converter for converting gamma signals which impinge thereupon into corresponding pairs of electrons and positrons. The spectrometer also includes a deflector for separately deflecting the electrons and the positrons as well as electron and positron detectors for separately detecting the deflected electrons and positrons, respectively. As such, an gamma signal can be identified in instances in which the deflected electrons and positrons are detected in coincidence.
US07855364B2	Projection electronic microscope for reducing geometric aberration and space charge effect A projection electronic microscope is provided for improving geometric aberration and a space charge effect within a zooming range using a zoom type transfer lens system in a projection/image formation optical system. The projection electronic microscope comprises an irradiation system for emitting a primary electron beam irradiated to a sample, and a projection/image formation optical system for guiding a second electron beams emitted from the sample with the irradiation of the primary electron beam to a detection system. The projection/image formation optical system includes a zoom type transfer lens system having a first zoom lens and a second zoom lens. The first zoom lens includes a plurality of electrodes. A predetermined electrode of said plurality of electrodes is made thicker and is applied with a positive voltage to form a space having zero field strength and a high positive potential between said first zoom lens and said second zoom lens, and a cross-over by said first zoom lens is defined in said space within a zooming range.
US07855362B1	Contamination pinning for auger analysis Electron spectroscopy methods and apparatus are disclosed. A beam of primary electrons is applied to a measurement location on a surface of a sample. A pinning flux of electrons is applied to one or more pinning regions proximate the measurement location. The pinning flux is characterized by a location, size, shape, and electron flux configured such that contaminants preferentially migrate to the pinning region rather than the measurement location. Emissions from the surface resulting from interaction with the primary electrons and the surface of the sample at the measurement location are analyzed.
US07855336B2	Concentrated solar photovoltaic module with protective light shielding A solar photovoltaic module including a base member supporting an array of photocells as well as corresponding concentrating lenses and light guides. At least one opaque light shield defines cutouts corresponding to the light guides. The at least one opaque light shield is positioned above the base member and operates to block light incident thereon from reaching portions of the base member. The at least one light shield can be installed with a convex shape that directs condensation away from the cutouts and preferably functions as part of guide channels that guide condensation toward one or more vented hydrophilic members (e.g., sponges and the like), which are preferably disposed at one or both ends of the module.
US07855332B1	Drumstick system The specification and drawing figures describe and show a drumstick system that includes a percussion member from which a tubular body extends. The percussion member includes a plug connectable to a drumhead contact tip is attached. One end of a hollow cylindrical tube having a sleeve or color coating is connected to the percussion member. The other end of the hollow cylindrical tube is attached to a neck. Metal spacers are mountable on the tubular body and neck. Mufflers are inserted into the tubular body and neck. A plurality of sleeves is provided for replaceably mounting on the drumstick system or on any drumstick made of any materials.
US07855331B1	Pedal system and a drum assembly using the same A pedal system includes a support element, a connecting shank, a transmission element and a returning element. The support element has a pedal and a rotatable axle. The axle inserts through the connecting shank in a rotational operative relationship. The returning element includes a connecting body, a rod unit, a positioning element and a resilient member. The connecting body is disposed on the axle. The resilient member connects between the connecting body and a connecting end of the rod unit. The connecting end of the rod unit is movable with respect to the support element so as to adjust an angle included between an orientation of the resilient member and that of an upright frame of the support element. The positioning element selectively fixes a relative position between the rod unit and the support element, so as to further fix the angle.
US07855330B2	Modular bridge for stringed musical instrument A stringed musical instrument employs string tensioners to support and apply tension to corresponding musical strings. Each musical string is supported by one string tensioner, and each of the string tensioners is linearly movable independent of others of the string tensioners. Further, an adjustment mechanism is provided for selectively linearly moving each string tensioner. In a preferred embodiment, an effective playing length of each string is defined between the associated string tensioner and the nut of the instrument. As such, individual linear adjustment of the string tensioners enables the user to vary the playing length of the associated musical string. In other embodiments, a string tensioner is provided that supports a musical string from a position on a side of the string opposite the associated musical instrument surface.
US07855323B2	Recombinant DNA for gene suppression Anti-sense-oriented RNA gene suppression agents in the form of a loop of anti-sense-oriented RNA is produced in cells of transgenic organisms, e.g. plants, by transcription from a recombinant DNA construct which comprises in 5′ to 3′ order a promoter element operably linked to an anti-sense-oriented DNA element and a complementary DNA element.
US07855316B2	Preferentially stretchable laminates with perforated layers An elastic laminate having an expandable facing layer, e.g., a nonwoven web with off-axis perforations, and an elastic film layer is produced to provide a preferential direction of extendability and retraction in the laminate. The elastic laminate is particularly useful as a waist area panel in disposable pant-like garments.
US07855315B2	Continuous manufacturing of superabsorbent/ion exchange sheet material A continuous sheet having a combination of acidic and basic water-absorbing resin particles that are essentially not neutralized and can be continuously manufactured on conventional papermaking apparatus, using a wet, dry, or wet-dry process to manufacture a water-absorbent sheet-like substrate containing 50%-100% by weight of the combination of acidic and basic water-absorbent particles is disclosed.
US07855309B2	Pesticide benzyloxy- and phenetyl-substituted phenyl-amidine derivatives The present invention relates to benzyloxy- and phenethyl-substituted phenyl-amidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.
US07855302B2	Process for the preparation of intermediates useful in the synthesis of statin derivatives especially 7-amino-3.5-dihydroxyhepanoic acid derivatives and intermediates thereof The invention relates to novel synthesis methods for the preparation of statin derivatives, which methods proceed by way of a key intermediate of formula I wherein X is halogen, acyloxy, activated hydrocarbyloxy, activated hydrocarbylthio or —N(CH3)OCH3, Ra is a hydroxy-protecting group and Rb is a carboxy-protecting group, and, as well as to the compound of formula I, to further new intermediates and methods for their preparation by Friedel-Crafts acylation.
US07855300B2	Bis(trimethylsilyl)phenyl compound or salt thereof, and use thereof The present invention provides a compound that exhibits an excellent antitumor effect and reduces side effects, such as skin disorders, of the existing retinoid by selectively activating on the nuclear receptor RARα, thereby possibly producing significant improvement of clinical profits. Specifically, the present invention provides a bis(trimethylsilyl)phenyl compound represented by Formula (I): wherein X is N or CH; Y is O or S; R1, R2, and R3 are the same or different and are hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 and R5 are the same or different and are hydrogen, lower alkyl, or halogen; and a bond between a carbon atom to which R1 is attached and a carbon atom to which R2 is attached is a single bond or a double bond; or a salt thereof.
US07855297B2	Amide derivatives and medicinal use thereof The present invention relates to an amide derivative of the formula (1), having a C5a receptor antagonistic action wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification. The above-mentioned amide derivative, an optically active form thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are promising as an agent for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases or syndromes caused by inflammation caused by C5a [e.g., autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism, systemic lupus erythematosus and the like, sepsis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergic diseases such as asthma and the like, atherosclerosis, cardiac infarction, brain infarction, psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease and serious organ injury (e.g., pneumonia, nephritis, hepatitis and pancreatitis and the like) due to activation of leukocytes caused by ischemia reperfusion, trauma, burn, surgical invasion and the like]. Moreover, they are useful as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for the infectious diseases caused by bacteria and virus that invade via a C5a receptor.
US07855293B2	3-spiro-cyanin fluorochromes and their use in bioassays The invention concerns sterically shielded, stabilized fluorescent dyes based on symmetrical or unsymmetrical 3-spirocyanines and their utilization as marker-molecules in analytical procedures. The fluorescent dyes according to the invention are characterized by a strongly reduced proneness towards aggregation due to the insertion of bulky spiro-substituents and thus enable to reach a high degree of coupling to the target molecule without a significant loss of fluorescence due to self quenching effects. They therefor exhibit a high quantum yield and are thus excellently suitable as fluorescent dyes, especially as NIR-fluorescent dyes, for the coupling or binding to biological and non-biological target molecules used in analytical methods. The analytical methods comprise all methods in which fluorescence-optical methods are used to detect biological and non-biological molecules.
US07855291B2	Process for the preparation of substituted phenylalanines Intermediates and synthetic processes for the preparation of substituted phenylalanine-based compounds (e.g., of Formula I) are disclosed:
US07855289B2	Sirtuin modulating compounds Provided herein are novel sirtuin-modulating compounds and methods of use thereof. The sirtuin-modulating compounds may be used for increasing the lifespan of a cell, and treating and/or preventing a wide variety of diseases and disorders including, for example, diseases or disorders related to aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, blood clotting disorders, inflammation, cancer, and/or flushing as well as diseases or disorders that would benfit from increased mitochondrial activity. Also provided are compositions comprising a sirtuin-modulating compound in combination with another therapeutic agent.
US07855284B2	RNA interference mediated inhibition of checkpoint kinase-1 (CHK-1) gene expression using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA) This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating checkpoint kinase (e.g., checkpoint kinase-1 or CHK-1) gene expression using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA) molecules. This invention also relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating the expression and activity of other genes involved in pathways of checkpoint kinase gene expression and/or activity by RNA interference (RNAi) using small nucleic acid molecules. In particular, the instant invention features small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules and methods used to modulate the expression of checkpoint kinase genes.
US07855280B2	Separation methods Separation methods, for example, to isolate a recombinant protein, are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes forming a solid containing a first cation and a first anion in a medium containing a protein, and separating the solid from the protein.
