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| Novel dna fragment and use thereof | 20110023155 | 20110127 |
| The invention relates to a DNA consisting of the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, or a nucleotide sequence the same or substantially the same as a partial nucleotide sequence thereof containing at least one HRE consensus sequence, which transiently has a transcription promoting activity in a vascular endothelial cell-specific manner in a hypoxic state, or a vector containing a promoter containing the DNA, and the like. The prophylaxis and/or treatment, as well as diagnosis, of acute ischemic diseases are enabled by connecting a prophylactic and/or therapeutic gene or a reporter gene to the downstream of the vector and administering same to mammals.
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| Internet system for facilitating human user advisement and licensing of copyrighted works of authorship | 20110023127 | 20110127 |
| An Internet system for disseminating information regarding works or authorship, including a server and a client device connected to the Internet and wherein when any one web page out of a set of web pages is displayed on the client device and when a work of authorship is displayed as part of the web page, an image is also displayed near the work of authorship, as part of the webpage and when a user clicks on the image, copyright information concerning the work of authorship is presented in a user-perceivable manner.
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| User terminal with identity selector and method for identity authentication using identity selector of the same | 20110023099 | 20110127 |
| The present invention relates to a user terminal (100) with an identify selector and a method for an identity authentication using the identify selector of the same, in which when a web service makes a request to a web service providing server (300) using a virtual personal identification information issued from an identity authentication server (200), a corresponding user identity is authenticated between the user terminal and the identity authentication server (200) using the identity selector according to the request of the web service providing server (300). The present invention has advantages that it can solve the problem of inputting an ID and password within the range such that the I-PIN or SMAL service protocol is not changed, but the subscribed I-PIN or SAML service providing... |
| Method, apparatus, and system for preventing abuse of authentication vector | 20110023094 | 20110127 |
| A method for preventing abuse of an Authentication Vector (AV) and a system and apparatus for implementing the method are provided. Access network information of a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access network where a user resides is bound to an AV of the user, so that when the user accesses an Evolved Packet System (EPS) through the non-3GPP access network, even if an entity in the non-3GPP access network is breached, or an Evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) connected to an untrusted non-3GPP access network is breached, the stolen AV cannot be applied to other non-3GPP access networks by an attacker.
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| Techniques for enforcing application environment based security policies using role based access control | 20110023082 | 20110127 |
| An application platform examines, at runtime, various specified aspects of an application environment in which an application interacts with a user. Such examinations are made to determine a state for each of the various specified aspects. Further, the platform automatically activates particular application environment roles for the user depending on the result of the examinations. For example, an application environment role may be activated representing a particular detected mode of communication (e.g., encrypted network communications) or a particular detected manner of authentication (e.g., password authentication). Such activations are based on the detected states and specified states for the various specified aspects of the application environment. Such activations may occur in the context of an application attempting to perform an operation on an access controlled object on... |
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| System and method for processing priority transport stream data in real time in a multi-channel broadcast multimedia system | 20110023079 | 20110127 |
| A system for processing data stream content in a multi-channel broadcast multimedia system including a packet processor having an input control having a filter module for detecting at least one priority data stream from an input data stream, and an output control including a format module for displaying the priority data streams in real-time. The system can include an alarm detector for checking a rate of the priority data stream and issuing an alarm in the event of an alarm condition of the priority data stream.
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| Method and apparatus for content replacement in live production | 20110023059 | 20110127 |
| The insertion of an advertisement or other new content into a time slot between content segments advantageously occurs by selecting the new segment to fill its associated slot as closely as possible. Play out of a successive content segment occurs for distribution over at least one of a first set of channels and at least one second channel until the occurrence of the time slot whereupon the new content segment undergoes play out for distribution over the at least one second channel. If the new content segment has a duration longer than the time slot, the length of at least one content segment gets reduced to provide substantially seamless play out.
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| Optimizing workflow execution against a heterogeneous grid computing topology | 20110023049 | 20110127 |
| Optimizing workflow execution by the intelligent dispatching of workflow tasks against a grid computing system or infrastructure. For some embodiments, a grid task dispatcher may be configured to dispatch tasks in a manner that takes into account information about an entire workflow, rather than just an individual task. Utilizing information about the tasks (task metadata), such a workflow-scoped task dispatcher may more optimally assign work to compute resources available on the grid, leading to a decrease in workflow execution time and more efficient use of grid computing resources.
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| Intelligent data placement and management in virtual computing environments | 20110023048 | 20110127 |
| Methods and apparatus involve intelligently pre-placing data for local consumption by workloads in a virtual computing environment. Access patterns of the data by the workload are first identified. Based thereon, select data portions are migrated from a first storage location farther away the workload to a second storage location closer the workload. Migration also occurs at a time when needed by the workload during use. In this manner, bandwidth for data transmission is minimized. Latency effects created by consumption of remotely stored data is overcome as well. In various embodiments, a data vending service and proxy are situated between a home repository of the data and the workload. Together they serve to manage and migrate the data as needed. Data recognition patterns are disclosed as is... |
| Method and apparatus for modifying an executable application using in-memory object representation | 20110023014 | 20110127 |
| A computer system is used to create an application. An executable application is converted into an in-memory object representation. The in-memory object representation may be annotated with human-readable labels. The in-memory object representation and human readable labels may be stored in a storage device. At least one attribute of the in-memory object representation is selected for modification. At least one modification is performed on the in-memory object representation of the application. The modified representation is used to create an executable application.
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| Double patterning friendly lithography method and system | 20110023002 | 20110127 |
| A method includes receiving an identification of a plurality of cells to be included in an integrated circuit (IC) layout, including a list of pairs of cells within the plurality of cells to be connected to each other. First routing paths are identified, to connect a maximum number of the pairs of cells using one-dimensional (1-D) routing between cells within those pairs of cells. Second routing paths are selected from a predetermined set of two-dimensional (2-D) routing patterns to connect any of the pairs of cells which cannot be connected by 1-D routing. The first and second routing paths are output to a machine readable storage medium to be read by a control system for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process to fabricate the IC.
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| Method for conjecturing effective width and effective length of gate | 20110022997 | 20110127 |
| A method for conjecturing the effective size, i.e. the effective width or effective length, of a gate is disclosed. First, a first design gate group including a first gate design width and a first gate design length is provided. Second, an intrinsic gate channel capacitance and an edge capacitance of the first design gate are respectively obtained by calculation. Then a size error, i.e. a width error or a length error is predicted by means of the intrinsic gate channel capacitance and of the edge capacitance to calculate a calculated inversion capacitance and a predicted size deviation. Later, the size error is repeatedly predicted to minimize the predicted size deviation and to optimize the size error to obtain an optimized size error. Afterwards, the effective size... |
| Integrated desktop software for management of virus data | 20110022973 | 20110127 |
| A system and method for managing virus data may include software tailored for rapid, efficient and flexible management of virus data. The system may easier overcome data management problems. Moreover, the system may streamline the serious bottleneck of data management, significantly compressing time between data collection and cure discovery. The system may comprise graphical-user interface (GUI) tools and a data-storage and retrieval system. It may also include a commercial relational database engine. The system may include annotation, alignment, phylogenetics and mutation analysis tools. The alignment tool may be linked to a query tool and include a contig assembler. The system may include mutation tracking, report generation and entropy measurement tools, as well as statistical routines and security and installation packages. The system may include a software... |
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| Web browsing method and web browsing device | 20110022957 | 20110127 |
| A web browsing device employing a touch input method and a web browsing method used in the web browsing device are provided. The web-browsing method includes: receiving a panning input on a screen on which a first web page is being displayed; and displaying on the screen a second web page according to a type of the received panning input.
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| Control of concentration of feed items in an aggregated feed document | 20110022949 | 20110127 |
| The invention relates to a method and arrangement for inserting feed items from different feed documents into an aggregated feed document. A feed aggregator receives feed items, each comprising a feed item ID, from feed documents and inserts them into an aggregated feed document. The feed aggregator decides if a second feed item from a second feed document shall be inserted to the aggregated feed document by using the a first feed item ID of a first feed item from a first feed document. The feed aggregator calculates a first feed item ID value of the first feed item ID associated with the first feed item and use said first feed item ID value to decide if a second feed item from the second feed document... |
| System and method for annotating multimedia objects | 20110022942 | 20110127 |
| The system and a computer-implemented method annotate a multimedia object on a web page hosted on a publisher computer system. A web page that includes a multimedia object is rendered in a web browser of a client computer system. One or more layers, including a transparent layer, at least partially located over the multimedia object displayed on the web page are generated wherein the one or more layers are configured to facilitate the creation and display of annotation data for the multimedia object based on user interface events produced by a user of the client computer system. Annotation data for the multimedia object is received from the user. The annotation data is transmitted to an annotation server for storage. A visual indicator indicating that the annotation... |
| Information extraction methods and apparatus including a computer-user interface | 20110022941 | 20110127 |
| Disclosed is an information extraction system and method. The method comprises receiving a document and annotation data, the annotation data comprising instances of entities which have been identified in the document, the annotation entity data comprising identifiers of instances of one or more entities which have been identified in the document and data specifying the location of the identified instances of entities within the document, wherein the identifiers of instances of entities comprise references to ontology data; displaying the document to a user, with annotations dependent on the annotation data, highlighting one or more of the instances of entities whose location is specified in the annotation entity data at the location within the document specified by the annotation entity data; preparing revised annotation data from a... |
| Turbo coding for upstream and downstream transmission in cable systems | 20110022925 | 20110127 |
| A method of transmitting data in a cable modem system includes the steps of encoding the data using forward error correction. The data is then encoded with Turbo encoding. The data is then sent to a modulation scheme. The data is then transmitted over a cable channel. The data is then demodulated. The data is then decoded using a Turbo decoder. An inverse of the forward error correction is then applied to the data.
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| Mesm: a fast bjcr based decoder implementation scheme | 20110022926 | 20110127 |
| A memory efficient, accelerated implementation architecture for BCJR based forward error correction algorithms. In this architecture, a memory efficiency storage scheme is adopted for the metrics and channel information to achieve high processing speed with a low memory requirement. Thus, BCJR based algorithms can be accelerated, and the implementation complexity can be 5 reduced. This scheme can be used in the BCJR based turbo decoder and LDPC decoder implementations.
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| Compact decoding of punctured block codes | 20110022921 | 20110127 |
| k input bits are encoded according to a code with which is associated a m×n=m+k parity check matrix H. The resulting codeword is punctured, with n′<n bits. The punctured codeword is exported to a corrupting medium such as a communication channel or a memory. A representation of the punctured codeword is imported from the corrupting medium and is decoded using a matrix H′ that is smaller than H. For example, H has at most m rows and fewer than n columns but more than n′ columns.
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| Compact decoding of punctured block codes | 20110022922 | 20110127 |
| k input bits are encoded according to a code with which is associated a m×n=m+k parity check matrix H. The resulting codeword is punctured, with n′<n bits. The punctured codeword is exported to a corrupting medium such as a communication channel or a memory. A representation of the punctured codeword is imported from the corrupting medium and is decoded using a matrix H′ that is smaller than H. For example, H′ is m′=m−(n−n′)×n′ and is derived by merging selected rows of H.
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| Compact decoding of punctured block codes | 20110022920 | 20110127 |
| k input bits are encoded according to a code with which is associated a m×n=m+k parity check matrix H. The resulting codeword is punctured, with n′<n bits. The punctured codeword is exported to a corrupting medium such as a communication channel or a memory. A representation of the punctured codeword is imported from the corrupting medium and is decoded using a matrix H′ that is smaller than H. For example, H has fewer than m′=m−(n−n′) rows and fewer than n′ columns.
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| Non-volatile memory system with self test capability | 20110022898 | 20110127 |
| In a non-volatile memory system, test data may be retrieved by means of a circuit without the help of firmware. The circuit is triggered into action when it detects an abnormality in the processor or host interface. In such event, it formats the self test or status signals from the various blocks in the non-volatile memory system controller and sends a test message to the outside world without the assistance of the system processor or interface controller. When implemented in memory systems with multiple data lines, only one of the data lines may be utilized for such purpose, thereby allowing the testing to be performed while the system is still performing data transfer. Preferably, the system includes the test mode communication controller, which can select between... |
| Clock and data recovery circuit with eliminating data-dependent jitters | 20110022890 | 20110127 |
| The present invention relates to a clock and data recovery circuit (CDR), and in particular, to a CDR circuit in a full digital scheme which cancels the data-dependent jitter. A DDJ cancellation circuit according to the present invention efficiently cancels the data-dependent jitter, making it possible to configure the reliable clock and data recovery circuit in the serial link data communication through the channel of the predetermined bandwidth.
