Radiant energy inventions 07/08

20080179490 - Solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of optical sensors having different photosensitivity, wherein signals of the optical sensors having prescribed photosensitivity are read in response to object information.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080179491 - Focus detection device and fluorescent observation device using the same: A focus detection device which is applied to a fluorescent observation device for observing a fluorescent image to be emitted from an observation sample on the basis of an evanescent light, includes an image pickup unit which detects a contrast of the fluorescent image by imaging the fluorescent image, and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080179492 - Light receiving circuit: A light receiving circuit includes a first light receiving element converting an input light to an electric current to output the electric current, a current-voltage conversion circuit converting the electric current to an electric voltage to output the electric voltage, a first switch element connected between the first light receiving... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080179493 - Image reading device: An image reader (A) includes a case (1), a substrate (3) in the form of a strip, a plurality of light receiving elements (80) and a plurality of electrodes (10A, 10B). A dam member (20) projecting in the thickness direction of the substrate (3) is provided between the light receiving... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080179495 - Image sensor: This image sensor includes a charge increasing portion for increasing the quantity of charges, a first electrode for applying a voltage regulating a region adjacent to the charge increasing portion to a prescribed potential, a second electrode provided adjacently to the first electrode for applying another voltage increasing the quantity... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080179494 - Image sensor circuit and method comprising one-transistor pixels: A pixel is formed in a semiconductor substrate of a first doping type, a first layer of the second doping type covering the substrate, a second layer of the first doping type covering the first layer. A MOS-type transistor is formed in the second layer and has a drain area... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080179496 - Light receiving circuit and light coupling device: There is provided a light receiving circuit including, a light receiving element outputting electrical current corresponding to input light, and a current-voltage converter having current-voltage conversion characteristic, the current-voltage conversion characteristic becoming smaller at a low frequency side and larger at a high frequency side, the current-voltage converter converting the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080179499 - Logarithmic response digital pixel sensor and method of processing digital signal thereof: A logarithmic response digital pixel sensor comprises a linear light detecting unit, an exponential producer, a counting unit, a comparator and a memory unit. The logarithmic response digital pixel sensor is used for detecting light via the linear light detecting unit for producing a linear analogy detecting signal. The exponential... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080179497 - Ambient light sensing using a color sensor: An ambient light sensor (ALS) system is described. The ALS system includes a polychromatic color sensor, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a digital processor. The polychromatic color sensor generates a plurality of analog signals from a corresponding plurality of color channels based on a detected ambient light signal. The ADC... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080179498 - Illuminance sensor and light control apparatus: The following members are included: a light receiving element which outputs an electric signal corresponding to ambient light; an A/D converter which converts the electric signal output from the light receiving element into a digital signal; a register which stores the digital signal output from the A/D converter and determines... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080179500 - Photoelectric current integrating circuit: A photoelectric current integrating circuit including: a first operational amplifier with a switch and an integrating capacitor connected in parallel between an input terminal and an output terminal thereof; a photodiode; and a current passing circuit provided between one terminal of the photodiode and the input terminal of the first... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080179501 - Output impedance varying circuit: A photo detector IC (PDIC) is connected with a flexible printed circuit board (FPC). A signal converted into a voltage through light-to-voltage conversion in the PDIC is connected with the drain of a field effect transistor (FET), while the source of the FET is connected to an output terminal. A... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080179502 - Methods and systems for determining the average atomic number and mass of materials: Disclosed herein are methods and systems of scanning a target for potential threats using the energy spectra of photons scattered from the target to determine the spatial distributions of average atomic number and/or mass in the target. An exemplary method comprises: illuminating each of a plurality of voxels of the... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080179503 - Optical device and manufacturing method of optical device: The present invention provides an optical device that is miniature, is highly sensitive and has a simplified package, and a manufacturing method thereof with high production efficiency and high reliability. The present invention is an optical device comprising: a photoelectric conversion element (50) having at least one photoelectric conversion portion... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080179504 - Multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor: The present invention can be used in a multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor indicating an operating status thereof to a non-safety control device. The present invention allows the multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor so as to become a easier operation. The multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor has a control unit to providing a... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080179505 - Multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor: A multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor is describes having a first indicating portion disposed at each of the light emitting and receiving units comprising a plurality of first indicating elements being in the same row of each of the light emitting and receiving elements with no-interference to each of the light... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080179506 - Process and device for monitoring the security of a passageway: m

20080179507 - Multi-touch sensing through frustrated total internal reflection: High-resolution, scalable multi-touch sensing display systems and processes based on frustrated total internal reflection employ an optical waveguide that receives light, such as infrared light, that undergoes total internal reflection and an imaging sensor that detects light that escapes the optical waveguide caused by frustration of the total internal reflection... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080179508 - Optical filter and optical device: An optical filter that is provided at an optical path between a photoelectric conversion device which converts a subject image formed at a light-receiving surface thereof to an electrical signal and an optical system which forms the subject image with a light flux from the subject at the photoelectric conversion... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080179509 - Determining organic carbon downhole from nuclear spectroscopy: Elemental analysis of an earth formation is obtained using measurements from a gamma ray logging tool. From the elemental analysis, an estimate of the Calcium, Magnesium and Carbon content of the formation is determined. The amount of organic carbon in the formation is estimated from the total Carbon content and... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080179510 - Use of thorium-uranium ratio as an indicator of hydrocarbon source rock: A low value of Th/U ratio as determined from natural gamma radiation is indicative of deepwater sedimentation. This, together with estimates of total organic carbon from pulsed neutron measurements, is used to characterize source rocks. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080179512 - Method for obtaining information and device therefor: A method for obtaining information on a mass of an object by time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This method includes placing colloidal metal particles for promoting ionization of the object inside the object at a depth ranging from 0.1 nm to 100 nm in opposition to a primary beam for the ionization;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080179511 - Microspray liquid-liquid extractive ionization device: A device enables direct, continual analysis by mass spectrometry of one or more analytes in a complex liquid sample. A first sprayer nebulizes the liquid sample, forming sample droplets. A second sprayer provides multiple charged droplets of a liquid solvent or solution. The first sprayer forms a first angle (β)... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080179514 - Ambient pressure pyroelectric ion source for mass spectrometry: A compact, low power ambient pressure pyroelectric ionization source. The source can be constructed using a z-cut lithium niobate or lithium tantalate crystal with an attached resistive heater mounted in front of the atmospheric pressure inlet of an ion trap mass spectrometer. Positive and negative ion formation alternately results from... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080179513 - Maldi target plate utilizing micro-wells: An arrangement for a MALDI sample plate for ion mass spectroscopy is disclosed. The sample is configured to shape the hypersonic explosion which creates the ions generated in a MALDI-type time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The MALDI sample plate includes a glass wafer formed from a plurality of clad glass fibers and... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20080179515 - Ion detection device and method with compressing ion-beam shutter: An ion detection device, method and computer readable medium storing instructions for applying voltages to shutter elements of the detection device to compress ions in a volume defined by the shutter elements and to output the compressed ions to a collector. The ion detection device has a chamber having an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080179516 - Scanning microscopy using resonant quantum tunneling: In accordance with the invention, resonant quantum tunneling microscopy allows surface imaging while allowing characterization of physical properties associated with the surface.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080179517 - Sample dimension measuring method and scanning electron microscope: To accomplish this object, according to the invention, functions indicative of a process of change of pattern dimension when the electron beam is irradiated on a sample are prepared in respect of the kinds of sample patterns, and dimension values of a particular pattern measured by scanning the electron beam... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080179518 - Microreactor for a transmission electron microscope and heating element and method of manufacture thereof: A microreactor for use in a microscope, comprising a first and second cove layer (13), which cover layers are both at least partly transparent to an electron beam (14) of an electron microscope, and extend next to each other at a mutual distance from each other and between which a... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20080179519 - Terahertz camera: A thermal imaging device is provided for converting an image in the terahertz radiation range to the visible range. In one embodiment, the device includes a converter having a thermochromic liquid crystal layer mounted on a sapphire base. In another embodiment, the device includes a thermal absorption layer including a... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080179521 - Digital imaging assembly & methods thereof: A coherent radiation imaging system that produces digital images with a reduced amount of speckle. Radiation from a long coherence length source is used to form an image of a sample. The output coherent wave is temporally divided into a plurality of wavelets. The spatial phase of each wavelet is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080179520 - Direct-view focal plane array: A direct-view focal plane array (FPA) having a detector layer, an amplification layer, a non-uniformity correction layer and a display layer. A direct path from the detector to the display element in each pixel may be established via a configurable digitally set analog circuit that controls gain and level for... Agent: Bruce B. Brunda Stetina Brunda Garred 7 Brucker

