Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
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Patent number: 9556009Abstract: A labor-saving device for detection of no-load hand hoist motion, including a base, a stand pole, and a controller, a first cantilever beam, a second cantilever beam, a third cantilever beam, and a fourth cantilever beam being sequentially disposed in single vertical plane from top to bottom of the stand pole. Specifically, the electric hoist being disposed below the first cantilever beam; a pair of first guide unit being respectively disposed at two opposite laterals of the second cantilever beam; a driving unit including a motor, a stand plate, and an actuator being coaxially disposed in series from internal to external, being disposed above the third cantilever beam; and a pair of second guide unit are respectively disposed at two opposite laterals of the fourth cantilever beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: ZHEJIANG HUADIAN EQUIPMENT TESTING INSTITUTEInventors: Rui Li, Liang Wang, Minbo Yu, Zhihua Zhu, Zhouxuan Li, Hongyun Yu, Qun Yuan
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Patent number: 9558909Abstract: The present invention discloses a multifunctional ultrafast electron gun of a transmission electron microscopy. The ultrafast electron gun of a transmission electron microscope comprises: a laser source, an electron gun body and a laser introducing module. The electron gun body comprises: an electron gun sleeve comprising a first section sleeve and a second section sleeve; and, a cathode, an acceleration electrode and an anode arranged in up-down order, wherein the cathode and the acceleration electrode are located within the first section sleeve and the anode is located within the second section sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Jianqi Li, Huanfang Tian, Gaolong Cao, Chao Ma, Huaixin Yang
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Patent number: 9559794Abstract: A signal detection apparatus includes a signal reception unit, an Analog to Digital (A/D) signal processing unit, and a user interface unit. The signal reception unit receives an external signal. The A/D signal processing unit determines whether the received signal is an abnormal signal based on a plurality of signal profiles having different signal characteristics, and obtains the abnormal signal if, as a result of the determination, it is determined that the received signal is the abnormal signal. The user interface unit displays the abnormal signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Young-Hyoun Kwon, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Hui-Rae Cho, Jae-Ki Lee, Hee-Sun Park, Jin-Gak Jang, Jin-Hyun Kim, Ji-Eun Kim, In-Ho Hwang, Chun-Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9556491Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of detecting a wild-type or mutant B-RAF gene in a body fluid sample from a subject. Also disclosed are methods of using B-RAF as a biomarker for detecting cancer, predicting the outcome of cancer, and monitoring the treatment of cancer or the status of cancer. Furthermore, the invention discloses methods and compositions for detecting a mutant gene with a peptide nucleic acid clamp capable of hybridizing to a wild-type gene and a locked nucleic acid probe capable of hybridizing to a mutant of the gene.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTEInventor: Dave S. B. Hoon
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Patent number: 9557739Abstract: The inventive system comprises an autonomous robot device, a base station and a method operating the same. The autonomous robot device includes a sensor means, e.g. an optical sensor, and a propulsion means. The base station includes a cleaning means specifically adapted for cleaning the sensor means of the autonomous robot device. In a preferred embodiment the propulsion means of the autonomous robot device is configured to move the autonomous robot device in a manner suitable to generate a relative movement of the autonomous robot device with respect to the passive cleaning means arranged at the stationary base station to effect the cleaning of the sensor means of the autonomous robot device.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBHInventors: Nils Einecke, Mathias Franzius, Bernhard Sendhoff
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Gait rehabilitation apparatus having lateral entry mechanism and lateral entry method using the same
Patent number: 9555276Abstract: Disclosed herein is a gait rehabilitation apparatus including a first frame having a bottom surface which is movable at predetermined speed; a second frame extending upwards from a tip of the first frame; a load support unit which is mounted to an upper end of the second frame and is rotatable about a rotation axis thereof; a connection string, one end of which is connected to the load support unit, and the other end of which is connected to an upper body of a rehabilitant; a safety bar which is connected to the second frame and is rotatable so as to be tilted upwards; and a gait assistance link member which has a structure able to be tilted upwards, and is connected to each leg of the rehabilitant entering onto the first frame to assist rehabilitation training of the rehabilitant through mechanical movement of the gait assistance link member.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Seung-Jong Kim, Chang Hwan Kim, Jong Min Lee, Chan Yul Jung, Hyeong-jin Jeon, Jun Ho Choi -
