US08575486B2
The invention relates to a guide conduit for a cable receptacle with a support device for the upper strand, and is designed so that the support device has an essentially flat running surface on the top side of a body which is movable solely by gravity and/or by the elastic force thereof from one position, in which the support device does not protrude significantly over the inner lateral surface of the guide conduit, to a position in which the body opposite the lateral wall protrudes into the interior of the guide conduit, and to the final position, in which the support device extends through an opening in the respective lateral wall of the guide conduit.
US08575478B2
In an integrated structure of a CIS based thin film solar cell obtained by stacking an light absorbing layer, a high-resistance buffer layer, and a window layer in that order, a first buffer layer adjoining the light absorbing layer is made of a compound containing cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), or indium (In), a second buffer layer adjoining the first buffer layer is made of a zinc oxide-based thin film, a third buffer layer is formed to cover the end face exposed by forming an interconnect pattern in the light absorbing layer, the first buffer layer, and the second buffer layer and the top end surface of the second buffer layer, and the third buffer layer is made of a zinc oxide-based thin film.
US08575470B2
An integrated alternative energy roofing panel incorporates an array of solar concentrator tubes interconnected with transparent web to form a joined plate supported in frame elements with an attached working fluid manifold. The working fluid in the manifold is operatively in contact with the solar concentrator tubes for transferring heat from the tubes. In one exemplary construction, each of the solar concentrator tubes terminates in a conducting metal sleeve which extends beyond the frame element into the manifold. A safety glass panel is attached to one frame element beneath the joined plate. The joined plate and safety glass panel may be sealed to the frame elements to form a chamber and the chamber may be evacuated. A plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are embedded in the web for supplemental lighting. An array of photovoltaic cells mounted to a top surface of the manifold and a battery are interconnected for powering the LEDs. The manifold incorporates a compartment to house the battery as a portion of the integrated panel.
US08575467B2
A generator of electric energy based on a thermoelectric effect includes a layer of thermoelectric material set between two pipes that guide two flows of fluid at temperatures different from one another. Each of the pipes has its wall in heat-conduction contact with respective side of the layer of thermoelectric material. Each pipe has a cavity of passage for the respective flow of fluid occupied by a porous material or divided by diaphragms into a plurality of sub-channels so as to obtain a large heat-exchange surface between each flow of fluid and the wall of the respective pipe and between said wall and the respective side of the layer of thermoelectric material.
US08575464B1
A tremolo bar formed as a single curved rod having a handle portion with a first curved U-shaped loop, a second U-shaped loop, and a root portion for attachment of the root portion to a bridge system of a guitar. The U-shaped loops provide a secure means for a user to hold and operate the handle portion with one or more fingers continuously while playing the strings of the guitar without interference from the holding and operating of the handle. A user can insert or hook a finger into the loops to hold and operate the handle. The looped handle eliminates the need for the user to grasp and release the handle repeatedly during the course of picking and strumming the strings while performing.
US08575462B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the sweet corn line designated SYW-6R07086. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of sweet corn line SYW-6R07086, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant produced by crossing a plant of sweet corn line SYW-6R07086 with itself or with another sweet corn plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of sweet corn line SYW-6R07086, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants.
US08575445B2
A soybean cultivar designated S100211 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100211, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100211, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100211, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100211. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100211. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100211, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S100211 with another soybean cultivar.
US08575439B2
The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid SVR 17391044 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of melon hybrid SVR 17391044 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US08575438B2
The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid PS 14743324 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid PS 14743324 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another cucumber plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US08575429B2
Plant seed compositions are disclosed that comprise a herbicide-resistant variety as a major component and two or more additional varieties as minor components. One of the minor varieties is herbicide-resistant. Each variety is phenotypically distinguishable from all other varieties in the seed mixture.
US08575425B2
Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 3, or 4, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 9, 10, or 11, as well as variants and fragments thereof.
US08575420B1
A novel maize variety designated X00B130 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 X00B130 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00B130 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X00B130, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00B130. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00B130.
US08575414B2
The present invention involves the use of a novel membrane system for natural gas upgrading. This membrane system includes a first-stage membrane such as a membrane prepared from the polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM) to selectively remove hydrocarbons from C3 to C35 to control the dew point of natural gas, and a second-stage membrane such as a polybenzoxazole (PBO) or crosslinked PBO membrane to selectively remove CO2 from natural gas. The new membrane system described in the current invention eliminates the use of high cost and high footprint membrane pretreatment. Therefore, the membrane system can significantly reduce the footprint and cost for natural gas upgrading compared to the current commercially available membrane systems that include a non-membrane-related pretreatment system.
US08575410B2
The process and apparatus converts ethylene in a dilute ethylene stream that may be derived from an FCC product to heavier hydrocarbons. The catalyst may be an amorphous silica-alumina base with a Group VIII and/or VIB metal. The catalyst is resistant to feed impurities such as hydrogen sulfide, carbon oxides, hydrogen and ammonia. At least 40 wt-% of the ethylene in the dilute ethylene stream can be converted to heavier hydrocarbons.
US08575409B2
A process for producing a hydrocarbon from biomass. A feed stream containing biomass having fatty acids, mono-, di-, and/or triglycerides, and a phosphorus content of between about 1 wppm and about 1,000 wppm is provided. A heated hydrocarbon solvent and a hydrogen-rich gas are provided. The feed stream, the heated hydrocarbon solvent, and the hydrogen-rich gas are combined in the presence of a low activity hydrogenation catalyst. A spent low activity hydrogenation catalyst is recovered at the end of a run wherein the spent low activity hydrogenation catalyst contains at least 3% by weight phosphorus.
US08575403B2
Recovery of ethanol from a crude ethanol product obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid by hydrolyzing a portion of the crude ethanol product or one or more derivative streams obtained therefrom. The one or more derivative streams comprise ethyl acetate and the hydrolyzed stream is directly or indirectly fed to the distillation zone or the hydrogenation reactor.
US08575402B2
The invention provides a process for the production of an alkylene glycol comprising converting an alkene to the corresponding alkylene oxide; absorbing the alkylene oxide in an aqueous absorbent and then stripping; supplying the aqueous alkyene oxide stream to a carboxylation reactor; converting the alkylene oxide to a corresponding alkylene carbonate; converting the alkylene carbonate to the alkylene glycol; removing water to form a dehydrated alkylene glycol stream; and purifying the dehydrated alkylene glycol stream, wherein the start-up procedure comprises supplying water, carboxylation-hydrolysis catalyst and carbon dioxide streams to the carboxylation reactor and providing a start-up stream comprising the alkylene glycol at an injection point at or downstream of the inlet used in supplying the stream to the carboxylation reactor and recovering an alkylene glycol stream from the glycol distillation column.
US08575399B2
A dual-bed catalytic distillation tower has a catalytic column having an upper catalytic bed filled with low temperature dehydration catalysts and a lower catalytic bed filled with high temperature dehydration catalysts. When using the dual-bed catalytic distillation tower, the feed may be fed to the tower at the top of the upper catalytic bed, between the upper and lower catalytic beds, or at the bottom of the lower catalytic bed for dehydration to obtain DME. The dual-bed catalytic distillation tower has the advantage of flexible set up depending on various feeds, such as anhydrous or crude methanol and on different grades of DME to be obtained.
US08575390B2
In accordance with the disclosure, one aspect of the present application is directed to a dispersant compound comprising the reaction product of (i) a hydrocarbyl carbonyl compound, (ii) a polycarbonyl compound having at least three carbonyl acylating functions, and (iii) a primary amine moiety of a polyamine. Methods of making and methods of using the dispersant compound are also disclosed.
US08575383B2
To provide a composition comprising a silsesquioxane compound that is capable of producing a coating film with excellent heat resistance and scratch resistance, and that has excellent compatibility with general polymerizable unsaturated compounds as well as polymerizable unsaturated compounds with high polarity.A silsesquioxane compound comprising organic groups each directly attached to a silicon atom of the compound, at least one of the organic groups being an organic group having one or more urethane bonds and one (meth)acryloyloxy group.
US08575381B2
Novel trihydridosilyl-terminated polysilanes and methods for their synthesis, which are applicable to other polysilanes, are provided. The synthetic methods provide for facile preparation of products with minimal handling of pyrophoric intermediates and byproducts. The novel compounds contain at least three silicon-silicon bonds and at least one terminal silicon atom having three hydrogen substituents.
US08575378B2
Methods of producing plant polyols from plant oils include reacting a plant oil with a designed reactant having one or more nucleophilic functional groups and one or more active hydrogen functional groups in the presence of an addition reaction catalyst in a single reaction step. The resultant polyols may be directly reacted with polyisocyanates to produce polyurethanes.
US08575376B2
A compound with general formula I for treatment of various diseases of the central nervous system, in treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders related to imbalance of glutamatergic neurotransmitter system, ischemic damage of CNS, neurodegenerative changes and disorders of CNS, affective disorders, depression, PTSD and other diseases related to stress, anxiety, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, pain, addictions, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and gliomas.
US08575372B2
Disclosed are derivatives of isosorbide having formula (I) wherein R′ and R″ represent hydrogen or a polymeric ether moiety (CH2—CHR1—O)x—H, where R1 represents hydrogen, or an alkyl or alkenyl moiety having 1 to 33 carbon atoms, which is saturated or unsaturated, branched or linear. This polymeric ether moiety can be a homopolymer or a copolymer, with x being the total degree of polymerization (DP). Preferred is a block copolymer composed of monomer A (DP=a), preferably ethylene oxide or propylene oxide, and monomer B (DP=b), preferably a saturated or unsaturated, branched or linear alkyl or alkenyl moiety having 1 to 33 carbon atoms, where x=a+b. x is a number from 0 to 50, with the proviso that R′ and R″ are not both hydrogen. The isosorbide derivatives are useful as components of detergent, cleanser, cosmetic and agricultural compositions.
US08575363B2
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating various diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders, including pain. Such compounds, and enantiomers, diastereomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein Y, Z, and R1, and R2 are defined herein.
US08575360B2
Derivatives of 6,7-dihydro-5H-imidazo[1,2-a]imidazole-3-carboxylic acid amide exhibit good inhibitory effect upon the interaction of CAMs and Leukointegrins and are thus useful in the treatment of inflammatory disease.
US08575355B2
Described herein are D-π-A type sensitizers of the formula (I) or (II) having a novel central π-conjugated unit di-thiazolyl-benzodiazole and dye-sensitized electrodes including a substrate having an electrically conductive surface, an oxide semiconductor film formed on the conductive surface, and the above sensitizer of formula (I) or (II), as specified above, supported on the film. A solar cell includes the above electrode, a counter electrode, and an electrolyte deposited there between. The sensitizers of formula (I) and (II) efficiently sensitize the semiconductor materials and show a high solar to electricity conversion efficiency.
US08575349B2
The present invention relates to novel derivatives of 1-alkyl-6-oxo-piperidine-3-carboxylic acids and 1-alkyl-5-oxo-pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acids represented by Formula I: wherein n is an integer of 1 or 2; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and methyl; X is selected from the group consisting of oxygen and nitrogen; and R5 is hydrogen or a C1-C7 linear or branched acyclic hydrocarbon group, or R5 together with X form a 3- to 8-membered heterocyclic hydrocarbon group, and their uses as cooling compounds.
US08575347B2
Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Antagonists and methods of using them are provided.
US08575333B2
The present invention relates to a novel family of alkylated halogenated di- and trisaccharides which exhibit pharmaceutical efficacy in the areas of permeation enhancers, anti-microbial effects, anti-fugal effects, facilitation of diagnostic procedures. The invention further includes methods of treatment and diagnostic kits.
US08575332B2
The present invention provides long-acting sustained-release formulations of drugs such as proteins or peptides, which are injectable, completely biodegradable and safe, as well as ensuring efficient encapsulation of the drugs such as proteins or peptides without inhibiting their biological activity. It is possible to achieve injectable sustained-release formulations that ensure efficient encapsulation and long-term sustained release of drugs such as proteins or peptides while retaining their biological activity, when a solution containing a drug and a polysaccharide derivative such as hyaluronic acid having a crosslinkable functional group(s) or a salt thereof is dehydrated in microparticulate form starting from a dilute state, where crosslinking proceeds slowly, to reach a concentration which facilitates crosslinking, to thereby cause crosslinking reaction during concentration, so that the drug is encapsulated into the crosslinked polysaccharide to give drug-carrying microparticles.
US08575327B2
Conserved consensus sequences from known hepatitis B virus strains and known hepatitis C virus strains, which are useful in inhibiting the expression of the viruses in mammalian cells, are provided. These sequences are useful to silence the genes of HBV and HCV, thereby providing therapeutic utility against HBV and HCV viral infection in humans.
US08575317B2
The present inventors successfully obtained anti-NR10 antibodies having an effective neutralizing activity against NR10. The anti-NR10 antibodies provided by the present invention are useful as, for example, pharmaceuticals for treating or preventing inflammatory diseases.
US08575316B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing abnormal bone metabolism targeting a protein encoded by a gene strongly expressed in osteoclasts. Specifically provided is a pharmaceutical composition containing an antibody which specifically recognizes human Siglec-15 and has an activity of inhibiting osteoclast formation, and the like.
US08575310B2
In general, the invention relates to novel bioactive pentapeptides from heat stabilized defatted rice bran having anti-cancer, anti-obesity, anti-Alzheimer and other health-promoting activities proteins. The bioactive pentapeptides can be incorporated into pharmaceutical, nutraceuticals and food compositions having at least the bioactive pentapeptide as an active ingredient.
US08575309B2
Methods and materials are provided for the production of glycosylated peptides that exhibit high affinity and specificity for delta opioid receptors. The methods and materials of the present invention may be used for treatment of conditions involving pain, such as acute pain and nociceptic pain, neuralgia and myalgia.
US08575306B2
Target and method for inhibition of bacterial RNA polymerase disclosed are targets and methods for specific binding and inhibition of RNAP from bacterial species.
US08575304B2
The invention relates to kinase ligands and polyligands. In particular, the invention relates to ligands, homopolyligands, and heteropolyligands that modulate MEK activity. The ligands and polyligands are utilized as research tools or as therapeutics. The invention includes linkage of the ligands, homopolyligands, and heteropolyligands to a cellular localization signal, epitope tag and/or a reporter. The invention also includes polynucleotides encoding the ligands and polyligands.
US08575289B1
Disclosed is a bio-based and environmentally friendly elastomer product from renewable agricultural substrates. Specifically, glutamine and arginine residues of gliadin are used as synthons to produce novel elastomeric product from the reaction of the oxirane groups of epoxidized vegetable oils under neat reaction conditions with the primary amide functionalities of glutamine and arginine to give the corresponding amidohyroxy gliadinyl triglycerides.
US08575288B2
A curable resin composition is provided which uses a fumarate copolymer which is excellent in thermal discoloration resistance as a binder component and is capable of forming details of a color filter. The curable resin composition of the present invention is a photocurable resin composition for forming a protective layer, RGB pixels, a black matrix or a spacer of a color filter, and contains as a binder component a fumarate copolymer having at least a molecular structure wherein a constituent unit represented by the following Formula 1 and a constituent unit having an acidic functional group(s) are linked, preferably further having a constituent unit with an ethylenically unsaturated bond: wherein, each of R1 and R2 is independently a branched C3-8 alkyl group which may be substituted, or a C4-8 cycloalkyl group which may be substituted.
US08575280B2
Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition including; (A) a carboxyl group-containing polyurethane prepared by using (a) a polyisocyanate compound (b) polyol compounds (c) a carboxyl group-containing dihydroxy compound as raw materials, (B) a curing agent, wherein the polyol compounds (b) are one or more kinds of polyol compound(s) selected from Group (I) and one or more kinds of polyol compound(s) selected from Group (II); Group I: polycarbonate polyol, polyether polyol, polyester polyol, and polylactone polyol, Group II: polybutadiene polyol, polysilicone having terminal hydroxyl groups, and such a polyol that has 18 to 72 carbon atoms and oxygen atoms present only in hydroxyl groups. The thermosetting resin composition can give a protection film for flexible printed circuits that has excellent long-term reliability of electric insulation, flexibility, and low warpage from curing shrinkage, and particularly low tackiness.
US08575279B2
The present invention is directed to a method for preparation of polyolefins containing exo-olefin chain ends. The method involves quenching a cationic quasi-living polyolefin polymer system with a nitrogen-containing five-membered aromatic ring having at least two hydrocarbyl substituent compounds attached to the ring.
US08575272B2
A polymer composition comprising (percent by weight):a) 57%-74%, of a crystalline propylene polymer having an amount of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C-MNR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 97.5 molar % and a polydispersity index ranging from 5 to 10;b) 8 to 15%, of an elastomeric copolymer of ethylene and propylene, the copolymer having an amount of recurring units deriving from ethylene ranging from 30 to 50%, and being partially soluble in xylene at ambient temperature; the polymer fraction soluble in xylene at ambient temperature having an intrinsic viscosity value ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 dl/g; and c) 18-28%, of ethylene homopolymer having an intrinsic viscosity value ranging from 1.5 to 4 dl/g; said composition having a value of melt flow rate ranging from 35 to 60 g/10 min, and the amount of hexane extractables lower than 4.0 wt %.
US08575271B2
The present invention concerns a monovinylaromatic polymer composition comprising a bio-sourced polymer dispersed phase and optionally a rubber dispersed phase wherein said bio-sourced polymer dispersed phase is predominantly made of particles having a size of less than 10 μm. The present invention also relates to a process (hereunder referred as the first process) to make said monovinylaromatic polymer composition, said process comprising admixing: a monovinylaromatic monomer, at least one bio-sourced polymer, optionally a rubber, at conditions effective to polymerize at least a part of the monovinylaromatic monomer and generate a compatibilizer of the bio-sourced polymer and monovinylaromatic polymer. The present invention also relates to a process (hereunder referred as the second process) to make said monovinylaromatic polymer composition, said process comprising admixing: a monovinylaromatic monomer, functionalized bio-sourced polymer-s), or mixtures of bio-sourced polymer(s) and functionalized bio-sourced polymer(s), optionally a rubber, at conditions effective to polymerize at least a part of the monovinylaromatic monomer. The present invention also relates to a process (hereunder referred as the third process) to make said monovinylaromatic polymer composition, said process comprising blending in the molten state functionalized bio-sourced polymer(s) (or mixtures of bio-sourced polymer(s) and functionalized bio-sourced polymer(s)) with monovinylaromatic polymer, said monovinylaromatic polymer comprising optionally a rubber.
US08575258B2
There is provided compositions and methods for producing three-dimensional objects by selective deposition modeling with a polar build material and a non-polar support material. The build material comprises a hydrocarbon wax material and a viscosity modifier, and the support material comprises a hydrocarbon alcohol wax material and a viscosity modifier. After the selective deposition modeling process has been completed, the object can be placed in a bath of polar solvent to remove the support material. The particular materials provided herein, and the post-processing methods associated therewith, provide for improved part quality of the three-dimensional object and for improved post-processing techniques. The three-dimensional objects can subsequently be used in a number of applications, such as patterns for investment casting.
US08575257B2
A flame retardant brominated rubber polymeric composition, wherein the composition can include ethylene propylene ethylidene norbornene rubber polymer and from 12 weight percent to 55 weight percent of bromine covalently bonded thereto. The method can include dissolving a liquid ethylene propylene ethylidene norbornene rubber polymer in hexane with myrcene, forming the composition. The method can include dissolving ethylene propylene ethylidene norbornene rubber polymer in hexane, forming a solution, and adding bromine, or blending N-bromo-succinimide into the solution, forming a suspension. The method can include heating the suspension and stifling the suspension until all bromine in the N-bromo-succinimide has reacted with the ethylene propylene ethylidene norbornene rubber polymer, forming the composition as a solid in a liquid. The method can include removing the liquid from the solid, and flashing off the hexane from the liquid to extract the composition.
US08575256B2
A product and processes comprising urethane polymer and at least one copolymer from a hydrophobic ethylenically unsaturated C4-C30 olefins copolymerized with polar monomers such as acrylates. One process optionally utilizes an acid source to modify/catalyze the reactivity of the polar monomer and/or radically activated repeat unit from the polar monomer to promote incorporation of the ethylenically unsaturated olefin. Other processes vary depending on which polymer if formed and/or dispersed first. The hybrid copolymer shows excellent adhesion to a variety of polymeric and/or polar substrates such as polyolefins, acrylate coatings, wood, etc.
US08575248B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass polymer compositions that act as both a tack agent and a fluxing agent for the assembly of microelectronic components onto a variety of substrate materials. Such polymer compositions embodiments encompass a sacrificial polymer, a carrier solvent, a thermal acid generator and, optionally, formic acid.
US08575244B2
The present invention relates to substituted N-(cyclo)alkylpyrrolidones as solvents for use in processes for preparing polyurethane dispersions.
US08575241B2
The present invention pertains to an aqueous solution of comb-branched polymers, having a (meth)acrylic skeleton functionalized by side-chains with hydrophilic alcoxy- or hydroxy-polyalkylene glycol functions, said solution remaining stable and workable at dry solids content levels greater than 60% of its weight. The invention also pertains to a method for manufacturing such solutions, as well as their use as a plasticizing agent, and hydraulic binder-based compositions containing them.
US08575235B2
A removable hydrophobic composition, a removable hydrophobic coating layer and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The removable hydrophobic composition comprises 0.1-50 parts by weight of nano-particles having diameters smaller than 100 nm and of which surfaces are modified with silicon hydride compound, 0.1-5 parts by weight of an adhesion regulator or adhesion inhibitor, 100 parts by weight of a solvent, and 0.1-50 parts by weight of a polymer compound.
US08575234B2
An ink composition, and a method of forming a pattern, a color filter and a method of manufacturing the color filter using the same. The ink composition includes a binder resin, a multifunctional monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond, a coloring agent, a polymerization initiator containing a certain positive ion and a solvent. Therefore, the composition has excellent coating property and chemical resistance and also an improved adhesion to a printing member, and thus the ink composition may be useful in forming a precise micropattern using a roll printing method, particularly a reversed printing method.
US08575232B2
Provided are coating composition containing an organic polymer particle (A) composed of an organic polymer having a hydroxyl group and a cationic group in a molecule, the weight average particle size of which being 10 to 35 μm, and a base resin (B), wherein the content of the organic polymer particle (A) is 0.5 to 5.0% by weight in the solid content of the coating composition, and a method of producing the same, and a coating film and underwater structure using the coating composition. The base resin (B) has a group represented by the following general formula (1): —COO-M-OCO-A (1) (wherein, M represents a divalent or higher valent metal, and A represents an organic acid residue of monobasic acid) or a group represented by the following general formula (2): —COO—Si(R1R2R3) (2) (wherein, R1, R2 and R3, which may be the same or different, represent an isopropyl group or an n-butyl group) in a side chain, or has a cross-linking structure represented by the following general formula (3): —COO-M-OCO— (3) (wherein, M represents the same meaning as described above).
US08575226B2
A building material composite that includes a building substrate at least partially lined with a urethane material. The urethane material of the present invention is typically the reaction product of an A-side that includes an isocyanate and a B-side that typically includes: a blown vegetable oil, a cross-linking agent, and a catalyst; a blown vegetable oil and a multifunctional alcohol; or an esterified polyol and a catalyst where the esterified polyol is typically the reaction product of a first polyol and a blown vegetable oil.
US08575215B2
A method of treating a neurodegenerative or cardiovascular disorder with a compound of the following formula: in which X, Y, A1, A2, R1, and R2 are defined herein.
US08575211B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising as active substances: at least one compound of the following general formula (I): and at least one compound of the following general formula (V): especially for its use in the prevention or treatment of pain.
US08575207B2
Disclosed herein is a method of upregulating regulatory T-cells, and treating diseases that would benefit from such upregulation, by administering an alpha 2 receptor agonist.
US08575205B2
Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for the prophylaxis and treatment of infections caused by viruses of the Pneumovirinae subfamily of Paramyxoviridae and diseases associated with such infection.
US08575193B2
Compounds of a certain formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, X, Y, r, s, t, u and v have the meanings as defined in the specification, and the salts, solvates and hydrates thereof are novel effective HDAC 6 inhibitors.
US08575189B2
The present invention provides tacrolimus containing ointment having low dermal irritation and excellent stability. It was found that an ointment comprising triacetin as a solubilizer for tacrolimus may sufficiently solubilize tacrolimus, has low dermal irritation and excellent stability. Preferably, the ointment of the present invention is an o/o type (oil-in-oil type) ointment in which tacrolimus-solubilized triacetin droplets are dispersed in an ointment base, preferably a mixture of beeswax and petrolatum.
US08575188B2
Various 14-nitro, 14-amino, and 14-substituted amino camptothecin derivatives are useful in the treatment of cancer and other hyperproliferative diseases. 14-Nitro camptothecin derivatives are conveniently prepared by reacting a camptothecin derivative with fuming nitric acid, optionally employing acetic anhydride as a solvent.
US08575186B2
The present invention relates to epiminocycloalkyl[b]indole derivatives as serotonin sub-type 6 (5-HT6) modulators, pharmaceutical compositions including these compounds, and methods of preparation and use thereof. These compounds are useful in the treatment of central nervous system disorders including obesity, metabolic syndrome, cognition, and schizophrenia. The subject compounds have the structure of formula (I) with the substituents being described herein.
US08575169B2
Compositions and methods for treatment of sexual dysfunctions by administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a delta opioid receptor agonist in an amount effective to delay the onset of ejaculation in the subject during sexual stimulation.
US08575163B2
Pyrrolopyridinylpyrimidin-2-ylamine derivatives of the formula (I), in which R1-R6 and R1 have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are inhibitors of cell proliferation/cell vitality and can be employed for the treatment of tumours.
US08575158B2
The present invention relates to 1-phenyl-substituted heterocyclyl derivatives of the formula (I), wherein X, Y, Z, n, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R10 are as described in the description and their use as prostaglandin receptor modulators, most particularly as prostaglandin D2 receptor modulators, in the treatment of various prostaglandin-mediated diseases and disorders, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and to processes for their preparation.
US08575151B1
Drug substances comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid addition salt of amine containing pharmaceutically active compounds useful for the treatment of a therapeutic ailment administration and exhibiting prophylactic properties when employed in non-therapeutic administration.
US08575149B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of Formula (I): which act as 5HT2C receptor modulators. These compounds are useful in pharmaceutical compositions whose use includes the treatment of obesity.
US08575143B2
Compounds represented by Structural Formula (I): are useful, for example, in the effective killing or reducing the rate of proliferation of cancer cells, such as in patients suffering from cancer. In addition to the compounds themselves, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds and method of treatment using the compounds.
US08575131B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a uronic acid-containing glucan or a modified product thereof. The glucuronic acid-containing glucan of the present invention is a glucuronic acid-containing glucan in which a glucuronic acid residue is bound to at least one non-reducing end of a glucan, and the glucan is a branched α-1,4 glucan or a linear α-1,4 glucan. The glucuronic acid-containing glucan of the present invention can be provided by allowing α-glucan phosphorylase derived from Aquifex aeolicus VF5 to act on glucuronic acid-1-phosphate to thereby transfer a glucuronic acid residue to the non-reducing end of the receptor glucan.
US08575130B2
The present invention is related to a hyaluronic acid formulation including a mixture of hyaluronic acids having different weight-average molecular weight and different rheological, tissue scaffold, insulation and degradation properties in aqueous solution. The resulting formulation demonstrated an optimal balance between adhesion, tissue scaffold, insulation and treating time on the treatment and prevention of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Thus, the formulation of the present invention exhibits a quick and lasting effect on the treatment and prevention of duodenal or peptic ulcer and bleeding which is very good thing indeed.
US08575129B2
An amide of hyaluronic acid or a derivative thereof which comprises at least one repetitive unit of general formula (I): wherein R=NR6R7, or alcoholic group of the aliphatic, aromatic, arylaliphatic, cycloaliphatic, heterocyclic series, OH, O—, alcoholic group of hyaluronic acid, amino group of deacylated hyaluronic acid; R1, R2, R3, R4=H, SO3—, acyl group derived from a carboxylic acid of the aliphatic, aromatic, arylaliphatic, cycloaliphatic, heterocyclic series, —CO—(CH2)2—COOY; Y=negative charge, or H; R5=—CO—CH3, H, SO3—, acyl group derived from a carboxylic acid of the aliphatic, aromatic, arylaliphatic, cycloaliphatic, heterocyclic series, acylic group of hyaluronic acid; R6=is H or a aliphatic, aromatic, arylaliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or heterocyclic group, substituted or unsubstituted; R7=is H or an aliphatic, aromatic, arylaliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or heterocyclic group, substituted or unsubstituted; wherein at least one of R or R5 forms an amide group.
US08575128B2
The invention relates to methods for transdifferentiation of body tissues which can be used to generate specific cell types needed for regenerating organs or body parts, following cellular degeneration, injury or amputation. The present invention also describes the use of tissue transdifferentiation for treating cancer and autoimmune disease.
US08575120B2
Compositions and methods for the detection and treatment of T1D are provided.
US08575112B2
Provided herein are peptide modulators of ion channels. Specifically, the peptide modulators comprise the amino acid sequence VEDEC wherein V is valine, E is glutamate, D is aspartate, C is cysteine. In certain embodiments, the modulator is attached to the C-terminal end of Slo1 protein isoform. The present invention also claims conjugations of the first valine that make the peptide modulator more membrane permeable, such as myristoyl moieties and arginine-rich cell penetrating peptides. The present invention contemplates use of the peptide modulators in the treatment of diseases/malfunctions such as epilepsy, chronic pain, migraine, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, urinary incontinence, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, renal disorders of electrolyte imbalance, and possibly in certain kinds of cancer.
US08575109B2
The present invention provides novel, modified pokeweed antiviral proteins, nucleic acids that encode the proteins, conjugates that incorporate the proteins, and methods to make and use the proteins. The present invention also provides methods to administer the conjugates to animals, for the purpose of directing toxin to particular cells.
US08575106B2
Cosmetic compositions comprising a metal-complexed peptide fraction of stressed yeast extracts and/or a calcium influx inhibitor are disclosed, as well as methods of using such compositions to impart exfoliating, anti-aging, anti-lipid, anti-inflammatory, and/or lightening benefits to the skin; and/or lightening benefits to the hair. These compositions are believed to have modulatory activity against at least one biochemical pathway implicated in skin aging, inflammation, lipid synthesis, and melanin production.
US08575105B2
The present invention relates to the use of an Engrailed transcription factor for producing a medicament for anxiolytic purposes.
