Patents Issued in October 12, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170292958
    Abstract: The invention provides methods, reagents and systems for incorporating non-natural amino acids into proteins, preferably in vivo, using the endogenous protein synthesis machinery of an organism. The incorporated non-natural amino acids contain reactive groups for further chemical reagents, which may serve as a “handle” to enrich the proteins or fragments thereof in a number of uses, such as proteomic analysis, imaging of diseased tissues/cells, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Daniela C. Dieterich, David Tirrell, Erin Schuman, Aaron J. Link
  • Publication number: 20170292959
    Abstract: The present application relates, in some aspects, to the development of a plasmid that can be used to efficiently monitor the stabilities of thousands of proteins after specific perturbations. The plasmid allows for the co-expression of two reporter proteins, each of which is placed under the control of an IRES. Other aspects of the invention relate to a plasmid library, screening methods to identify proteins whose levels are modulated by a compound of interest, and methods for monitoring treatment of a subject with an IMiD compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Kaelin, Gang Lu, Richard Middleton, Kwok-kin Wong, James e. Bradner
  • Publication number: 20170292960
    Abstract: A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed for determining if a mutated variant of a target protein is present in a sample. The method comprises subjecting the sample to fragmentation so as to cause said target protein to fragment to form second generation fragment ions, and then mass analysing these fragment ions to obtain spectral data. The method determines if a mutated variant is present in the sample by determining that an ion in the spectral data has a mass to charge ratio that differs from the mass to charge ratio of an ion that would be observed if said target protein was a normal unmutated version of said target protein, and by an amount that corresponds to a mass difference that would be caused by the target protein being a mutated variant of said target protein. This method of analysing second generation fragment ions if a rapid and efficiency method of analysing a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffery Mark BROWN, Michael Raymond MORRIS, Jonathan WILLIAMS, Brian GREEN
  • Publication number: 20170292961
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of assessing communication between cells. Methods of the invention use optical reporters of cellular electrical activity to evaluate signal propagation between cells and can be used to study an individual synapse or a complex network of interconnected cells. Aspects of the invention provide a method for characterizing signal propagation between cells. The method includes providing a first cell containing a light-generating reporter and a second cell, in which the first cell and the second cell are in communication. The second cell may contain an optical actuator of cellular electrical activity. The second cell is exposed to a stimulus and an optical signal from the first cell is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Adam Cohen, Kevin C. Eggan, Joel Kralj, Daniel Hochbaum, Graham Dempsey
  • Publication number: 20170292962
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining the propensity of a fluid for calcification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
    Inventors: Wilhelm Jahnen-Dechent, Andreas Pasch, Stefan Farese, Steffen Gräber
  • Publication number: 20170292963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of cognitive function. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods useful for assessing cognitive dysfunction/function in Alzheimer's disease and other diseases of cognition. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of (a) reducing heterocomplexes comprising NPTX1 and NPTX2 present in a biological sample obtained from the patient into NPTX1 and NPTX2 monomers; (b) covalently modifying the thiol groups of the NPTX1 and NPTX2 monomers to prevent re-formation of NPTX1/NPTX2 heterocomplexes; (c) detecting NPTX2 in the sample; and (d) assessing cognitive function in the patient by comparing NPTX2 detected in the sample to a control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Paul F. Worley, DeSheng Xu, Meifang Xiao
  • Publication number: 20170292964
    Abstract: Methods for preparing a sample for detection of an analyte of interest that is bound in vivo to a protein are provided. The method comprises providing a processing reagent comprising metaperiodate and contacting a sample suspected of comprising an analyte of interest associated with a protein with the processing reagent to form a mixture. The analyte of interest, if present in the sample (or mixture), is separated from its associated protein for detection of the analyte of interest. In one embodiment, the method is applied to samples for the detection of levels of vitamin D circulating in the blood. Samples are processed using the reagent disclosed herein to separate the analyte of interest, vitamin D or a metabolite thereof, from the vitamin D binding protein and/or albumin, for detection of the analyte separated from its binding protein(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Richard L. Egan, Judson McFarland, Mark Renshaw
  • Publication number: 20170292965
