Patents Issued in August 23, 2012
  • Publication number: 20120211632
    Abstract: A supporting pedestal capable of adjusting an azimuth angle of an antenna system is disclosed in the present invention. The angle adjusting mechanism includes a main body and a tube. The main body includes a base, a first board and a second board. The first board and the second board are respectively disposed on two sides of the base. A first pivot hole and a first slot are formed on the first board. A second pivot hole is formed on the second board. The main body further includes a rib disposed on an edge of the base and connecting the first and second boards for preventing the first and second boards from bending relative to the base. The first and second pivot holes are respectively formed on the sides of the first and second boards adjacent to the rib. The tube pivots relative to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Lan-Chun Yang, Ming-Chan Lee, Hung-Yuan Lin, San-Yi Kuo, Wei-Te Chien
  • Publication number: 20120211633
    Abstract: A connection mechanism is used for rotatably connecting a first object and a second object. The connection mechanism includes a positioning member capable of being inserted in a first fixing hole defined in the first object and the engaging hole defined in the second object for connecting the first object and the second object. The positioning member is slidable in the first fixing hole and in the engaging hole to interchange between a first position and a second position, the positioning member is received in the first fixing hole and the engaging hole to restrict the first object from rotating relative to the second object in the first position, and at least move out of the first fixing hole or the engaging hole to allow the first object to rotate relative to the second object in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FU TAI HUA INDUSTRY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cong-Bing ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20120211634
    Abstract: A supporting pedestal capable of adjusting an azimuth angle of an antenna system is disclosed in the present invention. The angle adjusting mechanism includes a main body and a tube. The main body includes a base, a first board and a second board. The first board and the second board are respectively disposed on two sides of the base. A first pivot hole and a first slot are formed on the first board. A second pivot hole is formed on the second board. The main body further includes a strengthening rib disposed on an edge of the base and connecting the first and second boards for preventing the first and second boards from bending relative to the base. The first and second pivot holes are respectively formed on the sides of the first and second boards adjacent to the strengthening rib. The tube pivots relative to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Lan-Chun Yang, Ming-Chan Lee, Hung-Yuan Lin, San-Yi Kuo, Wei-Te Chien, Yu-Fu Ku
  • Publication number: 20120211635
    Abstract: In an object holding device, it is possible to prevent loosening of a cord-like body for holding an object without requiring any user's special operation. The object holding device includes a fixing belt (3) wound on a plastic tank (2), a male buckle (9) provided at a fixing belt, a reel (4) having the fixing belt wound around and urged to rotate in a winding direction of the fixing belt and a reel housing (11) connecting with a male buckle. When the male buckle is connected to the reel housing, a rotation of the reel is restricted at least in a counter-winding direction of the fixing belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Takehiko Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20120211636
    Abstract: The invention includes an alignment device and system having a guide member, a support member and a connector which engages the guide member and the support member. The guide member may be a relatively flat piece attachable to and edge of a frame. In one aspect the guide member includes a perimeter slot. The support member may have a first portion generally perpendicular with a second portion and the first portion may be attached to an object (or integral with an object such as a window or door casing) which is to be aligned with a frame. The second portion may have a connector portion or threaded hole for receiving a connector. The connector may also engage the slot of the guide member. The device allows for desired alignment of an object within a frame by transferring rotational movement to linear movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew Sirek, Colton Sirek
  • Publication number: 20120211637
    Abstract: A modular mould system for manufacturing a shell part of an oblong composite structure having a longitudinal direction from a fibre reinforced matrix material. The modular mould system includes a number of mould sections, which are adapted to being assembled to an assembled mould part. The number of mould sections includes a first mould section having a first moulding surface with a contour that defines a surface of a first longitudinal part of the shell part and a first end section; and a second mould section having a second moulding surface with a contour that defines a surface of a second longitudinal part of the shell part and a second end section; which, when the modular mould system is assembled to the assembled mould, the second end section of the second mould section abuts the first end section of the first mould section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: LM GLASFIBER A/S
    Inventors: Per Kjaer Christiansen, Finn Johansen