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| Information processing apparatus, control method of the information processing apparatus, and recording medium | 20110022888 | 20110127 |
| An information processing apparatus connecting a plurality of hard disks rebuilds data stored in one hard disk of the plurality of hard disks to another hard disk of the plurality of hard disks. The information processing apparatus is controlled in such a manner that when the information processing started, the rebuild is not resumed immediately after the information processing apparatus is started, and the rebuild is resumed after a predetermined time has elapsed.
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| Automated disaster recovery planning | 20110022879 | 20110127 |
| A system and associated method for automated disaster recovery (DR) planning. A DR planning process receives disaster recovery requirements and a target environment configuration from a user to design DR plans for the target environment configuration that meets disaster recovery requirements. The DR planning process accesses a knowledgebase containing information on replication technologies, best practice recipes, and past deployment instances. The DR planning process creates the DR plans by analyzing the disaster recovery requirements into element risks, associating replication technologies to protect each element risks, combining associated replication technologies based on the best practice recipes, and selecting highly evaluated combination based on the past deployment instances. The DR planning process presents the DR plans as classified by replication strategy-architecture combination for each DR plans and marks... |
| Techniques for measuring network channel resistive loss between a power-sourcing apparatus and a powered device | 20110022860 | 20110127 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for determining resistive power loss through a channel between Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and a Powered Device (PD). The method includes (1) receiving indication that a PSE signal measurement is available from the PSE or a PD signal measurement is available from the PD, (2) selecting, as an input parameter to a processing operation, at least one of the PSE signal measurement or the PD signal measurement, (3) performing the processing operation to calculate a resistance value indicative of the resistive power loss through the channel between the PSE and PD based on the input parameter, and (4) outputting the resistive power loss value as a result of carrying out the processing operation.
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| Key protectors based on public keys | 20110022856 | 20110127 |
| In accordance with one or more aspects, a key protector for a storage volume is created by generating an intermediate key and protecting, based at least in part on a public/private key pair, the intermediate key. A volume master key for encrypting and decrypting one or more volume encryption keys that are used to encrypt the storage volume can be encrypted in different manners, including being encrypted based at least in part on the intermediate key. A key protector for the storage volume is stored that includes both the encrypted volume master key and information indicating how to obtain the intermediate key. Subsequently, the key protector can be accessed and, based at least in part on a private key of the entity associated with the key... |
| Secure communication using asymmetric cryptography and light-weight certificates | 20110022835 | 20110127 |
| Encrypted communications between servers and client devices over an unsecured channel, such as the Internet, without using a public key infrastructure are disclosed. Messages to a client device are encrypted using an encryption key of an authorized individual, regardless of the identity of the user of the client device. Encryption is performed by a system that does not expose encryption keys to the client device or the server, thereby preventing man-in-the-middle attacks against the encryption key. Secure communications are combined with a two-factor protocol for authenticating the identity of an individual. An individual authenticates by generating a cipher using a light-weight certificate that has a shared secret but no other information identifying the individual. Separately, a server generates the same cipher using the shared secret, thereby... |
| Non-disruptive methods for updating a controller of a storage system | 20110022828 | 20110127 |
| A non-disruptive method for updating firmware in a first controller 210 of a redundant controller 200 in a storage subsystem 120 is disclosed. This updating occurs while the storage subsystem 120 presents data to a host system 130 in response to a host request 132. During the non-disruptive updating, the updating first controller 210 redirects the host request 132 for data, e.g., drive-A volume 252 normally owned by the first controller 210, to second controller 220 of the redundant controller 200. After the second controller 220 obtains data 134 identified in the host request 132, the operating second controller 220 transfers the data 134 to the updating first controller 210 via an inter-controller channel 202. Once the updating first controller 210 receives the data 134, the... |
| Iterative feedback tuning in a scanning probe microscope | 20110016592 | 20110120 |
| A method, system, device, and software for automatically determining PI feedback parameters in a scanning probe microscopy application setup using an iterative feedback tuning process.
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| Use of virus-induced gene silencing (vigs) to down-regulate genes in plants | 20110016584 | 20110120 |
| The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules and methods to down-regulate by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) vernalization genes in winter annuals, specifically the Flowering Locus C (FLC) gene in Brassica napus. Down-regulation of FLC allows winter annuals to flower without vernalization or with reduced vernalization. This, in turn, provides a shorter breeding cycling and the opportunity for enhanced genetic gain.
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| Xylanases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them | 20110016545 | 20110120 |
| The invention relates to enzymes having xylanase, mannanase and/or glucanase activity, e.g., catalyzing hydrolysis of internal β-1,4-xylosidic linkages or endo-β-1,4-glucanase linkages; and/or degrading a linear polysaccharide beta-1,4-xylan into xylose. Thus, the invention provides methods and processes for breaking down hemicellulose, which is a major component of the cell wall of plants, including methods and processes for hydrolyzing hemicelluloses in any plant or wood or wood product, wood waste, paper pulp, paper product or paper waste or byproduct. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature.
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| Measure selecting apparatus and measure selecting method | 20110016532 | 20110120 |
| A measure selecting apparatus includes a vulnerability handling determining unit and an optimum measure selecting unit. The determining unit determines the handling status of each vulnerability of a resource in a task used to develop a measure, based on vulnerability master data in which a resource, a vulnerability of the resource, and a recovery time associated with the vulnerability are defined in an associated manner; measure master data in which a vulnerability defined in the vulnerability master data and a measure for eliminating a vulnerability are defined in an associated manner; and measure status data in which a performance status of each measure defined in the measure master data is defined. The selecting unit selects a measure, from among measures defined in the measure master data,... |
| Detection of undesired computer files in archives | 20110016530 | 20110120 |
| Systems and methods that can detect known undesired computer files in protected archives are provided. According to one embodiment, an archive file in transit across a network as an attachment to an email message destined for a client workstation is scanned, without decrypting or decompressing contents of the archive, by an anti-virus detection module running on a network gateway. A type and associated structure of the archive are identified by examining primary or secondary identification bytes of the archive. Based on the type and structure, descriptive information regarding a contained file is obtained. The descriptive information includes a hash value of the contained file in uncompressed format. If the descriptive information matches a signature of a known undesired computer file, then a clean version of the... |
| Realtime multichannel web password reset | 20110016515 | 20110120 |
| The need for realtime password resetting is providing by using a converged HTTP/SIP container. The container allows interaction between the different protocols of HTTP and SIP. When a user needs to reset a password that would normally require sending a new temporary password through the mail, the user can be appropriately authenticated and provided with a temporary key. After a temporary key is created and sent electronically to the user via the computer system which initiated the request, a telephony application calls the user. The user is prompted for authentication information and then enters the temporary key. The temporary key entered is compared with the temporary key created, and if matched, the user can reset the password in realtime.
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| Automatic user band assignment in a satellite signal distribution environment | 20110016496 | 20110120 |
| A communications system and method involving a set top box (STB) and a channel stacking switch (CSS). The STB comprises a communications interface configured to issue a request for a user band, the request identifying the STB and further configured to receive a message identifying an assigned user band; and a tuning element configured to tune to the assigned user band in response to receipt of the message. The CSS comprises a communications interface configured to receive the request for a user band identifying the STB; a memory; and a processing entity configured to access the memory to identify a particular user band that is available for the STB and to assign the particular user band to the STB; wherein the communications interface is further configured... |
| Terminal and method for receiving frames of broadcast data | 20110016495 | 20110120 |
| A user terminal and method are provided for receiving broadcast data based on frames. A determination is made whether the broadcast data is transmitted via a primary RS frame for transmitting first broadcast data or a secondary RS frame for transmitting second broadcast data. When the broadcast data is transmitted via the secondary RS frame for the second broadcast data, a channel state of a channel through which a frame containing the second broadcast data is transmitted is checked. When the checked channel state is greater than or equal to a preset first channel state, only the second broadcast data contained in the secondary RS frame is received. Therefore, the user terminal can periodically receive frames containing its necessary broadcast data and can thus reduce power... |
| Method and apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of video channels for viewings | 20110016491 | 20110120 |
| One of a plurality of video channels is selected for viewing. A specific one of a plurality of video channels is bookmarked. An object representing said bookmarked channel is displayed. A displayed object is selected to select the bookmarked channel.
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| Announcing the availability of an electronic programming guide to receivers of enhanced television transmissions | 20110016489 | 20110120 |
| A unique session identifier may be utilized to announce the availability of an electronic programming guide to users of an enhanced television distribution system. In some embodiments, the unique session identifier may be utilized in a variety of systems to provide a uniform way of recognizing the availability of an electronic programming guide in conjunction with enhanced television distribution systems.
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| Double-click channel button access of user-defined content list | 20110016485 | 20110120 |
| A set-top box receives a channel input from a remote control associated with a user, and determines whether the channel input is a double-click channel input. The set-top box retrieves a user-defined content list, associated with the user, when the channel input is determined to be a double-click channel input, and tunes to a channel associated with the retrieved user-defined content list. The set-top box also receives content associated with the tuned to channel, and provides the received content to a television, where the television displays the received content to the user.
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| Space-shifting ip streaming system achieved through a video playback method based on a rich internet application (ria) | 20110016484 | 20110120 |
| The present invention relates to a place-shifting IP streaming system using an RIA-based moving image playback method which increases users' accessibility by removing the difficulties of performing download and setting players for respective client PCs having various environment and enables various types of multimedia to be implemented by facilitating porting to HTML-based websites, and, more particularly, to a place-shifting IP streaming system using an RIA-based moving image playback method which adjusts signals to a moving image (H.264 and WMV) and sound (AAC) codec required by Flash or Silverlight, packages them in MPEG 4 format and sends them in a streaming manner using the moving image encoder of a streaming module so that an Active-X type dedicated moving image player can be implemented using Flash or Silverlight,... |
| Communication model for a scanner | 20110016475 | 20110120 |
| An extension module is generated to act on behalf of a TWAIN application by communicating with a WIA driver via WIA Service. A data structure is transmitted from the extension module to the WIA driver via a custom properties mechanism of WIA Service. The data structure contains a location of a binary data file containing instruction data for the scanner. The binary data file is located with the WIA driver according to the location. The instruction data is transmitted to the scanner, which processes the instruction data and transmits results back to the WIA driver. The WIA driver writes the results into a new binary data file. The data structure is updated and transmitted to the extension module via the custom properties mechanism, and the new... |
| Multiple pass compiler instrumentation infrastructure | 20110016460 | 20110120 |
| A method includes configuring one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include instrumenting at least one code region of an application with at least one annotation for generating profile data when the at least one code region is executed. The operations include executing the application to generate profile data for the at least one code region. The operations also include identifying, from the profile data, a delinquent code region from the generated profile data. The operations include instrumenting the delinquent code region with annotations for generating profile data when the code regions are executed. The operations include executing the application to generate additional profile data for the at least one code region, including the delinquent code region.
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| System and method of merging of objects from different replicas | 20110016450 | 20110120 |
| A first object, typically a software source code object, is checked-in at a first replica of a base object. The replica typically comprises a plurality of objects (e.g., a source code base for a software project). The first object is a version of a base object. The first object is then delivered to a second replica of the base object. If it is determined at the second replica that a trivial merge cannot be performed between the first object and the current base object, the current base object is delivered to the first replica. The first object is rebased with the current base object. The rebased first object is sent to the second replica and a trivial merge is performed between the rebased first object and... |
| Method for improving execution efficiency of a software package customization | 20110016447 | 20110120 |
| A method for improving execution efficiency of a software package customization is disclosed. The method includes identifying one or more components from a configuration table to implement at least one of a use case flow or a non functional requirement (NFR) or an interface document or combinations thereof derived using an use case of the software project, sequencing the identified one or more components to prioritize execution of the use case of the software project and attributing complexity of the identified one or more components to determine the effort estimation for execution of the use case, wherein the attributing complexity includes using an unit effort table for determining the effort estimation requirement for execution of each component of the use case. The method further includes identifying... |
| Method and apparatus for measuring of masks for the photo-lithography | 20110016437 | 20110120 |
| The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring masks for photolithography. In this case, structures to be measured on the mask on a movable mask carrier are illuminated and imaged as an aerial image onto a detector, the illumination being set in a manner corresponding to the illumination in a photolithography scanner during a wafer exposure. A selection of positions at which the structures to be measured are situated on the mask is predetermined, and the positions on the mask in the selection are successively brought to the focus of an imaging optical system, where they are illuminated and in each case imaged as a magnified aerial image onto a detector, and the aerial images are subsequently stored. The structure properties of the... |
| System image customization tool | 20110016414 | 20110120 |
| A system image customization tool provides an efficient and cost effective way to implement a highly customizable system image for a digital device. The system image customization tool controls application installation, device settings, and selection, delivery methods and licensing options for products, applications and services with minimal or no customer interaction from the customer's first out of box experience with the device and through the lifecycle use of the device. The system image customization tool provides retailers, original equipment manufacturers and products, applications and services providers a way to create new distribution channels and partnerships.
