Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9752644
    Abstract: Provided is a non-adhesive type vibration reduction apparatus comprising: a support; a body; and an elastomer, wherein the elastomer is coupled in a non-adhesive manner in which an adhesive is not used, thereby preventing a separation of and reducing a damage of an elastomer which result from a weakening of an adhesive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dae Kwan Kim, Hong-Taek Choi
  • Patent number: 9752137
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods for the preparation of peptide/protein conjugates, said method comprising a step of reacting a compound (2) represented by the formula (2) with a compound (3) represented by the formula (3) to obtain compound (1) represented by the formula (1), wherein R? represents substituent, and R represents H or at least one substituents. Also disclosed is a kit comprising the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Xuechen Li, Chun Ling Tung, Clarence Tsun Ting Wong
  • Patent number: 9755027
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially stacked on a substrate and a source electrode, a gate electrode, and a drain electrode arranged on the second semiconductor layer. The electronic device further includes a field plate which is electrically connected to the source electrode and extends towards the drain electrode, wherein the field plate becomes farther away from the substrate as the field plate becomes closer to the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyung Seok Lee, Ki Hwan Kim, Sang Choon Ko, Zin-Sig Kim, Jeho Na, Eun Soo Nam, Young Rak Park, Junbo Park, Chi hoon Jun, Dong Yun Jung
  • Patent number: 9753162
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for detecting infrasound. The apparatus for detecting infrasound includes a sound wave detector including a diaphragm dividing an inner space of a first container into a first space and a second space, and a microchannel assembly including a second container having an inner space with one of the spaces divided by the diaphragm and a plurality of microchannels having different resistance values with respect to transmission of a sound wave, and exposing the inner space of the second container to the air through one of the plurality of microchannels. Such an apparatus for detecting infrasound may have various cut-off frequencies according to the number of the microchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventor: Tae Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 9754329
    Abstract: A management system, a smart meter, a server, an operation method and a management method are provided. The management system includes a remote server and at least one smart meter. The smart meter is coupled to the remote server via a communication network. The smart meter measures electrical energy of at least one power line to obtain at least one batch of electricity data. The smart meter detects whether the loading event occurs. If the loading event occurs, the smart meter performs data compression on the electricity data obtained during an event period corresponding to the loading event to obtain compressed data, and uploads the compressed data to the remote server. The remote server performs data decompression on the compressed data to obtain decompressed data. The remote server performs load identification according to the decompressed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, Lun-Chia Kuo, Wan-Jung Lin, Nien-Chen Lin
  • Patent number: 9753079
    Abstract: A testing device for propagation characteristic of electromagnetic wave in gas insulated switchgear includes an ultrahigh frequency signal generator, a GIS testing chamber, an emitting antenna and a receiving antenna which are provided inside the GIS testing chamber. A detachable disc insulator is provided between the emitting antenna and the receiving antenna. Both terminals of a GIS testing chamber are sealed by polyurethane wave-absorbing sponge; the ultrahigh frequency signal generator is connected with the emitting antenna, and the receiving antenna is connected with a oscilloscope. A guide rod which is fixed by the disc insulator is provided in the GIS testing chamber. The present invention is capable of achieving testing propagation characteristic of partial discharge ultrahigh frequency electromagnetic wave signal of a gas insulated switchgear in a laboratory, so as to master attenuation characteristics of the partial discharge ultrahigh frequency electromagnetic wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: STATE GRID HUBEI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Jinbin Li, Jun Lu, Haiqiong Liu, Min Chen, Hao Wang, Jiangang Bi, Shuai Yuan, Yuan Yang, Junhao Li, Jianfeng Liang, Yanming Li
  • Patent number: 9752189
    Abstract: The invention is a method of detecting or assessing solid organ graft (transplant) rejection by detecting donor-specific HLA alleles in a blood sample of a graft (transplant) recipient. The invention further comprises a method of detecting the presence of maternal cells in a blood sample of an offspring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Henry Erlich, Bryan Hoglund, Cherie Holcomb, Priscilla Moonsamy, Nick Newton, Melinda Rastrou, Nancy Schoenbrunner, Alison Tsan, Daniel Salomon
  • Patent number: 9750791
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9751293
    Abstract: A laminated substrate separating device used for separating a first substrate from a second substrate of a laminated substrate is provided. The first and the second substrates are misaligned at an edge of the laminated substrate. The laminated substrate separating device includes a base where the laminated substrate is disposed thereon, and a separating tool movably disposed on the base along an axis. The separating tool presses a portion of the first substrate being exposed out of the second substrate at a misaligned edge such that a gap is formed between the first and the second substrates. The separating tool inserts into the gap at the misaligned edge to press the first substrate, such that the second substrate is separated from the first substrate. A method for separating laminated substrate is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Guo-Shing Huang, Chia-Sheng Huang, Hsin-Yun Hsu
  • Patent number: 9752117
    Abstract: A hybrid tissue scaffold is provided which comprises a porous primary scaffold having a plurality of pores and a porous secondary scaffold having a plurality of pores, wherein the secondary scaffold resides in the pores of the primary scaffold to provide a hybrid scaffold. The pores of the porous primary scaffold may have a pore size in a range of 0.50 mm to 5.0 mm, and the pores of the porous secondary scaffold may have a pore size in a range of 50 ?m to 600 ?m. The primary scaffold may provide 5% to 30% of a volume of the hybrid scaffold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jeffrey N. Harris, Jian Ling, Xingguo Cheng