  • Publication number: 20120211638
    Abstract: A vision measuring device includes: a camera which images a workpiece and transfers image information of the workpiece; a position control unit which controls an in-focus position of the camera and outputs the in-focus position as position information representing a position in a Z-axis direction; and a vision measuring machine which performs vision measurement on the workpiece based on image information and position information. The position control unit acquires and retains position information in response to a trigger signal output from the camera or the position control unit to the other at a certain timing of an imaging period during which the camera images the workpiece. The vision measuring machine calculates position information representing a position of image information in the Z-axis direction based on image information transferred from the camera and position information output from the position control unit, and performs auto-focusing control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120211639
    Abstract: The optical sensor includes a photodiode PD1 with its anode grounded, a diode group DG1 having one end connected to a cathode of the photodiode PD1, a current source I1 having one end connected to the other end of the diode group DG1, a power supply section for applying a constant voltage to the other end of the current source I1, and a grounded-emitter NPN transistor QOUT1 having a base connected to the cathode of the photodiode PD1 and a collector connected to one end of the current source I1. The diode group DG1 is provided by n diodes D1, D2, . . . , Dn connected in series so that their forward directions are directed toward the photodiode PD1 side, and a photocurrent which flows from a connecting point between the diode group and the current source to the photodiode is converted into a voltage and outputted as a photoelectric conversion signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Kohei YASUKAWA, Norikazu Okada, Yasuyuki Shirasaka
  • Publication number: 20120211640
    Abstract: An intermediate member is disposed between a peripheral region and a third region, having been fixed to an imaging plate and a retaining plate. The intermediate member does not extend to between at least a part of a middle region and a forth region, such that a void is provided. The difference between the linear expansion coefficient of the imaging plate and the linear expansion coefficient of the intermediate member is smaller than the difference between the linear expansion coefficient of the retaining plate and the linear expansion coefficient of the intermediate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takanori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120211641
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a contiguous microlens array, which consists of a plurality of touching microlenses, wherein the adjacent microlenses are connected to each other to form a contiguous microlens array and curvatures of every angle cross section of each microlens are the same. The shape of the curved surface of a microlens in the microlens array is selectively adjusted according to its position in the array and the incident angle of light incident thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Tsung LIN, Hsin-Ping Wu, Hung-Chao Kao, Ming-I Wang
  • Publication number: 20120211642
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device comprising a plurality of pixel circuits GC having photoelectric conversion characteristics including linear characteristics and logarithmic characteristics on either side of an inflection point. The pixel circuits GC each include a photoelectric conversion element PD which accumulates a signal charge by exposing a subject, and a floating diffusion FD which converts the signal charge accumulated by the photoelectric conversion element PD into a voltage signal. The floating diffusion FD is set to have an operating charge that is smaller than a saturation charge of the photoelectric conversion element PD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Iwamoto, Takashi Morimoto, Masayuki Kusuda
  • Publication number: 20120211643
    Abstract: An imaging system includes an A/D converter including a holding unit holding a pixel signal as a voltage level, a comparator comparing the voltage level held with a reference level, a circuit capable of changing the voltage level so as to approach the reference level at first and second rates, wherein the voltage level is changed at the first rate to determine higher bits in accordance with inversion of a relationship between the reference level and the voltage level, after that, the voltage level is changed at the second rate to determine lower bits in accordance with inversion of the relationship between the reference level and the voltage level, and an adjusting unit which adjusts the voltage level during a period until the voltage level is changed at the second rate after determination of the higher bits so that the lower bits and the voltage level hold a linear relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuji Ikeda, Hiroki Hiyama, Kazuo Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20120211644
    Abstract: A light-field pixel for detecting a wavefront, the light-field pixel comprises an aperture layer, a light detector layer, and a processor. The aperture layer has a non-conventional aperture and a non-conventional aperture. The non-conventional aperture has a higher gradient of transmission at normal incidence than the conventional aperture. The light detector is configured to measure a first intensity of light through the non-conventional aperture and a second intensity of light through the conventional aperture. The processor is configured to detect the wavefront based on the first intensity normalized by the second intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Guoan Zheng, Changhuei Yang