US08575101B2
Supplemented matrices comprising a PTH releasably incorporated therein, optionally containing a granular material, which are used to heal bone fractures, particularly bone fractures with a risk of becoming delayed unions or non-unions, are described herein. The PTH is incorporated either through covalent linkage to the matrix or through non-covalent interaction with the matrix and/or the granules. These supplemented matrices decrease the time of healing compared to autograft and or trigger healing of bone fractures which otherwise would not heal. The matrices are biocompatible, preferably biodegradable, and can be formed in vitro or in vivo, at the time of implantation. The PTH may be a part of a fusion peptide. PTH can be incorporated into the matrices with full retention of its bioactivity. PTH can be releasably incorporated in the matrix.
US08575097B2
The invention provides a novel Exendin variant and the Exendin variant conjugate conjugating polymer thereon, the pharmaceutical composition comprising them and use of them for treating diseases such as reducing blood glucose, treating diabetes, especially Type II diabetes. The invention also provides the use of Exendin conjugate for lowering body weight.
US08575092B2
Biodegradable carriers synthesized from ricinoleic acid oligoesters and aliphatic molecules having at least one carboxylic acid and at least one hydroxy or carboxylic acid group that are liquids or pastes at temperatures below 37° C. and methods of making and using thereof are described herein. The polymers described herein significantly increase their viscosity upon immersion in aqueous medium. These polymers can be used as hydrophobic biomedical sealants, temporary barriers to prevent adhesions, such as organ to organ adhesion, cell supports, carriers for drug delivery, and coatings on implantable medical devices, such as stents. The polymers made from ricinoleic acid oligoesters are less viscous and easier to inject compared to polymers of similar composition and molecular weight prepared from ricinoleic acid monomers, possess a higher molecular weight, retain an incorporated drug for longer periods, and degrade into soft degradation products at a slower rate compared with polymers synthesized from ricinoleic acid monomers. Pharmaceutically active agents can be incorporated into the liquid or pastes without the use of organic solvents.
US08575086B2
The present invention provides a flavor and fragrance composition which comprises, as the active ingredient, an optically active (1S)-8-mercaptomenthone having an S-form/R-form mixing ratio for the configuration at the 4-position in the range of from 65:35 to 95:5 by weight, wherein the flavor and fragrance composition is for use in food and beverage, fragrances and cosmetics, pharmaceuticals or oral compositions and the like; a product which is scented with the flavor and fragrance composition; and a method for enhancing or modulating odor of the flavor and fragrance composition by adding the optically active (1S)-8-mercaptomenthone.
US08575085B2
The present invention provides an anti-microbial composition comprising (i) an antimicrobial agent with surfactant properties, (ii) a siloxane selected from those having the formulae V:(H3C)[SiO(CH3)2]nSi(CH3)3, and (H3C)[SiO(CH3)HnSi(CH3)3, and mixtures thereof, wherein n is from 1 to 24; and (iii) a polar solvent, wherein the ratio of (i) to (ii) is from about 100:1 to about 5:1.
US08575075B2
Aqueous well treatment fluid compositions are disclosed comprising an aqueous fluid containing polymer or copolymer for modifying fluid viscosity of the aqueous fluid and, in addition, an agent for effecting a controlled reduction in the aqueous fluid viscosity in a subterranean environment. The viscosity-reducing agent comprises a dilute concentration of peracetic acid. A method of using such compositions in oil- and gas-field treatment operations is also disclosed.
US08575074B2
Insensitive explosive compositions were prepared by reacting di-isocyanate and/or poly-isocyanate monomers with an explosive diamine monomer. Prior to a final cure, the compositions are extrudable. The di-isocyanate monomers tend to produce tough, rubbery materials while polyfunctional monomers (i.e. having more than two isocyanate groups) tend to form rigid products. The extrudable form of the composition may be used in a variety of applications including rock fracturing.
US08575067B2
A herbicidal composition comprising a herbicidal sulfonylurea compound or its salt, and an alkoxylated glyceride. A method for controlling undesired plants or inhibiting their growth, which comprises applying a herbicidally effective amount of the herbicidal composition to the undesired plants or to a place where they grow. A method for enhancing the herbicidal effect of a herbicidal sulfonylurea compound or its salt by means of an alkoxylated glyceride.
US08575056B2
The present invention describes a method of preparing a catalytic composition used for oligomerization, co-dimerization or polymerization of olefins, wherein the compound obtained upon contacting at least one iron compound with at least one nitrogen-containing compound is subjected to an oxidation stage prior to being mixed with an activating agent and optionally with a solvent.The present invention also describes the catalytic composition obtained by means of said preparation method and the use thereof for oligomerization, co-dimerization or polymerization of olefins.
US08575052B2
Provided is a dielectric ceramic that includes a main component which contains Mg2SiO4 and additives which contain a zinc oxide and a glass component, in which, in X-ray diffraction. The peak intensity ratio, IB/IA, of the X-ray diffraction peak intensity IB of zinc oxide remaining unreacted, for which 2θ is between 31.0° and 32.0° and between 33.0° and 34.0°, with respect to the peak intensity IA of Mg2SiO4 as the main phase, for which 2θ is between 36.0° and 37.0°, is 10% or less. The dielectric ceramic has a relative density of 96% or greater.
US08575047B2
The present invention relates to an optical glass with a high refractive index and good precision press moldability, and a preform for precision press molding and an optical element that are comprised of the optical glass. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing an optical element, a lens unit being equipped with an optical element and an image pickup device being equipped with a lens unit.
US08575042B2
In a low-temperature, a silicon nitride film having a low in-film chlorine (Cl) content and a high resistance to hydrogen fluoride (HF) is formed. The formation of the silicon nitride film includes (a) supplying a monochlorosilane (SiH3Cl or MCS) gas to a substrate disposed in a processing chamber, (b) supplying a plasma-excited hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate disposed in the processing chamber, (c) supplying a plasma-excited or heat-excited nitrogen-containing gas to the substrate disposed in the processing chamber, (d) supplying at least one of a plasma-excited nitrogen gas and a plasma-excited rare gas to the substrate disposed in the processing chamber, and (e) performing a cycle including the steps (a) through (d) a predetermined number of times to form a silicon nitride film on the substrate.
US08575038B2
To provide a method for reducing a thickness of an interfacial layer, which contains: (a) forming a film of an oxide of a first metal on a semiconductor layer via an oxide film of a semiconducdor serving as an interfacial layer; and (b) forming a film of an oxide of a second metal on the film of the oxide of the first metal, where the second metal has higher valency than that of the first metal.
US08575035B2
A method of forming trenches in a semiconductor device includes forming an etchant barrier layer above a first portion of a semiconductor layer. A first trench is etched in a second portion of the semiconductor layer using a first etchant. The second portion of the semiconductor layer is not disposed underneath the etchant barrier layer. The etchant barrier layer is etched through using a second etchant that does not substantially etch the semiconductor layer. A second trench is etched in the first portion of the semiconductor layer using a third etchant. The third etchant also extends a depth of the first trench.
US08575022B2
A structure and method for fabricating the structure that provides a metal wire having a first height at an upper surface. An insulating material surrounding said metal wire is etched to a second height below said first height of said upper surface. The metal wire from said upper surface, after etching said insulating material, is planarized to remove sufficient material from a lateral edge portion of said metal wire such that a height of said lateral edge portion is equivalent to said second height of said insulating material surrounding said metal wire.
US08575018B2
A semiconductor wafer has a first conductive layer formed over its active surface. A first insulating layer is formed over the substrate and first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer and first insulating layer. A UBM layer is formed around a bump formation area over the second conductive layer. The UBM layer can be two stacked metal layers or three stacked metal layers. The second conductive layer is exposed in the bump formation area. A second insulating layer is formed over the UBM layer and second conductive layer. A portion of the second insulating layer is removed over the bump formation area and a portion of the UBM layer. A bump is formed over the second conductive layer in the bump formation area. The bump contacts the UBM layer to seal a contact interface between the bump and second conductive layer.
US08575015B2
One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit that includes a lateral trench MOSFET disposed in a semiconductor body. The lateral trench MOSFET includes source and drain regions having a body region therebetween. A gate electrode region is disposed in a trench that extends beneath the surface of the semiconductor body at least partially between the source and drain. A gate dielectric separates the gate electrode region from the semiconductor body. In addition, a field plate region in the trench is coupled to the gate electrode region, and a field plate dielectric separates the field plate region from the semiconductor body. Other integrated circuits and methods are also disclosed.
US08575007B2
The invention includes embodiments of a method for designing a flip chip and the resulting structure. The starting point is a flip chip with a semiconductor substrate, one or more wiring levels, and a plurality of I/O contact pads (last metal pads/bond pads) for receiving and sending electrical current. There is also a plurality of C4 bumps for connecting the I/O contact pads to another substrate. Then it is determined which of the C4s of the plurality of C4 bumps have a level of susceptibility to electromigration damage that meets or exceeds a threshold level of susceptibility, and in response, plating a conductive structure with a high electrical current carrying capacity (such as a copper pillar, copper pedestal, or partial copper pedestal) onto the corresponding I/O contact pads and adding a solder ball to a top portion of the conductive structure. The resulting structure is a flip chip wherein only a select few C4 bumps use enhanced C4s (such as copper pedestals) reducing the chance of defects.
US08575003B2
Presented is a method for producing an optoelectronic component. The method includes separating a semiconductor layer based on a III-V-compound semiconductor material from a substrate by irradiation with a laser beam having a plateau-like spatial beam profile, where individual regions of the semiconductor layer are irradiated successively.
US08575000B2
A semiconductor device including a plurality of copper interconnects. At least a first portion of the plurality of copper interconnects has a meniscus in a top surface. The semiconductor device also includes a plurality of air gaps, wherein each air gap of the plurality of air gaps is located between an adjacent pair of at least the first portion of the plurality of bit lines.
US08574998B2
A method for reducing the leakage current in DRAM MIM capacitors comprises forming a multi-layer dielectric stack from an amorphous highly doped material, an amorphous high band gap material, and a lightly or non-doped material. The highly doped material will remain amorphous (<30% crystalline) after an anneal step. The high band gap material will remain amorphous (<30% crystalline) after an anneal step. The lightly or non-doped material will become crystalline (≧30% crystalline) after an anneal step. The high band gap material is formed between the amorphous highly doped material and the lightly or non-doped material and provides an intermediate barrier to conduction through the multi-layer dielectric stack.
US08574992B2
A vertical interconnect architecture for a three-dimensional (3D) memory device suitable for low cost, high yield manufacturing is described. Conductive lines (e.g. word lines) for the 3D memory array, and contact pads for vertical connectors used for couple the array to decoding circuitry and the like, are formed as parts of the same patterned level of material. The same material layer can be used to form the contact pads and the conductive access lines by an etch process using a single mask. By forming the contact pads concurrently with the conductive lines, the patterned material of the contact pads can protect underlying circuit elements which could otherwise be damaged during patterning of the conductive lines.
US08574984B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device includes defining a first area by forming a separating area on a substrate, and forming a tunnel film in the first area, a floating gate on the tunnel film, a first electrode in the separating area, a first film on the floating gate, a second film on the first electrode, a control gate on the first film, a second electrode on the second film, and source and drain areas in the first area. The method includes forming a first interlayer film to cover the control gate and the second electrode, forming, in the first interlayer film, a conductive via plug reaching the second electrode, and forming, on the first interlayer film, a second wiring electrically coupled to the second electrode via the conductive via plug, and a first wiring that is capacitively-coupled to the second wiring and to the second electrode.
US08574976B2
A TFT having a high threshold voltage is connected to the source electrode of each TFT that constitutes a CMOS circuit. In another aspect, pixel thin-film transistors are constructed such that a thin-film transistor more distant from a gate line drive circuit has a lower threshold voltage. In a further aspect, a control film that is removable in a later step is formed on the surface of the channel forming region of a TFT, and doping is performed from above the control film.
US08574975B2
A semiconductor device includes: an e-fuse gate, a floating pattern between the e-fuse gate and an e-fuse active portion, a blocking dielectric pattern between the floating pattern and the e-fuse gate, and an e-fuse dielectric layer between the floating pattern and the e-fuse active portion. The floating pattern includes a first portion between the e-fuse gate and the e-fuse active portion and a pair of second portions extended upward along both sidewalls of the e-fuse gate from both edges of the first portion.
US08574972B2
After a fin-semiconductor region (13) is formed on a substrate (11), impurity-containing gas and oxygen-containing gas are used to perform plasma doping on the fin-semiconductor region (13). This forms impurity-doped region (17) in at least side portions of the fin-semiconductor region (13).
US08574970B2
A MOSFET device is formed on top of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having a semiconductor layer with a thickness ranging from 3 nm to 20 nm. A stair-shape raised extension, a raised source region and a raised drain region (S/D) are formed on top of the SOI substrate. The thinner raised extension region abuts at a thin gate sidewall spacer, lowering the extension resistance without significantly increasing the parasitic resistance. A single epitaxial growth forms the thinner raised extension and the thicker raised S/D preferably simultaneously, reducing the fabrication cost as well as the contact resistance between the raised S/D and the extension. A method of forming the aforementioned MOSFET device is also provided.
US08574965B2
A method of manufacturing is provided that includes providing a semiconductor chip device that has a circuit board and a first semiconductor chip coupled thereto. A lid is placed on the circuit board. The lid includes an opening and an internal cavity. A liquid thermal interface material is placed in the internal cavity for thermal contact with the first semiconductor chip and the circuit board.
US08574963B2
Occurrence of a void is suppressed when mounting semiconductor chips over a wiring substrate via a paste-like adhesive material. A die bonding step is provided which mounts semiconductor chips over a chip-mounting region of the wiring substrate via the adhesive material. The wiring substrate includes a plurality of wirings (first wirings) and dummy wirings (second wirings) formed on an upper surface of a core layer. The chip-mounting region is provided over the first wirings and the second wirings. In addition, the die bonding step includes a step of applying the adhesive material over an adhesive material application region over the chip-mounting region. Each of the second wirings is extended along a direction in which the adhesive material spreads in the die bonding step.
US08574962B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises the steps of (a) applying a resin member onto a front surface of a semiconductor wafer having an uneven structure on the front surface thereof, and (b) flattening a surface of the resin member by heating the resin member, and in the method, the resin member is formed also on a side surface of the semiconductor wafer. The method further comprises the steps of (c) performing a thinning process for the semiconductor wafer on a back surface thereof after the step (b), and (d) removing the resin member from the semiconductor wafer after the step (c). By the method, it is possible to uniformize the thickness of a semiconductor wafer which is thinned and reduce the number of foreign matters remaining on a surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US08574952B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes the steps of: (1) coating a solution containing an organic semiconductor material on a water-repellent surface of a water-repellent stamp substrate; (2) drying the thus coated organic semiconductor material-containing solution on the water-repellent surface to crystallize the organic semiconductor material in contact with the water-repellent surface, thereby forming a semiconductor layer; (3) thermally treating the semiconductor layer formed on the stamp substrate; and (4) pressing the stamp substrate at a side, in which the thermally treated organic semiconductor layer is formed, against a surface of a substrate to be transferred so that the organic semiconductor layer is transferred to the surface of the substrate to be transferred.
US08574951B1
A process of manufacturing the interdigitated back-contact solar cell, with the use of screen printing or spraying and the use of chemical etching, forms the trenches for the P-type electrode on the back of the substrate for making the solar cell. The time-consuming process of photolithography (for example, at least two steps of high-temperature diffusion) can be avoided. Furthermore, only one machine for printing and etching is needed to form the structure of the interdigitated back-contact solar cell. The present invention can make the whole process time-efficient and low-cost to enhance the efficiency of the solar cell, fulfilling the demand of mass production.
US08574950B2
A method for manufacturing one or more electrically contactable grids on at least one surface of a semiconductor substrate for use in a solar cell product includes the following. A heat-sensitive masking agent layer is deposited on the surface of the substrate of the solar cell product. The masking agent layer is locally heated to form a grid mask. Selected parts of the masking agent layer defined by locally heating are removed to form openings in the grid mask. A contact metallization is applied on the grid mask.
US08574949B2
Embodiments of the current invention describe methods of forming different types of crystalline silicon based solar cells that can be combinatorially varied and evaluated. Examples of these different types of solar cells include front and back contact silicon based solar cells, all-back contact solar cells and selective emitter solar cells. These methodologies all incorporate the formation of site-isolated regions using a combinatorial processing tool and the use of these site-isolated regions to form the solar cell area. Therefore, multiple solar cells may be rapidly formed on a single crystalline silicon substrate for use in combinatorial methodologies. Any of the individual processes of the methods described may be varied combinatorially to test varied process conditions or materials.
US08574940B2
A flexible optoelectronic device having inverted electrode structure is disclosed. The flexible optoelectronic device having inverted electrode structure includes a flexible plastic substrate having a cathode structure, an n-type oxide semiconductor layer, an organic layer, and an anode. The n-type oxide semiconductor layer is disposed on the cathode structure. The organic layer is disposed on the n-type oxide semiconductor layer. The anode is electrically connected with the organic layer.
US08574924B2
An assay method is described, which comprises the steps of immobilizing a binding partner (e.g., an antigen or antibody) for an analyte to be detected (e.g., an antibody or antigen) on a portion of a surface of a microfluidic chamber; passing a fluid sample over the surface and allowing the analyte to bind to the binding partner; allowing a metal colloid, e.g., a gold-conjugated antibody, to associate with the bound analyte; flowing a metal solution, e.g., a silver solution, over the surface such as to form an opaque metallic layer; and detecting the presence of said metallic layer, e.g., by visual inspection or by measuring light transmission through the layer, conductivity or resistance of the layer, or metal concentration in the metal solution after flowing the metal solution over the surface.
US08574922B2
This disclosure describes a portable device that conveniently applies cancer patient blood sample into a test strip to determine the level of the patient's metastatic circulating tumor cells. Proper use of this device provides end users with the diagnostic and prognostic information of the cancer patient, and any effect of applied therapies. The device can also be used to screen effective drugs for any known metastatic phenotype disruption.
US08574921B2
Provided is an optical sensing membrane, including a mixture of two or more fluorescent dyes for detection of dissolved oxygen concentration, pH and temperature, immobilized on a support, a detection device including the optical sensing membrane and a detection method using the detection device.
US08574917B2
Disclosed is a pigment that changes color upon exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas. The pigment may be ground or otherwise reduced to small particles and used in coatings, dyes, paints or inks. Potential applications for paints and inks include the production of warning indicators for the presence of hydrogen gas in areas where such presence may pose a hazard. Warning decals may be printed with pigmented ink and posted in areas of potential hydrogen hazard. In the presence of hydrogen sulfide gas, the decals can display a warning by causing a change in the color of a printed message. Objects may also be coated with pigmented paints so that if a hydrogen sulfide leak occurs from within or nearby the object, the color of the object changes to provide a warning of the presence of leaked hydrogen sulfide. Example applications of such painted objects include any industrial process containing hydrogen sulfide.
US08574915B2
Provided are methods for determining the amount of thyroglobulin in a sample using various purification steps followed by mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve purifying thyroglobulin in a test sample, digesting thyroglobulin to form peptide T129, purifying peptide T129, ionizing peptide T129, detecting the amount of peptide T129 ion generated, and relating the amount of peptide T129 ion to the amount of thyroglobulin originally present in the sample.
US08574911B2
The present invention provides a method for producing an yeast having an increased cellulose hydrolysis ability. The method includes the step of introducing increased integration copy numbers of both a gene for an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing crystalline cellulose and a gene for an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing noncrystalline cellulose into a noncellulolytic yeast to give a transformed yeast. The yeast having an increased cellulose hydrolysis ability can be suitably used for ethanol production from cellulose-based materials.
US08574910B2
A targeting method is described that allows precise cassette replacement at a previously characterized genetic locus. A target DNA construct containing a pair of incompatible FRT sites flanking a target cassette was introduced into soybean by regular biolistic transformation. Transgenic events containing a single complete copy of the target site were then selected and retransformed with a donor DNA construct containing the identical pair of incompatible FRT sites flanking a donor cassette. Precise DNA cassette exchange happened between the target cassette and the donor cassette via recombinase mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) so that the donor cassette was introduced at the exact genomic site previously occupied by the target cassette. Through repeated RMCE using additional incompatible FRT sites, multiple groups of transgenes can be stacked at the same genomic locus.
US08574908B2
A method for the production of young plants belonging to the group of herbaceous ornamentals, which method comprises an in vitro culture phase during which explants obtained from a parent stock of a species to be propagated, or derivatives of these explants, are subjected to micropropagation which is carried out under suitable conditions and on suitable culture media, in order to produce micro-plantlets which, when subjected to an in vivo culture phase, are intended to develop into a plant.
US08574905B2
Disclosed herein are methods for producing liver precursor cells as well as hepatocyte cells form pluripotent and/or multipotent cells. Also disclosed herein are methods of enriching isolating and/or purifying liver precursor cells and/or hepatocyte cells. Further disclosed are compositions comprising cell cultures and cell populations that are enriched for liver precursor cells or hepatocyte cells.
US08574895B2
A device is provided for use with a tissue penetrating system and/or a metering device for measuring analyte levels. The device comprises a cartridge and a plurality of analyte detecting members mounted on the cartridge. The cartridge may have a radial disc shape. The cartridge may also be sized to fit within the metering device. The analyte detecting members may be optical system using fluorescence lifetime to determine analyte levels. In one embodiment, the device may also include a fluid spreader positioned over at least a portion of the analyte detecting member to urge fluid toward one of the detecting members. A plurality of analyte detecting members may be used. Each analyte detecting member may be a low volume device.
US08574892B2
The methods and apparatus 100 disclosed herein concern DNA sequencing. In some embodiments of the invention, the methods comprise measuring the distance between labeled nucleotides 220, such as nucleotides labeled with bulky groups. The methods may further comprise placing identical template DNA 200 into four reaction chambers 110, 120, 130, 140, each containing a different labeled nucleotide precursor, synthesizing complementary strands 230, 240, 250 and detecting labeled nucleotides 220. The distances between labeled nucleotides 220 may be used to construct 450 distance maps 310, 320, 330, 340 for each type of labeled nucleotide 220. The distance maps 310, 320, 330, 340 may be aligned 520 to obtain a nucleic acid sequence 210. Overlapping data analysis and frequency analysis may be used to construct 450 the distance maps 310, 320, 330, 340 and non-overlapping data analysis may be used to align 520 the distance maps into a sequence 210.
US08574891B2
This invention relates to a nucleic acid analyzer comprising: reaction containers capable of containing nucleic-acid-containing samples and reagents; an incubation mechanism capable of controlling temperatures of reaction containers set at different levels; an analysis mechanism for analyzing the samples contained in the reaction containers; and a transport mechanism for transporting a reaction container. In accordance with the assay technique to be performed on a nucleic-acid-containing sample, the transport mechanism transports a reaction container to a given incubation mechanism in a given order. The reaction container subjected to the process of sample preparation is transported to the analysis mechanism at a given time and the sample is analyzed.
US08574888B2
The present invention provides a biological H2S removal system for the treatment of process gas, comprising: a housing that receives a process gas stream through a gas inlet, the housing comprising a plurality of layers through which the process gas stream flows while it is treated for H2S removal, and a gas outlet through which a treated gas stream exits; wherein air is added to the process gas stream prior to the process gas stream entering the housing.
US08574885B2
Disclosed is an isolated bacterium strain Candidatus Brocadia caroliniensis, having Accession Deposit Number NRRL B-50286. The strain is capable of oxidizing ammonium and releasing di-nitrogen gas.
US08574883B2
A method of co-extracting multiple proteins from chicken egg white is provided. Precipitate proteins step-by-step with polyethylene glycol, then separate the proteins via Q Sepharose Fast Flow anion-exchange chromatography. The method of co-extracting multiple proteins from chicken egg white is capable of obtaining five proteins simultaneously in one extraction process, and the protein products have high purity and high recovery ratio. And the method can be carried out only requiring common-used chromatographic filler, greatly reduces production cost, and provides favorable factors for large-scale industrial production of extracting protein from egg white.
US08574876B2
The present disclosure provides substantially enantiomerically pure heterobicyclic compounds of the following structural formulas, wherein A, M, M′, and R5 are as described herein, and to biocatalytic processes for their preparation, and to the enzymes used in those processes.
US08574875B2
The present invention relates to a novel bacterial strain designated DD1, which has the ability to produce organic acids, in particular succinic acid (SA), which was originally isolated from bovine rumen, and is capable of utilizing glycerol as a carbon source; and variant strains derived there from retaining said capability; as well as to methods of producing organic acids, in particular succinic acid by making use of said microorganism.
US08574858B2
The present disclosure provides immunoassays and kits for detection or quantification of an analyte of interest in a test sample that potentially contains endogenously produced autoantibodies reactive with the analyte.
US08574856B2
Methods for determining the efficiency of a therapeutic. In at least one embodiment of a method of determining the efficacy of a therapeutic compound, the method comprises the steps of treating a subject having a disease state with an effective amount of therapeutic compound, harvesting at least one cell from the subject following a treatment with the therapeutic compound, bringing the at least one cell into contact with a stabilizing compound capable of completely or substantially preventing the degradation or inactivation of a diagnostic marker for the disease state, analyzing the at least one stabilized cell for the at least one diagnostic marker, creating a marker profile from at least one result determined from analyzing the at least one stabilized cell, and comparing the marker profile with at least one previous marker profile to determine efficacy of the therapeutic compound on the disease state.
US08574853B2
The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize anthrax lethal factor (LF), edema factor (EF), and/or protective antigen (PA). The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining anthrax toxin-binding ability, fully human or humanized antibodies retaining anthrax toxin-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention.
US08574836B2
A method and apparatus for generating an Interphase chromosome profile. The method comprises obtaining a sample containing cells having chromosomes for profiling; obtaining species specific DNA probes, wherein the DNA probes are capable of marking at least one chromosome at substantially equidistant locations on said chromosome; hybridizing the sample with the DNA probes with plurality of fluorescent labels; and using visual analysis for determining the profile of the chromosome.
US08574828B2
A method is provided of determining whether an individual has reduced ability to form platelet thrombi due to inhibition of platelet activation initiation, signal transduction and/or GPIIb/IIIa blockade. A blood sample is obtained from the individual being assessed. The blood sample is mixed in combination with 1) an anticoagulant; 2) sufficient buffer to maintain the pH and salt concentration of the anticoagulated blood within a range suitable for platelet aggregation; 3) a platelet GPIIb/IIIa receptor ligand immobilized on a solid surface; 4) one or more agents to enhance a signal transduction pathway and 5) a receptor activator. The combination is incubated under conditions for agglutinating particles. Platelet-mediated agglutination is assessed in the agitated mixture. The absence of agglutination indicates that the individual has a reduced ability to form platelet thrombi.
US08574827B2
The present invention relates to regulation of angiogenesis and tumorigenesis. The invention further relates to methods for identifying and using agents, including small organic molecules, antibodies, peptides, cyclic peptides, nucleic acids, antisense nucleic acids, RNAi, and ribozymes, that modulate angiogenesis via modulation of endothelial cell haptotaxis; as well as to the use of expression profiles and compositions in diagnosis and therapy of angiogenesis and cancer.
US08574811B2
A resist composition contains; a resin having a structural unit derived from a compound represented by the formula (a); and an acid generator. wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 represents an optionally substituted C1 to C18 aliphatic hydrocarbon group; A1 represents an optionally substituted C1 to C6 alkanediyl group or a group represented by the formula (a-g1); wherein s represents 0 or 1; A10 and A12 independently represent an optionally substituted C1 to C5 aliphatic hydrocarbon group; A11 represents a single bond or an optionally substituted C1 to C5 aliphatic hydrocarbon group; X10 and X11 independently represents an oxygen atom, a carbonyl group, a carbonyloxy group or an oxycarbonyl group; provided that a total number of the carbon atom of A10, A11, A12, X10 and X11 is 6 or less.
US08574803B2
Disclosed is a toner that includes a mixture of a bio-based amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and a colorant.
US08574801B2
A toner is provided which has toner particles containing an aromatic compound represented by the following formula (1), and a colorant: wherein R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atom(s) or an alkoxyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atom(s); R4 to R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atom(s) or an alkoxyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atom(s); and m represents an integer of 1 to 3.
US08574800B2
A toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles and fatty acid metal salt particles. The content of the fatty acid metal salt particles is from 0.2 parts by weight to 5 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the toner particles; the weight of fatty acid metal salt particles remaining on a sieve having an opening of 25 μm when the toner is sieved with the sieve having an opening of 25 μm is from 0.015% by weight to 0.300% by weight with respect to the total weight of the toner; and the weight of fatty acid metal salt particles remaining on a sieve having an opening of 45 μm when the toner is sieved with the sieve having an opening of 45 μm is 0.030% by weight or less with respect to the total weight of the toner.
US08574796B2
A photoconductor that includes an optional anticurl layer, optional supporting substrate, an optional ground plane layer, an optional hole blocking layer, an optional ground strip segment, an optional adhesive layer, a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer that contains an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene polymer.
US08574787B2
A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of fuel cells stacked together, and a pair of end plates provided at opposite ends the fuel cells in the stacking direction. Further, the fuel cell stack includes coupling members bridging between the end plates, holding mechanisms provided in side surfaces of the end plates and the coupling members for applying tension in a tightening direction, and fixing mechanisms for fixing the side surfaces of the end plates and the coupling members together. The holding mechanism has a pin member inserted into the side surface of the end plate and the coupling member. Further, the fixing mechanism has a screw for fixing the coupling member to the side surface of the end plate.
US08574786B2
Anode catalysts for conversion of hydrocarbon feeds in solid oxide fuel cell membrane reactors. An anode catalyst may be a mixture of a metal with a metal oxide, for example a mixture of copper or copper-nickel alloy or copper-cobalt alloy with Cr2O3. Mixed oxides can be prepared by dissolving into water soluble salts of the different metals, chelating the metal ions with a chelating agent, neutralizing the solution, removing water by evaporation to form a gel which then is dried, and finally heating the dried gel to form a mixed oxide of the different metals. The chelating agent can be citrate ions, and ammonia can be added to the solution until the pH of the solution is about 8. The mixed oxide so formed then is reduced, for example by hydrogen, to form a composite comprising the metal (Cu, Cu—Co, Cu—Ni) and metal oxide, here Cr2O3. Typically, the composite oxides so formed comprise approximately spherical nanoparticles, and the reduced composites are nanoparticles comprising very small particles of the metal within a network of the oxide, Cr2O3.
