Patents Issued in September 18, 2008
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Publication number: 20080224013Abstract: A ceiling fan mounting system includes a mounting bracket for fixing the ceiling fan mounting system, and a canopy. The mounting bracket includes a flange comprising an external peripheral surface, the external peripheral surface having at least one locking hole thereat. The canopy includes a sleeve joint adapted to receive and nest the flange of the mounting bracket. The canopy has at least one elastic blocker corresponding the at least one locking hole, in assembly, the at least one elastic blocker being embedded in the at least one locking hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Shih Chu Huang
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Publication number: 20080224014Abstract: A collapsible book holder for securely holding a book open in a comfortable reading position includes a base having a recessed storage area therein, a cover pivotably attached to a first end of the base, a support beam and pair of arms adapted to be collapsed inside the recessed storage area when the cover is closed and deployed when the cover is open to hold a book at a comfortable reading position. The collapsible book holder may further include a pair of collapsible and deployable clips that may be used to hold the book open. The angle of the support beam may be adjusted to allow the angle of repose of a book leaning against it to be varied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Michael B. Piri
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Publication number: 20080224015Abstract: The present invention provides a retaining clip for securing an air conditioning evaporator coil to a drain pan. The retaining clip has a U-shaped body formed from a single piece of material, wherein parallel panels for the sides of the U. One side of the U is longer than the other. A tab is formed from the end of the side panel that constitutes the longer side of the U, wherein the tab points toward the center of the U and is approximately perpendicular to the sides of the U. The retaining clip is mounted over a side wall of the drain pan, with the tab securing the clip in place by fitting underneath a section of the drain pan wall that projects outward from the general plane of the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Charles David Biggers, James W. Pickle
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Publication number: 20080224016Abstract: A pole support for an upright pole, preferably for use with an upright pole of a sunshade, umbrella or other similar product, that comprises a pole base, a pole holder connected to said pole base for the upright pole, and a weight, wherein the weight is configured to act upon the pole base to stabilize the pole base, and wherein the weight is configured to be detached from the pole base.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Liu Defu, Liu Kai
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Publication number: 20080224017Abstract: An umbrella holder includes a clamp. The clamp is attached to a frame member, in an exemplary form, a frame member of a golf cart. The clamp is held on the frame member through a Velcro strap which wraps around the frame member. A telescoping rod extends from the clamp to hold an umbrella shaft holder which includes a slot through which an umbrella shaft can be passed. When the umbrella shaft is received within the holder, it is held securely therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Wayne Gary Woller
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Publication number: 20080224018Abstract: An engine assembly including an engine mount, the engine mount including a rigid structure including a box and a mounting system positioned between the engine and the rigid structure. This mounting system includes an aft attachment. The assembly further includes a thermal protection system for the box, including a preferably ventilated duct forming a heat barrier and extending between the box and the engine. The duct extends rearward beyond the aft engine attachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Airbus FranceInventors: Laurent Lafont, Frederic Journade
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Publication number: 20080224019Abstract: A support device for heat dissipation module provides a frame with four corners thereof extending outward a support part respectively. A mounting opening is disposed at the central area of the frame with two opposite side of the mounting opening having a projection plate respectively. A facial side of the projection plate is provided with fitting pins to fit with a guide heat plate and covering the mounting opening without help of welding. Therefore, thinner guide heat plate can be used for simplifying manufacturing process and lowering production cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Shi-Ping Luo
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Publication number: 20080224020Abstract: The platform isolator of the present invention isolates a vibration source from its surroundings. The platform is supported on elongated members that in turn are supported on knife-edge supports. The ends of the elongated members are restrained from longitudinal movement. The distance between a pair of knife edge supports may be fixed or adjustable based on the expected vibration frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: James A. Baron
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Publication number: 20080224021Abstract: The present invention relates to a cast-on-strap mold and a method for producing a terminal post comprising an embedded member at one time. The cast-on-strap mold for producing a terminal post comprising an embedded member at one time is disposed with a cavity and a fixing bolt that correspond in size and position to the embedded member are disposed therein, a positioning aperture is disposed thereon, and the embedded member, the positioning aperture and the fixing bolt correspond to one another. The method for producing a terminal post comprising an embedded member at one time uses a cast-on-strap mold for producing a terminal post comprising an embedded member at one time and it comprises the following steps: install the embedded member into the cast-on-strap mold and secure it in position by the fixing bolt, cast and weld the terminal post and the plate pack, and then loosen the fixing bolt to take out the cast and welded terminal post and plate pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: CHEN GANG