20080179522 - Hand-held metal detector: A hand-held metal detector for checking persons with a probe section serving for housing a metal detection probe implemented as a detector coil, followed by a shaft serving as a handle that holds display elements and operating elements as well as metal detection electronics. In addition to the metal detection... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080179525 - Electronic device and method for fabricating the same: An electronic device according to the present invention includes: at least one heat sensing section (13), which includes a first contact portion (24) and of which a physical property varies responsive to an incoming infrared ray; a detector circuit section, which includes a second contact portion (42) and which senses... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080179523 - Imaging system and method using a photonic band gap array: An imaging system (20) includes an array (24) of photonic band gap material cells. The band gap material has an absorption edge at about the emission frequency of a source (22) of electromagnetic energy. Images from a field of view (26) directed onto the photonic band gap array (24) increase... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080179524 - Infrared detector package: In an infrared detector package, a first annular metallized layer (6a, 6b) is formed along the annular shoulder (4a) of a casing member (4), and a second annular metallized layer (7) is formed along the annular mating surface of a window member (5). Brazing material (8) is integrally interposed between... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080179526 - Method and system for imaging an object using multiple distinguishable electromagnetic waves transmitted by a source array: A method and system for imaging an object includes transmitting distinguishable electromagnetic waves from a plurality of radiators of an antenna array, wherein each of the distinguishable electromagnetic waves is distinguishable from others by a detector. Each of the radiators transmits radiation comprising a different distinguishable electromagnetic wave. The method... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080179528 - Pulsed terahertz frequency domain spectrometer with single mode-locked laser and dispersive phase modulator: An apparatus for analyzing, identifying or imaging an target including a source of pulsed signals in the range of frequencies from 100 GHz to over 2 THz focused on or transmitted through the target; and a detector for acquiring spectral information from signals reflected from the target and using a... Agent: Emcore Corporation

20080179527 - Pulsed terahertz spectrometer: An apparatus for analyzing, identifying or imaging an object including a source of pulsed signals in the range of frequencies from 100 GHz to over 2 THz focused on the object; and a detector for acquiring spectral information from signals reflected from the object and using a heterodyning process to... Agent: Emcore Corporation

20080179529 - Automated ftir gas analyzer: A system for certifying a concentration of gas in a cylinder includes a gas cell configured to receive a sample gas from a cylinder, and an FTIR module coupled to the gas cell for scanning the sample gas and forming a beam spectrum. A processor is coupled to the FTIR... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080179530 - Background compensation by multiple-peak measurements for absorption spectroscopy-based gas sensing: Concentrations of a target analyte in a gas mixture containing one or more background analytes having potentially interfering spectral absorption features can be calculated by compensating for background analyte absorption at a target wavelength used to quantify the target analyte. Absorption can be measured at a reference wavelength chosen to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080179532 - Light-emitting material, scintillator containing the light-emitting material, x-ray detector equipped with the scintillator, image display device using the light-emitting material, and light source using the light-emitting material: It is made possible to provide a light-emitting material having a short decay time of 10 μs or less and an emission wavelength of 650 nm or longer. A light-emitting material includes a material having a composition represented by ARS2:Eu, wherein A represents at least one element selected from Na,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080179531 - Method and apparatus for triggering image acquisition in radiography: An apparatus for triggering image acquisition in radiography includes an interconnect, a detector to detect radiation and a switch coupled between the interconnect and the detector to charge the interconnect in response to the radiation while the switch is in an open-circuit state. The apparatus also includes control circuitry coupled... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080179533 - Scintillator panel: A scintillator panel comprising: a scintillator sheet comprising a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer produced with a vacuum evaporation method; and a protective film covering the scintillator panel, wherein the protective film comprises a light absorbing layer which is colored so as to absorb a light emitted from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080179534 - Nuclear radiation detection system: A nuclear radiation detection system using narrowband UV crystal filters is disclosed. Since the photons produced during the decay of β- and γ-radiation can be detected in the spectral range of about 200-350 nm (the ultraviolet range), UV filter based photo sensors are utilized for detection. The nuclear radiation detection... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080179535 - Symmetrical shaper for an ion beam deposition and etching apparatus: A shaper for shaping an ion beam and that can be used for both deposition and etching is described. The shaper includes a plate that is placed between an ion beam grid and an ion beam source. The plate has two axes of reflection symmetry. The uniformity of both deposition... Agent: Hitachi C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20080179536 - Changed particle beam emitting device and method for adjusting the optical axis: A charged-particle beam emitting device which includes the following configuration devices so that a lowering in the image resolution will be suppressed even if a primary beam is tilted relative to a sample: A device for causing orbit of the primary beam to pass through off-axes of a plurality of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080179537 - Gas cluster ion beam emitting apparatus and method for ionization of gas cluster: An emitting apparatus 50 has a gas cluster generation chamber 2 and a nozzle 3 as means for generating a gas cluster and emitting the gas cluster to a processing object 10. A group of gas clusters jetted from the nozzle 3 is shaped into a gas cluster stream 8... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080179538 - Multifunction electron microscope specimen holder: A multi-purpose multifunction electron microscope specimen box has a box body, a sliding transparent lid fitting over the box body, and an array of piece holes formed on the top surface of the box body. At least one piece hole has a tweezer trough connected to the at least one... Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng

20080179539 - Apparatus and method for interleaving detection of fluorescence and luminescence: An apparatus is provided that is capable of interleaving detection of fluorescence and luminescence signals emitted from a plurality of samples. The apparatus is suitable for analysis of samples containing single cells or tissues up to and including living organisms. It contains an optical assembly or “sandwich” for producing a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080179540 - Surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence sensor: Exciting light is irradiated through a dielectric material block toward an interface between the dielectric material block and a metal film formed on one surface of the dielectric material block, such that total reflection conditions may be satisfied. A fluorescence detector detects fluorescence produced by a fluorescent substance, which is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080179541 - Detector system for unidentified substances: Disclosed herein is a method of identifying a unidentified substance, comprising directing light from a light emitting source directly upon a stationary unidentified substance; collecting fluorescence from the unidentified substance in a detector; wherein the detector comprises a lock-in detection system; analyzing the fluorescence; and identifying the unidentified substance. Disclosed... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080179543 - Radiation image conversion panel: The radiation image conversion panel includes a substrate having a metallic surface, a polyparaxylylene layer formed on the metallic surface of the substrate, an oxide layer being formed on the polyparaxylylene layer and including an oxide represented by the following formula: MxOy wherein M is an element selected from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080179542 - Radiation image conversion panel, production method of the same, and x-ray image capturing system: A radiation image conversion panel containing a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer, wherein the phosphor layer is formed with a vapor deposition method, and an adhesion force of the phosphor layer with the substrate is greater than a breaking strength of the phosphor layer.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080179544 - Particle therapy system: A particle therapy system is provided. The particle therapy system may include a gantry that has a radiation unit and is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The gantry encloses a radiation chamber with a movable floor segment. A patient table is positionable in the radiation chamber. The movable floor... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080179546 - Ion beam apparatus having plasma sheath controller: An ion beam apparatus includes a plasma chamber with a grid assembly installed at one end of the plasma chamber and a plasma sheath controller disposed between the plasma chamber and the grid assembly. The grid assembly includes first ion extraction apertures. The plasma sheath controller includes second ion extraction... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080179547 - Method and structure for fabricating solar cells using a thick layer transfer process: A photovoltaic cell device, e.g., solar cell, solar panel, and method of manufacture. The device has an optically transparent substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface. A first thickness of material (e.g., semiconductor material, single crystal material) having a first surface region and a second surface region is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080179545 - Technique for improving the performance and extending the lifetime of an ion source with gas dilution: A technique improving the performance and extending the lifetime of an ion source with gas dilution is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for improving performance and extending lifetime of an ion source in an ion implanter with gas dilution. The method... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP/varian Semiconductor, Equipment Associates, Inc.

