Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a height-adjustable receiving apparatus in which a rotation gear is vertically moved along a fixed shaft disposed on a mounting member when the rotation gear disposed on a receiving member is rotated, and the receiving member is adjustable in vertical height. The height-adjustable receiving apparatus includes a receiving member in which foods are received, a mounting member on which the receiving member is vertically movably mounted, a fixed shaft longitudinally disposed on the mounting member, a rotation gear disposed on the receiving member, an operation member disposed on the receiving member, and a transmission member disposed on the receiving member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2010
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
LG Electronics Inc.
Inventors:
Woon Kyu Seo, Jung Yeon Hwang, Han Jin Jung, Hyeon Jin Kim
Abstract: Among other things, an open-ended wrench comprises a wrench head defining an opening to receive a work piece. The wrench head comprises a first jaw including at least a first surface to engage with a surface of the work piece, a second jaw including a first curved surface facing the opening, and a plate mounted on the second jaw and movable relative the second jaw. The plate comprises at least a second surface to engage with another surface of the work piece. The plate also comprises a second curved surface engaging the first curved surface and being slidable against the first curved surface.
Abstract: A device for nasal lavage is described. The device ejects a gentle flow of fluid under pressure. The fluid stream provides a high quantity of fluid at low pressure. The low pressure fluid stream is more comfortable for a user than a high pressure fluid stream that are delivered by some types of pressurized cans of solution.
Abstract: An vertical PCB inductive device is adapted to be surface mount soldered to a substrate. The inductive device may comprise a transformer having a plurality of windings or one or more discrete inductive devices. The inductive device, being amenable to volume production, may also provide cost savings by reducing the number of layers and the PCB area otherwise required by planar magnetics in a power converter. A power converter may be fashioned to be vertically oriented and surface mount soldered to a substrate such as a customer PCB.
Abstract: A computer-implemented method for reducing noise in an image includes receiving a first image in a computer system. The first image depicts an interior of an item and is generated using a technique that provides imaging at selected depths in the item. The first image represents a first interior section having a first thickness. The method includes determining a modification for the first image using a second image of the interior. The second image represents a second interior section encompassing the first interior section and has a second thickness greater than the first thickness. The method includes storing the modification in association with the first image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 25, 2010
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Inventors:
Zachary Kelm, Daniel Blezek, Bradley Erickson, Brian Bartholmai
Abstract: A vital sign measurement device includes a sensor fixation device, an optical sensing system, and an output unit. The sensor fixation device is adapted to be placed against an anatomical location of a subject, within which is an artery. The optical sensing system includes an optical source device and an optical detector, both of which are held by the sensor fixation device and move with movement of the sensor fixation device. The optical source device is configured to produce a speckle pattern output. The optical detector is positioned to detect at least a portion of the speckle pattern output and generate therefrom the detected portion of the speckle pattern output. The optical sensing system can sense an arterial pulse from the movement, bending, or compression of at least one portion of the optical sensing system relative to other portions of the optical sensing system resulting in a change in the optical signal received within the detected portion of the speckle pattern output.
Abstract: A first pulsed beam of charged particles from a particle accelerator is accelerated toward a first target that is configured to emit a fast neutron beam in response to being struck by an accelerated particle such that the fast neutron beam is directed toward a physical region. The last neutron beam includes a neutron having an energy sufficient to cause fission in a fissionable material. Data from a sensor configured to detect radiation of a fission product is accessed, and before accelerating a second pulsed beam of charged particles, whether the physical region includes a fissionable material based on the data from the sensor is determined.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 2009
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.
Abstract: A method for processing a plate workpiece supported on a workpiece support. The method includes moving a tool die and a tool punch along a stroke axis and toward a processing position above a support plane of the workpiece support. The processing position corresponds to a region of the plate workpiece having a formed shape, which extends upwardly from the support plane of the workpiece support.
Abstract: The present disclosure teaches unique formulations for topical administration of tetracycline antibiotics, in which the tetracycline antibiotics remain stable.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2010
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Foamix Ltd.