Patent number: 9559632Abstract: A solar propelled aircraft which has a wing having solar cell modules mounted therein includes: first solar cell modules which are positioned in a wing or a tail wing of the aircraft and receive solar energy directly from the sun; second solar cell modules which are positioned in a main wing or a tail wing of the aircraft and supplied with directed energy from the earth; and rotating shafts which rotate the first solar cell modules and the second solar cell modules so that the first solar cell modules and the second solar cell modules correspond to each other in both directions. The first solar cell module at the upper surface obtains solar energy from the sun, and the second solar cell module at the lower surface obtains directed energy transferred from the earth.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventor: Hyo Jung Ahn
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Patent number: 9556855Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-passage open-type solar heat absorber having a porous plate array, and more particularly, to a dual-passage open-type solar heat absorber which is formed in a form of a rectangular-shaped container in order to increase a contact area with collected sunlight and easily extend in a lateral direction or in a form of a circular-shaped container which is advantageous when a pressure is applied thereto, and which includes a main body formed in a formed of a rectangular or circular-shaped container by using a three-layered tube to form a dual passage therein so that heat is prevented from being lost through an outer wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCHInventors: Sang Nam Lee, Jong Kyu Kim, Hyun Jin Lee, Yong Heack Kang
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Patent number: 9557196Abstract: In an optical fiber cable that includes an optical fiber core for measuring pressure and a multilayer armor cable for measuring temperature, an annular clearance space having a desired thickness is formed between the optical fiber core and the multilayer armor cable and fixing members for fixing the optical fiber core and the multilayer armor cable are provided at predetermined intervals in the axial direction of the optical fiber cable.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignees: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH, NEUBREX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ziqiu Xue, Kinzo Kishida, Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Shinzo Suzaki
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Patent number: 9556883Abstract: An inlet guide vane device having a central axis comprises a first base, a guide sleeve, a blade, a second base, a transmission disk, and an actuator. The first base has at least one first support groove and at least one guide groove. The first support groove extends along a radial direction of the central axis, and the at least one guide groove is located in the first support groove. The guide sleeve is disposed on the first support groove in a manner that the guide sleeve is capable of moving along the radial direction. The guide sleeve has a sliding sleeve, an upper guide post and a lower guide post, the sliding sleeve has a through hole extending along the radial direction. The upper guide post and the lower guide post pass through the sliding groove, and the lower guide post is movably disposed on the guide groove.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kun-Yi Liang, Shu-Er Huang, Chi-Hsing Chen, Jenn-Chyi Chung
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Publication number: 20170023803Abstract: An optical modulator includes a plurality of nanostructures, each nanostructure of the plurality of nanostructures having a refractive index that is variable; a first insulation layer having a refractive index that is less than the individual refractive indexes of the plurality of nanostructures and surrounding the plurality of nanostructures; and a refractive index changer configured to change the refractive indexes of the plurality of nanostructures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Seunghoon HAN, Muhammad Zulfiker ALAM, Harry ATWATER
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Publication number: 20170022405Abstract: Technologies are generally described for forming a nanofluid coolant and structures including a nanofluid coolant. In an example, a method of forming a nanofluid coolant may comprise combining a compound with an acid and with purified water to form a solution. The compound may include manganese. The method may further include heating the solution and, after heating the solution, cooling the solution effective to form at least one precipitate that includes manganese and oxygen. The method may further include filtering the at least one precipitate to form a powder that includes manganese oxide nanotubes. The method may further include functionalizing the nanotubes by irradiating them with UV radiation. The method may further include combining the functionalized manganese oxide nanotubes with a polar solvent to form the nanofluid coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRASInventors: Ramaprabhu Sundara, Jyothirmayee Aravind Sasidharannair Sasikaladevi
