258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-324.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 324 Electricity: measuring and testing. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:41 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120041709/description.html

Application Number:  20120041709

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  ENGLERT, Walter

A method for deciding whether a movable object has been brought through a goal having a goal area defined by the goal, an internal magnetic field being measurable, within the goal area or in parallel with the goal area, which is larger than an external magnetic field present outside the goal area, the method including a step of generating the internal magnetic field within the goal, a step of providing information about a magnetic field experienced by the movable object, and a step of ...
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Application Number:  20120041681

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Dufour, Yann; Veneruso, Anthony Frank; Chouzenoux, Christian; Teixeira, Jose

A sensor for measuring water fraction in a fluid mixture flowing in a conductive tubing within a borehole. The sensor comprises: an active probe, a reference probe, and an electronic unit. The active probe includes a first electrode and a second electrode isolated from each other by a first insulating layer, the first and second electrodes are preferably in contact with the fluid mixture. The reference probe is formed from an internal wall of the conductive tubing contacting the fluid mixture ...
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Application Number:  20120041298

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Mersky, Barry L.

A method and system of aligning antennas of an intra-oral and extra-oral electronic wireless device is provided. Three-dimensional anatomical data of at least a portion of an oral cavity of a subject and at least a portion of an external ear of the subject is recorded. A spatial relationship between a landmark in the oral cavity and a landmark in the external ear is determined. A first antenna is modeled based upon the anatomical data of the oral cavity, and a second antenna is modeled based ...
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Application Number:  20120041297

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  McGary, John E.

A system for detecting a position and/or orientation of a magnetic dipole includes a first detector and a second detector, separate and spaced apart from the first detector. Each of the detectors includes three or more magnetic field sensors to detect a magnetic field generated by the magnetic dipole. The system has applications, for example, in image-guided surgery and/or ...
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Application Number:  20120040838

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Marabotto, Roberto; DAMIANI, Daniele; Laurenti, Adamo; Perrella-Segre, Mauro

A coil comprises a set of windings with a generally annular shape and formed by a plurality of series-connected partial windings made of a superconductor with a high critical temperature, in which these partial windings are arranged next to each other in stratified form, and at least one cooling sheet which is made of thermally conductive material and arranged in contact with this set of windings and which is designed to be connected in a thermally conductive manner to a cryogenic cooling ...
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Application Number:  20120040304

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Swartz, Harold M.; Gui, Jiang; He, Xiaoming; Leniewski, Piotr; Flores, Roberto J. Nicolalde; Williams, Benjamin B.; Wilcox, Dean E.

An apparatus and method for triaging patients according to radiation exposure operates by measuring electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of fingernails, toenails, and/or teeth. When operating in vivo, radiation induced spectra are obtained from intact fingernails, toenails, or teeth placed within a magnet and with pickup coils located over nails between the cut edge at the end of the fingernail and skin proximal to the nail or placed adjacent to at least one tooth. When operating in vitro ...
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Application Number:  20120038377

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Singh, Prabjit; Hamann, Hendrik F.; Klein, Levente L.; Schappert, Michael A.

Corrosion sensor apparatus are disclosed for detection of contamination affecting metal based components and devices. For example, an apparatus comprises: a set of corrosion sensor elements comprising a first corrosion sensor element and at least a second corrosion element, each corrosion sensor element being coupled between a source and a monitor, wherein a width of the first corrosion sensor element is different than a width of the second corrosion sensor element, wherein each corrosion ...
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Application Number:  20120038376

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Shukla, Pavan K.; Mintz, Todd S.; Dasgupta, Biswajit; Fisher, Jay L.; Pensado-Rodriguez, Osvaldo

A system and associated methods for acquiring and analyzing LEIS data from a buried structure, such as a pipeline. A special probe having adjustable electrodes is placed in the soil above the structure. A voltage is applied to the structure, causing more current to emanate from a coating defect than from intact coating. The probe electrodes acquire a response signal, which is analyzed to detect the ...
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Application Number:  20120038375

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kristiansen, Kjeld; Madsen, Allan H.

