Patents Issued in August 7, 2014
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Publication number: 20140220475Abstract: A catalyst assembly having a substrate including an intermetallic compound of W and Ir. The weight ratio of W to Ir is in a range between a first ratio and a second ratio. A catalyst includes at least one noble metal is supported on and contacts the substrate. The first ratio may be in the range of 48:52 and the second ratio may be in the range of 51:49.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Patrick Pietrasz, Jun Yang, Mark S. Sulek
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Publication number: 20140220476Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid electrolyte for batteries, which has excellent ion conductivity, a method for producing the liquid electrolyte and a battery including the liquid electrolyte. Disclosed is a liquid electrolyte for batteries, comprising a mesoionic compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Tsunehisa Hirashita, Shuki Araki, Katsuyuki Kagami, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Taishi Shiotsuki
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Publication number: 20140220477Abstract: The present invention relates generally to substrates for making polymers and methods for making polymers. The present invention also relates generally to polymers and devices comprising the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Avertica, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas Brendan Duck
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Publication number: 20140220478Abstract: Nanostructured thin film catalysts which may be useful as fuel cell catalysts are provided, the catalyst materials including intermixed inorganic materials. In some embodiments the nanostructured thin film catalysts may include catalyst materials according to the formula PtxM(1?x) where x is between 0.3 and 0.9 and M is Nb, Bi, Re, Hf, Cu or Zr. The nanostructured thin film catalysts may include catalyst materials according to the formula PtaCobMc where a+b+c=1, a is between 0.3 and 0.9, b is greater than 0.05, c is greater than 0.05, and M is Au, Zr, or Ir. The nanostructured thin film catalysts may include catalyst materials according to the formula PtaTibQc where a+b+c=1, a is between 0.3 and 0.9, b is greater than 0.05, c is greater than 0.05, and Q is C or B.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Mark K. Debe, Radoslav Atanasoski, Susan M. Hendricks, Jeffrey R. Dahn, David A. Stevens, Arnd Garsuch, Robert J. Sanderson
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Publication number: 20140220479Abstract: Provided are nanocomposites including an iron-based composite core and a carbon shell, and methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: UWM Research FoundationInventors: Junhong Chen, Zhenhai Wen
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Publication number: 20140220480Abstract: A method for repairing masks includes performing a first repair process to a mask by etching unwanted opaque regions from the mask, applying a plasma passivation process to the mask, and performing a second repair process to the mask by etching away additional unwanted opaque regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuen-Hsun Li, Yuan-Chih Chu
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Publication number: 20140220481Abstract: The present inventive concept provides a photomask including a substrate, patterns disposed on the substrate, and an anti-contamination layer disposed on the patterns. The anti-contamination layer includes at least one graphene layer. Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device including the same are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mun Ja Kim, Donggun Lee, Seongsue Kim
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Publication number: 20140220482Abstract: A method for forming patterns includes the following steps. A first layout including a first target pattern and a first unprintable dummy pattern is provided. A second layout including a second target pattern and a second printable dummy pattern are provided, wherein at least part of the second printable dummy pattern overlaps the first unprintable dummy pattern exposure limit, such that the second printable dummy pattern cannot be formed in a wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Hsin-Yu Chen, Chia-Wei Huang, Chun-Hsien Huang, Shih-Chun Tsai, Kai-Lin Chuang
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Publication number: 20140220483Abstract: A photo-curable resin composition comprising a silicone-containing polymer, a photobase generator, a solvent, and optionally an epoxy resin crosslinker forms a coating which serves as a protective film for the protection of electric/electronic parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Satoshi Asai
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Publication number: 20140220484Abstract: In an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer on a conductive support, a binder resin that constitutes the photosensitive layer includes a polymer containing a skeleton derived from dehydroabietic acid in the main chain. An electrophotographic photoreceptor which accelerates conversion to natural materials from the viewpoint of manufactured product quality or production suitability, since the binder resin of the photosensitive layer has satisfactory solvent solubility.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki UEHIRA, Toshihide YOSHITANI
