Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
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Patent number: 9522475Abstract: In various embodiments, a saw can include a work surface and a blade at least partially extending through the work surface. In at least one embodiment, the saw can further include a sensor and a light emitter, wherein the light emitter can be configured to emit a first light beam and a second light beam onto at least a portion of the work surface. In various embodiments, the sensor can be can be configured to detect a plurality of saw conditions and, owing to communication between the sensor and the light emitter, the light emitter can be configured to emit the first light beam onto the work surface when the sensor detects a first saw condition and emit the second light beam onto the work surface when the sensor detects a second saw condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: POWER TOOL INSTITUTEInventors: David V. Keller, Mark D. Hickok, Peter L. Domeny, Thornton H. Gogoll, III, David G. Peot, Stan M. Rodrigues, Christopher S. Tennant
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Patent number: 9523628Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for determining separation efficiency of a cyclone separator. The method comprises: collecting solid particles separated by a cyclone separator; performing a particle size analysis for the collected solid particles; calculating feature parameters of the collected solid particles according to a result of the particle size analysis, wherein the feature parameters are values representing particle size and particle size uniformity of the solid particles; and determining a separation efficiency corresponding to the feature parameters of the collected solid particles as a separation efficiency of the cyclone separator, according to a predetermined correspondence between feature parameter and separation efficiency. The present invention avoids the difficulty in directly measuring the material concentrations at the inlet and the outlet of the cyclone separator and has a small interference with the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: North China Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd., State Grid Corporation of ChinaInventors: Jinjing Li, Zhanguo Li, Zhenning Zhao, Shuo Yang
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Patent number: 9525406Abstract: An apparatus and method for compensating for duty signals are disclosed herein. The apparatus for compensating for duty signals includes a signal input unit, a signal control unit, a combined signal control unit, a determination unit, and a signal output unit. The signal input unit receives a first signal and a second signal. The signal control unit controls the timing of the first and second signals based on first and second control signals, and outputs a combined signal. The combined signal control unit outputs first and second logic operation signals. The determination unit generates the first and second control signals if the timing of the first signal does not match the timing of the second signal, outputs the generated first and second control signals, and applies a third control signal to the combined signal control unit. The signal output unit outputs the first and second signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Seung-Sik Lee, Jae-Young Kim, Hong-Soon Nam, Sang-Sung Choi
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Patent number: 9525553Abstract: Provided are a system and method for providing a digital signature based on a mobile trusted module (MTM). The system includes a control unit configured to activate a mobile application and receive selection of one certificate in a previously set certificate list from a user through the activated mobile application, an MTM configured to generate based on the selected certificate a keypad image in which buttons are irregularly arranged, an MTM table for converting keypad touch information into an actual value, and a terminal table for converting keypad image coordinates into an area, and put a digital signature on the certificate using a certificate password input by the user based on the keypad image, the MTM table, and the terminal table to generate a digital signature value, and a communication unit configured to encrypt the generated digital signature value and transmit the encrypted digital signature to an authentication server.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventor: Dae-Won Kim
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Patent number: 9523661Abstract: Provided is a method of locating a damage source of a wind turbine blade for tracking a damage source location of a blade used in a wind power generator, and more particularly, a method of locating a damage source of a wind turbine blade and an apparatus thereof in a large composite material structure capable of accurately locating a damage source even in a large composite material structure by detecting defects using contour maps written based on elastic wave energy value. The method of locating a damage source of the wind turbine blade according to the present invention can accurately locate the damage source even in the large composite material structure using at least two materials unlike the related art and can use a smaller number of AE sensor than the related art.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2011Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCEInventors: Dong Jin Yoon, Byeong Hee Han, Young Joo Kim