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Publication number: 20080224022Abstract: The invention relates to a method for introducing vertical built-in parts into structures erected with a sliding formwork, particularly in annular concrete walls, and a device for performing the method. In order to be able to use inexpensive sliding formworks when erecting structures, e.g. silos and tanks, where there are absolutely surface-flush built-in parts required, a slide fastener-like system is provided for introducing said vertical built-in parts. The inventive slide fastener system provides guide anglepieces, which are fixed in clamping devices of the sliding formwork and temporarily engage behind guide bolts fixed to the front of the vertical built-in parts. Following the production of the concrete wall or the introduction of the vertical built-in parts the guide bolts are removed again from the vertical built-in parts, e.g. by separating cutting or splitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2005Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Alexander Kreiner
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Publication number: 20080224023Abstract: An example concrete wall form assembly includes a frame having a plurality of studs. A first panel and a second panel fasten to the plurality of studs. The first panel and the second panel span the studs to provide a wall form that has a concrete receiving cavity having a cavity height. The wall form includes an aperture for moving concrete through the wall form to the concrete receiving cavity. The aperture has a first aperture height less than the concrete receiving cavity height.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Oscar Stefanutti, John Willwerth
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Publication number: 20080224024Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination system enabling dynamic colour control of the illumination produced by the system. The illumination system comprises light-emitting elements for producing illumination, and at least one detecting device which collects information relating to the illumination, which is inherently non-linear. The illumination system also integrates a computing system which receives the information from the at least one detecting device and linearises this information using a multivariate function having a solution defining a hyperplane representing constant chromaticity for a given luminous intensity, and then determines a number of control parameters based on the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: TIR Systems Ltd.Inventor: Ian Ashdown
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Publication number: 20080224025Abstract: A solid state lighting system controls overall light output level in a step-wise manner by discretely controlling the ON/OFF state of its light emitters. Solid state emitters that are ON at a given time are set and kept at a level intended to produce a desired output characteristic, e.g. at a level to produce a described color of light. The system utilizes optical processing of the generated light, for example by diffuse reflection in an optical integrating cavity, sufficient to convert the point source output(s) from the emitting elements into a uniform virtual source output. The virtual source output appears uniform regardless of how many emitters are ON or OFF, and only the perceptible intensity of the light output changes with the number of emitters that the system has ON.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Steve S. Lyons, Michael E. Garbus, Matthew H. Aldrich
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Publication number: 20080224026Abstract: An RF controlled lighting system that activates lights in adjacent spaces when a person walks into a first space and then traverses the spaces in sequence. A detection device senses the entry of a person into a first space controlled by the system. A micro-controller activates the lights in that space for immediate light and in the adjacent spaces in preparation for the person to traverse the spaces in either direction from the origin space. As the person traverses the contiguous spaces, controllers in each space sense the person's presence and communicate by RF signals to activate lights along the person's path. The controllers extinguish their lights a predetermined time after the person passes or no one enters a space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Barton A. Pasternak
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Publication number: 20080224027Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a display panel, a drive circuit that drives the display panel, an illuminating unit that illuminates the display panel, a photosensing section Ls having an ambient light photosensor Ts that senses the brightness of ambient light and a capacitor Cw that is charged with a predetermined reference voltage via a first switch S1, an ambient light photosensor reading section Re1 that reads a value sensed by the photosensing section, and a controller that controls the illuminating unit according to an output of the ambient light photosensor reading section. The ambient light photosensor reading section is provided with a noise avoidance unit that avoids erroneous sensing in the photosensing section induced as a result of noise generated when the drive circuit operates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Takashi Kunimori, Yasushi Yamazaki, Masanori Yasumori
