Radiant energy inventions 10/08

20080258039 - Focus detection device, focus detection method and imaging apparatus: A focus detection device comprises: an image shift detection unit that detects a relative shift amount of a pair of images formed by a pair of light fluxes having passed through an optical system; and a conversion unit that converts the shift amount to a defocus amount based upon dimensional... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258040 - Direct backlight module using optical feedback: A direct-light-type backlight module uses optical feedback to control point light sources for obtaining a default luminance. Each point light source drives a section in a cyclic time domain to em it a light. A photo detector detects a brightness and the brightness is thus control led by the optical... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080258041 - Light measuring apparatus: A light measuring apparatus includes a light source configured to emit light to a sample, and a light guide optics system configured to guide light generated as a result of applying the emitted light to the sample, to a photodetector, wherein the light guide optics system is provided in a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080258044 - Detection of optical radiation: The central idea of the present invention is that a readout result of an optical detection unit which is based on accumulating photocharges can be improved when the charge carriers accumulated on a photodiode capacitance can be transferred to a readout capacitance before being read out by a readout unit,... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080258042 - Image sensor circuits and methods with multiple readout lines per column of pixel circuits: An image sensor circuit of various embodiments includes a pixel array with a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each column of the pixel array includes a corresponding first set of pixel circuits connected to output analog pixel signals to a... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080258043 - Optical element and optical equipment: The optical element includes a substrate and optical thin film formed in multiple layers on the surface of the pertinent substrate, wherein the optical thin film is provided with low refractive index layers composed of material with a lower refractive index than that of the substrate, and high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258045 - Solid-state imaging device, method of driving solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device, includes: a pixel array area including an unit pixel having a photoelectric conversion element and a transfer gate; a first supply voltage control means for supplying a first control voltage to a control electrode of the transfer gate; a second supply voltage control means for sequentially... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080258047 - Solid-state image pickup device, a method of driving the same, a signal processing method for the same, and image pickup apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a pixel array portion; a dummy pixel; a differential circuit; a reset voltage supplying section; and a common phase feedback circuit.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080258048 - Detection module: A detection module for detecting electro-magnetic radiation comprises a photosensor, a current integration circuit and an arithmetic unit fits the integration samples to a predetermined time dependency of the integrated current and computes an accumulated electrical charge accumulated over the integration time interval from the fit. Notably, the detection module... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258049 - Quantum repeater using atomic cascade transitions: Via atomic cascade emission, an entangled pair of photons may be generated. A first one of the entangled pair may be ideal for long-distance communication. The other one may be suited for mapping to a long-lived atomic memory. Also, a deterministic single photon may be produced using a feedback system.... Agent: Merchant & Gould LLC

20080258046 - Backlight unit and display device having the same: Provided are a backlight unit and a display device having the same. The display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel and a backlight unit for supplying light to the display panel. The backlight unit according to an embodiment includes a light guide plate, a light source disposed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080258050 - Encoder: A light via first and second index scales is split by a beam splitter, and one of the split lights is received by a first light-receiving element via a movable scale and also the other of the split lights is received by a second light-receiving element via a reference scale,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258051 - Equipment and process for measuring the precision of sun tracking for photovoltaic concentrators: Mechanical sun trackers which have optical systems on their surface for concentrating direct solar radiation and its subsequent conversion into electricity through thermal or photovoltaic processes require precision solar tracking, which has to be all the more precise the greater the concentration factor used. Thus the precision required in these... Agent: The Mueller Law Office, P.C.

20080258052 - Mass spectrometer interface: A mass spectrometer interface, having improved sensitivity and reduced chemical background, is disclosed. The mass spectrometer interface provides improved desolvation, chemical selectivity and ion transport. A flow of partially solvated ions is transported along a tortuous path into a region of disturbance of flow, where ions and neutral molecules collide... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080258053 - All-mass ms/ms method and apparatus: A method of obtaining a mass spectrum of elements in a sample is disclosed. Sample precursor ions having a mass to charge ratio M/Z are generated, and fragmented at a dissociation site, so as to produce fragment ions of mass to charge ratio m/z. The fragment ions are guided into... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080258054 - Point-of-care mass spectrometer system: A point-of-care mass spectrometer system has a sampling system, an ionization component structured to receive a sample for analysis from the sampling system, a mass analyzer structured to receive a source of ions for analysis from the ionization component, and a detector structured to detect ions from the mass analyzer... Agent: Venable LLP

20080258055 - Charged beam apparatus and method that provide charged beam aerial dimensional map: A charged beam apparatus, such as an electron microscopy apparatus, and a method for determining an aerial dimensional map of a charged beam within the charged beam apparatus, each use a test structure that includes a feature located upon a substrate. One of the feature and the substrate is conductive... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080258056 - Method for stem sample inspection in a charged particle beam instrument: A method for sample examination in a dual-beam FIB calculates a first angle as a function of second, third and fourth angles defined by the geometry of the FIB and the tilt of the specimen stage. A fifth angle is calculated as a function of the stated angles, where the... Agent: Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.c

20080258057 - Integrated circuit chips, apparatuses for obtaining backscatter data from samples, methods of backscatter analysis, and methods of forming alpha particle emission and detection systems: Some embodiments include methods for fabricating an alpha particle emitter and detector associated with an integrated circuit chip. Some embodiments include an integrated circuit chip comprising an alpha particle emitter and detector supported by a semiconductor substrate. Some embodiments include an apparatus for obtaining backscatter data from a sample utilizing... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080258060 - Charged particle beam apparatus and method for operating a charged particle beam apparatus: A charged particle beam apparatus is provided, which comprises a charged particle beam column for generating a primary charged particle beam; a focusing assembly, such as a charged particle lens, e.g., an electrostatic lens, for focusing the primary charged particle beam on a specimen; a detector for detecting charged signal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080258058 - Interferometer: An interferometer according to the present invention has upper-stage, intermediate-stage, and lower-stage electron biprisms, operates with an azimuth angle Φ among filament electrodes of the three electron biprisms to arbitrarily control an interference area and an azimuth θ of the interference fringes formed therein, eliminates Fresnel fringes generation, and allows... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080258059 - Scanning probe microscope system: A scanning probe microscope system capable of identifying an element with atomic scale spatial resolution comprises: an X-ray irradiation means for irradiating a measurement object with high-brilliance monochromatic X-rays having a beam diameter smaller than 1 mm; a probe arranged to oppose to the measurement object; a processing means for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080258061 - Method and apparatus for automated image analysis of biological specimens: An electronic microscope system including a processor, a movable stage movable in two orthogonal directions under control of the processor, the movable stage including at least one part that determines a current position of the movable stage, a microscope part, which magnifies a sample on the movable stage, an electronic... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080258062 - Infrared wavelength converter for imaging applications based on quantum well devices: A mid-infrared (MIR) and/or far-infrared (FIR) to near-infrared (NIR) converter (10) for imaging applications is disclosed. The converter (10) makes use of the properties of Optical Readout Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (ORQWIP) (20), an NIR source (16), and a conventional near infrared detector device (24). In combination, an MIR or... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080258063 - Vehicle threat detection system: A threat detection system for a light armored vehicle utilizes dual-purpose optical systems, the primary functions of which are maneuvering the vehicle, targeting and surveillance. Initial detection of a threat can occur with a wide field of view optical system fixed to a main turret of the vehicle system, where... Agent: George A. Seaby Seaby & Associates

