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US08837457B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting signal transmission starting point of terminal in wireless network Disclosed is a method for adjusting a transmission time point of at least one second terminal in a wireless network by a first terminal. In the method for adjusting a transmission time point of a terminal, a transmission time point of the second terminal is set, a first frame including information regarding the transmission time point is transmitted to the second terminal, a first response frame transmitted according to the transmission time point from the second terminal is received, and the transmission time point is adjusted according to an arrival time of the first response frame.
US08837447B2	Communications and systems utilizing common designation networking A method of forming ad hoc RSI hierarchical communication networks among pluralities of wireless transceivers includes assigning to each of the transceivers one or more common designations. A network organization routine of the transceivers operates to establish hierarchical networks based on the transceivers' common designations, resulting in a logical network organization that provides efficiencies for acquiring information from particular transceivers that share a common designation. Each transceiver's common designation is used by a digital processor of the transceiver to selectively receive data packets that are intended for receipt by transceivers sharing the particular common designation. Such a “common designation” network reduces power consumption and signal interference thereby increasing battery life. Each transceiver may include a sensor interface a query handling routine in communication with a memory of the transceiver for serving as a dynamic distributed hierarchical database system of information such as, for example, sensor-derived information and time-sensitive information.
US08837435B2	Method and system for medium access control in communication networks A method and a system for medium access control among devices in a communication system is provided. One implementation involves selecting a contention-based control period for access to a shared communication medium; dividing the contention-based control period into multiple time slots, wherein each slot has a duration that is a function of one or more of the duration of transmission of a request to send (RTS) frame, the duration of transmission of a clear to send (CTS) frame, and an inter frame space (IFS) duration therebetween; and transmitting an RTS frame in a selected slot for allocating a reservation period for accessing the medium for data transmission.
US08837433B2	Prioritizing inter-frequency/inter-RAT measurements and eMBMS in LTE A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided for prioritizing the performance of measurements during measurement gaps and the reception of multicast/broadcast content. The apparatus receives a configuration from a serving cell to perform a measurement during a measurement gap of a unicast service while in a connected mode. In addition, the apparatus determines whether to refrain from leaving the serving cell on a first frequency and performing the measurement on a second frequency of a neighboring cell in order to receive multicast/broadcast content associated with a multicast/broadcast service during the measurement gap.
US08837427B2	Resource selection for dual radio terminals Systems, methods and apparatus described herein include features that enable dual radio access. In one embodiment, the access point directs an access terminal through sequential measurements, which are selected by the access point based on the radio access capability of the access terminal, service preferences of the user and measurement reports. In a complementary method, an access terminal obtains the sequential measurements chosen by the access point. In another embodiment, the access point directs an access terminal through a set of measurements, which are selected by the access point based on the radio access capability of the access terminal and service preferences of the user. In another embodiment, an access terminal selects which subset of measurements to obtain based on the radio access capability of the access terminal and optionally service preferences of the user.
US08837424B2	Mobile communication system and method for processing handover procedure thereof A method for processing a handover procedure in a mobile communication system is disclosed. After a type of handover is recognized based on information included in a handover command, a radio resource reconfiguration operation is selectively performed or a data transmission start point is adjusted, to thereby minimize an unnecessary operation occurring in the handover process and optimize a data transmission between a user equipment and a base station.
US08837422B2	Low-cost LTE system with distributed carrier aggregation on the unlicensed band A method for distributed carrier aggregation on unlicensed bands is described. The method includes tuning an antenna of a user equipment to a first carrier. The method includes transmitting, from an access point on a first carrier, information regarding a second carrier. The method also includes receiving, on the first carrier via the antenna, the information regarding the second carrier. The first carrier and the second carrier are in an unlicensed band. The method includes retuning the antenna to the second carrier and communicating data on the second carrier via the antenna. A maximum transmission power for the second carrier is based at least in part on a bandwidth of the second carrier. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
US08837421B2	Channelization procedure for implementing persistent ACK/NACK and scheduling request In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: configuring a common resource space having a plurality of time-frequency resources and code resources, where the common resource space includes a first portion for a first type of signaling and a second portion for a second type of signaling, where the first type of signaling includes at least one of persistent acknowledgement signaling and scheduling request signaling, where the second type of signaling includes dynamic acknowledgement signaling; and allocating, based on the configured common resource space, resources of the common resource space for the at least one of persistent acknowledgement signaling and scheduling request signaling.
US08837419B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channel in wireless communication system A control channel transmission/reception method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channels using a resource allocation scheme applicable regardless of reference signal transmission or whether the reference signal is transmitted in distributed transmission mode or localized transmission mode are provided. The control channel transmission method includes mapping a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) to Resource Elements (REs) of a Resource Block (RB) for transmitting a control channel, mapping the control channel to the REs numbered with numbers of predetermined number of Resource Element Groups (REGs) in a frequency-first ascending order cyclically, with the exception of the REs to which the DMRS is mapped, and transmitting the DMRS and the control channel.
US08837418B2	Methods and systems for dynamic spectrum arbitrage Methods and system are provided for managing and monitoring allocation of RF spectrum resources based on time, space and frequency. A network may be enabled to allocate excess spectrum resources for use by other network providers on a real-time basis. Allocated resources may be transferred from one provider with excess resources to another in need of additional resources based on contractual terms or on a real-time purchase negotiations and settlements. A network may be enabled to monitor the use of allocated resources on real-time basis and off-load or allow additional users depending on the spectrum resources availability. Public safety networks may be enabled to make spectrum resources available to general public by allocating spectrum resources and monitoring the use of those resources. During an emergency, when traffic increases on a public safety network, the public safety networks may off-load bandwidth traffic to make available necessary resources for public safety users.
US08837404B2	Method of updating system information in wireless communication system The present invention provides a method of a Base Station (BS) updating system information using a superframe structure in a wireless communication system, comprising transmitting a primary header including system scheduling information pertinent to an update of the system information and transmitting an updated secondary header. The system scheduling information comprises secondary header change state information indicating a change state of the updated secondary header, secondary header applying information indicating whether the secondary header change state information is applied to a current system, and a secondary header change indicator indicating the updated secondary header.
US08837402B2	Terminal device and signal transmission control method Disclosed is a terminal device in which increase in the overhead of an uplink control channel can be suppressed even when SCTD is applied to the transmission of response signals and SRs. Either a response signal or SR is allocated to mutually different encoding resources, and a terminal (200) transmits from each of a plurality of antennas. A control section (208) transmits a response signal or SR using an SR resource or ACK/NACK resource, which are mutually different encoding resources, and a shared resource. The control section (208) uses the encoding resource, which is either the SR resource to which a response signal is allocated when a response signal and SR are generated concurrently, and to which an SR is allocated when only an SR is generated, or the ACK/NACK resource to which a response signal is allocated when only a response signal is generated. The control section (208) also uses the shared resource to which a response signal is allocated when a response signal and SR are generated concurrently and when only a response signal is generated, and to which an SR is allocated when only an SR is generated.
US08837399B2	Fast notification of relative radio-access technology priorities System information transmitted from a wireless network is enhanced to contain additional information that indicates the relative priority between neighboring cells or frequencies in multiple Radio-Access Technologies, such as GERAN, UTRAN and E-UTRAN. In an example method implemented in a mobile station, a system information message of a first type transmitted by a base station is read. The mobile station determine whether one or more RAT priority bits are present in the system information message, wherein the presence or absence of the one or more RAT priority bits indicates whether additional ones of a plurality of available system information messages of the first type must be read before inter-RAT cell reselection may begin. If RAT priority bits are present, the mobile station selectively initiates inter-RAT cell reselection based on the one or more RAT priority bits.
US08837397B2	Apparatus and method for co-existence between different radio access technologies Apparatuses and methods are provided for co-existence between different first and second radio access technologies (RATs). The apparatus is configured or caused to perform operations, which the method may include. The operations may include selecting parameter(s) of a frame structure of the first RAT so as to facilitate its co-existence with the second RAT. These parameters may include a given length of a cyclic prefix of subframe(s) of the first frame structure, or the types of subframes of which the first frame structure is composed. The operations may additionally or alternatively include selecting, for the first RAT, the uplink and/or downlink duration(s) and/or transmit transition gap therebetween so as to satisfy a number of conditions that may define co-existence between the first and second RATs. Further, the operations may additionally or alternatively include structuring cyclic prefixes of the frame structures of the first RAT to reduce network search complexity.
US08837390B2	Network entry apparatus and method for relay station using full duplex in mobile communication system A network entry apparatus and method for a Radio Station (RS) using full duplex in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes performing a capability negotiation procedure including a full duplex function with a BS, performing an authentication and registration procedure with the BS, and performing an operation parameter configuration procedure including a full duplex function with the BS.
US08837381B2	Using an uplink grant as trigger of first or second type of CQI report Channel state feedback is provided from a UE to a base station as a first, detailed or a second, less detailed type of channel state feedback information. Initially it is determined whether the UE has received an uplink grant from the base station or not. If the UE has received an uplink grant, a first type of channel state feedback information is transmitted to the base station on the granted resource. If, however, the UE has not received an uplink grant, a second type of channel state feedback information is transmitted to the base station. Different types of channel state feedback information enables a UE and an associated base station to use available resources more efficiently, when requesting for and delivering channel state feedback information.
US08837376B2	Transmission of MBMS in an OFDM communication system The invention provides for a method of identifying a cyclic prefix to UEs in an OFDM communication system. The cyclic prefix has a dynamically variable length. The method includes, within an OFDM cell, transmitting MCCH scheduling information in a system information block in an OFDM broadcast channel, and using the MCCH scheduling information to receive the MCCH, wherein the MCCH contains MTCH scheduling information to indicate to the UE which sub-frame carries MTCH.
US08837366B2	Method to use network measurements to optimize mobile wireless device performance Method and apparatus for managing connections and state transitions between a mobile wireless device and a wireless network are described. The mobile wireless device measures network characteristics of radio sectors in the wireless network and saves the measured network characteristics in a database, later retrieving the network characteristics and determining data inactivity timeout values for the radio sector. The mobile wireless device manages connections and state transitions based on the determined data inactivity timeout values. The database of network characteristics is organized by geographic location.
US08837365B2	Method and system for securely routing traffic on X2 interface in a 3GPP network A network element is configured to receive a first packet from a first eNodeB (eNB) of the packet network via a first secured X2 link. The network element decrypts the first packet to reveal a second packet encapsulated within the first packet. The network element determines a second secured X2 link associated with a second eNB as an intended recipient of the second packet. The network element encrypts the second packet to generate a third packet and transmits the third packet to the second eNB via the second secured X2 link. The network is coupled to various eNBs of the packet network via various secured X2 links, respectively.
US08837359B2	Location intercept method and apparatus The present disclosure discloses a location monitoring method and apparatus. The method includes: creating a tracking area (TA) list for user equipment (UE) according to a monitoring precision indication and sending the TA list to the UE; and obtaining location information of the UE when the UE executes a location update according to the TA List and reporting the location information to a monitoring center. With the present disclosure, the monitoring location precision of a monitoring target may be set so that more accurate location information of the monitoring target can be obtained and that the needs of various monitoring tasks can be satisfied.
US08837358B2	UL ACK/NACK for inter-radio access technology carrier aggregation A method is disclosed that includes, for each of a multiplicity of subframes to be communicated using a first radio access technology, determining a first number of bits used for first feedback information corresponding to a first communication effected using the first radio access technology and a second number of bits used for second feedback information corresponding to a second communication effected using a second radio access technology. The method further includes, using only the first radio access technology, communicating the multiplicity of subframes, wherein for each of the multiplicity of subframes, included in the subframe are the first feedback information using the determined first number of bits and the second feedback information using the determined second number of bits. Apparatus, program products, and computer programs are also disclosed.
US08837356B2	Method for identifying connection, mobile station and base station Disclosed are a method for identifying a connection, mobile station and base station. The method comprises the steps of: assigning a MS ID to the mobile station when the mobile station enters into the coverage area of the base station; and assigning a connection ID to a connection when the connection is established between the base station and the mobile station. With the proposed solution, the data overhead could be reduced due to short Connection ID instead of 16-bit CID in 802.16e, especially for VoIP traffic. In addition, due to adjustable bit-length of Connection ID, the tuple could flexibly support different numbers of connections while keeping overhead in minimal.
US08837354B2	Apparatus and method for supporting wireless actuators and other devices in process control systems A system includes a wireless leaf node configured to modify operation of an industrial process. The system also includes a plurality of wireless access points configured to transmit data to the wireless leaf node in specified time slots and to receive an acknowledgement from the wireless leaf node in response to successful receipt of the data by the wireless leaf node. Various communication schemes are disclosed for supporting communications between the wireless leaf node and the access points. Each access point could also include a local slot manager configured to assign the specified time slots for that access point to communicate with the wireless leaf node. The wireless leaf node could represent a wireless actuator.
US08837353B2	Method and operation for operation between WPAN and WLAN for a network interface card A wireless network adapter may provide an absence indicator to devices in a first network to alert such devices to a time period when the wireless network adapter is not available in the first network. The wireless network adapter may operate in multiple networks, wherein the multiple networks are time division multiplexed on a same transmission channel. The absence indicator may be provided as a Notice Of Absence (NOA) Information Element (IE).
US08837352B2	Method for allocating resources in a broadband wireless access system The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for efficiently allocating resources to terminals in a random access system. The method for performing such a random access procedure of a terminal in a broadband wireless system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: transmitting a preamble sequence to a random access region in a base station; and receiving from the base station ACK information indicative of a received state of the preamble sequence. The ACK information receiving step is preferably a step of decoding a map information element that is masked as an identifier of the random access region.
US08837351B2	Method and UE for setting a happy bit on an uplink E-DPCCH A method and UE for setting a Happy bit on an uplink enhanced dedicated control channel are provided. The method includes: a UE transmits an uplink Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) on more than one carrier, when criterion 1 and criterion 2 are met, the UE sets the Happy bit which is to be transmitted to a network side as “UNHAPPY” to indicate that the UE doesn't satisfy with the current serving grant. The disclosure optimizes the processing process of power control and resource scheduling, reduces call-drop rate, so that the performances of the UE and the NodeB are optimized.
US08837343B2	Digital broadcasting system and method for transmitting and receiving digital broadcast signal The disclosed method for processing a digital broadcast signal comprises encoding signaling information for mobile service data of the mobile service, the signaling information including first signaling data which includes transmission parameters and second signaling data which contains cross layer information between a physical layer and a upper layer, formatting a data group including known data, the first signal data and the mobile service data and transmitting the digital broadcast signal including data in the data group, wherein the mobile service in the digital broadcast signal is transmitted via first transmission mode or second transmission mode, wherein the slot is a basic time period for multiplexing of the mobile service data and main service data according to the first or second transmission mode, wherein the first signaling data includes slot indicating information identifying whether the slot is a slot for the first transmission mode or a slot for the second transmission mode.
US08837342B2	Low power wireless network for ad-hoc applications Techniques are disclosed for reducing power of network devices in a low-power wireless network. Embodiments generally include, for a network device that periodically toggles between high-power and low-power modes, increasing the relative amount of time the network device operates in a low-power mode under certain conditions that may otherwise cause the network device to consume more power. Such conditions include when the network device fails to join the low-power wireless network and/or when the network device fails to communicate with the low-power wireless network with an accuracy above a certain threshold level.
US08837339B2	Access point and control method thereof A communication apparatus confirms a connection state with a terminal apparatus, the information about which is stored in a storage unit, when the communication apparatus is switched from a power saving communication mode to a normal communication mode. When the communication apparatus confirms that all of the terminal apparatuses have disengaged from a network, the communication apparatus ends its operations as a base station, and notifies a user of the disengagement.
US08837335B2	Timeslot allocation method in a wireless TDD network Method and arrangement in a first base station for scheduling in a TDD wireless network, which wireless network comprises the first base station serving a user equipment, and a second base station. The method comprises detecting that the second base station uses a different TDD configuration, instructing the user equipment to provide a signal strength measurement report based on a signal received from the second base station, receiving the measurement report, and allocating resources to the user equipment based on the received measurement report. Thereby is allocation of resources in TTIs not having the same uplink-downlink direction in the first base station and the second base station respectively, is avoided for the user equipment, when the received signal strength measurement report indicates that such allocation is appropriate. Also, a method and arrangement in a user equipment for scheduling in a TDD wireless network is described.
US08837329B2	Method and system for controlled tree management There is disclosed a method and apparatus for facilitating a network, such as an Ethernet LAN, for efficient forwarding of data traffic by collecting neighbor information, generating and distributing link state advertisements, populating a topology database for the network, and calculating trees for each bridge serving as a root bridge. In a preferred embodiment the method and system also prepare one or more backup topologies, and store them for use if they are needed due to a failure condition detected in the network. In a particularly preferred embodiment, probabilities are assigned to various potential failure conditions, and the probability values are used to decide which backup topologies to calculate, store, or use.
US08837326B2	Session management method and system based on M2M application, and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention disclose a session management method and system based on an M2M application and an apparatus. The method includes: first acquiring gateway equipment information and group number information of a group user device; when acquiring that group information of the group user device changes, according to the gateway equipment information and the group number information of the group user device, instructing a gateway equipment to execute bearer change processing on the group device, and executing the bearer change processing on the group user device, so as to reduce signaling congestion on a network side and correspondingly reduce a network load.
US08837322B2	Method and apparatus for snoop-and-learn intelligence in data plane An approach is provided where incoming packets are received at a data plane and header fields are extracted from the incoming packet. Flows from a flow data store are matched with the extracted header fields from the incoming packet. Packet descriptor data associated with the incoming packet is marked in the selected incoming packet forming a marked ingress packet with marking performed when the matching fails. The marked ingress packet is forwarded to a control plane that retrieves flow-related data related to the marked ingress packet and updates the marked packet descriptor data using the retrieved flow-related data, thereby forming an updated marked packet. The control plane passes the updated marked packet back to the data plane for further processing to update the flow data stored in the flow data store.
US08837319B2	Method and system for integrated link adaptation and power control to improve error and throughput performance in wireless packet networks The invention provides a system that implements an algorithm for integrated link adaptation and power control to achieve specified error rates and to improve an overall throughput for real-time applications in wireless packet networks. The system initially divides wireless terminals into groups according to their signal path gains. Afterwards, the system can periodically adapt transmissions (i.e., link adaptations) based on the required error rates, actual error statistics and average transmission power for each wireless terminal group. Furthermore, transmission power can be adjusted by an enhanced Kalman-filter method to ensure successful reception.
US08837309B2	Device and method for estimating audiovisual quality impairment in packet networks An audio and/or visual transmission quality device estimates transmission quality as perceived by a user based on observation and processing of objective metrics. The device preferably includes a primary integrator to generate an instantaneous estimate of user annoyance based on occurrence of frame loss events in a received signal. The device further preferably includes secondary integrators to process the instantaneous estimate of user annoyance in selected time intervals and generate a plurality of time-varying estimates of user annoyance valid over the selected time intervals. The device may further include a plurality of scaling modules to scale the plurality of time-varying estimates and generate a corresponding plurality of estimates of transmission quality as perceived by the user. The device may further include a modulation network to modify a sensitivity of the primary integrator to the occurrence of frame loss events in the received signal.
US08837308B2	Power efficient link group communication apparatus and method A power-efficient link group-based communication system is provided. In link group-based communication, according to the amount of transmitted traffic, an appropriate number of links in a link group are set to active mode to be used for traffic transmission, and the rest of the links in the link group are set to power save mode, thereby not transmitting traffic. Thus, efficient power reduction in the link group-based communication can be realized.
US08837305B2	Interference management in a wireless communication system using beam and null steering Interference that occurs during wireless communication may be managed through the use of beam and null steering techniques. A method, apparatus and medium of communication determine an interference direction of a non-associated access terminal generating an interfering signal. Transmitted and received signals are then transceived away from the interference direction.
US08837301B2	Interference measurements in enhanced inter-cell interference coordination capable wireless terminals A wireless communication terminal is disclose. The terminal includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to determine that a subset of a plurality of REs must be excluded from demodulation, the plurality of resource elements (REs) received in a signal from a first base station, to estimate a hypothetical block error rate (BLER) based on the signal received from the first base station by excluding the subset of the plurality of Res, and to estimate channel state information based on the hypothetical block error rate (BLER).
US08837289B2	Terminated transmission control protocol tunnel A method, a multiprotocol offload engine, and a set of instructions are disclosed. A local area network interface 150 may receive a transmission control protocol data transmission from a source local area network device. A processor 110 may encapsulate the transmission control protocol data transmission in a negative acknowledgement oriented reliable multicast data transmission. A wide area network interface 160 may transmit the negative acknowledgement oriented reliable multicast data transmission over the wide area network 260.
US08837287B2	Application-specific management of high-bandwidth transfers Various exemplary embodiments relate to a system and related method for transmission of content over a telecommunications network. The system may include a deep packet inspection (DPI) device configured to perform DPI to identify an application associated with the new flow, determine an amount of bandwidth required for the application, and determine a current amount of bandwidth used by the subscriber. The DPI device may then determine a total amount of bandwidth used by the subscriber. When the total amount of bandwidth exceeds an amount of bandwidth guaranteed to the subscriber, the DPI device may perform a traffic management action on packets belonging to the new flow, such that the total amount of bandwidth used by the subscriber does not exceed the amount of bandwidth guaranteed to the subscriber.
US08837284B2	Method for scheduling guaranteed bit rate service based on quality of service The disclosure discloses a method for scheduling a Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) service based on Quality of Service (QoS) and an apparatus implementing the method, wherein the method comprises the steps of: determining a scheduling priority of an online user according to an average rate of a GBR service of the user in a current Transmission Time Interval (TTI); and scheduling the user in accordance with the determined priority and allocating Resource Block (RB) resources to the user. With the scheduling method of the disclosure, the RB resource can be fully utilized, and the user rate which does not reach the GBR is quickly improved to make as many users as possible to reach the GBR, so as to increase the number of satisfied users in system. For the case in which a Maximum Bit Rate (MBR) is greater than the GBR, on the basis that as many users as possible are made to reach the GBR, the rates of the users can be further improved to increase the number of users with high rates.
US08837273B2	Using a single FHT to decode access-based handoff probes from multiple users A method includes scrambling a Walsh sequence with a random sequence to produce a scrambled Walsh sequence. The method also includes transmitting the scrambled Walsh sequence as an access-based handoff probe.
US08837272B2	Adaptive time diversity and spatial diversity for OFDM An adaptable orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system (OFDM) that uses a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to having OFDM signals transmitted either in accordance with time diversity to reducing signal fading or in accordance with spatial diversity to increase the data rate. Sub-carriers are classified for spatial diversity transmission or for time diversity transmission based on the result of a comparison between threshold values and at least one of three criteria. The criteria includes a calculation of a smallest eigen value of a frequency channel response matrix and a smallest element of a diagonal of the matrix and a ratio of the largest and smallest eigen values of the matrix.
US08837252B2	Memory decoder circuit A decoder circuit includes high voltage and low voltage transistors. The decoder circuit uses the high voltage transistors during modify operations to provide a high voltage, e.g., a boosted voltage, to memory cells to change memory cell status or perform other operations. The decoder circuit uses the low voltage transistors during read operations.
US08837242B2	Semiconductor device and method including redundant bit line provided to replace defective bit line A method includes selecting a word line included in one of a plurality of memory mats based on a row address, where each of the plurality of memory mats includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a redundant bit line, selecting one of the bit lines included in the selected memory mat based on a column address, selecting, by a column relief circuit, the redundant bit line in place of the one of the bit lines to be selected based on the column address, in response to the column address indicating a defective address, activating the column relief circuit when the row address is supplied in response to a first command, and inactivating the column relief circuit when the row address is supplied in response to a second command.
US08837235B1	Local evaluation circuit for static random-access memory A local evaluation circuit for a memory array includes first and second NAND gates and first, second, third, and fourth switches. The first switch is configured to couple a first node of the second NAND gate to a first power supply node in response to a first read signal. The second switch is configured to couple a first node of the first NAND gate to the first power supply node in response to a second read signal. The third switch is configured to couple a second node of the first NAND gate to a second power supply node in response to the first read signal. The fourth switch is configured to couple a second node of the second NAND gate to the second power supply node in response to the second read signal.
US08837228B2	Nonvolatile memory and erasing method thereof An erase method of a nonvolatile memory includes supplying an erase voltage to a substrate, supplying a selection word line voltage to word lines connected with a selected sub-block within a memory block of the nonvolatile memory, supplying a non-selection word line voltage to word lines connected with an unselected sub-block within the memory block during a first delay time from a point of time when the erase voltage is supplied, and thereafter floating the word lines connected with the unselected sub-block.
US08837227B2	Non-volatile semiconductor device, and method of operating the same A non-volatile semiconductor device and a method for operating the same are disclosed, where the non-volatile semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric layer, a p-type floating gate, a coupling gate, a first p-type source/drain, a second p-type source/drain, a first contact plug and a second contact plug. The gate dielectric layer is formed on a n-type semiconductor substrate. The p-type floating gate is formed on the gate dielectric layer. The first p-type source/drain and the second p-type source/drain are formed in the n-type semiconductor substrate. The first and second contact plugs are formed on the first and second p-type source/drains respectively. The coupling gate consists essentially of a capacitor dielectric layer and a third contact plug, where the capacitor dielectric layer is formed on the p-type floating gate, and the third contact plug is formed on the capacitor dielectric layer.
US08837224B2	Nonvolatile memory device, operating method thereof and memory system including the same A method of operating a non-volatile memory device includes storing one or more addresses of word lines (WLs), but not the entire addresses of the WLs, into a latch, the WLs disposed between a string selection line (SSL) and a ground selection line (GSL), selecting a first WL from the latch, performing an erasing operation on memory cells associated with the string selection line (SSL), the memory cells associated with the SSL constituting a memory block, and verifying the erasing operation on memory cells associated with the selected first WL.
US08837217B2	Memory storage apparatus, and memory controller and power control method A memory storage apparatus having a rewritable non-volatile memory module, a first circuit, a memory controller and a power management circuit is provided. The first circuit outputs a state signal and keeps the state signal in a first state when the first circuit is enabled, and then the first circuit keeps the state signal in a second state after a predetermined condition is satisfied. When the memory controller receives a first signal, the power management circuit stops supplying an output voltage to the rewritable non-volatile memory module and the memory controller. Additionally, when the memory controller is enabled, the memory controller determines whether the state signal is in the first state. If true, the memory controller performs a first procedure; and if not, the memory controller performs a second procedure.
US08837206B2	Memory device A memory device includes first and second inverters cross-coupled between first and second nodes. The first inverter is configured to be supplied by a first supply voltage via a first transistor and the second inverter is configured to be supplied by the first supply voltage via a second transistor. A first control circuit is configured to control a gate node of the first transistor based on the voltage at the second node and at a gate node of the second transistor. A second control circuit is configured to control the gate node of the second transistor based on the voltage at the first node and at the gate node of the first transistor.
US08837199B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of wires, and a control circuit. The control circuit allows a first current to change a state to flow on a selected cell by applying a first potential difference between a pair of wires that sandwich the selected cell selected from the plurality of memory cells with respect to the semiconductor substrate vertically, and allows a second current lower than the first current to flow on an non-selected cell in the same direction as the direction of the first current by applying a second potential difference between a pair of wires that sandwich the non-selected cell connected to a wire shared with the selected cell on a different layer from the selected cell.
US08837192B2	N-bit rom cell Among other things, an n-bit ROM cell, such as a twin-bit ROM cell, and techniques for addressing one or more ROM cell portions of the n-bit ROM cell are provided. A twin-bit ROM cell comprises a first ROM cell portion adjacent to or substantially contiguous with a second ROM cell portion. The first ROM cell portion is associated with a first data bit value. The second ROM cell portion is associated with a second data bit value distinct from the first data bit value. Because the first ROM cell portion is adjacent to the second ROM cell portion, OD-to-OD spacing between the twin-bit ROM cell and an adjacent twin-bit ROM cell is increased to provide, for example, improved isolation, cell current, ROM speed, and VCCmin performance in comparison with single-bit ROM cells, while maintaining a substantially similar to pitch as the single-bit ROM cells.
US08837181B2	Step down switching regulator A current limiting comparator generates a current limiting signal SLIM which is asserted when a detection voltage Vs at a detection terminal CS is higher than a predetermined threshold voltage VTH. A mask signal generating unit generates a mask signal SMSK which is asserted after a predetermined delay time TMSK elapses after a switching transistor is turned on. A pulse signal generating unit has: a function (a) in which, when the set signal SSET is asserted in a period in which the current limiting signal SLIM is negated, a pulse signal SPWM is switched to a first level; and a function (b) in which, when the reset signal SRST is asserted, or when the current limiting signal SLIM is asserted in a period in which the mask signal SMSK is negated, the pulse signal SPWM is switched to a second level.
US08837179B2	Alternating current power supply device and method of controlling same An alternating current power supply device comprises a DC power supply for generating direct current power, a plurality of, e.g., three first DC/AC inverter to third DC/AC inverter which are arranged in parallel and electrically connected to the DC power supply, for converting the direct current power generated by the DC power supply into alternating current power and supplying the alternating current power to a load, and a control unit for controlling the driving of the first DC/AC inverter to the third DC/AC inverter. The capacitance A of the first DC/AC inverter is set to W/6, the capacitance A of the second DC/AC inverter is set to W/3, and the capacitance A of the third DC/AC inverter is set to W/2.
US08837178B2	Method and apparatus for single-path control and monitoring of an H-bridge A method and apparatus for controlling and monitoring an H-bridge via a single communication path. The apparatus comprises a first control and monitor module coupled to a first switch within the H-bridge; and a first pulse transformer coupled to a first control signal to the first control and monitor module, wherein the first control and monitor module (i) generates, based on the first control signal, a first driver signal for operating a first switch of the H-bridge during DC/AC power conversion, (ii) monitors at least a portion of the H-bridge for at least one fault, and (iii) communicates, upon detecting the at least one fault, a first fault indication to a main controller of the H-bridge via the first pulse transformer.
US08837159B1	Low-profile circuit board assembly Devices and methods for constructing low-profile, minimal-thickness electronic devices using existing production techniques are disclosed in this application. An electronic component and interposer form a sub-assembly. The sub-assembly is placed in an aperture in a circuit board with the interposer providing interconnections between the electronic component and the circuit board. Such placement conceals the thickness of the integrated circuit within the thickness of the circuit board, reducing overall thickness.
US08837152B2	Electronic module including handle and heat dissipating member An electronic module including a supporting frame, a handle, an electronic device, and a heat dissipating member is provided. The handle assembled to the supporting frame is open or closed relative to the supporting frame. The electronic device is detachably assembled on the supporting frame. The heat dissipating member detachably assembled to the handle moves relative to the supporting frame with the handle. When the handle is closed relative to the supporting frame, the electronic device is fixed on the supporting frame by the handle, and the heat dissipating member leans against the electronic device. When the handle is opened relative to the supporting frame, the heat dissipating member is far away from the electronic device.
US08837148B2	Device for supporting, housing and cooling radiant modules of an antenna, particularly array antenna The present invention relates to a device (1) for supporting, housing and cooling radiant modules (2) of an antenna, comprising a plate (3) for cooling said radiant modules (2) that can be fixed to means for supporting said antenna, said plate (3) having an upper surface and a lower surface; characterized in that it comprises a plurality of projecting guides (5) provided at least on one of said surfaces of said plate (3), so that each pair of said projecting guides (5) adjacent with surface on which are provided realize housing seats (6), in each one of which one of said radiant modules (2) is introduced; and pressing means (7, 15, 16, 17), integrated with said projecting guides (5), apt exerting a pressure on said radiant modules (2) so as to obtain a substantially uniform coupling between each of them and the surface of said plate (3) on which said projecting guides (5) are provided. The invention further relates to an array antenna.
US08837147B2	Electronic device with a battery fastening mechanism An electronic device includes a battery module, a housing having first and second panels, and a fastening mechanism. The fastening mechanism has a fixing portion extending from the battery module and engaging an opening in the first panel, a first fastening portion formed in the fixing portion, a cantilever formed in the second panel, and a second fastening portion formed on the cantilever and engaging the first fastening portion. The cantilever can be bent away from the fixing portion, such that the second fastening portion is disengaged from the first fastening portion, and that the fixing portion is urged by a protrusion on the cantilever to be disengaged from the opening.
