Patents Assigned to TECHNOLOGIES INC.
  • Publication number: 20140056042
    Abstract: Solid state switches of inverters are controlled by timing signals computed in power layer interface circuitry for individual inverters. Multiple inverters may be placed in parallel with common three-phase output. Common control circuitry generates timing signals or data used to reconstruct the common signals and sends these signals to the power layer interface circuitry. A processor in a power layer interface circuitry used these signals to recomputed the timing signals. Excellent synchronicity may be provided between parallel inverters that each separately reconstruct the timing signals based upon the identical received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Richard H. Radosevich
  • Publication number: 20140056117
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for writing data on a highly indestructible material is disclosed. A laser may write data on a first side of a highly indestructible material. The data may then be marked as non-rewriteable. The data may also be written on a second side of the highly indestructible material, with the second side being opposite the first side. The highly indestructible material may comprise a stainless steel storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CUNEIFORM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Michael Lacey, John Currie, Gregory Pine, Noureddine Melikechi
  • Publication number: 20140059708
    Abstract: An electronic device for protecting program file content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) is provided with a DRM agent module, a plug-in, and a web browser module. The DRM agent module is configured to process DRM-protected content associated with a program file. The plug-in is configured to enable execution of the program file. The web browser module is installed with the DRM agent module, and is configured to activate the processing of the DRM-protected content of the DRM agent module to obtain the program file portion-by-portion, and use the plug-in to execute the program file with the obtained portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CONDEL INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Yang CHOU, Pei-Yen CHOU, Yeu-Chung LIN
  • Publication number: 20140053402
    Abstract: A method is provided for assembling a connector assembly to a case. The case includes an inside surface defining an inside of the case, an outside surface defining an outside of the case, and an aperture therethrough providing communication from the inside surface to the outside surface. The connector assembly includes an outer connector having a body with a passage therethrough, an electromagnetic shield, and an inner connector with a terminal therein with a conductor extending from the inner connector in electrical communication with the terminal. The method includes positioning the outer connector on the outside of the case to align the passage of the outer connector with the aperture of the case. The method also includes positioning the inner connector on the inside of the case. The method also includes inserting the inner connector into the passage of the outer connector from the inside of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Adrian Margrave, William T. Madden, Terry A. George, Don E. Bizon
  • Publication number: 20140058344
    Abstract: An integrated system for assessing wound exudates from the wound of a patient is described. The system may contain functionality to detect, process and report various wound parameters. The system also may make treatment determinations based on these findings. The system may detect one or more physiological values of the wound exudates from the wound of the patient. The system may means for comparing the one or more detected physiological values to predetermined physiological values in order to obtain a comparison result in real time. The system may include a processor 15 which provides an electronic signal based on a comparison result in which the electronic signal may correspond to guidelines for treating the wound 13. The system may be integrated with other wound treatment devices, such as negative pressure wound therapy devices (NPWT) 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Landy Aaron Toth
  • Publication number: 20140053686
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides systems and methods that can convert clean or raw natural gas, clean or dirty coke oven gas, or the like to reducing gas/syngas suitable for direct reduction with minimal processing or cleaning. Hydrocarbons and the like are converted to H2 and CO. S does not affect the conversion to reducing gas/syngas, but is removed or otherwise cleaned up by the iron bed in the direct reduction shaft furnace. Top gas may be continuously recycled or a once-through approach may be employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: MIDREX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Gary E. METIUS, James M. MCCLELLAND, JR., David C. MEISSNER, Stephen C. MONTAGUE
  • Publication number: 20140058791
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method of implementing a computerized brand affinity engine. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of computerized access points having accessible thereto a plurality of sites mentioning at least one sponsor, a categorized, hierarchical database of keywords, wherein at least the keywords falling in at least one category of the hierarchy correspond to a sponsor category of the at least one sponsor, and a tracker, wherein the tracker tracks positive ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites and negative ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites, in accordance with positive and negative keywords of the categorized, hierarchical database in the sponsor category, and wherein the tracker issues an rating with regard to the at least one sponsor in accordance with the positive ones and the negative ones of the mentions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BRAND AFFINITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20140057615