  • Publication number: 20120211645
    Abstract: A sterilizing system for sterilizing a continuous loop conveyor belt of a conveyor system is provided. The conveyor system includes a drive operatively connected to the conveyor belt and operative to move the belt between upper and lower flight paths. The upper flight path includes an exposed surface for receiving items. The sterilizing system includes a housing that is configured to at least partially cover the lower flight path. An ultraviolet light source is positioned in the interior of the housing. The light source is operative to emit ultraviolet light on the belt at the lower flight path to sanitize the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: JLT & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Tullo, Grant Jeffery Caven, Paul Jeffery Payne, Stylianos Derventzis
  • Publication number: 20120211646
    Abstract: A method is for measuring light energy received by a pixel including a transfer transistor, and a photodiode including a charge storage region. The method may include encapsulating the gate of the transfer transistor of the pixel in a semiconductor layer, at least one part of which includes a hydrogenated amorphous semiconductor. The method also may include grounding the charge storage region of the pixel, and determining the drift over time in the magnitude of the drain-source current of the transfer transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics SA, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS
    Inventors: Serge BLONKOWSKI, Diana Lopez
  • Publication number: 20120211647
    Abstract: An arrangement utilizes diffractive, reflective and/or refractive optical elements combined to intensify and homogenize electromagnetic energy, such as natural sunlight in the terrestrial environment, for purposes such as irradiating a target area with concentrated homogenized energy. A heat activated safety mechanism is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SUNRGI, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas C. Forrester, Robert S. Block
  • Publication number: 20120211648
    Abstract: On-board non-uniformity correction calibration methods for a microbolometer focal plane array in a thermal camera are disclosed. The methods include performing first calculations in the processor unit of the thermal camera to generate and apply a set of coarse correction bias voltages to the detector elements. The method also includes performing calculations in the external computer based on image data collected by the thermal camera with the coarse correction bias voltages applied to the detector elements to generate a set of fine correction bias voltages. The method also includes downloading the fine correction bias voltages to the thermal camera and applying the fine correction voltages to the detector elements to establish a fine calibration of the microbolometer focal plane array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: DERON L. LINSACUM, Nils A. Lavik, Greg Kwan
  • Publication number: 20120211649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a scanning tool (1) for scanning an object downhole. The tool has a longitudinal axis and comprises an emitting device (2) for emitting radiation, a lens (3) for transmitting the radiation in a predetermined pattern (4) of radiation, and a receiving device (5). In a first position of the tool, the pattern of radiation is reflected on the object (6) to be scanned and the reflected radiation is received in the receiving device resulting in a first measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Welltec A/S
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Ulrik Weiland Robenhagen
  • Publication number: 20120211650
    Abstract: Various methods and tools optically analyze downhole fluid properties in situ. Some disclosed downhole optical radiometry tools include a tool body having a sample cell for fluid flow. A light beam passes through the sample cell and a spectral operation unit (SOU) such as a prism, filter, interferometer, or multivariate optical element (MOE). The resulting light provides a signal indicative of one or more properties of the fluid. A sensor configuration using electrically balanced thermopiles offers a high sensitivity over a wide temperature range. Further sensitivity is achieved by modulating the light beam and/or by providing a reference light beam that does not interact with the fluid flow. To provide a wide spectral range, some embodiments include multiple filaments in the light source, each filament having a different emission spectrum. Moreover, some embodiments include a second light source, sample cell, SOU, and detector to provide increased range, flexibility, and reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services ,Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Jones, Stephen A. Zannoni, Michael T. Pelletier, Raj Pai, Wei Zhang, Marina L. Morys
  • Publication number: 20120211651
    Abstract: An isotope ratio mass spectrometer is described that obtains direct ratios of atomic isotopes in a monoenergetic beam of negative ions by passing them through a collision cell at specific kinetic energies for which the relative production of positive ions from the negative ions is calculable from the isotopic masses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: John Stephen Vogel