US08837146B2	Foldable electronic device A foldable electronic device includes a main body defining a through hole. A cover is rotatably connected to the main body and includes a hook corresponding to the through hole. A slidable member is slidably connected to the main body, and includes hook receiver and a wedged portion. The hook receiver includes an engaging projection that is able to engage with the hook that passes through the through hole, thereby locking the cover on the main body. A button is movably connected to the main body, and includes a protruding tab to push the wedged portion to cause the slidable member to move, thereby allowing the hook to disengage from the engaging projection.
US08837143B2	Handheld electronic device A handheld electronic device including a housing, a display module, a partition, a plurality of position posts, a plurality of first cushions and an actuator is provided. The housing has a first opening. The display module is located at the first opening of the housing and separated from the housing. The partition is located in and connected to the housing. The partition has a plurality of position holes. The position posts are connected with the display module and respectively located in the position hole. The first cushions are located in the position holes, and each of the fist cushions leans against the corresponding position post and the position hole. The actuator is disposed between the display module and the housing for forcing the display module to move relatively to the housing.
US08837130B2	Display device The present invention relates to a display device. According to the present invention, the display device comprises: a display body from which an image is outputted; and a flip hinge assembly which is coupled with the display body, wherein the flip hinge assembly comprises: a fixing unit that is fixed to the display body; a rotation unit that is coupled with the fixing unit to allow rotation thereon; a first elastic member that is coupled with the rotation unit and the fixing unit; and a second elastic member that has one end coupled with the fixing unit, and has the other end selectively contacted with the rotation unit, wherein said second elastic member provides, to the rotation unit, an elastic force which is opposite to an elastic force provided to the rotation unit by the first elastic member. Thus, according to the present invention, an initial tilting angle of the display body is automatically set, thereby increasing user convenience.
US08837127B2	Wall-avoiding self-balancing mount for tilt positioning of a flat panel electronic display A device for mounting an electronic display to a wall includes a support structure operably connected to a tilt head assembly and a display interface structure. The support structure includes an arm assembly that can be extended and rotated so that the electronic display avoids contacting the wall. The tilt head assembly includes an attachment member, guide structures for tilting the electronic display so that the electronic display remains self-balancing, and a plate for positioning the guide structures. The display interface structure facilitates attachment of the attachment member to the electronic display.
US08837122B2	Front panel apparatus A front panel apparatus improves aesthetic qualities while avoiding interference between a display panel and a surrounding member. The front panel apparatus includes a display panel capable of pivoting in opening and closing directions, power transmission mechanisms that operate in tandem with the opening and closing operations of the display panel, and a lock mechanism that locks the display panel in a closed state and unlocks the display panel. Each power transmission mechanism includes a biasing lever linked to the rear surface of the display panel and capable of advancing and withdrawing, a driving gear, a pivot lever provided on a driving gear and linked to the biasing lever, an intermediate gear that interlocks with the driving gear, and a rack member that interlocks with the intermediate gear and is capable of ascending and descending. The rack members support corresponding pivot support shafts of the display panel. When the driving gears rotate in tandem with the opening and closing operations of the display panel, the intermediate gears rotate and drive the rack members, and the pivot support shafts ascend and descend as a result.
US08837116B2	Power switchgear cabinet of a device for producing electric energy The invention relates to a power switch cabinet of a device for producing electric energy. The technical object of obtaining optimum scalability and cooling of a power switch cabinet despite little space being required is achieved according to the invention in that the power switch cabinet has a machine connection, a power module and a mains connection, wherein the power module has a machine converter, a mains converter, a direct voltage intermediate circuit and a chopper, and the arrangement of the components substantially corresponds to the direction of the power flow.
US08837114B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor is impregnated with a conductive polymer dispersion solution comprising sorbitol. In the capacitor, the hydroxyl group of sorbitol acts as the oxygen source necessary for the anodic oxidation of anodic oxide film when voltage is applied to the solid electrolytic capacitor. Consequently, the oxide film is repaired and withstand voltage property is improved, which is thought to be due to the anodic oxidation that repairs the damage on the oxide film. Superior electric capacitance can further be attained by specifying the sorbitol content in the dispersion solution to be at 60-90 wt %.
US08837113B2	Capacitor module with simplified wiring arrangement and structure A capacitor module is provided with a plurality of capacitors juxtaposedly disposed to have electrode terminals that are composed of positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals, respectively. Neighboring capacitors, among the plurality of capacitors, are disposed adjacent to each other to define neighboring electrode terminals, among the electrode terminals thereof, with the same polarity.
US08837111B2	Capacitor element and capacitor device having the same A capacitor forming unit according to one embodiment includes a dielectric plate with a plurality of through holes; a first conductor film formed on an upper surface of the dielectric plate; a first insulator film formed on the front end portion of the upper surface of the dielectric plate; a second conductor film formed on a lower surface of the dielectric plate; a second insulator film formed on the rear end portion of the lower surface of the dielectric plate; first electrode rods disposed in some of the through holes; and second electrode rods disposed in the remaining through holes where the first electrode rods are not disposed. The first electrodes are electrically connected to the first conductor film and electrically insulated from the second conductor film. The second electrode rods are electrically connected to the second conductor film and are electrically insulated from the first conductor film.
US08837108B2	Glass substrate-holding tool and method for producing an EUV mask blank by employing the same A glass substrate-holding tool, adapted to be employed during the production of a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography (EUVL), includes an electrostatic chuck and a supporting member. The chuck attracts a rear surface of a glass substrate in a non-contact manner by electrostatic attractive force. The supporting member partly supports the rear surface. An area ratio of a projected area of an active surface of the chuck for providing the electrostatic force to an area of a quality-guaranteed region of the rear surface is from 0.5 to 1.0. The active surface is apart from the rear surface by more than 20 μm. The supporting member is configured to support only a region including at least two of four sides defining an outer portion outside the quality-guaranteed region.
US08837102B2	Snubber circuit A circuit comprising a first transistor group configured to electrically isolate, at least in part, a second transistor group from an input voltage; the second transistor group configured to provide voltage protection to a third transistor group; and the third transistor group configured to switch on and off.
US08837098B2	Method for limiting the generator voltage of a photovoltaic installation in case of danger and photovoltaic installation A protection system configured to couple between a generator that has a number of partial strings and an inverter includes a control device, and a series-connection switching device configured to selectively connect the partial strings together in series. The system also includes a parallel-connection switching device configured to selectively connect the partial strings together in parallel, wherein the series-connection switching device is actuated by the control device such that it interrupts the series connection of the partial strings in case of a hazard, and the parallel-connection switching device is actuated by the control device such that it connects the partial strings together in parallel in case of a hazard.
US08837096B2	Fault monitor for fault tolerant implantable pump A implantable pump system comprises an implantable pump motor and an external unit. An inverter comprises respective phases with redundant legs connected in parallel, and respective current sensors in series with each leg generating a respective measured current. A cable redundantly couples the inverter to the motor. The cable includes a respective conductor coupling each redundant leg to a respective phase of the motor. The controller receives the measured currents, monitors for a fault in the conductors by comparing the measured currents in the respective redundant legs. A fault in a pair of redundant conductors is detected if a ratio of the respective measured currents is not within a predetermined range.
US08837093B2	Circuit arrangement and method for interrupting a current flow in a DC current path A DC current path for DC power transmission includes at least a first switching element and a second switching element connected in series. A resonance circuit is configured to be connectable in parallel to the series connection of the at least one first switching element and second switching element by means of a switch.
US08837092B2	Magnetic element with biasing structure distal the air bearing surface An apparatus can be generally directed to a magnetic stack having a magnetically free layer positioned on an air bearing surface (ABS). The magnetically free layer can be biased to a predetermined magnetization in various embodiments by a biasing structure that is coupled with the magnetically free layer and positioned distal the ABS.
US08837083B1	Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording including a heater A magnetic head includes a main pole, a return path section, a heater for heating the main pole, and a metal portion. The metal portion is isolated from the return path section and disposed such that the heater is interposed between the main pole and the metal portion. The return path section has a contact surface in contact with the main pole. The metal portion is located farther from the medium facing surface than is the contact surface. The main pole and the metal portion define therebetween a receiving space for receiving at least part of the heater. The at least part of the heater is received in the receiving space.
US08837078B2	Rotating body for fluid dynamic bearing capable of being thinned and being improved in rotational accuracy and method of producing the rotating body for fluid dynamic bearing A rotating body for a fluid dynamic bearing used for rotating a recording disk that has been mounted therein include: a rotating shaft portion in which a cylindrical portion that serves as a rotating shaft and a protruding portion extended radially outward from one end of the cylindrical portion are formed integrally with each other; and a hub that is to be connected to the end portion near to the outer circumference of the protruding portion and that has a mounting seat portion on which the recording disk is to be mounted.
US08837073B2	Delayed disk drive preamplifier write turn on Approaches described in this disclosure are generally directed to methods and devices for delaying a write turn-on of a memory device. A write control signal from a memory controller to a preamplifier of a storage device is asserted. A warm-up interval of write drivers of the preamplifier is initiated, the warm-up interval having a duration of predetermined length. Data is transmitted to the write drivers during the warm-up interval.
US08837060B2	Image capture lens module and wafer level packaged image capture devices Image capture lens modules and wafer level packaged image capture devices are presented. The image capture lens module includes a compound lens with a first lens element and a second lens element molded on both sides of a substrate, and a field stop disposed at an interface between the first lens element and the substrate or at an interface between the second lens element and the substrate, wherein the field stop is a coating layer with a polygonal transparent area.
US08837058B2	Emitting and negatively-refractive focusing apparatus, methods, and systems Apparatus, methods, and systems provide emitting and negatively-refractive focusing of electromagnetic energy. In some approaches the negatively-refractive focusing includes negatively-refractive focusing from an interior field region with an axial magnification substantially less than one. In some approaches the negatively-refractive focusing includes negatively-refractive focusing with a transformation medium, where the transformation medium may include an artificially-structured material such as a metamaterial.
US08837057B2	Optical unit, method of producing the same, and image pickup apparatus An optical unit includes a plurality of lenses arranged along an optical path from an object side toward an image side, the plurality of lenses including at least one lens including an image side surface and an object side surface, one of which is formed to be an aspheric surface at wafer level, the aspheric surface of the at least one lens being formed to serve as one of an aperture stop surface having an aperture stop function and a light-shielding surface having a light-shielding function.
US08837053B2	Zoom lens and optical apparatus A zoom lens includes an aperture diaphragm, and a plurality of lens units including a negative lens unit arranged on a light incident side of the aperture diaphragm, the zoom lens being configured to make variable a focal length by changing an interval in the plurality of lens units. The negative lens unit includes a negative lens having a radial type refractive index distribution and a concave surface on the light incident side. The negative lens has a wavelength dispersion distribution in which a differential value is negative on an optical axis of the zoom lens, and the differential value increases at a position that is more distant from the optical axis.
US08837048B2	Daylight collection systems and methods Lighting devices and methods for illuminating the interior of a building with natural daylight are disclosed. In some embodiments, a daylighting apparatus includes a tube having a sidewall with a reflective interior surface, an at least partially transparent light collector with one or more light turning elements, and a light reflector positioned to reflect daylight into the light collector. The one or more light turning elements can turn direct and indirect daylight into the tube so that it is available to illuminate the building. In some embodiments, the tube is disposed between the light collector and a diffuser positioned inside a target area of a building. In certain embodiments, the tube is configured to direct at least a portion of the daylight transmitted through the light collector towards the diffuser.
US08837046B2	Projection screen and projection system thereof A projection screen includes a substrate having a projection area for a projection device to project an image onto the projection area. The projection area includes a plurality of arrayed optical regions, and each pixel of the image corresponding to the at least one optical region. Each of the optical regions includes a first optical sub-region and a second optical sub-region with different optical characteristics, such as reflective scattering, transmissive scattering, simple transmission or specular reflection. The above-mentioned projection screen with the optical characteristics of two or more, for example, can be at the same time as the front projection screen and the rear projection screen, or allows the user to watch background image behind the projection screen. A projection system including the above-mentioned projection screen is also disclosed.
US08837040B2	Coated article with low-E coating having absorbing layer over functional layer designed to increase outside reflectance A coated article includes a low-E coating having an absorbing layer located over a functional layer (IR reflecting layer) and designed to cause the coating to have an increased outside reflectance (e.g., in an IG window unit) and good selectivity. In certain embodiments, the absorbing layer is metallic, or substantially metallic, and is provided directly over and contacting a lower of two IR reflecting layers. In certain example embodiments, a nitride based layer (e.g., silicon nitride or the like) may be located directly over and contacting the absorbing layer in order to reduce or prevent oxidation thereof during heat treatment (e.g., thermal tempering, heat bending, and/or heat strengthening) thereby permitting predictable coloration, high outside reflectance values, and/or good selectivity to be achieved. Coated articles according to certain example embodiments of this invention may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, vehicle windows, other types of windows, or in any other suitable application.
US08837031B2	Finite-embedded coordinate designed transformation-optical devices The design method for complex electromagnetic materials is expanded from form-invariant coordinate transformations of Maxwell's equations to finite embedded coordinate transformations. Embedded transformations allow the transfer of electromagnetic field manipulations from the transformation-optical medium to another medium, thereby allowing the design of structures that are not exclusively invisible. A topological criterion for the reflectionless design of complex media is also disclosed and is illustrated in conjunction with the topological criterion to design a parallel beam shifter and a beam splitter with unconventional electromagnetic behavior.
US08837026B2	Adaptive 3D scanning The present invention relates to adaptive 3D scanning wherein a scan sequence for obtaining full geometrical coverage of a physical object are created automatically and specifically for the physical object, by using a method and a system for producing a 3D computer model of a physical object, wherein the method comprises the following steps providing a scanner system, said scanner system comprising a scanner, and a computer connectable to and/or integrated in said scanner, said computer comprising a virtual model of said scanner, entering shape information of the physical object into the computer, creating in said computer a visibility function based on said virtual model and the shape information, said visibility function being capable of evaluating the coverage of areas of interest of the physical object by at least one predetermined scan sequence, establishing at least one scan sequence based on the evaluation of the visibility function, performing a scan of the physical object using said at least one scan sequence, and obtaining a 3D computer model of the physical object.
US08837023B2	Printing apparatus, composite image data generating apparatus, and composite image data generating program A printing apparatus which prints a composite image formed of a background image and an input image on a recording medium includes: a display; a display image data generating section which generates data of a display image to be displayed on the display; a display controller which controls the display; an input region determining mechanism which determines at least one input region in which the input image is to be inputted on the background image displayed on the display; an image capturing mechanism which captures the input image inputted via the display; a composite image data generating section which generates data of the composite image from data of the background image and the input image captured by the image capturing mechanism; and a printing mechanism which prints the composite image on the recording medium based on the data of the composite image generated by the composite image data generating section.
US08837009B2	Light guiding member, image reading device, and image forming apparatus including the image reading device A light guiding member includes an input surface, an output surface, a counter surface, a reflective portion, and a diffusing portion. The light guiding member is a rod-shaped member that guides light in a longitudinal direction thereof. The input surface is one end face of the light guiding member and allows light to be input thereon. The output surface has a belt-like shape, extends in the longitudinal direction, and allows light to be emitted therefrom. The counter surface is located opposite the output surface. The reflective portion is a belt-like portion extending in the longitudinal direction and reflects light toward the output surface. The diffusing portion is a belt-like portion extending in the longitudinal direction and diffuses light emitted from the output surface. The diffusing portion is smaller than the reflective portion in width in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction.
US08837007B2	Image processing method for extracting an area of a document from a read image An image processing method in which the image of a document is extracted from an image including the image of the document on a document positioning table, acquired by a line sensor scanning the document placed on the document positioning table while illuminating the document from the upstream side or the downstream side of the scanning includes extracting the edge of the image on the document positioning table to set a provisional document area based on the edge, detecting a bright area where light incident on the line sensor is excessive, at the illuminated edge on the upstream side or the downstream side in the scanning direction from the image of the provisional area, and determining the area of the document by removing the area where light is excessive from the provisional area.
US08837005B2	Data transmission apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium A data transmission apparatus configured to determine an operation screen to be shifted to from a history screen, with reference to a protocol type read from a transmission history selected on the history screen, an application ID when the transmission is performed, a setting value relating to the operation screen, information about the operation screen that has been displayed before shifting to the history screen, and information about an address that has been already set on the operation screen that has been displayed before the history screen is displayed.
US08837001B2	Image forming apparatus and gradation correction method for the same An image forming apparatus and a gradation correction method for the same are provided. An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms a plurality of patch bands in a plurality of positions in a main scanning direction on an image bearing member, each of the plurality of patch bands having a plurality of gradation patches disposed in a sub-scanning direction; a density detection section that detects densities of the plurality of patch bands; and a control section that performs gradation correction based on detection results from the density detection section. The plurality of patch bands differs from each other.
US08836999B2	Image correction apparatus, overhead image reading apparatus, image correction method, and program An image correction apparatus includes a read image acquiring unit that acquires read image data generated by an imaging device that moves in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a reading medium irradiated with an environmental light to read the reading medium; a selecting unit that selects a correction filter for correcting a pixel of interest in the acquired read image data based on brightness or luminance component of a pixel in a determination filter including the pixel of interest; and a correction unit that corrects tone data of the pixel of interest based on the correction filter selected by the selecting unit. The determination filter includes a plurality of determination filters in which a number of pixels to be used in the sub-scanning direction differs.
US08836994B2	Data processing system and data processing method forming a high-quality image on a printing medium by selecting a mask pattern data group based on a frequency characteristic of the input image data and mask pattern data group The present invention has an objective of providing an image formation apparatus that can output binary image data on a printing medium with a favorable quality. According to the present invention, a plurality of different pieces of mask data stored in a storage unit is used to generate a plurality of different pieces of divided data. Then, the frequency characteristic information of the respective plurality of generated thinned images is calculated. Thereafter, the pieces of frequency characteristic information of the respective plurality of generated thinned images are compared to select, from among the plurality of pieces of mask data stored in the storage unit, a divided mask pattern to be used for the input image data. Then, the selected divided mask pattern is used to form the image.
US08836990B1	Method of producing an ordered stack of bound pre-printed product information sheets for a store from planogram or ordered data An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.
US08836984B2	Image processing apparatus, method and storage medium for increasing the speed of printing data stored in an external storage medium by reducing the number of accesses to the medium The image processing apparatus of one aspect of the present invention generates configuration information that includes information indicating the sizes of files included in print data stored in an external storage medium and the locations thereof in the print data. When obtaining each file in the print data, the image processing apparatus obtains an obtainment target file and another file to be used for printing of the same page together with the target file, within the extent of the storage capacity of a storage unit of the image processing apparatus, from the external medium in a single access to it in accordance with the configuration information, and temporarily save them in the storage unit. The image processing apparatus performs analysis for printing with respect to the saved files in order.
US08836981B2	Apparatus, system, and method of output distribution, and recording medium storing output distribution control program An output distribution system extracts user-specific information from job data that is generated in response to an output request, obtains terminal-specific information that identifies a terminal that is associated with a user specified by user-specific information, and transmits drawing data of the job data to an output destination determined based on the identified terminal.
US08836979B2	Printing management program, printing management apparatus, printing management method, and printing system A printing management program is disclosed. The program causes a computer to function as a printing job accepting unit which accepts a printing job from a pre-process within a printing process; a printing setting change accepting unit which accepts, from a user, a change of a printing setting which is set for the accepted printing job; a specifying unit which specifies a pagination setting for the printing job that is set in the pre-process; and a warning unit which provides a warning on a change of the printing setting depending on the specified pagination setting.
US08836977B2	Managing a resource conservation mode and printing quota A print manager of a printing device is configured to retrieve a plurality of print options and features to be used to process a particular print job on the printing device, and to determine whether a resource conservation mode is specified for the printing device. In response to determining that the resource conservation mode is specified for the printing device, the print manager identifies, from the plurality of print options, one or more particular print options that are associated with the resource conservation mode, and generates a modified plurality of print options and features by changing a feature for each of the one or more particular print options to implement the resource conservation mode. In the resource conservation mode, the modified plurality of print options and features is used to process the particular print job to reduce an amount of consumable resources used to process the particular print job.
US08836971B2	Printing processes and printed products A system for generating an electronic document for use in a printing process is described. The electronic document comprises a plurality of printable sheets, and each printable sheet comprises an array of printable regions. The system comprises receiving means arranged to receive content for each of a plurality of users and assigning means arranged to assign a selection of printable regions for each user in dependence on the received content for each user and to assign the content for each user amongst the selection of printable regions assigned to that user. The system is arranged to receive the content and assign a selection of printable regions such that the content for each user, varies across the selection of printable regions assigned to that user.
US08836968B2	Electronic apparatus having authentication function Upon receiving an instruction to execute a function from a user, it is determined whether the user who issued the execution instruction has logged in in the case where the function needs data that is set on a user-by-user basis, and if the user has logged in, data that has been set for the logged-in user is given to the corresponding function processing unit, and the instructed function is executed. In the case where the use who issued the execution instruction has not logged in, once the user has been authenticated, the data that has been set for the user is given to the corresponding function processing unit, and the instructed function is executed.
US08836967B2	Image forming apparatus and computer readable medium having computer program product for measuring amount of mismatch stored thereon An image forming device includes an image forming section, a CPU and memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the CPU, cause the image forming device to provide functions including a data acquisition section, a mismatch correction section and a control section. The data acquisition section is configured to acquire a variation in factor that causes a mismatch of a parameter. The control section is configured to estimate an amount of mismatch of the parameter based on the variation and to send a request for measuring the amount of mismatch to the mismatch correction section when the estimated amount is equal to or larger than a reference value. The control section is also configured to alter at least one of calculation factors used for estimating the amount of mismatch and the reference value according to the measured amount.
US08836958B2	Enhanced scanning of transparent fibers An apparatus and methods for scanning and measuring transparent fibers. One example method includes placing the transparent fibers on a platen of a flat-bed style scanner and compressing the transparent fibers to the platen with a cover including a non-reflective surface adjacent to the transparent fibers. The method also includes spacing an image sensor apart from a light source on a carriage below the platen and transmitting light from the light source through the platen. The light refracts within the transparent fibers and reflects from the transparent fibers to the image sensor and is absorbed by the non-reflective surface of the cover. The method also includes capturing an image of the transparent fibers with the image sensor.
US08836956B2	Device for sensing a capsule in a beverage production apparatus The invention aims to provide a device sensing a capsule (2) inserted in a receptacle (1) in machine and physical parameters of liquid supplied by a beverage production apparatus flowing through the capsule in function of the type of capsule. The capsule containing beverage ingredient is inserted in a cylindrical or conical wide mouthed receptacle having an upper opening for inserting the capsule and a lower bottom closing the receptacle. The receptacle rotates around an axis of a hollow shaft (3) attached at the center and perpendicularly to the external face of the bottom of the receptacle, said shaft forming a hole at the center of the inner face of the bottom of the receptacle. The device comprises a rod sliding in the shaft and passing through the hole of the inner face of the bottom of the receptacle, said rod (4) being provided with a spring maintaining an end of the rod lifted inside the receptacle in contact with the capsule, the other end being inside the shaft. The device further comprising means for measuring the position of the end of the rod in the shaft, in order to control, in function of the size of the capsule inserted in the receptacle, rotation speed of the receptacle, discharge and physical parameters of liquid supplied by the beverage production apparatus flowing through the capsule.
US08836947B2	Sample analysis element and detecting device A plurality of metallic nano-body groups that includes metallic nano-bodies which are a size smaller than the wavelength of incident light and are dispersed on a dielectric surface is arranged in one direction at a pitch that resonates with the incident light. A long piece extends on the dielectric surface between adjacent metallic nano-body groups. The long piece is formed of a material having no free electron that performs resonance oscillation with the incident light. Localized surface plasmon resonance occurs in the metallic nano-body by the action of the incident light. Propagating surface plasmon resonance occurs by the action of the pitch. The propagating surface plasmon resonance is combined with the localized surface plasmon resonance. A so-called hybrid mode is established. The long piece is helpful in the establishment of the pitch.
US08836946B2	Optical device and detection device An optical device includes a group of projections projecting from a conductor surface of a substrate, and arranged along a first direction at a pitch Px, a dielectric layer covering the conductor surface and the group of projections, and a metal nanostructure having metal nanoparticles each having a size d of the order of nanometers arranged on the dielectric layer along the first direction, assuming that the wavelength of irradiation light is λ, λ>Px>d is fulfilled, and assuming that a maximum value of an arrangement pitch between two of the metal nanoparticles adjacent to each other in the first direction is Qx, Px>Qx is fulfilled.
US08836945B1	Electronically conducting metal oxide nanoparticles and films for optical sensing applications The disclosure relates to a method of detecting a change in a chemical composition by contacting a conducting oxide material with a monitored stream, illuminating the conducting oxide material with incident light, collecting exiting light, monitoring an optical signal based on a comparison of the incident light and the exiting light, and detecting a shift in the optical signal. The conducting metal oxide has a carrier concentration of at least 1017/cm3, a bandgap of at least 2 eV, and an electronic conductivity of at least 10−1 S/cm, where parameters are specified at the gas stream temperature. The optical response of the conducting oxide materials is proposed to result from the high carrier concentration and electronic conductivity of the conducting metal oxide, and the resulting impact of changing gas atmospheres on that relatively high carrier concentration and electronic conductivity. These changes in effective carrier densities and electronic conductivity of conducting metal oxide films and nanoparticles are postulated to be responsible for the change in measured optical absorption associated with free carriers. Exemplary conducting metal oxides include but are not limited to Al-doped ZnO, Sn-doped In2O3, Nb-doped TiO2, and F-doped SnO2.
US08836944B2	Spatially resolved imaging of opto-electrical property variations Systems and methods for opto electric properties are provided. A light source illuminates a sample. A reference detector senses light from the light source. A sample detector receives light from the sample. A positioning fixture allows for relative positioning of the sample or the light source with respect to each other. An electrical signal device measures the electrical properties of the sample. The reference detector, sample detector and electrical signal device provide information that may be processed to determine opto-electric properties of the same.
US08836942B2	Optical component with a passive alignment member Various embodiments of machine vision systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for providing passive alignment of an optical component to an electrical device. One embodiment is a method for passively aligning an optical subassembly to an electrical subassembly. One such method comprises: a machine vision system positioning an optical subassembly relative to an electrical subassembly; the machine vision system capturing an image of the optical subassembly; the machine vision system processing the image to identify an alignment member formed on the optical subassembly; and the machine vision system determining a first position of the optical axis of the optical subassembly based on a second position of the alignment member.
US08836937B2	Actuatable visual inspection device A visual inspection device for inspecting interior passages of a system is disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the visual inspection device includes a visual inspection tool and a tube having a lumen disposed therein, the visual inspection tool being disposed at a distal end of the tube. A plurality of actuators are disposed along an axial extent of an exterior of the tube, and a locomotor is disposed on an exterior of the tube. A locator for tracking a location of the visual inspection tool is also provided as part of the visual inspection device.
US08836931B2	Detection system and method for acquiring resonance angle of surface plasmon The present disclosure provides a detection system for acquiring the SPR angle, including a modulatable SPR sensor to be detected; an incident light source apparatus; a photoelectric detector; a narrowband filter system; a modulated signal source for generating an alternating current signal that is used to modulate said modulatable SPR sensor; and a data processing system for recording the corresponding relationship between the incident angle and the intensity of the filtered reflected light and further obtaining the resonance angle of said modulatable SPR sensor. The present disclosure also provides a corresponding detection method for acquiring the SPR angle.
US08836913B2	Lithographic apparatus having an encoder type position sensor system A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes an encoder type sensor system configured to measure a position of a substrate table of the lithographic apparatus relative to a reference structure. The encoder type sensor system includes an encoder sensor head and an encoder sensor target and the lithographic apparatus comprises a recess to accommodate the encoder sensor target.
US08836909B2	Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device which can exhibit a blue phase stably is manufactured. A first substrate and a second substrate are attached by a sealant interposing a liquid crystal layer comprising a liquid crystal composition therebetween, an alignment state of the liquid crystal layer is set to be an isotropic phase by heat treatment, the liquid crystal layer is irradiated with light so as to perform polymer stabilization treatment on the liquid crystal layer, and an alignment state of the liquid crystal layer is changed from an isotropic phase to a blue phase in the light irradiation. Thus, a liquid crystal display device which suppresses a defect which shows an alignment state other than a blue phase (an alignment defect) is manufactured.
US08836897B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell and a polarizer arranged on at least one outer side of the liquid crystal cell, wherein the liquid crystal cell includes a pair of substrates at least one of which has an electrode and which are arranged oppositely to each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, and at least one substrate includes at least three color pixels of B, G and R satisfying the following formula (1-1), and the polarizer includes a polarizing element and a film satisfying the following formula (1-2) and containing an optically-anisotropic layer: −20 nm≦{Rth[cell](630)−Rth[cell](440)}≦28 nm, (1-1) 1 nm
US08836895B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes a base substrate, a pixel electrode, a plurality of capsular structures, a common electrode and a plurality of color filters. The base substrate includes a plurality of unit pixel regions. Each of the unit pixel regions has a plurality of sub pixel regions. A pixel electrode is formed in each of the sub pixel regions. A plurality of capsular structures is disposed on the base substrate. Each of the capsular structures is formed in each of the unit pixel regions and having a cavity. A common electrode is formed on the capsular structures. A plurality of color filters is formed on the capsular structures. Each of the color filters is formed in each of the sub pixel regions. An opening ratio of the sub pixel regions and light transmittance are relatively high.
US08836890B2	Liquid crystal display Disclosed is a display apparatus capable of preventing external light from being excessively reflected and increasing the reflection efficiency of internal light, thereby improving visibility of the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel, which displays an image, and a front-light unit including an internal light source, a light guide plate to guide the internal light emitted from the internal light source to the display panel, and an optical member provided at an upper portion of the light guide plate. The display apparatus also includes a display panel, an internal light source emitting internal light, an optical member preventing external light from being reflected, and a substrate with the optical member.
US08836888B2	Modular light source/electronics and automotive rearview assemblies using the same A vehicular rearview assembly comprising a light source illuminating the mirror system within the housing of the assembly. The light source is a layered structure including generally co-extensive optical elements such as a light-guiding element that accepts light from light emitters and distributes this light along an area that is not transverse with respect to a display of the assembly. Light distributed and outcoupled through the light-guiding element illuminates the whole display, while radiation from other emitters may traverse the light-guiding element in order to highlight respectively corresponding segments of the display. The display may be configured in a spatially-segmented fashion to increase brightness of displayed indicia.
US08836880B2	Devices and methods for displaying an image at a frame region of a display panel There are provided a display that achieves a smaller frame size than in the past, a method of manufacturing the display, and an electronic unit including the display. The display includes: a display panel having an effective display region and a frame region located at the periphery of the effective display region; and a lens component provided on a viewing surface side of the display panel, the lens component having a lens function section in part or all of a circumferential region thereof. A visible outline on a lens-function-section side of the lens component is disposed outside a visible outline of the frame region of the display panel.
US08836877B2	Display substrate, display device, and method of manufacturing the display substrate Provided are a display substrate, a display device, and a method of manufacturing the display substrate. The display substrate includes: a substrate in which a pixel region is defined; a gate electrode and a gate pad are formed on the substrate; a gate insulating layer formed on the gate electrode and the gate pad; a buffer layer pattern overlaps the gate electrode and is formed on the gate insulating layer; an insulating film pattern formed on the buffer layer pattern; an oxide semiconductor pattern formed on the insulating film pattern; a source electrode formed on the oxide semiconductor pattern; and a drain electrode formed on the oxide semiconductor pattern and is separated from the source electrode.
US08836875B2	Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel which displays a left eye image and a right eye image; and a light-shielding barrier which has a slit section and a light-shielding section to cause binocular parallax, wherein the liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate which has a pixel electrode formed thereon, a second substrate which is separated from and opposed to the surface of the first substrate which has the pixel electrode formed thereon, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the pixel electrode has a plurality of strip-shaped parts which are arranged with intervals therebetween, and an extending direction of the strip-shaped parts is substantially perpendicular to an opening direction of the slit section.
US08836874B2	Three-dimensional image display apparatus including shutter panel A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and a shutter panel configured to separate the image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The shutter panel includes a first thin-film substrate disposed adjacent to the display panel, a second thin-film substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate is disposed between the second substrate and the display panel.
US08836859B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image display apparatus Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an interlace/progressive conversion section configured to carry out interpolation processing on image data of the current field by making use of the image data of the current field and image data of a field leading ahead of the current field by one field period in order to obtain image data of a progressive system with no delay time.