  • Patent number: 9750804
    Abstract: A method for treating an inflammatory disease or an immune disorder includes administering to a subject in need of such treatment an antagonist against ENO1. The antagonist binds ENO1 and inhibits ENO1 plasminogen receptor activity. The antagonist may be an anti-human ENO1 antibody, or an scFv, Fab, or F(ab)2 fragment thereof, that specifically binds to human ENO1 (GenBank: AAH50642.1) for the treatment of an inflammatory disease or an immune disorder, which may be multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, systemic Lupus erythematosus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, allergy, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, artherosclerosis or osteoporosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: Development Center for Biotechnology, National Health Research Institutes
    Inventors: Shih-Chong Tsai, Mingl Chang, Ta-Tung Yuan, Shih-Chi Tseng, Shyi-Jou Chen, Wei-Tso Chia, Hsin-Yun Wang, Neng-Yao Shih, Ko-Jiunn Liu, Li-Tzong Chen
  • Patent number: 9751645
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for controlling an orbiting satellite by sensing a change in a yaw angle of the orbiting satellite and calculating a ground sample distance (GSD) based on the yaw angle. The apparatus may include a sensor configured to sense a yaw angle corresponding to yaw steering of the orbiting satellite, and a processor configured to calculate, based on the yaw angle, a GSD corresponding to a length of a pixel projected onto a planetary surface scanned by the orbiting satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Moon Jin Jeon, Sang Rok Lee, Hui Kyung Kim, Eung Hyun Kim, Seong Bin Lim, Seok Weon Choi
  • Patent number: 9756155
    Abstract: A housing wall for a data communications device includes a metallic and electrically conductive main body. A slotted area having a number of slots is provided in a region of the housing wall, in such a way that in a region of the slotted area the housing wall is permeable to magnetic fields for inductively coupling-in signals for wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: Seibersdorf Labor GmbH, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Ettel, Manfred Bammer, Gernot Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9750729
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to immune adjuvants containing IAP inhibitors, including Smac mimetics. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions and vaccines containing an IAP inhibitor and an antigen. Methods of enhancing an immune response by administration of an IAP inhibitor, methods of treating or preventing cancer, methods of treating or preventing infections, methods of treating autoimmune disorders, and methods of potentiating cytokine or antibody production are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Novartis AG
    Inventors: Leigh Zawel, Christopher S. Straub, Brant G. Firestone, Glenn Dranoff, Michael Dougan
  • Patent number: 9751965
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a polymerization method of propylene, which can prepare a propylene homopolymer with both high fluidity and high rigidity as well as a propylene/?-define copolymer having both high fluidity and a good rigidity-toughness balance by, for example, control of polymerization steps and elevation of polymerization temperature, while the catalyst still maintains a relatively high polymerization activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Luqiang Yu, Zhichao Yang, Jiangbo Chen, Jianxin Zhang, Yafeng Du, Qinyu Tong, Kang Sun, Yang Liu, Jie Zou, Lusheng Wang, Zengyue Dai, Zhong Tan
  • Patent number: 9753027
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cantilever sensor, and a biosensor having the same, wherein the cantilever sensor including a slit formed on a flat board and a cantilever formed by the slit, a first electrode formed on the cantilever, and a second electrode formed on the flat board countered to the first electrode about the slit, wherein the electrodes are formed on the cantilever sensor having the slit, whereby sensing can be conducted by an electric method, through which the sensor can be effectively miniaturized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Kyoseon Hwang, Tae Song Kim, Rhokyun Kwak, Won Woo Cho, Myung Sic Chae
  • Patent number: 9754511
    Abstract: Devices and methods for hands-on learning of mathematical parabolic concepts are provided. For example, a device for teaching mathematics includes a base having a plurality of channels for accepting vertical rods of varying lengths; a lever movably attached to the base at a pivot, the lever passing through the plurality of channels; and a plurality of vertical rods, each of the plurality of vertical rods located at least partially in one of the plurality of channels and resting on the lever; wherein the plurality of vertical rods are sized and arranged so that the tops of the vertical rods illustrate a parabolic function; and wherein moving the lever about the pivot moves the plurality of rods within the plurality of channels and illustrates changes to the parabolic function represented by the vertical rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Matthew R. Peterson
  • Patent number: 9750792
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 9755860
    Abstract: A method of performing uplink channel estimation and a base station using the same are provided. The method is applicable to serve at least two UE equipments (UEs) in a communication system. The at least two UEs are located in at least two beam sectors respectively. The base station comprises a plurality of antennas. The method includes: determining whether multipath of the at least two UEs passing through a same beam sector; assigning a first and a second training sequence for a first UE and a second UE of the at least two UEs respectively; receiving a reference signal, wherein the reference signal is transmitted by the first UE and the second UE according to the first and the second training sequence; and performing channel estimation for the first UE and the second UE according to the reference signal, the first and the second training sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ming-Hsuan Kao, Szu-Yu Wang, Ming-Fu Tang, Bor-Ching Su
  • Patent number: 9752115
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods associated with cocktails of growth factors and small molecules that target specific cell signaling pathways, the cocktails having been formulated to allow/promote the expansion of progenitor cells (e.g., nephron progenitor cells) within a defined culture system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Maine Medical Center Research Institute
    Inventors: Leif Oxburgh, Aaron Brown