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Publication number: 20140220485Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains silica particles containing first silica particles, and second silica particles, wherein the toner is a toner produced by depositing the silica particles on surfaces of base particles, the first silica particles have an average primary particle diameter of 75 nm to 250 nm, the second silica particles have an average primary particle diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm, a mass ratio of the first silica particles to the base particles is 0.010 to 0.040, a mass ratio of the second silica particles to the base particles is 0.005 to 0.030, a liberation ratio of the silica particles from the toner by a ultrasonic vibration method is 5% by mass to 20% by mass, and an amount of particles having primary particle diameters of 30 nm or smaller in the silica particles librated from the toner by the ultrasonic vibration method is 20% by number or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Satoshi KOJIMA, Junichi Awamura, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Shingo Sakashita, Tomoki Murayama, Masaya Fukuda
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Publication number: 20140220486Abstract: Provided is a toner containing toner particles, each of which includes a binder resin containing a polyester as a main component, a colorant, and a wax, in which the binder resin includes a block polymer in which a segment capable of forming a crystalline structure and a segment incapable of forming a crystalline structure are bonded, the toner has a maximum endothermic peak from the binder resin, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry measurement, with a peak temperature in a specific range and with an endothermic quantity in a specific range, and the wax is an ester wax having a functionality of 3 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki Kaya, Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Toshifumi Mori, Ayako Okamoto, Kenji Aoki, Shuntaro Watanabe, Atsushi Tani, Takashige Kasuya
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Publication number: 20140220487Abstract: A magnetic carrier is provided which can suppress a decrease in glossiness even in a long term use for POD which requires high glossiness. A magnetic carrier includes a filled core particle in which a silicone resin is filled in pores of a porous magnetic core particle and a vinyl resin coating a surface of the filled core particle. In a pore distribution of the porous magnetic core particle measured by a mercury intrusion method, a cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of 0.1 to 3.0 ?m is 35.0 to 95.0 mm3/g, and in a pore distribution of the filled core particle measured by a mercury intrusion method, a cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of 0.1 to 3.0 ?m is 3.0 to 15.0 mm3/g. The magnetic carrier includes 1.2 to 3.0 parts by mass of the vinyl resin to 100.0 parts by mass of the filled core particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Kamae, Nozomu Komatsu, Koh Ishigami, Yoshinobu Baba
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Publication number: 20140220488Abstract: Provided is an image forming method, in which excellent cleaning properties are obtained for a long period of time even when the process is employed to an image forming apparatus with a charging roller for charging a photoreceptor, and a favorable image can be formed while inhibiting occurrence of a black spots-like image defect even in a high temperature and high humidity environment. In the image forming method, charging of a photoreceptor in a charging step is performed by a charging roller. A toner for electrostatic image development includes toner base particles added with an external additive. The external additive contains at least first external additive particles composed of a polytetrafluoroethylene and second external additive particles composed of at least one selected from a fatty acid metal salt and an amide wax.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yukio HOSOYA, Futoshi KADONOME, Kazue NAKAMURA, Saburou HIRAOKA, Yasuko UCHINO
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Publication number: 20140220489Abstract: Long-period roughness in patterned resist is reduced in a manufacturing process of a sample such as a semiconductor device. A method for processing a sample to be processed, with patterned resist, in a sample processing apparatus includes: disposing the sample to be processed, with the patterned resist on the stage in the processing chamber; supplying silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) or hydrobromide (HBr) into the processing chamber as processing gas; holding the pressure of the processing chamber in the range of 1 Pa to 10 KPa; exciting the processing gas by irradiating the vacuum ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 200 nm or less to the processing gas; reacting an element contained in the excited processing gas with the pattern resist of the sample, and curing the resist.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka KOZUMA, Hiroaki OIZUMI, Naoki YASUI, Seiichi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20140220490Abstract: Disclosed is a polymerizable fluoromonomer represented by the following general formula (1). In the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, methyl group, fluorine atom, or trifluoromethyl group. n is an integer of 0 or 1, and m is that of from 1 to (3+n). R2 and R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a protective group. A resist containing a fluoropolymer obtained by polymerizing or copolymerizing the monomer is suitable for use in microfabrication by immersion exposure or by a double patterning process based on immersion exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Central Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Haruhiko KOMORIYA, Shinichi SUMIDA, Kenjin INOMIYA, Takashi MORI, Takamasa KITAMOTO, Yusuke KANTO
