Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090035180 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL WATER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITS USE - A control system for industrial water systems that utilizes multiple measurements of information and models to decide optimal control actions to maximize corrosion/scaling/fouling inhibition and particulate dispersancy performance and minimize cost of water and treatment chemicals. This system is capable of automatic operation for a wide range of process conditions, ensures multiple performance objectives, achieves robust operation under a variety or un-measurable disturbances and achieves the least costly solution delivery. | 02-05-2009 |
20090085585 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR MONITORING SURFACE CORROSION - An article includes an electrically conductive corrodible element; a device that can inject electricity at a plurality of operation frequencies into the corrodible element; and a measurement apparatus operable to measuring impedance of the electrically conductive corrodible element under various operation frequencies. | 04-02-2009 |
20090298881 | Water-Soluble Artemisinin Derivatives, Their Preparation Methods, the Pharmaceutical Compositions and the Use Thereof - Water-soluble artemisinin derivatives, their preparation methods, the pharmaceutical compositions containing the same derivatives and the use thereof are disclosed. The artemisinin derivatives have following formula I. It has been proved by pharmacological tests that these compounds and compositions have evident immuno-suppressive activities, and may be used in the preparation of novel immuno-suppressants for treating the diseases caused by hyperfunction of human immunity (e.g. the auto-immune diseases such as lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and the like), and for inhibiting the graft rejection after cell or organ transplantation. | 12-03-2009 |
20100074324 | ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of transmitting a video stream over an IP network. The method includes encoding a source video into a plurality of packets. The method also includes measuring a real-time transmission status of a current set of the plurality of packets. The method also includes mapping a utility curve for the video which reflects utilities of the video at corresponding sending rates. The method also includes calculating a target sending rate for a next set of the plurality of packets according to the real-time transmission status of the current set of the plurality of packets and the utility curve. The method also includes determining a proper strategy to meet the target sending rate for the next set of the plurality of packets. | 03-25-2010 |
20110005814 | CIRCUIT BOARD VIA STRUCTURE AND METHOD FORMING THE SAME - A printed circuit board (“PCB”) ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110049999 | CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING A TUNING GAIN OF A VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR - A circuit is provided that includes a first variable capacitance circuit receiving a first voltage, at least one selectable capacitor bank circuit coupled to the first variable capacitance circuit, at least one multiplexer, the at least one multiplexer coupled to at least one selectable capacitor bank circuit and receiving the first voltage and a second voltage, and a capacitor bank selection circuit coupled to the at least one selectable capacitor bank circuit and the multiplexer. | 03-03-2011 |
20110077749 | MULTI-PROCESSOR BASED PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A programmable logic processor (PLC) with multiple PLC functions is disclosed. The PLC includes at least one memory storing at least one of a plurality of programs or data, and one or more processor assigned to each of the PLC function and couple to the memory. The PLC functions are run in parallel. A method of operating the PLC and a PLC system with multiple processors are also disclosed. | 03-31-2011 |
20120098597 | SWITCH FOR USE IN A PROGRAMMABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER - A switch circuit is provided. The switch circuit may include a first transistor having a source terminal to accept an input signal, a drain terminal to provide an output signal, and a gate; a power supply providing a gate voltage. The switch circuit may also include a circuit to couple a switch signal to the gate, wherein the circuit turns the first transistor ‘off’ for all values of the input signal when the switch signal is ‘low.’ A programmable gain amplifier (PGA) is also provided. The PGA may include an input stage having an input node to couple an input signal, and an output node to provide a gate signal, at least a first gain stage including a resistor and a switch circuit as above. A differential gain amplifier may be included to provide an output signal from the gain signal. | 04-26-2012 |
