Chemistry: electrical and wave energy inventions 04/08

20080093210 - Consumer virus eradicator: Real time purification of contaminated common air is an unsolved consumer health problem inside residences and the workplace, and outside air pollution by industry and transportation. Currently popular consumer grade electrostatic air filters accumulate suspended contaminants onto accumulation plates which require subsequent disposal or cleaning of the highly concentrated contaminates,... Agent: Jackson Walker L.L.P. C/o Mark A. Tidwell

20080093211 - Method for site-selective functionalization of carbon nanotubes and uses thereof: A method of functionalizing a carbon nanotube includes providing a carbon nanotube, irradiating at least one exposed portion of the nanotube surface with ions to generate defect sites on the at least one exposed portion, and forming at least one functional group at a defect site. The method optionally includes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080093212 - By-product collecting processes for cleaning processes: An apparatus and a method for operating the same. The method includes providing an apparatus which includes a chamber, wherein the chamber includes first and second inlets, an anode and a cathode structures in the chamber, and a wafer on the cathode structure. A cleaning gas is injected into the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080093213 - Scale removal system: An object of the present invention is to provide a scale removal system capable of effectively avoiding a disadvantage that a scale is deposited on electrodes and a load, the system includes at least a pair of electrodes which are submerged into for-treatment water to electrochemically treat the for-treatment water,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080093214 - Electrolytic cell with segmented and monolithic electrode design: An electrolytic cell consisting of two semi-shells and encompassing mainly the inlet and outlet devices, components for the flow control, a membrane as well as anode and cathode.... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080093215 - Batch-type remote plasma processing apparatus: A plasma processing apparatus comprises a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates are stacked and accommodated; a pair of electrodes extending in the stacking direction of the plurality of substrates, which are disposed at one side of the plurality of substrates in said processing chamber, and to which... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080093216 - Device for determination of parameters of particles in conductive solution and microscopic hole assembly: The present invention discloses a device for detecting blood cells and a microscopic hole sensor assembly thereof. The device includes a microscopic hole sensor assembly positioned between a front pool and a back pool. The microscopic hole sensor assembly further includes a microscopic hole plate with a microscopic hole positioned... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080093217 - Method for arranging nanoparticles by way of an electric field, structures and systems therefor: A method of forming a plurality of NERS-active structures is disclosed. Particularly, a substrate having a surface and a liquid including nanoparticles is deposited on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate. At least one electric field may be generated proximate to the surface and at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080093218 - Method for screening thermal stable proteins: The present invention screens a number of thermal stable proteins at a time. And the proteins are rapidly identified by using a mass spectrometry. The proteins obtained after screening can be gene cloned to determine its soluble temperature. By using the present invention, time, cost and human resource can be... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080093219 - Magnetic protein nanosensors and methods of use: Nanometer-scale sensors useful in the detection of biological and chemical entities are formed from a protein rod body portion 41, a magnetic particle 42 affixed to the protein rod body portion 41; and an analyte binding moiety 43 disposed on the protein rod body portion 41 at a location remote... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20080093220 - Microfluidic imaging array: A projection-type imaging array comprising a plurality of microfluidic devices (1, 1′) are provided, each microfluidic device having a reservoir (30) containing first and second fluids (10 and 20) that are immiscible with respect to teach other. A drive unit (40) is provided for each microfluidic device to selectively displace... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Law Department Ab 2

20080087539 - Apparatus and method for materials processing with ion-ion plasma: A method and system for material processing employing extracting equivalent fluxes of positive and negative ions at two surfaces from an ion-ion plasma without substantially altering the plasma potential. The extraction is achieved by applying a continuously applied bias to the substrate being processed, in order to attract the ions... Agent: Us Naval Research Laboratory

20080087540 - Method and device for obtaining a determined flow resistance of a flow channel by means of a measuring bridge: The invention relates to a method and device for obtaining a determined flow resistance of a flow channel, especially an opening in a component. The method involves the following steps: a liquid flows through the flow channel; a characteristic depending on the flow resistance of the flow channel in the... Agent: Kennametal Inc.

