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20090120630 | ACTIVE FLUID AND AIR HEAT EXCHANGE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a modular apparatus and methods for active heat exchange involving continuous atomization of chilled or heated fluid droplets, droplets projection, and formation of fluid film on a large surface for reciprocal two way heat transfer with circulating air. A closed, pleated, corrugated, thin-wall, heat conductive chamber ( | 05-14-2009 |
20110041537 | Desiccant based absorption dehumidifier, desiccant regenerator and methods - The present invention relates to an apparatus and methods employing halogen lithium chloride for dehumidification in air conditioning. More particularly, the present invention is comprised of a dehumidifier with concentrated aqueous halogen lithium chloride as desiccant and regenerator (or concentrator) of diluted desiccant for reuse. The dehumidification portion of the apparatus utilizes woven fiberglass cloth in a construction that presents a very large surface area with required characteristics to support efficient and rapid interaction between desiccant and air. The construction also allows air to move between a large number of parallel arranged corridors of woven fiberglass cloth wetted with desiccant for interaction. Evaporation of water from diluted desiccant is aided by use of vacuum to lower water evaporation temperature, and electronically controlled microwave is employed to heat only the solution for desiccant regeneration to save energy. | 02-24-2011 |
20110042037 | Multi tube-fins liquid-air heat exchanger and methods - A secondary refrigerant fluid is cooled or heated in the operation of a multiple Tube-fins heat exchanger arranged in parallel for fins to conduct heat transfer with air being propelled by a multi-row bank of low profile brushless fans. Fluid is controlled to ascend the bank of tubes in unison rate for high efficiency heat transfer with air. Large temperature differential exists between air and fluid when conditioned fluid travels through the tubes for a relatively short distance. A system of components is so arranged that the fluid flow rate to every heat exchanger is preset and the “on” or “off” operation of any heat exchanger does not affect the flow rate destined for other heat exchangers. Fluid is not transported to a heat exchanger when it is not in operation saving energy. Each heat exchanger is controlled by an integrated thermostat so occupants can set the air conditioning operation individually independent of all other heat exchangers. | 02-24-2011 |
20110088425 | Evaporative condenser with micro water drolets forming ultra thin film - Water evaporation with accompanying large amount of heat absorption is used in an apparatus and methods in cooling hot refrigerant in a condenser as result of work by an air conditioning compressor. A centrifugal water droplet generator and projector are designed with air flow modification of droplet travel paths for maximum even coating of condenser surfaces with thin water film for maximum evaporation efficiency. Vacuum is also used in the system for lowering of water evaporation temperature and carrying away moisture saturated air to further increase efficiency of condenser cooling. | 04-21-2011 |
20110089258 | Spray pattern modification with changes in sprayer design and methods - A prior art sprayer includes structure modification and additions of components for controlling of spray pattern in shape and sizes to accommodate spray target profile. Changes also eliminate sparse spray droplet regions to give the target area more even spray droplet coverage. Modifications also intensify the spiral pattern of projected spray. | 04-21-2011 |
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20100188966 | Feedback for Transmit Precoding in Wireless Networks - Channel state information for closed-loop transmit precoding in MIMO networks is fed back from the MSs to the BSs. The feedback is quantized using codebooks shared by the MSs and BSs to reduce overhead. The codebooks can be full-rank or rank-one. The quantized feedback is applicable to any definitions of MIMO channel covariance matrix as well as MIMO channel matrix. Since these codebooks are designed for closed-loop MIMO precoded transmissions, no additional memory is needed to store the codebooks at the BS and the MS only for the quantized feedback purposes. | 07-29-2010 |
20100220670 | Method for Scheduling to Reduce Inter-Cell Interference for Voice Communication in OFDMA - A method schedules voice communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) network of base stations serving sets of mobile stations in cells. The method uses statistical characteristics of voice communications by adjusting scheduling periods accordingly to measurement reports provided by the mobile stations. The base stations generally use persistent scheduling for voice transmission due to inherent characteristics, along with extra signaling concerns. Base stations have the liberty of shortening or prolonging the scheduling period according to their needs while taking into account changes in dynamic conditions. This method makes use of the measurement reports provided by the mobile stations along with a shortened scheduling period in order to reduce ICI. | 09-02-2010 |
20100272014 | Parametric Compression of Rank-1 Analog Feedback - Channel state information in a closed-loop, multiple-input, multiple-output wireless networks is fed back from each mobile station to a base station by first determining a transmit covariance matrix R, and applying a singular value decomposition (SVD) R=UΣV | 10-28-2010 |