  • Publication number: 20120211652
    Abstract: Observation using an FIB image is enabled without causing any damage to a designated region. To this end, an ion beam scanning-prohibited region is set in a sample by using an image acquired by a charged particle beam other than an ion beam, or an image prepared as external data as a peripheral image including the designated region of a sample. Thereafter, the image used to set the ion beam scanning-prohibited region is exactly superimposed on an FIB image acquired for regions except the ion beam scanning-prohibited region, thereby forming an image including the ion beam scanning-prohibited region on which ion beam scanning has not been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Kunio Sakamoto, Megumi Aizawa, Satoshi Tomimatsu, Isamu Sekihara
  • Publication number: 20120211653
    Abstract: A pattern measuring method and device are provided which set a reference position for a measuring point to be measured by a scanning electron microscope and the like, based on position information of a reference pattern on an image acquired from the scanning electron microscope and based on a positional relation, detected by using design data, between the measuring point and the reference pattern formed at a position isolated from the measuring point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Takumichi SUTANI, Ryoichi Matsuoka, Hidetoshi Morokuma, Hitoshi Komuro, Akiyuki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20120211654
    Abstract: There is provided a scanning electron microscope capable of achieving a size reduction of the device while at the same time suppressing the increase in column temperature as well as maintaining performance, e.g., resolution, etc. With respect to a scanning electron microscope for observing a sample by irradiating the sample with an electron beam emitted from an electron source and focused by condenser lenses, and detecting secondary electrons from the sample, the condenser lenses comprise both an electromagnetic coil-type condenser lens and a permanent magnet-type condenser lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Iwaya, Sakae Kobori, Tomohisa Ohtaki, Haruhiko Hatano
  • Publication number: 20120211655
    Abstract: Provided is an optical arrangement of the infrared camera comprising a lens unit in which a lens is supported by a frame body, an infrared detector module in which an infrared detector for detecting amount of an infrared ray transmitted through the lens as a heat and converting the infrared rays to an image signal is sealed in a housing having a window portion, and a shutter provided between the lens and the infrared detector module. A detector surface of the infrared detector, the window portion, the shutter, and the lens are arranged such that an inclination angle of a virtual straight line which connects each corner portion of the detector surface, the window portion and a maximum aperture of the shutter, and edge portion of an effective lens area of a lens closest to the shutter against to an optical axis is 25° to 35°, is adopted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Koide
  • Publication number: 20120211656
    Abstract: A mobile device including a source for emitting electromagnetic radiation, an enclosure having a side wall, and a detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation emitted by the source is described. At least a portion of the sidewall is adapted to transmit electromagnetic radiation from the source. The source and detector are positioned inside the enclosure. The detector is spaced from the source, and is arranged to detect electromagnetic radiation from the source that is reflected from an object outside the enclosure and passes through the portion of the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Marshall Joseph Katz, Ian Peter Lewis
  • Publication number: 20120211657
    Abstract: An infrared radiation detection device comprising: a substrate; a matrix of at least one line of elements for detecting said radiation, each comprising a resistive imaging bolometer, said matrix being formed above the substrate; means for reading the bolometers of the matrix, means for measuring the temperature in at least one point of the substrate; and means for correcting the signal formed from each bolometer as a function of the temperature measured in at least one point of the substrate. The correcting means are capable of correcting the signal formed from the imaging bolometer by means of a predetermined physical model of the temperature behaviour of said signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Ulis
    Inventors: Benoit Dupont, Aurélie Touvignon, Michel Vilain, Antoine Dupret
  • Publication number: 20120211658
    Abstract: The invention relates to an infrared light detector having a sensor chip (4), which comprises a thin-film element (5) made from a pyroelectrically sensitive material, having an electrical insulator (27), at least one electronic component (17, 18) having a thin-film design, which forms part of a readout electronics unit, and a thin-film membrane (2), on which the sensor chip (4) and the electronic component (17, 18) are mounted side by side in an integrated manner such that the electronic component (17, 18) is electrically conductively coupled to the thin-film element (5). A signal amplifier (22), with which, in co-operation with the electronic component (17, 18), an electrical signal emitted from the sensor chip (4) can be amplified, can be connected to the electronic component (17, 18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: PYREOS LTD.