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| Method for displaying broadcasting contents in mobile terminal and mobile terminal thereof | 20110016415 | 20110120 |
| A mobile terminal includes a controller initiating at least one widget present in the mobile terminal and obtaining updated information with regard to the at least one initiated widget, a user input unit receiving an input for selecting a channel which provides broadcasting content, a wireless communication unit receiving the broadcasting contents, and a display displaying the broadcasting contents. The controller determines whether any of the at least one initiated widget is associated with the selected channel and registered with the selected channel and the display displays one or more of the at least one widget that are associated with the selected channel with the broadcasting content when the controller determines that the one or more of the at least one widget that are associated with... |
| Slide show | 20110016398 | 20110120 |
| A method for displaying images of interest as a slide show including scanning metadata of images to identify the images which match one or more criteria, classifying the images which have metadata that match one or more of the criteria as the images of interest, and displaying the slide show of the images of interest on a display device.
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| Skew tolerant scannable master/slave flip-flop including embedded logic | 20110016367 | 20110120 |
| An integrated circuit includes a flip-flop circuit having a master latch unit and a slave latch unit. The master latch unit includes a data latch that may receive a data value on a data input, and a scan latch that may receive a scan data value on a scan data input. The data latch may latch and output the data value on an output line in response to a transition of a first clock signal, while the scan latch may latch and output the scan data value on the output line in response to a transition of a second clock signal. The slave latch unit may latch and output either the data value or the scan data value. The flip-flop circuit also includes a clock select... |
| Fault tolerant batch processing | 20110016354 | 20110120 |
| Among other aspects disclosed are a method and system for processing a batch of input data in a fault tolerant manner. The method includes reading a batch of input data including a plurality of records from one or more data sources and passing the batch through a dataflow graph. The dataflow graph includes two or more nodes representing components connected by links representing flows of data between the components. At least one but fewer than all of the components includes a checkpoint process for an action performed for each of multiple units of work associated with one or more of the records. The checkpoint process includes opening a checkpoint buffer stored in non-volatile memory at the start of processing for the batch. For each unit of... |
| Systems and methods for distributed system scanning | 20110016353 | 20110120 |
| Systems and methods are provided for scanning files and directories in a distributed file system on a network of nodes. The nodes include metadata with attribute information corresponding to files and directories distributed on the nodes. In one embodiment, the files and directories are scanned by commanding the nodes to search their respective metadata for a selected attribute. At least two of the nodes are capable of searching their respective metadata in parallel. In one embodiment, the distributed file system commands the nodes to search for metadata data structures having location information corresponding to a failed device on the network. The metadata data structures identified in the search may then be used to reconstruct lost data that was stored on the failed device.
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| System and method for powering an information handling system through a display cable | 20110016332 | 20110120 |
| A display provides power to an information handling system through a display cable. The display cable includes a power wire and an auxiliary channel. The display and information handling system communicate through the auxiliary channel to coordinate power transfer from the display to the information handling system, such as in the form of a trickle charge to a battery integrated in the information handling system.
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| System and method for exchanging key generation parameters for secure communications | 20110016322 | 20110120 |
| A communication system exchanges key generation parameters for secure communications. An internet service and communications device of a user are in communication with each other. The internet service includes an account authentication mechanism for a user and includes a database having stored cryptographic keys and key generation parameters. A device client operates on the communications device and initiates a request to the internet service that authenticates the user and establishes a secure communications channel between the internet service and communications device and determine key generation parameters based on an authenticated user identifier and transmits the key generation parameters for initiating key generation and securely establishing a cryptographic key between the internet service and communications device.
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| Medical image display system and medical image communication method | 20110016306 | 20110120 |
| A medical image display system according to an embodiment including a server that provides medical image display data and display/clinical applications and a terminal device that can access the server by way of a network, the system, configuring the medical image display data so that pieces of image display information of a plurality of types including medical image information and interface information for user operation are arranged in a multilayered manner; transmitting the pieces of image display information of a plurality of types to the terminal device from the server, assigning them to communication protocols of different types; synthetically combining and displaying the pieces of image display information of a plurality of types transmitted from the server with use of the terminal device; and generating operator... |
| Device and method for the distributed execution of digital data processing operations | 20110016293 | 20110120 |
| It includes means (12) for the identification, from a valued directed multi-graph made up of the union of several distinct processing graphs and divided into several valued directed sub-multi-graphs (54, 56, 58), called chunks, and whose input and output nodes are buffer memory nodes of the multi-graph, of a coordination module (16, 26, 34) for each chunk. Furthermore each identified coordination module is designed to synchronise portions of processing operations destined to be executed in the chunk with which it is associated, independently of the portions of processing operations destined to be executed in the other chunks.
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| Low-power usb flash card reader using bulk-pipe streaming with uas command re-ordering and channel separation | 20110016267 | 20110120 |
| A flash-card reader improves transmission efficiency by using bulk streaming of multiple pipes. A bulk data-out pipe carries host write data to the card reader and can operate in parallel with a bulk data-in pipe that carries host read data that was read from a flash card attached to the card reader. Status packets do not block data packets since the he status packets are buffered through a separate status pipe, and commands are buffered through a command pipe. Flash data from multiple flash cards are interleaved as separate endpoints that share the bulk data-in pipe. A data in/out streaming state machine controls streaming bulk data through the bulk data-in and data-out pipes, while a status streaming state machine controls streaming status packets through the status... |
| Disk subsystem | 20110016257 | 20110120 |
| A protocol controller disposed between switches in a fiber channel fabric switch circuit and disk drive units for converting a protocol to enable one-to-one connectivity established between controllers and disk drive units.
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| Control system and user interface for network of input devices | 20110016234 | 20110120 |
| Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and the like, over a variety of protocols within a network system and, more particularly, a control system and uniform user interface for centrally controlling these devices in a manner that appears seamless and transparent to the user. In a preferred embodiment, a command center or hub of a network system includes a context and connection permutation sensitive control system that enables centralized and seamless integrated control of all types of input devices. The control system preferably includes a versatile icon based graphical user interface that provides a uniform, on-screen centralized control system for the network system. The user interface, which... |
| Replication of undifferentiated cells in a weightless environment, uses thereof and a facility for such replication and the acceleration of the evolution of plants and animals | 20090328242 | 20091231 |
| The present invention provides manufacturing processes for biological replication of undifferentiated plant and animal cells and tissue in a weightless condition, including those systems used in current stem cell research and development and use of undifferentiated parenchyma in plants. The present invention further provides methods for adapting plants and animals to survive outside their native environments. In particular, undifferentiated cells from plants or animals are replicated under weightless conditions in which cell replication or proliferation is accelerated and sustained. Under such conditions, the undifferentiated cells can be “forced” to express sets of genes useful for survival in particular environmental conditions. In this manner, cells surviving prolonged exposure to specific environmental conditions can be selected for and cultivated to produce an organism adapted to that particular environment... |
| Systems, methods, and program products for secure code execution | 20090328232 | 20091231 |
| Methods, program product, and systems for providing tamper-resistant executable software code are provided to enable software code transport, storage, and execution security by formatting all instructions to use operand indirect addressing, resulting in an indirect table for each operand position, or field, in the instruction set. That is, rather than each instruction including an operand, each instruction includes an index to the location of the value of the operand in an indirect table. The methods, program product, and systems can also implement a non-typical instruction fetch associated with a program counter and a sequentially stored vector table, or jump table, to retrieve the next sequential instruction (“NSI”). Following rearranging or scrambling or encoding of the executable code, the code can be loaded and executed directly in... |
| Mapping between users and machines in an enterprise security assessment sharing system | 20090328222 | 20091231 |
| Mapping between object types in an enterprise security assessment sharing (“ESAS”) system enables attacks on an enterprise network and security incidents to be better detected and capabilities to respond to be improved. The ESAS system is distributed among endpoints incorporating different security products in the enterprise network that share a commonly-utilized communications channel. An endpoint will generate a tentative assignment of contextual meaning called a security assessment that is published when a potential security incident is detected. The security assessment identifies the object of interest, the type of security incident and its severity. A level of confidence in the detection is also provided which is expressed by an attribute called the “fidelity”. ESAS is configured with the capabilities to map between objects, including users and machines... |
| Malware detention for suspected malware | 20090328221 | 20091231 |
| A method and system for detecting and managing potential malware utilizes a preliminary signature to scan content and detect potential malware content based upon characteristics that match the preliminary signature. The detected content is detained for a predetermined period of time. If an updated signature is not received, the detained content may be purged, released or quarantined, based upon predetermined content policy. If an updated signature is received, the detained content is released from detention and rescanned with the updated signature. The content is then treated in accordance with the content policy, and again, can be purged, released, or quarantined.
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| Dynamic policy provisioning within network security devices | 20090328219 | 20091231 |
| The invention is directed to techniques for dynamic policy provisioning. A network security device may comprise a memory that stores a first policy that identifies a first set of patterns that correspond to a first set of network attacks and a second policy, and a control unit that applies the first policy to the network traffic to detect the first set of network attacks. The control unit, while applying the first policy, monitors parameters corresponding to one or more resources and dynamically determines whether to apply a second policy to the network traffic based on the parameters. The control unit, based on the dynamic determination, applies the second policy to the network traffic to detect a second set of network attacks and forwards the network traffic... |
| Personalized honeypot for detecting information leaks and security breaches | 20090328216 | 20091231 |
| A honeypot in a computer network is configured for use with a wide variety of computing resources that are defined by a network administrator or user which may include desktop and network resources such as address book contacts, instant messaging contacts, active directory user accounts, IP addresses, and files that contain particular content or that are stored in particular locations. The resources may be real for which protection against leakage is desired, or fake to operate as bait to lure and detect malicious attacks. The honeypot is implemented in an extensible manner so that virtually any resource may be honeypotted to apply honeypot benefits to resources beyond static IP addresses in order to improve both the breadth of information leakage prevention and the detection of malicious... |
| Secure channel reservation | 20090328214 | 20091231 |
| A beacon method for use in a wireless communication network involves populating a beacon frame's channel identification data with accurate data associated with use of a particular channel for wireless communication; populating the beacon frame's network identification data with data including at least one false data element wherein it can be determined if an intruder has attempted to connect to the network by detecting the false data element in the intruder's attempt to connect to the network, where the beacon network identification data are intended to identify the network using the particular channel; storing the beacon frame in a computer readable storage medium; and transmitting the beacon frame over a channel to be reserved. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may... |
| Peer discovery and connection management based on context sensitive social networks | 20090328161 | 20091231 |
| In a method for automatically filtering communications, a networking request from an initiating party on an initiating communication device is received. The networking request pertains to a request for communication between the initiating communication device and a recipient communication device of a user over a communication channel. A determination is made of whether the communication channel to be used for the communication matches a communication channel for a previous communication between the initiating party and the user. It is automatically determined whether to grant the networking request, based at least in part on the determination of whether the communication channel for the communication matches the communication channel for the previous communication between the initiating party and the user. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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| Method of self-authenticating a document while preserving critical content in authentication data | 20090328143 | 20091231 |
| An improved document authentication method in which critical content, such as signatures, is preserved at a high-resolution in the authentication data carried on the self-authenticating document. When generating authentication data, signatures are compressed without down-sampling to preserve their resolution and quality. The compressed signature data (a bit string) is embedded in an image segment on the document. For example, each bit of the bit string is stored in the low bits of one or more image pixels. A hash code is calculated from the bit string and stored in a barcode printed on the document. To authenticate a scanned-back document, the bit string is recovered from the image segment. A hash code is calculated from the recovered bit string and compared to the hash code extracted... |
| Method and receiving unit for fast change of services | 20090328114 | 20091231 |
| The present invention relates to a method of changing between a plurality N of distinct services, e.g. television channels, receivable on a receiving unit, such as a mobile phone/cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld television unit, or similar devices. The receiving unit is adapted to receive the plurality of services in a time slicing mode with services being arranged in a certain time slice sequence. The receiving unit is capable of receiving a first service (S1). When “zapping” from the first service to a second service, the second service (S4) being chosen is the currently next service in time within the time slice sequence so as to minimize the time (t2) between service changes. Thereby, a fast method of changing between services is... |
| Methods, systems, and computer products for personalized channel services | 20090328104 | 20091231 |
| Methods, systems, and computer program products for personalized media service. A programming preferences questionnaire is submitted to a user, and selections to the programming preferences questionnaire input by the user are received. Expected satisfaction values to available programs are assigned in accordance with selections input by the user, and programs in accordance with the assigned expected satisfaction values of the programs are selected. A combination of selected programs is provided to the user.
