Abstract: Provided are a plant derived plastic blend and a manufacturing method thereof in which high density polyethylene and polylactic acid are microscopically mixed to improve the mechanical properties of the plant derived plastic blend. The plant derived plastic blend comprises 10 wt % or more and 90 wt % or less of a plant derived polyethylene and 10 wt % or more and 90 wt % or less of a plant derived polylactic acid to achieve a total of 100 wt %, and further contains 1 wt % or more and 20 wt % or less of a compatibilizing agent. The manufacturing method of the plant derived plastic blend is carried out in a cylinder by applying a shear flow field and a stretching field and melt-kneading raw material containing the plant derived polyethylene, the polylactic acid and the compatibilizing agent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 16, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract: The present subject matter relates to processing of Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, and in particular, relates to identifying a QRS complex in an ECG signal. The method includes receiving, and filtering the ECG signal by passing through at least one of a first low-pass filter and a high-pass filter to obtain a filtered ECG signal. The filtered ECG signal is processed based on a moving average technique. Further, a search region is identified in the processed ECG signal, and a maximum amplitude peak is identified in a time interval of the filtered ECG signal that corresponds to a time span of the search region of the processed ECG signal. The maximum amplitude peak is an R peak of the QRS complex. Subsequently, a Q peak and an S peak of the QRS complex is identified based on the R peak.
Abstract: A laser machining system and a method thereof are disclosed. The disclosed laser machining system comprises a laser generator, an array photo detector, a processer, and a position controller. The laser generator is configured to emit laser via a first light path onto a work piece. The array photo detector is configured to receive the thermal radiation from the work piece via a second light path, different from the first light path, to generate a thermal radiation image. The processor, electrically coupled to the laser generator and the array photo detector, is configured to calculate a temperature centroid of the thermal radiation image and generate a distance control signal according to the temperature centroid. The position controller, electrically coupled to the processor, is controlled by the distance control signal to make a present distance between the laser machining system equal to a working distance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 30, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dummy gate in a gate-last process and a dummy gate in a gate-last process are provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; growing a gate oxide layer on the semiconductor substrate; depositing bottom-layer amorphous silicon on the gate oxide layer; depositing an ONO structured hard mask on the bottom-layer amorphous silicon; depositing top-layer amorphous silicon on the ONO structured hard mask; depositing a hard mask layer on the top-layer amorphous silicon; forming photoresist lines on the hard mask layer, and trimming the formed photoresist lines so that the trimmed photoresist lines a width less than or equal to 22 nm; and etching the hard mask layer, the top-layer amorphous silicon, the ONO structured hard mask and the bottom-layer amorphous silicon in accordance with the trimmed photoresist lines, and removing the photoresist lines, the hard mask layer and the top-layer amorphous silicon.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Abstract: A carrier-gas mixture is directed through a fluid flow path in a combined heat and mass transfer device, which can be operated at sub-atmospheric pressure. Heat and mass are transferred from or to the carrier-gas mixture via interaction with a liquid composition that includes a vaporizable component in a liquid state to substantially change the content of the vaporizable component in the carrier-gas mixture via evaporation or condensation. The mass flow rate of the carrier-gas mixture is varied by extracting or injecting the carrier-gas mixture from at least one intermediate location in the fluid flow path, and/or the mass flow rate of the liquid composition is varied by extracting or injecting the liquid composition from at least one intermediate location in the fluid flow path; and the flow of the carrier-gas mixture or the liquid composition is regulated to reduce the average local enthalpy pinch in the device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 24, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignees:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, King Fahd University of Petroleum Minerals
Inventors:
Prakash Narayan Govindan, Gregory P. Thiel, Ronan K. McGovern, John H. Lienhard, Sarit K. Das, Karim M. Chehayeb, Syed M. Zubair, Mohammed A. Antar
Abstract: The invention provides a primer group for detecting CpG island methylation of p16 gene using methylation specific fluorescence technique. The primer group comprises a pair of oligonucleotide primers and a fluorescence-labeled probe. Said oligonucleotide primer pair has base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO.1 and SEQ ID NO.2. Said fluorescence-labeled probe has base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO.3 or SEQ NO.4.