Equipment for indicating a bed-wetting in a bed comprising a bed-wetter sheet and a measuring- and control system. A measuring circuit is furnished to test whether the electrode in the bed-wetter sheet are intact, and afterwards to measure the conductivity in the normal state between the two from each other electrically isolated electrodes whereby the conductivity between the two electrodes will fall drastically by a bed-wetting, human fluids containing salt being spread on the sheet, and ...
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Application Number:  20120038374

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Johnson, Timothy M.

A component carrier has formed therein a water sensor, having a first patterned conductor piece formed in a metal layer of the component carrier and a bridge being an amount of water-soluble conductive glue filling an electrically insulating gap between the patterned conductor piece and another conductor in the carrier. This forms a conductive path between the patterned conductor piece and the another conductor. A sensing circuit is coupled to detect changes in impedance of the path. In another ...
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Application Number:  20120038373

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kobayashi, Noriyuki; Kume, Hideaki; Ikeda, Kotaro; Kusakari, Toshiaki; Ikogi, Yoshihiro; Hasegawa, Hikaru

A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an impedance measuring instrument, and a control device. The control device is connected to the impedance measuring instrument. The impedance measuring instrument measures the impedance of the fuel cell according to the AC impedance method. The control device stores in advance a reference value corresponding to a reference hydrogen concentration. The control device compares the real part Z′ of impedance acquired via the impedance measuring instrument ...
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Application Number:  20120038372

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Reinmuth, Jochen; O'Brien, Gary

A micromechanical component is described having a substrate which has a movable mass which is connected via at least one spring to the substrate so that the movable mass is displaceable with respect to the substrate, and at least one fixedly mounted stator electrode. The movable mass and the at least one spring are structured from the substrate. At least one separating trench which at least partially surrounds the movable mass is formed in the substrate. The at least one stator electrode is ...
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Application Number:  20120038371

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Rapoport, Uri

A non-destructive on-line system for detecting a presence of a material in a sample of a substance, including: an MRI device; a flow conduit encompassed by the tunable RF coil of the MRI device and having an input duct and an output duct; a flow of the sample through the flow conduit; a signal detector for detecting frequency-dependent output signals from the MRI device as a function of a frequency variation of the RF tunable coil within a frequency range of an RF resonant frequency of a ...
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Application Number:  20120038370

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  YEH, YUN-HSIANG; CHEN, CHANG-SIAN

Method for frequency detection and detecting variation of frequency is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. First of all, a pointer is provided over an electromagnetic position detection apparatus, wherein the pointer emits an electromagnetic signal with a frequency f₁. Next a base integration signal is generated according to the integration of the electromagnetic signal with the frequency f₁ for a current integration period x. Then a current integration ...
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Application Number:  20120038369

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  DOBYNS, Kenneth P.; WALDO, Gary J.

A test and measurement instrument and method for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, digitizing the RF signal using an analog-to-digital converter, downconverting the digitized signal to produce I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature) baseband component information, generating one or more IQ-based time-domain traces using the I and Q baseband component information, and measuring and displaying a variety of measurement values of the IQ-based time-domain traces. The IQ-based time-domain measurement ...
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Application Number:  20120038368

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Mahalingam, Sakethraman; Basu, Wrichik; Sharma, Prafull; Meethal, Manoj Kumar Koyithitta; Lakshmi Langoju, Rajesh Veera Venkata; Ghoshal, Parama

An electrode array, a system and a method for reconstructing the distribution of electrical properties within a multi-material object. One embodiment includes electrodes arranged along a three-dimensional helical path to provide one or more helical arrays and circuitry to measure signals for calculating a conductivity or admittivity distribution representative of the interior of the structure. Image data may be obtained which is representative of the multi-material ...
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Application Number:  20120038367

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Fefer, Yefim-Haim; Sofer, Sergey; Zapesochini, Boris

An integrated circuit device comprising a semiconductor die contained in a package. The integrated circuit device includes one or more internal connection verification modules for asserting a poor connection signal for the test apparatus in response to a voltage difference between a voltage at a corresponding internal power supply node and a reference voltage, the voltage difference being indicative of a poor connection of power supply to one of power supply terminals on the package. The test ...
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Application Number:  20120038366

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Froman, Gary S.

