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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7905025 | Stud marking device A stud marking device for easily and quickly marking locations of studs. The stud marking device includes a handle having a tubular base member having a pair of prong-like members extending outwardly from a bottom thereof, and further having three telescopic members... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7645938 | Wiring harness fastening device for electric supply line of sliding door and electric supply system utilizing the same The present invention is to prevent twisting of a wiring harness when it is assembled to a vehicle. A wiring harness fastening device for an electric supply line of a sliding door includes a rotational portion having a spherical shape for fastening the wiring harnes... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7633295 | Magnetic resonance stage microscope A magnetic resonance (MR) microscope and a dual-mode optic and MR microscope system are disclosed. The MR microscope is provided with a horizontal stage above which a sample to be analyzed is located, a radiofrequency coil assembly located above the horizontal stage... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7622932 | Measuring apparatus, and detection device A measuring apparatus that measures a characteristic of a device under measurement is provided. The measuring apparatus includes: a signal generating section that outputs a forward signal to the device under measurement through a device side terminal; a directional ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7609071 | Human phantom apparatus, finger phantom apparatus, and apparatus for measuring characteristic of antenna using the same phantom apparatus A human phantom apparatus is provided with a body section, a head section connected with the body section, at least one shoulder section connected with the body section, and an arm section including a hand section, the arm section connected with the shoulder section... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7605579 | Measuring and controlling current consumption and output current of charge pumps The present invention is a method and apparatus for regulating current consumption and output current of a charge pump. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a first current coming into the charge pump and a second current coming into a driver of a... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7601913 | Wire harness fixing device A wire harness fixing device designed to enable convenient installation thereof within an inner liner of a refrigerator while effectively preventing leakage of a foam insulation material filled between the inner liner and an outer liner of the refrigerator. The wire... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7578192 | System and method for monitoring operation of a press assembly A system and method for monitoring operation of a press assembly includes establishing a baseline vibration level for a first location on the press assembly. The baseline vibration level defines a boundary for vibrations beyond which one or more press elements have ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7564248 | Method and apparatus for monitoring fuel cells Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring a coolant conductivity of a fuel cell supplying power via positive and negative buses. The method includes measuring a first voltage of the positive bus, measuring a second voltage of the negative bus, applying a res... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7557590 | Capacitance detection circuit and capacitance detection method A capacitance detection circuit containing an input protection circuit and having high sensitivity is provided. A capacitance detection circuit for detecting the capacitance of a capacitive sensor, comprising a buffer amplifier connected to the capacitive sensor via... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7550980 | System and method for characterizing a load at the end of a cable Apparatus within power sourcing equipment and a method for determining whether a load within a powered device coupled to the power sourcing equipment via a cable is within an acceptable resistance range. If the load is within the acceptable resistance range, a volta... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548053 | Wide-band antenna coupled spectrometer using CMOS transistor To create a broad band spectrometer, a plurality of individual antenna based bolometers are fabricated on the surface of a single spectrometer chip, each bolometer having an individual antenna which is sized differently from all others, thus being responsive to a ge... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7535236 | Method of measuring thickness of thin film using microwave The present invention relates to a thickness measurement method for thin films using microwaves. In the method, the Q-factors of a dielectric resonator are measured. The effective surface resistance (RSeff) of a superconductor or a conductor fi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7525319 | Method and apparatus to electrically qualify high speed PCB connectors A method of electrically qualifying high speed printed circuit board (PCB) connectors includes mounting a PCB connector on a test card, sending bit patterns through a first portion of the test card, evaluating a waveform on a sense signal on a second portion of the ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525317 | Real-time multi-point ground resistance monitoring device A real-time multi-point ground resistance monitoring device is provided herein to simultaneously monitor ground resistances of different work stations. The present invention mainly contains a number of monitoring ports connected to multiple test ground points in par... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525323 | Method for measuring permeability of a ferromagnetic material in an integrated circuit A method for determining consistency of a permeability of a ferromagnetic material in integrated circuits in which a test strip of the subject ferromagnetic material is included for testing with an impedance measurement instrument, such as an inductance-capacitance-... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7521945 | Oil monitoring system An embodiment of the present invention provides for a sensing element comprising a non-conductive housing with three chambers for detecting oil conductivity, additive depletion and oxidation, and water contamination, respectively. Through the monitoring of an array ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7518382 | Miniature sensor chip, especially for finger print sensors A sensor chip for measuring of structures in a finger surface includes an electronic chip provided with a number of sensor electrodes for capacitance measurements. The chip further includes a first layer comprising a metal or another electrically conducting material... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518362 | Magnetic resonance apparatus utilizing time-varying rate of magnetic resonant frequency The present invention provides a magnetic resonance imaging system capable of performing spectrum measurement even when a magnetic resonant frequency changes during MRS measurement. A time-varying rate of a water magnetic resonant frequency is measured in advance be... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7514935 | System and method for managing power supplied to a plasma chamber A system and method for managing power delivered to a processing chamber is described. In one embodiment power is delivered to the processing chamber with a power cable, the power cable storing energy and including a first and second conductors, the first conductor ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511494 | Method for measuring the microarchitecture of complex tissue with MRI A diffusion-weighted MRI pulse sequence employs a two-dimensional diffusion weighting gradient that is sensitive to spin diffusion in a plane defined by two orthogonal gradients to acquire an image. The resulting magnitude image indicates the location of neuronal fi... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511510 | Nanoscale fault isolation and measurement system Disclosed is a fault isolation and measurement system that provides multiple near-field scanning isolation techniques on a common platform. The system incorporates the use of a specialized holder to supply electrical bias to internal circuit structures located withi... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511511 | Specific absorption rate measuring system, and a method thereof A biological tissue equivalent phantom unit to be used by the specific absorption rate measuring system for evaluating absorption of electromagnetic wave energy includes a biological tissue equivalent phantom for absorbing an electromagnetic wave. In addition, two o... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511489 | MRT imaging on the basis of conventional PPA reconstruction methods In a method for magnetic resonance imaging on the basis of a partially-parallel acquisition (PPA) reconstruction method and a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, data for at least two two-dimensional slices of a patient are acquired (which two-dimensional slice... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508224 | Method for measuring stability margin at a node of a polyphase power grid A method for measuring a stability margin at a node of a polyphase power grid injects suppressed-carrier stimulus into a node of the power grid by low-level amplitude modulation of the output voltage of a pre-exiting generator connected to the node. Response signals... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508220 | Detection assembly and lithographic projection apparatus provided with such a detection assembly An assembly for capacitively detecting an object on a support structure includes at least one electrode being arranged in the vicinity of the support structure, and at least one cable being connected to the at least one electrode. The at least one cable has a first ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7504836 | Device for measuring the quality and/or degradation of a fluid, particularly a food oil The invention relates to a device for measuring the quality and/or degradation of a fluid, especially an oil, comprising a sensor consisting of at least one pair of electrodes which are distanced from each other. Said sensor is immersed in the fluid which is to be m... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501830 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for detecting an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system Method, apparatus and computer-readable code are provided for detecting a location of an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system. The apparatus may include a sensor configured to sense a respective ground leakage signal associated with a ground of ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501826 | Dividing wall separating the RF antenna from the patient chamber in an MR scanner A dividing wall made from at least one first wall material for delimitation of a patient positioning region from an antenna structure of a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has at least one region at which a specific sub-structure of the antenna structure is l... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501807 | Spectrum analyzer having a resolution filter that can be adjusted via phase-variation parameter A spectrum analyzer is described which comprises a mixer for mixing the conjugate complex input signal v*(t) into a base band signal x(t), and a resolution filter for narrow-band filtering the base band signal. The resolution filter has a complex, discrete impulse r... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501833 | Evanescent microwave microscopy probe and methodology The present invention generally relates to an evanescent microwave spectroscopy probe and methods for making and using the same. Some embodiments relate to a probe in electrical communication with sapphire tuning capacitors that are arranged in parallel. Some embodi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501834 | Voice coil actuator with embedded capacitive sensor for motion, position and/or acceleration detection A voice coil actuator having a capacitive sensor. A magnetic housing contains at least one magnet, and has a wall that defines a first cavity. A magnetic core is coupled to the magnetic housing and extend from an interior surface of the magnetic housing in a directi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501836 | Apparatus and method for determining capacitance variation in an integrated circuit An apparatus for determining capacitance variation in an integrated circuit, includes at least two capacitances, a stimulus provided to the at least two capacitances, and a first logic element coupled to the stimulus and the at least two capacitances, the first logi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501821 | Method for determination of the transverse relaxation time T2* in MR data In a method for determination of the transverse relaxation time T2* in MR data, the T2* relaxation is detected in a measurement volume and the transverse relaxation time is determined from the time curve of the magnetization in the measurement volume. In order to be... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7498820 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for detecting an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for detecting an incipient ground fault. The apparatus includes a sensor for sensing a ground leakage signal. The apparatus further includes a correlator that receives the ground leakage signal, and at least one signal in... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498809 | Magnetic resonance imaging device with multiple RF coils applying half-pulse waveforms for selective excitation of a local region An MRI apparatus suitable for realizing selective excitation utilizing multiple RF transmitting coils (parallel transmission) is provided. This MRI apparatus is provided with, as an RF receiving coil or RF transmitting coil, an RF transmitting coil 104 compri... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498819 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for detecting an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system Method, apparatus and computer-readable code are provided for detecting a location of an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system. The apparatus may include a sensor configured to sense a respective ground leakage signal associated with a ground of ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495436 | Rock properties prediction, categorization, and recognition from NMR echo-trains using linear and nonlinear regression A partial least squares (PLS) regression relates spin echo signals with samples having a known parameter such as bound water (BW), clay bound water (CBW), bound volume irreducible (BVI), porosity (PHI) and effective porosity (PHE). The regression defines a predictiv... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495437 | Method for MRT imaging on the basis of conventional PPA reconstruction methods In a method and apparatus for generating a magnetic resonance image of a contiguous region of a human body on the basis of partial parallel acquisition (PPA) by excitation of nuclear spins and measurement of radio-frequency signals indicating the excited spins, the ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495428 | Pulse generator, timing generator, and pulse width adjusting method The present invention provides, a pulse generator, which is configured so as to generate pulses with a predetermined pulse width, comprises: multiple pulsers each of which is configured so as to adjust the pulse width of input pulses, and so as to output pulses with... | 02/24/2009 |