20080179549 - Lpp euv plasma source material target delivery system: An EUV light generation system and method is disclosed that may comprise a droplet generator producing plasma source material target droplets traveling toward the vicinity of a plasma source material target irradiation site; a drive laser; a drive laser focusing optical element having a first range of operating center wavelengths;... Agent: William C. Cray Cymer, Inc., Legal Dept.

20080179548 - Laser produced plasma euv light source: A device is disclosed which may comprise a system generating a plasma at a plasma site, the plasma producing EUV radiation and ions exiting the plasma. The device may also include an optic, e.g., a multi-layer mirror, distanced from the site by a distance, d, and a flowing gas disposed... Agent: Matthew K. Hillman Cymer, Inc.

20080179550 - Long term storage container and manufacturing method: A method for manufacturing a long-term storage container for storage of radioactive material to inhibit radioactive radiation therefrom, said container having a bottom and upright wall extending therefrom, the top of said container to be closed by a screw-on radioactive radiation inhibiting lid, said container having an integral inner container... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080179551 - Rear door system for transferring hot cell equipment: A rear door system for transferring hot cell equipment into or out of a hot cell is disclosed. The rear door system of the present invention includes a rear door, which is provided to a rear wall of the hot cell so as to be movable to open or close... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080179552 - Imaging scan engine and method of manufacture: A scan engine (15) includes illumination sources (48, 50) for projecting a light beam (40) upon a target object, a focusing lens (44) that receives a reflected light (34) of the target object and focuses a reflected image (35) as it passes through the focusing lens (44) along an optical... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080173789 - Methods for adjusting and evaluating light intensity distribution of illumination apparatus, illumination apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: A method is provided for adjusting a first light intensity distribution formed on a pupil plane of an illumination apparatus. The method includes measuring a first light intensity distribution; obtaining a first light intensity radial distribution and a second light intensity radial distribution; obtaining a first cumulative light quantity distribution... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080173790 - Motion-detecting module with a built-in light source: A motion-detecting module with a built-in light source includes a chip unit, a cover unit, and a light-guiding unit. The chip unit has a PCB, a light-emitting chip, and an image-sensing chip. The light-emitting chip and the image-sensing chip are electrically disposed on the PCB. The cover unit is covered... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080173795 - Image sensor: An image apparatus and method of fabrication that reduces the variation intensity different wavelengths, that can result in a reduce color variation of a recorded image as compared with the actual object. The apparatus particularly is effective to reduce variation in the case where light rays having a red wavelength.... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080173792 - Image sensor module and the method of the same: The present invention provides an image sensor module structure comprising a substrate with a die receiving cavity formed within an upper surface of the substrate and conductive traces within the substrate and a die having a micro lens disposed within the die receiving cavity. A dielectric layer is formed on... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080173791 - Image sensor with three sets of microlenses: An image sensor includes a substrate having a plurality of photosensitive sites; a plurality of first microlenses spanning the pixels and respectively aligned with the plurality of photosensitive sites that receives incident light; an optically transmissive layer positioned between the substrate and the plurality of first microlenses; a layer of... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080173793 - Method, apparatus and system providing holographic layer as micro-lens and color filter array in an imager: A method, apparatus, and system that provides a holographic layer as a micro-lens array and/or a color filter array in an imager. The method of writing the holographic layer results in overlapping areas in the hologram for corresponding adjacent pixels in the imager which increases collection of light at the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080173794 - Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device and camera: A solid-state imaging device including an array of a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels with higher sensitivity than the first pixels, a first control signal line that controls the first pixels, and a second control signal line that controls the second pixels, wherein the first... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080173796 - High linearity cmos ambient light sensor: A light sensor having first and second photodetectors and a current mirror is disclosed. The first photodetector receives a light signal and generates a light current proportional to the light intensity received by the first photodetector and a dark current that is independent of the light intensity. The second photodetector... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080173797 - Photoelectric switch: A photoelectric switch is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the photoelectric switch includes at least one light source, a reflective surface provided in light-receiving relationship with respect to the at least one light source, a release button engaging the reflective surface and positional between first and second positions, a photocell... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080173798 - Rotation sensor for a spraying arm in a dishwasher: A process and a device are provided-for ascertaining the rotation of a liquid spray arm for a domestic appliance. Lighting means serves as a light transmitter and a photoreceiver serves as a light receiver. The lighting means and the photoreceiver are assigned a light-conducting element. At a first location of... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080173799 - Optical element for a document illuminator: An apparatus for recording an image on a sheet comprises a linear array of light sources and an optical element for transmitting light emitted from the light sources. The optical element comprises a light-transmissive member, having an entry surface for disposal near the light sources. The entry surface defines at... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080173801 - Light beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same: A light beam scanning apparatus capable of forming a high contrast electrostatic latent image. A polygon mirror scans a light flux emitted from a light source in a main scanning direction. An electrostatic latent image in an irradiation position irradiated by the scanned light flux is formed onto a photosensitive... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080173800 - Optical encoder and optical lens module: A reflective type optical encoder has a light source, a scale which moves relatively with respect to the light source and which has a periodic optical pattern, and a photodetector which can detect a change in an intensity pattern of a light beam that is emitted from the light source... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20080173802 - Encoder: Embodiments of an encoder are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080173803 - Scanning beam imaging with adjustable detector sensitivity or gain: A scanning beam assembly comprising: a beam generator to generate a beam of radiation, an oscillating reflector configured to deflect the beam at varying angles of excursion to yield a scanned beam that scans a field of view, an optical detector that detects light reflected from the field of view,... Agent: Mark P. Levy Thompson Hine LLP

20080173804 - Methods and apparatus for multi dimension fluorescence spectrum measurement and correlations downhole: Some principles described herein comtemplate implementation of downhole imaging for the characterization of formation fluid samples in situ, as well as during flow through production tubing, including subsea flow lines, for short term investigation, permanent, and/or long term installations. Various methods and apparatus described herein may facilitate downhole testing. For... Agent: Schlumberger K.k.

20080173805 - Methods and apparatus for multi dimension fluorescence spectrum measurement downhole: Some principles described herein contemplate implementation of downhole imaging for the characterization of formation fluid samples in situ, as well as during flow through production tubing, including subsea flow lines, for short term investigation, permanent, and/or long term installations. Various methods and apparatus described herein may facilitate downhole testing. For... Agent: Schlumberger K.k.

