| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7408790 |
Power supply system and apparatus |
August 5, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to a switched mode power supply with programmable digital control and to a power supply system comprising a plurality of switched mode power supplies. The input terminals and the output terminals of the switched mode power supply system are separated by |
| 7396798 |
Method for preparing catalyst supports and supported catalysts from single walled carbon nanotub |
July 8, 2008 |
| A new method for preparing a supported catalyst is herein provided. A carbon nanotube structure such as a rigid porous structure is formed from single walled carbon nanotubes. A metal catalyst is then loaded or deposited onto the carbon nanotube structure. The loaded carbon nanotube |
| 7376209 |
Method and apparatus for near-optimal scaling of log-likelihood ratio (LLR) computation in turbo |
May 20, 2008 |
| A method and an apparatus for scaling demodulated data symbols contained in a packet to generate scaled log-likelihood ratios for Turbo decoding are disclosed. A packet consists of one or more subpackets depending on the type of packet. Each subpacket is identified by a subpacket ide |
| 7349236 |
Electromechanical memory cell with torsional movement |
March 25, 2008 |
| A memory cell uses a pair of cantilevers to store a bit of information. Changing the relative position of the cantilevers determines whether they are electrically conducting or not. The on and off state of this mechanical latch is switched by using, for example, electrostatic, electr |
| 7332467 |
Hydrophilically modified polyols for improved hydrophobic soil cleaning |
February 19, 2008 |
| A hydrophilically modified polyol compounds, compositions including the hydrophilically modified polyol compounds and methods of using such compositions and process of making such compositions for anti-redeposition and hydrophobic soil cleaning benefits. |
| 7326675 |
Hydrophobically modified polyols for improved hydrophobic soil cleaning |
February 5, 2008 |
| Hydrophobically modified polyol compounds, compositions including the hydrophobically modified polyol compounds and methods of using such compositions and process of making such compositions for cleaning benefits. |
| 7308053 |
Iterative data-aided carrier frequency offset estimation for code division multiple access syste |
December 11, 2007 |
| Iterative data-aided carrier CFO estimation for CDMA systems. Any communication receiver may be adapted to perform the iterative data-aided carrier CFO estimation. The iterative data-aided carrier CFO estimation is performed using a high accuracy method. The operation may be described |
| 7298954 |
Waveguide shuttle MEMS variable optical attenuator |
November 20, 2007 |
| An improved waveguide shuttle optical switch design which provides the function of a variable optical attenuator (VOA). A small degree of intentional misalignment of the waveguide will create different levels of optical attenuation. By finely controlling the misalignment of a selected |
| 7274842 |
Actuator and systems and methods |
September 25, 2007 |
| An actuator system that includes two beams that are formed into a diamond pattern. A crossbar is positioned at a midsection to connect the two beams. When power is applied to the two beams, the diamond pattern is driven vertically. An actuator system may also include a substrate and a |
| 7252053 |
Electromagnetic actuator and control |
August 7, 2007 |
| An electromagnetic actuator includes a stator assembly mounted to a center pole formed of material having high magnetic permeability and functions as a return path for the magnetic field generated when current is passed through coils in the stator assembly. When current is applied to one |
| 7242825 |
Cantilever beam MEMS variable optical attenuator |
July 10, 2007 |
| An improved cantilever beam optical switch design which provides the function of a variable optical attenuator (VOA). A small degree of intentional misalignment of the waveguide will create different levels of optical attenuation. By finely controlling the misalignment of a selected |
| 7234442 |
Controlled starting and braking of an internal combustion engine |
June 26, 2007 |
| An internal combustion engine may be provided with independently controllable valves, fuel injectors and ignition elements that may be used to start the engine without a separate auxiliary device such as an electric starter motor. The engine may fire the cylinders under a startup mod |
| 7230149 |
Method of using carbide and/or oxycarbide containing compositions |
June 12, 2007 |
| Compositions including carbide-containing nanorods and/or oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or carbon nanotubes bearing carbides and oxycarbides and methods of making the same are provided. Rigid porous structures including oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or carbide containing na |