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Publication number: 20140220491Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoactive compound having a novel structure and a photosensitive resin composition including the same, and the photoactive compound according to the present invention has excellent sensitivity due to efficient absorption to a UV light source by including a nitro group and a phosphonate structure, and has excellent retention rate, mechanical strength, heat resistance, chemical resistance and developing resistance by improving solubility of the photosensitive resin composition by excellent compatibility of the phosphonate structure and a binder resin. Therefore, the photosensitive resin composition according to the present invention is useful to cure a column spacer, an overcoat, a passivation material and the like of a liquid crystal display device, and is useful in view of a high temperature process property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Changho Cho, Won Jin Chung, Raisa Kharbash, Sunghyun Kim, Dongchang Choi, Sang Chul Lee, Han Soo Kim, Yoon Hee Heo, Sunhwa Kim
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Publication number: 20140220492Abstract: A resist composition which generates acid upon exposure and exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution under action of acid, including a base component containing a polymeric compound having a structural unit derived from a compound represented by general formula (a0-1). R1 and R2 each independently represents a group represented by general formula (a0-2) or a functional group; V1 and V2 each represents a single bond or an alkylene group of C1 to C10 which may have a substituent; Y1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; Y2 represents a fluorinated alkylene group of C1 to C4 which may have a substituent; L1 represents O or a group represented by —NR?1—(R?1 represents H or an alkyl group of C1 to C5); Mm+ represents an organic cation having a valency of m; and m represents an integer of 1 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaaki Kaiho, Yoshitaka Komuro
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Publication number: 20140220493Abstract: A method for using self aligned multiple patterning with multiple resist layers includes forming a first patterned resist layer onto a substrate, forming a spacer layer on top of the first patterned resist layer such that spacer forms on side walls of features of the first resist layer, and forming a second patterned resist layer over the spacer layer and depositing a masking layer. The method further includes performing a planarizing process to expose the first patterned resist layer, removing the first resist layer, removing the second resist layer, and exposing the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ming-Feng Shieh, Ken-Hsien Hsieh, Shih-Ming Chang, Chih-Ming Lai, Ru-Gun Liu
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Publication number: 20140220494Abstract: A pattern generator includes a minor array plate having a mirror, at least one electrode plate disposed over the minor array plate, a lens let disposed over the minor, and at least one insulator layer sandwiched between the mirror array plate and the electrode plate. The electrode plate includes a first conducting layer and a second conducting layer. The lens let has a non-straight sidewall formed in the electrode plate. The pattern generator further includes at least one insulator sandwiched between two electrode plates. The non-straight sidewall can be a U-shaped sidewall or an L-shaped sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Chen-Hua Yu
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Publication number: 20140220495Abstract: A process and composition for negative tone development comprises providing a photoresist film that generates acidic sites. Irradiating the photoresist film patternwise provides an irradiated film having exposed and unexposed regions where the exposed regions comprise imaged sites. Baking the irradiated film at elevated temperatures produces a baked-irradiated film comprising the imaged sites which after irradiating, baking, or both irradiating and baking comprise acidic imaged sites. Treating the baked-irradiated film with a liquid, gaseous or vaporous weakly basic compound converts the acidic imaged sites to a base treated film having chemically modified acidic imaged sites. Applying a solvent developer substantially dissolves regions of the film that have not been exposed to the radiant energy, where the solvent developer comprises a substantial non-solvent for the chemically modified acidic imaged sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: International Business Machines Corporation
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Publication number: 20140220496Abstract: A method for forming a photoresist structure is provided The method includes the step of forming a photoresist layer on a substrate, the step of exposing a portion of the photoresist layer to form an exposed portion of the photoresist layer, and the step of removing the photoresist layer except the exposed portion with a solvent, so as to form the photoresist structure, wherein the photoresist layer has a polymer having a structure represented by formula (I). The method of the present invention can generate a photoresist with an even thickness on devices with complex geometries or three-dimensional substrates. Thus, it can be applied to tissue engineering scaffolds, three-dimensional cell cultivation system and novel bio-microelectromechnical elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Hsien-Yeh Chen, Mu-Gi Wu, Chieh-Chen Hsieh, Hung-Lun Hsu, Kai-Wen Hsiao