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| User interface for mobile tv interactive services | 20090328101 | 20091231 |
| A method includes providing an electronic program guide that presents content programming information for one or more program channels on a broadcast TV device; detecting a selection of a program block in the electronic program guide, the selected program block corresponding to a program scheduled on a program channel; and providing a program indicator block corresponding to the selected program block, the program indicator presenting detailed programming information related to the scheduled program including any program reminder or program recording state setting.
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| Program information display apparatus and program information display method | 20090328100 | 20091231 |
| According to one embodiment, a program information display apparatus includes a signal processing module which acquires program information which announces contents of a scheduled program from a broadcast signal to output the program information for display, and a magnetic disk drive which accumulates the program information acquired by the processing module. The signal processing module analyzes the broadcast signal with respect to a common content characteristic which can identify program information. When it is confirmed as the analysis result that the program information is identified, program information related to at least a program name and broadcasting date and time is detected from the program information. The program attribute is accumulated in the magnetic disk drive in association with the program information.
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| Managing undesirable content in ip video broadcast traffic | 20090328095 | 20091231 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for suppressing display of advertisements within a video over IP stream provided by a content provider. Metadata is prepended to advertisements within the stream. When the stream is received by an access aggregation point, the access aggregation point compares the metadata of an advertisement with preset criteria provided by an enterprise subscriber, and suppresses the advertisement if a comparison of the metadata and the preset criteria indicate that the advertisement is undesirable to the enterprise subscriber. The access aggregation point suppresses the advertisement by switching to a second video channel within the stream for the duration of the advertisement. In this way, the access aggregation point can control display of content provider advertisements without manipulating data within the stream, so... |
| Digital television channel trending | 20090328090 | 20091231 |
| Channel trending, including determining a number of viewers watching a multimedia program, is achieved in a digital television network. Cached multimedia frames that correspond to portions of the multimedia program are maintained, for example, on a device located on an edge (i.e., in a network edge device) of the digital television network. In response to a request from a client device (e.g., a set-top box) to receive the multimedia program, cached multimedia frames are fed from the edge device to the client device. Upon a seamless transfer or handoff resulting in a simulcast replicator or multicast replicator providing further portions of the multimedia program, a signal (e.g., a simple network management protocol TRAP statement) is sent to a viewership statistic server for incrementing a counter.
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| Method and apparatus for real-time iptv channel searching and switching | 20090328091 | 20091231 |
| A method of providing real-time channel searching and switching for IPTV is provided. Initially, a first communication is received from an IPTV subscriber at an IPTV application server upon the subscriber logging in to the server via the subscriber's Web-accessible device. The server communicates with a subscriber database to access level of service data for the subscriber and displays a new Web page for the subscriber based on the level of service data. The Web page includes a list of applicable channels based on a keyword search typed by the subscriber via the subscriber's Web-accessible device. The server also determines whether the subscriber has a set-top box that is powered on. Where the subscriber does have a set-top box and the set-top box is powered off,... |
| Apparatus for monitoring use status of image apparatus, method of monitoring external connection apparatus and television receiving apparatus | 20090328086 | 20091231 |
| According to the present invention, for example a TV receiver can be connected to a game apparatus, for example. The game apparatus outputs at least image data. The TV receiver outputs an image of the image data to a display module. A restriction information storage module, which stores operating time or restriction information about operating contents of the game apparatus, is provided in the TV receiver. An operation monitoring module monitors the operating time or the operating contents based on the restriction information. A management module announces that the operating time or the operating contents become restriction conditions during the monitoring of the operation monitoring module.
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| Unified, configurable services stack for integration of enterprise applications | 20090328067 | 20091231 |
| A system and method for generating application code and an external interface for a service class in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. The system receives a definition of a service class from a user via a user interface tool. The definition of the service class specifies a query for the service class and operations that are to be enabled for the service class. The system automatically generates application code for the service class, which enables the service class to be used by an internal endpoint of the ERP system. The application code is customizable by the user; the user may add additional operations to the service class. In addition, the system automatically generates an external interface for the service class, which enables the... |
| Inter-frame messaging between different domains | 20090328063 | 20091231 |
| Cross-domain communication between a parent web page hosted in a parent domain and a child web page hosted in a different child domain is provided. Upon downloading the parent page and child page into a client's web browser, an IFM-channel connection can be established within the browser between the parent page and child page, which can be used to bidirectionally communicate text-based messages containing commands and HTML content directly between the parent page and child page. Additionally, an XML-channel connection can be established within the browser between the parent page and child page, which can be used to bidirectionally communicate text-based messages containing HTTP commands and XML content directly between the parent page and child page. This cross-domain communication of messages takes place completely within the... |
| Detection and reporting of virtualization malware in computer processor environments | 20090328042 | 20091231 |
| Methods and systems to detect virtualization of computer system resources, such as by malware, include methods and systems to evaluate information corresponding to a computer processor operating environment, outside of or secure from the operating environment, which may include one or more of a system management mode of operation and a management controller system. Information may include processor register values. Information may be obtained from within the operating environment, such as with a host application running within the operating environment. Information may be obtained outside of the operating environment, such as from a system state map. Information obtained from within the operating environment may be compared to corresponding information obtained outside of the operating environment. Direct memory address (DMA) translation information may be used to determine... |
| Matching based pattern inference for smt solvers | 20090328015 | 20091231 |
| A method for automatically analyzing formulas and adding pattern annotations to quantifiers based on a database of common pattern idioms. The method involves matching base pattern inference for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers. The method uses a database for fault detection in externally supplied pattern annotated formulas. The method also uses matching code trees to mixed second-order pattern matching.
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| Annotation-aided code generation in library-based replay | 20090327995 | 20091231 |
| Techniques for automatically generating replay-enabling code in a library based replay system. The technique requires a code template programmed by an operating system developer. Then, utilizing an application programming interface (API) annotation, either standard or user-defined, customized replay-enabled code is automatically generated for every specific API.
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| Integrated circuit routing and compaction | 20090327990 | 20091231 |
| An iterative technique is used to automatically route nets and alter spacing of an integrated circuit design to achieve a fully routed and compact result. After identifying cells rows and channel, which are gaps between the rows, the technique determines which nets should be routed in which areas. Spine routing is used for nets than span more than one row or channel. Alter the space between rows, larger or smaller, which will allow routing of the nets.
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| Method for determining the quality of a quantity of properties, to be employed for verifying and specifying circuits | 20090327984 | 20091231 |
| A method is specified for determining the quality of a quantity of properties describing a machine, including a step for determining the existence of at least one sub-quantity of interrelated properties (P0, P1, . . . Pn) of the form Pi=(forall t. Ai(t)=>Zi(t)), wherein Ai(t) present an initial state and Zi(t) a target state for a corresponding property and at least one initial state Ai is dependant on internal signals and including a step for checking whether at least one aspect of the input/output behaviour of the machine described by the properties, which cannot be derived from an individual property Pi, is described to such an accurate extent that one property Q exists, which represents this aspect without being dependant on the internal signals. The procedure... |
| Interactive control device and method for operating the interactive control device | 20090327977 | 20091231 |
| An interactive control device includes a display device, and a method is for operating the interactive control device. The method includes: displaying graphical information on the display device; receiving sensor information; activating a control action if on the basis of the sensor information it is ascertained that a body part of a user is located within an activation region that is spatially defined relative to a display region of a control element on the display device with which the control action is associated; the received sensor information including user information that is evaluated prior to an activation of the control action in order to ascertain a control intention for the at least one control element; and the information represented on the display device being adapted as... |
| Aggregate and hierarchical display of grouped items spanning multiple storage locations | 20090327972 | 20091231 |
| Techniques for the aggregate and hierarchical display of grouped items spanning multiple storage locations are described. Some techniques may aggregate items in response to user input identifying a scope for item retrieval. The user input may identify a scope such as selection of a local storage location or a search query for retrieving items. The aggregated items may span multiple storage locations and include items within the identified scope and related items outside the identified scope. A group of aggregated items are presented in a hierarchical display within a user interface. The hierarchical display may visually differentiate items inside and outside of the identified scope, and may identify parent-child relationship between related items. An aggregate header for the group of aggregated items may be displayed indicating... |
| Tab management in a user interface window | 20090327947 | 20091231 |
| Techniques to facilitate finding a tab or tabs in a user interface window are described. Various embodiments present tabs, individual tabs being associated with an opened document such as a web page or an activity, in a user interface window and automatically group at least some of the tabs together in a visually distinctive way. In at least some embodiments, this grouping is performed in response to a user interacting with the tabs in a particular way. For instance, a user may cause a tab to be created or moved within the user interface window such that the tab is grouped with a tab group or ungrouped from a tab group. Furthermore, one or more embodiments provide for certain tab-related actions, such as selecting an active... |
| Providing multiple degrees of context for content consumed on computers and media players | 20090327941 | 20091231 |
| Multiple degrees of context for media content that is consumable on computing platforms including PCs and personal media players is provided by logically organizing context objects into halos that surround each piece of consumable content. The context objects represent information and experiences that are contextually associated with media content to enable users to easily discover content and experiences that they will find interesting in a rich and personal manner. As a user navigates from a content item to a context object in the halo, the context object itself morphs into content that is then surrounded by a new halo of context objects to which the user may navigate. The organization of media content and information into halos enables an effective contextual paradigm that cuts across strict... |
| Methods and apparatus for analyzing simd code | 20090327937 | 20091231 |
| A method for analyzing and presenting in a graphical manner single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions involves disassembling a stream of machine instructions into a stream of assembly language instructions. Instruction objects “M” and “N” are created to represent SIMD instructions “M” and “N” from the stream of instructions. Instruction objects “M” and “N” include multiple data objects corresponding to the multiple data items of the respective SIMD instruction. Different colors are assigned to at least two of the multiple data objects of instruction object “M.” If a data item of SIMD instruction “N” is based on a data item of SIMD instruction “M,” the color from the source object is automatically assigned to the target object. Dependencies between data items of instruction “M” and “N”... |
| Communicating information from auxiliary device | 20090327884 | 20091231 |
| An auxiliary device communicates with a user in a manner other than a conventional, textual visual representation. For example, auxiliary device(s) can provide information aurally, vocally, visually (non-textual), tactilely and/or olfactorily. The information communicated can include alternative information to information displayed on a primary display of the computer system. A platform component of a computer system can provide device-specific and/or device-independent information to the auxiliary device.
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| Wetsuit | 20080313784 | 20081225 |
| A wetsuit includes an outer layer and an inner layer. The inner layer is attached to the outer layer and includes a plurality of fibers having wool and being configured in a plurality of clusters. The inner layer also includes a plurality of interconnected channels. At least a portion of each channel is defined by a space between adjacent clusters. The wetsuit also includes an opening that is disposed on a rear side of the wetsuit. The wetsuit additionally includes at least one fastener that is connected to the opening to open and close the opening.
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| Discharge valve for a flushing cistern | 20080313797 | 20081225 |
| The discharge valve has a valve housing (14) which has an outlet opening with a valve seat (16) and also a closure body (12). A two-quantity actuator (4) has a connecting rod (10) which is connected to the closure body (12) and by means of which the closure body (12) can optionally be raised by different displacement distances. A top activatable partial-quantity float (13) is provided for partial flushing and a bottom, full-quantity float (20), which is mounted in a pivotable manner on the valve housing (14), is provided for full flushing. The full-quantity float (20) has a blocking element (22) which, once partial flushing has been triggered, engages with the closure body (12) and blocks the latter against further displacement. This prevents the situation where,... |
| Shower device | 20080313802 | 20081225 |
| A shower device is attached to a wall and is not connected in a fixed manner to the interior shower or to an additional hand shower. A hose that extends from a plumbing fixture to a hand shower is used for supplying the shower device or hand shower. The hand shower has an outlet for water discharged from the hose. The outlet can be joined to an inlet into the shower device such that the water reaches the shower device via the hand shower. The shower device can be configured as a wall-mounted rod. Preferably, the connection that redirects the water is established by a mechanical coupling device.