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Publication number: 20080224028Abstract: Light emitted from a light source and having a wavelength of 400 nm is reflected by a beam splitter (BS), and converged on a disk according to a next-generation standard. Reflection light therefrom passes through the BS and is received by a photodetector. Light emitted from a light source and having a wavelength of 660 nm is reflected by the BS and passes through the BS, and converged on a disk according to a DVD standard. Reflection light therefrom passes through the BS and is received by the photodetector. About 50% of light emitted from a light source and having a wavelength of 780 nm is reflected by the BS. The light passes through the BS and is then converged on a disk according to a CD standard. Reflection light therefrom passes through the BS. About 50% of the light passes through the BS and is received by the photodetector. Thus, recording and reproduction can be performed on any of disks according to a next-generation standard, DVD standard, and CD standard.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2004Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Ryuichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20080224029Abstract: A foil-type pressure sensor includes a first foil and a second foil. A spacer is arranged in between the first and second foils, which keeps the foils at a certain distance from each other. The spacer presents an opening that defines a sensing region. In this sensing region, the first and second foils can be brought closer one to the other against the resiliency of the foils by pressure acting on the pressure sensor. The pressure sensor further includes light emitting means arranged between the foils for inputting light into the sensing region and light collecting means arranged between the foils for collecting light propagated from the light emitting means through at least part of the sensing region to the light collecting means. When the first and second foils are brought closer one to the other, at least one of the first and the second foils at least partially blocks light propagation through the sensing region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A.Inventor: Jean-Luc Kaiser
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Publication number: 20080224030Abstract: A non-contact thermal imaging system for heterogeneous materials, the system including a translating head that is parallel to a reference plane; an infrared probe connected to data acquisition electronics in order to collect first data, the first data being nitrated intensity readings; a transmitter for sending one or more signals to a sample; and a receiver for receiving the one or more signals from the sample; wherein the transmitter and the receiver measure an intensity of the one or more signals reflected off the sample as second data; and wherein the first data and the second data are combined via software to calculate a temperature at every point on the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Julien Sylvestre, Luc Tousignant
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Publication number: 20080224031Abstract: A method for measuring radiation, the method includes selecting at least two radiation detectors, each detector having a spatial resolution that differs from the spatial resolution of other detectors; measuring the radiation with the detectors; and combining a response from at least two of the detectors to produce a composite response exhibiting a spatial resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventor: W. Allen Gilchrist
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Publication number: 20080224032Abstract: A micromechanical field asymmetric ion mobility filter for a detection system includes a pair of spaced substrates defining between them a flow path between a sample inlet and an outlet; an ion filter disposed in the path and including a pair of spaced filter electrodes, one electrode associated with each substrate; and an electrical controller for applying a bias voltage and an asymmetric periodic voltage across the ion filter electrodes for controlling the paths of ions through the filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATIONInventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov
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Publication number: 20080224033Abstract: This invention relates to mass spectrometers comprising a reaction cell and where mass spectra are collected both from unreacted ions and also from reaction product ions. In particular, although not exclusively, this invention finds use in tandem mass spectrometry where mass spectra are collected from precursor and fragment ions. The present invention provides an arrangement where ions may be sent to a reaction cell for fragmentation or other processing before onward transport to a mass analyser. Alternatively, ions may be passed directly to a mass analyser along a bypass path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Alexander Alekseevich Makarov
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Publication number: 20080224034Abstract: An apparatus (10) for locating a subject is disclosed the apparatus includes an illumination/detection module (12) containing a source in this case a high-power laser (14) capable of radiating light at a wavelength in the infrared portion of the em spectrum. The optical output of the laser (14) is directed by beam-splitter (BS) (16) and lens (20) towards the rescue scene and a plurality of absorbers responsive to the said source disposed on the subject (22). The detection section of module (12) then collects signals radiated emitted by a plurality of emitters associated with the subject said emitters being associated with the absorbers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Devlin Stuart Wollstein, Andrei Zvyagin