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Publication number: 20140220497Abstract: A resin structure for the formation of a micro-structure is manufactured by (A) applying a composition comprising a polymer, a photoacid generator, an epoxy compound, and an organic solvent onto a substrate, (B) heating the composition to form a sacrificial film, (C) exposing imagewise the film to first high-energy radiation, (D) developing the film in an alkaline developer to form a sacrificial film pattern, (E) exposing the sacrificial film pattern to UV as second high-energy radiation, and (F) heating the substrate at 80-250° C. The exposure dose of first high-energy radiation in step (C) is up to 250 mJ/cm2. At the end of step (F), the sacrificial film has a sidewall angle of 80°-90° relative to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Hirano, Masashi Iio, Hideyoshi Yanagisawa
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Publication number: 20140220498Abstract: A method for accelerating combustion includes installing a piezoelectric element in the vicinity of a combustion chamber that combusts fuel, applying a magnetic field to the piezoelectric element, and radiating electromagnetic waves that are produced by the piezoelectric element over at least the fuel in the combustion chamber. These electromagnetic waves include far-infrared radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Koutarou Aoki
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Publication number: 20140220499Abstract: An integrated retractable burner ignition system including a burner having an outlet face and a flow passage including a front end substantially coincident with the outlet face of the burner and a gas inlet positioned rearward from the front end of the flow passage, an igniter including a high voltage electrode surrounded by an insulator and extending beyond the insulator to form a tip end of the igniter, the igniter being mounted slidably within the flow passage, an actuator connected to a rear portion of the igniter and configured to advance and retract the igniter within the flow passage, and a slidable seal between the igniter and the flow passage, the seal being positioned rearward of the gas inlet of the flow passage and frontward of the rear portion of the igniter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Michael David Buzinski, Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli, William Otto Litrenta, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Larry Saul Zelson
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Publication number: 20140220500Abstract: Manipulation of flames is described using electric fields. In those instances in which electric fields are used, the electric fields may be time-varying gradient electric fields, and in some instances may be oscillating electric fields. The manipulation may include extinction, suppression, control of mixing of the flame, concentration, and/or bending, among other types.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Ludovico Cademartiri, Charles R. Mace, Robert Shepherd, Aaron D. Mazzeo, Kyle J.M. Bishop, Ryan C. Chiechi, George M. Whitesides
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Publication number: 20140220501Abstract: A burner includes a generally cylindrical reactor chamber (1) including a housing (1?) having a proximal end (1p) and a distal end (1d). In the distal end of the reactor chamber (1) there is provided a catalyst (4). A fuel inlet (7) is provided in the proximal end of the reactor chamber. There are also a plurality of air inlets (22, 23; 24) arranged in the reactor wall at the proximal end. The inlets are configured to provide a rotating flow of the air injected into the reactor chamber. There is also provided a flow homogenizer (8; 30) extending over the cross-section of the reactor chamber at a position between the fuel inlet (7) and the catalyst (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Reformtech Heating Holding ABInventors: Bard Lindstrom, Daniel Hagstrom, Paula Beneyto Satorres, Sara Marie Logdberg
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Publication number: 20140220502Abstract: A continuous heating furnace (200) includes a conveyance body (210) stretched in an endless shape and configured to convey a burning target, a furnace main body (212) partially or entirely surrounding the conveyance body to form a burning space, and a roller (214) configured to support a portion of the conveyance body in the furnace main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Kimiyoshi SATOH, Toshiyuki SUDA, Toshiro FUJIMORI, Masao AIHARA
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Publication number: 20140220503Abstract: A substrate holder has two holder constituting bodies, each having a plurality of columns arranged on an imaginary circle, and substrate holding sections that hold circumferential portions of respective substrates. The holder constituting bodies hold the substrates so that either their front surfaces or their back surfaces face upward with a substrate having an upward facing front and a substrate having an upward facing rear being alternately arranged in a vertical direction. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves in the vertical direction to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between a first pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective front surfaces facing each other is set to ensure treatment uniformity, and to be larger than a distance between a second pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hisashi INOUE, Shunichi MATSUMOTO, Yasushi TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20140220504Abstract: The present invention relates to an articulator. The articulator may significantly improve the coupling force between a maxillary fixing part and a mandibular fixing part. In addition, since the horizontal turning radius of the maxillary fixing part is easily adjustable according to the size of a mandible model, errors that may occur when the state of occlusion between the mandible model and a maxillary model is checked may be easily prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Se Hun Kim
