36th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 34 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150248861 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS - An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a power voltage generation unit configured to generate a first power voltage and a dummy power voltage having a different level from that of the first power voltage; a power voltage wiring network to which the first power voltage is applied; a dummy power voltage line to which the dummy power voltage is applied; a plurality of pixels each comprising an emission device and a pixel circuit electrically coupled to the power voltage wiring network; a plurality of dummy pixels each comprising a dummy circuit connectable to the dummy power voltage line; and a plurality of repair lines each connectable to the dummy circuit of a corresponding dummy pixel among the plurality of dummy pixels and to the emission devices of corresponding pixels among the plurality of pixels. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248862 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device including: a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: a first switching transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a scan line, a first electrode coupled to a data line, and a second electrode coupled to a first node; a first driving voltage transistor including a gate electrode coupled to the first node, and a first electrode coupled to a first driving voltage; a write transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a write line, a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the first driving voltage transistor, and a second electrode coupled to a second node; a second switching transistor including a gate electrode coupled to the second node, a first electrode coupled to a first power voltage, and a second electrode coupled to an organic light emitting diode; and a first capacitor coupled between the first node and the second node. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248863 | COMMODITY INFORMATION BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a commodity information browsing system includes a shelf label apparatus including a first storing section and a first transmitting section, a portable terminal including a first receiving section, a notifying section, a second receiving section, and a display section, and a server apparatus including a second storing section and a second transmitting section. The first transmitting section transmits, by radio, one shelf label code among a plurality of shelf label codes. The notifying section notifies the server apparatus of the shelf label code. The second storing section stores association information representing a relation between the shelf label codes and commodity information. The second transmitting section determines, on the basis of the association information, the commodity information associated with the notified shelf label code and transmits the relevant commodity information to the portable terminal. The display section displays an image based on the commodity information. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248864 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and display control method thereof Each sub-pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes multiple display regions and multiple control switches for controlling the display regions to receive corresponding data voltages, wherein, the multiple control switches includes a first control switch set and a second control switch set, and the first control switch set and the second control switch set are connected in parallel with the same data line. Through the above way, the present invention can increase the pixel aperture ratio of the wide-viewing-angle liquid crystal display device and decrease the power consumption. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248865 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel comprising a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines crossing the plurality of data lines, and a memory configured to store a plurality of gamma voltage data respectively corresponding to a plurality of partial areas of the display panel, the plurality of gamma voltage data for compensating a gamma difference between the partial areas of the display panel. The display apparatus further includes a timing controller configured to read, from the memory, the plurality of gamma voltage data respectively corresponding to the plurality of partial areas, and a plurality of data driver circuits configured to generate, based on the plurality of gamma voltage data, a plurality of grayscale voltages to be applied to the plurality of data lines in the plurality of partial areas. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248866 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND REFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel including a first pixel, a second pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a column direction, a third pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a row direction, and a fourth pixel neighboring to the second pixel in the row direction, a scanning line extending in the row direction and electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and first to fourth signal lines extending in the column direction and provided at intervals therebetween in the row direction, and the first to fourth signal lines are electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and video signal potentials for inverted drive applied to the first and second signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other, and those to the third and fourth signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248867 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The shift register unit according to the present disclosure may include a latch module, and at least two levels of output control modules connected with the latch module. Input ends of the latch module may be connected with a start signal and a clock signal respectively, an output end of the latch module may be connected with input ends of the at least two levels of output control modules, and the latch module may be configured to latch the start signal according to the clock signal inputted. Input ends of the output control modules may be connected with clock signals, the output control modules may be configured to output gate line driving signals according to the clock signals. All the clock signals may be inputted sequentially to the latch module and each level of output control modules in accordance with a timing sequence. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248868 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel includes a first scan line disposed in a predetermined direction of the display panel, a second scan line disposed in the predetermined direction, a first output terminal provided on one end side of the display panel in the predetermined direction and electrically connected to the first scan line, and a second output terminal provided on the other end side of the display panel in the predetermined direction and electrically connected to the second scan line. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248869 | PULSE GENERATION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Two gate drivers each comprising a shift register and a demultiplexer including single conductivity type transistors are provided on left and right sides of a pixel portion. Gate lines are alternately connected to the left-side and right-side gate drivers in every M rows. The shift register includes k first unit circuits connected in cascade. The demultiplexer includes k second unit circuits to each of which a signal is input from the first unit circuit and to each of which M gate lines are connected. The second unit circuit selects one or more wirings which output an input signal from the first unit circuit among M gate lines, and outputs the signal from the first unit circuit to the selected wiring(s). Since gate signals can be output from an output of a one-stage shift register to the M gate lines, the width of the shift register can be narrowed. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248870 | PROGRAM, DISPLAY APPARATUS, TELEVISION RECEIVER, DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A television receiver segments a part of an image depending on image information received from a communication device and pixel information representing the number of pixels in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction of the image. The television receiver judges a size between the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction and that in the lateral direction in the pixel information, and when it is judged that the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction is larger than that in the lateral direction, displays two screens in which the segmented image and another image are juxtaposed on a display unit. Meanwhile, when it is judged that the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction is not larger than that in the lateral direction, the television receiver receives a signal designating the number of screens to be displayed on the display unit and displays the two screens in which the segmented image and another image are juxtaposed or one screen of the segmented image on the display unit depending on the received signal. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248871 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LINK OVER-TRAINING - A method and device of over training a connection is provided. Noise is intentionally supplied and added to a signal that is subjected to a link training operation. The link training operation is used to obtain a link between a source device and a receiving device. The device includes a noise source from which noise is obtained and added to a signal to aid in link over-training. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248872 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AMBIENT LIGHTING COLOR DETERMINATION - A method and an apparatus for determining a color to be emulated by an ambient light source associated to a display are described. A saliency map is determined for an image displayed on the display. A subset of pixels of the image with a saliency below a given threshold is selected based on the saliency map. The color to be emulated by the ambient light source is then determined from color values of the determined subset of pixels. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248873 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a drive method thereof, capable of promptly making an afterimage, which is visually recognized at refresh time, visually unrecognizable and reducing power consumption during and after a shift to a target refresh rate. At pause drive time until a target refresh rate is reached, a refresh is performed in divided periods of a first refresh period for performing a refresh at least twice, and a second refresh period for performing a refresh while increasing the number of frames in a non-refresh period from a refresh rate at the end of the first refresh period until the refresh rate becomes the target refresh rate, and the second refresh period is finished when the refresh rate in the second refresh period reaches the target refresh rate, and the pause drive is continued at the target refresh rate. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248874 | MONEY HANDLING SYSTEM, MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD - The money handling system includes: a money handling apparatus | 2015-09-03 |
20150248875 | Adjustable Zero Fret and Method of Use on a Stringed Instrument - An apparatus and method of varying the tonal aspects of a string instrument such as an acoustic or electric guitar is disclosed. The apparatus and method employing a unique zero fret assembly. The zero fret assembly includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion is configured to connect with a fret board, headstock or body of an instrument. The upper portion is configured to engage the lower portion. The upper portion is also configured to receive and support an instrument's strings. The upper portion is selectively movable relative to the lower portion by an operator to change the tonal nature of the instrument. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248876 | Musical String With High Modulus Fiber Winding - A string for a musical instrument, comprising a liquid crystal aromatic polyester fiber. Incorporating a synthetic material having a high modulus of elasticity into a musical instrument string substantially increases the torsional stiffness of the string without causing undesirable property changes such as increasing bending stiffness. This is especially useful when used in conjunction with a multifilament synthetic core. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248877 | Precision safety hoop for drum - The method of drum structure formation that includes forming a strip of metal having an elongated edge into a counter hoop to be supported by a drum shell proximate the drum head, and having a hoop shaped edge area formed to resist or prevent drum stick damage, the forming including forming a reduced thickness strip bend proximate the hoop edge area. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248878 | Music Teaching Device and Method - A novel music tablature corresponding to Janko-type keyboard with touch plates having coloring different from traditional keyboards is provided. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248879 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING AN ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION UNIT - An active noise cancellation (“ANC”) unit receives audio signals from a user-operated device through a connection. In response to the audio signals, the ANC unit causes at least one speaker to generate sound waves. The ANC unit receives a set of parameters from the user-operated device through the connection. The connection is at least one of: an audio cable; and a wireless connection. The set of parameters represents a user-specified combination of ANC properties. The ANC unit automatically adapts itself to implement the set of parameters for substantially achieving the user-specified combination of ANC properties in operations of the ANC unit. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248880 | CABINET STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cabinet structure includes multiple cover members configured to spatially partition an inside from an outside of a cabinet, and a clearance communicating between the inside and the outside of the cabinet is left between two cover members, the two cover members being adjacent to each other, of the cover members, and a passage defined by the clearance and leading from the inside to the outside of the cabinet through the clearance has a shape with multiple bends. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248881 | DYNAMIC SPEECH SYSTEM TUNING - A system and method of tuning speech recognition systems includes performing text-to-speech conversion of text data; detecting the accuracy of speech converted from text data; determining that the detected accuracy is below a predetermined threshold; recording a user recitation of the text data in response to the determination; and storing the user recitation in an exception database located at a vehicle. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248882 | DETECTING POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT ERRORS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULTS - In some embodiments, recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential errors. In some embodiments, the indications of potential errors may include discrepancies between recognition results that are meaningful for a domain, such as medically-meaningful discrepancies. The evaluation of the recognition results may be carried out using any suitable criteria, including one or more criteria that differ from criteria used by an ASR system in determining the top recognition result and the alternative recognition results from the speech input. In some embodiments, a recognition result may additionally or alternatively be processed to determine whether the recognition result includes a word or phrase that is unlikely to appear in a domain to which speech input relates. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248883 | DETECTING POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT ERRORS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULTS - In some embodiments, the recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential significant errors. In some embodiments, the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether a meaning of any of the alternative recognition results differs from a meaning of the top recognition result in a manner that is significant for the domain. In some embodiments, one or more of the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether the result(s) include one or more words or phrases that, when included in a result, would change a meaning of the result in a manner that would be significant for the domain. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248884 | System and Method for Personalization of Acoustic Models for Automatic Speech Recognition - Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for automatic speech recognition. The method includes selecting a speaker independent model, and selecting a quantity of speaker dependent models, the quantity of speaker dependent models being based on available computing resources, the selected models including the speaker independent model and the quantity of speaker dependent models. The method also includes recognizing an utterance using each of the selected models in parallel, and selecting a dominant speech model from the selected models based on recognition accuracy using the group of selected models. The system includes a processor and modules configured to control the processor to perform the method. The computer-readable storage medium includes instructions for causing a computing device to perform the steps of the method. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248885 | HOTWORDS PRESENTATION FRAMEWORK - A computer system can include a hotword manager, a hotword detection module, and a browsing application. The hotword manager can maintain information for a plurality of hotwords that correlates identifiers for the hotwords with respective representations for the hotwords. The hotword detection module can listen for spoken input and detect when spoken input corresponds to one of the plurality of hotwords. The browsing application can (i) parse an electronic document to identify respective identifiers for one or more hotwords included in the electronic document, (ii) generate a display of the electronic document that includes respective representations for the one or more hotwords, the respective representations obtained from the hotword manager using the identifiers for the one or more hotwords included in the electronic document, and (iii) perform a particular set of operations in response to identifying spoken input for a particular hotword included in the electronic document. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248886 | Model Based Approach for On-Screen Item Selection and Disambiguation - A model-based approach for on-screen item selection and disambiguation is provided. An utterance may be received by a computing device in response to a display of a list of items for selection on a display screen. A disambiguation model may then be applied to the utterance. The disambiguation model may be utilized to determine whether the utterance is directed to at least one of the list of displayed items, extract referential features from the utterance and identify an item from the list corresponding to the utterance, based on the extracted referential features. The computing device may then perform an action which includes selecting the identified item associated with utterance. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248887 | Voice Enabled Screen reader - In some embodiments, a system may process a user interface to identify textual or graphical items in the interface, and may prepare a plurality of audio files containing spoken representations of the items. As the user navigates through the interface, different ones of the audio files may be selected and played, to announce text associated with items selected by the user. A computing device may periodically determine whether a cache offering the interface to users stores audio files for all of the interface's textual items, and if the cache is missing any audio files for any of the textual items, the computing device may take steps to have a corresponding audio file created. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248888 | USER PROFILE BASED AUDIO ADJUSTMENT TECHNIQUES - Embodiments are directed toward user profile based audio adjustment techniques. The techniques are used to render various audio and/or audio/video content having different audio output parameter values in accordance with a user profile that characterizes a user's desired value and/or range of one or more of the output parameter levels. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248889 | LAYERED APPROACH TO SPATIAL AUDIO CODING - The invention provides a layered audio coding format with a monophonic layer and at least one sound field layer. A plurality of audio signals is decomposed, in accordance with decomposition parameters controlling the quantitative properties of an orthogonal energy-compacting transform, into rotated audio signals. Further, a time-variable gain profile specifying constructively how the rotated audio signals may be processed to attenuate undesired audio content is derived. The monophonic layer may comprise one of the rotated signals and the gain profile. The sound field layer may comprise the rotated signals and the decomposition parameters. In one embodiment, the gain profile comprises a cleaning gain profile with the main purpose of eliminating non-speech components and/or noise. The gain profile may also comprise mutually independent broadband gains. Because signals in the audio coding format can be mixed with a limited computational effort, the invention may advantageously be applied in a tele-conferencing application. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248890 | Undetectable Combining of Nonaligned Concurrent Signals - The approach shown provides for an efficient implementation of time response, level response and frequency response alignment between two audio sources such as DAB and FM that may be time offset from each other by as much as 2 seconds, and produces an aurally undetectable transition between the sources. Computational load is significantly reduced over the approaches known in the prior art. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248891 | SEGMENT-WISE ADJUSTMENT OF SPATIAL AUDIO SIGNAL TO DIFFERENT PLAYBACK LOUDSPEAKER SETUP - Apparatus for adapting a spatial audio signal for an original loudspeaker setup to a playback loudspeaker setup that differs from the original loudspeaker setup. The apparatus includes a direct-ambience decomposer that is configured to decomposing channel signals in a segment of the original loudspeaker setup into direct sound and ambience components, and to determine a direction of arrival of the direct sound components. A direct sound renderer receives a playback loudspeaker setup information and adjusts the direct sound components using the playback loudspeaker setup information so that a perceived direction of arrival of the direct sound components in the playback loudspeaker setup is substantially identical to the direction of arrival of the direct sound components. A combiner combines adjusted direct sound components and possibly modified ambience components to obtain loudspeaker signals for loudspeakers of the playback loudspeaker setup. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMUM FREQUENCY RANGE WITHIN A FULL FREQUENCY RANGE OF A WATERMARKED INPUT SIGNAL - Many watermarking detection algorithms are correlation based, whereby an input signal is correlated with reference signals. The correlation with the best match determines the bit value of the watermark information. Usually a watermarked signal undergoes distortion before being fed to a watermark detector. However, the modification is stronger in some frequency ranges than in others. According to the invention, the correlation result for a current input signal section is in addition used for estimating the optimal frequency range or ranges for the following section's correlation, using a cumulative correlation value curve. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248893 | SINUSOIDAL INTERPOLATION ACROSS MISSING DATA - Provided are methods and systems for concealing missing segments and/or discontinuities in an audio signal, thereby restoring the continuity of the signal. The methods and systems are designed for and targeted at audio signals, are based on interpolation and extrapolation operations for sinusoids, and do not rely on the assumption that the sinusoids are harmonic. The methods and systems are improvements over existing audio concealment approaches in that, among other advantages, the methods and systems facilitate asynchronous interpolation, use an interpolation procedure that corresponds to time-domain waveform interpolation if the signal is harmonic, and have a peak selection procedure that is effective for audio signals. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248894 | BANDWIDTH EXTENSION METHOD, BANDWIDTH EXTENSION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS - To provide a bandwidth extension method which allows reduction of computation amount in bandwidth extension and suppression of deterioration of quality in the bandwidth to be extended. In the bandwidth extension method: a low frequency bandwidth signal is transformed into a QMF domain to generate a first low frequency QMF spectrum; pitch-shifted signals are generated by applying different shifting factors on the low frequency bandwidth signal; a high frequency QMF spectrum is generated by time-stretching the pitch-shifted signals in the QMF domain; the high frequency QMF spectrum is modified; and the modified high frequency QMF spectrum is combined with the first low frequency QMF spectrum. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248895 | VOICE PROCESSING DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING VOICE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A voice processing device includes a noise-originating coefficient calculation section that calculates a noise-originating coefficient that gradually decreases as a target value of stationary noise for each frequency increases, the target value being calculated based on an amplitude value of a frequency spectrum obtained by time-frequency transforming a voice signal for a predetermined period of time, and a suppression signal generation section that generates, when the frequency spectrum is determined as being stationary on the basis of the amplitude value, a suppression signal by multiplying a suppression coefficient based on the noise-originating coefficient by the amplitude value, the suppression signal being frequency-time transformed to be output. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248896 | CAUSATION OF RENDERING OF SONG AUDIO INFORMATION - A method comprising receiving microphone audio information from at least one microphone, identifying a song based, at least in part, on the microphone audio information, receiving song audio information based, at least in part, on the identification of the song, causing display of, at least a portion of, a song indicator that represents the song, receiving information indicative of a song rendering input in relation to the song indicator, and causing rendering of the song audio information based, at least in part, on the song rendering input is disclosed. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248897 | DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE - A driving support device for a vehicle uses a right speaker and a left speaker for providing audio information useful for driving to the right ear and left ear of a driver. Among the audio information useful for driving, speech guidance with the use of a voice is provided exclusively from the right speaker to the right ear of the driver. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248898 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Determining an Intelligibility Score for Speech - Systems and methods are provided for generating an intelligibility score for speech of a non-native speaker. Words in a speech recording are identified using an automated speech recognizer, where the automated speech recognizer provides a string of words identified in the speech recording, and where the automated speech recognizer further provides an acoustic model likelihood score for each word in the string of words. For a particular word in the string of words, a context metric value is determined based upon a usage of the particular word within the string of words. An acoustic score for the particular word is determined based on the acoustic model likelihood score for the particular word from the automated speech recognizer. An intelligibility score is determined for the particular word based on the acoustic score for the particular word and the context metric value for the particular word. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248899 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING A MAGNETIC SHIELD AT REDUCED COST AND WITH ENHANCED RELIABILITY - A method provides a magnetic transducer having an air-bearing surface. The method includes providing a main pole that has a plurality of sidewalls. The step of providing the main pole includes providing a trailing bevel. A side shield after the trailing bevel has been provided. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248900 | MULTI-TRACK READER FOR IMPROVED SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO - A system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic head having a plurality of sensors arranged to simultaneously read at least three immediately adjacent data tracks on a magnetic medium, wherein none of the sensors share more than one lead with any other of the sensors. Such embodiment may be implemented in a magnetic data storage system such as a disk drive system, which may include a magnetic head, a drive mechanism for passing a magnetic medium (e.g., hard disk) over the magnetic head, and a controller electrically coupled to the magnetic head. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248901 | DEVICES INCLUDING NEAR FIELD TRANSDUCERS - An apparatus that includes a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT including, amongst other elements and materials: tantalum (Ta), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), osmium (Os), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), yttrium (Y), hafnium (Hf), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), iridium (Ir), scandium (Sc), niobium (Ni), cobalt (Co), rhenium (Re), silicon (Si), geranium (Ge), alloys thereof, dispersions containing these elements, intermetallics based on these elements, admixtures thereof, or combinations thereof. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248902 | TMR Device with Novel Free Layer Structure - A TMR sensor that includes a free layer having at least one B-containing (BC) layer made of CoFeB, CoFeBM, CoB, CoBM, or CoBLM, and a plurality of non-B containing (NBC) layers made of CoFe, CoFeM, or CoFeLM is disclosed where L and M are one of Ni, Ta, Ti, W, Zr, Hf, Tb, or Nb. One embodiment is represented by (NBC/BC) | 2015-09-03 |
20150248903 | AF-COUPLED DUAL SIDE SHIELD READER WITH AF-COUPLED USL - The embodiments disclosed generally relate to a read head sensor in a magnetic recording head. The read head sensor comprises side shields in addition to the upper and lower shields. The upper shield sensor is a multilayer structure with antiferromagnetic coupling. The side shield is a multilayer structure whereby a lower magnetic layer is separated from an upper magnetic layer. The upper magnetic layer is ferromagnetically coupled to a bottom layer of the upper shield. The bias direction of the read head sensor is antiparallel to the bottom layer of the upper shield. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248904 | SIDE SHIELD READER WITH A SHIELD EXCITING COIL - In one embodiment, an apparatus includes at least one read head, each read head including a magnetoresistive (MR) read element, having a lower shield layer, an underlayer positioned above the lower shield layer, an antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer positioned above the underlayer, a magnetization pinned layer positioned above the AFM layer, an insulating layer positioned above the magnetization pinned layer, and a magnetization free layer positioned above the insulating layer, magnetic side shields positioned on both sides of the MR read element in a cross-track direction, and at least one shield excitation coil configured to excite magnetization of the side shields. In another embodiment, a method for forming a read sensor includes forming a MR read element, forming magnetic side shields on both sides of the MR read element in a cross-track direction, and forming at least one shield excitation coil configured to excite magnetization of the side shields. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248905 | DEVICES INCLUDING A GAS BARRIER LAYER - Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT); a gas barrier layer positioned on at least a portion of the NFT; and a wear resistance layer positioned on at least a portion of the gas barrier layer wherein the gas barrier layer includes tantalum oxide (TaO), titanium oxide (TiO), chromium oxide (CrO), silicon oxide (SiO), aluminum oxide (AlO), titanium oxide (TiO), zirconium oxide (ZrO), yttrium oxide (YO), magnesium oxide (MgO), beryllium oxide (BeO), niobium oxide (NbO), hafnium oxide (HfO), vanadium oxide (VO), strontium oxide (SrO), or combinations thereof; silicon nitride (SiN), aluminum nitride (Al), boron nitride (BN), titanium nitride (TiN), zirconium nitride (ZrN), niobioum nitride (NbN), hafnium nitride (HfN), chromium nitride (CrN), or combinations thereof silicon carbide (SiC), titanium carbide (TiC), zirconium carbide (ZrC), niobioum carbide (NbC), chromium carbide (CrC), vanadium carbide (VC), boron carbide (BC), or combinations thereof or combinations thereof. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248906 | HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD HAVING DUAL WAVEGUIDES - Systems that include an energy source configured to provide transverse electric (TE) mode energy; a channel waveguide configured to receive energy from the energy source, the channel waveguide having at least one mirror plane; and a near field transducer (NFT) configured to receive energy from the channel waveguide, the NFT having at least one mirror plane. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248907 | RECESSED IRMN READER SENSOR DESIGN WITH HIGH HK APPLIED TO BOTH REFERENCE AND PIN LAYERS - The embodiments disclosed generally relate to a magnetic read head having a recessed antiferromagnetic layer and a recessed pinned magnetic layer. The recessed pinned magnetic layer is only partially recessed from the MFS, but the recess amount is the same amount as the antiferromagnetic layer. The recess is between about 50 nm and about 200 nm. Processing the pinned magnetic layer and the antiferromagnetic layer and its seed layers at an oblique angle results in an increase in the anisotropy field. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248908 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a nonmagnetic layer comprising a nonmagnetic powder and a binder and a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder and a binder in this order on a nonmagnetic support, wherein the magnetic layer and/or nonmagnetic layer comprises organic acid A and organic acid B below, with an acid strength pKa(A) of organic acid A and an acid strength pKa(B) of organic acid B satisfying a relation of pKa(A)2015-09-03 | |