    Abstract: Provided is a method of selecting a stent for implantation in the circulatory system of a human being. The method comprises obtaining a blood sample from a patient who requires implantation of a stent and testing said blood sample to determine a platelet coagulability level. The determined platelet coagulability level of said blood sample is compared with a threshold level of blood platelet coagulability. A determined platelet coagulability level above said threshold level indicates that a risk of restenosis is relatively high. If the determined platelet coagulability level is below said threshold level, a bare metal stent is selected. If the determined platelet coagulability level is at or above said threshold level, a drug-eluting stent is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Paul A. Gurbel
  • Publication number: 20170292966
    Abstract: Apparatus for separation, washing and mixing of magnetic particles in at least one reaction cup, adapted to be used in an immunoanalyzer system, said at least one reaction cup containing nanometric magnetic particles (beads) binding immuno-complex antibody, antigen molecules, and liquid, comprising: a supporting dial mechanism (11) in the form of a rotating carousel , comprising an upper side with a number of holes adapted to host a corresponding number of said at least one reaction cup (1) in substantially vertical positions, and a lower side comprising a number of guide grooves (2) radially behind corresponding holes of the upper side, a number of magnet mechanisms (30) adapted to be inserted in corresponding ones of said guide grooves (2) and to slide therein, so as to radially approach to or depart from the side external surface of corresponding ones of said at least one reaction cup (1); at least one washing mechanism (40) firmly installed around said supporting dial mechanism (11), and comprising a w
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Chao YU, Shenguang SU, Qingwen TANG, Luca MELILLO
  • Publication number: 20170292967
    Abstract: A modular automatic analyzer using a circular type cartridge enabling centrifugation according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a main body frame; an X-axis conveying unit which reciprocally moves in an X-axis direction with respect to the main body frame; a circular type cartridge accommodating housing which is installed with respect to the X-axis conveying unit so as to be reciprocally movable in the X-axis direction by the X-axis conveying unit, a single rotation drive unit which is installed in the circular type cartridge accommodating housing and is rotated step by step at a predetermined interval or rotated at a high speed for centrifugation, a circular type cartridge which is installed at an upper surface of the circular type cartridge accommodating housing so as to be rotatably connected to the rotation drive unit and has wells disposed to be spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of a disc-shaped main body, a tip lifting uni
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: I-SENS, INC.
    Inventors: Kyungho KIM, Jae Phil DO, Jaewon JUNG, Jung Uk HA, Sang Taek SHIN, Seok-Won LEE, Yungjoon JIN, Yusung KIM
  • Publication number: 20170292968
    Abstract: Presented are a recording apparatus, a mobile terminal, an analysis apparatus, a program, and a storage medium that can detect a slight tendency toward change in step length and walking speed with high accuracy. The recording apparatus includes: a mobile terminal; and an analysis apparatus, wherein the mobile terminal includes a positioning device and a sensor, acquires position information of the mobile terminal from the positioning device, acquires, from the sensor, measurement information indicating whether a walker is walking straight on a flat, extracts position information of a case where the walker is walking straight on the flat from among pieces of the position information, on the basis of the measurement information, and calculates a walking speed and a step length of the walker, on the basis of the extracted position information, and the analysis apparatus notifies the walker of changes in walking speed and step length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kunihiro SHIINA
  • Publication number: 20170292969
    Abstract: A muzzle-mounted chronograph for measuring velocities of projectiles launched from firearms. The chronograph includes a sensor module and a controller. The sensor module includes a first and second coils and a device for applying a stable magnetic field to the first and second coils. The controller determines a velocity of a projectile passing by the first and second coils based on detected variations in magnetic fields at the first and second coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: GARET ITZ, WESTON PETERSEN, ALEX SITZMAN
  • Publication number: 20170292970
    Abstract: An acceleration sensor (1) includes a fixed portion (33), a movable portion (31) connected to the fixed portion (33), a lower electrode (11) that is disposed to face a lower surface of the movable portion (31), and an upper electrode (21) that is disposed to face an upper surface of the movable portion (31). A distance in an x-axis direction between an end portion (41) of the lower electrode (11) and the fixed portion (33) is shorter than a distance in the x-axis direction between an end portion (51) of the upper electrode (21) and the fixed portion (33). Further, a distance in the x-axis direction between an end portion (42) of the lower electrode (11) and the fixed portion (33) is shorter than a distance in the x-axis direction between an end portion (52) of the upper electrode (21) and the fixed portion (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Atsushi ISOBE, Noriyuki SAKUMA, Chisaki TAKUBO, Yuudai KAMADA, Takashi SHIOTA
