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US08654786B2	Method and system for 10GBASE-T start-up Certain aspects for the start-up procedure of transceivers supporting higher data rates over twisted-pair copper cabling are provided for 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet links (10GBASE-T). During a PMA (physical medium attachment) training period of the start-up procedure, long PMA training frames are exchanged periodically between link partners. A significant portion of each PMA training frame consists of known pseudo random sequences simultaneously transmitted over four wire pairs. PMA training frames include an InfoField for exchanging parameters and control information between link partners. For example, the InfoField's payload comprises fields for indicating current transmit power backoff (PBO), next PBO, requested PBO, transition count, control information, and for communicating precoder coefficients. Information in InfoFields is repeated and is not necessary that a link partner decodes every InfoField. For example, by occasionally reading the transition count, a link partner can determine when a change in transmit PBO and/or a state transition is to occur.
US08654781B2	Method and device for downlink cooperation retransmission in a relay station The invention discloses a method and apparatus for relay station downlink cooperative retransmission, wherein said method comprises: a relay station carrying out physical layer processing in advance on data which requires retransmitting according to different scenarios associated with different possible number of available wireless resources for retransmitting data in a retransmission subframe, generating corresponding OFDM signals, and monitoring the PCFICH of the retransmission subframe, and according to the monitoring result, selecting an OFDM signal which is corresponding to the determined number of available wireless resources from said OFDM signals to carry out retransmission transmitting. The present invention can efficiently solve the problem that the number of wireless resources varies during downlink retransmitting data and the relay station cooperative communication is unable to be carried out normally, without introducing any extra overhead and time delay, and without the control signaling, thus reducing the system complexity.
US08654779B1	Network security device and method Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing a data packet. An input port receives a data packet, a switching board classifies the data packet, determines whether the data packet should be accepted, and switches the data packet to a management board if the data packet is a first data packet in a session, and to a processing board if the data packet is not a first data packet in a session. A management board receives a data packet from the switching board, examines the data packet and forwards the data packet to one of the processing boards. One or more processing boards receives non-first data packets from the switching board and data packets from the management board and processes the data packets. A firewall and a secure gateway with firewall and virtual private network functionality for processing a data packet are also described.
US08654777B2	Methods and apparatus for realizing a configurable multi-bridge A method and apparatus for adapting the switching process of a bridge to partition the bridge ports into a plurality of port subsets such that the bridge operates on each of the port subsets in an independent manner.
US08654763B2	Systematic approach towards minimizing packet classifiers A method is provided for constructing a packet classifier for a computer network system. The method includes: representing a set of rules for packet classification as a directed graph; formulating a plurality of minimization problems from the directed graph, where subgraphs extending from non-terminal nodes in the directed graph represent a minimization problem (i.e., a one-dimensional packet classifier); solving the plurality of minimization problems; combining solutions for the plurality of minimization problems to yield a reduced set of rules which form a reduced packet classifier; and instantiating the reduced packet classifier in a content-addressable memory device.
US08654759B2	Loop condition prevention at internetwork interface boundary The present invention provides a solution to maximize the chance of completion for an ISUP to SIP direction call by enabling a bigger factor for converting ISUP hop counter to SIP Max-Forwards value than the reverse direction thus enabling more hops in the SIP network. Enabling a bigger factor for ISUP to SIP direction can cause loops without special considerations. This invention provides an algorithm that prevents a “loop condition” that can arise at the interface boundary of two telephone networks, known by their standard names ISUP and SIP networks. The present invention solves the “loop condition” problem by adjusting the Hop Counter and Max-Forward parameter values in a predetermined manner such that the adjusted parameter values break the cycle of providing the same parameter values between networks at the network boundary for an uncompleted connection, or break an endless “loop condition”.
US08654748B2	Access point and method for aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) and power-save multi-poll (PSMP) operation Embodiments of wireless devices and methods for aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) communications in an IEEE 802.11n network are generally described herein. Two or more A-MPDU subframes are aggregated to form an A-MPDU. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) that is configured for power-save multi-poll (PSMP) operation transmits a PSMP burst comprising a PSMP sequence of two or more A-MPDUs to a plurality of mobile stations (STA) during a downlink phase of the PSMP sequence. During PSMP operation, the AP is to receive a PSMP sequence of two or more A-MPDUs from the STAs during an uplink phase of the PSMP sequence.
US08654747B2	Base station, user equipment terminal and method A base station for communicating with a first user equipment terminal within a first system band and communicating with a second user equipment terminal within a second system band includes a first reference signal sequence generating unit configured to generate M types of reference signal sequences; a second reference signal sequence generating unit configured to generate N (N>M) types of reference signal sequences; a scheduling unit configured to allocate resource blocks to the first user equipment terminal and the second user equipment terminal; a signal multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the M types of reference signal sequences into the resource block for the first user equipment terminal and multiplex the N types of reference signal sequences into the resource block for the second user equipment terminal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit signals including the M types of reference signal sequences and the N types of reference signal sequences.
US08654746B2	Method, apparatus and system for fast session transfer for multiple frequency band wireless communication Devices, systems and methods to provide session transfer between a pair of multiband stations by a fast session transfer (FST) setup protocol. The FST protocol or the method may include operating the session on a first frequency band and/or a first channel wherein the session includes or is described by state information kept or stored in a pair of stations that have an established direct physical link; setting an agreement to operate the session on a second frequency band and/or a second channel; establishing a direct physical link on a second frequency band and/or a second channel and transferring the session to the second frequency band and/or the second channel.
US08654745B2	Technique for signal transmission mode determination in wireless communication system and apparatus for same The present invention relates to a method for determining the transmission mode in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmission mode determination in a wireless communication system, comprising a step wherein feedback information regarding channel status is received, and a step wherein it is determined based on said feedback information whether a transmission signal will be transmitted via each of a fixed number of subcarriers, after applying a propagation sequence.
US08654744B2	Radio communication system, mobile station, base station, radio communication system control method used for the same, and program of the same The mobile station 2-1 determines whether a current maximum transmission rate is sufficient or not in a predetermined cycle by using a maximum transmission rate R indicated by a pointer, a volume Q of data accumulated in the buffer 22-1 and a requested delay T determined according to service of data. The mobile station 2-1 transmits a determination result as an RR signal in a predetermined control signal field within an uplink E-DPCH to the base station 1. The base station 1 receives an RR signal from the mobile station 2-1, determines an increment/decrement of the maximum transmission rate allowed for the mobile station 2-1 to use such that a noise rise fails to exceed a predetermined threshold value and notifies the mobile station 2-1 of the determination as an RG signal by a downlink E-DPCCH. The mobile station 2-1 ups or downs the position of the pointer according to the RG signal.
US08654733B2	Resource allocation in a packet-based radio communication system A scheme for resource allocation for variable rate users in a packet-based radio communication system such as a UMTS TDD system is based on a representation (200) of the resource space organized orthogonally in 3 dimensions by codes, timeslots and frames. The representation (200) is searched to identify new resources that may be allocated and updated when new resources have been allocated. This scheme provides an efficient method for placing allocated resources into the system resource space while maintaining efficient packing, and provides the following advantages: allocations that result in different overall throughput rates can be made to users; efficient packing of allocated resources means that wasted resources is minimized; since the representation of the system resource space is bounded, the stored information at the resource allocator function (in the radio access network) can be minimized; allocations are only made based on the most current frame in the representation of the system resource space this reduces required complexity; and the maximum number of frames into the future over which resources can be allocated can be used to modify the shape of allocations.
US08654720B2	Spectrum sharing enabled by strong interfering pulse handling Interference between a communication system operating in a frequency area and another system sending out pulses affecting the frequency area can be handled by means of a communication unit (RBS 1. MT1) for use in a cellular communications system, said communications unit comprising detecting means (10, 20) for determining the presence of at least one interfering pulse from another system affecting the signalling in the cellular communications system, and processing means (11, 21) for selecting and taking appropriate action based on the detected at least one interfering pulse.
US08654719B2	Method for spectrum sharing in a multi-mode system and related apparatus A measurement apparatus comprising means for checking for available radio spectrum resource in a first system in a radio coverage area; means for sending information to a second system indicating the availability of radio spectrum resource of the first system which is usable by said second system in at least part of said radio coverage area, wherein said first system has priority over said radio spectrum resource.
US08654714B2	Base station and user device A base station communicating with a user device using multiple antennas in a system where a subframe is composed of multiple slots each composed of multiple basic time units is disclosed. The base station includes a first mapping unit configured to map one or more reference signals used for demodulation of one or more L1/L2 control channels and one or more data channels to be transmitted from one or more of the antennas within a predetermined number of basic time units from the beginning of each subframe; and a second mapping unit configured to map reference signals used for demodulation of data channels to be transmitted from other ones of the antennas to one or more basic time units following the basic time units to which the reference signals used for demodulation of the L1/L2 control channels and the data channels are mapped.
US08654711B2	Channel scan for smart meter networks to determine operating channels An operation channel in a multi-hop network is determined. The network uses a set of channels, and one of the nodes is a network management node. The operation channel is selected in the network management node. Then, the network management node broadcasts a channel information packet including the operation channel using all channels. The channel information packet is received in each of other nodes, either directly from the network management node or from an intermediate node that received and rebroadcasted the channel information packet. Lastly, the operation channel in each node is set according to the channel information packet until the network is formed.
US08654709B2	Decentrallizing core network functionalities The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing network access, wherein a connection to a core network is established via a wireless access device and a gateway device. Connectivity of the wireless access device is restricted to a pre-defined group of core network address of a pool of gateway devices with multi-node connectivity to the core network, and a single address is selected to establish the connection to a one of the gateway devices. The gateway device is provided with a relay function for mapping a single input address to a plurality of core network addresses based on a location information of the wireless access device and with at least one co-located decentralized core network functionality.
US08654705B2	System and method for supporting multiple reverse link data streams Techniques for rank adaptation and multiple-stream reverse link communications in a wireless access network are disclosed. A remote unit transmits one or more reverse link data streams using separate identifiers to a base station. The number of reverse link data streams may be determined according to feedback from the base station or it may be determined by testing one or more multiple-antenna transmit hypotheses. The base station may estimate channel conditions using information obtained from the one or more reverse link data streams and may determine a spatial rank of the communication channel. The remote unit may perform separate error control and power control processes for each reverse link data stream in cooperation with the base station.
US08654703B2	Telephone call processing Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for providing one-telephone dialing number telephony services where only a single telephone dialing number is required for each subscriber, despite each subscriber having multiple telephony devices on which they wish to be contacted. Calls to a one-telephone dialing number telephony service subscriber may be detected at a telephone switch using one or more triggers configured in association with a device-shared telephone dialing number allocated to the subscriber. Upon receipt of a call connection request to a subscriber, control of the call is assumed, for example by redirecting the call to a service platform capable of generating multiple call connection requests. Multiple outgoing call connection requests are transmitted to multiple telephony devices, including a mobile telephone, associated with the device-shared telephone dialing number allocated to a subscriber.
US08654700B2	Relay device, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system A frequency band of 12.5 kHz that two repeaters (2A), (2B) are allowed to utilize is divided into two frequency bands, divisional frequency bands of 6.25 kHz are allocated to respective repeaters (2A), (2B), the repeater (2A) which is one specific repeater suspends transmission of a signal at a certain time set beforehand, another repeater (2B) is instructed to suspend transmission of a signal, and after signal transmission at individual repeaters (2A), (2B) are suspended, the repeater (2A) transmits a defined CW-ID signal which is a call signal given to the whole two repeaters (2A), (2B).
US08654694B2	Method and apparatus for configuring mode timers Controlling a probability that user equipment is in a power saving mode to adapt the user equipment to characteristics of a shared channel and packet service includes determining a class of the user equipment by comparing at least one data traffic requirement value and a power condition value of the user equipment with predetermined threshold values, and adjusting mode timers according to the determined class of the user equipment depending on the data traffic requirement values and depending on the power condition value of the user equipment.
US08654689B2	Advanced signal processors for interference cancellation in baseband receivers An interference canceller comprises a composite interference vector (CIV) generator configured to produce a CIV by combining soft and/or hard estimates of interference, an interference-cancelling operator configured for generating a soft projection operator, and a soft-projection canceller configured for performing a soft projection of the received baseband signal to output an interference-cancelled signal. Weights used in the soft-projection operator are selected to maximize a post-processing SINR.
US08654680B2	Packet forwarding using multiple stacked chassis A stacked chassis comprising multiple physical switch/router chassis operates without any special stacking hardware or stacking channels. Instead, a stacking LAG is installed between front-end switch ports on the stacked chassis. The chassis controllers negotiate a master, which controls operation of all chassis in the stack. A stacked-chassis-wide port numbering scheme is used to distribute information to all line cards in the system. Each line card processes the information to distill physical-chassis significant information for operation of that chassis in the stack.
US08654678B2	Node device, recording medium where storage control program is recorded, and information storing method In a node device included in an information communication system which has a plurality of node devices capable of performing communication with each other via a network, common information shared by the plurality of node devices is stored so as to be spread to the plurality of node devices.The node device includes: first storing means for storing link information used at the time of performing communication with the node devices, the link information including node information indicative of one or more specific node devices; means for storing the link information stored in the first storing means into second storing means while participating in the system; means, when withdrawing from the system, and after that, participating in the system again, for storing the link information obtained from the node device of the node information included in the link information stored in the second storing means into the first storing means.
US08654674B2	Method and apparatus for data communication while base station is disrupted in wireless communication system A method provides data communication while a Base Station (BS) is disrupted in a wireless communication system. The method includes, when a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs) receive a preamble signal from a cluster header through a dedicated control channel while the BS is disrupted, sending a message requesting cluster member subscription to the cluster header, in the cluster header, including the plurality of MSs in a cluster member, configuring a cluster member list, and broadcasting the cluster member list, in a source MS among the plurality of MSs, sending a data transmission request message to the cluster header using the broadcasted cluster member list, in the cluster header, one of unicasting and broadcasting a response message for the data transmission request of the source MS, and, in the source MS, transmitting data to a target MS among the plurality of MSs based on the response message.
US08654673B2	Configuring networks including spanning trees A method may include receiving a reconfiguration to a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)/spanning tree table, where the first VLAN/spanning tree table has a first identifier and is associated with a region of a network; updating the first VLAN/spanning tree table to generate a second VLAN/spanning tree table based on the reconfiguration; determining a second identifier of the second VLAN/spanning tree table; and generating a list of identifiers associated with the region of the network, the list including the first identifier and the second identifier.
US08654672B1	Method for optimal transmitter placement in wireless mesh networks A process for forming a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which client coverage is calculated using a point-to-point propagation loss model and optimal routing and power allocation is determined to quantify the value of network flow. In one embodiment, the process calculates loss based on access point locations, operating characteristics and terrain and environment information. In one embodiment, the network flow and coverage subproblem values are combined via a penalty function. The process creates WMN topologies that maximize client coverage area by choice of access point locations, subject to constraints on network flow and power allocation, number and technical capabilities of access points, background and environmental noise, and radio propagation over terrain.
US08654668B2	Open platform architecture for integrating multiple heterogeneous network functions A platform for seamlessly hosts a plurality of disparate types of packet processing applications. One or more applications are loaded onto a service card on the platform. A programmable path structure is included that maps a logical path for processing of the packets through one or more of the plurality of service cards according to characteristics of the packets. Multiple path structures may be programmed into the platform to offer different service paths for different types of packets.
US08654659B2	Systems and methods for listening policies for virtual servers of appliance The present invention is directed towards a method for using a listening policy for a virtual server on an intermediary device. An intermediary device establishes for a first virtual server a first listening policy with an expression for evaluating packets received by the intermediary device to determine whether the packet may access the first virtual server. The intermediary device listens for packets at a first internet protocol (IP) address and a first port specified for the first virtual server. Then, the intermediary device evaluates the expression of the first listening policy to a first packet received at the first IP address and first port and determines whether to provide the first packet to the first virtual server based on a result of the evaluation.
US08654653B2	Method of deciding radio link failure at base station Disclosed is a method of deciding a radio link failure at a base station. The method includes initializing a signal quality degradation count value, measuring an uplink signal quality at predetermined time intervals, and increasing the signal quality degradation count value when the uplink signal quality is less than a predetermined lower limit quality threshold value, wherein a radio link failure is decided when the signal quality degradation count value reaches a predetermined radio link failure decision threshold value while the measuring of the uplink signal quality and the increasing of the signal quality degradation count value are repetitively performed a predetermined number of times.
US08654651B2	Packet switch appliance with a packet switching and packet processing daughter board A packet switch appliance for connection to a packet switching network, the packet switch appliance has a motherboard that includes a processor, a network switch chip, and a connector. The packet switch appliance also includes a daughter board configured to be removably connected to the motherboard through the connector. The daughter board may include one or more of a network switch chip and a processor unit.
US08654649B2	Reduced topology routing in shared media communication networks In one embodiment, a particular node in a shared communication network determines a current path cost in a routing topology from itself to a root node via a current parent node. The particular node also determines a respective path cost from each reachable potential parent node of the particular node to the root node via each potential parent and a respective link metric to each potential parent node. A set of acceptable parent nodes are determined from the potential parent nodes that have a respective path cost that is less than the current path cost plus an acceptable cost increase, and also have a respective link metric that is within an acceptable range. By determining a respective number of child nodes for each acceptable parent node, the particular node may then select a new parent node based on giving preference to those having a greater respective number of child nodes.
US08654647B2	Method and system for communication capacity negotiation of physical layer chips A method for communication capacity negotiation for physical layer chips performed by a network device provided with a first physical layer chip and a second physical layer chip includes, with the first physical layer chip, negotiating communication capacity with an opposite end, and reporting the communication capacity confirmed by negotiation to the second physical layer chip; and with the second physical layer chip, adopting the communication capacity acquired from the first physical layer chip to negotiate communication capacity with another opposite end by a fixed negotiation mode. A system for communication capacity negotiation of physical layer chips includes a first physical layer chip; and a second physical layer chip. The first physical layer chip negotiates a communication capacity with an opposite end, and reports the communication capacity confirmed by negotiation to the second physical layer chip; and the second physical layer chip adopts the communication capacity acquired from the first physical layer chip to negotiate communication capacity with another opposite end by a fixed negotiation mode.
US08654644B2	Optimizing communication traffic transport The present invention relates to a solution for handling mobility and attachment of users in a wireless communication network (10). User equipment (1) is connected logically to an attachment node (14) at initial attachment and this attachment is determined from an analysis of stored historical mobility patterns of the user equipment. For instance, a mobility management device may be responsible for handling the attachment and for handling the determination of suitable attachment node, e.g. a gateway (5, 7, 8).
US08654643B2	Wide field indexing for packet tracking Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media for accumulating traffic statistics. A traffic receiver may receive a packet and determine a flow identifier associated with the received packet. A hash function may be applied to the flow identifier to generate a memory pointer. One or more records may be retrieved from a statistics memory based on the memory pointer. A determination may be made if the flow identifier associated with the received packet matches a flow identifier value contained in one of the one or more retrieved records. When a match occurs, the retrieved record containing the matching flow identifier value may be updated and the updated record may be stored in the statistics memory.
US08654640B2	System and method for IP video delivery using distributed flexible channel bonding A system and method receives IP packets on a first device for delivery as DOCSIS packets over a DOCSIS interface, each DOCSIS packet encapsulating IP data from the IP packets, and including a sequence number that the first device generates for a bonding group. The method delivers first DOCSIS packets to a DOCSIS device using first downstream channels on the first device that are associated with the bonding group. When the first downstream channels exceed a capacity, the method determines an available capacity of second downstream channels on a second device that are associated with the bonding group, identifies second DOCSIS packets that do not exceed the available capacity, and forwards the second DOCSIS packets to the second device, which delivers the second DOCSIS packets to the DOCSIS device using the second downstream channels.
US08654636B2	Method and system for extended reach copper transceiver Aspects of a method and system for an extended range copper transceiver are provided. Reducing the communication rate provided by multi-rate physical (PHY) layer operations in an Ethernet transceiver may extend the range of the Ethernet transceiver over twisted-pair copper cabling from a standard connection length. The Ethernet transceiver may support up to 1 Gbps or up to 10 Gbps transmission rate over copper cabling. The multi-rate PHY layer architecture in the Ethernet transceiver may support signal-processing operations, such as echo cancellation and/or equalization, which may be applied to the reduced communication rate to enable range extension. The reduced communication rate may be achieved by reducing the symbol rate provided by the multi-rate PHY layer operations. Reducing the communication rate may also enable utilizing greater insertion loss cabling for a standard connection length.
US08654633B2	Data communication apparatus, data communication method and data communication processing program A data communication apparatus, comprising: a first control unit for controlling a client trying to access in order to establish a session by a call control protocol, for data communication by a data communication protocol that is other than said call control protocol; an IP address acquiring unit for acquiring an IP address of said client from the data of said call control protocol; and a second control unit for rejecting data communication from a client, which IP address is other than said acquired IP address, while and after said session is established.
US08654630B2	Techniques for link redundancy in layer 2 networks Techniques for facilitating link redundancy using an enhanced version of Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP), referred to herein as VSRP2. In one set of embodiments, a group of Layer 2 and/or Layer 2/3 devices (switches) can act in concert as a VSRP2 virtual switch. A first switch in the group (a VSRP2 master switch) can forward, via a first link, data traffic to/from a network device in a connected Layer 2 network. A second switch in the group (a VSRP2 backup switch) can block, at a second link, data traffic to/from the same network device. If the first link fails or otherwise becomes unavailable, the VSRP2 backup switch can detect the link failure and begin forwarding, via the second link, data traffic to/from the network device. In this manner, redundancy can be provided at the link level between the VSRP2 virtual switch and the Layer 2 network.
US08654620B2	Write power adjustment method and information recording method In write power adjustment for an optical disc having a plurality of information storage layers, data of trial writing is varied by the influence of layers other than a target layer. It is difficult, therefore, to determine optimal write power. A modulation M[m] is obtained from a reproduction signal amplitude of a signal subjected to the trial writing performed with use of write powers Pw[m] (m being an integer) of a plurality of kinds. At least an optimum write power intercept Pint_opt is determined by fitting a relation between the Pw[m] and the M[m] by a modulation characteristic formula M=Masy×(1−(Pint−Pasy)/(Pw−Pasy)) having an asymptotic modulation Masy, a write power intercept Pint, and an asymptotic write power Pasy as parameters. Approximation accuracy by the fitting and/or quality of the trial writing signal are evaluated with use of at least the M[m], the modulation characteristic formula, and the Pint_opt. An optimum write power Pw_opt is calculated by performing a specified operation at least with use of the Pint_opt.
US08654617B2	Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head with optically isolating waveguide, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly, magnetic disk unit, and light transmission unit The thermally-assisted magnetic recording head includes: a laser light source having an emission surface, the emission surface allowing laser light to be emitted therefrom; a waveguide having a core and a cladding, the core allowing the laser light emitted from the laser light source to propagate therethrough, and the cladding surrounding the core; a magnetic pole; and a plasmon generator. Each of the core and the cladding has an end surface facing the emission surface, and the end surface of the cladding suppresses returning of the laser light to the laser light source.
US08654613B2	Measuring apparatus A measuring apparatus includes an acoustic wave detecting unit that detects acoustic waves generated from a subject irradiated with light, and a member that is disposed between the acoustic wave detecting unit and the subject and that has an acoustic speed value smaller than an average acoustic speed value inside the subject. The thickness of the member is greater than a value obtained by dividing the acoustic speed value inside the subject by the minimum frequency detectable by the acoustic wave detecting unit.
US08654612B2	System and method for detecting bats and their impact on wind facilities The present invention relates to a system and method for detecting bats from a remote location. In one aspect the invention provides a bat detection system comprising an upper detection unit connected to a base computer unit. The upper detection unit can be positioned on a vertical structure, and a second lower detection unit, or additional detection units, can also be positioned on the vertical structure. Each detection unit comprises a housing which is connected to, and contains, an audio detector. The base computer unit is enclosed by a housing and comprises a data processor, a data storage device, and a remote communication interface device. The data processor is operatively connected to the data storage device, remote communication interface device, and the audio detectors of any detection units positioned on the vertical structure. The base computer unit communicates with a remote computer transferring information regarding the bat sounds detected by the detection units.
US08654601B2	Memory with output control An apparatus, system, and method for controlling data transfer to an output port of a serial data link interface in a semiconductor memory is disclosed. In one example, a flash memory device may have multiple serial data links, multiple memory banks and control input ports that enable the memory device to transfer the serial data to a serial data output port of the memory device. In another example, a flash memory device may have a single serial data link, a single memory bank, a serial data input port, a control input port for receiving output enable signals. The flash memory devices may be cascaded in a daisy-chain configuration using echo signal lines to serially communicate between memory devices.
US08654597B2	Defective memory cell address storage circuit and redundancy control circuit including the same A fail address storage circuit includes a fail address storage unit configured to store a fail address and a discrimination information storage unit configured to store information indicating whether a value stored in the fail address storage unit is a row address or column address.
US08654590B2	Nonvolatile memory device performing a program verification with sense signals based on program data of adjacent memory cells and program method thereof A programming method of a nonvolatile memory device includes inputting even data and odd data to be programmed into even memory cells coupled to even bit lines and odd memory cells coupled to odd bit lines, respectively, setting a sense signal as a first sense signal or a second sense signal having a lower voltage level than the first sense signal, based on odd data of odd memory cells adjacent to each of the even memory cells to be programmed, programming the even data into the even memory cells by supplying a program voltage, performing a program verify operation on each of the even memory cells in response to the set sense signal, and programming the odd data into the odd memory cells by supplying a program voltage.
US08654588B2	Method of soft programming semiconductor memory device An operating method of a semiconductor memory device includes erasing all memory cells of a selected cell block, performing a soft program operation on the erased memory cells by supplying a soft program pulse to word lines of the selected cell block, performing a first verify operation using a first voltage level lower than a target voltage level of the soft program operation, performing a second verify operation using the target voltage level, setting voltages of bit lines, and repeating the soft program operation, the first verify operation, the second verify operation, and an operation of setting the voltages of bit lines while raising the soft program pulse gradually.
US08654586B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory unit and a control unit. The memory unit includes a multilayer structure including electrode films and inter-electrode insulating films alternately stacked in a first direction; a semiconductor pillar piercing the multilayer structure in the first direction; a memory layer provided between the semiconductor pillar and the electrode films; an inner insulating film provided between the memory layer and the semiconductor pillar; an outer insulating film provided between the memory layer and the electrode films; and a wiring electrically connected to the first semiconductor pillar. In an erasing operation, the control unit sets the first wiring at a first potential and sets the electrode film at a second potential lower than the first potential, and then sets the first wiring at a third potential and sets the electrode film at a fourth potential higher than the third potential.
US08654580B2	Non-volatile memory devices and systems including the same, and methods of programming non-volatile memory devices A method is for programming a memory block of a non-volatile memory device. The non-volatile memory device is operatively connected to a memory controller, and the memory block defined by a plurality of word lines located between a string select line and a common source line corresponding to the string select line. The method includes programming a first sub-block of the memory block, determining in the non-volatile memory device when a reference word line is programmed during programming of the first sub-block, and partial erasing a second sub-block of the memory block upon determining that the reference word line is programmed during programming of the first sub-block.
US08654575B2	Disturb-free static random access memory cell A solid-state memory in which each memory cell includes a cross-point addressable write element. Each memory cell includes a storage element, such as a pair of cross-coupled inverters, and a read buffer for coupling one of the storage nodes to a read bit line for the column containing the cell. The write element of each memory cell includes one or a pair of write select transistors controlled by a write word line for the row containing the cell, and write pass transistors connected to corresponding storage nodes and connected in series with a write select transistor. The write pass transistors are gated by a write bit line for the column containing the cell. In operation, a write reference is coupled to one of the storage nodes of a memory cell in the selected column and the selected row, depending on the data state carried by the complementary write bit lines for that column.
US08654567B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a bit line; two or more word lines; and a memory cell including two or more sub memory cells that each include a transistor and a capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the transistor is connected to the bit line, the other of the source and the drain of the transistor is connected to the capacitor, a gate of the transistor is connected to one of the word lines, and each of the sub memory cells has a different capacitance of the capacitor.
US08654563B2	Control and operation of non-volatile memory Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a memory controller to control a non-volatile memory array. The memory controller includes a memory array interface coupled to the non-volatile memory array to perform reads and writes on the non-volatile memory array. An overwrite module is configured to write a desired bit value to a specific memory cell within the non-volatile memory array, after receiving the desired bit value and a logical address, regardless of an original value of the memory cell Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US08654562B2	Static random access memory cell with single-sided buffer and asymmetric construction Balanced electrical performance in a static random access memory (SRAM) cell with an asymmetric context such as a buffer circuit. Each memory cell includes a circuit feature, such as a read buffer, that has larger transistor sizes and features than the other transistors within the cell, and in which the feature asymmetrical influences the smaller cell transistors. For best performance, pairs of cell transistors are to be electrically matched with one another. One or more of the cell transistors nearer to the asymmetric feature are constructed differently, for example with different channel width, channel length, or net channel dopant concentration, to compensate for the proximity effects of the asymmetric feature.
US08654560B2	Variable resistance memory with a select device According to various embodiments, a variable resistance memory element and memory element array that uses variable resistance changes includes a select device, such as an ovonic threshold switch. The memory elements are able to switch during the very brief period when a transient pulse voltage is visible to the memory element.
US08654559B2	Semiconductor memory device The invention provides a semiconductor memory device including a variable resistance element capable of decreasing a variation of a resistance value of stored data due to a large number of times of switching operations and capable of performing a stable writing operation. The device has a circuit that applies a reforming voltage pulse to a memory cell including a variable resistance element of a degraded switching characteristic and a small read margin due to a large number of times of application of a write voltage pulse, to return each resistance state of the variable resistance element to an initial resistance state. By applying the reforming voltage pulse, the variable resistance element can recover at least one resistance state from a variation from the initial resistance state, and can recover the switching characteristic. Accordingly, there is obtained a semiconductor memory device in which a reduction of a read margin is suppressed.
US08654554B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes at least one arm series circuit, a conductive first thermal buffer member, and a conductive second thermal buffer member. The arm series circuit includes an upper arm, a lower arm, a positive-electrode terminal, a negative-electrode terminal, and an output terminal. The first thermal buffer member has a linear expansion coefficient greater than a linear expansion coefficient of the first switching device and smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of one of the positive-electrode terminal and the output terminal. The second thermal buffer member has a linear expansion coefficient greater than a linear expansion coefficient of the second switching device and smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of one of the negative-electrode terminal and the output terminal.
US08654552B2	Interleaved type power factor correction circuit having transformer forming separated winding structure There is provided an interleaved type power factor correction circuit having a transformer forming a separated winding structure, which is formed by integrating two inductors separately wound around the transformer. The interleaved type power factor correction circuit including a rectifying unit rectifying a commercial alternating current power, a transformer having a first inductor winding and a second inductor winding, a bobbin part, and a core part, a switching unit switching a power transmitted to the first and second inductor windings, a controlling unit controlling a switching operation of the switching unit in order to allow a phase difference between a current and a voltage of the switched power to satisfy a predetermined phase difference, and a stabilizing unit stabilizing the switched power from the switching unit.
US08654538B2	Wiring board and method for manufacturing the same A wiring board including a first substrate having a penetrating hole penetrating through the first substrate, a built-up layer formed on one surface of the first substrate and including multiple interlayer resin insulation layers and wiring layers, the built-up layer having an opening portion communicated with the penetrating hole of the first substrate and opened to the outermost surface of the built-up layer, an interposer accommodated in the opening portion of the built-up layer and including a second substrate and a wiring layer formed on the second substrate, the wiring layer of the interposer including multiple conductive circuits for being connected to multiple semiconductor elements, and a filler filling the opening portion of the built-up layer such that the interposer is held in the opening portion of the built-up layer. The opening portion of the built-up layer has a tapered portion tapering toward the outermost surface of the built-up layer.
US08654537B2	Printed circuit board with integral radio-frequency shields Electrical components such as integrated circuits may be mounted on a printed circuit board. To prevent the electrical components from being subjected to electromagnetic interference, radio-frequency shielding structures may be formed over the components. The radio-frequency shielding structures may be formed from a layer of metallic paint. Components may be covered by a layer of dielectric. Channels may be formed in the dielectric between blocks of circuitry. The metallic paint may be used to coat the surfaces of the dielectric and to fill the channels. Openings may be formed in the surface of the metallic paint to separate radio-frequency shields from each other. Conductive traces on the surface of the printed circuit board may be used in connecting the metallic paint layer to internal printed circuit board traces.
US08654535B2	Card holder A card holder adapted for converting a micro SIM card into a standard SIM card in size and shape includes an insulating housing of a flat board shape which is in accordance with the standard SIM card in size and shape, and defines a card groove in accordance with the micro SIM card in size and shape and in accordance with the standard SIM card in contact position for receiving the micro SIM card in place. At least one elastic part is disposed in a positioning fillister of the insulating housing opened in one groove sidewall of the card groove, and elastically stretches into the card groove to resist against one end of the micro SIM card for securing the micro SIM card in the card groove. By using the card holder, the micro SIM card can be converted into the standard SIM card in size and shape.
