| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7426097 |
Giant magnetoresistive device with buffer-oxide layer between seed and ferromagnetic layers to p |
September 16, 2008 |
| An enhanced giant magnetoresistive device, and a method of manufacturing the same. The enhanced giant magnetoresistive (GMR) device includes a substrate over which is formed a seed layer. A buffer-oxide layer is formed over the seed layer. Formed over the buffer-oxide layer is a GMR |
| 7425902 |
Systems and methods for evaluating geological movements |
September 16, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for monitoring and tracking transients caused by geological events are provided. In one embodiment, a geological event monitoring system is provided. The system comprises a sensor array having a plurality of geologic activity sensors adapted to receive positioning |
| 7425824 |
Magnetoresistive sensor |
September 16, 2008 |
| A magnetic sensor, system and method include a magnet located proximate to a target comprising a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots formed therebetween. An integrated circuit is located on a side of the magnet wherein the integrated circuit comprises a plurality of magnetoresist |
| 7425521 |
Structured adsorbent media for purifying contaminated air |
September 16, 2008 |
| A method for purifying breathing air using a carbon-based monolith structure impregnated with copper, silver, zinc, and molybdenum species and triethylenediamine, wherein the monolith structure is impregnated by a multiple step process. The method of impregnation results in a carbon- |
| 7425456 |
Antiferromagnetic stabilized storage layers in GMRAM storage devices |
September 16, 2008 |
| A giant magnetoresistive memory device includes a magnetic sense layer, a magnetic storage layer, a non-magnetic spacer layer between the magnetic sense layer and the magnetic storage layer, and an antiferromagnetic layer formed in proximity to the magnetic storage layer. The antifer |
| 7425118 |
Mask for shielding impellers and blisks during automated welding |
September 16, 2008 |
| A mask is provided for shielding a radially extending edge of an impeller vane during a weld repair process, where the impeller vane extends radially and axially outwardly from a shaft. The mask comprises a hub and a flange. The hub has an outer surface and an opening extending there |
| 7425097 |
Inertial measurement unit with wireless power transfer gap control |
September 16, 2008 |
| An inertial measurement unit comprises an outer case assembly including an upper gas plenum and a lower gas plenum, with upper and lower support shells surrounded by the upper and lower gas plenums. A sensor assembly includes a sensor shell, with the sensor assembly surrounded by the upp |
| 7425003 |
Over center high deflection pressure energizing low leakage seal |
September 16, 2008 |
| A low leakage seal for separating two environments and contacting a component surface is provided. The seal includes a base and an annular rib. The annular rib is coupled to and extends from the base. The annular rib includes at least one contact surface configured to contact the com |
| 7424978 |
Resettable bi-stable thermal valve |
September 16, 2008 |
| A temperature sensitive resettable linear actuator includes a linear actuator housing and a support shaft. The support shaft has a first end portion configured for longitudinal movement within the linear actuator housing and a second end portion extending from the linear actuator hou |
| 7423530 |
Cross-zone supervision for a security system |
September 9, 2008 |
| An error condition, fault, defect, obstruction, or defective arrangement of viewing angle is determined in a target security device, such as a motion sensor. A plurality of times a fault is detected in a first security device arranged to sense activity in a first zone, the target sec |
| 7423492 |
Circuit to reset a phase locked loop after a loss of lock |
September 9, 2008 |
| A system and method for generating a reset signal within a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) circuit is described. The reset signal is generated by inputting a reference signal and a lock detect signal into reset circuitry. The reset circuitry within the PLL comprises a series of interconnecte |
| 7423488 |
System and method for compensating for the effects of aging and temperature on transistor perfor |
September 9, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a system and method for compensating for the effects of aging and temperature on the performance of transistors in an RF transmitter. The system and method use a temperature-based polynomial and a feedback control loop to correlate the drain current of each transistor with t |
| 7423329 |
Semiconductor device and magneto-resistive sensor integration |