  • Publication number: 20170292971
    Abstract: A controller for cantilever-based instruments, including atomic force microscopes, molecular force probe instruments, high-resolution profilometers and chemical or biological sensing probes. The controller samples the output of the photo-detector commonly used to detect cantilever deflection in these instruments with a very fast analog/digital converter (ADC). The resulting digitized representation of the output signal is then processed with field programmable gate arrays and digital signal processors without making use of analog electronics. Analog signal processing is inherently noisy while digital calculations are inherently “perfect” in that they do not add any random noise to the measured signal. Processing by field programmable gate arrays and digital signal processors maximizes the flexibility of the controller because it can be varied through programming means, without modification of the controller hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Roger Proksch, Jason Cleveland, Dan Bocek, Todd Day, Mario Viani, Clint Callahan
  • Publication number: 20170292972
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test block intended to be implanted in the circuit connecting an apparatus to be tested such as an electricity meter or a protective relay and a power source supplying the apparatus to be tested such as an intensity sensor and/or a voltage sensor. The test block comprises a base including a plurality of inner electric circuits capable of allowing the transmission of information from the power source to the apparatus to be tested and a protective cover intended to be assembled in a dismountable manner with the base in order to form a closed enclosure in which the inner electric circuits are housed. The base and the protective cover are configured such that the removal of the protective cover gives access to a receiving site delimited by the base and capable of receiving by plugging a test plug independent of the test block and electrically linked to a test equipment, in particular a voltmeter and/or an ammeter and/or a dummy current source. A test appliance is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Philippe France, Alexandre CHAILLET
  • Publication number: 20170292973
    Abstract: An electronic device testing apparatus with a locking mechanism for locking a press head and a socket plate is provided. When an electronic device is to be tested, a lifting arm is lowered so that a contact portion is in contact with the electronic device, and a locking mechanism is actuated to detain the press head on the socket plate. A pressing force generating device exerts a pressing force onto the electronic device and the socket plate, and at least a portion of a reaction force can be directed back to the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism is adapted to detain the press head on the socket plate. When the pressing force generating device generates a predetermined pressing force to certainly establish electrical connection between the electronic device and the chip socket, the reaction force produced by the chip socket may be distributed over the locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Chien-Ming CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170292974
    Abstract: Shielded probe systems are disclosed herein. The shielded probe systems are configured to test a device under test (DUT) and include an enclosure that defines an enclosure volume, a translation stage with a stage surface, a substrate-supporting stack extending from the stage surface, an electrically conductive shielding structure, an isolation structure, and a thermal shielding structure. The substrate-supporting stack includes an electrically conductive support surface and a temperature-controlled chuck. The electrically conductive shielding structure defines a shielded volume. The isolation structure electrically isolates the electrically conductive shielding structure from the enclosure and from the translation stage. The thermal shielding structure extends within the enclosure volume and at least partially between the enclosure and the substrate-supporting stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Teich, Karsten Stoll, Walter Matthias Clauss, Swen Schmiedchen
  • Publication number: 20170292975
    Abstract: There is described a test block intended to be implanted in the circuit connecting an apparatus to be tested such as an electricity meter or a protective relay and a power source supplying the apparatus to be tested such as an intensity sensor and/or a voltage sensor, the test block comprising a base including a plurality of inner electric circuits capable of allowing the transmission of information from the power source to the apparatus to be tested and a protective cover intended to be removably assembled with the base in order to form a closed enclosure in which the inner electric circuits are housed. The base and the protective cover are configured such that the removal of the protective cover gives access to a receiving site delimited by the base and capable of receiving, by plugging, a test plug independent of the test block and electrically linked to a test equipment, in particular a voltmeter and/or an ammeter and/or a dummy current source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Philippe France, Alexandre CHAILLET
  • Publication number: 20170292976
