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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7684899 | Process controller having improved surge capacity control and related methodology A method and related non-linear level controller (NLLC) for controlling surge capacity in a processing system including at least one vessel receiving an inlet flow of a fluid including a liquid subject to variation and supplying an outlet flow to at least one downst... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7653269 | Quasi PM fused coupler devices and methods for forming the same A quasi-PM fused optical coupler device and method for forming the same. The optical coupler device includes a first polarization maintaining (PM) input section providing a first PM input for the fused optical coupler device for receiving a linearly polarized signal... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7651766 | Carbon nanotube reinforced metal composites A carbon nanotube reinforced metal nanocomposite material includes a continuous metal phase, and a plurality of carbon nanotubes dispersed in the continuous metal phase. The metal phase extends throughout substantially an entire thickness of the nanocomposite materi... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647842 | Pressure-based fluid flow sensor A volumetric fluid flow sensor (100) includes a flow channel (120) for flowing a fluid therein; and a diaphragm (110) having an outer surface within the flow channel (120). The diaphragm (110) includes at least one flow disrupting ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647833 | Filled dielectric on metal pressure sensor A pressure sensing apparatus (1) includes an elastically deformable pressure-sensitive diaphragm assembly (13) having a pressure-sensitive metal or metal alloy diaphragm (14). A functional filled dielectric layer (25) is on the diaphragm ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7642768 | Current sensor having field screening arrangement including electrical conductors sandwiching magnetic permeability layer A current sensor includes a magnetic field sensing element, a first conductor including sandwich structure and second conductor including sandwich structure electrically coupled to one another. The magnetic field sensing element is interposed between the first and s... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639206 | Low-profile frequency selective surface based device and methods of making the same A frequency selective surface-based (FSS-based) device (200) for processing electromagnetic waves providing at least a third-order response. The FSS-based device includes a first FSS (202), a second FSS (210), and a high quality factor (Q) FSS (... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7632701 | Thin film solar cells by selenization sulfurization using diethyl selenium as a selenium precursor A method of forming a CIGSS absorber layer includes the steps of providing a metal precursor, and selenizing the metal precursor using diethyl selenium to form a selenized metal precursor layer (CIGSS absorber layer). A high efficiency solar cell includes a CIGSS ab... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7629569 | Elliptical polarizers, tags and identification systems using frequency selective surfaces An optical combination includes a substrate, a linear polarizer on the substrate, and a first frequency selective surface (FSS) based elliptical polarization filter on the linear polarizer. The first FSS comprises at least one periodic pattern of spaced apart electr... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623071 | Sub-millimeter and infrared reflectarray An integrated sub-millimeter and infrared reflectarray includes a reflective surface, a dielectric layer disposed on the reflective surface, and a subwavelength element array and a subwavelength element array electromagnetically coupled to the reflective surface. Th... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7612553 | Current sensor having sandwiched magnetic permeability layer A current sensor includes a support structure (12), a magnetic field sensor (11) positioned on the support structure, a primary conductor comprising sandwich (13) including an electrically conducting top layer (13a) and electricall... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609366 | Material measurement system for obtaining coincident properties and related method A material measurement system (500) includes a THz generator including at least one laser source (111) for emitting optical pulses, the optical pulses coupled to a THz emitter (51) operable for emitting pulsed THz radiation at a sample location ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7595763 | Wireless device having movable antenna assembly and system and method for process monitoring A wireless device (150) and related method of monitoring or controlling a process includes a housing (200) having a mounting structure (300) for rigidly connecting the wireless device with respect to a solid surface, such as within a processing ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7580609 | Fiber intensity reducing devices and related systems A fiber intensity reducer comprises a guided system fiber including a core and an outer cladding layer, an unguided fiber intensity reducing (FIR) section including a first fiber “end cap fiber” having a first end and a second end attached at its first end to th... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7578992 | Catalytic dehydrogenation of amine borane complexes A method of generating hydrogen includes the steps of providing an amine borane (AB) complex, at least one hydrogen generation catalyst, and a solvent, and mixing these components Hydrogen is generated. The hydrogen produced is high purity hydrogen suitable for PEM ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7572512 | Sol-Gel composite AR coating for IR applications An infrared transmissive article includes an infrared transmissive substrate and a single layer anti-reflective (AR) composite broadband sol gel coating on a surface of the substrate. The AR coating includes a first chalcogenide including compound, and a second chal... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7542495 | Corrosion resistant cooled acousto-optic devices A corrosion resistant fluid cooled acousto-optic (AO) device includes an AO interaction medium and a piezoelectric transducer affixed to the AO medium. A cooling arrangement is thermally coupled to the AO medium and includes a first material, and at least one coolin... | 06/02/2009 |
| D592213 | Wireless communications device | 05/12/2009 |
| D587268 | Wireless communications device | 02/24/2009 |
| D586810 | Wireless communications device | 02/17/2009 |
