Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of semiconductor integrated circuits, and to a method for calibrating a capacitor voltage coefficient of a high-precision successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC). The method includes: calibrating a voltage coefficient; obtaining a sampled charged charge according to a capacitance model with the voltage coefficient; according to an INL value obtained by testing, first verifying whether a maximum value of INL occurs in the place shown in Equation 3, then obtaining two very close second-order capacitor voltage coefficients according to Equation 4, and taking an average value thereof as a second-order capacitor voltage coefficient; and then calibrating the second-order capacitor voltage coefficient in a digital domain.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 18, 2018
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicant:
NO.24 RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION
Abstract: The present specification relates to a connecting material for a solid oxide fuel cell, comprising a conductive substrate; and a ceramic protective film provided on one surface of the conductive substrate, in which the ceramic protective film comprises an oxide represented by Formula 1, a manufacturing method thereof, and a solid oxide fuel cell comprising the same.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 20, 2019
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
LG CHEM, LTD., DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Hunhyeong LEE, Sanghyeok IM, Doyeon JEON, Kang Taek LEE, Kwangwook CHOI, Tai Min NOH, Dong Woo JOH, Imdadullah THAHEEM
Abstract: The disclosure provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting and editing nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprising a RNA-targeting Cas13 protein, at least one guide molecule, and at least one adenosine deaminase protein or catalytic domain thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 13, 2020
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Inventors:
Feng Zhang, Jonathan Gootenberg, David Benjamin Turitz Cox, Omar Abudayyeh, Soumya Kannan
Abstract: A method for certified control of a self-driving ego vehicle is described. The method includes analyzing a safety situation of the self-driving ego vehicle to determine a proposed vehicle control action using a main controller of the self-driving ego vehicle. The method also includes presenting, by the main controller, the proposed vehicle control action to an interlock controller, including a certificate of the proposed vehicle control action. The method further includes checking a safety certification evidence from the certificate by the interlock controller using a predefined safety argument to verify the safety certification evidence of the certificate. The method also includes directing, by a low-level controller, the self-driving ego vehicle to perform a certified vehicle control action.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 26, 2019
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Daniel JACKSON, Jonathan DECASTRO, Soon Ho KONG, Nikos ARECHIGA GONZALEZ, Dimitrios KOUTENTAKIS, Feng Ping Angela LEONG, Mike Meichang WANG, Xin ZHANG
Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting and editing nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprising a RNA-targeting Cas13 protein, at least one guide molecule, and at least one adenosine deaminase protein or catalytic domain thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 4, 2018
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Inventors:
Feng Zhang, Jonathan Gootenberg, Omar Abudayyeh
Abstract: The present invention is related to a separator of a microbial fuel cell comprising: a porous supporting material and a C hydrogel, wherein the hydrogel is introduced in pores of the porous supporting material.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 14, 2019
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicant:
OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL CORPORATION
Inventors:
Viacheslav FEDOROVICH, Georgy FILONENKO, Igor GORYANIN, Geoffrey Kellogg SCHAFFER-HARRIS, David James Wilpault SIMPSON, Peter BABIAK
Abstract: A quantum simulator includes a pseudo speckle pattern generator, a main vacuum chamber, an atomic gas supply unit, a light beam generator, a photodetector, and an atom number detector. The pseudo speckle pattern generator generates a pseudo speckle pattern in the inside of the main vacuum chamber by light allowed to enter the inside of the main vacuum chamber through the second window. The pseudo speckle pattern generator includes a controller, a light source, a beam expander, a spatial light modulator, and a lens. The controller sets a modulation distribution of the spatial light modulator based on a two-dimensional pseudo random number pattern.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 23, 2020
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Abstract: An automated classification apparatus includes a 3D (three dimensional) Inception-Resnet block structure, a global average pooling structure and a fully connected layer. The 3D Inception-Resnet block structure includes a 3D Inception-Resnet structure configured to receive 3D medical image of a patient's shoulder and extract features from the 3D medical image and 3D Inception-Downsampling structure configured to downsample information of a feature map including the features. The global average pooling structure is configured to operate an average pooling for an output of the 3D Inception-Resnet block structure. The fully connected layer is disposed after the 3D global average pooling structure. The automated classification apparatus is configured to automatically classify the 3D medical image into a plurality of categories.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 8, 2020
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicant:
KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Youngjun KIM, Eungjune SHIM, Laehyun KIM
Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of tracking control for a foot force and moment of a biped robot. According to the method, a double-spring damping model is designed, and a force tracking controller is designed by using an LQR optimization method, so as to realize tracking of the foot force and moment of the biped robot. Further, a desired force on a foot and a desired moment on the foot are calculated through a planned ZMP distribution method, thereby eventually achieving better ZMP tracking of the biped robot and adapting to ground of certain unevenness.