20080258064 - Radiation rate meter displaying remaining time parameters: A dosimeter includes a radiation detector and a display. The radiation detector outputs a signal indicative of an instantaneous radiation level. The dosimeter determines and displays a percent of limit (POL) value and/or a time to limit (TTL) value. The POL value indicates a ratio of an accumulated exposure to... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080258065 - Electromagnetic energy propagation direction sensor and method of using same: A sensor for detecting a propagation direction of electromagnetic energy includes a plurality of receptors oriented in different directions for absorbing at least a portion of the electromagnetic energy, each of the plurality of receptors comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes or nanofibers. The sensor further includes a processor electrically... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20080258066 - Multi-functional cathode packaging design for solid-state radiation detectors: A radiation detector includes a semiconductor substrate with opposing front and rear surfaces, where a cathode electrode is located on the front surface, a plurality of anode electrodes located on the rear surface, and an electrically conductive housing is placed in electrical contact with the cathode electrode.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080258068 - Device and method for generating an x-ray point source by geometric confinement: A device for generating an x-ray point source includes a target, and an electron source for producing electrons which intersect with the target to generate an x-ray point source having a size which is confined by a dimension of the target.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080258067 - Microelectronic system with a passivation layer: The invention relates to a microelectronic system, particularly for an X-ray detector, comprising a semiconductor layer (1) with an array of pixels (P) which are composed of photosensitive components (3) and associated electronic circuits (4). An insulating passivation layer (5) with recesses (5a) in its surface is disposed between the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258070 - Euv illumination system with a system for measuring fluctuations of the light source: The disclosure relates to an EUV (extreme ultraviolet) illumination system. The system can include at least one EUV light source, and an aperture stop and sensor arrangement for the measurement of intensity fluctuations and/or position changes of the EUV light source, in particular in the range of the effectively utilized... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080258069 - Exposure device: The present invention relates to an exposure device for forming predetermined patterns onto an object. The exposure device includes an optical source for emitting a ray, an aperture member including first and second opening windows and a detection window, first and second reflective optical elements for reflecting the first and... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080258071 - Standoff detection using coherent backscattered spectroscopy: Provided herein are methods for detecting vapor-phase materials and/or photofragments thereof including energetic materials and decomposition products thereof, molecules or analytes at a stand-off distance. The methods provide for the stimulation of the ground state vapor phase to an excited state using a high fluence temporally and spatially focused ultraviolet... Agent: Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20080258072 - Detector for ionizing radiation: A detector for detecting ionising radiation having at least one detector arranged to be connected to a read-out arrangement for the reading-out and the evaluation of a signal from the detector. The detector has a carrier material and a layer having an active detector material applied to the carrier material,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080258074 - Beam processing apparatus: In a beam processing apparatus including a beam scanner having a two electrodes type deflection scanning electrode, the beam scanner further includes shielding suppression electrode assemblies respectively at vicinities of upstream side and downstream side of the two electrodes type deflection scanning electrode and having openings in a rectangular shape... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080258073 - Method and apparatus for simultaneously depositing and observing materials on a target: A system for joining at least two beams of charged particles that includes directing a first beam along a first axis into a field. A second beam is directed along a second axis into the field. The first and second beams are turned, by interaction between the field and the... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080258075 - Ionizing radiation treatment system on water-borne platform: An ionizing radiation treatment system is provided on a water-borne platform that includes areas for loading, treating, and unloading contaminated materials.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080258076 - Medical isotope generator systems: Medical isotope generator systems are disclosed according to some aspects. In one aspect, a 90Y generator system comprises a generator column, a concentration column, and a flow control system, through which the generator column and the concentration column are in fluid communication. The flow control system provides a plurality of... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080258077 - Superresolution in microlithography and fluorescence microscopy: In scanned optical systems such as confocal laser microscopes wherein a beam of light is focused to a spot in a specimen to excite a fluorescent species or other excitable specie in the spot, the effective size of the excitation is made smaller man the size of the spot by... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Ny Patent Department

20080258078 - Apparatuses, components and methodologies for determining suitability conditions for plant growth: Mechanisms are provided to easily determining an indication of the amount of light available at a growing location over a given period of time. Such mechanisms may be used indoors or outdoors and are designed so as to provide an easily readable and understandable indication of the amount of light... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080258079 - Apparatuses and methods for up-converting electromagnetic radiation: Various aspects of the present invention are directed to apparatuses and methods for up-converting electromagnetic radiation. In one aspect of the present invention, a plasmonic up-converter apparatus includes an excitation source operable to emit electromagnetic radiation at an excitation frequency and at least one array of nanofeatures. The at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080258080 - Method and apparatus for treating fluids to alter their physical characteristics: Method and apparatus for altering the physical characteristics of liquids and gases. The fluid is pumped into an elongated cylindrical chamber whose elongated wall contains a multiplicity of spaced apart cylindrical holes under sufficient pressure to cause the fluid to exit from the cylindrical holes as jets having an exit... Agent: Bill Rippe Toe Suite 411

20080258081 - Removable liners for charged particle beam systems: A method of improving the performance of charged beam apparatus. The method including: providing the apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a chamber having an interior surface; a pump port for evacuating the chamber; a substrate holder within the chamber; and a charged particle beam within the chamber, the charged beam generated... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080258084 - Charged-particle exposure apparatus: A particle-beam projection processing apparatus for irradiating a target, with an illumination system for forming a wide-area illuminating beam of energetic electrically charged particles; a pattern definition means for positioning an aperture pattern in the path of the illuminating beam; and a projection system for projecting the beam thus patterned... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080258083 - Beam allocation apparatus and beam allocation method for medical particle accelerators: The invention relates to a beam allocation apparatus (21) for medical particle accelerators and also to a beam allocation method. This beam allocation apparatus (21) should manage a plurality of control rooms (8-12) for different treatment rooms and for quality assurance rooms and control rooms for the particle accelerator (1)... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080258082 - Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus: A prescribed gas is introduced into a vacuum container 1 from a gas supply apparatus 2 through a gas inlet 11 while being exhausted by a turbomolecular pump 3 as an exhaust apparatus through an exhaust hole 12. The pressure in the vacuum container 1 is kept at a prescribed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080258085 - Electro-less discharge extreme ultraviolet light source: An electrode-less discharge source of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation (10) efficiently assembles a hot, dense, uniform, axially stable plasma column (5) with magnetic pressure and inductive current drive. It employs theta-pinch-type magnetic compression of plasma confined in a magnetic mirror. Plasma, confined in a magnetic mirror, is made to radiate... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080258086 - Optical detector: An optical detector (1) acts as a modular detection unit. It may for example be mounted on a separate micro-fluidic device (2) for detection of species within a channel (3) of the device (2). The detector (1) has mounting lugs (4) for mounting on the micro-fluidic device (2) for exact... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080258087 - Portable opto-electro-mechanical scanning assembly for photostimulable phosphor imaging plates: These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by an apparatus and process for evaluating an image-wise exposed storage film positioned about a cylindrically-shaped member and linearly passed by a slot for interrogation by a laser light beam wherein a processing assembly (laser beam and pentraprism) is co-axially... Agent: Clifford G. Frayne

20080258039 - Focus detection device, focus detection method and imaging apparatus: A focus detection device comprises: an image shift detection unit that detects a relative shift amount of a pair of images formed by a pair of light fluxes having passed through an optical system; and a conversion unit that converts the shift amount to a defocus amount based upon dimensional... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258040 - Direct backlight module using optical feedback: A direct-light-type backlight module uses optical feedback to control point light sources for obtaining a default luminance. Each point light source drives a section in a cyclic time domain to em it a light. A photo detector detects a brightness and the brightness is thus control led by the optical... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080258041 - Light measuring apparatus: A light measuring apparatus includes a light source configured to emit light to a sample, and a light guide optics system configured to guide light generated as a result of applying the emitted light to the sample, to a photodetector, wherein the light guide optics system is provided in a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080258044 - Detection of optical radiation: The central idea of the present invention is that a readout result of an optical detection unit which is based on accumulating photocharges can be improved when the charge carriers accumulated on a photodiode capacitance can be transferred to a readout capacitance before being read out by a readout unit,... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080258042 - Image sensor circuits and methods with multiple readout lines per column of pixel circuits: An image sensor circuit of various embodiments includes a pixel array with a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each column of the pixel array includes a corresponding first set of pixel circuits connected to output analog pixel signals to a... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080258043 - Optical element and optical equipment: The optical element includes a substrate and optical thin film formed in multiple layers on the surface of the pertinent substrate, wherein the optical thin film is provided with low refractive index layers composed of material with a lower refractive index than that of the substrate, and high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258045 - Solid-state imaging device, method of driving solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device, includes: a pixel array area including an unit pixel having a photoelectric conversion element and a transfer gate; a first supply voltage control means for supplying a first control voltage to a control electrode of the transfer gate; a second supply voltage control means for sequentially... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080258047 - Solid-state image pickup device, a method of driving the same, a signal processing method for the same, and image pickup apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a pixel array portion; a dummy pixel; a differential circuit; a reset voltage supplying section; and a common phase feedback circuit.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080258048 - Detection module: A detection module for detecting electro-magnetic radiation comprises a photosensor, a current integration circuit and an arithmetic unit fits the integration samples to a predetermined time dependency of the integrated current and computes an accumulated electrical charge accumulated over the integration time interval from the fit. Notably, the detection module... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258049 - Quantum repeater using atomic cascade transitions: Via atomic cascade emission, an entangled pair of photons may be generated. A first one of the entangled pair may be ideal for long-distance communication. The other one may be suited for mapping to a long-lived atomic memory. Also, a deterministic single photon may be produced using a feedback system.... Agent: Merchant & Gould LLC

20080258046 - Backlight unit and display device having the same: Provided are a backlight unit and a display device having the same. The display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel and a backlight unit for supplying light to the display panel. The backlight unit according to an embodiment includes a light guide plate, a light source disposed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080258050 - Encoder: A light via first and second index scales is split by a beam splitter, and one of the split lights is received by a first light-receiving element via a movable scale and also the other of the split lights is received by a second light-receiving element via a reference scale,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258051 - Equipment and process for measuring the precision of sun tracking for photovoltaic concentrators: Mechanical sun trackers which have optical systems on their surface for concentrating direct solar radiation and its subsequent conversion into electricity through thermal or photovoltaic processes require precision solar tracking, which has to be all the more precise the greater the concentration factor used. Thus the precision required in these... Agent: The Mueller Law Office, P.C.