A test system for testing a sensor system includes a high-impedance resistor for forming a voltage divider with any corrosion or foreign substance that might be present between a signal conductor and a ground conductor. While a voltage is applied across the voltage divider, the voltage can be measured across the high-impedance resistor for determining whether an undesirable amount of conductance exists between the signal wire and ground. The test system also includes switching means for ...
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Application Number:  20120038365

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Ikeda, Tomohiro; Nagata, Shuichi; Tsushima, Manabu; Watanabe, Shigenori; Shoji, Takao; Yamazaki, Hikohito

In a liquid leakage propagation restraining structure, a voltage detection terminal that detects the voltage of an electricity storage device is connected to an electrode of the electricity storage device so that a crimp contact surface side of the voltage detection terminal to which an electric cable is crimped faces in the direction opposite the direction to the electrode. Therefore, the structure restrains the electrolytic solution that has leaked out and propagated to the electric cable ...
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Application Number:  20120038364

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Hauser, Clemens

In one embodiment, a circuit includes a measuring circuit coupled to an accumulator cell. A first output of the measuring circuit outputs a current signal based on a cell voltage of the accumulator cell. The circuit includes an interface circuit coupled to the first output of the measuring circuit and a second output of a level-shifter circuit configured to change a voltage level on the first output at the interface circuit. The level-shifter circuit includes a first input coupled to the first ...
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Application Number:  20120038363

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Morrow, Daniel Creighton; Dummer, Jonathan Leigh

A system and method of quantifying color and intensity of light sources including LEDs, HBLEDs (High Brightness LEDs), and other Solid State Lights (SSLs) using C-parameters to model a Spectral Power Distribution (SPD) to improve precision, accuracy, repeatability and usefulness of measurement of optical properties of wavelength and radiant flux in manufacturing of an object, designing products and processes that use the object, and describing/defining the object, is provided. In one ...
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Application Number:  20120038362

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kjerstad, Jostein Kåre; Barsukov, Pavel; Fainberg, Eduard B.

A system for offshore hydrocarbon electromagnetic prospecting is described. The system includes a transmitter generating electromagnetic energy and injecting an electrical current into a flooded vertical cable. The circulated induced vertical current time derivative's response generated by this current in the medium is measured by a circular chain of magnetometers. The measured response which is sensitive to the resistivity of targets is proposed to be used to search for and identify ...
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Application Number:  20120038361

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Boettcher, Uwe

A reception coil, in particular local coil, to measure X-nuclei signals in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, has at least one filter connected in a first signal path to filter out radio-frequency pulses radiated by a transmission coil during a measurement, and a second signal path bypassing the filter. At least one switching arrangement is provided to switch between these signal ...
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Application Number:  20120038360

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  LENGLET, Luc Lucien Marie

The invention relates to a magnetic field sensor including at least one magnetic core (10) in which the magnetic cycle of the magnetic core is characterised in that the absolute value of the third derivative of the magnetic flux density in relation to the magnetic field is maximum for a zero magnetic ...
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Application Number:  20120038359

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  HIRABAYASHI, Hiraku; SARUKI, Shunji

A field generation unit generates a rotating magnetic field including a first partial magnetic field in a first position and a second partial magnetic field in a second position. The first and second partial magnetic fields differ in direction by 180° and rotate in the same direction of rotation. A first detection unit detects, in the first position, a first angle that the direction of a first applied field forms with respect to a first direction. The first applied field includes the first ...
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Application Number:  20120038358