US08836853B2	Body structure of imaging apparatus A camera body (1) of the present invention is provided with a concave portion (1A) in which an imaging unit (2) including a rectangular solid shaped case (2a) having an optical system and an imaging device is detachably disposed. When the case (2a) is viewed from a front side in a state where the case (2a) is disposed in the concave portion (1A), the camera body (1) includes a back face portion (1B) having a back face wall (4) located on the back of the case (2a) and facing a back face of the case (2a), a side face portion (1C) having a side face wall (6) facing a side face of the case (2a), and an upper face portion (1D) having an upper face wall (5) facing an upper face of the case (2a). The concave portion (1A) is defined by the back face wall (4), the side face wall (6), and the upper face wall (5), and is open on three sides where the remaining faces of the case (2a) are located at the time of attachment.
US08836834B2	Arangement of circuits in pixels, each circuit shared by a plurality of pixels, in image sensing appratus In an image sensing apparatus having a plurality of unit cells, each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a common circuit shared by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, arranged in either one or two dimensions, the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged at a predetermined interval.
US08836832B2	Image pickup system, method for driving image pickup elements, and recording medium An image pickup system includes an image pickup element with an image pickup region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, and a controller configured to control reading of signals from the pixels. The controller divides a first frame period in which a first image is read from the image pickup element into a plurality of divided frame periods, including first and second divided frame periods. When the number of pixels included in the first image is larger than the number of pixels included in a second image, a second frame period required for reading all signals from the pixels included in the second image is inserted between the first and second divided frame periods. A refresh cycle of the second image is shorter than a refresh cycle of the first image.
US08836829B2	Imaging device and imaging system that converts a pixel bit width depending on an operation mode An imaging device comprising an imaging unit that outputs digital data of a pixel value indicating one of colors for each pixel and a conversion unit that outputs from ports I pieces of the digital data that has been input from the imaging unit in a first mode and output from part of the ports J (J
US08836822B2	Temperature-compensated zoom lens system A zoom lens system used in a spectrum region including visible light has movable lens groups moved for zooming, and has, in a movable lens group, a negative lens element made of a material fulfilling the conditional formulae Vd<55 and 0.0018×Vd+P<0.65 and, in a movable lens group, a positive lens element made of a material fulfilling the conditional formulae 60
US08836821B2	Electronic camera An electronic camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor has an imaging surface capturing an object scene through a zoom lens, and outputs an image representing the object scene. The image outputted from the image sensor is reduced in size by a zoom circuit arranged in a pre-processing circuit. A post-processing circuit extracts a reduced image belonging to an extraction area of a predetermined size, out of the reduced image created by the pre-processing circuit. Depending on a change of a magnification of the zoom lens, a CPU changes a size of the reduced image created by the pre-processing circuit in the same direction as a change direction of the magnification of the zoom lens. An angle of view of the reduced image extracted by the post-processing circuit decreases by a rate exceeding a decrease rate resulting from an increase in optical zoom magnification.
US08836820B2	Image capturing apparatus having a control unit controlling switching unit such that first image is displayed in case a predetermined motion is detected and a composite image is displayed in case motion is not detected, control method thereof, and storage medium An image capturing apparatus, comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of an object; a switching unit configured to switch a display unit so that either a first image captured in a first exposure time or a composite image composed of a second image captured in a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time is displayed; a detection unit configured to detect motion of the apparatus; and a control unit configured to control the switching unit so that the first image is displayed in a case where a predetermined motion has been detected by the detection unit and the composite image is displayed in a case where the predetermined motion is not detected.
US08836808B2	Adaptive color imaging by using an imaging assembly with tunable spectral sensitivities Image capture using an image capture apparatus that includes an imaging assembly. Geographic location of the image capture apparatus is received from a location sensor that obtains geographic location of the image capture apparatus. A capture mask is constructed by calculations which use the geographic location. The constructed capture mask is applied to the imaging assembly, the imaging assembly having a tunable spectral response and being tunable in accordance with the capture mask.
US08836799B2	Method to reject false positives detecting and tracking image objects Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for rejecting false positive detection and tracking of image objects are presented. According to one or more aspects, a computing device may implement embodiments of the invention to use the movement of the mobile device for distinguishing false positives from true movement of the mobile device depicted in the field of view of the camera. In one embodiment, the actual movement of the mobile device may be measured using multi-modal sensor data from inertial sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. In another embodiment, the actual movement of the device is calculated using the global movement of the mobile phone with reference to other objects in the field of view of the camera.
US08836798B2	Method and system for processing a composite video image There are provided methods and systems for processing a composite video image. The composite video image may be a combination of an image and at least one encoded screen capture at a communications apparatus either by a user or in accordance to pre-determined settings for the user's consumption and transmission to a network. Transmission to a network may be simultaneous during the user's consumption. It is advantageous that encoding of the at least one screen capture is independent of at least one application running on the at least one secondary device. It is possible that the at least one screen capture may or may not have audio signals.
US08836797B1	Methods and systems for measuring and correcting electronic visual displays The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for measuring and correcting electronic visual displays. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology includes generating a series of patterns for illuminating proper subsets of the light emitting elements of the display, such as regular grids of nonadjacent activated light emitting elements with the elements in between deactivated. For each generated pattern, an imaging device captures information about the activated light emitting elements. A computing device analyzes the captured information, comparing the output of the activated light emitting elements to target output values, and determines correction factors to calibrate the display to better achieve the target output values. In some embodiments, the correction factors may be uploaded to firmware controlling the display or used to process images to be shown on the display.
US08836795B2	Image capturing device and image capturing method Disclosed is an image capturing device provided with an irradiation unit, an image capturing unit, and a color representation setting unit. The irradiation unit irradiates a subject with infrared rays having different wavelength intensity distributions, the image capturing unit captures images of the subject by the respective infrared rays being reflected by the subject and forming image information indicating the respective images, and the color representation setting unit sets color representation information for representing the respective images, which are indicated by the formed image information, by different plain colors. Also disclosed is an image capturing method for separating infrared rays from a subject into infrared rays having different wavelength intensity distributions, capturing images of the subject by the respective infrared rays having different wavelength intensity distributions, forming image information indicating the respective images, and representing the respective images, which are indicated by the formed image information, by different plain colors.
US08836793B1	True color night vision (TCNV) fusion True color images are produced by combining data collected from one or more color cameras with data collected from one or more infrared cameras. The produced images are the result of combining portions of the visible light data with portions of the infrared light data that may have been captured at dark, at daytime or at low light level conditions. These images appear as normal color images, with infrared information highlighted in a non-distracting fashion. The true color images that are produced in this fashion can also facilitate identification and reproduction of various objects that may not be visible or readily identifiable in infrared or false color imagery.
US08836785B2	Production and internet-viewing of high-resolution images of the commonly viewed exterior surfaces of vehicles, each with the same background view Disclosed is an apparatus and a process for producing and viewing through the internet high-resolution images of the commonly viewed exterior surfaces of a vehicle, while maintaining the same background view for multiple images of the vehicle. The view can be selected by the operator to reduce the bandwidth required for internet viewing. The background and the imaging device are revolved around a vehicle which is maintained in fixed position between the background and the imaging device. The vehicle does not need to be rotated or moved during the imaging.
US08836778B2	Portable fundus camera A portable hand-held camera for imaging the fundus of an eye, the camera comprising a housing comprising an internal cavity terminating at a forward housing end, a forward lens, and a light source configured to direct light from locations distributed around the perimeter of the forward lens forwardly out of the housing end. In other embodiment, a portable hand-held camera for imaging the fundus of an eye includes optics configured to focus light reflected back from the fundus onto an image receptor, with the optics being capable of varying the field of view among differing portions of the fundus. Methods to ensure unique image identification and storage are described.
US08836775B2	Stereoscopic image display device and driving method thereof A stereoscopic image display device includes a patterned retarder including a first retarder transmitting light incident from odd numbered display lines of the pixel array so as to be modulated into first polarized light, and a second retarder transmitting light incident from even numbered display lines so as to be modulated into second polarized light, and a data conversion unit converting input side-by-side type 3D image data into line-by-line type 3D image data, performing a weighted average for luminance signals of odd and even data which are vertically adjacent to each other in left image data of the side-by-side type 3D image data, and performing the weighted average for luminance signals of odd and even data which are vertically adjacent to each other in right image data of the side-by-side type 3D image data.
US08836774B2	Operation method of shutter glasses based 3D display device The present invention relates to an operation method of shutter glasses based 3D display device, which alternatively supplies left-eye and right-eye frame signals to a liquid crystal panel to drive the liquid crystal panel, which cooperate with illumination of a scanning back light unit and timing control of the shutter glasses to simulate left and right eyes respectively with left-eye and right-eye signals for perception of a 3D image, wherein in a period of a current frame signal, duty time of each of blocks of the back light unit is located between the time when liquid crystal corresponding to the block completely responds after being driven by the current frame signal and the time when the liquid crystal corresponding to the block starts to respond as being driven by a subsequent frame signal, and the duty time of each of the blocks is divided into duty1, a duty time that precedes completion of response of liquid crystal, and duty2, a duty time that succeeds the completion of response of liquid crystal, luminance of each of the block in duty1 period and duty2 period being respectively adjusted so that each of the blocks has a luminance of liquid crystal corresponding thereof that is equal to a target luminance for both duty1 period and duty2 period. The operation method of shutter glasses based 3D display device according to the present invention alleviates after image caused by crosstalk between left and right eyes without shortening the duty time of each block of BLU.
US08836769B2	3D model display apparatus with array modulator A 3D image display apparatus is disclosed which includes a ray modulator which emits a directive ray in a time series manner based on parallax image information, a scanner which deflects the ray from the ray modulator and scans a predetermined plane two-dimensionally with the deflected ray, a light emitting point distributor which is arranged on a light emission side of the scanner to form a plurality of light emitting points, and a light emitting point multiplexer which is arranged on the light emission side of the light emitting point distributor to form a plurality of secondary light emitting points with rays from individual ones of the light emitting points, to enable stereopsis with a super multi-view region at a high resolution.
US08836768B1	Method and system enabling natural user interface gestures with user wearable glasses User wearable eye glasses include a pair of two-dimensional cameras that optically acquire information for user gestures made with an unadorned user object in an interaction zone responsive to viewing displayed imagery, with which the user can interact. Glasses systems intelligently signal process and map acquired optical information to rapidly ascertain a sparse (x,y,z) set of locations adequate to identify user gestures. The displayed imagery can be created by glasses systems and presented with a virtual on-glasses display, or can be created and/or viewed off-glasses. In some embodiments the user can see local views directly, but augmented with imagery showing internet provided tags identifying and/or providing information as to viewed objects. On-glasses systems can communicate wirelessly with cloud servers and with off-glasses systems that the user can carry in a pocket or purse.
US08836764B2	Method and measuring assembly for determining the wheel or axle geometry of a vehicle In a method for determining a wheel or axle geometry of a vehicle, the following steps are provided: illuminating a wheel region with structured and with unstructured light during a motion of at least one wheel and/or of the vehicle; acquiring multiple images of the wheel region during the illumination, in order to create a three-dimensional surface model having surface parameters, a texture model having texture parameters, and a motion model having motion parameters of the sensed wheel region; calculating values for the surface parameters, the texture parameters, and the motion parameters using a variation computation as a function of the acquired images, in order to minimize a deviation of the three-dimensional surface model, texture model, and motion model from image data of the acquired images; and determining a rotation axis and/or a rotation center of the wheel as a function of the calculated values of the motion parameters.
US08836758B2	Three-dimensional image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same A 3D image processing apparatus includes: L and R graphic decoders which decode coded stream data to generate left-eye and right-eye image data; an image output control unit which outputs the generated image data; and a control unit which, when a decoding error occurs in generating one of the image data, and a successful decode occurs in generating the other of the image data, (i) shifts, by a preset offset, a pixel position of the other of the image data, to generate pseudo image data as the one of the image data, and (ii) outputs the pseudo image data to an image output control unit, wherein the image output control unit outputs the other of the image data and the pseudo image data, when the decoding error occurs in generating the one of the image data and the successful decode occurs in generating the other of the image data.
US08836757B2	3D image providing device, display device, and method thereof A 3D-image providing device comprises: an index selection unit for selecting at least one index frame set from 3D-image data including plural frame sets; and a thumbnail generation unit for obtaining left and right images for the selected index frame set and generating a thumbnail frame set based on the obtained left and right images, wherein the frames included in the thumbnail frame set satisfy conditions that the sizes and resolution thereof are respectively small and low compared to the frames included in the index frame set. Accordingly, the 3D-image providing device generates 3D-thumbnails from the left and right images of the 3D-image data to provide 3D images considered when moving to a user-desirable reproduction time point. Also, the 3D-image supply device merges the 3D-thumbnails with 3D-broadcasting images or 3D-contents and displays the merged image. Consequently, the image providing device minimizes viewer confusion when perceiving 3D-images and increases user satisfaction.
US08836754B2	Image photographing device and control method thereof An image photographing device displays a preview panoramic image and data regarding moving velocity and direction of the image photographing device during panorama photographing in real time. The image photographing device includes a photographing unit to photograph a plurality of images, an image processing unit to convert the images photographed by the photographing unit into preview image data and to generate preview panorama data using the preview image data, and a display unit to simultaneously output a screen to display the preview image data, a screen to display a process of synthesizing the preview panorama data, a moving direction display screen indicating a relative difference between the moving direction of the image photographing device and a predetermined reference direction, and a moving velocity display screen indicating a relative difference between the moving velocity of the image photographing device and a predetermined reference velocity.
US08836753B2	Method, apparatus, and system for processing cascade conference sites in cascade conference Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for processing cascade conference sites in a cascade conference, which may be used to implement one-to-one correspondence between an image orientation and a voice orientation of each conference site in the cascade conference, and improve the user experience of a participant. Certain embodiments of the present invention include: receiving an audio code stream sent by a cascade conference site, where the audio code stream sent by the cascade conference site is sent to different conference sites through different audio sound channels or audio cascade channels; receiving an audio code stream sent by a non-cascade conference site; and selecting audio data satisfying a preconfigured condition from audio data to be selected.
US08836738B2	Drive control method for a media processing device, and a media processing system A drive control method for a media processing device prevents increasing the media production time even when a printhead cleaning process is performed before the printing process. When a media production command is input, the preprocessing time required until the printing process starts is calculated based on the media production command. If the total of the preprocessing time plus the time passed since the last cleaning process is greater than or equal to a specified time, the cleaning process is started. If the elapsed time will reach the specified time after the media production command is output and before the printing process starts, the cleaning process runs parallel to the write process. Increasing the media production time by the time required for the cleaning process is thus prevented.
US08836734B2	Display burn-in prevention device and method with motion analysis Provided is a display device including a video signal analysis block (110) for analyzing a video signal and determining a type of video from an analysis result, a function control block (120) for controlling a gain value of the video signal according to the type of video, a video signal control section (122) for adjusting the video signal on the basis of the gain controlled by the function control block, and a display panel (300), having a plurality of pixels arranged to self-emit light according to the video signal, for displaying a video on the basis of the video signal adjusted by the video signal control section (122).
US08836732B2	Image display device An image display device includes a plurality solid-state light sources, a modulator configured to modulate light from a plurality of solid-state light sources, and an image display device configured to generate from a frame of image data, a plurality of subframes each further divided into subfields, and to display the plurality of subframes. The modulator turns off light output from all the solid-state light sources for the duration of one or more of the plurality of subframes, whereby it is possible to reduce motion blur arising from a hold-type display device, in which after-images remain on the retina of a person's eyes when viewing moving objects.
US08836730B1	Methods and systems for modifying a display of a field of view of a robotic device to include zoomed-in and zoomed-out views Methods and systems for modifying a display of a field of view of a robotic device to include zoomed-in and zoomed-out views are provided. In examples, the robotic device may include a camera to capture images in a field of view of a robotic device, and distance sensors which can provide outputs that may be used to determine a distance of the robotic device to an object in the field of view of the robotic device. A display of the field of view of the robotic device can be generated, and as the distance decreases, the display can be modified to include a zoomed-in view of the object. As the distance increases, the display can be modified to include a zoomed-out view of the object. An amount of zoom of the object may be inversely proportional to the distance.
US08836723B2	Augmented reality methods and systems including optical merging of a plurality of component optical images The present disclosure provides augmented reality methods and systems where two or more component optical images are optically overlaid via one or more beam splitters to form composite optical images. In some embodiments a second component optical image is an electronic optical image (an image from an electronically controlled emission source) while the first component optical image is one of a physical optical image (an image of a physical object from which diffuse reflection occurs), an electronic optical image, an emission optical image (an image from a non-electronic source that emits radiation), or a hybrid optical image (composed of at least two of a physical optical image, and electronic optical image, or an emission optical image). In some embodiments the first and second component optical images are used to provide feedback concerning the quality of the overlaying and appropriate correction factors to improve the overlay quality.
US08836720B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method Units which respectively acquire information on an aberration generated by a display optical system and information on an aberration generated by a vision correction optical system used by an observer are arranged. Aberration correction is executed based on the two aberrations. An aberration generated by a combination of the display optical system and the vision correction optical system used by the observer can be appropriately corrected for each observer.
US08836719B2	Crafting system in a virtual environment A crafting system and method are provided that allow users or players in a social virtual environment to create their own unique virtual items for use on the site. With the crafting system and method, players can collect different types of materials, some more common than others, from within the virtual social environment to customize items, which the player can use to express their individuality as well as sell or trade within the environment. The complexity and uniqueness of the crafted item makes it much more difficult for another player to obtain the same materials and to replicate the design.
US08836718B2	Method for providing user interface in portable terminal A method for providing a UI in a portable terminal shows background images corresponding to physical states, such as the temperature, or of a physical layout of buildings, roads, etc. The method for providing a UI in a portable terminal, includes: collecting environmental information around the portable terminal; extracting an image set corresponding to the collected environmental information, and image change information; sensing a tilted state of the portable terminal; and changing and displaying the extracted image according to the sensed tilted state of the portable and the extracted image change information.
US08836712B2	Filtering mechanism for render target line modification Modification messages may be filtered to reduce the load on a message channel between a render cache and a frame buffer compression. A group of cache lines may be checked to see whether both a subspan request hits an unlit bit and a modify message was already sent. If so, the modification message may be filtered.
US08836711B2	Method for displaying divided screens on a display and electronic device applying the method An electronic device has a display, a video memory, a video data buffer unit, a central processing unit, and a video processing unit. The central processing unit, according to a number of divided screens and a resolution for each of the divided screens, retrieves different but continuous video data corresponding to the resolution of each of the divided screens from the video data buffer unit, and stores the retrieved continuous video data in consecutive memory addresses in the video memory. The video processing unit reads in sequence the continuous video data stored in the video memory, and sends the continuous video data in sequence to the display according to a direction of arrangement of the divided screens such that video contents displayed on the divided screens by the display are continuous.
US08836710B2	Memory management system and method There is provided a method and apparatus for managing memory in a system for generating 3-dimensional computer images. The image is subdivided into a plurality of rectangular areas. A memory is provided and a page of the memory is allocated for storing object data for objects in the image. Object data for objects in the image are then written to the allocated page of memory. Finally, a bit mask for the allocated page of memory is compiled, the bit mask indicating the rectangular areas having object data stored in the allocated page of memory. A rectangular area of the image can then be rendered by deriving data for display from the object data stored in the memory, for objects in that rectangular area. Once the rectangular area has been rendered, the bit mask for each page of memory which stored, before the step of rendering, object data for that rectangular area, is updated so that the bit mask no longer indicates that rectangular area.
US08836704B2	Automatic tree restriction Systems and methods to provide automatic tree restriction are provided. In example embodiments, sizing parameters for a display location are determined. Data to be graphically displayed within the sizing parameters is accessed. A determination is then performed to determine if restriction of nodes associated with the data is needed based on the sizing parameters. If needed, restriction is performed based on the determination. The restriction is performed based on predetermined criteria established prior to the determining of the sizing parameters and the accessing of the data. A graphical display of the data within the sizing parameters may then be rendered.
US08836700B2	System, method, and computer program product for a tessellation engine using a geometry shader A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for providing tessellated primitive data to a geometry shader. The method comprises computing a set of tessellated vertices and a computed set of connectivity data based on an original set of vertices and an original set of connectivity data, generating computed vertex data based on the original set of vertices and the set of tessellated vertices, receiving the computed set of connectivity data, requesting a subset of the computed vertex data based on the computed set of connectivity data, and processing primitives defined by the subset of the computed vertex data. The system and computer program product are further disclosed for accomplishing a similar result as the aforementioned method.
US08836698B2	Method and apparatus for identifying a 3-D object from a 2-D display of a portable unit A background map remains stationary relative to a portable unit while the portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit allowing the user to assess the relative distance between a source location and a destination. In addition, the orientation or movement at an angle that provides further information about the content of the image. A stationary three dimensional (3-D) background image can be viewed by moving the handheld unit within the 3-D space. The map would be three dimensional and would correspond in scale to the two axes displayed on the screen of the portable unit while the third dimensional or axis can be viewed by moving the device perpendicular to the plane of the screen of the portable device forming a rectangular cuboid.
US08836697B2	Real-time 3D dose visualization system A method of presenting a progress of a treatment planning includes determining dose information based on a treatment model, determining objective information that is associated with the treatment model, using the dose information and the objective information to determine a three-dimensional graphic that indicates with how well an objective of the treatment planning is met, wherein the three-dimensional graphic is determined using a processor, and displaying the three-dimensional graphic in a screen.
US08836688B2	Display device A display device which can prevent deterioration of a liquid crystal and reduction in display quality at low power consumption without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. An opposite voltage (Vcom) is applied to an opposite electrode (80) of a liquid crystal capacitive element (Clc). One ends of a pixel electrode (20), a first switch circuit (22), a second switch circuit (23), and a first terminal of a second transistor (T2) form an internal node (N1). The other ends of the first switch circuit (22) and the second switch circuit (23) are connected to a source line (SL) and a voltage supply line (VSL), respectively. A control terminal of a first transistor (T1) in the second switch circuit (23), 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. This configuration makes it possible to perform an action (self-refresh action) to return the absolute value of the voltage between both ends of a display element part to the value at the time of a last writing action without performing a writing action.
US08836687B2	Driving method for bistable display A driving method for a bistable display device includes setting a first duration and a second duration according to a frame period; applying a first voltage to a light valve layer in the first duration according to display data, so as to transform the light valve layer from a first state to a second state; and applying a second voltage in the second duration to the light valve layer in the second duration for the light valve layer to transform to the first state. Since the light valve layer of the bistable display device is already at the first state prior to displaying the next image, the light valve layer is not required to reset when switching displayed images, hence reducing the total number of frames required to display each image.
US08836682B2	Flat panel display device and source driver circuit for performing mutiple driving operations within a unit sourcing period A flat panel display device and a source driver circuit for the flat panel display device are provided for performing multiple driving operations within a unit sourcing period. In the flat panel display device, multiple driving operations are performed within the unit sourcing period, and source voltages are supplied to a selected number of data lines in each driving operation. In this case, one DAC is driven to generate source voltages for a plurality of data lines. In the flat panel display device, the number of the DACs is reduced and the overall layout area is greatly reduced. Also, standby power consumption can be greatly reduced due to the reduced number of amplifiers. Since the source voltages provided by the same amplifier are provided to adjacent data lines, a metal layer can be easily wired in the display panel.
US08836679B2	Display with multiplexer feed-through compensation and methods of driving same In one aspect, an LCD includes a display panel with a pixel matrix having M scan lines and N data lines, and a multiplexer feed-through compensation circuit, which includes P signal lines for providing P video signals, P multiplexers, and K pairs of control lines providing K pairs of control signals. Each multiplexer is electrically coupled to a corresponding signal line and has K channels. Each channel includes first and second switches parallel-connected between the signal line and a corresponding data line for selectively transmitting the video signal to the corresponding data line. Each pair of control lines is respectively electrically coupled to the first and second switches of a corresponding channel of each multiplexer. Each pair of control signals are configured such that a time turning off one of the first and second switches is earlier than that turning off the other switch.
US08836674B2	Active stylus An active stylus includes a tube, a signal emitting module, a power module, an electrical energy storage device, a movable element and an energy transformation module. The signal emitting module, the power module, the electrical energy storage device and the energy transformation module are disposed in the tube. The power module is electrically coupled to the signal emitting module, and the electrical energy storage device and the energy transformation module are electrically coupled to the power module. The movable element is movable in the tube. The energy transformation module is configured for transforming energy generated by motion of the movable element into electrical energy. The electrical energy transformed by the energy transformation module is stored in the electrical energy storage device by the power module.
US08836671B2	Position detection device, electronic apparatus, and display device A display device includes a screen on which an image is displayed, and a position detection device including a light emitting section adapted to emit an irradiation light beam along the screen, a light receiving section adapted to receive a reflected light beam caused by an object reflecting the irradiation light beam, and a detection section adapted to detect position information of the object based on a light reception result of the light receiving section, wherein the position detection device has detection accuracy of the position information of the object varying in accordance with a position of the object in a direction intersecting the screen.
US08836669B1	High resolution capacitance to code converter An integration circuit including a first capacitor is operatively coupled to a comparator. The comparator is configured to compare a first capacitor voltage of the first capacitor to a reference voltage and produce a first comparator output based on the comparison. A current generator is operatively coupled with the integration circuit and configured to balance charge on the first capacitor. A control unit is operatively coupled to the comparator and the current generator and configured to balance charge on the first capacitor by sensing the first comparator output and controlling the current generator based on the first comparator output.
US08836666B2	Method and device for reducing noise interference in a capacitive touchscreen system Disclosed herein are various embodiments of means and methods for reducing noise interference in a capacitive touchscreen system. Second noise signals related to first noise signals generated by an external noise source are provided to a touchscreen controller, which determines fundamental and harmonic frequencies associated with the first noise signals. In response to determining the fundamental and harmonic frequencies associated with the first noise signals, the touchscreen controller may shift the frequency at which drive signals generated thereby are provided to a capacitive touchscreen. As a result, undesired interference between the first noise signals and the drive signals is minimized or avoided.
US08836665B2	Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation and selective disabling of frequency learning A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user is likely to have intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The learning function is disabled, however, when the relevant words are found to be in a special category for which frequency learning, i.e., frequency revision, is not employed.
US08836664B2	Haptic device with indirect haptic feedback A haptic device provides indirect haptic feedback and includes a substrate having a touch surface, a position sensor and a friction modulator associated with the substrate, wherein a coefficient of friction of the touch surface is modulated in response to a sensed position of relative to the touch surface and/or a derivative thereof.
US08836661B2	Electronic device and method for operating touch panel thereof An electronic device and a method for operating a touch panel of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a touch panel, a driving unit and a processing unit. The driving unit is coupled to the touch panel, and drives the touch panel through a scanning frequency. The processing unit is coupled to the driving unit. When a peripheral component of the electronic device is enabled or connected to the electronic device, the processing unit looks up a working frequency table according to character information of the peripheral component, so as to obtain frequency information of the peripheral component, and determines whether or not to change the scanning frequency of the driving unit according to the frequency information of the peripheral component.
US08836660B2	Tactile display and CAD system Provided is a technique capable of allowing a person to perceive a fine relief on an object surface clearly. A tactile device of a tactile display slides above an object. The tactile device comprises three rods which are free to move up and down. Lower ends of the rods are in contact with a surface of the object. Upper ends of respective rods touch a palmar-side skin equivalent to positions of three joints of a first finger or a second finger. When the tactile device is slid, upper ends of respective rods move up and down in accordance with a surface relief of the object. In response to the movement of the tactile device, the three rods push three finger joint positions of the palmar-side skin with a stroke equal to a height of the relief.
US08836642B2	Information processing device, program, and information processing method There is provided an information processing device including a display control section which causes a three-dimensional space in which an object is arranged to be displayed on a display screen, an acquisition section which acquires a pointing operation in the three-dimensional space, and a position setting section which sets a pointing position in the three-dimensional space on the basis of the pointing operation. The display control section displays the pointing position in the three-dimensional space, a difference of the pointing position from a position of the object in a depth direction of the display screen having been corrected.
US08836639B2	Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus A computer generating a three-dimensional space and the images to be shown on a display: sets a first angle of view of the virtual camera; displays the image in accordance with the first angle of view; detects a position on the displayed image pointed to by the input device; calculates a straight line passing through the detected position and the virtual camera in the three-dimensional space; identifies an object intersecting the straight line; automatically sets a second angle of view of the virtual camera to zoom in and display the identified object, and displays the identified object using the display device from the perspective of the second angle of view.
US08836632B2	Shift register and touch device A touch device includes gate lines, pixels, sense control lines and sense units. Each pixel is connected to one of the gate lines and is decided whether to receive data according to a voltage on the gate line. Each the sense unit is connected to one of the sense control lines and is decided whether to perform a touch sense operation according to a voltage on the sense control line. The touch device further includes a shift register string including cascade-connected shift registers. Each shift register has first and second output terminals. The first output terminal provides an output to one of the gate lines according to a first clock signal to control the voltage on the gate line. The second output terminal provides an output to one of the sense control lines according to a second clock signal to control the voltage on the detection control line.
US08836619B2	Display apparatus, display data processing device, and display data processing method A display apparatus includes: an edge processing section extracting an edge component of a display data signal; a display data signal processing section changing the display data signal according to a level conversion signal and adding the edge component thereto; a level conversion signal generating section changing the level conversion signal according to the display data signal and a signal output from the display data signal processing section; and a display section performing a display operation according to the signal output from the display data processing section.
US08836615B2	Driver for controlling a light emitting element, in particular an organic light emitting diode The present invention relates to a circuit for controlling a light emitting element, in particular an organic light emitting diode. The circuit comprises a capacitor connectable with the light emitting element, charging means for charging the capacitor and a switching means. The switching means is adapted to alternately disconnect the capacitor from the light emitting element and connect the capacitor to the light emitting element. The capacitor is alternately charged and discharged. A charging current or a discharge current from the capacitor drives the current of the light emitting element. Said charging means comprises at least one charging transistor for charging the capacitor.
US08836614B1	Display panel control circuit and multi-chip module thereof The present invention provides a display panel control circuit, including: a voltage adjustment unit including a high side switch coupled between an output terminal and a high voltage source, a low side switch coupled between the output terminal and a low voltage source, and a voltage adjustment switch coupled between the output terminal and a switching node; a direction control unit, including a first diode having a cathode coupled to the switching node and an anode coupled to a voltage rising node, and a second diode having an anode coupled the switching node and a cathode coupled to a voltage falling node; a voltage rising resistor coupled between the voltage rising node and a shaping voltage source; and a voltage falling resistor coupled between the voltage falling node and the shaping voltage source.
US08836605B2	Embedded antenna An embedded antenna is disclosed. The embedded antenna comprises a coaxial cable and a grounding connecting part. The coaxial cable comprises a center conductor, an insulating layer and an outer sheath. The center conductor comprises a signal transmission part and a radiating part. The radiating part electrically connects the signal transmission part and provides a resonance frequency. The insulating layer covers the signal transmission part and the radiating part. The outer sheath covers the signal transmission part but not the radiating part. The grounding connecting part electrically connects the system grounding part and the outer sheath.
US08836603B2	Antenna device An antenna device includes: a plurality of loop metal wires that form loops out of metal wires and that are radially arranged around a center line; a power feeding portion that feeds power to the loop metal wires or a power receiving portion that receives power from the loop metal wires and that is provided on the center line; and a variable impedance element that is inserted in each of the loop metal wires.
US08836602B2	Tunable broadband antenna matching circuits and devices using same An improved wireless radio-frequency (RF) transmission system is disclosed. The wireless RF transmission system comprises: 1) a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio-frequency signals; ii) an electrically small antenna having a complex impedance comprising a real part and an imaginary part; and iii) a tunable negative impedance converter (NIC) circuit coupling the electrically small antenna to the RF transceiver. The tunable NIC circuit is configured to perform antenna matching by reducing the imaginary part of the complex impedance of the electrically small antenna. The tunable NIC circuit is tuned by adjusting a transconductance value associated with the tunable NIC circuit.
US08836598B2	Method for formation of radiometric images and an antenna for implementation of the method A method of radiometric image generation is provided using a series of isochronous revolutions of a multi-beam antenna with a dispersion characteristic. The antenna is combined with a multi-channel receiver with frequency channel separation to form an imaging unit. The method comprising cyclically executing the following phases: two separate calibration phase; using first and second standards; external radiation reception phase; data processing phase and data transformation phase.