US08654526B2	Flat panel display having storable pedestal A pedestal structure of a flat panel display is made storable and disposed at the bottom of a main body of the flat panel display. The pedestal structure has substantially similar shape as a container of the main body that contains the pedestal structure and is capable of being completely hid in the main body when the pedestal structure is not in use. The pedestal structure may be directly drawn out of and rotated with respect to the main body as the support of the main body.
US08654515B2	Household appliance There is provided a household appliance including a housing and a cavity arranged within the housing. The housing element is further arranged to allow viewing of the cavity. A display which is transparent to at least one wavelength in the visible light spectrum is arranged in connection to the housing element and is further arranged such that the cavity is exposed from outside the household appliance. The display is a thin film type electroluminescent display which is arranged as an integral part of the housing element.
US08654511B2	Capacitance unit and stacked solid electrolytic capacitor A capacitance unit includes an anode portion, an insulating portion, a cathode portion and a colloid portion. The front end of the anode portion extends to from an anode terminal. The insulating portion surrounds the anode portion and covers a first partial surface of the anode portion. The cathode portion is disposed next to the insulating portion, and the cathode portion covers a second partial surface of the anode portion. The colloid portion is disposed next to the insulating portion, and the colloid portion surrounds the cathode portion and covers a partial surface of the cathode portion.
US08654500B2	Lightning-resistant fastener There is provided a lightning-resistant fastener that can secure sufficient lightning-resistance performance at low cost and realize efficiency of field work and improvement of reliability. An insulating coat film 40 is formed in a region opposed to a structural member 22 in a shaft section 25c of a fastener main body 25 and an insulating layer is interposed between the structural member 22 and the shaft section 25c of the fastener main body 25, whereby an electric current is fed along a head section 25b side of the fastener main body 25 and a wing panel 21 when lightning occurs. This suppresses the electric current from flowing to the front end portion side of the fastener main body 25, i.e., the interior side of a wing 20 and prevents arc discharge from occurring inside the wing 20.
US08654496B2	Trip unit including separable component to save and restore settings, and circuit breaker including the same A circuit breaker includes separable contacts, an operating mechanism to open and close the contacts, and a trip unit cooperating with the operating mechanism to trip open the contacts. The trip unit includes a first component having a processor and a first memory storing a first set of a plurality of trip unit settings, and a second component of the trip unit. The second component is separable from the first component or the trip unit, and includes a second memory storing a second set of a plurality of trip unit settings. The second component saves the first set of the plurality of trip unit settings as the second set of the plurality of trip unit settings in the second memory, and restores the second set of the plurality of trip unit settings in the first memory of the first component or of another first component of another trip unit.
US08654494B2	Systems and methods for limiting voltage on an auxiliary bus Systems and methods for limiting voltage on an auxiliary bus are described. The voltage-limited auxiliary bus may be comprised of a DC auxiliary bus comprised of a positive conductor and a negative conductor; a chopper, wherein the chopper is normally in a non-conducting state; a resistor in series with the chopper, wherein the chopper and the resistor are connected between the positive conductor and the negative conductor of the DC auxiliary bus; and a chopper control, wherein an overvoltage on the DC auxiliary bus causes the chopper control to cause the chopper to begin conducting and the conducting limits the voltage on the DC auxiliary bus and dissipates energy from the overvoltage.
US08654492B2	Electrostatic discharge protection apparatus and method therefor An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection apparatus includes a clamp circuit, a detection circuit and a control circuit. The clamp circuit has a first terminal and a second terminal respectively coupled to a first rail line and a second rail line. In response to an ESD event, the clamp circuit generates a first coupling potential at its coupling terminal. The detection circuit, coupled to the coupling terminal of the clamp circuit and the second rail line, outputs a detection signal in response to the first coupling potential. The control circuit, coupled to the first and second rail lines, the detection circuit and the clamp circuit, outputs a conduction signal to a control terminal of the clamp circuit in response to the detection signal. The clamp circuit is conducted in response to the conduction signal so that ESD between the first and second rail lines is performed through the clamp circuit.
US08654485B1	Electronic ballast with protected analog dimming control interface A control signal interface circuit includes a line voltage protection circuit coupled to first and second input terminals. The protection circuit provides an input DC voltage across the input terminals within a predetermined range (i.e., 0-10 Vdc) and prevents the application of an input line voltage (i.e., 347 Vac) across the input terminals. A first current source circuit is coupled to the protection circuit, an isolation circuit is coupled to the first current source circuit and a second current source circuit is coupled to the isolation circuit. The first and second current source circuits collectively provide a linear output DC voltage with respect to the input DC voltage. At least one of the first and second current source circuits include circuitry wherein the linear conversion of the input DC voltage to the output DC voltage is independent of the temperature.
US08654477B2	Maximizing performance under a power envelope constraint The present invention is a method of maximizing drive performance under any power constraint. In one embodiment, the method includes actively adjusting a seek power draw based on a comparison of real-time calculations of average seek power to a target power threshold.
US08654463B2	Device and method for controlling bit density of magnetic card A device and a method for controlling a bit density of a magnetic card (2) are provided. Said control device comprises a stepper motor (1) providing power to drive the magnetic card (2) or a recording magnetic head (15), a transmission mechanism transferring power to the magnetic card (2) or the recording magnetic head (15), a CPU (10) sending magnetic recording information, a track data encoder (13) receiving a magnetic writing pulse signal (CLK1) and generating magnetic writing data in synchronization with the magnetic writing pulse signal (CLK1), and a magnetic head driving circuit (14) outputting a magnetic writing control signal based on the magnetic writing data. The frequency of the magnetic writing pulse signal (CLK1) and the frequency of a driving pulse signal (CLK0) of the stepper motor are in a linear relationship. Said control method is a method for controlling a bit density.
US08654456B2	Photographic optical system and image pickup apparatus including the photographic optical system A photographic optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit, a second lens unit for focusing, and a third lens unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens sub-unit having a positive refractive power and a second lens sub-unit. The first lens unit includes a diffractive optical element and an aspheric surface. A length on an optical axis from a lens surface furthest on the object side of the first lens sub-unit to an image plane, an air space between the first lens sub-unit and the second lens sub-unit, a focal length of the first lens sub-unit, a focal length of the second lens sub-unit, a focal length of the diffractive optical element by only a diffractive component, a focal length and an F-number of the entire photographic optical system are appropriately set to satisfy predetermined conditions for optimal focusing.
US08654452B2	Image pickup apparatus that drives plural lens units using motors different from each other and drive control method of lens An image pickup apparatus includes a first drive unit, a first lens unit configured to be driven by the first drive unit to perform a magnification-varying operation, a second drive unit, a second lens unit configured to be driven by the second drive unit, and a controller configured to control the first drive unit and the second drive unit so as to drive the second lens unit with reference to a position of the first lens unit in performing the magnification-varying operation. The controller controls the second lens unit so as to move only in a first direction in performing the magnification-varying operation.
US08654449B2	Zoom lens and image projection apparatus including the same Provided is a zoom lens, including in order from a magnification conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a sixth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first and sixth lens units do not move for zooming, while the second to fifth lens units move to the magnification conjugate side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. Each of the second and third lens units is composed of a single positive lens. Movement amounts of the second, third and fourth lens units during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end satisfy appropriate relationships.
US08654444B2	Polarization converting color combiner Optical elements, color combiners using the optical elements, and image projectors using the color combiners are described. The optical elements can be configured as color combiners that receive different wavelength spectrums of light and produce a combined light output that includes the different wavelength spectrums of light. In one aspect, the received light inputs are unpolarized, and the combined light output is polarized in a desired state. The optical elements are configured to minimize the passage of light which may be damaging to wavelength-sensitive components in the light combiner. Image projectors using the color combiners can include imaging modules that operate by reflecting or transmitting polarized light.
US08654443B2	Image display apparatus The stereoscopic image display apparatus of this invention includes an upper light source unit 29 having a pair of light sources 33 and 35 and a lower light source unit, which are arranged between a reflection unit 17 with an elliptical mirror 15 having one focus f1 on the side of a reflecting surface 19, and a transmission type liquid crystal display panel 5. Thus, the apparatus has a reduced width. Moreover, the elliptical mirror 15 is the stationary type, and the reflecting surface 19 employed is shaped symmetrical in plan view. This allows the respective light sources to use the common elliptical mirror 15. Therefore, the stereoscopic image display apparatus realizes a reduction in size and a reduction in apparatus cost.
US08654438B2	Master oscillator-power amplifier drive laser with pre-pulse for EUV light source A device is described herein which may comprise an optical amplifier having a gain band including wavelengths λ1 and λ2, with λ1≠λ2; a pre-pulse seed laser having a tuning module for tuning a pre-pulse output to wavelength λ1; a main pulse seed laser generating a laser output having wavelength, λ2; and a beam combiner for directing the pre-pulse output and the main pulse output on a common path through the optical amplifier.
US08654436B1	Particles for use in electrophoretic displays An electrophoretic medium comprises two different types of electrically charged particles in a fluid. One type of electrically charged particles comprises a dark colored particle and a second type of electrically-charged particles comprises titania having a zirconia surface treatment.
US08654425B2	Optical detection device, optical device, optical information reading device, and light source fixing method Provided is an optical detecting device, wherein a photodiode is provided on a first surface of a substrate, a planar output electrode for outputting electrical signals corresponding to a quantity of light received by the photodiode is provided on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface, a cutout portion is provided in a third surface of the substrate such that the cutout portion is in contact with the output electrode provided on the second surface, said third surface being different from the first surface and the second surface, and an electrode connected to the output electrode is provided on the inner surface of the cutout portion.
US08654420B2	Waveguides A waveguide 112 includes a substrate of material 134 having optical layers 148, 152 applied to two external surfaces 146, 150. This reduces the critical angle c5 of the substrate of material 134 to provide greater interaction between image bearing light following a light path 140 and a grating element 142 and/or a greater total field of view 160, when compared to the total field of view 132 of a prior art waveguide 110, that is capable of being transmitted by the waveguide 112. Such a waveguide 112 can be used in a projection display.
US08654419B2	Image forming apparatus and image density detecting method An image forming apparatus performs pseudo gradation processing using dithering, and includes an image carrier; a plurality of light-emitting element arrays arranged in a main-scanning direction and including a plurality of light-emitting elements; an image forming unit performing lighting control of the arrays and forming a pattern image on the image carrier; a detecting unit detecting a density of the pattern image; a position detecting unit detecting a position in the main-scanning direction of the detecting unit with respect to the light-emitting element arrays; a determining unit that, based on the detected position, determines whether the detecting unit is positioned at a proper detection position with respect to the pattern image on which noise has no effect; and an operation control unit that, when the detecting unit is positioned at the proper detection position, performs an image density detection operation on the pattern image using the detecting unit.
US08654413B2	Reader and image forming apparatus A reader includes a housing with a platen on which a document is placed, a light source unit which moves along the platen and irradiates light toward the document, a mirror unit which works with the light source unit to define an optical path of the reflected light from the document in the housing, and a rotatable lock member mounted on one of the light source and mirror units. The housing includes an operation member, which is slid to fix the light source and mirror units, and a slide surface, which holds the sliding operation member. The lock member is rotated between an engaged position, where the lock member is engaged with another of the light source and mirror units, and a disengaged position, where the lock member is disengaged from the other of the light source and mirror units in response to slide operation of the operation member.
US08654407B2	Multifunction apparatus A scanner is mounted on a printer. A printer lid is pivotally mounted to the printer, and is moveable to open and close. A scanner lid is pivotally mounted to the scanner, and is moveable to open and close. A printer locking member and a scanner locking member are pivotally mounted to the scanner. Opening the scanner lid causes the printer locking member to pivot to lock the scanner to the printer. Opening the printer lid causes the scanner locking member to pivot to lock the scanner lid to the scanner. A scanner having a lid is pivotally mounted on a printer. When the lid is pivoted to open, a stopper may pivot together with the lid and abut the scanner, thereby stopping the lid. The stopper may pivot together with the lid and the scanner and abuts the printer, stopping the lid and the scanner.
US08654386B2	Method and system for enabling decentralized, trustworthy and collaborative sharing of services Methods and systems for selecting a service provider are disclosed. Information pertaining to print service providers, including associated user and general reputation scores, are received. Each user reputation score identifies a user's perception of a print service provider's reputation. Each general reputation score identifies a general strength of the print service provider's reputation. A first set of providers is selected based on a threshold user reputation score. A second set of providers is selected (pseudo-)randomly. A trust score is determined for each provider in the first and second sets based on the associated user and general reputation scores. One or more negotiation providers are selected from the first and second sets based on the associated trust scores. One or more of the user and general reputation scores are updated for negotiation providers based on a quality of service provided or an offer provided to or by the negotiation provider.
US08654384B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus to be network-connected is provided with an acquirer for requesting event information indicating a specific event having occurred in another image forming apparatus via a network and acquiring the event information transmitted via the network in response to this request, and a processor for performing a predetermined process to deal with the specific event when the event information is acquired by the acquirer.
US08654378B2	Image-processing apparatus and server device The image-processing apparatus includes: a communication interface unit; a user interface display unit which is arranged to provide information to a user; a user interface input unit provided with a hardware-key which is arranged to receive an input from the user; a web browser which is arranged to acquire page data from a web server, structure a display screen based upon the page data, and display the display screen on the user interface display unit; a hardware-key function assignor which is arranged to determine a function to be assigned to the hardware-key based upon the page data; and a hardware-key control unit which is arranged to control the hardware-key in accordance with the determination of the hardware-key function assignment by the hardware-key function assignor.
US08654375B2	Resource partitioning in a print system A printing system is provided comprising a plurality of resources including idle and non-idle resources having a plurality of image marking engines and a user interface for inputting user determinable priority criteria for a first print job. All of the non-idle resources are assigned to the first print job when the first print job is the only print job; and, a resource fraction of the non-idle resources is assigned to the first print job when there is at least a second print job.
US08654371B2	Image forming apparatus, power-saving control method, and computer-readable recording medium in which power-saving control program is recorded The image forming apparatus includes: a sleep control unit which, in a normal operation mode in which power is supplied to a fixing device, if predetermined processing is not executed for a preset time or if an instruction to execute shifting to a power-saving mode with lower power consumption than in the normal operation mode is received, makes a shift to a sleep mode with a lower power consumption than in the normal operation mode, in which at least power supply to the fixing device is stopped; and a super-sleep control unit which makes a shift to a super-sleep mode in which a power source of a processor is turned off if predetermined processing is not executed for a shorter time than the preset time after the shift to the sleep mode is made.
US08654366B2	Management apparatus for managing facsimile apparatuses, control method thereof, and storage medium A management apparatus by which one of facsimile apparatuses that externally receives facsimile data is selected based on current power modes of the facsimile apparatuses. Facsimile data can be transmitted from any of a FAX and MFPs on an IP communication network. One of MFPs which are not in a power saving mode is selected by the management apparatus, and a URI of the selected MFP is registered in an SIP server. When facsimile data whose original transmission destination is an MFP which is in a power saving mode is transmitted, the facsimile data is transferred to and alternatively received by the selected MFP.
US08654365B2	Image data processing system The present invention includes a control apparatus that (i) receives, from a multifunction peripheral, information indicative of image process content selected by the user, (ii) detects, in correspondence with image processing function information stored in advance, an image process section that can carry out an image process, and (iii) causes the detected image process section to carry out the image process. This arrangement makes it possible to easily use, at the multifunction peripheral, an image processing function that can be performed by an image processing apparatus.
US08654364B2	Document feeding device and image forming apparatus in which even small-sized documents can be properly transported A document feeding device of the present invention includes: a discharge roller pair that includes a first drive roller and a first idler roller; and a transport roller pair that includes a second drive roller and a second idler roller. Either one of the second drive roller and the second idler roller moves between a contact position where said roller is in contact with the other roller and a separation position where said roller is separated from the other roller. The transport roller pair is disposed on the other side of the discharge roller pair from a discharge tray. The transport roller pair transports a document that has passed through the reading position to the discharge roller pair by positioning said roller at the contact position in a case where the first drive roller rotates forward.
US08654360B2	Management apparatus, method, and storage medium for managing job logs A management apparatus has a determination unit which determines, from a plurality of logs included in the log information, a plurality of similar logs based on information included in the logs. The management apparatus also has a difference log generation unit which generates, from the information included in each log, a difference log having information in a smaller amount than in an original log for the plurality of logs determined to be similar by the determination unit. The log management unit manages, as logs based on one print request together, the plurality of logs determined to be similar by the determination unit, and manages, as the difference log generated by the difference log generation unit, some of the plurality of logs determined to be similar by the determination unit.
US08654358B2	Image data processing device including image data treating units An image data processing device includes a plurality of image data treating units, a storing unit, and a setting unit. The plurality of image data treating units treats image data. The storing unit stores a plurality of conditions relating to a property of image data to be treated by each of the image data treating units. The setting unit is configured to set a condition in the storing unit to each of at least two of the image data treating units at a time. The conditions set to the at least two of the image data treating units is associated with one another so that the at least two of the image data treating units treat image data with same concept of processing.
US08654357B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for printing carbonless copy paper An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a print instruction for printing a plurality of pages, a determination unit configured to determine whether a type of print paper designated by the print instruction is carbonless copy paper, and an assignment unit configured to assign to each of the plurality of pages, if the determination unit determines that the type of print paper designated by the print instruction is carbonless copy paper, carbonless copy paper with an attribute that corresponds to a position of each page within the plurality of pages.
US08654344B2	Device for generating a secondary source by laser-material interaction comprising an optical device for controlling the orientation and the position of a surface in movement A device for generating a secondary source from a primary optical source emitting a first optical beam focused onto a surface in movement, with which said first beam interacts so as to generate a secondary beam, includes an optical device for controlling the orientation and position of said surface to determine the orientation and position of the emission point of said secondary source on said surface. The device comprises: a control laser beam split into two branches, a fixed reference beam and a mobile analysis beam reflected by the surface in movement; means for making said reference and analysis beams interfere to generate interference fringes; means for imaging the interference fringes carrying information about the orientation and position of said surface; means for analyzing said interference images; and means for generating a feedback loop for controlling the orientation and position of said surface in movement based on the analysis.
US08654331B2	Electromagnetic field measurement apparatus There is provided an electromagnetic field measurement apparatus capable of achieving correct and timely circuit operation detection in an area where electronic devices are mounted at high density. An electromagnetic field measurement apparatus includes: a laser light source; a polarized wave controller that linearly polarizes laser light; an optical fiber probe that has an electrooptic material or a magnetooptic material at its leading end and in which the laser light reflected at the leading end is subjected to polarization modulation in accordance with an electric field intensity or a magnetic field intensity; and an analyzer that converts the laser light reflected by the optical fiber probe into intensity modulated light. The laser light source emits time-multiplexed laser light of a plurality of wavelengths different from one another. The electromagnetic field measurement apparatus further includes: an optical circulator that outputs the laser light linearly polarized by the polarized wave controller to a multiplexer/demultiplexer and outputs the laser light input from the multiplexer/demultiplexer to the analyzer; and a multiplexer/demultiplexer that outputs the laser light to different optical fiber probes according to the wavelength of the laser light and outputs the laser light to the optical circulator.
US08654325B2	Substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing method, and computer-readable storage medium having program for executing the substrate processing method stored therein Provided is a substrate processing apparatus including a placement table on which a substrate is disposed; a light source configured to irradiate light on the surface of the substrate on the placement unit; a detector configured to detect the light amount reflected from the substrate; and a control unit configured to perform a determination process of determining whether a detection value of the light amount is smaller than a predetermined value at a plurality of positions, and to determine that a holding state of the substrate is abnormal when the total number of times of determination in which it is determined that the detection value is smaller than the predetermined value reaches a predetermined number of times.
US08654310B2	Exposure method, exposure apparatus, photomask and method for manufacturing photomask There is disclosed an exposure method is a method of projecting patterns (M1, M2) of a mask (M) onto a substrate to effect exposure thereof, through a plurality of projection optical units each having an enlargement magnification, and the exposure method comprises: placing the mask (M) having first pattern regions (M1) arranged discontinuously in a positional relation corresponding to the enlargement magnification, and second pattern regions (M2) provided at least in part between the first pattern regions (M1), on the object plane side of the projection optical units; projecting enlarged images of either of the first pattern regions (M1) and the second pattern regions (M2) onto the substrate disposed on the image plane side of the projection optical units to effect exposure thereof; and then projecting enlarged images of the other pattern regions onto the substrate to effect exposure thereof.
US08654302B2	Heat exchanger for an electronic display A cooling assembly for an electronic image assembly having an open and closed gaseous loop. A closed gaseous loop allows circulating gas to travel across the front surface of an image assembly and through a heat exchanger. An open loop allows ambient gas to pass through the heat exchanger and extract heat from the circulating gas. An optional additional open loop may be used to cool the back portion of the image assembly (optionally a backlight). Ribs may be placed within the optional additional open loop to facilitate the heat transfer to the ambient gas. The cooling assembly can be used with any type of electronic assembly for producing an image.
US08654291B2	Pixel circuit and display device A display device in which low power consumption is realized without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal capacitive element Clc is sandwiched between a pixel electrode 20 and an opposite electrode 80. The pixel electrode 20, one end of a first switch circuit 22, one end of a second switch circuit 23 and a first terminal of a second transistor T2 form an internal node N1. The other terminals of the first switch circuit 22 and the second switch circuit 23 are connected to a source line SL. The second switch circuit 23 is a series circuit composed of a first transistor T1 and a diode D1. A control terminal of the first transistor T1, a second terminal of the second transistor T2 and one end of a boost capacitive element Cbst form an output node N2. The other end of the boost capacitive element Cbst and the control terminal of the second transistor T2 are connected to a boost line BST and a reference line REF, respectively. The diode D1 has a rectifying function from the source line SL to the internal node N1.
US08654281B2	Photo-patterned pre-tilt liquid crystal cells, lenses and methods Liquid crystal cells and lenses having a variable resulting pre-tilt across two or more areas of the cell, and in particular, cells and lenses are provided wherein a resulting pre-tilt is varied across the cell according to any desired birefringence profile that can be utilized in liquid crystalline optical elements and liquid crystal displays. Methods of fabrication of the liquid crystal cells with variable resulting pre-tilt are disclosed.
US08654280B2	Bi-stable chiral splay nematic mode liquid crystal display device A bi-stable chiral splay nematic mode liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line and a data line on an inner surface of the first substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a reflecting plate on the thin film transistor, the reflecting plate including an embossing pattern; a first passivation layer including a flat top surface on the reflecting plate; a first electrode on the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer on the first electrode; at least one second electrode and at least one third electrode on the second passivation layer; a fourth electrode on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer including bi-stable chiral splay nematic liquid crystal molecules between the first and second substrates.
US08654274B2	Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display device including the same A backlight assembly is provided. The backlight assembly includes a mold frame having a tetragonal frame shape and including four side parts and a bottom part extending from bottoms of the side parts, a printed circuit board disposed on the bottom part of the mold frame, at least one light source disposed on the printed circuit board, and a light guide sheet disposed at a side of the light source and accommodated in the mold frame.
US08654269B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display panel capable of reducing a capacitance of a parasitic capacitor between a data line and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a thin film transistor at a crossing of a gate line and a data line, liquid crystal cells including a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; first shield patterns in the liquid crystal cells, each shield pattern being parallel to the data line without overlapping the data line, wherein the shield patterns are insulated from and overlap with an outer portion of the pixel electrode; and a common line arrayed to connect the shield patterns for each the liquid crystal cell.
US08654265B2	Touch display panel and associated method A conductive layer of a touch sensor and a pixel electrode conductive layer of a display panel are integrated to a touch display panel during the same fabrication. The touch sensor defines a plurality of sensor groups that are insulated from each other in a same conductive layer, and each of the sense groups is divided into a plurality of mutually-coupled first electrodes, a plurality of mutually-coupled second electrodes and a plurality of mutually-coupled third electrodes. The first electrodes and the third electrodes are insulated from each other and are horizontally interlaced. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are insulated from each other and are located on opposite sides of a horizontal symmetry axis. A gain for compensating a vertical coordinate of a touch position is introduced according to capacitance variances of the first electrodes and the second electrodes.
US08654258B1	Method and apparatus for estimating noise in a video signal A method and system for detecting and estimating noise in a video signal. For example, detail edges may be identified in a plurality of pixels, wherein each detail edge has an edge magnitude value. The detail edges in the plurality of pixels may be identified by: determining one or more directionality values for the plurality of pixels by passing the input video signal through at least one directional filter, and identifying the detail edges by assigning edge magnitude values based on whether the one or more directionality values exceed predetermined threshold levels. An edge map of the detail edges may be created, where the edge map is configured to indicate areas of the plurality of pixels to be considered or ignored in estimating the noise in the input video signal. The noise in the input video signal may then be estimated based on the indicated areas of the edge map.
US08654253B2	Video apparatus capable of outputting OSD data through unauthorized output path to provide user with warning message or interactive help dialogue A video apparatus includes a video processor for performing video processing to generate normal video data. The video processor includes an on-screen display (OSD) module for selectively generating OSD data that is capable of being mixed into the normal video data. The video apparatus further includes a digital output path including a digital transmitter and an analog output path including a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The video apparatus is capable of outputting OSD data through an unauthorized output path out of the digital and analog output paths to provide a user with a warning message or an interactive help dialogue.
US08654249B2	Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a resolution determining section that determines, for a selected combination of an input terminal and an output terminal, an input set resolution set for an input terminal to be a processing resolution, when an output set resolution of an output terminal is set to “Source”; and ignores the input set resolution set for the input terminal and determines the output set resolution set for the output terminal to be a processing resolution, when the output set resolution of the output terminal is set to other than “Source”.
US08654243B2	Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof An apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a captured image, an object region detection unit configured to detect the main object region in a photographic screen, a determination unit configured to determine whether the main object region is in a focused state, an enlarge unit configured to enlarge and display the main object region in focus on the display unit larger than when the main object region is not in focus, an object movement detection unit configured to detect whether the main object in the main object region moves in the photographic screen, and an enlarge control unit configured to, when the object movement detection unit detects that the main object is moving, limit the enlarge from performing enlargement and display.
US08654228B2	Imaging apparatus, camera body and interchangeable lens An imaging apparatus includes an optical system configured to collect subject light, an imaging device having an electronic front curtain function, configured to receive the subject light to generate an image signal, a data storage unit configured to store an exit pupil distance of the optical system and a correction amount of the exit pupil distance, a mechanical shutter capable of cutting off the subject light passing through the optical system to the imaging device, and a correction unit configured to obtain the exit pupil distance of the optical system and the correction amount of the exit pupil distance from the data storage unit, obtain a corrected exit pupil distance using the obtained exit pupil distance of the optical system and a correction amount of the exit pupil distance, and correct brightness unevenness of the image signal based on the corrected exit pupil distance.
US08654226B2	Clock gated power saving shift register A gated-clock shift register including a series of clocked flip-flops with preceding outputs connected to subsequent inputs as a horizontal digital shift register. Each flip-flop (or other state holding device) includes a clock buffer between the respective flip-flop's clock, and the global clock. Each clock buffer propagates the clock signal when it determines the associated flip-flop will have a state change during that clock cycle (e.g., via an XOR of the flip-flops input and output signals). In the absence of a state change, that buffer does not propagate the clock signal, essentially only clocking the relevant flip-flops. Further, the clock buffer may be implemented with only NMOS devices (or alternatively, only PMOS devices), which offers power savings over an otherwise required CMOS implementation.
US08654225B2	Color interpolation system and method thereof A color interpolation system is disclosed. An enhancement unit receives raw signals from an image sensor, and then processes the raw signals to output an enhanced first signal. A first interpolation unit receives and processes a raw first signal and accordingly outputs an interpolated first signal. A gain generator generates an enhancement gain according to the enhanced first signal and the interpolated first signal.
US08654223B2	Image pickup apparatus The image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor unit including an optical system forming an optical image of an object placed on a stage part and plural image sensors each of which captures part of the optical image, a drive mechanism relatively moving the stage part and the image sensor unit, and a processing part causing the image sensor unit to perform plural image capturing operations with causing the drive mechanism to relatively move the stage part and the image sensor unit after each image capturing operation, and combining the plural captured images to produce a whole image covering the whole image capturing area. The plural image sensors are arranged such that an effective diameter of the optical system necessary to introduce light from the stage part to all the plural image sensors is smaller than a diameter of a circle circumscribed to the whole image capturing area.
US08654222B2	Imaging device, signal processing method, and computer program An imaging device includes a main image sensor configured to obtain an image used for recording, a sub-image sensor configured to obtain a live view image, an input switching unit, and a signal processor. The input switching unit receives a plurality of sensor outputs including an output of the main image sensor and an output of the sub-image sensor, switches the plurality of received sensor outputs in a time-division manner, and outputs time-division switched signals of the plurality of sensor outputs to the signal processor. The signal processor receives the time-division switched signals from the input switching unit, and executes signal processing on the received time-division switched signals.
US08654220B2	Image processing apparatus and control method for the same When determining a direction in which pixels highly correlated with a defective pixel exist, it is determined whether the direction is the horizontal or vertical direction or the oblique direction from signal values of peripheral pixels of the same color as the defective pixel. On the other hand, one of the vertical direction and the horizontal direction and one of a plurality of predetermined oblique directions are determined from signal values of peripheral pixels of different colors from the defective pixel, and one direction is selected as the final direction determination result according to a determination result obtained by using pixels of the same color.
US08654219B2	Method and apparatus for restoring dead pixel using light intensity map in a time-of-flight camera Disclosed herein is an image display apparatus including a display unit; a camera unit configured to capture a subject, and to acquire a depth image from the captured subject; and a controller operatively connected to the display unit and the camera unit, the controller configured to control the camera unit to restore an interest region based on depth information and light intensity information when the interest region exists in the acquired depth image.
US08654214B2	Multi-spectral imaging Multi-spectral imaging technique embodiments are presented which involve an active imaging approach that uses wide band illumination of known spectral distributions to obtain multi-spectral reflectance information in the presence of unknown ambient illumination. In general, a reflectance spectral distribution of a captured scene is computed by selecting a number of different illumination spectra and capturing multiple images of the scene. Each of these images is captured when the scene is illuminated by a different one of the selected illumination spectra in addition to the ambient light. The reflectance spectral distribution of the scene is computed for each pixel location based on the relative response between pairs of the radiometric responses of the corresponding pixels in the captured images, given a set of parameters including the added illumination spectra used to capture each of the images and the response function and spectral sensitivity of the camera used to capture the images.
US08654209B2	Photography control method and apparatus for prohibiting use of flash A photography control method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for prohibiting the use of a flash. The method includes recognizing a sensitive face from an obtained image and prohibiting the use of the flash when the recognized face is a sensitive face. The method may include determining whether or not the image is taken from a dark environment and if the image is taken from a dark environment, then increasing the optical sensitivity and optionally performing advanced shake reduction.
US08654202B2	Correction of captured and stabilized images In a system for capturing a series of images of a scene comprising an image capture device having a matrix of flux detectors which is oriented along a sighting axis (z), comprising a stabilizing module which stabilizes the sighting axis of the captured images, the sighting axis being instilled with a defined, cyclic, motion, the following steps are applied to a series of successive images (N1−K) captured during a cycle. Steps /i/ and /ii/ are repeated from the first image captured up to the last image captured of the series and an intermediate image (IIntermediate) is obtained •−/i/ registering a subsequent image (Ni+i) on a preceding image (Ni) as a function of the defined motion; −/ii/ correcting spatial noise relating to the flux detectors and affecting the common part of the images. Next, a corrected captured image of the scene is obtained by applying a convolution product between the intermediate image and a correction point spreading function (PSFglobal) which is determined on the basis of the defined motion.
US08654196B2	Image pickup apparatus and rangefinder, with altering baseline lengths for parallax computation obtained by combining any two of a plurality of cameras There is provided an image pickup apparatus for use in measuring a distance from an observer to a target. The image pickup apparatus includes a case; and a plurality of cameras configured to capture images of the target is fixed in the case. In the image pickup apparatus, the distance from the observer to the target is measured based on the images of the target captured by altering baseline lengths for parallax computation obtained by combining any two of the cameras.
US08654193B2	Method for registering model data for optical recognition processing and optical sensor To easily generate model data having high recognition accuracy and being consistent with measurement conditions and installation environment of each of optical sensors. Basic model representing a range in which a workpiece can be optically recognized is inputted, and pieces of processing of imaging and measuring the workpiece under the same condition as that in an actual measurement and matching feature data of the workpiece obtained from this measurement with the basic model are executed for a plurality of number of cycles. Then, in the basic model, information is set as unnecessary information where the information cannot be associated with the feature data of the workpiece in all of the pieces of matching processing, or where the number of times or ratio the information cannot be associated is more than a predetermined reference value, or where the information cannot be associated with the feature data in any one of the pieces of executed matching processing. Then, the unnecessary information is deleted from the basic model, and information after each deletion is identified as model data to be registered and is registered to the memory.
US08654192B2	Inter-image effect array for previewing digital motion picture content The subject matter disclosed herein relates to calculating an inter-image effect array capable of tuning an effect of spectral dye density curves for use in a preview of digital motion picture content.
US08654189B1	Anchor surveillance for maritime vessels Anchor surveillance for maritime vessels involving the use of an underwater video camera and a remote video display to enable indirect inspection of an anchor during and/or after the process of deploying and/or setting the anchor. The remote video display may be on and/or off the maritime vessel and may comprise a software application (“app”) on a smart-phone and/or computer tablet to help control some or all of the anchor surveillance system.