20080087541 - End-block for a rotatable target sputtering apparatus: An end-block for electrically energising a rotatable tubular target in a vacuum coating installation is disclosed. The end-block has a rotary electrical contact that reduces the joule heating effects when operating in alternating current mode. When compared to known end-blocks, this is achieved by increasing the number of contact areas... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080087542 - Capacitance sensor with asynchronous ring oscillator circuit: A capacitance sensor comprises an asynchronous ring first in first out (FIFO) oscillator circuit having an electrode for receiving a sample for analysis. A sample placed into contact with the electrode causes a change in capacitance at the electrode which gives rise to a change in the oscillation frequency of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080087543 - Biosensor: A biosensor measuring an analyte contained in a sample is provided, including: an insulative lower substrate that has at least one electrode on which an enzyme reaction layer reacting with the analyte is formed; an upper substrate that faces the lower substrate and is made of a conductive material; and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080087544 - Electrochemical chip with miniaturized sensor array: A handheld sensor device is provided for measuring an ion concentration in a solution. The solution is in an electrochemical cell that includes a counter electrode, a working electrode, and a reference electrode. The sensor includes a control amplifier configured to provide a current through the counter electrode and the... Agent: Utah State University

20080087545 - Microchemical method and apparatus for synthesis and coating of colloidal nanoparticles: The present invention represents a radical departure from most conventional macro-scale batch processing methods employed to synthesize and coat colloidal nanoparticles. Synthesis and coating are in series and in-situ, obviating the need for numerous cumbersome, and often expensive intermediate-processing steps. In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080087546 - Electrophoresis devices and methods for focusing charged analytes: Devices are provided for separating and focusing charged analytes, comprising a separation chamber and two or more electrodes, for example, an electrode array. A membrane separates the separation chamber and the electrodes. The separation chamber of the device is configured, that is, the separation chamber has a shaped geometry, which... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080087547 - Electrophoresis apparatus: For automating the operation of an electrophoresis apparatus and improving the throughput, the present electrophoresis apparatus has two platens capable of controlling temperature of electrophoresis plates placed thereon, a loading medium charging unit for sending a loading medium under pressure, a loading medium charging nozzle mechanism having a pair of... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20080083608 - Electrochemical oxygen pump for fuel stabilization unit: A fuel stabilization unit includes an electrochemical device for promoting the formation of water utilizing oxygen from a fuel stream for generating an oxygen partial pressure differential across an oxygen permeable membrane.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080083609 - Oxygen conditioning of plasma vessels: Methods and apparatus for operating plasmas are described. The vessel receives an oxygen containing plasma to clean and/or condition the vessel. Some embodiments of the invention feature methods and apparatus for improving ignition properties of the plasmas.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080083610 - Sputtering chamber having auxiliary backside magnet to improve etch uniformity and magnetron producing sustained self sputtering of ruthenium and tantalum: A plasma sputter chamber and process for sputtering ruthenium and tantalum at low pressure or with self-sustained sputtering (SSS). The source magnetron is strongly unbalanced and of sufficient size to project the unbalanced magnetic field toward the wafer to increase the ionization probability. Sputter etch uniformity is increased by the... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles Guenzer Attn: Applied Materials, Inc.