20120269976 | MOISTURE CURABLE ANTIFOULING COATING COMPOSITIONS - A one-package moisture curable composition is provided. The composition comprises, by weight percentage based on the dry weight of the composition, from 50 to 95% at least one silane terminated polybutadiene based polymer or silane terminated polyol based polymer and from 5 to 50% at least one fluoro/fluoroalkoxy-functionalized silane; wherein the composition, after moisture cured, forms a surface whose water contact angle is larger than 101°. The composition is suitable for the applications in antifouling coatings which affords low surface energy and improved mechanical performance. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269977 | TWO-COMPONENT MOISTURE CURABLE COATING COMPOSITIONS - A two-package moisture curable composition is provided. The composition comprises a first part comprising at least one silane terminated polyurethane and a second part comprising at least one silanol terminated polysiloxane; wherein the silane terminated polyurethane based polymer has at least one end group of the general formula: -A-(CH | 10-25-2012 |
20130124761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING NETWORK COMMUNICATION DURING MAINTENANCE - A communication method for use by an input/output (I/O) scanner coupled to a programmable logic controller (PLC) includes coupling at least one I/O module to a backplane, and coupling a maintenance module to the backplane. The communication method also includes selectively enabling and disabling communication between the backplane and the at least one I/O module by actuating a switch in the maintenance module such that network communication is maintained by a network interface regardless of whether communication between the backplane and the at least one I/O module is enabled. | 05-16-2013 |
20130170182 | LED LAMP - An LED lamp includes a socket and a shallow dish-shaped body detachably connected to the socket. The body includes a rear cover, a front cover, a fixing member, a lamp board, a number of LED light sources and a driving circuit board. The fixing member includes a ring-shaped fixing element. The lamp board is mounted on an external circumferential surface of the fixing element, the LED light sources are mounted on the lamp board facing an inside of the rear cover. The driving circuit board is configured to drive the LED light sources to emit light beams towards the rear cover. The rear cover is configured for allowing a portion of the light beams from the LED light sources to pass therethrough and reflecting remaining portion of the light beams to the front cover, and the front cover is configured for allowing the reflected light to pass therethrough. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170183 | LED LAMP - An LED lamp includes a socket and a shallow dish-shaped body detachably connected to the socket. The socket is electrically connected to an external power source. The body includes a rear cover, a transparent front cover, a lamp board, a number of LED light sources, a driving circuit board and a fixing member. The LED light sources are mounted on the lamp board facing the front cover, wherein the LED light sources are visible from an outside of the transparent front cover when they are lit. The driving circuit board is electrically connected to the socket and the lamp board, and is configured for driving the LED light sources to emit light beams. The fixing member is configured for fixing the rear cover, the driving circuit board and the lamp board together. | 07-04-2013 |
20130184697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVE TREATMENT OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS - A method for non-invasive treatment of cardiac arrhythmias is provided. The method includes acquiring body surface electrical signals at locations on a body surface of a living being from electrodes placed on locations of the body surface, reconstructing three-dimensional heart and torso anatomical models of the living being from an imaging scan, and calculating an electrical activity a throughout three-dimensional volume of the heart by electrocardiogram inverse problem solving based at least in part on the acquired body surface electrical signals and the reconstructed three-dimensional heart and torso anatomical models. The method also includes identifying at least one location of at least one site of origin of a cardiac arrhythmia according to the calculated electrical activity within the heart, and delivering focused energy to the identified at least one location of the at least one site of origin of the cardiac arrhythmia. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185070 | NORMALIZATION BASED DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING FOR CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION - A speech recognition system trains a plurality of feature transforms and a plurality of acoustic models using an irrelevant variability normalization based discriminative training. The speech recognition system employs the trained feature transforms to absorb or ignore variability within an unknown speech that is irrelevant to phonetic classification. The speech recognition system may then recognize the unknown speech using the trained recognition models. The speech recognition system may further perform an unsupervised adaptation to adapt the feature transforms for the unknown speech and thus increase the accuracy of recognizing the unknown speech. | 07-18-2013 |