US08654181B2	Methods for detecting, visualizing, and correcting the perceived depth of a multicamera image sequence A set of tools in a media composition system for stereoscopic video provides visualizations of the perceived depth field in video clips, including depth maps, depth histograms, time-based depth histogram ribbons and curves displayed in association with a media timeline, and multi-panel displays including views of clips temporally adjacent to a clip being edited. Temporal changes in perceived depth that may cause viewer discomfort are automatically detected, and when they exceed a predetermined threshold, the editor is alerted. Depth grading tools facilitate matching depths in an outgoing clip to those in an incoming clip. Depth grading can be performed automatically upon detection of excessively large or rapid perceived depth changes.
US08654175B2	Video messaging system Systems and methods provide a video messaging service for transmitting video messages between network terminals over a network. After a caller's video-messaging terminal receives a notification that a receiver failed to respond to a communication request, the caller's video-messaging terminal may enable the caller to record a video message and store it for viewing on-demand by a receiver's video-messaging terminal. After recording, the caller's video-messaging terminal transmits a stored message notification terminal to a network server which, in turn, transmits a stored message notification, including an identifier of the caller's video-messaging terminal, to the receiver. Based on the identifier, the receiver's video-messaging terminal may request access to the video message from the callers video-messaging terminal. In response to the request, the caller's video-messaging terminal retrieves the video message from storage and provides it to the receiver's video-messaging terminal over the network.
US08654172B2	Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus A plurality of light sources, a light deflector, and a single scan lens. The light deflector deflects a plurality of light beams emitted from the light sources by a same face for scanning a plurality of to-be-scanned portions simultaneously. The single scan lens receives the light beams from the light deflector and focuses the light beams onto each of the plurality of to-be-scanned portions to scan the to-be-scanned portions simultaneously. The single scan lens is used in common for the light beams, and has one incidence plane and a plurality of exit planes in a sub-scanning direction separately prepared in the sub-scanning direction for each of the to-be-scanned portions. The incidence plane has a refractive power of the lens in the sub-scanning direction decreasing toward peripheral portions in the main scanning direction. The exit planes have positive refractive power in the main and sub-scanning directions.
US08654170B2	Optical device, image forming apparatus, and method for controlling optical device An optical device includes a drive unit configured to drive a light source that outputs a laser beam; a detecting unit configured to detect the laser beam output from the light source; a converting unit configured to convert an output of the detecting unit into a value within a predetermined range; and a control unit configured to control the drive unit to switch a light quantity of the laser beam output from the light source from a first light quantity within an imaging light quantity range for forming an image to a second light quantity outside the imaging light quantity range, or vice versa. The converting unit converts an upper limit light quantity in the imaging light quantity range into a maximum value in the predetermined range, and converts a lower limit light quantity in the imaging light quantity range into a minimum value in the predetermined range.
US08654159B2	Image display device and driving method thereof An image display device and a method of driving the same capable of improving visibility of both a 2D image and a 3D image and preventing a reduction in a luminance of the 2D image when implementing the 2D image are discussed. The image display device in one embodiment includes a display panel including a plurality of subpixels to selectively configure a 2D image and a 3D image, and a patterned retarder separating the light incident from the display panel into a first polarization component and a second polarization component, wherein the subpixel includes a main subpixel, a subsidiary subpixel and a control TFT for controlling a display gray level of the subsidiary subpixel.
US08654156B2	Driver circuit of display and method for calibrating brightness of display A driver circuit for driving at least a pixel of a displayer, including an output stage, a calibration device and a surge suppression device. The output stage is coupled to the pixel and controlled by a pixel signal to switch an output voltage on the pixel between a high level and a low level. The calibration device is coupled between the output stage and the pixel and comprises an input end controlled by a bias voltage to calibrate an equivalent resistance of the calibration device for further calibrating a brightness level of the pixel. The surge suppression device is coupled between the input end of the calibration device and the pixel signal, and is used to suppress surges in the bias voltage which occur due to switching of the output voltage.
US08654154B2	Method for processing a digital image A method for varying a view of a digital image to be sent to a display. The method comprises retrieving image data representing a first area of the digital image from a reduced size, in regard of number of pixels, representation of the digital image, sending the retrieved image data representing the first area to the display, receiving a user input signal requesting a second area to be sent to the display, retrieving image data representing the second area of the digital image from the reduced size representation of the digital image, and sending the retrieved image data representing the second area to the display.
US08654131B2	Video image processing apparatus and video image processing method To present relevant information about an object of interest to a viewer in an appropriate timing based on the display state of objects that appear in a video image. A video image processing apparatus 10 processes the additional information including content data and relevant information about the respective objects. A display feature information calculation unit 107 acquires frame data indicating the display state of an object to be displayed in each frame constituting video data and calculates display feature information about the object to be displayed in each frame. A frame evaluation unit 108 evaluates a frame using an evaluation criteria relating to the degree of attention of the object within a frame based on the calculated display feature information. A display timing determination unit 109 determines a frame at which displaying relevant information about the object is to be started in accordance with the frame evaluation result. A display data generation unit 110 generates data for displaying relevant information about an object, and a superimpose unit 104 superimposes the data with video data, and output the superimposed data to a display unit 105.
US08654121B1	Structured polygonal mesh retesselation An interactive multi-mesh modeling system may allow users to employ a variety of modeling techniques to interactively create one or more objects for a variety of different tasks or tools. The interactive multi-mesh modeling system may employ a variety of techniques for taking a source computer-generated representation of an object and providing the automatic creation, management, and maintenance of instances or versions of the source, and any information defined thereon or associated therewith, that are suitable for several different tasks. The interactive multi-mesh modeling system may further employ a variety of techniques for retesselating meshes based on determining new vertices and edges immediately in response to traversing an input mesh space.
US08654119B2	System and method for four dimensional angiography and fluoroscopy A method for generating time-resolved 3D medical images of a subject by imparting temporal information from a time-series of 2D medical images into 3D images of the subject. Generally speaking, this is achieved by acquiring image data using a medical imaging system, generating a time-series of 2D images of a ROI from at least a portion of the acquired image data, reconstructing a 3D image substantially without temporal resolution from the acquired image data, and selectively combining the time series of 2D images with the 3D image. Selective combination typically involves registering frames of the time-series of 2D images with the 3D image, projecting pixel values from the 2D image frames “into” the 3D image, and weighting the 3D image with the projected pixel values for each frame of the time-series of 2D images. This method is particularly useful for generating 4D-DSA images (that is, time-resolved 3D-DSA images) from a time-series of 2D-DSA images acquired via single plane or biplane x-ray acquisitions with 3D images acquired via a rotational DSA acquisition. 4D-DSA images can be generated either by using multiple injections or by using a single injection by combining a time-series of 2D-DSA images generated from individual projections from a rotational x-ray acquisition with a 3D image reconstructed from substantially all of the projection views acquired during the rotational x-ray acquisition. These DSA images may have a spatial resolution on the order of 5123 pixels and a temporal resolution of about 30 frames per second, which represents an increase over traditional 3D-DSA frame rates by a factor of between 150 and 600.
US08654116B2	Signal conversion circuit and multiple primary color liquid crystal display device with the circuit A signal conversion circuit is disclosed which is suitably used in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and a multiprimary liquid crystal display device having such a signal conversion circuit. A signal conversion circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention is for use in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and converts an input video signal to a multiprimary signal corresponding to four or more primary colors. When generating a multiprimary signal for displaying dark skin, the signal conversion circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention applies a conversion to the video signal so that a color difference Δu′v′=((u′−u60′)2+(v′−v60′)2) is 0.03 or less, the color difference Δu′v′ being defined by CIE1976 chromaticity coordinates (u′, v′) representing a chromaticity when the pixel is viewed from the frontal direction and CIE1976 chromaticity coordinates (u60′, v60′) representing a chromaticity when the pixel is viewed from a 60° oblique direction.
US08654109B2	Projector, projection display system, and corresponding method and recording medium A network-connectable projector having a first CPU that executes a web application program stored in a first memory, and a second CPU that controls a working state of the projector, based on working state information stored in a second memory. The second CPU obtains the working state information from the second memory, and transfers the information to the first CPU. The first CPU distributes the web page information including the working state information received from the second CPU to the web client upon receipt of the request from the web client. The first CPU makes the second CPU control the working state of the projector, based on control information that is sent back from the web client and is related to performance control of the projector.
US08654093B2	Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel which displays pieces of identification information including letters, figures, and symbols and detects a contact of the panel with a finger of a user or other object. When the touch panel detects the contact of the panel, a detection unit specifies identification information of one or more of the multiple pieces of identification information displayed on the touch panel, indicated by a position at which the contact in question occurred. The detection unit also detects an area of part of the panel where the contact occurred. A storage unit stores reference identification information and a reference area range. A control unit performs particular processing upon matching of the detected identification information with the stored reference identification information and the area of the contact detected by the detection unit falling within the stored reference area range.
US08654087B2	Flexible display device and data displaying method thereof A flexible display device and a data displaying method thereof are disclosed. The device includes a touch sensor to generate touch events according to touch actions, a flexible sensor to generate a bend signal as one side of the device is bent, a storage unit to store a function table, and a controller to control the components of the device. The function table is configured to define control operations to reproduce currently output contents based on the touch events and the bend events.
US08654085B2	Multidimensional navigation for touch sensitive display A method performed by a device having a touch panel may include detecting a touch on the touch panel, determining a dimension of the touch, identifying the touch as a standard tap or a full tap based on the dimension of the touch, and generating a command signal based on the identifying of the touch as the standard tap or the full tap.
US08654080B2	Keyboard and electronic device using same A keyboard for an electronic device includes a main body, a test indicator positioned on an outside surface of the main body, and an interface electrically connected to both the main body and the test indicator. Both the main body and the test indicator are electrically connected to a main board of an electronic device through the interface. The electronic device can be operated using the keyboard, and the test indicator indicates the working status of the electronic device.
US08654075B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal including a body having at least one partial region including a flexible material; a flexible display to display information; a sensor unit to detect a first physical bending of the flexible display; and a controller to display a prescribed mark to a specific region of the flexible display based on the detected bending of the flexible display.
US08654073B2	Information processing program having computer-readable storage medium therein and information processing apparatus A game apparatus calculates a first evaluation value based on the difference between the time when the load value detected by a load controller becomes the maximum and the time when the velocity of the center of gravity, which represents the velocity of movement of the position of the center of gravity, becomes the maximum. The game apparatus calculates a second evaluation value based on the velocity of load, which represents the degree of increase in the load in a predetermined time period, and the velocity of the center of gravity. The game apparatus calculates a third evaluation value based on the path of the position of the center of gravity. The game apparatus calculates the amount of slice based on the first through third evaluation values.
US08654063B2	Photo-sensing type touch panel embedded liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same A photo-sensing type touch panel embedded liquid crystal display device and a method for driving same are disclosed, where the device includes a liquid crystal panel includes a touch sensor provided in each of n pixels, where n is a Natural Number; a ROIC readout part which receives a readout voltage value from readout lines provided in the touch panel embedded liquid crystal panel; an ADC conversion part which converts an analog voltage value transmitted to the ROIC readout part into a digital value; a calculation part which calculates a calculated value by subtracting a corresponding value detected from the ADC conversion part when no-backlight is applied from a value detected from the ADC conversion part when a backlight is applied; and a position detection part for detecting a touch point on the photo-sensing type touch panel if the calculated value from the calculation part is beyond a predetermined value.
US08654057B2	Electro-optical device, shift register circuit, and semiconductor device An electro-optical device is configured to be capable of using a region of a gate line drive circuit efficiently and preventing rising speed of a gate line selection signal from decreasing (rising delay), and a shift register circuit is composed of a single conductivity type transistor which is suitable for the device. The gate line drive circuit including an odd driver to drive odd rows of a plurality of gate lines, and an even driver to drive even rows thereof. Each unit shift register in the odd and even drivers receives a selection signal in the second previous row and activates its own selection signal two horizontal periods later. A start pulse of the even driver is delayed in phase by one horizontal period with respect to a start pulse of the odd driver.
US08654044B2	Display device, picture signal processing method, and program There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an average luminance calculator (200) for calculating average luminance for a predetermined period of the input picture signal, and also includes a luminous time setter (202) for setting an effective duty depending on the calculated average luminance by the average luminance calculator (200), the effective duty regulating for each one frame a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous. The luminous time setter (202) sets the effective duty such that a luminescence amount regulated by a preset reference duty and possible maximum luminance of a picture signal.
US08654043B2	Organic electroluminescence display device and method for driving the same In an organic electroluminescence display device (30) comprising an organic EL element (26) having a structure wherein an organic luminescent medium (24) is sandwiched between a top electrode (20) and a bottom electrode (22), and a driving circuit (14) for driving the organic EL element (26), the organic luminescent medium (24) comprises a host compound and a triplet-related luminous compound and the driving circuit (14) applies a electric pulse voltage or pulse current having a frequency of 30 Hz or more and a duty ratio of 1/5 or less. In this way, it is possible to provide an organic EL display device which consumes a low electric power and has a long luminous life span, and a method for driving the same.
US08654038B2	Head mounted display and imaging data usage system including the same A head mounted display includes: an image presentation portion that sequentially presents each of content images to a user's eye; an imaging portion that images an object when the content images are presented; an event acquisition portion that acquires an event occurring outside; a storage control unit that stores imaging data including the imaged object and imaging time position information regarding an imaging time; an event determination unit that determines whether the acquired event has a specific feature; a first specification unit that specifies first time position information regarding a timing when the event having the specific feature is occurred; and a first association registration unit, which, when the event has the specific feature, associates presentation identification information for identifying the presented content images with the first time position information, and which registers the presentation identification information and the first time position information.
US08654031B2	Plug-in antenna A modular plug-in antenna array capable of low cost and automated manufacturing is disclosed. The antenna element is designed to work efficiently over a broadband with simplified assembly requirements and to be used in discrete or array applications. Plug-in antennas eliminate the need for external tools, and allow the antenna to be removed, for service, test, and ease of assembly. Many transceivers are assembled using printed circuit board techniques whereon electronic components are mounted using a pick and place process. The plug-in antenna connects directly onto the circuit board; with connectors that are compatible with a pick and place process and which are produced in mass quantities for the computer and telecommunications industry, thus yielding lower costs than traditional high performance RF coaxial connectors. With demands for higher antenna bandwidth, the disclosed simplified plug-in antenna provides an appropriate balance between performance and the ease of modular assembly, manufacture, and costs.
US08654027B2	Antenna arrangement An antenna arrangement (200, 300, 400) with antenna units (220, 230) comprising an input port (201, 202), a power divider (202, 204) for dividing an input signal into a major and a minor part with a ratio 11, a network (211, 216) with a sum input port, a difference input port, and first and second output ports, first (215, 217) and second antenna (214, 218) elements of a first and a second polarization. Signals to the sum input port are output with a first relation between them and signals to the difference input port are output with a second phase relation. The antenna units are arranged so that the major part of an input signal is connected to the sum port of a network and the minor part of an input signal is connected to the difference port of another network, and the first and second output ports of a network are connected to first and second adjacent antenna elements of the same polarization.
US08654024B2	Antenna module An antenna includes a first antenna portion, a second antenna portion, a third antenna portion, a feed portion, and a ground portion. The first antenna portion perpendicularly connects to the feed portion and the ground portion. The second antenna portion connects to the first antenna portion. The third antenna portion connects to the feed portion. The first antenna portion and the second antenna portion are both located on a plane perpendicular to the feed portion. The feed portion, the ground portion, and the third antenna portion are coplanar.
US08654020B2	Antenna having capacitive element An antenna having a capacitive element is disclosed. Herein, the antenna is configured of a radiator, a ground plane being spaced apart to a predetermined distance from the radiator, a ground pin electrically connected to the radiator and the ground plane, a capacitive element located between the radiator and the ground plane, a first branch arm electrically connecting the capacitive element and the radiator, and a second branch arm electrically connecting the capacitive element and the ground plane. Thus, multiple band and broad band characteristics can be realized by the simple structure of the antenna.
US08654018B2	Printed planar RFID element wristbands and like personal identification devices Each personal identification device includes a planar identification element with at least a core of flexible, porous and preferably microvoided polymer sheet material and a planar RFID assembly encoded with a unique electro/magnetic code permanently and integrally joined together with the core. The sheet material is sufficiently porous to collapse around the core so the sheet product remains planar yet flexible. A separate carrier can be provided or devices can be made in batches with scoring define one or more individual RFID devices removable from a remainder of a sheet product.
US08654016B2	Methods and apparatus for determining parameters of an array Methods and apparatus for determining parameters for an array are described. An exemplary embodiment of a method determines a set of parameters for an antenna array including multiple array elements, the array being fed by a feed array including a plurality of feed elements. The embodiment of the method includes measuring a plurality of bistatic ranges Rijk through different signal path combinations, each signal path combination from a feed element “i,” to an array element “j,” and to a feed element “k”. The measuring includes radiating energy from feed element “i”, and reflecting some of the radiated energy from array element “j” back to feed element k of the feed array. The measured bistatic ranges are processed to solve for the set of parameters. Another embodiment of a method is for measurement of multiple array elements of an array, and includes radiating energy from one or more array elements, reflecting some of the radiated energy from a set of reflector elements back to the array elements each reflector element having a variable phase shifter associated therewith, cycling each reflector element phase shifter through a range of phase shifter settings at a unique rate, processing the received signals to extract a phase of the reflected energy as received at each element; and using the extracted phase for each element to determine a relative location of each array element.
US08654005B2	Methods for resolving radar ambiguities using multiple hypothesis tracking Methods for resolving radar ambiguities using multiple hypothesis tracking are described. One such method includes (a) choosing a single waveform for each of a plurality of dwells of a first scan, wherein the single waveforms of consecutive scans are different, (b) generating the first scan using the single waveform for each of the dwells of the first scan, (c) receiving observation data as a result of the first scan, the observation data comprising measured positions of true targets and false targets, (d) generating, using multiple hypothesis tracking, position predictions for true targets and false targets, (e) comparing the predicted positions and measured positions, repeating (a)-(e) until a preselected process condition is met, and determining the true targets based on the results of the comparisons.
US08654001B2	Wide-band HIRF detector- and analysis system for aircraft A method for detecting electromagnetic threats to an aircraft, wherein electromagnetic fields are measured, and in the case of an arising threat to the aircraft being detected, countermeasures are taken, characterized by the following steps: measuring the frequency and the amplitude of at least one electromagnetic field in the frequency range from 9 KHz to 40 GHz; analyzing the measured results and determining the field intensity in relation to each measured frequency; comparing the field intensity in relation to each measured frequency with stored limiting values or qualification values, wherein the aircraft is qualified for field intensities that are lower than the limiting values; and providing the result in the form of a warning signal in the case of approaching or exceeding a limiting value.
US08654000B2	Time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter for signals in any Nyquist zone Processing a signal by receiving an analog input signal located outside of a first Nyquist zone that is between 0 and fs/2; passing the analog input signal through an M-channel time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TI-ADC) to generate a TI-ADC output signal; and estimating and correcting a timing skew error in the TI-ADC output signal. Alternatively, an electronic circuit that includes an input for an analog input signal, an M-channel time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TI-ADC) and a timing skew error estimating and correcting circuitry. The analog input signal is located outside of a first Nyquist zone that is between 0 and fs/2. The TI-ADC receives the analog input signal and generates a TI-ADC output signal. The timing skew error estimating and correcting circuitry estimates and corrects a timing skew error in the TI-ADC output signal.
US08653999B1	Current steering DAC, a video adapter including a current steering DAC, and a video circuit including a current steering DAC A current steering Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), a video adapter including a current steering DAC, and a video circuit including a current steering DAC are described. In one embodiment, a current steering DAC includes multiple DAC unit cells that are connected in parallel with each other. Each of the DAC unit cells includes three output switches connected to a current source. The three output switches are configured to form two differential pairs of switches that are placed in parallel with each other and share a negative output switch of the three output switches. The current steering DAC also includes at least one switch control circuit configured to receive digital input data and to control the three output switches of each of the DAC unit cells to generate differential analog output data based on the digital input data and a current from the current source. Other embodiments are also described.
US08653992B1	Data compression optimization Systems and methods for optimizing the compression of data using a dictionary coding compression system are described. A system performs an initial compression operation, such as by using a dictionary or other coder. The system then refines the compression by performing an iterative backward reference search for an optimized compressed file.
US08653988B2	Lighting, signage and storage apparatus for traffic control vehicle A lighting chassis and equipment rack apparatus for use with a dual purpose lane control vehicle and pilot vehicle. The lighting chassis provides an apparatus for positioning and supporting a flashing arrow board and traffic control signage above the cab of a vehicle, and provides a system of racks for stowage and access for traffic control equipment. The apparatus is adaptable for use on a wide variety of vehicles.
US08653985B2	Shutdown system A production shutdown system for an underwater hydrocarbon production facility, comprising, on the topside:a safety system, anda communications module;and, underwater;drive control means, andan underwater communications component;wherein in use safety signals are passed from the safety system to the drive control means via the topside communications module and the underwater communications component, and wherein the safety system and drive control means are rated according to a prescribed safety level but the communications module and underwater communications component are not so rated.
US08653981B2	Safety device for underwater diving A safety device for underwater diving has a sensor for measuring a flow of gas bubbles comprising a belt for fixing and functional coupling to the body of a diver. The flow sensor is linked to a portable computer for utilizing signals from the flow sensor so as to provide an alarm signal if the measured flow level exceeds a predetermined safety threshold and to thus customize a table of decompression stops.
US08653973B2	Device and its use for deterring wearing and returning of merchandise Provided is a device for deterring purchase-wear-return of merchandise, particularly women's dresses, by a consumer.
US08653971B2	Sensor tape for security detection and method of fabrication A sensor in the form of an elongated flexible tape has a signal path made from electrical wire or optical fiber which extends between one end and another end of the tape. The electrical wires or optical fibers are disposed in spaced relation across the width and along the length of the tape and are terminated in connectors at the endpoints of the tape. The connectors may be integrated into a signal detector to interface with communication links. The tape is a material that is non-conductive and in which the wires or optical fibers may be woven, disposed or embedded in some manner. One or more layers of flexible material can be laminated on respective sides of the sensor tape to provide a robust laminated or bonded structure that can be rolled and unrolled from a reel. An adhesive layer and a removable layer can be provided to protect the adhesive layer prior to use. An overcoat of outer layer resin may be applied.
US08653966B2	System for seamless and secure networking of implantable medical devices, electronic patch devices and wearable devices A system level scheme for networking of implantable devices, electronic patch devices/sensors coupled to the body, and wearable sensors/devices with cellular telephone/mobile devices, peripheral devices and remote servers is described.
US08653963B2	Emergency alert system and method An emergency alert system, method and device are disclosed. The invention employs an emergency alert message, which directs end users to take some particular action like evacuating an identified geographic area. The invention further employs a geographic area message, which is based on a particular geographic area within which all persons should receive the emergency alert message. The invention utilizes an emergency alert enabled device that receives both the emergency alert message and the geographic area message. The emergency alert enabled device determines whether it is located within the geographic area of concern, and if so, presents the emergency alert message to the end user.
US08653956B2	Method and system for implementing a geofence boundary for a tracked asset An asset's TCU, or a mobile device coupled thereto, receives and stores geographical boundary definitions to a memory. A processor uses the boundary definition to determine an initial-location boundary based on the definition and the current location of the TCU at the time it received the boundary request message. As the TCU's GPS unit generates location information, the processor retrieves the initial-location boundary definition from the memory and compares the current location from the GPS receiver to it according to an algorithm. If the processor determines that the current location of the vehicle has crossed the boundary, the processor generates an alert message, which may be an e-mail, SMS, telephonic, interne, IM, or other electronic message indicating that an asset crossed the boundary, and sends it wirelessly using a transceiver to a central computer for further processing, or directly to another device, according to a notification destination identifier.
US08653950B2	State-based remote control system A remote control system includes a remote control device configured to control a plurality of consumer electronic devices. The remote control system further includes a programming system configured to: i) receive identifying information, which identifies each of the consumer electronic devices, ii) generate at least one macro, which is configured for collectively controlling the consumer electronic devices to perform a media function; and iii) issue a query to a user to determine whether the macro is to be used by the remote control device. If a positive response is received by the programming system in response to the query, then configuring the remote control device for using the macro. If a negative response is received by the programming system in response to the query, then not configuring the remote control device for using the macro.
US08653949B2	Intellectual refrigerator combining with portable electric device and control method for the same An intellectual refrigerator combining with a portable electric device is present. The refrigerator has an image unit, a wireless transmitting unit and a micro control unit (MCU) therein. The image unit is used to monitor status or fetch image in a case of the refrigerator. The MCU electrically connects to the image unit and the wireless transmitting unit. The refrigerator further includes a connecting socket arranged on an outer surface of the case, and the connecting socket includes a first transmitting interface electrically connected to the MCU. When the electric device is plugged in the connecting socket, a connection is established by the MCU of the refrigerator with the electric device physically via the first connecting interface. When the electric device is removed from the connection socket, the connection is automatically turned to establish by the MCU with the electric device wirelessly via the wireless transmitting unit.
US08653939B2	Coded wireless key card sensor unit A coded wireless sensor unit has a slot sized to receive a key card. When a key card is inserted into the slot, the act of insertion generates a energy-harvested power pulse, which powers circuitry that reads electrical device control information coded on the key card and creates a first information packet signal that is transmitted by an on-board transmitter. The signal can be read by a receiver and relayed to a control unit which controls certain electrical devices which consume line power in response to received information packet signals. The control unit decodes received information packet signals and either turns on or activates the electrical devices in accordance with the decoded device control information. Removal of a key card can also be used to generate a power pulse, which creates a second information packet signal that is used to turn off or deactivate the electrical devices.
US08653938B2	Method of protection in a contactless radiofrequency communication A method of protection of a near-field contactless communication system against malicious attacks. The method includes exchange of information between a reader and a contactless card of duration T, measured with respect to a starting instant t0 seen from the reader, decoding of this information by the card, sending by the card a return signal temporally set with respect to an instant t′0+T, where t′0 is the starting instant as seen by the card taking into account delays in propagation or processing of signals received from the reader, detection of the return signal by the reader, determination of the temporal setting of the return signal with respect to the starting instant t0, and interruption of communication by the reader if the temporal setting of the return signal detected is not equal to the instant t0+T with a predetermined margin of error. The return signal is a pseudo-random sequence.
US08653930B2	Apparatus and method for reducing inductor saturation in magnetic fields This document discusses, among other things, an inductive component that can include a core having two portions: (1) a first portion composed of a first material having a first magnetic saturation level; and (2) a second portion composed of a second material selected to provide inductance for the inductive component when an external magnetic field is greater than the first magnetic saturation level. In an example, the first portion can be composed of a material having a relatively low magnetic saturation level (e.g., a ferrite), and the second portion can be composed of a material having a relatively high magnetic saturation level (e.g., a high permeability iron alloy).
US08653927B2	System comprising a multi-layer-multi-turn structure for high efficiency wireless communication A structure for wireless communication having a plurality of conductor layers, an insulator layer separating each of the conductor layers, and at least one connector connecting two of the conductor layers wherein an electrical resistance is reduced when an electrical signal is induced in the resonator at a predetermined frequency.
US08653912B2	Switching element There is provided a switching element which facilitates integration with higher density and lamination in a device, the switching element including: an insulating substrate; a first electrode provided on the insulating substrate; a second electrode provided above the first electrode; and a between-electrode gap section provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a nanometer-scale gap for causing a switching phenomenon of a resistor by applying a prescribed voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US08653906B2	Opposed port ortho-mode transducer with ridged branch waveguide An ortho-mode transducer may include a common waveguide terminating in a common port. A horizontal branch waveguide may terminate in a horizontal port. The horizontal branch waveguide may couple a first linearly polarized mode from the horizontal port to the common waveguide. The horizontal branch waveguide may comprise one or more ridged waveguide segments. A vertical branch waveguide may terminate in a vertical port opposed to the horizontal port. The vertical branch waveguide may couple a second linearly polarized mode from the vertical port to the common waveguide, the second linearly polarized mode orthogonal to the first linearly polarized mode.
US08653904B2	Thin film balun A thin film balun of the present invention comprises: an unbalanced transmission line UL including a first line portion L1 and a second line portion L2; a balanced transmission line BL including a third line portion L3 and a fourth line portion L4 that are positioned facing the first line portion L1 and the second line portion L2 and electromagnetically coupled to the first line portion L1 and the second line portion L2, respectively; an unbalanced terminal UT connected to an end of the first line portion L1; a first balanced terminal BT1 connected to the third line portion L3; a second balanced terminal BT2 connected to the fourth line portion L4; and a ground terminal G connected to the third line portion L3 and the fourth line portion L4, wherein the ground terminal G has an extension that extends from the ground terminal G to an area at the unbalanced terminal UT side.
US08653902B2	Transmission circuit, communication apparatus, and transmission method Provided is a transmission circuit that operates highly efficiently by avoiding deterioration of the linearity of an output signal and suppressing occurrence of distortion of the output signal, when using the envelope tracking method. In this transmission circuit, offset control section (160) sets voltage that makes the corrected envelope signal level equal to or higher than the delayed envelope signal level, as offset voltage. By this means, the corrected envelope signal level becomes equal to or higher than the delayed envelope signal level, so that it is possible to prevent the power supply voltage from being lower than the optimal power supply voltage, making it possible to prevent the linearity of an output signal from deteriorating in power amplifier (130).
US08653894B2	Push-pull amplifier having inductive common mode decoupling A push-pull amplifier is provided for amplifying an input signal, having first and second amplifier elements. Each of the amplifier elements has a current-emitting electrode, a current-collecting electrode, and a current-controlling electrode. The input signal is supplied to the current-controlling electrodes of the amplifier elements via a respective input connection and a respective input inductor arranged between the respective input connection and the respective current-controlling electrode. The current-collecting electrodes are connected via a respective supply inductor having a common supply voltage. The current-emitting electrode of each amplifier element is connected to the current-collecting electrode of the other amplifier element via a respective capacitor. The current-emitting electrodes are connected to output connections on which the output signal can be picked up, and to a reference potential via a respective output inductor. The supply inductors of the amplifier elements are inductively coupled to the input inductors and the output inductors of the respectively other amplifier element.
US08653893B2	Output circuit, data driver circuit and display device An output circuit includes a differential input stage, an output amplifier stage, a current control circuit; an input terminal, an output terminal. The current control circuit includes a first circuit that includes a second current source connected between a first power supply terminal and the second current mirror, and exercises control of switching between activating the second current source to couple a current from the second current source to a current on an input side of the first current mirror, and deactivating the second current source, depending on whether or not the input voltage is higher by more than a first preset value than the output voltage; and a second circuit that includes a third current source connected between the second power supply terminal and the first current mirror, and exercises control of switching between activating the third current source to couple a current from the third current source to a current on an input side of the second current mirror, and deactivating the third current source, depending on whether or not the input voltage is lower by more than a second preset value than the output voltage.
US08653883B2	Voltage doubler and oscillating control signal generator thereof A voltage doubler and an oscillating control signal generator controlling a charge pump (powered by a first voltage to provide a second voltage) of the voltage doubler are disclosed. The oscillating control signal generator includes a first input terminal receiving a fundamental oscillation signal, a second input terminal receiving a comparison result showing whether the second voltage is greater than a target value, a third input terminal operative to obtain an electric current consumption status at an output terminal of the charge pump, and an output terminal outputting an oscillating control signal for the control of the charge pump. Further, the oscillating control signal generator includes a logic circuit. The logic circuit generates the oscillating control signal by selectively blocking status changes of the fundamental oscillation signal according to the comparison result and the electric current consumption status.
US08653882B2	Controlling over voltage on a charge pump power supply node A charge pump driver circuit has a first charge switch that couples a first node of a flying capacitor to a first power supply node, and a second charge switch that couples a second node of the capacitor to a second power supply node. Control circuitry is coupled to open the second charge switch and discharge the second node of the capacitor, in response to a control signal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08653881B2	Half bridge flyback and forward A circuit includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch, a diode, a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary windowing, and an input connected to a first terminal of the primary winding. The high-side switch has a source, a gate connected to a drive source and a drain connected to a second terminal of the primary winding. The low-side switch has a source connected to ground, a gate connected to a drive source and a drain connected to the source of the high-side switch. The diode is connected between the gate of the high-side switch and the first terminal of the primary winding. The diode forms a current loop with the primary winding and the high-side switch to circulate current when low side switch is off until the high side switch turns off.
US08653879B2	Level shifter and semiconductor integrated circuit including the shifter A level shifter for converting an input pulse signal of low-voltage amplitude to high-voltage amplitude includes a low voltage circuit configured to generate complementary-pulse signals of low-voltage amplitude from the input pulse signal, and a high voltage circuit configured to generate a pulse signal of high-voltage amplitude based on the complementary-pulse signals. The low voltage circuit, including high-threshold voltage transistors, includes a plurality of inverter circuits connected in cascade and at least one resistive-switch circuit connected between an input and an output of at least one of the plurality of inverter circuits configured to operate as a resistor when in a conductive state.
