Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9322328
    Abstract: An internal cooling passage structure for rotary engine, which includes a rotary engine body, having a front frame, a mid-frame, a rear frame and a rotor, wherein the rotor has cooling passages beneath the rotor triangular apexes, and both front and rear frames respectively have corresponding openings; a rotor, rotating in the mid-frame, having the core cooling passages in full or partial connection with the openings in both front and rear frames in the engine operation; and a guide vane along the opening edge, wherein external air is guided into the rotor core cooling passages by the guide vane which avoids generating heat vortices and helps to increase the cooling air so as to lower the temperature on the rotor and its assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CHUNG-SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ARMAMENTS BUREAU, M.N.D
    Inventors: Ming-Chun Hsieh, Dun-Zen Jeng, Chih-Chuan Lee, Ting-Hua Chieh
  • Patent number: 9322551
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for humidifying residential and commercial buildings in which a flue gas generated by a residential of commercial furnace is provided to one side of a porous liquid water transport membrane and habitable space air is provided to an opposite side of the porous liquid water transport membrane in an amount sufficient to provide a habitable space air to flue gas volume flow rate ratio of at least 8.3:1. At least a portion of the water vapor in the flue gas is condensed, providing condensed liquid water which is passed through the porous liquid water transport membrane to the habitable space air side of the porous liquid water transport membrane. On the habitable space air side of the membrane, the condensed liquid water is evaporated into the habitable space air, producing humidified habitable space air which is provided to the rooms of the residential and commercial buildings. Beneficially, no supplemental water source is required for the humidification process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Gas Technology Institute
    Inventors: Dexin Wang, William E. Liss, Richard A. Knight
  • Patent number: 9326270
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a data transmission method through multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS). Specifically, the present disclosure proposes using a cell broadcast service to perform data transmission, and the proposed functions would include receiving an information of a service data, allocating a data channel resource based on the information of the service data to generate an allocation information for the data channel, allocating a control channel resource based on the information of the service data to generate an allocation information for the control channel, and transmitting the allocation information for the control channel to a target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Lin Wang, Tzu-Ming Lin, Chun-Yuan Chiu
  • Patent number: 9323986
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for recognizing a situation based on an image using a template. The present invention provides the device for recognizing a situation based on an image. The device includes a camera unit capturing an image which is divided into a plurality of regions and having a template for each of the regions, the template defining characteristics of each of the regions, and a control unit detecting an object in the image and determining the situation surrounding the object according to the template mapped to the region to which the detected object belongs. In addition, the present invention provides the method of operating the device for recognizing a situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seunghun Kim, Ilkyun Jung
  • Patent number: 9325063
    Abstract: A radiation pattern insulator and an antennae system thereof are proposed. The radiation pattern insulator includes a dielectric substrate and a plurality of radiation pattern insulation elements. The dielectric substrate allocated between a plurality of antennae includes a top surface and a bottom surface, and a normal direction of the dielectric substrate is substantially perpendicular to propagation directions of electromagnetic waves radiated from the antennae. In addition, the radiation pattern insulation elements are allocated on the top surface or the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate, or alternatively, all allocated on the top surface and the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Sun Yat-sen University
    Inventors: Chun-Yih Wu, Hung-Hsuan Lin, Ken-Huang Lin, Hsin-Lung Su, Chih-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 9320984
    Abstract: A humidification-dehumidification system comprises a source of liquid; a humidifier including carrier-gas and liquid inlets and outlets and a chamber in which the liquid can contact a carrier gas containing a condensable fluid in vapor phase that is introduced from the carrier-gas inlet in a counterflow arrangement and in which a portion of the liquid can vaporize into the carrier gas; a bubble-column vapor mixture condenser including at least first and second stages, each stage including a carrier-gas inlet and outlet and a chamber configured to contain a liquid bath in fluid communication with the carrier-gas inlet and the carrier-gas outlet; a conduit passing from the source of the liquid through the chamber of each stage of the bubble-column condenser; and an intermediate exchange conduit coupled with (a) the bubble-column vapor mixture condenser and (b) the humidifier chamber at intermediate stages of each for transfer of the carrier gas therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Prakash Narayan Govindan, Gregory P. Thiel, Ronan K. McGovern, John H. Lienhard, Mostafa H. Elsharqawy