20110158360 | SNR-Based Blanking Scheme for Impulsive Noise Mitigation in Wireless Networks - A blanking scheme for mitigating impulsive noise in wireless networks is based on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of symbols. To fully gain the benefits of the SNR-based blanking scheme, two methods are developed, namely a multi-level thresholding scheme in the time-, spatial- and frequency-domains, and a weighted-input error-correction decoding. The symbols are conditioned as a function of the estimated SNR in time-, frequency-, or spatial-domains or combinations therefore, and the conditioning is applied to an amplitude, phase, or energy level, or combinations thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161020 | Detecting Power Quality Events in Power Distribution Networks - Power quality (PQ) events in a waveform in a power distribution network are detected by sampling the waveform. For each sample, a normalized sample is determined by subtracting an undistorted waveform from the sample. An accumulated weighted log-likelihood ratio (LLR) is determined for all normalized samples, as well as a minimum of the accumulated weighted LLR. If the difference between the accumulated weighted LLR an the minimum LLR is greater than a predetermined threshold, then the PQ event is signaled. The network can be a smart grid. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167126 | Method and Network for Transmitting Data in a Wireless Network with Fixed Transmission Intervals - A wireless network master node periodically broadcasts beacons that specify a structure of a following fixed length superframe. Slave nodes determine a channel condition between each slave and the master. Then, the set of slaves is partitioned into subsets of slaves according to the channel conditions. The master assigns, to each slave, a transmission rate in a low to high order according to the channel conditions, and the slaves transmit data to the master in the low to high order between two consecutive beacons, wherein the subsets of slaves with a higher transmission rate also receive the data from the subsets of slaves with a lower transmission rate, and wherein a slave with a higher transmission rate includes a part of or all the data from a slave with a lower transmission rate. | 07-07-2011 |
20110187584 | Method for Suppressing Clutter in Space-Time Adaptive Processing Systems - A method surpresses clutter in a space-time adaptive processing system. The method achieves low-complexity computation via two steps. First, the method utilizes an improved fast approximated power iteration method to compress the data into a much smaller subspace. To further reduce the computational complexity, a progressive singular value decomposition (SVD) approach is employed to update the inverse of the covariance matrix of the compressed data. As a result, the proposed low-complexity STAP procedure can achieve near-optimal performance with order-of-magnitude computational complexity reduction as compared to the conventional STAP procedure. | 08-04-2011 |
20110237198 | Method and System for Super-Resolution Blind Channel Modeling - Propagation channels are reconstructed from measurements in disjoint subbands of a wideband channel of interest. By using high-resolution estimation of multipath parameters, and suitable soft combining of the results, a channel estimate and subseqeuntly channel models can be extracted that accurately interpolate between the measured subbands. | 09-29-2011 |
20110310931 | Antenna Selection with Frequency-Hopped Sounding Reference Signals - The embodiments of the invention provide a method for selecting antennas for date transmission in a wireless communication network including user equipment (UE). The network is assigned a band of frequencies, wherein the band is partitioned into at least one set of subbands of the band according to a sounding reference signal (SRS) band-width configuration in a form of a code-tree having a plurality levels and each level is associated with a partition coefficient. The UE is configured to transmit frequency-hopped SRS on the set of sub-bands using subsets of the set of antennas. First, the method determines if a number of subbands in the set of the sub-bands is odd or even based on the SRS bandwidth configuration, and selects a particular subset of the antennas according to whether the number is odd or even. Then, the SRS is transmitted from the particular subset of the antennas. | 12-22-2011 |
20150016489 | Antenna Selection with Frequency-Hopped Sounding Reference Signals - The embodiments of the invention provide a method for selecting antennas for data transmission in a wireless communication network including user equipment (UE). The network is assigned a band of frequencies, wherein the band is partitioned into at least one set of subbands of the band according to a sounding reference signal (SRS) bandwidth configuration in a form of a code-tree having a plurality levels and each level is associated with a partition coefficient. The UE is configured to transmit frequency-hopped SRS on the set of subbands using subsets of the set of antennas. First, the method determines if a number of subbands in the set of the subbands is odd or even based on the SRS bandwidth configuration, and selects a particular subset of the antennas according to whether the number is odd or even. Then, the SRS is transmitted from the particular subset of the antennas. | 01-15-2015 |
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20080240050 | TDMA MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK (MANET) WITH SECOND ORDER TIMING AND TRACKING - A communication system includes a plurality of mobile nodes forming a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) and having a network clock time. A plurality of wireless communications links connects the mobile nodes together. Each mobile node includes a communications device and controller for transmitting and routing data packets wirelessly to other mobile nodes via the wireless communications link using a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) data transmission. Each mobile node includes a clock circuit having a digital clock time. A clock circuit is operative for processing a second order internal clock compensation factor as a learned and accumulated value for establishing a virtual clock time to correct any clock timing errors of the physical clock time from the network clock time. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240073 | SYNCHRONIZATION AND TIMING SOURCE PRIORITY IN AN AD-HOC NETWORK - A bandwidth efficient and robust timing synchronization approach in an ad-hoc network is provided by a mobile ad-hoc network including at least one group of mobile nodes having at least one timing reference (TR) node. Mobile nodes include a controller and a wireless communications device cooperating therewith to generate and transmit timing synchronization beacons having a respective hop count indicating a number of hops to the at least one timing reference node, receive timing synchronization beacons from neighboring nodes, and synchronize node communication timing with neighboring nodes based upon the number of hops to the at least one timing reference node. The timing reference node may cooperate with the other mobile nodes based upon a timing source priority tree including levels defined by hop counts. The timing reference node is at a starting level of the timing source priority tree. The other nodes are at a higher level of the timing source priority tree than the starting level and correspond to the number of hops to the at least one timing reference node. | 10-02-2008 |