20080258052 - Mass spectrometer interface: A mass spectrometer interface, having improved sensitivity and reduced chemical background, is disclosed. The mass spectrometer interface provides improved desolvation, chemical selectivity and ion transport. A flow of partially solvated ions is transported along a tortuous path into a region of disturbance of flow, where ions and neutral molecules collide... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080258053 - All-mass ms/ms method and apparatus: A method of obtaining a mass spectrum of elements in a sample is disclosed. Sample precursor ions having a mass to charge ratio M/Z are generated, and fragmented at a dissociation site, so as to produce fragment ions of mass to charge ratio m/z. The fragment ions are guided into... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080258054 - Point-of-care mass spectrometer system: A point-of-care mass spectrometer system has a sampling system, an ionization component structured to receive a sample for analysis from the sampling system, a mass analyzer structured to receive a source of ions for analysis from the ionization component, and a detector structured to detect ions from the mass analyzer... Agent: Venable LLP

20080258055 - Charged beam apparatus and method that provide charged beam aerial dimensional map: A charged beam apparatus, such as an electron microscopy apparatus, and a method for determining an aerial dimensional map of a charged beam within the charged beam apparatus, each use a test structure that includes a feature located upon a substrate. One of the feature and the substrate is conductive... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080258056 - Method for stem sample inspection in a charged particle beam instrument: A method for sample examination in a dual-beam FIB calculates a first angle as a function of second, third and fourth angles defined by the geometry of the FIB and the tilt of the specimen stage. A fifth angle is calculated as a function of the stated angles, where the... Agent: Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.c

20080258057 - Integrated circuit chips, apparatuses for obtaining backscatter data from samples, methods of backscatter analysis, and methods of forming alpha particle emission and detection systems: Some embodiments include methods for fabricating an alpha particle emitter and detector associated with an integrated circuit chip. Some embodiments include an integrated circuit chip comprising an alpha particle emitter and detector supported by a semiconductor substrate. Some embodiments include an apparatus for obtaining backscatter data from a sample utilizing... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080258060 - Charged particle beam apparatus and method for operating a charged particle beam apparatus: A charged particle beam apparatus is provided, which comprises a charged particle beam column for generating a primary charged particle beam; a focusing assembly, such as a charged particle lens, e.g., an electrostatic lens, for focusing the primary charged particle beam on a specimen; a detector for detecting charged signal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080258058 - Interferometer: An interferometer according to the present invention has upper-stage, intermediate-stage, and lower-stage electron biprisms, operates with an azimuth angle Φ among filament electrodes of the three electron biprisms to arbitrarily control an interference area and an azimuth θ of the interference fringes formed therein, eliminates Fresnel fringes generation, and allows... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080258059 - Scanning probe microscope system: A scanning probe microscope system capable of identifying an element with atomic scale spatial resolution comprises: an X-ray irradiation means for irradiating a measurement object with high-brilliance monochromatic X-rays having a beam diameter smaller than 1 mm; a probe arranged to oppose to the measurement object; a processing means for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080258061 - Method and apparatus for automated image analysis of biological specimens: An electronic microscope system including a processor, a movable stage movable in two orthogonal directions under control of the processor, the movable stage including at least one part that determines a current position of the movable stage, a microscope part, which magnifies a sample on the movable stage, an electronic... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080258062 - Infrared wavelength converter for imaging applications based on quantum well devices: A mid-infrared (MIR) and/or far-infrared (FIR) to near-infrared (NIR) converter (10) for imaging applications is disclosed. The converter (10) makes use of the properties of Optical Readout Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (ORQWIP) (20), an NIR source (16), and a conventional near infrared detector device (24). In combination, an MIR or... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080258063 - Vehicle threat detection system: A threat detection system for a light armored vehicle utilizes dual-purpose optical systems, the primary functions of which are maneuvering the vehicle, targeting and surveillance. Initial detection of a threat can occur with a wide field of view optical system fixed to a main turret of the vehicle system, where... Agent: George A. Seaby Seaby & Associates

20080258064 - Radiation rate meter displaying remaining time parameters: A dosimeter includes a radiation detector and a display. The radiation detector outputs a signal indicative of an instantaneous radiation level. The dosimeter determines and displays a percent of limit (POL) value and/or a time to limit (TTL) value. The POL value indicates a ratio of an accumulated exposure to... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080258065 - Electromagnetic energy propagation direction sensor and method of using same: A sensor for detecting a propagation direction of electromagnetic energy includes a plurality of receptors oriented in different directions for absorbing at least a portion of the electromagnetic energy, each of the plurality of receptors comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes or nanofibers. The sensor further includes a processor electrically... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20080258066 - Multi-functional cathode packaging design for solid-state radiation detectors: A radiation detector includes a semiconductor substrate with opposing front and rear surfaces, where a cathode electrode is located on the front surface, a plurality of anode electrodes located on the rear surface, and an electrically conductive housing is placed in electrical contact with the cathode electrode.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080258068 - Device and method for generating an x-ray point source by geometric confinement: A device for generating an x-ray point source includes a target, and an electron source for producing electrons which intersect with the target to generate an x-ray point source having a size which is confined by a dimension of the target.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080258067 - Microelectronic system with a passivation layer: The invention relates to a microelectronic system, particularly for an X-ray detector, comprising a semiconductor layer (1) with an array of pixels (P) which are composed of photosensitive components (3) and associated electronic circuits (4). An insulating passivation layer (5) with recesses (5a) in its surface is disposed between the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258070 - Euv illumination system with a system for measuring fluctuations of the light source: The disclosure relates to an EUV (extreme ultraviolet) illumination system. The system can include at least one EUV light source, and an aperture stop and sensor arrangement for the measurement of intensity fluctuations and/or position changes of the EUV light source, in particular in the range of the effectively utilized... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080258069 - Exposure device: The present invention relates to an exposure device for forming predetermined patterns onto an object. The exposure device includes an optical source for emitting a ray, an aperture member including first and second opening windows and a detection window, first and second reflective optical elements for reflecting the first and... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080258071 - Standoff detection using coherent backscattered spectroscopy: Provided herein are methods for detecting vapor-phase materials and/or photofragments thereof including energetic materials and decomposition products thereof, molecules or analytes at a stand-off distance. The methods provide for the stimulation of the ground state vapor phase to an excited state using a high fluence temporally and spatially focused ultraviolet... Agent: Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20080258072 - Detector for ionizing radiation: A detector for detecting ionising radiation having at least one detector arranged to be connected to a read-out arrangement for the reading-out and the evaluation of a signal from the detector. The detector has a carrier material and a layer having an active detector material applied to the carrier material,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080258074 - Beam processing apparatus: In a beam processing apparatus including a beam scanner having a two electrodes type deflection scanning electrode, the beam scanner further includes shielding suppression electrode assemblies respectively at vicinities of upstream side and downstream side of the two electrodes type deflection scanning electrode and having openings in a rectangular shape... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080258073 - Method and apparatus for simultaneously depositing and observing materials on a target: A system for joining at least two beams of charged particles that includes directing a first beam along a first axis into a field. A second beam is directed along a second axis into the field. The first and second beams are turned, by interaction between the field and the... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080258075 - Ionizing radiation treatment system on water-borne platform: An ionizing radiation treatment system is provided on a water-borne platform that includes areas for loading, treating, and unloading contaminated materials.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080258076 - Medical isotope generator systems: Medical isotope generator systems are disclosed according to some aspects. In one aspect, a 90Y generator system comprises a generator column, a concentration column, and a flow control system, through which the generator column and the concentration column are in fluid communication. The flow control system provides a plurality of... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080258077 - Superresolution in microlithography and fluorescence microscopy: In scanned optical systems such as confocal laser microscopes wherein a beam of light is focused to a spot in a specimen to excite a fluorescent species or other excitable specie in the spot, the effective size of the excitation is made smaller man the size of the spot by... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Ny Patent Department