US08574782B2
An example fuel cell repeater includes a separator plate and a frame establishing at least a portion of a flow path that is operative to communicate fuel to or from at least one fuel cell held by the frame relative to the separator plate. The flow path has a perimeter and any fuel within the perimeter flow across the at least one fuel cell in a first direction. The separator plate, the frame, or both establish at least one conduit positioned outside the flow path perimeter. The conduit is outside of the flow path perimeter and is configured to direct flow in a second, different direction. The conduit is fluidly coupled with the flow path.
US08574774B2
There is provided a negative electrode comprising an aluminum alloy, wherein the alloy has a magnesium content of 0.0001% by weight or higher and 8% by weight or lower, the alloy satisfies at least one condition selected from the group consisting of the following (A) and (B): (A) an iron content is 0.0001% by weight or higher and 0.03% by weight or lower, and (B) a silicon content is 0.0001% by weight or higher and 0.02% by weight or lower, and a content of each element other than aluminum, magnesium, silicon and iron in the alloy is 0.005% by weight or lower.
US08574770B2
A non-aqueous battery comprising a positive electrode material capable of being doped with and liberating lithium, a negative electrode material capable of being doped with and liberating lithium, and a polymer electrolyte disposed between the positive and negative electrode materials. The polymer electrolyte is formed by mixing a vinylidene fluoride copolymer and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution with a solvent, followed by evaporation of the solvent, so as to retain a high proportion of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution, leading to high electroconductivity and excellent strength in this state. The vinylidene fluoride copolymer comprises 80 to 97 wt. % of vinylidene fluoride monomer units and 3 to 20 wt. % of units of at least one monomer copolymerizable with vinylidene fluoride monomer, and has an inherent viscosity of 1.7 to 7 dl/g, as measured at 30° C. in a solution at a concentration of 4 g of polymer in 1 liter of N,N-dimethylformamide.
US08574766B2
A solid state battery excellent in pressure formability is provided. A positive electrode composite material layer includes sulfide glass unheated and a positive electrode active material. The sulfide glass and the positive electrode active material are pressure-formed and in contact with each other. A negative electrode composite material layer includes sulfide glass unheated and a negative electrode active material. The sulfide glass and the negative electrode active material are pressure-formed and in contact with each other.
US08574764B2
A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes Si active particles, and a 3-component to 7-component metal matrix that surrounds the active fine particles without reacting therewith. The negative active material shows high capacity and improved cycle-life characteristics.
US08574763B2
An electrode plate includes a current collector plate and an active material layer formed thereon. The active material layer includes, as a binder, a plurality of binders having different glass transition points (Tg) from each other. A ratio (A2/A1) between the amount of a binder contained in a surface section and the amount of a binder contained in a current collector plate section is 1.0 to 1.2. Further, an average glass transition point (Tgu) of the binder in the surface section is lower than an average glass transition point (Tgd) of the binder in the current collector plate section (Tgu
US08574762B2
Provided are negative electrode compositions for lithium-ion electrochemical cells that include metal oxides and polymeric binders. Also provided are electrochemical cells and battery packs that include electrodes made with these compositions.
US08574760B2
The present invention relates to an electrode comprising electrode active material particles, conductive particles, a binder and wax, wherein the electrode active material particles are interconnected by a network of the conductive particles, and the paths of the conductive particles interconnecting the electrode active materials are partially or entirely fixed by the wax. Furthermore, the present invention provides an electrochemical device comprising the electrode.By use of wax having a low meting viscosity in order to partially or entirely fix the paths of the conductive particles, which interconnect the spaced electrode active material particles, the present invention can improve processability and safety of the electrochemical device.
US08574757B2
A nonaqueous electrolytic solution that can provide a battery that is low in gas generation, has a large capacity, and is excellent in storage characteristics and cycle characteristics. The solution contains an electrolyte, a nonaqueous solvent, and one or more compounds represented by Formulae (2) and (3):
US08574749B2
A lithium secondary battery including: an electrode assembly including a center pin inside of the electrode assembly; a can including the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to a side of the can. At least one end of the center pin includes a deforming end to deform due to an impact power caused by a collision of the deforming end with an inner surface of the can and/or the cap assembly, preventing the center pin from protruding to an outside of the can and/or the cap assembly. Accordingly, the lithium secondary battery is safer by preventing a center pin from protruding when the cylindrical lithium secondary battery explodes due to an increase in internal pressure.
US08574746B2
The film-covered electrical device of the present invention includes covered portion (S1) where a portion of covering film (6) is folded to cover end surface (5d) of covering film (5) through which metal layer (5b) is exposed, non-covered portion (S2) where end surface (5d) of covering film (5) is not covered with folded covering film (6), sealing portion (8) (a first sealing portion) produced by thermally fusing thermally-fusible resin layer (6c) of covering film (6) and thermally-fusible resin layer (5c) of covering film (5), and portion B (a second sealing portion) produced by thermally fusing protective layer (5a) of covering film (5) and thermally-fusible resin layer (6c) of covering film (6), wherein sealing portion (8) (the first sealing portion and non-covered portion (S2)) is provided with a safety valve for releasing internal gas when a rise in internal pressure occurs.
US08574745B2
Provided is a resin composition superior in the adhesiveness to a metal and having high organic solvent resistance, particularly, a resin composition preferable as a sealant for an organic electrolyte battery, which shows superior adhesiveness to a terminal or a collector made of a highly heat resistant metal such as stainless steel and nickel, does not easily develop degradation even when contacted with an organic electrolytic solution at a high temperature, and does not easily influence an electrolytic solution, and a highly reliable organic electrolyte battery wherein leaching of an electrolytic solution from an electrolyte layer is prevented by the resin composition.A resin composition containing (A) an epoxy resin containing at least (E1) an epoxy resin having an aromatic ring and an alicyclic skeleton and (B) a latent curing agent.
US08574741B2
A method for controlling a plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries that, in an interconnected system in which a power generation device that fluctuates in output and an electric power storage-compensation device are combined to supply power to an electric power system, are each included in the electric power storage-compensation device and compensate for output fluctuations of the power generation device, is provided. When one sodium-sulfur battery of the plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries reaches a discharge end, the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the discharge end is charged from a sodium-sulfur battery other than the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the discharge end. When one sodium-sulfur battery of the plurality of sodium-sulfur batteries reaches a charge end, the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the charge end is discharged to charge a sodium-sulfur battery other than the sodium-sulfur battery reaching the charge end.
US08574740B2
A molded cooling fin and frame is described. The molded cooling fin and frame includes a corrugated center cooling fin; a pair of outer cooling fins on opposite sides of the corrugated center cooling fin, each of the outer cooling fins having a ridge around an edge; and a frame covering an edge of each of the outer cooling fins, the frame sealed to the edge of each of the outer cooling fins. A battery pack including the molded cooling fin and frame and a method of making the molded cooling fin and frame are also described.
US08574729B2
A magnetic structure includes a first magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic insulating layer, a nonmagnetic adhesion layer disposed on the top surfaces of the first magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic insulating layer, and a second magnetic layer disposed on the nonmagnetic adhesion layer. The nonmagnetic insulating layer contains an oxygen atom. The nonmagnetic adhesion layer is composed of one element or a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Si and nonmagnetic transition metal elements except Ru, and the bond enthalpy of a diatomic molecule composed of an atom of the one element or each of the plurality of elements and an oxygen atom is 400 kJ/mol or higher. The nonmagnetic adhesion layer has a thickness within a range of 0.3 to 0.8 nm. The first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer are ferromagnetically coupled to each other.
US08574726B2
Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing an emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including cyclometallated platinum, iridium and osmium complexes. The organic light emitting devices optionally contain an exciton blocking layer. Furthermore, improved electroluminescent efficiency in organic light emitting devices is obtained with an emitter layer comprising organometallic complexes of transition metals of formula L2MX, wherein L and X are distinct bidentate ligands. Compounds of this formula can be synthesized more facilely than in previous approaches and synthetic options allow insertion of fluorescent molecules into a phosphorescent complex, ligands to fine tune the color of emission, and ligands to trap carriers.
US08574718B2
A substrate having a coating is disclosed. The coating is formed of a plurality of layers. At least one of the layers includes a super alloy and at least two additional layers including silver. A coating for a substrate is also disclosed. A method of applying a coating to a substrate is further disclosed.
US08574717B2
Disclosed is a rubber laminate containing an unvulcanized fluororubber composition comprising: (A) fluororubber comprising a terpolymer containing 50 to 60 mol % of a constitutional unit derived from vinylidene fluoride, 20 to 30 mol % of a constitutional unit derived from tetrafluoroethylene, and 10 to 30 mol % of a constitutional unit derived from hexafluoropropene; (B) an oxide and/or hydroxide of a divalent metal; (C) a polyhydroxy aromatic compound; (D) a 2-substituted-4,6-dithiol-s-triazine derivative; (E1) a quaternary phosphonium salt or a tetraalkyl ammonium salt; (E2) 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undecene-7 (salt); and (E3) a 5-substituted-1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]-5-nonene (salt). In this rubber laminate, the fluororubber layer and the NBR layer are firmly vulcanization-bonded to each other without impairing various excellent characteristics of the fluororubber constituting the rubber layer.
US08574699B2
A recording medium includes a substrate having a label-side surface on one side and a recording layer for recording and reproducing information on the other side. The label-side surface of the substrate has a mirror surface portion and a rough surface portion, a step having a step height of 10 μm or less is formed between the mirror surface portion and the rough surface portion, and an average roughness of the rough surface portion is between 10 μm and 2 μm, inclusive. Visible information is formed on the label-side surface by using the mirror surface portion and the rough surface portion.
US08574694B2
A non-oriented thermoformable packaging sheet having a rigid component layer comprising a blend of an aromatic polyester and a styrenic polymer, where the total amount of styrenic polymer present in the sheet relative to the total weight of the sheet is at least between 3.0% and 4.0% by weight. The packaging sheet has a thickness of at least 5 mil and a normalized impact strength of 0.16 ft*lbf/mil or less total energy as measured in accordance with ASTM D3763-08 test method.
US08574693B2
A preform is formed by compounding a resin made from poly-L-lactic acid with a functional filler and subjecting a mouth portion to a heat treatment. Also, a hollow shaped product is produced by blow-molding the preform.
US08574688B2
The present invention relates to a blue phase liquid crystal composition and to a method of stabilizing a blue phase state of a liquid crystal material. Moreover, the present invention also relates to a method of lowering the operating voltage of a liquid crystal material. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a blue phase liquid crystal material stabilized by the method according to the present invention or having an operating voltage that is lowered by the method according to the present invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a liquid crystal cell comprising a blue phase liquid crystal material and to a liquid crystal display comprising a blue phase liquid crystal material. The present invention also relates to a method of broadening the stability temperature range of a liquid crystal material in its blue phase state.
US08574684B2
Method is provided for applying a cement mixture to a honeycomb body including the step of aligning a first end of the honeycomb body with respect to a first longitudinal axis of a first support member. The method further includes the step of aligning a second support member with respect to the second end of the honeycomb body. The second support member is allowed to move relative to the first support member such that a second longitudinal axis of second support member is not coincident with the first longitudinal axis. The method further includes the step of fixing the position of the honeycomb body with respect to the first support member and the second support member. The method still further includes the step of applying a cement mixture to the honeycomb body. An apparatus is provided that is configured to apply a cement mixture to a honeycomb body.
US08574682B1
A housing includes a plastic substrate and a layer formed on the plastic substrate. The layer contains polysiloxane and epoxy resin. The layer is very thin, but evenly forms on the surface of the plastic substrate. The layer has a high hardness and can effectively protect the plastic substrate from abrasion.
US08574676B2
A substrate processing method includes steps of: arranging a substrate in a chamber; introducing H2 gas at a first flow rate and O2 gas at a second flow rate independently from the H2 gas into a catalyst reaction portion in which catalyst is accommodated, wherein H2O gas produced from the H2 gas and the O2 gas that contact the catalyst is ejected from the catalyst reaction portion toward the substrate; and reducing a flow rate of the O2 gas introduced to the catalyst reaction portion to a third flow rate that is lower than the second flow rate, wherein the steps of introducing the H2 gas and the O2 gas and reducing the flow rate of the O2 gas are repeated in this order at a predetermined repetition frequency, thereby processing the substrate.
US08574672B2
A polymer and coating compositions containing the polymer are provided that are useful in coating applications such as, for example, food or beverage packaging coatings. The polymer preferably includes a polyester backbone and at least one deblockable isocyanate group attached to the backbone. In one embodiment, the polymer includes a polyester-carbamate backbone, one or more pendant deblockable isocyanate groups, and one or more terminal or pendant isocyanate-reactive groups. The deblockable isocyanate groups may be provided, for example, through use of a partially blocked polyisocyanate.
US08574671B2
A method for adjusting the coolant consumption within actively cooled components is produced. The components include an interior with at least one duct with different regions which have different cross sections of flow. A greater increase in the wall thickness is produced in the region having the smaller cross section of flow by a first diffusion process and a lesser increase in the wall thickness is produced in the region having the larger cross section of flow by a second diffusion process which is different from the first. By using different diffusion coatings in a component, it is possible to adjust the flow of coolant through a component in a controlled way.
US08574670B2
A method and apparatus for applying a uniform membrane coating to a substrate, such as a honeycomb structure, having a plurality of through-channels, wherein the through-channels have an average diameter of less than or equal to 3 mm. The method includes providing a liquid precursor comprising membrane-forming materials to the substrate and applying a pressure differential across the substrate. The pressure differential causes the liquid precursor to travel uniformly through the through-channels, depositing the membrane-forming materials on the walls of the through-channels and forming the membrane on the walls of the through-channels. The apparatus includes a chamber capable of holding the substrate and of maintaining a pressure differential across the plurality of through-channels.
US08574669B2
A fine polymer particle production method includes producing an emulsion in a liquid prepared by dissolving and mixing a polymer A and a polymer B in organic solvents in which a solution phase composed primarily of the polymer A and a solution phase composed primarily of the polymer B are formed as separate phases, and bringing it into contact with a poor solvent for the polymer A to precipitate the polymer A. This method serves for easy synthesis of fine polymer particles with a narrow particle size distribution and the method can be effectively applied to production of highly heat-resistant polymers that have been difficult to produce with the conventional methods.
US08574661B2
This invention provides a process for producing an organic EL element that, in forming, by a coating method, an organic EL element comprising a substrate bearing a plurality of organic EL elements each comprising at least a first electrode, one or more organic compound layers, a second electrode, and a sealing layer, can easily form an external connection terminal forming part for external connection terminal formation and can realize high production efficiency and stable performance quality. The process for producing an organic EL element is a process for producing an organic EL element comprising a substrate bearing at least one organic EL element comprising at least a first electrode (an anode layer), at least one organic compound layer, a second electrode (a cathode layer), and a sealing layer and is characterized by comprising a masking member application step of laminating a masking member having an adhesive strength of 1 N/25 mm to 10 N/25 mm onto the organic compound layer formation prohibition region on the substrate, an organic compound layer formation step of forming the organic compound layer on the substrate, and a masking member separation step of separating the masking member.
US08574659B2
A method and device for treating a mammalian organism to obtain a desired local or systemic physiological or pharmacological effect is provided. The method includes administering a sustained release drug delivery system to a mammalian organism in need of such treatment at an area wherein release of an effective agent is desired and allowing the effective agent to pass through the device in a controlled manner. The device includes an inner core or reservoir including the effective agent, an impermeable tube which encloses portions of the reservoir, and a permeable member at an end of the tube.
US08574653B2
An extrusion process incorporates a forming manifold where a tubular flow of a second material is intermittently interrupted while a core flow of a first material is discharged substantially continuously. Subsequently, the core flow is severed to form individual food items or treats for humans, animals, and the like, where the tubular flow results in an outer component surrounding an inner component which protrudes from one or both ends of the outer component. Material of the core flow is bone-like, while material of the tubular flow is meat like. Material of the tubular flow may include material from the core flow subjected to mixing in a static mixer to achieve a marbled texture of the outer material.
US08574647B1
An exemplary device for semi-solid foods includes a separator for insertion in a food container having an optional lid. The separator provides an upper compartment for solid foods and a lower compartment for liquids. The separator has a base, and a ramp extending upwards therefrom. The separator preferably provides a barrier such that liquid in the container does not traverse the intersection between the separator and the container sidewall inner surface. When the container is tilted to dispense the food therein, liquid in the lower compartment flows out through a ramp opening (such as an aperture in the ramp or a separation between the ramp and the container sidewall), without flowing through a base aperture. When the container is returned to a level position, any fluid in the upper compartment may return to the lower compartment via an optional fluid channel in the ramp and through the base aperture.
US08574636B2
Provided is a formulation including a variety of Chinese herbs for the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, and side effects associated with the treatment of the disease.
US08574634B2
Pharmaceutical compositions containing a proanthocyanidin polymer composition which are useful for the treatment and prevention of secretory diarrhea are provided. The invention specifically relates to pharmaceutical formulations of a proanthocyanidin polymer composition which has been isolated from a Croton spp. or a Calophyllum spp. In particular, the invention relates to a formulation of a proanthocyanidin polymer composition which protects the composition from the effects of stomach acid after oral administration, particularly to those formulations which are enteric coated. The invention also relates to methods of producing a directly compressible proanthocyanidin polymer composition, as well as compositions containing the directly compressible proanthocyanidin polymer composition.
US08574633B2
The invention is directed to the field of natural medicine, specifically to alkaloid extracts of Huperzia serrata (Thunb.) Trev. A Huperzia serrata (Thunb.) Trev. composition and the method for preparing it are provided. The Huperzia serrata (Thunb.) Trev. composition comprises Huperzine A and Huperzine B, wherein the total content of the said Huperzine A and Huperzine B is 50-99 wt % of total alkaloids and the weight ratio of the said Huperzine A and Huperzine B is 1:0.5-5. The Huperzia serrata (Thunb.) Trev. composition of the invention has good therapeutic effect and improved safety.
US08574628B2
A composition comprising a biopolymer matrix, said biopolymer matrix comprising from about 0.1% to about 40% of an essential oil, about 30% to about 95% of a biopolymer, and about 0% to about 50% of a carrier fluid wherein a limited amount of said essential oil can be released from said matrix composition when exposed to a liquid solution; and wherein an additional limited amount of said essential oil can be re-released repetitiously thereafter upon re-use with an additional exposure of a liquid solution.
US08574626B2
The osmotic devices of the present invention contain a unitary core comprising a salt of amantadine and an osmotic salt, wherein the two salts have an ion in common. The release rate of the amantadine is a sigmoidal release. The osmotic device includes a semipermeable membrane having a controlled porosity that can be adapted as needed to cooperate with the osmotic salt in providing a predetermined drug release profile. The osmotic salt need not be coated and it is in admixture with the amantadine salt. The osmotic device further includes a drug-containing coat external to the semipermeable membrane. The osmotic device can include one or more additional drugs in the core and/or the drug-containing coat.
US08574619B2
A method of reducing the cholesterol level of a subject by administering to that subject quercetin, vitamin C, vitamin B3, and statin.
US08574618B2
A bio-absorbable stand-alone film is derived at least in part from fatty acids. The bio-absorbable stand-alone film can have anti-adhesive, anti-inflammatory, non-inflammatory, and wound healing properties, and can additionally include one or more therapeutic agents incorporated therein. The stand-alone film has one or more perforations or depressions formed therein. Corresponding methods of making the bio-absorbable stand-alone film with one or more perforations or depressions include molding, cutting, carving, puncturing or otherwise suitable methods to create the perforations or depressions in the bio-absorbable stand-alone film. The resulting stand-alone film is bioabsorbable.
US08574616B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, having a body containing metallic material, preferably iron. The following manufacturing method is provided for promotion of the anti-inflammatory effect of the implant: (i) providing the body of the implant; (ii) producing an at least partially closed pore structure in a portion of the structure of the implant body close to the surface; and (iii) incorporating NOX into the cavities of the pore structure. Also described is an implant manufactured in this manner.
US08574609B2
Broad spectrum disinfecting and microbicidal compositions of biodegradable and environmentally friendly compositions containing esters formed from fatty organic alcohols and fatty carboxylic acids. These compositions display activities against the most resistant microbial forms including bacterial spores. The preparations can be used in health care, food processing, personal care and other industries where the use of harsh oxidizing chemicals is undesirable.
US08574607B2
Compounds of the formula (I) useful as pesticides are disclosed, wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1.
US08574597B2
The present invention relates to Neisseria ORF2086 proteins, crossreactive immunogenic proteins which can be isolated from nesserial strains or prepared recombinantly, including immunogenic portions thereof, biological equivalents thereof, antibodies that immunospecifically bind to the foregoing and nucleic acid sequences encoding each of the foregoing, as well as the use of same in immunogenic compositions that are effective against infection by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B.
US08574596B2
The invention provides BASB232 polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding BASB232 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic uses. The invention further provides immunogenic compositions comprising a plurality of antigens selected from at least two different categories of antigen, having different functions within Bordetella. Examples of such categories of antigen are autotransporter proteins, iron acquisition proteins, lipoproteins, adhesins and toxins/invasins.
US08574588B2
Fusion proteins comprise at least a portion of at least one flagellin and at least a portion of at least one Dengue viral envelope protein. The fusion proteins are used to stimulate an immune response and protective immunity in a subject.
US08574580B2
Method for generating monoclonal antibodies that recognize progenitor cells. Said method comprises immunization of an Armenian hamster with neurospheres obtained from olfactory bulb cells from a 13.5-day mouse embryo and subsequent selection of the antibodies by means of neurosphere flow cytometry in the presence of propidium iodide. The antibodies thus obtained may be of use in the enrichment of cell cultures in progenitor cells, primarily neural progenitor cells.
US08574578B2
The invention provides antibodies that bind to human PDGFRα and neutralize activation of the receptor. The invention further provides methods for neutralizing activation of PDGFRα and methods of treating a mammal with a neoplastic disease using the antibodies alone or in combination with other agents.
US08574577B2
Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
US08574574B2
A pharmaceutical composition, comprising an antibody composition which specifically binds to human CC chemokine receptor 4 (hereinafter also referred to as CCR4) and at least one medicament; and a pharmaceutical composition for administering in combination of a recombinant antibody against CCR4 and at least one medicament are required. The present invention can provide a pharmaceutical composition comprising a recombinant antibody against CCR4 and at least one medicament; and a pharmaceutical composition for administering in combination of a recombinant antibody against CCR4 and at least one medicament.
US08574572B2
The present invention relates generally to a method for treating or preventing or otherwise ameliorating the effects of pulmonary diseases characterized by or associated with infiltration of neutrophils and complications arising therefrom. The present invention further provides agents and pharmaceutical compositions comprising agents which inhibit the activity of G-CSF or its receptor, interfere with G-CSF signaling and/or which down-regulate expression of G-CSF or its receptor.
US08574571B2
The present invention relates to a method of modulating repair of a wound. The method includes modulating expression and/or activity of Flightless I in cells involved in repair of the wound.
US08574569B2
A composition is provided, which comprises a serine protease; a reversible inhibitor of said serine protease; and a stabilizing agent M having the formula I: Also provided are uses of the composition as a medicament, and other uses and methods employing its various properties.
US08574568B2
The present invention provides a method for stabilization of reduced coenzyme Q10 characterized by concurrently containing a propylene glycol fatty acid ester in a composition containing reduced coenzyme Q10, and a composition containing reduced coenzyme Q10 and a propylene glycol fatty acid ester as essential constituting ingredients. According to the present invention, reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as a food, food with nutrient function claims, food for specified health use, nutritional supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, drink, feed, cosmetic, pharmaceutical product, therapeutic drug, prophylactic drug and the like can be stabilized especially without being made into a complicated composition.
US08574556B2
The present invention relates to an antibacterial pharmaceutical composition comprising an Aceriphyllum rossii extract, and aceriphyllic acid A and 3-oxo-12-oleanen-27-oic acid isolated therefrom. The Aceriphyllum rossii extract of the present invention, and aceriphyllic acid A and 3-oxo-12-oleanen-27-oic acid isolated therefrom have strong antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus, quinolone-resistant S. aureus, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Micrococcus luteus, Bacillus subtilis or Streptococcus mutans, Propionibacterium acnes, thereby being used for the prevention or treatment of pathogenic bacterial and resistant bacterial infections, cariogenic bacterial and acne bacterial infections.
US08574548B2
The invention provides multivalent ligand binding agents (traps) for members of the TGF-β superfamily and polypeptide linkers and methods for making and using such constructs. The traps may be used as therapeutic or diagnostic (imaging or non-imaging) agents for diseases/disorders caused by over-production/activity of the target ligand. In an embodiment of the invention there is provided a multivalent binding agent with affinity for a member of the TGF-β superfamily, the agent having the general structure I: (
US08574546B2
Substituted aryl-boron compounds comprising at least one 18F atom, as illustrated by the formula (I), where at least one of Y1 or Y2 is 18F and A1 is a substituted aromatic ring, with G1-5 being, independently, C or N, and where the substitutents of the aromatic ring or polycyclic moiety (other than boron) comprise at least one electron-withdrawing group (EWG), providing that sigma total (σtotal) for all substituents on the aromatic ring or polycyclic moiety except B is about 0.06 or more when said at least one EWG is positioned ortho to B, or about 0.2 or more when no EWG is positioned ortho to B. The compounds include neutral (N=1) and ionic borate (N=2) embodiments. The compounds are useful as positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents.
US08574539B2
The present invention provides a process for the selective oxidation of hydrogen sulphide in a hydrogen sulphide-containing hydrocarbon and/or hydrogen feed gas to elemental sulphur in a reaction zone containing a Claus catalyst, comprising the steps of: i) reacting in the reaction zone the hydrogen sulphide in the hydrogen sulphide-containing hydrocarbon and/or hydrogen feed gas with sulphur dioxide at a pressure in the range of from 4 to 200 bar (absolute) and a temperature in the range of from 120 and 160° C., such that the elemental sulphur formed is essentially in liquid form; ii) contacting the catalyst with a reducing atmosphere at elevated temperatures.
US08574512B2
A laboratory device unit (1) for processing or analyzing substances, mixtures or media, is provided having functional elements provided in or on a laboratory device (3) for carrying out said processing and/or analyzing. At least two remote controls (2, 6) are provided, wherein a range of functions of the functional elements can be used to a lesser extent with the one remote control (6) than with the other remote control (2).
US08574507B2
A compact heat exchanger-integrated reaction device, comprising a heat exchange section and a reaction section, capable of providing high heat recovery performance, with a small number of ducts of the reaction section formed for supplying and return paths without increasing the volume of the entire reaction device. With the heat exchanger-integrated reaction device equipped with ducts in the reaction section adjacent to the plate-stacking-type heat exchange section, collection ducts for allowing a plurality of regions having openings for discharging a fluid to be processed to be connected with at least one supplying duct of the reaction section, and distribution ducts for allowing at least one supplying duct of the reaction section to be connected with a plurality of regions having openings for receiving the fluid from the heat exchange section are provided between the heat exchange section and the duct of the reaction section.
US08574506B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for processing an exhaust gas, which enable to suppress decrease of pH and increase of ORP of a mixture of an aqueous solution of a reducing agent and an aqueous alkali solution circulated within a wet reactor comprising a reduction reaction region and an oxidation reaction region. The method and apparatus enable to prevent deterioration of the mixed aqueous solution, and can be continuously operated for a long time. Specifically, the ORP and pH of the mixed aqueous solution of the aqueous solution of a reducing agent and the aqueous alkali solution to be circulated within the wet reactor are measured, and a fresh aqueous solution of a reducing agent and a fresh aqueous alkali solution are supplied, if necessary, into a reservoir unit arranged in the lower part of the wet reactor so that the ORP and pH of the mixed aqueous solution are kept within predetermined ranges.
US08574504B2
A plasma scrubber that forms a high temperature atmosphere in a reactor to effectively decompose and remove a non-biodegradable gas and reduce power consumption is disclosed. The plasma scrubber includes: a first reactor to which a non-biodegradable gas is supplied; an electrode installed in the first reactor and protruding in the flow direction of the non-biodegradable gas to generate plasma in the non-biodegradable gas supplied between the electrode and the first reactor by a discharge reaction in the first reactor; a second reactor connected to the first reactor to form continuous arc jets by anchoring the plasma to the electrode; and a third reactor connected to the second reactor to decompose the non-biodegradable gas by forming a reaction section of high temperature that contains electrons and chemical species of high reactivity in the second reactor and thereby increasing the stay time and reactivity of the non-biodegradable gas.
US08574498B2
The present invention discloses a biochip comprising a substrate and a three-dimensional mesoporous layer on top of it, wherein the mesoporous layer on top is chemically modified to recognize labeling DNAs, proteins, peptides, saccharides, and cells. In addition, this invention also discloses a method for forming the biochip with a three-dimensional mesoporous layer, including a blending process, a heating process, a coating process, a gelation process, a drying process, and a surface modification process.
US08574490B2
Methods and apparatus for preventing patient bloodstream infection by microorganisms during administration of various medications or fluids through IV lines. In particular, the invention reduces contamination of IV lines, connecters, stopcock valves, manifolds, ports, etc. by means of irradiation by violet and/or blue light. Each embodiment comprises a source of violet and/or blue light and an optical element optically coupled to that light source for shaping the radiation pattern of the light emitted by the light source. Preferably, a light-emitting diode or a laser diode that emits light in the desired wavelength can be used. The optical element, optically coupled to the light source, is embedded or installed in or attached to a component of an IV set, the emitted light being directed to a “point of entry” or any other stagnation point of an IV set.
US08574485B2
Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) systems for producing a three-dimensional object and methods of producing three-dimensional objects are disclosed. The SFF system includes a dispensing system and a curing system. The dispensing system is adapted to dispense a radiation initiator and a build material. The radiation initiator and the build material are stored separately in the dispensing system and are dispensed separately. The curing system cures the radiation initiator and the build material after each has been dispensed.
US08574479B2
In an imprinting method for transferring a pattern of a mold to a resin coated on a substrate by using an imprinting apparatus including a mold holding unit and a resin coating unit, the resin is coated in n shot areas arranged in a direction parallel to a direction in which the holding unit and the coating unit are arranged where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2, and the pattern is transferred to the shot areas on a one-by-one basis. A distance D between the coating unit and the mold and a width W of each shot area as seen in the direction parallel to the direction in which the holding unit and the coating unit are arranged are selected so as to satisfy a condition D>(3/2−1/n)W, and the coating and the transferring are performed repeatedly on the substrate.