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Publication number: 20080224035Abstract: An evaluation method and apparatus is provided for evaluating a displacement between patterns of a pattern image by using design data representative of a plurality of patterns superimposed ideally. A first distance is measured for an upper layer pattern between a line segment of the design data and an edge of the charged particle radiation image, a second distance is measured for a lower layer pattern between a line segment of the design data and an edge of the charged particle radiation image; and an superimposition displacement is detected between the upper layer pattern and lower layer pattern in accordance with the first distance and second distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Takumichi Sutani, Ryoichi Matsuoka, Hidetoshi Morokuma, Akiyuki Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Shindo
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Publication number: 20080224036Abstract: A method and device for determining, in a non-destructive way, at least the active carrier profile from an unknown semiconductor substrate are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises generating 2m independent measurement values from the m reflected signals and correlating these 2m measurement values with 2m independent carrier profile values. The method further comprises generating additional 2m measurement values to allow determining the active carrier profile and a second parameter profile by correlating the 4m measurement values with the 4m profile values. The method further comprises generating a total of 2m[n.k] measurement values to allow determining [n.k] independent material parameter depth profiles, each material parameter profile having m points.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicants: Interuniversitair Microelektronica Centrum vzw (IMEC), Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenInventors: Trudo Clarysse, Janusz Bogdanowicz
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Publication number: 20080224037Abstract: There is provided a charged particle beam device which can prevent a specimen from not being able to be observed due to entering of a part of a grid of a mesh in a field of view, each pixel of a scanning transmission electron microscope image is displayed on the basis of a gray value of a predetermined gradation scale. In the case where the number of pixels of a predetermined gray value is less than a predetermined percentage, it is decided that a mesh image is not included in the scanning transmission electron microscope image. In the case where the number of pixels of the predetermined gray value is not less than a predetermined percentage, it is judged that the mesh image is included in the scanning transmission electron microscope image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Akiko FUJISAWA, Eiko Nakazawa, Isao Nagaoki
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Publication number: 20080224038Abstract: A method to characterize the power transfer of a nuclear component is provided including the steps of obtaining a sample of a deposit layer on a side of a nuclear component, obtaining a scanning electron microscope image of an outside surface of the sample, obtaining a scanning electron microscope image of an inside surface of the sample, analyzing the scanning electron microscope images of the outside and inside surfaces of the sample for a presence of capillaries and steam chimneys, and calculating the power transfer of the component based on a number of steam chimneys in the deposit layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Mihai G.M. Pop, John Carroll Griffith, William Edward Allmon, Brian Glenn Lockamon
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Publication number: 20080224039Abstract: A scanning electron microscope with a length measurement function includes an electron gun emitting an electron beam, a measurement target region setting unit for setting a measurement region for a pattern formed on a sample, a storing unit for storing the designated measurement region, a beam blanker unit for controlling an irradiation of the electron beam depending on the measurement region, and a control unit for extracting the designated measurement region from the storing unit, interrupting the electron beam with the beam blanker unit in a region other than the measurement region, irradiating the electron beam passed through the beam blanker unit onto the sample in the measurement region, capturing an image of the measurement region, and measuring the pattern. The measurement region may be represented by a pair of measurement regions, and the respective regions may have the same areas as each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Takayuki Nakamura, Toshimichi Iwai, Soichi Shida, Mitsuo Hiroyama
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Publication number: 20080224040Abstract: As an image forming method including comparison between images for three-dimensional image construction or the like and an apparatus for forming such images, there are provided an image forming method and an electron microscope capable of obtaining with high accuracy or efficiency information required for comparison. In the image forming method, an image is formed on the basis of comparison between a plurality of images obtained by applying an electron beam to a specimen at different tilt angles. The method includes obtaining a first transmission image with the electron beam applied in a first direction and a second transmission image with the electron beam applied in a second direction, the second transmission image being formed within a region different from a peripheral blurred region resulting from tilting, and making a search in the first transmission image by using the second transmission image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Isao NAGAOKI, Yoshihiko NAKAYAMA, Ryoichi ISHII
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Publication number: 20080224041Abstract: A method of detecting subsurface anomalies that includes the steps of utilizing a detector to determine the existence of a subsurface anomaly at a location behind the surface, and generating a signal representative of the anomaly. The signal is transmitted to a projector mounted in image alignment with the detector. The signal is converted into a visual representation of the anomaly; and the visual representation of the anomaly is projected onto the surface at the location on the surface behind which the subsurface anomaly is present. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: John J. Cannamela