    Abstract: A test circuit includes a pull-up device, a pull-down device, a switch circuit and a voltage-setting unit. The pull-up device is used to receive a first control signal and coupled to a first end of the device-under-test. The pull-down device is used to receive a second control signal and coupled to the first end of the device-under-test. The switch unit is controlled by a switch signal, used to receive a testing signal and coupled to a second end of the device-under-test. The voltage-setting unit is controlled by a third control signal, used to pull the second end of the device-under-test to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Po-Wei Tsou
  • Publication number: 20170292977
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism for reducing noise caused by an analog to digital conversion in a test and measurement system. An adaptive linear filter is generated based on a converted digital signal and measured signal noise. The adaptive linear filter includes a randomness suppression factor for alleviating statistical errors caused by a comparison of a signal circularity coefficient and a noise circularity coefficient in the adaptive linear filter. The adaptive linear filter is applied to the digital signal along with a stomp filter and a suppression clamp filter. The digital signal may be displayed in a complex frequency domain along with depictions of the adaptive linear filter frequency response and corresponding circularity coefficients. The display may be animated to allow a user to view the signal and/or filters in the frequency domain at different times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: John J. Pickerd, Kan Tan
  • Publication number: 20170292978
    Abstract: A method for managing an assembling process of an electrical product. The electrical product at least includes a substrate with a semiconductor component mounted thereon and a power supply circuit. In the method, during assembly of the electrical product, a potential difference between two points on electric wires or signal wires electrically connected with an impedance element, which is inside the electrical product, interposed therebetween is constantly measured. Also, in the method, if a change that exceeds a predetermined threshold value, based on which electrostatic discharge noise and a normal potential range are distinguished from each other, occurs in the potential difference between the two points, measurement data on the potential difference between the two points is recorded and a mark for indicating that the electrical product was affected by electrostatic discharge is provided to the electrical product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS cORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro SUZUKI, Shinehiko Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20170292979
    Abstract: An overvoltage detection circuit coupled to an external power supply via a voltage supply line and comprising a transistor comprising first terminal coupled to the voltage supply line, second terminal coupled to the first terminal via a resistor, the second terminal coupled to a parasitic capacitor, the transistor configured to receive an overvoltage spike from the external power supply on the first terminal, and provide an output voltage on third terminal of the transistor to indicate detection of the overvoltage spike when it has a duration less than a time constant based on the resistor and the parasitic capacitor and amplitude that exceeds a threshold voltage of the transistor. The overvoltage detection circuit further comprises a monitor circuit configured to receive the output voltage from the transistor and provide a digital signal providing a notification of the detected overvoltage spike from the external power supply on the voltage supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: WILLIAM K. LAIRD, JOSEPH J. CROWFOOT
  • Publication number: 20170292980
    Abstract: A method measures a frequency characteristic at a feed axis control unit configured to drive a motor in accordance with a velocity command value to control a velocity or a position of a movable portion of a driven body. The velocity command value includes a velocity reference value from a host device or a velocity command calculator and a sweep signal swept in order to measure the frequency characteristic. The method includes moving the feed axis in one direction by commanding the velocity reference value where a moving velocity of the feed axis is constant, exciting by providing a sine wave having an amplitude less than a magnitude of the velocity reference value to the sweep signal, and measuring the frequency characteristic of a feed axis drive system including the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Okuma Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi MIYAJI, Takashi NORIHISA
  • Publication number: 20170292981
    Abstract: Remote inductive sensing uses a sensor resonator with a remote sense inductor coupled to a resonator capacitor through a shielded transmission line. The T-line includes a signal line and a shield return line: the sense inductor is connected at a T-line sensing end between the signal line and the shield return line, and the resonator capacitor is connected at a T-line terminal end to at least the signal line. An inductance-to-data converter (IDC) is connected at the T-line terminal end to the signal line and shield return line (set to a common mode voltage). In operation, the IDC drives oscillation signals over the signal line to the sensor resonator to sustain a resonance state, with the sense inductor projecting a magnetic sensing field, and converts changes in oscillation drive signals, representing changes in resonance state resulting from a sensed condition, into sensor data corresponding to the sensed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: George Pieter Reitsma, Dongtai Liu