20150248909 | STRUCTURE WITH SEED LAYER FOR CONTROLLING GRAIN GROWTH AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION - According to one embodiment, a structure includes a substrate; an epitaxial seed layer positioned above the substrate, the epitaxial seed layer including a plurality of nucleation regions and a plurality of non-nucleation regions; and a crystalline layer positioned above the epitaxial seed layer, where the epitaxial seed layer has a crystallographic orientation substantially along an axis perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248910 | MAGNETIC-DISK GLASS SUBSTRATE AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention has a pair of main surfaces, and an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) for wavelength components of 10 to 50 nm of the surface of the main surfaces is 0.15 nm or less. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248911 | DISK DRIVE - A disk drive includes an insertion detection unit disposed at a position deviating from a transport center line in a first direction, a transport roller, and an opposing member that holds a disk together with the transport roller. The opposing member has a second guiding recess located in a second direction relative to the transport center line. The recess of the opposing member and the transport roller define a space therebetween to receive the disk inserted from a position deviating from the transport center line in the second direction. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248912 | FUSED DATA STORAGE DEVICE COMPONENTS - Provided herein is an apparatus, including a first part of a data storage device and a second part of the data storage drive. The second part of the data storage device is fused to the first part substantially throughout opposing surfaces of the first part and the second part, where the opposing surfaces are in contact with each other. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248913 | LIMITER WITH INCREASED STIFFNESS - A device including a first axial portion, a second axial portion, and a radial portion is disclosed. A portion of the second axial portion is configured to connect to a hub. An upper surface of the second axial portion may be positioned above an upper surface of a sleeve limiter shoulder when the portion of the second axial portion is connected to the hub. The radial portion connects the first axial portion to the second axial portion. The radial portion is configured to increase stiffness by increasing surface contact between the radial portion and the sleeve limiter shoulder. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248914 | Skew Compensation in a Patterned Medium - Apparatus for providing skew compensation in a patterned medium, such as but not limited to a self-assembling bit patterned medium. In accordance with some embodiments, the apparatus includes a transducer and a rotatable substrate. The substrate has a plurality of rows of spaced apart data recording dots. Each row of dots is angularly offset from an immediately adjacent row responsive to a skew angle of the transducer. The rows of dots are arranged into concentric zones of hypertracks. Each zone has an arcuate timing field segment which extends across the zone and is angularly discontinuous with the timing field segment of an immediately adjacent zone. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248915 | TAPE HEAD SYSTEM - A tape head system. The tape head system includes: a head for reading from and/or writing to magnetic tape; a support; and at least one leaf spring assembly supporting the head moveably relative to the support so as to allow the head to follow a motion of the tape, the at least one leaf spring assembly including at least one leaf spring and at least one damping element configured for damping a motion of the head relative to the support. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248916 | HYPER-LAPSE VIDEO THROUGH TIME-LAPSE AND STABILIZATION - Various technologies described herein pertain to generation of an output hyper-lapse video from an input video. A smoothed camera path can be computed based upon the input video. Further, output camera poses can be selected from the smoothed camera path for output frames of the output hyper-lapse video. One or more selected input frames from the input video can be chosen for an output frame. The selected input frames can be chosen based at least in part upon an output camera pose for the output frame. Moreover, the selected input frames can be combined to render the output frame. Choosing selected input frames from the input video and combining the selected input frames can be performed for each of the output frames of the output hyper-lapse video. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF SPORTING EVENTS - Methods and systems are provided to enable the exploration of event data captured from video feeds, such as from sporting event venues, the discovery of relevant events (such as within a video feed of a sporting event), and the presentation of novel insights, analytic results, and visual displays that enhance decision-making, provide improved entertainment and provide other benefits. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A USER SELECTED OBJECT AS MARKED BASED ON ITS CONTEXT IN A PROGRAM - Systems and methods for displaying a user selected object as marked based on its context in a program are discussed herein. In one embodiment, a user selection of an area of a video of a program presented on a second screen may be received. An object in the video corresponding to the selected area may then be identified, as well as an attribute of the object relative to an event in the program. Based on the identified attribute of the object, a manner of marking the object on a first screen that is simultaneously presenting the same video may be selected. The object may then be displayed on the first screen as marked using the selected manner of marking. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248919 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK STATE CONTROLLING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position change detecting unit that detects a position change of an operating body on a screen, a playback state control unit that controls a playback state of a content, and a display control unit that at least displays a part or all of a text list in which text data items associated with elapsed times in a playback of the content are sorted in an order of the elapsed times, on the screen. The playback state control unit controls the playback state of the content in response to a continuous position change of the operating body detected by the position change detecting unit on the text list displayed by the display control unit. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248920 | STORAGE APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETECTING METHOD BY INSTANTANEOUS POWER FAILURE OF HARD DISK, AND ABNORMALITY RECOVERY METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a storage apparatus that prevents impossible to communicate a hard disk and a CPU by the instantaneous power failure of a low voltage power supply. An effective value reduction detecting circuit transmits a detection signal, when the voltage of a low voltage power supply is lower than specific voltage. CPU memorizes time t | 2015-09-03 |
20150248921 | Stacked Die Flash Memory Device With Serial Peripheral Interface - Any number of Serial Peripheral Interface (“SPI”) flash memory die may be stacked and packaged using any desired multi-chip packaging technique to realize any one or combination of various capabilities such as low per-bit cost, high density storage, code shadowing to RAM, and fast random access for “execute in place” applications, while preserving the advantages of the SPI interface. During device manufacture, each of the stacked die is assigned a unique identifier or “Die ID” relative to the other stacked die in the package. During normal operations, the unique Die IDs are used by a Die Select instruction to enable one of the stacked die to respond to subsequent instructions on the SPI interface, while disabling the other stacked die in the package from responding to subsequent instructions but for certain “Universal” instructions which include the Die Select instruction. Concurrent operations by the stacked die are supported. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248922 | DIVIDING A STORAGE PROCEDURE - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for storage operations for a non-volatile medium. A control module may be configured to divide a storage procedure into multiple portions. An execution module may be configured to execute multiple portions of a storage procedure independently. A storage request module may be configured to satisfy a storage request for one or more storage elements of a storage procedure between at least a pair of portions of a storage procedure. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248923 | MEMORY READING CIRCUIT, MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY DEVICE - A circuit for reading a memory device includes a sense amplifier (SA) and a controller. The SA has an input, an output and an enabling terminal. The controller has a first input coupled to the output of the SA, a second input configured to receive a control signal, and an output coupled to the enabling terminal of the SA to send an SA enabling (SAE) signal from the controller to the SA. The controller is configured to start the SAE signal, in response to the control signal, to enable the SA, and to terminate the SAE signal, in response to an SA output signal at the output of the SA, to disable the SA. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING AN ACCURATE I/O CALIBRATION CELL - An integrated circuit includes an input/output “I/O” cell arranged to drive an output signal and an activity analysis unit arranged to generate an activity factor based on the output signal. The activity factor represents a switching activity intensity of the I/O cell. The switching activity intensity is associated with an ageing effect of the I/O cell. The circuit further includes a calibration unit arranged to generate a switching pattern signal based on the generated activity factor and an I/O calibration cell arranged to be driven by the switching pattern signal, wherein the switching pattern signal emulates the ageing effect of the I/O cell. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248925 | ON CHIP CHARACTERIZATION OF TIMING PARAMETERS FOR MEMORY PORTS - This invention is a circuit and method for memory characterization. The circuit includes first and second programmable delay lines, address and data registers, an output register and a finite state machine controller. The finite state machine controller supplies an address to said address register, data to said data register and controlling a delay of said first programmable delay line and said second programmable delay line in at least one predetermined sequence to determine an operating characteristic of the memory to be tested. The programmable delay lines may be connected as a ring oscillator. Determination of the frequency of the ring oscillator via a counter determines the delay of the delay line. The programmable delay lines, the address register and data registers, the output register, the finite state machine controller and the memory to be tested are preferably constructed on a same semiconductor substrate. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING WRITE TIMING IN A MEMORY SYSTEM - A system that calibrates timing relationships between signals involved in performing write operations is described. This system includes a memory controller which is coupled to a set of memory chips, wherein each memory chip includes a phase detector configured to calibrate a phase relationship between a data-strobe signal and a clock signal received at the memory chip from the memory controller during a write operation. Furthermore, the memory controller is configured to perform one or more write-read-validate operations to calibrate a clock-cycle relationship between the data-strobe signal and the clock signal, wherein the write-read-validate operations involve varying a delay on the data-strobe signal relative to the clock signal by a multiple of a clock period. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248927 | MULTI-PORT MEMORY CELL - A circuit includes a first data line, a second data line, a reference node, and a memory cell. The reference node is configured to have a reference voltage level corresponding to a first logical value. The memory cell includes a data node, a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between the first data line and the reference node, and a third transistor between the data node and the second data line. A gate of the first transistor is coupled to the data node, and the first transistor is configured to be turned off when the gate of the first transistor has a voltage level corresponding to the first logical value. The third transistor is configured to be turned off when a gate of the third transistor has a voltage level corresponding to a second logical value different from the first logical value. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248928 | BOOST SYSTEM FOR DUAL-PORT SRAM - A boost system for dual-port SRAM includes a comparator and a boost circuit. The comparator is configured to compare a first row address of a first port and a second row address of a second port, and output a first enable signal. The boost circuit is configured to boost a voltage difference between a first voltage source and a second voltage source according to the first enable signal. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248929 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device includes an SRAM memory cell composed of a drive transistor, a transfer transistor and a load transistor, an I/O circuit that is connected to bit lines connected to the memory cell, and an operating mode control circuit that switches an operating mode of the I/O circuit between a resume standby mode and a normal operation mode, wherein the I/O circuit includes a write driver that writes data to bit lines, a sense amplifier that reads data from the bit lines, a first switch inserted between the bit lines and the write driver, a second switch inserted between the bit lines and the sense amplifier, a precharge circuit that precharges the bit lines, and a control circuit that controls the first and second switches and the precharge circuit according to a signal from the operating mode control circuit. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248930 | METHODS OF OPERATING NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES THAT SUPPORT EFFICIENT ERROR DETECTION - Methods of operating nonvolatile memory devices may include identifying one or more multi-bit nonvolatile memory cells in a nonvolatile memory device that have undergone unintentional programming from an erased state to an at least partially programmed state. Errors generated during an operation to program a first plurality of multi-bit nonvolatile memory cells may be detected by performing a plurality of reading operations to generate error detection data and then decoding the error detection data to identify specific cells having errors. A programmed first plurality of multi-bit nonvolatile memory cells and a force-bit data vector, which was modified during the program operation, may be read to support error detection. This data, along with data read from a page buffer associated with the first plurality of multi-bit nonvolatile memory cells, may then be decoded to identify which of the first plurality of multi-bit nonvolatile memory cells are unintentionally programmed cells. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248931 | NAND ARRAY COMPRISING PARALLEL TRANSISTOR AND TWO-TERMINAL SWITCHING DEVICE - Providing for a high performance and efficiency NAND architecture is described herein. By way of example, a NAND array is disclosed comprising memory cells having a 1 transistor-1 two-terminal memory device (IT-1D) arrangement. Memory cells of the NAND array can be arranged electrically in serial with respect to each other, from source to drain. Moreover, respective memory cells comprise a transistor component connected in parallel to a two-terminal memory device. In some embodiments, a resistance of the activated transistor component is selected to be substantially less than that of the two-terminal memory device, and the resistance of the deactivated transistor component is selected to be substantially higher than the two-terminal memory device. Accordingly, by activating or deactivating the transistor component, a signal applied to the memory cell can be shorted past the two-terminal memory device, or directed through the two-terminal memory device, respectively. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248932 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is an electronic device including a semiconductor memory unit. The semiconductor memory unit may include: a storage cell comprising a variable resistance element; a first selecting element coupled to one end of the storage cell and having a threshold voltage set to a first voltage; and a second selecting element coupled to the other end of the storage cell and having a threshold voltage set to a second voltage higher than the first voltage. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248933 | NON-VOLATILE STORAGE SYSTEM BIASING CONDITIONS FOR STANDBY AND FIRST READ - Methods for reducing power consumption of a non-volatile storage system and reducing first read latency are described. The non-volatile storage system may include a cross-point memory array. In some embodiments, during a standby mode, the memory array may be biased such that both word lines and bit lines are set to ground. During transition of the memory array from the standby mode to a read mode, a selected word line comb may be set to a read voltage while the unselected word lines and the bit lines remain at ground. During the read mode, memory cells connected to the selected bit lines and the selected word line comb may be sensed while the selected bit lines are biased to a selected bit line voltage equal to or close to ground and the unselected bit lines are left floating after initially being set to ground. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248934 | NON-VOLATILE DIGITAL MEMORY - A non-volatile digital memory includes: a plurality of thin film resistors; and a control circuit adapted to: program, during a first programming phase, the thin film resistors with a plurality of bits of data by passing a current through at least one of the thin film resistors to reduce its resistance; and read, during a restoration phase, the plurality of bits of data stored by the thin film resistors by generating an electrical signal associated with each thin film resistor and comparing each electrical signal with a reference signal. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248935 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPERATING FLASH BACKED DRAM MODULE - A device includes volatile memory; one or more non-volatile memory chips, each of which is for storing data moved from the volatile-memory; an interface for connecting to a backup power source arranged to temporarily power the volatile memory upon a loss of power from a primary power source; a controller in communication with the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory, wherein: the controller is programmed to move data from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory chips upon a loss of power of the primary power source of the volatile memory; and the at least one parameter describing the volatile memory are stored in at least one of the non-volatile memory chips that store the data moved from the volatile memory. In some aspects the at least one parameter includes serial presence detect information. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248936 | COMPLEMENTARY RRAM APPLICATIONS FOR LOGIC AND TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY (TCAM) - A ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) array of cells features reduced area and improved matching functionality. 1T-3R and 2T-3R embodiments are disclosed as illustrative. A row or block of TCAM memory cells may include a serial string interconnecting the cells so as to provide reduced power consumption during matching operations. In other aspects, Pre-charge/Discharge logic configurations are described utilizing complementary resistive ram (cRRAM) storage for input data to form improved programmable logic circuits. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248937 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY PROGRAMMING - Some embodiments include a memory device and a method of programming memory cells of the memory device. One such method includes applying voltages to data lines associated with different groups of memory cells during a programming operation. Such a method applies the voltages to the data lines associated with a last group of memory cells being programmed in a different fashion from the other groups of memory cells after the other groups of memory cells have been programmed. Other embodiments including additional memory devices and methods are described. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248938 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE - A data storage device that includes a nonvolatile memory device, a controller suitable for controlling the nonvolatile memory device and for reading and writing data to the nonvolatile memory device, and a power management unit suitable for supplying power to the nonvolatile memory device. The controller may control the power management unit to adjust the power supplied to the nonvolatile memory device. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248939 | MAGNETIC-DOMAIN-WALL-DISPLACEMENT MEMORY CELL AND INITIALIZING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a magnetic domain wall displacement memory cell, including a recording layer including a magnetic film, the recording layer including: a magnetization reversal region in which magnetization is reversible; and first and second magnetization fixed regions that supply a spin-polarized electron to the magnetization reversal region. The magnetic domain wall displacement memory cell is configured so that a first region in which magnetization reversal occurs due to a first current flowing in a direction parallel to a film surface of the recording layer and a first magnetic field component in the direction parallel to the film surface of the recording layer is formed, and a second region in which no magnetization reversal occurs is formed. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248940 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There are provided a shift register unit and a display device in embodiments of the present disclosure, for solving the problem that since two different transistors are used to respectively pull-up and pull-down a gate line connected to a conventional shift register unit, the conventional shift register unit occupies a large area, which causes a large consumption of materials when manufacturing the shift register unit, a high cost of the conventional shift register unit, and a high cost of a display device comprising the conventional shift register unit. The shift register unit comprises: a first capacitor, a first transistor, a pull-up module and a first pull-down module, wherein the first capacitor has a first electrode configured to receive a clock signal, a gate connected with one terminal of the first capacitor, the pull-up module and the first pull-down module, and a second electrode connected with the other terminal of the first capacitor. The first transistor in the shift register unit pull-up or pull-down the level at the gate line connected to the shift register unit. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248941 | Radiation shielding materials containing hydrogen, boron and nitrogen - The invention consists of radiation shielding materials for shielding in the most structurally robust combination against galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), neutrons, and solar energetic particles (SEP). Materials for vehicles, space structures, habitats, landers, rovers, and spacesuits must possess functional characteristics of radiation shielding, thermal protection, pressure resistance, and mechanical durability. The materials are tailored to offer the greatest shielding against GCR, neutrons, and SEP in the most structurally robust combination, also capable of shielding against micrometeoriod impact. The boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) is composed entirely of low Z atoms (boron and nitrogen). Some of the materials included in this invention are: boron nitride (BN) platelets, hot pressed BN, BNNT, BN particle containing resins, BN nanofiber containing resins, carbon fiber reinforced BN containing resins, BNNT containing resins, and hydrogenated BN and BNNT, hydrogen stored BN and BNNT, high hydrogen containing polymer or ceramic matrices, and a combination of these. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248942 | X-RAY REFLECTIVE LENS ARRANGEMENT - An X-ray lens arrangement for forming a radiation pattern as a focal track is disclosed. The pattern comprises at least one 3-dimensional focal track of radiation. The aforesaid lens arrangement has a main axis passing through intensity weighted centroids of the X-ray source and the pattern. The lens arrangement includes at least one reflecting surface of continuously varying Rowland arcs. Each point belonging to the focal track is linked to each elemental point composing an emitting surface of said source by a corresponding Rowland arc. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248943 | X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention provides an X-ray imaging system comprising: an X-ray optical system; and an X-ray image detector configured to detect, via the X-ray optical system, an intensity distribution of an X ray emitted by an X-ray source and transmitted through an object, wherein the X-ray optical system includes a PSF modulation part configured to modulate a point spread function in such a manner that, assuming that a virtual pinhole is placed at a position of the object, an X ray transmitted through the virtual pinhole would be observed by the X-ray image detector as an image with an intensity distribution in a predetermined pattern by an action of the PSF modulation part on the X ray. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248944 | ABERRATION CORRECTOR AND CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Provided are an aberration corrector that reduces irregularity of a magnetic field of a multipole to obtain an image of high resolution and a charged particle beam apparatus using the same. The aberration corrector includes a plurality of magnetic field type poles, a ring that magnetically connects the plurality of poles with one another and an adjustment member disposed between the pole and the ring to adjust a spacing between the pole and the ring per pole. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248945 | APPARATUS TO EMIT THERAPEUTIC RADIATIONS - Apparatus to emit therapeutic radiations comprising at least an emitter of radiations configured to emit radiations toward a base plane containing an axis of displacement, movement means configured to selectively move said emitter of radiations both along a second path, arched and lying on a first lying plane passing through the axis of displacement, and also along a third path arched and lying on a second lying plane passing through an axis of rotation, perpendicular to the axis of displacement. The movement means are configured to move the emitter of radiations also along a first path substantially rectilinear and parallel to the axis of displacement, so as to move the emitter of radiations parallel to the base plane. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248946 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION - An electrically conductive composition comprising a binder and filler particles in which at least a portion of the particles are silver-plated. In one embodiment the composition comprises a binder such as a polyurethane, electrically conductive filler particles, silver-plated filler particles and solvent. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248947 | Triglyceride Based, Low Viscosity, High Flash Point Dielectric Fluids - A dielectric fluid comprising a composition of triglycerides in weight percent based on the weight of the triglycerides: A. 10 to 65% C18:1 fatty acids; B. 35% to 90% of at least one of C14:1 and C16:1 fatty acids; C. No more than 12% polyunsaturated fatty acids; and D. No more than 7% saturated fatty acids. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248948 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCING INSULATING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING INSULATING MATERIAL - A resin composition for producing an insulating material includes (A) 40 to 50% by weight of a base resin formed with a polyolefin-based resin or a derivative thereof, (B) 40 to 50% by weight of a magnesium hydroxide flame retardant of which surface is treated with vinyl silane, (C) 1 to 2% by weight of an antioxidant in which a first antioxidant and a second antioxidant are mixed in a weight ratio of 1:1 to 3, (D) 0.5 to 2% by weight of a lubricant, (E) 2 to 3% by weight of organosilane, (F) 0.05 to 0.2% by weight of an initiator, and (G) 1 to 4% by weight of a catalyst. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248949 | HYDROGEL NETWORK - The invention provides a hydrogel network comprising a plurality of hydrogel objects, wherein each of said hydrogel objects comprises: a hydrogel body, and an outer layer of amphipathic molecules, on at least part of the surface of the hydrogel body, wherein each of said hydrogel objects contacts another of said hydrogel objects to form an interface between the contacting hydrogel objects. A process for producing the hydrogel networks is also provided. The invention also provides an electrochemical circuit and hydrogel component for mechanical devices comprising a hydrogel network. Various uses of the hydrogel network are also described, including their use in synthetic biology and as components in electrochemical circuits and mechanical devices. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248950 | TRANSMISSION LINE FOR WIRED PIPE, AND METHOD - A wired pipe transmission line for disposal in a wired pipe segment for use in subterranean drilling. The transmission line includes an assembly including an inner conductor and a dielectric layer including silicon dioxide (SiO | 2015-09-03 |
20150248951 | RADIAL WATER BARRIER AND A DYNAMIC HIGH VOLTAGE SUBMARINE CABLE FOR DEEP WATER APPLICATIONS - A radial water barrier is provided for a dynamic high-voltage submarine cable. The water barrier includes a corrugated metal tube having an inner diameter in a range of 50-90 mm and a corrugation pitch in a range of 6-10 mm. The metal tube has a wall thickness in a range of 0.7-1 mm and a corrugation depth of more than 6 mm. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248952 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE MATERIAL - A high-temperature superconducting wire material comprising: a pre-superconducting wire material layer formed by forcibly removing a metal substrate from a superconducting wire material formed by including the metal substrate, a buffer layer formed on the upper surface of the metal substrate and a superconducting conductive layer formed on the upper surface of the buffer layer; a silver (Ag) protective layer formed on the lower surface of the pre-superconducting wire material layer; and a copper (Cu) protective layer formed on the lower surface of the Ag protective layer. Since a superconducting wire material is formed by stripping a metal substrate of a second-generation high-temperature superconducting wire material and forming a metal protective layer, advantages include the reduction of a magnetization loss due to the magnetism of the substrate, excellent stability of the wire material, and increases in Je (engineering current density) due to the minimization of the thickness of the superconducting wire material. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248953 | R-T-B BASED PERMANENT MAGNET - A R-T-B based permanent magnet which has equivalent magnetic properties as the existing Nd—Fe—B based permanent magnet and light mass but also can be suitably used as a magnet for field system of a permanent magnet synchronous rotating machine. The magnet can be obtained in a case where the composition of the compound for forming the main phase is (R | 2015-09-03 |
20150248954 | High-performance NdFeB rare earth permanent magnet with composite main phase and manufacturing method thereof - A NdFeB rare earth permanent magnet with composite main phase and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the composite main phase, a PR | 2015-09-03 |
20150248955 | MAGNETIC STRUCTURES - The present invention relates to a process of and apparatus for forming a magnetic structure on a substrate ( | 2015-09-03 |
20150248956 | RARE-EARTH-IRON-BASED ALLOY MATERIAL - Provided are a powder for a magnet, which provides a rare-earth magnet having excellent magnet properties and which has excellent formability, a method for producing the powder for a magnet, a powder compact, a rare-earth-iron-based alloy material, and a rare-earth-iron-nitrogen-based alloy material which are used as materials for the magnet, and methods for producing the powder compact and these alloy materials. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248957 | GRAIN-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet exhibits reduced iron loss and reduced noise. The electrical steel sheet has magnetic domains refined by regions with a high lattice defect density being locally formed on the surface of or within the steel sheet, in which the regions with a high lattice defect density has a hardness, as measured by a micro Vickers hardness meter, equal to or lower than that of other regions. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248958 | COLD SPRAY OF STAINLESS STEEL - The described embodiments relate generally to methods to form magnetic assemblies. In particular, extreme cold work (aka cold spray) is used to enhance magnetic properties of a steel alloy (most notably 316L stainless steel and others) that can then be formed into useful shapes and embedded within a substrate without undue machining operations. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248959 | RELUCTANCE TRANSDUCER - A reluctance transducer includes a soft ferromagnetic yoke and a soft ferromagnetic core element, which is movable relative to the yoke. Two permanent magnets bear the core element. The permanent magnets are arranged relative to each other and to the yoke so that the reluctance transducer has a good linear relationship between displacement and force. The reluctance transducer can be applied as stiffness compensating element. The reluctance transducer can include an electrical winding to allow its application as a magnetic bearing, an actuator or as a displacement, velocity or acceleration sensor with improved intrinsic linearity. | 2015-09-03 |
20150248960 | POLYMORPHIC SURFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A polymorphic surface may be provided by applying at least one magnetic field across a plurality of movable surface contour elements and selectively passing a current through the magnetic field(s) adjacent selected surface contour elements, with the current being perpendicular to the magnetic field. The current interacts with the magnetic field to generate a Lorentz force driving guided substantially linear motion of the respective surface contour element(s). The surface contour elements may be individually moveable and individually selectable for application of current to generate movement. The surface contour elements may be supported in position after removing the current. The current applied across each selected surface contour element may be varied to control the amount of guided substantially linear motion. | 2015-09-03 |