| 7405512 | Acoustic transducers having localized ferroelectric domain inverted regions An acoustic transducer comprises a ferroelectric crystal having a plurality of spaced apart ferroelectric domain inverted regions and at least one non-inverted region. An electrode layer is disposed on one side of the crystal electrically contacting both the domain ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7385749 | Silicon acousto-optic modulator An acousto-optic modulator includes a (100), (010) or (001) single crystal silicon acousto-optic interaction medium, and at least one transducer for emitting an acoustic wave attached to the single crystal. The transducer has a first electrode layer disposed on one ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7283290 | Acousto-optic devices having highly apodized acoustic fields and methods of forming the same An acousto-optic (AO) device for generating a highly apodized acoustic wave field includes a piezoelectric transducer crystal for emitting an acoustic wave having a ground electrode disposed on one side of the piezoelectric crystal, and a patterned electrode layer d... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7261852 | Transparent electrodes from single wall carbon nanotubes A method of forming optically transparent and electrically conductive SWNT films includes the steps of providing a porous membrane and dispersing a plurality of SWNTs into a solution, the solution including at least one surface stabilizing agent for preventing the S... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260103 | Mode-dependent, multiple bias-driven battery switch for subscriber line interface circuit A mode-dependent, battery-coupling switch for a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) selectively adjusts its current requirements to provide optimal current handling capability irrespective of the mode of operation of the SLIC. Where current demands of the SLIC ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259473 | Method of controlling parallel diverse conversion paths in DC-to-DC power converter A DC-DC converter has a plurality of diverse type DC-DC converter channels whose outputs are combined to provide a composite DC power output to a load. One of the channels is a high efficiency power path that supplies the average current demand of the load. A second... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258731 | Composite, nanostructured, super-hydrophobic material A hydrophobic disordered composite material having a protrusive surface feature includes a recessive phase and a protrusive phase, the recessive phase having a higher susceptibility to a preselected etchant than the protrusive phase, the composite material having an... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260214 | Programmable subscriber line circuit partitioned into high voltage interface and digital control subsections A subscriber line interface circuit has a battery-powered, high voltage analog section, that drives tip and ring lines of a subscriber loop, and a mixed signal (low voltage and digital signal processing) section, that monitors and controls the high voltage analog se... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248043 | Method and apparatus for eddy current-based quality inspection of dry electrode structure A system for non-destructive non-contact quality inspection of dry electrode units of energy storage includes an eddy current-based inspection system having a conveyor belt, and a hollow dielectric shell. An outer surface of the shell has a plurality of spaced apart... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7235955 | Method and apparatus for preventing boosting system bus when charging a battery A controllably alternating buck mode DC-DC converter conducts cycle by cycle analysis of the direction of inductor current flow to decide whether to operate in synchronous buck mode or standard buck mode for the next successive cycle. For each cycle of the PWM wavef... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7220936 | Pulse thermal processing of functional materials using directed plasma arc A method of thermally processing a material includes exposing the material to at least one pulse of infrared light emitted from a directed plasma arc to thermally process the material, the pulse having a duration of no more than 10 s. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218772 | Method for non-referential defect characterization using fractal encoding and active contours A method for identification of anomalous structures, such as defects, includes the steps of providing a digital image and applying fractal encoding to identify a location of at least one anomalous portion of the image. The method does not require a reference image t... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215102 | Semi-clockless, cascaded, current-mode power regulator having high noise immunity and arbitrary phase count A semi-clockless, cascaded, current-mode regulator has a first regulator that receives a clock signal from a controller. By ‘semi-clockless’ is meant that a clock signal is applied to the first of a cascaded plurality of regulators, and that as a result of the c... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211346 | Corrosion resistant metallic bipolar plate A corrosion resistant, electrically conductive component such as a bipolar plate for a PEM fuel cell includes 20–55% Cr, balance base metal such as Ni, Fe, or Co, the component having thereon a substantially external, continuous layer of chromium nitride. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212641 | Electromechanical acoustic liner A multi-resonator-based system responsive to acoustic waves includes at least two resonators, each including a bottom plate, side walls secured to the bottom plate, and a top plate disposed on top of the side walls. The top plate includes an orifice so that a portio... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207983 | System and method for real-time feedback of ablation rate during laser refractive surgery A laser-based refractive surgery system includes a laser source including a laser controller, wherein at least a portion of the incident beam is directed to target eye tissue of a patient. The incident beam portion produces a reflected beam after striking the eye ti... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206343 | High resolution digital pulse width modulator for DC-DC voltage converter A digitally-implemented pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator forms the PWM pulse width as a rational number based on full cycles of a PWM reference clock, and offers a very high effective resolution of the PWM pulse signal that is compatible with multiphase... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206405 | Enhanced high voltage interface for partitioned subscriber line interface circuit A subscriber line interface circuit contains a high voltage analog section, and a low voltage and digital signal processing section, that monitors and controls the high voltage analog section. The high voltage analog section includes a dual mode tip/ring amplifier u... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199558 | AC-DC adapter interface and battery charger having high speed battery charger current foldback when adapter current demand exceeds prescribed limit Using an overcurrent detector and one-shot, an AC-DC adapter interface and battery charging circuit is operative, in response to the total current being drawn from an AC-DC adapter exceeding a prescribed limit, to immediately reduce (e.g., interrupt) the supply of b... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192567 | Precursor soot synthesis of fullerenes and nanotubes without formation of carbonaceous soot The present invention is a method for the synthesis of fullerenes and/or nanotubes from precursor soot without the formation of carbonaceous soot. The method comprises the pyrolysis of a hydrocarbon fuel source by heating the fuel source at a sufficient temperature ... | 03/20/2007 |