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| Submersible vacuum cleaner | 20080313827 | 20081225 |
| Apparatus for facilitating the removal of material deposited at the bottom (6) of a volume of liquid (7) the apparatus including a suction pump assembly (2) associated with a suction head/nozzle (9) mounted to a user handling element (4) and means (24) drivable by the motor for displacing sucked-in water and (8) to a delivery location (11), in such manner that when used in use the pump assembly (2) can be submerged, and wherein the suction pump assembly (2) includes means (40) for enabling controlled air escape from the vicinity of the means (24) for displacing air from of the pump assembly the arrangement being such as to prevent air blockage of and material flow through the pump following raising of the latter of water.
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| Rollover wash unit for a vehicle wash system | 20080313832 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to a rollover wash unit for a vehicle wash system, comprising interspaced lateral parts (2, 2′) fitted with guides (12, 12′), and a treatment device (7) that is received in guide elements (8, 8′) via bearings (9, 9′), said guide elements being displaceable in the guides (12, 12′). In order to achieve an efficient, easy-to-implement and adequate adaptation to the washing height, the guide elements (8, 8′) are configured in such a manner that the bearings (9, 9′) project beyond the guides (12, 12′) in a final position (FIG. 4) of the guide elements (8, 8′) in the guides (12, 12′) and that the treatment device (7) projects upward beyond the lateral parts (2, 2′) and/or an upper edge of a traverse (5)... |
| Connection element | 20080313841 | 20081225 |
| The invention is based on a connection element (16, 44, 50, 66, 74, 80) for connecting a wiper blade (10), which has at least one spring rail (14) as a supporting element, to a wiper arm in an articulated manner, with the connection element (16, 44, 50, 66, 74, 80) having claws (22, 46, 52) which are integrally formed on the side of a base part (18) and, in the mounted state, surround and retain the spring rail (14) by the base part (18) being supported on a part of a wiper rubber (12) which is arranged between the spring rail (14) and the base part (18, 56, 68, 70). The invention proposes that the connection element (16, 44, 50, 66, 74, 80) has means (28,... |
| Wiper | 20080313842 | 20081225 |
| The present invention relates to a wiper having a wiper arm (1) and a fastening element (3), the fastening element (3) being fastened on the wiper arm (1), and the fastening element (3) having a hub (4) which can be plugged onto a drive shaft (5). Precision alignment of the wiper relative to the drive shaft (5) is made possible in that the fastening element (3) is plugged into a cutout (2) in the wiper arm (1) in a form-fitting manner in one of at least two possible alignments. A wiper constructed in this way is, in addition, compact.
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| Slide rail for a door closer or the like | 20080313851 | 20081225 |
| A slide channel for a door closer, comprising a guide rail for guiding a slide member connected to the door closer, and a cover element lined with the guide rail.
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| Slider for water-resistant zippers | 20080313863 | 20081225 |
| The water-resistant or waterproof zipper includes first and second profiles which are interlocked or separated by the movement of a slider. The first sidewall of the slider is generally planar while the second sidewall is generally curved so that the sidewalls are relatively closer together at the closing end and generally further apart at the opening end. A triangular island and separating plow are formed at the opening end to separate the first and second profiles. The slider includes various channels which engage corresponding rails in the profiles in order to properly position the profiles. The slider further includes various protrusions and a flange to properly position the profiles.
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| Sliding-surface mounting and method of producing the mounting | 20080313878 | 20081225 |
| In a method for producing a pivotable bearing between a gripper and a gripper tube bearing the latter or between a gripper shaft and a gripper tube enclosing the latter coaxially, provision is made for all the components to be mounted on the gripper tube to be fixed before a sliding bearing formed as a resin-hardener system is introduced between the respectively pivotably connected parts. In this manner, deformations brought about by the fixing of the components can be compensated for.
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| Method and structure for a pull test for controlled collapse chip connections and ball limiting metallurgy | 20080313879 | 20081225 |
| A tensile strength testing structure for controlled collapse chip connections (C4) disposed above a substrate includes: a fixture base configured for positioning substrates with C4; a top fixture plate with through hole channels; test pins for insertion through the through hole channels; wherein dimensional tolerances of the substrates are accounted for with openings on at least two sides of the fixture base for positioning the substrates, and during alignment of the top fixture plate through hole channels with the C4 prior to securing the top fixture plate to the fixture base; wherein the test pins are strain hardened metal wires; wherein lower ends of the test pins are joined to the C4 during a solder reflow process; and wherein distal ends of the test pins are... |
| Ram for powered hammer | 20080313880 | 20081225 |
| A method of manufacturing a ram configured to be mounted for reciprocation in a guide tube section of a powered hammer. The ram includes an outer circumferential surface, a radially outwardly projecting sealing portion, and a helically shaped vent channel defined in the circumferential surface and running from a front end portion of the circumferential surface to a rear end portion of the circumferential surface and being interrupted by the sealing portion. The method includes forming the outer circumferential surface of the ram and the helically shaped vent channel in a single manufacturing operation. For example, the method includes rotating a blank on a machine tool, forming the outer circumferential surface of the ram by applying a first machine tool bit to the blank while the... |
| Methods and apparatuses for magnetizing an object and for calibrating a sensor device | 20080313886 | 20081225 |
| A method and an apparatus for magnetizing an object, a method and an apparatus for calibrating a force and torque sensor device, a use of an apparatus for magnetizing an object in particular fields, and a use of an apparatus for calibrating a force and torque sensor device in particular fields. A method for magnetizing a first object and/or a second object comprises the steps of arranging a first object in such a manner that the first object encloses a second object, and applying a first electrical signal to the second object, wherein the first electrical signal is adapted such that at least a portion of the first object and/or of the second object is magnetized.
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| Universal installation tool for bearings | 20080313889 | 20081225 |
| A universal tool for installing annular parts, components, or devices such as tapered and non-tapered bearings on shafts includes a cap, a tube, and cooperating interchangeable force distributors. A first interchangeable tapered force distributor attaches to the tube and includes a tapered or beveled edge allowing for proper visual alignment with, and isolated force distribution on, the inner race of a tapered bearing. A second interchangeable non-tapered force distributor also attaches to the tube and includes an annular flange with a substantially flat surface that cooperates with the inner and outer races of the ball bearing such that force applied to the cap of the universal tool is evenly distributed around the inner and outer races of the ball bearing. A connector piece can be used... |
| Method of manufacturing inkjet print head | 20080313900 | 20081225 |
| A method of manufacturing an inkjet print head simplifies a manufacturing process and uniformly forms an ink channel and includes forming a chamber layer using a low-speed optical hardening material on a substrate, hardening regions of the chamber layer for the wall of an ink channel by selectively exposing the chamber layer to light, forming a nozzle layer using a high-speed optical hardening material, having a higher optical reaction speed than that of the low-speed optical hardening material, on the chamber layer, hardening regions of the nozzle layer other than nozzles by selectively exposing the nozzle layer to light, and forming the ink channel and the nozzles by developing the chamber layer and the non-exposed regions of the nozzle layer.
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| Insole for footwear | 20080313930 | 20081225 |
| The present invention relates to an insole for footwear adapted to be received into a variety of footwear, the insole including: upper and lower plates made of a synthetic resin film and joined to each other by means of high-frequency bonding; a chamber formed between the upper and lower plates and having a shock-absorbing compression member embedded thereinto in such a manner as to be located at the rear side of the footwear upon the wearing of the footwear; air-introducing means adapted to communicate with the chamber in such a manner as to be located at the front side of the footwear upon the wearing of the footwear so as to introduce the internal air of the footwear to the chamber; and air-exhausting means adapted to... |
| Viewer | 20080313942 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to a viewer having a housing which has a front wall and a rear wall, wherein the front wall has at least one viewing opening for viewing an image which is depicted on an image carrier inside the housing. In order to make it possible to optimally depict the image motifs on the image carrier in a simple manner, the invention proposed providing at least one drive device, which acts on the image carrier, in the housing such that the position of the image carrier with respect to the viewing opening can be changed from a first end position to a second end position and vice versa.
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| Rod magazine for a firearm | 20080313946 | 20081225 |
| Rod magazine for a firearm, having a channel for holding cartridges in a stack, and having a feed for feeding the stack to a channel end which is clasped by magazine lips, which hold the top cartridge in the stack back in the channel direction, but allow its movement approximately transversely with respect to the channel direction beyond the rod magazine, with the channel being equipped with guide strips, which run in the channel direction, for the shoulders of the cartridges, and with the guide strips projecting beyond the channel end and into the movement path, which is located in front of the magazine lips, of the top cartridge.
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| Assembly for guiding a cross beam that is used to divide the space of an aircraft cabin, comprising electrical power suply means | 20080313964 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to an assembly of the type that comprises a guiding slide (36) consisting of a groove (40) having an inner wall which defines longitudinal guiding and/or rolling channels for complementary elements (92) borne by a guiding and/or rolling carriage (34) which is connected to a sub-assembly. The invention is characterised in that the inner wall of the groove (40) comprises at least one longitudinal electrical strip conductor (180) with which electrical contact means (190) can co-operate, said electrical contact means being borne by the guiding carriage (34) and being electrically connected to at least one associated electrical and/or electronic component of the sub-assembly. The invention can be used to guide an upper cross beam supporting a transverse element that is used to divide... |
| Modular two-piece floor tile | 20080313984 | 20081225 |
| A two-piece modular floor tile includes a top member formed from wood or stone, and a support member formed from plastic and wood composite material. Each of the top and support members is of substantially rectangular. The support member is adapted to increase air circulation and decrease moisture accumulation, and does not tend to be damaged by rot and termites. In one embodiment, the support member includes a plurality of parallel longitudinal internal channels. In another embodiment, the support member includes a longitudinal projection at one side and a longitudinal mated groove at the other side. In yet another embodiment, the support member includes a plurality of parallel longitudinal bottom troughs. In a further embodiment, the top member includes a plurality of shaped elements secured together.
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| Method for increasing wind uplift resistance of wood-framed roofs using closed-cell spray polyurethane foam | 20080313985 | 20081225 |
| The invention provides a method and structural member for securing a roof or an outer wall of a building against wind forces tending to lift the roof or outer wall off the building. A structural member has a panel, said panel comprising a plurality of spaced apart beam members, and a sheathing having an inner side and an outer side, the sheathing spanning a space between adjacent beam members and being attached to the beam members such that the inner side of the sheathing is in juxtaposition with the beam members. A layer of a rigid, closed cell foam comprising a polymer adhesive composition is on substantially the entirety of said beam members and substantially the entirety of the inner side of the sheathing such that... |
| Removable floor | 20080313987 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to a removable floor. The invention comprises a support piece (1) having a floor tile (15) affixed to the upper surface thereof, said support piece being equipped with means for securing same to other support pieces. The invention aims to improve the securing means in order to facilitate the installation and removal of the floor by the user and to enable the supports to be installed in an aligned and/or out of phase manner such as to produce different decorative patterns.
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| Composite article for constructing floors | 20080313990 | 20081225 |
| A composite for constructing concrete floors is completely factory assembled and comprises a body of expanded plastic having at least two parallel channels, open on the upper surface of the panel, extending the length of the article, adapted to be filled with concrete. A steel reinforcement bar fabric is installed into each channel, which may comprise at least two parallel steel bars connected by cross bars. At least some cross bars extend beyond a lowest reinforcement fabric bar to provide spikes long enough to pass through the plastic bottom and protrude therefrom. One or more sheet metal shrouds with at least one row of aligned holes matching those of the protruding spike ends are applied to the underside surface of the plastic body hung from the... |
| Method for the gastight packaging of objects using a film material fitting tightly on the objects and a device for the gastight packaging of objects | 20080313997 | 20081225 |
| A device preferably for carrying out this method has at least one cutting device for the deep-drawable film.
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| Closure | 20080314000 | 20081225 |
| The invention concerns a closure for sealing of an orifice of a neck of a container. The closure comprises a top portion, an outer skirt and a sealing means. The sealing means comprises an outer sealing means suitable to be engaged with an outer free peripheral surface of neck. The outer sealing means comprises an annular base radially distanced to said outer skirt and at least one annular sealing ring protruding radially inwardly over said base.