20080173807 - Fragmentation modulation mass spectrometry: Improved mass spectrometry is provided by modulating the fragmentation efficiency of analyte ions according to a modulation input signal. The fragmentation modulated ions are then analyzed according to time of flight and according to either ion kinetic energy or ion momentum to provide measured data. A mathematical inversion corresponding to... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080173808 - Process and device for response normalized liquid chromatography nanospray ionization mass spectrometry (rnlc-nsi-ms): Disclosed are a process and a device for the detection, identification, and quantification of chemical compounds or biomolecules using Response Normalized Liquid Chromatography NanoSpray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (RNLC-NSI-MS).... Agent: Schering-plough Corporation Patent Department (k-6-1, 1990)

20080173806 - Saliva assay technique for heavy metal: A method for determining heavy metal loading in a subject includes collecting a saliva sample from the subject containing a concentration of a heavy metal. The saliva sample is subjected to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to yield a heavy metal loading measurement for the subject. The saliva sample is... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080173809 - Methods and apparatus for the ion mobility based separation and collection of molecules: This invention describes an apparatus for the separation and collection of components in a sample of interest comprising: an ionization source; an ion mobility separator and an ion collector positioned to receive ions leaving the ion mobility separator. The ion mobility separator having an inlet to supply at least one... Agent: Ching Wu

20080173810 - Devices and systems including a boost device: A device for mass spectroscopy comprising a chamber configured to provide an atomization source, a boost device configured to provide radio frequency energy to the chamber, and a mass analyzer in fluid communication with the chamber and configured to separate species based on mass-to-charge ratios is disclosed. In certain examples,... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP P2021

20080173811 - Method and apparatus of measuring beam current waveforms: Beam detectors configuring a beam monitor are connected to a single current measurement apparatus through respective switches. If a width of a beam incident hole of each of the beam detectors 32 in the X direction is Wf, a gap between the beam incident holes of adjacent beam detectors in... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080173812 - Spin microscope based on optically detected magnetic resonance: The invention relates to scanning magnetic microscope which has a photoluminescent nanoprobe implanted in the tip apex of an atomic force microscope (AFM), a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) or a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) and exhibits optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) in the vicinity of impaired electron spins or... Agent: United States Department Of Energy

20080173813 - Manipulator for rotating and translating a sample holder: A manipulator for use in e.g. a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) is described, said manipulator capable of rotating and translating a sample holder (4). The manipulator clasps the round sample holder between two members (3A, 3B), said members mounted on actuators (2A, 2B). Moving the actuators in the same direction... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20080173815 - Electron beam apparatus and device production method using the electron beam apparatus: The purpose of the invention is to provide an improved electron beam apparatus with improvements in throughput, accuracy, etc. One of the characterizing features of the electron beam apparatus of the present invention is that it has a plurality of optical systems, each of which comprises a primary electron optical... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080173814 - Electron beam inspection system and inspection method and method of manufacturing devices using the system: An electron beam inspection system of the image projection type includes a primary electron optical system for shaping an electron beam emitted from an electron gun into a rectangular configuration and applying the shaped electron beam to a sample surface to be inspected. A secondary electron optical system converges secondary... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080173816 - Aviation vision apparatus: An aviation vision apparatus. Its purpose assists a pilot's ability to fly an aircraft by providing increased visibility. The apparatus features an uncooled IR sensor for vision enhancement. An integrated window assembly is provided which permits the sensor to obtain its imagery. The apparatus also has an integrated aerodynamic enclosure.... Agent: William B Ritchie Law Ofice Of William B. Ritchie

20080173817 - Carbon monoxide (co) microsir sensor system: The MICROSIR device can also be used to detect the CO, which may be combined with temperature and smoke in a very small package. The detection of one or more indicators such as smoke and CO; increases the sensitivity of the other indicators. Combining signals produces an improved fire detector... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080173818 - Heat source sensor for a marine vessel: Two sensor units are mounted on opposite sides of a transom of a boat and directed to a common location behind the boat. The field of view of the two sensors overlaps behind the marine propulsion unit of the boat to detect the presence of a heat emitting object, such... Agent: William D. Lanyi

20080173819 - Pet imaging system with apd-based pet detectors and three-dimensional positron-confining magnetic field: PET detector modules are provided within a multi-dimensional magnetic field, to confine the range of emitted positrons from an object being imaged to improve spatial resolution of reconstructed PET images. Each module includes a number of independent, optically isolated detectors. Each detector includes an array of scintillator crystals read out... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080173821 - Direction-sensitive radiation detector and radiation detection method: A radiation detection system and method suitable for use by a first responder to detect a radiological source. The system includes a container that encloses a chamber containing a pressurized inert gas. Incident gamma rays pass through walls of the container to interact with inert gas atoms within the chamber.... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.c.

20080173820 - Portable radiation detection apparatus and spectrometric analysis method: A portable radiation detection apparatus is provided to transform detected radioactivity into an analog pulse signal and then convert the analog pulse signal into a digital pulse signal. Thereafter, a counting information with respect to the pulse width and pulse counting of the digital pulse signal is created for data... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080173822 - Direct radiation converter module and direct radiation converter: A direct radiation converter module and a direct radiation converter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the direct radiation converter module includes a direct converter layer, provided with a metal layer, for converting radiation absorbed therein into electrical charge. For protection and passivation, the surface, of the metal layer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080173823 - Radiation image detector: A radiation image detector including a charge generation layer, and a detection layer including: many pixels, each having a collection electrode for collecting charges generated in the charge generation layer, a storage capacitor for storing charges collected by the collection electrode, and a TFT switch for reading out charges from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080173824 - Scintillator plate for radiation: A scintillator plate is disclosed comprising on a substrate a metal layer and a phosphor layer capable of emitting light upon exposure to radiation, wherein all of the substrate, the phosphor layer and the metal layer are covered with a moisture-resistant protective film. Also disclosed is a scintillator plate comprising... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080173825 - Particle violation spectroscopy: The method shows how to violate predictions of quantum mechanics for matter. For light, the method has been disclosed in patent application Photon Violation Spectroscopy. The methods are different in specifying different methods for light and matter. For matter, the method typically uses the single 5.5 MeV alpha (He++) emitted... Agent: Eric Reiter

20080173826 - Radiation image detector: Enlargement of faulty pixel portions caused by irradiation of radiation is prevented in a radiation image detector equipped with a charge generating layer for generating charges when the radiation is irradiated thereon. Radiation irradiation suppressing members, for suppressing the irradiation of radiation, are provided at faulty pixel portions, which are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080173827 - Generation, acceleration, focusing and collection of a high-brightness, space-charge-dominated circular charged-particle beam: A high-brightness, space-charge-dominated circular charged-particle beam system includes a flat circular emitter that emits charge particles to form a space-charge-dominated circular charged-particle beam. The space-charge-dominated circular charged-particle beam is emitted from the flat circular emitter with a uniform density and having a current emission being space-charge-limited, obeying the Child-Langmuir law.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080173828 - Ion implantation device and method for implanting ions: An ion implantation device includes: an ion source for retrieving an ion beam; a passage for passing the ion beam therethrough; a mass analysis magnet for selecting a predetermined ion species from the ion beam, the mass analysis magnet disposed in the passage; an implantation chamber for implanting the predetermined... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080173829 - Ultra - bright pulsed electron beam with low longitudinal emittance: A high-brightness pulsed electron source, which has the potential for many useful applications in electron microscopy, inverse photo-emission, low energy electron scattering experiments, and electron holography has been described. The source makes use of Cs atoms in an atomic beam. The source is cycled beginning with a laser pulse that... Agent: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