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention allows a telecommunications provider to embed activation and configuration logic into SIM cards that consumers install in their wireless devices. The activation and configuration logic on a SIM card ensures that a wireless device is activated and properly configured to operate on a network. In some embodiments, the configuration logic on the SIM card also ensures that the wireless device is properly configured with backed up personal data and provisioned with services that a consumer had previously or is subscribed to. Typically, the wireless device is able to self-activate and self-configure when the SIM card is installed the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SYNCHRONOSS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: David E. Berry, Sanida Bratt, Sumeet S. Paul
  • Publication number: 20140051610
    Abstract: Processes are provided for reducing the hydrodynamic friction of a turbulent brine stream including, for example, the step of injecting a mixture of a finely divided free flowing friction reducing powder into the turbulent brine stream, wherein the particles of the powder have a primary particle size between 10 and 100 microns in average particle diameter, and the brine stream comprises water with at least 90,000 ppm total dissolved solids, wherein the total dissolved solids includes at least 30,000 ppm sodium cations, 10,000 ppm calcium cations, and 1,000 ppm magnesium cations, and wherein the brine has an electrical conductivity of greater than 100.0 mS/cm at 25° C. For use with a harsher brine, the particles preferably have a primary particle size between 10 and 53 microns in average particle diameter. The friction reducing powder may, for example, be a polyacrylamide polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: CORSICANA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Houston P. Perry, Brian L. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20140048682
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for improving overall chip speed by providing one or more sampling circuits in an ROIC so that signal processing and signal reading out operations may occur simultaneously instead of successively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: LUXEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Eun-Hwa Kim, Jin-Woong Jeong, Young-Jae Kim, Chol-Ho Kwak, Seul-Yi Soh, Myung-Jin Soh
  • Publication number: 20140050944
    Abstract: A fused cover assembly for a battery system. The fused cover assembly includes an attachment means configured to attach the assembly to a battery formed of a plurality interconnected cells, and a plurality of fused connections configured to make electrical contact with the interconnected cells and thereby provide a sense connection to the cells of the battery that is fused. If the sense connection to the battery cells is short-circuited, a fuse device open-circuits to protect the cell from being damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Bertucci, John V. Caputo, Wesley W. Weber, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140048685
    Abstract: Embodiments of an image sensor including a pixel array with a plurality of pixels arranged into rows and columns. Control circuitry coupled to the pixels in each row, and an analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the pixels in each column of the pixel array. Each analog-to-digital converter includes a ramp comparator, and a variable current source coupled to the ramp comparator to provide a variable bias current to the ramp comparator. The bias current can adjusted during reading of a row of pixels according to a dynamic bias current profile that maintains at least a specified margin between the random noise of the pixels and an acceptable noise level. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Guangbin Zhang, Zhiqiang Song
  • Publication number: 20140049272
    Abstract: A dual-electrode occupant detection system configured to determine an occupant presence on a seat assembly. The system includes two electrodes that each generates an electric field in response to an applied excitation signal. The two electrode signals arising therefrom can be measured individually and/or combined to detect more reliably an occupant. Such a configuration advantageously avoids the added expense and complication of an electrode arrangement that relies on an underlying shield layer to reduce electrode signal degradation caused by a seat heater element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin D. Kincaid, Duane D. Fortune, Morgan D. Murphy, Robert K. Constable
  • Publication number: 20140048686
    Abstract: A step-up converter includes an input coupled to receive a first voltage potential and an output coupled to output a second voltage potential higher than the first voltage potential. The step-up converter also includes an array of capacitance charge pumps. Each of the capacitance charge pumps in the array includes switches to be modulated to individually run each of the capacitance charge pumps by selectively connecting each of the capacitance charge pumps to the input and the output. The step-up converter further includes a control module coupled to the switches of each of the capacitance charge pumps and configured to modulate the switches at a substantially fixed frequency. The control module modulates the switches of selected capacitance charge pumps in the array in response to a current draw on the output. The step-up converter may be included in an image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC
    Inventors: Robert Johansson, Tore Martinussen
  • Publication number: 20140050105
    Abstract: An apparatus used for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication comprising a processor configured to generate a data transmission unit (DTU) comprising user data and a transmitter configured to repeatedly transmit the DTU a plurality of times onto a subscriber line, wherein a number of the plurality of times is adaptively based on a user data rate of the subscriber line. A method of data communication comprising generating a DTU comprising user data and repeatedly transmitting the DTU a plurality of times onto a subscriber line, wherein a number of the plurality of times is adaptively based on a data rate of the subscriber line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ruxiang Wang, Yan Zhang, Guozhu Long, Dong Wei
  • Publication number: 20140053076
    Abstract: A local computing device is connected to a remote computing device over a network. A user provides input to a local input component of the local computing device. The output of the local input component is converted into a form that is capable of being received as input by the remote computing device even if the local input component is not supported by the remote computing device. As one example, the local input component may be a bar code scanner which produces bar code output that is converted into text for input into a text field on the remote computing device, thereby enabling the remote computing device to receive input from a bar code scanner even if the remote computing device does not support the bar code scanner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: ALWAYSON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Lida Tang
  • Publication number: 20140048042
    Abstract: A method for activating fuel by saturating the fuel with a gas and delivering the saturated fuel to an internal combustion engine for combustion is provided. Fuel from a fuel tank is delivered to an absorber and gas is directed into the absorber, mixing with the dispersed fuel to form an activated fuel. Activated fuel is directed to a fuel rail by a low pressure pump through a pressure regulating valve and Y-connector. Excess fuel from the engine is directed to a separator through a heat exchanger and then through a pressure regulator and is mixed with fresh activated fuel from the absorber. Released gas is separated in a gas separator. The system runs independently and can be easily turned off and switched to the base fuel supply. If the system loses power, it automatically switches to the base fuel supply system without any interruption of engine operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: HELPFUL TECHNOLOGIES, INC
    Inventors: Victor Gurin, Mindaugas Macijauskas, Serguei Permiakov
  • Publication number: 20140052399
    Abstract: Circuits and methods for identifying or verifying frequencies are disclosed herein. A frequency verification circuit comprises: an input port for receiving an input signal; a phase frequency difference detector for determining a difference in phase and frequency between the input signal and a feedback signal and for providing a control signal based on the detected difference; a voltage controlled crystal oscillator for producing an output signal based on the control signal; and a feedback loop including a feedback divider for frequency dividing the output signal by a factor R to produce the feedback signal, the feedback divider being programmable to a plurality of values of the factor R to correspond to a plurality of different test frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: NANOWAVE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Charles William Tremlett NICHOLLS, Walid HAMDANE
  • Publication number: 20140052167
    Abstract: A method for producing a regenerative hair follicle germ for transplantation, in which a color of hair that grows after transplantation is controlled, includes preparing a first cell mass containing mesenchymal cells; preparing a second cell mass containing epithelial cells; preparing a cell mass containing pigment stem cells; binding the cell mass containing the pigment stem cells to at least one among the first cell mass and the second cell mass, and closely contacting the first cell mass and the second cell mass, at least one of which has been bound to the cell mass containing the pigment stem cells, and culturing them within a support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: ORGAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Koh-ei Toyoshima, Takashi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20140049938
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a display, a pointer, a motor, a lighting element, a lens, and a coating. The display has first and second opposed sides, with the pointer at least partially disposed on the first opposed side of the display, and the motor disposed on the second opposed side of the display for moving the pointer. The lighting element disposed within the motor on the second opposed side of the display lights the pointer. The lens is disposed on the first opposed side of the display with the pointer at least partially disposed between the first opposed side of the display and the lens. The coating, disposed on an underside of the lens facing the pointer and the display, is made of a material which when excited by light emits light onto the display creating a shadow of at least a portion of the pointer on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC
    Inventor: James Paul Farell