US07855275B2	Cysteine engineered antibodies and conjugates Antibodies are engineered by replacing one or more amino acids of a parent antibody with non cross-linked, highly reactive cysteine amino acids. Antibody fragments may also be engineered with one or more cysteine amino acids to form cysteine engineered antibody fragments (ThioFab). Methods of design, preparation, screening, and selection of the cysteine engineered antibodies are provided. Cysteine engineered antibodies (Ab), optionally with an albumin-binding peptide (ABP) sequence, are conjugated with one or more drug moieties (D) through a linker (L) to form cysteine engineered antibody-drug conjugates having Formula I: Ab-(L-D)p I where p is 1 to 4. Diagnostic and therapeutic uses for cysteine engineered antibody drug compounds and compositions are disclosed.
US07855270B2	Receptor-based interaction trap The present invention discloses a recombinant receptor comprising an extracellular ligand-binding domain and a cytoplasmic domain that comprises a heterologous bait polypeptide. The recombinant receptor is activated by binding of a ligand to the ligand binding domain and by binding of a prey polypeptide to the heterologous bait peptide. The present invention also discloses a method for detecting compound-compound binding using the recombinant receptor.
US07855268B2	Tolerogizing compositions comprising botulinum toxin type B peptides The present invention provides BoNT/B peptides, BoNT/B peptide compositions, tolerogizing compositions, immune response inducing compositions, as well as methods of determining immunoresistance to botulinum toxin therapy in an individual, methods of treating immunoresistance to botulinum toxin therapy in an individual, methods of reducing anti-botulinum toxin antibodies in an individual and methods of inducing a BoNT/B immune response an individual.
US07855244B2	Flame retardant polytrimethylene terephthalate composition Improved flame retardant polytrimethylene terephthalate compositions are provided by including a melamine cyanurate flame retardant additive.
US07855243B2	Tire with component containing asphaltene The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire including at least one component, the at least component including a rubber composition, the rubber composition including 100 parts by weight of a diene based elastomer and from 1 to 20 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), of a solvent-extracted asphaltene.
US07855242B2	Dental resin composition, method of manufacture, and method of use thereof A curable restorative composition is disclosed, comprising a polymerizable mono(meth)acrylate resin having a vapor pressure of 1 mm Hg or less at 20° C., a plasticizer; and a curing system for the mono(meth)acrylate resin. The composition is particularly useful for making temporary restorations. Methods of used and kits comprising the composition are also disclosed.
US07855237B2	Plant for the manufacture of polymer particles The method for the manufacture of foamed or foamable polymer particles employs a mixture of a polymer melt and a recycled polymer melt produced from recycled, propellant-containing polymer particles. The associated plant for the manufacture of the foamed or foamable polymer particles is provided with an apparatus for the processing of recycled, propellant-containing polymer particles.
US07855233B2	Citrate salt of Rasagiline The subject invention provides rasagiline citrate, its compositions and processes for the manufacture thereof.
US07855231B2	High concentration topical insecticide containing insect growth regulator A topical insecticide is provided which can be safe to use and avoids many common deleterious side effects of conventional topical insecticides. The insecticide contains an insecticide and an insect growth regulator effective for killing fleas, flea larvae and flea eggs. The insecticide is formulated by dissolving an insecticidal (tetrahydro-3-furanyl) methylamine derivative and an insect growth regulator (IGR) in a solvent containing N-octyl pyrrolidone and/or N-methyl pyrrolidone to increase the solvency of the IGR component, thereby providing an insecticide having high insecticidal activity.
US07855229B2	Treating wasting disorders with selective androgen receptor modulators This invention provides: 1) a method of treating a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; 2) a method of preventing a muscle wasting disorder in a subject; 3) a method of treating, preventing, suppressing, inhibiting or reducing muscle loss in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; 4) a method of treating, preventing, inhibiting, reducing or suppressing muscle wasting in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; and/or 5) a method of treating, preventing, inhibiting, reducing or suppressing muscle protein catabolism in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder, by administering to the subject a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) and/or an analog, derivative, isomer, metabolite, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pharmaceutical product, hydrate, N-oxide, prodrug, polymorph, impurity or crystal of said SARM compound, or any combination thereof.
US07855221B2	Crystalline form of an alkoxyimidazol-1-ylmethyl biphenyl carboxylic acid The invention provides a crystalline freebase form of 4′-{2-ethoxy-4-ethyl-5-[((S)-2-mercapto-4-methylpentanoylamino)methyl]imidazol-1-ylmethyl}-3′-fluorobiphenyl-2-carboxylic acid. This invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline compound, processes and intermediates for preparing the crystalline compound, and methods of using the crystalline compound to treat diseases such as hypertension.
US07855215B2	Cyclic diaryl ureas suitable as tyrosine kinase inhibitors The invention relates to novel compounds of Formula I: wherein p is 1, 2 or 3; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; A is CRc, S, NRc or O, where Rc is H or lower alkyl; X, Y and Z are each independently selected from N or C—R3, wherein at least two of X, Y and Z are N; and each Ra is independently selected from hydrogen and lower-alkyl; each Rb is hydrogen or lower-alkyl; G is a group Ar or represents CN or unsubstituted or substituted lower alkyl; Ar is a saturated or unsaturated cyclic group, which is substituted or unsubstituted and maybe a five or six membered monocyclic or a 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 membered bicyclic or tricyclic ring and may contain 0, 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from O, N and S; and wherein the radicals have R1, R2, R3 and R4 have the meanings as defined herein, to salts, esters, N-oxides or prodrugs thereof; and their use in the treatment of protein kinase dependent diseases, their use in the manufacture of pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of said diseases, methods of use of diary urea derivatives in the treatment of said diseases, pharmaceutical preparations comprising these novel diaryl urea derivatives, processes for the manufacture of the novel diaryl urea derivatives, the use or methods of use of the novel diaryl urea derivatives as mentioned above, and/or these novel diaryl urea derivatives for use in the treatment of the animal or human body.
US07855211B2	Protein kinase inhibitors The present invention provides a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which is useful in the treatment of cell proliferative diseases.
US07855190B2	Methods of hormonal treatment utilizing contraceptive regimens with continuous estrogen administration The present invention provides contraceptive regimens in which a female is administered a combined dosage form of estrogen and progestin followed by a period of administration of estrogen. The disclosed contraceptive regimens can be administered to a female as a method of providing non-contraceptive benefits.
US07855180B2	Structure and method for releasing substance therefrom A structure comprises at least a porous body holding a substance releasably, comprising a capping member for keeping the substance inside the pore and/or on at least a part of the entire surface of the porous body, and a connecting member for connecting the porous body and the capping member separably, the connecting member comprising a biopolymer compound.A method for releasing a substance from the structure set forth comprises the steps of applying stimulation from outside to the structure, and cleaving at least one of the bonding between the connecting member and the capping member and the bonding between the connecting member and the porous member to make the substance releasable from the structure.
US07855173B2	Detersive compositions containing hydrophobic benefit agents pre-emulsified using sub-micrometer-sized insoluble cationic particles A cationic oil-in-water emulsion, for addition to detersive compositions, comprising hydrophilic cationic polymers, a surface-active, anionic polymer that is capable of adsorbing at an air-water interface or an oil-water interface and/or is oil-soluble, and a hydrophobic benefit agent in the oil phase made by adding the benefit agent to a hydrophobic liquid; thickening the oil phase with an organophillic smectite clay reacted at clay platelet surfaces to make the clay platelet surfaces hydrophobic while the edge surfaces of the clay remain hydrophilic, such that the organophillic smectite clay is adsorbed at an oil/water interface in the emulsion, and one of the hydrophilic, cationic polymers has a cationic nitrogen content of at least 6% by weight, that is incompatible with anionic surfactants, being insoluble in anionic-surfactant solutions containing an amount of 3% or higher of an anionic surfactant, and another hydrophilic cationic polymer has a cationic nitrogen content of at least 0.1% by weight and has a molecular weight of at least 600,000 Dalton.
US07855172B2	Polypeptides having lipase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
US07855171B2	Method and composition to remove iron and iron sulfide compounds from pipeline networks The present invention comprises an iron complexing mixture and method of using same wherein beneficial performance and natural gas pipeline cleaning methods are employed. The synergistic improvement of combining two water-soluble metal complexing agents, THPS and IDS, prove to offer advantages in performance over the individual use of either chemical.
US07855170B2	Homogenous synthetic mud-to-cement cementing glasses A synthetic glass family in the quaternary phase field of CaO—SiO2-Al2O3-MgO (CSAM) with hydraulic and pozzolanic properties for use in differing applications in the gas and oil well cementing area. A method of making a mud-to-cement (MTC) slurry and a method for treating oil and gas wells with the MTC slurry containing a homogenous amorphous synthetic glass made from a mixture of inorganic materials selected from the group consisting of CSAM, wherein the cementing glasses with the mixture of inorganic materials are in a 100% amorphous phase with a degree of crystallization of zero.
US07855168B2	Method and composition for removing filter cake The current disclosure describes a multifunctional fluid that addresses a new concept in the removal of filter cake. A composition is disclosed comprising: a carrier fluid, a surfactant, a fluorine source and an organic stabilizer able to minimize precipitation of fluorine The associated method to remove the filter cake is also described.
US07855162B2	Needle-shaped ceramic body, needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body and method for producing same The present invention provides a needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body in which a base material is a high specific surface area porous cordierite body that is stable at high temperatures, and also provides methods of producing this needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body. The present invention relates to a needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body in which a base material is a high temperature-stable, high specific surface area porous cordierite body comprising a porous structure having a prescribed porosity and formed of a needle-shaped cordierite crystal phase, and further relates to methods of producing this needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body, and by using porous cordierite constituted of needle-shaped crystals as a catalyst-supporting honeycomb structure, the present invention is able to inhibit sintering-induced reduction in the specific surface area. Since a honeycomb can be directly produced as the cordierite sinter itself, an inexpensive product can be provided through the simplifying the prior-art step of coating the interior of the honeycomb.