| 7224883 |
Actuator and latching systems and methods |
May 29, 2007 |
| An optical switch for routing signals includes a latch receiver connected to a waveguide that routes the signals and an actuator that includes an upper plate, a lower plate and a latch connected to the lower plate, the lower plate of the actuator moving vertically when power is applied t |
| 7193864 |
Power supply system and apparatus |
March 20, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to a switched mode power supply with programmable digital control and to a power supply system comprising a plurality of switched mode power supplies. The input terminals and the output terminals of the switched mode power supply system are separated by |
| 7169730 |
Modified carbide and oxycarbide containing catalysts and methods of making and using thereof |
January 30, 2007 |
| Compositions including modified carbide-containing nanorods and/or modified oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or modified carbon nanotubes bearing carbides and oxycarbides and methods of making the same are provided. Rigid porous structures including modified oxycarbide-containing n |
| 7139339 |
Iterative data-aided carrier frequency offset estimation for code division multiple access syste |
November 21, 2006 |
| Iterative data-aided carrier CFO estimation for CDMA systems. Any communication receiver may be adapted to perform the iterative data-aided carrier CFO estimation. The iterative data-aided carrier CFO estimation is performed using a high accuracy method. The operation may be described |
| 7128032 |
Electromagnetic actuator and control |
October 31, 2006 |
| An electromagnetic actuator includes a stator assembly mounted to a center pole formed of material having high magnetic permeability and functions as a return path for the magnetic field generated when current is passed through coils in the stator assembly. When current is applied to one |
| 7116855 |
Optical shuttle system and method used in an optical switch |
October 3, 2006 |
| An optical shuttle system for routing signals in a communications system that includes a terminal connected to a power source, a shuttle that includes waveguides used for routing the signals, and a beam connected to the terminal and the shuttle so that the beam suspends the shuttle. When |
| 7082899 |
Controlled starting and braking of an internal combustion engine |
August 1, 2006 |
| An internal combustion engine may be provided with independently controllable valves, fuel injectors and ignition elements that may be used to start the engine without a separate auxiliary device such as an electric starter motor. The engine may fire the cylinders under a startup mod |
| 7070753 |
Modification of nanotubes oxidation with peroxygen compounds |
July 4, 2006 |
| A method of chemically modifying carbon nanotubes having a diameter less than one micron comprising: contacting the nanotubes with a peroxygen compound selected from the group consisting of organic peroxyacids, inorganic peroxoacids and organic hydroperoxides, or a salt thereof, unde |
| 7070699 |
Bistable microelectromechanical system based structures, systems and methods |
July 4, 2006 |
| A bistable microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based system comprises a micromachined beam having a first stable state, in which the beam is substantially stress-free and has a specified non-linear shape, and a second stable state. The curved shape may comprises a simple curve or a |
| 6985651 |
Thermal actuator with offset beam segment neutral axes and an optical waveguide switch including |
January 10, 2006 |
| A thermal actuator comprises a substantially straight beam. The beam has a beam length and a beam mid-point. The beam comprises a plurality of beam segments with beam segment lengths. Each beam segment has a beam segment neutral axis, thus forming a corresponding plurality of beam segmen |
| 6985650 |
Thermal actuator and an optical waveguide switch including the same |
January 10, 2006 |
| A thermal actuator comprises a substantially straight beam. The beam has a beam length and a beam mid-point. The beam comprises a plurality of beam segments. Each beam segment has a beam segment width, the beam thus forming a corresponding plurality of beam segment widths. The beam s |
| 6983088 |
Thermal actuator and an optical waveguide switch including the same |
January 3, 2006 |
| A thermal actuator comprises a plurality of substantially straight and parallel beams arranged to form a beam array. The midpoint of each beam is attached or coupled to an orthogonal coupling beam. Each array beam has a beam heating parameter with a corresponding beam heating parameter |
| 6980727 |
Methodology for a MEMS variable optical attenuator |
December 27, 2005 |
