| 09th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
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| 20100052297 | FRONT PASSENGER SEAT AIR BAG APPARATUS - A passenger seat air bag apparatus includes an air bag which is housed folded inside an instrument panel, and inflates toward a passenger who is seated in a front passenger seat with a supply of gas during a frontal collision, and which has a vent hole that can be opened and closed; a first strap which is connected to both an area around the vent hole and a rear lower portion of a base cloth of the air bag in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and which closes the vent hole as the air bag inflates; and a second strap which is connected to an edge portion of the vent hole, and pulls on the edge portion of the vent hole and on the first strap around the vent hole so as to open the vent hole when the passenger who is wearing a seatbelt is restrained by the air bag. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052307 | SECURITY ELEMENT FOR DOCUMENTS OF VALUE - The invention relates to a security element for securing value documents which has magnetic material. Further, the invention relates to a value document, a transfer material and a method for checking such a security element or value document. Along the security element, for example along a longitudinal direction of the security element, there are disposed one or more, maximally five, magnetic areas and one or more, maximally five, gap areas. The extension of the magnetic areas or the gap areas along the security element is preferably chosen so great that the magnetic signals of adjacent magnetization steps that arise upon transport of the security element past the magnetic sensor interfere constructively with each other. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052337 | LATCH SYSTEM FOR A DOOR OF AN AUTOMOBILE - A system is provided for latching a door of an automobile. The system includes, but is not limited to, a first power source, second power source, a latch for the door coupled to the first power source and the second power source, and an electronic control unit configured to control an operation of the latch. The electronic control unit is further configured to determine a status of the first power source, evaluate the status of the first power source, and control the operation of the latch with the second power source if the evaluation of the status indicates the first power source is unavailable. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052344 | Golf ball retriever - A golf ball retriever that has a telescopic handle and an adjustable head. The retriever is unique because the ball passes through the bottom edge by simply placing the retriever over the ball and pressing down on the ball making tabs move in an upward direction. After the ball passes through the bottom edge the spring loaded tabs return to their original position and trap the ball within the confines of the ball retriever. The handle and ball receiver are adjustable to one another via the adjustable head connector allowing the operator to change the position of the head in relation to the telescopic handle. This allows the user to retrieve a ball on uneven surfaces. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052352 | FLEXIBLE INTERIOR COMPONENT - There is disclosed a vehicle console trim component. The trim component can include an articulated door with a plurality of slats, a substrate, and a flexible layer including a pattern for decoration disposed on and supported by the substrate. The flexible layer will maintain the pattern for decoration as the articulated door is cycled. The pattern for the vehicle trim component may be a photographic image. An overcoat also can be disposed on the flexible layer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052353 | VEHICLE CONTAINER INTERFACE - A storage assembly for a vehicle includes a vehicle structure, a removable storage container and a container attachment member. The removable storage container is moveable between a retained position and a release position. The container attachment member is coupled to the vehicle structure, and the container attachment member is moveable between a first position and a second position. The container attachment member is configured to engage the storage container and retain the storage container in the retained position when the container attachment member is in the first position. The container attachment member is configured to be disengaged from the storage container for movement of the storage container between the retained and released positions when the container attachment member is in the second position. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052381 | Body sensing switch and warning system - Body sensing switch and warning system with a resilient cushion and right and left vertical supports rising above the top of the cushion on either side of the cushion. An inwardly facing light beam transmitter is located on the top portion of one vertical support and an inwardly facing light beam sensor is located on the top portion of the other vertical support. When a person sits on the cushion, the light beam is broken, telling a microprocessor that a person is sitting on the cushion. When the person gets up from the cushion, the light beam is unbroken, thereby triggering a pre-recorded message telling the person to sit down. Also an alert is transmitted to a remote receiver carried by a care giver, telling the care giver that the person has gotten up from the chair. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052422 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR A SENSE LOCATION ON THE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A print circuit board (PCB) includes a voltage regulator module (VRM), a plurality of loads, and a sense location for augmenting the voltage margin of the loads. The VRM is configured for charging the loads. Each load has a weight. The voltage value of the sense location equals to a summation of a corresponding weight value of a corresponding load multiplied by a corresponding voltage value of the load, for each of the plurality of loads on the PCB. An optimization method for the sense location on the PCB is also provided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052426 | Power management system - A power supply system includes at least one power supply module and at least one redundant power supply module. A power supply module may include a charging resistor in parallel with an OR-ing device to keep all filter capacitors charged as long as at least one power supply module remains operational. This may avoid current spikes at turn on and may enable the redundant module to turn on without using soft start. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052459 | Electromagnetic force motor - An electromagnetic force motor includes a stator having a plurality of magnets mounted along a perimeter of the rotor. Preferably, the stator magnets have opposite poles isolated from each other and pointed inward towards the rotor. The rotor will preferably have two appendages. The 1st appendage (called the major appendage for this design) will consist of a highly ferrous, magnetic material with tightly wound coils that will form a magnetic field when introduced to a magnetic field that is generated and collapsed at a frequency of from 0 to 50 khz. The 2nd appendage (called the minor appendage for this design) will consist of a highly ferrous, magnetic material, with a dimension less than or greater than but not the same as the 1st appendage with tightly wound coils numbered more than or less than but not the same as the 1st appendage. The number of appendages on the rotor may be increased or decreased as required. The number of appendages may vary from 1 to infinity. The height of the appendages is limited by the inside of the inside diameter of the motor housing chamber. The rotor will be attached to the drive shaft. The drive shaft will be constructed with non-ferrous material. The inner chamber of the motor that houses the rotor will be filled with a medium that will be used as a dielectric. This medium may vary from air to magnetic liquids. This project will use synthetic oil rated at 5W-30. This medium was chosen because the thermal rating exceeds the curie temperature of a magnet. The stator consists of low voltage high current magnetic blocks located a determined number of degrees apart from each other. These magnetic blocks will be sequenced on at a rate of 0-50 khz for this design. Higher rates may be used for future designs to increase the torque to horsepower ratio. The low voltage high current magnetic blocks will be controlled by controller digital outputs capable of sequencing on/off at a rate sufficient to satisfy the design. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052461 | INSULATING MEMBER AND STATOR - An insulator is provided between a stator core and a conductive wire provided on the stator core. The insulator includes a wound portion, around which the conductive wire is wounded, having a substantially rectangular shape; and a flange, formed in the axial end of the wound portion in the stator tooth tip side, for pressing the conductive wire in the axial direction (radial direction relative to the rotation axis of a rotor in a configuration of a rotating electrical machine). The flange includes four corner portions at its four corners, and intermediate portions formed between the four corner portions to have a width (B | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052467 | Transverse flux machine - A transverse flux machine (TFM) includes a stator assembly that provides a plurality of U-shaped magnetic circuits placed circumferentially around a rotor assembly. The plurality of U-shaped magnetic circuits being comprised of a first stator segment, a second stator segment, and a plurality of stator yokes. The first stator segment and the second stator segment each have a plurality of poles spaced around a first circumference and a plurality of slots spaced around a second circumference opposite each of the plurality of poles. The plurality of stator yokes each have a first end sized to fit within one of the slots associated with the first stator segment and a second end sized to fit in one of the slots associated with the second stator segment. Positioning of the first and second ends of the stator yokes within the slots of the first and second stator segments, respectively, results in the creation of the plurality of U-shaped magnetic circuits, each magnetic circuit defined by one of the plurality of poles associated with the first stator segment, one of the yokes, and one of the plurality of poles associated with the second stator segment. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052472 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes a first step of preparing a piezoelectric body with a flat surface, a second step of implanting ions into the piezoelectric body such that an ion-implanted layer is formed in the piezoelectric body, a third step of forming sacrificial layers on the flat surface of the piezoelectric body, a fourth step of forming an insulating body over the flat surface of the piezoelectric body and the sacrificial layers to form a piezoelectric structure, a fifth step of dividing the piezoelectric body at the ion-implanted layer to form a piezoelectric laminar structure in which a piezoelectric film separated from the piezoelectric body is bonded to the insulating body, a sixth step of forming electrodes on portions of a division surface of the piezoelectric film, and a seventh step of removing the sacrificial layers from the piezoelectric laminar structure. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052500 | SPARK PLUG AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION THEREOF - A spark plug and method of construction is provided, wherein the spark plug has a generally annular ceramic insulator and a metal shell surrounding at least a portion of the insulator. A ground electrode is operatively attached to the shell, wherein the ground electrode has a ground electrode sparking surface. The spark plug further includes a center electrode having an elongate body with a center electrode sparking surface. The sparking surface of the center electrode and the ground electrode sparking surface provide a spark gap. A brazed joint bonds at least one of the insulator to the shell or the center electrode to the insulator. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052536 | AMBIENT LED LIGHTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An ambient lighting system in a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a lighting module and a central controller. The lighting module is configured for electrical connection to the vehicle and for driving at least one light emitting diode (LED) arrangement to display a desired ambient color and intensity. The central controller is configured to transmit a roll call command on a data communication bus to the lighting module to determine whether the lighting module is electrically connected to the vehicle. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052552 | APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING LEDS - An apparatus for lighting LEDs includes an LED group load having the LEDs, a converter to generate a voltage applied to the LED group load, a current controller to control a current of the LED group load, a voltage controller to control an output voltage provided by the converter, a time division circuit to intermittently pass a current through the LED group load, and a selector. The selector, during a period in which the time division circuit passes a current through the LED group load, selects the current controller to control a current of the LED group load and thereby control an output voltage provided by the converter, and during a period in which the time division circuit passes no current through the LED group load, selects the voltage controller to control an output voltage provided by the converter. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052556 | Digital Control Circuit of an Operating Device for Lamps - The invention relates to an integrated digital control circuit for an operating device for lamps, comprising: an output for the pulsing of switches of a half-bridge circuit having an adjustable frequency, wherein a load circuit comprising the lighting devices may be connected to the half-bridge circuit, an input, to which a signal may be selectively supplied, said signal reflecting the current through the half-bridge or the current through the lamp. The input is internally branched into two analysis branches, the outputs of which are combined using a logic member, the output of which is connected in turn to a controller for adjusting the frequency of the half-bridge actuating signal. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052564 | BACKLIGHT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A backlighting assembly for an LCD display is divided into a plurality of selective dimming areas each having a respective plurality of light generating blocks. A plurality of driving units supply power to the light generating blocks. The light generating blocks are grouped into light source groups. Each of the driving units supplies power to at least one light generating block in a first light source group and a second light generating block in a second light source group but not to all the light generating blocks in any one light source group. Light generating blocks connected to a same driving unit may be distributedly arranged to be nonadjacent to one another. Plural driving units are used to fully power a brightly lit one dimming area, thereby reducing the loads on the individual driving units and preventing overheating. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052578 | SUBMINIATURE LINEAR VIBRATOR - Disclosed is a subminiature linear vibrator including a stationary body ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052584 | INCREASING TAPE VELOCITY BY DYNAMIC SWITCHING - An apparatus for controlling an electric motor is provided. A plurality of switches is provided for controlling a direction of current through motor coils of the electric motor. A brushless motor control circuit is connected to each of the plurality of switches. Responsive to a request to adjust one of an angular velocity and an angular acceleration of the electric motor, the plurality of switches are activated to place the motor coils in a predetermined configuration to maximize torque or reduce a total back electromotive force (BEMF) from the motor coils. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052631 | STRUCTURE OF A POWER SUPPLY - An improved structure of a power supply mainly discloses three PSR solutions based on a PWM controller that is used in charger/adapter solutions, in which a low voltage PNP transistor and zener diode composes error signal amplification circuit, or −431 typed shunt regulators senses and amplifies the input error signal caused by the changes of load or line voltage, or one diode and two resistors form sense circuit of error signal. These PSR solutions employ a transformer, in which the input side of the transformer is connected to an AC input and PWM controller, and the output side of the transformer is connected to a rectified diode. The present invention further provides low cost PSR solutions with higher system reliability, better line/load regulation, and short circuit characteristic. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052633 | MODIFIED CURRENT SOURCE (MCS) WITH SEAMLESS RANGE SWITCHING - A current source is provided with two resistor banks, and digital potentiometers are used to control how much each resistor bank affects the resulting output current. Furthermore, when the digital potentiometers are at a particular setting such that a particular resistor bank does not affect the resulting output current (i.e., the resistor bank is “inactive”), the resistance of that resistor bank can be switched without affecting the output current, thus minimizing or eliminating discontinuities in the output current during a current sweep operation. Thus, for example, when a resistor bank meets its threshold and becomes inactive, the resistance of the inactive resistor bank may be switched, and then the digital potentiometer setting may be changed to facilitate smoothly reactivating that resistor bank, with the new resistance. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052642 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A PHY'S DISCOVERY OF CABLE SHIELDING FOR POWER OVER ETHERNET CURRENT CAPACITY SETTING AND TEMPERATURE DE-RATING - A system and method for using a physical layer device's discovery of cable shielding for PoE current capacity setting and temperature de-rating. Headroom in a particular cable installation is increased when it is determined that the physical layer device is coupled to a shielded cable, which more effectively removes heat from a bundled cable. By the determination of the type of cabling, the current capable of being carried over the cable can be increased and/or the temperature de-rating decreased due to the removal of limitations of worst-case cable assumptions. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052659 | HIGH TEMPERATURE ELECTRONICS FOR PASSIVE EDDY CURRENT SENSORS - A system and method for sensing the periodic proximity of one or more objects, such as the rotating blades of a gas turbine. The system includes a passive eddy current sensing unit having first and second magnets and first and second coil-wound cores coupled to generate and detect first and second magnetic fields. The sensing unit is positioned relative to the object such that the first and second coil-wound cores produce outputs in response to the object periodically passing through the first and second magnetic fields, respectively. Circuitry electronically combines the outputs of the first and second coil-wound cores to produce output signals corresponding to the proximity and timing of the object as it periodically passes through the first and second magnetic fields. Electromagnetic interference noise present in the outputs of the first and second coil-wound cores is eliminated from the output signals of the circuitry. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052661 | Detection of the Onset of Switch Actuation via Magnetic Field - A magnet is affixed to a shaft or other pivoting or rotating member of a switch mechanism, on the axis of rotation. The radial position of the resulting magnetic field is monitored. A change in the magnetic field radial position, optionally in excess of a threshold, indicates the onset of switch actuation, prior to operative actuation of the switch mechanism. The radial position of the magnetic field is sensed by a magnetic rotary encoder. The detection of switch actuation onset may be used to remove current from a circuit prior to operative switch actuation. Because the magnet is rigidly affixed to the shaft, there is no lost motion. Because the shaft position and encoder are magnetically coupled, the detection mechanism contains no moving parts and no mechanical linkage or coupling, and its performance does not degrade due to shock, thermal effects, vibration, or wear. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052679 | Coil Array Mode Compression For Parallel Transmission Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A method for target-dependent, sparsity-enforced selection for choosing a substantially optimal connection of radiofrequency (“RF”) transmitters to the elements of the RF coil array is provided. In particular, a method is provided that selects the linear combinations of the “N” spatial mode profiles of a transmission RF coil array, such that the k-space trajectory and pulse duration acceleration capabilities of the array are advantageously utilized. A sparsity-enforcement method that determines a subset of the available spatial modes for a parallel transmission RF coil array is employed to this end. In this manner, the utilization of the encoding power of a highly-parallel N-mode coil array in a system with only “P” available excitation channels is enabled. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052711 | PROBE CARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - There is provided a method of manufacturing a probe card, the method including: providing a first substrate including a plurality of probe pin patterns for forming a probe pin and at least one first stress relieving groove for relieving thermal stress; forming the probe pin by filling a metal material in the plurality of probe pin patterns; bonding a surface of the first substrate where the probe pin is formed onto a surface of a second substrate; and transferring the probe pin onto the second substrate by heating the first and second substrates bonded together. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052719 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING DISPLAY PANEL - A testing device is provided for testing a display panel including a first circuit board. The testing device includes a second circuit board and a pressing element. The second circuit board includes a main body, multiple test pads, multiple testing circuits and multiple conducting elements. The test pads are arranged on a first surface of the main body and corresponding to respective pins of the first circuit board. The testing circuits are formed on the second surface of the main body and corresponding to respective test pads. The first circuit board is stacked on the second circuit board. The testing circuits are electrically with respective pins through respective conducting elements and respective test pads. The pressing element presses a stacking region between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, thereby facilitating close contact between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052753 | CLOCK SIGNAL DIVIDING CIRCUIT - A clock signal dividing circuit in which a dividing ratio is regulated by N/M (M and N are positive integers and satisfy M>N) includes: a variable delay circuit which gives a predetermined delay amount based on a control value to an input clock signal CKI to output an output clock signal CKO; and a variable delay control circuit which cumulatively adds values obtained by subtracting N from M every cycle of the input clock signal CKI, when the addition result is N or more, performs a calculation which subtracts N from the addition result to obtain a calculation result K, and calculates, to a maximum delay amount in the variable delay circuit corresponding to one cycle of the input clock signal CKI, a control value corresponding to a delay amount of K/N of the maximum delay amount to give the control value to the variable delay circuit. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052761 | DUAL POWER SOURCE PULSE GENERATOR FOR A TRIGGERING SYSTEM - A dual power source pulse generator in power connection with a pair of electrodes having a first electrode, a second electrode and an air gap therebetween. The dual power source pulse generator includes a first pulse source producing a high voltage low current pulse across the pair of electrodes to allow dielectric breakdown, and a second pulse source electrically connected in parallel with an output of the first pulse source, and producing a low voltage high current pulse to thereby produce a current flow of high-density plasma between the same electrodes of the pair of electrodes in response to the high voltage low current pulse. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052764 | LEVEL SHIFTER CONCEPT FOR FAST LEVEL TRANSIENT DESIGN - A driving circuit is provided by the invention. The driving circuit includes a level shifter, a buffer and a switch. The switch is coupled between an operation voltage and a power supply terminal of the first buffer for controlling a power-supplying time of the first buffer. While the level shifter is transiting, the switch is turned off, and the switch is turned on after the level shifter completes the transition. Therefore, the transition time of the level shifter is different from the transition time of the buffer so as to avoid simultaneously conducting large currents to adversely affect the transition capability of the level shifter. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING LOAD IMPEDANCE OF A DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER - The application discloses a method and apparatus for adjusting internal load impedances, by section, at feed points present on a distributed amplifier's output transmission line. The method includes determining a summing-point load impedance (Z | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052812 | MINIATURIZED MULTILAYER HYBRID-PHASE SIGNAL SPLITTER CIRCUIT - A miniaturized multilayer hybrid-phase signal splitter circuit is proposed, which is fully equivalent in function to a conventional rat-race coupler, but with a specialized circuit layout structure that allows its IC implementation to be more miniaturized than the conventional rat-race coupler. The proposed hybrid-phase signal splitter circuit features the use of a multilayer substrate for the layout of six transmission lines in such a manner that the transmission lines in the middle layer are inductively coupled to the transmission lines on the overlying layer as well as the transmission lines on the underlying layer to form a Marchand balun. In IC implementation, the required layout area is only about 10% of the layout area for the conventional rat-race coupler. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052828 | LINE CIRCUIT BREAKER AND MAGNET YOKE FOR A LINE CIRCUIT BREAKER - In line circuit breakers with a combined overcurrent/short-circuit current tripping device, tripping should take place in a well defined manner in the case of an overcurrent and in the case of a short-circuit current. For this purpose, gaps (A, B) need to be set precisely. If the housing is made from a cost-effective housing material such as thermosetting plastic it is subject to shrinkage. As a result, the mentioned gaps may change. An armature ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052861 | SIMULATING DEVICE, SIMULATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The simulating device and method that evaluates the intensity of radio waves including estimating a received power of a radio wave reaching an antenna of a radio tag having an IC chip connected with the antenna, calculating an impedance matching coefficient to use for matching an impedance of the antenna of the radio tag with an impedance of the IC chip of the radio tag, and adjusting the received power estimated with the use of the impedance matching coefficient calculated. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052865 | MULTIPLE FREQUENCY DETECTION SYSTEM - A multiple frequency detection system allows the seamless integration of an almost ideal EAS function with an RFID function. While not being limited to a particular theory, the preferred embodiments integrate EAS technology at, for example, 8.2 MHz or 14 MHz, and RFID technology at, for example, 13.56 MHz in a common antenna package. The use of standard RFID frequencies as forcing functions will allow for the easy packaging of EAS with RFID and have a true roadmap of a scalable technology. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052869 | COMBINATION FULL-DUPLEX AND HALF-DUPLEX ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION TAG - Transponders are disclosed that are configurable to operate in an HDX mode and/or an FDX-B mode and that use a switchable load impedance across the transponders' resonant antenna circuit to induce amplitude and/or frequency modulation. An RF level detection circuit determines when the instantaneous activation signal strength is sufficient to support monoplex, multiplex, and diplex operation. A non-volatile memory stores identification data coded in HDX and FDX-B formats. One embodiment of the invention includes an inductive antenna including two terminals connected to tag circuitry, where the inductive antenna forms a resonant antenna circuit tuned to resonate at the frequency of the activation signal. In addition, the tag circuitry includes a non-volatile memory, the tag circuitry and the resonant antenna circuitry are configurable as an oscillator, the tag circuitry is configured to be powered by electric current induced in the resonant antenna circuit by the activation signal, the tag circuitry includes at least one switchable load impedance connected across the antenna resonant circuit, the tag circuitry is configurable to amplitude modulate the activation signal appearing at the resonant antenna circuit terminals using a switchable load impedance, and the tag circuitry is configurable to frequency shift key modulate the oscillator signal appearing at the resonant antenna circuit terminals using a switchable load impedance. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052883 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING EXTERNAL VISUAL INDICATORS FOR VEHICLES - A method for controlling operation of an external visual indicator includes the steps of determining whether a second vehicle is approaching the first vehicle, and modifying the external visual indicator if the second vehicle is approaching the first vehicle. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052904 | ABNORMALITY DETECTING DEVICE - The abnormality detecting device of this invention comprises a movement detecting unit detecting a presence of a movement of a body based on a video signal in a monitored area, a body detecting unit detecting a predetermined body existence based on the video signal, a brightness level detecting unit detecting a brightness level of the video signal, a determining unit determining whether the detected brightness level is within a predetermined range, a first abnormality detecting unit, in case the brightness level is determined within the predetermined range, detecting the abnormal state occurrence when the movement of the body is detected and the predetermined body is detected, and a second abnormality detecting unit, in case the brightness level is determined to be outside the predetermined range, detecting the abnormal state occurrence when a movement of a body is detected, and detecting the abnormal state occurrence when the predetermined body is detected. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052906 | Anti-Theft Security Marker with Soft Magnetic Bias Component - An acoustic-magneto (AM) anti-theft marker is formed with the bias piece made from a soft magnetic material, instead of a “semi-hard” magnetic material that has been used in conventional anti-theft AM security markers. The method of manufacturing such soft magnetic bias pieces includes cold deforming a soft magnetic material with at least an eighty percent reduction rate, while keeping its DC coercivity below 12.5 Oe. The strip or wire of soft magnetic material is then cut to size as required for the bias piece. The anti-theft AM security marker has the soft magnetic bias piece placed inside or outside of the resonating cavity of the housing for the security tag with the resonator pieces inside the resonating cavity with a cover film placed over the housing. The soft magnetic bias piece or pieces effectively operate close to resonator piece or pieces with or without a non-magnetic separating film. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING CHARGING CURRENT OF A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method of testing charging current of a mobile electronic device sets a charging voltage value and a battery voltage value, and sends a control command to a power supply device to generate the charging voltage and the battery voltage. The system and method further receives a charging current value from a current test device under the charging voltage and the battery voltage. Furthermore, the system and method determine if the charging current value falls in an allowable current range and displays test result on a display device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052934 | NOVELTY VIDEO DEVICE AND METHOD - Described herein is a novelty item and method for creating a novelty item that delivers a personalized video selected by the user. The invention further provides that the video can be rerecorded numerous times until a satisfactory video has been recorded. The invention further provides means for disabling the video recording mechanism when a satisfactory video is recorded. The invention further provides means for recharging the playback mechanism. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052937 | REMOTE CONTROL TRANSMITTING DEVICE - An annular operation unit is formed as an outer shape to cover entire outline of a surface of a case, and inputting switches and displaying unit are attached inside of an opening at the center side of the annular operation unit, allowing the annular operation unit to have a size to perform fine rotational operations in case the entire size of the remote control transmitting device is miniaturized. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052965 | DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERTER CIRCUIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A digital-analog converter circuit includes: a first digital-analog conversion part that obtains an analog output signal in response to a value of a digital input signal; and a second digital-analog conversion part that generates a control signal in response to a value of a digital gain control input signal externally input, wherein the first digital-analog conversion part adjusts a start voltage or end voltage of the analog output signal based on the digital gain control input signal for controlling the second digital-analog conversion part. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052982 | GPS DEVICE WITH SECURITY FUNCTION AND MEHOD THEREOF - This present disclosure provides a GPS device with security function and method for the same. The GPS device includes a communications unit configured to transmit communication data between the GPS device and at least one external controlled device, at least one motion sensing unit, the method includes steps of: detecting current motion state of a vehicle, and obtaining sensing information; generating a first control signal to an external controlled device, when determining the vehicle is in a defined particular motion state; transmitting the first control signal to turn on the controlled device through the communications unit; generating a second control signal to the controlled device, when determining the vehicle isn't the particular motion state; transmitting the second control signal to turn off the controlled device through the communications unit. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100052997 | ANTENNA MODULES AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING THE SAME - An antenna module includes an antenna set, a feeding point and a ground plane. The antenna set includes a first antenna, and a second antenna. The first antenna has a first resonant frequency and the second antenna a second resonant frequency. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053036 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention can drive a panel at a high speed, and reduce a brightness difference which may be generated in block driving, to thereby improve picture quality of a display image. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053037 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel that includes a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and a data electrode; and a scan driver that supplies the scan electrode with a first driving voltage serving as a reference voltage, a second driving voltage supplied from a single voltage source, and a third driving voltage that has the same magnitude as that of the second driving voltage and has the opposite polarity of that of the second driving voltage. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053047 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME - A display device includes a data line, a first and second pixel rows and a first and second gate control lines all formed on a substrate. The first pixel row includes a plurality of pixels each containing two neighboring first sub-pixel and second sub-pixel, the first sub-pixel is coupled to the data line, the second sub-pixel is coupled to the data line through the first sub-pixel. The second pixel row is neighboring with the first pixel row and includes a plurality of pixels each containing two neighboring third sub-pixel and fourth sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel is coupled to the data line, the fourth sub-pixel is coupled to the data line through the third sub-pixel. The first and second gate control lines respectively are for enabling the first and second sub-pixels and both are not used to enable the third and fourth sub-pixels. A driving method of gate control lines also is provided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053088 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A KEY RANGE OF A KEYCAPLESS KEYBOARD - An apparatus and method for adjusting a key range of a keycapless keyboard are provided. The apparatus includes a keyboard, a controller, and a manager. The keyboard is comprised of a touch screen. The controller determines whether revision of a user's input value through the keyboard has occurred. The manager adjusts a key range to avoid a user's input error if revisions with a same pattern have occurred as many times as a predefined number. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053095 | Method Capable of Preventing Mistakenly Triggering a Touch panel - To perform palm rejection, scan a plurality of areas on a touch panel to detect a plurality of triggered areas within the plurality of areas. Then detect which of the triggered areas are next to one another to determine a plurality of blocks. If the plurality of blocks contain a block with an overlarge area, then eliminate the block with the overlarge area, and generate a current coordinate according to a block with a smaller area which may be triggered by a finger or stylus. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053118 | DISPLAY MODULE - A display module includes a display panel and a fingerprint sensor. The display panel includes a display region, a peripheral region next to the display region, an active device array substrate, and an opposite substrate. The fingerprint sensor is disposed in the peripheral region of the active device array substrate of the display panel. Besides, the fingerprint sensor includes a light guide element, a light source, and a photosensor array. The photosensor array is disposed on the active device array substrate. The light guide element is disposed over the photosensor array. The light source is disposed on a side surface of the light guide element or below the light guide element. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053122 | Display control of classified content based on flexible interface E-paper conformation - A system includes, but is not limited to one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct acquisition of first information associated with one or more changes in one or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of a flexible interface containing electronic device and one or more display control modules configured to direct control of display of one or more portions of the flexible interface containing electronic device regarding display of second information having one or more classifications in response to the first information associated with the one or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the flexible interface containing electronic device. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053158 | UNIFIED TESSELLATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREFOR - A hardware tessellation circuit serves as a unified hardware parametric coordinate generator for providing parametric coordinates for tessellation. The tessellation circuit includes control logic that receives tessellation instruction information, such as an instruction indicating which type of multiple tessellation operations to perform, on an incoming primitive wherein the different types of tessellation include discrete tessellation, continuous tessellation and adaptive tessellation. The tessellation circuit also includes shared tessellation logic that is controlled by the control logic, and includes a plurality of shared logic units, such as arithmetic logic units, that are controllable by the control logic based on the type of tessellation detected to be used for the incoming primitive. The shared tessellation logic is controlled to reuse at least some of the logic units for two different tessellation operations defined by the tessellation type information. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053178 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: at least one image input unit, to which a plurality of input images are input according to respective frame rates; and a controller that arranges an operation time and an operation order of each of tasks for processing a corresponding image of the plurality of input images according to the respective frame rates, and performs each of the tasks according to the operation time and the operation order. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053179 | Systems and Methods for Framebuffer Management - Methods for managing a framebuffer in a single memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory on printing devices are presented. In some embodiments, a method for managing at least one pixmap corresponding to an image using equal sized blocks allocated to the pixmap from a memory pool comprises: receiving a request for at least one scanline in the image; securing a pointer to at least one block from the memory pool in response to the request for the at least one scanline, if memory blocks are available in the memory pool; and applying at least one of a plurality of memory freeing strategies, if there are no memory blocks available in the memory pool. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053186 | MESH TRANSFFER IN N-D SPACE - Systems and methods are disclosed allowing data and other information from one model to be transferred to another model. A surface correspondence between meshes of the models can be created that provides a transfer or sharing of information to include all points of one mesh and all points of the other mesh. Additionally, a volume correspondence between the models can be created to transfer information found within corresponding volumes or other n-D spaces associated with the models. Mesh information and other data at, near, or otherwise within a volume or other n-D space associated with one model can be “pushed through” the volume correspondences to transfer the data to its designated location on, at, near, or otherwise within a corresponding volume or other n-D space associated with the other model. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053192 | Information Processing Apparatus, Program, and Information Processing Method - An information processing apparatus including a storage section storing a plurality of content data and characteristics data of the plurality of content data, and a creation section for creating a moving image having movement according to the characteristics data of each of the plurality of content data and for creating a list screen of the plurality of content data including the moving image for each of the plurality of content data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053194 | DATA CREATING APPARATUS, DRAWING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHODS THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIA - In a data creating apparatus, stored in a character information storing unit is information representing a basic portion of a graphic. A gradation information creating unit extracts oversampling information, and generates gradation data of a portion other than the basic portion of the graphic by an oversampling process. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053242 | Liquid jet recording apparatus, liquid jet head unit, and liquid jet recording method - Provided is a liquid jet recording apparatus which maintains a function of adjusting pressure of liquid jetted from a jetting portion toward a recording medium and which still has a simple apparatus structure. In the liquid jet recording apparatus, a pressure sensor is provided in a tube between a liquid storing portion and a roller tube pump, the pressure of liquid which flows through the tube is measured, a pressure value is sent to a control portion, the pressure value is compared with lower limit values and upper limit values stored in a definition file stored in the control portion, a corresponding drive signal is sent to a drive portion, a roller tube pump is driven in a normal direction or in a reverse direction by a drive portion, and in this way, the pressure of the liquid in a jetting portion is adjusted. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053245 | High speed dual pass ink jet printer - A method is disclosed. The method includes performing a first print pass to print a first data point on a medium using a first set of ink jet nozzles and performing a second print pass to print the first data point on the medium with a second set of ink jet nozzles. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053292 | DUAL BLADE RELEASE AGENT APPLICATION APPARATUS - A application apparatus for metering release agent onto an image forming device moving surface, such as a Solid Ink Jet drum. The application apparatus includes a blade positioning mechanism with first and second links each having three pivot connections for pivotally connecting first and second blades together in mutually exclusive cooperative movement alternating between a common working position at a first location and respective suspended positions. The application apparatus can include a doctor blade arrangement in which the blades are disposed in a doctor blade orientation in the working position. The application apparatus can include a wiper blade arrangement in which the blades are disposed in a wiper blade orientation in the working position. The first and second blades form similar blade holder angles, blade deflection angles and Working Angles when occupying the working position. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING THE LINEARITY ERROR IN ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICES - The invention describes a method and system for correcting linearity error of an electrophotographic device with a reduced number of lenses. The method and system insert additional time-slices in the data being processed by the electrophotographic device. The additional time-slices are inserted in the data in a predefined order based on a plurality of random numbers. The insertion of additional time-slices corrects the linearity error of the electrophotographic device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053303 | Image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, program and recording medium - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that converts an image entering through a lens system into a captured image; a display unit that displays an image with a first field angle obtained from the captured image that is currently being shot; a moving distance detecting unit that detects a moving distance between images with the first field angle based on a plurality of images with the first angle sequentially captured; a partial image storing unit that stores an image with a second field angle that is less than the first field angle; and a panorama composing unit that composes a panoramic image based on a plurality of images with the second field angle stored in the partial image storing unit and the moving distances between the images with the first field angle that are respectively associated with the plurality of images with the second field angle. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053305 | Stereoscopic video delivery - A method of operation of a de-interlacer/scaler for display of stereoscopic images consistent with certain implementations involves at a de-interlacer/scaler, receiving consecutive frames of video information that contain alternating left and right eye images from a decoder; at the de-interlacer/scaler, disabling all image processing algorithms that utilize pixel data for temporally or spatially adjacent pixels that represent images, where at least one pixel is for the left eye and one pixel is for the right eye; and sending stereoscopic images from the de-interlacer/scaler to a display. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053346 | Image Processing Apparatus, Imaging Apparatus, Solid-State Imaging Device, Image Processing Method and Program - An image processing apparatus includes: a shaking estimating unit configured to estimate the shaking information of an image generated within a predetermined period of time; a short-time-exposure shaking correcting unit configured to correct the shaking of a plurality of short-time-exposure images generated due to intermittent exposure within the predetermined period of time based on the estimated shaking information; a long-time-exposure shaking correcting unit configured to correct the shaking of a long-time-exposure image generated due to consecutive exposure within the predetermined period of time based on the estimated shaking information; and an image synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the corrected short-time-exposure images and the corrected long-time-exposure image. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053353 | Method and system for aiding user alignment for capturing partially overlapping digital images - A method and system for aiding user alignment of two or more partially overlapping digital images. A first image is captured. A portion of a first image is displayed with a preview of a portion of a second image. The second image is adjusted by movement of an used to capture the first image and generate the preview of the second image). Once satisfactory alignment is achieved, the second image is captured. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053364 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - This invention enables an intention of a photographer to be reflected with greater accuracy in image processing based on actions performed by the photographer when taking an image. Based on user information acquired by a user information acquisition section, supplementary information such as whether a composition flag is on or off and assignment of an image classification is recorded with an image. Based on the supplementary information, various types of image processing such as setting an image trimming range, imparting an effect, and arranging an image on a mount are performed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053373 | PORTABLE TERMINAL - A controller of a cellular phone acquires data of a date and a time when an object is captured from a clock part, in addition to image data of the object captured in an image capture mode by a camera part, and stores those data as image capture date data and image capture time data in a storage part in association with the image data in addition to the image data. Furthermore, when image capture date data of the image data stored in the storage part match date data outputted from the clock part in a standby mode, then the controller reads the image data and the image capture date and the image capture time corresponding to the image data from the storage part and controls a display part to display the image data with superimposing the image capture date and the image capture time thereon. The image data is displayed on the display part while the image capture date and the image capture time corresponding to the image data are superimposed on the image data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053398 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a imaging apparatus including a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: a photoelectric conversion unit; a charge accumulating unit; an amplifying unit, and a transfer electrode, wherein the solid-state imaging apparatus includes a light shielding portion covering the charge accumulating unit, and a connecting unit for electrically connecting the control electrode and the light shielding portion, and wherein the light shielding portion of the pixel in one row is electrically connected to the other light shielding portions of the other pixels in the same row and adjacent to the pixel in the one row, and is electrically insulated from other light shielding portions of pixels in rows different from the one row. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053409 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a casing, an image capturing module, and a biaxial hinge element. The biaxial hinge element has a first hinge and a second hinge. Two ends of the first hinge protrude from two sides of the biaxial hinge element thus to be pivotally connected to the casing, respectively. The second hinge is pivotally connected to the image capturing module. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053415 | DIGITAL PRESENTER - Techniques for displaying an image are provided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053429 | Picture signal processing unit, image display unit, and picture signal processing method - A picture signal processing unit having a first and a second double rate conversion section, a storage section, and a quadruple rate conversion section is provided. The first double rate conversion section inserts a first interpolation frame between a couple of successive original frames to output the original frames and the first interpolation frames. The second double rate conversion section generates a second and a third interpolation frames and allocates the second and the third interpolation frames between the couple of successive original frames to output the second and the third interpolation frames. The storage section stores the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames. The quadruple rate conversion section sequentially reads out the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames from the storage section in a quadruple rate to output the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESPECKLING A LASER LIGHT SOURCE - Systems and methods that facilitate the de-speckling of a laser source in a projection televisions. In a preferred embodiment, laser light from a laser source strikes first and second mirrors on its way to a spatial light modulator and projection optics. Preferably the mirrors are incompletely flat, and preferably move or are caused to rotate. The mirrors preferably deviate from flatness by an amount of at least one or more wavelengths, and rotate at a rate different than the video frame rate and at different rates from one another to ensure that light encountering the deviation of the first mirror strikes the second mirror at a different location than on the first mirror. As the coherent light is reflected by the mirrors the path length it takes continuously changes thereby continuously changing the phase of the light striking the screen causing the bright spots in a speckle pattern to continuously disappear and reappear elsewhere on the screen. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053489 | PIXEL ARRAY SUBSTRATE - A pixel array substrate includes a pixel region and a circuit region adjacent to the pixel region. A plurality of display pixel units are disposed in the pixel region and a plurality of dummy pixel units are disposed in the circuit region. Each of the dummy pixel units includes a data line, a scan line, a plurality of switching elements and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The switching elements are electrically connected to the scan line and data line. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the switching elements. Particularly, electrostatic currents in the pixel region can be dissipated by the dummy pixel units in the circuit region. The dummy pixel units preserve the continuity of electricity in the pixel array substrate and function as an inner short ring. Therefore, the area of the circuit region on the pixel array substrate is larger. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053492 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYING DEVICE - A frame is narrowed by a technically reasonable design, without technical limitation for frame narrowing which tends to be considered troublesome when bent-tube type fluorescent tubes having U-shaped bent portions are to be alternately arranged to face each other nor without the trouble of storing the bent-type fluorescent tubes in a chassis while being manufactured. A backlight device ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053510 | LAMINATED OPTICAL FILM, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE LAMINATED OPTICAL FILM - Provided are a laminated optical film capable of enhancing a contrast ratio in an oblique direction remarkably while enhancing viewing angle characteristics when being used in a liquid crystal display apparatus or the like, and a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the laminated optical film. The laminated optical film of the present invention includes a polarizer, a first optical compensation layer, and a second optical compensation layer in the stated order, in which the first optical compensation layer has a refractive index profile of nx>nz>ny and is placed so that a slow axis direction thereof is substantially parallel to or substantially perpendicular to an absorption axis direction of the polarizer, and the second optical compensation layer converts linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light or circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light in a visible light region. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053514 | PIXEL STRUCTURE FOR USE IN A DISPLAY AND DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A pixel structure for a display device is provided. The pixel structure utilizes light entering from the ambient environment of the display as a light source. The pixel structure comprises a first substrate, a light obstructing layer, an active element and an adjustable light shielding layer. The light obstructing layer is disposed on the first substrate and has a transparent area and an opaque area. The active element is disposed on the opaque area of the light obstructing layer and has a first state and a second state. The adjustable light shielding layer is disposed on the light obstructing layer and the active element. When the active element is in the first state, the adjustable light shielding layer is adapted to cover the transparent area to shield the light from emitting out from the first substrate. When the active element is in the second state, the adjustable light shielding layer is driven to uncover the transparent area so that the light is adapted to emit out from the transparent area and the first substrate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053515 | Liquid crystal display device with orientation control projection having light shielding - The present invention lowers leaking of light at the time of performing a black display of VA-type liquid crystal display device and, at the same time, prevents lowering of a numerical aperture. In a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display panel which sandwiches a liquid crystal material between a first substrate having a pixel electrode and a second substrate having a counter electrode, the second substrate includes an orientation control projection which is formed by forming a conductive film on the second substrate, by forming an insulation film on the conductive film and, thereafter, by patterning the insulation film, and a light shielding layer which is formed by patterning the conductive film using the orientation control projection as a mask. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053564 | ILLUMINATOR AND PROJECTOR - An illuminator includes: a first light source and a second light source that are disposed substantially symmetrically with respect to an illumination optical axis, wherein each of the first and second light sources includes an arc tube, a first reflector disposed to surround part of the entire space around the optical axis of the arc tube, the first reflector reflecting the light emitted from the arc tube toward an object to be illuminated, and a second reflector disposed on the opposite side of the optical axis of the arc tube to the first reflector, the second reflector reflecting the light emitted from the arc tube toward the first reflector. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053571 | Wavelength Conversion Devices Having Multi-Component Output Faces and Systems Incorporating The Same - The present invention relates generally to wavelength conversion devices and laser projection systems incorporating the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, wavelength conversion devices are provided without limitation of their field of use to laser projection systems. For example, the wavelength conversion device may comprise an axial waveguide portion and a pair of lateral planar waveguide portions confined between a pair of relatively low index cladding layers. The effective index of refraction in the axial waveguide portion of the waveguide region and the effective index of refraction in the lateral planar waveguide portions of the waveguide region are established such that the relatively low intensity laterally distributed parasitic light is characterized by a scattering angle θ that is at least as large as the beam divergence angle of the relatively high intensity light propagating in the axial waveguide portion. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053579 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING A RETICLE USING CHARACTER PROJECTION PARTICLE BEAM LITHOGRAPHY - A method for manufacturing a surface, the surface having a multiplicity of slightly different patterns, is disclosed with the method comprising the steps of designing a stencil mask having a set of characters for forming the patterns on the surface and reducing shot count or total write time by use of a character varying technique. A system for manufacturing a surface is also disclosed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053580 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND EXPOSURE METHOD - A computer readable medium containing computer-executable instructions which cause a computer to execute processing steps that calculate a light intensity distribution formed on an image plane of a projection optical system. When executed, the medium causes a computer to execute the steps of dividing an effective light source into the plurality of areas, generating, for each of the plurality of areas, a plurality of shifted pupil functions by shifting a pupil function in accordance with a position of each of divided point sources, defining, for each of the plurality of areas, a matrix including the plurality of pupil functions, calculating, for each of the plurality of areas, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions by performing singular value decomposition of the matrix, and calculating, for each of the plurality of areas, the light intensity distribution based on a diffracted light distribution from the mask and the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053608 | TACTILE SENSOR BASED ON COUPLED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE - Systems and methods for sensing an applied local tactile pressure are disclosed. The methods can include directing light onto a tactile sensing element that includes a metal nanoparticle layer. The methods can further include receiving at least a portion of the light scattered from the metal nanoparticle layer. The methods can further include determining a local pressure exerted on the tactile sensing element based at least in part on a change in a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectrum of the received portion of the scattered light. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053615 | ROTATION DETECTION KIT - A rotation detection kit, comprising: a beam source; a receiver comprising at least one beam intensity sensor; a polariser device for location in the path of a beam emitted from the beam source and received by the beam sensor; and a modulator. The modulator is configured to modulate at least one of i) the beam source and ii) a beam emitted by the beam source to create a discretely varying polarisation orientation thereby defining first and at least second temporally spaced beam portions. The temporally spaced beam portions are incident on the polariser device and the beam sensor and have substantially identical profiles and at least an initial common propagation axis toward the polariser device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053616 | ALIGNMENT MARK AND METHOD OF GETTING POSITION REFERENCE FOR WAFER - An alignment mark on a wafer is described, including at least one dense pattern and at least one block-like pattern adjacent thereto and shown as at least one dark image and at least one bright image adjacent thereto. A method of getting a position reference for a wafer is also described. An above alignment mark is formed. The alignment mark, which is shown as at least one dark image and at least one bright image adjacent thereto that are formed by the at least one dense pattern and the at least one block-like pattern, is then detected. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053667 | Printing Device and Computer-Readable Record Medium Storing Program for Printing Device - A printing device comprises a communication unit which executes communication with a mail server on a network, a connection unit to which a portable storage medium storing setting information can be connected, a printing unit which executes printing, and a control unit which executes a mail printing process of acquiring a specified e-mail from the mail server via the communication unit by use of the setting information stored in the portable storage medium connected to the connection unit and executing printing based on the acquired e-mail with the printing unit. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053678 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing apparatus includes: a reading section which performs scanning in a readable range; a flexible flat cable (FFC) which is connected to the reading section; a printing section which performs printing on the basis of readout data acquired through the flexible flat cable; and a positioning section which positions the reading section at a predetermined position other than the readable range. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053719 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR MERGING A FIRST AND A SECOND PARTIAL IMAGE BEAM, EACH PROCEEDING FROM A SPECIMEN, INTO A RESULTANT IMAGE BEAM - An optical system is described for merging a first and a second partial image beam emanating from a specimen into a resultant image beam allowing modification of the areal proportion of the respective first or second partial image beam in the resultant image beam. A stop arrangement comprises at least a first and a second movable stop element each comprising at least one stop region adapted to be brought into a working position with the first or second partial image beam. Movably arranged connecting means for connecting the two stop elements are provided to modify the respective areal proportions of the partial image beams in the resultant image beam by movement of the connecting means. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053732 | High-Speed Multiplied Signal Generating Method And Device - It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus that can obtain a multiplied harmonic signal fast and with ease, and the method using the apparatus. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053745 | VIDEO ADAPTER FOR A MICROSCOPE CAMERA - A video adapter for a microscope is described, comprising a first connection for connecting the microscope; a second connection for connecting a camera; and at least one optical component for performing at least one of exposure setting, focus setting, magnification setting and deflection of at least one part of an observation beam path of the microscope into an image plane of the camera. The at least one optical component has an SLM optical unit. Further, a system is described comprising the aforementioned video adapter, a microscope, and a camera. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053759 | ANTIREFLECTION COATING AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An antireflection coating is formed on a transparent substrate and includes an Al film having a transmittance of lower than 10% at a wavelength of 550 nm with a thickness of 25 nm and predominantly composed of aluminum (Al), and an Al—N film formed in at least one of an upper layer and a lower layer of the Al film, having a transmittance of equal to or higher than 10% at a wavelength of 550 nm with a thickness of 25 nm, predominantly composed of Al and at least containing a nitrogen (N) element as an additive. A specific resistance of the antireflection coating is equal to or lower than 1.0×10 | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053764 | PROJECTION LENS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a projection lens that is faster than F1.95 and has a simple inner focus structure, a high optical performance, and a small size, and a projection display device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053774 | SMALL PROJECTION LENS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A small projection lens includes a first lens, which is a biconvex lens, an aperture, an aperture diaphragm (or an aperture), a second lens, which is a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface facing a magnification side, a third lens, which is a positive meniscus lens having a convex surface facing a reduction side, and a fourth lens, which is a biconvex lens having aspheric surfaces at both sides on an optical axis, arranged in this order from the magnification side. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053776 | Imaging Lens and Small-Size Image Pickup Apparatus using the Same - There are provided an imaging lens, which is capable of promoting high definition and miniaturization of a small-size image pickup apparatus, and the small-size image pickup apparatus using the same. A aperture diaphragm S is arranged between a first lens L | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053804 | VIBRATION DAMPER FOR ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY - The present disclosure provides a vibration damper for an actuator assembly. One exemplary embodiment relates to an actuator assembly including a magnetic assembly configured to produce a magnetic field and an actuator movable relative to the magnetic assembly in response to the magnetic field, wherein the actuator includes a vibration damper which interacts with the magnetic field. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053839 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ELECTROSTATIC PROTECTION STRUCTURE - An electronic device includes a circuit board and an electrostatic protection structure. The circuit board has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The electrostatic protection structure is positioned on the top surface of the circuit board. The electrostatic protection includes an insulating layer and a conducting layer coating on the insulating layer. Four ground terminals are formed on the bottom surface of the circuit board. The insulating layer includes a main portion and four first connecting portions extending from the main portion. The conducting layer on the four first connecting portion are connected to the four first ground terminal. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053843 | DIELECTRIC CERAMIC, METHOD FOR PRODUCING DIELECTRIC CERAMIC, AND MONOLITHIC CERAMIC CAPACITOR - A dielectric ceramic contains a barium titanate and Li. In the dielectric ceramic, the following inequalities are satisfied: 0.5≦e≦6.0, 0.06| 2010-03-04 | |
| 20100053846 | ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR - It is disclosed that an electric double layer capacitor includes a plurality of cells each including activated-carbon electrodes disposed on both sides of a separator; a plurality of packing members each disposed at an outer periphery of the cell, each of the plurality of cells and the plurality of packing members being stacked through a charge collector; and both end plates sandwiching the plurality of cells and the plurality of packing members through both collector electrodes, at least one of the end plates being formed with an inlet through which an electrolytic solution is injected. Moreover, the electric double layer capacitor is covered and sealed with an enclosing member. Moreover, the electric double layer capacitor includes an O-ring disposed in the inlet, or alternatively, an edge of the inlet is curved. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053876 | LAPTOP COMPUTER - The invention relates to a laptop computer with at least one first body component ( | 2010-03-04 |