US07855158B2	Optical glass, preform for precision press-molding, optical element, and methods for manufacturing the same Provided is an optical glass comprising, denoted as molar percentages: 10 to 20 percent SiO2, 5 to 40 percent B2O3, SiO2+B2O3=15 to 50 percent, 0 to 10 percent Li2O, 12 to 36 percent ZnO, where 3×Li2O+ZnO≧18 percent, 5 to 30 percent La2O3, 0 to 20 percent Gd2O3, 0 to 10 percent Y2O3, La2O3+Gd2O3=10 to 30 percent, La2O3/SIGMA(Σ)RE2O3=0.67 to 0.95 (where SIGMA(Σ)RE2O3=La2O3+Gd2O3+Y2O3+Yb2O3+Sc2O3+Lu2O3), 0.5 to 10 percent ZrO2, 1 to 15 percent Ta2O5, 1 to 20 percent WO3, Ta2O5/WO3≦2.5 (molar ratio), 0 to 8 percent Nb2O5, 0 to 8 percent TiO2; and having a refractive index nd of not less than 1.87 and an Abbé number nu(v)d of not less than 35 but less then 40. A method for manufacturing a preform for precision press molding by separating a glass melt gob from a glass melt obtained by mixing, heating, and melting glass starting materials, and forming a preform in a glass melt gob cooling step, said mixing, heating, and melting of glass starting materials is conducted so as to obtain the above optical glass.
US07855155B2	Process for producing semiconductor device using optical absorption layer An optical absorption layer comprised of a substance having a band gap energy smaller than that of GaN is formed on an implanted region formed in a pGaN layer as a ground layer. There is performed an annealing step from an upper surface of a substrate with predetermined light such as infrared light, a red light, or the like, which has energy smaller than the band gap energy of the pGaN layer. The optical absorption layer has an absorption coefficient of the light in the annealing step larger than that of the pGaN layer. Accordingly, it is possible to selectively perform a heat treatment on a region directly under the optical absorption layer or a region in a vicinity thereof (the implanted region).
US07855143B2	Interconnect capping layer and method of fabrication The present invention relates to an interconnect capping layer and a method of fabricating a capping layer for an interconnect. In particular, but not exclusively, the invention relates to a capping layer for a copper interconnect used to interconnect elements in an integrated circuit. Embodiments of the invention provide a method of fabricating a capping layer for an interconnect in an integrated circuit, comprising the steps of: forming an interconnect comprising upper and lower lateral surfaces; forming a lateral diffusion stop layer between said lateral surfaces; and forming a capping layer.
US07855140B2	Method of forming vias in semiconductor substrates and resulting structures Methods for forming through vias in a semiconductor substrate and resulting structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a through via may be formed by forming a partial via from an active surface through a conductive element thereon and a portion of the substrate underlying the conductive element. The through via may then be completed by laser ablation or drilling from a back surface. In another embodiment, a partial via may be formed by laser ablation or drilling from the back surface of a substrate to a predetermined distance therein. The through via may be completed from the active surface by forming a partial via extending through the conductive element and the underlying substrate to intersect the laser-drilled partial via. In another embodiment, a partial via may first be formed by laser ablation or drilling from the back surface of the substrate followed by dry etching to complete the through via.
US07855137B2	Method of making a sidewall-protected metallic pillar on a semiconductor substrate A method of forming conductive pillars on a semiconductor wafer in which the conductive pillars are plated with a protecting coating of Ni, Co, Cr, Rh, NiP, NiB , CoWP, or CoP. Only the side of the conductive pillars are plated. The ends of the conductive pillars are free of the protective plating so that the conductive pillars can be readily joined to the pads of a packaging substrate. Also disclosed is a sidewall-protected conductive pillar having a protective coating of Ni, Co, Cr, Rh, NiP, NiB , CoWP, or CoP thereon.
US07855133B2	Formation of carbon and semiconductor nanomaterials using molecular assemblies The invention is directed to a method of forming carbon nanomaterials or semiconductor nanomaterials. The method comprises providing a substrate and attaching a molecular precursor to the substrate. The molecular precursor includes a surface binding group for attachment to the substrate and a binding group for attachment of metal-containing species. The metal-containing species is selected from a metal cation, metal compound, or metal or metal-oxide nanoparticle to form a metallized molecular precursor. The metallized molecular precursor is then subjected to a heat treatment to provide a catalytic site from which the carbon nanomaterials or semiconductor nanomaterials form. The heating of the metallized molecular precursor is conducted under conditions suitable for chemical vapor deposition of the carbon nanomaterials or semiconductor nanomaterials.
US07855132B2	Method of manufacturing bonded wafer The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a bonded wafer. The method includes forming an oxygen ion implantation layer in an active layer wafer having a substrate resistivity of 1 to 100 mΩcm by implanting oxygen ions in the active layer wafer, bonding a base wafer and the active layer wafer directly or through an insulating layer to form a bonded wafer, heat treating the bonded wafer to strengthen the bond and convert the oxygen ion implantation layer into a stop layer, grinding, polishing, and/or etching, from the active layer wafer surface side, the bonded wafer in which the bond has been strengthened to expose the stop layer on a surface of the bonded wafer, removing the stop layer, and subjecting the bonded wafer from which the stop layer has been removed to a heat treatment under a reducing atmosphere to diffuse an electrically conductive component comprised in the active layer wafer.
US07855124B2	Method for forming a semiconductor device A method for forming a semiconductor device, includes the steps of providing a substrate; forming a patterned stack on the substrate including a first dielectric layer on the substrate, a first conductive layer on the first dielectric layer and a mask layer on the first conductive layer, wherein a width of the mask layer is smaller than a width of the first conductive layer; forming a second dielectric layer on the sidewall of the patterned stack; forming a third dielectric layer on the substrate; forming a second conductive layer over the substrate; and removing the mask layer and a portion of the first conductive layer covered by the mask layer to form an opening so as to partially expose the first conductive layer.
US07855105B1	Planar and non-planar CMOS devices with multiple tuned threshold voltages A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a first device region including a first threshold voltage adjusting layer located atop a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric located atop the first threshold voltage adjusting layer, and a gate conductor located atop the gate dielectric. The structure further includes a second device region including a gate dielectric located atop the semiconductor substrate, and a gate conductor located atop the gate dielectric; and a third device region including a gate dielectric located atop the semiconductor substrate, a second threshold voltage adjusting layer located atop the gate dielectric, and a gate conductor located atop the second threshold voltage adjusting layer. In the inventive structure the first threshold voltage adjusting layer includes one of an nFET threshold voltage adjusting material or a pFET threshold voltage adjusting material and the second threshold voltage adjusting layer is the other of the nFET threshold voltage adjusting material or the pFET threshold voltage adjusting material.
US07855103B2	Wirebond structure and method to connect to a microelectronic die A wirebond structure includes a copper pad formed on or in a surface of a microelectronic die. A conductive layer is included in contact with the copper pad and a bond wire is bonded to the conductive layer. The conductive layer is formed of a material to provide a stable contact between the bond wire and the copper pad in at least one of an oxidizing environment and an environment with temperatures up to at least about 350° C.
US07855097B2	Method of increasing yield in OFETs by using a high-K dielectric layer in a dual dielectric layer Dielectric layer pinholes in OFET structures are addressed in a method of fabricating OFET devices through the addition of a high-K dielectric layer to eliminate the effects of shorts in the dielectric layer. The original dielectric layer is maintained such that the semiconductor/dielectric interface remains unchanged. The high-K dielectric layer contributes material to the gate dielectric to plug up pinholes in the original dielectric, but does not contribute significant capacitance due to the high dielectric constant of the additional dielectric layer. The incidence of pinholes in the dielectric layer is reduced without significantly affecting the performance of the OFET transistor.
US07855096B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor film is formed on a GaAs substrate (semiconductor substrate). An SiO2 film (insulating film) is formed on the semiconductor film, and the SiO2 film is patterned. The semiconductor film is etched using the SiO2 film as a mask to form a mesa structure. The surface of the SiO2 film is treated by ashing, using SF6 gas (fluorine-containing gas), to terminate the surface of the SiO2 film with fluorine. The mesa structure is selectively buried with a III-V compound semiconductor film, using the SiO2 film having the surface that has been terminated by fluorine, as a mask.
US07855088B2	Method for manufacturing integrated circuits by guardbanding die regions The invention provides a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit. The method, in one embodiment, includes inspecting a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of die for a defect, the inspecting providing an image of the semiconductor wafer including the defect. The method further includes identifying an area of the semiconductor wafer from the image, wherein the identified area encompasses at least those die including any portion of the defect, and dicing the semiconductor wafer into individual die. The die defined by the identified area, in this embodiment, are then discarded.
US07855083B2	Sample processing devices Methods and devices for thermal processing of multiple samples at the same time are disclosed. The sample processing devices provide process arrays that include conduits useful in distributing sample materials to a group pf process chambers located in fluid communication with the main conduits. The sample processing devices may include one or more of the following features in various combinations: deformable seals, process chambers connected to the main conduit by feeder conduits exiting the main conduit at offset locations, U-shaped loading chambers, and a combination of melt bonded and adhesively bonded areas.
US07855062B2	Bone cell delivery device Bone cages are disclosed including devices for biocompatible implantation. The structures of bone are useful for providing living cells and tissues as well as biologically active molecules to subjects.
US07855053B2	Methods for detecting the presence of expanded CGG repeats in the FMR1 gene 5′ untranslated region The invention provides improved methods for detecting the presence of expanded CGG repeats in the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene and for quantifying the amount of protein produced by the gene.
US07855049B2	Inositol pyrophosphates determine exocytotic capacity The invention provides reagents and methods for treating type II diabetes, as well as methods for identifying compounds for treating type II diabetes.