Abstract: A network controller for delay measurement in SDN and related delay measurement system and delay measurement method are provided. A probe packet is used to record the transmission of the probe packet between the network controller and network switches, to calculate a transport delay time between the network switches and hop delay time between the network switches, to obtain the delay of each link in the transmission path, which helps in finding out a critical hop in the SDN transmission path. Through the delay measurement mechanism according to the present disclosure, the critical hop will become a reference based on which a network manager adjusts a network framework, or a basis taken by an SDN control system to select a path.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 21, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for the expression, secretion and use of novel compositions for use as, e.g., vaccines and antigen delivery vectors, to delivery antigens to antigen presenting cells. In one embodiment, the vector is an anti-CD40 antibody, or fragments thereof, and one or more antigenic peptides linked to the anti-CD40 antibody or fragments thereof, including humanized antibodies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 26, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
Baylor Research Institute
Inventors:
Gerard Zurawski, Jacques Banchereau, Anne-Laure Flamar, Yves Levy, Monica Montes
Abstract: Disclosed herein are a tag transmission apparatus and a signal transmitting method thereof. The tag transmission apparatus converts a plurality of data bits into a symbol, which is one of a plurality of symbols, and multiplies the converted symbol by a square-wave having a predetermined frequency to thereby generate a subcarrier signal. Here, in the case in which the plurality of data bits are n (n is a natural number larger than 2) bits, the number of the plurality of symbols is 2n.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Sang Hyun Mo, Ji-Hoon Bae, Chan-Won Park, Cheol Sig Pyo
Abstract: A plurality of phased array acoustic communication devices are used to communicate data along a tubulation, such as a well. The phased array acoustic communication devices employ phased arrays of acoustic transducers, such as piezoelectric transducers, to direct acoustic energy in desired directions along the tubulation. The system is controlled by a computer-based controller. Information, including data and commands, is communicated using digital signaling.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Eric D. Archer, Xiaoqi Bao, Stewart Sherrit
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of assembling an array of light emitting diode (LED) dies on a substrate comprising: positioning dies in fluid; exposing the dies to a magnetic force to attract the dies onto magnets that are arranged at pre-determined locations either on or near the substrate; and forming permanent connections between the dies and the substrate thereby constituting an array of LED dies on a substrate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 14, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
RENSSEALER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Robert F. Karlicek, Jr., James Jian-Qiang Lu, Charles Sanford Goodwin, Anton Tkachenko
Abstract: The present invention relates to a leaching method of rare-earth metals using a hydrochloric acid from a manganese nodule, and more particularly, to a leaching method of rare-earth metals using a hydrochloric acid from a manganese nodule, in which a manganese nodule is mixed with a hydrochloric acid, then stirred and heated to leach the rare-earth metal included in the manganese nodule.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
Inventors:
Jin-Tae Park, Chul-Woo Nam, Kyung-Ho Park, Hyun-Ho Kim
Abstract: Disclosed is a complex sampling apparatus. The complex sampling apparatus includes a main sampling unit having a predetermined weight to be sunk to sea floor and inserted into the sea floor in order to collect a sample including a sediment; one or a plurality of sub-sampling unit disposed at a side of the main sampling unit to detect that the sub-sampling unit arrives on the sea floor and to scrape a predetermined amount of the sample from a surface of the sea floor; and an image acquiring unit installed to the main sampling unit to acquire an image of the sea floor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 3, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Gun-Chang Lee, Dong-Jin Ham, Sang-Bum Chi, Kyeong-Hong Kim