20080247353 | CLUSTER HEAD ELECTION IN AN AD-HOC NETWORK - The ad-hoc network includes a plurality of mobile nodes including at least one group of mobile nodes operating as a cluster with a currently elected cluster head node. The mobile nodes include a controller and a wireless communications device cooperating therewith to determine whether the currently elected cluster head node appears inactive and then initiate a token-based cluster head node election based thereon. During the token-based cluster head node election, the cluster mobile nodes generate and transmit tokens having respective token weights, receive tokens from neighboring nodes, selectively retransmit the tokens based upon the token weights, and elect a new cluster head node based upon the token weights | 10-09-2008 |
20080310390 | TDMA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH CONFIGURATION BEACON AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A communications system includes a plurality of nodes forming a time division multiple access (TDMA) communications network. Each node within the TDMA communications network includes a controller and wireless communications device allowing the nodes to communicate with each other using respective timeslots in a TDMA frame, also sometimes referred to as an epoch. Each node is operative for transmitting and receiving a beacon positioned in time at the front of a frame to carry configuration information about the nodes in the TDMA communications network. | 12-18-2008 |
20090323519 | MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK (MANET) AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTIPLE PATHS FOR FAULT TOLERANCE - A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) communicates between a source node and destination node and includes a plurality of intermediate nodes. A main communication path is established between the source node through intermediate nodes to the destination node based on an underlying routing protocol. Alternative communication paths are established among neighboring nodes as standby nodes that are positioned an “n” hop distance from nodes of the main communication paths to form a tube of multiple communication paths from the source node to the destination node. The main communication path reconfigured within the tube of multiple communication paths to an alternative communication path using at least one standby node when the main communication path is broken. | 12-31-2009 |
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20090304798 | Methods and compositions for therapeutic use of RNA interference - The present invention provides methods and compositions for attenuating expression of a target gene in vivo. In general, the method includes administering RNAi constructs (such as small-interfering RNAs (i.e., siRNAs) that are targeted to particular mRNA sequences, or nucleic acid material that can produce siRNAs in a cell), in an amount sufficient to attenuate expression of a target gene by an RNA interference mechanism, e.g., in a sequence-dependent, PKR-independent manner. In particular, the subject method can be used to alter the growth, survival or differentiation of cells for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes. | 12-10-2009 |
20110182864 | COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING INCLUSION COMPLEXES - The invention provides a composition containing particulate composite of a polymer and a therapeutic agent. The composition also contains a complexing agent. The polymer interacts with the complexing agent in a host-guest or a guest-host interaction to form an inclusion complex. A therapeutic composition of the invention may be used to deliver the therapeutic agent and to treat various disorders. Both the polymer of the particulate composite and the complexing agent may be used to introduce functionality into the therapeutic composition. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a composition. The method combines a therapeutic agent, a polymer having host or guest functionality, and a complexing agent having guest or host functionality to form the therapeutic composition. The complexing agent forms an inclusion complex with the polymer. The invention also relates to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent. According to the method, a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition of the invention is administered to a mammal (e.g. person or animal) in recognized need of the therapeutic. Also disclosed are compounds having the formula: | 07-28-2011 |
20110256104 | COMPLEXING AGENTS FOR COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING INCLUSION COMPLEXES - The invention provides a composition containing particulate composite of a polymer and a therapeutic agent. The composition also contains a complexing agent. The polymer interacts with the complexing agent in a host-guest or a guest-host interaction to form an inclusion complex. A therapeutic composition of the invention may be used to deliver the therapeutic agent and to treat various disorders. Both the polymer of the particulate composite and the complexing agent may be used to introduce functionality into the therapeutic composition. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a composition. The method combines a therapeutic agent, a polymer having host or guest functionality, and a complexing agent having guest or host functionality to form the therapeutic composition. The complexing agent forms an inclusion complex with the polymer. The invention also relates to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent. According to the method, a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition of the invention is administered to a mammal (e.g. person or animal) in recognized need of the therapeutic. Also disclosed are compounds having the formula: | 10-20-2011 |