September 9, 2008 |
| A magnetic-sensing apparatus and method of making and using thereof is provided. The sensing apparatus may be fabricated from semiconductor circuitry and a magneto-resistive sensor. A dielectric may be disposed between the semiconductor circuitry and the magneto-resistive sensor. In |
| 7422029 |
Linear damper for check valve |
September 9, 2008 |
| A damping system, for a valve with a flapper movable between an open position and a closed position, comprises a main body and a piston. The main body has at least an inner wall that defines a chamber having fluid therein. The main body is coupled to the flapper, and is configured to |
| 7421887 |
Moisture detection and control using sensor feedback |
September 9, 2008 |
| A method for moisture detection and removal is provided. The method involves providing discrete feedback as an indication of current moisture accumulation on a surface of a perforated plane, wherein the plane includes at least one moisture sensor, integrated within the surface to for |
| 7421738 |
Skeptical system |
September 2, 2008 |
| A skeptical system protects an asset by monitoring commands of a user, predicting a plan of the user based on the monitored commands, inferring an actual plan from the predicted plan, receiving information related to an identity of the user, inferring an actual identity of the user from |
| 7421526 |
Reconfigurable virtual backplane architecture |
September 2, 2008 |
| A communication network comprises a communication bus and at least two line cards. Each of the line cards are coupled to the communication bus The line cards comprise a processor and a configuration memory coupled to the processor. The communication occurring on the communication bus is |
| 7421374 |
Apparatus and method for analyzing model quality in a process control environment |
September 2, 2008 |
| A method includes identifying a signal and a disturbance associated with a model. The signal and disturbance are identified using historical data associated with one or more process variables. The method also includes decomposing the signal and the disturbance at a plurality of resolutio |
| 7421351 |
Monitoring and fault detection in dynamic systems |
September 2, 2008 |
| A system and method for monitoring and fault detection in dynamic systems. A "cross-covariance" matrix is used to construct and implement a principle component analysis (PCA) model and/or partial least squares (PLS) model. This system is further utilized for monitoring and detecting |
| 7421343 |
Systems and methods for reducing vibration-induced errors in inertial sensors |
September 2, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for reducing vibration-induced bias errors in inertial sensors are disclosed. A system for reducing bias errors in an inertial sensor operating within an environment may include a vibration detector for sensing vibration changes within the environment proximate to the |
| 7421097 |
Face identification verification using 3 dimensional modeling |
September 2, 2008 |
| A checkpoint screening system uses multiple cameras to provide images at different angles of a person to be screened. Different features extracted from the images at different angles are compared to a profile associated with the person to be screened. In one embodiment, the person first |
| 7420817 |
MEMS device seal using liquid crystal polymer |
September 2, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method for a near hermetic chip carrier package having a base die and a lid die each formed of a substantially impermeable material and conjoined by a semi-permeable sheet or tape substrate of only a few thousands of an inch thickness that is formed of two or more th |
| 7420561 |
Diagnostic visual tools and methods for graphical comparison of data point and historical data d |
September 2, 2008 |
| Methods, computer program products, and systems adapted to aid in data analysis by graphically displaying current situation on the background of historical data density, Historical data density is represented by one or more contour plots. An indicator of how a current data point compares |
| 7420510 |
Location and tracking of people with combined use of RF infrastructure and dead reckoning module |
September 2, 2008 |
| A system for tracking persons and other assets in a structure, having a multi-function tracking tag and a network of fixed RF receivers forming a gateway array. The location of the person being tracked is calculated by a computer using an algorithm that weights each separate signal accor |
| 7420506 |
Cumulant-based discriminator for GNSS code alignment |