US08836584B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal includes a main body having a ground, a first conductor installed in the main body and connected with the ground so as to be power-fed, and a second conductor facing the first conductor in order to be configured to transmit and receive radio signals of a plurality of mutually adjacent frequency bands to and from the first conductor. The second conductor includes a first portion spaced apart by a pre-set distance from the first conductor so as to be coupled with the first conductor, and second portions extending from the first portion in both directions and coupled at a plurality of locations with the ground in order to form a plurality of conductive loops extending from the ground, the first conductor, and the second.
US08836578B2	Antenna array The present application relates to an antenna array that comprises a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of amplifiers feeding the plurality of antenna elements. A first group of the plurality of antenna elements is arranged in a first column and a second group of the antenna elements is arranged in a second column. A first amplifier of the plurality of amplifiers has a first power rating and a second amplifier of the plurality of amplifiers has a second power rating, the first power rating being different than the second power rating. The first column is arranged symmetrical to the second column about an axis. Amplifiers feeding the first column have a substantially similar power rating to corresponding amplifiers feeding the second column.
US08836575B2	Detection device, radar apparatus, detection method and detection program This disclosure provides a detection device, which includes an image data generation module for generating image data based on echo signals, and a target object detection module for determining an existence of a target object based on a level of the echo signal at each location of the image data for every azimuth. The target object detection module determines a continuity of the echo signals in a distance direction and an azimuth direction for every target object, and outputs an end location for each target object based on a determination result at each location, including a plurality of locations adjacent to a location determined as being a non-target object location.
US08836570B2	Systems and methods for extending maritime domain awareness by sharing radar tracks between vessels A system for extending maritime domain awareness of participating vessels. The system includes a domain extension device installed on each of the vessels, the domain extension devices including at least one processor configured to receive own-ship radar track data from a navigational radar indicative of detectable targets located within a detection range of the radar, receive own-ship location values from a positioning device indicative of a geographical location of the vessel when the radar track data is generated, interface with a transceiver to receive other-ship radar track data and associated other-ship location values from one or more other participating vessels within a communication range of other-ship AIS transceivers, generate a common operating picture based upon the own-ship radar track data, own-ship location value, other-ship radar track data and other-ship location values.
US08836568B2	Method and apparatus for clockless conversion of portion of electric charge to digital word Method and apparatus for accumulation of electric charge delivered to the charge input (InQ) in the sampling capacitor (Cn) and in realization of the process of charge redistribution in the array of redistribution (A) by changing states of signals from relevant control outputs and in assignment of relevant values to bits in the digital word by means of the control module (CM). Method is characterized in that after detection of the beginning of the next gate signal (Gx+1), the charge is accumulated in the additional sampling capacitor (CnA), and then the process of charge redistribution is realized and relevant values are assigned to bits of the digital word. When the beginning of the subsequent gate signal (Gx+2) is detected, the next cycle begins and electric charge is accumulated in the sampling capacitor (Cn) again.
US08836566B2	Low power quantizer for analog to digital converter A quantizer includes a voltage reference network and a set of comparators coupled with the voltage reference network. The voltage reference network generates a plurality of reference voltages. Each of the comparators receives an input signal and produces a sequence of digital samples. The set of comparators includes first, second, and third subsets of comparators. Each comparator of the first subset includes a switched capacitor stage, each comparator of the second subset includes a preamplifier stage, and each comparator of the third subset includes a switched capacitor stage. The first and third subsets of comparators compares the input signal with reference voltages corresponding to the upper and lower voltage ranges of the input signal, and the second subset of comparators compares the input signal with reference voltages corresponding to the middle voltage range of the input signal.
US08836565B1	Analog to digital converter and signal converting method An analog to digital converter can operate in a sampling mode or in a comparing mode. The analog to digital converter comprises: a comparator; a first capacitor, comprising a first terminal coupled to a first input terminal of the comparator; a second capacitor; a first switch module; a control unit, for controlling the conductive states of the first switch module corresponding to the sampling mode or the comparing mode. The first capacitor samples a value of a first input signal and the second capacitor samples a value of a first reference signal via the first switch module in the sampling mode. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are not coupled to each other in the sampling mode. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are coupled in series via the first switch module in the comparing mode.
US08836560B2	Digital to analog converters with adjustable output resolution A digital to analog converter (DAC) includes: first and second nodes; a first switching device; a second switching device; and a switch control module. The switch control module selectively configures the first and second switching devices such that: in a first configuration, the first switching device connects a first current to the first node and the second switching device connects a second current to the second node; in a second configuration, the first switching device connects the first current to the second node and the second switching device connects the second current to the first node; and in a third configuration, the first and second switching devices disconnect the first current and the second current from the first and second nodes.
US08836557B2	Sub-Nyquist sampling of short pulses A method for signal processing includes accepting an analog signal, which consists of a sequence of pulses confined to a finite time interval. The analog signal is sampled at a sampling rate that is lower than a Nyquist rate of the analog signal and with samples taken at sample times that are independent of respective pulse shapes of the pulses and respective time positions of the pulses in the time interval. The sampled analog signal is processed.
US08836552B1	Direct input radio frequency complex analog to digital converter with corrective factors A direct radio frequency complex analog to digital converter (CADC) device provides corrective factors including a plurality of time-interleaved low speed ADCs, wherein each ADC corresponds to an ADC channel. A phase corrective factor is calculated for each ADC channel. An amplitude corrective factor is calculated for each ADC channel. The phase and amplitude corrective factors are applied to complex bandpass filter coefficients to produce filter coefficients corrected for the phase and amplitude imbalances between ADCs. Digital output of each ADC channel is filtered by a complex bandpass filter using the corrected filter coefficients to produce corrected in-phase and quadrature output at baseband. Harmonics produced by the ADCs are canceled by filtering ADC outputs in a first bandpass filter to an intermediate frequency such that the harmonics fall outside the band of interest, a second filter is applied to attenuate the harmonic and produce a signal output at baseband.
US08836548B1	Method and system for data compression at a storage system A computer-implemented method for compressing data is disclosed. The method starts with determining a way to read a received data block in its native endian format of at a storage system, where the data block contains a set of data and the determination is based on sampling a subset from a set of data and checking variation of the values. The method selects a base value for the data block based on the determined way to read the data block and generates a set of updated data, where each value of the set of updated data corresponds to the base value and an original value. The method separates each data within the set of updated data into two portions with different bit-value distribution patterns and compresses one portion with a first algorithm while compresses another portion with a second algorithm different from the first.
US08836546B2	Keypad for a wireless device A keypad for a wireless device is disclosed. The keypad comprises one or more key stems, each key stem having an upper key stem surface. The keypad also comprises one or more keycaps configured to be mounted over the one or more key stems, each keycap having a lower keycap surface for bonding to the upper key stem surface of each key stem with adhesive. The upper key stem surface includes at least one depression and at least one groove along a perimeter of the upper key stem surface. The depression and groove can help reduce the risk of adhesive flow to undesirable areas.
US08836537B2	Notification apparatus for vehicle A notification apparatus for notifying a passenger in a vehicle of existence of a specific object disposed on a road includes: an information obtaining device that obtains positional information indicative of a position of each specific object and angle information indicative of a direction of each specific object; a candidate retrieving device that: sets an inclusive region including a driving schedule route; and retrieves one specific object in the inclusive region as a notification object candidate; a first eliminating device that eliminates the one specific object from the notification object candidate when the one specific object does not correspond to a driving direction; and a second eliminating device that eliminates the one specific object from the notification object candidate when the one specific object is not disposed on the driving schedule route.
US08836536B2	Device characterization system and methods In an embodiment, a device characterization system includes a sensor to sense an attribute of a device, a processor, and an algorithm executable on the processor to collect time series data of the attribute from the sensor, detect edges in the data, identify clusters from the edges, label the clusters based on input from a supervisor, and estimate device characterization parameters from the clusters.
US08836531B2	Active warning device for server and warning method thereof The present disclosure provides an active warning device for server and the warning method thereof. The active warning device is applied to a server. When a control module in the server is departing from a midplane board, the active warning device can provide warning actively. Thereby, a user can notice that the control module is been drawing out of the server and then uses his both hands to support it for preventing tilt, fall, and hence damage of the control module.
US08836528B2	Data display device for machine tool for displaying information based on specified condition A data display device is adapted to associate data and parameters obtained from a numerical control apparatus with extracted information selected by an operator, and specify an arrangement condition or a selection condition based on the extracted information. The data display device is also adapted to display controlling information in an arranged manner according to the arrangement condition. Alternatively, the data display device is adapted to display only information in a selective manner which satisfies the condition specified according to the selection condition.
US08836522B2	Safety shut-off device and method of use A safety shut-off system and method for eliminating power to a load in the event of smoke detection. The system may comprise a device located at the appliance for detecting a signal from a smoke detector, and cutting power to the appliance only when the appliance is in use. The device may be synchronized with any standard smoke alarm signal to reduce the number of false positive shut-offs. The system may also comprise a smoke alarm hard-wired to a circuit breaker, for shutting off power to all appliances on a particular breaker upon receipt of a signal from the smoke alarm, and only when the appliances on the breaker are in use. The system may also have the ability to shut off one breaker, multiple breakers, or all breakers at different time increments to actively prevent and reduce the damages caused by fires.
US08836517B2	Method and system for monitoring the thermal dissipation of a computer processing unit A method and system are implemented for monitoring the thermal dissipation from a computer processing unit. The system comprises a temperature sensor, and a temperature controller. The temperature controller is configured to set a temperature observation window in a first temperature range, gradually narrow the observation window from the first temperature range after a monitored temperature of the processing unit has entered the observation window, and issue an alert signal when the monitored temperature exits the observation window.
US08836515B2	Flexible head of bed elevation device and alarm A device for continuously monitoring an elevation, α, from horizontal of a backrest against which a backbody of an individual may lean, to provide an automatic notification in the event the elevation, α, falls below a prescribed value. The device to include: (a) a liquid column having an opening to atmosphere at an upper-end, the liquid column contained by a length of tubing encased by an elongated flexible housing extending along at least a substantial portion of the tubing length, and a gas permeable membrane over the opening; (b) a pressure transducer located along the liquid column to take measurements at a position other than the upper-end, the pressure transducer in communication with a computerized unit having at least one alarm for communicating the automatic notification; (c) an entry port into the length of tubing having an open state permitting manual entry of the liquid into the tubing, and a closed-shut state; and (d) a first securing mechanism for attachment of at least the upper-end to the backrest, and a second securing mechanism for attaching the position other than the upper-end to, for example, a seat interconnected with the backrest. The first securing mechanism may, alternatively, be used to directly attach the upper-end to the backbody toward the shoulder region thereof. Further, the liquid column may also comprise a second-end extension at which a pressure transducer is located; the pressure transducer may be integrated with the computerized unit and in communication with one or more alarms.
US08836509B2	Security device A security device for protecting stored sensitive data includes a closed housing including an array of conductor paths and tamper detecting means adapted to detect a change in impedance of the array of conductor paths above a predetermined threshold value.
US08836508B2	Apparatus and method for securing a portable electronic device Anti-theft protection systems and methods for portable devices, such as portable electronic devices, that are unattended during use. The anti-theft protection systems and methods use a combination of measures including mechanical aspects, such as tethering the device to an object that is difficult to move, and electronic aspects that detect unauthorized movement and or alarm the user or other responsible party if unauthorized movement occurs.
US08836504B2	System and method for the remote monitoring of potted plants The invention relates to a system and method for determining the state, state changes, and/or condition changes of a potted plant and for indicating the determined state of said object to the owner or user thereof, wherein the system and method locally determine at least one physical and/or chemical parameter on top of on the side of or in the immediate vicinity of the plant (1) to be monitored by means of preferably several sensors or sensing elements (3). Said physical and/or chemical parameter is processed into a coded digital parameter signal and transmitted wirelessly, optionally by means of intermediate stages, to a central processor, which determines a statement about the state of the plant (1) from said coded digital parameter signal and other digital as an optical and/or acoustic indication of the current or prognosticated state of the plant/object (1). The sensation of the object is preferably simulated, which aims at triggering emotions in the user himself, for example, by means of language- and culture-independent icons. The data are determined, processed, and transmitted without significant time delay, in other words, in real time in principle. In the central processing, the data can be combined with further information, for example, the requirements profile of the object, historical data, data of similar objects, climate data, or weather forecasts. The user of the system can automatically be contacted if certain events are ascertained for the monitored object, if for example, an unfavorable forecast or a harmful parameter is ascertained. The sensors or sensing elements and further components are preferably placed in a plant container, an “intelligent flowerpot” so to speak, in such a way that the sensors or sensing elements are undetectable or barely detectable. Said “intelligent flowerpot” can comprise a “mobile sensor clip” as an essential component in addition to sensors arranged therein or thereon.
US08836503B2	Apparatus for compact internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS) The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments.
US08836501B2	Methods and devices for serving as a proxy beacon for a tracking device One feature includes a mobile device being used as a mobile beacon and proxy for a tracking device that may track an object, such as a pet. The mobile device may act as a beacon that transmits messages over a short range communications link to the tracking device. If the tracking device fails to receive the messages transmitted by the mobile device, it may be assumed that the pet has gone missing, and in response the tracking device may contact a tracking server with its location information via a wireless wide area network (WWAN). Additionally, the mobile device may act as a proxy of the tracking device by transmitting and receiving data to/from the tracking server using its own communication interface on behalf of the tracking device. This helps conserve the battery power of the tracking device because the tracking device does not use its own WWAN interface.
US08836495B2	Wheel position identifying device, transmitter used for the same, and tire pressure detecting apparatus having the same In a wheel position identifying device for a vehicle, transmitters are disposed in wheels, respectively. Each of the transmitters has a dual axis acceleration sensor and a control unit. The dual axis acceleration sensor detects a normal-direction acceleration and a tangential-direction acceleration of the wheel associated with the transmitter. The control unit determines whether the wheel associated with the transmitter is a right wheel or a left wheel based on a sign of a product of a time differential value of the normal-direction acceleration and the tangential-direction acceleration, and stores data regarding a determination result in a frame. A receiver receives the frame from each transmitter and identifies a position of the transmitter based on the data stored in the frame. The wheel position identifying device is for example employed to a tire pressure detecting apparatus.
US08836494B2	Lighting device with animated sequential light for a motor vehicle A lighting device has a first panel, which has an underside and an upper side, and a plurality of lighting elements which illuminate the first panel from the underside. The first panel has a plurality of transparent and non-transparent elements which are arranged one adjacent to the other in an alternating fashion and which each extend completely from the underside to the upper side. The lighting elements are controlled by a control device which is designed to bring about a predefinable spatial brightness profile in a space on the upper side of the first panel.
US08836475B2	Monitoring unit configuration management A monitoring device in accordance with the disclosure stores a serial number list in non-volatile memory, the serial number list including data indicative of at least one valid serial number associated with one or more key fobs permitted to interact with the monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to receive a wakeup signal via a key fob interface configured to communicate with a key fob. The monitoring device reads a serial number from a key fob via the key fob interface and searches the stored serial number list for data indicative of a valid serial number matching the serial number read via the key fob interface. The monitoring device reads action data from the key fob via the key fob interface, the action data being indicative of an action to be taken by the monitoring device. The monitoring device, in response to the read serial number matching a valid serial number of the stored serial number list, takes an action based on the action data.
US08836472B2	Combining navigation and fingerprint sensing A method and system are disclosed whereby fingerprint data is attempted to be captured from a touch sensitive input device during normal operation of an electronic device. If fingerprint data matching a stored fingerprint data is not captured within a threshold time period, security action is taken.
US08836468B2	Parameter copy method and keypad having parameter copy function by recognizing software versions and inverter types According to one embodiment, a keypad includes: a communication unit transmitting data to a plurality of inverters and receiving data from the plurality of inverters; and a controller determining whether type of a first inverter received from the communication unit is same as that of a second inverter, and performing a parameter copy if the type of a first inverter received from the communication unit is same as that of the second inverter, whereby parameters can be copied regardless of types and program versions of inverter, and parameter copy in a plurality of inverters each having a different type can be easily performed.
US08836458B2	Method for imparting annular oppositely polarized magnetically conditioned regions to a disk shaped member A magnetic torque sensing device having a disk-shaped member with a magnetoelastically active region. The magnetoelastically active region has oppositely polarized magnetically conditioned regions with initial directions of magnetization that are perpendicular to the sensitive directions of magnetic field sensor pairs placed proximate to the magnetically active region. Magnetic field sensors are specially positioned in relation to the disk-shaped member to accurately measure torque while providing improved RSU performance and reducing the detrimental effects of compassing.
US08836455B2	Soft-collision electromagnetic driving mechanism A soft-collision electromagnetic driving mechanism comprises a movable shaft driven by an electromagnetic mechanism, wherein the movable shaft is fixed to a movable iron core, an upper part of the movable shaft is connected to a movable damping mechanism, the movable damping mechanism comprises a first cylinder, the first cylinder has a movable damping piston therein, the movable damping piston is formed by a damping piston head and damping piston rods disposed at two sides of the damping piston head, first and second sealing chambers are at the two sides of the damping piston head respectively, a damping liquid is filled in the first and second sealing chambers, and a two-way discharge channel is arranged between the first and second sealing chambers. The driving mechanism is a permanent magnetic linear driving mechanism having a simple structure, a strong driving force and smooth contact, which can be used to drive electrical switches or devices requiring smooth contact, strong driving force and high speed.
US08836454B2	Miniature magnetic switch structures A switching device structure comprising a top magnet, a bottom magnet, and a movable member disposed between the top and bottom magnets, the movable member having an electromagnet positioned thereon, the electromagnet comprising a plurality of laminated layers, the layers including a layer bearing an iron core and a number of armature layers which establish electrical conductor windings around the iron core.
US08836453B2	Electronic circuit breaker, electronic circuit breaker subassembly, circuit breaker secondary electrical contact assembly, and powering methods Embodiments provide an electronic circuit breaker subassembly and circuit breaker secondary electrical contact assembly. The circuit breaker secondary electrical contact assembly has a main contact terminal connectable to a main power terminal, a secondary electrical contact set having a stationary secondary electrical contact and a moveable secondary electrical contact, a lockout conductor provided in spring-engaged contact with the main contact terminal on a first end and including one of the stationary or moving secondary electrical contacts on a second end, and a spring having the moveable secondary electrical contact provided on a moveable portion. Circuit breakers and methods of operating the electronic circuit breaker are provided, as are other aspects.
US08836448B2	Magnetic interface circuit A noise filtering magnetic interface circuit used for an electrical connector is provided. The magnetic interface circuit includes a number of signal channels and a capacitor (40). Each channel has a transformer (10) and a 3-wire common mode choke (20). The transformer has a first winding (100) connected and a second winding (110), the first winding having two opposite outputs, the second winding having two outputs and a center tap (111). The 3-wire common mode choke has a center winding (220) and two outer windings (210, 230), the center winding having a first output connected to the center tap of the second winding and a second output opposite to the first output, the two outer windings being respectively connected to the two outputs of the second winding. The capacitor has a first pole connected to the second outputs of the center windings of the channels and an opposite second pole connected to a ground.
US08836442B2	Variable capacitance with delay lock loop An integrated circuit includes a delay lock loop (DLL) circuit that generates incremental delay line signals and a delay line output signal based on a received clock signal. A pulse-width modulation (PWM) control module generates a PWM control signal. A variable capacitance circuit is controlled based on the delay line output signal, the PWM control signal, and one of the incremental delay line signals.
US08836437B2	Optical module for atomic oscillator and atomic oscillator An optical module for an atomic oscillator using a quantum interference effect includes a light source adapted to emit light including a fundamental wave having a predetermined wavelength, and sideband waves of the fundamental wave, a wavelength selection section receiving the light from the light source, and adapted to transmit the sideband waves out of the light input, a gas cell encapsulating an alkali metal gas, and irradiated with light transmitted through the wavelength selection section, and a light detection section adapted to detect an intensity of light transmitted through the gas cell, and the wavelength selection section includes a fiber Bragg grating, and a temperature control section adapted to control temperature of the fiber Bragg grating.
US08836434B2	Method and system for calibrating a frequency synthesizer A digital frequency synthesizer with an automatic calibration system. The digital frequency synthesizer is calibrated by initiating a coarse tuning operation to rapidly reach a preliminary frequency that is proximate to the desired final frequency. A calibration procedure is then executed for adjusting gain in the frequency synthesizer based on the preliminary frequency. This test involves applying one or more test signals to the frequency synthesizer and measuring a signal generated in the frequency synthesizer. This measured signal corresponds to a gain response of the circuit at the preliminary frequency. When the expected gain is known, any difference relative to the gain of the measured signal is used to adjust the gain in a circuit of the frequency synthesizer such that the actual gain substantially matches the expected gain.
US08836411B2	Charge pump systems and methods Digital multilevel memory systems and methods include a charge pump for generating regulated high voltages for various memory operations. The charge pump may include a plurality of pump stages. Aspects of exemplary systems may include charge pumps that performs orderly charging and discharging at low voltage operation conditions. Additional aspects may include features that enable state by state pumping, for example, circuitry that avoids cascaded short circuits among pump stages. Each pump stage may also include circuitry that discharges its nodes, such as via self-discharge through associated pump interconnection(s). Further aspects may also include features that: assist power-up in the various pump stages, double voltage, shift high voltage levels, provide anti-parallel circuit configurations, and/or enable buffering or precharging features, such as self-buffering and self-precharging circuitry.
US08836410B2	Internal voltage compensation circuit An internal voltage compensation circuit is provided which includes a power up signal generator configured to generate a power up signal, a select signal generator configured to compare a level of a first external voltage with a level of a second external voltage to generate first and second select signals, wherein the second select signal is generated in response to the power up signal, and a voltage compensation unit configured to electrically connect an internal voltage to the first external voltage or the second external voltage in response to the first and second select signals.
US08836399B2	Positive edge flip-flop with dual-port slave latch In an embodiment of the invention, a flip-flop circuit contains a 2-input multiplexer, a master latch, a transfer gate and a slave latch. The scan enable control signals SE and SEN of the multiplexer determine whether data or scan data is input to the master latch. The clock signals CLK and CLKN and retention control signals RET and RETN determine when the master latch is latched. The slave latch is configured to receive the output of the master latch, a second data bit D2, the clock signals CLK and CLN, the retain control signals RET and RETN, the slave control signals SS and SSN. The signals CLK, CLKN, RET, RETN, SS and SSN determine whether the output of the master latch or the second data bit D2 is latched in the slave latch. Control signals RET and RETN determine when data is stored in the slave latch during retention mode.
US08836396B2	PWM duty cycle synthesizer and method with adjustable corner frequency A circuit is provided that includes summing circuit for comparing the PWM output signal to the PWM input signal and producing an increment signal if a value of the PWM input signal exceeds a corresponding value of the PWM output signal and producing a decrement signal if a value of the PWM input signal is less than a corresponding value of the PWM output signal. An integrator produces a duty cycle signal by producing an increase in value of the duty cycle signal in response to each increment signal and a decrease in value of the duty cycle signal in response to each decrement signal. A PWM generator produces the PWM output signal in response to the duty cycle signal to cause the duty cycle of the PWM output signal to equal the duty cycle of the PWM input signal with no loss of duty cycle resolution.
US08836389B2	Apparatus, system, and method for controlling temperature and power supply voltage drift in a digital phase locked loop Described herein are apparatus, system, and method for controlling temperature drift and/or voltage supply drift in a digital phase locked loop (DPLL). The apparatus comprises a DPLL including a digital filter to generate a fine code for controlling a frequency of an output signal of a digital controlled oscillator (DCO) of the DPLL; a logic unit to monitor the fine code and to generate a compensation signal based on the fine code; and a voltage adjustment unit to update a power supply level to the DCO based on the compensation signal, wherein the updated power supply level to cause the digital filter to generate the fine code near the middle of an entire range of the fine code across various temperatures, and wherein the digital filter to generate the fine code near the middle of the entire range across power supply drift.
US08836384B1	Systems and methods for reducing power supply noise or jitter Systems and methods are provided for reducing jitter due to power supply noise in an integrated circuit by drawing additional current. The additional current causes the total current to generally have a frequency higher than a resonant frequency of the integrated circuit and/or a power distribution network of the integrated circuit. In one example, a power distribution network may supply power to components of an integrated circuit and data driver circuitry may draw first current to drive a data signal. Compensation circuitry may draw second current at times when the data driver circuitry is not drawing the first current, thereby causing a net of the first and second current to be higher than a resonant frequency range of the integrated circuit device and/or a component of the integrated circuit device (e.g., the power distribution network).
US08836381B2	Pseudo-supply hybrid driver A hybrid output driver includes a voltage mode main driver having an adjustable differential output voltage swing, and a current mode emphasis driver. Differential output voltage swing is adjusted by controlling the resistance of a first adjustable resistor coupled to a first voltage supply terminal, and the resistance of a second adjustable resistor coupled to a second voltage supply terminal. Resistances of the first and second adjustable resistors are adjusted by modifying a number of resistors connected in parallel. A calibration process measures the actual resistance of a similar resistor, and uses this resistance measurement to determine the number of resistors to be connected in parallel to provide the desired resistance. The current mode emphasis driver sources/sinks currents to/from differential output terminals of the hybrid output driver in response to an emphasis signal. These currents are selected in view of the selected differential output voltage swing and selected emphasis level.
US08836380B2	Bootstrap circuit A semiconductor device, includes: a first field effect transistor having one terminal to which a first electrical potential is given; a second field effect transistor having one terminal to which a second electrical potential smaller than the first electrical potential is given; a controller that controls each electrical potential of each control terminal of the first field effect transistor and the second field effect transistor; a capacitor element having one end connected to the control terminal of the first field effect transistor, the capacitor element being charged by the control of the controller; and a load element connected between another terminal of the first field effect transistor and another terminal of the second field effect transistor.
US08836379B2	Clock selection circuit and method The invention provides a clock select circuit and method which uses feedback arrangements between latches in different branches, with each branch for coupling an associated clock signal to the circuit output. An override circuit is provided in one of the feedback arrangements for preventing a latching delay in that feedback arrangement. This enables rapid switching between clocks in both directions.
US08836356B2	Vertical probe assembly with air channel A vertical probe assembly includes an upper die; a lower die; a plurality of probes, the probes including an electrically conductive material, wherein the probes extend from the upper die through the lower die; and an air channel located between the upper die and the lower die, such that airflow through the air channel passes through the plurality of probes.
US08836349B2	Capacitive sensor A sensor includes a variable capacitor, a fixed capacitor, an inductor, a switch that electrically connects the variable capacitor with the inductor or the fixed capacitor with the inductor, an oscillator that generates a periodic signal, and a controller connected to the switch, the oscillator, and the inductor. The controller operates the switch, identifies a frequency of a first oscillation of the variable capacitor and the inductor based on the periodic signal from the oscillator, identifies a frequency of a second oscillation of the fixed capacitor and the inductor based on the periodic signal from the oscillator, and identifies a capacitance of the variable capacitor based on a ratio of the frequency of the first oscillation to the frequency of the second oscillation.
US08836346B2	Electrostatic capacitance input device and electro-optical device having input device Disclosed herein is an electrostatic capacitance input device including: an input region of a substrate, in which a plurality of input position detection electrodes are provided; a plurality of wires that are electrically connected to the plurality of input position detection electrodes and extend outside the input region of the substrate; and a shield electrode that overlaps the wires on the input operation side.
US08836344B2	Intrusion detection and tracking system In one aspect, a method to detect an object in an area includes forming a wireless network among a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes being configured to generate an electromagnetic field (EMF) in the area and determining changes in the EMF between two nodes based on: a first difference in received signal strength values between a previously determined received signal strength value and a currently determined received signal strength value, a second difference in received signal strength values between the currently determined received signal strength value and an average received signal strength value and a third difference in link quality values between a previously determined link quality value and a currently determined link quality value. The method further comprises detecting the object based on the changes in the EMF.
US08836337B2	Organic electroluminescence device and testing method thereof An organic electroluminescence device is provided, which comprises: a lighting region, a wiring region, a bonding region and a wiring extending region (300), the lighting region comprises an anode, an organic functional layer, a cathode; the wiring region comprises wirings connecting the anode and cathode with a driving chip or a circuit board; the bonding region is a region in which the wirings connect with the driving chip or the circuit board; the ends of the wirings locate in the wiring extending region, the wirings in the wiring extending region are parallel with the wirings in the wiring region or form an angle with the wirings in the wiring region. A method for testing the organic electroluminescence device is also provided. With improving the wiring arrangement of the organic electroluminescence device, it is easier and more accurate to press bond a conductive adhesive tape and the wirings, and, the row wirings and the column wirings are protected from being shorted during screen testing.
US08836333B2	RF power splitter for magnetic resonance system A radio frequency transmission system for a magnetic resonance system includes a radio frequency power amplifier generating an input radio frequency signal that excites magnetic resonance in target nuclei and is designed for feeding an impedance Z0, and a multi-channel radio frequency coil having N radio frequency channels where N>1. Further, a power splitter includes (i) a parallel radio frequency connection point at which the N channels of the radio frequency coil are connected in parallel to define an output impedance at the parallel radio frequency connection point, and (ii) an impedance matching circuit connecting the radio frequency power amplifier with the radio frequency connection point and configured to provide impedance matching between the radio frequency power amplifier and the output impedance at the connection point.
US08836327B2	Micro-fabricated atomic magnetometer and method of forming the magnetometer The cost and size of an atomic magnetometer are reduced by attaching a vapor cell structure that has a vapor cell cavity to a base die that has a laser light source that outputs light to the vapor cell cavity, and attaching a photo detection die that has a photodiode to the vapor cell structure to detect light from the laser light source that passes through the vapor cell cavity.
US08836325B2	Valve position sensor A valve position sensor of a sliding sleeve of a flow control valve comprising a sleeve displacement converting means for converting a sleeve displacement into a radial displacement, and a measuring means for detecting the radial displacement and correlating the radial displacement to the position of the sliding sleeve within the flow control valve.
US08836321B2	Motor speed detection apparatus and motor control apparatus The motor speed detection apparatus detects rotational speed of a motor. The apparatus includes an FG coil (21) and a magnet (22) to be relatively moved with rotation of the motor, the FG coil outputting an alternating-current signal to be sampled by the apparatus, an A/D converter (1) to convert the alternating-current signal into a digital signal, an integrator (2) to perform time integration on the digital signal, a first determiner (3, 9) to determine which one of plural threshold ranges includes an integration value obtained by the integrator, a second determiner (3, 8) to determine whether change of the integration value is increase or decrease, and a logical product calculator (3, 10) to produce a binary signal showing a logical product of determination results of the first and second determiners. The apparatus calculates the rotational speed based on a production cycle of the binary signal.
US08836314B2	Reference current source circuit and system A reference current source circuit includes a reference voltage generating module, a voltage buffer, an equivalent resistance, a filter capacitor, a current mirror module and a reference current outputting terminal. The voltage buffer includes an operational amplifier and a first FET. The current mirror module includes a second FET and a third FET. The equivalent resistor includes an oscillator, a fourth FET, a fifth FET and a capacitor connected to the fourth FET and the fifth FET. The oscillator is for generating a clock signal whose frequency is related to a charging and discharging capacitor in the oscillator to control charging and discharging of the capacitor in the equivalent resistance. The reference current outputting terminal is for outputting a reference current only related to a capacitance ratio of the capacitor to the charging and discharging capacitor. A reference current source system is further disclosed.
US08836313B2	Constant current source and solid imaging apparatus using the same A constant current source has a first current source circuit for outputting a first current; a second current source circuit for outputting a second current according to a reference voltage; a current comparison circuit for comparing magnitudes of the first and second currents; and a current adjustment unit for adjusting a current value of the first current output from the first current source circuit in accordance with a comparison result of the current comparison circuit.
US08836310B2	Switch-mode power supply controller and associated method A controller having an on-time controller, an off-time controller, a switch control signal generator, and a jittering signal generator, wherein the jittering signal generator couples jitter into the on-time or the off-time of a primary switch of the power supply. Therefore the EMI performance may be improved.
US08836308B2	Step-down type DC-DC regulator A first transistor coupled between a power supply line and an inductor, a second transistor coupled between a source of the first transistor and a reference voltage line, and a third transistor coupled between the source of the first transistor and a load are included, and efficiency deterioration caused by a dead time is improved by keeping a current flow through a current path of an inductor, a load, and the third transistor during the dead time by supplying a voltage which is less than a threshold voltage and approximately the threshold voltage to a gate of the third transistor as a gate voltage.