  • Patent number: 9325507
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for managing a mobile device using device-to-device (D2D) communication in which a D2D communication-based mobile device management (MDM) manager is given authority to manage a D2D communication-based MDM client by an MDM server and can directly manage a user mobile device at a short distance based on D2D communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Kookrae Cho, Jong Wuk Son, Shi Quan Piao, Hye Min Seong
  • Patent number: 9325962
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for creating a dynamic floating window for stereoscopic contents, and more particularly, to a method and system for automatically creating a dynamic floating window for stereoscopic contents based on feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Yong Noh, Hyung Jin Kim, Young Hui Kim, Jung Jin Lee, Sung Woo Choi, Roger Blanco Ribera
  • Patent number: 9325457
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system where a terminal and a base station communicate with each other using a frame including at least one downlink sub-frame and at least one uplink sub-frame, the terminal and the base station calculate the number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback regions of the downlink sub-frames and the uplink sub-frames in accordance with a third value corresponding to an absolute value of subtraction between a first value corresponding to the number of downlink sub-frames of the frame and a second value corresponding to the number of uplink sub-frames of the frame or the sum of the first value and the second value and configure HARQ feedback regions in the downlink sub-frames and the uplink sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jisoo Park, Young-il Kim, Won Ryu
  • Patent number: 9323158
    Abstract: A design method of extreme ultraviolet lithography projection objective comprises: determining the optical design parameters of the lithography projection objective, setting the projection objective to include six lenses and an aperture diaphragm, and dividing the six lenses into the three groups according to the beam propagation direction; determining the radii and the intervals of the first and third groups, respectively; and determining the radii and the intervals of the second group of lenses according to the parameters of the foregoing two groups of lenses. The design method has the advantage of avoiding the blindness in revising and error testing of the existing structure of the conventional optical design method by calculating lens structures that meet the parameter conditions, so that light rays can be selected conveniently according to the special requirements of optical processing detection, and a mass of searches and judgments can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: National Institute of Metrology
    Inventors: Yanqiu Li, Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 9321252
    Abstract: A laminating device for laminating at least one flexible substrate includes a frame, a pressing module, a driving module, a pressure sensor and a control module. The pressing module is disposed on the frame. The pressing module at least includes a first roller and a second roller which are used for moving relative to each other. The driving module is connected to the first roller for driving the first roller. The pressure sensor is disposed on one side of the second roller and opposite to the first roller for detecting a pressure of the pressing module. The control module is electronically connected to the pressure sensor and the driving module for ordering the driving module to adjust the position of the first roller based on the difference between the pressure detected by the pressure sensor and a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chang-Chou Li, Chin-Lung Liu, Chih-Yu Ke
  • Patent number: 9323059
    Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus configured to be in front of at least one eye of a user includes an image display unit, a first beam splitting unit, and a reflection-refraction unit. The image display unit provides an image beam. The first beam splitting unit disposed on transmission paths of the image beam and an object beam causes at least one portion of the object beam to propagate to the eye and causes at least one portion of the image beam to propagate to the reflection-refraction unit. The reflection-refraction unit includes a lens portion and a reflecting portion on a first curved surface of the lens portion. At least part of the image beam travels through the lens portion, is reflected by the reflecting portion, travels trough the lens portion again, and is propagated to the eye by the first beam splitting unit in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chy-Lin Wang, Kuo-Tung Tiao, Tian-Yuan Chen, Lung-Pin Chung, Chun-Chuan Lin, Hsien-Chang Lin, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Wei-Jia Huang, Chia-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 9320750