US08653875B2	Semiconductor device, a method of improving a distortion of an output waveform, and an electronic apparatus Provided is a semiconductor device which inputs an input clock signal of predetermined frequency and outputs a plurality of clock signals of the same frequency, the semiconductor device including: an input unit configured to input the input clock signal of the predetermined frequency; and a delay unit configured to generate a plurality of clock signals of the same frequency by providing predetermined delay time period to the input clock signal to be delayed in order to reduce load applied to a power supply in common with the plurality of the clock signals. According to the semiconductor device, output waveform distortion of the clock signals can be improved even with simple structure.
US08653870B2	PWM signal output circuit A PWM-signal-output circuit includes a first output unit to output a PWM signal with a first duty cycle, in a first period in which a motor starts rotating, a second output unit to output the PWM signal whose duty cycle increases toward a second duty cycle and decreases from the second duty cycle in a period from a logic level change in speed signal until its subsequent logic level change, in a second period following the first, the speed signal having a period corresponding to a motor-rotation speed and a logic level changing alternately, and a third output unit to output the PWM signal whose duty cycle increases toward that of the input signal and thereafter decreases from that of the input signal in a period from a logic level change in the speed signal until its subsequent logic level change, after the second period elapses.
US08653865B2	Voltage change detection device A voltage change detection device is provided, which can reduce a deviation of a detection potential and can detect a voltage change within a predetermined detection potential even when the threshold voltage of a field effect transistor is deviated. The voltage change detection device includes a first field effect transistor, a second field effect transistor, and a detection signal generator. The first field effect transistor has a drain connected to a power supply potential, a source connected to a first constant current source or a first resistor at a first node, and a gate connected to a fixed voltage. The second field effect transistor has a drain and a gate connected to the power supply potential and a source connected to a second constant current source or a second resistor at a second node. The detection signal generator generates a detection signal indicating that the power supply potential has crossed a predetermined detection potential according to a comparison between a voltage at the first node and a voltage at the second node.
US08653864B2	Reset circuit In some embodiments, a reset circuit for an electronic circuit equipped with a backup power capacitor includes a first detector arranged to detect a predetermined first voltage of the backup capacitor, a second detector arranged to detect a predetermined second voltage of the backup capacitor, the second voltage being lower than the first voltage, and a controller arranged to control an output of a reset request signal based on detection results of the first detector and the second detector. The controller is configured to output the reset request signal when the first detector detects the first voltage after the second detector detected the second detector.
US08653854B2	Low-current logic-gate circuit A circuit includes E-mode transistors with gate-source junction, a D-mode transistor with gate-source junction. A component generates a voltage drop between the source of the D-mode transistor and the drain of an E mode transistor provided as a signal output. A connection is made between this drain of the E-mode transistor and the gate of the D-mode transistor, and a signal input at the gates of the E-mode transistors.
US08653852B2	Voltage level shifter with dynamic circuit structure having discharge delay tracking In a particular embodiment, an apparatus includes a a dynamic circuit structure that includes a dynamic node coupling a precharge circuit, a discharge circuit, and a gated keeper circuit. The gated keeper circuit is enabled by a signal from a discharge delay tracking circuit.
US08653836B2	Coordinate detecting device A coordinate detecting device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a capacitance detecting circuit, a first electrode switch, and a second electrode switch. All of the second electrodes are connected to a power supply by the second electrode switch and the first electrodes are selectively connected to the capacitance detecting circuit by the first electrode switch, thereby detecting a first coordinate. All of the first electrodes are connected to the power supply by the first electrode switch and the second electrodes are selectively connected to the capacitance detecting circuit by the second electrode switch, thereby detecting a second coordinate. When a plurality of first coordinates or a plurality of second coordinates are detected, capacitances between the first and second electrodes corresponding to combinations of the detected first and second coordinates are measured, thereby specifying the position of the detection target.
US08653825B2	Power measurement with a signal generator A measuring system contains a signal generator and at least one power meter. A device under test is supplied with a signal from the signal generator. A signal output by the device under test can be measured by the first power meter. In this context, the signal generator and the power meter are connected by a bidirectional communications link.
US08653823B2	Detection of welded switch contacts in a line converter system A system for the detection of welded contacts in a circuit of a line converter system has a plurality of inverter switches, a plurality of utility switches in which a pair of utility switches is connected in series through a line to a utility, a voltage detector, an electronic controller, and a DC input source. The line converter system converts incoming DC power into AC output power that is delivered to the utility grid. The voltage detector measures the voltage across a first node and a second node of the circuit and provides an output that is interpreted by an electronic controller for each step performed during a method of detection of welded contacts. The detection method has a sequence of test steps in which at least one switch is opened and/or closed, a DC bus of the inverter or the utility grid is used as a stimulus voltage, and the voltage is measured. If a voltage is not detected across the first and second nodes, the test sequence is continued until a welded contact is detected or the electronic controller determines that none of the contacts are welded. If the controller determines that none of the contacts are welded, the line converter system is permitted to connect and supply AC power to the utility.
US08653822B1	Chopperless ambient electric field sensor A chopperless ambient field apparatus and method is described having top and bottom sensing plates; a transistor-based device having first, second and third terminals; a first signal line coupled to the top plate and the first terminal of the device; a second signal line coupled to the bottom plate and the second terminal of the device; at least one controllable grounding circuit coupled to at least the first and second plates and to the first terminal of the device; an electrical parameter detector coupled to the second and third terminals of the device; and a protective enclosure disposed about the top and bottom plates, the device, and the detector, wherein with control of the grounding circuit, the detector measures AC fields and quasi-static DC electric fields impinging on the plates. A calibration procedure converts the unit to a DC measuring device.
US08653811B2	Pipeline inspection tool with oblique magnetizer A pipeline inspection tool has an even number “n” of spiraled pole magnets spaced equidistant apart and spanning the length of the tool. Each pole magnet, which preferably has a conformable upper surface, is rotated or spiraled about the tool body so that a second end of each pole magnet is offset a predetermined amount “α” relative to a first end of that same pole magnet. The amount of rotation α applied to each of the pole magnets produces a magnetic field oblique to the central longitudinal axis of the tool body (and therefore the pipe) and one that covers 360° of the internal wall surface of the pipe. A helical-shaped array of magnetic flux sensors may be arranged about the tool body and substantially equidistant between adjacent pairs of pole magnets. The tool detects axially oriented, circumferentially oriented, and volumetric anomalies and allows for single pass inspection.
US08653799B2	Multilevel converter as reactive power compensator having active A multilevel converter has a plurality of converter strands, which are connected to the phases of a three-phase-network in a star or delta connection. From phase voltage values and phase current values, an active component characteristic of the overall active current and two asymmetrical components characteristic of a distribution of the overall flowing active and reactive currents are determined. The active and the two asymmetrical components are each filtered and multiplied with the phase voltage values and the two filtered asymmetrical components. The multiplied values are then weighed and added to the phase current values. From the asymmetrical components and the phase voltage values, a zero current is determined and added to the phase current values such that it symmetrizes a potential asymmetrical active current flow that would occur without the zero current. From the modified phase current values, a control state for the converter strands is determined.
US08653794B2	Apparatus and method for estimating voltage of secondary battery including blended cathode material Disclosed is an apparatus for estimating a voltage of a secondary battery which includes a cathode comprising a first cathode material and a second cathode material with different operating voltage ranges, an anode comprising an anode material and a separator for separating the cathode from the anode. The apparatus comprises a control unit configured to estimate a voltage of a secondary battery based on a circuit model including a first cathode material circuit, a second cathode material circuit and an anode material circuit, each circuit modeled to change its voltage according to State Of Charge (SOC) of the electrode material corresponding the circuit and a current flowing through the circuit.
US08653781B2	Variable frequency drive and rotation speed searching apparatus for an induction motor Provided is a variable frequency drive and a rotation speed searching apparatus for an induction motor incorporated therein. The rotation speed searching apparatus is featured by scanning the rotor frequency of the induction motor and determining either the error between a detected DC-bus voltage and a set DC-bus voltage or the error between a detected output current and a set output current, so that the rotation speed of the induction motor can be searched out.
US08653770B2	Motor control system A motor control system includes a power supply to supply current to a motor, a shunt resistor provided at one side of the motor to measure the magnitude of current supplied to the motor, a differential amplifier to receive a voltage applied to both ends of the shunt resistor as an input signal and amplify the input signal, an Analog/Digital Converter (ADC) to convert an analog signal generated from the differential amplifier into a digital signal, a switch to switch current applied to the motor by the power supply, and a microcontroller to generate a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control signal so as to control ON or OFF of the switch and generate an operation start signal of the ADC by considering the PWM control signal and a hardware delay value of the differential amplifier.
US08653762B2	Particle accelerators having electromechanical motors and methods of operating and manufacturing the same A particle accelerator including an electrical field system and a magnetic field system that are configured to direct charged particles along a desired path within an acceleration chamber. The particle accelerator also includes a mechanical device that is located within the acceleration chamber. The mechanical device is configured to be selectively moved to different positions within the acceleration chamber. The particle accelerator also includes an electromechanical (EM) motor having a connector component and piezoelectric elements that are operatively coupled to the connector component. The connector component is operatively attached to the mechanical device. The EM motor drives the connector component when the piezoelectric elements are activated thereby moving the mechanical device.
US08653759B2	Lighting system electronic ballast or driver with shunt control for lighting control quiescent current Ballasts and LED drivers are presented for powering at least one light source, in which a shunt circuit provides a high impedance to allow operation of the light source when the AC input power exceeds a power threshold value, and provides a low impedance when the AC input power is below the power threshold value to prevent an output power stage from providing power to the light source.
US08653755B2	Lighting apparatus and illuminating fixture with the same A control circuit selects a first control mode in which a switching element is turned on/off so as to flow current in an inductor in a continuous mode by which the current flows in the inductor without a sleep period, thereby fully lighting a light source load. The control circuit selects one of a second control mode in which a turn-on time of the switching element is changed and a third control mode in which an oscillating frequency is changed according to an interval, to which the designated dimming ratio corresponds, to light the light source load. An output capacitor connected between output terminals of a step-down chopper circuit smoothes a pulsation component of an output current supplied to the light source load and has capacity set so that a ripple ratio of the output current is less than 0.5 at the full lighting of the light source load.
US08653750B2	Method of controlling an electronic ballast, an electronic ballast and a lighting controller A method of controlling an electronic ballast for a lighting circuit, the ballast including a bleeder, for use with dimmer circuits, by, in response to a mains supply being connected to the lighting circuit, determining whether a dimmer circuit is present in the lighting circuit; and in response to determining a dimmer circuit is not present, disconnecting the bleeder from the lighting circuit at least until the mains supply is disconnected. The method may be used during start, and the determination of whether a dimmer circuit is present is stored at least until the mains supply is disconnected. Determination of either a leading or trailing edge phase cut dimmer may be made by looking for deviation from the expected sine-wave voltage, either directly through temporal or voltage deviation, or indirectly by examining the second differential of the voltage with respect to time.
US08653747B2	Light emitting device and driving method thereof A light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting modules and a plurality of voltage controlling circuits capable of being independently controlled. Each voltage controlling circuit includes a dynamic voltage controlling module, a current controlling module, and a luminance controlling module. The dynamic voltage controlling module is used for comparing a voltage level at a second terminal of the light emitting module and a voltage level of a reference voltage source, so as to output a first voltage. The current controlling module is used for adjusting a bias current flowing through the light emitting module, according to the first voltage. The luminance controlling module is used for comparing the first voltage with a clock signal, and for generating a pulse width modulation signal according to a result of the comparison, so as to dynamically control a duty cycle of the light emitting module.
US08653742B2	Control circuit of switching power supply for driving light emitting elements, and light emitting device and electronic apparatus using the same A control circuit of a switching power supply for supplying a drive voltage to a light emitting element is provided. The control circuit includes a pulse width modulator which generates a pulse signal whose duty ratio is adjusted such that a detection voltage corresponding to an output voltage of the switching power supply is equal to a predetermined reference voltage, a driver which drives a switching element of the switching power supply based on the pulse signal, and a standby control unit which stops driving of the switching element once a predetermined time has passed after a standby signal steps down to a level indicating a standby state, and to shut down the control circuit and a current source.
US08653737B2	Controller for semiconductor lighting device A semiconductor lighting device has an array of semiconductor light sources arranged in an x-y grid, a power input in electrical connection with the array and arranged to provide power to the light sources, a microcontroller in electrical connection with the array arranged to alter operation of the array as necessary, and a connector in electrical connection with the microcontroller, arranged to provide an interface to the microcontroller. The semiconductor lighting device has a first interface to allow a first level of access to the microcontroller by an end user, a second interface to allow a second level of access to the microcontroller for maintenance operations, and a third interface to allow a third level of access to the microcontroller during production.
US08653736B2	Multiple channel light source power supply with output protection Multiple output channel light source power supply circuits, and methods for protecting the output channels, are provided. A front end circuit receivess an input voltage and provides a regulated front end DC voltage. A plurality of voltage converter circuits are each configured to receive the regulated front end DC voltage and provide a separate associated DC output for an associated one of the multiple output channels. A protection switch is coupled therebetween, and includes a conducting state, to couple the front end DC voltage to the plurality of voltage converter circuits, and a non-conducting state, to decouple the front end DC voltage. A current sense circuit is coupled to the voltage converter circuits, and provides a current sense output representative of current through at least one voltage converter circuit. A controller circuit places the protection switch in the non-conducting state in response to the current sense output.
US08653734B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device comprises: an LED; a LED holder having a LED mount, a radiation fin provided on a back side or a periphery of the LED mount, and an engaging part projecting from a center of the back side of the LED mount; a power circuit supplying drive power to the LED; and a body having an inner space for accommodating the power circuit, one end, and the other end where the LED holder is fixed, wherein the other end of the body has an engaged part engaged to the engaging part of the LED holder, and holding the LED mount and the radiation fin in a state of separation from the body; heat conductivity of the LED mount and the radiation fin is higher than that of the engaged part of the body.
US08653732B2	Ceramic metal halide lamp with oxygen content selected for high lumen maintenance A lamp includes a discharge vessel with electrodes extending into the discharge vessel and an ionizable fill scaled within the vessel. The fill includes a buffer gas, optionally mercury, and a halide component. The lamp includes available oxygen, sealed within the discharge vessel, at a concentration of at least 0.1 μmol O/cc.
US08653722B2	At-cut quartz-crystal device and methods for manufacturing same The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a quartz-crystal device, in which its lid and base is manufactured with smaller thermal expansion coefficient between AT-cut quartz-crystal wafer. The method for manufacturing a quartz-crystal device comprises the steps of: preparing an AT-cut quartz-crystal wafer (70) having a plurality of frames, the frame includes an AT-cut vibrating piece having a first principal surface and an second principal surface, and an outer frame which surrounds the AT-cut vibrating piece for supporting the AT-cut frame; preparing a lid wafer (60) having a plurality of a lids; preparing a quartz-crystal base wafer (80) including a plurality of a base; and bonding the AT-cut quartz-crystal wafer, the quartz-crystal base wafer and the quartz-crystal lid wafer; wherein size of the AT-cut quartz-crystal wafer, the quartz-crystal base wafer and the quartz-crystal lid wafer are between three to four inches; and the quartz-crystal base wafer and the quartz-crystal lid wafer are cut at an angle between 24°00′ or more and 32°28′ or less from crystallographic Z-axis.
US08653719B2	Active 3D.O.F. stiffness element A dynamic three-degree-of-freedom actuator/transducer element comprising at least three piezoceramic actuators and force sensors, as integrated stacks, which are preloaded in the housing by a low-stiffness tension bar, and are constrained, by means of a flexible shell, against shear force and torsion moment, whereby the element, when powered by external voltage source, is able to generate a dynamical axial force and displacement and dynamical bending and moment in the two principal tilt degrees of freedom around two orthogonal axes perpendicular to the principal displacement. When subjected to an axial force or a tilting moment, the transducer is able to generate charges that are proportional to the exerted force and moments.
US08653715B1	Radioisotope-powered energy source A radioisotope-powered energy source comprising: a flexible center substrate coated with the radioisotope, wherein the substrate comprises upper and lower surfaces; and two substantially identical sequences of layers bonded to each other and to the upper and lower surfaces via electrically insulating mesh barriers, wherein each sequence comprises the following layers bonded together in a y-direction in the following order: a first low-density alpha particle impact layer, a first high-density beta particle impact layer, a second low-density alpha particle impact layer, a second radioisotope-coated substrate, a third low-density alpha particle impact layer, a second high-density beta particle impact layer, and a photovoltaic layer.
US08653714B2	Stator for electric rotating machine A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a stator core that has an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, a plurality of connecting portions and a plurality of slots. The tooth portions are separately formed from and assembled to the yoke portion. Each of the tooth portions extends radially inward from a radially inner periphery of the yoke portion. The tooth portions are arranged in the circumferential direction of the yoke portion at predetermined intervals. Each of the connecting portions circumferentially extends to connect a corresponding circumferentially-adjacent pair of the tooth portions. Each of the slots is formed between a circumferentially-adjacent pair of the tooth portions. Moreover, each of the slots is partitioned by a corresponding one of the connecting portions into a radially-outer section and a radially-inner section.
US08653692B2	Dynamic load shedding system for a standby generator A method and system for managing electrical loads on a standby generator. The method includes utilizing a transfer switch control to selectively shed loads each associated with one of a series of priority circuits. Priority values are initially assigned to each of the electric loads based upon the initial hard-wired connection of the electric loads to a main breaker panel during set up. The control unit of a transfer switch allows the user to reassign priority values to each of the electric loads based upon a user preference. The control unit includes one or more predefined priority assignment programs that can be selected to modify the priority values assigned to the electric loads.
US08653675B2	Package including at least one topological feature on an encapsulant material to resist out-of-plane deformation Embodiments include but are not limited to apparatuses and systems including semiconductor packages, e.g. memory packages, including a die and an encapsulant material formed over the die, and at least one topological feature formed on an external surface of the encapsulant material, and configured to resist out-of-plane deformation of the package. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08653669B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip; a base member on which the semiconductor chip is mounted; a plurality of leads formed on the base member, the leads including inner ends electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and outer ends; and an index for identifying locations of specific leads.
US08653668B2	Copper bonding wire for semiconductor device and bonding structure thereof A bonding structure and a copper bonding wire for semiconductor device include a ball-bonded portion formed by bonding to the aluminum electrode a ball formed on a front end of the copper bonding wire. After being heated at any temperature between 130° C. and 200° C., the ball-bonded portion exhibits a relative compound ratio R1 of 40-100%, the relative compound ratio R1 being a ratio of a thickness of a Cu—Al intermetallic compound to thicknesses of intermetallic compounds that are composed of Cu and Al and formed on a cross-sectional surface of the ball-bonded portion.
US08653667B1	Power MOSFET having selectively silvered pads for clip and bond wire attach A packaged power field effect transistor device includes a power field effect transistor die, a DBA substrate, a clip, a wire bond, leads, and an amount of plastic encapsulant. The top of the DBA has a plurality of metal plate islands. A sintered silver feature is disposed on one of the islands. A silvered backside of the die is directly bonded to the sintered silver structure of the DBA. The upper surface of the die includes a first aluminum pad (a source pad) and a second aluminum pad (a gate pad). A sintered silver structure is disposed on the first aluminum pad, but there is no sintered silver structure disposed on the second aluminum pad. A high current clip is attached via soft solder to the sintered silver structure on the first aluminum pad (the source pad). A bond wire is ultrasonically welded to the second aluminum pad (gate pad).
US08653656B2	Semiconductor device having multiple external electrodes The semiconductor device has the CSP structure, and may include a plurality of electrode pads formed on a semiconductor integrated circuit in order to input/output signals from/to exterior; solder bumps for making external lead electrodes; and rewiring. The solder bumps may be arranged in two rows along the periphery of the semiconductor device. The electrode pads may be arranged inside the outermost solder bumps so as to be interposed between the two rows of solder bumps. Each trace of the rewiring may be extended from an electrode pad, and may be connected to any one of the outermost solder bumps or any one of the inner solder bumps.
US08653651B2	Semiconductor apparatus and method for manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor device, a heat spreader, a regulating unit, a containing unit, and a holding unit. The heat spreader is bonded to the semiconductor device with an interposed solder layer. The regulating unit is configured to regulate a dimension between the semiconductor device and the heat spreader. The containing unit is configured to contain melted solder in an interior of the containing unit. The holding unit is configured to allow melted solder held in an interior of the holding unit. The holding unit is configured to replenish the melted solder in the case where an amount of the melted solder contained in the containing unit is insufficient. The holding unit is configured to recover the melted solder in the case where the amount of the melted solder contained in the containing unit is excessive.
US08653650B2	Semiconductor device with acene heat spreader A semiconductor device in which an adhesion between a lead and a sealing body (mold sealing body) is improved to prevent the peering is provided. In a semiconductor device having a semiconductor chip, a plurality of leads electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and mainly made of metal and a sealing body for sealing the semiconductor chip, in order to improve the adhesion between the lead and the sealing body (mold sealing body), a material combination with good lattice matching is used as a combination of a surface material of the lead and a material of the sealing body, and the sealing body mainly made of acene is used.
US08653636B2	Contactless communication medium A contactless communication medium which can prevent invasion of static electricity and has an outer surface which can satisfy requirements on the flatness thereof. The contactless communication medium has a sealing member including an insulating layer and a conductive layer provided in a stacked manner and having a shape covering an IC module is located such that the insulating layer is on the IC module side. Owing to this, static electricity coming from outside is diffused by the conductive layer and blocked by the insulating layer. Thus, adverse influence of the static electricity on the IC module is prevented. The contactless communication medium can also satisfy the requirements on the flatness of an outer surface thereof.
US08653629B2	Semiconductor device and wafer A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device has a plurality of LSI regions that are formed on the semiconductor substrate and are provided with a first power supply wiring layer including a first power supply wire. The semiconductor device has a first power supply terminal formed on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device has a second power supply wiring layer including a second power supply wire that electrically connects the first power supply wire and the first power supply terminal, the second power supply wiring layer is formed in a dicing region between the LSI regions along a dicing line that separates the LSI regions and the dicing line region. A first barrier metal film is formed at least in the LSI regions at a boundary between the first power supply wire and the second power supply wire.
US08653627B2	Bipolar semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor crystal having a recombination-inhibiting semiconductor layer of a second conductive type that is disposed in the vicinity of the surface between a base contact region and emitter regions and that separates the semiconductor surface having a large number of surface states from the portion that primarily conducts the positive hole electric current and the electron current. Recombination is inhibited, and the current amplification factor is thereby improved and the ON voltage reduced.
US08653624B2	Semiconductor device comprising metal-based eFuses of enhanced programming efficiency by enhancing metal agglomeration and/or voiding Metal fuses in semiconductor devices may be formed on the basis of additional mechanisms for obtaining superior electromigration in the fuse bodies. To this end, the compressive stress caused by the current-induced metal diffusion may be restricted or reduced in the fuse body, for instance, by providing a stress buffer region and/or by providing a dedicated metal agglomeration region. The concept may be applied to the metallization system and may also be used in the device level, when fabricating the metal fuse in combination with high-k metal gate electrode structures.
US08653619B2	Range sensor and range image sensor A range image sensor 1 is provided with a semiconductor substrate 1A having a light incident surface 1BK and a surface 1FT opposite to the light incident surface 1BK, a photogate electrode PG, first and second gate electrodes TX1, TX2, first and second semiconductor regions FD1, FD2, and a third semiconductor region SR1. The photogate electrode PG is provided on the surface 1FT. The first and second gate electrodes TX1, TX2 are provided next to the photogate electrode PG. The first and second semiconductor regions FD1, FD2 accumulate respective charges flowing into regions immediately below the respective gate electrodes TX1, TX2. The third semiconductor region SR1 is located away from the first and second semiconductor regions FD1, FD2 and on the light incident surface 1BK side and has the conductivity type opposite to that of the first and second semiconductor regions FD1, FD2.
US08653613B2	Electromechanical transducer and method of manufacturing the same An electromechanical transducer includes multiple elements each including at least one cellular structure, the cellular structure including: a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor diaphragm, and a supporting portion for supporting the diaphragm so that a gap is formed between one surface of the substrate and the diaphragm. The elements are separated from one another at separating locations of a semiconductor film including the diaphragm. Each of the elements includes in a through hole passing through a first insulating layer including the supporting portion and the semiconductor substrate: a conductor which is connected to the semiconductor film including the diaphragm; and a second insulating layer for insulating the conductor from the semiconductor substrate.
US08653608B2	FinFET design with reduced current crowding An integrated circuit structure includes a substrate and a fin field-effect transistor (FinFET). The FinFET includes a fin over the substrate and having a first fin portion and a second fin portion. A gate stack is formed on a top surface and sidewalls of the first fin portion. An epitaxial semiconductor layer has a first portion formed directly over the second fin portion, and a second portion formed on sidewalls of the second fin portion. A silicide layer is formed on the epitaxial semiconductor layer. A peripheral ratio of a total length of an effective silicide peripheral of the FinFET to a total length of a fin peripheral of the FinFET is greater than 1.
US08653607B2	Method for 1/F noise reduction in NMOS devices An integrated circuit, in which a minimum gate length of low-noise NMOS transistors is less than twice a minimum gate length of logic NMOS transistors, is formed by: forming gates of the low-noise NMOS transistors concurrently with gates of the logic NMOS transistors, forming a low-noise NMDD implant mask which exposes the low-noise NMOS transistors and covers the logic NMOS transistors and logic PMOS transistors, ion implanting n-type NMDD dopants and fluorine into the low-noise NMOS transistors and limiting p-type halo dopants to less than 20 percent of a corresponding logic NMOS halo dose, removing the low-noise NMDD implant mask, forming a logic NMDD implant mask which exposes the logic NMOS transistors and covers the low-noise NMOS transistors and logic PMOS transistors, ion implanting n-type NMDD dopants and p-type halo dopants, but not implanting fluorine, into the logic NMOS transistors, and removing the logic NMDD implant mask.
US08653591B2	Semiconductor component arrangement and method for producing thereof A semiconductor component arrangement and method for producing thereof is disclosed. One embodiment provides at least one power semiconductor component integrated in a semiconductor body and at least one logic component integrated in the semiconductor body. The logic component includes a trench extending into the semiconductor body proceeding from a first side, at least one gate electrode arranged in the trench and insulated from the semiconductor body by a gate dielectric, and at least one source zone and at least one drain zone of a first conduction type, which are formed in the semiconductor body in a manner adjacent to the gate dielectric and in a manner spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the trench and between which at least one body zone of a second conduction type is arranged.
US08653586B2	Superjunction device and method for manufacturing the same A superjunction device is disclosed, wherein P-type regions in an active region are not in contact with the N+ substrate, and the distance between the surface of the N+ substrate and the bottom of the P-type regions in the active region is greater than the thickness of a transition region in the N-type epitaxial layer. Methods for manufacturing the superjunction device are also disclosed. The present invention is capable of improving the uniformity of reverse breakdown voltage and overshoot current handling capability in a superjunction device.
US08653584B2	Dual vertical channel transistor and fabrication method thereof A dual vertical channel transistor includes a tuning fork-shaped substrate body; a buried bit line embedded at a bottom of a recess between two prong portions of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; an out-diffused drain region adjacent to the buried bit line in the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; a source region situated at a top portion of each of the two prong portions of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; an epitaxial portion connecting the two prong portions of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body between the out-diffused drain region and the source region; a front gate situated on a first side surface of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body; and a back gate situated on a second side surface opposite to the first side surface of the tuning fork-shaped substrate body.
US08653583B2	Sensing FET integrated with a high-voltage transistor In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a main vertical field-effect transistor (FET) and a sensing FET. The main vertical FET and the sense FET are both formed on a pillar of semiconductor material. Both share an extended drain region formed in the pillar above the substrate, and first and second gate members formed in a dielectric on opposite sides of the pillar. The source regions of the main vertical FET and the sensing FET are separated and electrically isolated in a first lateral direction. In operation, the sensing FET samples a small portion of a current that flows in the main vertical FET. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
US08653573B2	Dielectric layers and memory cells including metal-doped alumina A method of forming (and an apparatus for forming) a metal-doped aluminum oxide layer on a substrate, particularly a semiconductor substrate or substrate assembly, using a vapor deposition process.
US08653568B2	Semiconductor substrate with stripes of different crystal plane directions and semiconductor device including the same Manufacturing a semiconductor device with higher operating characteristics and achieve low power consumption of a semiconductor integrated circuit. A single crystal semiconductor layer is formed so that crystal plane directions of single crystal semiconductor layers which are used for channel regions of an n-channel and a p-channel TFT and which are formed over the same plane of the substrate are the most appropriate crystal plane directions for each TFT. In accordance with such a structure, mobility of carrier flowing through a channel is increased and the semiconductor device with higher operating characteristics can be provided. Low voltage driving can be performed, and low power consumption can be achieved.
US08653560B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof According to one embodiment, a fabrication method of a semiconductor device comprising forming a dummy gate with a gate length direction set to a [111] direction perpendicular to a [110] direction on a surface of a supporting substrate having Si1-xGex (0≦x<0.5) with a crystal orientation perpendicular to the surface set to the [110] direction on the surface, forming source/drain regions and forming insulating films on side portions of the dummy gate. Next, the dummy gate is etched with using the insulating films as a mask, and a surface portion of the substrate between the source/drain regions is further etched. Next, a channel region formed of a III-V group semiconductor or Ge is grown between the source/drain regions by using the edge portions of the source/drain regions as seeds. Then, a gate electrode is formed above the channel region via a gate insulating film.
US08653554B2	Phosphor placement in white light emitting diode assemblies A white LED assembly includes a blue LED die attached to a substrate. A first volume of a first luminescent material surrounds the blue LED die in a lateral dimension such that none of the first luminescent material is disposed directly over the blue LED die. The first luminescent material includes a relatively inefficient phosphor having a peak emission wavelength longer than 620 nm and includes substantially no phosphor having a peak emission wavelength shorter than 620 nm. A second volume of a second luminescent material is disposed over the first volume and the blue LED die. The second luminescent material includes a relatively efficient phosphor having a peak emission wavelength shorter than 620 nm and includes substantially no phosphor having a peak emission wavelength longer than 620 nm. Placement of the first and second luminescent materials in this way promotes removal of heat from the inefficient phosphor and reduces the likelihood of interabsorption.
US08653548B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting layer and a light exit layer. In this case, the light exit layer has a multiplicity of mutually parallel first areas, arranged in an inclined fashion with respect to the light-emitting layer. The light exit layer furthermore has a multiplicity of mutually parallel second areas arranged in an inclined fashion with respect to the light-emitting layer and in an inclined fashion with respect to the first areas. The first areas are transparent and the second areas are reflective to light emitted by the light-emitting layer.
US08653547B2	Light emitting device and light emitting device package Provided are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a first electrode, a light emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the light emitting structure, and a reflective member on at least lateral surface of the second electrode.
US08653545B2	Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device that includes a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a insulating layer, and an electrode layer. The first electrode has at least one branch on the first conductive type semiconductor layer. The insulating layer is disposed on the first electrode. The electrode layer is disposed on the insulating layer.
US08653538B2	Rod type light emitting device and method for fabricating the same Disclosed herein is a rod type light emitting device and method for fabricating the same, wherein a plurality of rod structures is sequentially formed with a semiconductor layer doped with a first polarity dopant, an active layer, and a semiconductor layer doped with a second polarity dopant.
US08653534B2	Junction Barrier Schottky diodes with current surge capability An electronic device includes a silicon carbide drift region having a first conductivity type, a Schottky contact on the drift region, and a plurality of junction barrier Schottky (JBS) regions at a surface of the drift region adjacent the Schottky contact. The JBS regions have a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type and have a first spacing between adjacent ones of the JBS regions. The device further includes a plurality of surge protection subregions having the second conductivity type. Each of the surge protection subregions has a second spacing between adjacent ones of the surge protection subregions that is less than the first spacing.
US08653533B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a silicon oxide film on a silicon carbide substrate, annealing the silicon carbide substrate and the silicon oxide film in gas containing hydrogen, and forming an aluminum oxynitride film on the silicon oxide film after the annealing of the silicon carbide substrate and the silicon oxide film.
US08653531B2	Thin film transistor and display device Disclosed is a thin film transistor wherein an ON current is increased and a leak current is reduced. The channel layer 60 of the TFT 10 is formed of a crystalline silicon, and the lower surface of one end of the channel layer 60 is electrically connected to the surface of an n+ silicon layer 40a, and the lower surface of the other end is electrically connected to the surface of an n+ silicon layer 40b. Furthermore, the side surface of said end of the channel layer 60 is electrically connected to a source electrode 50a, and the side surface of the other end is electrically connected to a drain electrode 50b. Thus, a barrier that makes electrons, which act as carriers, not easily transferred is formed on the boundary between the source electrode 50a and the channel layer 60. As a result, the ON current that flows when the TFT 10 is in the ON state can be increased, and the leak current that flows when the TFT is in the OFF state can be reduced.
US08653530B2	Thin film transistor array panel The present invention relates to a thin film transistor array panel and a manufacturing method thereof that prevent disconnection of wiring due to misalignment of a mask, and simplify a process and reduce cost by reducing the number of masks. The thin film transistor array panel according to the disclosure includes a source electrode enclosing an outer part of the first contact hole and formed on the second insulating layer; a drain electrode enclosing an outer part of the second contact hole and formed on the second insulating layer; a first connection electrode connecting the source region of the semiconductor layer and the source electrode through the first contact hole; and a second connection electrode connecting the drain region of the semiconductor layer and the drain electrode through the second contact hole.