    Inventors: Carsten Giebeler, Neil Conway, Tim Chamberlain
  • Publication number: 20120211659
    Abstract: A terahertz wave characteristic measurement method comprises irradiating terahertz waves at a region in which a thickness of a solution is in the range from 10 ?m to 100 ?m such that a propagation direction of the terahertz waves is in a thickness direction of the solution, the solution containing at least one type of target material to be measured, and measuring at least one of a spectral characteristic and an intensity at a particular frequency or a particular wavelength of the terahertz waves that are one of transmitted through the region and reflected from the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kitamura, Hirohisa Uchida
  • Publication number: 20120211660
    Abstract: Embodiments of sensor systems and related methods of operating and manufacturing the same are described herein. The sensor systems can be used to detect atomic or subatomic particles or radiation. Other embodiments and related methods are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicants: Arizona State University
    Inventor: David R. Allee
  • Publication number: 20120211661
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a scintillator panel containing a first support having thereon a phosphor layer, and a protective layer on the phosphor layer, the method comprising the steps of (1) dividing a first scintillator panel comprising the first support having thereon the phosphor layer into a plurality of second scintillator panels; (2) providing an adsorbing member between a side of the first support of each of the plurality of the second scintillator panels and a side of a second support; and allowing to adsorb the plurality of the second scintillator panels onto the second support; (3) forming a protective layer on a whole surface of the plurality of the second scintillator panels except a portion of the second scintillator panels which is contacted with the adsorbing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Keiko ITAYA, Tadashi ARIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120211662
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a radiation conversion panel for converting radiation into radiographic images, an A/D converter for performing an A/D conversion process on image signals depending on the radiographic image output from the radiation conversion panel, and a number-of-sampling determiner for determining a number of times of sampling for the A/D conversion process performed by the A/D converter, based on the dose of radiation, which is applied to the radiation conversion panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shou SHIMIZUKAWA, Kiyoshi KONDOU
  • Publication number: 20120211663
    Abstract: An X-ray detector includes a photoconductor, a first diffusion barrier film on a first surface of the photoconductor, at least one pixel electrode on the first diffusion barrier film, a signal transmitting unit to process an electrical signal output from the at least one pixel electrode, and a common electrode on a second surface of the photoconductor opposite to the first surface of the photoconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-il Kim, Jae-chul Park, Chang-jung Kim, Sang-wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20120211664
    Abstract: A radiation failure inspecting method includes acquiring read data when a scanner reads a radiation surface of a radiation unit in a state where a reading surface of the scanner faces the radiation surface of the radiation unit and the radiation unit emits light; acquiring a value corresponding to a radiation energy of the light from the radiation unit by integrating the read data in a direction corresponding to a predetermined direction on the read data; and determining that a radiation failure occurs in the radiation unit when the value corresponding to the radiation energy of the light is equal to or less than a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20120211665
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a pulsed radiation source may include an imaging sensor having a frame rate that is less than a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of the pulsed radiation source. A processing unit may be in communication with the imaging sensor, and be configured to (i) process a sequence of image data of a scene captured by the imaging sensor to determine whether radiation of the pulsed radiation source is detected, (ii) determine a PRF code of the pulsed radiation source from possible multiple different PRF codes based on the processed sequence of image data, and (iii) notify a user of the PRF code or information associated with the PRF code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: DRS RSTA, INC.