20080258078 - Apparatuses, components and methodologies for determining suitability conditions for plant growth: Mechanisms are provided to easily determining an indication of the amount of light available at a growing location over a given period of time. Such mechanisms may be used indoors or outdoors and are designed so as to provide an easily readable and understandable indication of the amount of light... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080258079 - Apparatuses and methods for up-converting electromagnetic radiation: Various aspects of the present invention are directed to apparatuses and methods for up-converting electromagnetic radiation. In one aspect of the present invention, a plasmonic up-converter apparatus includes an excitation source operable to emit electromagnetic radiation at an excitation frequency and at least one array of nanofeatures. The at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080258080 - Method and apparatus for treating fluids to alter their physical characteristics: Method and apparatus for altering the physical characteristics of liquids and gases. The fluid is pumped into an elongated cylindrical chamber whose elongated wall contains a multiplicity of spaced apart cylindrical holes under sufficient pressure to cause the fluid to exit from the cylindrical holes as jets having an exit... Agent: Bill Rippe Toe Suite 411

20080258081 - Removable liners for charged particle beam systems: A method of improving the performance of charged beam apparatus. The method including: providing the apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a chamber having an interior surface; a pump port for evacuating the chamber; a substrate holder within the chamber; and a charged particle beam within the chamber, the charged beam generated... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080258084 - Charged-particle exposure apparatus: A particle-beam projection processing apparatus for irradiating a target, with an illumination system for forming a wide-area illuminating beam of energetic electrically charged particles; a pattern definition means for positioning an aperture pattern in the path of the illuminating beam; and a projection system for projecting the beam thus patterned... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080258083 - Beam allocation apparatus and beam allocation method for medical particle accelerators: The invention relates to a beam allocation apparatus (21) for medical particle accelerators and also to a beam allocation method. This beam allocation apparatus (21) should manage a plurality of control rooms (8-12) for different treatment rooms and for quality assurance rooms and control rooms for the particle accelerator (1)... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080258082 - Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus: A prescribed gas is introduced into a vacuum container 1 from a gas supply apparatus 2 through a gas inlet 11 while being exhausted by a turbomolecular pump 3 as an exhaust apparatus through an exhaust hole 12. The pressure in the vacuum container 1 is kept at a prescribed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080258085 - Electro-less discharge extreme ultraviolet light source: An electrode-less discharge source of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation (10) efficiently assembles a hot, dense, uniform, axially stable plasma column (5) with magnetic pressure and inductive current drive. It employs theta-pinch-type magnetic compression of plasma confined in a magnetic mirror. Plasma, confined in a magnetic mirror, is made to radiate... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080258086 - Optical detector: An optical detector (1) acts as a modular detection unit. It may for example be mounted on a separate micro-fluidic device (2) for detection of species within a channel (3) of the device (2). The detector (1) has mounting lugs (4) for mounting on the micro-fluidic device (2) for exact... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080258087 - Portable opto-electro-mechanical scanning assembly for photostimulable phosphor imaging plates: These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by an apparatus and process for evaluating an image-wise exposed storage film positioned about a cylindrically-shaped member and linearly passed by a slot for interrogation by a laser light beam wherein a processing assembly (laser beam and pentraprism) is co-axially... Agent: Clifford G. Frayne

20080251689 - Scanning optical device and observation method: A clear fluorescence image is easily obtained irrespective of variation of scattering due to variation of the depth of a focus position in a specimen. A scanning optical device includes a laser light source for emitting laser light, a scanning unit for scanning the laser light emitted from the laser... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080251690 - Led luminaire with stabilized luminous flux and stabilized light color: The invention relates to an LED luminaire in which LEDs in three colors are provided and each LED is assigned a photodiode for measuring the luminous intensity of the individual LEDs. In order to produce a measurement window, two LEDs in each case are switched off.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080251691 - Imaging device and imaging device drive method: The problem of the invention is to improve S/N and provide a high-sensitivity imaging device. The CMOS image sensor includes multiple pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, where each pixel includes a photodiode PD that receives light to produce charge, a capacitance element FD, and a transfer transistor M1 connected... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080251692 - Silicon photoelectric multiplier (variants) and a cell for silicon photoelectric multiplier: The inventive silicon photoelectric multiplier (variant 1) comprising a p++ type conductivity substrate whose dope additive concentration ranges from 1018 to 1020 cm−3 and which consists of cells, each of which comprises a p-type conductivity epitaxial layer whose dope additive concentration is gradually changeable from 1018 to 1014 cm−3 and... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080251694 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus capable of capturing a composite image of a visible-light image and an infrared image of a subject is provided, whereby the configuration is simplified and made more convenient. A visible-light source (20) and an excitation-light source (22) for exciting a phosphorescent substance are provided as a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080251695 - Image sensing apparatus and image sensing method: An image sensing apparatus and an image sensing method of the invention are configured in such a manner that an image sensor having two or more different photoelectric conversion characteristics is used, a gain of image signals having the respective photoelectric conversion characteristics acquired by the image sensor is calculated... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080251697 - Image sensor and method of fabrication: Disclosed is an image sensor and method of fabricating the same. The image sensor includes a photoelectric transformation region formed in a semiconductor substrate, and pluralities of interlayer dielectric films formed over the photoelectric transformation regions. The interlayer dielectric films contain multilevel interconnection layers. A color filter layer is disposed... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080251696 - Image sensor power distribution: An image sensor power distribution arrangement includes a sensing portion having a first contact at a first edge thereof and a second contact at a second edge thereof, and a control portion. A first power supply supplies power to the sensing portion via the first contact. A second power supply... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080251693 - Resolution switch circuit for image sensor: A resolution switch circuit for an image sensor uses a control unit to control a plurality of image gathering units to generate and store image signals. A resolution control unit controls a plurality of shift registers through the resolution control signals so that the shift registers control the image gathering... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080251698 - Semiconductor optical receiver module: There is provided a semiconductor optical receiver module that performs efficient heat dissipation, without incurring an increase in cost. The semiconductor optical receiver module includes a substrate provided on a package, a semiconductor photodetector provided on the substrate, a chip capacitor provided on the substrate, and a preamp IC provided... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080251699 - Method and system for wavelength-dependent imaging and detection using a hybrid filter: Apparatus and methods for wavelength-dependent detection are provided. A detector includes a hybrid filter having unpatterned and patterned filter layers and at least one light-detecting sensor that detects light in first and second wavelength bands from the patterned filter layer of the hybrid filter. The unpatterned filter layer passes light... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080251700 - Encoder with a combined position and index track: An optical encoder. The encoder includes a coding element, an emitter, and a detector. The coding element has a track with a track pattern. The track pattern includes a plurality of optically distinguishable sections, which include a plurality of position sections and an index section. The emitter generates a light... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20080251701 - Encoder with a combined position and index track: An optical encoder. The encoder includes a coding element, an emitter, and a detector. The coding element has a track with a track pattern. The track pattern includes a plurality of optically distinguishable sections, which include a plurality of position sections and an index section. The emitter generates a light... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20080251702 - Light barrier device and method of manufacturing a light barrier device: Light barrier device, comprising a housing, a light source, by means of which a radiation beam may be emitted, and a light receiver, wherein the light source and/or the light receiver is positioned on the housing with a joint device, by means of which the light source and/or the light... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080251703 - Optical encoder: In a triple slit optical encoder, a first grating and a third grating are formed on separate members, and values of a first effective width W1 and a first pitch p1 of an optical pattern on the first grating, and a third effective width W3 and a third pitch p3... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080251704 - Optical structure for localising an electromagnetic field and detector or emitter device including such a structure: An optical structure enabling properties of the surface plasmons to be used is defined from a substantially binary, parameterizable unit pattern ME. The parameters a, b, c, d and hg of the pattern are chosen so as to maximize the complex amplitudes of the first two harmonics of the complex... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080251705 - Image sensor chip package: An image sensor chip package includes a base, a sidewall adhered on peripheries of the base, an image sensor chip adhered on a top face of the base, and a cover adhered with the sidewall. The base includes a top face and a bottom face formed on an opposite side... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080251707 - Optical chassis, camera having an optical chassis, and associated methods: A camera including a mount substrate, a detector on a first surface of the mount substrate, a spacer on the mount substrate, the spacer including a hole exposing the detector, a cover on the spacer, the cover covering the hole, the mount substrate, the spacer and the cover together sealing... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20080251706 - Optical pickup: The soldered connection of an end portion of a cable extending from each element with a main substrate is prevented from being broken. An end portion of a cable t1 extending from a light source element LD that is fixed to a standing frame 2A on a slide base 2... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080251708 - Method of determining sensitivity of radiation detector: Each of the detectors of a detector inventory are subjected to an identical flat field exposure to generate a radiation mage in each of the detectors, from the radiation images the overall field distribution is determined and neutralized in the images, next the sensitivity is determined.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080251709 - Pmt gain and energy calibrations using lutetium background radiation: A scintillator (18) includes radioactive elements which emit radiation of a characteristic energy, such as lutetium176, which emits 202 keV and 307 keV γ-rays. The scintillators have light output levels that vary and photomultiplier tubes that respond to the light scintillations tend to drift. When a scanner (10) is not... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080251710 - Method and apparatus for determining silicon content of the earth formations in cased well bores: Measurements made with a pulsed neutron source and three or more gamma ray detectors are used to estimate the silicon and oxygen content of earth formations.... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080251713 - Ion implantation apparatus and ion implantation method: An ion implantation apparatus according to the invention includes a park electrode as a deflecting apparatus arranged at a section of a beam line from an outlet of a mass analysis magnet apparatus to a front side of a mass analysis slit for deflecting an ion beam in a predetermined... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080251712 - Measurement of the mobility of mass-selected ions: The mobility of mass-selected ions in gases is measured at pressures of a few hectopascal by selecting the ions under investigation in a quadrupole filter according to their mass-to-charge ratio m/z, measuring their mobility in a drift region at a pressure of a few hundred Pascal under the influence of... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20080251711 - Ultra high mass range mass spectrometer systems: A mass spectrometer system includes an inlet system having an aerodynamic lens system for collimating charged particles into a beam, and an aerodynamic kinetic energy reducing device for receiving and slowing the charged particles to near zero kinetic energy. A detection system receives and identifies a mass of the charged... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080251715 - Introduction of ions into a magnetic field: In a mass spectrometer that uses a space-restricted magnetic field, such as an ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer, ions with a wide mass range generated in an ion supply located outside the magnetic field are transported in the direction of the magnetic field lines to an ion storage device located... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20080251714 - Resolution improvement in the coupling of planar differential mobility analyzers with mass spectrometers or other analyzers and detectors: Prior work on differential mobility analysis (DMA) combined with mass spectrometry (MS) has shown how to couple the output of the DMA with the inlet of an atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometer (APCI-MS). However, the conventional ion inlet to an APCI-MS is a round orifice, while conventional DMA geometries make... Agent: Juan Fernandez De La Mora