US08653526B1	Display panel A display panel having a display area and a gate driving area includes a gate line and plural pixel units in the display area, and a gate driver circuit in the gate driving area. The gate line connects to the pixel units. The gate driver circuit connects to the gate line. The gate driver includes a driving transistor and a driving storage capacitor stacked to each other to form a stack structure, which includes a first electrode, a first dielectric layer, a second electrode, a second dielectric layer, a first semiconductor layer, a drain electrode, and a source electrode, which is connected to the gate line. The driving storage capacitor is formed by the first electrode, the first dielectric layer, and the second electrode. The driving transistor is formed by the second electrode, the second dielectric layer, the first semiconductor layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode.
US08653524B2	Touch-sensing display device and method for manufacturing the same A touch panel display and method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The touch panel display includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a touch-sensing member, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface thereon. The second substrate has an element array and is disposed on the second surface of the first substrate. The touch-sensing member locates on the first surface of the first substrate. Furthermore, the touch-sensing member includes a conductive layer, a patterned electrode layer, and a protective layer. The patterned electrode layer is correspondingly located on the periphery of the first substrate. The protective layer covers the conductive layer, and the patterned electrode layer. The conductive layer locates between the protective layer and the first substrate. In addition, the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and the second substrate.
US08653522B2	Electro-luminescence display device There is provided an electric device which can prevent a deterioration in a frequency characteristic due to a large electric power external switch connected to an opposite electrode and can prevent a decrease in the number of gradations. The electric device includes a plurality of source signal lines, a plurality of gate signal lines, a plurality of power source supply lines, a plurality of power source control lines, and a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a switching TFT, an EL driving TFT, a power source controlling TFT, and an EL element, and the power source controlling TFT controls a potential difference between a cathode and an anode of the EL element.
US08653521B2	Liquid crystal display array substrate and method for manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The liquid crystal display array substrate includes a gate line arranged on a substrate in one direction, a data line which crosses the gate line and defines a plurality of pixel areas, a thin film transistor formed at a crossing of the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a common electrode which is positioned opposite the pixel electrode and forms an electric field. The common electrode includes a shield line overlapping the data line, and the shield line includes at least two cutting portions having a width less than other portion of the shield line.
US08653504B2	Complementary tunneling field effect transistor and method for forming the same A complementary tunneling field effect transistor and a method for forming the same are provided. The complementary tunneling field effect transistor comprises: a substrate; an insulating layer, formed on the substrate; a first semiconductor layer, formed on the insulating layer and comprising first and second doped regions; a first type TFET vertical structure formed on a first part of the first doped region and a second type TFET vertical structure formed on a first part of the second doped region, in which a second part of the first doped region is connected with a second part of the second doped region and a connecting portion between the second part of the first doped region and the second part of the second doped region is used as a drain output; and a U-shaped gate structure, formed between the first type TFET vertical structure and the second type TFET vertical structure.
US08653499B2	Light-emitting diode with strain-relaxed layer for reducing strain in active layer A light-emitting diode (LED) includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a strain-relaxed layer over the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer over the strain-relaxed layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer over the active layer. The strain-relaxed layer includes a strain-absorbed layer over the first conductivity type semiconductor layer and a surface-smoothing layer on the strain-absorbed layer filling the cavities. The strain-absorbed layer includes a plurality of cavities in a substantial hexagonal-pyramid form.
US08653496B2	Memory cells Some embodiments include a memory cell that contains programmable material sandwiched between first and second electrodes. The memory cell can further include a heating element which is directly against one of the electrodes and directly against the programmable material. The heating element can have a thickness in a range of from about 2 nanometers to about 30 nanometers, and can be more electrically resistive than the electrodes. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells that include heating elements directly between electrodes and programmable materials.
US08653493B2	Variable resistance memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same According to example embodiments, a variable resistance memory device include an ohmic pattern on a substrate; a first electrode pattern including a first portion that has a plate shape and contacts a top surface of the ohmic pattern and a second portion that extends from one end of the first portion to a top; a variable resistance pattern electrically connected to the first electrode pattern; and a second electrode pattern electrically connected to the variable resistance pattern, wherein one end of the ohmic pattern and the other end of the first portion are disposed on the same plane.
US08653487B2	Lithography apparatus and lithography method A lithography apparatus includes a generating unit configured, by receiving character information which specifies a shape of an identification figure representing identification information of a target object, to generate pattern writing data of the identification figure on the basis of the character information; a synthesizing unit configured, by receiving a pattern writing data of a pattern written on the target object, to synthesize the pattern writing data of the pattern and the pattern writing data of the identification figure; and a pattern writing unit configured to write the pattern and the identification figure on the target object on the basis of the synthesized pattern writing data.
US08653486B2	Method and apparatus for improved uniformity control with dynamic beam shaping The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for varying the cross-sectional shape of an ion beam, as the ion beam is scanned over the surface of a workpiece, to generate a time-averaged ion beam having an improved ion beam current profile uniformity. In one embodiment, the cross-sectional shape of an ion beam is varied as the ion beam moves across the surface of the workpiece. The different cross-sectional shapes of the ion beam respectively have different beam profiles (e.g., having peaks at different locations along the beam profile), so that rapidly changing the cross-sectional shape of the ion beam results in a smoothing of the beam current profile (e.g., reduction of peaks associated with individual beam profiles) that the workpiece is exposed to. The resulting smoothed beam current profile provides for improved uniformity of the beam current and improved workpiece dose uniformity.
US08653473B2	Charged particle beam irradiation device A charged particle beam irradiation device includes a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles and ejects a charged particle beam, a cylindrical outer shell part that is capable of rotating around a rotating axis, an irradiation unit that is capable of irradiating an irradiation target with the charged particle beam, the irradiation direction of which changes in accordance with the rotation of the outer shell part, and a beam transport line that transports the charged particle beam ejected from the particle accelerator to the irradiation unit. The particle accelerator and the beam transport line may be at least partially housed within the outer shell part.
US08653469B1	K-alpha probe for detection of photon emissions A probe for detecting K-alpha photon emissions. A housing has an aperture at an end. A detector crystal is situated within the housing adjacent to the housing aperture. An energy conversion device is situated within the housing between the detector crystal and the aperture. The energy conversion device is made from a predetermined material configured to convert energy directed through the housing aperture from a source of primary photon emission radiation to a corresponding secondary K-alpha emission within a predetermined emission energy acceptance window. A power supply is coupled to the detector crystal and is configured to establish a polarized electrical field between the anode and the cathode of the detector crystal. The detector crystal receives the K-alpha emission and generates an electrical signal representative of the amount of target emissions received through the housing aperture.
US08653460B2	Method and system for detecting light A light detecting system is disclosed. The system comprises an arrangement of quantum dots forming an optically active region, a channel region and a charge carrier extractor between the active region and the channel region. The charge carrier extractor is characterized by a set of gradually decreasing energy levels between a characteristic excited energy level of the active region and a characteristic conductance energy level of the channel region.
US08653457B2	Spectroscopy technique using merged spectral data A method of examining a sample using a spectroscopic apparatus, comprising the following steps: Mounting the sample on a sample holder; Directing a focused input beam of radiation onto a location on the sample, thereby producing an interaction that causes a flux of stimulated photonic radiation to emanate from said location; Examining said flux using a multi-channel photon-counting detector, thus accruing a measured spectrum for said location; Automatically repeating said directing and examining steps for a series of successive locations on the sample, which method comprises the following steps: Choosing a beam parameter of the input beam that will influence a magnitude of said flux of stimulated photonic radiation; For each location within a first set of locations on the sample, accruing a spectrum using a first value of said beam parameter; For each location within a second set of locations on the sample, accruing a spectrum using a second value of said beam parameter, different from said first value.
US08653432B2	Coherent optical signal processing Coherent optical signal processing is performed in a coherent receiver (or diagnostic/testing apparatus) that converts an amplitude and/or angle-modulated optical signal into two electrical signals. A simple receiver can only detect one phase of the signal and only the polarization that is aligned with a local oscillator laser polarization. To detect both phases and both polarizations, two sets of two interferometers, one each with a π/2 phase shift are required. Coherent optical signal processing methods, apparatus, techniques, etc. are disclosed that include individual components comprising a polarization combiner, a Savart device and photodetection apparatus with substantially reduced temperature and alignment sensitivity operating in optical communication systems and/or subsystems. The various embodiments can be used alone or in such combinations to provide improved coherent optical signal processing in a receiver.
US08653431B2	Photoelectric conversion device and image sensor There is provided a photoelectric conversion device utilizing surface plasmons, including: a plate-shaped light receiving portion which made of metal, provided on a most superficial surface of the photoelectric conversion device, and having a front surface and a rear surface so as to receive incident light at the front surface; a slot-shaped slit provided in the front surface of the light receiving portion; and a voltage detection portion adapted to measure an electric potential at the front surface of the light receiving portion; wherein the incident light is caused to excite surface plasmons through the slit, and an electric potential at the front surface of the light receiving portion induced by the surface plasmons is measured by the voltage detection portion.
US08653425B2	Rotary applicator Induction heating of a pattern perforated rotating cylinder susceptor is utilized to melt and apply thermoplastic materials to a substrate.
US08653420B2	Temperature control circuit of oven controlled crystal oscillator A temperature control circuit of an oven controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) is provided. A first and a second digital potentiometer are correspondingly arranged in a bridge circuit which outputs a voltage to an input terminal of a differential amplifier (OPAMP), wherein the resistance value of the first digital potentiometer is adjustable so as to adjust the temperature of the oven to the peak temperature of the crystal resonator, and the resistance value of the second digital potentiometer is adjustable so as to cancel the temperature gradient of the first digital potentiometer. In the temperature control circuit of OCXO, the heat generation of the heater resistor is controlled by the power transistor based on the control voltage from the differential amplifier.
US08653419B2	Window defroster assembly having transparent conductive layer A window defroster assembly having a transparent panel and a defroster. The defroster includes a conductive layer applied over the panel and an electrically conductive heater grid formed integrally with the transparent panel. The heater grid includes a series of grid lines and at least a portion of the conductive layer is located between adjacent ones of the grid lines.
US08653413B2	Welding power supply with digital control of duty cycle A welding power supply including power conversion circuitry adapted to receive a primary source of power, to utilize one or more power semiconductor switches to chop the primary source of power, and to convert the chopped power to a welding output is provided. The provided welding power supply includes a pulse width modulated (PWM) digital controller including gate drive circuitry that generates a PWM output signal that controls the switching of the one or more power semiconductor switches. The PWM output signal includes a duty cycle term corrected for one or more sources of error in the welding system.
US08653407B2	Method and apparatus for the quality inspection of laser welding The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for inspecting the quality of laser welding by monitoring the size of a metal molten pool (i.e., weld metal) during a laser welding process. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for inspecting the quality of laser welding, in which a new type laser welding quality inspection system is implemented in which one sensor signal and one filtered electrical signal of the plasma light can be used to perform a correct welding quality inspection through the development of a filtering method of an electrical signal of the plasma light, thereby facilitating a laser welding quality management and making possible its example application to a vehicle body laser welding process.
US08653401B2	Wire electric discharge machining apparatus having function of automatically selecting automatic wire connecting parameter By utilizing a function of automatically selecting an automatic wire-connection parameter of a wire electric discharge machining apparatus, a default cutting condition is read, a cutting process is executed, and a wire-connection process is executed. As a result, when the wire connection is successful, the process in an automatic wire connection mode is ended. On the other hand, when the wire connection is unsuccessful, it is determined whether or not a parameter set selected by executing a cutting condition automatic selection process is adopted as a new default cutting condition. When the selected parameter set is adopted as the new default cutting condition, the selected parameter set is stored as the new default cutting condition, and the automatic wire connection mode is ended.
US08653399B2	Steel sheet heat treatment/stamp system and method An apparatus and related method are provided for a manufacturing process including heating of a processed part. A resistance heating assembly applies an electrical current to a work part comprising a sheet of high-tensile steel having a heat-resistant plating to improve formability. A heating control system regulates the electrical current to the work part in order to control the temperature of the work part. A temperature detector detects a temperature of the work part and generates feedback to the heating control system in order to regulate the electrical current. An electrical resistance detector measures an electrical resistance within the work part and generates feedback to the heating control system in order to regulate the electrical current.
US08653395B2	Circuit breaker with two aligned breaker chambers, a common transmission, and reduced size A very high voltage circuit breaker comprising, for each phase, at least two breaker chambers aligned with each other, each chamber including a pair of main contacts, a pair of arcing contacts that are stationary relative to the main contacts, and a nozzle for blowing out hot gases resulting from the breaking operations, the pairs of contacts being partly of complementary male and female forms, each comprising at least one movable contact, the nozzle being stationary relative to the movable main contact and arcing contact.
US08653393B2	Touch screen panel A touch screen panel according to an embodiment includes a substrate; an electrode forming part formed on the substrate, the electrode forming part including a plurality of first electrode serials arranged in parallel in a first direction and a plurality of second electrode serials arranged in parallel in a second direction to cross over the plurality of first electrode serials; a routing wire forming part formed on the substrate outside the electrode forming part, the routing wire forming part including a plurality of first routing wires respectively connected to the plurality of first electrode serials and a plurality of second routing wires respectively connected to the plurality of second electrode serials; and an insulation layer configured to insulate the first electrode serial from the second electrode serial at each of intersections of the first electrode serials and the second electrode serials.
US08653389B2	Keyswitch device, supporting seat and key cap thereof A keyswitch device includes a supporting seat, a key cap, a circuit board disposed on the supporting seat, and an elastic member located between the key cap and the circuit board. The supporting seat includes a base board and two first confining members that are formed on the base board and that are spaced apart from each other. The key cap includes a cap body and two first hooks that engage respectively the first confining members, thereby inhibiting the key cap to move in horizontal directions with respect to the supporting seat, and allowing the key cap to move vertically in a range equal to the height of the first blocking parts of the first confining members. When the key cap is moved downward, the elastic member deforms to press the circuit board so as to generate a corresponding signal.
US08653374B2	Aluminum alloy wire An aluminum alloy wire, an aluminum alloy stranded wire, a covered electric wire, and a wire harness that are of high toughness and high electrical conductivity, and a method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy wire. The aluminum alloy wire contains not less than 0.2% and not more than 1.0% by mass of Mg, not less than 0.1% and not more than 1.0% by mass of Si, not less than 0.1% and not more than 0.5% by mass of Cu, and a remainder including Al and an impurity, and satisfies 0.8 Mg/Si≦2.7 by mass ratio. The Al alloy wire is manufactured through the successive steps of casting, rolling, wiredrawing, and softening treatment.
US08653371B2	Radiation resistant electric wire and radiation resistant cable A radiation resistant electric wire includes: a conductor; an inner insulating layer comprising a naphthylene group-containing polymer; and an outer insulating layer comprising a cross-linked polyolefin. The conductor is coated with the inner insulating layer and the outer insulating layer therearound.
US08653364B2	Frame for graphic images When a wall mounted telephone is removed from its mounting plate, the telephone wall plate and jack remains and this is unsightly. The frame of the present invention allows the telephone plate to remain, but be obscured. The frame assembly includes a removable, transparent cover that releasably attaches to a base member and a photograph, a drawing, other graphic decorative material or written indicia is sandwiched therebetween.
US08653359B2	Solar energy device and using method of the same A solar energy device including at least one solar energy module and a connecting structure is provided. The connecting structure includes a body and a connecting belt. The body assembled to the solar energy module has a recess. The connecting belt has a first end, a second end, and a connecting protruding configured at the second end, wherein the first end connects to the body. A using method of the solar energy module is also provided.
US08653356B2	Thermoelectric devices and methods of manufacture Thermoelectric devices are provided. In one embodiment, a thermoelectric device may include a glass wafer defined by conductive vias, a second wafer, and a plurality of metal film disposed between the glass wafer and the second wafer and against solid, conductive, integral, end surfaces of the conductive vias. A nanogap may be disposed between the metal film and the second wafer. The nanogap may have been created by applying a voltage extending between the conductive vias and the second wafer. Methods of forming the devices, along with methods of using the devices to transform heat energy to electricity, and for refrigeration, are also provided.
US08653352B2	Vibration generator From analog music information in which the sounds of a plurality of musical instruments are mixed, sound data corresponding to the register of the reproduced sound of a bass guitar and sound data corresponding to the register of the reproduced sound of a drum are extracted using a band-pass filter. A drive pulse with a low frequency is generated within the periods of data sections in which the former sound data reaches a predetermined level or higher, and a drive pulse with a high frequency is generated within the periods of data sections in which the latter sound data reaches a predetermined level or higher. A vibrating body in a vibration mechanism unit is resonated by two drive pulses with frequencies, thereby causing vibration according to the reproduced sound of music.
US08653351B2	Systems for combining inputs from electronic musical instruments and devices An apparatus for combining input signals produced by a plurality of electric musical devices includes a plurality of audio buses and a plurality of segments. Each segment includes input circuitry configured to receive at least one input signal from at least one electric musical device and to deliver the at least one input signal to one of the plurality of audio buses; a plurality of variable adjustment devices each associated with a corresponding one of the audio buses and each configured to change at least one property of an input signal received by another of the plurality of segments and carried on the corresponding one of the audio buses independent from input signals carried on other of the plurality of audio buses; and a mixer configured to combine the input signals carried on each of the plurality of audio buses into an output signal.
US08653349B1	System and method for musical collaboration in virtual space A system and method for musical collaboration in virtual space is described. This method is based on the exchange of data relating to position, direction and selection of musical sounds and effects, which are then combined by a software application for each user. The musical sampler overcomes latency of data over the network by ensuring that all loops and samples begin on predetermined temporal divisions of a composition. The data is temporarily stored as a data file and can be later retrieved for playback or conversion into a digital audio file.
US08653348B2	Footprint indication kit for percussion instruments Embodiments are disclosed that relate to facilitating the reproducible placement of percussive instruments, such as drums, relative to one another. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a footprint indication kit for percussion instruments. The footprint indication kit comprises a set of marking strips configured to indicate a periphery of a footprint of a percussion instrument, the set of marking strips including two or more marking strips having a first side including a connecting material configured to removably engage a complementary connecting material on a drum mat, and the two or more marking strips including at least one of a marking strip having one or more curved edges and a rectangular marking strip.
US08653345B1	Replaceable nut Devices, apparatus, and methods of using a replaceable nut with built on fret for a stringed instruments, such as for guitars and banjos. The novel combined zero glide nut with fret can be used as a zero glide nut system that can be substituted for the existing standard nuts on stringed instruments. The novel combined zero glide nut with fret eliminates the need for filing and adjusting the slots on the nuts, since strings do not harshly rub against inner sides and do not rub against the bottom of the slots in the nut. Compared to a conventional nut, the zero glide improves tuning stability, playability without string buzz on the fret, does not wear slots as occurs in a conventional nut and is more easily installed than a conventional nut.
US08653338B2	Soybean variety XB25G12 A novel soybean variety, designated XB25G12 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB25G12, cells from soybean variety XB25G12, plants of soybean XB25G12, and plant parts of soybean variety XB25G12. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB25G12 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB25G12, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB25G12, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB25G12. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB25G12 are further provided.
US08653335B1	Soybean variety BG4184Y A novel soybean variety, designated BG4184Y is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety BG4184Y, cells from soybean variety BG4184Y, plants of soybean BG4184Y, and plant parts of soybean variety BG4184Y. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety BG4184Y with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety BG4184Y, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety BG4184Y, and methods of characterizing soybean variety BG4184Y. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety BG4184Y are further provided.
US08653334B1	Soybean variety 97R01 A novel soybean variety, designated 97R01 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 97R01, cells from soybean variety 97R01, plants of soybean 97R01, and plant parts of soybean variety 97R01. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 97R01 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 97R01, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 97R01, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 97R01. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 97R01 are further provided.
US08653322B2	Intravaginal device with fluid transport plates An intravaginal device has a fluid storage element having a longitudinal axis and is in fluid communication with at least one fluid transport element. The at least one fluid transport element has a first plate having an outwardly oriented surface and an inwardly oriented surface and a second plate coupled to the first plate. The second plate has a first surface disposed and maintained in facing relationship with the inwardly oriented surface of the first plate and an opposite surface. The second plate is capable of separating from the first plate sufficiently to provide inter-plate capillary action. The at least one fluid transport element is bendable about an axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fluid storage element.
US08653320B2	Deodorizing super-absorbent composition The invention relates generally to an odor-absorbing superabsorbing composition, a process for production of an odor-absorbing superabsorbing composition, a composite comprising an odor-absorbing superabsorbing composition, a hygiene article comprising a composite, chemical products comprising or based on an odor-absorbing superabsorbing composition or a composite, as well as the use of an odor-absorbing superabsorbing composition or of a composite in chemical products.
US08653319B2	Cold ionizing radiation sterilization A hydratable gel-forming polymer may be sterilized by chilling the polymer below ambient temperature and sterilizing the chilled polymer using ionizing radiation (e.g., E-Beam radiation). Doing so may reduce the degradation in physical properties caused by ionizing radiation sterilization of the polymer while at ambient temperature, and may preserve or retain desired hydration or gel-forming characteristics.
US08653314B2	Method for providing a co-feed in the coupling of toluene with a carbon source A process for making styrene is disclosed that includes reacting toluene with a C1 source and a co-feed in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor to form a first product stream comprising styrene, ethylbenzene, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen; separating the hydrogen and carbon monoxide from the first product stream to form a second stream; separating the hydrogen from the second stream to form a third stream comprising hydrogen and a fourth stream comprising carbon monoxide; wherein the fourth stream is recycled to the reactor and forms at least a portion of the co-feed.
US08653311B2	Azeotrope-like composition of hexafluoropropane, hexafluoropropene and hydrogen fluoride The present invention relates to an azeotropic or azeotrope-like mixture consisting essentially of 1,1,1,2,3,3-hexafluoropropane, hexafluoropropene and hydrogen fluoride.
US08653307B2	Liphagal enantiomers and their derivatives and precursors, and enantioselective methods of making the same Enantioenriched compositions of liphagal and its derivatives and precursors include more than 50 mol % of a first enantiomer based on the total amount of a first and a second enantiomer. A method of making an enantioenriched composition includes catalytic enantioselective alkylation, ring expansion, and intramolecular aryne cyclization.
US08653299B2	Dihydronaphthalene and naphthalene derivatives as N-formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor modulators The present invention relates to novel dihydronaphthalene and naphthalene derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of the N-formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor.
US08653297B2	Solid acid, polymer electrolyte membrane including the same, and fuel cell using the polymer electrolyte membrane A solid acid having a core of calixarene or calix resorcinarene. The solid acid is an ion conducting compound in which at least one of the hydroxyl groups is substituted by an organic group having a cation exchange group at a terminal end, a polymer electrolyte membrane including the same, and a fuel cell using the polymer electrolyte membrane. The polymer electrolyte membrane can provide low methanol crossover and high ionic conductivity. Accordingly, a fuel cell having high efficiency can be obtained by using the polymer electrolyte membrane.
US08653288B2	Deodorized edible oil or fat with low levels of bound MCPD and process of making by carboxymethyl cellulose and/or resin purification A process for making a deodorized edible oil or fat having a low level of bound MCPD (monochloro propanediol esters) and/or low level of bound 3-MCPD is described. The process comprises a step of contacting the oil or fat to a carboxymethyl cellulose or an ion exchange resin. The carboxymethyl cellulose can be a Blanose® cellulose gum and the resin can be a cationic resin. A deodorized vegetable oil or fat and a food product made there from is described. The food product can be an infant formula. It exhibits low levels of bound MCPD and/or low level of bound 3-MCPD. In one embodiment the oil or fat has a reduced level of free fatty acid as well as a limpid aspect and no off-flavors.
US08653281B2	Process for the manufacture of agomelatine and its intermediate A process for the manufacture of agomelatine and its intermediate N-[2-(7-methoxy- 1-naphthy)ethyl]phthalimide is provided and inclues reacting 7-methoxy-1-naphthyl ethanol (III) with benzenesulfonyl chloride to obtain 7-methoxy-1 -naphthylethyl benzene sulfonate (IV), which is reacted with potassium phthalimide to produce N-[2-(7-methoxy-1-naphthy)ethyl]phthalimide (II); and subjecting N-[2-(7-methoxy-1-naphthy)ethyl]phthalimide (II) to alkaline hydrolysis and acetylation, to obtain agomelatine.
US08653268B2	6,6-bicyclic ring substituted heterobicyclic protein kinase inhibitors Compounds of the formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, R1, and Q1 are defined herein, inhibit the IGF-1R enzyme and are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer, inflammation, psoriasis, allergy/asthma, disease and conditions of the immune system, disease and conditions of the central nervous system.
US08653267B2	Co-crystal compound of optical device The present invention discloses a co-crystal compound of optical devices. The co-crystal compound is crystallized out with hydrogen bonding by a temperature fluctuation method after mixing small organic molecules without optoelectronic properties and organic molecules having heterocyclic rings with optoelectronic properties. The photoluminescence (PL) intensity of this hydrogen-bonded co-crystal compound according to the present invention can vary with a variety of the small organic molecules without optoelectronic properties, so as to modulate the PL intensity.
US08653266B2	Process for the production of etravirine A novel process for the preparation of Etravirine comprises the condensing of ethyl cyanoacetate with N-cyanophenylguanidine to obtain an —OH compound of formula (II), which is further converted to a leaving group of formula (III). The compound of formula (III) is optionally protected and brominated to yield compound of formula (IV). The condensation of formula (IV) with 3,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxybenzonitrile yields a compound of formula (VI), and an optional deprotection of the compound of formula (VI) results in Etravirine.
US08653265B2	Preparation method of rosuvastatin calcium and its intermediates A preparation method of rosuvastatin calcium (Formula 1), which can be used for the production of medicament lowering the levels of LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides in vivo, is provided. Such preparation method is suitable for industrial production. Furthermore, the intermediate crystallines used in the preparation method are provided.
US08653256B2	Method of producing turanose using amylosucrase, and sweetener using the turanose The present invention relates a method of producing turanose using amylosucrase and a sweetener including the turanose. This method enables production of high-purity turanose through an enzymatic reaction occurring by treating a solution including only sucrose or a solution including fructose and sucrose with amylosucrase.
US08653255B2	Sialic acid derivatives for protein derivatisation and conjugation Derivatives are synthesized of starting materials, usually polysaccharides, having sialic acid at the reducing terminal end, in which the reducing terminal unit is transformed into an aldehyde group. Where the polysaccharide has a sialic acid unit at the non-reducing end it may be passivated, for instance by converting into hydroxyl-substituted moiety. The derivatives may be reacted with substrates, for instance containing amine or hydrazine groups, to form non-cross-linked polysialylated compounds. The substrates may, for instance, be therapeutically useful drugs peptides or proteins or drug delivery systems.
US08653251B2	Methods and kits for nucleic acid amplification Compositions and methods are provided for amplifying nucleic acid molecules. The nucleic acid molecules can be used in various research and diagnostic applications, such as gene expression studies involving nucleic acid microarrays.
US08653240B2	Thiosulfonate compound, reversible cationization agent for protein and/or peptide, and method for solubilization The object of the present invention is to provide a novel thiosulfonate compound, a reversible cationization agent for protein and/or peptide, which can reversibly cationize a wider range of proteins and peptides with high stability of quality and accuracy and which are useful for a high degree of purification and recovery, as well as, a method for solubilization for protein and/or peptide using the agent.The present invention is a thiosulfonate compound having three or more cations derived from a quaternary ammonium group within one molecule.
US08653228B2	Semiconducting polymers Novel Semiconducting photovoltaic polymers with conjugated units that provide improved solar conversion efficiency that can be used in electro-optical and electric devices. The polymers exhibit increased solar conversion efficiency in solar devices.
US08653227B2	Process for preparing regioregular poly-(3-substituted) thiophenes, selenophenes, thiazoles and selenazoles A process for preparing a regioregular homopolymer or copolymer of 3-substituted thiophene, 3-substituted selenophene, 3-substituted thiazol or 3-substituted selenazol by a) reacting a 3-substituted 2,5-dihalothiophene, 2,5-dihaloselenophene, 2,5-dihalothiazol or 2,5-dihaloselenazol with reactive zinc, magnesium and/or an organomagnesium halide to give an organozinc or organomagnesium intermediate containing one halozinc or one halomagnesium group, b) bringing the organozinc or the organomagnesium intermediate into contact with a Ni(II), Ni(O), Pd(II) or Pd(0) catalyst to initiate the polymerization reaction, and c) polymerizing the organozinc or the organomagnesium intermediate to give a regioregular head-to-tail homopolymer or copolymer of 3-substituted thiophene, 3-substituted selenophene, 3-substituted thiazol or 3-substituted selenazol characterized in that the polymerization reaction is carried out at a temperature rising from a lower temperature T1 to a higher temperature T2 during a time t1, wherein T1 is in the range of from −40 to 5° C. and T2 is in the range of from −20 to 40° C., wherein T2−T1 is at least 10° C. and the average rate of increase (T2−T1)/t1 is in the range of from 0.05° C./min to 1° C./min.
US08653214B2	Silicone (meth)acrylate particles, process for preparation thereof and use thereof The present invention relates to silicone (meth)acrylate particles, to a process for preparing such silicone (meth)acrylate particles including the steps of: a) obtaining an emulsion composed of water and an organic phase comprising organopolysiloxanes modified terminally and/or laterally with acrylate groups, and b) polymerizing the inner phase to completion by means of a free-radical initiator, the free-radical initiator being added to the outer phase (aqueous phase) in a concentration of 0.1 to 40% by weight based on the inner phase, and to the use of the particles alone or in a mixture with further particles, pigments and/or further customary additives in the form of powders or dispersions in coating, adhesive or sealant materials, in polymers, in defoamers, in wetting and levelling aids, in cosmetic or pharmaceutical formulations and care products, in cleaning and detergent compositions, or in applications for modifying the interface properties of solid and liquid substrates, for example tactile properties, hydrophobization, or sliding and/or release properties.
US08653212B2	Low melt flow branched ionomers Embodiments of the present invention include a branched aromatic ionomer, and a process of making it, by co-polymerizing a first monomer comprising an aromatic moiety and an unsaturated alkyl moiety and a second monomer represented by the general formula: [R-AZ]y-MX wherein R is a hydrocarbon chain having from 2 to 40 carbons and at least one polymerizable unsaturation; A is an anionic group; M is a cationic group; Z is −1 or −2; X is +1, +2, +3, +4, or +5; and y is an integer having a value of from 1 to 4. The branched aromatic ionomer has a melt flow index ranging from 1.0 g/10 min. to 13 g/10 min. Optionally the melt flow index ranges from 1.3 g/10 min. to 1.9 g/10 min.
US08653202B2	Adhesive composition for semiconductor, semiconductor device making use of the same and process for producing semiconductor device An adhesive composition for semiconductor containing an organic-solvent-soluble polyimide (a), an epoxy compound (b) and a hardening accelerator (c), wherein per 100 wt parts of the epoxy compound (b), there are contained 15 to 90 wt parts of the organic-solvent-soluble polyimide (a) and 0.1 to 10 wt parts of the hardening accelerator (c), wherein the epoxy compound (b) contains a compound being liquid at 25° C. under 1.013×105 N/m2 and a compound being solid at 25° C. under 1.013×105 N/m2, and wherein a ratio of compound being liquid based on all the epoxy compounds is 20 wt % or more and 60 wt % or less.
US08653197B2	Thermoplastic vulcanizate composition The disclosure is directed to a thermoplastic vulcanizate composition comprising a dynamically-cured rubber; from about 20 to about 300 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin per 100 parts by weight rubber and from about 30 to about 250 parts by weight additional oil per 100 parts by weight rubber; wherein the rubber comprises a multimodal polymer composition cured with a curing agent, the multimodal polymer composition comprising 45 to 75 wt % of a first polymer fraction and 25 to 55 wt % of a second polymer fraction, each comprising ethylene, a C3-C10 alpha-olefin, and a non-conjugated diene. A method of producing the thermoplastic vulcanizate is also disclosed.
US08653173B2	Elastic member for ink jet Provided is an elastic member for ink jet, including a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer and a thermoplastic resin, in which the elastic member further includes at least a nonionic surfactant having an ethylene oxide adduct, and the content of the nonionic surfactant is 0.1 to 5 mass % with respect to the styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer. The elastic member has sufficient releasability and high liquid-contact properties, which suppresses clogging of ejection orifices due to precipitation when eluted in ink.
US08653167B2	Molding composition for photovoltaic junction boxes and connectors A molding composition is disclosed which contains specific amounts of poly(arylene ether), styrenic polymer, hydrogenated block copolymer, flame retardant, and polytetrafluoroethylene. The molding composition performs well on a battery of tests, including heat resistance, impact strength, melt flow, and flame retardancy, and is particularly useful for producing photovoltaic junction boxes and connectors.
US08653159B2	Apparatus for heat-treating toner and method for producing toner An apparatus for heat-treating a toner includes a raw-material supply unit configured to supply a toner treatment space with a raw-material toner, a hot-air supply unit configured to heat-treat the raw-material toner in the toner treatment space, a suction and ejection unit configured to eject hot air used for the heat treatment of the raw-material toner, and a waste-heat recovery and supply unit configured to recover heat from the hot air ejected by the suction and ejection unit and supply the hot-air supply unit with the recovered heat.