20120172525 | COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING INCLUSION COMPLEXES - The invention provides a composition containing particulate composite of a polymer and a therapeutic agent. The composition also contains a complexing agent. The polymer interacts with the complexing agent in a host-guest or a guest-host interaction to form an inclusion complex. A therapeutic composition of the invention may be used to deliver the therapeutic agent and to treat various disorders. Both the polymer of the particulate composite and the complexing agent may be used to introduce functionality into the therapeutic composition. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a composition. The method combines a therapeutic agent, a polymer having host or guest functionality, and a complexing agent having guest or host functionality to form the therapeutic composition. The complexing agent forms an inclusion complex with the polymer. The invention also relates to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent. According to the method, a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition of the invention is administered to a mammal (e.g. person or animal) in recognized need of the therapeutic. Also disclosed are compounds having the formula: | 07-05-2012 |
20130197210 | COMPLEXING AGENTS FOR COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING INCLUSION COMPLEXES - The invention provides a composition containing particulate composite of a polymer and a therapeutic agent. The composition also contains a complexing agent. The polymer interacts with the complexing agent in a host-guest or a guest-host interaction to form an inclusion complex. Both the polymer of the particulate composite and the complexing agent may be used to introduce functionality into the therapeutic composition. A therapeutic composition of the invention may be used to deliver the therapeutic agent and to treat various disorders. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a composition of the present disclosure. The invention further relates to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent, using the composition of the present disclosure, where a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition of the invention may be administered to a mammal (e.g. person or animal) in recognized need of the therapeutic. | 08-01-2013 |
20130315980 | CYCLODEXTRIN-BASED MATERIALS, COMPOSITIONS AND USES RELATED THERETO - This application discloses cyclodextrin-modified materials for carrying drugs and other active agents, such as nucleic acids. Compositions are also disclosed of cyclodextrin-modified materials that release such active agents under controlled conditions. The invention also discloses compositions of cyclodextrin-modified polymer carriers that are coupled to biorecognition molecules for assisting the delivery of drugs to their site of action. | 11-28-2013 |
20140199370 | CYCLODEXTRIN-BASED MATERIALS COMPOSITIONS AND USES RELATED THERETO - This application discloses cyclodextrin-modified materials for carrying drugs and other active agents, such as nucleic acids. Compositions are also disclosed of cyclodextrin-modified materials that release such active agents under controlled conditions. The invention also discloses compositions of cyclodextrin-modified polymer carriers that are coupled to biorecognition molecules for assisting the delivery of drugs to their site of action. | 07-17-2014 |
20150025126 | METHOD OF PREPARING A SUPRAMOLECULAR COMPLEX CONTAINING A THERAPEUTIC AGENT AND A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POLYMER NETWORK - A method of preparing a supramolecular complex containing at least one therapeutic agent and a multi-dimensional polymer network is described. A supramolecular complex prepared by a method of the invention is described. A method of treatment by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a supramolecular complex of the invention is also described. Such a supramolecular complex may be used as a delivery vehicle for various therapeutic agents. | 01-22-2015 |
20150031753 | COMPLEXING AGENTS FOR COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING INCLUSION COMPLEXES - The invention provides a composition containing particulate composite of a polymer and a therapeutic agent. The composition also contains a complexing agent. The polymer interacts with the complexing agent in a host-guest or a guest-host interaction to form an inclusion complex. A therapeutic composition of the invention may be used to deliver the therapeutic agent and to treat various disorders. Both the polymer of the particulate composite and the complexing agent may be used to introduce functionality into the therapeutic composition. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a composition. The method combines a therapeutic agent, a polymer having host or guest functionality, and a complexing agent having guest or host functionality to form the therapeutic composition. The complexing agent forms an inclusion complex with the polymer. The invention also relates to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent. According to the method, a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition of the invention is administered to a mammal (e.g. person or animal) in recognized need of the therapeutic. Also disclosed are compounds having the formula: | 01-29-2015 |
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20150203634 | LINEAR CYCLODEXTRIN COPOLYMERS - Linear cyclodextrin copolymers and linear oxidized cyclodextrin copolymers containing an unoxidized and/or an oxidized cyclodextrin moiety integrated into the polymer backbone are described. Methods of preparing such copolymers are also described. The linear cyclodextrin copolymer and linear oxidized cyclodextrin copolymer of the invention may be used as a delivery vehicle of various therapeutic agents. | 07-23-2015 |