20080251716 - System for optimizing alignment of laser beam with selected points on samples in maldi mass spectrometer: A mass spectrometry apparatus uses image processing of output signals of a camera in a mass spectrometer to provide feedback for directing the laser. The present invention provides for the determination of where samples have actually been deposited on a plate, and for the selection of different points for each... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080251717 - Q-pole type mass spectrometer: A Q-pole type mass spectrometer can be used under a high-pressure atmosphere of more than 0.1 Pa. The Q-pole type mass spectrometer can analyze the mass of gas molecules continuously, and can separate mass properly even if an ion is injected at high speed in order to reduce the influence... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080251718 - Electron beam apparatus and sample observation method using the same: The electron beam apparatus is provided with a stage for mounting a sample thereon, a primary optical system for generating an electron beam having an irradiation area and irradiating the electron beam onto the sample, a secondary optical system for detecting electrons which have been generated through the irradiation of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080251719 - Scanning electron microscope and method for processing an image obtained by the scanning electron microscope: In the case where a specimen is imaged by a scanning electron microscope, it is intended to acquire an image of a high quality having a noise component reduced, thereby to improve the precision of an image processing. The intensity distribution of a beam is calculated on the basis of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080251720 - Beam scanning imaging method and apparatus: An imaging apparatus uses focusing and collecting optics in combination with steering optics for efficient and speedy imaging of a target using an extended terahertz electro-magnetic range challenged by weak sources and low sensitivity of detection. This invention addresses efficient detection of this wave in combination with a speedy imaging... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080251721 - Thermal infrared solid state imaging device and infrared camera: An infrared solid state imaging device includes a pixel area with arranged infrared detection pixels and a integration circuit for modulating output current based on the output of the pixel. The integration circuit contains an integrating transistor that modulates a current based on the difference in potential between first and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080251722 - Infrared sensor and its manufacturing method: An infrared sensor has a groove formed at a peripheral portion of an optical filter in a region opposed to a circumferential region of an opening of a package so as to be continuously located in the peripheral portion of the optical filter. The optical filter has a resistance of... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080251723 - Electromagnetic and thermal sensors using carbon nanotubes and methods of making same: Electromagnetic radiation detecting and sensing systems using carbon nanotube fabrics and methods of making the same are provided. In certain embodiments of the invention, an electromagnetic radiation detector includes a substrate, a nanotube fabric disposed on the substrate, the nanotube fabric comprising a non-woven network of nanotubes, and first and... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080251724 - Gas and/or flame imaging system: A gas imaging system for remotely detecting gas emissions by passive images of infrared radiation includes an optical system having a field of view. The optical system has a lens, an optical filter system for filtering light passed through the lens, and a photosensitive array located at the focal plane... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20080251725 - Image pickup apparatus, image display system, and method for controlling the image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes an irradiation unit for radiating, to an object, light having a plurality of wavelength regions, and an image pickup unit for picking up an image that is obtained when the light having the wavelength regions is radiated by the irradiation unit and an image that... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080251726 - Infrared gas sensing apparatus and method: An infrared gas sensing apparatus for sensing gas includes an infrared source for emitting infrared light, a wavelength tunable filter for selectively allows passage of the infrared light at a specific wavelength, an infrared detector for detecting the amount of the filtered infrared light, and a control circuit for controlling... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080251727 - Multigas monitoring and detection system: A spectroscopic detection system is described for monitoring ambient air for toxic chemical substances. The system can be a compact, portable multiple gas analyzer capable of detecting and discriminating a broad range of chemical constituents including various nerve and blister agents as well as toxic industrial chemicals at low or... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080251728 - Isotopic response with small scintillator based gamma-ray spectrometers: The intrinsic background of a gamma ray spectrometer is significantly reduced by surrounding the scintillator with a second scintillator. This second (external) scintillator surrounds the first scintillator and has an opening of approximately the same diameter as the smaller central scintillator in the forward direction. The second scintillator is selected... Agent: John P. Wooldridge Attorney For Applicants

20080251730 - Method for determining a particle and sensor device therefor: A method for determining a particle impact on a sensor device comprising M sensing areas, each impact causing a variation of at least one physical magnitude of several sensing portions, said method comprising the steps of: determining an impact center sensing area, where the variation of the at least one... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20080251729 - Sensor and image pickup device: A sensor for detecting a received electromagnetic wave comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an amorphous oxide layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080251731 - Method and apparatus for pulsed uv measurement: A detector receives energy pulses and a lossy integration circuit generates a lossy integration that, for each pulse, increases over the pulse duration to a maximum value and then decays. The lossy integration is sampled, with a sampling rate and decay rate such that the sample is within a given... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080251732 - Radiation detector: The present invention provides a radiation detector in which primary electrons are released into a gas by ionizing radiation from a radiation source (10) and are caused to drift to read-out electrodes (1) by means of an electric field (2) generated by applying a negative tension to a drifting electrode... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080251733 - Multiple waveband millimetre and sub-millimetre wave detection system: A detection system operable at millimetre or sub-millimetre wavelengths includes detection means adapted to detect radiation at two distinct wavebands, wherein a first waveband is chosen such that it has a relatively high atmospheric absorbency to electromagnetic radiation, and the second waveband is chosen to have a relatively low atmospheric... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080251734 - Ion implantation apparatus and method of converging/shaping ion beam used therefor: An ion implantation apparatus reciprocally scans an ion beam extracted from an ion source and passed through a mass analysis magnet apparatus and a mass analysis slit and irradiates to a wafer. The ion beam is converged and shaped by providing a first quadrupole vertical focusing electromagnet at a section... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080251735 - High energy crystal generators and their applications: Ferroelectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric crystals are used to generate spatially localized high energy (up to and exceeding 100 keV) electron and ion beams, which may be used in a wide variety of applications including pulsed neutron generation, therapeutic X-ray/electron devices, elemental analysis, local scanning chemical analysis, high energy scanning microscopy,... Agent: Venable LLP

