Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090025995 | Vehicle Hood With Sandwich Inner Structure - An energy-absorbing hood assembly for a vehicle includes upper and lower layers and a middle panel. The upper and lower layers have first and second interface surfaces, respectively. The middle panel has opposing first and second surfaces defining a corrugated profile having a plurality of bonding surfaces, the bonding surfaces being attached to the first and second interface surfaces to thereby define a plurality of laterally oriented channels. The corrugated profile further defines a height and wavelength along a substantial portion of the hood assembly, each being configured to be variably tunable to provide different predetermined levels of absorption and attenuation of kinetic energy imparted to the hood assembly by objects upon impact therebetween. Preferably, the hood assembly also includes an upper hood panel having an inner surface secured to the upper layer. Ideally, the corrugated profile is a trapezoidal waveform profile. | 01-29-2009 |
20090026807 | Energy-Absorbing Vehicle Hood Assembly with Cushion Inner Structure - An energy-absorbing hood assembly for a vehicle includes an upper layer having a plurality of polyhedral protuberances extending outward therefrom, and preferably a lower layer. The protuberances are disposed between the upper and lower layers, and preferably arranged in longitudinal and transverse rows. The polyhedral protuberances are adapted to absorb and attenuate crush loads imparted to the hood assembly and resultant forces imparted to an object resulting from an impact between the object and the hood assembly. The polyhedral protuberances define various structural and material characteristics along different regions of the hood assembly that are selectively configured to provide different levels of absorption and attenuation of the crush loads and resultant forces. The lower layer is preferably configured to controllably fail at a first predetermined threshold crush load and the polyhedral protuberances are each configured to controllably deform at a second predetermined threshold crush load. | 01-29-2009 |
20090065277 | Vehicle Hood Assembly with Rippled Cushion Support - An energy-absorbing hood assembly for a vehicle includes an inner layer operatively secured to an upper layer having a first interface surface. The inner layer has opposing first and second surfaces defining a sinusoidal profile that is oriented to extend from the forward end of the vehicle towards the rearward end of the vehicle. The sinusoidal profile includes varying amplitudes and wavelengths along different regions of the hood assembly. The amplitudes and wavelengths are individually configured to provide regionally distinct predetermined levels of absorption and attenuation of kinetic energy imparted to the hood assembly by an object upon impact therebetween. Preferably, the hood assembly also includes a lower layer having a second interface surface; wherein the inner layer has a plurality of bonding surfaces attached to the first and second interface surfaces to thereby define a plurality of laterally oriented channels. | 03-12-2009 |
20090195020 | Energy Absorbing Vehicle Hood Assembly with Asymmetric Sandwich Inner Structure - An energy-absorbing hood assembly for a vehicle includes upper, lower, and middle panels. The upper and lower panels respectively include first and second interface surfaces. The upper panel is preferably secured to an inner surface of an outer panel. The middle panel has opposing first and second surfaces defining an asymmetric waveform profile, preferably having a polygonal geometry. The middle panel member is secured to the first and second interface surfaces at preselected locations along the upper and lower surfaces, thereby defining a plurality of laterally oriented asymmetric channels. The asymmetric waveform profile is configured with distinct amplitudes and wavelengths along different regions of the hood assembly, each configured to provide different predetermined levels of absorption and attenuation of kinetic energy imparted to the hood assembly by objects upon impact therebetween. Ideally, the lower and middle panels are respectively configured to controllably fail at first and second predetermined crush loads. | 08-06-2009 |
20100169300 | Ranking Oriented Query Clustering and Applications - Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of tools for improving search engine performance. Specifically, these tools focus on producing more relevant search engine results via a URL-based query clustering method. These tools first extract tokens from Uniform Resource Locators associated to search queries. With these tokens, these tools form query clusters of common tokens. The resulting clusters can be used to help understand the similarities in user search queries via URL-based cluster queries to produce more relevant search results. | 07-01-2010 |
20120305883 | METAL OXIDE RESISTIVE SWITCHING MEMORY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The present disclosure relates to the microelectronics field, and particularly, to a metal oxide resistive switching memory and a method for manufacturing the same. The method may comprise: forming a W-plug lower electrode above a MOS device; sequentially forming a cap layer, a first dielectric layer, and an etching block layer on the W-plug lower electrode; etching the etching block layer, the first dielectric layer, and the cap layer to form a groove for a first level of metal wiring; sequentially forming a metal oxide layer, an upper electrode layer, and a composite layer of a diffusion block layer/a seed copper layer/a plated copper layer in the groove for the first level of metal wiring; patterning the upper electrode layer and the composite layer by CMP, to form a memory cell and the first level of metal wiring in the groove in the first dielectric layer; and performing subsequent processes to complete the metal oxide resistive switching memory. According to the present disclosure, the manufacture process can be simplified, without incorporating additional exposure steps in the standard process, resulting in advantages such as reduced cost. | 12-06-2012 |
20130119341 | RESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY CELL AND MEMORY - A Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) cell and a memory are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RRAM cell comprises a two-state resistor and a resistive switching memory cell connected in series. The two-state resistor can supply relatively large currents under both positive and negative voltage polarities. As a result, it is possible to reduce leakage paths in a crossbar array of memory cells, and thus to suppress reading crosstalk. | 05-16-2013 |
20130260400 | ASSAY FOR A TYPE II COLLAGEN BIOMARKER - An assay for Type II collagen fragments in serum, plasma, or synovial fluid obtains a quantitative measure of the concentration of all protein fragments in a serum, plasma, or synovial fluid sample that are reactive with an antibody, or immunoreactive antibody fragment, having specific reactivity with a C-terminal epitope present in the amino acid sequence GPPGRDGAAG and lacking specific reactivity with an amino acid sequence comprising the amino acid sequence GPPGRDGAAGV, which may be Mab NB44-3C1 as produced by the cell line deposited in HPA Culture Collection Logistics Office with Accession Number 10091402. | 10-03-2013 |
20140192071 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED GRAPHICS ENCODING - Techniques for improved graphics encoding are described. In one embodiment, for example, a device may include a processor circuit and a graphics encoding module, and the graphics encoding module may be operative to receive graphics buffer update information identifying one or more of a plurality of regions of a graphics buffer, the identified one or more regions including updated graphics information, retrieve the updated graphics information from the identified one or more regions of the graphics buffer, encode the updated graphics information, and transmit the encoded updated graphics information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-10-2014 |
20150079109 | Anti-PD1 Antibodies and their Use as Therapeutics and Diagnostics - Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to Programmed Death-1 (PD1, Pdcd-1, or CD279) and inhibit PD1-mediated cellular signaling and activities in immune cells, antibodies binding to a set of amino acid residues required for its ligand binding, and uses of these antibodies to treat or diagnose cancer, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders modulated by PD1-mediated functions. | 03-19-2015 |