  • Publication number: 20170292982
    Abstract: A high voltage power monitoring system includes a controller, a detector connected to the controller, and a generator connected to the detector and the controller. The generator may be configured to generate a plurality of test signals according to control signals generated via the controller. The generator may provide the test signals to the detector. The detector may be configured to provide the plurality of test signals to a test loop. The detector may be configured to simultaneously sense a first voltage, a second voltage, a first current, and a second current. The first voltage and the first current may correspond to a first test signal of the plurality of test signals. The second voltage and the second current may correspond to a returned version of the first test signal that has passed through the test loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Aceña, Youssef Ghabbour, Jose Gabriel Fernández Bañares
  • Publication number: 20170292983
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for monitoring an on-board electrical system of a vehicle having at least one distributor and a load that are connected together via a cable. In one implementation, the method includes reading in a sequence of data for a number of parameters representing information about operation of the vehicle by a driver and/or about a state of the vehicle and/or a state of the driver and/or a driving environment; classifying the data as a normal value or an error value; and evaluating the data classified as an error value or a normal value. The normal values may lie within a state space separated from the error values by a discrimination limit. Evaluating the data classified as an error value may include determining if the data classified as an error value fulfils a criterion, and evaluating the data classified as a normal value may include statistically evaluating to determine a stochastic parameter and determining if the stochastic parameter exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Wortberg
  • Publication number: 20170292984
    Abstract: A capacitor life diagnosis apparatus includes ringing detection circuitry that detects ringing of an output voltage of a power source including a capacitor at an output end, and signal generation circuitry that generates a signal indicating a life of the capacitor based on the ringing detected by the ringing detection circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakao, Yu Yonezawa, Takahiko SUGAWARA, YOSHIYASU NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170292985
    Abstract: A device for detecting a connector mounting failure includes a detection unit and a connection member that interconnects the detection unit and a connector device. The connection member includes a connection connector inserted into and seated in the connector device, and a connection line unit that interconnects the connection connector and the detection unit. The connection line unit also delivers a detection value of the connection connector to the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Bon-Seok Ku, Young-Kun Kwon, Jae-Ryong Han
  • Publication number: 20170292986
    Abstract: At least one method and system disclosed herein involves performing a time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) test and a bias temperature instability (BTI) test on a device. A device having at least one transistor and at least one dielectric layer is provided. A test signal is provided for performing a TDDB test and a BTI test on the device. The TDDB test and the BTI test are performed substantially simultaneously on the device based upon the test signal. The data relating to a breakdown of the dielectric layer and at least one characteristic of the transistor based upon the TDDB test and the BTI test is acquired, stored, and/or transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Suresh Uppal, Andreas Kerber, William McMahon
  • Publication number: 20170292987
    Abstract: An electronic device for testing of semiconductor components with test needles includes an electric power source, a plurality of test needles connected with the electric power source, a plurality of electric circuits, each one of the electric circuits connected upstream of one of the test needles, each one of the electric circuits including at least one circuit component which has low resistance in a range of electric currents and has high resistance above a given limit electric current, a control voltage source connected with each one of the electric circuits, and two DC/DC converter circuits connected between the control voltage source and the electric circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Leutschacher, Walter Slamnig
  • Publication number: 20170292988
    Abstract: A signal testing apparatus for a printed circuit board is disclosed which includes a plurality of input terminals for receiving an external testing signal, a plurality of output terminals for supplying the printed circuit board with the external testing signal, a plurality of switches arranged between the plurality of input terminals and the plurality of output terminals for controllably coupling the plurality of input terminals to the plurality of output terminals, an ammeter for measuring a magnitude of a current on a first path provided by the coupling of the plurality of switches, and a voltmeter for measuring a magnitude of a voltage on a second path provided by the coupling of the plurality of switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Chunxi Hai, Runcong Ge, Lingxiao Hou
  • Publication number: 20170292989