    Abstract: Time-staggered inhibition of EGFR, in combination with DNA damaging agents, is a useful therapeutic strategy for treating cancers, particularly drug resistant cancers such as a subset of triple-negative tumors, particularly those with high basal levels of phosphorylated EGFR. The staggered therapy was also demonstrated to be applicable to other types of tumors, especially lung cancers, which contain either high levels of phosphorylated wild-type EGFR or mutations within EGFR itself. EGFR inhibition dramatically sensitizes cancer cells to DNA damage if the drugs are given sequentially, but not simultaneously. The first drug must be administered in a dosage and for a period of time sufficient for the dynamic network rewiring of an oncogenic signature maintained by active EGFR signaling to unmask an apoptotic process that involves activation of caspase-8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Michael B. Yaffe, Michael Jungho Lee, Paula T. Hammond, Stephen W. Morton
  • Patent number: 9320751
    Abstract: Methods of treating a fungal infection in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a modified saponin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Eleftherios Mylonakis, Edward Holson, Frederick M. Ausubel
  • Patent number: 9320810
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conjugate which contains a therapeutic moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor blood vessels and tumor cells and that specifically binds the receptor bound by peptide KDEPQRRSARLSAKPAPPKPEPKPKKAPAKK (SEQ ID NO: 9). Methods of directing a conjugate of the invention to tumor blood vessels and tumor cells and of using a conjugate to treat cancer also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
    Inventors: Erkki Ruoslahti, Kimmo Porkka, Sven Christian
  • Patent number: 9324245
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for creating combined artificial feelings to which different basic feelings like a human being's combined feeling are reflected. The apparatus for creating an artificial feeling comprises a feeling value group creation part which is configured to create a feeling value group having a feeling value which gradually decreased as it gets farther from a basic feeling assigned to a machine apparatus on an internal state coordinate system of a machine apparatus; and a feeling creation part which is configured to create, as a feeling of a machine apparatus, a group of a feeling value of each feeling value group that a coordinate of an internal state input value of the machine apparatus indicates on the internal state coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ho Seok Ahn, Dong Wook Lee, Woong Hee Shon
  • Patent number: 9320789
    Abstract: Shigella vaccine strains whose primary attenuating feature is deletion of the virG(icsA) gene and additional two or more deletions in setAB(shET1), senA(shET2), senB(shET2-2), stxAB, and msbB2 genes. Thus, the vaccine strain will have three or more deletions in the identified genes, will be safer, and will reduce or eliminate symptoms of fever and diarrhea in humans. The following specific vaccine strains have been constructed: WRSS3 (?senA, ?senB, ?virG, ?msbB2), WRSf2G15 (?virG, ?setAB, ?senA, ?senB, ?msbB2), and WRSd5 (?virG, ?stxAB, ?senA, ?senB, ?msbB2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, on behalf of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    Inventors: Malabi Venkatesan, Ryan Ranallo, Shoshana Barnoy
  • Patent number: 9322008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mutant of L-asparaginase enzyme characterized in having high thermostability, pH stability and no glutaminase activity useful for therapeutics and the process of preparing the same. The present invention specifically relates to mutants MTCC 5580, MTCC 5581 and MTCC 5582 characterized in having higher stability, no glutaminase activity etc., to allow their usage in the form of improved protein therapeutics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Bishwajit Kundu, Saurabh Bansal, Prashant Mishra
  • Patent number: 9324005
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of amplifying temporal variation in at least two images includes converting two or more images to a transform representation. The method further includes, for each spatial position within the two or more images, examining a plurality of coefficient values. The method additionally includes calculating a first vector based on the plurality of coefficient values. The first vector can represent change from a first image to a second image of the at least two images describing deformation. The method also includes modifying the first vector to create a second vector. The method further includes calculating a second plurality of coefficients based on the second vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Neal Wadhwa, Michael Rubinstein, Frederic Durand, William T. Freeman, Hao-Yu Wu, Eugene Inghaw Shih, John V. Guttag
  • Patent number: 9324506
    Abstract: Disclosed is a modularized AMTEC cell which does not require a separate collector by using a metal support as an internal electrode, has durability and stability even at a high temperature and a high pressure, very easily joins the cell to a housing by inserting the cell into an insulating portion and sealing, minimizes the number of the parts and expands easily the system scale through the serial-parallel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Sun-Dong Kim, Sang-Kuk Woo, Se-Young Kim, Jong-Hoon Joo, In-Sub Han, Doo-Won Seo, Min-Soo Suh