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Patent number: 9523141Abstract: Provided is an Mg alloy and a method for producing same able to demonstrate high strength without requiring an expensive rare earth element (RE). The high-strength Mg alloy containing Ca and Zn within a solid solubility limit and the remainder having a chemical composition comprising Mg and unavoidable impurities is characterized in comprising equiaxial crystal particles, there being a segregated area of Ca and Zn along the (c) axis of a Mg hexagonal lattice within the crystal particle, and having a structure in which the segregated area is lined up by Mg3 atomic spacing in the (a) axis of the Mg hexagonal lattice. The method for producing the high-strength Mg alloy is characterized in that Ca and Zn are added to Mg in a compounding amount corresponding to the above composition and, after homogenization heat treating an ingot formed by dissolution and casting, the above structure is formed by subjecting the ingot to hot processing.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Kota Washio, Akira Kato, Toshiji Mukai, Alok Singh, Hidetoshi Somekawa
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Patent number: 9525612Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for transmitting and receiving audio, particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving of object-based audio contents, which packetizes audio objects having the same characteristic. To achieve the above, the present invention includes filtering a plurality of ESs according to common information, adding a packet header to the respective filtered ESs and generate ES packets, aggregating all the generated ES packets and then adding a multi-object packet header to the aggregated ES packets to generate an object packet, and multiplexing the generated object packet, packetizing the multiplexed object packet according to a transmitting media and transmitting the packetized object packet.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yong Ju Lee, Tae Jin Lee, Jae-Hyoun Yoo, Kyeongok Kang, Jin Woong Kim, Chieteuk Ahn
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Patent number: 9523797Abstract: Provided are a microlens array film and a display device including the same. The microlens array film includes a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode facing each other and a flexible polymer layer placed between the first and the second transparent electrodes. Lenses may be freely deformed by regulating voltages applied to the first and second transparent electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sung Ryul Yun, Ki-Uk Kyung, Suntak Park, Bong Je Park, Young Sung Kim
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Patent number: 9522378Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and a system of producing nanoparticles and nanoparticle matrices of thermolabile, biocompatible matrix materials, like lipids and biopolymers with controlled properties. A prototype pulse-heat aerosol system is described for single-step production of free, thermolabile nanoparticles with sufficient control over size, morphology and crystallinity with controlled-release properties, for possible therapeutic, cosmetic or diagnostic use. Nanoparticles of the range 50 to 500 nm are obtained and are found suitable for controlled drugs delivery.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAYInventors: Chandra Venkataraman, Amol Ashok Pawar
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Patent number: 9523572Abstract: An apparatus for measuring of a curvature of a thin film, is adapted to measure the curvature of a thin-film. The apparatus includes a light emitting module, a first optical module, a second optical module, a third optical module, an image capture module, and an image analysis module. The light emitting module emits at least one line laser as an incident light whose cross-sectional shape is a geometric picture formed of lines. The incident light is transmitted through a first optical path formed of the first optical module, and is directed to incident the thin film by the second optical module. The reflected light is reflected by the thin film go through the second optical path, and is directed to transmit through the third optical path by the third optical module, and then is captured by the capture module to form a second geometric picture.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Tzung-Te Chen, Chien-Ping Wang, Shang-Ping Ying, Yi-Keng Fu, Hsun-Chih Liu
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Patent number: 9526092Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method of allocating resources for a scheduling request (SR), a user equipment using the same method, and a control node using the same method, which is related to dynamically adjusting a dedicated SR (D-SR) period which is a semi-persistently configured D-SR resource used to transmit a SR. The method, the user equipment, and the control node would perform functions including establishing a connection between the user equipment and the control node in order to transmit uplink data, the user equipment transmitting through the connection an assisting information to the control node after establishing the connection to adjust the D-SR period, and the user equipment obtaining a second D-SR period after transmitting the assisting information to the control node.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Jung-Mao Lin
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Patent number: 9522164Abstract: Compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHInventors: Iraimoudi S. Ayene, George C. Prendergast
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Patent number: 9522427Abstract: Provided are a perfluorinated sulfonic acid polymer membrane having a porous surface layer, which includes a surface layer and a bottom layer present at the bottom of the surface layer, wherein the surface layer is a porous layer, and the bottom layer is non-porous dense layer, and a method for preparing the same through a solvent evaporation process.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Dirk Henkensmeier, Quoc Khanh Dang, Chang Won Yoon, Eun Ae Cho, Suk Woo Nam, Tae Hoon Lim, Hyoung-Juhn Kim, Jong Hyun Jang