20080173830 - Workroom partition: A workroom partition divides a workroom interior of a workroom and a workroom surroundings. The workroom is provided with a laser processing device. The workroom partition includes on its inner side facing the laser processing device, a laser beam reflector formed from pre-fabricated reflective sheet of material having a grained... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080173831 - Optoelectronic sensor and method for detecting objects in a monitored region: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting objects in a monitored region which has light emitters and associated light receivers adjustably arranged relative to each other so that light emitted by the light emitter is directly received by the light receiver. The light emitter and the light receiver conform to normed requirements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080173832 - Valuable paper validator: A valuable paper validator for use in a vending (coin change) machine is disclosed to include a delivery unit for delivering a valuable paper through a delivery path, a LED package having multiple LED chips spaced above the delivery path and controllable to emit different wavelengths of intense pulsed light,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080169413 - Baffled sun sensor antenna alignment monitors: A directional alignment and alignment monitoring sensor system that is designed to be mounted to a directional or omni-directional antenna wherein the system includes a sensor having one or more phototransistors that are associated with one or more baffle members and wherein each baffle member defines a restrictive light passageway... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080169414 - Method and apparatus for measuring source follower gain in an image sensor array: Disclosed embodiments provide a method and apparatus for measuring the gain of output transistors of pixels in an imager device. Source/drain terminals of the output transistor and a reset transistor are driven with various input voltages to generate pixel output voltages. The slope of a line representing the relationship between... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080169415 - Compound optical coupler and support mechanism: A support mechanism for protecting an object is described. The support system includes at least one support or friction ring for providing dynamic protection to the object. One embodiment includes a support ring having corrugated bumps. Another embodiment includes multiple support rings axially separated by spacers. In another embodiment a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080169416 - Apparatus and method for analysing molecules: Apparatus for analysing molecules, including an ablation device 1,10 for releasing molecules from a sample, and a laser device 1,2,3 for illuminating released molecules with a shaped laser pulse thereby to ionize and/or dissociate the molecules. The ablation device or laser device has at least one component which is not... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20080169417 - Compact high performance chemical detector: Ion mobility spectrometer. The spectrometer includes an enclosed region having a gas with a selected chemical species contained therein. An energy source ionizes the gas and the chemical species. Spaced apart electrodes generate high frequency and DC electric fields across the enclosed region and circuitry is provided for generating voltage... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080169418 - X-ray detector fabrication methods and apparatus therefrom: A detector includes a reflector and a scintillator in optical communication with the reflector, wherein both the reflector and the scintillator are fabricated from the same material.... Agent: Thomas M. Fisher Fisher Patent Group LLC

20080169422 - Method, apparatus, and system of electric-signal detection by asynchronous demultiplexing: Some embodiments include methods, devices and systems of radiation detection by asynchronous demultiplexing. In some embodiments, an apparatus to read a plurality of electrical signals received from an electrode may include two or more electrical signal readers, wherein each of the signal readers is individually switchable between a coupled state... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080169421 - New system and method for imaging using radio-labeled substances, especially suitable for studying of biological processes: An imaging system is based on in-line x-ray optics arranged in combination with an X-ray detector to detect radiation from radio-labeled substances within an object to be imaged. This arrangement will provide a nuclear imaging device with potentially orders of magnitude higher resolution and efficiency and it will moreover be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080169420 - Radiation image detecting device and radiation image radiographing system: A radiation image detecting device is provided with a flat panel detector constituted with a plurality of elements arranged in a plane configuration so as to detect radiation having transmitted through a radiographic subject; a signal processing section to process signals outputted from the flat panel detector; a radiation shielding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080169419 - Systems and methods for reading data: A system for reading data is described. The system includes a detector that includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device is configured to remove a need to scrub the detector.... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080169423 - Test apparatus for testing the operability of a warning system for approaching guided missiles: The Missile Approach Warning Sensor Test apparatus, MAWST, serves to test the operability of a missile-approach warning system, MAWS, operating in the solar-blind UV-C range and/or in the IR range. The system, which finds application in military and civilian aircraft, vehicles, and ships, reacts to the radiation emission of an... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.C.

20080169424 - Multi-anode radiation detector: A nuclear radiation detector is disclosed wherein the capacitance of the detector is significantly reduced. This improvement results in more efficient and accurate measurements of radiative entities. The design also permits greater packing density in applications requiring large arrays of radiation detectors, such as would be needed in the monitoring... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080169425 - Multi-stage waveform detector: A waveform detector may include multiple stages.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080169426 - Technique for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location: A technique for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as an apparatus and method for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location. The apparatus and method may comprise a corrector-bar assembly comprising a set of magnetic core... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP/varian Semiconductor, Equipment Associates, Inc.

20080169427 - Techniques for providing ion source feed materials: Techniques for providing ion source feed materials are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a container for supplying an ion source feed material. The container may comprise an internal cavity to be pre-filled with an ion source feed material. The container may also comprise... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP/varian Semiconductor, Equipment Associates, Inc.

20080169428 - Light or weathering testing device comprising a specimen enclosure with an integrated uv radiation filter: The device comprises a chamber in which a UV radiation source and an enclosure are arranged, the enclosure comprising a bottom wall for mounting a specimen, a UV radiation filter facing the bottom wall and a plurality of sidewalls interconnecting the bottom wall and the UV radiation filter.... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20080169430 - Fluorescence analysis apparatus: After a sensor section has been dipped in a liquid sample, the sensor section is moved into a predetermined atmosphere, which is substantially free from occurrence of absorption or scattering of exciting light and fluorescence. In the state, in which the sensor section has been located in the predetermined atmosphere,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080169429 - Microelectronic multiple electron beam emitting device: An electronic emission device emitting plural beams of electrons and including a first structure of a plurality of electron beam emission micro-sources, and a second structure opposite the first structure for collecting electrons emitted by the first structure and for carrying out a secondary emission following the collection. The device... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080169431 - Method and device for detecting photosynthetic inhibition: This invention relates to systems and test strips for detecting the photosynthesis-inhibitory activity of substances by providing cells or cell parts with an intact photosystem, introducing the cells or cell parts into a planar layer, applying the test substance to the planar layer or into the planar layer, excitation of... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080169432 - Method of optimizing photostimulated speed level for needle image plates: In a method of annealing a storage phosphor screen comprising a photostimulable phosphor by adding energy in form of heat and/or radiation, said method is applied during a time and in relative humidity conditions such that said phosphor shows peaks in an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrum measured at a... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20080169435 - Ion beam monitoring arrangement: This invention relates to an ion beam monitoring arrangement for use in an ion implanter where it is desirable to monitor the floating potential across an ion beam used for implantation. The invention provides a ion beam monitoring arrangement comprising a device configured to measure the floating potential of an... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc.

20080169434 - Method of scanning a substrate in an ion implanter: This invention relates to a method of scanning a substrate through an ion beam in an ion implanter to provide uniform dosing of the substrate. The method comprises causing relative motion between the substrate and the ion beam such that the ion beam passes over all of the substrate and... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc.

20080169436 - Electron beam lithography method and apparatus using a dynamically controlled photocathode: Embodiments of the invention include an electron beam lithography device using a dynamically controllable photocathode capable of producing a patterned electron beam. One such implementation includes a dynamic pattern generator configurable to produce an electron beam having a desired image pattern impressed thereon. Such an electron beam pattern being enabled... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP Kla Tencor

20080169433 - Electron beam exposure apparatus and method for cleaning the same: Provided is an electron beam exposure apparatus for forming a desired pattern on a sample mounted on a wafer stage by exposure with an electron beam generated form an electron gun. The electron beam exposure apparatus includes: supplying device of injecting a reducing gas into a column in which the... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080169437 - Shielding can and method for making same: A shielding can (100) includes a shielding case (10) configured to reducing electromagnetic interference, and a cushion (20) integrally mounted to the shielding case by insert molding. The cushion is configured to absorb shock force. A method for making the shielding can includes the following steps: providing a mold; placing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080169438 - Device and method for identifying recording medium and image forming apparatus: An identification device operable to identify a type of a recording medium includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the recording medium with light, a reading unit configured to read the light that is irradiated from the irradiation unit and that is reflected from the recording medium to obtain an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080164404 - Electronic neutral density filter: An image sensor with an electronic neutral density filter. Each pixel of the image sensor is capable of being electronically adjusted such that the total charge integration is effectively changed by an amount of the adjustment. The adjustment uses a variable capacitor, here are paper wrapped are formed by an... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080164403 - Wide dynamic range sensor: A sensor and method for widening a dynamic range of sensor circuitry for sensing energy, such as light energy. The sensor circuitry includes a sensor and recharge circuitry for sharing additional charge with the sensor as needed during an integration period. Readout circuitry is provided to read out, after the... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080164405 - Wide dynamic range sensor: A design structure for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a circuit for widening a dynamic range of sensor circuitry for sensing energy, such as light energy. The sensor circuitry includes a sensor and recharge circuitry for sharing additional charge with the sensor as needed during an integration period. Readout circuitry is... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080164406 - Optical to electrical backshell connector: An optical cable backshell connector for an optical cable having a plurality of optical fibers and a protective jacket. The novel backshell connector includes a backshell housing secured to the protective jacket and a mechanism disposed within the housing for converting optical signals from the optical fibers into electrical signals.... Agent: Property & Licensing Raytheon Company