US08653150B2	Method for decomposing thermoset resin and recovering decomposition product The present invention relates to a method for decomposing, in the presence of subcritical water, a thermosetting resin comprising a polyester moiety and a crosslinking moiety therewith to provide a compound comprising an acid residue derived from the polyester moiety and a residue derived from the crosslinking moiety, and collecting the compound in an efficient yield, specifically, which comprises steps of: (I) decomposing the thermosetting resin in the presence of subcritical water to provide a solid comprising a compound comprising an acid residue derived from the polyester moiety and a residue derived from the crosslinking moiety, (II) subjecting the solid to an organic solvent to dissolve the compound into the organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent has a higher solubility which can dissolve the compound than that of water, and (III) collecting, separating or isolating the compound from the organic solvent.
US08653146B2	Method for treating Th17 inflammatory disease through inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors and pharmaceutical composition therefor The present application relates to a method for treating or preventing Th17 inflammatory disease mediated with IL-6 or IL-17 by administration of medication which inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor receptors, and a pharmaceutical composition therefor.
US08653145B2	Method for alleviating climacteric symptoms The present invention is a method for alleviating at least one climacteric symptom in a climacteric subject using an anticholinergic agent. To illustrate the instant invention, homatropine was shown to relieve hot flushes in peri-menopausal and post-menopausal women.
US08653143B2	Use of panduratin derivative or Boesenbergia pandurata extract The present invention relates to a novel use of a panduratin derivative or a Boesenbergia pandurata extract. More specifically, the invention relates to a composition for preventing and treating/relieving a metabolic disease selected from a group consisting of obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes, containing a panduratin derivative represented by Chemical Formula 1, 2 or 3 or a Boesenbergia pandurata extract as an active ingredient, a method for treating a metabolic disease selected from a group consisting of obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes, by administering an effective amount of the panduratin derivative or the Boesenbergia pandurata extract to a subject in need thereof, and a use of the panduratin derivative or the Boesenbergia pandurata extract to prepare a reagent for preventing and treating/relieving a metabolic disease selected from a group consisting of obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes.
US08653134B2	Hydroxyphenol derivatives, processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions them, and therapeutic uses thereof Compounds of the formula (I): in which A, R1, R2, X, Y and Z are defined in the description, the processes for the preparation of these compounds, the uses thereof for the treatment of dyslipidaemia, atherosclerosis and diabetes, and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US08653132B2	Phosphaplatins and their use in pharmaceutical compositions The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising phosphaplatins, stable isolated monomeric phosphato complexes of platinum (II) and (IV). In some embodiments, such compositions may be useful for treating cancers, including cisplatin- and carboplatin-resistant cancers. The provided phosphaplatin complexes do not readily undergo hydrolysis and are quite soluble and stable in aqueous solutions. Moreover, these complexes—unlike cisplatin, carboplatin, and related platinum-based agents—do not bind DNA. Rather, data suggests that phosphaplatins trigger overexpression of fas and fas-related transcription factors and some proapoptotic genes such as Bak and Bax. Nevertheless, the complexes exhibit tremendous cytotoxicity towards cancer cells. Thus, the present invention provides novel platinum agents that have a different molecular target than those in the art.
US08653127B2	Bicyclic pyrazolo-heterocycles The present invention provides substituted pyrazolo-heterocycles having the general structure of formula I The structures of rings A and B and substituents Ra, Rb and Rc are described in the specification. Also provided are pharmaceutically acceptable salts, acid salts, hydrates, solvates and stereoisomers of the compounds of formula I. The compounds are useful as modulators of cannabinoid receptors and for the prophylaxis, treatment and inhibition of cannabinoid receptor-associated diseases and conditions, such as pain, inflammation and pruritis.
US08653126B2	Imidazole derivative To provide a novel compound or an isotope thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having S1P lyase inhibitory capacity and inducing the decrease in number of lymphocytes, and a pharmaceutical composition containing these as active ingredients. A compound represented by the general formula (I): or the general formula (II): or an isotope thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US08653117B2	Composition comprising at least one oxazoline to inhibit migration of langerhans cells, and uses thereof The invention concerns a composition containing at least an oxazolin, optionally combined with at least a compound such as a metalloprotease inhibitor, a PKC inhibitor, an anti-inflammatory agent, a soothing agent, an immunosuppressor, an ion chelating agent, an alkanolamide, an oxazolidinone and a carbamic acid derivative. The invention also concerns the use of such a composition as medicine, in particular for preventing or treating skin pathologies of allergic and/or inflammatory and/or irritative origin or resulting from a danger signal. The invention further concerns a method for cosmetic treatment of sensitive, irritated, intolerant, allergy-prone, ageing skin and/or mucosa exhibiting skin barrier disorder, or exhibiting non-pathological immunologic imbalance, which consists in applying such composition on the skin and/or mucosa.
US08653116B2	Isoxazoline derivatives as pesticides The invention relates to new isoxazoline compounds of formula wherein the variables have the meaning as indicated in the claims; in free form and in salt form; and optionally the enantiomers and geometrical isomers thereof. The compounds of formula (I) are useful in the control of parasites, in particular ectoparasites, in and on warm-blooded animals.
US08653113B2	Fungicidal composition and method for controlling plant diseases A fungicidal composition containing, as active ingredients, (a) a benzoylpyridine derivative represented by the following formula or its salt: wherein X is a halogen atom, a nitro group, a substitutable hydrocarbon group, a substitutable alkoxy group, a substitutable aryloxy group, a substitutable cycloalkoxy group, a hydroxyl group, a substitutable alkylthio group, a cyano group, a carboxyl group which may be esterified or amidated, or a substitutable amino group, n is 1, 2, 3 or 4; R1 is a substitutable alkyl group, R2′ is a substitutable alkyl group, a substitutable alkoxy group, a substitutable aryloxy group, a substitutable cycloalkoxy group or a hydroxyl group, p is 1, 2 or 3, and R2″ is a substitutable alkoxy group or a hydroxyl group, provided that at least two of R2′ and R2″ optionally form a condensed ring containing an oxygen atom and (b) at least one other fungicide.
US08653111B2	Substituted dihydropyrazolones for treating cardiovascular and hematological diseases The present application relates to novel substituted dihydropyrazolone derivatives, processes for their preparation, their use for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and their use for the preparation of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular cardiovascular and hematological diseases and kidney diseases, and for promoting wound healing.
US08653107B2	Fentanyl composition for nasal administration The treatment of acute pain with a sufficient dosage by intranasal administration of fentanyl results in a time to onset of action comparable to intravenous administration and a significantly faster onset of action than nasal titration of fentanyl. The nasal administration of a sufficient amount of fentanyl to obtain pain relief has lower maximum plasma concentrations comparable to intravenous administration and results in lower rates of adverse events like respiratory depression, nausea and vomiting. Compositions for use in the method are also disclosed.
US08653090B2	Compositions and methods for treatment of the side-effects associated with administration of cancer chemotherapeutic agents A composition and method for the treatment of the side-effects associated with the administration of cancer chemotherapeutic agents involves the oral ingestion of a slow release capsule containing adenine and orotate. The administration of a protein pump inhibitor decreases systemic absorption of orotate and the administration of allopurinol decreases the formation of 2,8-dihydroxy adenine from adenine. In an alternative embodiment, cationic liposomes contain purine/pyrimidine precursors. The cationic liposomes bind to the cells lining the mucosa of the intestinal tract and then the contents of the cationic liposome are then taken up in the interior of the cells to prevent the metabolism of the cancer treatment drug 5-FU into a toxic species.
US08653081B2	Certain chemical entities, compositions, and methods Certain substituted urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
US08653074B2	Substituted sodium 1H-pyrazol-5-olate The present application relates to sodium 1-[6-(morpholin-4-yl)pyrimidin-4-yl]-4-(1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)-1H-pyrazol-5-olate, to processes for its preparation, to its use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to its use for the preparation of medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular cardiovascular and haematological diseases and kidney diseases, and for promoting wound healing.
US08653073B2	Dihydroindolone compounds, a process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them Compounds of formula (I): wherein: m and n represent 1 or 2, A represents a pyrrolyl group, X represents a C(O), S(O) or SO2 group, R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group or, together with the nitrogen atom carrying them, form a heterocyclic group, R3 and R4, together with the atoms carrying them, form a heterocyclic group, R5 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R6 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating cancer.
US08653057B1	Prophylactic perioperative testosterone supplementation for protection of and recovery of function Testosterone levels in a patient predicts whether or not the patient is likely to recover sexual potency following radical prostatectomy. Lower levels of testosterone are associated with a lower rate of potency recovery and with more aggressive prostate cancers. Therapeutically increasing circulating testosterone leads to improved rates of return to potency.
US08653055B2	Corticosteroid having low systemic absorption The invention provides novel compositions of water-insoluble corticosteroid drug in combination with antimicrobial agents and very low concentrations of polymers and surfactants for topical, otic and ophthalmic treatment. The invention provides stable aqueous suspension where the ingredients remain in such a state so as to allow for immediate re-suspension, when desired, even after extended periods of settling. The invention provides also a method for treating inflammation with low systemic absorption and side-effects of the corticosteroid.
US08653050B2	Phenyl bicyclic methyl amine derivatives as sphingosine-1 phosphate receptors modulators The present invention relates to novel phenyl bicyclic methyl amine derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors.
US08653045B2	Induction of thyroid iodide-handling gene expression in human cancers Dual suppression of the MAP kinase and PI3K/Akt pathways showed synergistic or greatly enhanced anti-melanoma cell effects, compared to suppression of a single pathway, including the inhibition of cell proliferation, transformation and invasion, induction of G0/G1 cell cycle arrest and, importantly, cell apoptosis. Remarkably, suppression of either pathway induces the expression of thyroid iodide-handling genes and dual suppression of the two pathways synergistically and robustly induces expression of these genes, accompanied by uptake of radioiodine in the cells. These genes include sodium/iodide symporter, thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor, thyroglobulin, thyroperoxidase, pendrin gene, thyroid transcription factors (e.g., TTF-1, TTF-2, PAX8) and other thyroid genes. Targeting major signaling pathways, such as the MAP kinase and PI3K/Akt pathways, for potent cell death, optionally coupled with induction of thyroid gene expression for adjunct radioiodine ablation therapy may be used for many human cancers, both thyroid and non-thyroid.
US08653042B2	Antibacterial aminoglycoside analogs Compounds having antibacterial activity are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein Q1, Q2, Q3, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, are also disclosed.
US08653040B2	Compositions containing sesamin-class compound(s) and quercetin glycoside(s) The purpose of the present invention is to provide a means of enhancing the bodily absorption of sesamin-class compounds. By using sesamin-class compounds and quercetin glycosides in combination, the bodily absorption of the sesamin-class compounds can be enhanced.
US08653033B2	Method for administering omega-conopeptide The present invention is directed to a method of producing analgesia in a mammalian subject. The method includes administering to the subject an omega conopeptide, preferably ziconotide, in combination with an analgesic selected from the group consisting of morphine, bupivacaine, clonidine, hydromorphone, baclofen, fentanyl, buprenorphine, and sufentanil, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the ω-conopeptide retains its potency and is physically and chemically compatible with the analgesic compound. A preferred route of administration is intrathecal administration, particularly continuous intrathecal infusion. The present invention is also directed to a pharmaceutical formulation comprising an omega conopeptide, preferably ziconotide, an antioxidant, in combination with an analgesic selected from the group consisting of morphine, bupivacaine, clonidine, hydromorphone, baclofen, fentanyl, buprenorphine, and sufentanil.
US08653032B2	Pharmaceutical composition for preventing / treating TRPV1 activity-related and inflammation-related diseases or conditions containing maillard peptide separated from well-aged traditional soy sauce as active ingredient Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating TRPV1 activity-related or inflammation-related, diseases or conditions, containing a Maillard peptide separated from well-aged traditional soy sauce as an active ingredient. The Maillard peptide in the present invention functions both as a TRPV1 agonist and a TRPV1 antagonist, and further functions as a TRPV1 activity modulator. Therefore, the Maillard peptide can be used for preventing or treating TRPV1 activity-related diseases such as pain, neurological diseases, urgent defecation, inflammatory bowel disease, respiratory diseases, urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, neurogenic / allergic / inflammatory skin diseases, skin, eye or mucosal irritation, hyperacusis, tinnitus, vestibular hypersensitivity, heart disease, etc. The Maillard peptide can further inhibit COX-2 activity, and therefore can be effectively used for preventing or treating inflammation-related diseases or conditions such as rheumatic fever, influenza, cold, throat pain, headaches, toothaches, sprains, neuralgia, synovitis, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative arthropathies, gout, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, dermatitis, etc.
US08653013B2	Nontoxic low melting point fusible alloy lubrication of electromagnetic railgun armatures and rails A railgun which has a conductive lubricant and system of delivery reduces the electrical resistance and friction of the armature-rail sliding contact, thereby decreasing the amount of heat generated at the electrical contact. The conductive lubricant may be a ternary alloy of bismuth, indium and tin. The system of delivery for the conductive lubricant may include a plurality of surface reservoirs formed in either the rail surface, the armature face, or both.
US08653009B2	Method for preventing the formation of calcium carboxylate deposits in the dewatering process for crude oil/water streams The invention relates to the use of compounds comprising three hydrophobic groups as additives to a stream of crude oil containing carboxylic acids, in particular naphthenic acids, and salt water, to prevent the formation of calcium carboxylates when the fluid is exposed to shear forces. Preferably, the compounds are added to a crude oil/water stream containing organic acids Ca2+ ions at a point between the well and the pressure reduction valve in the crude oil receiving station. The compounds have the formula (I) wherein hydrophobic groups R, R′, and R″ are, independently, an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group or an optionally substituted acyl group having 4-22 carbon atoms; X is N, P═O or CR′″, wherein R′″ is H or a C1-C4 alkyl group; Y is C═O or CH2; a, a′, a″ b, b′ and b″ each independently are 0 or 1, the subscript 0-1 meaning that if the subscript is 0, then the group is not present in the molecule, whereas if the subscript is 1, then the group is present in the molecule; n, n′, and n″ are, independently, zero or on average at least 1, and at most 14; the sum of n, n′, and n″ is 0 or on average at least 3, and at most 42; and m, m′, and m″ are, independently, on average 0-6, and the sum of m, m′, and m″ is 0-18.
US08653006B2	Metabolite biomarkers for the detection of esophageal cancer using NMR Methods for the detection and screening of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) patients and for the monitoring of EAC treatment using a panel or panels of small molecule metabolite biomarkers are disclosed. In other aspects, methods for detection and screening for the progression of high-risk conditions (BE and HGD) to EAC and to monitoring treatment using a panel or panels of small molecule metabolite biomarkers are disclosed. The biomarkers are sensitive and specific for the detection of EAC, and can also be used to classify Barrett's esophagus (BE) and high-grade dysplasia (HGD), which are widely regarded as precursors of EAC.
US08653004B2	Actives-comprising polymer networks, processes for producing them, and their use Process for producing actives-comprising polymeric networks from oligomers containing (meth)acrylate groups, optionally from further monomers, and from actives, the polymeric networks obtainable by the process, and the use of the networks for various purposes, more particularly for protecting materials or in crop protection.
US08652999B1	Herbicidal compositions comprising 4-amino-3-chloro-5-fluoro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)pyridine-2-carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof and a sulfonylaminocarbonyltriazolinone A herbicidal composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a sulfonylaminocarbonyltriazone herbicide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof.
US08652997B2	Active compound combinations The invention relates to active compound combinations, in particular a fungicidal and/or insecticidal composition, comprising Isotianil (3,4-dichloro-N-(2-cyanophenyl)-5-isothiazolecarboxamide) and at least one further insecticide of the tetronic acid derivatives group and optionally one further insecticide of the neonicotinoids.Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or preventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungi and/or microorganisms and/or pests of plants or crops, to the use of a combination according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated seed.
US08652995B2	Steam activated non-lignocellulosic based carbons for ultracapacitors A method for producing an activated carbon material includes heating a non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor to form a carbon material and reacting the carbon material with steam to form an activated carbon material. The activated carbon material is suitable to form improved carbon-based electrodes for use in high energy density devices.
US08652993B2	Doped palladium containing oxidation catalysts A supported oxidation catalyst includes a support having a metal oxide or metal salt, and mixed metal particles thereon. The mixed metal particles include first particles including a palladium compound, and second particles including a precious metal group (PMG) metal or PMG metal compound, wherein the PMG metal is not palladium. The oxidation catalyst may also be used as a gas sensor.
US08652977B2	Heat-resistant nonwoven fabric The present invention provides a heat-resistant nonwoven fabric wherein the nonwoven fabric is formed from a poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber, and 30% by weight or more of the poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber has a crystallinity of 25 to 50%. Moreover, the properties of the heat-resistant nonwoven fabric can be further improved by making the nonwoven fabric have a multilayer structure in which layers composed of a poly(phenylene sulfide) filamentary fiber and layers composed of a poly(phenylene sulfide) fine fiber are stacked and integrated.
US08652971B2	Cavity process etch undercut monitor A MEMS device having a device cavity in a substrate has a cavity etch monitor proximate to the device cavity. An overlying layer including dielectric material is formed over the substrate. A monitor scale is formed in or on the overlying layer. Access holes are etched through the overlying layer and a cavity etch process forms the device cavity and a monitor cavity. The monitor scale is located over a lateral edge of the monitor cavity. The cavity etch monitor includes the monitor scale and monitor cavity, which allows visual measurement of a lateral width of the monitor cavity; the lateral dimensions of the monitor cavity being related to lateral dimensions of the device cavity.
US08652962B2	Etch damage and ESL free dual damascene metal interconnect A method of forming a dual damascene metal interconnect for a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a layer of low-k dielectric, forming vias through the low-k dielectric layer, depositing a sacrificial layer, forming trenches through the sacrificial layer, filling the vias and trenches with metal, removing the sacrificial layer, then depositing an extremely low-k dielectric layer to fill between the trenches. The method allows the formation of an extremely low-k dielectric layer for the second level of the dual damascene structure while avoiding damage to that layer by such processes as trench etching and trench metal deposition. The method has the additional advantage of avoiding an etch stop layer between the via level dielectric and the trench level dielectric.
US08652955B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor integrated circuit device Provided is a manufacturing method of semiconductor integrated circuit, which is effective when applied to a processing technique for a gate electrode or the like. In the patterning of a gate stack film having a high-k gate insulating film and a metal electrode film in a memory region, etching for a cut region between adjacent gate electrodes is performed first using a first resist film and, after the first resist film that is no longer needed is removed, etching for a line and space pattern is performed using a second resist film.
US08652948B2	Nitride semiconductor, nitride semiconductor crystal growth method, and nitride semiconductor light emitting element During the growth of a nitride semiconductor crystal on a nonpolar face nitride substrate, such as an m-face, the gas that constitutes the main flow in the process of heating up to a relatively high temperature range, before growth of the nitride semiconductor layer, (the atmosphere to which the main nitride face of the substrate is exposed) and the gas that constitutes the main flow until growth of first and second nitride semiconductor layers is completed (the atmosphere to which the main nitride face of the substrate is exposed) are primarily those that will not have an etching effect on the nitride, while no Si source is supplied at the beginning of growth of the nitride semiconductor layer. Therefore, nitrogen atoms are not desorbed from near the nitride surface of the epitaxial substrate, thus suppressing the introduction of defects into the epitaxial film. This also makes epitaxial growth possible with a surface morphology of excellent flatness.
US08652947B2	Non-polar III-V nitride semiconductor and growth method A method for growing flat, low defect density, and strain-free thick non-polar III-V nitride materials and devices on any suitable foreign substrates using a fabricated nanocolumns compliant layer with an HVPE growth process is provided. The method uses a combination of dry and wet etching to create nanocolumns consisting of layers of non-polar III nitride material and other insulating materials or materials used to grow the non-polar III-V nitride materials.
US08652945B2	Epitaxy of high tensile silicon alloy for tensile strain applications Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to methods for forming silicon epitaxial layers on semiconductor devices. The methods include forming a silicon epitaxial layer on a substrate at increased pressure and reduced temperature. The silicon epitaxial layer has a phosphorus concentration of about 1×1021 atoms per cubic centimeter or greater, and is formed without the addition of carbon. A phosphorus concentration of about 1×1021 atoms per cubic centimeter or greater increases the tensile strain of the deposited layer, and thus, improves channel mobility. Since the epitaxial layer is substantially free of carbon, the epitaxial layer does not suffer from film formation and quality issues commonly associated with carbon-containing epitaxial layers.
US08652941B2	Wafer dicing employing edge region underfill removal In one embodiment, a dielectric material layer embedding metal structures is ablated from the chip-containing substrate by laser grooving, which is performed on dicing channels of the chip-containing substrate. Subsequently, an underfill layer is formed over the dielectric material layer in a pattern that excludes the peripheral areas of the chip-containing substrate. The physically exposed dicing channels at the periphery can be employed to align a blade to dice the chip-containing substrate. In another embodiment, an underfill layer is formed prior to any laser grooving. Mechanical cutting of the underfill layer from above dicing channels is followed by laser ablation of the dicing channels and subsequent mechanical cutting to dice a chip-containing substrate.
US08652940B2	Wafer dicing used hybrid multi-step laser scribing process with plasma etch Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. A method includes forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer. The mask is composed of a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask is patterned with a multi-step laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask with gaps. The patterning exposes regions of the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. The semiconductor wafer is then etched through the gaps in the patterned mask to singulate the integrated circuits.
US08652935B2	Void-free wafer bonding using channels A method of bonding first and second microelectronic elements includes pressing together a first substrate containing active circuit elements therein with a second substrate, with a flowable dielectric material between confronting surfaces of the respective substrates, each of the first and second substrates having a coefficient of thermal expansion less than 10 parts per million/° C., at least one of the confronting surfaces having a plurality of channels extending from an edge of such surface, such that the dielectric material between planes defined by the confronting surfaces is at least substantially free of voids and has a thickness over one micron, and at least some of the dielectric material flows into at least some of the channels.
US08652933B2	Semiconductor structure having wide and narrow deep trenches with different materials Disclosed is a method of forming a semiconductor device structure in a semiconductor layer. The method includes forming a first trench of a first width and a second trench of a second width in the semiconductor layer; depositing a layer of first material which conforms to a wall of the first trench but does not fill it and which fills the second trench; removing the first material from the first trench, the first material remaining in the second trench; depositing a second material into and filling the first trench and over a top of the first material in the second trench; and uniformly removing the second material from the top of the first material in the second trench, wherein the first trench is filled with the second material and the second trench is filled with the first material and wherein the first material is different from the second material.
US08652925B2	Method of fabricating isolated capacitors and structure thereof A structure and method is provided for fabricating isolated capacitors. The method includes simultaneously forming a plurality of deep trenches and one or more isolation trenches surrounding a group or array of the plurality of deep trenches through a SOI and doped poly layer, to an underlying insulator layer. The method further includes lining the plurality of deep trenches and one or more isolation trenches with an insulator material. The method further includes filling the plurality of deep trenches and one or more isolation trenches with a conductive material on the insulator material. The deep trenches form deep trench capacitors and the one or more isolation trenches form one or more isolation plates that isolate at least one group or array of the deep trench capacitors from another group or array of the deep trench capacitors.
US08652923B2	Nonvolatile memory device having an electrode interface coupling region Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a resistive switching nonvolatile memory device having an interface layer structure disposed between at least one of the electrodes and a variable resistance layer formed in the nonvolatile memory device, and a method of forming the same. Typically, resistive switching memory elements may be formed as part of a high-capacity nonvolatile memory integrated circuit, which can be used in various electronic devices, such as digital cameras, mobile telephones, handheld computers, and music players. In one configuration of the resistive switching nonvolatile memory device, the interface layer structure comprises a passivation region, an interface coupling region, and/or a variable resistance layer interface region that are configured to adjust the nonvolatile memory device's performance, such as lowering the formed device's switching currents and reducing the device's forming voltage, and reducing the performance variation from one formed device to another.
US08652919B2	Tunable semiconductor device Embodiments of the present invention include a method for forming a tunable semiconductor device. In one embodiment, the method comprises: forming a semiconductor substrate; patterning a first mask over the semiconductor substrate; doping regions of the semiconductor substrate not protected by the first mask to form a first discontinuous subcollector; removing the first mask; patterning a second mask over the semiconductor substrate; doping regions of the semiconductor substrate not protected by the second mask and on top of the first discontinuous subcollector to form a second discontinuous subcollector; removing the second mask; and forming a single continuous collector above the second discontinuous subcollector.
US08652912B2	Methods of fabricating a transistor gate including cobalt silicide A method for fabricating a transistor gate with a conductive element that includes cobalt silicide includes use of a sacrificial material as a place-holder between sidewall spacers of the transistor gate until after high temperature processes, such as the fabrication of raised source and drain regions, have been completed. In addition, semiconductor devices (e.g., DRAM devices and NAND flash memory devices) with transistor gates that include cobalt silicide in their conductive elements are also disclosed, as are transistors with raised source and drain regions and cobalt silicide in the transistor gates thereof. Intermediate semiconductor device structures that include transistor gates with sacrificial material or a gap between upper portions of sidewall spacers are also disclosed.
US08652911B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a device isolation region on a semiconductor substrate to define an active region, forming a gate electrode on the active region and the device isolation region across the active region, and forming at least one gate electrode opening portion in the gate electrode so as to overlap an edge portion of the active region, wherein the gate electrode opening portion is simultaneously formed with the gate electrode.
US08652900B2	Trench MOSFET with ultra high cell density and manufacture thereof A trench MOSFET structure with ultra high cell density is disclosed, wherein the source regions and the body regions are located in different regions to save the mesa area between every two adjacent gate trenches in the active area. Furthermore, the inventive trench MOSFET is composed of stripe cells to further increase cell packing density and decrease on resistance Rds between the drain region and the source region.
US08652898B2	Integrated circuit with a thin body field effect transistor and capacitor A transistor region of a first semiconductor layer and a capacitor region in the first semiconductor layer are isolated. A dummy gate structure is formed on the first semiconductor layer in the transistor region. A second semiconductor layer is formed on the first semiconductor layer. First and second portions of the second semiconductor layer are located in the transistor region, and a third portion of the second semiconductor layer is located in the capacitor region. First, second, and third silicide regions are formed on the first, second, and third portions of the second semiconductor layer, respectively. After forming a dielectric layer, the dummy gate structure is removed forming a first cavity. At least a portion of the dielectric layer located above the third silicide region is removed forming a second cavity. A gate dielectric is formed in the first cavity and a capacitor dielectric in the second cavity.
US08652896B2	Semiconductor memory device and fabrication process thereof A SRAM includes a first CMOS inverter of first and second MOS transistors connected in series, a second CMOS inverter of third and fourth MOS transistors connected in series and forming a flip-flop circuit together with the first CMOS inverter, and a polysilicon resistance element formed on a device isolation region, each of the first and third MOS transistors is formed in a device region of a first conductivity type and includes a second conductivity type drain region at an outer side of a sidewall insulation film of the gate electrode with a larger depth than a drain extension region thereof, wherein a source region is formed deeper than a drain extension region, the polysilicon gate electrode has a film thickness identical to a film thickness of the polysilicon resistance element, the source region and the polysilicon resistance element are doped with the same dopant element.
US08652894B2	Method for fabricating a FinFET device A FinFET device and method for fabricating a FinFET device is disclosed. An exemplary method includes forming a fin structure on a semiconductor substrate and forming a gate structure on the fin structure. A capping layer is then formed over the semiconductor substrate, fin structure, and gate structure. The capping layer is patterned to form an opening exposing a second portion of the fin structure. An epitaxial layer is grown in the opening and on the second portion of the fin structure. At least one of a source region and a drain region is provided in the epitaxial layer. The method may continue to remove the capping layer.
US08652886B2	Thin film transistor array substrate for a display panel and a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor array substrate for a display panel A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array substrate includes forming a gate pattern on a substrate, forming a gate insulating film on the substrate, forming a source/drain pattern and a semiconductor pattern on the substrate, forming first, second, and third passivation films successively on the substrate. Over the above multi-layered passivation film forming a first photoresist pattern including a first portion formed on part of the drain electrode and on the pixel region, and a second portion. The second portion is thicker than the first portion. Then, patterning the third passivation film using the first photoresist pattern, forming a second photoresist pattern by removing the first portion of the first photoresist pattern, forming a transparent electrode film on the substrate, removing the second photoresist pattern and the transparent electrode film disposed on the second photoresist pattern, and forming a transparent electrode pattern on the second passivation layer.
US08652881B2	Integrated circuit package system with anti-peel contact pads An integrated circuit package system includes: forming an anti-peel pad having both a concave ring and an external terminal with the concave ring, having a peripheral wall, surrounding the external terminal; connecting an integrated circuit with the anti-peel pad; and forming an encapsulation over the integrated circuit, the concave ring, and the external terminal with the encapsulation under the peripheral wall.
US08652877B2	Method of manufacturing layered chip package A layered chip package includes a main body, and wiring that includes a plurality of wires disposed on a side surface of the main body. The main body includes a plurality of stacked layer portions. A method of manufacturing the layered chip package includes the step of fabricating a layered substructure and the step of cutting the layered substructure. The layered substructure includes: a plurality of arrayed pre-separation main bodies; a plurality of accommodation parts disposed between two adjacent pre-separation main bodies; and a plurality of preliminary wires accommodated in the accommodation parts. The accommodation parts are formed in a photosensitive resin layer by photolithography. In the step of cutting the layered substructure, the plurality of pre-separation main bodies are separated from each other, and the wires are formed by the preliminary wires.
US08652875B2	Method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor is provided. The method includes forming a lower organic semiconductor layer, forming an upper organic semiconductor layer on the lower organic semiconductor layer, the upper organic semiconductor layer having solubility and conductivity higher than those of the lower organic semiconductor layer, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from each other and respectively overlapping the upper organic semiconductor layer, and dissolving the upper organic semiconductor layer selectively by using the source electrode and the drain electrode as a mask.
US08652869B2	Method for roughening substrate surface and method for manufacturing photovoltaic device A method of roughening a substrate surface includes forming an opening in a protection film formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, performing a first etching process using an acid solution by utilizing the protection film as a mask so as to form a first concave under the opening and its vicinity area, performing an etching process by using the protection film as a mask so as to remove an oxide film formed on a surface of the first concave, performing anisotropic etching by using the protection film as a mask so as to form a second concave under the opening and its vicinity area, and removing the protection film.
US08652868B2	Implanting method for forming photodiode An implanting method for forming a photodiode comprises providing a substrate with a first conductivity, growing an epitaxial layer on the substrate, implanting ions with a second conductivity in the epitaxial layer from a front side of the substrate and implanting ions with the first conductivity in the epitaxial layer from the front side of the substrate to form a photo active region adjacent to the front side and a photo inactive region underneath the photo active region. By employing the implanting method, an average doping density of the photo active region is approximately ten times more than an average doping density of the photo inactive region.
US08652859B2	Method for manufacturing light-emitting device and manufacturing apparatus of light-emitting device An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a light-emitting device in which a defective portion is insulated. In addition, another object is to provide a manufacturing apparatus of a light-emitting device in which a defective portion is insulated. After a hemispherical lens is formed to overlap with a light-emitting element, the defective portion is detected. Then, the hemispherical lens overlapping with the light-emitting element including the detected defective portion may be irradiated with a laser beam having a low energy density, and the defective portion may be insulated by light condensed through the hemispherical lens.
US08652858B2	Chip testing method A chip testing method includes cutting a wafer into chip packages, re-arranging the chip packages on a chip tray, and testing the re-arranged chip packages. The wafer includes a plurality of substrates vertically stacked thereon, and each of the plurality of substrates has a plurality of chips mounted thereon.
US08652856B2	Method for use in making electronic devices having thin-film magnetic components Disclosed herein is a method of forming electronic device having thin-film components by using trenches. One or more of thin-film components is formed by depositing a thin-film in the trench followed by processing the deposited thin-film to have the desired thickness.
US08652847B2	Cellular tissue microchip and method of forming cellular tissue A microchip is provided that forms cellular tissues having uniform shapes and sizes and that can culture the formed cellular tissues for long periods of time.The cellular tissue microchip comprises a plurality of cell-retaining cavities (12) for retaining cells, wherein a bottom surface (20) of the cell-retaining cavities has one adhesive region (30) that exhibits cellular adhesiveness and a non-adhesive region (32) that surrounds the adhesive region (30) and that exhibits cellular non-adhesiveness.
US08652844B2	Methods for the cryopreservation of animal cells that contain high levels of intracellular lipids A method for cryopreservation of animal cells with high level of intracellular lipid content, comprises the steps of conducting a delipation procedure using one or more lipolytic agent(s) and/or lipogenesis inhibitors during culture of the animal cells to stimulate the hydrolysis of intracellular lipids to reduce the lipid content, and vitrifying the treated animal cells using a modified vitrification solution and a modified warming solution.
US08652837B2	Method and means for producing high titer, safe, recombinant lentivirus vectors Lentiviral vectors modified at the 5′ LTR or both the 5′ and 3′ LTR are useful in the production of recombinant lentivirus vectors (See the Figure). Such vectors can be produced in the absence of a functional tat gene. Multiple transformation of the host cell with the vector carrying the transgene enhances virus production. The vectors can contain inducible or conditional promoters.