US08574477B2
The invention relates to the application of a fluid, especially a liquid, to a hot end wall (2) of at least one thermoplastic container (1). For this purpose, a spongy mass (4) impregnated with the fluid is brought into contact with the end wall (2) of said at least one container (1), said spongy mass being held in contact with the end wall (2) for a predetermined time. Application in particular to the cooling of the hot end walls of containers leaving a blow molding or stretch-blow molding unit.
US08574474B2
An aramid fiber and a method of producing the same is disclosed, which is capable of realizing high surface uniformity and improved tensile strength and elongation property, wherein the method comprises preparing an aromatic polyamide by polymerizing aromatic diamine with aromatic diacid halide; preparing a spinning dope by dissolving the aromatic polyamide in a solvent; and extruding the spinning dope through a spinneret, and sequentially passing the spinning dope through an air gap, a coagulation bath filled with a coagulation solution, and a coagulation tube having a jet opening, connected with the bottom of the coagulation bath, to obtain a filament wherein a distance from the upper surface of the coagulation solution contained in the coagulation bath to the jet opening of the coagulation tube is within a range between 10 and 35 mm.
US08574468B1
A benzo-fused-heterocyclic elongated dye having a superior molecular hyperpolarizability and yet having an acceptably-low optical absorbance of light near 1550 nm in wavelength, which is an important optical communication band for telecommunication applications.
US08574457B2
Three organic compounds mixtures of liquid-crystal properties, which when mixed together in a precisely determined weight ratio, may show an ability to form thermo-optically active mesophases of established, narrow range thermooptical transitions separation, every 0.5° C., in the temperature range: from 31.8° C. to 32.8° C., from 32.8° C. to 33.8° C., and from 33.8° C. to 34.8° C. and system including these mixtures. The use of these mixtures and the system containing the above mentioned mixtures for colorimetric detection of temperature differentiation on the surface of biological objects in a narrow range of temperatures.
US08574452B2
A heat dissipation composition includes a hydroxy function group contained double-bond substance (such as 2-hydroxybenzophenone, 2-hydroxydibenzoacid, and alkyl 2-cyano-3,3-diphenylacrylate) formed of aromatic hydrocarbons having precursor of benzene, which is mixed with a resin-based coating agent and a diluting agent at predetermined ratios for application on a surface of a heat dissipater to facilitate heat dissipation, whereby when the heat dissipater receives heat to be dissipated, the double-bond substance absorbs the heat and induces displacement to form a resonance structure so as to more efficiently dissipate the heat and when the heat is dissipated, the substance restores the double-bond condition thereby realizing improvement of efficiency of heat dissipation.
US08574444B2
A method of fabricating a multilayer printed circuit board includes forming a first circuit-forming pattern and a via-forming pattern on a first carrier, and forming a first insulation layer; repeatedly forming inner circuit patterns and inner insulation layers over the first insulation layer by forming circuit-forming patterns and imprinting, and forming inner vias connecting the inner circuit patterns positioned on different insulation layers; forming a second circuit-forming pattern on a second carrier and inserting the first circuit-forming pattern and the second circuit-forming pattern respectively into the first insulation layer and a second insulation layer; removing the first carrier and the second carrier; forming circuit-forming grooves by removing the first circuit-forming pattern and the second circuit-forming pattern, and forming via-forming indentations connected with the circuit-forming grooves; and forming outer circuit patterns and outer vias by filling the circuit-forming grooves and the via-forming indentations with a conductive material.
US08574439B2
A valuable resource recovery system includes an engineered powder supply unit that supplies an engineered powder into drainage water (the engineered powder can adsorb a valuable resource and can be desorbed from the engineered powder), an agitation unit that agitates the drainage water supplied with the engineered powder, an engineered powder separation unit that separates the engineered powder from the drainage water agitated by the agitation unit, an engineered powder collection unit that collects the engineered powder separated by the engineered powder separation unit, and a desorption-recycle unit that desorbs the valuable resource from the engineered powder collected by the engineered powder collection unit to recycle the engineered powder and the valuable resource. According to the system, the valuable resource can be desorbed from the engineered powder and then recycled.
US08574436B2
A method and apparatus for filtering a slurry utilizing a displacement filtering principle. The filter apparatus desirably includes an inner filter and an outer filter. Both the inner and outer filters are preferably substantially annular in shape and positioned concentrically with respect to each other. A particulate collection volume is at least partially defined between the inner and outer filter. The method includes directing a flow of slurry into the particulate collection volume under sufficient pressure to force fluid within the particulate collection volume through one of the inner and outer filters and any particulate matter blocking a filtering surface of the inner and outer filters.
US08574434B2
Described is an affinity microcolumn comprising a high surface area material, which has high flow properties and a low dead volume, contained within a housing and having affinity reagents bound to the surface of the high surface area material that are either activated or activatable. The affinity reagents bound to the surface of the affinity microcolumn further comprise affinity receptors for the integration into high throughput analysis of biomolecules.
US08574431B2
A wastewater filter assembly comprising a filter having an influent side and an effluent side, a backwash system adapted to control flow of backwash fluid from the effluent side to the influent side, and an agitation system adapted to control the flow of an agitating fluid (e.g., air) from the influent side to the effluent side. In one embodiment, the agitation system includes an agitating tank that stores the agitating fluid, and a series of valves to control the flow of backwash fluid and agitating fluid. In another embodiment, the assembly further includes a control system that controls the backwash system and the agitation system. Preferably, the control system is programmed to pulse the agitation system during operation of the backwash system.
US08574426B2
The present invention involves a process for removing one or more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds from a vacuum gas oil comprising contacting the vacuum gas oil with a vacuum gas oil-immiscible phosphonium ionic liquid to produce a mixture comprising the vacuum gas oil and the vacuum gas oil-immiscible phosphonium ionic liquid, and separating the mixture to produce a vacuum gas oil effluent and a vacuum gas oil-immiscible phosphonium ionic liquid effluent, the vacuum gas oil-immiscible phosphonium ionic liquid effluent comprising the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound.
US08574423B2
A biosensor includes a working electrode 101, a counter electrode 102 opposing the working electrode 101, a working electrode terminal 103 and a working electrode reference terminal 10 connected to the working electrode 101 by wires, and a counter electrode terminal 104 connected to the counter electrode 102 by a wire. By employing a structure with at least three electrodes, it is possible to assay a target substance without being influenced by the line resistance on the working electrode side.
US08574421B2
A water-splitting apparatus and method generating hydrogen and oxygen at separate electrodes have a structure enabling a photo catalytic reaction to be efficiently performed. The apparatus includes a photolysis element having an N-type water-splitting electrode surface and a P-type water-splitting electrode surface at the opposite side surface to the N-type water-splitting electrode surface, a hydrogen generating cell holding the N-type water-splitting electrode surface and collecting the hydrogen generated at that water-splitting electrode surface, and an oxygen generating cell holding the P-type water-splitting electrode surface, collecting the oxygen generated at that water-splitting electrode surface, and adjoining the hydrogen generating cell across the photolysis element. The photolysis element has through holes enabling circulation of water between the hydrogen and oxygen generating cells. The through holes are arranged so that light irradiated on one of the N-type and P-type water-splitting electrode surfaces does not pass through to the opposite side water-splitting electrode surface.
US08574418B2
The object of the present invention is a method of coating a surface of a substrate with copper by electroplating. According to the invention, this method comprises: a step during which the surface to be coated is brought into contact with an electroplating bath while the surface is not under electrical bias; a step of forming the coating during which the surface is biased; a step during which the surface is separated from the electroplating bath while it is under electrical bias; the aforementioned electroplating bath comprising, in solution in a solvent: a source of copper ions, with a concentration of between 0.4 and 40mM; and at least one copper complexing agent.
US08574412B2
A magnetron sputtering device includes a main body and a magnet mounting system for receiving magnets. The magnet mounting system comprises a first annular member, a second annular member coaxially encasing the first member, a third annular member coaxially encasing the second member, a first driving device connected to the first annular member, a second driving device connected to the second annular member, and a third driving device connected to the third annular member. The first driving device, the second driving device, and the third driving device are respectively configured for driving the first annular member, the second annular member, and the third annular member to move along an axis of the first annular member.
US08574406B2
A fermentation liquid feed including water and a product alcohol and optionally CO2 is at least partially vaporized such that a vapor stream is produced. The vapor stream is contacted with an absorption liquid under suitable conditions wherein an amount of the product alcohol is absorbed. The portion of the vapor stream that is absorbed can include an amount of each of the water, the product alcohol and optionally the CO2. The temperature at the onset of the absorption of the vapor stream into the absorption liquid can be greater than the temperature at the onset of condensation of the vapor stream in the absence of the absorption liquid. The product alcohol can be separated from the absorption liquid whereby the absorption liquid is regenerated. The absorption liquid can include a water soluble organic molecule such as an amine.
US08574404B1
In this fast pyrolysis processor the reaction conditions are tailored to minimize the production of gas, while using calcined limestone to provide the heat for fast pyrolysis of biomass and to lower the acidity and oxygen content of the liquid bio-oil which is produced.
US08574403B2
A fabric belt for producing a web material, the fabric belt including a first layer on a web material side and a second layer on a machine side of the belt. The layers each having a basic weave connected to each other by binding threads extending in a binding thread direction. The layers having base binding threads extending both in and transverse to the binding thread direction. The binding threads form binding segments which are successive in the binding thread direction in the second layer. The binding threads are tied off on one base binding thread of the second layer extending transversely to the binding thread direction. The binding segments formed in the second layer are arranged in a binding pattern repeat extended in and transverse to the binding thread direction along a binding segment diagonal progressing obliquely to the binding thread direction and transverse to the binding thread direction.
US08574398B2
An apparatus for removing an adhesive layer from a wafer surface includes a chuck, a contact roller, a pick-up roller and a detaping tape. The chuck supports and holds a wafer that has an adhesive layer on its top surface. The contact roller rotates around a first axis and moves linearly along a direction perpendicular to the first axis over the chuck and the supported wafer. The pick-up roller rotates around a second axis, that is parallel to the first axis. The detaping tape rolls around the contact roller and the pick-up roller, and as it rolls it attaches to the adhesive layer, and then is removed together with the adhesive layer. The contact roller has a surface that has a footprint of a circle when rolled along a flat surface.
US08574397B2
A plasma processing chamber configured for cleaning a bevel edge of a substrate is provided. The chamber includes a top edge electrode surrounding an insulating plate, and the insulator plate opposes a bottom electrode. The top edge electrode is electrically grounded and separated from the insulator plate by a top dielectric ring. The chamber also includes a bottom edge electrode that is electrically grounded and surrounds the bottom electrode and is separated from the bottom electrode by a bottom dielectric ring. The bottom edge electrode is oriented to oppose the top edge electrode, and the bottom edge electrode has an L shape that is up-facing. Bevel edge plasma processing of a substrate edge is configured to be processed in a chamber having the top and bottom edge electrodes.
US08574392B2
A method for anticorrosive treatment of metal surfaces, especially at edges and transitions of the metal components, characterized in that a self-adhesive tape is applied to the metal surface and the self-adhesive tape contains at least one layer with a material which is heated such that the material melts onto the metal surface and thus forms an anticorrosive layer.
US08574387B2
A method of applying graphics to a set of articles with a graphic transfer assembly is disclosed. The method includes a step of selecting an article from a set of articles comprising different types of articles. After selecting a last that may be associated with the article, the last may be attached to a last assembly of the graphic transfer assembly. With the article attached to the graphic transfer assembly, a deformable membrane may apply graphics to curved portions of the article. A protective member can be used to protect a portion of the article during the graphic transfer process.
US08574386B2
A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure includes molding a ceramic raw material to manufacture at least one honeycomb molded body having a plurality of cell walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb molded body to define cells. The honeycomb molded body is fired to manufacture a honeycomb fired body. A honeycomb block is manufactured by using the honeycomb fired body. The honeycomb fired body is cut before manufacturing the honeycomb block or the honeycomb block is cut after manufacturing the honeycomb block.
US08574371B2
A method for cleaning containers, in particular bottles of glass or plastics, and a cleaning machine with at least one cleaning medium, with the containers cleaned at least in one station preferential for the cleaning result and/or in a procedure step with at least essentially chemical-free cleaning media. The cleaning medium is advantageously a granular material, in particular granular ice, carried under pressure with compressed air or compressed water. The cleaning machine suited for carrying out the method includes downstream of an unpacking and presoaking station, a pre-cleaning station with a high pressure water blasting pre-cleaning section, and subsequently an intensive cleaning station with at least one intensive cleaning section to which a pressure blasting system for chemical-free, granular material and a carrier medium are associated, and a disinfection station following the intensive cleaning station.
US08574364B2
The invention relates to a GaN-crystal free-standing substrate obtained from a GaN crystal grown by HVPE with a (0001) plane serving as a crystal growth plane and at least one plane of a {10-11} plane and a {11-22} plane serving as a crystal growth plane that constitutes a facet crystal region, except for the side surface of the crystal, wherein the (0001)-plane-growth crystal region has a carbon concentration of 5×1016 atoms/cm3 or less, a silicon concentration of 5×1017 atoms/cm3 or more and 2×1018 atoms/cm3 or less, and an oxygen concentration of 1×1017 atoms/cm3 or less; and the facet crystal region has a carbon concentration of 3×1016 atoms/cm3 or less, a silicon concentration of 5×1017 atoms/cm3 or less, and an oxygen concentration of 5×1017 atoms/cm3 or more and 5×1018 atoms/cm3 or less.
US08574342B1
Method and apparatus for a membrane separation system, including process and installation for the separation of air by permeation, using two strategically placed heaters for the production of high purity nitrogen, uniquely designed multi-staged pre-filtration system and a novel method of controlling the nitrogen flow and purity. The system comprises in series an air compressor (1), an air cooler (2) cooled by air or liquid, moisture separator (3), mist removing filter (4), primary heat source (5), coalescing filter (8), carbon tower (9), particle filter (10), secondary heat source (11), membrane separator(s) (14), and control valve (19). The system is to provide and maintain superheated air to the membrane separator(s) using strategically located heaters to eliminate condensation of moisture in the carbon tower or membrane separator(s) eliminating the need for a separate compressed air dryer, or the need for insulation of pipes, vessels and the membrane separator(s). This method allows simple process controllers to auto tune and maintain accurate temperature control under a variety of ambient temperature and turndown conditions.
US08574337B2
A method of producing carbon-metal nanocomposites includes (a) treating a material containing at least one o-catechol unit with a first solution of hexamine such that the material becomes hexamine treated; (b) treating the material with a second solution having a plurality of metal ions such that the material becomes metal treated; (c) treating the material with a third solution of alkali such that the material becomes alkali treated; and (d) heating the alkali, metal and hexamine treated material after (a), (b), and (c) for a predetermined period of time such that a plurality of carbon-metal nanocomposites having metal nanoparticles dispersed in the material are produced.
US08574307B2
A joint prosthesis system has a metal shaft, which is implanted in the femur, a throat having an outer cone, a joint ball made of ceramic and an accommodation for the throat. The accommodation has an inner cone, and a sheath-shaped adapter, which is arranged between the shaft and the joint ball in a clamping manner. Due to an exceptional elasticity and a special shaping of an inner and outer wall section of the adapter, the application of force to a narrow surface region on the metal outer cone and the application of the force into the ceramic inner cone is extensively concentrated on a load-bearing region (B) opposite the narrow surface region within the largest mass expansion of the ceramic joint ball.
US08574301B2
A system and method for spinal fusion comprising a spinal fusion implant of non-bone construction releasably coupled to an insertion instrument dimensioned to introduce the spinal fusion implant into any of a variety of spinal target sites.
US08574300B2
An expandable interbody spacer (10) is provided that includes a pair of oppositely facing endplate components (20, 40) and an interior component that includes one or more vertically extending stacks of arranged C-clip members (70) radially surrounding one or more bosses (30) protruding interiorly from one of the endplates, wherein the size and configuration of the bosses and the c-clip members are designed to allow the incremental expansion of expandable interbody spacer.
US08574299B2
An expandable interbody fusion device includes superior and inferior endplates that are configured to receive a sequentially inserted stack of interlocking expansion members or wafers. The like-configured wafers include features on their top and bottom surfaces that interlock the wafers in multiple degrees of freedom so that the wafer stack is not disrupted when the fusion device is fully expanded. One of the interlocking features includes a plurality of prongs projecting from an upper surface of the wafers and into a recess defined in the lower surface of an adjacent previously inserted like-configured wafer. The prongs and recesses are configured to prevent retrograde movement of each new wafer in a direction opposite the direction of insertion. Other interlocking features prevent movement in the direction of insertion, transverse to the insertion direction and vertically within the stack.
US08574298B2
A spinal implant is provided for retaining spinal elements in a desired spatial relationship. It includes a tensioning member positionable along the spinal column of a patient to match the contour thereof. A pair of buttress members are located each on one of the ends of the tensioning member, at least one of the buttress members being slidable on the tensioning member so that the distance between the buttress members may be adjusted.
US08574293B2
This device for stretching the haptics of an intraocular lens has at least two haptic guiding surfaces, a seat arranged with respect to the guiding surfaces so as to allow contact between a first point on each haptic and its corresponding guiding surface, and a lens guiding arrangement operable to allow the lens positioned in the seat to be moved along a path in the optic axis direction to bring at least a second point on each haptic into contact with, or closer to, its corresponding guiding surface and to orient each haptic in a less curved state, wherein the guiding surfaces extend in opposite directions from a channel operable to receive the lens.
US08574285B2
A strut, or beam, is provided for intraluminal devices. Strain which is introduced into a stent or other intraluminal device is distributed more evenly along the length of the improved strut by maintaining a substantially constant strain level along the length of an end portion. This may increase fatigue life or improve the performance of devices using the improved strut. The strain along the length of the end portion may be maintained substantially constant by varying a section property of the strut, including the width, thickness, cross-sectional area, material property or other characteristic of the end portion.
US08574283B1
Systems and methods for deploying stents within bifurcated vessels in a true pantaloons configuration (Kamat technique) are disclosed. A device including a balloon catheter and a stent surrounding the catheter is inserted into a bifurcated blood vessel. The catheter includes a first lumen configured to accept a first guide wire, which exits the device at a distal end. The device is advanced within a main branch using the first guide wire until it reaches the carina, thus causing the second guide wire to enter a second side branch. The second wire exits the device at a tapered edge of the catheter from under the stent. The stent may then be deployed within the main branch. The stent may then be splayed across the carina with kissing balloons and the procedure may be completed with the kissing balloon deployment of two stents accurately at the carina in each side branch.
US08574279B2
Methods for treating psychiatric disorders using light energy are disclosed herein. A method for treating psychiatric disorders using light energy includes determining which hemisphere of the brain requires treatment using lateral visual field stimulation (LVFS) and applying light energy to the hemisphere of the brain to treat the psychiatric disorder other than depression. In an embodiment, light energy may include near infrared light (NIR). The methods of the present disclosure may be used to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders. In an embodiment, the methods may be used to treat a psychiatric disorder co-morbid with depression.
US08574266B2
A percutaneous facet fixation system minimally invasive, reproducible, efficient, and effective. Capable of immediate stabilization of a facet joint complex, the instrumentation and methods may be used with C-arm and/or endoscopic visualization.
US08574265B2
A PFO closing device for bringing the septum primum and the septum secundum into contact with each other and joining them together includes a clamping mechanism and energy supplying device. The clamping mechanism includes a needle part for puncturing the septum primum, and a clamping member for cooperating with the needle part in clamping therebetween tissue of the septum primum and the septum secundum. The energy supplying device supplies energy for joining the tissues clamped by the needle part and the clamping member. The clamping mechanism is mounted in a catheter so as to be protrudable from and retractable into the catheter.
US08574263B2
A surgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft extending distally therefrom. The elongated shaft includes a proximal portion, a distal portion and a flexible portion supported therebetween. The flexible portion permits pivotal movement of the distal portion of the elongated shaft and an end effector supported thereon. A locking mechanism is operatively associated with the flexible portion of the elongated shaft to selectively impede pivotal motion of the distal portion. The locking mechanism includes a locking coil disposed about an axis defined by the flexible portion of the elongated shaft. A distal end of the locking coil is coupled to the distal portion of the elongated shaft, and a proximal end of the locking coil is rotatable about the longitudinal axis to laterally approximate the locking coil to flexible portion, and thus frictionally engage the flexible portion of the elongated shaft to selectively impede articulating motion thereof.
US08574261B2
A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted and to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.
US08574260B2
A medical device for placing an embolic device, such as an embolic coil, at a predetermined site within a vessel of the body including a delivery catheter and a flexible pusher member slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter. An embolic device having a headpiece coupled to the proximal end is releasably disposed within the distal end of the pusher member and retained in place by a retractable fiber, having a coiled distal portion. When the embolic device is advanced to the predetermined site within the vessel, the detachment fiber is retracted from around the headpiece of the embolic device to thereby release the embolic device.
US08574259B2
An intravascular filter can capture and eliminate emboli. In particular, an intravascular filter may include a plurality of filter legs extending from an apical head. The filter legs may be configured to capture emboli. A drug reservoir that includes or contains a therapeutic drug can be disposed near the apical head. The therapeutic drug, such as a thrombolytic or anti-coagulatory drug, may be eluted in response to a captured emboli.
US08574258B2
A device for protecting cerebral vessels or brain tissue during treatment of a carotid vessel includes a catheter having a distal portion, a proximal portion and a lumen extending therebetween, the catheter including first and second expandable areas provided over the length of the catheter. The device includes a first elongate member insertable longitudinally through the lumen of the catheter, the first elongate member being configured for stretching at least a portion of the catheter and causing one of the first and second expandable areas to transition from an expanded state to a collapsed state. The device further includes a second elongate member insertable longitudinally through the lumen of the catheter, the second elongate member being configured for stretching at least a portion of the catheter and causing the other of the first and second expandable areas to transition from an expanded state to a collapsed state.
US08574255B2
In combination, a blood glucose testing meter comprising a slot for receiving a test strip, a display, one or more control devices, and a battery compartment and a lancing device for releasable coupling to the blood glucose test meter over the battery compartment. The lancing device releasably couples directly to the testing meter over the battery compartment. Optionally, the lancing device is mounted to a mounting clip releasably coupled to the testing meter over the battery compartment. The lancing device comprises a housing, a lancet opening disposed at one end of the housing, an energizing member for charging the lancing device, and a release button for activating a lancet within the lancing device.
US08574251B2
A dermatological skin treatment device is provided. The device comprises a handpiece and a cutting tool, wherein the tool is inserted through the conduit and percutaneously inserted into a tissue disposed within a recessed area of the handpiece. The device and method cut the fibrous structures under the skin that cause cellulite at an angle substantially parallel to the surface of the skin and replace these structures with a non-cellulite forming structure by deploying a highly fibrous mesh through a single needle hole to create a highly fibrous layer directly or through wound healing processes.
US08574245B2
A suture-based vessel closure device can perform the dilation of an arteriotomy puncture and does not require previous dilation of the arteriotomy puncture by a separate device or by a procedural sheath dilator. The suture-based vessel closure device can place one or more sutures across the vessel access site such that, when the suture ends are tied off after sheath removal, the stitch or stitches provide hemostasis to the access site.
US08574242B2
The present invention is concerned with an epilator that comprises a housing, an epilation cylinder mounted at a head region of the housing for plucking hairs from the skin during operation, and an attachment detachably connected with the housing, which attachment comprises at least a shaving blade defining a use direction along which the shaving blade is to be drawn over the skin to shave off hairs. In the attached state the shaving blade is disposed behind the epilation cylinder with respect to the use direction so that during operation the epilation cylinder plucks hairs from the skin and the shaving blade contacts the skin to shave off hairs from the skin in successive order during a single stroke of the epilator over a skin area, wherein the attachment is connected with the housing in the head region such that the epilation cylinder is partially covered by the attachment and a non-covered part of the epilation cylinder extends into an aperture of the attachment.
US08574234B2
A method for repairing a fractured bone includes providing a bone fracture fixation assembly including a plate, an elongated shaft, and a rod. At least a portion of the shaft is threaded, and the shaft has a hole extending therethrough. The hole has an axis transverse to a longitudinal axis of the shaft. The method further includes positioning the plate adjacent the surface of the fractured bone, extending the shaft into the bone, cooperatively engaging the threaded portion of the shaft with a screw receiving aperture of the plate, extending the rod into the bone, and inserting the rod into the hole of the shaft.
US08574231B2
A surgical instrument for supplying energy to tissue can comprise a jaw member comprising an electrode, wherein the electrode is configured to generate heat when electrical energy is supplied to the electrode, and wherein the electrode comprises a top surface. The surgical instrument can further comprise an insulator positioned adjacent to the electrode, wherein the insulator comprises a top surface movable between a first position and a second position relative to the top surface of the electrode, and wherein the top surface of the insulator is closer to the top surface of the electrode when the insulator is in the first position than when the insulator is in the second position.
US08574227B2
A surgical antenna for radiating microwave energy (e.g. frequency 500 MHz to 60 GHz) from a e.g. ceramic insertion tip (60) into biological tissue is disclosed. The tip is provided at the end of an elongate body which delivers the microwave energy to the tip via an inner conductor (30), an outer conductor (20) surrounding the inner conductor and a dielectric material (50) therebetween. The impedance of the insertion tip (60) is selected to improve impedance matching with the complex conjugate of the complex impedance of the tissue at a treatment frequency. For example the insertion tip may act as or include at least one quarter wavelength impedance transformer. By closely matching the antenna's impedance to the tissue, dynamic tuning (if used) can be performed much more efficiently. Impedance matching at the tip can also focus the radiated energy distribution.
US08574219B2
A catheter shaft including a metallic tubular member including a plurality of apertures formed in the tubular wall of the metallic tubular member to provide a desired degree of flexibility to the metallic tubular member. The metallic tubular member includes a tapered region intermediate a region and a second, reduced diameter region relative to the first region.
US08574218B2
A catheter includes an elongate catheter body having an outer surface with a non-uniform contour and including a plurality of maximum surface elevation points and a plurality of minimum surface elevation points defining a non-uniform elevation profile relative to a longitudinal axis of the catheter body. The outer surface further includes a fluid transfer interface which includes the plurality of minimum surface elevation points and a plurality of porous surface areas, and a tissue contact interface which includes the plurality of maximum surface elevation points and a plurality of nonporous surface areas. The tissue contact interface inhibits external occlusion of the fluid transfer interface during transferring fluid between a fluid lumen defined by the elongate catheter body, and an intraluminal space such as an intravascular space within a patient.
US08574216B2
A modular external infusion device that controls the rate a fluid is infused into an individual's body, which includes a first module and a second module. More particularly, the first module may be a pumping module that delivers a fluid, such as a medication, to a patient while the second module may be a programming module that allows a user to select pump flow commands. The second module is removably attachable to the first module.
US08574212B2
An absorptive article has an absorptive article body, a pair of side flaps, and a pair of waist flaps provided in the rear region so as to extend outward from the side flaps in the lateral direction of the absorptive article body. Each of the pair of waist flaps has formed thereon a waist stretchable region extended so as to reach that edge of the waist flap which is on the belly side. The waist stretchable regions are adapted such that the dimension of the waist stretchable region stretched at the end thereof on the belly side in the lateral direction of the absorptive article body is greater than the dimension of the waist stretchable region stretched at the end thereof on the rear side in the lateral direction of the absorptive article body.
US08574211B2
A stretchable composite sheet having a number of ridges in a neat and orderly arrangement is disclosed. The stretchable composite sheet is easily produced by the process of the invention. The stretchable composite sheet is a laminate of a stretch sheet 10 and a nonstretch sheet 2. The stretch sheet 10 has first zones 14 having elastic stretchability and second zones 15 having less stretchability than the first zones 14. The first zones 14 and the second zones 15 extend in the same direction and alternate with each other. The stretch sheet 10 and the nonstretch sheet 2 are bonded over substantially the entire area of their facing sides. The stretchable composite sheet has a large number of ridges 3 on the side of the nonstretch sheet.
US08574207B2
The invention relates to a two-piece ostomy device comprising a base plate for adhering to the skin surrounding a stoma and a releasable collecting bag for collecting output from said stoma. The base plate is releasably connectable to the collecting bag via a first annular flange arranged on the base plate and a second annular flange arranged on the collecting bag. An adhesive is at least partly disposed on at least one of the flanges. The ostomy device further comprises a first through-going hole extending through the first annular flange along a first axis and a second through-going hole extending through the second annular flange along a second axis, wherein the ostomy device further comprises a guiding aid for arranging the first annular flange and the second annular flange in a guiding configuration. In the guiding configuration the movement of the first and the second flange is limited relative to each other in one plane being defined by the first and the second axis and in rotation around at least one of the first or the second axis. The limited movement of the base plate and the collecting bag provides a two-piece system which is easier to apply correctly and thus reduces the risk of leakage.
US08574197B2
A safety enclosure for a Huber needle includes a needle housing and a panel unit. The panel unit includes a series of planar panels assembled in an enclosing arrangement defining an enclosed area and is movable between an installation position where the sharp outer end of the Huber needle projects from the panel unit and a safety position where the sharp outer end is covered by the panels. The Huber needle has an aft end and a fore end connected by a bend with the fore end including a sharp outer end.
US08574183B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring a blood treatment unit, subdivided by a semipermeable membrane into a blood chamber and a dialysis liquid chamber, of an extra-corporeal blood treatment device, which comprises an extra-corporeal blood circuit having an arterial branch leading to the blood chamber of the blood treatment unit, a venous branch, which extends away from the blood chamber, and a dialysis fluid system, in which the dialysis liquid chamber is arranged. The method according to the present invention and the device according to the present invention are based on the idea that the change of the flow resistance of the dialysis machine is determined based on two measurements, wherein an oscillating pressure signal in the extra-corporeal blood circuit or in the dialysis fluid system is measured before and after the change of the substitution rate and/or ultrafiltration rate, with which the substitute is applied to, or ultrafiltrate is removed from, the blood flowing in the blood circulation system. Preferably, the supply of substitute is interrupted temporarily.
US08574175B2
A treatment apparatus of the present invention includes a cavitation generation section that generates cavitations at a treatment target region of a treatment subject; a detection section that detects cavitations that are generated at the treatment target region; and a control section that controls a generation state of cavitations at the treatment target region by controlling a physico-chemical parameter of the treatment target region based on a detection result at the detection section.