20130223065 | STREET LAMP - A street lamp includes a lamp post and a lamp housing mounted on a distal end of the lamp post. An alternating current cable is received in the lamp post. A light source is received in the lamp housing. A power supplying device is electrically connected to the light source via a connecting cable. A connection device includes an Edison screw socket and an Edison male screw plug being detachably and threadedly engaged in the Edison screw socket. The Edison screw socket is electrically coupled to the alternating current cable, and the Edison male screw plug is electrically and mechanically coupled to the power supplying device. The power supplying device is configured for converting an alternating current into direct current and supplying the direct current to the light source. | 08-29-2013 |
20130317095 | Use of Artemisine Derivatives and Pharmaceutical Salts Thereof - The invention demonstrates the application of an artemisinin derivative and its pharmaceutical salt. The artemisinin derivatives diarteether amine and its pharmaceutical salt inhibit the proliferation of leukemic cells, block the cell cycle of leukemic cells and induce the apoptosis of leukemic cells. Artemisinin derivatives of the present invention and its pharmaceutical salt can be used for the preparation of anti-leukemia medicines, especially for treatment of acute leukemia and, what's more, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. | 11-28-2013 |
20140088219 | MOISTURE CURABLE COMPOSITIONS AND LOW SURFACE ENERGY COATING COMPOSITIONS MADE THEREFROM - A one-package moisture curable composition is provided. The composition comprises, by weight percentage based on the dry weight of the composition, from 10 to 99% at least one silane terminated polyurethane and from 1 to 90% at least one silane terminated polysiloxane; and the composition, after moisture cured, forms a surface whose water contact angle is larger than 101°. The composition is suitable for applications in coatings which afford low surface energy surface and improved mechanical performance, such as marine antifouling coating, anti-icing coating, anti-stain coating, self-cleaning coating, and non-sticky coating. | 03-27-2014 |
20140134845 | METHOD OF FORMING CONTACT HOLE - A method of forming contact hole is disclosed, including the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate having a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer and a third dielectric layer formed thereon in this order; forming a first contact hole through the third dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer and the first dielectric layer by using an etching process to expose the semiconductor substrate; removing the third dielectric layer; forming a fourth dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer, the fourth dielectric layer filling the first contact hole; forming a second contact hole through the fourth dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer and the first dielectric layer to expose the semiconductor substrate; and removing the fourth dielectric layer. The method is capable of improving the stability of the contact-hole formation process. | 05-15-2014 |
20140322879 | METHOD OF FORMING SIGMA-SHAPED TRENCH - A method of forming a Σ-shaped trench is disclosed. The method includes: providing a silicon substrate; and sequentially performing a plasma etching process and a wet etching process on the silicon substrate to form a Σ-shaped trench therein. The plasma etching process includes: horizontally etching the silicon substrate using a first plasma etching gas including a nitrogen-containing fluoride; and vertically etching the silicon substrate using a second plasma etching gas including a polymer gas. A method of forming a semiconductor device is also disclosed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140357056 | METHOD OF FORMING SIGMA-SHAPED TRENCH - A method of forming a Σ-shaped trench is disclosed. The method includes: providing a silicon substrate; and performing a plasma etching process to form a Σ-shaped trench in the silicon substrate. The plasma etching process includes: etching the silicon substrate using a first plasma etching gas including a sulphur-containing fluoride; and etching the silicon substrate using a second plasma etching gas including a sulphur-containing fluoride and a polymer gas. A method of forming a semiconductor device is also disclosed. | 12-04-2014 |
20150071111 | Auto Tunneling in Software Defined Network for Seamless Roaming - A software defined network controller detects when a host has moved between network elements in a network. The controller generates a list of network elements to which the host has roamed, the list being sorted by time when the host is attached to a network element so that a most recent network element to which the host is attached is the root network element and at a head of the list. The controller updates the root network element in the list first for traffic flow associated with the host. The controller sends commands to the network elements to program a tunnel from each previous point of attachment network element in the list to the most recent root network element in the list in reverse order of the roaming path so as to route traffic for the host via a tunnel. | 03-12-2015 |