Optics: measuring and testing inventions 10/09

20090244514 - Distance measuring sensors including vertical photogate and three-dimensional color image sensors including distance measuring sensors: A distance measuring sensor may include: a photoelectric conversion region; first and second charge storage regions; first and second trenches; and/or first and second vertical photogates. The photoelectric conversion region may be in a substrate and/or may be doped with a first impurity in order to generate charges in response... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244515 - Sensor system with a lighting device and a detector device: A sensor system with a lighting device and a detector device is specified. The lighting device is provided for emitting laser radiation of a first wavelength and laser radiation of a second wavelength different from the first. The detector device is provided for detecting electromagnetic radiation of the first and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090244516 - Combination of ellipsometry and optical stress generation and detection: A method includes selecting one of performing ellipsometry or performing optical stress generation and detection. The method also includes, in response to selecting performing ellipsometry, applying at least one first control signal to a controllable retarder that modifies at least polarization of a light beam, and performing ellipsometry using the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090244517 - Method for evaluating purity and concentration of oils and fatty acid compositions: Methods for evaluation of fish oil, oils, omega-3 fatty acid compositions, and dietary supplements containing omega-3 essential fatty acids and other fats are provided herein. The relative purity and/or concentration of oil-containing aliquots can be determined by cooling approximately equal volumes of two or more aliquots to a temperature near... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20090244518 - Optical identifier comprising randomly oriented partial faces: The invention relates to an optical identifier (30) for generating an identification signal in response to an incident radiation beam (12), and to a corresponding method. In order to provide an optical identifier (30) which can be produced by a simplified process and which has nevertheless a sufficient or even... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090244519 - Security device: A security device comprises a substrate having a transparent region (1). At least one optical element (2, 3) is provided in part of the transparent region, the optical element causing an incident off-axis light beam transmitted through the optical element to be redirected away from a line parallel with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244520 - Light beam receiver with interference signal suppression: An improved laser light beam receiver rejects unwanted pulses of optical energy, such as strobe lights or other flashes of light, that can occur on a jobsite. The receiver analyzes a light beam reception by using a photosensitive light beam detector arrangement and a separate photoelectric detector serving as an... Agent: Frederick H. Gribbell

20090244521 - System and method for multi-mode optical imaging: A technique is provided for multi-mode optical imaging. The technique includes directing a visible light and an excitation light towards a specimen. The excitation light is configured to induce luminescence in the specimen. The technique also includes detecting visible light scattered or reflected from the specimen and luminescent light emitted... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090244523 - Optical fiber continuous measurement system: An optical fiber continuous measurement system continually measures at least one optical property along a length of optical fiber. The system includes a rotatable body onto which a reflector is secured. The reflector is optically coupled to an end of the optical fiber, thereby allowing light propagating from the optical... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090244524 - Optical power monitoring with robotically moved macro-bending: A method may include bending a first optical fiber of a plurality of optical fibers; measuring light leaked from the first optical fiber with a photo detector; robotically moving the photo detector to a second optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers; bending the second optical fiber; and measuring... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090244522 - Polarization optical time domain reflectometer and method of determining pmd: In a method of measuring cumulative polarization mode dispersion (PMD) along the length of a fiber-under-test (FUT), a polarization-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer (POTDR) is used to inject into the FUT plural series of light pulses arranged in several groups. Each group comprises at least two series of light pulses... Agent: Adams Patent & Trademark Agency

20090244525 - Lens holder and lens shape measuring apparatus: A lens holder includes a lens holding member having a mounting shaft portion and configured to hold a lens provided with at least one hole mounting a fitting for a rimless frame or a dummy lens provided with at least one hole, a main body including an opened bottom surface,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090244526 - Fiber-based optical alignment system: A low-cost alignment system suitable for aligning a wafer to a test fixture includes a bundle of optical fibers wherein at least one fiber serves to deliver illumination to the alignment target from an end thereof, and a plurality of receiver fibers, each having ends with a known spatial relationship... Agent: Raymond J. Werner

20090244529 - Appearance inspection apparatus: An appearance inspection apparatus analyzes a difference in detection characteristics of detection signals obtained by detectors to flexibly meet various inspection purposes without changing a circuit or software. The apparatus includes a signal synthesizing section that synthesizes detection signals from the detectors in accordance with a set condition. An input... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090244528 - Blade breakage and abrasion detecting device: The present invention provides a blade breakage and abrasion detecting device comprising: a detecting unit including a light-emitting unit which is provided close to a side of a blade to emit a round shape light toward the blade, and a light receiving unit which is provided opposed to the light-emitting... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090244527 - System for inspecting defects of panel device: System for inspecting defects of panel device includes a to-be-inspected device, a platform for holding the to-be-inspected device, a power unit, and a light source apparatus. The light source apparatus is controlled by the power unit to provide an inspection light to the to-be-inspected device for inspecting whether or not... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090244530 - Mask inspection apparatus: A lightweight and inexpensive mask inspection apparatus having highly efficient environmental radiation resistance is provided. The mask inspection apparatus is a mask inspection apparatus for inspecting for mask defects and includes a light source, an illuminating optical system configured to irradiate a mask with an inspection light emitted from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244531 - Optical apparatus, photomask inspecting apparatus, and exposure apparatus: l

20090244532 - Multiplexed photonic membranes and related detection methods for chemical and/or biological sensing applications: Photonic detection systems and methods are shown. A flow through photonic membrane is provided with pores which are distributed along multiple regions. The pores of one region have walls to which a first type of target specific anchor can be attached, while pores of another region have walls to which... Agent: Llnl/steinfl & Bruno John H. Lee, Assistant Laboratory Counsel