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Publication number: 20080224042Abstract: A radiation image detector includes: a photoconductive layer that generates electric charges when irradiated by recording electromagnetic waves which have passed through an electrode layer; and detecting electrodes, for detecting signals corresponding to the electric charges generated in the photoconductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kaku Irisawa, Yasuhisa Kaneko, Shigeru Nakamura
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Publication number: 20080224043Abstract: Visible and infrared radiation is generated from phosphors within a cold cathode lamp. At least partially transparent media is irradiated with the visible and infrared radiation from the cold cathode lamp. Infrared radiation that passes through the at least partially transparent media is sensed, and an artifact signal is generated from the sensed infrared radiation. The artifact signal corresponds to one or more unwanted artifacts on the at least partially transparent media.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: David Troy Roberts
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Publication number: 20080224044Abstract: The invention concerns an equipment for non-contact temperature measurement (1) of samples of materials (2) arranged in a vacuum chamber (12). A UV lamp (6) illuminates the samples (2) through a window (4), so as to subject them to a predetermined thermal cycle and to perform an environmental test, in particular for materials designed for space missions. An external pyrometer measures the temperature of the samples (2) through a window (6). It is associated with a scanning module (9) including a mobile mirror, with two axes of rotation and three orthogonal axes of translation, arranged on the optical path of the infrared radiation (Rir) so as to obtain a two-dimensional scanning of each sample (2) by means of a measuring spot focused on the surface of the samples. In a preferred embodiment, the samples are of slight thickness and locked pressed against a convex support The whole assembly is monitored by an automatic data processing system with recorded programme (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Christoph SempriMoschnig, Marc Van Eesbeek, Stan Heltzel
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Publication number: 20080224045Abstract: Hybrid microantennas and improved sensor structures incorporating hybrid microantenna embodiments are described herein. A hybrid long-wave infrared (LWIR) microantenna includes four inner pie-shaped arms in which the four inner pie-shaped arms are in a double bow-tie configuration and a plurality of outer pie-shaped arms in which a subset of the outer pie-shaped arms is connected to the four inner pie-shaped arms and the pie-shaped arms are sensitive to electric fields and absorb radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Nathan Bluzer, Glenn Boreman, Brian Lail, Peter Martin Krenz
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Publication number: 20080224046Abstract: The invention relates to a method of processing non-refrigerated lead selenide infrared detectors, consisting in: 1) selecting the substrate and preparing same; 2) delineating and depositing multilayer interference filters; and 3) treating polycrystalline lead selenide infrared detectors on the interference filters, comprising the following steps, namely 3a) metal deposition, 3b) delineation of the metal deposit, 3c) delineation of the sensor, 3d) PbSe deposition by means of thermal evaporation, 3f) processing of sensor, 3g) thermal treatment in order to sensitise the active material, and 3h) deposition of a passivator layer on the active material. The inventive method is unique in that it can be used to treat differently-shaped non-refrigerated infrared detectors on the same substrate, including discrete elements, multielements, linear matrices, two-dimensional matrices, etc., with the responses of each being modified by design by the corresponding interference filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2005Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: German Vergara Ogando, Rosa Almazan Carneros, Luis Jorge Gomez Zazo, Marina Verdu Herce, Purificacion Rodriguez Fernandez, Maria Teresa Montojo Supervielle
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Publication number: 20080224047Abstract: A mammographic system as a radiation image capturing apparatus includes a radiation source for emitting radiation, a solid-state detector for detecting radiation emitted from the radiation source and generating a radiation image based on such radiation, AEC sensors for detecting a radiation dose emitted from the radiation source, a radiation source controller for controlling the dose emitted from the radiation source based on output signals from the AEC sensors, a reference output storage unit for storing reference output ranges defining respective ranges of reference output signals for the solid-state detector and the AEC sensors, and a malfunction detector for comparing output signals generated by the solid-state detector and the AEC sensors with the respective reference output ranges to detect a malfunction of the solid-state detector, the AEC sensors, or the radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroki Nakayama
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Publication number: 20080224048Abstract: A radiation converter has a luminophore layer formed by needle-shaped crystals applied on a substrate, the crystals being composed of Csl. doped with Tl. The emission spectrum is modified to obtain smaller values by making the Tl content between 200 ppm and 2,000 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Manfred Fuchs, Martina Hausen