Abstract: Disclosed is an energy conversion apparatus. An energy conversion apparatus may comprise a control part controlling a length of a first time duration in which input current is inputted and accumulated, a length of a second time duration in which the accumulated current is provided to a load, and a length of a third time duration in which inverse current flows; and a DC-to-DC converter including an inductor, a output capacitor, and at least one switching element, wherein the input current is accumulated during the first time duration by switching the at least one switching element according to a control of the control part so as to perform input impedance matching, and the DC-to-DC convert provides a current corresponding to a difference between the accumulated current provided during the second time duration and the inverse current flowing from the output capacitor during the third time duration to the load.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 10, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Sung Eun Kim, Tae Wook Kang, Kyung Hwan Park, Sung Weon Kang, Myung Ae Chung
Abstract: Disclosed is a receiver including: a partial filter generating unit selecting a signal as large as a predetermined magnitude among sampled signals and extracting a filter coefficient for the selected signal magnitude to perform QR resolution for the filter coefficient; a partial ML setting unit determining the lengths and the number of candidate symbol combinations of a signal to be detected and generating a candidate ML symbol combination based on the determined lengths and number of candidate symbol combinations; a signal detecting unit detecting residual symbols in a predetermined part of the sampled signal based on the generated candidate ML symbol combination; and a final signal selecting unit choosing a candidate symbol closest to the sampled signal among the detected candidate symbols as a finally detected signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 27, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Myung Sun Beak, Hun Hee Lee, Hyoung Soo Lim, Nam Ho Hur
Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for selecting a wavelength by a wavelength tunable optical receiver. The method of selecting a wavelength of a wavelength tunable optical receiver includes: receiving, by the wavelength tunable optical receiver, an optical signal from a wavelength tunable optical transmitter; filtering, by the wavelength tunable optical receiver, the optical signal through a low frequency band electrical signal filter, and obtaining a low frequency signal; determining, by the wavelength tunable optical receiver, whether the low frequency signal is a valid signal based on a current value of the low frequency signal; and when the low frequency signal is the valid signal, obtaining, by the wavelength tunable optical receiver, an enable condition of a wavelength tunable optical filter through which the low frequency signal is selected, in which the low frequency signal includes a control/monitoring signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Jong Sool Jeong, Dong Hun Lee, Mi Ran Park, Byung Seok Choi, Hyun Soo Kim, O Kyun Kwon
Abstract: Methods and devices for biological sample preparation and analysis are disclosed. A device may have a linear or circular arrangement of containers, with a connecting structure such as a bar or disk. Fluidics channels between containers allow the performance of different techniques for sample preparation, such as lysing, washing and elution. Different functional elements, such as grinders or mixers, may be attached to the containers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 1, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Imran R. Malik, Axel Scherer, Erika F. Garcia, Xiomara L. Madero
Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for delivering an agent to virally infected tissues and/or cells of a subject by conjugating agent-loaded nanoparticles to virus-specific T cells, such as cytotoxic T lymphocytes. The agent may be a latency-reversing drug (LRD), an antiviral agent and/or an agent that enhances cytotoxic efficacy of T lymphocytes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 8, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignees:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital Corporation
Inventors:
Darrell J. Irvine, Bruce D. Walker, Richard Bradley Jones
Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for self-cleaning photovoltaic panels that utilize piezo devices capable of causing vibrational movement in the panels.
Abstract: A device for dynamic reconfiguration of robot components includes: a resource monitoring unit for monitoring resources of a plurality of boards on which components for executing tasks of a robot are loaded; a dynamic reconfiguration unit for dynamically reconfiguring components of the boards, in the case at least one of the boards is at a risk for a scarcity of resources; and a log managing unit for storing a configuration of present components and a configuration of reconfigured components. Accordingly, it is possible to recognize a scarcity of resources in advance while the robot is operating and prevent the robot from malfunctioning by distributing the components.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 11, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignee:
Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Inventors:
Sang Chul Ahn, Yong-Moo Kwon, Ui Kyu Song