20080251736 - Charged particle gun: An electron gun (1) includes an emitter (2), a tubular support (3) and an adaptor (4) for receiving the emitter. The adaptor includes a tapered plugging surface (7) and the tubular support includes a correspondingly tapered seating surface (9) for receiving the plugging surface. The plugging surface and seating surface... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080251737 - Ion implantation apparatus: A beam line before incidence on a beam scanner is arranged with an injector flag Faraday cup that detects a beam current by measuring a total beam amount of an ion beam to be able to be brought in and out thereto and therefrom. When the ion beam is shut... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080251738 - Method and apparatus for vibration reduction in laser system line narrowing unit wavelength selection optical element: A method and apparatus is disclosed that may comprise an ultraviolet light source; an optical element within an optical path of the light source mounted on an optical element mount; a vibration damping mechanism operatively connected to the optical element or to the mount which may comprise a wire mesh... Agent: William Cray Cymer, Inc.

20080251739 - Optical coupler package: A method is disclosed. The method includes forming a substrate with a leadframe and a molding compound. The molding compound fills internal spaces in the leadframe and forms a dam structure. An optical emitter and an optical receiver are placed on the substrate. An optically transmissive medium is formed between... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080251740 - Optical heterodyne sampling device: An optical heterodyne sampling device includes: two pulsed laser sources which may have a jitter and which can receive respectively a pump beam and a probe beam having respective repetition frequencies Fs and Fp, whereby Fs≠Fp; and an element for combining the pump beam and the probe beam which are... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080251741 - Reading system for radiation image conversion panel and radiation image conversion panel: A reading system for reading information recorded in a radiation image conversion panel containing a flexible substrate having thereon a phosphor layer containing a columnar crystal phosphor, wherein the reading system has a transport section to transport the radiation image conversion panel with curvature when the radiation image conversion panel... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080245948 - Light sensor having light-sensing unit and compensating unit, and display device using same: An exemplary light sensor (20) includes a supporting base, a light-sensing unit (21) provided at at least one first location of the supporting base where ambient light is received, and a compensating unit (22) provided at a second location of the supporting base shielded from ambient light, the compensating unit... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080245949 - Backlight device, display apparatus including backlight device, method for driving backlight device, and method for adjusting backlight device: A direct-type backlight device for a non-self-luminous image display panel has a light-emitting area corresponding to a display area of the image display panel. The light-emitting area is arranged by combining a plurality of backlight substrates each of which is provided with (i) a color sensor for detecting an incident... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080245950 - Control circuit for photomultiplier tube: In this control circuit, based on a reference potential generated in a high-voltage generating circuit, a comparator outputs an over-light incidence discrimination signal to the outside of a module. It is revealed that, when an over-light incidence discrimination signal switched to high level from low level is outputted to the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080245951 - Photomultiplier tube module: An extension line of a tube axis of a photomultiplier tube is shifted from the center of gravity position of a front surface of a housing, which allows a space to be formed at an opposite side in the housing. A signal processing board is arranged in this space, and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080245953 - Multi-axis integration system and method: An image acquisition system and method employing multi-axis integration (MAI) may incorporate both optical axis integration (OAI) and time-delay integration (TDI) techniques. Disclosed MAI systems and methods may integrate image data in the z direction as the data are acquired, projecting the image data prior to deconvolution. Lateral translation of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080245952 - Synchronous imaging using segmented illumination: In an actively illuminated imaging system, illumination of a segmented scene is synchronized with an image sensing period. A scene is segmented into a plurality of scene portions utilizing a segmented lens. In an aspect, a first scene portion is illuminated when an imager is actively collecting photogenerated charge from... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080245954 - Color sensitive device with temperature compensation and variable gain and display system using the same: A color sensitive device with temperature compensation and variable gain is disclosed. The color sensitive device exposed by RGB light can generate red-light, green-light and blue-light detection currents corresponding to the illumination of RGB light via a P-N interface of RGB photodiodes. The red-light, green-light and blue-light detection currents are... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080245955 - Optical tactile sensor: An optical tactile sensor and an image information integrating method capable of measuring large area force vector distribution are provided. The optical tactile sensor comprises a tactile section comprising a transparent elastic body (1) and a plurality of markers (3, 4) provided therein, and a plurality of imaging devices (6,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080245956 - Photodetector array and codewheel configuration for flexible optical encoder resolution: An optical encoder includes a coding element having a track with multiple transparent sections, a light source positioned to output light to the track, and a photodetector array, positioned to detect light that passes through the transparent sections of the track. The photodetectors of the photodetector array have larger width... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20080245958 - System and method to create haze standard: In one embodiment, a system to create a haze standard on a surface of an object, comprises a radiation targeting assembly that targets a radiation beam onto the surface of the object, a drive assembly to impart relative motion between the radiation targeting assembly and the surface of the object,... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC

20080245957 - Tuning an ion implanter for optimal performance: An approach that tunes an ion implanter for optimal performance is described. In one embodiment, there is a system for tuning an ion implanter having multiple beamline elements to generate an ion beam having desired beam properties. In this embodiment, the system comprises a beamline element settings controller configured to... Agent: Scott Faber, Esq. Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc

20080245959 - Adjusted laser beam contaminant processing: Processing soil in a land area contaminated with one or more contaminates that are elements having one or more respective NMR values. Examples of the contaminates are the heavy metals. The processing includes generating a plurality of base laser beams at base frequencies with one base laser beam for each... Agent: David E. Lovejoy, Reg. No. 22,748

20080245960 - Method and apparatus to determine characteristics of an oil-based mud downhole: A laser spectroscopy system can determine the identity and/or quantity of a component of a fluid at a remote location such as downhole in a wellbore or inside a pipeline, particularly at high temperature, e.g. from about 75 to 175° C. The system includes a fiber laser doped with a... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080245961 - Nanowire assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric analysis: This invention relates to a nanowire-assisted method for mass spectrometric analysis of a specimen. More specifically, by using nanowire which can fix a specimen and perform desorption/ionization of the specimen while effectively transferring laser energy to the specimen to be irradiated, thereby enabling to perform mass spectrometric analysis without using... Agent: Ronald R. Santucci Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080245962 - Ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer: An ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer capable of obtaining highly-sensitive mass spectra even on the lower mass number side is realized. The ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer includes an ion source that operates at atmospheric pressure, an ion optical system for introducing the ions generated by the ion source into... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080245964 - Method and apparatus for detecting surface and subsurface properties of materials: A method and apparatus for remotely monitoring properties of gases and plasmas, and surface and sub-surface properties of materials, is disclosed. A laser beam is focused at a desired region within a gas, plasma, or material (e.g., solid or liquid) to be analyzed, generating an ionized sample region or a... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080245963 - Method and apparatus for generation of reagent ions in a mass spectrometer: A front-end ion source for a mass spectrometer generates both analyte and reagent ions. The reagent source may include a heater for vaporizing a condensed-phase reagent substance and an electron source for ionizing reagent molecules. The interior of the reagent ionization chamber is purged with a purge gas to avoid... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080245965 - Charged particle system: To provide a charged particle system capable of facilitating comparison between an actual pattern and an ideal pattern using not only two-dimensional CAD data but also three-dimensional CAD data. According to the present invention, using information about the angle of irradiation of a sample with a charged particle beam, a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080245966 - Long-wavelength infra-red night vision goggles: A night vision apparatus and method comprising employing a detector operating in the 7 to 14 microns wavelength region, converting via electronics and/or photonics the received light to the region visible to the human eye, and displaying the visible light on a display, wherein a housing contains the detector, the... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080245968 - Dual-screen digital radiographic imaging detector array: A radiographic imaging device has a first scintillating phosphor screen having a first thickness and a second scintillating phosphor screen having a second thickness. A transparent substrate is disposed between the first and second screens. An imaging array formed on a side of the substrate includes multiple photosensors and an... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080245967 - Performance solid state detectors: An imaging detector is formed from a conversion material and electrodes that are separated by trenches formed in the conversion material. The trenches increase the distance of the conductance path between electrodes or accommodate a grid of electrodes, thereby reducing current leakage between electrodes. In some embodiments, a passivation layer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080245969 - Method and apparatus for creating a plasma: An apparatus is provided for producing a plasma for a work surface, for example to deposit material thereon. The apparatus comprises an enclosure which contains an ionizable gas, a plurality of plasma excitation devices each of which is arranged to enable microwaves to travel from a first end thereof to... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080245970 - Sorption micro-array: A sorption micro-array (1) for sorbing a substance off an assay sample comprises a support (11) and a plurality of sorption elements (14). The plurality of sorption elements (14) is arranged in a well defined geometry in connection with the support (11), wherein the distance between each sorption element (14)... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 35437