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Honkura, Yoshinobu; Yamamoto, Michiharu; Hamada, Norihiko; Shimode, Akihiro

Provided is a magnetoimpedance (MI) sensor having a high magnetic sensor sensitivity and a wide measurement range. The MI sensor comprises an MI element, an electric current supply unit and a signal processing circuit. The MI element comprises a magnetosensitive wire formed of an amorphous soft magnetic alloy having zero magnetostriction, and a detection coil provided around the magnetosensitive wire with an electric insulator disposed therebetween, thereby detecting voltage generated at the ...
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Application Number:  20120038357

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Gramling, Frank E.; Brandon, Lee; Deamicis, Gene Edward; Judd, David Andrew; Deamicis, Gene Edward

Disclosed is an apparatus and methodology for detecting anomalies in cables within a tire structure. A plurality of magnetic field sensitive sensors are aligned within a magnetic field provided by a magnet. The alignment of sensors and magnet is such that flux lines from the magnet are generally parallel to the plane occupied by the magnetic sensors. A tire cable anomaly present between the magnetic field sensitive sensors produces a detectable difference in signals produced by the magnetic ...
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Application Number:  20120038356

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kosel, Jurgen; Sun, Jian

Magnetic sensors are disclosed, as well as methods for fabricating and using the same. In some embodiments, an EMR effect sensor includes a semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, the EMR effect sensor may include a conductive layer substantially coupled to the semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, the EMR effect sensor may include a first voltage lead coupled to the semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, the first voltage lead may be configured to provide a voltage for measurement by ...
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Application Number:  20120038355

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  SASAKI, Tomoyuki; OIKAWA, Tohru

A magnetic sensor is provided with a channel of a semiconductor, a first insulating film and a metal body arranged opposite to each other with the channel in between, a ferromagnet provided on the first insulating film, a first reference electrode connected to the metal body, a second reference electrode connected to the metal body, a magnetic shield covering a portion opposed to the ferromagnet in the channel, and a second insulating film provided between the channel and the magnetic shield. ...
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Application Number:  20120038354

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Gies, Paul D.

An apparatus is provided for sensing anomalies in a long electrically conductive object to be inspected. The object may be a pipeline, or other hollow tube. The apparatus may have a magnetic field generator, and an array of sensors spaced about the field generator. As relative motion in the longitudinal direction occurs between the apparatus and the object to be inspected, the moving magnetic field, or flux, passed from the field generator into the object to be inspected may tend to cause eddy ...
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Application Number:  20120038353

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Harada, Hiroshi; Konno, Tomohiro; Yamana, Masanori; Saida, Atsushi; Nagashima, Masaki

A cast piece surface temperature measuring device includes: a magnetic field exciting device which applies an AC magnetic field substantially perpendicular to a surface of a cast piece; a magnetic field detecting device which detects the AC magnetic field to detect a magnetic flux varied in response to a surface temperature of the cast piece; and a surface temperature deriving device which derives the surface temperature of the cast piece based on an induced electromotive force obtained by ...
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Application Number:  20120038352

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Ruhl, Guenther; Elian, Klaus; Theuss, Horst

A sensor package and a method for manufacturing a sensor package are disclosed. An embodiment comprises a sensor and a conductive line, wherein the sensor is arranged proximate to the conductive line. The sensor and the conductive line are isolated and at least partially encapsulated. A soft magnet is arranged in, on and/or around the encapsulation, wherein the soft magnet comprises a composition of an insulating material and a material having soft magnetic ...
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Application Number:  20120038351

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  HIRABAYASHI, Hiraku; SARUKI, Shunji

A field generation unit generates a rotating magnetic field including a first partial magnetic field in a first position and a second partial magnetic field in a second position. The first and second partial magnetic fields differ in direction by 180° and rotate in the same direction of rotation. A first detection unit located in the first position has first and second detection circuits whose output signals differ in phase by ¼ the period. A second detection unit located in the second ...
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Application Number:  20120038350