US07855044B2	Positive resist composition and method of forming resist pattern A positive resist composition including a resin component (A) and an acid generator component (B), the resin component (A) including a copolymer (A1) having a structural unit (a1) derived from an acrylate ester having a monocyclic or polycyclic group-containing acid dissociable, dissolution inhibiting group, a structural unit (a2) derived from an acrylate ester having a lactone-containing cyclic group, a structural unit (a3) derived from an acrylate ester having a hydroxyl group and/or cyano group-containing polycyclic group, and a structural unit (a4) represented by general formula (a4-1) shown below: wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a halogenated lower alkyl group; R′ represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an alkoxy group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and f represents 0 or 1.
US07855039B2	Photoconductors containing ketal overcoats A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer comprised of at least one charge transport component, and an overcoat, and where the overcoat contains at least one of ketal. In embodiments the overcoat layer may include α-hydroxyketone, α-diketone, or mixtures thereof.
US07855036B2	Sputtering target used for production of reflective mask blank for EUV lithography To provide a sputtering target to be used for production of an EUV mask blank, capable of preventing particles by film peeling even when formation of a reflective multilayer film as a reflective layer and a Ru layer as a protective layer is carried out at a production level using actual machines for a large number of cycles. A sputtering target for forming a ruthenium (Ru) layer in a reflective layer for reflecting EUV light on a substrate, which contains Ru and at least one element selected from the group consisting of boron (B) and zirconium (Zr) in a total content of B and Zr of from 5 at % to 50 at %.
US07855035B2	Exposure mask, manufacturing method of electronic device, and checking method of exposure mask According to the present invention, provided is a method of manufacturing a electronic device including forming a film over a substrate, performing a photoresist over the film, performing a first exposure by using an exposure mask which includes a scribe region and a inspection mark formed in a first side of the scribe region, and performing a second exposure so that a region that is exposed to the first side in the first exposure is exposed to a second side of the scribe region which is opposite to the first side, wherein, in the second exposure, an exposure light is incident on a region where the inspection mark is projected in the first exposure.
US07855034B2	Reflecting mask, apparatus for fixing the reflecting mask and method of fixing the reflecting mask In a reflecting mask, an apparatus for fixing the reflecting mask and a method of fixing the reflecting mask, voltages are applied to elements of a conductive pattern spaced apart from each other on a rear face of the reflecting mask to fix the reflecting mask by using electrostatic forces. A flatness of the fixed reflecting mask is measured, and the electrostatic forces provided to portions of the reflecting mask are selectively adjusted in accordance with a measured result obtained from the measuring part, such that the reflecting mask is horizontally fixed and is substantially flat.
US07855033B2	Photo mask and method of fabricating array substrate for liquid crystal display device using the same A photo-mask used for fabricating a photoresist pattern in process of fabricating an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device comprises a transmissive area having a first transmittance; a blocking area having a second transmittance; a first half-transmissive area including at least one coating layer and having a third transmittance; a second half-transmissive area including a plurality of bars and having a fourth transmittance, the bars having spaces therebetween, wherein the third and fourth transmittances are less than the first transmittance and greater than the second transmittance, respectively, and the third transmittance is greater than the fourth transmittance.
US07855011B2	Monoblock lithium ion battery The present invention describes a monoblock for a plurality of lithium ion cells. The monoblock includes a case having a base and a cover dimensioned and configured to the base. The case includes a chamber that includes cell compartments for lithium cells. Each lithium cell is disposed in a leaf spring that applies compression pressure on the cell. The structural integrity of the battery and cells is maintained using internal and external anti-swelling features including a waffle pattern, backing plates, etc. A liquid and gas pressure management system is also incorporated with the case and realized by a vent plenum, check valves, bladders, bags, etc.
US07855008B2	Battery holder The invention relates to a battery holder 30 for an electronic device. In order to provide an improved possibility of exchanging a battery of an electronic device, it is proposed that the battery holder 30 comprises an outer surface 31, means 32 for receiving an exchangeable battery 20 and means 33, 34 for connecting the battery holder 30 releasably to an electronic device. The latter means enable a connection of the battery holder to the electronic device in a way that electrical contact elements 21 of a battery 20 received by said battery holder 30 come into contact with electrical contact elements of the electronic device and that the outer surface 31 of the battery holder 30 forms part of the outer surface of the electronic device. The invention relates equally to a corresponding electronic device and to a cover for such an electronic device.
US07855005B2	Apparatus and methods of determination of state of charge in a redox flow battery Methods for determining the state of charge of an electrolyte solution in a redox battery by optical absorption spectrophotometry are disclosed. The state of charge thus obtained may serve as a gauge for the amount of electro-chemical energy left in the system.
US07855002B2	Magnetic disk substrate and magnetic recording medium thereof The present invention relates to a magnetic disk substrate, in which an amplitude Wa of a waviness on a surface measured by using an interferometer for a versatile disk at a measuring wave-length of 5.0 mm is within the range of 0.1 nm to 0.5 nm, an average amplitude Wb of a microwaviness generated on the waviness measured by using a microscopy for three-dimensional surface-structural analysis at a measuring wave-length of 30 μm to 200 μm is 0.3 nm or less, and a value calculated by dividing the average amplitude Wb of the microwaviness by the amplitude Wa of the waviness is 0.6 or more.
US07855001B2	Thermoplastic polymer for electrically conductive thermoforming applications This invention relates to a thermoplastic polymer composition that exhibits excellent characteristics for being thermoformed into a wide variety of packaging trays for electronics, including the disk drive and semiconductor industries. More specifically, these trays are applicable as packaging material for head suspension assembly and offer conductivities in the range of antistatic to electrostatic dissipation (ESD). For instance, the thermoplastic polymer composition of this invention offers improved stiffness, improved chemical resistance, the capable of enduring more washing cycles, the capability of being dried at higher temperatures, improved cleanliness, and better electrical conductivity that conventional PETG/IDP polymer blends. The thermoplastic polymer composition of this invention is comprised of (1) a polyethylene terephthalate glycol copolyester, (2) from 1 weight percent to 6 weight percent carbon nanotubes, (3) from 2 weight percent to 30 weight percent of a copolymer of ethylene with a higher α-olefin, wherein the copolymer is of ethylene with the higher α-olefin is grafted with maleic anhydride or glycidyl methacrylate, (4) from 1 weight percent to 10 weight percent of a functionalized rubbery polymer, (5) from 1 weight percent to 10 weight percent of an acrylic based core-shell polymer, and (6) from 0.5 weight percent to 6 weight percent of a lubricant selected from the group consisting of high density polyethylene and polyester wax, where the polyethylene terephthalate glycol copolyester makes up the balance of the composition and wherein all weight percentages are based upon the total weight of the thermoplastic polymer composition.
US07854999B2	Organoelectroluminescent compound and organoelectroluminescent device employing the same Provided are a cyclopentaphenanthrene-based compound and an organoelectroluminescent device employing the same. The cyclopentaphenanthrene-based compound is easy to prepare and excellent in solubility, color purity, color stability, and thermal stability. The cyclopentaphenanthrene-based compound is useful as a material for forming an organic layer, in particular, an emitting layer, in an organoelectroluminescent device, and as an organic dye or an electronic material such as a nonlinear optical material.
US07854997B2	Adherends with enhanced surfaces Metallic substrates have a surface for receiving application of an adhesive that includes a precipitated coating of metallic nanoparticulates. A first portion of the nanoparticulates is adhered to the surface and a second portion is in contact with the first portion. Also provided are adhered constructs. These constructs include a first substrate with a first surface that has a metallic precipitated coating of nanoparticulates. A first portion of the nanoparticulates is adhered to the surface and a second portion contacts the first portion. The constructs include a second substrate that has a second surface; and an adhesive is applied between the first surface and the second surface.
US07854992B2	Conductive tape and method for making the same The present invention relates to a conductive tape. The conductive tape includes a base, an adhesive layer, and a carbon nanotube layer. The adhesive layer is configured for being sandwiched between the base and the carbon nanotube layer. And a method for making the conductive tape includes the steps of: fabricating at least one carbon nanotube film and an adhesive agent; coating the adhesive agent on a base and drying the adhesive agent on the base so as to form an adhesive layer; and forming a carbon nanotube layer on the adhesive layer and compressing the carbon nanotube layer so as to sandwich the adhesive layer between the carbon nanotube layer and the base.
US07854980B2	Formaldehyde-free mineral fibre insulation product A packaged mineral fibre insulating material has: a) a Recovered Thickness of at least 95% nominal thickness; and b) an Ordinary Parting Strength of at least 95 g/g; and c) a Weathered Parting Strength of at least 75 g/g the material comprising mineral fibres and an organic, formaldehyde free binder in a quantity of less than 15% by weight, preferably less than 10% by weight, said binder having been applied to the fibres of the insulating material in liquid form at pH of greater than 5.
US07854978B1	Tape strip with tab A tape strip has a tab section and an adhesive section. The adhesive section may have an adhesive on one or both planar surfaces of the strip. When the adhesive portion has adhesive on both planar surfaces, the tape strip may or may not comprise a separation mechanism that permits a separation of the tab portion from the adhesive portion. When the adhesive portion has adhesive on only one planar surface, the tape strip comprises the separation mechanism.
US07854971B2	Cellulose ester film, production method of the same, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A cellulose ester film comprising a cellulose ester and a compound containing: an acrylate group or a methacrylate group; and a phenolic hydroxyl group, in the molecule.
US07854970B2	Liquid-crystalline medium Disclosed are a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds which contain at least one compound of formula I and the use thereof for a passive-matrix or active-matrix display based on the ECB, FFS, PALC or IPS effect.