Inventors:
Dov Tamarkin, Doron Friedman, Meir Eini, Alex Besonov, Helena Shifrin
Abstract: The disclosure provides projection objectives which may be used in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus to expose a radiation-sensitive substrate arranged in the region of an image surface of the projection objective with at least one image of a pattern of a mask arranged in the region of an object surface of the projection objective. The disclosure also provides projection exposure apparatus which include such projection objectives, as well as related components and methods.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 16, 2009
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Inventors:
Daniel Kraehmer, Ralf Mueller, Thomas Schicketanz, Wilhelm Ulrich, Alexander Epple
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating synthetic queries using seed queries and structural similarity between documents are described. In one aspect, a method includes identifying embedded coding fragments (e.g., HTML tag) from a structured document and a seed query; generating one or more query templates, each query template corresponding to at least one coding fragment, the query template including a generative rule to be used in generating candidate synthetic queries; generating the candidate synthetic queries by applying the query templates to other documents that are hosted on the same web site as the document; identifying terms that match structure of the query templates as candidate synthetic queries; measuring a performance for each of the candidate synthetic queries; and designating as synthetic queries the candidate synthetic queries that have performance measurements exceeding a performance threshold.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 9, 2010
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Google Inc.
Inventors:
Steven D. Baker, Michael Flaster, Nitin Gupta, Paul Haahr, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Yonghui Wu
Abstract: A microchip including a first substrate with a groove formed on a substrate surface or a pass-through hole passing in a thickness direction of the substrate, and one or more second substrates laminated on a surface of the first substrate; the microchip including an optical measurement cuvette consisting of a space configured by the groove or the pass-through hole, and a substrate surface of the second substrate; wherein a side wall surface of the second substrate is positioned on an inner side than a side wall surface of the first substrate in at least one part of a side wall surface of the microchip, and a method of using the same are provided.
Abstract: Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. In some aspects, systems and methods described herein can include receiving a user-based selection of a first portion of words in a document where the document has a pre-associated first voice model and overwriting the association of the first voice model, by the one or more computers, with a second voice model for the first portion of words.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 2010
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.
Inventors:
Raymond Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, Peter Chapman
Abstract: Systems, program products and program products for accepting a request to move a first geometric entity that is constrained to other geometric entities in a drawing that may contain both one-way and two-way geometric constraints. A set of affected geometric entities that need to be repositioned or otherwise changed as the result of moving the first geometric entity is identified. The affected geometric entities and the geometric constraints are classified into groups which are solved using a variational geometric constraint solver. If the geometric constraints cannot be satisfied, the movement of the first geometric entity is restricted. Otherwise the affected geometric entities are updated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 13, 2007
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Autodesk, Inc.
Inventors:
Jiri Kripac, Jose Madeira de Freitas Garcia
Abstract: A robotic vehicle including a chassis having front and rear ends, an electric power source supported by the chassis, and multiple drive assemblies supporting the chassis. Each drive assembly including a track trained about a corresponding drive wheel and a drive control module. The drive control module including a drive control housing, a drive motor carried by the drive control housing and operable to drive the track, and a drive motor controller in communication with the drive motor. The drive motor controller including a motor controller logic circuit and an amplifier commutator in communication with the drive motor and the motor controller logic circuit and is capable of delivering both amplified and reduced voltage to the drive motor from the power source. In one instance, the drive control module is separately and independently removable from a receptacle of the chassis as a complete unit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 7, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
iRobot Corporation
Inventors:
Mikhail Filippov, John P. O'Brien, Adam P. Couture
Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a power element which is in an on state when voltage is not applied to a gate, a switching field-effect transistor for applying first voltage to the gate of the power element, and a switching field-effect transistor for applying voltage lower than the first voltage to the gate of the power element. The switching field-effect transistors have small off-state current.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 20, 2011
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Abstract: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a data over signaling message that identifies a recipient access terminal is transmitted from a radio network controller to the sector in response to an attempt by an access terminal on a sector of a wireless network to access a service of the wireless network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 31, 2006
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Airvana Network Solutions, Inc.
Inventors:
Amit Mate, Satish Ananthaiyer, Gopal Harikumar
Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 20, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
Abstract: Systems and methods for the transfer of client device data on a network are described. One described method comprises causing non-time-sensitive client device data to be identified on a client device, causing the non-time-sensitive client device data to be prepared for output and stored by the client device, and causing the non-time-sensitive client device data to be output with a request signal upon satisfaction of a condition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 20, 2010
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Google Inc.
Inventors:
Paul T. Buchheit, Jing Yee Lee, Sanjeev Singh