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Wallrafen, Werner; Bender, Günther; Kohler, Stefan

A position sensor, preferably an angle sensor for detecting the rotational angle of a shaft. The position sensor has a lead frame on which the electronic components of the position sensor are arranged and to which they are electrically connected A plastic encapsulation enclosing at least the electronic components, thereby forming a sensor module with the lead frame, and a plurality of electrical connections of the sensor module which are formed by the lead frame and a carrier module ...
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Application Number:  20120038349

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Jin, Norman Luwei

The present invention is an array of three Hall Effect sensors placed at specific positions around a permanent magnet attached to a rotor or a magnetic rotor. The purpose of an absolute encoder is to provide the precise angular position of the rotor at any time. A magnetic absolute encoder uses sensors that read magnetic field values. The present invention is a novel design in the field of absolute encoders that increases encoder accuracy and resolution while avoiding the high cost that ...
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Application Number:  20120038348

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Aimuta, Kyohei; Mita, Masahiro

An angle detection apparatus comprising a magnet rotor having a multi-pole segment magnet, and a magnetic sensor for detecting the direction of a magnetic flux generated from the multi-pole segment magnet; the multi-pole segment magnet having pluralities of magnetic poles along the rotation direction of the magnet rotor, the magnetic sensor comprising a magnetosensitive plane having pluralities of spin-valve, giant-magnetoresistive devices each having a pinned layer having a fixed magnetization ...
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Application Number:  20120038347

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Bucher, Tilman

The disclosure relates to a method for analysis of magnetic fields or signals used for the determination of the position of an object, wherein two temporally to each other shifted magnetic signals or fields are generated by two conductors arranged at least in part or completely separated from each other. The magnetic fields generated by the conductors are consecutively being captured by at least one and preferably three sensors arranged orthogonally to each other and determining from the ...
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Application Number:  20120038346

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Beuk, Edwin Jeroen; deVeer, Andre Petrus Maria

Apparatus and methods for detecting flow of powder coating material in an electrically nonconductive powder hose include providing an electrically conductive material that extends along at least a portion of the length of the hose to collect tribo-charge transfer that is produced by frictional contact between the powder coating material and an interior surface of the hose. The collected tribo-charge transfer is used to produce an electrical current in the electrically conductive material. A ...
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Application Number:  20120037513

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Lindemann, Björn F.

A diagnostic multi-layer dry phase test strip with integrated biosensors for use in measuring more than one analyte in a fluid sample includes a body having a port for introducing a fluid sample. Within the body is a spreader layer configured to evenly spread the fluid sample received through the port. The test strip further includes at least one enzyme reaction layer in fluidic communication with the spreader layer. The test strip also includes a first electrode layer in fluidic communication ...
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Application Number:  20120036947

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  DOBYNS, Kenneth P.; ENGHOLM, Kathryn A.; BERGSIEKER, Amy M.; HERRING, Steven C.; WALDO, Gary J.

A test and measurement instrument including a plurality of input ports; an acquisition system coupled to the input ports and configured to acquire frequency domain data from the input ports; a user interface configured to present frequency domain controls for at least two of the input ports; and a controller configured to adjust frequency domain acquisition parameters of the acquisition system in response to the frequency domain controls such that frequency domain acquisition parameters ...
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Application Number:  20120035883

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Teissier, Maxime; Troise, Cyril

The disclosure relates to a method of detecting an object using a detection signal supplied by a proximity sensor. The method comprises the steps of generating a reference signal by filtering the value of the detection signal, defining a first detection threshold, and going from an object non-detecting state to an object detecting state when the value of the detection signal becomes greater than the first detection threshold. When the value of the detection signal becomes greater than the first ...
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Application Number:  20120035874

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Susumu, Segawa; Hwang, Eui-Jeong; Sim, Se-Sub; Yun, Han-Seok; Kim, Jin-Wan; Yang, Jong-Woon; Kim, Beom-Gyu