20090244535 - Continuous measurement of amine loading in gas processing plants using raman spectroscopy: The present invention provides a system and method for continuous measurement of acid gas concentration or amine loading in a basic solution using Raman spectroscopy.... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20090244534 - Mirror adapted in microscope to perform sers, a microscope and methods thereof: The present invention relates to spectroscopy, more particularly relates to a mirror which is adopted in a microscope to perform Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy [SERS].... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244533 - Raman analysis: Properties of turbid or scattering samples are determined using Raman spectroscopy with probe light delivered to and subsequently collected from the sample using a transmission geometry. The technique may be applied to pharmaceutical products such as tablets, diagnostic tests such as lateral flow diagnostic strips, and elsewhere.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244536 - Two-dimensional optical imaging methods and systems for particle detection: The present invention provides methods and systems for particle detection and analysis using two-dimensional optical imaging to access enhanced detection sensitivity and expanded sensing functionality relative to conventional point and array detection-based optical particle counters. Methods and systems of the present invention provide a two-dimensional optical imaging-based particle sensing platform... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20090244537 - Optical system, method, and computer readable medium: An optical system includes a light sending section that sends light to an object having a scattering medium and a lower medium positioned below the scattering medium, where the scattering medium scatters light and the lower medium feeds back polarized light in response to light incident thereon, a light receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244538 - Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method using overlay measurement: A lithographic apparatus arranged to transfer a pattern from a patterning device onto a substrate includes a reference set of gratings provided in the substrate, the reference set including two reference gratings having line elements in a first direction and one reference grating having line elements in a second, perpendicular,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090244539 - Microchip testing device: A testing device equipped with: a microchip having a receiver for a test fluid, a discharge lamp which emits light into the microchip test fluid receiver, a light source housing in which the discharge lamp is located, and an arithmetic calculation mechanism, which calculates the concentration of the component to... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090244540 - Biosensor: A biosensor provided herein includes a semiconductor laser device having an optical resonator with at least one reflective surface and a light output surface, and a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) unit disposed on the reflective surface of the optical resonator. The SPR unit has specific biological molecules fixed thereon for... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090244541 - Cavity ring-down apparatus and method for measuring reflectivity of highly reflective mirrors: A cavity ring-down apparatus and method is provided for measuring the reflectivity of highly reflective mirrors. The apparatus comprises an optical ring-down cavity including three highly-reflective mirrors whose frequency-selective optical transmission is retro-reflected into the oscillator cavity of a continuous-wave semiconductor laser, creating a change of output spectrum of said... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090244542 - Micro integrated planar optical waveguide type spr sensor: An integrated optical waveguide type surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor having an optical waveguide with a corresponding SPR sensing area, photodetectors, and wavelength tunable laser or any kind of external tunable laser source/coupler formed on a substrate. In an embodiment, the laser is a wavelength tunable laser and optionally, the... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20090244543 - Human-readable, bi-state environmental sensors based on micro-mechanical membranes: An environmental sensing device includes an interferometric modulator which permanently actuates, in a visually-detectable manner, in response to being exposed to a predetermined environmental threshold or condition. The device can include a reactive layer, coating, or proof mass disposed on a movable member of the interferometric modulator. The reactive layer,... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090244544 - Unidirectional crow gyroscope: An optical waveguide gyroscope includes at least one optical coupler configured to receive a first optical signal at a first port, to transmit a second optical signal to a second port, and to transmit a third optical signal to a third port. The optical waveguide gyroscope further includes a plurality... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090244545 - Optical rotary adaptor and optical tomographic imaging apparatus using the same: An optical rotary adapter is featured by including: a fixed side optical fiber which is fixedly supported by a fixed sleeve and which has an end surface inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical fiber; a fixed side collimator lens which is arranged... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244546 - Compensation table generation method, apparatus and computer program product, and tomography image processing apparatus using the same: A compensation table for compensating interference signal obtained by OCT measurement is generated easily. When a reflection body interference signal is obtained by OCT measurement, the reflection body interference signal is compensated by a compensation table (Formula (1)) to obtain an evaluation output signal. Then, a spectrum of the evaluation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244547 - Optical tomographic imaging system, tomographic image acquiring method, and optical tomographic image forming method: This optical tomographic imaging system comprises an optical path length adjustor configured to set a first reference position of a measurement depth direction to an inner edge of a measurement range by adjusting an optical path length of a reference light, and an optical path length switching unit having a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244549 - Contact displacement meter: There is provided a contact displacement meter in which the size of the housing can be miniaturized as much as possible without lowering the measurement accuracy of a displacement. Light emitted by a light emitting element is converted to parallel light by a lens, and then is deflected to a... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20090244548 - Level sensor: A level sensor, i.e., a light receiving section (11X) having multiple light receiving elements (PDX1 to PDXn) arranged in parallel. In the level sensor, each two adjacent output terminals of the light receiving elements (PDX1 to PDXn) are connected by one of resistors (RX1 to RXn).... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090244550 - Method for controlling a machine tool and apparatus therefor: Relative movement in X, Y and Z axis directions is made between a main spindle and a table 6 for application in a machine tool in which a work is machined. An emitting element 12 for irradiating laser beam 11 and a photosensitive element 13 are disposed on the table... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244552 - Method for forming and measuring the thickness of a coating: A coating thickness monitor is disclosed that includes at least one radiation source directed at least a portion of the substrate. The coating thickness monitor includes at least one probe for capturing at least a portion of the radiation reflected and refracted by the coating on the substrate. The captured... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20090244551 - Sensor apparatus for detecting an overhang on the load of a carrier device: A sensor apparatus for detecting an overhang on a load of a carrier device, having a sensor arrangement with at least one transmitter and a receiver and also an electronic unit for control purposes. According to the invention, the sensor arrangement senses two regions of the carrier device with a... Agent: Burr & Brown