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| Quickly assemblable structure of molecular sieves and can filters in oxygen concentrator | 20080314006 | 20081225 |
| The invention is an assembly structure that allows molecular sieves and can-filters be fast assembled in an oxygen concentrator. The structure includes: a molecular sieve and can-filter set, which is composed of at least two molecular sieves and at least one can-filter; a support frame, which includes a base plate and a frame fixed on the base plate in an upright position, and the frame has a first support plate having a plurality of through holes and a second support plate having a hole, wherein the hole of the second support plate is for one of the at least one can-filter to pass through; and a plurality of bend joints, each of which including: a thin plate portion formed at a first end, wherein an opening... |
| Wire rope for heavy duty hoisting and method for making same | 20080314016 | 20081225 |
| A wire rope has an independent wire rope core including lubricated individual core wires that are encapsulated in a tubular sheath of elastomeric or polymeric material surrounding the core wires and retaining the lubricant. A plurality of strands are located radially outwardly from and adjacent to the core. Each of the strands include strand wires that are lubricated. The strand wires are encapsulated in a tubular sheath of elastomeric or polymeric material that retain the lubrication for the strand wires. The core and strand encapsulating materials prevent direct metal-to-metal contact between core wires and strand wires, and between strand wires of adjacent strands. The core and strand encapsulating materials are applied in a manner so as to avoid loss of lubricant. Retaining lubrication and preventing direct... |
| Method to re-open ash filled channels in diesel particulate filters | 20080314021 | 20081225 |
| A method for determining a time duration and an amount of fuel to include within exhaust gases to facilitate sintering of ash within a diesel particulate filter to reopen ash filled channels in said diesel particulate filter.
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| Exhaust gas treatment | 20080314027 | 20081225 |
| A device 1, capable of being placed in-line in the exhaust conduit of an IC engine upstream of an SCR catalyst, which produces a gaseous hydrolysis product, containing ammonia, which is added to the exhaust gas in a controlled manner to pass therewith through the SCR catalyst to reduce the NOx content of the exhaust gas. The device 1 has an inlet 2 and an outlet 3 for the exhaust gas flowing therethrough and comprises an outer body 4, which forms a pressure barrier, and passing through the outer body 4 is an inner body 5 which comprises a flowpath longitudinally therethrough from the inlet 2 to the outlet 3. The device 1 is split into two sections, a reactor section with an inlet for pressurised... |
| Exhaust system for a spark-ignited internal combustion engine | 20080314034 | 20081225 |
| An exhaust system for a spark-ignited internal combustion engine comprises a three-way catalyst composition including an oxygen storage component, which TWC composition is coated on a flow-through monolith substrate, which substrate comprising a plurality of channels, each channel having a length extending from an inlet end to an outlet end and a single lambda sensor, wherein the substrate comprises a portion of the plurality of channels wherein the TWC composition in at least a part of the length of channels extending from the inlet end has a reduced oxygen storage activity, or no oxygen storage activity, relative to the TWC composition in a remainder of the substrate, the arrangement being such that the single lambda sensor is contacted substantially only with exhaust gas that has first... |
| Auxiliary toilet stool seat | 20070294811 | 20071227 |
| An auxiliary toilet stool seat adapted to be mounted on a seat of a western-style toilet stool which allows the auxiliary toilet stool seat to be fixed securely to the seat or bowl of the toilet stool and which can prevent the seat or bowl from being given minute scratches when the auxiliary toilet stool seat is used thereon, the auxiliary toilet stool seat having a main body portion which is formed from a hard resin into an annular shape having an angled cross section made open at a bottom and having a flat top portion, including a circumferential edge packing made from a soft resin and adapted to cover a lower end of an outer circumferential edge of the main body portion, and further comprising... |
| Expandable toilet seat | 20070294812 | 20071227 |
| The present invention relates to an expandable toilet seat. One embodiment of the toilet seat includes a seat platform that is movably coupled to a support member via two seat guides. The support member is coupled to a basin in a manner to allow traditional rotation of the seat platform with respect to the basin. The movable coupling between the seat platform and the support member allows the seat platform to expand in response to weight being displaced onto the top of the seat platform. This expansion of the seat platform automatically spreads the left and right buttocks of a user and comfortably accommodates the dimensions of a user's buttocks.
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| Apparatus for transferring a person from a wheelchair to a fixed seat | 20070294823 | 20071227 |
| Apparatus for transferring a person from a wheelchair to a fixed seat is disclosed, including a wheeled gantry that includes opposed front and rear legs and an upper portion connecting the legs, the gantry spanning a transfer station with a side entry for the wheelchair, and being capable of spanning the fixed seat; and a holding apparatus including a transfer seat and support frame, the transfer seat being sized to fit within the fixed seat; a lift for raising and lowering the transfer seat; and a support arm for rotating the support frame within the transfer station. The wheelchair can be wheeled into the transfer station, the person can be raised out of the wheelchair and rotated to face the front leg, the wheeled gantry can... |
| Air conditioning cushion for wheelchair | 20070294831 | 20071227 |
| A seat cushion for use in a wheel chair includes a foam pad contoured to the anatomy of a user positioned thereon and has an indentation in the middle thereof, which receives and drains incontinence fluid from the user. The foam pad encloses an air channel between the indentation and at least one side of the foam pad. A fan housed inside the pad pushes air through the air channel, into the indentation and onto the user. Alternatively, the seat cushion may house an air conditioner to circulate cooled air to the skin of the user.
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| Electric toothbrush with skewed neck | 20070294847 | 20071227 |
| An elongate neck of a toothbrush extends askew to an elongate handle which encloses a rotary motor. At the end of the neck is a head to which brush blocks are mounted for movement relative to the head. The transmission includes a driving member and a driven member for transmitting torque from the motor, the driving member rotating about a driving member axis, and the driven member rotating about a driven member axis. A crankshaft mounted to the head converts rotation of the driven member to movement of a brush block, the driven member axis is skewed or offset relative to the driving member axis, and the driving member and the driven member are connected by a helical spring flexible coupling. One brush block rotates in... |
| Mop bucket | 20070294853 | 20071227 |
| It is characterized in that it incorporates a pair of wheels going in the same direction placed before a crossectional plane that contains the center of gravity. The bottom part contains an ample rear section (8) behind the pair of wheels (5) and a narrow frontal portion (7) that extends upwards and outwards and located before the wheels (5), configured in such a manner that when the bucket is in the at rest or stationary position it is only supported by that posterior portion (8), while during the rinsing of the mop, when we press down the frontal part of the bucket with said mop, the bucket will oscillate slightly and will be able to travel if it is set to rest on the wheels (5)... |
| Clip comprising a pin and a bush | 20070294865 | 20071227 |
| A clip comprises a pin, and a hollow bush adapted to receive the pin therein. The bush includes a flange and a bush body having an opening which is formed by partially cutting off a peripheral wall thereof and adapted to receive therein a pin shank in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the bush body. The bush body and the bush flange are adapted to be expanded in a radially outward direction of the bush body about a position opposed to the opening, in a hinged manner. The pin has a shank that includes a protruding portion which has a narrow region formed near a distal end of the pin shank, causing no expansion in an outer diameter of the bush body in... |
| Tool for servicing vehicle braking systems | 20070294872 | 20071227 |
| A toot for servicing pneumatic brake systems and the like includes a primary structural member, and a pair of mounting members or plates. The tool can be readily secured in a vise or the like, and a pneumatic valve to be replaced can be secured to a first one of the mounting plates. A replacement pneumatic valve is secured to the other of the two mounting plates, preferably in the same orientation as the pneumatic valve being replaced. The air lines can be readily disconnected from the ports of the pneumatic valve being replaced, and reattached to the new pneumatic valve in a one-by-one manner. The tool rigidly secures the pneumatic valves to facilitate disconnection and attachments of the air lines by a technician using a... |
| Method for the production of a planar commutator and conductor blank for a planar commutator | 20070294877 | 20071227 |
| The invention relates to the production of a planar commutator with a carbon running surface, wherein an annular closed corrugated conductor blank (1), comprising conductor segments (3) and bridging parts (4) connecting said bridging segments to each other, is produced by rolling from a longitudinal-stepped profiled strip section which is stamped on the edges thereof in order to create contact studs (7) and connection hooks (6). After the band section has been rolled, the contact studs (7) of the conductor segments are bent inwards in the direction of the axis (2) and are profiled on both axial front surfaces by means of a shearing process. The conductor blank is assembled with an annular carbon disk to form a composite part onto which a support element is... |
| Temperature sensor and method of making the same | 20070294881 | 20071227 |
| A method for manufacturing a planar sensor, comprises disposing a film of a material on a substrate, wherein the material is selected from the group consisting of platinum, rhodium, palladium and mixtures and alloys comprising at least one of the foregoing materials; annealing the material; measuring a resistance value of the material; laser trimming the annealed material; heat treating the laser trimmed material; and laser trimming the heat treated material to form the sensor.
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| Noiseless hair dryer | 20070294909 | 20071227 |
| The present invention is a noiseless hair dryer that includes first and second cylindrical bodies extending along an axis, each of the bodies having an intake end and an exhaust end, and the two bodies being arranged in such a manner that the second cylindrical body is disposed within, and carried concentrically by, the first cylindrical body. The second cylindrical body defines a first air flow channel, and the volume between the inner surface of the first cylindrical body and the outer surface of the second cylindrical body defines a second air flow channel. A substantially noiseless fan is mounted at the intake end of the first cylindrical body, and is driven in rotation by a bearing cage, attached to, and disposed circumferentially about, the radially... |
| Gasification reactor and its use | 20070294943 | 20071227 |
| A gasification reactor comprising a pressure shell for maintaining a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure; a slag bath located in a lower part of the pressure shell; and a gasifier wall arranged inside the pressure shell, and its use. The gasifier wall defines a gasification chamber wherein during operation a synthesis gas can be formed, a lower open part of the gasifier wall which is in fluid communication with the slag bath and an open upper end of the gasifier wall which is in fluid communication with a quench zone. The quench zone comprises a tubular formed part positioned within the pressure shell, open at its lower and upper end and having a smaller diameter than the pressure shell thereby defining an annular space around the... |
| Hinged connection, moveable partitions using same and related methods | 20070294945 | 20071227 |
| A movable partition having hinged connections and related methods are disclosed. The partition may include one or more movable structures wherein each movable structure has a plurality of panels and a plurality of hinged structures arranged in an alternating pattern. The panels may include pockets formed along the ends thereof and the hinge structures may include rods formed on the ends thereof. The rods are disposed within the pockets such that a hinged joint is formed. Retainers are removably disposed over a portion of the joint or coupling formed by the rod and associated pocket. The retainer may include a clip having a first member disposed adjacent the pocket, a second member disposed within an interior space of the rod, and a transition member coupling the... |
| Car park | 20070294952 | 20071227 |
| A car park (or other storage facility), comprising: a plurality of annular parking levels; an outer structure and a central core for supporting the parking levels; and a hoisting mechanism; wherein each of the plurality of parking levels comprises a plurality of parking compartments located between the outer structure and the inner core, each of the levels is rotatable to bring a respective compartment into alignment with the hoisting mechanism so that the respective compartment can be detached from the respective level and raised or lowered by the hoisting mechanism. In one embodiment, the plurality of annular parking levels constitutes a first parking circuit and the car park includes at least one additional parking circuit comprising a further plurality of annular parking levels, wherein the first... |
| Basement drainage conduit | 20070294966 | 20071227 |
| A basement drainage conduit for use in basement waterproofing systems. The conduit has one or two side elements with apertures to admit groundwater. The conduit may further include an intermediate element to provide additional support to the conduit structure. In embodiments where the intermediate element does not define apertures, a two-channel system may result to prevent cross-flow within the conduit. The conduit may be a modular assembly, the individual components of which may be separately manufactured for on-site installation and customization. Structural features of the conduit components, such as those defining a mating system, may facilitate assembly of the conduit. Radius elements may be provided to accommodate corners to result in a continuous drainage conduit along the perimeter of a basement, and ports may be strategically... |
| Support panel for removable brackets and the like | 20070294975 | 20071227 |
| Support panels and modular assemblies thereof, the panels adapted for supporting removable load bearing members such as brackets. The panels comprise hollow bodies defining channels for receiving and supporting load bearing members. The hollow bodies further include support ribs extending between front and back walls of the panels to transfer forces exerted on flange portions of the channels by the load bearing members to the back walls and/or to other structural portions of the panels, the support ribs being offset from the perpendicular relative to the front and back walls of the panels. Pluralities of the panels may be joined by mating edges, which can define further channels for receiving and supporting load-bearing members, to form modular wall assemblies without the need for mounting overtop existing... |
| Centrifugal oil mist separation device integrated in an axial hollow shaft of an internal combustion engine | 20070294986 | 20071227 |
| within the axially hollow space (102) in the camshaft (101) a spiral flow generating device (108) is provided as the final separator.