20080245971 - Biosensors with improved sensitivity: A sensor is described for use with at least one optical detector (5), the sensor comprising a substrate (11) with optical outlets, a porous membrane (12) and micro fluidic channels (13) for conducting analyte fluid towards sensing locations (10) of the porous membrane (12). The sensing locations (10) are adapted... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080245972 - System and method for patient balance and position analysis: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for obtaining patient balance and anatomical positioning data for use in patient treatment. More particularly, in one aspect the present disclosure is directed toward a patient analysis system for obtaining radiographic images, center-of-balance data, and anatomical positioning data of a patient... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080245973 - Computed radiography x-ray cassette with rigid embedded cr plate: Embodiments include a method and apparatus for improving the reusability of a computed radiography (CR) plate by housing it in a cassette. The CR plate remains in the cassette during scanning. The embodiments of the method and apparatus improve the reusability of the CR plate.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080245974 - Method of introducing material into a substrate by gas-cluster ion beam irradiation: Method of infusing or introducing material into a substrate using a gas cluster ion beam. The method includes maintaining a reduced-pressure environment around a substrate holder and holding a substrate securely within that reduced-pressure environment. A gas-cluster ion beam formed from a pressurized gas mixture including an inert gas and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080245975 - Electrically programmable reticle and system: An electrically programmable reticle is made using at least one electrochromatic layer that changes its optical transmissibility in response to applied voltages. Transparent conductor layers are configured to the desired patterns. The electrically programmable reticles are either patterned in continuous forms that have separately applied voltages or in a matrix... Agent: Winstead PC

20080245976 - Projector lamp having pulsed monochromatic microwave light sources: A light engine for image display projectors has a plurality of monochromatic light sources, typically red, blue and green, combined into one light generation device powered by microwaves pulsed at 3-5 KHz rates. The light engine has a microwave power supply, microwave coupling cavity, a microwave coupler coupling a microwave... Agent: Anthony England

20080245977 - Radiopharmaceutical dispenser having counter-forced access mechanism and system and method therewith: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for accessing a radiation shielded enclosure at least partially made of a radiation shielding material. For example, some systems of the invention include a radiation shielded receptacle configured to receive a radiopharmaceutical and a cover that is removably disposable across an... Agent: Mallinckrodt Inc.

20080245978 - Shielded device containment vessel: A device containment apparatus includes a vessel for storing a radioactive explosive device. The vessel includes an outer wall defining an interior area. A shield formed of radiation shielding material is positioned adjacent the vessel for minimizing dispersal of radioactive material from the interior area of the vessel.... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080245980 - Monitoring system for turbine engine: A monitoring system for a gas turbine or other elevated temperature environment is provided. The system has one or more photonic crystal fibers for capturing and transmitting light to an imaging camera for generation of an image. The photonic crystal fibers can be formed from a sapphire cladding. The photonic... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080245981 - Apparatus and method for edge detection: An edge detection system that locates the edge of a printing plate on a platesetter includes: first scratches aligned in a first direction on a support surface; a groove machined into the support surface where the groove includes two surfaces. One surface is reflective and has second scratches aligned in... Agent: Agfa Corporation Patent Department

20080245979 - Gloss and differential gloss measuring system: A system is provided for measuring gloss and spatial dependence of gloss. In a first embodiment, the system comprises: a first illuminator configured to emit a first light beam at a point on a target, thereby producing a generally specular reflectance in a first direction; a second illuminator configured to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20080245982 - Light concentrator for an optical code reader: An optical receiving device (31) for an optical code reader is described, comprising a solid body, of a transparent material, having a light input face (32), a light output face (33) for coupling with a photodetector device (30), said output face (33) being substantially perpendicular to said input face (32),... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080237443 - Microelectronic imagers with curved image sensors and methods for manufacturing microelectronic imagers: Microelectronic imagers with curved image sensors and methods for manufacturing curved image sensors. In one embodiment, a microelectronic imager device comprises an imager die having a substrate, a curved microelectronic image sensor having a face with a convex and/or concave portion at one side of the substrate, and integrated circuitry... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080237444 - Light detection device, focus detection device, imaging apparatus, method of producing light detection device, and method of detecting focus: A light detection device includes a lens array of a plurality of lenses arranged in the form of a honeycomb; and a photoelectric device array of a plurality of photoelectric devices for each of the plurality of lenses. The plurality of photoelectric devices is arranged under each of the plurality... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080237445 - Method and apparatus for distance measurement: The disclosed subject matter relates to a method and distance measurement apparatus for measuring a distance to an object, which can include a light source, a solid state camera, a controller and a distance data generator. The light source can be configured to emit a modulated light towards an object,... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20080237449 - Imaging device with reduced row readout time and method of operating the same: An imager in which a column line bias current control signal is pulsed at some time during and/or after the pulsing of the reset control and the transfer control signals to increase a bias current in a pixel column line during reset and transfer operations. The bias current is then... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080237448 - Method and circuit for obtaining a sample in an image sensor: An image sensor and a method for acquiring images by sampling of the level of a voltage representative of the charge of a photodiode, in which a first sample is taken during a reset of the charge level of the photodiode; and a second sample is taken provided that the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080237446 - Solid-state image pickup device and method: A solid-state image pickup device and method are provided. The device can not only operate with a wide dynamic range but it also allows the user to switch the dynamic range corresponding to the photographic scene, and its operating method. Plural pixels, each of which has a photodiode, a transfer... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080237450 - Structure for a cmos imaging sensor: A design structure for a CMOS image sensor and active pixel cell design that provides an output signal representing an incident illumination light level that is adapted for time domain analysis. Thus, the noise sources associated with charge integration and the contribution of dark current to it, is avoided. The... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080237447 - Ultra low voltage cmos image sensor architecture: An optical sensor has at least one pixel that generates an output voltage that changes at a rate dependent on the light intensity incident on the pixel. The time for the pixel output voltage to change from a first predefined level to a second predefined level is measured, so as... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080237451 - Wide dynamic range image sensor: An exemplary image sensor comprises a photodetector proximate to a pixel site, and a light meter proximate to the pixel site configured to approximate an initial charge acquired by the photodetector at the end of a first integration period of a frame exposure period. A reset circuit resets the photodetector... Agent: Michael Farjami, Esq. Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080237452 - Optical semiconductor module and light receiving element: An optical semiconductor module that includes: a light emitting element; a light receiving element that has a light receiving face on an upper face and a side face thereof, with the light receiving face having an antireflection film formed thereon; and a mounting unit that has the light emitting element... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080237453 - Color sensor with infrared correction having a filter layer blocking a portion of light of visible spectrum(as amnended): A light sensor that generates a first output signal indicative of an intensity of light received from a predetermined direction in a first band of wavelengths is disclosed. The light sensor includes a substrate having first and second photodetectors, a first filter layer, and a controller. The photodetectors are sensitive... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080237455 - Light receiving apparatus: A light receiving apparatus includes a holder made of metal and a light receiving element that is attached to the holder, receives laser light reflected by an information medium, and outputs an electric signal. The light receiving element is constructed of a bare chip, is attached to the holder, and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080237454 - Stackable heliostat frame structure: A heliostat includes a pedestal, a transmission system, a frame assembly, and a mirror assembly. The frame assembly generally includes a first frame set and a second frame set mounted to the transmission system which is mounted upon the pedestal. Each frame set includes a stackable inner frame assembly and... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080237456 - Method and apparatus for observing a specimen: A method and device for observing a specimen, in which a convergent electron beam is irradiated and scanned from a desired direction, on a surface of a calibration substrate on which a pattern with a known shape is formed, and a beam SEM image of the pattern formed on the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080237457 - Method and apparatus for chromatography mass spectrometry: The results of mass spectrometry are compared; correspondences are established between individual components contained in different samples; the results of establishment of correspondences are checked; and varying components are extracted. At least two samples are compared with respect to the ion intensity corresponding to retention times and mass-to-charge ratios obtained... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080237458 - Automated mass spectral identification: An automated or fully automated mass spectral system and a method of operating the system to identify a sample ion or compound. The system includes at least one computer addressable holder for at least one of standard and sample; at least one mass spectrometer configured to acquire one of continuum,... Agent: David Aker