US07854969B2	Method for fabricating integral composite structural material The present invention is an integral composite structural (ICS) material comprising an open metal structure having at least one external side and internal surfaces defining a plurality of open shapes with a ceramic matrix composite bonded to at least one external side and the surfaces of at least a substantial portion of the plurality of open shapes and occupying at least a substantial portion of the plurality of open shapes. The open metal structure, independent of the ceramic matrix composite, has a total metal volume percent in the range of about 10% to about 90%, with no dimension of any open shape being greater than about ¾ inch. The ceramic matrix layer covers a substantial portion of at least one external side of the open metal structure. At least one external side of the metal portion of the ICS material is bonded with a ceramic matrix composite such that the ceramic layer occupies at least a significant portion of the open pores of the metal portion and is bonded to a significant portion of at least one external side of the metal element. The present invention is also a method of manufacturing such an ICS material.
US07854968B2	Method for creating and applying liquid-container barrier coating A method for establishing a sprayable stream of composite material for spray-applying to a target surface to create thereon a defined composite-material coating designed for defeating a liquid leak from a puncture wound created in the wall of a container holding liquid of a particular character, where the target surface is on a side of that wall. The method includes (a) initiating a pair of respective sub-flows of two, precursor elastomeric materials intended for later blending to create a formed, elastomeric body, (b) at a point downstream from such initiating, introducing a flow of plural, liquid-imbiber beads which are reactive to the mentioned, particular-character liquid, (c) in a user-chooseable manner upstream from where such later blending takes place, merging the flow of beads with at least one of the two sub-flows of elastomeric materials, (d) following such merging, blending the two sub-flows, and (e) thereafter spray-applying the merged and blended flows/sub-flows to a target surface thus to create the desired, defined composite-material coating.
US07854966B2	Coating process for fatigue critical components A coating process for fatigue critical components is provided. The coating process comprises the steps of providing a substrate having a first modulus of elasticity, depositing a layer of a material having a second modulus of elasticity less than the first modulus of elasticity onto the substrate, and depositing a coating over the material layer.
US07854961B1	Scintillation materials with reduced afterglow and method of preparation Scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). In another embodiment, the scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, a variety of second dopants (co-dopants), and a variety of third dopants (co-dopants). Co-dopants of this invention are capable of providing a second auxiliary luminescent cation dopant, capable of introducing an anion size and electronegativity mismatch, capable of introducing a mismatch of anion charge, or introducing a mismatch of cation charge in the host material.
US07854957B2	Systems and methods for producing a medical device A machine and process useful for processing a delicate workpiece, e.g., an implantable medical device, includes a carrier having a mandrel and wheels. The work piece is positioned on the mandrel, which is free to roll by gravity on rails which cooperate with the wheels to self-align the travel of the carrier. The carrier can move the workpieces through a series of processing steps by gravity feed and without human intervention. A laterally movable carriage receives the rolling carriers and moves the carrier for processing, and returns the carrier to the rails to again roll by gravity to another processing substation for additional processing. An elevator, which can including processing units itself, is positioned along the rails to receive carriers and raise them so they can continue to roll for further processing.
US07854947B2	Personal care compositions comprising plant fiber Personal care compositions having plant fiber such as tapioca fiber, and methods of applying those formulations. The addition of fiber to personal care formulations can provide performance improvement such as cleansing, exfoliation, irritation reduction, suspending, foam enhancement, and rheological property modification.
US07854941B2	Method of attaching drug compounds to non-reactive polymer surfaces Polymers are disclosed that are chemically modified to retard bacterial growth. Such modified polymers (e.g. ePTFE and polypropylene) are produced by first creating acid groups on the polymer surface through reactions with an anhydride. The acid groups are then linked to polyethylene glycol (PEG) through esterification or other reactions such as amidation. Preferably, at least two different molecular weight PEG species are employed. The antimicrobial surface is completed by linking antibiotics (e.g. β-lactam antibiotics) to the PEG extensions. One preferred embodiment of such a modified polymer is produced using ePTFE, maleic anhydride (MA), and penicillin (PEN) to yield PEN-PEG-MA-ePTFE, which inhibits gram-positive bacteria. The PEG spacer is critical for PEN function in this context, since PEN-ePTFE is ineffective against bacterial growth. Another preferred embodiment incorporates ampicillin (AMP) and a heterobifunctional PEG, HOOC—(CH2—CH2—O)n—NH2, to yield AMP-PEG-MA-ePTFE. This latter example inhibits both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.
US07854938B2	Preparation-at-use device comprising pre-formed hydrogel product Disclosed is a preparation-at-use device comprising: (1) a pre-formed hydrogel component packaged in a first compartment; the pre-formed hydrogel component comprising a gelling agent and a solvent; and (2) a benefit component packaged in a second compartment; the benefit component comprising at least one compound that is unstable when contacted with the pre-formed hydrogel component; wherein the first and second compartments are separately packaged prior to use, and wherein the device comprises means for contacting the pre-formed hydrogel component and benefit component upon use.
US07854937B2	Flavivirus fusion inhibitors The present invention relates to peptides and methods of inhibiting fusion between the virion envelope of Flaviviruses and membranes of the target cell, the process that delivers the viral genome into the cell cytoplasm. The invention provides for methods which employ peptides or peptide derivatives to inhibit Flavivirus:cell fusion. The present invention is based in part on the discovery that E1 envelope glycoprotein of hepaciviruses and E2 envelope glycoprotein of pestivirus have previously undescribed structures, truncated class II fusion proteins. The present invention provides peptides and methods of treatment and prophylaxis of diseases induced by Flaviviruses.
US07854936B2	Anti-inflammatory hydrolysate of C. versicolor Methods and compositions for reducing and/or inhibiting inflammation by topical application of dermatocosmetic compositions comprising effective amounts of extracts of Coriolus versicolor that have been hydrolyzed by an acid protease, preferably Rhizomucor miehei, and thereafter rendered substantially devoid of acid-protease activity.
US07854931B2	Immunizing compostion and method for inducing an immune response against the beta-secretase cleavage site of amyloid precursor protein The present invention is directed to an immunizing composition containing an antigenic product such as a multiple antigen peptide system (MAPS) or a filamentous bacteriophage displaying an AβPP epitope spanning the β-secretase cleavage site of AβPP and a method for inducing an immune response against the β-secretase cleavage site of AβPP using this immunizing composition. The present invention is also directed to antibodies against the β-secretase cleavage site of AβPP and their use in a method for inhibiting the formation of amyloid β.
US07854926B2	Biological soil nutrient system A biological soil nutrient system that combines beneficial soil fungi and bacteria in a growth promoting nutrient medium, embedded in an inorganic porous ceramic particle for direct delivery during soil aerification to the rhizosphere of adventitious plants, including sports turf, landscape and agricultural applications.
US07854923B2	Biopolymer system for tissue sealing A tissue sealant for use in surgical and medical procedures for sealing the tissues of a living mammal is provided. The tissue sealant comprises a hydrogel which is formed by gelation of a premix disposed on the tissue to be sealed. The premix comprises alkylated chitosan or a gelatin, and a polybasic carboxylic acid or an oxidized polysaccharide, in an aqueous medium. The premix can also include a dehydrating reagent, a carboxyl activating reagent, or both. A specific use of the tissue sealant is in the repair of the dura mater after brain surgery to prevent leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. The tissue sealant may include a therapeutic or protective agent such as an antibiotic or an anti-inflammatory drug.
US07854904B2	Mounting mat for a catalytic converter The present invention provides a mounting mat (30) for mounting a pollution control monolith (20) in a pollution control device (10). The mounting mat has a bulk density of 0.12 to 0.3 g/cm3 and comprises (i) a layer of chopped magnesium aluminium silicate glass fibers and (ii) a layer of ceramic fibers obtainable from a sol-gel process. Preferably, the layer of chopped magnesium aluminium silicate glass fibers and the layer of ceramic fibers define opposite major surfaces of the mat. The present invention further provides a pollution control device (10), comprising a pollution control monolith (20) arranged in a metallic casing (11) with the mounting mat (30) disposed between the metallic casing (11) and pollution control monolith (20).
US07854887B2	Production method for metal matrix composite material A method of producing an aluminum matrix composite material is described that comprises the steps of: mixing an aluminum powder and a ceramic powder to prepare a mixed powder; providing a lower casing made of aluminum and formed in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped shape having an open top, and a closing member made of aluminum and formed in a shape adapted to hermetically close the open top of the lower casing; packing the mixed powder into the lower casing; closing the open top of the lower casing filled with the mixed powder, by the closing member, to prepare a pre-rolling assembly having the mixed powder hermetically sealed therein; preheating the pre-rolling assembly; and rolling the preheated assembly to obtain the aluminum matrix composite material, where the aluminum matrix composite material includes a pair of metal plates having the mixed powder therebetween.
US07854883B2	System for cooling shape-rolled rails A system for cooling a hot rail of rail steel to a fine perlitic or ferritic or perlitic/ferritic structure has a plurality of separate cooling modules with independently adjustable cooling parameters. The rail is guided downstream through the modules of the cooling stretch and through intermediate zones between the modules so as to cool the surface of the rail in each of the modules and to subject the rail to destressing or stress relief between the modules. Sensors in each of the intermediate zones detect the actual surface temperature of the rail in the respective zones, and a controller connected to the modules and to the sensors varies the cooling parameters of the cooling modules in dependence on the detected temperatures in the respective upstream zones to ensure a defined temperature in the rail that lies above a critical temperature at which bainitic structure components are formed.
US07854879B2	Optical element molding die, and optical element manufacturing method It is to provide an optical element, an optical element molding die, and an optical element manufacturing method, which can easily but surely suppress generation of transcription failure of a resin material and also enables to manufacture an optical element with an excellent optical performance at a low cost while improving the yield. In an optical element formed with a resin material, a gate part is formed on a side face of an optical element main body, and a ratio of the thickness of the gate part with respect to the thickness of an optical function part of the optical element main body is set as 50% or more.
US07854877B2	Lithography meandering order An imprint lithography method is disclosed, which includes imprinting a plurality of patterns in an imprintable medium provided on a substrate, wherein the order in which the patterns are imprinted in the imprintable medium is such that, for the majority of the patterns, two consecutively imprinted patterns are not imprinted adjacent to one another.