Abstract: A urolithiasis removing device according to one embodiment can comprise: an insertion tube; a guide which is inserted into the insertion tube and which is relatively movable with respect to the insertion tube; a wire which is inserted into the guide and which is relatively movable with respect to the guide; a basket positioned in front of the wire and capable of holding urolithiasis; and a control unit for determining the size of the urolithiasis on the basis of the relative movement of the guide with respect to the insertion tube or the relative movement of the wire with respect to the guide.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 23, 2020
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
EASYENDO SURGICAL, INC., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Byung Sik CHEON, Dong Soo KWON, Deok Gyoon CHUNG
Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding method. An image decoding method for the same includes: determining a reference sample of a current block; performing filtering for the reference sample on the basis of a feature of an area where the reference sample is included; and performing intra-prediction by using the reference sample for which filtering is performed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 19, 2018
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicant:
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Hyun Suk KO, Sung Chang LIM, Jung Won KANG, Jin Ho LEE, Ha Hyun LEE, Dong San JUN, Hui Yong KIM
Abstract: An electrochemical cell and method of use, including an anode of metal, an air permeable cathode, an electrolyte between the anode and the cathode, and a transition metal phosphide catalyst on the cathode or between the cathode and the electrolyte. Also, a method of generating electrical current with an electrochemical cell by introducing a transition metal phosphide catalyst on a cathode side of the electrochemical cell. The catalyst can be in the form of any suitable nanostructure, such as molybdenum phosphide nanoflakes.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 13, 2019
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicant:
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Mohammad ASADI, Alireza KONDORI, Mohammadreza ESMAEILIRAD
Abstract: The present invention provides a shape-memory alloy including a Au—Cu—Al alloy having 20 at % or more and 40 at % or less Cu and 15 at % or more and 30 at % or less Al, with the balance being Au and inevitable impurities. The shape-memory alloy has a Vickers hardness of 360 Hv or less. The Au—Cu—Al alloy of the present invention is an alloy capable of developing both biocompatibility and a shape-memory effect, and further capable of achieving artifactlessness in a magnetic environment. The Au—Cu—Al alloy can be produced by heat-treating a clad material formed of a combination of a hollow material made of a Au—Cu alloy and a core material made of metallic Al at 500° C. or more and 700° C. or less.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 28, 2019
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicants:
TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for wideband short-range wireless communication using a directional antenna in a millimeter wave band, and the method for wideband short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment may determine a first time interval and a second time interval for a cooperated data frame transfer based on a packet transmission time at each transmission from a source node to a destination node, transmit a frame to a relay node through an antenna pattern directed towards the relay node at a start point of the first time interval, and transmit the frame to the destination node through an antenna pattern directed towards the destination node after a predetermined period of time from a start point of the second time interval.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 15, 2020
Publication date:
January 14, 2021
Applicant:
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Inventors:
Kap Seok CHANG, Hyoung Jin KWON, Sung Geun JIN, Yong Sun KIM, Seung Eun HONG, Woo Yong LEE, Hyun Kyu CHUNG
Abstract: The exemplary embodiments describe techniques for a controlled chemical vapor deposition growth and transfer of arrayed TMD monolayers on predetermined locations, which enable the formation of single crystalline TMD monolayer arrays on specific locations. The unique growth process includes the patterning of transition metal oxide (e.g., MoO3) on the source substrate contacting the growth substrate face-to-face, where the growth of single crystalline TMD monolayers with controlled size and location, exclusively on predetermined locations on the growth substrates is accomplished. These TMD arrays can be align-transferred using a unique process that combines the wet and stamping transfer processes onto any target substrate with a pin-point accuracy, which dramatically enhances the integrity of transferred TMDs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 12, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignee:
THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Abstract: A radiofrequency ablation electrode needle includes at least one first segment and at least two second segments. The at least one first segment and the at least two second segments are exposed on a surface of the needle body. An impedance of the at least one first segment is smaller than an impedance of the at least two second segments and at least one of the at least one first segment is disposed between two immediately adjacent ones of the at least two second segments. Besides, the radiofrequency ablation electrode needle is a monopolar electrode needle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 14, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignees:
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Abstract: A battery module with thermal dissipation and thermal runaway prevention is provided, including at least one battery and a fireproof thermal insulation layer. The at least one battery may include a plurality of battery cells electrically connected through conductors. The fireproof thermal insulation layer includes a plurality of battery holes for disposing the battery cells therein and a plurality of air holes vertically penetrating the fireproof thermal insulation layer. A side of each of the battery cells is sleeved in the fireproof thermal insulation layer, and the plurality of air holes are provided between adjacent ones of the plurality of battery holes. The fireproof thermal insulation layer has a heat transfer coefficient that decreases with an increase in the temperature of the fireproof thermal insulation layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 6, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignee:
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Abstract: FRET-based analytes detection and related methods and systems are described where a pair of FRET labeled primers and/or oligonucleotides are used that are specific for target sequences located at a distance up to four time the Förster distance of the FRET chromophores presented on the FRET labeled primers and/or oligonucleotides one with respect to the other in one or more polynucleotide analyte; in particular the pair of FRET labeled primers and/or oligonucleotides is combined with a sample and subjected to one or more polynucleotide amplification reactions before measuring FRET signals from at least one FRET chromophore.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignee:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Inventors:
Emil P. Kartalov, Aditya Rajagopal, Axel Scherer, Mark D. Goldberg
Abstract: An electrostatic measuring method for an inner wall of a fluid pipeline includes a step of disposing a grounded metal plate to an outer wall of the fluid pipeline; a step of forming a grounding effect through the grounded metal plate and the outer wall, wherein the grounded metal plate has induced charges, the induced charges combine outer-wall existing charges on the outer wall to form total outer-wall charges, and the total outer-wall charges are related to charges to be measured on the inner wall of the fluid pipeline; and, a step of measuring an electrostatic voltage above the grounded metal plate so as to obtain the charges to be measured on the inner wall of the fluid pipeline. In addition, an electrostatic measuring system for inner wall of fluid pipeline is also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 26, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignee:
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying binary data based training data having a predefined sample size is obtained. The training data is composed of separable binary datasets. An exact bound on Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of a classifier for the training data is determined. The exact bound is based one or more variables defining the hyperplane. The exact bound may be minimized for generating a classifier for predicting one class to which a given data sample of the training data belongs.