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Publication number: 20080224049Abstract: In a planar radiation detector having a substrate; a charge-collection electrode; a radiation-induced-charge conversion film formed mainly of amorphous selenium; and an upper electrode which transmits radiation, or in a planar radiation detector having a substrate; a charge-collection electrode; a light-induced-charge conversion film which is formed mainly of amorphous selenium and generates electric charge when the light-induced-charge conversion film is irradiated with visible light which has passed through an upper electrode; the upper electrode which transmits the visible light emitted from a fluorescent layer; and the fluorescent layer formed of a fluorescent material which converts a radiation carrying image information into the visible light, the radiation-induced-charge conversion film or the light-induced-charge conversion film is formed of amorphous selenium or amorphous selenium alloy and has a residual oxygen concentration of 35 ppm or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji IMAI, Tomomasa Sato
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Publication number: 20080224050Abstract: The method calculates a scatter estimate for annihilation photons in a subject having a distribution of attenuation. The method can be used for scatter correction of detection data from a positron emission tomographic scanner. The method uses the following steps: —select a first scatter point S1 and a second scatter point S2, —determine a first scatter probability for scattering of a photon at scatter point S1 and a second scatter probability for scattering of a photon at scatter point S2, —determine an integral of the attenuation over a line connecting S1 and S2, —multiply the integral and the scatter probabilities and use the product in the calculation of the scatter estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Kris Filip Johan Jules Thielemans, Charalampus Tsoumpas
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Publication number: 20080224051Abstract: A multiaxis gantry camera has additional axes of movement that allow unexpected functions. A first function allowed the collimator is to be exchanged while maintaining them in a configuration that saves space. The device can also be used to calibrate in a space-saving configuration. Different turning configurations can be allowed to change the orientation over which scanning is conducted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: DIGIRAD CORPORATIONInventor: Richard Conwell
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Publication number: 20080224052Abstract: A method of providing nuclear particle identification for e, ?, ?, and p of up to about 4 to about 5 GeV/c using an improved Threshold Cerenkov Detector With Radial Segmentation (TCDRS), comprising: A) Allowing particles of e, ?, ?, and p to impinge on three concentric shells of twenty-five radiator tubes; wherein: i) an outer shell of radiator tubes is filled with water and a wavelength shifter to provide a first index of refraction; ii) a middle shell of the radiator tubes is filled with mineral oil to provide a second index of refraction higher than the first index of refraction; and iii) a center shell of the radiator tubes is filled with mineral oil and a wave length shifter to provide a third index of refraction higher than the second index of refraction; B) Obtaining blue light from three concentric shells of twenty-five radiator tubes segmented radially into three different materials; and the ultraviolet Cerenkov light produced in the radiators is absorbed by a wavelength shifter and emitted as blue lType: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Elliott Allen Treadwell, Ely Evan Leon
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Publication number: 20080224053Abstract: A radiation image pickup device receives radiation passing through a subject and outputs an image pickup signal responsive to an amount of the radiation. The radiation image pickup device comprising pixel part each of which comprising: a photoelectric conversion section comprising a lower electrode on or above a substrate, a photoelectric conversion film on or above the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on or above the photoelectric conversion film; a phosphor film on or above the upper electrode; and a signal output section, provided in the substrate corresponding to the photoelectric conversion section, that outputs a signal responsive to a charge generated in the photoelectric conversion film. The signal output section and the photoelectric conversion section have an overlap in a plan view, and the photoelectric conversion film comprises an organic photoelectric conversion material that absorbs light emitted from the phosphor film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Rui SHEN
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Publication number: 20080224054Abstract: The present invention discloses a photon detection device that is adapted to detect at least one packet of photons. The photon detection device may include a photon-sensitive element having an output, an amplifier; and a non-linear feedback (NLF) element. The photon-sensitive element generates charges upon the engagement of at least one photon packet therewith. An increase from a first number of charges in the photon-sensitive element to a second number of charges, results in a corresponding increase of a first reset time required to reset the first number of charges to a respective second reset time required to reset the second number of charges in the photon-sensitive element, whereby the reset time is non-linear to with respect to an increase in the charges. Additional and alternative embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SAInventors: Michael Lehmann, Rolf Kaufmann, Max Erick Busse-Grawitz
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Publication number: 20080224055Abstract: In a radiation detecting system including a first electrode which is imparted with a positive bias and permeable to a recording electromagnetic wave carrying thereon image information, a recording photoconductive layer which generates electric charges in response to receipt of projection of the recording electromagnetic wave, an organic polymer layer provided between the first electrode and the recording photoconductive layer, and a second electrode which is provided on the side of the recording photoconductive layer opposite to a side where the first electrode is provided and being for recording the image information by storing electric charges generated in the recording photoconductive layer upon projection of the recording electromagnetic wave, the organic polymer layer includes a hole blocking material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Fumito NARIYUKI