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Publication number: 20140220505Abstract: Various systems, method, and compositions for treating a tooth are disclosed herein. For example, an apparatus for treating a tooth is disclosed. The apparatus can include a chamber having an access port which places the chamber in fluid communication with a treatment region of the tooth when the chamber is coupled to tooth. A fluid motion generator can be coupled to the chamber. The fluid motion generator can be configured to direct fluid across the access port to generate fluid motion in the chamber. In various embodiments, fluid motion (e.g., vortices, swirl, etc.) can be induced at or near treatment regions of the tooth, such as a root canal or carious region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Sonendo, Inc.Inventors: Mehrzad Khakpour, Bjarne Bergheim, Richard S. Tebbs
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Publication number: 20140220506Abstract: A dental shaping strip includes a base portion and a shaping portion. The base portion has a first base surface and a second base surface facing in an opposite direction from the first base surface. The first and second base surfaces have prescribed longitudinal lengths and prescribed widths transverse to the prescribed longitudinal lengths. The shaping portion is connected to a longitudinal edge of the base portion. The shaping portion has a first shaping surface connected to the first base surface, with at least part of the first shaping surface being abrasive. The first and second base surfaces are at least partially non-abrasive. Preferably, the first shaping surface and the first base surface diverge from each other as they approach longitudinal free edges of the dental shaping strip. Preferably, the first and second base surfaces are non abrasive along their prescribed longitudinal lengths.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Clifford John Van Putten
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Publication number: 20140220507Abstract: A dental shaping strip includes a base portion and a shaping portion. The base portion has a first base surface and a second base surface facing in an opposite direction from the first base surface. The first and second base surfaces have prescribed longitudinal lengths and prescribed widths transverse to the prescribed longitudinal lengths. The shaping portion is connected to a longitudinal edge of the base portion. The shaping portion has a first shaping surface connected to the first base surface, with at least part of the first shaping surface being abrasive. The first and second base surfaces are at least partially non-abrasive. Preferably, the first shaping surface and the first base surface diverge from each other as they approach longitudinal free edges of the dental shaping strip. Preferably, the first and second base surfaces are non abrasive along their prescribed longitudinal lengths.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Clifford John Van Putten
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Publication number: 20140220508Abstract: A dental protocol for creating an osteotomy for an implant is disclosed. A first drill is selected having a tip to create a pilot hole in the bone surface of a patient. The first drill includes a first boring section to create a bore hole for a second drill and a second boring section to create a coronal area on the hole near the bone surface. A first drill hole is created on the bone surface having a depth compatible with the length of the implant with the first drill and a coronal area. A second drill for creating a second hole having a width compatible with the body of the implant is selected. A second drill hole is created on the bone surface with the second drill.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: BIOMET 3i, LLCInventors: Michael D. Scalise, Andre J. Castillo, Miguel G. Montero, Dan Paul Rogers, Ross W. Towse
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Publication number: 20140220509Abstract: The invention relates to a method of increasing organic cell regeneration in a region of a subject. Cellular tissue in the region is subjected to a constant electromagnetic (EM) field of less than 1 mT and having a radiation frequency between 7 Hz and 8 Hz with an EM field generating device. If the subject region is dehydrated or includes unregulated minerals apt to disturb the resonance of water subjected to the EM field, a resonance medium is located substantially at or adjacent the region, wherein the resonance medium comprises a composition which is adapted to resonate at the frequency of an electromagnetic field. The composition is a biologically active composition containing at least one hydrated mineral, wherein the mineral is hydrated by regulated water maintained in a constant spatial structure or by regulated water incorporated in a non-destructible matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2011Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Bogdan Constantin Vladila
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Publication number: 20140220510Abstract: A dental partial includes a prosthetic tooth with an anchor extending from the tooth, where the anchor and the tooth are a single unitary structure. The anchor is embedded in a base of the dental partial, where the base conforms to the shape of a patient's mouth. The prosthetic tooth has a lingual surface and a facial surface, and the anchor extends from at least one of the lingual and/or facial surfaces of the prosthetic tooth.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Oral Arts Laboratory, Inc.Inventor: Marilyn Barton