US08574158B2
It is disclosed an acoustic tomography method to improve the time of flight estimation, said method comprising the steps of: sequentially triggering a set of N transmitters so as to generate a sequence of N acoustic waves through a volume being scanned; receiving each of said acoustic waves after transmission through said volume with a set of M receivers, which are called received signals; delaying by varying delays the N different said received signals that each receiver receives from the N different transmitters, and adding them together to form a new received signal, which is called transmit-beamformed signal for that receiver; delaying by varying delays the M different said transmit-beamformed signals for each receiver and adding them together at each receiver to form a new signal, which we call transmit-receive-beamformed signal.
US08574154B2
A blade assembly has a blade body and a blade body surround. A retractor attachment structure is attached to the blade body at the first end portion thereof extending from an exterior surface thereof. The retractor attachment structure is configured for having one of the blade body mounting structures of the retractor engaged therewith in a manner whereby the blade body is independently pivotable about and translatable along the blade body mounting structure. An alignment member protrudes from an interior surface of the blade body adjacent its first end portion. A slot extends through the blade body at its first end portion. The blade body surround and the blade body jointly form a generally cylindrical-shaped structure when the blade body is in a seated position within the slot. The cylindrical structure defines a central passage extending between the first and second end portions of blade body surround.
US08574153B2
A flexible port seal is provided for use in single incision surgery and includes an outer seal defining a bore extending from a proximal end of the outer seal to a distal end of the outer seal. A support plate is located within the bore of the outer seal and one or more throughports are attached to the support plate for receipt of a surgical instrument. The throughports form a fluid tight seal with cannulas and/or surgical instruments inserted through the throughports. The flexible port seal is formed of a compressible or flexible material to facilitate insertion through the single incision in the patient and allow for movement of the surgical instruments relative to the seal to independently orient each of the surgical instruments.
US08574132B2
A trampoline is disclosed that includes first, second, and third frame members, a pole member, and a sleeve joint coupling. The sleeve joint coupling includes a first arm with a first passage, a second arm with a second passage, a third arm extending away from the second arm and including a third passage, and an aperture. The first passage has a first axis, and the second and third passages shares a substantially common axis. The first axis is substantially perpendicular to the substantially common axis. The first frame member is received in the first passage, the second frame member is received in the second passage, the third frame member is received in the third passage, and the pole member is received in the aperture to extend away from the first frame member. At least one of the second and third arms defines an uppermost surface of the sleeve joint coupling.
US08574125B2
Methods and systems are provided for reducing audible clunks and objectionable drive feel in vehicles including start/stop systems. In one example, a vehicle engine is shutdown during vehicle coasting. The vehicle engine is then restarted, while the vehicle is moving with a torque converter clutch disengaged. A transmission clutch pressure is then adjusted during the restart based on a torque converter output speed relative to a torque converter input speed.
US08574124B2
A control unit of a motor vehicle for activating a form-locking shift element of a transmission of the motor vehicle in such a way that a defined rotational speed difference is defined, between an input-side component of the form-locking shift element and an output-side component of the form-locking shift element, in order to engage the form-locking shift element. The control unit monitors the rotational speed gradient of the rotational speed of the output-side component of the form-locking shift element from an activation time of the form-locking shift element, at which the engagement process of the form-locking shift element begins. The control unit generates a control signal for a drive assembly in order to increase the torque, at a drive assembly, in the event that the control unit determines that the monitored rotational speed gradient falls below a lower limit.
US08574123B2
Systems and methods are provided for restarting an engine that can be selectively deactivated during idle-stop conditions. In one embodiment, the engine is restarted with torque reduction over an interval of the restart, for example, by upshifting the transmission. In response to a vehicle launch request, the torque reduction is decreased, for example, by downshifting the transmission, to expedite return of driveline torque.
US08574119B1
A pinion carrier includes a shell including a face plate, a lip spaced axially from the face plate, a hub including a plate spaced from face plate and a collar spaced axially from the lip, posts, each post spaced angularly about an axis, secured to the plate and face plate by welds, shafts spaced angularly about the axis, secured to the plate and face plate, and pinions, each pinion supported on one of the shafts.
US08574118B2
A turbomachine epicyclic gear system includes a sun gear rotatable around an axis, a ring gear radially outward of the sun gear, and a plurality of intermediate gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. A plurality of journal pins are each configured to support one of the plurality of intermediate gears. Each of the plurality of journal pins has an asymmetric rim.
US08574111B2
A dual torque limiter on a utility vehicle having a gear train connected to a main shaft through a first slip clutch assembly that releases the gear train from the main shaft if torque exceeds a predetermined limit. The main shaft is connected to a rear drive train. The front drive train is connected to the main shaft through a second slip clutch assembly that releases the front drive train from the main shaft if torque exceeds a predetermined limit.
US08574107B2
In a hydraulic tensioner, a tensioner housing is provided with an oil outflow channel communicating with a high pressure oil chamber formed by a plunger and the tensioner housing. A control valve in the oil outflow channel can be adjusted manually or automatically to optimize the damping performance of the tensioner in different engines and under different operating conditions, thereby obviating individualized machining of tensioner components to achieve optimum damping.
US08574063B2
Various embodiments of payout systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment, among others, comprises providing a defined payout amount and a player adjustable payout volatility for a video gaming device, and responsive to player input, modifying the payout volatility while maintaining the defined payout amount.
US08574057B2
A method includes displaying playing card face representations at an electronic player station. The displayed playing card face representations include card face representations that are included in a group of card face representations that has been assigned to the player in response to a bingo pattern achieved by the player in a bingo game. The player then selects one or more of the displayed card face representations to be replaced with one or more card face representations that are also included in the assigned group but have been concealed from the player. A prize is awarded to the player based on the card face representations remaining in the player's hand after replacement of the selected card face representations. This prize represents the player's prize for achieving the bingo pattern, but is based on the player's card hand produced after the player replaces the desired cards.
US08574054B2
A mechanical reel (32) for a gaming system (10) is disclosed. The reel (32) has a circumferential reel surface (48). The reel (32) has at least one symbol bearing surface (50) offset from the reel surface.
US08574052B1
A method and system for playing video poker wherein a primary five card hand is dealt and secondary hands is played from the discarded cards of the primary hand. The remaining cards for each hand are dealt from the remainder of a deck of cards which can be a standard deck of 52 cards. The game may be played on site at a legal game casino, in a non-gambling mode on-line over the internet, or off-line on a home computer using a disc such as a compact disc. The game could also be played as a legal game in gambling or non-gambling mode at a tavern, bar, or the like.
US08574043B2
A food processing apparatus including a lower support structure that carries either a food slicing plate or a meat tenderizing plate, an upper structure that carries either a food plunger plate or a meat tenderizing plate; said lower and upper structures being connected with a floating hinge and including a handle such that a user may pull the two structures together such that their respective plates either tenderize or slice food depending on the plates positioned thereto.
US08574023B2
A play set for toy vehicles is provided, the play set having: a ramp member pivotally mounted to the play set for movement between a first un-deployed position wherein toy vehicles travelling thereon will be directed under an upper track section and a deployed position wherein vehicles travelling thereon will be launched up into the upper track section; a first mechanism coupled to the ramp member for moving the ramp member between the first position and the second position; and a second mechanism for releasing a floor portion of the upper track section such that toy vehicles located thereon are dropped through an opening in the upper track section, wherein the second mechanism is only actuated after a predetermined number of vehicles are located on the upper track section.
US08574021B2
A toy vehicle reconfigurable between unfolded and folded configurations includes a generally body pivotally supporting a pair of generally planar driving systems on either lateral side. Each driving system includes a motor and gear train driving a continuous track passed over multiple pulley wheels. One pulley wheel of each driving system is carried on an arm mounted to a frame of the system so as to pivot between retracted and extended positions and spring loaded to the extended position. The tracks are sufficiently elastic to accommodate the movement of the one wheel from the extended position to a retracted position. The arms are pushed into the retracted position when the vehicle is pushed into a combined remote control unit and storage case.
US08574018B1
A connection member includes a tube extending a length along a central longitudinal axis. The tube includes a central passageway that extends through the length of the tube. The tube has a non-circular cross-sectional shape along the length of the tube. The tube includes an exterior side that defines a perimeter of the non-circular cross-sectional shape of the tube. Stamped threads are formed on the exterior side of the tube along at least a portion of the length of the tube. The stamped threads are discontinuous along the perimeter of the non-circular cross-sectional shape of the tube such that the stamped threads only extend along at least one portion of the perimeter of the non-circular cross-sectional shape of the tube.
US08574017B2
An electrical contact includes a primary segment having a primary outer end, and a secondary segment having a secondary outer end. An intermediate segment joins the primary and secondary segments together. The intermediate segment includes a primary segment connector engaged with the primary segment such that the intermediate segment is electrically and mechanically connected to the primary segment. The intermediate segment includes a secondary segment connector engaged with the secondary segment such that the intermediate segment is electrically and mechanically connected to the secondary segment. The electrical contact has a length defined from the primary outer end to the secondary outer end. At least one of the primary segment is selectively positionable relative to the primary segment connector of the intermediate segment or the secondary segment is selectively positionable relative to the secondary segment connector of the intermediate segment such that the length of the electrical contact is adjustable.
US08574009B2
An electrical connection device comprises a receptacle connector disposed on a side of a circuit board and a plurality of terminals. The receptacle connector comprises a housing, the housing having a body; an accommodating groove locating in the front of the body and opening upwards; a plurality of terminal grooves provided in the body, intervally arranged and in communication with the accommodating groove. The terminals are correspondingly disposed into the terminal grooves, respectively and each of the terminals can include a fixing portion uprightly secured in the first terminal groove; an U-shaped resilient arm folded forwards and then extending upwards from a lower end of the fixing portion; a contact portion formed at a distal end of the U-shaped resilient arm and extending into the accommodating groove; and a soldering portion extending upwards from an upper end of the fixing portion.
US08573997B2
A connector utilizes a latching assembly that has a structure that connects horizontal movement of an actuator to vertical movement of a latching arm. If desired, a 2X ganged plug can be inserted into any two adjacent bays of a ganged receptacle assembly that includes at least three bays.
US08573996B2
A coaxial connector comprising a connector body; a nut, axially rotatable with respect to the connector body, the nut having a first forward end configured for threadably attaching to an interface port and a second rearward end; and a continuity member, electrically contacting the nut; wherein the connector is configured to maintain return loss below −40 dBvM when the connector is installed on the interface port, so as to be only engaged with one thread of the interface port is provided.
US08573993B2
A connector includes a first connector and a second connector configured to engage with the first connector to establish electrical connection, wherein the first connector includes a first contact terminal, and the second connector includes: a second contact terminal configured to come in contact with the first contact terminal; a switch part connected to the second contact terminal and including a fixed part and a movable part; and a movable member capable of pushing the movable part toward the fixed part, wherein the movable member is pushed by the first connector when the first connector engages with the second connector, and the movable member pushes the movable part toward the fixed part to bring the movable part in contact with the fixed part.
US08573988B2
A mounting structure of a connector for a circuit board is provided. A circuit board is formed with a cutout, the cutout has a rectangular shape which is defined by three rectilinear side edges and one side edge is open, and one of the three side edge is a terminal arranging side edge part. Terminals are provided in the terminal arranging side edge part and are arranged along a longitudinal direction of the terminal arranging side edge part. A connector housing is formed with terminal containing grooves on a lower face thereof. The terminals are respectively contained in the terminal containing grooves when the connector housing is fitted into the cutout. By fitting the connector housing into the cutout, the terminals are contained in the terminal containing grooves, thereby to construct the connector for the circuit board in which the terminals are used as connector terminals.
US08573985B2
The general field of invention is electrical connectors and their conductor geometry. This patent teaches how to make the register-free charge couplers to have self-cleaning ability as well as tolerating operation under dirty environments such as underbelly of cars, while still delivering the requirements imposed by the register-free functionality. Although this invention can benefit many connector designs and applications, it is particularly beneficial when applied to hands free connectors for charging electric vehicles—also known in the industry as the Electric Vehicle Charge Couplers. The specific geometry taught in the patent satisfies the requirements of register-free connectors such as not to be able to short circuit supply conductors, provide at least one drain side conductor for every supply side conductor, permit easy sliding between supply and drain side conductors and provide at least one drain side contact with its centerline to overlap each supply side contact. Additional treads on the contacts provide self-cleaning ability without disturbing the register-free functionality by providing a path for loose dirt and oxides to escape, while the ridges between the grooves break the dirt into small pieces. The groove pitch is adjusted in relation to the sliding distance between the contacts such that every broken down piece of the dirt finds an escape path.
US08573982B1
Methods and apparatuses for athletic performance and technique monitoring are disclosed. In one example, a sensor output is received associated with a movement of a user torso during a running motion. The sensor output is analyzed to identify an undesirable torso motion.
US08573978B2
Systems, method, and programs evaluate a driving condition of a vehicle in accordance with road characteristic information that is included in map data, acquire evaluation information that includes an evaluation result based on the evaluation, and store the evaluation information. The systems, methods, and programs acquire update data to change the road characteristic information included in the map data, update the map data, and analyze the evaluation result for the evaluation information acquired during the period between the time when a road characteristic is modified and the time when the map data is updated, based on the changed road characteristic information included in the updated map data.
US08573977B2
Methods, apparatuses, and flight simulators are disclosed to present infrared images detectable by night vision devices. A video signal may be received. The video signal may be configured to generate a viewable image substantially within a human visible spectrum. The video signal may include one or more of a red component, a green component, and a blue component. The video signal also may be configured to generate one or more infrared images. The one or more infrared images may be substantially outside the human visible spectrum and may have an infrared component detectable by a night vision device. In response to the video signal, the red and green components may be separately modulated to generate red and green portions of the viewable image. The blue component and the infrared component may be collectively modulated to generate a blue portion of the viewable image and the one or more infrared images.
US08573973B2
An articulator has trays which have at least one opening with repeating broadened and narrowed regions allows for varying stabilization means to be used therewith. In one embodiment, the stone used for making the model acts as a stabilizing means without use of pins.
US08573969B2
A silicon wafer preferable to a semiconductor device is produced by determining a heat treatment condition hardly causing slip dislocations and heat-treating the silicon wafer under the condition. The resistance is calculated by using a calculation formula used for predicting the slip resistance of the wafer from the density, size, and residual solid-solution oxygen concentration of the oxygen precipitation in the silicon wafer, the state of oxygen precipitation such that heat treatment not causing any slip dislocation can be carried out is designed, and thus a silicon wafer heat treatment method under the heat treatment condition not causing any slip dislocation is determined. A silicon wafer heat-treated under such a condition can be provided.
US08573964B2
An apparatus and method for simultaneously forming and filling a plastic container is provided. A mold cavity defines an internal surface and is adapted to accept a preform. A pressure source is a servo motor system that includes an inlet. The servo motor system is operable to draw liquid through the inlet and urge it into the preform. A blow nozzle may be adapted to receive the liquid from the pressure source and transfer the liquid at high pressure into the preform thereby urging the preform to expand toward the internal surface of the mold cavity and create a resultant container. The liquid remains within the container as an end product.
US08573963B2
A multiple-piece cam unit for use in a molding machine. The cam unit has a cam track which engages cam followers of mold assemblies of the molding machine to move the cam followers between a first position and a second position. The cam unit includes a first cam section and a second cam section. The first cam section has an entrance portion which is dimensioned to receive the cam followers therein. The second cam section has an exit portion positioned to release the cam followers therefrom. The second cam section is moveably mounted to the molding machine to allow the exit portion of the second cam section to be moved relative to the entrance portion of the first cam section, to insure that the cam followers exiting the exit portion of the second cam section are properly aligned to enter the entrance portion of the first cam section.
US08573956B2
A dry pump includes: a plurality of cylinders; a pump chamber formed in each of the cylinders; a division wall separating pump chambers adjacent to each other; a plurality of rotors contained inside pump chambers; a rotating shaft that serves as an axis of rotation of the rotor; and a cooling medium path which is formed inside the division wall and through which a cooling medium passes.
US08573955B2
A scroll compressor is provided that includes a hermetic container into and out of which a refrigerant flows, a driving device installed in the hermetic container to rotate a rotation axis, an orbiting scroll fixed to the rotation axis and rotated with the rotation axis, and a fixed scroll fixed to the hermetic container and engaged with the orbiting scroll to define a compression chamber, in which the refrigerant is compressed, by an interaction with the orbiting scroll. A discharge hole of the fixed scroll comprises a discharge inlet portion through which high pressure refrigerant flows in, a discharge outlet portion through which the high pressure refrigerant flows out, the discharge outlet portion being eccentric to the discharge inlet portion, and a bottleneck section through which the discharge inlet portion and the discharge outlet portion communicate with each other. The scroll compressor reduces pulsation noise of the refrigerant to improve noise performance.
US08573947B2
A composite fan blade having an airfoil with a leading edge and a trailing edge and a dovetail root includes a first pressure face and second pressure face, a lower horizontal face connecting the pressure faces at the bottom of the dovetail and a first and a second dovetail runout fillet connecting the pressure faces to the airfoil. The pressure faces are each angled outward at about 65 degrees to about 75 degrees from horizontal.
US08573946B2
A blade for a compressor having a pressure surface and a suction surface. The suction surface includes a discontinuity in the chord-wise curvature of an intermediate portion of the suction surface between the blade leading edge and blade trailing edge, and a slot arranged along at least a portion of the blade in a substantially span-wise direction. The slot being disposed at or near the change in curvature, such that when in use lower momentum fluid near the suction surface is aspirated into the slot.
US08573941B2
A tandem blade design for an axial turbomachine, comprising a front blade and a rear blade disposed with an offset thereto in the circumferential direction and in the axial direction. The rear blade is profiled and positioned with respect to the front blade such that it raises the speed level at the trailing edge of the front blade in a predetermined working range in interaction with the front blade.
US08573939B2
A shroud for the rotating blades of a turbo machine, particularly a gas turbine, in which shroud is arranged along the circumference of a row of several rotating blades disposed on a rotor and has at least one separation gap along its circumference. The separation gap is formed in zigzag shape and has at least three damping gaps that are distanced from one another and extend at an angle relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor, and adjacent to these, has connection gaps each connecting damping gaps or extending the latter in the direction of shroud edges, wherein, when the rotor rotates, the gap width of damping gaps is reduced until the gap walls forming the damping gaps come to rest against each other.
US08573937B2
A system for providing dynamic pitch control in a wind turbine. In accordance with an embodiment, the dynamic pitch control uses a starting spring to pitch the blades of the wind turbine into a starting position that is suited for very low wind speeds. The pitch control then automatically pitches the blades into a run position as the rotation speed increases, using a combination of a rotational mass and a restraining spring. This allows the turbine to be started, and to generate power, at a much lower starting wind speed yet still operate at optimal speeds in its typical running range. In accordance with an embodiment, as the wind speed further increases beyond an overspeed limit, the rotational mass overcomes its restraining spring, and automatically pitches the blades back toward and beyond their start position, reducing the likelihood of damage to the turbine caused by high rotation speeds.
US08573936B2
A blade for an aircraft turbomachine receiving part including a root, and an airfoil part prolonging this root. The airfoil part includes a mechanical fuse located at a distance from the bottom of the blade, along the length direction of the airfoil part, between 0.25 and 0.5 times the length of the airfoil part along this length direction.
US08573934B2
The invention relates to a locking device (9) designed to be arranged in a junction region of a nacelle, comprising a locking system (10), intended to be mounted on a first half-shell of the nacelle, engaging with a retention member (11) intended to be mounted on a second half-shell, the locking system (10) being actuable between a locked state and an unlocked state with respect to the retention number (11), the locking system (10) and the retention member (11) being movable with respect to one another between a drawn-together position in which they can be locked with respect to one another and a spaced-apart position. The locking system (10) and/or the retention member (11) comprise locking means (25) designed to allow the locking system (10) to be locked with respect to the retention member (11) when they are in the drawn-together position and to prevent them from being locked when they are in the spaced-apart position.
US08573928B2
Coupling device intended to connect first and second elements which can move relative to one another
The invention relates to a coupling device (14) intended to connect first and second elements (4, 5) which can move relative to one another, comprising a connecting rod (16) coupled to the first and second movable elements (4, 5) at first and second ends (18, 19) respectively, at least one of the ends of the connecting rod (16) having a head (22) intended to cooperate with locking means (23) belonging to the corresponding movable element (5) so as to removably fasten the connecting rod (16) to the corresponding movable element (5), characterized in that the coupling device (14, 15) comprises at least one telescopic guide member (25) serving to support and guide the connecting rod (16) during the movement of the movable elements (4, 5), having first and second ends (28, 26) intended to be attached to first and second support elements (23, 16) respectively.
US08573922B2
A bearing support is disclosed herein. The bearing support includes a pilot ring encircling an axis. The pilot ring is operable to be substantially-fixed in operation. The bearing support also includes a damper ring operable to receive an outer race of a bearing assembly. The bearing support also includes a fuse pin extending through aligned apertures in the pilot ring and the damper ring to prevent relative radial movement between the pilot ring and the damper ring up to a predetermined amount of loading. The fuse pin is operable to fracture in response to loading beyond the predetermined amount. The bearing support also includes a retainer extending through one of the pilot ring and the damper ring and fixed to the other of the pilot ring and the damper ring. The fuse pin is engaged with at least one of the first and second apertures through a heat shrink fit.
US08573918B2
A dual mode end effector is disclosed. The dual mode end effector includes a bridge member having a first end and a second end, wherein the bridge member includes a first substantially axial flange extending from the first and, wherein the bridge member includes a second substantially axial flange extending from the second end; a tire/wheel gripping assembly connected to the bridge member, wherein the tire/wheel gripping assembly includes a pair of substantially axial members, a substantially radial support member, and a pair of radially-projecting engaging assemblies, wherein the pair of substantially axial members are movably-supported upon the substantially radial support member, wherein a first end of the substantially radial support member is connected to the first substantially axial flange of the bridge member, wherein the a second end of the substantially radial support member is connected to the second substantially axial flange of the bridge member, wherein a first radially-projecting engaging assembly of the pair of radially-projecting engaging assemblies is connected to an inner radial surface of a first substantially axial member of the pair of substantially axial members, wherein a second radially-projecting engaging assembly of the pair of radially-projecting engaging assemblies is connected to an inner radial surface of a second substantially axial member of the pair of substantially axial members.
US08573915B2
A trailer for transporting large equipment, buses, recreational vehicles, wherein the trailer includes a main deck at its forward end which is supported upon first and second elongated frame members. First and second running gear beams extend rearwardly from the rearward ends of the first and second frame members with each of the running gear beams including an upwardly and rearwardly extending first beam portion, a rearwardly and horizontally extending second beam portion and a downwardly and rearwardly extending third beam portion. First and second ramps are positioned laterally outwardly of the third beam portions of the first and second running gear beams and are movable between upper and lower positions. Vertically movable bolsters are positioned between the wheels of the axles which support the trailer at the rearward end thereof. The bolsters may be moved from a lower transport position to an upper loading/unloading position.
US08573913B2
A convertible anchor (H) for friable walls (W) comprises a fixture (12) for holding an article to a wall (W, M) and an anchoring mechanism (10) extending from the fixture (12). The anchoring mechanism (10) is adapted when rotated to engagingly extend into a friable wall (W) for securing the fixture (12) to the wail (W). The fixture (12) is selectively separable via frangible connection elements (14, 24) from the anchoring mechanism (10) for allowing the fixture (12) to be used alone with an appropriate fastener (S) suitable for installing the fixture (12) to a rigid structure (M), such as wooden components. The anchoring mechanism (10) can take different forms as long as it is can be mounted to a friable wall (W). Typically, a space (26) is defined between the fixture (12) and a proximal end (34) of the anchoring mechanism (10) with this space (26) being bridged by the frangible connection elements (14, 24). The fixture (12) defines an opening (16) adapted to be engaged by a screwdriver bit (B) for mounting the anchor (H) to the wall (W, M). The method calls for determining the nature of the vertical support to which the anchor (H) is to be mounted and then, for a friable wall (W), installing the anchor (H) thereto using the anchoring mechanism (10); or, for a more solid vertical support (M) such a wood, separating the fixture (12) from the anchoring mechanism (10) and installing the fixture (12) to the solid vertical support (M) via an appropriate fastener (S).
US08573911B2
One or more fastenings can be used to fasten components together, such as housing components on a computing device. Each fastening can include a first opening associated with a first component, a second opening associated with a second component, a floating fastener, and a screw. The floating fastener is inserted into the first opening and/or second opening, and includes a threaded opening therein having a primary axis therethrough. The screw is inserted through first and/or second openings and into the threaded opening in the floating fastener. The screw and threaded opening combination is defined by contact between the screw and threaded opening about a thread surface that is substantially perpendicular to the primary axis, a screw thread return angle of 45 degrees or less, and a thread depth that is less than about triple the float between the major diameters of the screw and the threaded opening.
US08573908B2
A machining center wherein improved workability of a control board, a widened movable zone of a column and a reduced installation space are achieved. The machining center includes a column movably supported on a column sliding portion in an X-axis direction, a work table movably supported on a table sliding portion in a Z-axis direction, a main spindle head slidably supported on the column in a Y-axis direction, and an automatic tool changer disposed at an inner side of the column sliding portion. The control board is arranged at an opposite side of the automatic tool changer and is provided in parallel with a side surface of a front portion of a table sliding portion and is arranged side by side with an openable/closable door for an operator provided on a side surface of a cover in a vicinity of a rear end portion of the side surface of the table sliding portion.
US08573907B2
A hole cutter for cutting a work piece, such as a wood and/or metal work piece, has a substantially cylindrical blade body defining a wall thickness within the range of about 0.032 inch to about 0.038 inch, and a cutting edge formed on one end of the blade body including a plurality of teeth defining an average tooth pitch within the range of about 3.5 TPI to about 5.5 TPI for cutting the work piece and forming chips therefrom. The substantially cylindrical blade body and cutting edge define an average tooth pitch to blade body thickness ratio of at least about 110.
US08573903B2
A round cutting insert with an anti-rotation feature. The round cutting insert includes a plurality of projections formed on a first surface and another plurality of projections formed on an opposing surface. The round cutting insert is reversible and indexable. The round cutting insert is removably received in an insert receiving pocket in a tool body wherein the insert receiving pocket includes a plurality of dimples for receiving one of the plurality of first projections or the plurality of second projections. This arrangement prevents rotation of the round cutting insert while mounted in the insert receiving pocket.
US08573895B2
An apparatus includes a feed chamber for feeding of material from storage bunkers and a lifting device for lifting the material to a high level. The lifting device includes a delivery end to which a transport line for conveying the material away to a remote delivery point can be connected, a pressure vessel having a vertical conveyor that begins in the feed chamber and ends in a top region of the pressure vessel, and a discharge pipe beginning in a bottom region of the pressure vessel and leading out of the pressure vessel. The apparatus also includes a pressurizing device which pressurizes the pressure vessel via a first valve and activates a conveying air nozzle of the discharge pipe via a second valve, and a controller for filling the pressure vessel via the vertical conveyor, fluidizing the material via the pressurizing device, and conveying the material away via the transport line.
US08573893B2
An injection head includes an upper inlet pipe (12) for receiving fluid from a set of tubular rods which can be mounted above the head, at least a first pipe (13) having a curved intermediate portion (14) which connects the upper inlet pipe (12) to at least one lateral injection nozzle (11), at least a second pipe (15) for conveying a fluid from the inlet pipe (12) to a lower outlet pipe (17) which can be connected to a drilling tool. The injection head also has valve (20-23) which can be actuated to cut off the flow of the fluid towards the lower outlet pipe (17). The valve is located in a position downstream of the upper inlet pipe (12) and above, or upstream of, the lateral nozzles (11) and the second pipes (15).
US08573879B2
A quick-release device includes a shank and a flange radially extending from one end of the shank. A ring is sleeved on the shank and engaged to the flange. A sleeve is co-axially connected and engaged to the ring. A washer is received in the sleeve. A shaft is co-axially connected to the shank and sequentially extending through the ring, the sleeve and the washer. A pivot is transversely mounted to a distal end of the shaft and abutting the washer. A lever is pivotally mounted onto the pivot for selectively forcedly and inwardly pushing the washer and engaged to the sleeve.
US08573874B2
A cosmetic applicator formed from ceramic material covered in a metal sheath. The tip is designed to provide a product chilling effect when applying creams, lotions, treatment products, etc. The applicator is provided with a relatively substantial mass of ceramic material so that it has a greater thermal capacity than the dose of cosmetic and the application area combined. The applicator is in the form of a molded-ceramic applicator head or applicator tip sheathed, coated or plated in metal. The tip provides a relatively larger product-chilling effect to both the dose of cosmetic applied and to the user's skin in the application area when applying creams, lotions, treatment products, etc. The applicator provides an application device which will deliver the creams, lotions, treatment products, etc. such that the temperature of the product being delivered is lower than the temperature of the skin, and to provide a means of lowering the temperature of the skin by virtue of the thermal absorption capacity of the applicator head or tip, and to provide a vehicle by which formulations may be activated or enhanced by specific compounds in the ceramic material from which the applicator tip is comprised.
US08573873B2
An apparatus for buttering corn includes a tubular member sized to receive an ear of corn, a body with an open end, the body sized to receive the tubular member, and a plunger sized to fit through the tubular member. Another apparatus for buttering corn includes a tubular member sized to receive an ear of corn and having an interior surface textured to adhere to solidified butter and having an open end with an outer flange, a cylindrical body with an open end having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the tubular member and having an outer diameter about the same length as an outer diameter of the outer flange of the tubular member, the body sized to receive the tubular member, a plunger sized to fit through the tubular member, and a cap sized to fit over the outer flange of the tubular member.
US08573870B2
A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, to be carried out with one mechanism; and a tape discharge mechanism having a tape discharge roller which, by rotating, causes the tape-like member to move to a discharge side, wherein the tape discharge mechanism comes in conjunction with the cutter operation mechanism, and the tape discharge roller rotates only after the cutting operation at a time of the full cutting finishes.
US08573865B2
An adapter plate for a camera comprises a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. There are least two threaded apertures extending into the first side of the adapter plate. There is also an opening extending through the adapter plate from the first side of the adapter plate to the second side of the adapter plate.
US08573862B2
A transceiver module includes a housing assembly, a single optical cable receptacle, an electronics subassembly in the housing assembly having a generally planar substrate, and an optics subsystem. The optics subsystem redirects an optical beam between the surface of the substrate and an optical axis of the receptacle. The structure of the housing assembly promotes airflow through the transceiver module. The transceiver module can be plugged into a chassis or cage of an electronic system. A latching mechanism can be included to secure the transceiver module in the cage. A tab can be included to facilitate un-latching and removal of the transceiver module from the cage.