    Abstract: A deterioration detection device for a printed circuit board includes a monitoring conductor and a voltage supply conductor for supplying voltage/current arranged on the printed circuit board with an arbitrary clearance. A voltage Vx is applied to the voltage supply conductor at a plurality of points. A voltage (0 V) lower than the voltage Vx for the voltage supply conductor is applied to the monitoring conductor through a resistor. An amplifier circuit amplifies a voltage Vy for the monitoring conductor and outputs an output voltage Vout. If the printed circuit board is deteriorated and an insulation resistance Ry between the monitoring conductor and the voltage supply conductor is reduced, the output voltage Vout increases, so that deterioration of the printed circuit board can be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Yukio SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170292990
    Abstract: A power supply includes a first and second electric storage sections, a first sensor detecting a first current of charge/discharge of the first storage section, a second sensor detecting a second current of the charge/discharge of the second storage section, and a circuit module having a control section to determine a state of the first sensor, the second sensor, and/or a third sensor detecting a third current of a driving section by comparing a first current with a third current in a charge/discharge between the first storage section and the driving section, and/or a second current with the third current in a charge/discharge between the second storage section and the driving section, and by comparing the first current with the second current and the first current with the third current in the discharge of the first storage section to the second storage section and the driving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMURA, Hajime FUJITA, Hirokazu OGUMA
  • Publication number: 20170292991
    Abstract: A circuit test structure includes: a chip including a conductive line which traces a perimeter of the chip; an interposer electrically connected to the chip; and a Kelvin test structure including: at least three electrical connections to the conductive line; and a testing site. The Kelvin test structure is configured to electrically connect the testing site to the conductive line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ching-Fang CHEN, Hsiang-Tai LU, Chih-Hsien LIN
  • Publication number: 20170292992
    Abstract: Semiconductor tests that use an interposer, and associated systems and methods. In one embodiment, an apparatus for testing semiconductor dies includes a wafer translator having a wafer-side positioned to face toward a device under test, and an inquiry-side facing away from the wafer side. A wafer translator chuck is configured to carry the wafer translator and the wafer-side of the wafer translator in a curved orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher T. Lane, Douglas A. Preston
  • Publication number: 20170292993
    Abstract: A multi-bit flip-flop includes: a single scan input pin to receive a scan input signal, a plurality of data input pins to receive first and second data input signals, a first scan flip-flop to select one of the scan input signal and the first data input signal as a first selection signal in response to a scan enable signal and to latch the first selection signal to provide a first output signal, a second scan flip-flop to select one of an internal signal corresponding to the first output signal and the second data input signal as a second selection signal in response to the scan enable signal and to latch the second selection signal to provide a second output signal, and a plurality of output pins to output the first and second output signals, wherein scan paths of the first and second scan flip-flops are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: DOO-SEOK YOON, MIN-SU KIM, CHUNG-HEE KIM, DAE-SEONG LEE, HYUN LEE, MATTHEW BERZINS, JAMES LIM
  • Publication number: 20170292994
    Abstract: This disclosure describes different ways to improve the operation of a device's 1149.1 TAP to where the TAP can perform at-speed Update & Capture, Shift & Capture and Back to Back Capture & Shift operations. In a first embodiment of the disclosure the at-speed operations are achieved by time division multiplexing CMD signals onto the TMS input to the TAP. The CMD signals are input to a CMD circuit that operates in conjunction with a Dual Port Router to execute the at-speed operations of a circuit. In a second embodiment of the disclosure the at-speed operations are achieved by detecting the TAP's Exit1DR state as a CMD signal that is input to the CMD circuit that operates in conjunction with a Dual Port Router to execute the at-speed operations of a circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel
  • Publication number: 20170292995
    Abstract: Multi-bit data flip-flops are disclosed that provide bit initialization through propagation of scan bits. Input multiplexers are configured to select between input data bits and input scan bits based upon mode select signals. Master latches receive and latch outputs from the input multiplexers. Slave latches receive and latch outputs from the master latches and also provide propagated input scan bits to the input multiplexers. A first state for the mode select signals selects the input data bits for a data mode of operation, and a second state for the mode select signals selects the input scan bits for a scan mode of operation. Further, the input multiplexers, master latches, and slave latches are configured to operate in an initialization mode to pass a fixed input scan bit through the multi-bit data flip-flop based upon initialization signals (e.g., set and/or reset signals).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Mikhail Yurievich Semenov, Alexander Ivanovich Kornilov, Victor Mikhailovich Mikhailov, Denis Borisovich Malashevich, Viacheslav Sergeyevich Kalashnikov
