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20100310899 | METHOD FOR MAKING HOUSING AND HOUSING THEREOF - A method for making a housing comprises of providing a metal substrate; forming a base paint coating on the substrate; vacuum depositing a first metal coating on the base paint coating, the first metal coating being a chromium coating or a stainless steel coating; vacuum depositing a second metal coating on the first metal coating, the second metal coating being a commix metal coating containing chromium and stainless steel; and vacuum depositing a third metal coating on the second metal coating, the third metal coating being a stainless steel coating. A housing made by the above mentioned method is also described there. | 12-09-2010 |
20110316197 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An injection molding system includes a mold with a mold cavity, an injection device, and a temperature control device. The injection device is capable of injecting a molten material into the mold cavity. The temperature control device includes a heating system and a cooling system. The heating system utilizes hot fluid to increase a temperature of the mold to a predetermined upper temperature when the injection device starting to inject the material. The cooling system utilizes cool fluid to decrease the temperature of the mold to a predetermined low temperature when the material is being solidified in the mold cavity. | 12-29-2011 |
20120251838 | COATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A coated article is described. The coated article includes a substrate, a titanium bonding layer, a titanium-chromium alloy transition layer, and a titanium-chromium-nitrogen hard layer formed thereon, and in that order. The titanium bonding layer is a titanium layer. The titanium-chromium alloy transition layer is a titanium-chromium alloy layer. The titanium-chromium-nitrogen hard layer is a titanium-chromium-nitrogen layer. The titanium bonding layer, titanium-chromium alloy transition layer, and the titanium-chromium-nitrogen hard layer are formed by ion beam assisted sputtering. | 10-04-2012 |
20120273346 | FLOW DIVIDER SYSTEM - A flow divider system includes a gas box defining a chamber and an outlet gate, a shield located in the chamber and shielding the outlet gate, the shield including a main body, the main body defining a number of openings communicating the chamber with the outlet gate. The shielding can further includes a number of shield boards adjustably fixed to the main body, to adjustably shield portions of the openings. | 11-01-2012 |
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20080242806 | Water-Soluble Fluorescent Particle Comprising Entangled Fluorescent Polymer and Amphiphilic Molecule - Water-soluble fluorescent particles are formed in a simple process. A mixture comprising a solvent, water, a fluorescent polymer dissolved in the solvent, and an amphiphilic molecule is provided. The fluorescent polymer comprises a hydrophobic segment. The amphiphilic molecule comprises hydrophilic and hydrophobic segments. The solvent is removed from the mixture to allow the fluorescent polymer and the amphiphilic molecule to entangle in the presence of water, thus forming the water-soluble fluorescent particles. In the formed particles, the hydrophilic segments of the amphiphilic molecule are entangled with one another, and the hydrophobic segments of the fluorescent polymer and amphiphilic molecule are entangled with one another. The amphiphilic molecule encapsulates the fluorescent polymer and at least some of the hydrophilic segments are exposed to render the particle soluble in water. | 10-02-2008 |
20100196611 | NANOCOMPOSITES AND PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION - A process of forming a composite material comprising treating pristine clay with water to form a swollen clay, intercalating the swollen clay with an organic solvent to form an organic solvent intercalated swollen clay by exchanging the water with the organic solvent while maintaining the swollen clay in a swollen state with the solvent. The organic solvent intercalated swollen clay is then treated with a silane coupling agent and the organic solvent intercalated swollen clay so modified is mixed with an epoxy matrix material to form a nanocomposite. The nanocomposite is then applied to a reinforcing material to thereby form a composite material. | 08-05-2010 |
20100279095 | COMPOSITE FILMS COMPRISING CARBON NANOTUBES AND POLYMER - A process for forming a composite film on a substrate comprises providing a suspension comprising an ionised polymer and functionalised carbon nanotubes in a solvent, at least partially immersing the substrate and a counterelectrode in the suspension, and applying a voltage between the substrate and the counterelectrode so as to form the composite film on the substrate. Electrical charges on the polymer and on the nanotubes have the same sign and the voltage is applied such that the charge on the substrate has the opposite sign to the charge on the polymer and the nanotubes. | 11-04-2010 |
20120046622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A POROUS BIODEGRADEABLE MEDICAL IMPLANT DEVICE - A method of producing a porous biodegradable medical implant device, the method comprising providing a mixed blend comprising a mixture of at least two biocompatible materials having different degradation or solubility characteristics; molding the mixed blend to produce a molded part; and processing the molded part to remove one of the at least two biocompatible materials by a predetermined amount from the molded part to produce the porous biodegradable medical implant device. | 02-23-2012 |