US07854872B2	Solution casting method for producing polymer film and suction roller used therefor A suction roller (65) is used as a drive roller for feeding a film in a solution casting method. The suction roller (65) has a surface (65a) on which a plurality of circular suction holes (91) is formed. The suction hole (91) has a diameter of 4 mm and a chamfered edge. The width of chamfer is 10% in ratio to the diameter of the hole. The surface (65a) is hardened by chrome plating so as to have a hardness of 900 in Vicars hardness. A roller temperature controller (100) is provided near the suction roller (65) to control the surface temperature of the roller by the air supply. The surface temperature of the suction roller (65) is about 10° C. higher than temperature of the film (61)immediately before contacting to the suction roller (65).
US07854859B2	Nitride phosphor, method for producing this nitride phosphor, and light emitting device that uses this nitride phosphor A red phosphor with excellent luminescent characteristics, and a light emitting device that uses this phosphor are provided. The phosphor is a nitride phosphor that is activated by europium, and absorbs light from the near ultraviolet range to the blue range to emit red light. The nitride phosphor has the following general formula, MwAlxSiyBzN((2/3)w+x+(4/3)y+z):Eu2+ where M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba. In the general formula, w, x, y and z fall within the following ranges. 0.056≦w≦9, x=1, 0.056≦y≦18, and 0.0005≦z≦0.5 In addition, the mean particle diameter of the nitride phosphor is preferably not less than 2 μm and not more than 15 μm. Additionally, the light emitting device includes a light source with a first light emission spectrum that emits light from the near ultraviolet range to the blue range, and one or more kinds of phosphors that absorb at least part of the first light emission spectrum and thus emit light with a second light emission spectrum. The aforementioned phosphor can be used as the phosphors.
US07854854B2	Quaternary ammonium salt, electrolyte, electrolyte solution and electrochemical device A quaternary ammonium salt of the formula (1), electrolytic solution and electrochemical device using the salt wherein R1 is straight-chain or branched alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 is straight-chain or branched alkyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and X− is N(CN)2−, SCN−, NO3−, NCO− or NO2−.
US07854827B2	Comparative multidimensional gel electrophoresis A device providing an arrangement for the separation of a sample mixture for analytical reasons based on multidimensional gel electrophoresis and method thereof are disclosed. The separation involves a first separation in a first dimension of the device on the basis of isoelectric points and a second separation in a second dimension of the device on the basis of molecular size. At least two gel strips for the first dimension separation step and a corresponding gel for the second dimension separation step are provided. The two gel strips are arranged on a single carrier either on the same side or on opposite sides. By having at least two gel strips arranged in such a manner at least two analytical processes can be executed in parallel on the single carrier without the use of valves.
US07854819B2	Multilayer information recording medium and production method therefor A method for producing a multilayer information recording medium the method including: holding a substrate; feeding a resin onto the substrate; and removing the excess resin by moving a squeegee throughout the entire surface of the substrate. The substrate may have a resin-coated region, onto which the resin is to be applied, and a non-resin-coated region, onto which the resin is not to be applied. In this case, the resin-coated region has a smaller contact angle with the resin than the non-resin-coated region. The method for producing a multilayer information recording medium may further include, prior to feeding a resin onto the substrate, subjecting a specified area of the substrate to an oil repellent treatment to increase the contact angle of the specified area with the resin.
US07854816B2	Method of producing a nonwoven fabric from filaments A laminate is made by first treating two spun-bond webs formed of endless thermoplastic synthetic-resin filaments with wetting agents. Then a layer of hydrophilic fibers is applied to one of the treated spun-bond webs and then the other of the treated spun-bond webs is applied to the layer of hydrophilic fibers on the one treated spun-bond web. Finally the two treated spun-bond webs and the layer of hydrophilic fibers between them are hydrodynamically consolidated together.
US07854814B2	Method for forming a laminated window that can exhibit a variable level of adhesion A method for forming a laminated window having one or more interlayers that can exhibit a variable level of adhesion is disclosed. The method includes: a) assembling a cast between two plies that make up the laminated window; b) filling the cast with a reaction mixture for forming a polymer material; c) adding at least one first silane comprising an isocyanate functional silane and at least one second silane comprising an epoxy silane to the reaction mixture; and d) curing the reaction mixture.
US07854807B2	Magnetic metal powder suitable for use in magnetic recording media and method of manufacturing the powder A metal magnetic powder for a magnetic recording medium is provided whose particles have a metal magnetic phase, composed mainly of Fe or Fe plus Co, and an oxide layer, wherein the average major axis length of the powder particles is 10-50 nm, the average particle volume including the oxide layer is 5,000 nm3 or less, the atomic ratio (R+Al+Si)/(Fe+Co) calculated using the content values (at. %) of the elements contained in the powder particles is 20% or less, where R is rare earth element (Y being treated as a rare earth element). The metal magnetic powder is obtained by using a complexing agent and a reducing agent to elute nonmagnetic constituents after firing. The metal magnetic powder exhibits a large saturation magnetization σs for its particle volume while maintaining weatherability comparable to the conventional level and is suitable for a coated-type magnetic recording medium.
US07854806B2	Dishwasher and method of controlling the same A controlling method of a dishwasher is provided. The method includes a selecting of a wash cycle and inputting of command settings by a user, starting operation of the dishwasher according to the selected cycle and driving a wash pump and discharge member, and controlling the dishwasher during the cycle to end the wash cycle with an upper arm operating.
US07854788B2	Filter membrane A filter membrane includes a substrate, a polymer layer provided on the substrate and a plurality of filter openings each having a width of from about 2 nanometers to about 5 nanometers provided in the polymer layer. A method of controlling pore size of a filter membrane and a method of decontaminating a filter membrane are also disclosed.
US07854787B2	Method of removing coating from coated magnesium alloy product, method of making recycled magnesium alloy and method of recycling coating A method is provided for removing a coating from a coated magnesium alloy product. The method includes a first treatment step of immersing the coated magnesium alloy product in a first alkaline solution, and a second treatment step of immersing the magnesium alloy product, which has undergone the first treatment step, in a second alkaline solution or in an acid solution. The second alkaline solution is different from the first alkaline solution.
US07854782B2	Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum cleaner body, a cyclone unit which is mounted at the vacuum cleaner body, and separates dust from drawn air, a dust separating unit which is engaged with a lower end of the cyclone unit, said dust separating unit being configured to collect separated dust, said dust separating unit being detachable from the cyclone, and said dust separating unit comprising a compressing plate compressing the collected dust; and a driving unit which is disposed at a lower end of the dust separating unit, said driving unit being configured to ascend and descend the dust separating unit to be detachably connected to the cyclone unit and drives the compressing plate.
US07854771B2	Laundry detergent composition comprising glycosyl hydrolase The present invention relates to a laundry detergent composition comprising glycosyl hydrolase. The compositions of the present invention also comprises a polymer that, when used in combination with the glycosyl hydrolase, enables compaction of the surfactant system to be achieved without loss in fabric cleaning performance. Preferably, the composition of the present invention comprises a combination of two polymers, a glycosyl hydrolase and detersive surfactant, preferably low levels of detersive surfactant.
US07854768B2	Shoulder arthroplasty system An implant system for total shoulder arthroplasties, hemi shoulder arthroplasties, and “reverse” total shoulder arthroplasties including a humeral stem having an enlarged head portion with interfaces adapted to removably receive various modular interchangeable components, such as articulating liners, spacers, and adapter inserts. The humeral stem functions as a universal platform that may be used in either conventional or “reverse” total shoulder arthroplasties, as well as hemi shoulder arthroplasties, and may remain implanted in place during a revision in which the implant system is converted between the foregoing configurations, for example.
US07854767B2	Single entry portal implant A modular prosthesis that may be implanted in a highly minimally invasive manner. Specifically, the modular prosthesis may include a neck and an anchor. Both the neck and the anchor are configured to be inserted and connected together through a lateral aspect of a long bone adjacent to the proximal end of the long bone. In one exemplary embodiment, the neck includes a body having a head end, configured for attachment to another prosthetic component, such as a corresponding articulating component, and an aperture extending therethrough. The anchor may be sized for receipt within the aperture formed in the neck. Additionally, the anchor may be configured such that the anchor engages the walls forming the aperture in the neck to secure the components together.
US07854766B2	Artificial total lumbar disc for unilateral safe and simple posterior placement in the lumbar spine, and removable bifunctional screw which drives vertical sliding expansile plate expansion, and interplate widening, and angled traction spikes A total artificial expansile disc and a method for posterior insertion between a pair of vertebral endplates are disclosed. The total artificial expansile disc includes at least one pair of substantially parallel plates that move apart along a first axis, in order to occupy a space defined by the vertebral endplates. In another embodiment, each of substantially parallel plates includes a first plate and a second sliding plate. An expansion device or tool is used to move the substantially parallel pair of plates apart along the first axis. A core is disposed between the pair of plates, and the core permits the vertebral endplates to move relative to one another. A ball limiter or ball extender prevents the core from being extruded from between the substantially parallel plates.
US07854762B2	Devices and methods for reducing cardiac valve regurgitation Devices and methods that may be used to reduce valve regurgitation are disclosed by locating a body across the regurgitant valve. When the valve closes, the body obliterates/ameliorates the regurgitant orifice in the valve, thereby reducing or preventing valve regurgitation. The body may be expandable. The devices may be implantable such that they can remain in place within a subject for extended periods of time.