| An improved cantilever beam optical switch methodology which provides the function of a variable optical attenuator (VOA). A small degree of intentional misalignment of the waveguide will create different levels of optical attenuation. By finely controlling the misalignment of a selected |
| 6968100 |
MEMS waveguide shuttle optical latching switch |
November 22, 2005 |
| An optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) switch is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the optical MEMS switch is used as an M.times.N optical signal switching system. The optical MEMS switch comprises a plurality of optical waveguides formed on a shuttle for switching optical |
| 6947624 |
MEMS optical latching switch |
September 20, 2005 |
| An optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) switch is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the optical MEMS switch is used as an M.times.N optical signal switching system. The optical MEMS switch comprises a plurality of optical waveguides formed on a cantilever beam platform for |
| 6936565 |
Modified carbide and oxycarbide containing catalysts and methods of making and using thereof |
August 30, 2005 |
| Compositions including modified carbide-containing nanorods and/or modified oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or modified carbon nanotubes bearing carbides and oxycarbides and methods of making the same are provided. Rigid porous structures including modified oxycarbide-containing nanor |
| 6872681 |
Modification of nanotubes oxidation with peroxygen compounds |
March 29, 2005 |
| A method of chemically modifying carbon nanotubes having a diameter less than one micron comprising: contacting the nanotubes with a peroxygen compound selected from the group consisting of organic peroxyacids, inorganic peroxoacids and organic hydroperoxides, or a salt thereof, under |
| 6841508 |
Carbide and oxycarbide based compositions, rigid porous structures including the same, methods o |
January 11, 2005 |
| Compositions including oxycarbide-based nanorods and/or carbide-based nanorods and/or carbon nanotubes bearing carbides and oxycarbides and methods of making the same are provided.Rigid porous structures including oxycarbide-based nanorods and/or carbide based nanorods and/or carbon nano |
| 6828887 |
Bistable microelectromechanical system based structures, systems and methods |
December 7, 2004 |
| A bistable microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based system comprises a micromachined beam having a first stable state, in which the beam is substantially stress-free and has a specified non-linear shape, and a second stable state. The curved shape may comprises a simple curve or a |
| 6809229 |
Method of using carbide and/or oxycarbide containing compositions |
October 26, 2004 |
| Compositions including carbide-containing nanorods and/or oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or carbon nanotubes bearing carbides and oxycarbides and methods of making the same are provided. Rigid porous structures including oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or carbide containing na |
| 6660713 |
Hydrophobic nanozeolites for malodor control |
December 9, 2003 |
| Cleaning and deodorizing compositions comprising hydrophobic, nanozeolites for odor control on substrates are disclosed. Specifically, cleaning and deodorizing compositions for malodor control comprising nanozeolites and methods for removing odors from substrates using said compositions |
| 6514897 |
Carbide and oxycarbide based compositions, rigid porous structures including the same, methods o |
February 4, 2003 |
| The present invention relates to compositions and rigid porous structures that contain nanorods having carbides and/or oxycarbides and methods of making and using such compositions and such rigid porous structures. The compositions and rigid porous structures can be used either as cataly |
| 5939753 |
Monolithic RF mixed signal IC with power amplification |
August 17, 1999 |
| A monolithic integrated circuit die (10) is fabricated to include unilateral FETs (113, 114, 115), RF passive devices such as a double polysilicon capacitor (57), a polysilicon resistor (58), and an inductor (155), and an ESD protection device (160). A first P.sup.+ sinker (28) prov |
| 5908748 |
Species-specific yeast TFIIB sequence |
June 1, 1999 |
| An extended species-specific sequence region of yeast transcription factor IIB (yTFIIB) (amino acids 144-157) is critical for cell viability and gene activation. Four residues in yTFIIB, Lys-147, Cys-149, Lys-151, and Glu-152, are critical for yeast cell growth. Intragenic suppressor |
| 5656844 |
Semiconductor-on-insulator transistor having a doping profile for fully-depleted operation |
August 12, 1997 |
| A semiconductor-on-insulator transistor (10) has a channel region (30) in a semiconductor film (16) under a gate insulating layer (26). The channel region has a top dopant concentration N.sub.T at a top surface (32) of the film that is significantly greater than a bottom dopant concentra |
