Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Micro-sized electrode for solid oxide fuel cell and method for fabricating the same
    Publication number: 20060252634
    Abstract: An electrode pattern for a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) comprises a plurality of micro-sized first electrode patterns formed on an upper surface of a substrate including an electrolyte layer, and a plurality of micro-sized second electrode patterns formed between the first electrode patterns. The electrode pattern is formed by using a mold fabricated by a photoresist process. In order to form the electrode pattern, a paste for an electrode including a thermo-setting resin and an electrode powder is prepared. The electrode having a micro-sized or sub-micro sized width and a high precision is simply fabricated, and a miniaturized SOFC having a high function is fabricated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Joo-Sun Kim, Hae-Weon Lee, Jong-Ho Lee, Gyeung-Ho Kim, Sang-Woo Kim, Hyoung-Chul Kim, Sun-Hee Choi
  • Device for axon and neurite growth and method for producing the same
    Publication number: 20060251698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for directing and accelerating the growth of neuronal axon or neurite. The invention accelerates the growth speed of axon of nerve cells by using a substrate configured with a discontinuous micropattern of neuronal path-finding molecules or material thereon. The invention can reduce the connection or regeneration time of neural network. The present invention also discloses a micro-contact printing method for producing the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsin Shen, Wan-Shiun Lou, Chi-Hung Lin, Hong-Wen Liu
  • SIR2 activity
    Publication number: 20060252076
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods of screening compounds that modulate cellular and organismal processes by modification of the activity of SIR2 and/or transcription factors, e.g., p53, particularly methods of screening for compounds that modify lifespan and/or metabolism of a cell or an organism by modulation of the activity of SIR2 and/or transcription factors, e.g., p53, and more particularly to methods of screening for compounds that modulate the activity of Sir2 and/or transcription factors, e.g., p53. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for screening a compound, by providing a test mixture comprising a transcription factor, Sir2, and a Sir2 cofactor with the compound, and evaluating an activity of a component of the test mixture in the presence of the compound. The invention further relates to therapeutic uses of said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Leonard Guarente, Homayoun Vaziri, Shin-Ichiro Imai
  • Device for optimizing transmitting energy and transmitting position for an implantable electrical stimulator
    Publication number: 20060253173
    Abstract: A device for optimizing transmitting energy and transmitting position for an implantable electrical stimulator is provided. The device utilizes a design of a wireless energy transmitting and positioning device with an external energy-feedback control, which can automatically detect an optimum energy-transmitting position through an external antenna performing an adjustable energy transmission method, and through a wireless-feedback control method to provide the optimum energy. As such, the implantable electrical stimulator can exactly and effectively stimulate the nervous muscle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Kuo-Hua Tseng, Yu-Kon Chou, Pei-Ying Shieh
  • Distributed bandwidth allocation for resilient packet ring networks
    Publication number: 20060250986
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring (RPR), including: determining a relationship between an arrival rate A(n) as a function of a fairness rate Fk(n) of a kth node of the RPR over time; computing an estimate of a slope M of the relationship A(Fk(n)) at time n; and computing a next fairness rate Fk(n+1) of the kth node as a function of the slope M at time n+1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Fahd Alharbi, Nirwan Ansari
  • Beam shaping apparatus
    Publication number: 20060250703
    Abstract: A beam shaping apparatus including an optical lens is provided. The optical lens includes a diverging surface and a cylindrical surface. The diverging surface expands the input laser beam into a uniform line in one plane. The cylindrical surface converges the laser beam in another plane. Therefore, the output laser line has the desired width and the uniform density along its length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute, a corporation organized under the laws of Taiwan
    Inventors: Jyh-Long Chern, Chia-Yu Liu, Hau-Wei Wang, Fu-Shiang Yang
  • Loss tolerant transmission control protocol
    Publication number: 20060250949
    Abstract: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting or receiving data packets in a data block in a communication network with a transport protocol. In one example, a loss tolerant TCP protocol is used in which a maximum segment size (MSS) may be adapted to a minimum granularity of a congestion window. Also, proactive forward error correction (FEC) packets may be added to a window of the data block. The number of proactive FEC packets may be determined, for example, based on an estimate erasure rate. In addition, reactive FEC packets may be added to the data block. Also, a receiver may receive data packets in a data block and process a selective acknowledgment (SACK) responsive to the data packets received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicants: AT&T Corp., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Kadangode Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Vijaynarayanan Subramanian, Omesh Tickoo