20080164407 - Apparatus and method for monitoring snow water equivalent and soil moisture content using natural gamma radiation: A gamma monitoring apparatus and method for measuring water equivalent of snowpack over a selected ground area. A detector unit is installed at a given height above the area. The detector unit has a collimator and a scintillator coupled to a photomultiplier tube for detecting gamma rays emitted by naturally... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080164408 - Power supply for an ion implantation system: A power supply system for an ion implantation system. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the system may be realized as a power supply system that includes a low frequency power inverter, a stack driver and a high voltage power generation unit that receives source power from the power inverter. The... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP/varian Semiconductor, Equipment Associates, Inc.

20080164409 - Neutral/ion reactor in adiabatic supersonic gas flow for ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry: The content of the invention comprises a concept of reactor for isolated ion transformations induced by collisions with neutral species. This reactor is also an interface between mobility cell and orthogonal injection TOFMS based on supersonic adiabatic gas flow with variable controlled composition directed along the axis of a multipole... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080164410 - Emission detecting analysis system and method of detecting emission on object: According to an emission detecting analysis system and method, a test target is placed on a stage inside a chamber. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) column is installed at the chamber to obtain an image of the test target, and an emission detector column is installed at the chamber to... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080164411 - Assessing runway visibility to airborne infrared vision devices: A technique for assessing runway visibility to airborne infrared vision devices (EVS) determines the range performance of airborne infrared EVS sensors at a given destination and in real time by extending the modern RVR philosophy to the infrared spectrum. The technique measures extinction coefficients at the infrared sensor wavelengths of... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20080164412 - Radiation detector: A radiation detector 1 includes a signal readout substrate 2. The signal readout substrate 2 is constructed by arranging pixel units 4 having pixel electrodes 7 in a two-dimensional matrix form on a front surface 3a of a substrate 3. On a front surface 2a of the signal readout substrate... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080164413 - Infrared sensor: An object of the present invention is to provide an infrared detector that is strong against mechanical impacts and enables mounting for various applications to be carried out readily and reliably. An infrared detector 1 includes: a base member 10, positioned at a lower portion; an infrared detecting chip 20,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080164414 - Method and apparatus for creating time-resolved emission images of integrated circuits using a single-point single-photon detector and a scanning system: A Scanning Time-Resolved Emission (S-TRE) microscope or system includes an optical system configured to collect light from emissions of light generated by a device under test (DUT). A scanning system is configured to permit the emissions of light to be collected from positions across the DUT in accordance with a... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080164415 - Control aperture for an ir sensor: A control aperture for an IR sensor includes a die; an IR sensor disposed on the die and an IR opaque aperture layer on the die having an IR transmissive aperture aligned with the IR sensor for controlling the field of view and focus of the IR sensor.... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20080164416 - Inorganic scintillating mixture and a sensor assembly for charged particle dosimetry: An inorganic scintillating mixture includes at least a first and a second component, each having a characteristic behavior in response to the irradiation with charged particles, such as protons and heavy ions, showing a typical Bragg peak with respect to a relative depth dose. The first component has a quenching... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080164417 - Flat x-ray detector and method for controlling the image dose emitted by an x-ray tube to a flat x-ray detector when recording an x-ray image: According to at least one embodiment of the invention, the measurement of an image dose is performed in the flat X-ray detector itself. The flat X-ray detector, in at least one embodiment, has a scintillator that converts the incident X-rays into light. The actual image signals are then generated in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080164418 - Method, apparatus, and system of reducing polarization in radiation detectors: Method, apparatus and system for reducing or preventing polarization in semiconductor radiation detectors for medical imaging. For example, an apparatus includes a semiconductor with electrodes coupled thereto, configured to generate an electrical signal in the electrodes in response to absorption of ionizing radiation in the semiconductor, wherein the absorption of... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080164419 - Methods and apparatus for keystone effect: A method includes mechanically correcting for a keystone effect on an x-ray detector.... Agent: Thomas M. Fisher Fisher Patent Group LLC

20080164420 - Detector of unauthorized products in a protected access area: means of detecting ionizing or radioactive radiation (500), positioned under the support base (100) on the side opposite (105) to that comprising the positioning marking means (400), to provide an indication linked to the presence or the absence of a product emitting an ionizing or radioactive radiation in an area... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080164421 - Linear ion accelerator: The electrode lengths of a plurality of electrodes linearly arranged in an acceleration cavity are proportional to the velocity of a traveling ion beam. Further, the electrode length is so designated that, in each half of a predetermined cycle in the ion beam direction of travel, the absolute value of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080164422 - Non-heating type fluid sterilizing apparatus: A non-heating type fluid sterilizing apparatus can efficiently sterilize a fluid having high turbidity and a large quantity of solid matter or a fluid such as blood having low transmissivity of ultraviolet radiation, as well as sterilize either a single fluid in large quantity or various fluids in small quantity.... Agent: John W. Renner

20080164423 - Methods and apparatus for presenting images: An image projection system for presenting an image to a viewer comprises an electromagnetic radiation source configured to generate radiation having multiple spectral characteristics, and multiple independently operable optical switches configured to selectively transmit, reflect, and/or block radiation from the radiation source to the viewer. The viewed image is made... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20080164425 - Radiation attenuation system for lateral imaging: A radiation attenuation system for attenuating radiation during lateral radiographic imaging of an object is provided. The system includes a first radiation attenuating barrier that is substantially conformable to the object and configured to at least partially cover the object. The first radiation attenuating barrier has a fenestration area defining... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080164424 - Reducing background fluorescence in arrays: The invention relates to novel methods for reducing background fluorescence of arrays. In particular embodiments, the invention provides a method of treating an array by exposing the array to light wherein the array receives at least a specified dosage of light. In various embodiments the invention also provides a device... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080164426 - Sub-wavelength imaging and irradiation with entangled particles: A method and apparatus for using one particle out of N particles for irradiating or investigating a target are provided. A radiation source with N incoherent emitters emits a radiation, and particles of said radiation are detected by using at least N−1 detectors located at N−1 different positions. A discriminator... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080164427 - Ion implanters: The present invention relates to components in ion implanters having surfaces adjacent to the path of the ion beam through the ion implanter. Such surfaces will be prone to deposition and the present invention addresses problems associated with delamination of deposited material. An ion implanter component is provided that has... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc.