US08836299B2	Voltage converter A voltage converter includes a driver, a subsidiary voltage converter, an inductor, a capacitor, and a voltage detection unit. The subsidiary voltage converter generates a driving voltage transmitted to the driver to supply working power to the driver. The driver controls the capacitor to be alternately charged and discharged through the inductor, thereby generating an output voltage and output current between the inductor and the first capacitor. The voltage detection unit detects an electric potential difference of the inductor and generates a reference voltage according to the electric potential difference, and the subsidiary voltage converter receives the reference voltage and adjusts the driving voltage according to the reference voltage.
US08836297B2	Switching device and method of controlling switching device A switching device is disclosed in which electric current through a rectification circuit, depending on whether a main switching element turns on or off, and thus electric current from the rectification circuit flows through whichever of first and second sub-switching elements, turns on. By controlling the turning on and off of the first and second sub-switching elements, the switching is performed which determines through which of the first and second output circuits the electric current from the rectification circuit flows. Thus, a voltage that is a result of transforming a voltage from a DC power supply in response to the electric current flowing through the first output circuit, is output from a first output terminal, and a voltage that is a result of transforming a voltage from the DC power supply in response to the electric current flowing through the second output circuit, is output from a second output terminal.
US08836283B2	Battery recharging base station The present invention is related to a rechargeable base station system having a base station connected to a DIN rail assembly. The base station has a base featuring side walls, and a receiving unit rotatably connected to the side walls. The receiving unit has an opened end configured to receive a rechargeable device, and at least one electrical contact which contacts the rechargeable device so as to charge the rechargeable device. The DIN rail assembly has power connection elements that provide power from a power source to the base station when the base station is attached to the DIN rail assembly. The base station can include a battery which provides power to charge the rechargeable device when power from the power source is interrupted. Multiple base stations can be connected to the DIN rail assembly thereby allowing for multiple rechargeable devices to be charged from a single DIN rail assembly.
US08836278B2	Electrical devices and methods of charging An electrical device of the type having a rechargeable battery and which has a body having at least a portion formed with a circumference extending about an axis, is provided with a secondary winding adapted to receive magnetic flux from a planar charging surface that is arranged around the circumference in a plane perpendicular to the axis. Such a device may be charged by placing the device on a planar charging surface such that the body portion contacts the planar charging surface with the axis perpendicular to the charging surface and the secondary winding parallel to the charging surface.
US08836277B2	Battery heating circuits and methods using resonance components in series based on current limiting and voltage inversion with bi-directionality and common inductance Circuit and method for heating a battery. The circuit includes the battery including parasitic damping and current storage components. A first switch unit and first charge storage component are parts of a battery discharging circuit. A second current storage component is in series with the first charge storage component and a one-way semiconductor component. The one-way semiconductor component and second current storage component are in parallel with the first switch unit. The first charge storage component, second current storage component, and the one-way semiconductor component are parts of a battery charging circuit. A second switch unit is in parallel to the first charge storage component and the second current storage component. The second switch unit and the second current storage component are parts of a voltage regulation and polarity inversion circuit for the first charge storage component. The circuit heats the battery by discharging and charging the battery.
US08836269B2	Method for detecting blockages of electrically commutated electric motors A method for detecting blockages of unipolar stepper motors by analyzing the motor current supply, comprising impressing a current into one or more motor windings using a controllable switch, wherein the switch selectively connects a respective motor winding connection to a supply voltage connection and wherein the connections of each motor winding lying at a common potential are permanently connected to a second supply voltage connection, wherein a current feed variant has phases between the switching of the motor windings, in which phases the motor winding connections are switched with high resistance; detecting the voltage at a motor winding connection at least for the high-resistance phase and comparing the voltage to a threshold; detecting a time interval for which the voltage is greater than the threshold; comparing interval lengths for several motor winding connections, and detecting a blockage based on the comparisons of interval lengths.
US08836264B2	Controller for a rotating electrical machine To minimize switching losses in a rotating electrical machine, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure proposes an iterative control method which calculates optimal switching states in advance. A rotating electrical machine can be controlled on the basis of this iterative control method.
US08836259B2	Sensorless BLDC motor systems and driving methods of sensorless BLDC motor Provided is a sensorless BLDC motor system. The sensorless BLDC motor system includes a BLDC motor, a comparator, a motor controller, a three-phase inverter, and a mode selector. The BLDC motor includes first to third coils. The comparator compares a voltage of a specific coil of the first to third coils with a neutral-point voltage to output the compared result. The voltage of the specific coil becomes equal to the neutral-point voltage and a specific time elapses, and then the motor controller generates first and second coil control signals based on the compared result. The three-phase inverter supplies a source voltage or ground voltage to the specific coil, or floats the specific coil, in response to the first and second coil control signals. The mode selector selects a driving mode of the BLDC motor by adjusting the specific time.
US08836258B2	Inverter device, motor driving device, refrigerating air conditioner, and power generation system An inverter device, a motor driving device, a refrigerating air conditioner, and a power generation system, which can reduce the recovery loss thereof, are obtained. A plurality of arms that can conduct and block current are provided. At least one of the plurality of arms includes: a plurality of switching elements each having a parasitic diode and being connected in series with each other; and a reverse current diode connected in parallel with the plurality of switching elements.
US08836254B2	Control of an electrical machine A method of controlling an electrical machine that includes selecting an edge of a rotor-position signal as a reference edge and commutating a phase winding of the electrical machine at times relative to the reference edge. The rotor-position signal has at least four edges per mechanical cycle, each of the edges being associated with a respective zero-crossing in back EMF or minimum in inductance of the phase winding. The angular position of at least one of the edges relative to its respective zero-crossing or minimum is different to that of the other edges. The reference edge is then selected from the edges such that the angular position of the reference edge relative to its respective zero-crossing or minimum is the same with each power on of the electrical machine. Additionally, a controller and control system that implement the method.
US08836253B2	Control apparatus for AC rotary machine A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes: a current detection section detecting current from a power converter to the AC rotary machine; and a control section generating a three-phase AC voltage instruction to the power converter, based on current detected by the current detection section and a torque instruction. The control section includes: an observer calculating a magnetic flux estimated value of the AC rotary machine, based on detected current and the voltage instruction; a current instruction calculation unit calculating current instruction values on rotational two axes, based on the torque instruction and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer; and a voltage instruction calculation unit calculating the voltage instruction, based on the current instruction values from the current instruction calculation unit and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer.
US08836247B2	Drift-tube linear accelerator A drift-tube linear accelerator that passes an injected particle beam through inside a plurality of cylindrical drift-tube electrodes arranged in a cylindrical cavity in a particle beam traveling direction and accelerates the particle beam by a radio-frequency electric field generated between the plurality of cylindrical drift-tube electrodes, wherein at least part of a focusing device for focusing the particle beam is disposed inside an end drift-tube electrode that is arranged nearest the injection side of the cylindrical cavity among the plurality of cylindrical drift-tube electrodes, with the focusing device being positionally adjustable independently of the end drift-tube electrode.
US08836242B2	LED voltage adjustment device and drive system thereof The present invention provides LED voltage adjustment device and drive system thereof. The device includes PI regulator, with negative terminal connected to negative terminal of LED light bar to receive negative terminal voltage of light bar and positive terminal of PI regulator being for receiving reference voltage; integrator, for performing integral on output signal of PI regulator; a subtractor, with positive input terminal receiving output signal from PI regulator and negative terminal receiving overcurrent protection detection voltage from boost converter for driving light bar, and subtracting overcurrent protection detection voltage from output signal of PI regulator; comparator, with positive terminal receiving output signal from integrator and negative terminal receiving output signal from subtractor; and integrated circuit (IC) module, for receiving output signal from comparator and based on received output signal to control a control signal to conduct or cut off switch transistor of boost converter.
US08836241B2	LED driving circuit and driving controller for controlling the same A driving controller for driving a load is disclosed. The driving circuit includes a driving power supply and the driving controller. The driving power supply provides a first power source to the load. The controller is coupled to a second power source to receive an electric power for operating. The controller controls the amount of the electric power to the load when operating in a first mode and stops the driving power supply from providing the electric power to the load when operating in a second mode. The controller operates exclusively in the first mode before the driving power supply provides the first power source to the load.
US08836240B2	Dim mode start for electrodeless lamp ballast A ballast for energizing a lamp at a lighting level selected from a plurality of lamp lighting levels. The ballast includes a buck converter circuit configured to receive a DC voltage signal having a substantially constant magnitude. The buck converter circuit has a duty cycle for generating a lamp voltage output signal from the DC voltage signal. The lamp voltage output signal has a magnitude that is varied by the duty cycle to energize the lamp at the plurality of lamp lighting levels. A controller is configured to receive a dim input signal indicative of the selected lamp lighting level and to provide a control signal to the buck converter circuit as a function of the dim input signal. The control signal indicates a particular duty cycle corresponding to a lamp voltage output signal having a magnitude for energizing the lamp at the selected lamp lighting level.
US08836239B2	LED lighting device and illumination apparatus including same An LED lighting device includes a converter for converting a power source voltage into a DC voltage and outputting it to an LED unit; and a controller for controlling an output of the converter. The converter has a chopper circuit including a series circuit of an inductance element and a capacitor; a switching element connected to the inductance element in series and turned on/off by the controller; and a diode as discharging path of the inductance element during an OFF state of the switching element. The controller controls an on/off time of the switching element such that a current supplied to the LED unit during a specific time period after a lighting operation is started becomes smaller than a current supplied to the LED unit in a steady state by using a voltage generated in a secondary coil of the inductance coil as an operating voltage thereof.
US08836234B2	Power supply for lighting and luminaire According to one embodiment, a power supply for lighting includes a rectifying circuit, a smoothing capacitor, and a current control circuit. The rectifying circuit rectifies a phase-controlled alternating-current voltage supplied to between a pair of input terminals. The smoothing capacitor is connected to a high-potential terminal and a low-potential terminal of the rectifying circuit. A first electric current flows to the current control circuit in a period when an absolute value of the alternating-current voltage is lower than a specified value. After a second electric current larger than the first electric current flows when the absolute value of the alternating-current voltage increases to be equal to or larger than the specified value, the current control circuit is shut off to reduce a current value to be smaller than the second electric current until the absolute value of the alternating-current voltage decreases to be lower than the specified value.
US08836233B2	Light source apparatus and driving apparatus thereof A light source driving apparatus including a voltage converting unit, a switching unit, a feedback unit and a control unit is provided. The voltage converting unit provides a driving current to drive a light source module. The switching unit is controlled to be conducted or not by a switch signal. The feedback unit detects a load status of the light source module, and provides a feedback signal accordingly. The control unit modulates pulse widths of the switch signal according to the feedback signal, a signal upper limitation, and a signal lower limitation, so as to control the switching unit to be conducted. The voltage converting unit includes an energy storage element. When the switching unit is conducted, the energy storage element stores a part of energy provided by the input power source. When the switching unit is not conducted, the energy storage element provides the driving current.
US08836229B2	LED driver circuit An LED driver circuit includes: a bridge rectifier, a first compensation capacitor, a second compensation capacitor, and an LED module. The bridge rectifier is connected to an AC input power for producing a rectification output power. The first compensation capacitor is connected to a first rectification output terminal and an AC input terminal of the bridge rectifier. The second compensation capacitor is connected to a second rectification terminal and the AC input terminal of the bridge rectifier. The LED module is connected to the first rectification output terminal and the second rectification output terminal of the bridge rectifier. The first and second compensation capacitors in the present invention can effectively improve the total current harmonic distortion of the LED module and its utilization.
US08836226B2	Leading-edge phase-cut bleeder control A bleeder arrangement for a phase-cut circuit for a high-impedance load and having a leading-edge phase-cut device is disclosed, the bleeder arrangement comprising: a controllable current sink adapted to sink a latching current through the leading-edge phase-cut device, and a controller for controlling the controllable current sink, wherein the controller is configured to disable the current sink after the leading-edge phase phase-cut device has latched in at least two stages. A controller for use in such an arrangement is also disclosed, as is a method of controller such a bleeder arrangement.
US08836220B2	Modular magnetron A modular magnetron for use in UV curing lamp assembly is disclosed. The modular magnetron includes a vacuum tube having a vacuum tube body, a top assembly, and a bottom assembly. The top assembly is configured to substantially overlay the vacuum tube. The bottom assembly is configured to substantially extend about the vacuum tube, the vacuum tube being positioned to partially protrude from the bottom assembly, the bottom assembly including a cooling assembly configured to employ a flexible clamp-type fitting about the vacuum tube body for substantially maintaining thermal and electrical conductivity. The top assembly is configured to be releasably fastened to the bottom assembly about the vacuum tube with removable fasteners.
US08836219B1	Radio frequency powered gas-filled lamps A method and system for powering gas-filled lamps using radio and/or microwave frequencies is disclosed. The method and system may include a gas-filled lamp, an antenna positioned proximal to the gas-filled lamp, a conductive element surrounding the gas-filled lamp, and a power source connector coupled to the antenna.
US08836203B2	Signal return for ultrasonic transducers A transducer useful for medical imaging ultrasonic transducers comprises a front impedance matching layer, a piezoelectric array, and a rear layer. The front impedance matching layer may include a return connection region electrically coupled to a distal end of the piezoelectric array and a front metal layer with a return signal portion for routing the return signal from the distal end of the transducer to a flex circuit of the rear layer at a proximal end of the transducer. In an embodiment, the rear layer may include a return connection region that is electrically coupled to the piezoelectric array at a distal end of the transducer and also electrically coupled to the signal return lines of a flex circuit at the distal end of the transducer.
US08836201B2	Electroactive polymers and articles containing them An electroactive polymer device is described that includes at least one layer of a dielectric polymer that is a polymerized product of at least one ethylenically unsaturated nitrogen-containing monomer. Also disclosed is a transducer that includes the electroactive polymer as disclosed.
US08836198B2	Brush holder of slip ring A brush holder of the present invention is formed by a plurality of brush holder units in serial connection. Each brush holder unit includes an insulating base, a brush frame, and two carbon brushes. The insulating base has a protrusion and a recess on opposite sides. The brush frame has a main body received in the recess and two branches projected from opposite ends of the main body. The carbon brushes are provided on the branches of the brush frame. The protrusion of the brush holder unit is inserted into the recess of another brush holder unit to serially connect the brush holder units as well as to secure the brush frame in the recess. Therefore, the brush holder may be formed by serially connecting the brush holder units in a fast and easy way, and it provides a stable signal transmission.
US08836190B2	Magnetic bearing, a rotary stage, and a reflective electron beam lithography apparatus A magnetic bearing (108) with an axis of rotation (106), wherein the magnetic bearing comprises: a cylindrical rotor (116) comprising a ferromagnetic material (118, 338, 440) wherein the cylindrical rotor has an axis of symmetry (114), wherein the cylindrical rotor has an inner radius (124), wherein the cylindrical rotor has a top side (128), a static hub (120), wherein the static hub has an overhang (122) which protrudes from the static hub and is located adjacent to the top side, a lift magnetic actuator apparatus (130) for controlling the distance (126) between the top side and the overhang, a radial magnetic actuator apparatus (132) for controlling the distance (136) between the inner radius and the axis of rotation.
US08836189B2	Spindle motor having lubricant filled bearing clearance There is provided a spindle motor including: a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft and having an insertion groove provided in a top surface thereof; and a rotor case mounted on a top end of the shaft and including a protruding wall part inserted into the insertion groove, wherein a lubricant, provided to generate a dynamic pressure when the shaft rotates, forms an interface with air in a clearance formed by the protruding wall part and the insertion groove.
US08836185B2	Motor power connection box and three-phase motor A motor power connection box including a housing, in which electrical motor connecting contacts and also power connectors are provided, and which further includes an electrical contacting arrangement adapted to connect the power connectors to the electrical motor connecting contacts according to specified power functions, and which includes a cover capable of being fitted on the housing.The cover is capable of being fitted to the housing in different orientations, and in the cover the electrical contacting arrangement is disposed so as to provide at least two fixed contacting configurations for at least two different power functions alternately assigned to different alignments of the cover.
US08836178B2	Linear vibrator Disclosed herein is a linear vibrator, including: a stator including a coil; and a vibrator including a magnet opposite to the coil, wherein the linear vibrator is linearly vibrated due to electromagnetic induction of the coil and the magnet, the magnet is formed in a disc shape in which a cut part is formed by cutting a portion thereof, a magnetic fluid band is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the magnet, and a portion of the magnetic fluid band is in contact with the coil. According to the present invention, there is provided the linear vibrator capable of suppressing weak vibration generated at the time of external impact or movement, previously preventing noise generated as the vibrator applies an impact to the stator due to excessive vibration, and minimizing attenuation of the linear vibration quantity as the cut part that is formed by cutting a portion of the magnet to form the air gap with the coil.
US08836165B2	Dual-source converter with auxiliary circuit and controller Disclosed is a dual-source converter for a hybrid power supply. The converter includes a first power circuit, a second power circuit, an auxiliary circuit, an output circuit and a closed loop circuit. The first power circuit is electrically connected to the second power circuit in series for receiving two varied voltage sources. The auxiliary circuit is configured to achieve soft switching of all switches. The closed loop circuit is configured to control the duty cycles of the first power circuit, the second power circuit and the auxiliary circuit so as to improve the efficiency of the dual-source converter.
US08836153B2	Wave-power aggregate to extract energy from wave motion in a fluid and the use of a wave-power aggregate The present invention relates to a wave-power aggregate and a method of extracting energy from wave motion in a liquid by means of a wave-power aggregate. The wave-power aggregate comprises a container which is situated at least partially in the liquid and also comprises an inflow and an outflow. The container is arranged to, under the influence of said wave motion, to let a first part of the container arrange itself in a first position and a second part of the container in a second position, where the first and second position corresponds to different potential energy states. The method comprises the steps of: alternately supplying the container with at least a first and a second fluid respectively via the inflow, where the density of the fluids differs. at least during an initial stage of the method controlling a flow resistance in at least one of the first and second fluids through the container.
US08836152B2	Hydraulic wave energy converter with variable damping A wave energy converter has a shell, a pendulum pivotally positioned in the shell, a pump linked to the pendulum and operable by a movement of the pendulum so as to pump a hydraulic fluid outwardly therefrom, a motor interconnected to the pump such that the hydraulic fluid from the pump causes a rotation of the motor, and an electrical generator connected to the motor such that the rotation of the motor causes the electrical generator to produce electrical energy. A pendulum adjuster can be operatively connected to the pendulum so as to change a center of gravity of the pendulum.
US08836151B2	Starter generator arranged within the flywheel housing in an internal combustion engine An arrangement connectable to an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft, the arrangement including a flywheel, which is connectable to the crankshaft and coupled by a coupling device to output elements. An intermediate piece is arranged in a torque-transmitting manner between the flywheel and the coupling device. A starter generator is arranged within a flywheel housing and operatively connected to the crankshaft. The intermediate piece has in the center thereof an opening in which a shaft body is mounted in an axially movable manner, and the shaft body is connected to the coupling device by means of a flexible transmission element.
US08836150B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device disclosed in this description has a semiconductor substrate including an element region in which a semiconductor element is formed, and an upper surface electrode formed on an upper surface of the element region of the semiconductor substrate. The upper surface electrode has a first thickness region and a second thickness region which is thicker than the first thickness region, and a bonding wire is bonded on the second thickness region.
US08836147B2	Bonding structure of multilayer copper bonding wire A bonding structure of a ball-bonded portion is obtained by bonding a ball portion formed on a front end of a multilayer copper bonding wire. The multilayer copper bonding wire includes a core member that is mainly composed of copper, and an outer layer that is formed on the core member and is mainly composed of at least one noble metal selected from a group of Pd, Au, Ag and Pt. Further, a first concentrated portion of such noble metal(s) is formed in a ball-root region located at a boundary with the copper bonding wire in a surface region of the ball-bonded portion.
US08836140B2	Three-dimensional vertically interconnected structure The present invention discloses a three-dimensional vertically interconnected structure and a fabricating method for the same. The structure comprises at least two layers of chips which are stacked in sequence or stacked together face to face, and an adhesive material is used for adhesion between adjacent layers of said chips, each layer of chips contains a substrate layer and a dielectric layer sequentially bottom to top; an front surface of the chip has a first concave with an annular cross section, and the first concave is filled with metal inside to form a first electrical conductive ring connecting to microelectronic devices inside the chip via a redistribution layer; a first through layers of chips hole having the same radius and center as inner ring of the first electrical conductive ring penetrates the stacked chips and has a first micro electrical conductive pole inside that is electrically connected to the first electrical conductive ring. The three-dimensional vertically interconnected structure of the present invention enhances the strength of the electric interconnection and the adhesion between adjacent layers of chips, and in the meantime the disclosed fabricating method simplifies the process difficulty and therefore improves the yield.
US08836135B2	Semiconductor device with interconnection connecting to a via A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of interconnect layers disposed at different heights from the semiconductor substrate, each interconnect layer including an interconnection formed therein; and a via formed in a columnar shape extending in the stack direction of the interconnect layers, the via electrically connecting the interconnections of the different interconnect layers, the interconnections including an intermediate interconnection in contact with the via in the intermediate portion thereof, and the intermediate interconnection including a first type intermediate interconnection passing through the via in a direction perpendicular to the stack direction and in contact with the via on the top surface, bottom surface, and both side surfaces thereof.
US08836132B2	Vertical mount package and wafer level packaging therefor Vertical mount packages and methods for making the same are disclosed. A method for manufacturing a vertical mount package includes providing a device substrate with a plurality of device regions on a front surface, and a plurality of through-wafer vias. MEMS devices or integrated circuits are formed or mounted onto the device regions. A capping substrate having recesses is mounted over the device substrate, enclosing the device regions within cavities defined by the recesses. A plurality of aligned through-wafer contacts extend through the capping substrate and the device substrate. The device substrate and capping substrate can be singulated by cutting through the aligned through-wafer contacts, with the severed through-wafer contacts forming vertical mount leads. A vertical mount package includes a device sealed between a device substrate and a capping substrate. At least of the side edges of the package includes exposed conductive elements for vertical mount leads.
US08836129B1	Plug structure A plug structure including a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, a barrier layer and a second plug is provided. The first dielectric layer having a first plug therein is located on a substrate, wherein the first plug physically contacts a source/drain in the substrate. The second dielectric layer having an opening exposing the first plug is located on the first dielectric layer. The barrier layer conformally covers the opening, wherein the barrier layer has a bottom part and a sidewall part, and the bottom part is a single layer and physically contacts the first plug while the sidewall part is a dual layer. The second plug fills the opening and on the barrier layer. Moreover, a process of forming a plug structure is also provided.
US08836113B2	Electronic module An electronic module. One embodiment includes a carrier. A first transistor is attached to the carrier. A second transistor is attached to the carrier. A first connection element includes a first planar region. The first connection element electrically connects the first transistor to the carrier. A second connection element includes a second planar region. The second connection element electrically connects the second transistor to the carrier. In one embodiment, a distance between the first planar region and the second planar region is smaller than 100 μm.
US08836110B2	Heat spreader for use within a packaged semiconductor device A packaged semiconductor device includes a package substrate, an integrated circuit (IC) die mounted on the package substrate, and a heat spreader mounted on the package substrate. The heat spreader surrounds at least a portion of the IC die and includes a lid with a plurality of openings. An inner portion of the heat spreader includes a plurality of thermally conductive protrusions adjacent the die.
US08836109B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a via region and a circuit region, an insulation interlayer formed on a top surface of the substrate, a through electrode having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the through electrode penetrates the via region of the substrate and the second surface is substantially coplanar with a bottom surface of the substrate, a first upper wiring formed on a portion of the first surface of the through electrode, a plurality of via contacts formed on a portion of a top surface of the first upper wiring, and a second upper wiring formed on the plurality of via contacts.
US08836106B2	Semiconductor device In a QFN that includes a die pad, a semiconductor chip mounted on the die pad, a plurality of leads arranged around the semiconductor chip, a plurality of wires that electrically connect the plurality of electrode pads of the semiconductor chip with the plurality of leads, respectively, and a sealing member sealing the semiconductor chip and the plurality of wires, first and second step portions are formed at shifted positions on the left and right sides of each of the leads to make the positions of the first and second step portions shifted between the adjacent leads. As a result, the gap between the leads is narrowed, thereby achieving the miniaturization or the increase in the number of pins of the QFN.
US08836103B2	Semiconductor unit A semiconductor unit includes an insulation layer, a conductive layer bonded to one side of the insulation layer, a semiconductor device mounted on the conductive layer, a cooler thermally coupled to the other side of the insulation layer, a first bus bar having a bonding surface bonded to the semiconductor device or the conductive layer and a non-bonding surface that is the part of the first bus bar other than the bonding surface, and a second bus bar having a bonding surface bonded to the semiconductor device or the conductive layer and a non-bonding surface that is the part of the second bus bar other than the bonding surface. The second bus bar has a greater ratio of the area of the bonding surface to the area of the non-bonding surface than the first bus bar. The second bus bar has a lower electric resistance than the first bus bar.
US08836102B2	Multilayered semiconductor device, printed circuit board, and method of manufacturing multilayered semiconductor device Provided is a multilayered semiconductor device, including: a first semiconductor package including a first semiconductor element and a first wiring board; a second semiconductor package including: a second semiconductor element, a second wiring board and a first encapsulating resin for encapsulating the second semiconductor element therein; and a plate member disposed between the first semiconductor package and the second semiconductor package, the first semiconductor package, the plate member, and the second semiconductor package being stacked in this order, in which the first wiring board and the second wiring board are electrically connected to each other via a metal wire through one of a notch and an opening formed in the plate member and the first semiconductor element, the second semiconductor package, and the metal wire are encapsulated in a second encapsulating resin.
US08836100B2	Slotted configuration for optimized placement of micro-components using adhesive bonding An arrangement for improving adhesive attachment of micro-components in an assembly utilizes a plurality of parallel-disposed slots formed in the top surface of the substrate used to support the micro-components. The slots are used to control the flow and “shape” of an adhesive “dot” so as to quickly and accurately attach a micro-component to the surface of a substrate. The slots are formed (preferably, etched) in the surface of the substrate in a manner that lends itself to reproducible accuracy from one substrate to another. Other slots (“channels”) may be formed in conjunction with the bonding slots so that extraneous adhesive material will flow into these channels and not spread into unwanted areas.
US08836098B1	Surface mount semiconductor device with solder ball reinforcement frame A surface mount semiconductor device having external contact elements exposed in a ball grid array (BGA) at its external active face for mechanical and electrical connection to an external support and a semiconductor die connected electrically internally with the external contact elements. A reinforcement layer of electrically insulating material extends between and surrounds laterally peripheral contact elements of the BGA. The reinforcement layer extends to from about thirty percent (30%) to about fifty percent (50%) of the height of the peripheral contact elements at the active face.
US08836087B2	Gap-fill keyhole repair using printable dielectric material Disposable gate structures are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A planarization dielectric layer is deposited over the disposable gate structures and planarized to provide a top surface that is coplanar with top surface of the disposable gate structures. The planarization dielectric layer at this point includes gap-fill keyholes between narrowly spaced disposable gate structures. A printable dielectric layer is deposited over the planarization dielectric layer to fill the gap-fill keyholes. Areas of the printable dielectric layer over the gap-fill keyholes are illuminated with radiation that cross-links cross-linkable bonds in the material of the printable dielectric layer. Non-crosslinked portions of the printable dielectric layer are subsequently removed selective to crosslinked portions of the printable dielectric layer, which fills at least the upper portion of each gate-fill keyhole. The disposable gate structures are removed to form gate cavities. The gate cavities are filled with a gate dielectric and a gate electrode.
US08836082B2	Reversal lithography approach by selective deposition of nanoparticles A novel reversal lithography process without etch back is described. The reversal material comprises nanoparticles that are selectively deposited into the gaps between features without overcoating the tops of the features. As a result, a patterned imaging layer can be removed using solvent, blanket exposure followed by developer washing, or dry etching directly, without an etch-back process, and the original bright field lithography pattern can be reversed into dark field features, and transferred into subsequent layers using the nanoparticle reversal material as an etch mask.
US08836072B2	Semiconductor system including a schottky diode A semiconductor system is described, which includes a trench junction barrier Schottky diode having an integrated p-n type diode as a clamping element, which is suitable for use in motor vehicle generator system, in particular as a Zener diode having a breakdown voltage of approximately 20V. In this case, the TJBS is a combination of a Schottky diode and a p-n type diode. Where the breakdown voltages are concerned, the breakdown voltage of the p-n type diode is lower than the breakdown voltage of Schottky diode. The semiconductor system may therefore be operated using high currents at breakdown.
US08836068B2	Backside illumination image sensor and electronic system including the backside illumination image sensor A backside illumination image sensor, a method of fabricating the same, and an electronic system including the backside illumination image sensor, the backside illumination image sensor including a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface; photodiodes in the semiconductor substrate; and metal interconnections below the semiconductor substrate, wherein each of the photodiodes includes a N-type region, a lower P-type region below the N-type region, and an upper P-type region on the N-type region.
US08836067B2	Transistor device and manufacturing method thereof A transistor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The transistor device includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, a shallow trench isolation (STI), a source, a drain and a gate. The first well is disposed in the substrate. The second well is disposed in the substrate. The STI is disposed in the second well. The STI has at least one floating diffusion island. The source is disposed in the first well. The drain is disposed in the second well. The electric type of the floating diffusion island is different from or the same with that of the drain. The gate is disposed above the first well and the second well, and partially overlaps the first well and the second well.
US08836066B1	Avalanche photodiode configured for an image sensor An avalanche photodiode includes silicon crystal doped with impurities, where the doping profile of the silicon crystal includes a smoothly arcing donor-acceptor concentration curve decreasing with respect to distance into the interior of the silicon crystal that is interrupted by a narrower peak of increased concentration in the interior of the silicon crystal prior to further decreasing with respect to distance along the smoothly arcing donor-acceptor concentration curve.
US08836060B2	Spin device, driving method of the same, and production method of the same The present disclosure provides a spin device including: a graphene; a first ferromagnetic electrode and a second electrode that are in electrical contact with and sandwich the graphene; a third ferromagnetic electrode and a fourth electrode that sandwich the graphene at a position apart from the first and second electrodes in electrical contact with the graphene; a current applying portion that applies an electric current between the first ferromagnetic electrode and the second electrode; and a voltage-signal detecting portion that detects spin accumulation information as a voltage signal via the third ferromagnetic electrode and the fourth electrode. The spin accumulation information is generated, by application of the electric current, in a part of the graphene that is sandwiched between the third and fourth electrodes. The first and third ferromagnetic electrodes are disposed on the same surface of the graphene, and the second and fourth electrodes are non-magnetic or ferromagnetic electrodes.
US08836055B2	MEMS structures and methods for forming the same A device includes a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device, which includes a movable element and a fixed element. The movable element and the fixed element form two capacitor plates of a capacitor, with an air-gap between the movable element and the fixed element acting as a capacitor insulator of the capacitor. At least one of the movable element and the fixed element has a rugged surface.
US08836048B2	Field effect transistor device having a hybrid metal gate stack A semiconductor device including a gate structure present on a channel portion of a semiconductor substrate and at least one gate sidewall spacer adjacent to the gate structure. In one embodiment, the gate structure includes a work function metal layer present on a gate dielectric layer, a metal semiconductor alloy layer present on a work function metal layer, and a dielectric capping layer present on the metal semiconductor alloy layer. The at least one gate sidewall spacer and the dielectric capping layer may encapsulate the metal semiconductor alloy layer within the gate structure.
US08836046B2	Semiconductor devices including protruding insulation portions between active fins A semiconductor device can include a field insulation layer including a planar major surface extending in first and second orthogonal directions and a protruding portion that protrudes a particular distance from the major surface relative to the first and second orthogonal directions. First and second multi-channel active fins can extend on the field insulation layer, and can be separated from one another by the protruding portion. A conductive layer can extend from an uppermost surface of the protruding portion to cross over the protruding portion between the first and second multi-channel active fins.
US08836045B2	Cross-coupled transistor circuit having diffusion regions of common node on opposing sides of same gate electrode track A first gate level feature forms gate electrodes of a first transistor of a first transistor type and a first transistor of a second transistor type. A second gate level feature forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the first transistor type. A third gate level feature forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the second transistor type. The gate electrodes of the second transistors of the first and second transistor types are electrically connected to each other. The gate electrodes of the second transistors of the first and second transistor types are positioned on opposite sides of a gate electrode track along which the gate electrodes of the first transistors of the first and second transistor types are positioned.