  • Publication number: 20170292996
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a system having: at least one computing device configured to monitor a dynamoelectric machine having a rotor including an exciter electrically coupled with a field winding, by performing actions including: obtaining measured data indicating a resistance of the field winding at a plurality of rotor angular positions while the rotor is rotating at a speed below one-hundred revolutions per minute; comparing the measured data indicating the resistance of the field winding at the plurality of rotor angular positions with a threshold resistance range; and indicating a potential fault in the field winding in response to determining the measured data indicating the resistance deviates from the threshold resistance range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Sreedhar Desabhatla, James Jonathan Grant
  • Publication number: 20170292997
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting voltage of a battery pack. The system comprises a level transfer circuit array, a multipath data selector, a decoder, a trimming calibration circuit, and an output buffer. The decoder is configured to parse a battery pack cell gating signal; the level transfer circuit array is configured to convert a gated battery pack cell voltage into a common grounded voltage; the multipath data selector is configured to transmit the common grounded voltage, which is converted by the level transfer circuit array, of a battery pack cell to the trimming calibration circuit; the trimming calibration circuit is configured to correct the received common grounded voltage of the battery pack cell; and the output buffer is configured to buffer the common grounded voltage, which is trimmed and calibrated by the trimming calibration circuit, of the battery pack cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: CHINA RESOURCES POWTECH (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YONG YOU, BINGYIN LUO, GUOCHENG LI, JIANMIN LI, LINHAI XU, LEI ZHANG, HUIYUANG REN, YUJIE WANG, JIN LI
  • Publication number: 20170292998
    Abstract: Various embodiments determine a remaining battery capacity of a battery in an energy storage battery support system. In one embodiment, a battery is operated at a state of charge which may include being charged, being discharged, and being idle. A change in the state of charge is detected after a duration of time. The amount of remaining battery capacity is calculated based upon the duration of time and the state of charge of the battery during the duration of time. The operating, detecting and calculating are repeated until the amount of remaining battery capacity reaches a predetermined value. The remaining battery capacity after the duration of time is calculated using the battery capacity at the beginning of the duration of time. The battery may be used as an energy source in an electric power distribution grid. The battery is replaced when the remaining battery capacity reaches an end-of-useful-life value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Rachana VIDHI, Carlos ALVES
  • Publication number: 20170292999
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a transformer monitoring system that has a transformer monitoring device that reads a measurement on at least one node of a transformer. Additionally, the system has a processor that analyzes the measurement and compares the measurement to a threshold value. In addition, the processor transmits an alert to utility personnel if the comparison indicates that the system is not operating properly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Randall Turner, Michael Vandenberg, Joseph Beaudet, Qi Fan Lu
  • Publication number: 20170293000
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for testing a luminaire based on USB. The apparatus for testing a luminaire based on USB includes a power measurement unit for measuring power consumption by measuring power input from a host system to a luminaire based on USB; a message interpretation unit for generating a result of interpretation of a message based on a USB-based control message sent and received between the host system and the luminaire; an illuminance reception unit for receiving a result of measurement of illuminance of the luminaire, measured by a light reception device; and an information generation unit for generating test result information based on a result of the measurement of the power consumption, the result of the interpretation of the message, and the result of the measurement of the illuminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: You-Jin KIM, Hyun-Seok KIM, Tae-Gyu KANG, Dae-Ho KIM, Seong-Hee PARK, Jung-Sik SUNG, Ji-Hun JEON
  • Publication number: 20170293001
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor for sensing an external magnetic field along a sensing direction oriented perpendicular to a plane of the magnetic field sensor comprises a sensor bridge. The sensor bridge has a first sensor leg that includes a first magnetoresistive sense element and a second sensor leg that includes a second magnetoresistive sense element. The first and second sense elements include respective first and second pinned layers having corresponding first and second reference magnetizations within the plane and oriented in the same direction. The first and second sense elements further include respective first and second sense layers, each having an indeterminate magnetization state. A permanent magnet layer is proximate the magnetoresistive sense elements. In the absence of an external magnetic field, the permanent magnet layer magnetically biases the indeterminate magnetization state of each sense layer to produce a sense magnetization of the first and second sense layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Paige M. Holm, Lianjun Liu