  • Metal-doped semiconductor nanoparticles and methods of synthesis thereof
    Publication number: 20060249704
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to binary or higher order semiconductor nanoparticles doped with a metallic element, and thermoelectric compositions incorporating such nanoparticles. In one aspect, the present invention provides a thermoelectric composition comprising a plurality of nanoparticles each of which includes an alloy matrix formed of a Group IV element and Group VI element and a metallic dopant distributed within the matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicants: MASS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), The Trustees of Boston College
    Inventors: Zhifeng Ren, Gang Chen, Bed Poudel, Shankar Kumar, Wenzhong Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Novel assay for screening antipsychotic drugs
    Publication number: 20060252103
    Abstract: A novel assay method suitable for screening of novel antipsychotics wherein the drugs may be selected based on the differential internalization of the 5-HT2A receptor in neuronal and non-neuronal cell lines effect for it to predict the extrapyramidal symptoms that may be induced by an antipsychotic without having to carry out in vivo experiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Mitradas Panicker, Samarjit Bhattacharyya
  • MoSi2-Si3N4 composite coating and manufacturing method thereof
    Publication number: 20060251912
    Abstract: A MoSi2—Si3N4 composite coating which is coated on a surface of base materials which are molybden, molybden alloy, molybden-coated niobium or molybden-coated niobium alloy and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jae Kim, Kyeung Kim, Ji Byun, Jin Yoon, Doo Kim, Jong Lee, Jong Shin, Dae Rho
  • Artificial human limbs and joints employing actuators, springs, and variable-damper elements
    Publication number: 20060249315
    Abstract: Biomimetic Hybrid Actuators employed in biologically-inspired musculoskeletal architectures employ an electric motor for supplying positive energy to and storing negative energy from an artificial joint or limb, as well as elastic elements such as springs, and controllable variable damper components, for passively storing and releasing energy and providing adaptive stiffness to accommodate level ground walking as well as movement on stairs and surfaces having different slopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hugh Herr, Daniel Paluska, Peter Dilworth
  • Structure of polymer-matrix conductive film and method for fabricating the same
    Publication number: 20060249834
    Abstract: A composite conductive film formed of a polymer-matrix and a plurality of conductive lines less than micro-sized and its fabricating method are provided. The conductive lines are arranged parallel and spaced apart from each other so as to provide anisotropic conductivity. The present conductive film can serve as an electrical connection between a fine-pitch chip and a substrate. Additionally, an adhesive layer is formed on two opposite sides of the conductive film along its conductive direction to increase adhesive areas. The strength and reliability of the package using the conductive film are thus enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ruoh-Huey Uang, Yu-Chih Chen, Ren-Jan Lin, Syh-Yuh Cheng
  • Apparatus and method of in situ and ex situ measurement of spatial impulse response of an optical system using phase-shifting point-diffraction interferometry
    Publication number: 20060250620
    Abstract: A point diffraction interferometer for measuring properties of a spatial impulse response function, the interferometer including: a source for generating a source beam; an optical system; an optical element including a test object located in an object plane of the optical system, the test object including a diffraction point for generating from the source beam a measurement beam that passes through the optical system, wherein the optical element also generates from the source beam a reference beam that is combined with the measurement beam to generate an interference pattern in an image plane of the optical system, the interference pattern representing the spatial impulse response function of the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Zetetic Institute
    Inventor: Henry Hill
  • Digital cell
    Publication number: 20060253258
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a method and system for carrying out data production with respect to the actual status of cells as a profile. It is also intended to provide a system and method for presenting time-lapse and/or real-time information of cell interior directly, or as it is, from the viewpoint of a complex system. It is further intended to provide a method of presenting a digital cell. Thus, there is provided a method of producing profile data relating to cell information, comprising the step (a) of arranging cells in an immobilized form on a support and the step (b) of monitoring over time biological factors on or inside the cells or an aggregate thereof, thereby producing profile data for the cells. Furthermore, there is provided a method of producing a digital cell, comprising procuring experimental data by the use of the above method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Masato Miyake