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Publication number: 20140220511Abstract: The specification discloses embodiments and other information concerning methods, systems, and apparatus in accordance with aspects of the subject invention for treating diseased root canals in teeth and other dental condition, such as periodontitis and the like wherein a laser light is pulsed from a laser fiber optic tip into liquid contained in a reservoir or other space within the canal, periodontal sulcus/pocket, or other dental space immersing the area in need of treatment so as to disintegrate, separate, or otherwise neutralize pulp, plaque, calculus, bacteria, and other microbes, thus annihilating and particleizing undesirable material within the liquid in the reservoir by the action of relatively intense, photoacoustic micro-pressure waves propagating throughout the liquid as a result of the laser light pulses emitted into the liquid from the tip, thereby enabling easy removal of the particles by finely dispersing the same in the liquid and then flushing the particle-laden liquid from the area by hydrType: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: MEDICAL DENTAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES GROUP LLCInventors: Enrico D. DiVito, Kemmons A. Tubbs, Douglas L. Glover, Mark P. Colonna, Robert E. Barr
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Publication number: 20140220512Abstract: Hardenable compositions are described comprising at least one multifunctional ethylenically unsaturated isocyanurate monomer and at least one multifunctional ethylenically unsaturated tricyclodecane monomer. In favored embodiments, the compositions further comprise filler and are suitable dental restorations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Ahmed S. Abuelyaman, Adrian S. Eckert, Sumita B. Mitra, Timothy D. Dunbar, Bradley D. Craig, Chuntao Cao
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Publication number: 20140220513Abstract: A driver training system comprising computerized means for presenting a user of the system with simultaneous footage of a driving environment recorded from cameras directed to four active visual zones comprising a driver's forward view, rear mirror view, and respective left and right side mirror views; computerized means for tracking the driving environment found within the two visual neutral zones comprising a driver's respective left and right blind spots; computerized means for presenting a user with questions regarding events in the footage occurring within the four active visual zones and the two visual neutral zones; and a database for recording responses and response times to the questions or driving challenges requiring a response to the questions; where the forward view comprises a view comprising a view from a camera depicting the view from the windshield combined with a camera depicting the view from the driver's window.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Richard Harkness
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Publication number: 20140220514Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are provided for games for learning regulatory best practices. A display module presents a virtual learning environment for an organization associated with an industry sector. A gaming module presents a game within the virtual learning environment that is designed to train and/or test a user on regulations associated with the industry sector. A management module provides a manager, who is different than the user, access to the game. The manager accesses one or more game settings to customize the game according to the skill level of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Gamxing Inc.Inventors: Katherine Waldron, Pavan Kumar Ravula Lakshminarayan
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Publication number: 20140220515Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are provided for games for learning regulatory best practices. A display module presents a virtual learning environment for an organization associated with an industry sector. A gaming module presents a game within the virtual learning environment that is designed to train and/or test a user on regulations associated with the industry sector. A help module connects the user with a remote user in response to the user interacting with a help selection mechanism. The remote user provides the user with information regarding one or more regulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Gamxing Inc.Inventors: Katherine Waldron, Pavan Kumar Ravula Lakshminarayan
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Publication number: 20140220516Abstract: A nutritional insight recommendation system using map-reduce software to calculate increasingly large user base and food items to provide real-time updates on nutritional guidelines. The system provides a universal system that use and share data among end users, nutritionists and dieticians, food service providers (such as restaurants) and manufacturers, and health providers and government entities.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: FoodCare Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Rapp Marshall, Edmond Trey Dempsey, Charlie Robert Collins, Elizabeth Marie Turner