US08573859B2
An optical fiber connector includes a housing configured to mate with a receptacle, a collar body that includes a fiber stub and a mechanical splice device, a backbone to retain the collar body within the housing, and a boot. The backbone includes a fiber jacket clamping portion to clamp a jacket portion that surrounds a portion of the terminated optical fiber upon actuation. The boot actuates the fiber jacket clamping portion of the backbone upon attachment to the backbone. The optical fiber connector can be terminated in the field without the need to use a separate termination platform or tool.
US08573847B2
A linear motion guide unit is provided, which is capable of preventing the variation in the position of a roller cage assembly caused by sliding motions of the roller cage assembly between a first guide rail and a second guide rail, without reducing the number of rollers. The linear motion guide unit includes first and second guide rails having track portions formed concavedly to have a V-shaped section on the faces opposing each other; and a roller cage assembly disposed between the first and second guide rails and having a plurality of rollers located between the first and second guide rails and ring-shaped pinions adapted to surround the rollers.
US08573844B2
A dental x-ray image media holder comprising: a backing plate affixed to a bite block, the backing plate including a least one channel for receiving a post affixed to the bite block, such that the bite block can be selectively moved within the channels to orient the bite block in a predetermined position relative to the backing plate; and a plurality of indicia, such that at least one of the indicia is used to indicate a first position of the bite block relative to the backing plate, the first position being associated with a predetermined first dental imaging procedure; and a locking member configured to prevent rotational movement of the bite block along a post axis upon engagement of the locking member.
US08573832B2
Barrel for a self-winding timepiece including a drum of axis AA provided with an internal lateral wall having friction surfaces alternating with locking structures forming salient or inward edges at the boundary of the friction surfaces and a mainspring forming a winding including an outer coil, which is friction coupled to said internal lateral wall and free to slip against said internal lateral wall in the event of overwinding of the mainspring, characterized in that said friction surfaces are demarcated, downstream relative to the direction in which said outer coil slips, by a rounded salient edge or an inward edge.
US08573830B2
A device is provided for mixing mixable and unmixable liquids and/or producing emulsions, which has a first connection to a pressure-operated system and second connection for supplying the liquid to be admixed and which is sucked in by the flow of the pressurized liquid.
US08573829B2
An animal feed mechanism includes a manually operated slide valve interposed between a set of upper agitators and a set of lower screw conveyors. In some examples, two upper agitators are installed within a plastic funnel, and two lower screw conveyors are disposed within a metal auger housing. Each screw conveyor includes an auger driven by its own separate motor. Thus, there are two motors for rotating the two augers. The two motors can be energized individually to selectively rotate either auger or to rotate them concurrently. In some examples, a transmission coupling the two augers to the two agitators conveys power to rotate both agitators regardless of whether either one or both motor driven augers are operating.
US08573822B2
In a vehicular lamp, a first zone includes a first incident portion disposed on a radiation axis. A first light guide portion guides light incident from the first incident portion forward. A first radiation portion formed from a first concave surface and a second concave surface deflects the light from the first light guide portion toward a lamp optical axis side and radiates such light forward in a diffused manner. A second zone includes a cylindrical second incident portion disposed on an outer side of the first incident portion. A second light guide portion that is longer in the direction of the radiation axis than the first light guide portion guides light incident from the second incident portion forward. A cylindrical second radiation portion radiates the light from the second light guide portion forward.
US08573817B2
A light device including a housing, a cooling unit and a light emitting unit is disclosed. The housing has an assembly opening and an electrical base. The cooling unit is in the housing and has a heat dissipating seat, a driving member electrically connecting with the electrical base, and a fan wheel rotatably coupled with the driving member. The heat dissipating seat has a lateral wall coupled with the housing, an inner air channel formed in the lateral wall, a base portion arranged in the inner air channel for the driving member to be mounted, and at least one through hole penetrating the base portion and communicating with the inner air channel. The light emitting unit is coupled with the heat dissipating seat and electrically connects with the electrical base. An outer air channel is formed between the lateral wall and the housing.
US08573816B2
The present disclosure relates to an enhanced composite lens, which is formed from a material, such as thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic material may be polycarbonate, acrylic glass, and the like. To form the composite lens, a resin of the desired thermoplastic material is formed in the desired shape of a lens. To facilitate light diffusion within the body of the resultant lens, diffusive additives are added to the thermoplastic resin when forming the composite lens. As such, the diffusive additives are dispersed throughout the body of the composite lens and light diffusion occurs volumetrically within and throughout the body of the composite lens.
US08573810B2
A gobo holder with two gobos that are rotatable one relative to the other. The gobos are located with their patterned surfaces facing one another and very close to one another so that both can be in focus at the same time.
US08573805B2
A lighting apparatus comprises one or more LED modules. Each LED module comprises: an upper housing having an array of raised portions capable of transmitting light therethrough; a PCB layer having LEDs mounted thereon, respective ones of the LEDs being mounted so as to positionally correspond to respective ones of the raised portions; and a lower housing, the lower housing and the upper housing sandwiching the PCB layer so as to permit light emitted by the LEDs to be emitted out of the upper housing.
US08573804B2
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to techniques for improving the performance of Lambertian and non-Lambertian light sources. In certain example embodiments, this is accomplished by (1) providing an organic-inorganic hybrid material on LEDs (which in certain example embodiments may be a high index of refraction material), (2) enhancing the light scattering ability of the LEDs (e.g., by fractal embossing, patterning, or the like, and/or by providing randomly dispersed elements thereon), and/or (3) improving performance through advanced cooling techniques. In certain example instances, performance enhancements may include, for example, better color production (e.g., in terms of a high CRI), better light production (e.g., in terms of lumens and non-Lambertian lighting), higher internal and/or external efficiency, etc.
US08573803B2
An illumination device includes a housing having a light-emitting surface through which illumination light is irradiated and a plurality of LED units fixed to the housing in specified positions to emit the illumination light. The illumination device further includes a plurality of reflectors each having a reflection surface for reflecting the illumination light emitted from each of the LED units in a specified direction and a reflector attachment plate removably fixed to the housing. Each of the reflectors is adjustably attached to the reflector attachment plate in a specified orientation.
US08573802B2
A lighting device including a heat radiating body defining a cavity and a circumference, a reflective structure within the cavity, a light emitting module unit on the circumference of the heat radiating body, and a cover disposed under the light emitting module unit and reflecting light emitted from the light emitting module unit to the reflective structure, such light then being reflected by the reflective structure to the outside of the heat radiating body.
US08573800B2
A lighting apparatus comprising: an elongated-shaped LED unit provided with a plurality of lighting units on one surface in the thickness direction thereof, each of said lighting units having a LED chip; a reflective plate held by a main body; a lighting device for lighting the LED unit; and a heat radiation block to which said LED unit being replaceably attached, configured to dissipate the heat generated in the LED unit, and arranged at the other surface side in the thickness direction of the LED unit. The reflective plate has an installation portion for installing the LED unit. The heat radiation block is held by the reflective plate. The LED unit has a flat portion at light extracting surface from the lighting unit. The flat portion has the same plane with a surrounding area of the installation portion in a reflective surface of the reflective plate.
US08573798B2
Embodiments herein provide a switch module for a flashlight with a single input contact and multiple output contacts. The switch module may include multiple mechanical actuators, each actuator configured to selectively and communicatively couple one of the output contacts to the input contact. Each actuator may be activated and/or deactivated independently. Accordingly, any combination of the output contacts may be activated and/or deactivated at a given time. The switch module may be incorporated into a flashlight, allowing any of a number of output devices (e.g., light bulbs) to be independently switched on and off from a common power source.
US08573792B2
Disclosed is a reflective mirror for solar thermal power generation comprising a metal film and provided thereon, a substrate, the reflective mirror reflecting sunlight entering from a substrate side, featured in that the substrate is a film composed of a resin containing microfibrillated cellulose. The reflective mirror maintains a light collecting ability, particularly a specular reflectance highly and stably against variation of weather conditions, when sunlight is collected outdoors, is usable over a long period of time, and has high durability.
US08573788B2
An image projecting apparatus includes an image display element, an optical system that projects an image displayed on the image display element onto a screen, an optical element that shifts in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical system, an adjusting mechanism that can shift the optical element in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and a holding member that fixes the optical element to a lens barrel, wherein a combined Abbe number vdch of materials of the optical element with respect to a d-line, a combined focal length fdch of the optical element with respect to the d-line, and the pixel pitch P of the image display element satisfy an appropriate condition.
US08573779B2
A lighting device is provided which efficiently achieves a high brightness and a high image quality by using a solid light source which has long service life and does not need mercury. The lighting device includes a first light source section, a second light source section, a second rod integrator for combining lights emitted from the first and second light source sections, and a first rod integrator for guiding the light from the first light source section, to the second rod integrator. On an incident surface of the second rod integrator, a first region on which the light emitted from the first light source section is incident and a second region on which the light emitted from the second light source section is incident do not overlap each other, and the surface area of the first region and the surface area of the second region are different from each other.
US08573778B2
A method for producing an ophthalmic spectacle lens makes it possible to fit out a wearer of lenses in a manner which is customized as a function of a perception of blur by said wearer. The lens is selected so that the wearer has the impression of having a field of sharp vision which has a reference width. This reference width is determined on the basis of a first lens which complies with the wearer's ophthalmic prescription and a reference threshold value of the blur. It is thereafter associated within the lens which is provided for the wearer with a threshold value of the blur which is perceived by this wearer.
US08573774B2
Aspects of the present invention provide an ophthalmic lens comprising at least one regressive and at least one non-regressive rotationally symmetric optical design element. The regressive and non-regressive optical design elements can be combined so as to form a desired optical power profile for the lens while simultaneously exploiting the different relative orientation of the astigmatic vectors of the constituent regressive and non-regressive design elements, thereby resulting in reduced unwanted astigmatism. The regressive and non-regressive rotationally symmetric optical design elements can be positioned on different lens surfaces and in optical communication or can be collapsed onto the same lens surface. The regressive and non-regressive rotationally symmetric optical design elements can each contribute to the total add power of an ophthalmic lens. The regressive and non-regressive rotationally symmetric optical design elements can be combined with any other optical design feature positioned on the same or a different surface of the lens.
US08573765B2
The present invention provides an active radiation curable ink composition including: (A) a polymer having two or more acidic groups or two or more basic groups; (B) a polymerizable monomer having a substituent group capable of forming a counter salt with the acidic group or basic group of the polymer (A); (C) a photo-polymerization initiator; and (D) a polymerizable monomer having a different structure from the polymerizable monomer (B).
US08573762B1
The present disclosure provides sustained decap for inkjet inks and related methods. As such, an inkjet ink composition can comprise a linear polyurethane binder having a weight average molecular weight of less than 50,000 Mw; from 5 wt % to 20 wt % of an organic cosolvent system including a first organic cosolvent selected from the group of 2-hydroxyethylurea, 1,2,6-hexanetriol, di-(2-hydoxyethyl)-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, 1,1,1,-tris(hydroxymethyl)ethane, 1,2,4-butanetriol, and mixtures thereof; water; and a colorant. Additionally, the organic cosolvent system can also comprise less than 5 wt % total organic cosolvent having a boiling point less than 250° C. based on the weight of the inkjet ink composition.
US08573757B2
The present invention provides methods of generating scalable patterned features on a substrate. The methods includes ejecting a succession of droplets; applying a force to the droplets in a manner such that the droplets travel along a designated path; altering the properties of one or more of the droplets in a manner so as to adjust the size of the droplets; and depositing the droplets on the substrate to generate patterned features on the substrate. The present invention also provides apparatuses for generating scalable patterned features on a substrate.
US08573753B2
According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes a base including a mounting surface, an orifice plate, and a first driving element. The orifice plate includes a plurality of orifices. An ink chamber between the orifice plate and the base is configured to be supplied ink. The first driving element is arranged in the ink chamber and includes a plurality of first pressure chambers to which the orifices are opened and a plurality of first dummy chambers covered with the orifice plate, both ends of the first pressure chambers being opened to the ink chamber, both ends of the first dummy chambers being opened to the ink chamber, and the first dummy chambers being arranged alternately with the plurality of first pressure chambers.
US08573752B2
A piezoelectric element comprises a piezoelectric layer comprising a mixed crystal including at least cerium, bismuth, iron, barium, and titanium and an electrode provided to the piezoelectric layer. The molar ratio of cerium to the total amount of cerium and bismuth in the piezoelectric layer is 0.03 or more and 0.10 or lower.
US08573750B2
Systems and apparatus for ejecting fluid. A fluid injection apparatus includes a fluid ejector unit for ejecting a droplet of fluid, an integrated circuit, and a conductive trace electrically coupling the fluid ejector unit and the integrated circuit. A portion of the conductive trace includes a fuse.
US08573742B2
In one embodiment, a component for dispensing a fluid includes: a plurality of fluid ejection orifices arrayed in a plane; and an elongated bumper extending along one side of the array generally in a plane intersecting the plane of the array and the bumper having a protruding exterior surface that includes a first part inclining away from the array and a contiguous second part inclining back toward the array.
US08573729B2
The liquid ejection device includes: a platen configured to hold a recording medium by suction through the use of a plurality of suction holes; a suction unit configured to generate a negative pressure for holding the recording medium to the platen by suction; a suction flow passage configured to transmit the negative pressure generated by the suction unit to the platen, the suction flow passage being disposed between the suction unit and the platen; and a communication control unit configured to control communication between the suction unit and the suction holes not blocked by the recording medium, through the use of a flow of air suctioned from the suction holes not blocked by the recording medium.
US08573724B2
A recording apparatus includes: a recording head that performs recording on a recording target medium; a driving mechanism that is capable of causing the recording head to move closer to the recording target medium or move away from the recording target medium; and a controlling section that determines driving amount for one driving operation that is performed by the driving mechanism on the basis of results of a comparison made between a first recording head movement direction that is taken or to be taken in the one driving operation and a second recording head movement direction that was taken in another driving operation that is immediately before the one driving operation and thus precedes the one driving operation.
US08573723B2
An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, an intermediate member, and an adjuster. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the head holder. The intermediate member is displaceably disposed between the head holder and the carriage and held by the carriage. The adjuster adjusts a position of the head holder by displacing the intermediate member.
US08573722B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes setting a desired flow rate for ink in an ink jet printer, measuring an actual flow rate of the ink, determining if the measured flow rate is equal to the desired flow rate and adjusting the flow rate if the measured flow rate is not equal to the desired flow rate.
US08573714B2
To make a brake device generate a required braking force, a hydraulic control section switches, according to the relative magnitude between the required braking force and a braking force exerted by braking operation, between drive of a pump motor and non-drive of the pump motor and a master cut valve reduces the flow of brake fluid in the direction to a master cylinder. By this, a wheel cylinder maintains hydraulic pressure capable of generating the required braking force. As a result, the pump motor is not necessarily always driven when the required braking force is generated, and the operating time period of the pump motor is reduced. As a result, a load on the pump motor is reduced to enhance durability of the pump motor.
US08573707B2
An apparatus for mounting a cutting tool includes a retainer sleeve that defines at least one retention groove adjacent an axial forward end thereof and a washer removably attached to the retainer sleeve. The washer has a forward surface, a rearward surface and an interior surface that define a central opening, wherein the interior surface includes at least one protrusion extending inward into the central opening that is structured and arranged for cooperating with the at least one retention groove in the retainer sleeve. The retainer sleeve further defines a longitudinal slot that extends from an axial forward end to an axial rearward end of the retainer sleeve. The washer further includes a key extending inward into the central opening that is structured and arranged for cooperating with the longitudinal slot in the retainer sleeve.
US08573705B2
A mining apparatus includes a miner, a conveyor unit and a steering unit connecting the miner and conveyor unit. The apparatus also includes a heading sensor and a controller responsive to the heading sensor. A first actuator is carried on the miner, the control unit or the steering unit. The first actuator is positioned to a first side of a midline of the miner. Further a second actuator is carried on one of the miner, the conveyor unit and the steering unit. The second actuator is positioned to a second opposite side of the midline of the miner. The first and second actuators are utilized to adjust a connection angle between the miner and the conveyor unit either side of parallel in order to maintain the miner on the desired directional heading.
US08573703B2
A headrest has a generally vertical rod mountable in a motor-vehicle seat and formed with a plurality of vertically spaced and horizontally open notches, a support vertically movable along the rod and adapted to carry a head cushion, and a latch element vertically fixed on the support and shiftable on the support between a latched position engaged in one of the notches and locking the support on the rod against downward movement and an unlatched position disengaged from the rod and permitting free vertical movement of the support on the rod. An actuating element is pivotal about an axis on the support between an actuated position holding the latch element in the disengaged position and a rest position with the latch element in the engaged position.
US08573702B2
A seat assembly that includes a seat back, a support post disposed on the seat back, and a headrest moveably disposed on the support post. The headrest includes first and second transverse members disposed on the support post and a spindle assembly rotatably associated with the first and second transverse members. The spindle assembly rotates to permit movement of the headrest.
US08573700B2
To perform highly precise position adjustment for head restraint in short time regardless of distance between head restraint and human body and head shape. Head restraint position adjusting device 100 includes capacitance sensor unit 10 and drive motor unit 30. Capacitance sensor unit 10 includes first and third sensing electrodes 11 and 13 and detection circuit 20. First sensing electrode 11 is arranged in an upper portion of front portion of head restraint 43 and senses capacitance between itself and vicinity of parietal region 49a of head 49 of human body 48. Third sensing electrode 13 is arranged in lower portion of front portion and senses capacitance between itself and any portion of human body 48 other than vicinity of parietal region 49a. When head restraint 43 moves from initial condition, detection circuit 20 detects position of parietal region 49a of head 49 (parietal region position) and determines appropriate position of head restraint 43 for head 49, enabling highly precise position adjustment in short time.
US08573697B1
A combination includes front and rear frames each having a central hollow portion. The central hollow portion of the front frame includes two lateral sides each having a flexible plate with a plurality of vertically spaced positioning grooves. A guiding groove is defined in each of two lateral sides of the central hollow portion of the rear frame. A waistrest includes a support portion. A lug is formed on each of two sides of the support portion. A protrusion is formed on a rear face of each lug and is received in one of the guiding grooves of the rear frame. A positioning member is formed on the front face of each lug. Each flexible plate abuts the front face of one of the lugs. The positioning member of each lug of the waistrest is engaged in one of the positioning grooves of one of the flexible plates.
US08573687B2
A seating unit that includes a linkage mechanism adapted to adjust between closed, extended, and reclined positions is provided. The linkage mechanism includes a seat-mounting plate mounted to a footrest assembly, a back-mounting link and a rear bellcrank both rotatably coupled to the seat-mounting plate, an activator bar that controls a footrest drive link, and a linear actuator for carrying out automated adjustment of the linkage assembly. In operation, a stroke in a first phase of the linear actuator generates a torque on the activator bar. The footrest drive link converts the torque into a laterally-directed force that pushes the footrest assembly into the extended position. A stroke in the second phase acts to push the activator bar forward and translate the seat-mounting plate forward at a consistent inclination angle. The forward translation causes the rear bellcrank to rotate, thereby biasing the back-mounting link rearward into the reclined position.
US08573686B2
A retractable headrest exhibiting a plate shaped support embedded within a seatback. A scissor linkage includes a plurality of interconnecting and overlapping link arms pivotally secured to the plate support at one end thereof. A spring biased rivet is disposed at an overlapping intermediate location of the link arms for travel along a linear extending channel defined in the support. A carriage connects to the other end of the scissor linkage and is linearly displaceable along the plate support. A headrest support rod is connected to the carriage and extends from the seatback. A spring loaded and rotatable pawl is pivotally supported proximate a base end of the scissor linkage and includes a catch location in engagement with a first pin extending from the support. A first cable extends from a first remote location and connects to the pawl. A second cable extends from a second remote location and connects to the carriage. During rotation of the seatback from an upright design position to a forward dump position, actuation of the first cable pivots the pawl against its bias to unseat the catch location from the pin, concurrent actuation of the second cable exerting a pulling force to compress the scissor linkage to a retracted position.
US08573684B2
A sliding roof sunshade assembly for a vehicle has a sunshade element which can be moved in opening direction and a closing direction. The sunshade element has a bow at a free front end. At least one force-transmitting drive element is connected to the bow and to a drive in order to move the sunshade element into a closed setting, with the front end of the sunshade element assuming a predetermined closed position in the closed setting. At least one elastic intermediate element is arranged in a force flow between the drive and the front end of the sunshade element. Once the front end of the sunshade element has reached the closed position, the drive moves the drive element onward into a predetermined end setting in which the intermediate element is elastically deformed. The predetermined end setting corresponds to a position in which the elastic intermediate element is compressed by an amount within a predetermined tolerance path.
US08573683B2
A front structure for a vehicle is provided, the structure including (i) a pair of front rails (i.e., front left hand rail and front right hand rail) spaced apart in a widthwise direction with each rail extending lengthwise, where one end portion of each rail is mechanically coupled to the vehicle's bumper and the other end portion of each rail is mechanically coupled to a torque box, and where each rail is comprised of a polygonal-shaped upper hollow channel and a polygonal-shaped lower hollow channel, and where the upper and lower channels share a common wall; and (ii) a pair of rail reinforcement members, where one rail reinforcement member is mechanically mounted within each front rail, and where a plurality of features corresponding to each reinforcement member determines how the rails react to front impact loads.
US08573677B2
A vehicle floor mat that includes a flexible upper layer having a non-wood surface with a visible wood-grain pattern on substantially the entire non-wood surface, the non-wood surface being of a scratch-resistant and water-resistant material and able to repeatedly flex at least 70 degrees from planar at least 100 times without exhibiting a change in the visible wood-grain pattern. A flexible non-wood underlayer is coupled to an underside of the flexible upper layer and has a slip-resistant surface that is able to repeatedly flex at least 70 degrees from planar. The flexible upper layer and the flexible non-wood underlayer have a shared non-uniform outer-edge shape that corresponds to a non-planar foot area of a vehicle.
US08573676B2
A closure assembly for a vehicle includes rails secured to a vehicle body, first joints secured to one of the rails and able to pivot about an axis through a first angle between a first reference position and a second reference position, a panel, and second joints secured to one of the rails, supporting the panel and able to pivot about a second axis through a second angle between a first reference position and a third reference position.
US08573657B2
A latch system for a door of a vehicle a latch assembly having a catch and a pawl, an actuatable inside handle, a linkage assembly mechanically linked between the inside handle and the latch assembly, and an actuator interconnected to the pawl and being configured to be activated by actuation of the inside handle. The catch is configured to be moved to the open position by activating the actuator to thereby move the pawl to stop the pawl from maintaining the catch in the closed position or by actuating the inside handle when the vehicle has power. The catch is also configured to be moved to the open position after actuation of the inside handle by having the inside handle mechanically move the linkage assembly to stop the pawl from maintaining the catch in the closed position when the vehicle does not have power.
US08573641B2
An airbag has a fabric enclosure, a vent in the fabric enclosure, and a flow control device made up of a flexible membrane fastened around part of a periphery thereof to the fabric enclosure adjacent to the vent. The membrane defines a flow passage having a free end through which inflation gas is vented to atmosphere and has a tongue extending away from the free end. The tongue has a pre-deployment position in which it overlies an inner surface of the fabric enclosure and a distal end of the tongue extends past an end of the vent closest to the free end. A first distance from the distal end of the tongue to a closest end of the vent may be shorter than a second distance from the distal end of the tongue to a closest end of fastening between the periphery of the membrane and the fabric enclosure.
US08573639B1
An inflatable side restraint assembly for a vehicle includes a sail panel selectively deployed in the vehicle. The sail panel covers front and rear side window regions of the vehicle and includes an inflatable region located along a first pillar region between adjacent first and second windows when the sail panel is deployed. Likewise, a second inflatable region is located along a second pillar region between adjacent second and third side windows. An additional inflatable region extends in a direction generally perpendicular to the inflatable region, preferably located along a lower region of the sail panel. A deployable head-upper thorax restraint is configured to deploy between the sail panel and an outer end of a seat row in the vehicle, and preferably is provided at each end of each row of seats in the vehicle.
US08573638B2
In a head-protecting airbag apparatus, an airbag is folded up and housed in a case that is made from synthetic resin and has an inverse U-shaped sectional contour opening downward. The airbag includes a plurality of mounting portions, and the mounting portions are taken out to an outer circumference of the case to be fastened to the vehicle body structure. The case includes a retaining projection that is inserted through a retaining hole formed on the upper rim of the airbag for retaining the upper rim of the airbag, and a retaining tongue that has a cantilever structure so as to be flexible toward an inner side of the case. A section of the airbag in a vicinity of the retaining hole is placed over an outer circumferential surface of the retaining tongue such that the retaining projection is inserted through the retaining hole.
US08573636B2
A side airbag unit for mounting on or in the backrest of a vehicle seat includes an airbag skin enclosing a gas chamber, and an inflator for filling of said gas chamber. The airbag skin exhibits a main section which serves for protection of the vehicle occupant when the side airbag is expanded and which in the resting state of the side airbag is present as a package, wherein the package is at least partly rolled. In order to provide a side airbag unit of low weight with its airbag skin nevertheless showing a controlled and reproducible expansion behavior, the airbag skin further comprises at least one auxiliary section which in the resting state encompasses the main section in two layers at least in sections, wherein an additional area of the gas chamber is present between the two layers of the auxiliary section at least in the resting state.
US08573633B2
A seat cushion airbag apparatus is applied to a vehicle seat having a seat portion. The seat portion has a seat cushion that is supported from below by a support portion of a seat frame. The apparatus raises a seat face of the vehicle seat, thereby restraining an object on the seat face to prevent the object from moving forward. The apparatus includes an airbag, an inflation fluid generator, and a contact preventing member. The airbag is arranged between the support portion and the cushion. The inflation fluid generator supplies inflation fluid for inflating the airbag, thereby raising the seat face. The contact preventing member is arranged between the support portion and the airbag. A part of the contact preventing member that is in the vicinity of the support portion is flexible. The contact preventing member prevents the airbag from contacting the support portion when the airbag is inflated.
US08573629B1
A tow bar has first and second bar elements telescopically engaged to slide between an extended configuration and a collapsed configuration. A latch housing mounted on the second bar element pivotally mounts a latch element. A locking sear having a sear locking surface and a sear back surface is pivotally mounted to move between a locking position and an unlocking position. In the locking position, a sear locking surface abuts a latch stop of the first bar element to lock the first and second bar elements in the extended configuration. In the unlocking position, the sear locking surface disengages the latch stop, allowing the first and second bar elements to move to the collapsed configuration.
US08573618B2
A wheel suspension of a motor vehicle. The wheel suspension includes a suspension arm supported on a linkage point on a car body of the motor vehicle. A transverse leaf spring is arranged along a transverse axis of the motor vehicle and coupled at an end of the transverse leaf spring with the wheel suspension. The transverse leaf spring is supported via a bearing on the car body. An end of the transverse leaf spring is coupled in an articulated manner with the suspension arm and spaced apart from a wheel-side end of the suspension arm.
US08573612B1
A method of producing a natural gait by a patient using an ambulatory device having a patient positioned in the middle of the ambulatory device to allow for an upright trunk, minimizing abnormal lower extremities kinematics and weight bearing on arms. By having hinged corners with an adjustable friction the device allows reciprocal arm swing when unlocked. The use of four wheels permits a continuous stepping motion that does not disrupt normal gait kinematics. Having an adjustable height allows the ambulatory device to have an optimal height for placement of patient hands that minimizes weight bearing on arms.
US08573611B1
An emergency axle lift control for a vehicle having at least one supplemental load axle configured to provide supplemental support to the vehicle by moving from a stored position in which wheels of the supplemental load axle do not contact the ground surface to a deployed position in which the wheels of the supplemental load axle contact the ground surface. The emergency axle lift control may comprise a control bypass switch operable by an operator of the vehicle while driving the vehicle, with the control bypass switch being configured to cause all of the supplemental load axles of the vehicle to move from the deployed position toward the stored position when the operator actuates the control bypass switch.
US08573606B1
A shock absorber apparatus for a vehicle may include a piston installed within a cylinder to be moved along a lengthwise direction of the cylinder and separating the cylinder into an upper chamber and a lower chamber, a piston rod installed to pass through the cylinder and connected to the piston, wherein the piston rod has an oil flow space therein, and a valve mechanism installed on the piston rod and operated to be opened and closed to selectively connect the upper chamber of the cylinder and the oil flow space of the piston rod.
US08573599B2
A unitary cartridge seal assembly for a high pressure liquid sealing connection between two relatively rotatable liquid passage members of a rotary nozzle or a swivel and a tool having such an assembly. The assembly comprises a thimble shaped or cylindrical housing having a flanged retainer fitting within an axial orifice to hold the components together while allowing sufficient axial movement to insure complete sealing of the respective elements. The assembly provides “drop-in” replacement of wearable parts of the rotary face seal of a high pressure water jet blasting tool.
US08573596B2
A picture puzzle kit is provided for coloring duplicate picture puzzles marked with distinct indicia corresponding to multiple colors. The picture puzzle kit comprises two or more sets of puzzle pieces comprising parts that define a picture puzzle. The puzzle pieces in one set are duplicates of corresponding puzzle pieces in another set. The puzzle pieces in one set are marked with indicia corresponding to a color, which are distinct from indicia marked on the puzzle pieces in another set. Opposing sides of the puzzle pieces can be marked with distinct indicia. Two or more color charts display colors corresponding to the distinct indicia marked on the puzzle pieces. Coloring tools are used to color the puzzle pieces based on the colors corresponding to the distinct indicia, displayed on the color charts. Corresponding colored puzzle pieces in the sets are interchanged for creating duplicate picture puzzles of different colors.
US08573577B2
A point-welding clamp structure for side by side tightly clamping and locating different plate-shaped metal pieces in their true relative positions so as to facilitate the point-welding operation. The point-welding clamp structure includes a body section and a base section for clamping the different metal pieces. A second adjustment section is disposed on the body section and a third adjustment section is disposed on the base section. By means of operating the second and third adjustment sections, the metal pieces with different thickness can be securely clamped and located by the point-welding clamp structure.