  • Optical recording/reproducing method and optical recording medium
    Publication number: 20060250916
    Abstract: A recording mark train is formed in an optical recording medium including a noble metal oxide layer by decomposing a noble metal oxide and deforming the noble metal oxide layer. Noble metal particles are irreversibly deposit in the noble metal oxide layer formed with the recording mark train and a laser beam for reproducing data is irradiated onto the thus deposited noble metal particles, thereby reading the recording mark train. The recording mark train includes at least one recording mark having a length shorter than 0.37?/NA wherein ? is the wavelength of the laser beam and NA is an optical system for irradiating the laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicants: TDK Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Pioneer Corporation, Sharo Kabushiki Kaisha, Samsung Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kikukawa, Junji Tominaga, Takayuki Shima, Akihiro Tachibana, Hiroshi Fuji, Jooho Kim
  • Low dielectric constant insulating film and method of forming the same
    Publication number: 20060251825
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a low dielectric constant insulating film. Its constitution has the steps of: (a) forming an insulating film containing Si—CH3 bond in the skeleton of Si—O—Si on a substrate; (b) irradiating ultraviolet ray to the insulating film in reduced-pressure atmosphere to break CH3 groups from Si—CH3 bond in the insulating film; and (c) ejecting the broken CH3 groups from the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Semiconductor Process Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ohdaira, Yoshimi Shioya
  • Loss tolerant transmission control protocol
    Publication number: 20060251010
    Abstract: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting or receiving data packets in a data block in a communication network with a transport protocol. In one example, a loss tolerant TCP protocol is used in which a maximum segment size (MSS) may be adapted to a minimum granularity of a congestion window. Also, proactive forward error correction (FEC) packets may be added to a window of the data block. The number of proactive FEC packets may be determined, for example, based on an estimate erasure rate. In addition, reactive FEC packets may be added to the data block. Also, a receiver may receive data packets in a data block and process a selective acknowledgment (SACK) responsive to the data packets received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicants: AT&T Corp., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Kadangode Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Vijaynarayanan Subramanian, Omesh Tickoo
  • Methods for synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals and thermoelectric compositions
    Publication number: 20060251569
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for synthesis of IV-VI nanostructures, and thermoelectric compositions formed of such structures. In one aspect, the method includes forming a solution of a Group IV reagent, a Group VI reagent and a surfactant. A reducing agent can be added to the solution, and the resultant solution can be maintained at an elevated temperature, e.g., in a range of about 20° C. to about 360° C., for a duration sufficient for generating nanoparticles as binary alloys of the IV-VI elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicants: MASS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), The Trustees of Boston College
    Inventors: Zhifeng Ren, Gang Chen, Bed Poudel, Shankar Kumar, Wenzhong Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus
  • ICE/CED-3 like protease designated FMH-1
    Publication number: 20060252125
    Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding novel proteases designated “FMH-1” are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Genetics Institute, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Bowman
  • Fluorine-containing amphoteric polymer for surface coating and preparation method thereof
    Patent number: 7132489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorine-containing amphoteric polymer for surface coating and preparation method thereof, in particular, to a fluorine-containing amphoteric polymer for surface coating and preparation method thereof in which a hydrocarbon compound with hydrophilic groups serves as a main chain and a macromonomer prepared by copolymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound and a perfluoro alkyl compound is incorporated into side chains, thereby imparting amphoteric property on the present polymer. Therefore, the present polymer allows self-emulsification and shows soil release, water-repellent and oil-repellent properties with no help of emulsifier, applicable to a variety of industrial fields such as coating, adhesive, fiber, precision chemistry, biological/biochemical industry, electric/electronic, automobile and metal industries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
    Inventors: Soo-Bok Lee, In Jun Park, Dong-Kwon Kim, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jong-Wook Ha, Won-Wook So, Kwang-Won Lee, Kwang-Han Kim, Mi-Sun Cha