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Publication number: 20140220517Abstract: A group of vocabulary words are selected for students at an educational institution. The vocabulary words together with corresponding definitions are put on clothing items worn by different students at the educational institution. The students at the educational institutional are tested regarding the group of vocabulary words and their definitions are before the clothing is worn and some period of days after the clothing started being worn. Selected words from the group of vocabulary words are selected for removal from the group based on the results of the second testing. New clothing items with new vocabulary words together with corresponding definitions are worn by students at the educational institution in place of the clothing items with the word selected for removal from the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Michael Bailey
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Publication number: 20140220518Abstract: An electronic device is provided which can be used, for example, by a user who is learning to read, to input a word in question and be provided with visual and audio output of the phonetic components of the query word, thereby assisting the learning of pronunciation of the word. The electronic device includes a plurality of word databases corresponding to different predefined classification, such as reading level, age group or reading syllabus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Paul Siani
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Publication number: 20140220519Abstract: A teaching aid for children learning the alphabet of any language utilizing a combination of alpha characters each in a cluster with a word starting with the alpha character and a drawing that are drawn in a child's hand. A preferred configuration is an alphabet strip with irregular child drawn borders appearing on a substrate. The substrate may be a clear plastic of any outline but with the border and background as well as the clusters mechanically or electronically printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: ALICIA SILVER
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Publication number: 20140220520Abstract: An intraoral method, biofeedback system and kit are provided for supplying intraoral feedback representative of a speaker's pronunciation during sound production, which feedback may be used for training and enhancing a speaker's pronunciation accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Articulate Technologies Inc.Inventors: Alexey Salamini, Adrienne E. Penake, David A. Penake, Gordy T. Rogers
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Publication number: 20140220521Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a simulated roof vertical ventilation training apparatus configured to be pivotably attached to a simulated roof. In some examples, the vertical ventilation training apparatus includes a frame pivotably mounted to an exposed rafter of the simulated roof. The frame is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The edges of the frame are configured to engage with at least one disposable support member to maintain the frame in a closed position. The disposable support member is configured to be cut by a user with a hand tool to allow pivot of the frame into the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Benjamin Davis
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Publication number: 20140220522Abstract: Virtual reality arc welding systems that provide virtual reality simulations for training purposes. Virtual reality welding systems to aid in training welding students may provide a programmable processor-based subsystem, a rendering engine, an analysis engine, and recommended corrective actions based on virtual testing results.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.Inventors: Carl Peters, Deanna Postlethwaite, Matthew Wayne Wallace
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Publication number: 20140220523Abstract: Methods of analyzing the personality of an individual are disclosed and include at least one of assessing the relationship of the individual's face to four shapes, determining which one of four shades of red harmonizes best with the individual's face, determining which set of colored patterns harmonizes best with the individual's face, determining which metal palette harmonizes best with the individual's face, determining which red shape harmonizes best with the individual's face, and determining which color palette harmonizes best with the individual's face, and correlating at least one of the selected shape, shade of red, set of colored patterns, metal palette, red shape, and color palette with a mind-body temperament, and identifying the primary mind-body temperament of the individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: ALPHA ELEMENT INSTITUTE, LLCInventor: Marit Solheim Witt
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Publication number: 20140220524Abstract: Provided is a system and method for monitoring a student behavior in a field trip. The system may include: a plurality of member terminals held respectively by a plurality of members conducting a group activity and provided with a plurality of sensors, an imaging device, and a data storage device to collect and store behavior information of the members to match time information, the behavior information including location information, orientation information, view information, and motion information; at least one leader terminal held by a leader and configured to receive and store the behavior information of the members collected by the plurality of member terminals; and an analysis terminal configured to receive the behavior information from the at least one leader terminal and the plurality of member terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: June Hwa Song, In Seok Hwang, Hyuk Jae Jang, Tai Woo Park, A Ram Choi, Young Ki Lee, Chan You Hwang