20130005856 | Nano-Composite - There is provided a method of making a nano-composite having individual nano-sized silica particles dispersed in a polymer matrix, the method comprises the step of curing a substantially homogeneous mixture of surface-functionalized nano-sized silica particles, a polymerizable resin and a curing agent, wherein said substantially homogeneous mixture is substantially free of alcoholic solvent to form the nano-composite. | 01-03-2013 |
20130071672 | BARRIER LAYER, A PROCESS OF MAKING A BARRIER LAYER AND USES THEREOF - There is provided a barrier layer comprising silicate chemically coupled to a polymer matrix. There is also provided a process for making the barrier layer and uses thereof. | 03-21-2013 |
20140272372 | LAYERED SILICATE/POLYMER COMPOSITE AND A METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for forming a layered silicate/polymer composite, the composite comprising individual exfoliated silicate layers separated in a continuous polymer matrix, wherein the polymer is a hydrophobic polymer, the method comprising: exfoliating sheet silicate in water to form a silicate suspension; replacing the water in the silicate suspension by an organic solvent to form a silicate/organic solvent suspension; contacting the silicate/organic solvent suspension with a solution of a hydrophobic polymer precursor in an organic solvent to form a silicate/polymer precursor suspension; coating the silicate/polymer precursor suspension on a substrate; removing the organic solvents; curing the hydrophobic polymer precursor of the coating of the silicate/polymer precursor; and annealing the cured coating to form the layered silicate/polymer composite on the substrate. | 09-18-2014 |
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20110318227 | SWITCHES FOR MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS - A microfluidic system including a substrate in sheet form, at least one hydrophilic microfluidic channel supported on a surface of the substrate, and at least one function component formed as part of the substrate for providing a functional component for the microfluidic channel wherein the functional component comprises at least one cut within the substrate for providing a switch or filter component for the microfluidic channel. | 12-29-2011 |
20120009662 | METHOD OF FABRICATING MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS - A method of fabricating a microfluidic system having microfluidic channels on a surface of a hydrophilic substrate, the method including the steps of: hydrophobizing the substrate surface; locating a mask defining the substrate surface, the mask having open areas defining the periphery of the microfluidic channels; and applying an irradiation treatment to areas of the substrate surface exposed by the open areas of the mask, said exposed areas becoming hydrophilic to therefore form said microfluidic channels. | 01-12-2012 |
20120171702 | QUANTITATIVE AND SELF-CALIBRATING CHEMICAL ANALYSIS USING PAPER-BASED MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS - A method of determining the concentration of a test fluid sample using a paper-based microfluidic system having a plurality of hydrophilic testing zones, including: a) depositing said test fluid sample on at least one said testing zone; b) depositing a plurality of standard fluid samples or reactives of differing known concentrations on other said testing zones; c) introducing an indicator solution to each said test zone to thereby react with the deposited fluid sample and result in a colour intensity change which is a function of the fluid sample concentration; and d) comparing the differences in colour intensity between the test fluid sample and the standard fluid samples or reactives to thereby determine the concentration of said test fluid sample. | 07-05-2012 |
20120192952 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS - A three-dimensional microfluidic system including: at least one hydrophilic thread along which fluid can be transported through capillary wicking; and at least one hydrophobic substrate for supporting the hydrophilic thread. A method of transporting and mixing a plurality of fluids within a microfluidic system including at least two hydrophilic threads and a hydrophobic substrate having at least two zones, each of the hydrophilic threads supported on a different hydrophobic substrate zone, including: delivering each said fluid to a different hydrophilic thread; and bringing the at least two hydrophilic threads into contact to cause mixing of the fluids. | 08-02-2012 |
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20140171106 | Systems and Methods for User Equipment Mobility Prediction - System and method embodiments for mobility prediction in a wireless network enable the wireless network to determine the location of a wireless device with minimal transmissions from the wireless device. In an embodiment, the method includes negotiating with a mobile device to determine a mobility prediction algorithm and a condition upon which the mobile wireless device will report the actual location of the mobile device, training the mobility prediction algorithm using prior mobile wireless device location and timestamp information, determining a predicted location of the mobile device using the mobility prediction algorithm, and setting an predicted location for the mobile device at a time as the actual location for the mobile device at the time when failing to receive a location report from the mobile wireless device, wherein the mobile device transmits actual location information after the training period only if the condition is met. | 06-19-2014 |