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Publication number: 20170025550Abstract: Provided is a bridge diode according to an embodiment of the inventive concept. The bridge diode includes a first structure including a first lower nitride film and a first upper nitride film, which are laminated on the substrate, a second structure including a second lower nitride film and a second upper nitride film, which are laminated on the substrate, a first electrode structural body disposed on the first structure, and a second electrode structural body disposed on the second structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Dong Yun JUNG, Hyun Soo LEE, Sang Choon KO, Minki KIM, Jeho NA, EUN SOO NAM, Young Rak PARK, Junbo PARK, Hyung Seok LEE, Hyun-Gyu JANG, Chi Hoon JUN
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Publication number: 20170020387Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system having a configuration that uses a phase sensitive B-scan registration method. In this disclosure, an OCT system may have a configuration that scans a physical object, acquires OCT signals to form B-scans, uses these B-scans to determine an optimal shift in an axial direction by using total phase error between B-scans, and align B-scans, thereby minimizing effects of motion that may occur during scanning of the physical object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jeffrey P. Fingler, Scott E. Fraser
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Publication number: 20170020761Abstract: An operating table includes a patient placement table for placing and securing a patient in a required posture; a main body for supporting the patient placement table; engaging pieces for removably coupling the patient placement table to the main body; and a motor for rotating the patient placement table with a head-feet direction of the patient as a rotation axis to hold the patient placement table at any given rotation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: FUJIDENOLO CO., LTD., MEDIPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Takeshi Arimura, Mitsugi Matsuyama, Takashi Ogino, Yoshio Hishikawa, Hideki Miyazaki, Yoshitaka Taguchi, Keiichi Noma
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Publication number: 20170022064Abstract: A method of forming graphene flower is provided, which includes introducing a hydrocarbon gas and an assistance gas into transformer-coupled plasma equipment, and providing a medium-frequency electromagnetic wave to the hydrocarbon gas and the assistance gas by the transformer-coupled plasma equipment to dissociate the hydrocarbon gas, and the dissociated hydrocarbon gas is re-combined to form the graphene flower, wherein the hydrocarbon gas is dissociated at a ratio of greater than 95%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kun-Ping HUANG, Chih-Chen CHANG, Chwung-Shan KOU
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Publication number: 20170021321Abstract: A reactor technology is disclosed for carrying out thermochemical processes namely splitting reactions of gas molecules fed into the reactor where at least one of the product species is temporarily stored within the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: CHEMICAL PROCESS ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY- HELLAS (CERTH-Inventors: Athanasios G. KONSTANDOPOULOS, Dimitrios Dimitrakis, Souzana Lorentzou
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Publication number: 20170023635Abstract: Provided herein is a radio frequency probe apparatus including a RF waveguide including a ground electrode and a signal electrode, a register connected to the signal electrode, a RF connector including an outer conductor connected to the ground electrode, an inner conductor connected to the signal electrode, and a dielectric body filling a portion between the outer conductor and the inner conductor, and a single tip probe connected to the signal electrode of the RF waveguide, or the register.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Oh Kee KWON, Young Tak HAN, Ki Soo KIM, Su Hwan OH, Chul Wook LEE, Young Ahn LEEM
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Publication number: 20170023961Abstract: A method for generating a power distribution network (PDN) is provided. A heterogeneous circuit data is input. A plurality of horizontal power lines and a plurality of vertical power lines are determined according to the heterogeneous circuit data. A PDN model of the heterogeneous circuit is determined according to the horizontal power lines and the vertical power lines. Power consumption value is assigned to a plurality of internal nodes of the PDN model of the heterogeneous circuit. The PDN model of the heterogeneous circuit is adjusted to meet a target voltage drop limitation of the heterogeneous circuit data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Chang-Tzu LIN, Ding-Ming KWAI, Tzu-Min LIN
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Publication number: 20170021564Abstract: The present invention provides a three-dimensional molding device which makes it possible to reduce molding time by decreasing the inkjet head waiting time during the molding step. A three-dimensional molding device for scattering and layering sand on a molding table (30) using a recoater (2), discharging a binder from a head (1) so as to coat the top of the scattered sand with the binder, on the basis of molding data, and creating a three-dimensionally molded. article by joining' the sand (S) using the binder, wherein: the recoater (2) is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicants: CMET INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yoshikazu Ooba, Yousuke Katou, Koukichi Suzuki, Yuya Daicho, Hideaki Miyano, Toshimitsu Okane, Satoshi Imamura, Satoshi Kajino