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| Exhaust gas purification apparatus and exhaust gas purification method for internal combustion engine | 20070294999 | 20071227 |
| In an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine (1) equipped with independent exhaust passages (2a, 2b) provided one for each cylinder group (1a, 1b) with a catalyst (3a, 3b) having a NOx trapping ability being arranged in each exhaust passage, the present invention is intended to provide a technique that can independently control the flow rates of exhaust gases flowing into the respective catalysts. To this end, the exhaust gas purification apparatus according to the present invention provides a communication passage (4) connecting mutually portions of said exhaust passages (2a, 2b) at upstream of said catalysts (3a, 3b), an upstream side switching valve (5) openning and closing said upstream side communication passage (4), a plurality of flow rate regulation valves (6a, 6b) being... |
| Regenerative turbine blade and vane cooling for a tip turbine engine | 20070295011 | 20071227 |
| A fan-turbine rotor assembly (24) includes a multitude of turbine blades (34) which each define a turbine blade passage which bleed air from a diffuser section (74) to provide for regenerative cooling. Regenerative cooling airflow is communicated from the radial core airflow passage (80) through the diffuser passages (144), through diffuser aspiration passages (146A, 146B) and into the turbine blade passages (150a). The regenerative cooling airflow exits from the turbine blade passage (150a) and transfers received thermal energy into an annular combustor (30). The received thermal energy is recovered at the highest temperature in the cycle.
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| High turbulence heat exchanger | 20070295014 | 20071227 |
| The present invention is a method and apparatus for cooling a heat source. In one embodiment a heat exchanger is provided and includes a channel for receiving a coolant, the channel having a first surface and an opposing second surface. A mesh plug is disposed in the channel for turbulently mixing the coolant within the channel. The first surface of the channel is disposed proximate a semiconductor heat source. In one embodiment the first surface comprises plastic. In one embodiment, the second surface comprises metal, for example, copper. In one embodiment the mesh plug comprises a nickel-coated copper mesh.
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| Laminated heat exchanger | 20070295026 | 20071227 |
| An evaporator implemented by a laminated heat exchanger includes a refrigerant inlet header section, a refrigerant outlet header section, and plural inter mediate header sections. A sixth intermediate header section includes a refrigerant channel allowing refrigerant flow in the longitudinal direction thereof and whose downstream end with respect to the refrigerant flow direction is closed, and causes refrigerant to dividedly flow into a plurality of refrigerant flow tube portions. Refrigerant that has flown into the refrigerant inlet header section from a refrigerant inlet flows into the refrigerant outlet header section through the refrigerant flow tube portions and through the intermediate header sections and flows out from a refrigerant outlet. A resistive plate portion within the sixth intermediate header section blocks the refrigerant channel thereof extending in... |
| Plate-fin heat exchanger | 20070295027 | 20071227 |
| A plate-fin heat exchanger having a plurality of layers for indirectly exchanging heat between two or more fluids. The heat exchanger is provided with two sections and inlets and outlets to the sections to cause streams of the fluids to flow within the two sections parallel to the length of the heat exchanger between central locations and the ends of the heat exchanger. In such manner, the cross-sectional flow area of such a heat exchanger is greater than the heat exchanger in which the flow is from one end to the other end of the heat exchanger. This increase in cross-sectional flow area reduces the pressure drop within the heat exchanger.
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| Method and apparatus for lubricating molten glass forming molds | 20070295032 | 20071227 |
| A burner nozzle for depositing soot on a glassware mold includes an inner member and an outer member surrounding at least a downstream portion of the inner member. A first gas passage extends through the inner member for delivering a fuel gas to at least a single outlet port from the inner member. A second gas passage extends between the inner and outer members in an annulus surrounding the first passage for delivering a second gas through the annulus to at least one second outlet port. The first and second outlet ports preferably form an annular composite array in which the first and second outlet ports alternate with each other. The second plurality of ports preferably comprise slots having long dimensions radial to the annular array.... |
| Front-loading drum-type washing machine having a laundry deflector on a the bellows seal | 20070295037 | 20071227 |
| A front-loading drum-type washing machine includes an appliance housing, a suds container a drum rotatably disposed in the suds container, and a bellows seal disposed between the suds container and the appliance housing. The bellows seal is configured to seal a door opening area of the appliance housing and includes a laundry deflector disposed in a region of a twelve o'clock position of the bellows seal. The laundry deflector is directed towards the drum and includes a channel system forming an opening in a wall of the bellows seal. A conduit is provided for supplying at least one of water, wash liquid and rinse liquid to the door opening area. The conduit is in fluid connection with the opening in the wall of the bellows seal.
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| Anastomosis apparatus and methods of deployment and manufacture | 20070295049 | 20071227 |
| A method and apparatus for making an anastomosis between a tubular duct and a vessel has an annulus having a longitudinal axis, a first set of fingers and a second set of fingers. The first set of fingers extend axially from the annulus in one direction and the second set of fingers extending axially from the annulus in another direction generally opposite the direction of the first set of fingers. The first and second sets of fingers are movable to penetrate the tubular duct and the vessel, respectively, as they move from a biased configuration to an unbiased configuration.
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| Multi-dimensional liquid chromatography separation system and method | 20070295062 | 20071227 |
| A multi-dimensional separation system having parallel traps for effluent from prior separation dimension and parallel latter separation columns, the latter columns being coupled to the traps. At least one trap enriches components of effluent while at least one other trap is releasing trapped components to a detector, which may be a mass spectrometer. Internal standards may be provided, as in a release solvent, for the calibration of one of the chromatographic columns and the detection system. The system may comprise a multiple channel selector for multiple streams, wherein all of the streams flow at the same time.
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| Apparatus for measuring a shape of a tire | 20070295071 | 20071227 |
| The apparatus for measuring a shape of a tire comprising a scanning part 6 provided with an optical sensor 11 that can measure the distance to the tire tread and a driving part in which the optical sensor 11 can scan in the tire width direction, the supporting portions of the scanning part 1a and 1b that support scanning part 6, a contact plate 2 provided at one end of the supporting portions of the scanning part 1a and 1b, and a contact plate 3 provided at the other end of the supporting portions of the scanning part 1a and 1b and movable in the scanning direction, wherein the scanning part 6 is detachable to the supporting portions of the scanning part 1a and 1b.
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| Flow sensor transducer with dual spiral wheatstone bridge elements | 20070295082 | 20071227 |
| A flow sensor transducer can measure fluid flow rates as a fluid flows though a channel and under an air bridge. Resistive thermal devices (RTDs) and a heater are on top of the air bridge with two RTDs upstream of the heater and two downstream. The RTDs can be connected in a Wheatstone bridge configuration. A magnetoresistive material that changes its electrical resistance based on its temperature can be used to form the RTDs. The temperature response of magnetoresistive materials, however, can change due to magnetic fields and to the material's magnetic history. Forming the RTDs into a dual spiral structure minimizes the effect of magnetic fields. As such, a magnetoresistive material such as permalloy can be used instead of an expensive material such a platinum.... |
| Method of measuring transverse sensitivity of sensor for detecting acceleration and acceleration measuring method | 20070295087 | 20071227 |
| A sensor obtains transverse sensitivity in a sensitivity matrix of an acceleration sensor with a uniaxial vibration generator. The acceleration is measured by vibrating the table 12. As the measurement of the main axis sensitivity, transverse sensitivity Szx associated with the X-axis is obtained from measured results of the acceleration sensor 5 and measured results of a measuring instrument for measuring the surface motion of the table 12 independently. Likewise, transverse sensitivity Szy associated with the Y-axis is obtained by fixing on the table 12 the cubical block on which the acceleration sensor 5 is mounted in such a manner that the Y-axis direction defined with respect to the acceleration sensor 5 aligns with the vibration direction of the table 12.
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| Measurement of properties of thin specimens based on experimentallly acquired force-displacement data | 20070295091 | 20071227 |
| A method and system are provided for obtaining force-displacement responses for a specimen or sample of material. The sample is supported with a spanning portion spanning in an environment between at least three points not in a line, wherein the points are fixed relative to each other, and wherein the spanning portion is capable of displacement relative to the points. An oscillating mechanical excitation at at least one frequency and at at least one known amplitude is applied to the spanning portion. In addition, at least one other mechanical excitation is also applied to the spanning portion independently of the oscillating mechanical excitation.
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| Personal protection device | 20060288464 | 20061228 |
| A personal protection device can be used to protect individuals from falls. The device can be linked to a mechanical or electrical device, which triggers deployment of the device when the individual accelerates vertically. In this manner, a falling individual's injuries such as hip fractures, upper extremity injuries, and head injuries are minimized by the mediated gradual deceleration of the wearer of the device. The device allows mobility of the individual, because it is worn in a non-deployed compact form within a wearable article of clothing or belt. The device may also be used to protect non-ambulatory individuals who sustain falls from a bed or chair.
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| Tile and liner bracket structure for swimming pools and swimming pools utilizing the same | 20060288475 | 20061228 |
| A peripheral bracket member provided in conjunction with a liner-type pool, having a body whose outwardly facing surface directly substantially engages, and has a contour that substantially conforms to the contour of the inwardly facing surface of the pool wall and which is mounted on the pool wall to form a border adjacent to the top of the pool wall. A channel structure extends along a lower region of the inwardly facing surface of the bracket body at a level below the normal water line of the pool which receives and holds a bead provided at the liner edge. An elongate cap is affixed to the bead-receiving bracket structure. The tile and bracket structure also provides aesthetic junctions with and secure watertight seals at the skimmer... |
| Massaging foot bath | 20060288479 | 20061228 |
| A massaging foot bath includes a main body, an air guide cushion, a pneumatic air pump, and an air pipe. The air guide cushion has a surface formed with a plurality of air holes each connected to the inside of the air guide cushion and the receiving chamber of the main body to deliver the air contained in the inside of the air guide cushion into the receiving chamber. Thus, the foot bath is operated in a pneumatic manner to produce pressurized air bubbles in the water contained in the receiving chamber to touch and massage the feet of a user, thereby providing a massaging effect to the user's feet.
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| Support net for persons with fluid element, in particular water | 20060288488 | 20061228 |
| Various embodiments of both the mattress (6, 48, 53) and the support structure (8, 22, 36) are described.