  • Publication number: 20170293002
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus installed in a shield room comprises a gantry, a table, and at least one unit. The gantry includes a static magnetic field magnet, a gradient magnetic field coil, and an RF coil. The subject is to be placed on the table. The at least one unit relates to control of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and is configured to include at least one opening on a upper surface on for maintenance and inspection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SOEJIMA, Naoki IMAMURA, Naho IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170293003
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a chip are provided for improving RF system performance in MRI systems. The apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) coil array disposed at least partially in a coil housing, where the RF coil array may include at least one coil configured to receive magnetic resonance (MR) RF signals. The apparatus also includes a mixer disposed in the coil housing and electronically connected to the RF coil array, where the mixer converts MR RF signals from the RF coil array to intermediate-frequency (IF) signals. An electronic amplifier is disposed in the coil housing. The electronic amplifier is electronically connected to the mixer and is configured to amplify IF signals from the mixer to amplified IF signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Twieg, Mark A. Griswold, Soumyajit Mandal
  • Publication number: 20170293004
    Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for determining a shim setting in order to increase a homogeneity of the basic magnetic field of the scanner of the apparatus by operating a shim element, information is obtained concerning the dependence of an induced field of the shim element on a set shim setting. A first field map is recorded and a first shim setting for the shim element is determined based on the first field map. A second field map is recorded while the shim element is driven with the first shim setting. A field induced by the shim element by the first shim setting is determined based on the first field map and the second field map. A second shim setting for the shim element is determined based on the determined induced field and the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Ladebeck, Daniel Niederloehner, Johann Sukkau
  • Publication number: 20170293005
    Abstract: A delta-relaxation magnetic resonance imaging (DREMR) system is provided. The system includes a main field magnet and field shifting coils. A main magnetic field with a strength B0 can be generated using the main filed magnet and the strength B0 of the main magnetic field can be varied through the use of the field-shifting coils. The DREMR system can be used to perform signal acquisition based on a pulse sequence for acquiring at least one of T2*-weighted signals imaging; MR spectroscopy signals; saturation imaging signals and MR signals for fingerprinting. The MR signal acquisition can be augmented by varying the strength B0 of the main magnetic field for at least a portion of the pulse sequence used to acquire the MR signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Gyles PANTHER, Cameron Anthony PIRON, Jeff Alan STAINSBY, Chad Tyler HARRIS
  • Publication number: 20170293006
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a MRI apparatus includes an RF coil apparatus receiving MR signals by coil elements corresponding to channels, modurating the MR signals to have different frequencies for each of the channels, and outputting an analog multiplexed signal in which the MR signals with different frequencies are composited over the channels, and a receiver including ADC circuitry converting the analog multiplexed signal to a digital multiplexed signal, and predetermined number of separation channels separating the digital multiplexed signal, based on the number of the channels relating to composition of the MR signals with the different frequencies. The receiver stops a separation process of the digital multiplexed signal for separation channels not used in the separation process among the predetermined number of separation channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SOEJIMA, Kazuya OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170293007
    Abstract: NMR analyzers and associated methods, circuits and computer program products that allow NMR operation in fluctuating ambient temperature environments of at least +/?5 degrees F. in a relatively large operating temperature range, typically between about 60-85 degrees F.) with the ability to still generate accurate quantitative measurements using an electronically applied temperature sensitivity adjustment based on an a priori model of temperature sensitivity and a detected temperature proximate the NMR signal acquisition (e.g., scan). The clinical NMR analyzers can be remotely accessed to evaluate linearity and temperature compensation adjustments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: LipoScience, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Morgan, Elias J. Jeyarajah