A battery pack includes a battery cell; a protective circuit for protecting the battery cell; a first analog/digital (A/D) converter for converting a voltage of the battery cell into a digital value and outputting the digital value as a first voltage value; a second A/D converter for converting the voltage of the battery cell into another digital value and outputting the another digital value as a second voltage value; and a comparator for comparing the first voltage value with the second ...
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Application Number:  20120035851

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Romero, Pedro Antonio

Pulse sequences are applied to a fluid in an earth formation in a static magnetic field and NMR spin echo signals are obtained. The signals are processed to give a distribution of relaxation time at each of the plurality of depths. A quasi-DNA is obtained by autoscaling and a nonlinear mapping of T₂ component logs and non-NMR logs. Similarities between the quasi-DNA of the two types of logs are used to estimate formation lithology and ...
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Application Number:  20120035801

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Szabo, Adrian; Browne, Philip Owen

A method and apparatus diagnoses a correct operation of a phase or star point isolation relay in an electric power steering system of the kind including a motor drive circuit and at least one phase isolation relay which connects a part of the drive circuit to a phase of the motor. The relay is opened during shutdown to isolate the motor phase from the part of the drive circuit and is normally closed during operation of the motor to connect the phase to the part of the drive circuit. The method ...
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Application Number:  20120035608

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Marchitto, Kevin S.; Flock, Stephen T.

Provided herein are methods, devices and compositions to conductively or to inductively fix substrates, including tissues, using electromagnetic energy. Also provided is a method of controlling the fixing process via feedback monitoring of a property of the composition and/or of the electromagnetic energy ...
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Application Number:  20120035465

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Patt, Bradley E.; Wagenaar, Douglas J.

A multi-modality imaging system for imaging of an object under study, e.g., a whole body or parts of the body of animals such as humans, other primates, swine, dogs, or rodents, that includes a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-family semiconductor, single-photon imaging apparatus within a magnetic field produced by the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus such that sequential or simultaneous imaging can be done with the two modalities using the same ...
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Application Number:  20120035057

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Bratkovski, Alexandre; Kopelevitch, Iakov

Methods and apparatus characterized by distinct operating modes are provided. A thin graphite material defined by graphene layers is supported on a silicon substrate. The graphite material is defined by edge sites at the interface with the silicon. The graphite material is characterized by electrical superconductive-like behavior at room-temperatures while electrical current flows there through in a first direction. The graphite material is further characterized by a transition to Ohmic ...
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Application Number:  20120033685

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Song, Deqiang; Huang, Dawei; Doblar, Drew G.

This disclosure describes systems and methods for determining a voltage margin (or margin) of a serializer/deserializer (SerDes) receiver in mission mode using a SerDes receiver. This is done by time-division multiplexing a margin determination and a tap weight adaptation onto the same hardware (or software, or combination of hardware and software). In other words, some parts of a SerDes receiver (e.g., an error slicer and an adaptation module) can be used for two different tasks at different ...
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Application Number:  20120033473

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Scharf, Mesa P.

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for monitoring an electrical power grid using loosely synchronized phasors. The grid can include a phasor measurement unit (PMU) that keeps a highly-accurate time, such as a time provided by GPS signals. A solar power inverter can include a clock that is synchronized to a less-accurate time, such as a time provided by a public time server or a radio time signal. The inverter can also include a PMU that generates phasors timestamped according ...
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Application Number:  20120032837

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Seisenberger, Claus; Schicht, Andreas; Ziroff, Andreas; Poprawa, Florian

A network analyzer includes an n-port network with two ports for measuring wave parameters of a measurement object. Each port has a feed for a radio-frequency signal from a signal source. Signal components of the radio-frequency signal fed into the respective port are reflected at the measurement object and the signal components of one or more radio-frequency signals fed into at least one other port are transmitted through the measurement object to the respective port are measured as wave ...
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