Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
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Patent number: 9494543Abstract: Disclosed is an electrochemical gas sensor using micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS). The MEMS electrochemical gas sensor includes: a substrate a lower central region of which is etched by a predetermined thickness; a first insulation film formed on the substrate; a heat emitting resistance body formed on the first insulation film; a second insulation film formed on the heat emitting resistance body; a reference electrode formed in an upper central region of the second insulation film; a solid electrolyte formed on the reference electrode; and a detection electrode formed on the solid electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Seung Eon Moon, Nak Jin Choi, Hyung Kun Lee, Jae Woo Lee, Woo Seok Yang, Jong Dae Kim
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Patent number: 9493423Abstract: Disclosed herein are an N-(pyrazolylmethyl)arylsulfonamide derivative useful as a calcium ion channel blocker, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the medicinal use thereof as a therapeutic agent using its calcium ion channel blocking effect.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ghil Soo Nam, Kyung Il Choi, Jung Hyun Kim, Ae Nim Pae, Jin Ri Hong, Jae Kyun Lee
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Patent number: 9493826Abstract: Provided are devices comprising multivolume analysis regions, the devices being capable of supporting amplification, detection, and other processes. Also provided are related methods of detecting or estimating the presence nucleic acids, viral levels, and other biological markers of interest.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignees: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOInventors: Rustem F. Ismagilov, Feng Shen, Jason E. Kreutz, Wenbin Du, Bing Sun
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Publication number: 20160326556Abstract: The present application discloses recombinant bacteria producing L-amino acid(s) its construction method and the method of producing L-amino acid(s). The recombinant bacteria producing L-amino acid(s) according to the present invention has reduced expression of the glucose-6-phosphate isomerase Pgi and improved expression of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Zwf-OpcA than the starting bacteria, wherein: said starting bacterium is a bacterial strain which can accumulate target amino acid(s). During fermenting and culturing the recombinant bacteria according to the present invention, it is observed that the effect of improving yield can be additive and the yield of L-amino acid(s) is improved obviously. The strategy of combinational modification according to the present invention develops a new method of improving the yield of L-amino acid(s) and hence it can be applied to produce L-amino acid(s) through bacterialfermentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Tingyi Wen, Xiuling Shang, Yun Zhang, Shuwen Liu, Yong Liang, Yu Zhang
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Publication number: 20160326616Abstract: Disclosed is an entropy-controlled solid solution matrix BCC alloy having strong resistance to high-temperature neutron radiation damage. The entropy-controlled solid solution matrix BCC alloy includes three or more multicomponent main elements selected from the element group consisting of Zr, Al, Nb, Mo, Cr, V, and Ti selected based on a neutron absorption cross-sectional area and a mixing enthalpy. Each of the elements is included in an amount of 5 to 35 at %, and the entropy-controlled solid solution matrix BCC alloy is a BCC-structure solid solution matrix alloy in a medium-entropy to high-entropy state. In this invention, damage caused by neutron radiation is reduced, and entropy is controlled to thus ensure a solid solution matrix BCC structure having a slow diffusion speed, and accordingly, resistance to void swelling due to radioactive rays is high.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Eun Soo PARK, Hyun Seok OH, Il Hwan KIM, Hye Jung CHANG, Sangjun KIM, Chae Woo RYU
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Publication number: 20160329768Abstract: A linear motor that displaces a tubular body and a rod relative to each other in an axial direction includes teeth arranged in the axial direction so as to project from an inner peripheral surface of the tubular body, slots formed between adjacent teeth, coils disposed in the slots, and permanent magnets provided in the rod and arranged in the axial direction. The coils are constituted by one or more first phase coils, one or more second phase coils, and one or more third phase coils. The first, second, and third phase coils are provided in the axial direction such that the first phase coil and the second phase coil are disposed at respective ends the tubular body. A total number of coil windings of the third phase coils is set to be smaller than a total number of coil windings of the first phase coils and a total number of coil windings of the second phase coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KYB CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki KANO, Kousuke SATO, Noriyuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160327737Abstract: A method (100) of forming an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method comprises: (i) forming at least a pair of optoelectronic devices from at least a first wafer material arranged on a semiconductor substrate, the first wafer material different to silicon; (ii) etching the first wafer material to form a first recess to be filled with a second material; (iii) processing (104) the second material to form a waveguide for coupling the pair of optoelectronic devices to define an optical interconnect; and (iv) bonding (106) at least one partially processed CMOS device layer having at least one transistor to the second semiconductor substrate to form the integrated circuit, the partially processed CMOS device layer arranged adjacent to the optical interconnect. An integrated circuit is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological UniversityInventors: Wenjia Zhang, Bing Wang, Li Zhang, Zhaomin Zhu, Jurgen Michel, Soo-Jin Chua, Li-Shiuan Peh, Siau Ben Chiah, Eng Kian Kenneth Lee