US08573567B2
A carburetor includes a body having an inner wall and an air/fuel passageway. An insert includes a base having a shape that closely matches the inner wall and a first tower having a first end disposed within the air/fuel passageway. A main circuit passageway is at least partially formed within the first tower and has a first end in fluid communication with the air/fuel passageway and a second end in fluid communication with the fuel bowl chamber. The main circuit passageway carries fuel from the fuel bowl chamber to the air/fuel passageway during engine operation when the throttle valve is opened. A second tower has a first end coupled to the base and a second end spaced away from the base. The first end of the first tower, the second end of the second tower, and the base are the sole engagement points between the insert and the body.
US08573561B2
A manually operated prying tool comprises a prying head and a handle. The prying head is defined at its end with an assembling hole in which are disposed a head portion of a handle of the prying tool, a ratchet wheel, a C-shaped ring, a central shaft, a spring and a cover member. By pushing the central shaft, the prying tool can be switched between a fixing mode, an adjustment mode, or a rotation mode, which allows the user to unidirectionally rotate the tool to perform micro-angle adjustment between the prying head and the handle of the prying tool, making it convenient to use the tool.
US08573559B1
A control valve includes a valve body with a longitudinal bore into which a first port, a second port, and a workport communicate. A valve element is slideably received within the longitudinal bore and has a valve element bore extending inwardly from one end. An aperture extends through the valve element to provide a fluid path between the workport and selectively the first port and the second port in different positions of the valve element in the longitudinal bore. A slug of solid material is received within the valve element bore and is operatively connected to transfer a force to a stationary component of the control valve without the force being applied to the valve element. This arrangement results in force due to pressure in the longitudinal bore acting on only an annular surface at the one end of the valve element.
US08573556B1
A form for creating a pattern in uncured concrete during a vertical column casting process includes an end wall and at least one side wall, extending from an edge of the end wall with the side wall and end wall cooperatively defining a corner therebetween. A pliable liner is attached to the end wall and the side wall and operably joins the side wall to the edge of the end wall to define a mold cavity. At least one patterned surface is formed on or in the pliable liner and is operable to form a corresponding pattern into concrete disposed in an uncured form in the old cavity. A notch is formed in the pliable liner and extends along the corner and forms a pivotable joint between the end wall and the side wall to facilitate removal of the form device from about the concrete after the concrete has at least partially cured.
US08573554B2
A conductor system includes a music stand and at least one support rack. The music stand and the support rack can be used independently, but can provide additional stability when coupled to each other. The podium and the rack can be positioned to accommodate the preferences of a user, including by height, radial, lateral, and pitch/tilt adjustments. The support rack is adapted to receive any number of user instruments, such as, for example, a laptop or an electronic keyboard. The podium and the rack can be transported without being lifted completely off the support surface.
US08573551B2
A fine-adjusting apparatus for an overhead projector has a mounting frame, an assembling device, a pitch-adjusting device, a left-right adjusting device and a connecting mount. The mounting frame is adapted to mount on a wall. The assembling device is detachably connected to the mounting frame and has a sliding mount and a base mount. The sliding mount is slidably mounted in the mounting frame. The base mount is pivotally connected to the sliding mount. The pitch-adjusting device is connected to the assembling device and has a pitching frame, a guiding bar and a pitch-adjusting shaft. The left-right adjusting device is connected to the pitch-adjusting device and has an adjusting frame, a left-right adjusting shaft and a linking element. The connecting mount is pivotally connected to the left-right adjusting device, is used to connect with the overhead projector and has a connecting board, two pivot frames and multiple extending arms.
US08573537B2
An aircraft sub-assembly including at least one seat and/or rest for a passenger, a separation panel extending along one of the two opposed sides of the at least one seat, with a longitudinal dimension at least equal to that of the at least one seat and a vertical dimension or height higher than that of the at least one seat so as to conceal at least partially a passenger occupying the at least one seat behind the separation panel. The separation panel includes a transverse curve extending perpendicularly to its height and along one of the two opposed sides of the at least one seat.
US08573532B2
An aircraft provided with turbojet engines of which the nacelles are partially embedded in the fuselage of the aircraft is disclosed. The aircraft includes an internal space at engine nacelles. The internal space includes a platform capable of supporting personnel and maintenance equipment, with the portions of the nacelles located inside the aircraft comprising trapdoors or devices for accessing inside the engines from the platform.
US08573531B2
An aircraft has at least two jet-propulsion engines mounted laterally on the fuselage in a symmetrical design in the aft part of the fuselage. Each jet engine is mounted on the fuselage some distance from the vertical plane of symmetry of the aircraft, so that the jet engine, in a so-called half-buried configuration, is partly inside an envelope surface of a theoretical fuselage. The half-buried, jet engines are mounted on a main boom fitted on the vertical plane of symmetry of the aircraft, inside the fuselage in back, of a forward main frame. The tail sections are mounted on the main boom and the boom is integral with structures for transmitting forces into the forward part of the fuselage. The structure is advantageously made of fiber-reinforced composite materials.
US08573520B2
A method for producing pulverized coal including the steps of providing a drying gas heated to a predefined temperature in a hot gas generator; feeding the heated drying gas into a pulverizer; introducing raw coal into the pulverizer, the pulverizer grinding the raw coal into pulverized coal; collecting a mixture of drying gas and pulverized coal from the pulverizer and feeding the mixture to a filter, the filter separating the dried pulverized coal from the drying gas; collecting the dried pulverized coal for further use and feeding the drying gas from the filter to an exhaust line; and collecting the drying gas exiting the filter and feeding part of the collected drying gas to a recirculation line for feeding recirculation drying gas to the hot gas generator. According to an important aspect of the present invention, the step of providing the drying gas includes feeding a variable flow rate of hot stove waste gas to the hot gas generator through a hot stove waste gas line so as to maximize the amount of hot stove waste gas used as drying gas. A pressure of the drying gas at a pulverizer gas inlet is controlled by regulating a flow rate of the hot stove waste gas through the hot stove waste gas line.
US08573514B1
A smoke evacuation device comprises a nozzle for connection to a source of clean air supply, the nozzle being adapted to vent clean air supply in all available directions in space therefrom to provide a volume of space with clean air in the proximity of the nozzle, thereby providing visibility and breathable air to the user. The nozzle is adapted to minimize entrainment of the surrounding smoke into the volume.
US08573513B2
An inlet check valve assembly with flame arresting feature. An internal flame arresting feature utilizes a flame arrester body attached to a valve member which protrudes into the valve throat. An external flame arresting feature utilizes a hood concentrically disposed relative to the valve member. The flame arresting feature is configured relative to movement of the valve member with respect to the throat such that fluidic communication between the fuel fill pipe and the fuel tank is limited to less than the minimum flame propagation distance of the fuel and air mixture in which a combustible mixture may exist in the fuel fill pipe, whereby any flame front in the fuel fill pipe will quench thereat before reaching the fuel tank.
US08573512B2
A handheld water discharging device contains a housing; a water supplying pipe fixed in the housing and including a valve holder and a discharge assembly; wherein the valve holder includes an inlet room, a distributing room, a peripheral flowing room, a central flowing room, and a groove; the distributing room includes a plurality of ratchet blocks; the discharge assembly is fixed at the groove and includes a first outflow member and a second outflow member; a valve core displaces in the distributing room and includes a first closing segment; a resilient element is used to push the valve core downward; a positioning member is fixed in the distributing room and includes a biasing portion, a number of engagement teeth, and a stem; a button element serves as to push the positioning member upward properly.
US08573511B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and devices for spraying fluid materials such as paints, stains, and the like, and more specifically, but not by limitation, to a dual voltage electromagnet motor for an airless fluid sprayer. In one example, a dual-voltage electric airless fluid sprayer is provided and includes a fluid reservoir and a pump configured to receive fluid from the fluid reservoir. An electric motor is operably coupled to the pump and includes a plurality of windings. The plurality of windings include a first winding portion having a first wire gauge and a first number of windings and a second winding portion having a second wire gauge and second number of windings. A power-module receiving portion is configured to receive a power module to couple one of the first or second winding portions to a source of electrical power.
US08573510B2
A turf sprayer has a truss shaped center boom and a pair of pivotal truss shaped wing booms within which spaced spray nozzles are supported. A drift shroud system comprises three integral and one-piece drift shrouds comprising a center shroud for the center boom and a pair of side shrouds for the wing booms. Each shroud is attached to an underside of the corresponding boom in a manner such that the shrouds project below the booms and not substantially above the booms to leave the truss-shapes of the booms open and unobscured to provide access to the spray nozzles within the booms. The shrouds each have openings in a top wall thereof for receiving the spray exiting from the nozzles with the spray passing downwardly between spaced front and rear walls of the shrouds.
US08573509B2
A sprinkler tap connects optionally to either a fitting of underground piping or an existing sprinkler head of an automatic sprinkler system and includes a generally T-shaped body having a fluid flow passage extending between an open bottom end and a first output port at a top end. A second output port communicates with the fluid flow passage between the bottom end and the first output port. The first output port is adapted for receiving either a male or female sprinkler head nozzle or, alternatively, a plug. A quick connect fitting on the second output port allows for easy connection and disconnection of a hose. The opposite end of the hose may be attached to a portable sprinkler device, a hand held spray nozzle or other water dispensing device. The quick connect fitting has an internal stop valve that closes when the hose is disconnected from the device, thereby preventing wasteful discharge of water from the second output port.
US08573507B2
In a fuel injection device, a pressure control valve is configured to make communication between an outflow port and a return channel and to interrupt the communication so as to control pressure of a fuel in a pressure control chamber, a valve member is configured to open and close a valve portion in response to the pressure of the fuel in the pressure control chamber, and a pressing member is arranged to be reciprocated and displaced in the pressure control chamber. The pressing member has an outer wall surface portion that is opposite to an inner wall surface portion of the control body to be capable of contacting the inner wall surface portion of the control body, and at least one of the outer wall surface portion of the pressing member and the inner wall surface portion of the control body is provided with a recess portion that is recessed to a side separated from the other one of the outer wall surface portion of the pressing member and the inner wall surface portion of the control body.
US08573506B2
An expansion device for a rail suitable for guiding a wheel of a vehicle along a track, and a method for installing the expansion device. Specifically, the rail has a portion of track formed of a series of elements in the form of transverse track plates whose cross section is the same as that of the rail. The track plates are arranged in longitudinal succession along the portion with compressible modules inserted between them.
US08573504B1
A furnace for burning solid burning biomass fuels such a municipal waste and wood pellets including a first compartment containing a hopper, a motorized auger positioned in the bottom of the auger for conveying a solid fuel out of the hopper, a first blower tube operatively coupled to the hopper for receiving the solid fuel from the hopper and a first blower operatively coupled to the blower tube for blowing the fuel through first blower tube. In a second compartment, the furnace contains a combustion chamber operatively coupled to the blower tube opposite the first blower and a heat exchanger arranged above the combustion chamber. To cool the heat exchanger, a second blower is operatively coupled to the heat exchanger for blowing a cooling air through the heat exchanger. A programmable control system is operatively coupled to the auger, the first blower, the second blower and a plurality of thermocouples for controlling the operation of the furnace.
US08573503B1
A card exhibiting enhanced detection is provided. A plurality of detector shapes that may be associated with a detection system increases detection effectiveness, while reducing adverse effects of detection systems that may be operating within a electromagnetic field environment.
US08573496B2
Tagging apparatus associated with applying and reading a tag adapted to store a number. The tag comprising a plurality of substantially identical two dimensional arrays of dots, each array being indicative of the number for improving tag detection; each arrays comprise a plurality of clusters, each cluster representing a predetermined symbol being indicative of a part of the number. An etching apparatus, for creating a pattern of dots, comprising a plurality of laser sources held in a manifold defining any one or more of a vector grid, or array grid. A tagging reading apparatus comprising a lens element being adapted to control focus, zoom and ingress light; an image capture element for obtaining image data; a processor element adapted to apply one or more digital processing functions to the image; the processor element being adapted to calculate code data indicative of the tag number.
US08573494B2
An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof.
US08573487B2
An integrated read head system includes a mobile device with an audio jack and at least one microphone input port. A read head is physically coupled to the mobile device. The read head has a slot for swiping a magnetic stripe of a financial transaction card to enable a financial transaction between a buyer and seller. The read head reads data on the magnetic stripe and produces a signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe. The read head has an output jack that physically connects the read head to at least one of the audio jack or microphone port of the mobile device. The read head provides the signal to the mobile device. The signal is decoded at the mobile device. The decoding includes determining pulses in the signal and converting at least some of the pulses to characters.
US08573477B2
An online sales/automatic rebate and coupon redemption system provides online customers automatic retrieval and redemption of all applicable rebates and coupons during purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system purchases from merchants using applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system makes it possible to automatically retrieve coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site. The system provides coupons to potential customers via email, based on customer profile, geographical information, etc. Manufacturers and merchants can update coupon value and content based on ongoing sales and volume of customer activity.
US08573476B2
Systems and methods are provided for associating traceability codes on clamshells with unique identifiers on containers in which the empty clamshells are packed for later use. In various methods, the clamshells are marked with traceability codes and stacked together, one traceability code is read from one of the clamshells in each stack, a unique identifier is read from a container, and the stack is placed in the container. The traceability code is stored in association with the unique identifier for later retrieval. An exemplary table for making clamshell-to-container associations comprises a scanner for reading traceability codes and rails for positioning stacks of clamshells proximate to the scanner. The table can also comprise a second scanner positioned to read unique identifiers from containers placed proximate thereto. The table can further comprise a computing system to make and store the associations.
US08573472B2
A paperboard carton blank is formed into a carton from an integral sheet of foldable material, such as paperboard. The carton includes a number of sides serially connected to one another each having a top end spaced from a bottom end. A number of top and bottom flaps are each foldably connected to the top and bottom end, respectively, of one of the sides and the associated flaps combine to form top and bottom ends of the carton. One or more struts extend beyond the distal ends of at least some of the top or bottom flaps and are folded into face to face juxtaposition and secured onto an inside face of the side associated with the flap to which it is connected to thereby reinforce the associated side and inhibit deformation of the carton.
US08573470B2
A welding bug (1) comprising a welding torch (3) for welding in a groove (19). The welding torch (3) is mounted for rotational movement about an axis (21) that is substantially horizontal, relative to the welding bug, (typically tangential to a pipe during use) so that the torch is moveable, during use of the welding bug (1) when arranged to enable the torch to weld in a groove, between (i) an operating position, and (ii) a disengaged position in which the welding torch is positioned away from the groove (19). The welding bug may be less cumbersome and more compact than some known arrangements.
US08573469B2
A method of fabricating and transferring a micro device and an array of micro devices to a receiving substrate are described. In an embodiment, an electrically insulating layer is utilized as an etch stop layer during etching of a p-n diode layer to form a plurality of micro p-n diodes. In an embodiment, an electrically conductive intermediate bonding layer is utilized during the formation and transfer of the micro devices to the receiving substrate.
US08573465B2
A self contained motor-powered disposable loading unit for use with a robotic system configured to generate control systems therefor. The disposable loading unit may contain a battery that is retained in a disconnected position when the disposable loading unit is not in use and is moved to a connected position when the disposable loading unit is coupled to the robotic system to permit the motor to be selectively powered thereby. Indicators may be supported on the disposable loading unit to indicate when the axial drive assembly thereof is in a starting position and an ending position. Another indicator may be provided to indicate when the anvil assembly is in a closed position.
US08573458B1
Disclosed is a portable article carrier for carrying and securing portable articles such as mobile phones, cameras, radios, tools, and water bottles; where the device can be secured to a belt, strap, or harness that is optionally worn by a wearer. The portable article carrier can be assembled from a folded flexible strap member and a loop member. The loop member can be flexible, non-flexible, or elastic. The portable article carrier can be configured to present a seamless surface to the portable article in order to minimize surface damage or wear to the portable article.
US08573455B1
A holder for a mobile telephone headset includes a base and arm members extending outwardly from the base with a receiving member attached to ends of the arm members. The receiving member includes spaced apart upright members forming a gap for loosely receiving an ear bud of the mobile telephone headset. A clip may be removably attached to the base for removably securing the holder to a support structure within a motor vehicle. The holder further includes illumination for locating it or the headset in a darkened environment. Yet further, the arm members are spaced apart to form an opening sufficient for receiving an ear hook of the headset, the holder thus providing ease for a user to safely store the mobile telephone headset.
US08573454B2
A combination backpack and seating apparatus. The present invention comprises a seat member having a top wall, at least one side wall, a front wall, and a rear wall defining a seat volume. A back support is rotatably connected proximal to the rear wall of the member and is rotatable between an angled position that is inclined relative to the sitting surface and a horizontal position substantially adjacent to the sitting surface. The invention comprises a foldable support assembly that is configurable to a generally planar folded state and an expanded state, wherein in the folded state the support assembly is rotatable between a first position that is generally parallel to the sitting surface. The invention further comprises an enclosure detachably connected to the back support.
US08573448B2
The present invention provides a lotion pump, comprises: a nozzle head; a plunger connected with the nozzle head, in which an upper one-way valve is disposed; a container cap which is engaged with a mouth of a bottle; a housing, its upper end is connected to the container cap, and on its lower end there is a lower one-way valve; and a spring, its lower end abuts against the bottom of the housing, and its upper end abuts against the head of the plunger; characterized in that, the diameter of an upper portion of the plunger is larger than that of a lower portion of the plunger, thereby a step is formed at the position where the diameter is changed, said step forms a valve seat for said upper one-way valve. The lotion pump of the present invention can be realized by a very simple structure, minimum parts and a very low manufacturing cost. While greatly increasing the productivity, it can obtain good sealing and leak-proof performance.
US08573439B2
The arrangement is applied to a container which includes a peripheral side wall having an upper end portion and a lower end portion in which are applied respective end walls, each including a median panel and a peripheral skirt, one of the upper end portion and lower end portion and the peripheral skirt being provided with at least one circumferential rib turned to the other of said parts, the other part being provided with a circumferential groove conformed to be fitted onto the circumferential rib upon the fitting of said end wall in the interior of one of the upper end portion and lower end portion of the peripheral side wall, said circumferential rib and circumferential groove forming, therebetween, a circumferential gap (F) in the interior of which is compressed an elastic sealing element.
US08573435B2
A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film and a method of forming the same are provided. The container has opposite ends and an openings that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
US08573430B2
A one-piece, foldable corrugated cooler includes a storage portion having a bottom panel, two side panels, two end panels, and four corner panels; two handle panels forming a lid and a two-ply handle; and at least one two-ply locking panel. The at least one two-ply locking panel is adapted to secure the lid in a closed orientation, and the at least one two-ply locking panel is integral with at least one corner panel and at least one handle panel.
US08573407B2
A lubricant reclamation system having a moisture absorbent cartridge (140). The cartridge (140) is fabricated placing a Superabsorbant Polymer (SAP) (142) within a boundary of polyester mesh (143). Moisture is extracted from a lubricant or other fluid and absorbed by the SAP. The moisture latent SAP bonds to the polyester mesh (143), potentially turning into a gel. A layer of polypropylene sorbent (144) is placed about the exterior of the boundary material (143), ensuring any moisture remains exterior to the sorbent layer (144). A resin layer can optionally be placed within a fluid flow following the discharge from polypropylene sorbent extracting aerosol from within the lubricant and as a barrier of detrimental ions with an exchange of beneficial ions. The entire cartridge can be placed within an enclosure or pouch body (162). The body (162) is designed to expand, accommodating a resultant increase in SAP volume. The cartridges can be integrated into filters comprising commonly known filtration elements.
US08573402B2
This invention relates to containers for the storage and dispensing of materials which evaporate, deteriorate or oxidize when exposed to air. A reusable dispensing receptacle system with preservative attributes is comprised of four essential components. The invention by combination includes a vessel, a follower or partition to separate contents from direct exposure to convecting ambient void air within the vessel, a volumetrically adjustable insert to displace ambient air from the vessel, and a lid. The system is simple in construction, and intuitive in use. The system is easily handled and is intended for use in any setting. The system provides a solution for extending the freshness and usability of liquid or pour-able dry contents after the seal of an original package has been broken. This combination eliminates convoluted, intricate, and costly means in favor of those that are reliable, simple, re-usable, and affordable. These four components may be combined to further simplify the invention.
US08573401B2
A packaging box closing member includes a flat panel portion that is placed on a pair of unsealed lid portions of a packaging box so as to intersect a closed portion formed by the pair of lid portions, the pair of lid portions being located on a top surface of the packaging box; and an upright portion that stands on a side of the flat panel portion, the side intersecting the closed portion, wherein, when stacking another packaging box on the top surface of the packaging box, a part of the another packaging box or a part of a transport device that transports the another packaging box contacts the upright portion, and the packaging box closing member is pushed toward an end of the top surface of the packaging box together with the flat panel portion and is dropped.
US08573400B1
A thermoformed container system with a tray and a lid mounted on the tray, that includes special structures to help two or more containers to stand on their bottom edges when nested together, even though each individual container would be too unstable to stand in isolation. Alternative embodiments of the invention include a product case pack comprising at least two containers with product inside each container, and a method of retail sales display of two or more containers, where the containers are adapted to stand on their bottom edges when nested together.
US08573398B2
A flexible sheet container is provided that permits a user to quickly and easily feed a leading sheet. The container has a base portion that defines a storage area and a top covering the base portion. The top includes an opening into the storage area through which individual flexible sheets are dispensed. A pair of opposing flaps is pivotally attached to the top at their first ends and each extends toward the dispensing opening with its second end. The complementary second ends of the flaps together further define the dispensing opening while in a dispensing position. The flaps pivot inward toward the storage area to provide access through the opening into the storage area. As such, to feed a leading flexible sheet, a user may rotate the flaps inward, grab a leading flexible sheet, and pull it through the opening. During dispensing, the flaps rotate outward and retain subsequent sheets.
US08573383B2
Provided is a medium transferring apparatus, which comprises a plurality of side guides, one or more transfer rollers, and one or more aligning rollers. The side guides constitute both side surfaces of a medium transferring path. The transfer rollers are rotatable between the side guides, and transfer a medium in a medium transferring direction. The aligning rollers align the medium in a direction inclined from the medium transferring direction.
US08573379B2
An article feed insert for an article feed system for automatic conveyance of articles located along the article feed insert in one conveyance direction B to a visual edge of a shelf equipped with the article feed system with the following features: a set of conveying rollers which are supported on the roller carrier transversely to the conveyance direction B, two profile rails which can be attached independently of one another to the opposite sides of the roller carrier for fixing of the conveying rollers on the roller carrier, a first fixing element which can be attached to one visible edges of the roller carrier for fixing the profile rails, and a second fixing element which can be attached opposite the first fixing element to the roller carrier for fixing the profile rails.
US08573372B2
A force level control for an energy absorber is provided for aircraft, and includes an adjustment element and a housing, whereby via the adjustment element, a bending radius of the energy absorber element is continuously adjustable in the housing.
US08573370B2
A cam housing assembly oscillates in association with rotation of an eccentric cam which is attached to a camshaft and is allowed to press a clutch by cam pins of the cam housing assembly. A pair of piston assemblies are provided of which each includes a piston which can slide within a sleeve, a spindle and a nut which screws on to the spindle and are supported in hole portions in a caliper body so as to oscillate therein, whereby a brake pad is pressed against by a plug after the spindle, the nut and the piston are sequentially pressed by pressing a clutch by the cam pins. Since the spindle and the nut are screwed on to each other through a reversible screw, a gap is adjusted automatically as the pad wears.
US08573361B2
A lubricating structure of a rotational shaft oil sealing portion includes a casing, a rotational shaft rotatably retained by the casing, an annular space defined between the casing and the rotational shaft, an annular oil seal retained by the casing at one axial end of the annular space and sealing a clearance between the casing and the rotational shaft, the annular oil seal defining an oil seal chamber at the other axial end of the annular space, an oil supply passage, an oil drain passage, and an oil groove formed at the inner peripheral wall of the casing by cutting away the inner peripheral wall into a crescent shape in a circumferential direction, the oil supply passage communicating with the oil groove at a circumferentially center portion of the oil groove, wherein pressurized lubricating oil is supplied to the oil groove via the oil supply passage.
US08573360B1
The roof jacking seat system is inclusive of a seat pivotally oriented with respect to a wheeled frame such that said seat can adjust in accommodation of different roof pitches. The system is for the support of an end user atop of said roof during roof shingle removal processes. The frame includes a winching means having a cable and hook for engagement onto a roof ridge such that the entire system may be driven up or down a side of said roof. The frame includes a plurality of wheels in parallel orientation thereby enabling movement along a single axis. Pivoting means enables adjustment of the seat at different angles with respect to the frame. The frame may include along a distal end, a footrest for use by the end user.
US08573355B2
An acoustic baffle device for sealing a cavity of a vehicle body at a predetermined cross section of the cavity is provided. The device has a carrier having an opening therein, a heat expandable sealing material affixed to the carrier, and a flap assembly having a flap normally held in place by a spring so as to close off the opening, wherein the flap is capable of being deflected by insertion of a tube through the opening.
US08573351B2
A u-MDPS (United Motor Driven Power Steering) system includes one MDPS motor, one MDPS ECU that assists steering force using power of the MDPS motor, and has a logic implementing tilting-up/down and telescopic movement, and a multi-function generator that switches a power transmission path of the MDPS motor to the steering path for assisting a steering force, the tilt path for tilting up/down a column tube, or the telescopic path for facilitating a telescopic movement of the column tube. The multi-function generator may include a motor power converting unit, a motor power transmitting unit and a tilt•telescopic motion unit. The tilt•telescopic motion unit further includes an electromagnetic clutch, which makes it possible to implement fail-safety function by switching to a lock-manual mode of one MDPS motor.
US08573349B2
In order to decrease the number of handling components of a parking brake unit without increasing a length of a wheel base, there is provided a forklift including a main input shaft which is rotationally driven by a hydraulic motor, a differential input shaft which rotates by the rotation of the main input shaft, and a differential mechanism which is provided between the differential input shaft and a front axle, the forklift being configured to run by transmitting power of the hydraulic motor to the front axle through the main input shaft, the differential input shaft, and the differential mechanism, wherein an idle shaft is disposed so as to be parallel to the differential input shaft, a power transmission mechanism obtained by meshing gears and is interposed between the differential input shaft and the idle shaft, and then a parking brake unit is provided in the idle shaft.
US08573348B2
A powertrain is adapted to drive ground-engaging elements disposed along longitudinally-opposing sides of a vehicle. The powertrain includes at least one engine, a first electric machine, a second electric machine, a third electric machine, a first differential mechanism and a second differential mechanism. The engine and first electric machine are operatively connected to the first and second differential mechanisms. The second electric machine is operatively connected to the first differential mechanism and the third electric machine is operatively connected to the second differential mechanism. The first and second differential mechanisms are each operatively connected to drivably engage one or more ground-engaging elements disposed on a different one of the longitudinally-opposing sides of the associated vehicle. A vehicle including such a powertrain as well as methods of using the same are also included.
US08573343B2
An object is to provide a vehicle heat-exchange module capable of optimizing the whole of a stator blade that deflects a flow in the swirling direction produced by a cooling fan, thereby reducing the work performed by the cooling fan and eventually reducing the input power to the cooling fan, and to provide a vehicle having the vehicle heat-exchange module. According to the vehicle heat-exchange module (10), the stator blade (30) arranged on the downstream side of the cooling fan (16) is divided by an intermediate ring (31) into inner-circumference-side stator blade members (32A) and outer-circumference-side stator blade members (32B), and the number of the inner-circumference-side stator blade members (32A) for installation is made smaller than that of the outer-circumference-side stator blade members (32B), thus setting the pitch/chord ratio within an appropriate range at each of the inner circumference side and the outer circumference side. As a result, a flow in the swirling direction produced by the cooling fan (16) is efficiently deflected by the whole of the stator blade (30), thereby reducing the work performed by the cooling fan (16) and eventually reducing the input power to the cooling fan (16).
US08573340B2
A drive system for an agricultural or industrial utility vehicle. The drive system comprises a drive assembly that generates a mechanical torque, a first, second and third electric machine, a first mechanical output interface used to drive at least one vehicle rude and a second mechanical output interface. An electric machine comprises a rotor which is connected to a shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. A shaft driven by the drive assembly is rotationally connected to the shaft of the first electric machine. The second output interface is used to mechanically drive a tool which can be coupled to the utility vehicle. The shaft of the second electric machine and/or the shaft of the third electric machine can be reversibly connected to the first mechanical output interface.
US08573338B2
There is provided a battery powered golf cart with selectable dual operative modes, walk-behind/ride-on modes, including three units: a drive/riding unit, a golf bag support unit, and a front caster wheel assembly. The three units are interconnected for cooperative association in the two operative modes by a bar linkage system, having two stable positions.
US08573337B1
A tandem housing for a motor grader comprises an exterior multi-layer first wall, an exterior second wall, and an exterior rim. The first wall comprises a main plate and a reinforcement plate reinforcing the main plate. The rim is coupled to the first wall and the second wall so as to provide a periphery of the tandem housing laterally between the first wall and the second wall. The main plate, the reinforcement plate, and the rim cooperate to provide a weld groove. A weld is positioned in the weld groove.
US08573334B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a load transporting apparatus that is capable of being steered while transporting a load across a base surface. In particular, the load transporting apparatus includes a roller track configured to support movement of a roller assembly, and a support foot that is connected to the roller track with a pin connector. During load transport, the support foot can be maintained in a substantially similar position relative to a frame structure supporting the load even when the transport movement is not in a parallel direction to the orientation of the support foot.
US08573330B2
An insert for a drill bit may include a metallic carbide body; an outer layer of polycrystalline diamond material on the outermost end of the insert, the polycrystalline diamond material comprising a plurality of interconnected first diamond grains and a first binder material in interstitial regions between the interconnected first diamond grains; and at least one transition layer between the metallic carbide body and the outer layer, the at least one transition layer comprising a composite of second diamond grains, first metal carbide particles, and a second binder material, wherein the second diamond grains have a larger grain size than the first diamond grains.
US08573323B2
A hand-held power tool has a tool member and a motor drivingly connected to the tool member, wherein the motor is arranged in a motor housing. A battery for driving the tool member is provided. A guide shaft has arranged on its first end the battery and on its second end the motor housing and the tool member. A rotatably power output part arranged on the motor housing is drivingly connected to the motor. The power output part supports the tool member. Cooling air is sucked through the guide shaft into the motor housing. Between the power output part and the motor housing an annular air exit gap is formed through which the cooling air exits the motor housing. At least one guide vane that projects into the annular air exit gap is provided.