20080083611 - High-adhesive backside metallization: High-adhesive backside metallization may be realized when Ti is deposited with relatively low rf substrate bias power without pre-deposition rf plasma etch of the wafer. Rf induced bias voltage in the range of −50 V to −250 V ensured the best adhesion property of the film stack. Analysis of the... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20080083612 - Synthesis of aligned carbon nanotubes on double-sided metallic substrate by chemical vapor depositon: Aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes were grown on both sides of a metallic or metal-coated substrate by water vapor-assisted chemical vapor deposition. Aligned carbon nanotube films of thickness ranging from 1 μm to over 100 μm were obtained. By manipulating various operating factors—position of substrate in the reactor, amount of water... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080083613 - Port structures for non-rigid bone plates: There is provided an orthopedic plate and port structures for the plate. The plate can be non-rigid and includes at least one hole for receiving an anchor or an anchor retaining device. The at least one hole can include a rigid port structure that prevents or resists deformation of the... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20080083614 - Pressurized electrolyzer stack module: A structural reinforcement for a pressurized plastic electrochemical cell stack is described with a first endplate and a second endplate, wherein the first endplate and the second endplate are each connected to a structural reinforcement along an axial direction such that the reinforcement extends through the first endplate and the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080083615 - Thermal-stress-failure-resistant dielectric windows in vacuum processing systems: A ceramic window in an iPVD module is provided with features that reduce heating of the window as a result of metal film deposits on the window. Dielectric dissipation and resistive heating of the metal film are reduced by the features. Reducing of the window heating is provided by either... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080083616 - Co-fe-zr based alloy sputtering target material and process for production thereof: The present invention relates to a Co—Fe—Zr based alloy target material for forming a soft magnetic film of the Co—Fe—Zr based alloy used in a perpendicular magnetic recording medium, and provides a Co—Fe—Zr based alloy target material having a low magnetic permeability and good sputtering characteristics and a process for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080083617 - Dual electrode system for a continuous analyte sensor: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a continuous analyte sensor, such as a continuous glucose sensor. One such system utilizes first and second working electrodes to measure additional analyte or non-analyte related signal. Such measurements may provide a background and/or sensitivity measurement(s) for use in processing sensor data and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080083619 - Biosensor and blood component analytical method: According to the biosensor and the blood component analytical method of the present invention, in a biosensor that is made of a single layer or plural layers of a porous material as shown in FIG. 1, having a reagent holding part and utilizing chromatography, a cell shrinkage reagent is carried... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080083618 - System and methods for determining an analyte concentration incorporating a hematocrit correction: Methods and devices for determining the concentration of a constituent in a physiological sample are provided. The blood sample is introduced into a test strip with portions of the blood sample being directed to both a first capillary and a second capillary. The first capillary configured to electrochemically determine a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080083620 - Micro ph electrode (reference electrode): An improved combination ion-selective electrode has a thin ion-sensing body extending from an outer reference body. The exposed portion of the ion-sensing body is encompassed by a sleeve which effectively forms an extension of the reference body and also provides mechanical stability to the ion-sensing body. One or more fluid... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080083621 - Electrophoresis device and method for separating objects: An electrophoresis method is provided for separating objects in a fluid contained in a separation channel. The method comprises: applying an electric field along the separation channel, the electric field having a field profile, and thereby causing at least some of the objects to move relative to the fluid; varying... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20080083622 - Electro-kinetic pressure/flow sensor: A transmitter senses flow or pressure of a process fluid in a process pipe. The process pipe may include a flow restrictor positioned therein that carries a primary flow of a process fluid. Impulse piping is configured to carry a secondary flow of the process fluid from an upstream side... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080083623 - Method and apparatus for treatment of plating solutions: Embodiments herein provide waste abatement apparatuses and methods for treating waste solutions derived from depleted or used plating solutions, such as from an electroless deposition process or an electrochemical plating process. The waste abatement systems and processes may be used to treat the waste solutions by lowering the concentration of,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080078671 - Electrochemical gas generator for combustible gases: An electrochemical gas generator is provided with an electrolysis cell (1) with a housing, which is closed by a gas-permeable membrane (2) for the escape of the test or calibrating gas. A cathode (5) is provided formed of a noble metal, a mixture of noble metals or a material containing... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080078672 - Hybrid capacitive deionization and electro-deionization (cdi-edi) electrochemical cell for fluid purification: Systems and methods are described that combine capacitive deionization (CDI) and electro-deionization (EDI) mechanisms for deionizing aqueous or non-aqueous solutions. The inventive systems and methods modify certain known coatings or films by perforating the films with pin holes and using spacers that separate the coatings from the electrodes. Benefits derived... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20080078673 - Electrode for use in a deionization apparatus and method of making same and regenerating the same: An electrode for use in a deionization apparatus includes a conductive material that is in a granular form and is arranged in a layer that is defined by a first face and a second face. The electrode includes a substrate that is disposed against the first face, and a first... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080078674 - Module busbar arrangement for powerful aluminum electrolytic cells: A busbar arrangement for an electrolytic cell utilized for the production of aluminum by electrolysis of molten cryolite salt where the cells are arranged in a side-by-side relationship. In the busbar, the upstream cathode collector and the downstream cathode collector of the upstream cell, the electric connecting arrangements, and the... Agent: Silber & Fridman

20080078675 - Support for oxygen separation membrane element and the element using the same: A support for an oxygen separation membrane element to support a dense and cylindrical electrolytic membrane having oxygen ion permeability, comprises a base axially extending and having a cylindrical surface extending axially, and a plurality of ribs formed on the cylindrical surface of the base, radially projecting and axially extending,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080078676 - Biosensing device: A biosensing meter includes: a routing matrix including a plurality of switching units and a plurality of connecting ends; a sensors and actuators group, coupled to a plurality of connecting ends of the wire matrix; an RFID reader, for reading an RFID tag to obtain a parameter related to an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080078677 - Testing device for precious metals: A self contained testing device (100) for assaying precious metals includes a housing (110) for various mechanical and electronics components integrated to form a compact testing device. The testing device (100) includes a gel dispenser, e.g. syringe (200), an anode probe (650) to which may be attached a specimen holder... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.