US08836042B2	Semiconductor device comprising an IGBT and a constant voltage circuit having switches and normally-on type MOSFETs connected in parallel A semiconductor device includes an IGBT, a constant voltage circuit, and protection Zener diodes. The IGBT makes/breaks a low-voltage current flowing in a primary coil. The constant voltage circuit and the protection Zener diodes are provided between an external gate terminal and an external collector terminal. The constant voltage circuit supplies a constant gate voltage to the IGBT to thereby set a saturation current value of the IGBT to a predetermined limiting current value. The IGBT has the saturation current value in a limiting current value range of the semiconductor device.
US08836031B2	Electrical isolation structures for ultra-thin semiconductor-on-insulator devices After formation of raised source and drain regions, a conformal dielectric material liner is deposited within recessed regions formed by removal of shallow trench isolation structures and underlying portions of a buried insulator layer in a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. A dielectric material that is different from the material of the conformal dielectric material liner is subsequently deposited and planarized to form a planarized dielectric material layer. The planarized dielectric material layer is recessed selective to the conformal dielectric material liner to form dielectric fill portions that fill the recessed regions. Horizontal portions of the conformal dielectric material liner are removed by an anisotropic etch, while remaining portions of the conformal dielectric material liner form an outer gate spacer. At least one contact-level dielectric layer is deposited. Contact via structures electrically isolated from a handle substrate can be formed within the contact via holes.
US08836030B2	Methods of forming memory cells, memory cells, and semiconductor devices A memory device and method of making the memory device. Memory device may include a storage transistor at a surface of a substrate. The storage transistor comprises a body portion between first and second source/drain regions, wherein the source/drain regions are regions of a first conductivity type. The storage transistor also comprises a gate structure that wraps at least partially around the body portion in at least two spatial planes. A bit line is connected to the first source/drain region and a word line is connected to the gate structure.
US08836023B2	Memory device with recessed construction between memory constructions A recessed transistor construction is formed between a first access transistor construction and a second access transistor construction to provide isolation between the access transistor constructions of a memory device. In some embodiments, a gate of the recessed transistor construction is grounded. In an embodiment, the access transistor constructions are recess access transistors. In an embodiment, the memory device is a DRAM. In another embodiment, the memory device is a 4.5F2 DRAM cell.
US08836014B2	Double-gate electronic memory cell and method of manufacturing such a cell An electronic memory cell includes a first selection transistor gate surmounting a first part of the channel and a lateral spacer disposed against a lateral flank of the selection transistor gate, a part of the lateral spacer forming a memory transistor gate surmounting a second part of the channel. The memory transistor gate includes a stack of the ONO type and a conductive zone including a lateral face inclined at an angle α strictly between 0 and 90° with respect to the plane of the substrate.
US08836005B2	Memory array A memory array includes a charge storage structure and a plurality of conductive materials over the charge storage structure is provided. Each conductive material, serving as a word line, has a substantially arc-sidewall and a substantially straight sidewall.
US08835999B2	Ring pixel for CMOS imagers A CMOS pixel is disclosed. The CMOS pixel includes a semiconductor substrate; a sense node formed in the semiconductor substrate and positioned substantially in the center of the CMOS pixel; a transfer gate formed about the sense node; and at least one photodiode formed about the transfer gate. A reset transistor, a source follower transistor, and a row select transistor are located substantially to one side of the CMOS pixel substantially adjacent to the photodiode. The sense node is operable to be floating. An implant may be formed about the photodiode configured to step potential in a direction toward the sense node.
US08835996B2	Integrated circuit configuration having extension conductor structure and fabricating method thereof An integrated circuit configuration includes a substrate, a diffusion region, a gate structure, an extension conductor structure, a dielectric layer, a contact structure, and a metal conductor line. The diffusion region is formed in the substrate. The gate structure is formed over the substrate and spanned across the diffusion region. The extension conductor structure is formed over the semiconductor substrate and contacted with the diffusion region. The extension conductor structure is extended externally to a first position along a surface of the substrate, wherein the first position is outside the diffusion region. The dielectric layer is formed over the substrate, the gate structure and the extension conductor structure. The contact structure is penetrated through the dielectric layer to be contacted with the first position of the extension conductor structure. The metal conductor line is formed on the dielectric layer and contacted with the contact structure.
US08835975B1	Ultra-fast breakover diode In a first embodiment, an ultra-fast breakover diode has a turn on time TON that is less than 0.3 microseconds, where the forward breakover voltage is greater than +400 volts and varies less than one percent per ten degrees Celsius change. In a second embodiment, a breakover diode has a reverse breakdown voltage that is greater, in absolute magnitude, than the forward breakover voltage, where the forward breakover voltage is greater than +400 volts. In a third embodiment, a string of series-connected breakover diode dice is provided, along with a resistor string, in a packaged circuit. The packaged circuit acts like a single breakover diode having a large forward breakover voltage and a comparably large reverse breakdown voltage, even though the packaged circuit includes no discrete high voltage reverse breakdown diode. The packaged circuit is usable to supply a triggering current to a thyristor in a voltage protection circuit.
US08835969B2	Light emitting device package and lighting system Disclosed are a light emitting device package and a lighting system. The light emitting device package includes a body including a cavity and formed in a transmittive material; a plurality of lead electrodes in the cavity; an isolation member disposed between the lead electrodes; a light emitting device electrically connected to the lead electrodes in the cavity; and a molding member on the light emitting device.
US08835963B2	Light converting and emitting device with minimal edge recombination Light emitting system (100), particularly, light emitting systems that utilize semiconductor wavelength converting regions (104), and methods of producing such systems are disclosed. The light emitting systems and methods of producing such systems seek to frustrate recombination of free carriers that are associated with wavelength converting regions.
US08835962B2	Cavity electroluminescent devices with integrated microlenses Herein is provided electroluminescent devices, and methods for their use and production. In some embodiments, the devices contain embedded optical features that act as lenses to direct photons emitted from an electroluminescent material. The lensing effect from the optical features allows increased light extraction from the devices compared with devices lacking such features. In some embodiments the devices are prepared using a plurality of etching and deposition steps.
US08835951B2	Light emitting device The first wavelength converting member, the light emitting element, and the second wavelength converting member are disposed in this order toward the opening of the recess portion on the bottom surface of the housing member through a light transmissive supporting member, and spaced away from the side surface of the recess portion. The first wavelength converting member is a plate shape member made of a composite of an inorganic binder made of an inorganic material and a fluorescent material. A light scattering surface is formed on at least a portion of the side surface of the recess portion, which is irradiated with the light emitted from the side surfaces of the wavelength converting member in parallel with the principal surface of the first wavelength converting member.
US08835949B2	Three-terminal light emitting device (LED) with built-in electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device A three-terminal light emitting device (LED) chip, associated fabrication method, and LED array are provided. The method forms an n-doped semiconductor layer overlying a substrate, an active semiconductor layer overlying the n-doped semiconductor layer, and a p-doped semiconductor layer overlying the active semiconductor layer. A trench is formed through the p-doped and active semiconductor layers, exposing the n-doped semiconductor layer. In one aspect, the trench is formed at least part way, but not completely, through the n-doped semiconductor layer. Then, an LED P electrode is formed overlying a first region of the p-doped semiconductor layer, a diode P electrode is formed overlying a second region of the p-doped semiconductor layer that is separated from the first region of the p-doped semiconductor layer by the trench, and an N electrode is formed overlying a top surface of the exposed n-doped semiconductor layer in the trench, shared by the LED and diode.
US08835948B2	Stacked LED device with diagonal bonding pads A semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate and a first epitaxial structure over the substrate. The first epitaxial structure includes a first doped layer, a first light emitting layer, and a second doped layer. A first electrode is coupled to the first doped layer. A second electrode is coupled to the second doped layer facing the same direction as the first electrode. A second epitaxial structure includes a third doped layer, a second light emitting layer, and a fourth doped layer. A third electrode is coupled to the third doped layer facing the same direction as the first electrode. A fourth electrode is coupled to the fourth doped layer facing the same direction as the first electrode. An adhesive layer is between the first epitaxial structure and the second epitaxial structure.
US08835943B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, display device, and electronic apparatus A light-emitting element includes: an anode; a cathode; a light-emitting layer which is provided between the anode and the cathode and emits light as the anode and the cathode are electrically connected to each other; and an organic layer which is provided between the anode and the light-emitting layer to come in contact with both layers. The organic layer has a first function of transporting holes and a second function of preventing electrons infiltrating from the light-emitting layer from staying in the organic layer.
US08835932B2	Normally-off compound semiconductor tunnel transistor with a plurality of charge carrier gases A tunnel transistor includes a first compound semiconductor, a second compound semiconductor on the first compound semiconductor, and a third compound semiconductor on the second compound semiconductor. A source extends through the second compound semiconductor into the first compound semiconductor. A drain spaced apart from the source extends through the third compound semiconductor into the second compound semiconductor. A first two-dimensional charge carrier gas extends in the first compound semiconductor from the source toward the drain and ends prior to reaching the drain. A second two-dimensional charge carrier gas extends in the second compound semiconductor from the drain toward the source and ends prior to reaching the source. A gate is over the first and second two-dimensional charge carrier gases. A corresponding method of manufacturing the tunnel transistor is also provided.
US08835929B2	Pixel structure and thin film transistor A pixel structure including a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT and a storage capacitor is provided. The source electrode of the first TFT is connected to the gate electrode of the second TFT, and the semiconductor layer of the second TFT protrudes out two opposite side of the gate electrode of the second TFT. A thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a capacitance compensation structure, a semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer, a drain electrode and a source electrode is also provided. The capacitance compensation structure is electrically connected to the gate electrode. The semiconductor layer partially overlaps the gate electrode, and extends to overlap the capacitance compensation structure.
US08835926B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate having transmitting and pixel regions, the pixel regions being separated by the transmitting regions, at least one thin film transistor in each of the pixel regions, a plurality of transparent first conductive lines electrically connected to the thin film transistors and extending across the transmitting regions, a plurality of second conductive lines electrically connected to the thin film transistors and extending across the transmitting regions, a passivation layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes on the passivation layer, the pixel electrodes being separated and positioned to correspond to respective pixel regions, each of the pixel electrodes being electrically connected to and overlapping a corresponding thin film transistor, an opposite electrode overlapping the pixel electrodes in the transmitting and pixel regions, and an organic emission layer between the pixel electrodes and the opposite electrode.
US08835923B2	Protection method for an electronic device and corresponding device The semiconductor wafer for a silicon-on-insulator integrated circuit comprises an insulating region located between a first semiconductor substrate intended to receive the integrated circuit and a second semiconductor substrate containing at least one buried layer comprising at least one metal silicide.
US08835919B2	Thin film transistor substrate having metal oxide and method for manufacturing A thin film transistor substrate and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The thin film transistor substrate includes a gate electrode disposed on a substrate, a gate insulating film disposed on the gate electrode, an active layer disposed on the gate insulating film and including metal oxide, a source electrode contacted with one side of the active layer and a pixel electrode contacted with the other side of the active layer; and an etch stopper interposed between the source electrode and the pixel electrode.
US08835915B2	Assembly and electronic devices including the same An assembly includes a dielectric layer in contact with a semiconductor layer. The dielectric layer includes a crosslinked polymeric material having isocyanurate groups, wherein the dielectric layer is free of zirconium oxide particles. The semiconductor layer includes a non-polymeric organic semiconductor material, and is substantially free of electrically insulating polymer. Electronic components and devices including the assembly are also disclosed.
US08835908B2	Organic light-emitting device Disclosed is an organic light-emitting device (OLED), wherein a lower electrode, an organic emitting unit, an upper electrode, and a light enhance layer are subsequently formed between a bottom substrate and a top substrate. The light enhance layer has higher refractive index, between 2 and 3, than that of the top substrates, thereby efficiently improving the luminance intensity of the OLED.
US08835907B2	Memory device and semiconductor device The present invention is to provide a semiconductor device in which the step can be simplified, the manufacturing cost can be suppressed, and the decrease in yield can be suppressed. A semiconductor device of the present invention includes an antenna, a storage element, and a transistor, wherein a conductive layer serving as an antenna is provided in the same layer as a conductive layer of the transistor or the storage element. This characteristic makes it possible to omit an independent step of forming the conductive layer serving as an antenna and to conduct the step of forming the conductive layer serving as an antenna at the same time as the step of forming a conductive layer of another element. Therefore, the manufacturing step can be simplified, the manufacturing cost can be suppressed, and the decrease in yield can be suppressed.
US08835893B2	Resistive memory cell fabrication methods and devices A phase change memory cell and methods of fabricating the same are presented. The memory cell includes a variable resistance region and a top and bottom electrode. The shapes of the variable resistance region and the top electrode are configured to evenly distribute a current with a generally hemispherical current density distribution around the first electrode.
US08835891B2	Integrated circuitry, methods of forming memory cells, and methods of patterning platinum-containing material Some embodiments include methods of patterning platinum-containing material. An opening may be formed to extend into an oxide. Platinum-containing material may be formed over and directly against an upper surface of the oxide, and within the opening. The platinum-containing material within the opening may be a plug having a lateral periphery. The lateral periphery of the plug may be directly against the oxide. The platinum-containing material may be subjected to polishing to remove the platinum-containing material from over the upper surface of the oxide. The polishing may delaminate the platinum-containing material from the oxide, and may remove the platinum-containing material from over the oxide with an effective selectivity for the platinum-containing material relative to the oxide of at least about 5:1. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Some embodiments include integrated circuitry having platinum-containing material within an opening in an oxide and directly against the oxide.
US08835886B2	UV nail lamp A lamp includes: a housing; a platform supported by the housing; a left light source disposed on a left side of the lamp; a right light source disposed on a right side of the lamp; a first top light source disposed at least partially above the platform, wherein; the left and right sources extend closer to a front of the lamp than the first top light source; and a space between the platform and the; light sources; to simultaneously receive therein five nails of all five digits of a hand or foot of a user. The positions of the sources and platform may be designed so as to provide substantially uniform light flux to all five nails so as to synchronously and uniformly cure light-curable nail gel or acrylic on the user's nails.
US08835885B2	Charged particle beam irradiation device A charged particle beam irradiation device includes an accelerator that accelerates charged particles and emits a charged particle beam; an irradiation unit that irradiates a body with the charged particle beam; a duct that transports the charged particle beam to the irradiation unit; a tubular body arranged on a propagation path of the charged particle beam within the irradiation unit, has inert gas filled thereinto, and has particle beam transmission films transmitting the charged particle beam therethrough at an inlet and an outlet thereof; a gas supply unit that supplies the inert gas into the tubular body; and a leak valve that leaks the inert gas inside the tubular body to the outside when the internal pressure of the tubular body is equal to or higher than a set pressure. The gas supply unit has a plurality of supply lines having different amounts of supply of inert gas.
US08835881B2	Drift correction method and pattern writing data generation method A writing area of a sample is divided into a plurality of stripes having a width corresponding to an area density of a pattern to be written on the sample with a charged-particle beam. The writing is stopped when writing of at least one stripe is terminated, and a drift amount is measured. An irradiation position of the charged-particle beam is corrected with the use of the drift amount. When the average value of the area density is more than a predetermined value, a stripe has a width smaller than the reference width, and when the average value of the area density is less than the predetermined value, the stripe has a width larger than the reference width. The width of the stripe is preferably a width corresponding to the variation of a drift from the beginning of irradiation with the charged-particle beam.
US08835862B2	Radiation image photographing apparatus A radiation image photographing apparatus is provided with a bias source to apply a bias voltage via bias lines to radiation detecting elements arranged in a two dimensional form in regions divided by scanning lines and signal lines. The bias lines are connected to the radiation detecting elements with a ratio of one bias line to the radiation detecting elements arranged on one column in an extension direction of the signal line, and the bias lines are connected per a predetermined number of bias lines to either one of a plurality of connection lines. The bias voltage is applied from the bias source to the connection lines via the bias lines so that the bias voltage is applied to the radiation detecting elements via the bias lines connected to the connection lines.
US08835861B1	Microactuators based on insulator-to-metal transition materials and method of using the same The invention utilizes the changes in physical properties of materials during a solid-solid phase transition in order to actuate microactuators. The substantial changes in properties during insulator-to-metal transitions (IMTs) of some materials are useful for controlling purposes. Methods of using the microactuators are also explained.
US08835859B2	Imaging control apparatus, radiographic imaging system, and imaging control method An imaging control apparatus for controlling an imaging system capable of performing a plurality of imaging modes for detecting light or radiation to acquire an image includes a detection unit configured to detect that an instruction for executing a second imaging mode is generated during execution of a first imaging mode, a determination unit configured to determine a wait time according to a state of the imaging system when the instruction is received, and a control unit configured to perform control for instructing the imaging system to wait at least for the determined wait time before the transition to the second imaging mode, and control for instructing the imaging system to perform mode transition processing for switching from the first imaging mode to the second imaging mode.
US08835854B2	Method and device for IR spectroscopy measurements with fiber optic needle probe A method of non-destructively determining the condition of a material, said method including providing an elongated probe containing a plurality of optical fibers, said elongated probe coupled to an infrared spectrometer, said tip of said elongated probe positioned near said material, said elongated probe including said tip having a width of less than about 2.0 mm; and, making an infrared spectroscopy measurement of said material by providing infrared light from said infrared spectrometer through at least one of said plurality of optical fibers and collecting at least a portion of said infrared light reflected from a material juxtaposed near said tip through at least another of said plurality of optical fibers to provide said reflected light to said infrared spectrometer.
US08835851B2	Plasmonic detectors A plasmonic detector is described which can resonantly enhance the performance of infrared detectors. More specifically, the disclosure is directed to enhancing the quantum efficiency of semiconductor infrared detectors by increasing coupling to the incident radiation field as a result of resonant coupling to surface plasma waves supported by the metal/semiconductor interface, without impacting the dark current of the device, resulting in an improved detectivity over the surface plasma wave spectral bandwidth.
US08835848B2	Ultra-miniaturized electron optical microcolumn An ultra-miniaturized electron optical microcolumn is provided. The electron optical microcolumn includes an electron-emitting source emitting electrons using a field emission principle, an extraction electrode causing the emission of electrons from the electron-emitting source, a focusing electrode to which voltage is flexibly applied in response to a working distance to a target for regulating a focusing force of electron beams emitted from the electron-emitting source, an acceleration electrode accelerating electrons emitted by the extraction electrode, a limit electrode regulating an amount and a size of electron beams using electrons accelerated by the acceleration electrode, and a deflector deflecting electron beams towards the target.
US08835834B2	Mass spectrometer and mass spectrometry method An object is to measure both cations and anions with high duty cycle. In a mass spectrometer comprising an ion source (1), an ion guide part (31), and an ion trap (32), while ions are being mass-selectively ejected from the ion trap, ions having a polarity reverse to that of the ions trapped in the ion trap are introduced into the ion guide part.
US08835833B2	Two-dimensional magneto-optical trap for neutral atoms A two-dimensional (2D) magneto-optical trap (MOT) for alkali neutral atoms establishes a zero magnetic field along the longitudinal symmetry axis. Two of three pairs of trapping laser beams do not follow the symmetry axes of the quadruple magnetic field and are aligned with a large non-zero degree angles to the longitudinal axis. In a dark-line 2D MOT configuration, there are two orthogonal repumping beams. In each repumping beam, an opaque line is imaged to the longitudinal axis, and the overlap of these two line images creates a dark line volume in the longitudinal axis where there is no repumping light. The zero magnetic field along the longitudinal axis allows the cold atoms maintain a long ground-state coherence time without switching off the MOT magnetic field, which makes it possible to operate the MOT at a high repetition rate and a high duty cycle.
US08835832B2	Optical encoder with signal offset correction system An offset correction system for correcting signal offset of an encoder. The offset correction system may include a light emitter, an encoder disk, a reticle, a light detector; an offset detection circuit and an offset correction circuit. The offset detection circuit may comprise a comparator and an offset detector configured to receive sinusoidal output signals from the light detector and a reference signal to create digital pulses for determining the signal offset. The offset correction circuit may be configured to apply a gain to correct the offset output signal. The offset correction may be implemented in real time mode.
US08835829B2	Image sensor formed by silicon rich oxide material An image sensor includes a light-sensing element, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The light-sensing element has a first end and a second end electrically connected to a select line. The first transistor has a first end electrically connected to a first control line, a control end electrically connected to the first end, and a second end electrically connected to the first end of the light-sensing element. The second transistor has a first end electrically connected to a voltage source, a control end electrically connected to the first end of the light-sensing element, and a second end electrically connected to an output line. The light-sensing element uses the material of silicon rich oxide so that the light-sensing element can sense the luminance variance and have the characteristic of the capacitor for the level boost.
US08835819B2	Heating device and method for manufacturing the heating device A heating device is provided, comprising a shaped body, which has at least two regions comprising different compositions of a ceramic material with a positive temperature coefficient of electrical resistance. A method for manufacturing a heating device is furthermore specified.
US08835810B2	System and method for a programmable counter-top electric dehydrator A system and method directed to a dehydrating device, which may include a dehydrating enclosure and an adapter. The adapter may be operable to couple the dehydrating enclosure to a power unit, which may include a power source disposed inside the power unit, and a control source operable to control the power source. The power unit may be detachably couplable to at least one of the dehydrating enclosure or a cooking enclosure. The power unit and the cooking enclosure may collectively combine into a multi-stage counter-top electric oven. The power unit and the dehydrating enclosure may also collectively combine into a dehydrator. The dehydrating enclosure may include a plurality of stackable dehydrating trays through which dehydrating air is circulated from the power unit.
US08835809B2	Heatable covering system The present invention relates to a heatable covering system for floors, ceilings, and walls. The covering system comprises covering panels which at least on one longitudinal edge comprise coupling means in order to be able to join covering panels with each other wherein the covering panels are provided with electrical heating means and have electrical contacting means in order to electrically contact the panels.
US08835803B2	Laser cutting method and method of manufacturing organic light-emitting device A laser cutting method includes providing a multi-layered substrate, such that the multi-layered substrate includes a circuit pattern between stacked first and second substrates, and removing a part of the second substrate by irradiating a laser beam on the second substrate, the laser beam being irradiated at an oblique angle with respect to an upper surface of the second substrate.
US08835797B2	Method and device for the plasma treatment of running metal substrates The invention relates to a method and a device for the plasma treatment of metal substrates or insulating substrates (3) running substantially continuously through a vacuum chamber having a treatment zone (2), the plasma being sustained by radiofrequency inductive coupling in the treatment zone (2) by means of an inductor (4) connected to a radiofrequency generator, in which the inductor (4) is protected from any contamination by the material emitted by the surface of the substrates (3) by means of a Faraday cage (7), which is positioned between the plasma and the inductor (4), and in which the Faraday cage (7) is on average electrically biassed positively with respect to the substrates (3) or with respect to a counter-electrode present in the plasma.
US08835788B2	Slide switch A slide switch includes a housing, a plurality of fixed electrodes, and a slider. The housing includes a first face provided with an accommodating recessed part and a second face configured to be attached to an attaching board. The fixed electrodes are provided in the accommodating recessed part. Each of the fixed electrodes has an external terminal exposed on the second face. The slider has a movable electrode configured to be electrically conducted to the fixed electrodes, and is movably provided in the accommodating recessed part so as to switch an electrical conducted state of the movable electrode and the fixed electrodes.
US08835784B2	Push button structure A push button structure includes: a panel 1 in which an opening 2 for exposing a button 7 is provided; a button 7 having a leg of which one end side is supported by a rotational central section 5 of the panel 1 and of which the other end side has a leg 6 extending in an orthogonal direction to the panel 1, wherein the other end side is rotated about the rotational central section 5 when the button is pushed with exposed from the opening 2 of the panel 1; and a board 3 on which a switch 4 is mounted and which is attached at an angle to the panel 1 such that a direction C tangential to a rotational path of the leg 6 is substantially the same as a stroke direction D of the switch 4.
US08835782B2	Contact arm assembly for switchgear circuit breaker having improved cooling fins and contact fingers to maximize heat rejection A contact arm assembly (10) for a switchgear circuit breaker includes a contact arm (11) having a groove (42) in an outer periphery surface thereof. At least one contact finger (13) has a body (38) and a ball member (40) extending from the body. The ball member is received in the groove so that the contact finger makes contact with the contact arm. The contact arm includes a shaft (14) having a longitudinal axis, first and second ends (18, 28), and a constant outside diameter. A plurality of annular rings (16) extends from the outside diameter of the shaft. The rings are spaced along the longitudinal axis to define cooling fins. Diameters of the rings gradually decrease from the first end to generally the center of the shaft, and then gradually increase to the second end of the shaft.
US08835772B2	Production method of connection structure In order to lower the substantial heating temperature of a thermosetting adhesive and to realize favorable connection reliability during connecting an electrical element to a circuit board by anisotropic conductive connection with using solder particles, a product in which solder particles having a melting temperature Ts are dispersed in an insulating acrylic-based thermosetting resin having a minimum melt viscosity temperature Tv is used as an anisotropic conductive adhesive in producing a connection structure by connecting the circuit board and the electrical element to each other by anisotropic conductive connection.
US08835771B2	PCB terminal and method for manufacturing the same The invention forms a Sn coating layer and a Cu—Sn alloy coating layer having a suitably controllable planar shape in a PCB terminal. A group of Sn coating layers being as a plurality of essentially parallel lines is formed as the surface coating layer, and a Cu—Sn alloy coating layer 2 is exposed on the outermost surface on both sides of Sn coating layers each constituting the group of Sn coating layers. The Sn coating layers have a width of 1 to 500 μm, an interval between adjacent Sn coating layers is 1 to 20000 μm, and an outermost maximum height roughness in a terminal insertion direction is at most 10 μm.
US08835764B2	Universal receptacle faceplate assembly Systems and other embodiments associated with a universal faceplate assembly are described. According to one embodiment, a faceplate includes a substantially planar plate base configured to mount on a wiring enclosure. At least one opening in the plate base is configured receive a receptacle. The opening is configured to receive receptacles of a first receptacle type or a second receptacle type. The faceplate also includes a faceplate notch in a front surface of the plate base configured to receive a receptacle tab. The receptacle tab is disposed on receptacles of the first receptacle type or the second receptacle type. The receptacle tab is configured to allow a fastener to pass through the faceplate notch and the receptacle tab to attach the receptacle to the faceplate.
US08835762B2	Apparatus for electrical isolation of metallic hardware An apparatus for electrical isolation of metallic hardware is provided and includes an item of hardware and an isolation sheet disposed in contact with the item of hardware. The isolation sheet includes first and second opposing sides at least one of which is anodized.
US08835761B2	Sealing structure To minimize thermal influence when integrally forming the sealing member on a flexible wiring board, a sealing structure includes a housing, a flexible wiring board inserted therethrough, and a sealing member integrally formed with the flexible wiring board to airtightly seal a gap between the housing and the flexible wiring board, the flexible wiring board includes a base substrate made of an elastic material, an electrically conductive printed wiring layer formed on a surface of the base substrate, and a cover film covering a surface of the printed wiring layer, and the printed wiring layer which crosses the sealing member is formed as a plurality of divided print wiring layers at only a crossing region with the sealing member and its vicinity.
US08835749B2	Multilayer film A solar panel backside film used in solar panel constructions. The film comprises a PET film having a net peak area as measured by differential scanning calorimetry of about −15 J/g to about 5 J/g measured from the endpoint of the glass transition (Tg) up to 230° C., and an additive to opacify the PET film. A polymeric layer is adhered to the PET film to create a solar panel backside film. The solar panel backside film generally has a reflectivity of 50% or greater at a point in the visible range of light. Additionally, the solar panel backside film, when applied to a solar panel and exposed to 2000 hours at 85° C. and 85% relative humidity, does not result in exfoliation or visible cracks in the PET film.
US08835745B2	Supplemental solar energy collector A supplemental solar energy collection system including a photovoltaic panel which converts incident radiation into electricity. A housing includes a top thermally conductive surface mated with the photovoltaic panel and serving as a thermal collector. Open channels behind the thermally conductive surface carry fluid in contact with the top thermally conductive surface for removing heat from the photovoltaic panel.
US08835731B1	Chord playing attachment apparatus A removable chord playing attachment and related method is disclosed. The chord playing attachment may be attached to a guitar or similar stringed instrument, and the user may use the chord playing attachment to learn to play the instrument. The present invention discloses a design that does not function as a capo, which allows the user play chords in standard keys. The present invention includes a specially configured nut or connector or anchor that forms a removable connection with a chord playing unit. The present invention encourages novices to learn to play the instrument in stages and eventually remove the invention entirely. A companion teaching manual is also disclosed.
US08835724B1	Maize inbred PH1C8P A novel maize variety designated PH1C8P and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1C8P with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1C8P through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1C8P or a locus conversion of PH1C8P with another maize variety.
US08835713B1	Maize variety hybrid X08B733 A novel maize variety designated X08B733 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X08B733 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08B733 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08B733, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08B733. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08B733.
US08835703B2	Method for the production of one or more olefins, an olefin, and a polymer The present invention describes a method for the production of one or more olefins from the residue of at least one renewable natural raw material. The present invention is advantageously related to a method that is integrated with a processing method for processing renewable natural agricultural raw materials for the production of propylene, and optionally of ethylene and butylene, mainly from the residues of the processed renewable natural agricultural raw material. The propylene is obtained from the gasification reaction of the lignocellulosic materials and of other organic products contained in the raw material residues, followed by the formation of methanol and its subsequent transformation into propylene, where this route may further generate ethylene and/or butylene as by-products.
US08835698B2	Method for producing fluorinated organic compounds Disclosed are processes for the production of fluorinated olefins, preferably adapted to commercialization of CF3CF═CH2 (1234yf). In certain preferred embodiments the processes comprise first exposing a compound of Formula (IA) C(X)2═CClC(X)3 (IA) where each X is independently F, Cl or H, preferably CCl2═CClCH2Cl, to one or more sets of reaction conditions, but preferably a substantially single set of reaction conditions, effective to produce at least one chlorofluoropropane, preferably in accordance with Formula (IB): CF3CClX′C(X′)3 Formula (IB) where each X′ is independently F, Cl or H, and then exposing the compound of Formula (IB) to one or more sets of reaction conditions, but preferably a substantially single set of reaction conditions, effective to produce a compound of Formula (II) CF3CF═CHZ (II) where Z is H, F, Cl, I or Br.
US08835697B2	Biphenyl derivative, resist bottom layer material, bottom layer forming method, and patterning process A biphenyl derivative having formula (1) is provided wherein Ar1 and Ar2 denote a benzene or naphthalene ring, and x and z each are 0 or 1. A material comprising the biphenyl derivative or a polymer comprising recurring units of the biphenyl derivative is spin coated and heat treated to form a resist bottom layer having improved properties, optimum values of n and k, step coverage, etch resistance, heat resistance, solvent resistance, and minimized outgassing.
US08835696B2	Method of preparing fluorine-containing ether There is provided a method of preparing a high purity fluorine-containing ether which inhibits a side reaction generating an unsaturated bond and assures low cost and simple steps. When preparing the fluorine-containing ether by allowing a fluorine-containing alkyl alcohol to react with a fluorinated olefin in the presence of a basic compound, a reaction is terminated at a stage before a conversion ratio of the fluorine-containing alkyl alcohol reaches 75%.
US08835694B2	Process for transformation of lignocellulosic biomass or cellulose by catalysts based on tin oxide and/or antimony oxide and a metal that is selected from the groups 8 to 11 The invention relates to a process for transformation of lignocellulosic biomass or cellulose using heterogeneous catalysts that are based on tin oxide and/or antimony oxide, dispersed on a substrate and containing at least one element in the particular metal state. The use of these catalysts makes it possible to obtain directly upgradable products, in particular hydroxyacetone and propylene glycol with high selectivity.
US08835690B2	Process for the production of amino alcohols The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of APD and N-alkyl-APD wherein 1-CPD is reacted with aqueous ammonium or aqueous alkyl-amine under alkaline conditions and where the process is conducted in a continuous manner in a reactor comprising a tubular reactor wherein at least two reaction zones are established.
US08835677B2	Methods for producing aminonitrobenzoic acids Methods of producing aminonitrobenzoic acids are disclosed. A dinitrobenzoic acid may be reduced to an aminonitrobenzoic acid. In some specific embodiments, 2,6-initrobenzoic acid may be converted to 2-amino-6-nitrobenzoic acid. An end product may be used as an intermediate in the manufacture of various compounds including agricultural chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
US08835676B2	Process for the preparation of enantiomerically pure tert-leucine Enantiomerically pure L-tert-leucine and D-tert-leucine were prepared from (DL)-tert-leucine by diastereomeric salt formation using dibenzoyl-d-tartaric acid as the resolving agent.