    Inventors: Eugene L. Cloud, Alan Rakes, John Bailey
  • Publication number: 20120211666
    Abstract: In a radiation image capturing system, prior to radiation image capturing operation, the radiation image capturing apparatus repeats on an alternate basis, a step of reading leak data and a step of resetting each of the radiation detection elements, wherein the step of reading leak data is performed by turning off all switch units, allowing a reading circuit to perform cyclic reading operations under this condition and converting electric charge leaking out of radiation detection elements through the switch units into the leak data, thereby detecting a start of irradiation based on the leak data having been read out. The image processing apparatus analyzes a profile of image data along the extension of signal lines of the radiation image capturing apparatus, and identifies a range of the image data where a defect has occurred, whereby the image data in the identified range is corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji AMITANI, Tatsuya TAKAGI, Ryohei ITO
  • Publication number: 20120211667
    Abstract: The objective is to eliminate the effect of the hysteresis of a scanning electromagnet and resume high-accuracy beam irradiation from an irradiation position where it has been interrupted, even in the case where emergency-stop processing is performed during therapy. There are provided an irradiation management apparatus that controls a scanning electromagnet; and an interlock information inputting device that generates an interlock signal for stopping irradiation of the charged particle beam, when a contingency occurs. When irradiation of the charged particle beam is resumed, the irradiation management apparatus performs idle operation in which the scanning electromagnet is controlled, with the charged particle beam unirradiated, from a start step, which is situated prior to a stop step and is different from the initial step in actual irradiation, to the stop step, and then irradiates the charged particle beam from the desired irradiation position coordinates corresponding to the stop step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Iwata, Kengo Sugahara, Hisashi Harada
  • Publication number: 20120211668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the design and use of an ion source with a rapid beam current controller for experimental and medicinal purposes. More particularly, the present invention relates to the design and use of a laser ion source with a magnetic field applied to confine a plasma flux caused by laser ablation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC
    Inventor: Masahiro Okamura
  • Publication number: 20120211669
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scintillator panel provided with on a support a phosphor layer comprising columnar crystals and a protective layer sequentially in this order, wherein degraded areas on lateral surfaces of columnar crystals at an end of the phosphor layer and produced by a cutting treatment account for not less than 0% and not more than 40% of an area of all of the side surfaces of the columnar (irystals A production method of the scintillator panel is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Keiko ITAYA, Yoshihiro GOROYA
  • Publication number: 20120211670
    Abstract: Systems and methods of detecting force on the nanoscale are provided. The described invention includes methods for detecting force using a tetrapod nanocrystal by exposing the tetrapod nanocrystal to light, which produces a luminescent response by the tetrapod nanocrystal. The method continues with detecting a difference in the luminescent response by the tetrapod nanocrystal relative to a base luminescent response that indicates a force between a first and second medium or stresses or strains experienced within a material. Such systems and methods find use with biological systems to measure forces in biological events or interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Charina L. Choi, Kristie J. Koski, Sanjeevi Sivasankar, A. Paul Alivisatos
  • Publication number: 20120211671
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for locating at least one absorber in a diffusing medium, using at least one excitation radiation and at least one detector (?fluo), including: a) for at least one pair (radiation source-detector), at least one excitation by the radiation source, and at least one detection of the fluorescence signal emitted by the absorber after this excitation, b) identification of meshing of the volume into mesh elements, and c) estimation of the location of the absorber in its diffusing medium, by computing a function (Pm) of at least one of three parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Lionel Herve, Jean-Marc Dinten, Ludovic Lecordier
  • Publication number: 20120211672
    Abstract: Described is an optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) sensor comprising one or more cylindrical cup-shaped filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Landauer, Inc.