US08652827B2	Radiosynthesis as an alternative energy utilization process in melanized organisms and uses thereof This present invention provides methods of enhancing the growth of a microorganism or plant by increasing its melanin content and exposing it to radiation, and methods of using melanized microorganisms to contain or exclude radiation.
US08652824B2	Recombinant polypeptide having pancreatic lipase activity and nucleic acid coding sequence thereof, and their production and use Disclosed herein is an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a recombinant polypeptide that has pancreatic lipase activity. Also disclosed herein are a recombinant vector and a recombinant host cell for producing the recombinant polypeptide. The recombinant polypeptide is adapted for preparation of an animal feed that is able to facilitate utilization of fats therein by pigs (especially postweaning pigs) and to enhance growth performance of the pigs.
US08652822B2	Refrigerator-temperature stable influenza vaccine compositions Methods and compositions for the optimization and production of refrigerator-temperature stable virus, e.g., influenza, compositions are provided. Formulations and immunogenic compositions comprising refrigerator-temperature stable virus compositions are provided.
US08652820B2	Thermotolerant Non-K12 Escherichia coli phytase and its production This invention relates to cloning and sequencing of thermotolerant phytase gene from Non-K12 Escherichia coli strain, ATCC 9637, phytase gene expression in Escherichia coli expression system, codon usage optimized and expression in Pichia pastoris, Pichia methanolica and Kluyeromyces lactis. The high level yield and thermotolerant enzyme was produced from fermentation of Pichia pastoris with optimized codon of phytase gene.
US08652817B2	Recombinant host cells and media for ethanol production Disclosed are recombinant host cells suitable for degrading an oligosaccharide that have been optimized for growth and production of high yields of ethanol, and methods of making and using these cells. The invention further provides minimal media comprising urea-like compounds for economical production of ethanol by recombinant microorganisms. Recombinant host cells in accordance with the invention are modified by gene mutation to eliminate genes responsible for the production of unwanted products other than ethanol, thereby increasing the yield of ethanol produced from the oligosaccharides, relative to unmutated parent strains. The new and improved strains of recombinant bacteria are capable of superior ethanol productivity and yield when grown under conditions suitable for fermentation in minimal growth media containing inexpensive reagents. Systems optimized for ethanol production combine a selected optimized minimal medium with a recombinant host cell optimized for use in the selected medium. Preferred systems are suitable for efficient ethanol production by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) using lignocellulose as an oligosaccharide source. The invention also provides novel isolated polynucleotide sequences, polypeptide sequences, vectors and antibodies.
US08652814B2	Method for production of DHA-containing phospholipid through microbial fermentation Disclosed is a method for producing a DHA phospholipid comprising an ω3 unsaturated fatty acid, particularly DHA, as a constituent lipid by using a microorganism in a simpler manner. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing a phospholipid comprising an ω3 unsaturated fatty acid as a constituent lipid, which comprises the steps of: growing a microorganism capable of producing the ω3 unsaturated fatty acid in a culture medium containing a carbon source; and further culturing the grown microorganism in a culture medium without any carbon source. The method enables to produce a highly value-added phospholipid which comprises an ω3 unsaturated fatty acid as a constituent lipid by using a microorganism capable of producing the ω3 unsaturated fatty acid in a large quantity.
US08652812B2	Dual oligonucleotide method of nucleic acid detection Methods for amplifying and detecting nucleic acids are described, as well as sets of 5′ labeled oligonucleotides.
US08652805B2	Trapping molecular segments in nano-gaps A molecule trapping method includes forming a fluid bridge between a first reservoir and a second reservoir, translocating a molecule from the first reservoir to the second reservoir through the fluid bridge, detecting when a segment of the molecule is in the fluid bridge, breaking the fluid bridge and forming an a gap between the first and the second reservoirs, thereby trapping a segment of the molecule in the gap and making measurements on the segment of the molecule.
US08652799B2	Method of detecting bioactive molecules in a fluid sample A method of detecting the presence of bioactive molecules in a fluid sample, comprising contacting a solution of a microorganism selected from the group consisting of a monocellular algae and a cyanobacteria with the fluid sample so as to obtain a formulation having a microorganism concentration of 200 000-1×107 cells/mL of fluid sample; incubating the formulation for 10 to 120 minutes at a pH of 7 to 12 and a temperature between 18 and 35° C.; and measuring the fluorescence emitted by the formulation, whereby a fluorescence emitted in the sample that is lower than that in a control sample is an indication that the sample contains a bioactive molecule.
US08652797B2	Methods of NAD-dependent deacetylation of a lysine residue in a protein Methods of NAD-dependent of at least one lysine residue in an acetylated protein are disclosed. The methods include combining the acetylated protein with an isolated Sir2 protein or fragment that includes a core domain of the Sir2 protein. The Sir2 protein or fragment of the Sir2 protein can include a human Sir2 protein or a fragment of a human Sir2 protein.
US08652788B2	Assay for diagnosis of cardiac myocyte damage Assays are disclosed for diagnosing a clinical condition, assessing risk or predicting an outcome as a result of cardiac myocyte damage. Immunoassay methods and kits provide for the assessment of cardiac myocyte damage by determining the presence of multiple cardiac myocyte antigens in a test sample, and combining the multiple determinations in a single assay result.
US08652785B2	Method of screening a modulator of endothelial NO synthase comprising the use of heme binding protein 1 The present invention relates to a method of screening for a modulator of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) expression, a method of diagnosing a cardiovascular disease in a subject, the use of HEBP-1 for the identification of a medicament for preventing and/or treating a disease involving eNOS dysfunction, particularly a cardiovascular disease, the use of HEBP-1 for the detection of a component of eNOS signal transduction, and the use of HEBP1 for the regulation of eNOS promoter activity.
US08652782B2	Compositions and methods for detecting, identifying and quantitating mycobacterial-specific nucleic acids Disclosed are compositions and methods for isolating, detecting, amplifying, and quantitating Mycobacterium-specific nucleic acids in a sample. Also disclosed are compositions and diagnostic kits comprising Mycobacterium IS6110-specific oligonucleotide amplification primers and labeled oligonucleotide detection probes that specifically bind to the amplification products obtained therefrom. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for the isolation and characterization of nucleic acids that are specific to one or more tubercular pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in particular, from a wide variety of samples including those of biological, environmental, clinical and/or veterinary origin.
US08652776B2	Prediction of QT prolongation based on SNP genotype The present invention relates to the prediction of QT prolongation following administration of a compound capable of increasing an individual's QT interval based on the individual's genotype at one or more single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci and to the treatment of a patient based on such prediction.
US08652757B2	Method for forming resist underlayer film, patterning process using the same, and composition for the resist underlayer film A method for forming a resist underlayer film of a multilayer resist film having at least three layers used in a lithography, includes a step of coating a composition for resist underlayer film containing a novolak resin represented by the following general formula (1) obtained by treating a compound having a bisnaphthol group on a substrate; and a step of curing the coated composition for the resist underlayer film by a heat treatment at a temperature above 300° C. and 600° C. or lower for 10 to 600 seconds. A method for forming a resist underlayer film, and a patterning process using the method to form a resist underlayer film in a multilayer resist film having at least three layers used in a lithography, gives a resist underlayer film having a lowered reflectance, a high etching resistance, and a high heat and solvent resistances, especially without wiggling during substrate etching.
US08652756B2	Positive resist composition and patterning process A positive resist composition comprising, as base resins contained therein, (A) a polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 500000 and containing a repeating unit which contains a structure having a hydrogen atom of a carboxyl group thereof substituted with an acid-labile group having a cyclic structure and (B) a novolak resin of a substituted or an unsubstituted fluorescein, and in addition, a photo acid generator. There can be provided a positive resist composition having an appropriate absorption to form a pattern on a highly reflective substrate with excellent pattern profile after light exposure, adhesion, implantation characteristics onto a non-planar substrate, and in addition, ion implantation resistance at the time of ion implantation; and to provide a patterning process.
US08652752B2	Sulphonium salt initiators Compounds of the Formula (I), wherein L1, L′1, L″1, L2, L′2, L″2, L3, L′3, L″3, L4, L′4 and L″4 for example are hydrogen or COT; R, R′ and R″ for example are hydrogen, C6-C12aryl or C3-C20heteroaryl; X, X′ and X″ for example are O, S, single bond, NRa or NCORa, T is for example hydrogen, C1-C20alkyl, C3-C12cycloalkyl, C2-C20alkenyl, C5-C12cycloalkenyl, C7-C18cycloalkylenaryl, C5-C18cycloalkylenheteroaryl, C6-C14aryl, providedthat at least one of R, R′ or R″ is unsubstituted or substituted C3-C20heteroaryl; and Y is an inorganic or organic anion; are suitable as photolatent acid generators.
US08652751B2	Resist composition, method for forming resist pattern, and method for producing electronic device A resist composition, which contains: a silicon compound having at least an alkyl-soluble group which may be substituted with a substituent; and a resin having an alkali-soluble group which may be substituted with an acid labile group, wherein the resist composition is designed to be subjected to immersion lithography.
US08652749B2	Photoresist composition and method of forming pattern by using the same A photoresist composition is provided. The photoresist composition includes an alkali-soluble resin; a photosensitizer containing a first compound that contains a diazonaphthoquinone represented by Formula 1 and a second compound that contains a diazonaphthoquinone represented by Formula 2; and a solvent. and R1 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbons, an alkenyl group having 2 to 4 carbons, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 8 carbons, and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbons, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of Cl, F, Br, and I.
US08652748B2	Process for producing a toner for electrophotography The invention provides a process for producing a toner for electrophotography including the following (1) to (4): (1): adding an aggregating agent to a resin particle dispersion (a) so as to attain an aggregating agent concentration Ea (wt %), to thereby produce an aggregated particle dispersion (A); (2): adding a resin microparticle dispersion (b) to the dispersion (A), to thereby produce a dispersion (B) having an aggregating agent concentration Eb (wt %) satisfying 0.60≦Eb/Ea<1; (3): modifying the aggregating agent concentration of the dispersion (B), to thereby produce a dispersion (C) of resin microparticle-deposited aggregated particles, having an aggregating agent concentration Ec (wt %) satisfying 0
US08652747B2	Continuous production of fine toner A continuous process for forming fine toner using a twin screw extruder.
US08652746B2	Manufacturing method for polyester particle dispersion liquid The present invention relates to a process for producing a dispersion of polyester particles which includes the step of emulsifying mixed polyester containing (1) an amorphous polyester containing a constitutional unit derived from a trivalent or higher-valent carboxylic acid in an amount of from 2.0 to 12.0 mol % on the basis of whole constitutional units of the whole amorphous polyester and (2) a crystalline polyester, in an aqueous medium in a single vessel, or the step of mixing the mixed polyester with an organic solvent and then adding the aqueous medium to the resulting mixture to emulsify the mixed polyester in a single vessel. The present invention also relates to a dispersion of polyester particles produced by the above production process, as well as a toner for electrophotography which is produced by subjecting the dispersion of the polyester particles to aggregation and coalescence and is excellent in both of a low-temperature fusing property and an anti-hot offset property, and a process for producing the toner.
US08652743B2	Raised printing using small toner particles Electrophotographic printing of one or more layers of toner to enable the printing of a wide range of toner mass laydown using electrophotography to produce prints with raised letters. This method encompasses the steps of forming multicolor toner images and fusing the print one or more times to create the raised print having the desired height of raised print.
US08652731B2	Electrostatic image developing toner, electrostatic image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method An electrostatic image developing toner includes (A) an amorphous polyester resin containing at least a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid component and a repeating unit derived from a dialcohol component represented by the specific formula, and (B) an amorphous polyester resin differing in the weight average molecular weight from the amorphous polyester resin (A), wherein the difference (absolute value) in the weight average molecular weight between the amorphous polyester resin (A) and the amorphous polyester resin (B) is from about 30,000 to about 100,000.
US08652725B2	Toner A toner having toner base particles each of which contains at least a binder resin and a colorant, and silica titania composite particles. The silica titania composite particles contain silica in an amount of from 55.0% by mass to 85.0% by mass; and, in a chart obtained by the measurement by X-ray diffraction of the silica titania composite particles and where, in respect of a peak having the highest diffraction intensity and a peak having the next-highest diffraction intensity among peaks present in the range of 2θ=24.0 to 29.0, the value of area of the peak on the lower-angle side is represented by Xa and the value of area of the peak on the higher-angle side is represented by Xb, the ratio of Xa/Xb is from 95/5 to 75/25.
US08652719B2	Toner, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A set of toners including yellow, cyan, magenta, and black toner, each of which containing a binder resin containing a crystalline resin and a non-crystalline resin, a releasing agent, and a corresponding coloring agent, wherein the following relationship is satisfied: 0.8
US08652715B2	Low torque overcoat for imaging device An overcoat containing a copolymer of a first propylene monomer and a second hydrophilic monomer provides superior wear resistance and low torque to a photoreceptor.
US08652713B2	Furan derivative and electrophotographic photoconductor A furan derivative represented by the following General Formula (1): where Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent an aryl group which may have a substituent, and R1 represents a C1-C6 alkylene group.
US08652707B2	Process for producing tubular ceramic structures of non-circular cross section Tubular ceramic structures of non-circular cross section, e.g., anode components of tubular fuel cells of non-circular cross section, are manufactured by applying ceramic-forming composition to the external non-circular surface of the heat shrinkable polymeric tubular mandrel component of a rotating mandrel-spindle assembly, removing the spindle from said assembly after a predetermined thickness of tubular ceramic structure of non-circular cross section has been built up on the mandrel and thereafter heat shrinking the mandrel to cause the mandrel to separate from the tubular ceramic structure of non-circular cross section.
US08652701B2	Fuel cell The present invention provides a fuel cell in which an electrolyte electrode assembly having an electrolyte sandwiched between an anode and a cathode is provided between separators, each of the separators including: a sandwiching section which sandwiches an electrolyte electrode assembly and includes a fuel gas channel and a separately provided oxygen-containing gas channel; a bridge which is connected to the sandwiching section and includes a reactant gas supply channel; a reactant gas supply section which is connected to the bridge and includes a reactant gas supply passage; and a connecting section that connects the sandwiching section to the bridge.
US08652692B2	Li/Air non-aqueous batteries Non-aqueous alkali metal (e.g., Li)/oxygen battery cells constructed with a protected anode that minimizes anode degradation and maximizes cathode performance by enabling the use of cathode performance enhancing solvents in the catholyte have negligible self-discharge and high deliverable capacity. In particular, protected lithium-oxygen batteries with non-aqueous catholytes have this improved performance.
US08652691B1	Pre-oxidation of metallic interconnects A method of making a metal interconnect for an electrolytic cell stack includes oxidizing the metal interconnect prior to providing the oxidized metal interconnect into the electrolytic cell stack. A pre-oxidized metal interconnect for an electrolytic cell stack would not substantially further oxidize upon exposure to a subsequent oxidizing ambient at a temperature of at least 900° C. prior to or after being provided into the electrolytic cell stack.
US08652686B2	Substantially impervious lithium super ion conducting membranes A composite solid electrolyte includes a monolithic solid electrolyte base component that is a continuous matrix of an inorganic active metal ion conductor and a filler component used to eliminate through porosity in the solid electrolyte. In this way a solid electrolyte produced by any process that yields residual through porosity can be modified by the incorporation of a filler to form a substantially impervious composite solid electrolyte and eliminate through porosity in the base component. Methods of making the composites are also disclosed. The composites are generally useful in electrochemical cell structures such as battery cells and in particular protected active metal anodes, particularly lithium anodes, that are protected with a protective membrane architecture incorporating the composite solid electrolyte. The protective architecture prevents the active metal of the anode from deleterious reaction with the environment on the other (cathode) side of the architecture, which may include aqueous, air and organic liquid electrolytes and/or electrochemically active materials.
US08652681B2	Secondary battery having a stepped can and an insulation case with at least one projection Disclosed is a secondary battery, which includes: an electrode assembly; a can receiving the electrode assembly; and an insulation case provided at an upper part of the electrode assembly inside the can, where a stepped part thinner than the can is formed on an inner surface of an upper part of the can. The insulation case can be inserted to the stepped part and the cap plate can be seated on a second stepped part formed at the upper part of the stepped part and can have protrusions that contact the stepped part. The insulation case and cap plate are stably assembled to the can, thereby improving reliability of the process to weld the cap plate to the upper part of the can.
US08652678B2	Battery pack system Various embodiments are described herein for a system for providing electric power during use. The battery pack system includes at least one cell carrier assembly configured to provide electric current during use. The cell carrier assembly has a substantially planar configuration. The battery pack system further includes a battery pack enclosure for housing the at least one cell carrier assembly. The battery pack enclosure has at least one wall with at least one channel sized to receive an edge of the cell carrier assembly to locate the cell carrier assembly at a location within the battery pack enclosure and provide a thermal pathway during use.
US08652677B2	Rechargeable battery for hand-guided electromechanical tools A rechargeable battery (1) for hand-guided electromechanical tools, having a plurality of rechargeable battery cells (10) which are electrically connected to one another by means of electrical cell connectors (110), wherein the electrical cell connectors (110) are fixed to a cell connection frame (120), which is provided on one pole side (19) of the rechargeable battery cells (10), for the purpose of simplified mounting of the electrical cell connectors (110) on the rechargeable battery cells (10). Furthermore, an electromechanical tool, in particular a cordless screwdriver, a drill, a circular saw, a jigsaw, a sander, a garden appliance, having a rechargeable battery (1) according to the invention.
US08652675B2	Cooling structure of lithium ion secondary battery system The present invention relates to a cooling structure of a lithium ion secondary battery system. The cooling structure of a lithium ion secondary battery system according to the present invention provides cooling channels for lithium battery unit cells accommodated by a laterally partitioned arrangement of main frames, each having a heat radiation part and lattice-shaped paths, and partitioning frames, and allows air, blown by a cooling fan, to cool the lithium battery unit cells while passing through the cooling channels and the lattice-shaped paths. Each of the main frames has a pair of passage slots formed in both sides thereof to allow the air blown by the cooling fan to be directly blown to each accommodated lithium battery unit cell, thus forming each secondary cooling channel communicating with the pair of passage slots.
US08652666B2	Battery module A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells aligned in one direction, each battery cell having a vent portion, and a cover covering the vent portions of the battery cells, the cover including a gas outlet at a first end of the cover, and a top surface having a gradually decreasing slope from the first end of the cover to a second end of the cover opposite the first end.
US08652662B2	Battery pack and method of fabricating the same A battery pack comprising a battery cell coupled to a circuit module and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. A battery pack comprises a battery cell, a circuit module coupled to the battery cell, wherein the circuit module comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, and terminals on the top surface, a lead plate comprising an extension region extending from the bottom surface of the circuit module to a top region of the battery cell to couple the battery cell to the circuit module, and a cover coupled to the circuit module and the battery cell to expose the terminals to an exterior. The lead plate includes at least a first rib protruding upward from the extension region that contacts a top surface of the battery cell.
US08652657B2	Organic EL device and method for manufacturing the same Provided is an organic EL device comprising: an organic EL element including an anode 114, an organic EL layer 116, and a cathode 117; a wiring layer 106 that supplies power to the anode 114; and an organic layer 111 interposed between the anode 114 and the wiring layer 106, wherein the organic layer 111 includes (i) a first organic layer 112 including an azatriphenylene derivative and (ii) a second organic layer 113 including an amine-based compound, the first organic layer 112 being layered on the wiring layer 106, and the second organic layer 113 being layered on the first organic layer 112.
US08652651B2	Photoluminescent sheet A photoluminescent sheet is disclosed. In one embodiment, the photoluminescent sheet includes i) a phosphor, for absorbing some light, of at least one wavelength, of light emitted from a light source and emitting particular light of a wavelength different from the wavelength of the emitted light, ii) a matrix, for having the phosphor, the remaining of the light emitted from the light source penetrating the matrix and iii) a passivation film, for being laminated to at least one surface of the matrix, whereas a roughness is formed on a surface of the passivation film to reduce a contacting area between the photoluminescent sheet and another sheet. According to one embodiment of the present invention, wet is not generated on a screen even though the photoluminescent sheet is connected to other sheets.
US08652650B2	Platinum-modified nickel-based superalloys, methods of repairing turbine engine components, and turbine engine components Platinum-modified nickel-based superalloys and turbine engine components are provided. The platinum-modified nickel-based superalloy includes, by weight, aluminum, in a range of about 7.8 percent to about 8.2 percent, tantalum, in a range of about 5.0 percent to about 6.0 percent, rhenium, in a range of about 1.6 percent to about 2.0 percent, platinum, in a range of about 0.8 percent to about 1.4 percent, hafnium, in a range of about 0.20 percent to about 0.40 percent, silicon, in a range of about 0.30 percent to about 0.60 percent, about 0.02 percent carbon, about 0.01 percent boron, and a balance of nickel. The platinum-modified a nickel-based superalloy may also include, by weight, chromium in a range of about 4.0 percent to about 5.0 percent.
US08652646B2	Film having a photocatalytic active surface The instant invention relates to a weatherproof film comprising a substrate layer, a barrier layer and a surface layer based on polymethacrylate, wherein, according to the invention, the surface layer contains 0.1 to 15 weight % of a photocatalyst, based on the total weight of the layer, as well as to the use thereof as laminate film, tarp or the like.
US08652640B2	Nanoparticle-textured surfaces and related methods for selective adhesion, sensing and separation The present invention includes an article of manufacture or device, or related system, comprising a heterogeneous surface for selective analyte sensing or separation. Such an article can comprise a surface member and a plurality of spaced components extending therefrom and coupled thereto, such a surface member and spaced components providing a surface heterogeneity selected from different electrostatic interactions, different non-electrostatic interactions and a combination of such interactions, such that the interactions are at least partially sufficient for selective analyte interaction and/or separation. Each such component extension can be of a nanometer dimension about the Debye length of a medium comprising an analyte particle exposed to such a surface. An analyte particle, optionally of a mixture of particles, can be dimensioned from about 30 nm to 20 μm. In some embodiments, the extended components have a density at least partially sufficient for interaction of a single such component or multiple components with a single analyte particle, at a given Debye length. In other embodiments, such components have an average spatial density at least partially sufficient for selective particle interaction and/or separation.
US08652623B2	Coextruded films with low temperature impact resistance The invention relates to multilayer products comprising a layer (A) and a layer (B), wherein layer (A) contains polyalkyl(alkyl)acrylate and has a layer thickness <25 [mu]m, and layer (B) contains polycarbonate. The total thickness of layers (A) and (B) is 20 to 500 mm.
US08652619B2	Diffractive optical element and manufacturing method thereof A diffractive optical element according to the present invention includes: a body 1 being composed of a first optical material containing a first resin, and having a diffraction grating 2 on a surface thereof; and an optical adjustment layer 3 being composed of a second optical material containing a second resin, and provided on the body 1 so as to cover the diffraction grating 2. The first optical material has a refractive index which is smaller than a refractive index of the second optical material; the refractive index of the first optical material has a wavelength dispersion which is greater than a wavelength dispersion of the refractive index of the second optical material; and a difference in solubility parameter between the first resin and the second resin is no less than 0.8 [cal/cm3]1/2 and no more than 2.5 [cal/cm3]1/2.
US08652615B2	Nanowire and microwire fabrication technique and product A method of fabricating nanowires or microwires employs a robust conductive surface whose edges define electrodes for promoting electrochemical deposition of nanowire material at those edges. Controlled deposition times and thin conductive layers allow extremely small diameter wires to be created and then removed without destruction of the pattern and the wires to be applied to a second substrate or used for composite materials.
US08652613B2	Quadruple-wall corrugated paperboard and method of manufacture A corrugated paperboard for the packaging industry comprising of five liners (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e) and four intermediate corrugating mediums (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d) with flute type combination of B-C-B-C; thereby providing robust, greater compression strength, yet capable of economically produce corrugated paperboard by utilizing the method of combining paperboard using corrugator to produce doublewall and sheet pasting machine to make the final combination of a quadruple-wall paperboard.
US08652612B2	Slipsheet, divider sheet and method for making the same The present invention provides a slipsheet and/or divider sheet and a method for making the same, the sheet having an imprint or an embossing that provides a raised planar surface. The raised planar surface preferably comprises a plurality of ridges, crowns or crests, which are preferably arranged in a pattern throughout an upper surface of the sheet. To make the sheet, a die can be etched to have protuberances or bumps, and the die is preferably pressed into a sheet of pliable thermoplastic material. The sheet thus made has a plurality of indentation formed by the protuberances or bumps on the die, and the sheet has a planar outer surface comprising a plurality of ridges, crowns and crests between the indentations.
US08652600B2	Protein-based material with improved mechanical and barrier properties The invention relates to a method of producing an extrudate comprising the steps of providing a plant protein and treating said protein with a solution comprising a nitrogen-containing compound. The solution with the nitrogen-containing compound may moreover comprise an anti-oxidative acid. A product, such as a film, obtained by the method is also described. By using the solvent-free method of the invention, polymers with excellent barrier and tensile properties may be produced.
US08652599B2	Molded three-dimensional insulator This invention provides a molded three-dimensional insulator that is suitable for use in an end cone region of a pollution control device. The invention also provides a method of making the insulator. The insulator includes ceramic fibers that have a bulk shrinkage no greater than 10 weight percent. The ceramic fibers contain alumina and silica and are microcrystalline, crystalline, or a combination thereof.
US08652598B2	Packaging materials with enhanced thermal-insulating performance A thermo-insulating packaging material including a paper-based substrate layer, a paper-based top layer and a thermal-insulating composition positioned between the paper-based substrate layer and the paper-based top layer, the thermal-insulating composition including a filler, an organic binder and a plasticizer.
US08652590B2	Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display Disclosed is a polarizing plate having low moisture absorption, wherein fading deterioration of a polarizer is improved. A liquid crystal display using the polarizing plate is also disclosed. The polarizing plate is obtained by sandwiching a polarizer composed of a polyvinyl alcohol with an acrylic film (a) having a water vapor permeability of 100-500 g/m2·24 hr and a cellulose ester film (b1) containing no phosphate plasticizer or a cellulose ester film (b2) containing a phosphate plasticizer and an acid scavenger. The polarizing plate is arranged on at least one side of a liquid crystal cell, with the cellulose ester film (b1) or (B2) being on the liquid crystal cell side.
US08652588B2	Method of coating a surface of an article against aquatic bio fouling The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the application of a thin film coating of material onto a surface of an article which is to be exposed to aqueous conditions such as when in the sea or rivers. The invention allows for the formation of a coating which is resistant to fouling and which coating can be formed of materials which have significantly less adverse effect on the quality of the water in which the article is placed in comparison to conventional coating types.
US08652571B2	Spin coating method and spin coating apparatus A spin coating apparatus that supplies a coating liquid to a substrate and rotating the substrate to form a coating film, has a holding part that holds the substrate mounted thereon in a horizontal position; a rotationally driving source that rotationally drives the holding part about a rotational axis parallel with the vertical direction, thereby rotating the substrate; and a coating liquid supplying part that supplies the coating liquid to the substrate held by the holding part.
US08652570B2	Process for forming unidirectionally oriented fiber structures A process for forming a unidirectionally oriented fiber structure formed of high tenacity fibers. A plurality of yarns of high tenacity fibers are supplied, with the yarns being unidirectionally oriented. The yarns are coated with a liquid having a viscosity of about 5 to about 600 centipoises and tension is applied to the yarns. The yarns are passed through a fiber spreading device and the yarns are dried. The yarns are reduced in thickness and increased in width after passing through the fiber spreading device, with the fibers forming the yarns being spread apart, thus providing a relatively thin unidirectionally oriented fiber structure.
US08652566B2	Organic electroluminescent display device and method of manufacturing the same An organic electroluminescent (EL) display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The organic electroluminescent display device includes a rear substrate, a organic EL portion formed on one surface of the rear substrate with a first electrode, an organic layer and a second electrode sequentially laminated. The front substrate is coupled to the rear substrate to seal an internal space in which the organic EL portion is accommodated, for isolating the organic EL portion from the outside. The front substrate further has a transparent moisture-absorbing layer coated on its internal surface.
US08652563B2	Nutrient composition The present invention relates to a nutrient composition which contains at least a carbohydrate, a lipid, a protein, and a mineral, and is liquid or semisolid, characterized in that the volume-based median size (d50) of particles in the nutrient composition is 5 to 100 μm and water-insoluble particles having a protein insolubilized by a divalent cation are contained as a major component of the nutrient composition, or a nutrient composition which contains at least a carbohydrate, a lipid, a protein, and a mineral, and is liquid or semisolid, characterized in that water-insoluble particles having a protein insolubilized by a divalent cation are contained as a major component of the nutrient composition and the mass of the protein with respect to the total moles of divalent ions forming the water-insoluble particles is 1.5 to 3 g/mmol.
US08652555B2	Distiller grain pellet production methods A method for producing a high density compact livestock feed from a loose granular material may include feeding distiller grain into a loading zone and passing the distiller grain into a heating zoned comprising one or more heaters and a rotating screw. The method further includes rotating the screw to transfer the treated material through the heating zone while increasing the compressive force applied to the treated material. The method may further include pressing the treated material through a compression enclosure that simultaneously applies a transverse force and a parallel force onto the treated material to form a high density compact body. The method may then include a cooling process and an extraction process.
US08652553B2	Method and device for producing pureed food A method, device, and knife system for producing purëed, cooked foodstuffs from piece-form raw material. The method includes pre-chopping of the piece-form raw material in a pre-chopping unit, cooking of the pre-chopped raw material in a cooking plant, and final processing of the cooked product in a final-processing unit. Before cooking, the piece-form raw material is cut into small pieces by the pre-chopping unit such that a pumpable mass is produced from the piece-form raw material.
US08652550B2	Health beverages comprising cinnamon extract and methods of making and using the same Described herein are beverages that provide a number of heath benefits associated with elevated or high blood sugar levels. For example, the beverages are useful in potentiating insulin activity, treating hyperglycemia, and maintaining blood sugar levels in a subject afflicted with diabetes. The beverages are composed of distilled water, cinnamon extract, and sweetener. Vitamins, minerals, and nutrients can be added to the beverage to provide additional health benefits.
US08652546B2	Morinda citrifolia based formulations for regulating T cell immunomodulation in neonatal stock animals Both liquid and dry form Morinda citrifolia enhanced animal food products are provided for increasing CD8+ T cell activation in new born animals. Both contain M. citrifolia fruit puree and other M. citrifolia plant products.
US08652544B2	Chia seed composition A composition of matter is disclosed and formed from a stable, defatted whole grain flour derived from Salvia hispanica L. whole ground seed using a suitable solvent that is free of cyanogenic glycosides, vitamin antagonists, and gluten. The composition includes minerals, about 30% wt/wt protein, about 30-40% insoluble fiber and about 2-3% of fructo-oligosaccarides.
US08652542B2	Composition for preventing or treating arteriosclerosis A composition according to the present invention is a composition containing extract of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer fruit as an active ingredient for preventing or treating artherosclerosis. The extract is confirmed to effectively suppress lesions or generation of a vascular inflammation factor caused by artherosclerosis. Thus, the composition is suitable for use as an active ingredient of the composition for preventing or treating artherosclerosis.
US08652540B2	Method of using rhein for treating fibrotic conditions and tumors The present invention relates to a method of using an anthraquinone derivative namely 9,10-Dihydro-4,5-dihydroxy-9,10-dioxo-2-anthracenecarboxylic acid, or known as Rhein, for treating chronic pancreatitis induced fibrosis of the pancreas. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of using Rhein, its derivatives and/or chemical variants as an anti-fibrotic agent. The present invention particularly relates to the suppression of pancreatic stellate cell activation for the management of chronic inflammatory, fibrotic and tumorigenic pathologies in the pancreas.
US08652534B2	Compositions and methods for treatment of mammalian skin Compositions useful for treatment of a wide range of skin disorders including: pre-cancerous lesions, keratotic lesions, superficial basal cell carcinomae; squamous cell carcinomae; malignant melanoma, and radiation-induced burns. In some embodiments the treatments comprise contacting human or other mammalian skin with a composition according to the disclosure. In other embodiments, administration of compositions provided is by injection. Some embodiments provide for preventive use of compositions provided towards preventing some forms of skin cancer and skin cancer-related disorders by repeated application to healthy-looking skin. Methods for providing the compositions are disclosed.
US08652519B2	Dissolution properties of drug products containing olmesartan medoxomil A pharmaceutical tablet containing olmesartan medoxomil and amlodipine besylate, which has improved dissolvability. Said composition contains (A) olmesartan medoxomil and (B) amlodipine besylate as active ingredients and (C) a calcium-containing additive. A method of improving the dissolution properties of a pharmaceutical composition containing olmesartan medoxomil and amlodipine besylate by using said composition is also provided.