US08835675B2	Polymerizable phosphonic acid derivative and adhesive composition comprising the same The present invention is directed to compounds and adhesives finding special utility in dental applications. Compounds of formulae: are of special interest, wherein: R represents a polymerizable group of the structure wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group; A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Xqs represent independently an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Yqs represent independently hydrogen atom; Zqs may independently represent D-R2 where D represents a single carbon atom and R2 represents phenyl; p is an integer from 1 to 10; and q is an integer from 1 to p.
US08835672B2	Manufacture of a triiodinated contrast agent A new compound, (S)-5-(2-acetoxypropanamido)-2,4,6-triiodoisophthalic acid, of formula II (S)-5-(2-acetoxypropanamido)-2,4,6-triiodoisophthalic acid. Said new compound is of use for the production of triiodinated contrast agent, especially lopamidol, with low content of acetyl and hydroxyacetyl analogs. The new compound may be formed from 5-amino-2,4,6-triiodoisophtalic acid by acylating with (S)-1-chloro-1-oxopropan-2-yl acetate. The new compound may then be converted to the respective acid dichloride by reacting with a chlorinating reagent, which is a further object of the present invention, followed by the amidation with 2-amino-1,3-propanediol and acetate hydrolysis.
US08835659B2	Polysubstituted benzofurans and medicinal applications thereof The present invention refers to compounds of formula (I): as well as to a method for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and use thereof for the treatment and/or chemoprevention of cancer, aging related diseases or processes, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.
US08835657B2	Cyclopentanedione compounds and their use as insecticides, acaricides and/or fungicides The present invention relates to the use of compounds of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R3, R9, R10, R11, R12 and G have the meanings given above as insecticides and/or acaricides and/or fungicides.
US08835647B2	2-((R)-2-methylpyrrolidin-2-yl)-1H-benzimidazole-4-carboxamide crystalline form 1 2-((R)-2-Methylpyrrolidin-2-yl)-1H-benzimidazole-4-carboxamide Crystalline Form 1, ways to make it, compositions comprising it and made using it, and methods of treating patients having disease using it are disclosed.
US08835635B2	Amorphous form of vilazodone hydrochloride substantially free of crystalline forms Disclosed herein is a stable amorphous form of vilazodone hydrochloride substantially free of crystalline forms, a process for the preparation, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treating thereof. Disclosed also herein are stable amorphous co-precipitates of vilazodone hydrochloride and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, methods for the preparation, pharmaceutical compositions, and method of treating thereof.
US08835626B2	Materials for organic electroluminescent devices The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices.
US08835624B1	Influenza A H1N1 subtype-specific aptamer and applications thereof The present invention provides an Influenza A H1N1 subtype-specific aptamer. The aptamer was selected in vitro using SELEX and a microfluidic chip system. The aptamer is stable, establishing sensitivity about 100 times higher than antibody and high specificity to Influenza A H1N1 subtype. Thus, the aptamer can be effective in detection of H1N1 influenza virus.
US08835617B2	Polynucleotides encoding a human TRIM-Cyp fusion polypeptide, compositions thereof, and methods of using same A nucleic acid is provided which encodes a human TRIM-cyclophilin A fusion sequence encoding a human TRIM-CypA fusion protein which is active as an anti-viral agent, and in particular, as an anti-HIV-1 agent. Also provided is a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having both TRIM activity and cyclophilin activity. Also provided is an isolated polynucleotide encoding a human TRIM-CypA fusion protein, or variants thereof retaining the TRIM and cyclophilin A activities. Also provided are compositions thereof, antibodies that specifically bind thereto, and vectors and host cells comprising the nucleic acid or polypeptide. In addition, methods are provided for treating or preventing viral infection, or reducing viral load in a subject comprising administering the nucleic acid, polypeptide, vector, or composition to the subject in an amount effective to treat or prevent the viral infection. In some embodiments, the viral infection is HIV-I infection, hepatitis C infection, pox virus infection, vaccinia virus infection, or HTLV infection.
US08835614B2	Oligosaccharide-protein conjugates Provided herein are conjugates comprising a protein and an oligosaccharide of one of Formulae I-VI. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such conjugates. Further provided herein are methods of treating a lysosomal storage disorder in a mammal by administration of an oligosaccharide-glycoprotein conjugate.
US08835610B2	IL-17 binding proteins Proteins that bind IL-17 and/or IL-17F are described along with their use in compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing IL-17 related diseases and for detecting IL-17 in cells, tissues, samples, and compositions.
US08835608B2	Anti-MRP3 antibodies and methods of use An antibody having an antigen binding region capable of binding an epitope located in an extracellular portion of MRP3 and methods of utilizing same are provided. In particular, the invention provides antibodies targeted at a MRP3 antigen present on cells expressing MRP3 and methods useful in detecting or targeting cells expression the MRP3 antigen, as well as kits, nucleic acids, polypeptides, and cells for providing the antibodies.
US08835604B2	Antimicrobial peptide variants and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to variants of a parent antimicrobial peptide. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US08835598B2	Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices The present invention relates to certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The present compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The present compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.
US08835596B2	Method for producing polyamide A method of producing polyamide by the direct polycondensation of a diamine component and a dicarboxylic acid component without using a solvent, such as water. The diamine component containing 70 mol % or more of p-xylylenediamine is added to a reaction system containing the dicarboxylic acid component under pressure while maintaining the reaction system in a molten state. After the addition of the diamine component, the pressure of the reaction system is reduced to atmospheric pressure over 50 min or more at a pressure falling speed of 1.0 MPa/h or less. By the production method, polyamide with a small molecular weight dispersion is easily produced.
US08835592B2	Polyurethanes, articles and coatings prepared therefrom and methods of making the same The present invention provides polyurethanes including a reaction product of components including: (a) an isocyanate functional urethane prepolymer comprising a reaction product of components including: (i) about 1 equivalent of at least one polyisocyanate; and (ii) about 0.1 to about 0.5 equivalents of at least one diol having 2 to 18 carbon atoms; and (b) about 0.05 to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one branched polyol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups; and (c) up to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one polyol different from branched polyol (b) and having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein the reaction product components are essentially free of polyester polyol and polyether polyol; compositions, coatings and articles made therefrom and methods of making the same.
US08835586B2	Polycarbonate resin, poly (2-octadecyl-butanedioic acid) and the salts and esters thereof A Chelating agent comprising a polymer backbone. The polymer backbone has a plurality of carbon atoms. There are two carboxylate groups or carboxylic acid groups per repeating unit being coupled to separate carbon atoms of the backbone.
US08835582B2	Catalyst systems and methods for using same to produce polyolefin products Catalyst systems and methods for making and using the same. The catalyst system can include a single site catalyst compound, a support comprising fluorinated alumina, and an aluminoxane. The aluminoxane can be present in an amount of about 10 mmol or less per gram of the support.
US08835577B2	Catalyst systems having a tailored hydrogen response A polymerization catalyst system and polymerization processes using the catalyst systems are disclosed. The polymerization catalyst systems may include a) a first catalyst compound, and b) a second catalyst compound, wherein the first catalyst compound comprises a biphenyl phenol compound having essentially no hydrogen response.
US08835569B2	Fractional melt index polyethylene composition and films made therefrom A reactor blend polyethylene composition comprising: from 35 to 70 percent by weight of a first polyethylene component; and a second polyethylene component; wherein the polyethylene resin has a melt index I2 of less than 1 dg/min and greater than or equal to 0.25 dg/min and exhibits a V0.1/V100 of greater than or equal to 9; and wherein the first and second polyethylene components are produced in continuous dual solution polymerization reactors, wherein the second polyethylene component is produced in the presence of the first polyethylene component and wherein a Ziegler-Natta catalyst is present in each of the first and second polymerization reactors is provided. Also provided are methods for producing the polyethylene resin and films made therefrom.
US08835564B2	Method for producing modified conjugated diene-based polymer, and method for producing polymer composition The present invention relates to a method for producing a modified conjugated diene-based polymer, the method comprising a step of reacting a conjugated diene-based polymer with an organometallic compound, and a step of reacting the resulting product and an epoxy compound.
US08835563B2	Block copolymers from silylated vinyl terminated macromers This invention relates to a process to functionalize polyolefins comprising contacting a metallocene catalyst with a difunctional diblock hydrosilane, and one or more vinyl terminated polyolefins. This invention further relates to the diblock hydrosilane-functionalized polyolefins produced thereby.
US08835551B2	Ultra low viscosity iodine containing amorphous fluoropolymers Iodine containing amorphous fluoropolymers having at least one fluoropolymer with a cure site, where the fluoropolymer has a Mooney viscosity of 2 or less (ML 1+10) at 100° C. according to ASTM D1646, and a peel strength to a roll mill of 10 dN/cm or less and methods for making such iodine containing amorphous fluoropolymers are described. Articles derived from the cured product of such iodine containing amorphous fluoropolymers are also described. Solutions, dispersions and coatings derived from such iodine containing amorphous fluoropolymers are also described.
US08835543B2	Composite materials having improved thermal performance A composite material includes a non-polar polymer and alumina hydrate particulate. The composite material has a Heat Distortion Performance of at least about 10% relative to the non-polar polymer absent the alumina hydrate particulate. The composite material may include a coupling agent including a phosphinic acid group, a phosphonic acid group or an ester derivative thereof.
US08835540B2	Liquid silicone rubber composition for high voltage insulation parts A silicone rubber composition contains: (A) 100 parts by weight of a dimethylpolysiloxane sequestered at both ends of the molecular chain thereof by a dimethylvinylsiloxy group; (B) 5 to 100 parts by weight of a dry silica, treated by a vinyl group-containing organosilicon compound and having a specific surface area of 50 m2/g or more; (C) 5 to 100 parts by weight of a copolymer of dimethylsiloxane and methylhydrogen siloxane; (D) platinum or a platinum compound as a curing agent in an amount of 1 to 1,000 ppm as platinum atom to the total amount of component (A) and component (C); and (E) triazole or a derivative of triazole, in an amount of 1 to 10,000 ppm to the total amount of (A) component and (C) component.
US08835535B2	Aqueous dispersions of silica for increasing early strength in cementitious preparations Dispersion which is free of binders and which contains silica and at least one superplasticizer, the silica being a precipitated silica having a surface area greater than 50 m2/g, the aggregates and/or agglomerates in the dispersion having a median diameter of less than 1 μm and the proportion of silica being from 5 to 50% by weight, based on the total amount of the dispersion, and a process for the preparation thereof and the use thereof as a concrete admixture in cement-containing preparations.
US08835534B2	Aromatic polycarbonate resin composition, method for producing the resin composition, and molded article of the same An aromatic polycarbonate resin composition superior in thermal stability, flame retardancy, and light reflectivity, and a light reflective member consisting of a molded article of the resin.An aromatic polycarbonate resin composition comprising, 3 to 30 parts by weight of a titanium oxide-based additive (B) which has been surface-treated with alumina and organosiloxane, 0.01 to 1 parts by weight of a metal salt of aromatic sulfonic acid (C), and 0.05 to 0.9 parts by weight of polytetrafluoroethylene (D) based on 100 parts by weight of an aromatic polycarbonate resin (A), characterized in that an aluminum content a (wt %), a carbon content c (wt %) in the titanium oxide-based additive (B), and an average particle size d (μm) of titanium oxide satisfy the following (1) and (2): 6.5≦(a/d2)≦15 (1) 5≦(c/d2)≦25 (2).
US08835530B2	UV-curing glass printing ink and UV-curing glass printing lacquer and process for printing glass substrates A glass printing ink and glass printing lacquer are prepared, which contain at least one photoinitiator, at least one resin and at least one additional substance. The resin is an epoxy resin based on bisphenol A, diluted in a UV-curing monomer, or a resin with functional groups containing free functional amino, hydroxy, epoxy, acid, acid anhydride and/or acrylate groups, or a combination of the epoxy resin with the resin with functional groups. The at least one additional substance is a wax. The use of the glass printing ink and glass printing lacquer in printing a glass substrate and processes for the printing of a glass substrate are also described.
US08835529B2	Denture adhesive compositions A denture adhesive composition having a denture adhesive component and a cohesion builder component. The cohesion builder component may be of salts of mono-phosphates, salts of di-phosphates, or salts of tri-phosphates.
US08835528B2	Adhesive composition The invention relates to a new biocompatible, biodegradable removable and repositionable adhesive composition, its preparation method and various uses thereof, including its use as surgical aid. The invention also discloses a matrix comprising such composition, such as e.g. a solid support covered, impregnated or saturated by said adhesive composition. Adhesive compositions according to the invention comprise at least one chitin and/or chitosan containing material. In a particular embodiment said adhesive composition further comprises at least one adhesive-enhancing agent whereby said agent is provided in a granular form, and preferably is a chitin and/or chitosan containing material as defined herein. The present adhesive composition and matrix comprising such composition can be used as gluing composition, in particular in wound-healing and/or surgical applications.
US08835525B2	Chain-extended polysiloxane crosslinkers with dangling hydrophilic polymer chains The invention provide a class of linear chain-extended polysiloxane crosslinkers which comprises two terminal ethylenically unsaturated groups, at least two polysiloxane segments, and dangling hydrophilic polymer chains each covalently attached to a divalent organic radical separating each pair of adjacent polysiloxane segments. The present invention is also related to a polymer comprising crosslinking units derived from chain-extended polysiloxane crosslinker of the invention and to ophthalmic lenses comprising such a polymer.
US08835519B2	Sheet for a sealing member of a solar cell, and method for preparing same Disclosed is a method for preparing a sheet for a sealing member of a solar cell, wherein the sheet has significantly low thermal shrinkage and high flexibility, and a superior capability of discharging bubbles during the manufacture of a solar cell module. The method for preparing a sheet for a sealing member of a solar cell according to the present invention comprises the following steps: (a) preparing a thermal adhesive resin having an olefin-based resin as a main component; (b) pulverizing the thermal adhesive resin and dispersing the resin powder; and (c) heating the thermal adhesive resin powder at a temperature lower than the melting temperature of the resin powder so as to prepare a sheet having a plurality of voids.
US08835511B2	Absorbent articles including an odor control system Absorbent articles provided with an odor control system. The odor control system includes at least two classes of odor control materials, wherein one class acts on malodors or a malodorous substance in the absorbent article and a second class acts on nose receptors. The classes of odor control materials may be selected to provide a synergistic effect in terms of malodor reduction.
US08835502B2	Treatment of friedreich's ataxia using histone deacetylase inhibitors The invention provides methods of treating Friedreich's ataxia using histone deacetylase inhibitors.
US08835501B2	Pharmaceutical formulations of HDAC inhibitors This invention pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising certain carbamic acid compounds (e.g., which inhibit HDAC (histone deacetylase) activity) (e.g., PXD-101, N hydroxy-3-(3-phenylsulfamoyl-phenyl)-acrylamide)) and one or more additional ingredients selected from cyclodextrin, arginine, and meglumine. The present invention also pertains to the use of such compositions, for example, in the inhibition of HDAC, and in the treatment of conditions mediated by HDAC, cancer, proliferative conditions, psoriasis, etc.
US08835494B2	Derivatives of 1-(2-halo-biphenyl-4-yl)-Alkanecarboxylic for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases Pro-drugs of 1-(2-halo-biphenyl-4-yl)alkanecarboxylic acids are useful for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative diseases, improving cognitive function and treating cognitive impairment.
US08835493B2	Oligo-benzamide compounds for use in treating cancers The present invention provides bis- and tris-benzamide compounds in the treatment of breast, brain and ovarian cancers.
US08835491B2	Aquaporin modulators and methods of using them for the treatment of edema and fluid imbalance Compounds, including 3-carboxy aryl sulfonamide compounds, which agonize or antagonize aquaporin channels and methods of using them to treat disorders or diseases mediated by aquaporins.
US08835489B2	Compounds of the pterocarpanquinone family, method for preparing the same, pharmaceutical composition containing the new compounds of the pterocarpanquinone family, uses and therapeutic method This invention belongs to the chemical-pharmaceutical field. New compounds of pterocarpanquinone family presented in formula (I) according to this invention are capable to be activated by reduction generating alkylating species intracellularly. It presents selective cytotoxic effects particularly on mammalian human and nonhuman cells that divide constantly and are useful in treating diseases and dysfunctions related to the phenomenon of undesired cell proliferation. Such compounds are also effective for the treatment of diseases or dysfunctions related to high levels of TNF-α in human and nonhuman mammals.
US08835468B2	N-(2-(hetaryl)aryl)arylsulfonamides and n-(2-(hetaryl)hetaryl) arylsulfonamides Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR9-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists.
US08835466B2	Synthesis and uses of pyroglutamic acid derivatives Novel pyroglutamic acid derivatives (I), wherein R1 is —OH, —ORa, wherein Ra is alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, aralkyl or heterocyclyl; R2, R3 and R4 are independently H, a nitrogen protecting group which hydrolyzes under acidic conditions or phtalamide; X is a pharmaceutically acceptable anion; and Y is a N-containing group; either in the form of their isolated optically active stereoisomers or in the form of mixtures thereof, are useful compounds for enhancing an immuneresponse in a subject and/or for treating tumors, bacterial, fungal or viral infections, or autoimmune diseases.
US08835464B2	Triazole compounds that modulate HSP90 activity The present invention relates to substituted triazole compounds and compositions comprising substituted triazole compounds. The invention further relates to methods of inhibiting the activity of Hsp90 in a subject in need thereof and methods for preventing or treating hyperproliferative disorders, such as cancer, in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject a substituted triazole compound of the invention, or a composition comprising such a compound.
US08835460B2	Sublingual fentanyl spray and methods of treating pain The present invention is directed to sublingual formulations containing fentanyl, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or derivative thereof, suitable for administration to a patient, and methods for treatment with the formulations.
US08835459B2	Sublingual fentanyl spray The present invention is directed to sublingual formulations containing fentanyl, a pharmaceutically acceptable sale thereof, or derivative thereof, suitable for administration to a patient, and methods for treatment with the formulations.
US08835452B2	Polymorphic forms α, β and γ of rifaximin Crystalline polymorphous forms of rifaximin (INN) antibiotic named rifaximin α and rifaximin β, and a poorly crystalline form named rifaximin γ, useful in the production of medicinal preparations containing rifaximin for oral and topical use and obtained by means of a crystallization carried out by hot-dissolving the raw rifaximin in ethyl alcohol and by causing the crystallization of the product by addition of water at a determinate temperature and for a determinate period of time, followed by a drying carried out under controlled conditions until reaching a settled water content in the end product, are the object of the invention.
US08835447B2	Method for treating androgen receptor positive cancers Provided is a method of inhibiting growth of androgen receptor positive cancer cells. The method entails administering to an individual diagnosed with or suspected of having an androgen receptor positive cancer and administering to the individual a composition containing a compound that can inhibit the growth of the androgen receptor positive cancer.
US08835446B2	Quinazoline derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof The present invention relates to novel quinazoline derivatives with less skin irritation and an excellent action of strongly suppressing scratching behavior, and pharmaceutical compositions containing a quinazoline derivative as an active ingredient. The present invention is directed to the quinazoline derivatives represented by the general formula [1] or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In the general formula [1], R1 represents hydrogen or the like; R2 represents hydrogen or the like; R3 and R4 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy or halogen; R5 is combined with R6 to represent alkylene or represents hydrogen, hydroxy, alkyl, phenyl or alkoxy; R6 represents alkyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl, a 5- to 10-membered aromatic heterocyclic group containing one to three heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom and a sulfur atom, or —N(R6-1)(R6-2).
US08835444B2	Cyclohexyl amide derivatives as CRF receptor antagonists There are described cyclohexyl amide derivatives useful as corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) receptor antagonists Formula (I).
US08835440B2	Cyclic pyrimidin-4-carboxamides as CCR2 receptor antagonists for treatment of inflammation, asthma and COPD The present invention relates to novel antagonists for CCR2 (CC chemokine receptor 2) and their use for providing medicaments for treating conditions and diseases, especially pulmonary diseases like asthma and COPD.
US08835438B2	Method of treating memory/learning dysfunctions caused by schizophrenia with lurasidone A method of evaluating memory/learning functions with the use of a model with glutamic acid N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type receptor hypofunction as an animal model for schizophrenia and with the use of reference memory task, wherein there has been found concrete means for detecting any differences in activity between typical anti-psychosis drugs and atypical anti-psychosis drugs is found.An in vivo animal model for screening of a therapeutic agent for improving cognitive dysfunction by schizophrenia is provided.
US08835435B2	2-(3-aminoaryl) amino-4-aryl-thiazoles and their use as c-kit inhibitors Novel compounds selected from 2-(3-aminoaryl)amino-4-aryl-thiazoles of formula (I) that selectively modulate, regulate, and/or inhibit signal transductions mediated by certain native and/or mutant tyrosine kinases implicated in a variety of human and animal diseases such as cell proliferative metabolic, allergic and degenerative disorders. More particularly, these compounds are potent and selective c-kit inhibitors.
US08835422B2	Substituted imidazoheterocycle derivatives The present invention provides substituted imidazoheterocycles having the general structure of formula I: wherein Y is chosen from —O—, —OCRgRh—, —CRgRhO—, —CRgRh—, —(CRgRh)2—, —NRi—, —CRgRhNRi— and —NRiCRgRh—. 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 and treatment of cannabinoid receptor-associated diseases and conditions, such as pain, inflammation and pruritis.
US08835416B2	High-purity large-scale preparation of stannsoporfin Large scale (bulk) compositions comprising high-purity stannsoporfin are disclosed, as well as methods of synthesizing such compositions.
US08835410B2	Treatment of eyelid dermatitis A method for the treatment of eyelid dermatitis and/or dermatitis of the periorbital area is provided.
US08835408B2	Hemostatic compositions and uses therefor The present invention relates generally to the field of hemostasis, including methods, compositions, and devices that can be employed to achieve hemostasis at an increased rate. More specifically the present invention relates to hemostatic compositions that achieve a hemostatic effect at a distance from the site of application of the composition, and a method for administering such a composition to effectively reduce localized vascular complications associated with treating a breach or puncture in a vein or artery and reduce the time to achieve hemostasis.
US08835403B2	Algin oligosaccharides and the derivatives thereof as well as the manufacture and the use of the same The present invention provides an alginate oligosaccharide and its derivatives with the degree of polymerization ranging from 2 to 22. The alginate oligosaccharide is composed of β-D-mannuronic acid linked by 1,4 glycosidic bonds. The derivatives with the reduced terminal in position 1 of carboxyl radical can be prepared by oxidative degradation. The present invention also provides a process for preparing the alginate oligosaccharide and its derivatives, which includes the procedures that an alginate solution is reacted for 2 to 6 h in an autoclave at pH 2-6 and the temperature of 100-120° C., and pH is adjusted to 7 after the reaction is stopped, after which the resultant oligosaccharide is oxidized in the presence of an oxidant to obtain an oxidative degradation product. The alginate oligosaccharide and its derivatives of the invention can be used in the manufacture of a medicament for the prophylaxis and treatment of AD and diabetes.
US08835398B2	Promoters exhibiting endothelial cell specificity and methods of using same for regulation of angiogenesis Isolated polynucleotide sequences exhibiting endothelial cell specific promoter activity, novel cis regulatory elements and methods of use thereof enabling treatment of diseases characterized by aberrant neovascularization or cell growth are disclosed.
US08835397B2	Macrocyclic lactone tablet formulation The invention relates to a table formulated for administration to an animal to treat parasite infestation. The tablet includes at least one macrocyclic lactone compound with anthelmintic activity dissolved in at least one organic solvent and subsequently formulated into a tablet. The tablets produced have a high degree of stability when stored over time and also provide the animal with a dose of agent sufficient to be therapeutically effective.
US08835388B2	Polymer von Willebrand factor-conjugates The present invention relates to a proteinaceous construct (also designated as polymer-VWF-conjugate) comprising plasmatic and/or recombinant von Willebrand factor (VWF), said VWF being bound to at least one physiologically acceptable polymer molecule, as well as to a complex between said proteinaceous construct and at least one factor VIII (FVIII) protein. The physiologically acceptable polymer molecule can be, for instance, polyethylene glycol (PEG) or polysialic acid (PSA). Further the present invention relates to methods for prolonging the in vivo-half-life of VWF or FVIII in the blood of a mammal having a bleeding disorder associated with functional defects of or deficiencies of at least one of FVIII or VWF.
US08835387B2	Histidyl-tRNA synthetases for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods comprising histidyl-tRNA synthetase polypeptides or other specific blocking agents for the treatment autoimmune diseases and other inflammatory diseases, including those related to Jo-1 antibodies.
US08835383B2	Method for controlling the digestive coagulation of proteins This invention relates to the coagulation of protein containing nutritional compositions in the upper gastro-intestinal tract, more in particular in the stomach and provides a method for reducing suchcoagulation.
US08835377B2	Oral delivery of peptide pharmaceutical compositions Bioavailability of peptide active agents to be administered orally is enhanced by a pharmaceutical composition providing targeted release of the peptide to the intestine by combining the composition with an absorption enhancer. Bioavailability is further significantly increased by administering the composition in an acid-resistant protective vehicle which transports components of the invention through the stomach. The composition may optionally further include a sufficient amount of a pH-lowering agent to lower local intestinal pH. All components are released together into the intestine with the peptide.
US08835372B2	Water-soluble pouch The present application relates to a water soluble pouch comprising at least one compartment, wherein said compartment comprises a first liquid composition comprising an opacifier and an antioxidant and has a fresh Hunter L value of greater than 7 and a b value of less than 4.
US08835366B2	Lubricant compositions based on block copolymers and processes for making Provided are lubricant compositions with improved oxidative stability and frictional and wear resistance properties for use in engine oil applications. The lubricant compositions include: i) a first base stock selected from a Group I base stock, a Group II base stock or a combination thereof at 50 to 80 wt %; ii) a block copolymer at 1 to 10 wt %; iii) a viscosity modifier at 3 to 15 wt % selected from polymers and copolymers of methacrylate, butadiene, olefins and alkylated styrenes; and iv) an additive package including a combination of antioxidants, dispersants, detergents, friction modifiers and antiwear agents at 2 to 30 wt %.
US08835362B2	Modifying single proteins (GPCR), ligands, and nanopore surfaces to create binding-induced molecular changes of protein-ligand complexes detected in nanochannel translocation A mechanism is provided for utilizing a nanodevice to distinguish molecules with different structure. The molecules translocate through or across a nanochannel filled with a electrolyte solution. An electrical signal through the nanochannel is measured for every translocation event. Inner surfaces of the nanochannel include a functional layer, which is a coating to functionalize the nanochannel, in which the functional layer is configured to interact with predetermined ones of the molecules during translocation events. It is determined that a combination of at least two different molecules is formed based on predetermined ones of the molecules interacting with the functional layer to change the electrical signal and/or change a translocation time for the translocation event.
US08835361B2	High-throughput quantitation of crop seed proteins The invention provides a high-throughput method for quantitating plant seed proteins, e.g. seed allergens. Such method involves obtaining a protein sample from the seed; analyzing the sample using mass spectrometry with a set of pre-designed internal standard peptides that are specific to the plant allergens; and monitoring frequencies and intensities of resulting spectra to obtain relative and absolute allergen contents in the seed. The invention also provides a system for high-throughput profiling of plant seed allergens. Such system comprises a set of pre-designed internal standard peptides that are specific to the plant seed allergens and one or more mass spectrometers.
US08835360B1	Combinatorial therapy for protein signaling diseases A method for selecting combinations of drugs for treatment of diseases that arise from deranged signaling pathways is disclosed. The method involves measuring the activity states for signaling proteins in a diseased cell and determining whether the activity states are different from the activity states observed for a reference cell such as a normal cell. Based on the observed differences, combinations of two or more drugs are selected to reduce these differences. Treatment of a subject with the combinations restores the activity states of the signaling proteins of the deranged disease-associated signaling pathways toward the activity states observed in the reference cell. Since the diseased cell and the reference cell can both be obtained from the same subject, combinations of drugs that specifically target patient-specific signaling derangements is possible.
US08835359B2	Methods and uses relating to the identification of compound involved in pain as well as methods of diagnosing algesia The present invention relates to a method of identifying a compound involved in pain, the use of Ctla2b nucleic acid or Ctla2b protein for identifying a compound involved in pain as well as methods of diagnosing algesia involving the same.
US08835356B2	High load glyphosate formulations A liquid formulation containing at least about 500 ae g/L, and up to 625 ae g/L or more, of glyphosate, a surfactant that is efficacy-enhancing for glyphosate and is compatible with potassium glyphosate and which constitutes less than about 100 g/L of the formulation, non-amphiphilic cations, the majority of which are potassium cations, a low molecular weight acid or conjugate base thereof that is chemically distinct from glyphosate, and water.
US08835351B2	Additive for hydroconversion process and method for making and using same An additive for hydroconversion processes includes a solid organic material having a particle size of between about 0.1 and about 2,000 μm, a bulk density of between about 500 and about 2,000 kg/m3, a skeletal density of between about 1,000 and about 2,000 kg/m3 and a humidity of between 0 and about 5 wt %. Methods for preparation and use of the additive are also provided. By the use of the additive of the present invention, the hydroconversion process can be performed at high conversion level.
US08835346B2	Catalyst materials A catalyst material including a catalyst carrier including a porous alumina support and a hindrance layer on the alumina support, the hindrance layer comprising one or more barium sulfate, strontium sulfate, zirconium sulfate, and calcium sulfate is described. The catalyst carrier further includes a rare earth oxide. The catalyst material can further comprise a platinum group metal oxide. The hindrance layer may prevent the rare earth oxide from forming a complex with the support. The catalyst material is useful for methods and systems of abating pollutants from automotive exhaust gas.
US08835343B2	Non-platinum group metal electrocatalysts using metal organic framework materials and method of preparation A method of preparing a nitrogen containing electrode catalyst by converting a high surface area metal-organic framework (MOF) material free of platinum group metals that includes a transition metal, an organic ligand, and an organic solvent via a high temperature thermal treatment to form catalytic active sites in the MOF. At least a portion of the contained organic solvent may be replaced with a nitrogen containing organic solvent or an organometallic compound or a transition metal salt to enhance catalytic performance. The electrode catalysts may be used in various electrochemical systems, including a proton exchange membrane fuel cell.
US08835336B2	Optical glass and optical element Provided with the following glass components: 8 to 19.5% B2O3, 4.5 to 9% SiO2, 0 to 10% GeO2, 7 to 12.5% BaO, 0 to 14% MgO, 0 to 0.4% Li2O, 15 to 34% La2O3, 3.5 to 10% Y2O3, 8 to 13.5% TiO2, 0 to 7% ZrO2, 0 to 11% Nb2O5, and 1 to 9% WO3 by weight, wherein B2O3/SiO2 is at least 1.0, La2O3+Y2O3+ZrO2+Nb2O5+WO3 is no more than 54%, and B2O3+SiO2+GeO2+BaO+MgO+Li2O+La2O3+Y2O3+TiO2+ZrO2+Nb2O5+WO3 is at least 98%.
US08835334B2	Optical glass and optical element Provided is an optical glass which can satisfy all of the following requirements: (1) it contains no environmentally undesirable components; (2) it can easily achieve a low glass transition point; (3) it has a high refractive index and high dispersion; (4) it can easily provide a glass having a superior visible light transmittance; and (5) it has superior resistance to devitrification during preparation of a preform. The optical glass has a refractive index nd of 2.0 or more, an Abbe's number νd of 20 or less, a glass transition point of 450° C. or below, and a glass composition, in % by mass, of 70 to 90% Bi2O2, 4 to 29.9% B2O2, 0.1 to 10% Li2O+Na2O+K2O, and 0 to 2.5% SiO2+Al2O2 and is substantially free of lead component, arsenic component, F component, TeO2, and GeO2.
US08835327B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device disclosed herein includes: mounting a substrate on an electrostatic chuck placed inside a chamber, the electrostatic chuck having a first temperature and the substrate being retained in advance in an atmosphere having a second temperature lower than the first temperature; fixing the substrate onto the electrostatic chuck by applying a voltage to the electrostatic chuck; heating the electrostatic chuck to a third temperature higher than the first temperature and the second temperature after mounting the substrate; and processing the substrate after the heating.