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Publication number: 20160325466Abstract: A method for cutting a workpiece except silicon includes moving a resin-coated saw wire having a resin coating that covers the surface of a steel wire. In the method, at least one of the resin-coated saw wire or the workpiece is swung, a diamond abrasive grain having an average grain size of more than 0 ?m and 8 ?m or less is sprayed onto the resin-coated saw wire, and a wire running speed of the resin-coated saw wire is 800 m/min or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Kazuo YOSHIKAWA, Masanori ANAN, Akinori URATSUKA, Yoshitake MATSUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20160326223Abstract: The present invention concerns lectins isolated from the fruiting body of a novel Hericium erinaceum (deposit number: KCTC 12499BP) NEU-1L strain which bind specifically to sialic acid. The invention further pertains to uses of such lectinsn abd to processes for their preparation thereby. The lectin of the present invention can be useful as an active ingredient of a composition or a kit for measuring or detecting glycoproteins, glycopeptides, glycolipids, sugar precursors or oligosaccharides containing sialic acid moieties, or further for measuring or detecting cell lines, bacteria and viruses containing sialoglycoconjugates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGYInventor: Seounghun Kim
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Publication number: 20160328982Abstract: An integrated landing receiver for landing of an aircraft and a controlling method thereof are provided, in which the integrated landing receiver includes a receiver including a plurality of signal information processors that generate landing guidance information respectively corresponding to a plurality of landing support facilities, a collector collecting the landing guidance information respectively generated at the plurality of signal information processors, and an integrator generating integrated landing guidance information by using the landing guidance information collected at the collector and outputting the result. Accordingly, when a plurality of landing support facilities are installed together at an airport, the landing guidance information provided from these landing support facilities are mixed and provided so that shortcomings that each landing supporting facility may have can be advantageously compensated, thus enabling safe and effective provision of the landing guidance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Myeong-Sook JEONG, Hyang-Sig JUN, Joong-Won BAE
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Publication number: 20160325819Abstract: Disclosed is a solar panel device provided on an aircraft wing, which can realize solar panels that are capable of converting sunlight into energy without being damaged due to bending load or movement of a wing, an aircraft wing having such a solar panel device, and an aircraft having such an aircraft wing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sang Wook PARK, Jeong Woo SHIN, Yung-Gyo LEE, Tae Uk KIM
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Publication number: 20160326607Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a coated steel sheet on which a magnesium-aluminum alloy coating layer is formed, including: a steel sheet; and a coating layer configured to include a first magnesium-aluminum alloy layer formed on a top surface of the steel sheet and a second magnesium-aluminum alloy layer formed on a top surface of the first magnesium-aluminum alloy layer, wherein a magnesium content of the first magnesium-aluminum alloy layer is higher than that of the second magnesium-aluminum alloy layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jae In JEONG, Ji Hoon YANG, Tae Yeob KIM, Yong Hwa JUNG
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Publication number: 20160325228Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a zeolitic material having a BEA-type framework structure comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein said process comprises the steps of (1) preparing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2 and one or more sources for X2O3; (2) crystallizing the mixture obtained in step (1); (3) subjecting the zeolitic material having a BEA-type framework structure obtained in step (2) to an ion-exchange procedure with Cu; and (4) subjecting the Cu ion-exchanged zeolitic material obtained in step (3) to an ion-exchange procedure with Fe; wherein Y is a tetravalent element, and X is a trivalent element, wherein the mixture provided in step (1) and crystallized in step (2) further comprises seed crystals comprising one or more zeolitic materials having a BEA-type framework structure, and wherein the mixture provided in step (1) and crystallized in step (2) does not contain an organotemplate as a structure-directing agent, as well as to the zeolitic material havingType: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: BASF SE, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Mathias FEYEN, Stefan MAURER, Ulrich MUELLER, Xinhe BAO, Weiping ZHANG, Dirk DE VOS, Hermann GIES, Feng-Shou XIAO, Toshiyuki YOKOI, Bllge YILMAZ
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Publication number: 20160326048Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass having a surface with improved water-repellency or hydrophobicity and low reflectance, and a fabrication method thereof. A technology is employed, in which a thin film containing silicon or silicon oxide is formed on the glass surface, the nano-structures are formed by selective etching treatment using a reactive gas such as CF4 or the like to provide superhydrophobicity and low reflectance properties, and a material with low surface energy is coated onto the nano-structures. The fabrication method of the low-reflective and superhydrophobic or super water-repellent glass may execute deposition and etching processes for the glass having the superhydrophobicity and the low reflectance, and provide excellent superhydrophobicity and low reflectance to the surface of the glass which was difficult to be treated. Also, the method is sustainable due to non-use of a toxic etching solution during these processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Myoung Woon MOON, Heon Ju LEE, Jeong Sim LEE, Tae Jun KO, Kyu Hwan OH, Do Hyun KIM, Eu Sun YU