US08573318B2
An extinguisher for minimizing fires includes a container for holding an extinguishing fluid, a propellant disposed within the container for expelling the fluid from the container if desired, and a nozzle for directing the fluid towards a fire. The nozzle has an input for receiving the fluid from the container and an outlet for directing the fluid towards the fire. The nozzle includes an expansion chamber disposed between the input and the outlet of the nozzle. The nozzle outlet has a restrictor for restricting flow of the fluid from the expansion chamber.
US08573313B2
Well servicing methods and systems are described, in one embodiment comprising a pressure containment housing fluidly connected directly to a wellhead of a wellbore, and a reel positioned inside the housing on which is spooled a communication line. One method comprises introducing the communication line into the pressurized wellbore without a well control stack, the communication line being introduced and driven into the wellbore by controlling a reel, the reel being internal to a pressurized housing removably connected directly to a wellhead of the wellbore. Fluid flow may move the communication line to a desired location in the wellbore. This abstract allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure. It may not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b)
US08573302B2
Improved treatment fluids and methods for use in subterranean operations including the treatment of low permeability shale formations. In one embodiment the methods comprise: providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a controlled wetting system that comprises: a water soluble polymer having a charge, a surfactant having an opposite charge, and a compatibilizer; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation.
US08573301B2
An improved method and apparatus for dropping a ball, plug or dart during oil and gas well operations (e.g., cementing operations) employs a specially configured valving member with curved and flat portions that alternatively direct fluid flow through a bore or opening in the valving member via an inner channel or around the periphery of the valving member in an outer channel. In one embodiment, the ball(s), dart(s) or plug(s) are contained in a sliding sleeve that shifts position responsive to valve rotation.
US08573294B2
A system and methodology for controlled entry of a tubing string, and cable adjacent thereto, into a wellbore. A stationary housing is fit to a wellhead and has a bore in communication with the wellbore. The cable can be laterally displaced from the bore into a cable access formed into the housing's side wall for fitting a sealing assembly to the bore and engages a sealing surface therein. The sealing assembly seals tubulars passing therethrough. The cable access interrupts the sealing surface. A cable bypass sub is fit to the cable access and permits the cable to extend sealingly from above the sealing surface to the wellbore wherein the cable bypasses the sealing assembly and sealing surface. A seal reconstitutes the interrupted portion of the sealing surface at the cable access.
US08573293B1
A housing of a dual rubber cartridge attaches at least one rubber to an inner barrel for rotation with the inner barrel. A first rubber and a second rubber may attach to the housing for quick installation of the rubbers. The user removes the housing to remove and replace the two rubbers.
US08573291B2
An annular design heat exchanger is formed from an arrangement of wedge-shaped stacks of wafers. Each wafer includes sheets of material separated by peripheral and supporting walls that define interior flow channels through which a first fluid can flow. Holes in the sheets provide inlets and outlets to the channels, and walls surrounding the holes mate with neighboring wafers in the stack, forming integral inlet and outlet manifolds, while ensuring uniform spacing between the wafers. A second fluid can flow around the manifolds and through the spaces between the wafers in a counterflow pattern. In the annular assembly, the manifolds are oriented substantially axially, and the flow channels are oriented substantially radially. The heat exchanger can be formed from a ceramic material, and can be incorporated into an engine assembly or a heat-recirculating combustor.
US08573289B1
A Heat Exchanger comprising a three-dimensional ordered microstructure material within a shell. The three-dimensional ordered microstructure material has dimensions that allow for large surface area to volume ratios, between 300 and 15000 m2/m3. Alternatively the three-dimensional ordered microstructure may have an open volume fraction between 0.4 and 0.6. The three-dimensional ordered microstructure may be comprised of hollow truss elements and partially filled with a thermally conductive material or a fluid. The Heat Exchanger has a heat transfer coefficient multiplied by the surface area to volume ratio between 3.7*107 and 7*109 Watts per M3K.
US08573288B2
An object is to provide a heat transfer tube support structure capable of preventing deterioration of the reliability and the durability of a heat transfer tube. In a steam generator (heat exchanger) having a lower barrel (vessel), heat transfer tubes disposed in the lower barrel, and tube support plates disposed in the lower barrel and having heat transfer tube insertion holes opened in a thickness direction, support portions for supporting the heat transfer tubes are formed to the intermediate portions of the inner surfaces of the heat transfer tube insertion holes in the axial direction of the heat transfer tube insertion holes, and the regions between the support portions and the respective open ends of the heat transfer tube insertion holes are formed of inclined surfaces inclining in a radial direction outwardly in the heat transfer tube insertion holes toward the open ends, respectively.
US08573280B2
A press cushion (7, 17, 27) for a hydraulic press (1) including a first layer (9, 19, 39) which is impermeable to fluids and includes an elastomeric material and fibers connected therewith; a second layer (10, 20, 40) connected with the first layer (9, 19, 39), wherein the second layer is also impermeable to fluids, wherein the first layer (9, 19, 39) is provided with a plurality of channels (15, 22, 28, 36) on its side oriented towards the second layer (10, 20, 40), wherein the channels include a material that is flow-capable at least at the operating temperature of the press (1). Additionally the channels (15) are closed fluid tight at least through the second layer (10, 20, 40).
US08573265B1
A four part system aiding users of flexible liners in the following ways: 1) A perforated conduit on the interior of a receptacle connects to a one-way valve and mating assembly for a vacuum device which is used to suck air out to conform the liner to the receptacle. It can be used on a new receptacle designed for it, or retrofitted to most existing receptacles. 2) A tube which allows air to be removed from a filled liner by squeezing the bag or using the same vacuum device, making the liner smaller and easier to handle. 3) As a result of removing air from inside a filled liner, little or no vacuum is created when the liner is removed, making the process of separating the liner from the receptacle much easer for the user. 4) An adhesive device which is applied to the interior of a receptacle allows it to be emptied without the flexible liner falling out and yet allowing the liner to be easily removed for disposal.
US08573262B2
A system and method for automatically adjusting an ORVR-compatible Stage II vapor recovery system to maintain the air-to-liquid (A/L) ratio within desired tolerances or limits to meet regulatory and/or other requirements. An air flow sensor (AFS) or vapor flow meter measures the amount of recovered vapor for a dispensing point to calculate the recovery efficiency of the system in the form of the A/L ratio. Volume or flow rate measurements can be used. ORVR fueling transactions are either minimized or excluded from the A/L ratio, so that the A/L ratio is not artificially lowered due to a blocked or altered recovery. The A/L ratio is then compared to a desired or nominal A/L ratio. Adjustments to the recovery system are made within prescribed safety tolerances if the A/L ratio differs from the desired ratio.
US08573250B1
A steam trap comprises a housing defining a flow passage extending between an inlet and an outlet. A cap fitted to the housing has a stop face. In addition, the housing and the cap define a trap chamber. A movable valve element is located in the trap chamber. The steam trap further comprises a first temperature sensor having an inlet sensing portion in the flow path between the inlet and valve element. A second temperature sensor has an outlet sensing portion in the flow path between the valve element and the outlet.
US08573242B2
A modular, environmentally friendly mobile fuel distribution station includes a fuel tank, a support structure having a plurality of legs for supporting an operation platform in an elevated position a predetermined distance above ground, an alternative power generation device, the alternative power generation device being one of a solar power generator and a wind power generator for providing primary power to the mobile fuel distribution station and a central platform operatively connected to at least two of the legs, the at least two of the legs bearing the weight of the central platform, wherein the fuel tank and the alternative power generation device are disposed on the operation platform.
US08573238B2
The quickly erectable dome shelter includes an extendible perimeter truss assembly with link members connected between adjacent legs, a central truss assembly of link members, and a roof framework, including pairs of curved upper and lower peak truss members, that is movable between a lowered, collapsed configuration and a raised, upwardly arching position. The shelter also includes telescoping peak pole members coupled to the central truss assembly of link members and the roof framework, and may also include telescoping peak truss brace members connected between a peak truss member and a link member of the perimeter assembly of link members.
US08573230B2
A smoking article having a cylindrical tube of smokable material having an outer wrapper, a concentric rod of smokable material coaxially positioned within the cylindrical tube of a smokable material, and an inner wrapper separating the cylindrical tube and the concentric rod. A filter attaches to the tobacco rod with an annular film positioned between the filter and the tobacco rod. The annular film increases the resistance-to-draw of the cylindrical tube during smoking.
US08573226B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for diagnosing and treating digestive or other organs (as well as other parts of the body) endoluminally and transluminally, via instruments passed into the GI tract per-orally and/or per-anally. The instruments may, for example, pass transluminally out of the stomach and/or the colon through a breach formed therein in order to conduct diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, such as gastroenterostomy.
US08573223B2
An oral device for improving airway patency having a base adapted to be held between a patient's upper and lower teeth and a tongue-engaging member. The tongue-engaging member engages the tongue and displaces the tongue anteriorly when the base is held between the patient's teeth. A vacuum is applied through the base and the tongue-engaging member in order to draw the soft palate against a posterior region of the tongue in order to stabilize the soft palate and open or clear the patient's airway.
US08573201B2
A headgear for use with a patient interface for delivering a flow of breathable gas to a patient includes at least a strap (741) adapted to position the patient interface in sealing engagement with the patient's airways. The strap is constructed from an elastomer and a first side of the strap includes a first region (215) on a portion of its surface that is textured to reduce friction with objects contacting the strap. A textured surface coating for a portion of an elastomer strap included in a headgear system is adapted to contact the skin of a patient, when in use, and the coating has a Ra value greater than zero. A vent (500) for use with a patient interface for delivering a flow of breathable gas to a patient includes a plurality of rises (580) and runs (570) in a stepped arrangement; and a plurality of holes (510) in the stepped arrangement for the venting of gas.
US08573194B2
The heat reflecting arrangement with an improved high heat resistance, e.g. 100 hours at 500° C., includes a substrate, a heat reflecting layer (A) on at least one side of the substrate, which contains indium tin oxide (ITO), and a barrier layer (B) that covers the heat reflecting layer (A), which contains a metal oxide and/or a metal nitride. A fireplace or baking oven with a viewing window having this layer system with the heat reflecting layer is also described. In addition a process for providing the heat reflecting arrangement is described.
US08573179B2
When cranking starts by turning on a starter switch 14, the ignition timing is first corrected to a fixed value on a retard side. When an IACV 6 reaches a fully opened position, the ignition timing is corrected to the retard side once, and thereafter corrected to an advance side. The correction to the advance side is performed in accordance with a difference between the number of idling target steps and the current number of steps, and the amount of advance correction is reduced as the difference is reduced. Upon completion of the initialization of the IACV 6, the ignition timing correction amount is then restored to the initial value by increasing the amount of advance by a predetermined amount in a stepwise manner.
US08573178B2
A sleeve valve assembly. The assembly includes a valve seat, a sleeve valve and an oil path-defining piece. The sleeve valve includes a distal end with a cavity. The distal end contacts the valve seat when the sleeve valve is located in a closed position. The oil path-defining piece includes an inlet port, an outlet port and a plurality of cooling passages. The flange of the sleeve valve is slidably in contact with the oil path-defining piece such that cooling fluid travelling into the inlet port and through the cooling passages enters into the cavity before exiting out the exit port.
US08573175B2
An air intake device for an internal combustion engine includes an air intake path, a throttle valve, and a first partition plate. The throttle valve is provided in the air intake path and includes a valve shaft and a valve body. The valve body is connected to the valve shaft to open and close the air intake path and has a first end and a second end. The first partition plate is disposed approximately parallel to a flow direction of intake air and includes opposite ends connected to a first inner wall surface of the air intake path closer to the first end than the second end. The first partition plate has a substantially curved convex shape protruding radially inward of the air intake path. The first partition plate is located downstream of the first end of the valve body.
US08573166B2
An internal combustion engine which is provided with a variable compression ratio mechanism which can change a mechanical compression ratio and a variable valve timing mechanism which can control a closing timing of an intake valve. No-entry regions (X1, X2) are set for a combination of the mechanical compression ratio, the closing timing of the intake valve, and the intake air amount. Furthermore, a no-entry layer is set so as to surround the no-entry region (X2). When the demanded intake air amount is made to decrease and the operating point moves toward the no-entry region (X2), the operating point is prohibited from entering the no-entry layer whereby the operating point is blocked from entering the no-entry region (X2).
US08573159B1
A pet toy makes a sound when bitten or squeezed by an animal. The toy contains a resilient shell that substantially surrounds the sound-producing material. The toy also contains a core constructed of an elastic material located beneath the sound-producing material. The sound-producing material is a plastic material such as polyethylene terephthalate, which deforms when external pressure is applied to it, creating sound and vibration. In an embodiment of the invention, air permeates the sound-producing material, the core is hollow, and acoustic ports are located at each end of the toy, all to enhance its sound generating characteristics. In another embodiment, a strand is attached to or passes through the core of the pet toy. In another embodiment, an elastic outer sleeve is attached to the sound-producing material at various location between their surfaces, to reposition the sound-producing material to its original orientation after external pressure is released.
US08573157B2
An improved livestock feeder provided with an adjustable feed dispensing mechanism including control levers which are operatively connected to the feed metering gates to control the flow of feed to livestock. The dispensing mechanism features a control lever which engage an array of indexing holes formed in the feeder to position the feed gate within the opening to adjust the amount of feed dispensed from the hopper. The dispensing mechanism includes a graduated scale corresponding to each of the index holes to provide a standard setting for the feeder which can be utilized by an animal producer to supply of feed flow at a given stage in the animal's life cycle to obtain a desired growth rate.
US08573153B2
An improved upper electrode system has a multi-part electrode in which a central portion of the electrode having high wear is replaceable independent of an outer peripheral portion of the electrode. The upper electrode can be used in plasma processing systems for processing semiconductor substrates, such as by etching or CVD. The multi-part upper electrode system is particularly useful for large size wafer processing chambers, such as 300 mm wafer processing chambers for which monolithic electrodes are unavailable or costly.
US08573149B2
An apparatus for depositing a ta-C thin film for a magnetic recording medium includes a film deposition chamber; a plasma beam formation portion for supplying a plasma beam to the film deposition chamber to form the ta-C thin film on a substrate with a magnetic recording layer thereon; a substrate holder rotatably arranged in the film deposition chamber; a tilting member for continuously changing an inclination angle of the plasma beam to a surface of the magnetic recording layer; and a rotating member for rotating the substrate about a rotation axis of the substrate holder. A control member rotates the substrate holder with the substrate thereon and operates the tilting member to continuously change the inclination angle from a minimum inclination angle to a maximum inclination angle according to an increase in film thickness of the ta-C thin film being formed by the plasma beam formation portion.
US08573141B2
A reversible jamb block for a furnace, oven or kiln, having an attachment side adapted to removably attach to the first side of a doorway for the furnace, oven or kiln, and adapted to removably attach to the second side of the doorway, such that one face of the jamb block is directed away from the furnace when the attachment side of the jamb block is attached to the first side of the doorway, and a second face opposite the first face, is directed away from the furnace when the attachment side of the jamb block is attached to the second side of the doorway.
US08573140B2
A safety box comprises a main body housing provided with a storage portion and a weight portion. The storage portion has a storage portion housing which partly forms the main body housing, a storage portion room for storing objects, a storage portion lid, an electric lock for keeping the lid locked, and a controller for controlling locking and unlocking of the electric lock in response to input of predetermined information. The weight portion has a weight portion housing which partly forms the main body housing, a weight potion room for storing weight substance, and openings for the substance to be filled in and released from the room.
US08573136B1
A loading structure includes a bottom plate; a support stand; a pair of first poles; a pair of second poles; a first beam connecting the pair of the second poles to each other; a pair of second beams each connecting a corresponding one of the first poles to a corresponding one of the second poles; and a supporting member supporting a far-side surface of the object placed on the bottom plate. The support stand includes a first support, an upright portion, and a second supporter, the first supporter being placed on the floor and extending parallel to the floor, the upright portion standing at an end portion of the first supporter, the second supporter extending parallel to the floor from an upper end portion of the upright portion, the second supporter having a cantilever structure, and the bottom plate being placed on the second supporter.
US08573135B2
Load support device of cardboard material. The load support device includes at least one block element having a polygonal shape, at least two vertical walls, a horizontal base, an upper load receiving surface, and at least one locking fold arranged in at least one corner of the block element. The locking fold is formed by at least two lateral vertical contact sections of the block element such that the block element, in an area of the locking fold, provides load support and the locking fold functions as reinforcement. A reinforcing locking wedge element made of a same material as said at least one block element is utilized and includes a base and four portions. At least one of the four portions is structured and arranged to strengthen and lock a position of the at least one locking fold.
US08573127B2
A high velocity cartridge munition comprises a cartridge shell and a projectile inserted into it. A propulsion chamber within the cartridge shell receives a propulsive charge that may be ignited by a pyrotechnic igniter and that develops propulsive gases that act on the base of the projectile, driving it out of the cartridge shell. To prevent the pyrotechnic igniter from igniting spontaneously, and from igniting the propulsive charge due to the ambient temperature or because of a fire, which would cause the cartridge shell and projectile to be separated and fly apart, at least one exhaust channel between the propulsion chamber and the exterior of the cartridge shell is filled with a fusible material. The fusible material has a lower melting point than the ignition point of the igniter and of the propulsive charge. If the ambient temperature of the cartridge shell rises above the melting point of the fusible material, it melts, releasing the exhaust channels, so that, upon delayed ignition of the propulsive charge, it burns without pressure buildup, and the cartridge shell and projectile remain together. At least one non-fusible, rupturable member is positioned between the fusible material and the propulsive charge to provide mechanical support under normal conditions but to facilitate release of gases if the propulsive charge ignites.
US08573119B2
A device is provided for covering a bale chamber of a round baler. The device has a planar cover element made from a flexible material that extends between an upper holder and a brace moving between a lower, closed position, and an upper, open position for ejecting a round bale. The cover element consists of a fabric made from plastic fibers.
US08573104B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a miter saw comprising a base with a plurality of detents, a rotatable table mounted to the base, the table having a front handle portion configured to enable a user to angularly adjust the position of the table relative to the base, a detent system mounted to the table and comprising a moveable lever with a gripping portion and a detent pin on the opposite end thereof selectively engaging the detents, and a detent override mechanism for retaining the lever and detent pin out of engagement with the detents, the override mechanism comprising a moveable button positioned on the top of the handle portion, whereby a user can grasp the handle portion and gripping portion with one hand and move the button with the thumb to retain the lever and associated detent pin out of engagement with any of the detents.
US08573102B2
This invention relates to a machine and system for processing strip material which typically is removed from the edges of a sheet of material during the formation process. The strip material is formed in an apparatus and expelled at a variable line speed. The line speed is measured by a sensor which provides a signal representation of the speed to a cutter assembly. The cutter assembly cuts the strip material at a cutting speed which is sequenced to the line speed such that the strip material is cut into a plurality of pieces. The pieces are generally uniform in shape and size across variations in the line speed because the cutting speed is synchronized with the line speed.
US08573097B2
A system, method, and computer program for monitoring a machine cycle. A method includes the steps of tracking an elapsed cumulative measure; comparing the elapsed cumulative measure with a cycle interrupt interval; interrupting a machining cycle at the cycle interrupt interval; and performing a local return to a defined position.
US08573096B1
An adapter encircles and locks around nut members of pipe unions or nuts made up on fasteners, and engages the nut member in locking contact. The adapter has strike surfaces which allow the nut member to be tightened or loosened by a hammering means, such as a hammer, mallet or sledge hammer. Thus, in the case of a pipe union, the device temporarily converts a nut union to a hammer union. The apparatus is configured to facilitate attachment of the device in tight situations, such as attaching the device to the nut member of a pipe union on a piping manifold having closely spaced parallel pipelines.
US08573088B2
A rotational-to-linear conversion mechanism inhibits interference from occurring in places except for an engagement site to increase the efficiency of conversion mechanism and reliability, which has: a rack rod 1 including thread on its outer peripheral face; a holder member 3 provided on the outer periphery of the rack rod, rotating about the rack rod and moving in the axis direction; and revolving rollers 21 rotatably supported in the holder member, each having ring-shaped grooves formed in its outer peripheral face to be engaged with the thread, and placed at an axis angle with respect to a center axis of the rack rod to allow the ring-shaped grooves to be engaged with the thread on the rack rod. A contact face of the thread with each ring-shaped groove in an engagement site of the thread and the ring-shaped groove is formed as a convex face having different curvatures in a radial direction.
US08573081B2
A shaft part is formed with a rolling groove (5) on which rolling elements (4) roll. At least the rolling groove (5) is induction hardened with no generation of black colored oxidized scale after the induction hardening. A surface of the induction hardened rolling groove (5) is used “as is” as a rolling surface. The surface roughness Ra of the induction hardened surface “as is” of the rolling groove (5) is less than 1.0. The ratio of effective hardened depth of a hardened layer is between 0.15 and 0.45.
US08573073B2
A method and a device for transferring a microscopic, isolated sample, particularly a membrane-supported micro-dissected specimen, from an object table to an analysis arrangement, with a suction apparatus comprising a nano-suction means with a suction tube and a terminal membrane and a vacuum/overpressure unit which can be coupled to the nano-suction means for sucking or blowing the sample onto or from the terminal membrane; and a carrier apparatus for carrying the nano-suction means, which can be moved by means of an associated positioning unit for positioning the nano-suction means exactly in a sample removal position for sucking the sample onto the terminal membrane and in a sample release position for blowing the sample from the terminal membrane. A micro-dissection system, comprising such a device and a method for the production of a nano-suction means that is used in such a device.
US08573068B2
A vibrating flow meter (205) is provided. The vibrating flow meter (205) comprises a flow conduit (210) including a first end portion (211) and a second end portion (212). The vibrating flow meter (205) further includes a case (300) surrounding at least a portion of the flow conduit (210). The vibrating flow meter (205) also includes a first case connect (290). The first case connect (290) comprises a first portion (295) coupled to the first end portion (211) of the flow conduit (210) and one or more deformable members (292, 293, 294) extending radially from the first portion (295) and coupled to the case (300) such that the first end portion (211) can rotate about a conduit axis (X).
US08573066B2
A fluidic oscillator can include a fluid switch, at least two fluid paths from the fluid switch, and a sensor which measures a frequency of fluctuations in flow through the fluidic oscillator. A method of measuring a flow rate of a fluid can include flowing the fluid through a fluidic oscillator, a majority of the fluid flowing alternately via at least two fluid paths from a fluid switch of the fluidic oscillator, and a sensor detecting a frequency of the flow alternating between the fluid paths. Another fluidic oscillator can include a fluid input, at least two fluid paths from the fluid input to respective fluid outputs, whereby a majority of fluid which flows through the fluidic oscillator flows alternately via the fluid paths, and a sensor which detects pressure fluctuations due to the flow alternating between the fluid paths.
US08573064B2
A magnetic suspension supporter for a direct tension test apparatus, includes an upper end cap and a lower end cap for fixing a sample, an upper chain and a lower chain connected to the upper and lower end caps respectively, an upper joint and a lower joint connected to the other ends of the upper and lower chains respectively, the lower joint being fixed to the test machine foundation. In addition, the upper and lower end caps, the upper and lower chains, the upper and lower joints as well as the supporter having a common vertical axis and being arranged in a cascade form, characterized in that a sample supporter is arranged between the lower end cap and the test machine foundation. The sample supporter is composed of a pair of upper magnet provided at the underside of the lower end cap and lower magnet on the upside of the test machine foundation, which constitute two magnets structure. The polarity directions of the two magnets are reversed and the same polarity is arranged oppositely on the axis. The following technical effect is realized: sudden breaking caused by the gravity when peak stress is reached may be prevented; the magnet is fixed to the axis, which may prevent the sample from being destroyed at the end portion due to the left and right swaying of the spring, ensuring accuracy of the test data.
US08573044B2
A device for diagnosing deterioration of a catalyst by a decrease in oxygen storage capacity, in which the oxygen storage capacity by which the catalyst deterioration is diagnosed to be present when exhaust gas recirculation is not implemented is higher than the oxygen storage capacity by which the catalyst deterioration is diagnosed to be present when the exhaust gas recirculation is implemented.
US08573037B2
A method of determining emission values of a gas turbine, includes the following steps: a test run is performed on the gas turbine; operational parameters of the gas turbine are determined during the test run; first emission values are determined during the test run; an association between the operational parameters and the first emission values is stored; and during operation, operational parameters of the gas turbine are determined; and second emission values are determined in accordance with the stored association between the operational parameters and the first emission values.
US08573030B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of selecting a nanostructured deposit for a conductometric gas sensor, methods of detecting a gas based on the acidic or basic characteristic of the gas using a conductometric gas sensor, devices including conductometric gas sensors, arrays of conductometric gas sensors, methods of determining the acidic or basic characteristic of a gas, methods of treating a sensor, and the like.
US08573028B2
An antiskid performance testing apparatus for shoe sole comprises a base (17), a locating device and a force application device. The force application device includes a power source, a transport mechanism and a force application rod (6). The force application rod (6) is connected with a fixing shaft (8) via a sector turntable (2). The sector turntable (2) is equipped with a circular arc groove, and is sleeved on the fixing shaft (8) via a sleeve (12). A lower end of the force application rod (6) is fixed on the sector turntable (2) via a location pin (3), an upper end of the force application rod (6) is connected with the transport mechanism, and middle of the force application rod (6) is fixed with a slide pin (4). Two ends of the slide pin (4) are located in the circular arc groove of the sector turntable (2). The testing apparatus can test the antiskid performance of shoe under different force angles.
US08573023B2
Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing a press-molded product with a preform including a pair of side wall portions and a connecting wall portion are taught. The preform is pressed with a mold until at least one wall portion is bent toward a gap within the mold, and a plate thickness is increased at the at least one wall portion and the connecting wall portion by pressing other wall portions.
US08573019B2
A method produces a bent part by two- or three-dimensional bending of an elongate workpiece, in particular a wire or tube, in a bending process wherein at least one portion of the workpiece is moved into an initial position in the region of engagement of a bending tool by one or more feed operations by the coordinated activation of the movements of driven machine axes of a bending machine numerically controlled by a control device and is formed by bending in at least one bending operation with the aid of a bending tool. The movements of the driven machine axes are generated according to a movement profile predeterminable by the control device of the bending machine and include at least one oscillation-relevant movement leading to an oscillation of the free end portion of the bent part. During an oscillation-relevant movement, a compensating movement, reducing the generation of oscillation and/or damping the oscillation, a machine axis is generated in at least one compensation time interval.
US08573017B2
The invention relates to a device for handling and/or transporting back-up rolls and/or work rolls (4a, 4b) of a roll stand, preferably at least in pairs, especially in sets, between the roll stand arranged in a roll ball and a roll workshop, and in the roll workshop. Said device comprise a roll-changing pit that extends transversely to the roll direction of the roll stand, form the roll stand towards the roll workshop, and has displacement devices for at least one pair or set of dismantled back-up or work rolls (4a, 4b), and a roll-changing stand (8) that is arranged transversely to the roll-changing pit in the roll workshop and can be moved across said pit in or away from the roll direction of the roll stand. The aim of the invention is to enable the time required for a back-up roll change to be reduced and the back-up roll change to be simplified. To this end, the roll-changing stand (8) comprises two roll-receiving regions (13, 14) that have an especially U-shaped cross-section and are arranged at a distance from each other in the roll direction of the roll stand, said regions each comprising both bearing surfaces (15, 16) for receiving work rolls (4a, 4b) and bearing surfaces (17, 18) for receiving back-up rolls.
US08573016B2
The invention relates to a compression rolling mill for compressing a metal strand sideways, having a pair of mutually engaging rollers (9, 10), arranged perpendicular to the center axes, connected to a rotary drive (31, 32; 34) by means of articulated shafts (29, 30), characterized in that the two rollers (9, 10) are connected to the rotary drive (31, 32; 34) by means of a gearbox (27, 28) adjustable together with the rollers (9, 10) and by means of articulated shafts (29, 30) each connected to one of the two gearboxes (27, 28), wherein the articulated shafts (29, 30) are inclined at an acute angle to the horizontal.
US08573006B2
A coolant box for a glass batch charger that includes a base, a front wall, a rear wall, a coolant labyrinth extending from the base between the front and rear walls, and including a plurality of curvate baffle walls establishing a plurality of curvate coolant channels.
US08573000B2
A cryogenic tunnel freezer (10) having modular design and construction including a lower section (16) that can be raised and lowered relative to an upper section (14), the upper and lower sections (14, 16) defining a tunnel (12) when the lower section (16) is in a closed (raised) position. Product is moved through the tunnel (12) via a belt (22) formed of arrays of plastic modules (76) that are reinforced by metal chains (140) and rods (150). The lower run (23) of the belt (22) rides on the floor (48) of the lower section (16) and the upper run (21) rides on the lower run (23) when the belt (22) is operated. The flow of cryogenic fluid through the tunnel (12) is aided by vaporization of a cryogenic fluid and baffles (98), but no air-moving devices located within the tunnel (12).
US08572996B2
An energy supply system for operating at least one air conditioning system of an aircraft, comprises at least one air line network and at least one electric line network. The air line network is connected to the air conditioning system and at least one bleed air connection for routing bleed air to the air conditioning system. The electric line network is connected to the air conditioning system and at least one electrical energy source for routing electrical energy to the air conditioning system. The air conditioning system has an electrically operable cooling device. By means of the energy supply system according to the invention the energy withdrawn from the power units is better adapted to the energy necessary for operating the air conditioning system and other systems—such as, for example, wing de-icing—and therefore reduces the excess fuel consumption of the aircraft.
US08572994B2
Systems and methods of automatically operating dehumidifiers in response to dehumidifier operating conditions are disclosed herein. A method of operating a dehumidifier configured in accordance with one embodiment includes directing air flow through the dehumidifier at a first volumetric flow rate while the dehumidifier is operating at a first operating condition. The method further includes changing the first volumetric flow rate to a second volumetric flow rate when the first operating condition of the dehumidifier changes to a predetermined second operating condition.
US08572993B2
A fog sensing apparatus for vehicle windows is provided. The fog sensing apparatus includes: a temperature/humidity sensor module including a glass surface temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of a glass surface of the vehicle window, and a humidity sensor for measuring relative humidity around the glass surface of the vehicle window; a flexible printed circuit board on which the temperature/humidity sensor module is mounted, which a temperature measurement part of the glass surface temperature sensor contacts, and on which a conductive pattern is formed to be connected to electrode terminals of the glass surface temperature sensor and electrode terminals of the humidity sensor; a substrate assembly having a through hole for the temperature/humidity sensor module to pass through, and connection terminals connected to the conductive pattern; and a case covering the substrate assembly, the substrate assembly interposed between the case and the flexible printed circuit board.