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| Process for producing leather footwear lining | 20060288493 | 20061228 |
| A method for producing leather well-suited for use as a lining material for footwear including the steps of (a) providing wet blue, full grain skins, (b) applying a degreasing and emulsifying agent to the skins, (d) neutralizing the skins to provide the skins with a pH level of about 7.0 of greater, (e) applying a waterproofing agent to the skins, (f) applying a tanning agent to the skins, (g) fixing the waterproofing agent and tanning agent in the skins by introducing an acid to reduce the pH level to a range of between approximately 3.0 to 3.5, (h) applying an antimicrobial treatment to the skins, (i) applying a waterproofing agent to the skins, (j) applying a leather protectant to the skins, (k) fixing the skins by... |
| Composition for application to a surface | 20060288499 | 20061228 |
| Compositions, methods, apparatuses, kits, and combinations are described for permanently or temporarily re-designing, decorating, and/or re-coloring a surface. The compositions useful in the present disclosure include a décor product that is formulated to be applied and affixed to a surface. If desired, the décor product may be substantially removed from the surface before being affixed thereto. If a user desires to remove the décor product, the décor product is formulated to be removed by a number of methods including, for example, vacuuming, wet extraction, chemical application, and the like. If the user desires to affix the décor product to the surface in a permanent or semi-permanent manner, the décor product may be affixed to the surface by applying energy thereto in the form of, for example,... |
| Rail assembly for a telescoping ramp | 20060288501 | 20061228 |
| A rail assembly for a telescoping ramp including a slider rail that is taller than it is wide, having opposed ends, opposed faces, and opposed edges. First ramp attachment means protrude outwardly from a first of the opposed faces. There is a hollow channel rail with a first side wall that consists of spaced co-planar wall segments that form a gap making the channel rail generally C-shaped in cross-section, the channel rail has an interior surface that defines an interior channel adapted to accommodate the slider rail with at least one of the opposed edges of the slider rail serving as a bearing surface which slides along the interior surface and the first ramp attachment means protruding through the gap between the wall segments. A second... |
| Composite cleaning device for an automobile | 20060288506 | 20061228 |
| An elongated pie shaped composite cleaning device for removing snow, frost, scraped ice debris, bird droppings, dirt or water from a automotive exterior surface has 1. a stiff rectangular plastic sheet, folded into half, providing a pair of slightly curbed exterior sides and a pair of substantially straight scraping edges, 2. a rectangular open cell foam, with a uniform thickness and shape substantially identical to said sheet, folded into half, providing a pair of legs between said sides, a squeezed interface between said legs and a pair of exposure cleaning faces, 3. a thin retaining rod surrounded by the folded middle parts of said sheet and said foam, and 4. a fabricated channel shape holder clamping said folded sheet, said folded foam around said retaining rod... |
| Electric vacuum cleaner | 20060288521 | 20061228 |
| An electric vacuum cleaner comprises a vertical type cleaner body provided with a dust collection chamber a handle protrusively provided on an upper portion of the cleaner body, a suction nozzle provided on an lower portion of the cleaner body in such a manner as to communicate with the dust collection chamber being rotatable back and forth with respect to the cleaner body, and being contactable with a surface to be cleaned, an electric fan provided in the suction nozzle, and a rotary brush which is rotated by the electric fan and is built in the suction nozzle. A clutch mechanism which transmits and interrupts power to the rotary brush is provided between the rotary brush and the electric fan. The suction nozzle is rotatably provided... |
| Resilient clip fastener | 20060288543 | 20061228 |
| A resilient clip with a plurality of twisted wings for engaging a first structure. The twisted wings provide the clip with a low ratio of insertion force to pull-out force, rendering the clip relatively easy to install yet difficult to pull out. In one embodiment, the resilient clip includes at least three wing members that cooperate to prevent the resilient clip from rotating relative to the first structure. In another embodiment, the resilient clip includes an engagement portion having a plurality of teeth for engaging a tab formed into a second structure. The teeth of the engagement portion engage the tab, permitting the resilient clip to be coupled to the second structure. When the resilient clip is engaged to the first structure, the teeth of the... |
| Resilient clip fastener | 20060288544 | 20061228 |
| A resilient clip with a plurality of twisted wings for engaging a first structure. The twisted wings provide the clip with a low ratio of insertion force to pull-out force, rendering the clip relatively easy to install yet difficult to pull out. In one embodiment, the resilient clip includes at least three wing members that cooperate to prevent the resilient clip from rotating relative to the first structure. In another embodiment, the resilient clip includes an engagement portion having a plurality of teeth for engaging a tab formed into a second structure. The teeth of the engagement portion engage the tab, permitting the resilient clip to be coupled to the second structure. When the resilient clip is engaged to the first structure, the teeth of the... |
| Resilient clip fastener | 20060288545 | 20061228 |
| A resilient clip with a plurality of twisted wings for engaging a first structure. The twisted wings provide the clip with a low ratio of insertion force to pull-out force, rendering the clip relatively easy to install yet difficult to pull out. In one embodiment, the resilient clip includes at least three wing members that cooperate to prevent the resilient clip from rotating relative to the first structure. In another embodiment, the resilient clip includes an engagement portion having a plurality of teeth for engaging a tab formed into a second structure. The teeth of the engagement portion engage the tab, permitting the resilient clip to be coupled to the second structure. When the resilient clip is engaged to the first structure, the teeth of the... |
| Methods and systems for routing conductors in electro-mechanical machines | 20060288575 | 20061228 |
| An apparatus for routing conductors, such as signal carrying conductors, from within an electro-mechanical machine housing to a location outside the housing is provided. The apparatus includes a base for fitting in a first opening in the housing and securing a lower portion of the apparatus to the housing. The apparatus also includes a channel for carrying the conductors, which may be formed in a shape corresponding to a profile of a portion of the housing. The apparatus includes a fastener, such as a snap-type mechanical fastener, for securing the apparatus to the housing.
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| Knife | 20060288587 | 20061228 |
| A knife comprises a knife body defining a channel across which extends at least part of the cutting edge of a blade, the channel having a base region located behind the cutting edge in the cutting direction, the knife body being provided, adjacent the base region, with flow passages on opposing sides thereof, the flow passages being out of alignment with one another.
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| Position measuring arrangement and method for controlling scanning signals of the position measuring arrangement | 20060288598 | 20061228 |
| A method for controlling a scanning signal of a light-electric position measuring arrangement, the method includes in a first mode of operation providing the scanning signal to a control device and the control device comparing an amplitude of the scanning signal with a predetermined level and makes a differentiation as to whether the amplitude lies above or below the predetermined level. In a second mode of operation the method includes reducing the amplitude of the scanning signal by attenuating light within a light beam path, and the reduced amplitude is compared with the predetermined level and generating an indication which is suitable for controlling a basic setting of a scanning head relative to a scale.
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| Web-guiding device | 20060288601 | 20061228 |
| The invention relates to a web-guiding device comprising at least one directing element (10) for guiding a web in a contactless manner in a machine that is used for producing and/or treating a moved web of material (1), especially a paper or cardboard web. Said directing element (10) is provided with a directing surface (12) that is made at least in part of air-permeable porous material (14) which can be impinged upon by compressed air so as to form an air cushion (18) between the directing surface (12) and the moved web of material (1) via the air (16) flowing through said porous material (14). The directing surface (12) is divided into at least one web transfer zone (2, 4) and a web-guiding zone (3) along... |
| Heat exchanger for dryer and condensing type dryer using the same | 20060288602 | 20061228 |
| A heat exchanger for a dryer includes a plurality of tube units configured to conduct warm humid air and a plurality of fin units configured to conduct a flow of ambient air. The tube units and fin units are alternately stacked to form a core. The fin units includes a plurality of air channels formed by repeatedly bending a flat metal plate in a zigzag fashion and a plurality of fins formed on surfaces of the air channels. The tube units have a duct form with both ends opened. The tube units may be formed by extrusion. A plurality of channel walls can be formed inside the tube units. A plurality of grooves or fins can also be formed inside the tube units. A plurality of... |
| Tower banner display system and apparatus | 20060288618 | 20061228 |
| A banner is displayed about a tower structure, such as a water tower, by a system that enables ready substitution or replacement of the banner, without the use of high-lift equipment. The fabric banner is segmented, of wind permeable stretchable fabric, and mounted on rings that are carried on cables, suspended from a capstan atop the tower. Cable guidance pulleys, mounted on trolleys that run on a peripheral track about the top of the tower, enable the banner to be reoriented about the tower. The capstan and trolleys may be remotely controlled.
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| Identification plate for pallet container, and method of attaching an identification plate to a pallet container | 20060288620 | 20061228 |
| An identification plate for a pallet container includes a plate body for placement upon a lattice frame of a pallet container. The plate body has an upper edge, which is bent rearwards at a first angle for attachment to an upper horizontal rod of the lattice frame, a lower edge, which is bent rearwards at the first angle for attachment to a lower horizontal rod of the lattice frame, and opposite lateral edges extending between the upper and lower edges and bent rearwards at a second angle which is greater than the first angle. Each of the lateral edges ends at its rear in a rolled edge and is formed with terminal recesses for receiving the upper and lower horizontal rods. The rolled edge is hereby... |
| Automatic fishing hook setting device | 20060288628 | 20061228 |
| A fishing device attaches to a fishing pole so as to automatically set the fish hook when a fish takes the bait while the pole is unmanned. The device includes a retainer and a cord. The cord extends between a lower end of the pole and the retainer. A hook on the retainer mounts onto the tip eye of the pole so as to bend the pole into a flexed position. The fishing line extends through the tip eye and then through a recess in the clip. The bent pole can be left unmanned. When a fish takes the bait, the tug on the fishing line pivots the retainer so as to release the retainer from the tip eye, thereby causing the pole to spring from... |
| Reversibly disengaging slidable strike indicator, positioning system, and method of using same | 20060288632 | 20061228 |
| Particular aspects provide novel strike indicators attachable to fishing lines, that are reversibly disengagable therefrom and thereafter slidably along the line. Particular embodiments comprise: a buoyant main body having an axial channel with corresponding end surface openings; an retention member seat (e.g., groove, ridge, etc.) running around the main body surface; and at least one line retention member receivable and retainable by the seat, and operative with the seat to retain a line passing therebetween at two points. The retention member is displaceable from the seat by sufficient line tension, thereby disengaging the slidable strike indicator. Particular embodiments comprise two strike indicator stop members attachable at user-selectable line positions, and operative to delimit a slidable range of a disengaged slidable strike indicator. Novel methods for fishing,... |
| Roof ice and snow melt system | 20060288652 | 20061228 |
| A snow and ice melting device adapted to rest on a roof; having a flat plate with a series of channels therethrough containing a heating element to heat the flat plate and melt the ice and snow on the roof.
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| Wafer fixing and marking | 20060288662 | 20061228 |
| The invention relates to a method for individually packing sheet or film-type materials in an automatic manner, said materials consisting of at least one material layer, in a packing unit with marked contents. A marking (40) made of a waxy marking material is applied to a warmed first packing material strip (20). The sheet or film-type material (10) is fixed to the marking with a surface thereof, whereby the roughness of the surface thereof is greater than the roughness of the surface of the first packing material strip. A second packing material strip (30) is applied to the sheet or film-type material and is connected to the first packing material strip in order to form a closed packing unit. The packing unit (35) is cooled and... |
| Container packaging apparatus | 20060288665 | 20061228 |
| Since both side ends of an opening of a packaging bag are positioned and held in place by a side edge chuck means during a deaeration operation, therefore development of crimps in a sealed area of the packaging bag can be suppressed, so that a high level of sealing property of the packaging bag and thus the packaging of a container case with a resultant high level of quality in a stable manner can be obtained.
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| Container packaging apparatus | 20060288667 | 20061228 |
| Since a rear end portion of a packaging bag is fixed by a bag rear end chuck means when a wafer case is inserted into the packaging bag, therefore the degree of freedom of positioning of the packaging bag can be reduced, so that the wafer case can be smoothly packed in a predetermined position within the bag at any times. Consequently, this can help reduce the occurrence of crimps in the packaging bag and thus can provide the packaging of the wafer case with resultant high level of quality in a stable manner.
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| Filter sealing system | 20060288674 | 20061228 |
| An axial flow filter element including alternately arranged flat and folded filter media layers forming axial channels having an open cross-section, one end of each channel of a first group being sealed and the remaining channels being sealed at the other end so that fluid flowing through the element from an inflow face at one axial end must pass from a channel of the first group through the filter media to a channel of the second group to exit from a discharge face at the other axial end; a channel of the second group adjoining each side of each channel of the first group spaced from the edge of the filter element so fluid can flow through the entire lateral area of the first group of... |
| Filter assembly and method of making a filter assembly | 20060288675 | 20061228 |
| A filter assembly has an annular outer wall with a channel for receiving a layer of adhesive and a center ring within the outer wall. A filter media having a plurality of pleats in a closed loop is bonded with adhesive to the outer wall. The assembly is made by rotating the outer wall in a jig and applying a layer of adhesive within the channel. The filter media is positioning the within the outer wall, rotated and allowed to move along a radial path until its outer perimeter contacts the adhesive coated outer wall inner perimeter. The ring is positioned adjacent the filter media inner perimeter.
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| Particulate filtration system | 20060288676 | 20061228 |
| A particulate filtration system including a frustoconical-shaped filtration element, a housing enclosing the filtration element and coaxial therewith, an inlet, and an outlet. The filtration element has a closed first end and a larger oppositely-disposed open second end. The housing has a first closed end, a larger oppositely-disposed open second end, and a frustoconical-shaped wall therebetween and surrounding the filtration element. An annular-shaped passage is defined by and between the filtration element and the housing. The inlet is located at the second end of the housing and is fluidically connected to the annular-shaped passage. The outlet is located at the second end of the filtration element and coaxial with the inlet. The outlet defines an outlet passage with a frustoconical or arcuate shape and a cross-sectional... |
| Counterrotating turbofan engine | 20060288686 | 20061228 |
| A turbofan engine includes a fan, compressor, combustor, high pressure turbine, and low pressure turbine joined in serial flow communication. The high pressure turbine includes two stages of rotor blades to effect corresponding exit swirl in the combustion gases discharged therefrom. A transition duct includes fairings extending between platforms for channeling the combustion gases to the low pressure turbine with corresponding swirl. First stage rotor blades in the low pressure turbine are oriented oppositely to the rotor blades in the high pressure turbine for counterrotation.
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| Grommeted bypass duct penetration | 20060288687 | 20061228 |
| A bypass duct sealing grommet, for sealing between an opening in a gas turbine engine bypass duct wall and an external surface of a projection extending through the opening, where the grommet has an annular body with a central aperture having an internal periphery adapted to sealingly engage the external surface of the projection. A first flange and a second flange define an external slot about an exterior periphery of the body adapted to receive and seal the bypass duct wall between the flanges.
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