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Publication number: 20160326219Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of biotechnology. More specifically, the invention relates to chimeric fusion proteins comprising a light activated protein domain, e.g., a newly characterized light-oxygen-voltage-sensing (LOV) domain or a light sensing domain of the cyanobacterial phytochrome (PHY) CPH1, wherein the chimeric fusion protein is capable of dimerizing upon excitation with light of a suitable wavelength. Said fusion proteins further comprise the intracellular part of a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK). The invention further relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding said chimeric fusion proteins; non-human transgenic animals expressing the chimeric fusion protein encoded by said nucleic acid molecules; as well as uses of said chimeric fusion proteins, e.g. in a screening method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: IST AUSTRIA (INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA), MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIENInventors: Robert RIEDLER, Eva REICHHART, Christopher DIFFER, Alvaro Ingles PRIETO, Harald JANOVJAK, Michael GRUSCH, Karin SCHELCH
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Publication number: 20160327405Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing a route guidance service for visually impaired people, the method comprising the steps of: when a predetermined application is selected through a user input, transmitting a request for a route guidance service together with location information acquired through the GPS of a user terminal simultaneously with execution of the selected application; servicing, by a route guidance server, search path information corresponding to an input destination on the basis of the location information received from the user terminal according to the route guidance service request from the user terminal; broadcasting, by the user terminal, an inquiry signal through a Bluetooth device search request, identifying an earphone by a device which transmits a response signal to the broadcasted inquiry signal, and performing paging with the identified earphone; and recognizing a user's walking direction on the basis of the search path information through outputting a signal by gyType: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY )Inventors: NAM HUN KIM, DONG HWAN SONG, YUN JAE LEE, KYOUNG IN BEAK, HYUN SEO NAM
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Publication number: 20160326603Abstract: The present technology provides methods and kits that may be used to detect and quantify the presence of Coccidioides species. The methods include quantification real-time PCR assays, and the kits and compositions include oligonucleotides used as primers and probes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITYInventors: Bridget Barker, Elizabeth Driebe, David Engelthaler, Paul Keim, Jolene Bowers
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Publication number: 20160329759Abstract: A linear motor includes: an annular yoke; a rod that penetrates the yoke in a yoke axis direction; a plurality of teeth disposed at equal intervals in the yoke axis direction so as to project from an inner peripheral surface of the yoke; slots respectively formed between adjacent teeth of the plurality of teeth, a plurality of coils respectively disposed in the slots, and permanent magnets arranged and held in the rod in the yoke axis direction. The yoke is configured so that the slots are disposed repeatedly by a reference number determined in accordance with the number of phases of an alternating current passed through the coils, and a width adjusting unit configured to adjust a tooth width is provided in an Nth tooth from a yoke end, the Nth tooth being determined by Equation (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KYB CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki KANO, Kousuke SATO, Noriyuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160330795Abstract: An integrated circuit (400) adapted for mobile communication is disclosed. The circuit comprises a first device layer formed of a first semiconductor material and having at least a first circuit portion (402); and a second device layer formed of a second semiconductor material different to the first semiconductor material and having at least a second circuit portion (404), wherein the first and second device layers are integrally formed, and the first circuit portion is electrically coupled to the second circuit portion to enable the mobile communication using first and second wireless communication protocols. A related mobile computing device is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: PILSOON CHOI, JASON GAO, NADESH RAMANATHAN, CHIRN-CHYE BOON, SUHAIB FAHMY, LI-SHIUAN PEH
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Publication number: 20160325764Abstract: An anti-pollution-flashover locomotive roof composite insulator, comprising: a support body, and several groups of sheds arranged side by side along the axial direction that are set around the sidewall of the support body, wherein the sheds protrude out of the sidewall of the support body along the radial direction, the upper end of the uppermost shed is set with an upper metal fitting, and the lower end of the lowermost shed is set with a lower metal fitting. The creepage distance of the sheds between the upper metal fitting and the lower metal fitting is 1085 mm-1095 mm, and the arcing distance between the upper metal fitting and the lower metal fitting is 245 mm-255 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: BEIJING RAILWAY INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTDInventors: Sha LI, Guangdan LIU, Leren WANG, Xiaoqing SHEN, Jiangfeng LIU