US08835320B2	Etching method and device An etching method can prevent adverse effects of oxygen plasma from arising under an insulating film when etching the insulating film formed on a substrate. The etching method includes: a first etching step for exposing the insulating film to processing gas that has been turned into a plasma to etch the insulating film to a portion in the thickness direction; a deposition material removing step for exposing the insulating film remaining after completion of the first etching to oxygen plasma to remove deposition material deposited on the surface of the remaining insulating film; and a second etching of exposing the remaining insulating film to processing gas that has been turned into a plasma to etch the remaining insulating film.
US08835318B2	HNO3 single wafer clean process to strip nickel and for MOL post etch Ni and Pt residuals are eliminated by replacing an SPM cleaning process with application of HNO3 in an SWC tool. Embodiments include depositing a layer of Ni/Pt on a semiconductor substrate, annealing the deposited Ni/Pt layer, removing unreacted Ni from the annealed Ni/Pt layer by applying HNO3 to the annealed Ni/Pt layer in an SWC tool, annealing the Ni removed Ni/Pt layer, and removing unreacted Pt from the annealed Ni removed Ni/Pt layer. Embodiments include forming first and second gate electrodes on a substrate, spacers on opposite sides of each gate electrode, and Pt-containing NiSi on the substrate adjacent each spacer, etching back the spacers, forming a tensile strain layer over the first gate electrode, applying a first HNO3 in an SWC tool, forming a compressive strain layer over the second gate electrode, and applying a second HNO3 in an SWC tool.
US08835313B2	Interconnect barrier structure and method A system and method for forming through substrate vias is provided. An embodiment comprises forming an opening in a substrate and lining the opening with a first barrier layer. The opening is filled with a conductive material and a second barrier layer is formed in contact with the conductive material. The first barrier layer is formed with different materials and different methods of formation than the second barrier layer so that the materials and methods may be tuned to maximize their effectiveness within the device.
US08835296B2	Electronic component manufacturing method including step of embedding metal film The present invention provides an electronic component manufacturing method including a step of embedding a metal film. An embodiment of the present invention includes a first step of depositing a barrier layer containing titanium nitride on an object to be processed on which a concave part is formed and a second step of filling a low-melting-point metal directly on the barrier layer under a temperature condition allowing the low-melting-point metal to flow, by a PCM sputtering method while forming a magnetic field by a magnet unit including plural magnets which are arranged at grid points of a polygonal grid so as to have different polarities between the neighboring magnets.
US08835291B2	Strained gate electrodes in semiconductor devices Embodiments of the invention provide a semiconductor device and a method of manufacture. MOS devices along with their polycrystalline or amorphous gate electrodes are fabricated such that the intrinsic stress within the gate electrode creates a stress in the channel region between the MOS source/drain regions. Embodiments include forming an NMOS device and a PMOS device after having converted a portion of the intermediate NMOS gate electrode layer to an amorphous layer and then recrystallizing it before patterning to form the electrode. The average grain size in the NMOS recrystallized gate electrode is smaller than that in the PMOS recrystallized gate electrode. In another embodiment, the NMOS device comprises an amorphous gate electrode.
US08835289B2	Wafer backside defectivity clean-up utilizing selective removal of substrate material A wafer and a fabrication method include a base structure including a substrate for fabricating semiconductor devices. The base structure includes a front side where the semiconductor devices are formed and a back side opposite the front side. An integrated layer is formed in the back side of the base structure including impurities configured to alter etch selectivity relative to the base structure such that the integrated layer is selectively removable from the base structure to remove defects incurred during fabrication of the semiconductor devices.
US08835283B2	Fabrication method for producing semiconductor chips with enhanced die strength A fabrication method for producing semiconductor chips with enhanced die strength comprises following steps: forming a semiconductor wafer with enhanced die strength by comprising the substrate, the active layer on the front side of the substrate and the backside metal layer on the backside of the substrate, wherein at least one integrated circuit forms in the active layer; forming a protection layer on a front side of the semiconductor wafer; dicing the semiconductor wafer by at least one laser dicing process and removing the laser dicing residues and removing said protection layer by at least one etching process, whereby plural semiconductor chips with enhanced die strength are produced, and wherein the backside metal layer of said semiconductor chip fully covers the backside of said semiconductor chip after dicing.
US08835277B2	Method to improve charge trap flash memory core cell performance and reliability A semiconductor processing method to provide a high quality bottom oxide layer and top oxide layer in a charged-trapping NAND and NOR flash memory. Both the bottom oxide layer and the top oxide layer of NAND and NOR flash memory determines array device performance and reliability. The method describes overcomes the corner thinning issue and the poor top oxide quality that results from the traditional oxidation approach of using pre-deposited silicon-rich nitride.
US08835275B2	Semiconductor devices having nitrided gate insulating layer and methods of fabricating the same Semiconductor devices, and methods of fabricating the same, include forming device isolation regions in a substrate to define active regions, forming gate trenches in the substrate to expose the active regions and device isolation regions, conformally forming a preliminary gate insulating layer including silicon oxide on the active regions exposed in the grate trenches, nitriding the preliminary gate insulating layer using a radio-frequency bias having a frequency of about 13.56 MHz and power between about 100 W and about 300 W to form a nitrided preliminary gate insulating layer including silicon oxynitride, forming a gate electrode material layer on the nitride preliminary gate insulating layer, partially removing the nitrided preliminary gate insulating layer and the gate electrode material layer to respectively form a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode layer, and forming a gate capping layer on the gate electrode layer to fill the gate trenches.
US08835263B2	Formation of a selective carbon-doped epitaxial cap layer on selective epitaxial SiGe A method for forming epitaxial SiGe of a PMOS transistor. In an example embodiment, the method may include providing a semiconductor wafer having a PMOS transistor gate stack, extension sidewalls, source/drain extension regions, and active regions. The method may also include performing a recess etch of the active regions and forming epitaxial SiGe within the recessed active regions by forming a selective epi SiGe region coupled to the surface of the recessed active regions and a selective carbon-doped epitaxial cap layer coupled to the selective epi SiGe region.
US08835252B2	Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices having increased areas of storage contacts Methods of fabricating semiconductor device are provided including forming first through third silicon crystalline layers on first through third surfaces of an active region; removing the first silicon crystalline layer to expose the first surface; forming a bit line stack on the exposed first surface; forming bit line sidewall spacers on both side surfaces of the bit line stack to be vertically aligned with portions of the second and third silicon crystalline layers of the active region; removing the second and third silicon crystalline layers disposed under the bit line sidewall spacers to expose the second and third surfaces of the active region; and forming storage contact plugs in contact with the second and third surfaces of the active region.
US08835242B2	Semiconductor structure and method An embodiment is a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure comprises at least two gate structures on a substrate. The gate structures define a recess between the gate structures, and the recess is defined by a depth in a vertical direction. The depth is from a top surface of at least one of the gate structures to below a top surface of the substrate, and the depth extends in an isolation region in the substrate. The semiconductor structure further comprises a filler material in the recess. The filler material has a first thickness in the vertical direction. The semiconductor structure also comprises an inter-layer dielectric layer in the recess and over the filler material. The inter-layer dielectric layer has a second thickness in the vertical direction below the top surface of the at least one of the gate structures. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
US08835223B2	Chip assembly having via interconnects joined by plating An assembly and method of making same are provided. The assembly can be formed by juxtaposing a first electrically conductive element overlying a major surface of a first semiconductor element with an electrically conductive pad exposed at a front surface of a second semiconductor element. An opening can be formed extending through the conductive pad of the second semiconductor element and exposing a surface of the first conductive element. The opening may alternatively be formed extending through the first conductive element. A second electrically conductive element can be formed extending at least within the opening and electrically contacting the conductive pad and the first conductive element. A third semiconductor element can be positioned in a similar manner with respect to the second semiconductor element.
US08835221B2	Integrated chip package structure using ceramic substrate and method of manufacturing the same An integrated chip package structure and method of manufacturing the same is by adhering dies on a ceramic substrate and forming a thin-film circuit layer on top of the dies and the ceramic substrate. Wherein the thin-film circuit layer has an external circuitry, which is electrically connected to the metal pads of the dies, that extends to a region outside the active surface of the dies for fanning out the metal pads of the dies. Furthermore, a plurality of active devices and an internal circuitry is located on the active surface of the dies. Signal for the active devices are transmitted through the internal circuitry to the external circuitry and from the external circuitry through the internal circuitry back to other active devices. Moreover, the chip package structure allows multiple dies with different functions to be packaged into an integrated package and electrically connecting the dies by the external circuitry.
US08835203B2	Organic light emitting diode display and method for manufacturing the same An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The OLED display includes a substrate, an active layer and a capacitor lower electrode positioned on the substrate, a gate insulating layer positioned on the active layer and the capacitor lower electrode, a gate electrode positioned on the gate insulating layer at a location corresponding to the active layer, a capacitor upper electrode positioned on the gate insulating layer at a location corresponding to the capacitor lower electrode, a first electrode positioned to be separated from the gate electrode and the capacitor upper electrode, an interlayer insulating layer positioned on the gate electrode, the capacitor upper electrode, and the first electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode positioned on the interlayer insulating layer, and a bank layer positioned on the source and drain electrodes.
US08835198B2	Method for manufacturing LED An LED (light emitting diode) includes a base, a pair of leads fixed on the base, a housing secured on the leads, a chip mounted on one lead and an encapsulant sealing the chip. The housing defines a cavity to receive the chip. The cavity includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber communicating with the upper chamber. The lower chamber is gradually expanded along a top-to-bottom direction of the LED, and the upper chamber is gradually expanded along a bottom-to-top direction of the LED. The encapsulant substantially fills the lower chamber and the upper chamber. A method for manufacturing the LED is also disclosed.
US08835190B2	Semiconductor apparatus A method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus includes forming a semiconductor device on a principal surface of a substrate, in which the semiconductor device includes an interconnect layer, forming a buffer film which covers the semiconductor device and prevents diffusion of a magnetic material, and forming a magnetic shielding film which covers the buffer film and includes the magnetic material.
US08835180B2	Organic chemical sensor comprising microporous polymer, and method of use Applicant discloses a sensing element for sensing an organic chemical analyte, comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, and a microporous, hydrophobic, analyte-responsive dielectric material disposed at least in proximity to the first and second electrodes. The analyte-responsive dielectric material may be a polymer of intrinsic microporosity. An electrical property of the sensing element, such as capacitance, can be monitored in order to sense an organic chemical analyte.
US08835175B2	Culture medium for human mesenchymal stem cells A culture medium for human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) includes a mesenchymal stem cell basal medium; human leucocyte/platelet coat lysate; insulin; sodium selenite; ethanolamine; and basic fibroblast growth factor. This culture medium is effective for growing hMSC lines, including those which do not grow in culture medium normally used for this type of cell.
US08835166B2	Extracellular matrix material created using non-thermal irreversible electroporation Extracellular matrix material is disclosed which is created by subjecting a target area to non-thermal irreversible electroporation (NTIRE) with a pulsed electrical field to kill cells in the absence of thermal damage. The dead cellular material may be removed and the remaining non-cellular matrix material may be implanted into a repair site to be treated medically or cosmetically.
US08835159B2	Static solid state bioreactor and method for using same A static solid state bioreactor and method of using same. The bioreactor comprises a vessel having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end having a sealable opening. A gas distribution system in communication with the upper end and the lower end of the vessel. A liquid distribution system in communication with the upper end of the vessel. A liquid recovery system in communication with the lower end of the vessel. A material removal system disposed at the lower end of the vessel for removing biomass from the vessel.
US08835158B2	Apparatus for oxygenation and perfusion of tissue for organ preservation An apparatus to oxygenate and perfuse a bodily tissue for extracorporeal preservation of the bodily tissue. The apparatus may be used to transport donor organs for transplant. The apparatus includes a pneumatic system, a pumping chamber, and an organ chamber. The pneumatic system is configured for the controlled delivery of fluid to and from the pumping chamber based on a predetermined control scheme. The pumping chamber is configured to diffuse a gas into a perfusate and to generate a pulse wave for moving the perfusate through a bodily tissue. The pumping chamber is configured to substantially automatically purge excess fluid from the pumping chamber to an area external to the apparatus.
US08835156B2	Pretreatment of non-wood lignocelluiosic material The present disclosure provides a method for pre-treating non-wood lignocellulosic material containing less than 5 % (w/w) starch or sugar in a process for production of ethanol from lignocellulose, comprising the steps of: adding organic acid or organic acid-producing bacteria to the lignocellulosic material; storing the lignocellulosic material in the presence of the organic acid for a period of at least two weeks in an atmosphere of less than 5% oxygen to obtain organic acid-impregnated material; and heating the organic acid-impregnated material at a temperature of at least 160° C. to obtain pre-treated lignocellulosic material, wherein no, or substantially no, inorganic acid or base, including SO2, is added in the method.
US08835155B2	Biosolids digester and process for biosolids production The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for producing Class A biosolids. In yet another embodiment, the invention relates to a method comprising digesting waste material by anaerobic digestion, and yielding Class A biosolids. In still yet another embodiment, the invention relates to a system for anaerobic digestion of waste material to produce Class A biosolids. In still yet another embodiment, the invention relates to a system for anaerobic digestion of waste material comprising a mixing chamber, a digester, a heating pit, and an effluent pit.
US08835152B2	Altering metabolism in biological processes Compositions of peptides and surface-active agents are described, as are methods of making and using such compositions. The compositions are capable of affecting metabolic rates in biological systems, and to accelerate nutrient uptake without a concomitant increase in biofilm production.
US08835151B2	Hot spring bacterial strain BKH1 and protein isolated therefrom, concrete compositions, and uses thereof Disclosed is a Thermoanaerobacter sp. bacterial strain (BKHI) isolated from a hot spring, a purified protein (bioremediase) isolated from bacterial strain BKH1, as well as concrete compositions comprising BKH1 and/or the protein, and methods of using the protein and/or composition. Also disclosed are nucleic acids encoding the protein isolated from BKHI, as well as expression vectors, host cells, cell lines, and methods for generating and purifying the bioremediase protein.
US08835148B2	Production of nucleic acid The present invention provides a process for the production of nucleic acid encoding a target protein, which comprises: (a) providing an array of RNA or DNA molecules including one or more encoding the target protein; (b) generating a target protein from the array to form RNA-protein or DNA-protein complexes in which the RNA or DNA molecule is non-covalently or covalently bound to the complex; (c) separating the complexes into compartments wherein most or all of the compartments contain no more than one complex; (d) subjecting the complexes to reaction conditions which allow target protein activity; and (e) selecting nucleic acid encoding the target protein on the basis of the activity associated therewith, wherein when the complex is a DNA-protein complex in which the DNA is non-covalently bound, step b) is performed in the absence of separate compartments for each complex.
US08835139B2	Methods of producing ethanol using hydrolytic enzyme mixtures for saccharification of lignocellulosic polysaccharides The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. Some embodiments relate to a method of producing ethanol using the cell wall degradative systems of the present invention.
US08835128B2	Identification method based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering This invention is related to a reproducible identification method based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), in which bacterial samples are used in identification of bacteria by mixing with the concentrated silver and gold nanoparticles.
US08835127B2	Optoelectronic detection system The invention described herein provides methods for the detection of soluble antigens. In particular, the methods provide for the detection of soluble proteins and chemicals. In addition, the invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid sequence in a sample. Also described is an emittor cell comprising an Fc receptor and an emittor molecule for the detection of a target particle in a sample wherein the target particle to be detected is bound by one or more antibodies. Also provided is an optoelectronic sensor device for detecting a target particle in a plurality of samples.
US08835126B2	Tritiated planar carbon forms Tritiated planar carbon forms and their production are provided. Methods are provided for the stoichiometrically controlled labeling of planar carbon forms capitalizing on normal flaws of carboxylic acids ubiquitously present in commercial preparations of these planar carbon forms. Alternative methods include generation of a metallated intermediate whereby a metal is substituted for hydrogen on the carbon backbone of a planar carbon form. The metalized intermediate is then reacted with a tritium donor to covalently label the planar carbon form. The tritiated planar carbon forms produced are useful, for example, for determination of a biological property or environmental fate of planar carbon forms.
US08835125B2	Methods and compositions for selective labeling of different biotinylated targets within multicolor or multilabel assays Disclosed are compositions and methods for the labeling of two or more targets with different labels. Specifically, disclosed are compositions for biotin and the protection of biotin within multilabel assays which employ the biotin-biotin binding protein binding relationship for each distinct label in relation to targets such as nucleic acids, polypeptides, antibodies or cells. These multilabel assays are enabled through the use of biotin with desthiobiotin, orthogonal protecting schemes for biotin, or a combination of the approaches.
US08835124B2	Method for treating cancer with agents that bind phosphorylated CDC27 The presence of phosphorylated Cdc27 in cancer cells is utilized to identify patients likely to benefit from treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent that binds to, or binds to and crosslinks, phosphorylated Cdc27, e.g., curcumin, or to determine whether patients undergoing such treatment will continue to respond effectively. Candidate compounds are screened for anticancer effect by testing the ability to bind to or crosslink phosphorylated Cdc27.
US08835117B2	Nucleic acids for detection and discrimination of genotypes of Chlamydophila psittaci Methods of detecting Chlamydophila, including differentiating between species of Chlamydophila and/or strains of Chlamydophila psittaci are disclosed, for example to detect and genotype a Chlamydophila psittaci infection. A sample suspected of containing a nucleic acid of a Chlamydophila, is screened for the presence of that nucleic acid. The presence of the Chlamydophila nucleic acid indicates the presence of the Chlamydophila bacterium. Determining whether a Chlamydophila nucleic acid is present in a sample can be accomplished by detecting hybridization between a Chlamydophila specific primer, a Chlamydophila psittaci specific primer, and/or a Chlamydophila psittaci genotype-specific primer and the Chlamydophila nucleic acid containing sample. Thus, primers for the detection, species-specific and/or genotype-specific identification of Chlamydophila psittaci are disclosed. Kits that contain the disclosed primers also are disclosed.
US08835111B2	Genotyping tool for improving the prognostic and clinical management of MS patients The invention relates to methods of evaluating MS severity based on analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and to products and kits for use in such methods. The methods include a method of assessing a multiple sclerosis disease severity phenotype in a human subject having multiple sclerosis, by determining the genotype of the subject at one or more positions of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) selected from: rs2107538, rs1137933, rs1318, rs2069763, rs423904, rs876493, rs10243024, rs10259085, rs1042173, rs10492503, rs10492972, rs12047808, rs12202350, rs12861247, rs13353224, rs1350666, rs1555322, rs1611115, rs17641078, rs1805009, rs2028455, rs2032893, rs2049306, rs2066713, rs2074897, rs2076530, rs2187668, rs2213584, rs2227139, rs2234978, rs2239802, rs2395182, rs260461, rs28386840, rs3087456, rs3135388, rs3741981, rs3756450, rs3781202, rs3787283, rs3808585, rs4128767, rs4404254, rs4473631, rs4680534, rs6077690, rs6457594, rs6570426, rs659366, rs6917747, rs7208257, rs7528684, rs7577925, rs762550, rs7956189, rs7995215, rs8049651, rs8702, rs9808753 and rs987107, and/or a SNP in linkage disequilibrium with any one of said SNPs.
US08835105B2	Sperm-specific cation channel, CatSper4, and uses therefor Nucleic acid and protein sequences relating to a cation channel which is sperm-specific (CatSper4) are disclosed. The CatSper4 protein is shown to be specifically expressed in sperm. Nucleic acids, vectors, transformed cells, transgenic animals, polypeptides, and antibodies relating to the CatSper4 gene and protein are disclosed. Also provided are methods of in vitro fertilization and contraception, methods of identifying modulators of CatSper4 activity, methods of genotyping subjects with respect to CatSper4, and methods of diagnosing and treating CatSper4-mediated disorders, including infertility. Related business methods are also disclosed.
US08835103B2	Lithography process and structures A photo resist layer includes a first region and a second region. A treatment layer is applied to the photo resist layer.
US08835102B2	Patterning process and composition for forming silicon-containing film usable therefor The invention provides a patterning process for forming a negative pattern by lithography, comprising at least the steps of: using a composition for forming silicon-containing film, containing specific silicon-containing compound (A) and an organic solvent (B), to form a silicon-containing film; using a silicon-free resist composition to form a photoresist film on the silicon-containing film; heat-treating the photoresist film, and subsequently exposing the photoresist film to a high energy beam; and using a developer comprising an organic solvent to dissolve an unexposed area of the photoresist film, thereby obtaining a negative pattern. There can be a patterning process, which is optimum as a patterning process of a negative resist to be formed by adopting organic solvent-based development, and a composition for forming silicon-containing film to be used in the process.
US08835101B1	Method for fabricating a circuit A method for fabricating a circuit, by defining a first set of resist features on a substrate and corresponding to a first mask layout, followed by defining a second set of resist features on the substrate corresponding to a second mask layout, wherein the second set adds to the first set for rectifying an error in either mask layout. In another aspect, the method is by defining a first set of resist features on a substrate and corresponding to a first mask layout that has an error, etching the substrate while the first set protects selected regions, defining a second set of resist features on the substrate and corresponding to a second mask layout, followed by etching the substrate to selectively remove portions of the selected regions for rectifying the error.
US08835100B2	Double patterning by PTD and NTD process A method of manufacturing using a double patterning method is provided. The double patterning method uses a first developer and a second developer that are different. For example, the first developer may be a positive tone developer for a positive photoresist while the second developer may be a negative tone developer for the positive photoresist. Photoresists having a photoactive compound are also provided that may be useful in double patterning methods.
US08835099B2	Lithographic printing plate precursor The present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor which exhibits satisfactory ink cleanup and restart toning characteristics during printing.Disclosed is a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a substrate having thereon in order an interlayer containing a copolymer comprising K units and L units, and an image-forming layer, wherein said K unit is derived from a monomer of the formula I: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-22 linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group, a C1-22 linear, branched or cyclic, substituted alkyl group, a C6-24 aryl group or substituted aryl group, wherein the substituent is selected from a C1-4alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom, a keto group, an ester group, an alkoxy group, or a cyano group; Y represent a single bond, or a C1-22 linear, branched or cyclic alkylene; or CH2═CHPO(OH)2; and said L unit is derived from a monomer of the formula II: CH2═CRCONH2 (II) wherein R is H or CH3, and said K units are present from more than 3% and less than 40% and said L units are present from more than 60% and less than 97% in the copolymer.
US08835097B2	Sulfonium salt, polymer, chemically amplified resist composition using said polymer, and resist patterning process There is disclosed a sulfonium salt shown by the following general formula (1). There can be a sulfonium salt capable of introducing an acid-generating unit generating an acid having an appropriate acid strength and not impairing adhesion with a substrate into a base polymer; a polymer using the said sulfonium salt; a chemically amplified resist composition using the said polymer as a base polymer; and a patterning process using the said chemically amplified resist composition.
US08835083B2	Manufacturing method of photomask, method for optical proximity correction, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a photomask by which a resist pattern corresponding to a pattern with designed values can be formed, a method for optical proximity correction, and a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device are provided. Proximity design features that are close to each other and estimated to violate a mask rule check are extracted. In the proximity design features, correction prohibited regions where optical proximity correction is not carried out are set based on the distance between the features obtained from the extracted proximity design features and the resolution of an exposure device. Optical proximity correction is carried out on the proximity design features with the correction prohibited regions excluded to obtain corrected proximity patterns. A predetermined mask material is patterned by carrying out electron beam lithography based on the corrected proximity pattern data.
US08835080B2	Electrolyte mebrane formation method, membrane-electerode assembly, and membrane-electrode assembly manufacturing method A membrane-electrode assembly a solid electrolyte type-structure including a first electrode, an electrolyte membrane, and a second electrode and is formed on one single face of a porous metal support. The electrolyte membrane is obtained by firing a first electrolyte film formed on the first electrode and a second electrolyte film, which has a higher degree of fluidity than the degree of fluidity of the first electrolyte film.
US08835079B2	Fuel cell separator plate surface treatment by laser ablation A composite separator plate for use in an electrochemical fuel cell as well as a method of forming same is disclosed. The plate may be formed of polymeric material and electrically conductive material having a non-conductive polymeric outer layer by compression molding, or alternately of a metallic material having an outer metal oxide layer. Contact regions of the plate surface are subsequently ablated with a laser to remove the outer layer of material from the plate. The removal of the outer layer reduces the contact resistance of the plate when used in an electrochemical fuel cell stack, while offering adequate strength and corrosion resistance for the fuel cell stack environment.
US08835074B2	Solid oxide fuel cell having metal support with a compliant porous nickel layer A fuel cell includes a cell having a solid oxide electrolyte between electrodes. The cell has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. A metallic support is in electrical connection with one of the electrodes. The metallic support includes a metal substrate and a compliant porous nickel layer that is bonded to the metal substrate between the cell and the metal substrate. The metal substrate has a second coefficient of thermal expansion that nominally matches the first coefficient of thermal expansion of the cell. The metal substrate has a first stiffness and the compliant porous nickel layer has a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness such that the compliant porous nickel layer can thermally expand and contract with the metal substrate.
US08835072B2	Solid oxide fuel cell stacks and fuel cell module having the same A solid oxide fuel cell stack is disclosed. The solid oxide fuel cell stack may include a cell array, a pair of planar current collecting members, first and second terminal portions, and a pair of electric insulating members. A plurality of interconnector-type unit cells may be electrically connected in parallel to form a bundle, and a plurality of bundles may be electrically connected in series. The pair of the planar current collecting members may be electrically connected electrically to the plurality of bundles and configured to collect current. The first and second terminal portions contact the current collecting members. The pair of insulating members has first through-holes through which the first and second terminal portions pass, and to the insulating members are formed outside the pair of the current collecting members.
US08835067B2	Saturated vapor block for frozen fuel cell power plant A fuel cell power plant includes a cell stack assembly having an anode and a cathode. A component is arranged in fluid connection with at least one of the anode and cathode. The component has a first shut-down cooling rate. A heat exchanger is arranged in fluid communication with and between the component and one of the anode and cathode. The heat exchanger has a second shut-down cooling rate greater than the first shut-down cooling rate. Water vapor within the fuel cell power plant outside of the cell stack assembly will condense and freeze in the heat exchanger rather than the component, avoiding malfunction of the component upon start-up in below freezing environments.
US08835065B2	Fuel cell startup method for fast freeze startup A method for starting a cold or frozen fuel cell stack as efficiently and quickly as possible in a vehicle application is based upon a state of charge of a first power source such as a high voltage battery. Power flow between the first power source and fuel cell system is coordinated in conjunction with a specific load schedule and parallel control algorithms to minimize the start time required and optimize system warm-up.
US08835058B2	Battery separators with variable porosity A porous polymer battery separator is provided that includes variable porosity along its length. Such battery separators can increase the uniformity of the current density within electrochemical battery cells that may normally experience higher current density and higher temperatures near their terminal ends than they do near their opposite ends. By disposing a variable porosity separator between the electrodes of an electrochemical cell such that its terminal end has a lower porosity than its opposite end, the transport of ions, such as lithium ions, through the separator can be more restricted in normally high current regions and less restricted in normally low current regions, thereby increasing the overall uniformity of current density within the battery cell. Variable porosity battery separators may be produced by a dry-stretching process or by a wet process.
US08835050B2	Anode substrate An anode substrate which enables achievement of a battery having a high output voltage and a high energy density, and being superior in charge and discharge cycle characteristics; a secondary cell in which the anode substrate is used; a resin composition for use in forming the anode substrate; and a method for producing the anode substrate are provided. According to anode substrate 10 including metal film 13 formed on support 11 provided with patterned organic film 12 molded by a thermal imprint process or a photoimprint process, a battery having a high output voltage and a high energy density, and being superior in charge and discharge cycle characteristics can be provided.
US08835047B2	Negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery cell, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery cell, battery pack and method for manufacturing the negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery cell According to one embodiment, a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery cell includes a composite. The composite includes a carbonaceous material, a silicon oxide dispersed in the carbonaceous material, and a silicon dispersed in the silicon oxide. A half-value width of a diffraction peak of a Si (220) plane in powder X-ray diffraction measurement of the composite is in a range of 1.5° to 8.0°. A mean size of a silicon oxide phase is in a range of 50 nm to 1,000 nm. A value of (a standard deviation)/(the mean size) is equal to or less than 1.0 where the standard deviation of a size distribution of the silicon oxide phase is defined by (d84%−d16%)/2.
US08835041B2	Electrode materials for sodium batteries The present invention provides an electrode material suitable for use as a cathode in a sodium electrochemical cell or battery, the electrode comprising a layered material of formula NacLidNieMnfMzOb, wherein M comprises one or more metal cation, 0.24≦c/b≦0.5, 0
US08835037B2	Battery cell carrier The present disclosure is directed at a cell carrier, a stack that includes multiple cell carriers, and a method for assembling the stack. The cell carrier has a rigid backing and bus bar supports that are rigidly mounted to the rigid backing The bus bar supports have sockets positioned to receive fasteners for securing bus bars to the bus bar supports. A battery cell that has electrodes in the form of pliable tabs can be secured to the cell carrier by, for example, adhering the cell body to the rigid backing The cell tabs are secured between the bus bars and the bus bar supports when bus bars are fastened to the bus bar supports, and the rigidly mounted supports help prevent relative motion between the cell body and tabs. This helps prevent the cell tabs from ripping or tearing when the battery cell is subjected to vibrations during use.
US08835035B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules each comprising a plurality of battery cells; and a heat absorber mounted adjacent to at least one of the battery modules, wherein the heat absorber includes a phase change material.
US08835032B2	Battery module A battery module in which the temperature of a cell with an increased high temperature due to an abnormal state can be quickly reduced so that the high temperature does not affect adjacent cells is provided.A battery module 200 has a configuration in which a plurality of cells 100 as secondary batteries are housed in a case 90 having a plurality of housing parts housing, but not in contact with, the cells 100, and when a gas is generated in one of the cells 100 to cause the cell 100 to expand, this cell 100 comes into contact with the associated one of the housing parts.
US08835022B2	Metal complex compound and organic light emitting diode device including the same Disclosed are a metal complex compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 or 3, and an organic light emitting diode device including the same. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 3, M1, M2, R1 to R14, y1 and y2 are as defined in the detailed description.
US08835015B2	High oxygen transmission biaxially oriented film with improved tensile properties A biaxially oriented multilayer film having (a) a polyolefinic core layer containing (i) a thermoplastic material containing an alpha-olefin/polypropylene-containing copolymer, the thermoplastic material being in an amount of about 10% to 70% by weight of the core layer and (ii) an isotactic polypropylene-containing copolymer in an amount of greater than 0% to about 50% by weight of the core layer and (b) a skin layer containing a styrene-butadiene copolymer or a cyclic olefin copolymer is disclosed.
US08835010B2	Belt member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus Disclosed are a belt member having high wear resistance and thereby capable of maintaining its initial surface properties for a long period of time and a fixing device provided with, the belt member, and an image forming apparatus. The belt member has a belt shape, and its surface is formed of a cured resin including a structural unit derived from urethane (meth)acrylate (A) having at least three (meth)acryloyloxy groups per molecule, a structural unit derived from a polyfunctional monomer (B) having no urethane bond and having at least three (meth)acryloyloxy groups per molecule, and a structural unit derived from a fluorine-modified acrylate (C). The cured resin contains 18 to 63% by mass of the structural unit derived from the urethane(meth)acrylate (A), 18 to 63% by mass of the structural unit derived from the polyfunctional monomer (B), and 10 to 40% by mass of the structural unit derived from the fluorine-modified acrylate(C).
US08835008B2	Process for the production of a dark-color multi-layer coating A process for the production of a dark-color multi-layer coating, comprising the successive steps: (1) applying an NIR-opaque coating layer A′ from a pigmented, solvent- or waterborne coating composition A to a substrate, (2) applying a coating layer B′ from a pigmented coating composition B onto the substrate provided with coating layer A′, wherein the pigment content of coating composition A consists 90 to 100 wt. % of at least one 10 to 80 nm thick aluminum flake pigment and 0 to 10 wt. % of at least one further pigment, which is selected in such a way that NIR-opaque coating layer A′ exhibits low NIR absorption, wherein the pigment content of coating composition B consists 50 to 100 wt. % of at least one black pigment with low NIR absorption and 0 to 50 wt. % of at least one further pigment, which is selected in such a way that coating layer B′ exhibits low NIR absorption and that the dark-color multi-layer coating exhibits a brightness L* (according to CIELab*, DIN 6174), measured at an illumination angle of 45 degrees to the perpendicular and an observation angle of 45 degrees to the specular, of at most 10 units, wherein the sum of the respective wt. % equals 100 wt. %, and wherein the coating layers A′ and B′ are cured.

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