20140308962 | System and Method for Wireless Network Access MAP and Applications - Embodiments are provided for a location-based network discovery and connection establishment, which take advantage of location/positioning technology of user equipment (UE) and resolve issues above of the blind search approaches. The location-based network discovery and connection establishment schemes use UE location information and a network access MAP to speed up network discovery, and remove the need for continuous search and measurement by the UE. The schemes also reduce the search space. A wireless network access map (MAP) is provided to the UE. The UE uses the MAP information with UE current location information to reduce the search space and speed up network discovery and radio connection establishment with the network. Network operators can use this network access MAP to control the network access and manage the network load distribution. The network access MAP can be customized for each UE. | 10-16-2014 |
20140362688 | System and Method for an Agile Wireless Access Network - A system and method for agile wireless access network is provided. A method embodiment for agile radio access network management includes determining, by a network controller, capabilities and neighborhood relations of radio nodes in the radio access network. The network controller then configures a backhaul network infrastructure for the radio access network in accordance with the capabilities and the neighborhood relations of the radio nodes. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362730 | System and Method for Mapping a Service-Level Topology to a Service-Specific Data Plane Logical Topology - An embodiment method includes receiving service parameters for a service and locating logical network nodes for a service-specific data plane logical topology at respective physical network nodes among a plurality of physical network nodes according to the service parameters, a service-level topology, and a physical infrastructure of the plurality of physical network nodes. The method also includes defining connections among the logical network nodes according to the service parameters, the service-level topology, and the physical infrastructure, and defining respective connections for a plurality of UEs to at least one of the logical network nodes according to the service parameters, the service-level topology, and the physical infrastructure. The method further includes defining respective functionalities for the logical network nodes. | 12-11-2014 |
20150056987 | Contention-based Integration of Device to Device (D2D) Networks with Wireless Infrastructure - Efficient D2D link integration can be achieved by allowing mobile devices to independently initiate D2D/connection-proxy discovery without re-broadcasting beacons originating from the wireless access point. A mobile station wanting to establish a D2D link may broadcast a search message to neighboring mobile stations, which may return offer messages specifying a connection quality and/or parameters of the candidate indirect connection. The requesting mobile station may then select one of the responding neighboring mobile stations through which to establish the indirect connection. Responding mobile stations may delay offer message transmission by a period that is proportional to a connection quality to reduce offer message redundancy. | 02-26-2015 |
20150119050 | System and Method for Joint Power Allocation and Routing for Software Defined Networks - An embodiment of a method for network resource management comprises performing joint traffic engineering and physical layer power control on a controller and using a routing and power control optimization process that comprises a combined alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) process and a power management process. First and second commands are generated at the controller according to optimization parameters determined by the routing and power control optimization process. The first and second commands are transmitted from the controller to nodes connected to the controller. The first commands are for modifying transmission parameters for links between nodes and the second commands are for modifying transmission parameters for connections between nodes and user devices. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124623 | System and Method for Traffic Splitting - In one embodiment, a method for traffic splitting includes detecting congestion in a traffic flow and splitting the traffic flow into a first sub-flow and a second sub-flow after detecting congestion in the traffic flow. The method also includes transmitting, by a first node to a destination node, the first sub-flow along a first path and transmitting, by the first node to a second node, the second sub-flow along a second path, where the second sub-flow is destined for the destination node. | 05-07-2015 |
20150163147 | Framework for Traffic Engineering in Software Defined Networking - System and method embodiments are provided for traffic engineering (TE) in software defined networking (SDN). The embodiments enable a complete end-to-end TE solution between a user equipment (UE) and a source/destination across a radio access network (RAN). In an embodiment, a method in a network component for TE in a SDN includes receiving TE information from a first core network component in a core network, a RAN component, wherein the RAN is communicably coupled to the core network, wherein the TE information includes a TE objective; and determining a TE decision between at least one UE and a second core network component in the core network according to the TE information and the TE objective, wherein the TE decision comprises information for at least one end-to-end path solution between the at least one UE and the second core network wherein the path traverses the core network and the RAN. | 06-11-2015 |