    Inventor: R. Craig YODER
  • Publication number: 20120211673
    Abstract: A laser erasing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to move a reversible thermal recording medium having display information thereon at a predetermined moving speed, the reversible thermal recording medium reversibly changing a color tone thereof depending on a temperature; and a laser erasing unit configured to erase the display information by irradiating the reversible thermal recording medium with a laser beam while the reversible thermal recording medium is moving and by deflecting the laser beam at a predetermined scanning speed lower than the predetermined moving speed in a same direction as a moving direction of the reversible thermal recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120211674
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a storage unit to store each pattern data of plural figure patterns arranged in each of plural small regions made by virtually dividing a writing region of a target workpiece to be written on which resist being coated. The charged particle beam writing apparatus further including an assignment unit to assign each pattern data of each figure pattern to be arranged in each of the plural small regions concerned, and a writing unit to write, for each of plural groups, each figure pattern in each of the plural small regions concerned by using a charged particle beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuo KATO
  • Publication number: 20120211675
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a method for making a mask. The method includes assigning a plurality of pattern features to different data types; writing the plurality of pattern features on a mask; inspecting the plurality of pattern features with different inspection sensitivities according to assigned data types; and repairing the plurality of pattern features on the mask according to the inspecting of the plurality of pattern features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Chiang Tu, Chien-Chao Huang
  • Publication number: 20120211676
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an unit to measure height positions of a substrate, an unit to input a position dependent height distribution obtained by converting each position error of a pattern generated depending on each corresponding writing position of the substrate into a value in a height direction, and to add the position dependent height distribution to a height distribution obtained based on the height positions in order to correct the height distribution of the substrate, an unit to calculate a deflection shift amount of a pattern to be written by using a corrected height distribution, an unit to calculate a deflection amount for deflecting a beam to a position where a calculated deflection shift amount has been corrected, and an unit to write a pattern on the substrate by deflecting the beam by a calculated deflection amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi KAMIKUBO
  • Publication number: 20120211677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple beam charged particle optical system, comprising an electrostatic lens structure with at least one electrode, provided with apertures, wherein the effective size of a lens field effected by said electrode at a said aperture is made ultimately small. The system may comprise a diverging charged particle beam part, in which the lens structure is included. The physical dimension of the lens is made ultimately small, in particular smaller than one mm, more in particular less than a few tens of microns. In further elaboration, a lens is combined with a current limiting aperture, aligned such relative to a lens of said structure, that a virtual aperture effected by said current limiting aperture in said lens is situated in an optimum position with respect to minimizing aberrations total.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Pieter Kruit, Yanxia Zhang, Matijn J. Van Bruggen, Stijn Willem Herman Karel Steenbrink
  • Publication number: 20120211678
    Abstract: An electronic countermeasures product includes flexible packaging of diodes that operate in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to replace flares, lamps and directed lasers with an inexpensive easily deployed countermeasure systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: Karl D. Brommer
  • Publication number: 20120211679
    Abstract: A flow cytometry system includes a flow element through which a cell is transported in a flowing fluid. The flow element includes a bore bounded by a wall. A light source is configured to illuminate the cell. An optical system receives light emanating from the cell and directs at least some of the received light to a light sensor. The optical system includes a numerical-aperture-increasing lens at a wall of the flow element. At least some of the received light passes through the numerical-aperture-increasing lens. The flow cytometry system may also include a beam splitter that directs two wavelength bands of the emanating light such that light in two wavelength band preferentially reach different sensing locations via different paths. The system may also include an optical element placed in one of the paths, shifting a focal location of the affected path to compensate for chromatic aberration of the numerical-aperture-increasing lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Heng, Paul Patt
  • Publication number: 20120211680
    Abstract: A thermo-hydraulically actuated valve including a housing; a closure member capable of preventing and permitting fluid flow through the housing. An actuation fluid chamber disposed at the housing and sealed from an external environment. A motive force transmitter in force transmissive communication with the closure member. The transmitter being in fluid communication with the actuation fluid chamber; and a heating element in thermal communication with the actuation fluid chamber. The valve being devoid of a dynamic seal between an area of the valve to be contacted by a managed fluid within the valve and an environment outside of the valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Terry R. Bussear
  • Publication number: 20120211681
    Abstract: A pneumatic actuator air flow control system includes a pneumatic rotary actuator (PRA) and a solenoid air flow control valve (SAFCV). The PRA contains an air reservoir and two pistons on which a number of actuated racks are formed and engaged therewith, so the piston can drive the actuated rack and a pinion when the piston moves to achieve the goal of opening or closing the valve body. The SAFCV includes a flow control valve body (FCVB), a pilot solenoid valve (PSV) and a switch system, wherein the FCVB and the PRA can be connected to direct the pressurized air into the air reservoir, and the PSV is used to control the pressurized air in and out of the PRA to change the rotation direction of the pinion. Additionally, the switch system allows users to switch between a double-acting and fail-safe operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: EASYTORK AUTOMATION CORPORATION
    Inventor: James Wang