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Patent number: 9522891Abstract: Disclosed are pyridazine derivatives represented by Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or hydrates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, methods of treating and/or preventing diseases or disorders associated with viral infections in patients using the compounds, and the use of the compounds in preparing the medicaments for treating and/or preventing diseases or disorders associated with viral infections. The compounds represented by Formula I have antiviral activity, especially anti-microRNA viral activity. Symbols in the compounds represented are described in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY ACADEMY OF MILITARY MEDICAL SCIENCES P.L.A. CHINAInventors: Song Li, Hongliang Wang, Junhai Xiao, Xian Zhang, Lili Wang, Zhibing Zheng, Wu Zhong, Yunde Xie, Xingzhou Li, Xinbo Zhou, Guoming Zhao, Xiaokui Wang
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Patent number: 9526085Abstract: A communication station includes a modulation circuit, a mapping circuit and a transmitting circuit. The modulation circuit is configured to operably modulate the master information block (MIB). The mapping circuit is configured to operably map the modulated MIBs to the new carrier type physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The PBCH is configured in a plurality of radio frames. The transmitting circuit is configured to operably transmit the radio frames. Moreover, the mapping circuit maps the modulated MIBs to only part of six central radio blocks of the predetermined subframes of the radio frames. The six central radio blocks are configured to locate around the DC subcarrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventor: Chia-Pang Yen
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Patent number: 9524895Abstract: There is provided a substrate transfer antechamber mechanism for a compact manufacturing apparatus that produces various types of devices in small volume using a small-diameter processing substrate at low cost. A container placement table, on which a wafer transfer container housing a semiconductor wafer is placed, is provided on an upper surface of an apparatus antechamber for a compact semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and the apparatus antechamber includes therein a wafer elevating mechanism and a horizontal transfer mechanism. The wafer elevating mechanism moves down while holding from below a delivery bottom of the wafer transfer container, on which the semiconductor wafer remains placed, to transfer the semiconductor wafer into the apparatus antechamber. The horizontal transfer mechanism transfers the semiconductor wafer into a processing chamber using a transfer arm that receives the semiconductor wafer from the delivery bottom and extends.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shiro Hara, Hitoshi Maekawa
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Patent number: 9524311Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for calculating a summary statistic. Calculating the summary statistic can be performed by identifying multiple subsets of a set of variable observations and assigning the subsets to grid-computing devices such that no two of the subsets are assigned to a same one of the grid-computing devices. A parallel processing operation that involves multiple processing phases at each of the grid-computing devices is then coordinated. The parallel processing operation includes each of the grid-computing devices inventorying the respectively assigned subset and generating inventory information representative of the respectively assigned subset. Subsequently, the inventory information generated by the grid-computing devices is received, and a summary statistic is determined by synthesizing the received inventory information.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.Inventor: Gang Meng
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Patent number: 9522165Abstract: The present invention relates to a formulation and method for the treatment of fungal nail infections, such as those caused by Trichophyton rubrum and/or Aspergillus niger. The formulation of the invention comprises glucose oxidase, D-glucose and hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution. Advantageously, the formulation of the invention provides a two-stage hydrogen peroxide release for the treatment of the fungal nail infections.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Institute of Technology SligoInventors: John Reginald Barrett, James Joseph Brennan, Thomas Patrick Patton
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Patent number: 9522198Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods useful for targeting tumors, sites of injury and blood clots. The compositions and methods are based on peptide sequences that selectively bind to and home to tumors, sties of injury and blood clots in animals. The disclosed targeting is useful for delivering therapeutic and detectable agents to tumors, sites of injury and blood clots.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research InstituteInventors: Erkki Ruoslahti, Jan Pilch
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Patent number: 9524643Abstract: The present invention provides an Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) 10 and an operating method thereof, which work on long time scales, and guide an ego vehicle 20 away from upcoming risks, rather than only reacting to risks to mitigate the consequences of a crash. To this end, information comprising the orientation of other traffic participants 30, 40, 50, 60, a free driving area of the ego vehicle 20, and/or a driving trajectory of the vehicle 20 as intended by the driver is taken into account, in order to determine potential risks.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBHInventors: Christian Goerick, Bram Bolder, Benjamin Dittes