20150181465 | ON-DEMAND RADIO COORDINATION IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK - A network includes network components configured to perform a method for on-demand radio coordination. The method includes determining a congested radio node in a plurality of radio nodes in the network in response to congestion information received from a network device. The method includes generating a cluster of radio nodes associated with the congested radio node. The method also includes optimizing radio resources of the radio nodes in the cluster to produce cluster optimization results configured to alleviate congestion of the congested radio node. The method further includes transmitting the cluster optimization results to the radio nodes in the cluster to alleviate the congestion. | 06-25-2015 |
20150188767 | Traffic Behavior Driven Dynamic Zoning for Distributed Traffic Engineering in SDN - System and method embodiments are provided for traffic behavior driven dynamic zoning for distributed traffic engineering (TE) in software defined networking (SDN). In an embodiment, a method in a network component for dynamic zoning for TE in SDN includes receiving at the network component network information from at least one SDN controller from a plurality of SDN controllers in a network; determining with the network component a plurality of TE zones for the network, selecting a local zone TE controller for each of the plurality of TE zones, and selecting a master TE controller according to the network information and a zoning scheme, wherein the local zone TE controller and the master TE controller are selected form one of the SDN controllers; and transmitting with the network component an indication of the local zone TE controllers, zone membership, and the master controllers to at least some of the SDN controllers. | 07-02-2015 |
20150188837 | Hierarchical Software-Defined Network Traffic Engineering Controller - Hierarchical Software Defined Network (SDN) architectures can be used to reduce complexity of traffic engineering in large or divers network environments. In hierarchical SDN architectures, a network is sub-divided into multiple regions, and each region is assigned to a different SDN controller. Network status information is collected and consolidated at a regional level, and fed upstream through the SDN control plane until it reaches a root SDN controller. The root-SDN controller computes cost-based parameters, which are distributed to regional SDN controllers for local provisioning. The cost-based parameters can include Lagrangian variables estimations or other parameters that constrain regional traffic engineering optimization in a manner that advances global traffic engineering objectives. | 07-02-2015 |
20150195745 | Adaptive Traffic Engineering Configuration - System and method embodiments are provided for adaptive traffic engineering configuration. The embodiments enable the TE configuration to change in real time in response to changing conditions in the network, the TE algorithm, or other variables such that a TE decision is substantially optimized for current real time conditions. In an embodiment, a method in a network component for adaptable traffic engineering (TE) configuration in software defined networking (SDN) includes receiving at the network component TE configuration information, wherein the TE configuration information comprises information about at least one of network conditions, a TE algorithm, user equipment (UE) information, and the network component, and dynamically changing with the network component the TE configuration in accordance to a change in the TE configuration information. | 07-09-2015 |
20150200859 | System and Method for Zining in Software Defined Networks - An embodiment method of network zoning for a software defined network (SDN) includes determining a number, K, of zones according to at least one zone quantity parameter. Given K, a plurality of network nodes of the SDN are partitioned into K zones. The K zones are respectively assigned K SDN controllers. The K SDN controllers are configured to make traffic engineering decisions and carry out distributed network optimization for respective assigned network nodes among the plurality of network nodes. | 07-16-2015 |
20150207717 | System and Method for a Software Defined Protocol Network Node - A software designed protocol (SDP) network node includes a receiver, and a processor operatively coupled to the receiver. The receiver receives instructions, and receives packets. The processor updates a configuration of the SDP network node in accordance with the received instructions, and processes the received packets. | 07-23-2015 |
20150215235 | Inter-domain SDN Traffic Engineering - Constraining resource provisioning by domain controllers based on resource requirements projected for remotely-originating inter-domain traffic can improve utilization efficiency and link reliability in multi-domain software defined network (SDN) architectures. A domain controller may be required to reserve a portion of inter-domain link capacity for transporting remotely-originating traffic. This may limit the inter-domain link capacity available for transporting locally-originating traffic in a manner that ensures remotely-originating traffic flows have equitable and/or adequate access to resources of inter-domain links. Alternatively, a domain controller may be required to maintain a minimum throughput rate for remotely-originating traffic, which may cause remotely-originating traffic to be prioritized over locally-originating traffic when necessary to maintain the minimum throughput rate. Provisioning constraints can be generated in a centralized or distributed fashion. | 07-30-2015 |