September 2, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for a cumulant-based discriminator for global navigation satellite system code alignment are provided. In one embodiment, a method for determining a misalignment between a GNSS coarse acquisition code signal and a replica code is provided. The method comprises pro |
| 7420365 |
Single chip MR sensor integrated with an RF transceiver |
September 2, 2008 |
| At least one magnetic field sensing device and an RF transceiver are integrated in a discrete, single-chip package. Rather than requiring at least two separate chips to wirelessly transmit the device output, an integrated, single chip solution can be used. The single chip integration |
| 7419525 |
Filter and method of making |
September 2, 2008 |
| A filter, comprising: a plurality of individual elongated members arranged into a configuration, each of the plurality of elongated members having an internal cavity extending completely therethrough, the plurality of individual elongated members being formed from a filter media for |
| 7419304 |
Multi-thickness film layer bearing cartridge and housing |
September 2, 2008 |
| An exemplary housing for a rotor of a turbocharger includes a bore, defined at least in part by the housing; a pair of rotor limiting surfaces positioned at a first diameter, one rotor limiting surface positioned proximate to a turbine end of the housing and the other rotor limiting |
| 7419121 |
Integrated mount duct for use with airborne auxiliary power units and other turbomachines |
September 2, 2008 |
| An integrated mount duct includes a load ring for mounting a turbomachine to a flight vehicle, wherein the load ring has a cylindrical shape with a flange edge and a stepped edge, and comprises one or more mechanical attachment members disposed on an outside surface of the load ring, the |
| 7419086 |
Low cost brazes for titanium |
September 2, 2008 |
| A braze material and method of brazing titanium metals. The material may consist of Ti, Ni, Cu Zr, PM and M where PM is a precious metal and M may be Fe, V, Cr, Co, Mo, Nb, Mn, Si, Sn, Al, B, Gd, Ge or combinations thereof, with the (Cu+PM)/Ni ratio around 0.9. Optionally, a second b |
| 7418318 |
Method and HUD system for displaying unusual attitude |
August 26, 2008 |
| Methods and systems are provided for displaying an unusual attitude of an aircraft in a head-up display system. The system comprises a projection unit configured to project the unusual attitude of the aircraft and a processor coupled to the LCD projection unit. The processor is configure |
| 7417586 |
Methods and systems for interferometric cross track phase calibration |
August 26, 2008 |
| A method to compensate for variances in signal path delays for a plurality of radar return processing channels is described. The method comprises providing a signal in the signal path between an antenna and a corresponding receiver of each radar return processing channel, receiving a |
| 7417516 |
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit providing power dividing and power monitoring functional |
August 26, 2008 |
| A monolithic integrated circuit for performing power dividing and power monitoring functions is disclosed. The monolithic integrated circuit includes a power dividing portion for dividing radio frequency (RF) signal power and a power monitoring portion for monitoring the RF signal po |
| 7416910 |
Pyramid socket suspension |
August 26, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method for flexibly suspending a sensing mechanism between a pair of cover plates, including a sensing mechanism formed in a crystalline silicon substrate; a pair of cover plates formed in crystalline silicon substrates; a first plurality of complementary interfaces |
| 7416788 |
Thermal barrier coating resistant to penetration by environmental contaminants |
August 26, 2008 |
| A turbine engine component includes an electron beam-physical vapor deposition thermal barrier coating covering at least a portion of a substrate. The thermal barrier coating includes an inner layer having a columnar-grained microstructure with inter-columnar gap porosity. The inner |
| 7415937 |
Self-contained sea water linear actuator |
August 26, 2008 |
| An actuator that at least inhibits the deleterious effects of corrosive fluids, such as seawater, does not rely on relatively expensive materials, and is capable of operation and relatively high pressures includes two sealed buffer chambers. One buffer chamber is supplied with a buff |
| 7415878 |
Ball bearing turbocharger balancer |
August 26, 2008 |
| An exemplary method for balancing a rotating assembly of a turbocharger, where the rotating assembly includes a shaft rotatably supported by a bearing cartridge, includes loading the rotating assembly to introduce a tilt between the rotational axis of an inner race of the bearing car |
| 7415622 |
Adaptive digital power control system |
August 19, 2008 |