US07854724B2	Trocar assembly with pneumatic sealing A trocar for use in a minimally invasive surgical procedure includes an elongated body, nozzle means and means for delivering a pressurized flow of fluid to the nozzle means. The elongated body has a generally tubular configuration with coaxially arranged inner and outer walls and longitudinally opposed proximal and distal end portions, with the inner wall defining a lumen to accommodate passage of an instrument therethrough. The nozzle means is operatively associated with the inner wall of the body for directing pressurized fluid into the lumen to develop a pressure differential in an area within a region extending from a location adjacent a distal end portion of the lumen to a location adjacent a proximal end portion of the lumen, to form a fluid seal around an instrument passing therethrough.
US07854721B2	Syringe assembly The present invention relates to a syringe assembly comprising a syringe body member forming a syringe barrel having a syringe passageway passing through the length thereof; a discharge port being smaller in diameter than the syringe passageway and communicating with the syringe passageway at a front end thereof; at least one plunger member situated in the syringe barrel and dividing said syringe passageway into at least a first chamber at the front end of said syringe passageway and a second chamber at the back end of said syringe passageway, and comprising a plunger rod for actuating said plunger member; wherein said at least one plunger member being adapted for providing a flow connection between said chambers.
US07854719B2	Method of introducing ultrasonic drug and apparatus thereof A method of introducing an ultrasonic drug includes irradiating a low frequency sound wave onto a subject, irradiating a high frequency ultrasonic wave onto a target region of the subject, and introducing the drug into the target region.
US07854714B1	Thumb wrap In a thumb wrap, the combination comprising a user's hand and wrist flexible wrap, a generally tubular portion to receive the user's thumb, said tubular portion being integral with the hand and wrap, a securing strap endwise seamlessly integral with the hand and wrist wrap, and extending with elongation to be wrapped over the hand and wrist wrap palmwise and endwise of the tubular portion and then to be wrapped between the user's thumb and forefinger, and then back over the hand and wrist wrap for tensioned tightening and for the effecting thumb positively supported securement.
US07854708B2	Multiple joint linkage device The present invention relates to devices and methods for a joint linkage device suitable for training multi-joints in a single limb. The joint linkage device is capable of rotation at a proximal end and a distal end. The device includes a proximal end having an upper plate, a middle plate, and a lower plate, a distal plate, a side bar, a main bar, a switch mechanism, and an extended bar. In use, a torque from a motor is applied to the upper plate to provide a user with an assistance torque, a resistance torque, or a assistance/resistance torque.
US07854706B2	Clutch and valving system for tetherless biopsy device A biopsy device may include a needle, a cutter, and a handpiece. A vacuum pump may be provided in the handpiece for providing a vacuum to the needle and/or to the cutter. A motor may be provided in the handpiece to drive the vacuum pump and/or the cutter. A biopsy device may also include a valving mechanism within the handpiece for selectively communicating a vacuum and/or atmospheric air to the needle. A clutching mechanism may selectively provide communication between a motor and the cutter. Portions of a valving mechanism and a clutching mechanism may be integrally formed. A clutching and valving mechanism may be driven by a first motor; and a cutter and vacuum pump by a second motor. A biopsy device may include batteries for powering motors. A biopsy device may thus provide vacuum and power from within a handpiece, such that the biopsy device is tetherless.
US07854701B2	Non-invasive monitoring of intracranial dynamic effects and brain density fluctuations The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for non-invasive monitoring of brain density variations. At least two ultrasonic pulses having different frequencies are provided into the brain for transmission therethrough. The reflected ultrasonic pulses are then sensed and the sensed signal data are then processed for determining at least two phase differences between the phases of the at least two reflected ultrasonic pulses and the phases of the at least two provided ultrasonic pulses. A phase of at least a beat frequency is determined in dependence upon the at least two phase differences. Data indicative of a brain density variation are determined based on the at least two phase differences and the at least a beat frequency.
US07854696B2	Rolling pin with adjustable offset A rolling pin with an adjustable offset for flattening or rolling out dough at a consistent thickness. The adjustable offset rolling pin includes a rolling pin body; a removable offset system for maintaining the rolling pin body a predetermined distance above a surface; a locking system for temporarily maintaining the offset system adjacent the rolling pin body; and a triggering mechanism for disengaging the locking system during the addition or removal of the offset system. More specifically, the adjustable offset rolling pin includes a rolling pin body; a plurality of end caps partially received by the rolling pin body; a plurality of handles adapted for engagement with the end caps; a plurality of push-buttons partially received within the handles; a plurality of offset discs configured to engage the end caps; and an offset disc holder adapted to store the plurality of offset discs during non-use.
US07854694B1	Exercise vest An exercise vest for upper body development is disclosed. The vest has a series of horizontal straps, adjustable in length, that encircle the vest and fasten in front to secure the vest on the person and provide upper body support. There are three elastic band assemblies to provide a complete range of upper body movements which involve all upper body muscle groups. Body development is achieved using the resistance of the elastic bands. A rear band is grasped by a handlebar and raised straight over the head. When not in use the handlebar is fixedly held above the shoulders by means of clips attached on each side of the vest. There are upper and lower side elastic band pairs which have hand grips for each hand. These elastic bands can be stretched up and down and forward and back as desired for a complete workout. The elastic bands are linearly adjustable by means of specially designed canisters containing winding spools that enable the lengths of the elastic bands to be altered in discrete increments. Each alteration of the length of an elastic band alters its resistance. The canisters also serve as the means to affix the bands to the vest.
US07854692B2	Reaction training belt with variable release resistance A cost effective training belt that offers the ability to vary the release resistance and that allows the release resistance to remain relatively constant throughout the life of the belt. In one disclosed embodiment, the reaction belt has a first and second belt detachably secured together with a detaching structure that can connect the first and second belts together in at least two different ways. Each of the connecting ways offers a different release resistance; thereby a user can select the desired release resistance by selecting which way to connect the two belts together.
US07854681B2	System for controlling a machine with a continuously variable transmission A system for controlling a machine with a continuously variable transmission includes a first control device configured to produce a first signal based on a first operator input and a second control device configured to produce a second signal based on a second operator input. The system also includes a control system configured to receive the first and second signals from the first and second control devices and generate a raw torque value based on the first and second signals. The control system is also configured to determine an output torque value based on the raw torque value and transmit the output torque value to the transmission to control the transmission.
US07854677B2	Power train of automatic transmission A power train of an automatic transmission that realizes eight forward speeds and two reverse speeds by using two or three planetary gear sets, five clutches, and one brake, wherein a speed reduction unit generates a reduced rotational speed and an output unit receives a rotational speed of an input shaft and the reduced rotational speed and generates the eight forward speeds and the two reverse speeds.
US07854676B2	Hydraulic control system of automatic transmission for vehicle A cost for manufacturing an automatic transmission can be reduced since a separate solenoid valve for controlling a damper clutch is not required when a hydraulic control system of an automatic transmission for a vehicle includes: a regulator valve that forms a line pressure by regulating a hydraulic pressure generated by a hydraulic pump; a torque converter control valve that receives a hydraulic pressure from the regulator valve and supplies a torque converter operating pressure to a torque converter; and a damper clutch control valve that receives the hydraulic pressure of the torque converter control valve and selectively supplies the torque converter operating pressure and a damper clutch operating pressure, wherein the damper clutch control valve is controlled by a control pressure supplied from a switch valve that is controlled an operating pressure of an overdrive clutch that operates at third and fourth forward speeds.
US07854674B2	Drive system for the individual drive of both driven wheels of a driven wheel pair A drive system for individually driving two driven wheels of a vehicle. The system includes two continuously variable drive motors which are drivingly connected, via a transmission arrangement, with respective driven wheels. Each transmission arrangement includes a shift transmission and a bevel gear transmission, which has a fixed transmission ratio and includes a spur gearset and a bevel gearset. Shift transmissions vary the transmission ratio and the bevel gear transmission enables arranging drive shafts of the drive motors transversely to the rotational axis of the driven wheels. The spur gearsets enable vertical repositioning of the transmissions drive output shafts. Furthermore, with different arrangements of the bevel gears, inclination of respective drive motors and shift transmissions relative to the vehicles longitudinal axis and the angle of the output shafts can be adjusted, such that the drive system can be installed in different vehicle types using largely identical components.
US07854671B2	Sports ball New designs for a sports ball comprising at least two polygonal panels and having an improved performance and uniformity. Each panel has doubly-curved edges that curve along and across the surface of the sphere. The panels are p-sided curved polygons, where p is an integer greater than 1. The single panels, in an imagined flattened state, have curved edges where each edge curves inwards, outwards or undulates in a wave-like manner. The edges are arranged so each individual panel is without mirror-symmetry and the edge curvatures are adjusted so the panel shape can be varied to achieve more uniform panel stiffness as well as economy in manufacturing. The ball also has a possible shape-induced spin due to the panel design and the overall rotational symmetry of the design. In various embodiments, the ball comprises at least two multi-paneled layers that are topological duals of each other, wherein each layer provides a compensatory function with respect to the other layer such that the ball has a uniformly performing surface. Applications include but are not limited to designs for soccer balls, baseballs, basketballs, tennis balls, rugby, and other sports or recreational play. The shape of the ball can be spherical, ellipsoidal or other curved convex shapes.
US07854667B2	Method of golf club performance enhancement and articles resultant therefrom The performance of a golf club is enhanced through the provision of a void space behind a face plate and above a sole portion, to decrease club weight and provide single, or combinations, of selectable weighting elements within volumetric coordinates of an orthonormal matrix about the void space and entire club. The weighted coordinates are provided in response to ball strike, flight analysis and physiologic observation of the golf strike swing. Ball backspin, trajectory, penetration hook or slice, and ballooning may be modified through the use of definable combinations of weighting strategies and sub-strategies.
US07854663B2	Water amusement ride The water amusement ride according to the invention has watercraft that are pulled through the body of water (1) on a traction cable (40). These watercraft are composed of a frame (10), pulled by the traction cable (40), on which a float (20) having a platform (24) is rotatably supported and on the underside of which is provided with a blade wheel (30). When the watercraft is moved through the body of water (1) in the direction of the arrow (A), the blade wheel (30) together with the float (20) are set in rotational motion by the resulting flow.