20080164428 - Solar heat powered deployable structure: An embodiment of the present method may comprise: heating up at least one structural element beyond a change state temperature thereof; changing the configuration of the structural element from an extended configuration to a reduced size configuration; cooling the structural element to below the change state temperature thereof; covering the... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080164429 - Bolometric device with receiving cavity for measuring the power of a beam of high frequency microwaves and process for coating the internal surface of said cavity: The present invention describes a bolometric device with receiving cavity for measuring a beam of high frequency microwaves, comprising a hollow body (1) with receiving cavity (50) having an opening (2) for the entrance of said beam of high frequency microwaves in said receiving cavity (50), a diverging mirror (3)... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080164430 - Optical system for forming an illuminated pattern: An optical system is usable for forming an illuminated pattern on the surface of a material which is being displaced with respect to that illuminated pattern. An illuminating device, which includes several light sources that are driven in a pulsed manner by a control unit, emits light that is used... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper

20080156964 - Method and apparatus for detecting ultra-short light pulses of a repetitive light pulse signal, and for determining the pulse width of the light pulses: Apparatus for determining the pulse width of ultra-short light pulses of an input repetitive light pulse signal comprises a two-photon absorption detector (2) in the form of a microcavity (3) having an active region (4) located between top and bottom distributed Bragg reflectors (5,6). An optical fibre cable 16 directs... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080156965 - Optical pickup apparatus: An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source to emit light of a predetermined wavelength, an objective lens to focus the light emitted from the light source to form a light spot on an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers, a photodetector to detect a signal and an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080156966 - Cmos sensor with electrodes across photodetectors at approximately equal potential: A MOS or CMOS based active pixel sensor designed for operation with zero or close to zero potential across the pixel photodiodes to minimize or eliminate dark current. In preferred embodiments the pixel photodiodes are produced with a continuous pin or nip photodiode layer laid down over pixel electrodes of... Agent: Trex Enterprises Corp.

20080156968 - Light grid: A light grid detects includes a number of light emitting transmitters. The transmitted light rays of the individual transmitters are imprinted with a code that characterizes the transmitted light rays. The transmitters are activated cyclically and successively. Corresponding receivers aligned with the transmitters form transmitter/receiver pairs. The receivers are activated... Agent: Venable LLP

20080156967 - Optical movement sensing system: There is provided an optical movement sensing system which can be miniaturized and ensures a wide angle of view. The optical movement sensing system collecting light reflected from an object to be imaged on an optical sensor, the optical movement sensing system including: a wide-angle lens including a first lens... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080156970 - Image sensor and fabricating method thereof: The present invention provides an image sensor, and methods of manufacturing the same, that includes a color filter layer on a semiconductor substrate, and a microlens array on the color filter layer, in which the microlens includes a transparent conductive layer.... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.c.

20080156969 - Spectral photoelectric measurement transformer: A spectral photoelectric measurement transformer comprises an array (10) of photoelectric transformer elements and dielectric interference bandpass filters (22a, 22b) disposed on a common filter support (21) connected upstream of them for sensitizing the transformer elements to different wavelength ranges of the measurement light. The bandpass filters are divided into... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20080156971 - Modular sensor for damage detection, manufacturing method, and structural composite material: A modular sensor for damage detection with an optical fiber (FBG sensor) to detect a damage of a composite material, having a high level of visibility and manageability, and its manufacturing method is described. A structural composite material embedded with this modular sensor for damage detection is also described.... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080156972 - Laser sensor apparatus and method for detecting transmission shaft torque: Presented herein is a non-contact torque sensing apparatus and method for measuring the instantaneous torque, or torsional stress/strain, transmitted through an elongated power transmission member such as a rotatable shaft. Polarized light is directed along a measurement light path in a cavity of a shaft where it intercepts a polarizing... Agent: Quinn Law Group, Pllc

20080156973 - Photosensor array for optical encoder: An optical encoder. A reflective optical encoder includes a reflective coding element, a plurality of emitters, and a detector. The reflective coding element includes a track of alternating reflective and non-reflective sections. Each of the plurality of emitters is configured to generate corresponding light signals incident on the track of... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080156974 - Arrays of optical confinements and uses thereof: The present invention relates to optical confinements, methods of preparing and methods of using them for analyzing molecules and/or monitoring chemical reactions. The apparatus and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for high-throughput and low-cost single-molecular analysis.... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080156975 - Multi-evaluation core logger: Method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for conducting multiple types of evaluations on a core sample. The multiple types of evaluations allow core samples from historically problematic formation materials, such as those having consistently high gamma responses, to be reliably positioned downhole. Disparate types of evaluations may be obtained in... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080156976 - Method and apparatus for determining the thermal neutron capture cross-section of a subsurface formation from a borehole: Data acquired using a pulsed nuclear source are susceptible to two sources of error. One error is due to large statistical noise towards the end of an acquisition window. Another source of error is the contamination of the early portion of the data by borehole and other effects. The beginning... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.c.

20080156977 - Methods and systems for determining mud flow velocity from measurement of an amplitude of an artificially induced radiation: Embodiments of the present invention relate in general to methods and apparatus for determining downhole mud flow rates and other downhole parameters. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, an embodiment of the present invention may provide a method for determining a downhole parameter that includes operating a pulsed... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20080156978 - Hooked differential mobility spectrometry apparatus and method therefore: Disclosed are a device and method for improved interfacing of differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) or field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) analyzers of substantially planar geometry to subsequent or preceding instrument stages. Interfacing is achieved using curved DMS elements, where a thick ion beam emitted by planar DMS analyzers... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn: Ip Services, K1-53

20080156979 - Mass spectrometer: Amass spectrometer includes: an ion source for ionizing a specimen to generate ions, an ion transport portion for transporting the ions, a linear ion trap portion for accumulating the transported ions by a potential formed axially, and a control portion of ejecting the ions within a second m/z range different... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080156982 - Base line restoration circuit: Circuits for correcting base line shift of the detector coupling circuit of a TOFMS provide gain and impedance characteristics that compensate for the AC coupling effect of the detector. In one circuit, base line correction is achieved by injecting a current equal to that which flows due to the buildup... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080156980 - Method and apparatus for avoiding undesirable mass dispersion of ions in flight: In a mass spectrometer a target volume is filled with ions of different mass but substantially the same energy from a distant storage device by forming a plurality of spatially-limited ion swarms consisting of ions having the same mass. The ion swarms are ordered either by a mass-sequential extraction from... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20080156981 - Method and apparatus for plasma generation: An RF-driven plasma source, including a pair of spaced-apart plasma electrodes, wherein the electrodes act as plates of a capacitor, the gas electrically discharges and creates a plasma of both positive and negative ions, in a clean process that enables efficient sample analysis, with preferred isolated sample photo-ionization, reduced-power operation... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080156985 - Enclosed desorption electrospray ionization: An improvement to Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI), the process of creating ions directly from sample surfaces for mass spectrometric (MS) analysis by impinging a liquid spray onto the surface. The improvement is brought about by enclosing the spray and sample surface and MS-inlet capillary in a pressure tight enclosure. The... Agent: Lawson & Weitzen, LLP

20080156984 - Ion trapping: This invention relates to a method of trapping ions and to an ion trapping assembly. In particular, the present invention has application in gas-assisted trapping of ions in an ion trap prior to a mass analysis of the ions in a mass spectrometer. The invention provides a method of trapping... Agent: Thermo Finnigan Llc

20080156983 - Laser radiation desorption device for manipulating a liquid sample in the form of individual drops, thereby making it possible to carry out the chemical and biological treatment thereof: The invention relates to an integrated system for microfluidic analysis of a liquid sample comprising a liquid sample preparing means (100) which is provided with a displacement means (101) for introducing the sample and reagents and for transmitting said sample and reagents to a second means (200) for chemically or... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080156986 - System and method for implementing balanced rf fields in an ion trap device: A system and method are disclosed for effectively compensating for an unbalanced or non-zero centerline radio-frequency potential in a quadrupolar ion trap, the unbalanced centerline potential created by a compensation feature that minimizes non-linear field components created by one or more ejection slots in the ion trap. The ion trap... Agent: Thermo Finnigan Llc

20080156987 - Method of tem sample preparation for electron holography for semiconductor devices: A high quality electron microscopy sample suitable for electron holography is prepared by forming markers filled with TEOS oxide and by repeatedly applying multiple coats of an adhesive followed by a relatively low temperature cure after each application. TEOS oxide marker is readily visible during the polish, has a similar... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080156988 - Scanning probe microscope and scanning method: To realize to adapt to a shape of a surface, shorten a measurement time period and promote a measurement accuracy by setting a sampling interval in accordance with a slope of the shape of the surface and controlling a stylus in accordance with the interval, there is provided a scanning... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080156989 - Motion sensing/recognition by camera applications: In one embodiment, a motion recognition system includes a camera which can sense a signal indicating a position of a moving object and generate a monitoring information of the signal to a controller. The controller coupled to the camera can calculate a plurality of parameters (e.g., a velocity of the... Agent: Patent Prosecution O2mirco , Inc.