US08652516B1	Doxycycline formulations, and methods of treating rosacea The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition in unit dose form for orally delivering doxycycline to a human, the pharmaceutical composition comprising: a capsule, wherein the capsule is coated with a delayed release layer; wherein the delayed release layer comprises about 4 to 6 mg of doxycycline monohydrate and a binding agent, and wherein the delayed release layer is coated with an enteric coating; wherein the enteric coating dissolves at pH of about 5 to 6, and wherein the enteric coating is coated with an immediate release layer; wherein the immediate release layer comprises about 32 mg of doxycycline monohydrate and a binding agent, wherein the relative mean Cmax of the pharmaceutical composition is within 80.00% to 125.00% of a Cmax value of 510±220.7 ng/mL, after administration of a single dose of the pharmaceutical composition to humans in a fasting state; and wherein the relative mean AUC(0-∞) of the pharmaceutical composition is within 80.00% to 125.00% of a AUC(0-∞) value of 9227±3212.8 ng·hr/mL, after administration of a single dose of the pharmaceutical composition to humans in a fasting state.
US08652514B2	Antimicrobial peptides Novel peptides having antimicrobial activity, and compositions containing the same.
US08652502B2	Local vascular delivery of trichostatin A alone or in combination with sirolimus to prevent restenosis following vascular injury Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. The medical devices may be coated with any number of biocompatible materials. Therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may be mixed with the biocompatible materials and affixed to at least a portion of the medical device. These therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may also further reduce a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. In addition, these therapeutic drugs, agents and/or compounds may be utilized to promote healing, including the formation of blood clots. Also, the devices may be modified to promote endothelialization. Medical devices include stents, grafts, anastomotic devices, perivascular wraps, sutures and staples. In addition, various polymer combinations may be utilized to control the elution rates of the therapeutic drugs, agents and/or compounds from the implantable medical devices.
US08652490B2	Pasteuria strain The subject invention provides a novel and advantageous strain of Pasteuria bacteria with nematicidal activity against Reniform nematodes. The subject invention provides the novel bacteria culture referred to as ATCC PTA-9643, and mutants thereof. Also provided are nematicidal compositions comprising the Pasteuria strain or its mutants or variants and methods for treating phytopathogenic and soil-dwelling nematodes.
US08652488B2	Insulin B chain autoantigen composition The invention features methods for the prevention or treatment of autoimmune disorders in humans. The methods include administering an autoantigen in combination with an oil-based carrier. Included are methods for the prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus which include treating a patient with a diabetes type 1 autoantigen, e.g., human insulin B-chain or GAD65, and an oil-based carrier approved for human use. Also included are vaccines and kits for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
US08652478B2	Method for treating cancer by administering antibody to ephrin type-A receptor 7 The present invention provides methods and compositions for treatment, screening, diagnosis and prognosis of bladder cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, head and neck cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, osteosarcoma, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, thyroid cancer or uterine cancer, including metastatic cancer, for monitoring the effectiveness of treatment of bladder cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, head and neck cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, osteosarcoma, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, thyroid cancer or uterine cancer, including metastatic cancer, and for drug development.
US08652477B2	Methods for treating disseminated intravascular coagulation by inhibiting MASP-2 dependent complement activation In one aspect, the invention provides methods of inhibiting the effects of MASP-2-dependent complement activation in a living subject. In one embodiment, the invention provides methods of treating a subject suffering from a complement mediated coagulation disorder, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation. The methods comprise the step of administering, to a subject in need thereof, an amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent effective to inhibit MASP-2-dependent complement activation. In some embodiments, the MASP-2 inhibitory agent inhibits cellular injury associated with MASP-2-mediated alternative complement pathway activation, while leaving the classical (C1q-dependent) pathway component of the immune system intact. In another aspect, the invention provides compositions for inhibiting the effects of lectin-dependent complement activation, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US08652468B2	Methods of binding TNF-α using anti-TNF-α antibody fragment-polymer conjugates Described are conjugates formed by an antibody fragment covalently attached to a nonproteinaceous polymer, wherein the apparent size of the conjugate is at least about 500 kD. The conjugates exhibit substantially improved half-life, mean residence time, and/or clearance rate in circulation as compared to the underivatized parental antibody fragment. Also described are conjugates directed against human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), human p185 receptor-like tyrosine kinase (HER2), human CD20, human CD18, human CD11a, human IgE, human apoptosis receptor-2 (Apo-2), human tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), human tissue factor (TF), human α4β7 integrin, human GPIIb-IIIa integrin, human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), human CD3, and human interleukin-2 receptor α-chain (TAC) for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US08652465B2	Methods and compositions for the treatment of persistent infections The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment, prevention, or reduction of persistent infections, such as chronic infections, latent infections, and slow infections and cancer. The methods and compositions of the invention are also useful for the alleviation of one or more symptoms associated with such infections and cancer.
US08652464B2	Method of treatment using nanoparticulate compositions having lysozyme as a surface stabilizer The present invention is directed to nanoparticulate active agent compositions comprising lysozyme as a surface stabilizer. Also encompassed by the invention are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a nanoparticulate active agent composition of the invention and methods of making and using such nanoparticulate and pharmaceutical compositions.
US08652462B2	Immune regulation A method of regulating the immune system of a subject that involves removing antigen presenting cells from subject and loading preselected class II peptide fragments onto the subjects APC's outside the body of the subject.
US08652461B2	Blood-cholesterol-lowering strain of Lactobacillus delbrueckii The invention relates to a novel strain of Lactobacillus delbrueckii having blood-cholesterol-lowering properties, and to the use thereof for the manufacture of blood-cholesterol-lowering fermented products, in particular of milk products.
US08652458B2	Tissue graft with non-aligned fiber matrix retains mesenchymal progenitor cells on the non-injury-facing side A graft containing a scaffold that includes a matrix in which are positioned mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) has the capacity to substantially improve wound healing, including wounds resulting from injury to nerve, bone and vascular tissue. MPCs can be harvested from debrided muscle tissue following orthopaedic trauma. The traumatized muscle-derived progenitor cells are a readily available autologous cell source that can be utilized to effect or improve wound healing in a variety of therapeutic settings and vehicles.
US08652450B2	Soap-based liquid wash formulations with enhanced deposition of conditioning and/or skin appearance enhancing agents The invention relates to soap-based liquid body and facial wash compositions. Using high solvent, low water compositions and incompletely naturalized fatty acids to help structure the compositions, all in combination with modified benefit agents, enhanced deposition of conditioning and/or skin appearance and/or optical enhancing agents is achieved.
US08652448B2	Hydrogel particles Hydrogel particles include: a continuous phase of non-crosslinked hydrogel; and a dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase. The dispersed phase includes a crystalline organic UV absorber and a solid fat having an organic value (OV) of 310 or more and an inorganic value (IV) of 130 or more on an organic conceptual diagram. The content of the crystalline organic UV absorber in the dispersed phase is 15-70 mass %.
US08652441B2	Contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging and photoacoustic imaging method A method of detecting a contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging provides a high signal intensity. In a contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging, each particle containing an inorganic material supports at least an organic dye having an absorption coefficient in the near infrared region by means of chemical bonding.
US08652440B2	Methods for diagnosing diseases and evaluating treatments therefor using PET The present invention relates to methods for determining whether a mammal has a disease, such as diabetes, using PET data analysis techniques. These methods include administering to a mammal a PET-compatible tracer, such as a radioligand specific for a vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) receptor, and measuring total functional β-cell capacity (volume) of the mammal's pancreas using PET data analysis techniques. Methods for tracking the efficacy of a treatment for diabetes, for evaluating the regeneration of β-cells in a pancreas, and for monitoring a patient with a transplanted pancreas are also provided.
US08652432B2	Method for producing porous silica material A method of producing a porous silica material includes: preparing a raw material solution containing silicon alkoxides including diisobutyldimethoxysilane and tetramethoxysilane in such a mass ratio that a mass of the diisobutyldimethoxysilane is 0.25 or more and 1 or less per mass of the tetramethoxysilane, and a solvent; obtaining a wet gel by adding, to the raw material solution, an aqueous solution containing a catalyst for promoting hydrolysis and condensation polymerization of the silicon alkoxides, the aqueous solution having a pH of 8.9 or more and 11.3 or less; washing the wet gel; and drying the washed wet gel under supercritical conditions.
US08652414B2	Device for sterilising containers A device for treating containers, with a housing, a sterilization chamber formed within the housing to sterilize the containers, with a transport device which transports the containers along a pre-specified transport path (P) through the sterilization chamber, and with at least one application device which applies a liquid sterilization medium to the containers during their transport through the sterilization chamber. The application device is integrated at least partly in a wall of the sterilization chamber.
US08652408B2	Apparatus for execution of treatment operations on microscope slides with tissue specimens An apparatus for automatic execution of different treatment operations in connection with staining of tissue specimens on microscope slides, wherein the apparatus (1) comprises an assembly of vessels (4) for receiving different liquids for staining of the tissue specimens, a loading station (2) for microscope slides (28), a conveyor (5) for transfer of carriers with microscope slides from vessel to vessel in accordance with a treatment program, an unloading station (8) for treated microscope slides, and a control unit (18) for controlling the treatment operations in accordance with a data program. The apparatus comprises different levels (I, II) having units for execution of the relevant treatment operations. Thus, a first level (I) comprises the loading station (2) and the assembly of said vessels (4) with the appurtenant conveyor (5) and a second level (II) comprises a station (6) for application of cover glasses on the stained microscope slides (28), a succeeding station (7) for drying of the cover-slipped microscope slides, and the unloading station (8), a means (9) being provided for gripping and transfer of carriers (10) with stained microscope slides from the first level (I) to the cover-slipping station (6) on the second level (II).
US08652406B2	Blood processing unit with modified flow path A blood processing apparatus includes a heat exchanger and a gas exchanger. At least one of the heat exchanger and the gas exchanger is configured to impart a radial component to blow flow through the heat exchanger and/or gas exchanger. In some instances, the heat exchanger is configured to cause blood flow to follow a spiral flow path.
US08652402B2	Portable gas generating device Methods and devices for generating gas from nitrous oxide are provided as well as downstream uses for the product gas. Reactor devices of the invention are compact and incorporate a novel heat-exchange/regenerative cooling system to optimize N2O decomposition and reactor durability.
US08652401B2	Table with ethylene scrubber A display table for supporting produce includes an enclosure, a table top defining an upper surface of the enclosure, a blower, an ethylene scrubber and an outlet. The table top is open to the atmosphere and configured to support the produce, and includes perforations. The blower is positioned in communication with the enclosure to create an underpressure that draws a gas into the enclosure through the perforations. The ethylene scrubber is positioned in communication with the enclosure and in a flow path of the gas, the ethylene scrubber being configured to remove at least a portion of ethylene from at least a portion of the gas. The outlet is located downstream of the ethylene scrubber for returning the gas from the enclosure to the atmosphere.
US08652400B2	Thermo-mechanical processing of nickel-base alloys A thermo-mechanical treatment process is disclosed. A nickel-base alloy workpiece is heated in a first heating step to a temperature greater than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature of the nickel-base alloy. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is worked in a first working step to a reduction in area of 20% to 70%. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is at a temperature greater than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature when the first working step begins. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is heated in a second working step to a temperature greater than 1700° F. (926° C.) and less than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature of the nickel-base alloy. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is not permitted to cool to ambient temperature between completion of the first working step and the beginning of the second heating step. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is worked to a second reduction in area of 20% to 70%. The nickel-base alloy workpiece is at a temperature greater than 1700° F. (926° C.) and less than the M23C6 carbide solvus temperature of the nickel-base alloy when the second working step begins.
US08652396B2	Method and device for the continuous creation of a bainite structure in a carbon steel, particularly in a strip steel A method continuously creates a bainite structure in a carbon steel, especially a strip steel by austenitizing the carbon steel; introducing the austenitized carbon steel into a bath containing a quenching agent; adjusting the carbon steel to the transformation temperature for bainite and maintaining the transformation temperature for a certain period of time; and then cooling the carbon steel. The carbon steel stays in the bath until a defined percentage of the bainite structure relative to the total structure of the carbon steel has formed. Residues of the quenching agent are removed from the surface of the carbon steel by blowing the same off when the carbon steel is discharged from the bath, and the remaining structure components of the carbon steel are then transformed into bainite in an isothermal tempering station without deflecting the carbon steel at all.
US08652393B2	Strain and kinetics control during separation phase of imprint process Systems and methods for improving robust layer separation during the separation process of an imprint lithography process are described. Included are methods of matching strains between a substrate to be imprinted and the template, varying or modifying the forces applied to the template and/or the substrate during separation, or varying or modifying the kinetics of the separation process.
US08652392B1	Method of forming concrete A method and apparatus are provided for forming concrete. In some embodiments the method includes conveying water vapor through cement powder. The cement powder can be hydrated such that a crystalline structure is formed. The concrete formed by the methods disclosed herein can possess advantageous physical properties such as increased strength, hardness, lower cost, lower processing times, etc.
US08652390B2	Synthetic resin container manufacturing method In supplying a predetermined amount of a molten resin D between an upper mold 10 and a lower mold 20 for compression molding, after the upper mold 10 is moved downward for a predetermined stroke length so that it approaches the lower mold 20 in which the molten resin D has been supplied, a compression load is applied while moving the lower mold 20 upward and supporting the upper mold 10 such that clamping is conducted against the compression load which has been applied to the lower mold 20. As a result, when molding a molded article in a predetermined shape by compression molding, if molds are allowed to open with a sufficient stroke length for taking a molded article out, prolongation of molding cycle can be effectively prevented, whereby a molded product in a predetermined shape can be mass-produced.
US08652379B2	Method and system for manufacturing hollow reinforced concrete modular elements and element obtained therefrom Method for manufacturing modular, hollow, prismatic, monolithic reinforced-concrete elements of rectangular section, which includes the stages of concreting their side walls in two horizontally arranged formwork structures, carrying out a rotation of said formwork structures so as to leave them arranged vertically on either side of a third formwork, with said third formwork horizontal, then concreting the floor slab, placing formwork between the side walls for concreting of the ceiling slab and withdrawing the modular element, so that a high degree of monolithism is achieved, a method in which all the concretings are carried out in the horizontal, and precise control is achieved over the measurements of the element obtained.
US08652378B1	Uniform films for rapid dissolve dosage form incorporating taste-masking compositions The present invention relates to rapid dissolve thin film drug delivery compositions for the oral administration of active components. The active components are provided as taste-masked or controlled-release coated particles uniformly distributed throughout the film composition. The compositions may be formed by wet casting methods, where the film is cast and controllably dried, or alternatively by an extrusion method.
US08652376B2	Process for producing nanostructured and/or microstructured surfaces in an adhesive layer, more particularly in a self-adhesive layer The invention relates to a process for producing nanostructured and/or microstructured surfaces in an adhesive layer, more particularly in a self-adhesive layer, in which an adhesive polymer mixture, more particularly a self-adhesive polymer mixture, is guided into a nip formed by a relief roll, whose surface has been provided with a relief which represents the negative of the surface structure to be produced on the adhesive layer, and by a nip roll, and where the relief roll and the nip roll rotate in opposite directions, wrapped partly around the relief roll is a web-form carrier material which is guided through the nip and whose speed corresponds more particularly to the peripheral speed of the relief roll, the adhesive polymer mixture, more particularly the self-adhesive polymer mixture, is pressed through the nip, so that the near-roll surface of the polymer mixture is shaped in accordance with the relief, lies in layer form on the carrier material after passage through the nip, and is guided away with the carrier material.
US08652375B2	Method and apparatus for making scrolls from exfoliatable materials A method of making scrolls is provided that includes providing a tape having a first side and second side wherein the first side of the tape is has an adhesive disposed thereon and the second side of the tape has a release coating disposed thereon, affixing the adhesive to a solid surface, buff-coating exfoliatable particles on the release side of the tape to form a coating; and peeling the tape from the solid surface at an angle. The coating separates from the release side of the tape and curls inwards to form scrolls. The scrolls can include graphite. Also provided is a continuous method of making scrolls and an apparatus.
US08652374B2	Process for producing in-mold decorated molded article An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing an in-mold decorated molded article, which can eliminate the need for deburring after molding and the need for an extra allowance of the molded article. The process includes: clamping a first mold (1) and a second mold (2) to hold a decorative film (207) between the molds; cutting a transfer layer (302) of the decorative film (207) in the molds; injecting resin (5) into the cavity of the mold; cooling the resin (5); and opening the molds to remove the in-mold decorated molded article on which the transfer layer (302) is disposed.
US08652373B2	Hydroxyapatite poly(etheretherketone) nanocomposites and method of manufacturing same Hydroxyapatite-polymer nanocomposites, which are nanoparticles/microparticles, methods for making them, and articles made from them are disclosed. These methods are capable of preparing nanocomposites exhibiting more homogeneous dispersion of nanoparticles than is seen using previous methods. Such nanocomposites and articles are useful for a wide variety of applications, such as biological, medical, biochemical, biosensor, fuel cell, and aerospace applications.
US08652365B2	Mold set and manufacturing method for manufacturing optical element A mold set includes: a first mold and a second mold placed so that they sandwich an optical material and face each other; and a first spacer and a second spacer provided between the first and second molds, wherein: the first spacer secures an interval between the first and second molds at a first temperature achieved in a process of pressurizing the optical material; the first spacer shrinks in a mold opening-closing direction more greatly than the second spacer while the first temperature is changing to a second temperature achieved in a process of cooling the optical material; and the second spacer secures the interval between the first and second molds at the second temperature.
US08652359B2	Red light-emitting fluorescent substance and light-emitting device employing the same The embodiment provides a red light-emitting fluorescent substance represented by the following formula (1): (M1-xECx)aM1bAlOcNd (1). In the formula (1), M is an element selected from the group consisting of IA group elements, IIA group elements, IIIA group elements, IIIB group elements, rare earth elements and IVA group elements; EC is an element selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce, Mn, Tb, Yb, Dy, Sm, Tm, Pr, Nd, Pm, Ho, Er, Cr, Sn, Cu, Zn, As, Ag, Cd, Sb, Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi and Fe; M1 is different from M and is selected from the group consisting of tetravalent elements; and x, a, b, c and d are numbers satisfying the conditions of 0
US08652354B2	Organic additives for improved lifetimes in organic and solution processible electronic devices Organic additives are used to improve the lifetimes of organic electronic devices, such as electroluminescent devices fabricated from polymer luminescent ink. These additives include moisture getters, thermally-activated organic/inorganic hybrids, radical scavengers, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, and photoretarders. For water and oxygen scavengers, activation at elevated temperatures or through another activation method is preferred. This allows for the handling of the device materials containing the scavenger under a lower temperature condition in air where higher levels of ambiently-supplied water or oxygen may also be present. The invention also improves operational lifetimes as getters, scavengers and similar acting additives serve to reduce detrimental reactive species that transport into the device, are generated during operation, or become reactive during operation due to the presence of excited states or external stimulation by electrical, optical or other means.
US08652341B2	Method and apparatus for structuring components made of a material composed of silicon oxide A method and an apparatus for forming a structure on a component made of a material composed of silicon oxide, especially of silicate glass, glass ceramic or quartz, wherein in accordance with the process at least a first surface of the component a partial removal of the material by plasma etching takes place and during the plasma etching at least at the surface to be etched a substrate temperature is established which is substantially greater than 90° C. but less than the softening temperature of the material. The apparatus is equipped for this purpose with a heater for generating the substrate temperature.
US08652333B2	Solvent removal A process for removing a solvent from a source solution, said process comprising a) contacting the source solution with one side of a selectively permeable membrane, b) contacting a draw solution having a higher osmotic pressure (higher solute concentration) than the source solution with the opposite side of the membrane, such that solvent from the source solution passes across the membrane to dilute the draw solution by direct osmosis, c) removing solvent from the diluted draw solution to regenerate the draw solution, and d) recycling the regenerated draw solution to step a), characterized in that a portion of the draw solution is discarded or treated before and/or after the draw solution is regenerated in step c) so as to reduce the concentration of any solute species present in the draw solution from the source solution.
US08652329B2	Sewage nitrate removal by free-draining asphyxiant filtration and carbon addition In a sewage disposal system, a de-nitrification station is configured as a heap of foam cubes located in an airtight enclosure from which oxygen is excluded. Carbon is added to the incoming nitrified water. The heap of foam cubes is arranged as a free-draining trickle filter, but here under asphyxiant conditions in the enclosure. Anaerobic microbiological reactions reduce the nitrate to nitrogen gas. Effluent from the de-nitrifier is polished by feeding back a fraction of the effluent through the aeration station from which the nitrate water is derived, or a separate polishing station can be provided.
US08652325B2	Device and method for cleaning up spilled oil and other liquids A device for cleaning up spilled oil from the surface of a body of water, including a vessel adapted to float on the body of water and to pass over the oil, wherein the vessel has an inclined bow surface for directing the oil downwardly beneath the vessel. The device includes an oil/water separation column carried on the vessel having an inner cavity with a lower end forming a bottom opening oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the body of water in fluid communication with the water and spilled oil such that oil directed downwardly beneath the vessel by the bow surface is directed to the bottom opening. At least a substantial portion of the oil/water separation column is narrowed with increasing height beginning at least at a height approximately corresponding to the water line. The device further includes at least a pump in sealed engagement with an upper end portion of the oil/water separation column, the at least a pump for drawing water and the spilled oil into the oil/water separation column and for drawing the spilled oil from the oil/water separation column.
US08652324B2	Self-cleaning screen assembly for filtering irrigation water A self-cleaning screen includes a rotatable drum made of mesh material and an inlet pipe extending through a front end of the drum. A flotation structure supports the drum with the inlet pipe and the lower part of the drum submerged during use. A cleaning spray system located within the drum receives cleaning water through a hollow shaft supporting a rear end of the drum. Spray nozzles located within an upper part of the drum above the water level direct the cleaning water radially outward to dislodge debris from the screen. The front end of the drum includes an annular ring and a rubber seal extending radially inwardly from the annular ring to engage the inlet pipe. A drive belt extends around the annular ring to rotate the drum. A plurality of rollers engage an outer surface of the annular ring to support the drum for rotation about a horizontal axis.
US08652323B2	Filter assembly for use in drainage system A filter assembly for use in drainage systems to prevent the buildup of eroded materials such as soil, leaves and other debris is disclosed. The assembly includes a unitary frame and a filter media attached to the frame and is adapted to be retained within a component of a drainage sewer such as a catch basin. A porous material filter media such as a woven or non-woven geotextile allows for the flow of water through the filter while retaining debris or soil within the filter. The filter media extends into the basin to provide volume for the retained material without blocking the entire surface of filter.
US08652321B2	Process for the production of a desulfurized gasoline from a gasoline fraction that contains conversion gasoline Production of gasolines with low sulfur contents from a starting gasoline containing sulfur-containing compounds comprising a stage a) for selective hydrogenation of non-aromatic polyunsaturated compounds present in the starting gasoline, a stage b) for increasing the molecular weight of the light sulfur-containing products that are initially present in the gasoline that enters this stage, a stage c) for alkylation of at least a portion of the sulfur-containing compounds present in the product that originates from stage b), a stage d) for fractionation of the gasoline that originates from stage c) into at least two fractions, one fraction virtually lacking in sulfur-containing compounds, whereby the other contains a larger proportion of sulfur-containing compounds (heavy gasoline), a stage e) for catalytic treatment of the heavy gasoline for transformation of sulfur-containing compounds under conditions for the at least partial decomposition of hydrogenation of these sulfur-containing compounds.
US08652320B2	Biosensors and methods of preparing same A biosensor strip having a low profile for reducing the volume of liquid sample needed to perform an assay. In one embodiment, the biosensor strip includes an electrode support; an electrode arrangement on the electrode support; a cover; a sample chamber; and an incompressible element placed between the cover and the electrode support, the incompressible element providing an opening in at least one side or in the distal end of the sample chamber to provide at least one vent in the sample chamber. In another embodiment, the biosensor strip has an electrode support; an electrode arrangement on the electrode support; a cover; and a sample chamber, the cover having a plurality of openings formed therein, at least one of the openings in register with the sample chamber. The invention further includes methods for preparing such a biosensor strips in a continuous manner.
US08652319B2	System and method for splitting water A system and a method for cleaving water by means of hyperpolarization, the system has a first electrode and at least one additional electrode; at least one porous ferroelectric layer arranged between the first and the additional electrode; as well as an AC voltage or pulsed DC voltage source. With this method it is possible to cleave the water economically into hydrogen and oxygen and obtain gases for technical purposes.
US08652312B2	Cathodic protection assessment probe An apparatus and method for monitoring cathodic protection of a protected object that includes a probe with five segments in series. The cathodic protection is provided by a system with a power supply that impresses current onto the protected object. An anode is included with the system that is also connected to the power supply. The third and fifth segments are in electrical communication through a frangible connection; that over time galvanically corrodes to electrically isolate the third and fifth segments. The second segment, which is a permanent isolator, is set between the first and third segments. The third segment is selectively connected with the protected object. When the third segment is selectively disconnected from the protected object, measuring the potential difference between the third segment and the first segment yields a value for object polarization that is void of IR error.
US08652309B2	Sputtering apparatus and electronic device manufacturing method A sputtering apparatus comprises a substrate holder, and a screening member configured to screen a substrate mount surface of a surface of the substrate holder. The screening member comprises a first screening member configured to rotate about an axis in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate mount surface and screen at least a first area, and a second screening member configured to rotate about the axis and screen at least a second area. The first and second screening members are configured to be rotated to move between a screening position at which the first screening member screens at least the first area and the second screening member screens at least the second area and a retreat position at which the first and second screening members retract from an area above the substrate mount surface and overlap each other.
US08652306B2	Method for manufacturing mask blank, method for manufacturing transfer mask, sputtering target for manufacturing mask blank To provide a method for manufacturing a mask blank capable of manufacturing a high quality mask blank that suppresses generation of defects in a thin film for forming a mask pattern with high yields, a method for manufacturing a transfer mask that manufactures the thin film of the mask blank by patterning, and a sputtering target used for manufacturing the mask blank. By using the sputtering target containing silicon and having a hardness of 900 HV or more in Vickers' hardness, the thin film for forming the mask pattern on a substrate is formed by sputtering, and the high quality mask blank that suppresses generating of defects is manufactured, and further the transfer mask is manufactured by patterning the thin film.
US08652304B2	Process for separating solids from valuable or harmful liquids by vaporisation The present invention is directed to an enhanced process for separating dissolved and suspended solids from valuable or harmful liquids and more particularly to improving the operational aspects and separation efficiency of treating certain water miscible fluids including those used for oil and gas processing such as glycols, as well as automobile and aircraft fluids, that have become contaminated with dissolved and/or suspended solid matter.
US08652295B2	CMP tool implementing cyclic self-limiting CM process A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) apparatus includes a process controller operable to execute a multi-step CMP algorithm implementing delivering a first chemical composition onto the wafer surface while on a platen for a first time duration, and without removing the wafer from the platen, delivering a second chemical composition different from the first chemical composition onto the wafer surface for a second time duration. CMP is performed with a polishing pad contacting the wafer surface using a slurry including the first chemical composition during the first time duration or the second chemical composition during the second time duration, and a non-polishing process without any contact of the polishing pad to the wafer surface using the other of the first and second chemical composition during the other of the time durations, and repeating the multi-step CMP comprising process a plurality of times on the wafer.
US08652286B2	Stretchable applique and method for making the same A stretchable appliqué made from a stretchable substrate with indicia thereon may be applied to a variety of articles including stretchable performance athletic wear. A method for making the stretchable appliqué may include applying an adhesive and a carrier layer to one surface of a stretchable substrate. Indicia may then be applied to the opposite surface of the stretchable fabric and the stretchable substrate may be cut to a desired shape to form the stretchable appliqué. The carrier layer may then be removed and the stretchable appliqué may be adhered to the desired article. The stretchable appliqué may be adhered to stretchable articles of apparel so that the appliqué may stretch when the article of apparel stretches. The carrier layer may be less stretchable than the stretchable substrate, including being completely non-stretchable.
US08652281B2	Spinel ceramics via edge bonding Disclosed herein is a method for making transparent ceramic spinel windows, domes and other complex shapes via edge bonding.
US08652277B2	Weakly oxidizing ammonium nitrate composite materials and methods for preparing such compositions A method forms a relatively stable ammonium nitrate composite material. The method includes (a) blending ammonium nitrate with an average particle diameter greater than about 1 mm and a substantially non-oxidizing compound in fine particle form; and (b) reducing the average size of said ammonium nitrate granules in the presence of the non-oxidizing compound in fine particle form to produce a substantially homogeneous blend of ammonium nitrate and the non-oxidizing compound having an average particle diameter of about 1 to about 1,000 μm to form a substantially non-explosive powder.
US08652276B2	System and method for forming contoured new and near-net shape titanium parts A system and method for shaping a net or near-net titanium part, the method comprising machining a piece of titanium into a titanium part having non-uniform thickness, heating the titanium part to a target temperature within a target temperature range between an auto-relief temperature of the titanium part and a minimum temperature required for super plastic forming of the titanium part, and lowering a die into the titanium part with sufficient force to shape the titanium part. The system for shaping the titanium part may comprise a multiple-axis machine, a die, electrical clamps, sensors, and a control system for adjusting heating temperatures based on information received from the sensors regarding the titanium part.
US08652274B2	Copper alloy with high strength and high conductibility, and method for manufacturing same A copper alloy includes Si to facilitate deoxidation, and can be easily manufactured even when including elements such as Cr or Sn. The copper alloy has high conductivity and high workability without negatively affecting the tensile strength. The copper alloy contains 0.2 to 0.4 wt % of Cr, 0.05 to 0.15 wt % of Sn, 0.05 to 0.15 wt % of Zn, 0.01 to 0.30 wt % of Mg, 0.03 to 0.07 wt % of Si, with the remainder being Cu and inevitable impurities. A method for manufacturing the copper alloy includes obtaining a molten metal having the described composition; obtaining an ingot; heating the ingot at a temperature of 900-1000° C. to perform a hot rolling process; cold rolling; performing a first aging process at a temperature of 400-500° C. for 2 to 8 hours; cold rolling; and performing a second aging process at a temperature of 370-450° C. for 2 to 8 hours.
US08652273B2	High tensile steel for deep drawing and manufacturing method thereof and high-pressure container produced thereof There are provided a steel for deep drawing, and a method for manufacturing the steel and a high pressure container. The steel for deep drawing includes, by weight: C: 0.25 to 0.40%, Si: 0.15 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.4 to 1.0%, Al: 0.001 to 0.05%, Cr: 0.8 to 1.2%, Mo: 0.15 to 0.8%, Ni: 1.0% or less, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Ca: 0.0005 to 0.002%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.025%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0020% and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure of the steel has a triphase structure of ferrite, bainite and martensite. The steel for deep drawing may be useful to further improve the strength without the deterioration of the toughness by adding a trace of Ti and B, compared to the conventional steels having a strength of approximately 1100 MPa. Also, the a method for manufacturing a steel may be useful to save the manufacturing cost and time by significantly curtailing time used in the spheroidization heat treatment during the deep drawing process, and to manufacture a steel for deep drawing that is used for a low-temperature, high-pressure container having a tensile strength of approximately 1200 Mpa by reducing a depth of the softening layer to prevent the deterioration in strength of the steel.
US08652260B2	Apparatus for holding semiconductor wafers Apparatus for holding semiconductor wafers during semiconductor manufacturing processes are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a heat-conductive layer disposed on a supporting base. The apparatus also comprises a plurality of holes formed through the heat-conductive layer and the supporting base. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of heat-conductive lift pins that extend through the holes over the heat-conductive layer at the top end, and make a direct contact with a wafer substrate. The heat-conductive layer and the lift pins are connected to a heating circuit.
US08652259B2	Scalable, high-throughput, multi-chamber epitaxial reactor for silicon deposition One embodiment provides an apparatus for material deposition. The apparatus includes a reaction chamber, and a pair of susceptors. Each susceptor has a front side and a back side, and the front side mounts substrates. The susceptors are positioned vertically in such a way that the front sides of the susceptors face each other, and the vertical edges of the susceptors are in contact with each other, thereby forming a substantially enclosed narrow channel between the substrates. The apparatus also includes a number of gas nozzles for injecting reaction gases. The gas nozzles are controlled in such a way that gas flow directions inside the chamber can be alternated, thereby facilitating uniform material deposition. The apparatus includes a number of heating units situated outside the reaction chamber. The heating units are arranged in such a way that they radiate heat energy directly to the back sides of the susceptors.
US08652256B2	Manufacturing apparatus of polycrystalline silicon A manufacturing apparatus of polycrystalline silicon products polycrystalline silicon by depositing on a surface of a silicon seed rod by supplying raw-material gas to the heated silicon seed rod provided vertically in a reactor, includes: an electrode which holds the silicon seed rod and is made of carbon; an electrode holder which holds the electrode, and cooled by coolant medium flowing therein, wherein the electrode includes: a seed rod holding member which holds the silicon seed rod; a heat cap which is provided between the seed rod holding member and the electrode holder; and a cap protector having a ring-like plate shape, which covers an upper surface of the heat cap, and in which a through hole penetrating the lower-end portion of the seed rod holding member is formed.
US08652252B2	Extrusion molding hydraulic composition A hydraulic composition comprising a water-soluble hydroxyalkyl alkyl cellulose, cement, aggregate, reinforcing fibers, and water is provided. The hydroxyalkyl alkyl cellulose has a degree of alkyl substitution of 1.2-1.7, the sum of the degree of alkyl substitution and the molar substitution of hydroxyalkyl is 1.5-2.0, and a proportion of glucose ring not substituted with alkyl and hydroxyalkyl groups per glucose ring unit is up to 10 mol %. The composition cures within a short time and is extrusion moldable even at elevated temperature.

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