US07854656B2	Game apparatus and storage medium having game program stored thereon Operation information which is output in accordance with a motion of an input device is sequentially obtained. First behavior information representing a state of an object after a first time period, which is a part of a recognition period, is set in accordance with operation information obtained during the first time period using operation information, so as to sequentially change the state of the object. Second behavior information representing a state of the object after a second time period, which is terminated after the first time period and is at least a part of the recognition period, in accordance with operation information obtained during the second time period. Based on at least the second behavior information, the state of the object is sequentially changed after the second time period.
US07854653B2	System and method for playing a role-playing game A method and apparatus for playing role-playing game is provided that involves wagering. In one example game, players subscribe to multiple game sessions and eliminate other players to become the sole survivor of the game. The players may accrue points by eliminating other players. Further, players may eliminate other players in a combat environment.
US07854647B2	Scratch removal device and method A polishing wheel including a lower polishing surface and defining a different color from a secondary portion of the polishing wheel, so as to indicate wear of the polishing surface. The polishing surface includes a plurality of main radial flutes extending from a central passage to an outer edge. A reduced profile for the main radial flutes is provided adjacent to the outer edge. A plurality of secondary radial flutes is provided extending from the outer edge, but not in communication with either the central passage or the main radial flutes.
US07854646B2	Substrate polishing apparatus and substrate polishing method The present invention relates to a substrate polishing apparatus and a substrate polishing method for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer to a flat finish. The substrate polishing apparatus includes a polishing table (100) having a polishing surface (101), a substrate holder (1) for holding and pressing a substrate (W) against the polishing surface (101) of the polishing table (100), and a film thickness measuring device (200) for measuring a thickness of a film on the substrate (W). The substrate holder (1) has a plurality of pressure adjustable chambers (22 to 25), and pressures in the respective chambers (22 to 25) are adjusted based on the film thickness measured by the film thickness measuring device (200).
US07854642B2	Balloon display simulating motions of a lighter-than-air balloon A balloon display that simulates motions of a lighter-than-air balloon includes a balloon holder and an inflated balloon. The balloon holder includes a neck fastening assembly, and the inflated balloon is secured to the balloon holder by the neck fastening assembly. A compression spring balloon support extends upwardly relative to the neck fastening assembly to support a majority of the inflated balloon above the neck fastening assembly. The inflated balloon is secured to the neck fastening assembly and supported by the compression spring balloon support such that the balloon slightly loads the compression spring balloon support and the balloon tends to move up and down, side to side, and front to back as the compression spring balloon support reacts to the load of the balloon.
US07854634B2	Jack connector assembly having circuitry components integrated for providing POE-functionality The invention relates to a jack connector assembly having circuitry components integrated providing power over LAN-functionality, in particular for use with regard to Ethernet-networks. An object of the present invention is to provide a jack connector assembly providing integrated power over LAN-functionality and especially avoiding any undesirable and destructive heat accumulation. The object is achieved by a modular jack connector assembly having at least one connector housing (100) and at least one connector insert (200) insertable into the connector housing, each connector housing (100) having a front mating side with at least one port opening (301, 312) for receiving a plug having a plurality of electrical contacts and a rear side (112) for inserting at least one of said connector inserts (200), each connector insert (200) having a front end side and a rear end side and is supporting electrical contacts (240) with contact sections (245, 246) arranged at the front end for detachable connection with corresponding electrical contacts of at least one of said plugs, and is supporting at the rear end side components (260) of a circuitry providing a power over LAN-functionality.
US07854633B2	Low profile plug receptacle A low profile receptacle plug receptacle is disclosed. The low profile plug receptacle which may have a housing with a partially circular opening that is configured in one embodiment to receive a cylindrical plug. The low profile receptacle plug receptacle may have a second opening which has a width smaller than the diameter of the cylindrical plug. A portion of the cylindrical plug may extend past the second opening when inserted into the housing. The low profile receptacle plug receptacle may part of an electronic device.
US07854629B1	Power plug system for submersible pump system A power plug system for use with a submersible pump. One embodiment comprises a male plug end, a female plug end, and a plurality of seals. The male plug end comprises a housing and a conductive sleeve. The housing receives an electrically conductive cable and conducts an electric current from the cable to the conductive sleeve. The female plug end comprises a housing, a conductive pin, and a female plug sleeve. The conductive sleeve is radially sealable within the female plug end through a plug end seal of the plurality of seals. The conductive sleeve and the conductive pin are conductively connectable. The female plug sleeve is radially sealable within a complementary plug end through a female plug sleeve seal of the plurality of seals. The conductive pin conductively connects to a conductive lead of the complementary plug end with insertion of the female plug sleeve therein.
US07854627B1	Electrical fitting with internal cable retainer An electrical fitting for rapid connection of an electrical cable to a panel or a junction box. The electrical fitting includes an improved arrangement on the trailing end for securing electrical cables thereto. A connector body having a cavity in the trailing end includes a cable retainer secured therein. The cable retainer includes a substantially tubular body and is constructed of spring steel. The tubular body includes a flat portion and an arcuate portion. A single cable retaining tang extends inwardly from the flat portion. A substantial portion of the single tang is split by a notch thereby creating two fingers on the tang. The two-fingered tang enables the fitting to accommodate a wide range of electrical cables.
US07854621B2	Touch-safe socket A touch-safe socket for electrical articles, such as bulbs having threads, is provided with a movable carriage-carrying poles which are connected to an electrical supply via a wire. The movable carriage has threads which cooperate with threads on the electrical article, and when the electrical article is screwed into the movable carriage, the movement will cause the poles to make contact with poles which are secured to a stationary plate. Further, a movable bridge having poles is arranged inside the socket, which, when the electrical article is screwed in, will be moved into the socket and also make contact with the poles on the stationary plate.
US07854616B2	Positionable lighting systems and methods A lighting assembly includes a lighting unit having a housing defining an internal cavity and an opening. A light source is assembled within the internal cavity of the housing. An electrical wire is electrically connected to the light source at a first end and is configured to be contained at least in part within the housing. The opening is configured to permit withdrawal of a user selected amount of the electrical wire from within the internal cavity and/or to permit a user selected amount of the electrical wire to be inserted into the internal cavity.
US07854606B2	Injection molding machine for processing plastics materials The invention relates to an injection molding machine comprising a machine frame (10), an injection molding unit (S, S′) and a mold closing unit (F). Said mold closing unit (F) is provided with a stationary element and a movable mold support (12) which are fixed thereto, wherein said movable mold support (12) is mounted in front of the stationary element and is displaceable on a guiding elements (11) in the direction of closing (s-s) in and out of a positive locking, wherein the mold closing unit (f) is provided with, fixed thereto, the machine frame (10) or at least a part thereof in the form of a stationary mold carrier (13) and the movable mold support (12) displaceable with respect to said stationary mold carrier (13) on the guiding elements (11). The other parts of the mold closing unit (F) is movable in a positive locking with respect to the stationary mold carrier (13). The mold closing unit (F) comprises a drive unit for displacing the movable mold support (12), and is actively connected to the stationary mold carrier (13) and to the movable mold support (12) by means of at least one force-transmission element. One end of the drive element (A) is hinged about the machine frame (10) or the stationary mold carrier (13) and the other end thereof is hinged about a support plate (14) which is movable in the direction of closing (s-s) and is connected to the force-transmission element. In the preferred embodiment, said force-transmission element is embodied in the form of a stirrup piece (15).
US07854603B2	Tire building core assembly and disassembly station A station apparatus method within a tire curing line is provided for assembling and disassembling a toroidally shaped core configured to carry a cured tire. The core includes a plurality of core segments assembling to form a core body and extending generally radially from a central core axis within a core central axial passage. The core further includes first and second locking spindle sections connecting to opposite sides of the core body. The station apparatus includes: a base; a station locking mechanism mounted to the base and operative to lock to the lower core locking mechanism; a transport device operative to lock to the first spindle section and to lower the core in substantially a vertical core axis orientation into locked engagement with the station locking mechanism; a core segment manipulating mechanism operative to move respective core segments radially inward between a radially outward position to a radially inward segment removal position; and a tire unloading mechanism operative to support a cured tire during radial movement of the core segments inward.
US07854597B2	Pumping system with two way communication A pumping system for moving water of a swimming pool includes a water pump, a variable speed motor, and an arrangement for controlling the variable speed motor. The pumping system further includes an auxiliary device operably connected to the arrangement for controlling, and an arrangement for providing two-way communication between the arrangement for controlling and the auxiliary device. The arrangement for controlling is capable of receiving a parameter from the auxiliary device through the arrangement for providing two-way communication. In one example, the arrangement for controlling is capable of independently controlling the variable speed motor without receipt of a parameter from the auxiliary device. In addition or alternatively, the arrangement for controlling is operable to selectively alter operation of the motor based upon the parameter. In addition or alternatively, the arrangement for controlling is configured to optimize a power consumption of the variable speed motor over time based upon the parameters received. A method for controlling the pumping system is also provided.
US07854592B2	Wind turbine rotor, a rotation controlling mechanism and a method for controlling at least one blade of a wind turbine rotor The invention relates to a wind turbine rotor comprising at least one blade and at least on pitch mechanism comprising a ring shaped motor for controlling the blade. The wind turbine rotor is characterized in that, the ring shaped motor controls the blade through gearing means of a planetary type. The invention further relates to a rotation controlling mechanism comprising, at least one ring shaped motor for controlling the rotation of at least one first part in relation to at least one second part. The rotation controlling mechanism is characterized in that, the ring shaped motor controls the relative rotation through gearing means of a planetary type. Even further the invention relates to a method for controlling at least one blade of a wind turbine rotor.

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