| An adaptive digital power control system is disclosed, which implements a digitally controlled, near real-time algorithm to accommodate multiple loop current mode controls for low voltage, high performance computing system power needs. For example, an adaptive digital power control syste |
| 7415557 |
Methods and system for providing low latency and scalable interrupt collection |
August 19, 2008 |
| A method for processing an interrupt signal within a microprocessor based system is described. The method includes storing a received interrupt signal within an interrupt cause register of an interrupt controller, outputting an interrupt command from the interrupt controller to an in |
| 7415503 |
Control interface agent system and method |
August 19, 2008 |
| A control system that integrates an native control system and a non-native control system is disclosed. Data is exchanged between the two systems via a gateway interface device. Control interface objects are run on the gateway interface device to provide the exchange of data. The control |
| 7415389 |
Calibration of engine control systems |
August 19, 2008 |
| A system for automatic multivariable calibration of an engine controller. The system may take inputs which include actuator setpoints, sensor measurements, performance requirements, and so forth. There may be an algorithm to compute engine calibration parameters for the controller. E |
| 7415357 |
Automated oil well test classification |
August 19, 2008 |
| The subject mater herein relates to oil well testing and, more particularly, automated oil well test classification. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software for statistical analysis and classification of oil well tests. Some embodiments include rec |
| 7415052 |
Low stress, high thermal conduction laser rod mounting |
August 19, 2008 |
| A mount for suspending a laser medium has a cross section profile. The mount is configured to conduct heat away from the laser medium without imparting undue stress. The mount includes a laser host medium having a first cross section profile. A heat sink defines a bore. The bore has a |
| 7414581 |
Method for improved signal to noise ratio estimation |
August 19, 2008 |
| A method for estimating signal/noise ratio is provided. The method comprises calculating a first signal/noise ratio (SNR) estimate using a technique with a first response time, calculating a second SNR estimate using a technique with a second, slower response time, and blending the f |
| 7414546 |
White anti-collision light utilizing light-emitting diode (LED) technology |
August 19, 2008 |
| A white anti-collision light mounted on an aircraft utilizes a set of high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and dedicated reflectors to distribute the light in a particular pattern that satisfies predetermined intensity requirements along a horizontal coverage area. The anti-collis |
| 7414543 |
Multiple miniature avionic displays |
August 19, 2008 |
| A display screen for displaying multiple sets of information is provided. In one embodiment, an aviation display screen includes a main window and a plurality of miniature windows. The main window is adapted to illustrate one set of information. Each miniature window is adapted to di |
| 7414525 |
Remote monitoring of remediation systems |
August 19, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for remotely testing the operational status of a remediation system installed within a building or structure are disclosed. An illustrative remote monitoring system can include a sensor adapted to sense at least one characteristic of the remediation system, an int |
| 7414370 |
Increasing reliability of operation of light emitting diode arrays at higher operating temperatu |
August 19, 2008 |
| A lamp in which a LED array is coupled to a transistor such that the same amount of current flows through both. The voltage level at the control (e.g., base) terminal of the transistor is controlled such that the current magnitude is reduced when the operating temperature rises. As a |
| 7413702 |
Advanced sintering process and tools for use in metal injection molding of large parts |
August 19, 2008 |
| Tools and methods are provided for use in a process for sintering a metal injection molded body where the body comprises a material and having a first end, a second end, and a flowpath extending therebetween, the flowpath having a diameter. The tool assembly comprises an insert and an |
| 7413674 |
Azeotrope-like trifluoroiodomethane compositions |
August 19, 2008 |
| Provided are azeotrope-like compositions comprising difluoroethane and trifluoroiodomethane, azeotrope-like compositions comprising difluoroethane, tetrafluoropropene and trifluoroiodomethane, and uses thereof, including use in refrigerant compositions, refrigeration systems, blowing |