20080156991 - Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz imaging using a microbolometer focal-plane array: The present invention generally provides a terahertz (THz) imaging system that includes a source for generating radiation (e.g., a quantum cascade laser) having one or more frequencies in a range of about 0.1 THz to about 10 THz, and a two-dimensional detector array comprising a plurality of radiation detecting elements... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080156990 - Solder material test method and apparatus, control program and computer-readable recording medium: Provided is a solder material test method that reduces labor and time and is preferred in operation hygiene. Detected are a first intensity at a particular wave number of infrared radiation reflected from a test-sample solder material by illuminating light to the test-sample solder material and a second intensity at... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080156992 - Mobile cantilever door-type container inspection system: The present invention discloses a mobile cantilever door-type container inspection system, in the art of radiation scanning imaging inspection technology. The system according to the present invention comprises a moveable scanning apparatus formed by a scanning frame and a remote control device, wherein the scanning frame comprises a radiation source... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080156993 - Quantum photodetectors, imaging apparatus and systems, and related methods: A camera sub-module is provided for providing tomographic imaging of radiation emissions generated internally by a body. The camera sub-module includes a radiation-emitting layer having a radioactive source for emitting transmission emissions, and at least one radiation-detection layer for contemporaneously detecting and permitting differentiation between the transmission emissions and emissions... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, Llc

20080156994 - Method for operating a hybrid medical imaging unit comprising a first imaging device of high spatial resolution and a second nuclear medicine imaging device of high sensitivity: A method is disclosed for operating a hybrid medical imaging unit including a first imaging device of relatively high spatial resolution and a second nuclear medicine imaging device of relatively high sensitivity that respectively acquire imaging measurement signals from a common examination volume. In at least one embodiment, the method... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080156995 - Lead oxide based photosensitive device and its manufacturing method: A method for manufacturing a photo-responsive device having a photo-sensitive layer is proposed. The method comprises the following steps: a) providing a clean substrate inside an evacuated evaporation chamber; b) evaporating lead oxide (PbO) from a first crucible to form a seeding layer on the surface of the substrate; c)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080156996 - Indirect method and apparatus for cooling a silicon drift detector: An apparatus for the indirect cooling of a silicon drift detector (SDD) includes an enclosure with a vacuum maintained therein, at least one SDD module that generates substantially no heat positioned within the enclosure, a cooling engine positioned remote from the SDD module within the enclosure for cooling the SDD... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080156997 - Neutron irradiative methods and systems: A neutron elastic scattering detector device for non-invasively detecting the presence of at least one predetermined element of an object of interest. The detector device comprises a neutron source that simultaneously outputs, at a creation time, a neutron in a first direction and an associated baseline particle in a second... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080156998 - Focused ion beam apparatus: A focused ion beam apparatus including a plasma type gas ion source for generating an ion beam, and an ion optical system for gathering the ion beam generated from the plasma type gas ion source onto a sample. The ion optical system is constructed by a constitution having 2 pieces... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080156999 - Confocal laser scanning microscope: In a confocal laser scanning microscope that is equipped with a first scanning optical system for emitting an observation beam to scan and observe a sample and a second scanning optical system for emitting an excitation beam to scan and stimulate optically a part of the sample, the improvement of... Agent: Arnold International

20080157000 - Synthetic colour night vision system: A night vision coloring system may color a scene by extracting the spectral signature of each area in a scene and matching the extracted signature with a predetermined database signature and associated color. The system may comprise a temporal or spatial filtering element that may typically allow the capturing of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080157002 - Methods and apparatus for imaging elongate objects: A storage phosphor cassette for use in recording radiographic images of elongated objects. The cassette comprises a shell and a single storage phosphor plate. The shell includes first and second opposite open ends. The single storage phosphor plate is housed within the shell and is adapted to be at least... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080157003 - Radiation image conversion panel: A radiation image conversion panel containing: (a) a quadrilateral phosphor plate containing a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer; and (b) a barrier film which envelops the phosphor plate by being folded back so that the barrier film faces itself and forms an envelop which is folded on one side... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080157001 - Radiation image conversion panel and manufacturing method thereof: A method of producing a radiation image conversion panel containing the steps of: forming a stimulable phosphor layer on a substrate via a vapor deposition method to form a phosphor panel; heating the phosphor panel in a gas atmosphere of a halogen-containing solvent; and sealing the phosphor panel heated in... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080157005 - Methods and systems for simultaneous real-time monitoring of optical signals from multiple sources: Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of optical signals from arrays of signal sources, and particularly optical signal sources that have spectrally different signal components. Systems include signal source arrays in optical communication with optical trains that direct excitation radiation to and emitted signals from such arrays and image the... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.c.

20080157004 - Projection system and light tunnel thereof: A light tunnel includes a first optical element, a second optical element, a third optical element and a fourth optical element. The first optical element has a first recess. The second optical element is disposed opposite to the first optical element and has a second recess. The third optical element... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080157007 - Active particle trapping for process control: A particle isolation system includes a semiconductor process chamber; at least one member within the semiconductor process chamber wherein the member has at least a first position and a second position; and at least one isolation compartment having a plurality of walls, the isolation compartment defined by the plurality of... Agent: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Assc., Inc.

20080157006 - Debris mitigation system and lithographic apparatus: A debris mitigation system for trapping contaminant material coming from a debris-generating radiation source. The system includes a contamination barrier constructed and arranged to rotate about an axis, and a magnet structure constructed and arranged to provide a magnetic field for deflecting charged debris from the radiation source. The magnet... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080157008 - Laser irradiation apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device: The transmissivity of an fθ lens which is used as a means for converging laser light differs in the center and in the edge thereof. As a result, when the fθ lens is used as it is with the purpose of crystallizing by laser irradiation, energy distribution of the laser... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080157009 - Device for emitting electromagnetic radiation and display device: A device for emitting a first and a second electromagnetic radiation (13, 23, 53) via a radiation coupling-out surface (5) along a device beam path. A first radiation-emitting arrangement (1) has at least one first radiation-emitting component (10) which emits the first electromagnetic radiation (13). A second radiation-emitting arrangement (2)... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080157010 - Method and apparatus for generating radiation or particles by interaction between a laser beam and a target: To generate radiation or particles by interaction between a laser beam and a target, the selected target is a free flow (5) in a vacuum enclosure (40) of a powder made up of solid grains of size from 10 μm to 1 mm and the laser beam (9), which is... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080157011 - Extreme ultraviolet light and x-ray source target and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention is made to provide an extreme ultraviolet light source target or an X-ray source target having a good operationality. An extreme ultraviolet light source target in accordance with an aspect of the present invention is obtained by including a heavy metal such as tin into a matrix... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080157012 - Image data generating device and light receiving device: An image data generating device has a photoelectric sensor including an array of pixel generating units, each of which has one photoelectric conversion element and one floating diffusion. The photoelectric sensor includes a matrix of pixel sets, each of which includes a matrix of pixel generating units on two rows... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080157013 - System and method for z-structure measurements using simultaneous multi-band tomography: A method includes simultaneously illuminating a material using multiple first radiances and measuring multiple second radiances from the material. Each second radiance includes at least a portion of two or more first radiances that have interacted with the material. The method also includes determining a structure of the material based... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.