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Publication number: 20080224056Abstract: A method includes purposefully electromagnetically shielding a portable x-ray detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: James Zhengshe Liu, Kenneth Scott Kump, Habib Vafi
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Publication number: 20080224057Abstract: While a solid-state detector is not being irradiated with a radiation, unexposed image data R0 are acquired from an exposure area of the solid-state detector and non-exposure image data r0are acquired from a non-exposure area, which is shielded by a shield plate against exposure to the radiation, of the solid-state detector. Then, while the solid-state detector is being irradiated with the radiation through a subject, exposed image data Rn are acquired from the exposure area, and non-exposure image data rn are acquired from the non-exposure area. The exposed image data Rn are corrected according to Rn?R0?(rn?r0) or Rn?R0×(rn/r0).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Takahisa ARAI
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Publication number: 20080224058Abstract: A photoelectric converter includes a plurality of substrates, which are located adjacent to each other and on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are two-dimensionally arranged, and either scan circuits or detection circuits that are arranged on two opposing sides of the photoelectric converter, whereby scanning directions either from the scan circuits or from the detection circuits, which are arranged on the two opposing sides, are capable of being set so as to be performed in like directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao KOBAYASHI, Noriyuki KAIFU, Shinichi TAKEDA, Kazuaki TASHIRO, Tadao ENDO, Toshio KAMESHIMA
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Publication number: 20080224059Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an integral sun protection factor (?SPF or iSPF) which encompasses both UVA and UVB radiation and can be used for classifying cosmetic and dermatological sunscreens. The method comprises the steps of applying a defined amount of the sunscreen onto a defined area of a skin substrate impregnated with a spin trap, exposing the skin substrate to a defined amount of UVA- and UVB rays by a sun simulator, subjecting the skin substrate exposed to radiation to an electron spin resonance (ESR) measurement, recording the number of free radicals trapped as a real number×1012 free radicals/mg of skin sample, and determining the integral sun protection factor ?SPF according to the equations (1) and (2) and (8) ? S ? ? P ? ? F = E 0 E ( 1 ) log 10 ? ( E ) = a · log 10 ? ( X · 1000 ) + b ( 2 ) E = 10 log ? ? 10 ? ( E ) .Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2005Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicants: COTY B.V., Privatinstitut fuer dermatologische ProduktforschuInventors: Louis Ferrero, Leonhard Zastrow, Karin Golz-Berner, Norbert Groth, Thomas Herrling
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Publication number: 20080224060Abstract: A method of detecting explosives in a vehicle includes providing a first rack on one side of the vehicle, the rack including a neutron generator and a plurality of gamma ray detectors; providing a second rack on another side of the vehicle, the second rack including a neutron generator and a plurality of gamma ray detectors; providing a control system, remote from the first and second racks, coupled to the neutron generators and gamma ray detectors; using the control system, causing the neutron generators to generate neutrons; and performing gamma ray spectroscopy on spectra read by the gamma ray detectors to look for a signature indicative of presence of an explosive. Various apparatus and other methods are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Edward L. Reber, James K. Jewell, Kenneth W. Rohde, Edward H. Seabury, Larry G. Blackwood, Andrew J. Edwards, Kurt W. Derr
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Publication number: 20080224061Abstract: An approach for the selection of Compton camera shapes, configurations, positions, orientations, trajectory paths, and detector element sets is provided for collecting data for analysis using the surface integral and integral-of-line-integral methods of reconstruction Compton data. Methods are introduced for (1) selecting one or more imaging lines through a radioactive distribution for which approximations of integrals of radioactivity are to be derived, (2) selecting and using Compton camera relative positions, relative orientations, and detector element sets that “correspond to” the selected imaging lines to collect the needed data; and (3) deriving approximations of integrals of radioactivity along those imaging lines. This methodological approach is used to reconstruct line integrals, cross-sections, local volumes, parallel projections, and cone-beam projections of radioactive distributions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Bruce D. Smith
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Publication number: 20080224062Abstract: A magnetic lens for a charged particle beam device and a charged particle beam device are provided. The magnetic lens includes a coil with coil windings to be excited for generation of a magnetic field, a pole piece to guide the magnetic field, a heat shield, which is connected to a cooling system, and a thermal insulation layer provided between the heat shield and the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: ICT Integrated Circuit Testing Gesellschaft fur Halbleiterpruftechnik mbHInventor: Pavel ADAMEC