20080237459 - Ion source and mass spectrometer instrument using the same: An ion source includes a body having a gas passage and an orifice. A capillary is inserted into the gas passage so that a tip portion of the capillary extends into the orifice. A gas supplier supplies a gas into the gas passage to form a gas flow through the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080237461 - Autofocus method in a scanning electron microscope: In an autofocus method, an electron beam is scanned onto a subject through a condensing member. A setting condition of the condensing member is changed within a first range. An image evaluation value is measured using a secondary electron current from the subject according to the setting condition within the... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080237460 - Method for maskless particle-beam exposure: For maskless irradiating a target with a beam of energetic electrically charged particles using a pattern definition means with a plurality of apertures and imaging the apertures in the pattern definition means onto a target which moves (v) relative to the pattern definition means laterally to the axis, the location... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080237463 - Monochromator and scanning electron microscope using the same: An invention providing a scanning electron microscope composed of a monochromator capable of high resolution, monochromatizing the energy and reducing chromatic aberrations without significantly lowering the electrical current strength of the primary electron beam. A scanning electron microscope is installed with a pair of sectorial magnetic and electrical fields having... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080237465 - Scanning electron microscope: A scanning electron microscope can discriminate secondary particles in a desired energy region by band-pass and detect the secondary particles with a high yield point. Even when a lens 23 is disposed on an electron source side of an objective lens 18, and a primary electron beam forms any optical... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080237462 - Semiconductor testing method and semiconductor tester: A semiconductor testing method capable of quickly counting semiconductor cells with accuracy is achieved. Since an SEM is adjusted in a specific condition, the rotation axis of a stage and the axis of an optical system are deviated from each other in a different observation environment and a different adjustment... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080237464 - Transmission electron microscope micro-grid and method for making the same: A transmission electron microscope (TEM) micro-grid includes a metallic grid and a carbon nanotube film structure covered thereon. A method for making a TEM micro-grid includes the steps of: (a) providing an array of carbon nanotubes, quite suitably, providing a super-aligned array of carbon nanotubes; (b) drawing a carbon nanotube... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080237466 - Apparatus and method for analyzing relative outward flow characterizations of fabricated features: An apparatus and method for characterizing gas flow through features fabricated in a hollow part. A pressure regulated cooled gas is applied to an interior of the part to the features fabricated in the part. At the same time, a pressure regulated heated gas is applied to an exterior part... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080237467 - Bolometer-type thz-wave detector: In a micro-bridge structure in which a temperature detecting portion (diaphragm) including a bolometer thin film is supported by a supporting portion in a state floated from a circuit substrate, a reflective film reflecting a THz wave is formed on the circuit substrate, an absorbing film absorbing the THz wave... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080237468 - Solid-state imaging device and driving method thereof: This disclosure concerns a solid-state imaging device including a pixel thermally separated from a substrate; a heat conduction switch having one end connected to the substrate and other end capable of contacting to the substrate or the pixel, the heat conduction switch changing over a state of the pixel to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080237469 - Bolometer-type thz-wave detector: In a bolometer-type THz-wave detector in a micro-bridge structure in which a temperature detecting portion (diaphragm) including a bolometer thin film is supported by a supporting portion in a state suspended from a circuit substrate, a member (dielectric cover) made of a dielectric material for efficiently collecting a THz wave... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080237470 - Polymeric composite scintillators and method for making same: A scintillation detector comprising nano-scale particles of a scintillation compound embedded in a plastic matrix is provided. The nano-scale particles may be made from metal oxides, metal oxyhalides, metal oxysulfides, or metal halides. Methods are provided for preparing the nano-scale particles. The particles may be coated with organic compounds or... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080237474 - Semiconductor photodiode and method for manufacturing same, radiation detection device, and radiation imaging apparatus: A semiconductor photodiode includes: an insulative substrate; a first conductivity type semiconductor layer formed on the insulative substrate; an i-type semiconductor layer formed on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; a second conductivity type semiconductor layer formed on the i-type semiconductor layer; and a metal electrode. The metal electrode is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080237475 - Digital identification and vector quantization methods and systems for detector crystal recognition in radiation detection machines: A digital method and system allowing crystal identification in radiation detector machines is described. The crystal identification is based on recognition of radiation detector signal shape through discrimination of detector signal's dynamic characteristics. The digital method is based on recursive and non-recursive algorithms, such as adaptive filtering combined or not... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080237476 - Adjustable pinhole collimators method and system: Embodiments relate to pinhole collimator assemblies having one or more adjustable size pinhole apertures therein. The pinhole collimator assembly is configured so that gamma rays can pass through the collimator assembly, but the remainder of the collimator assembly is substantially gamma ray absorbent. Embodiments also relate to imaging systems and... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080237472 - Adjustable collimators method and system: Embodiments relate to collimator assemblies having one or more apertures therein. At least one of the one or more apertures has an aperture size that is configured for adjustment during an examination. The collimator assembly is configured so that gamma rays can pass through the one or more apertures, but... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080237473 - Adjustable slit collimators method and system: Embodiments relate to a slit collimator assembly including a first set of panels spaced at least partially around a longitudinal axis of the collimator assembly and extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis. The slit collimator assembly further includes a second set of panels spaced at least partially around longitudinal... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080237471 - Interface for component identification, communication and power supply between interchangeable system components: A contactless and battery-less interface for component identification and remote sensing is disclosed. The interface includes a near-field electromagnetic coupling for electrical power transfer and a full duplex optical coupling for bi-directional serial communication interface. The interface provides a low-cost and low-power Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) microcontroller with a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080237477 - X-ray detector fabrication methods and apparatus therefrom: A method of fabricating a detector includes providing a photodiode part, providing a scintillator part, at least one of the photodiode part and the scintillator part including a non-active portion and an active portion, placing a first adhesive such that the first adhesive contacts the active portion when the detector... Agent: Thomas M. Fisher Fisher Patent Group LLC

20080237478 - Apparatus and method for capturing a radiation image: A direction determination processor outputs imaging direction information representing the direction of an electronic cassette with respect to a subject during imaging of the subject. An image direction judging unit generates image direction information representing the direction of image data with respect to a reading direction in which a radiation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080237479 - Radiation image detection method and apparatus: A radiation image detection method including the steps of: detecting from a radiation image detector including multitudes of pixels disposed two-dimensionally, each having a TFT switch, an analog image signal of each pixel flowing out through each data line by sequentially switching ON the TFT switches connected to each scanning... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080237480 - Imaging of materials: An apparatus and method for obtaining an image of an object. The apparatus comprises a radiation source and a series of two to five linear detectors spaced therefrom to define a scanning zone; means to cause an object to move relative to and through the scanning zone; a direct image... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080237481 - Corrosion barrier layer for photoconductive x-ray imagers: Improved corrosion resistance for direct X-ray imaging detectors is obtained by providing a pixelated, electrically conductive barrier layer between the X-ray sensitive material and the pixel electrodes. Each barrier layer can cover part or all of its corresponding pixel electrode. In cases where pixel electrodes makes contact to underlying circuitry... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080237482 - Variable collimation in radiation detection: Apparatus for detecting radiation emitted from a number of volume elements of a body. The apparatus includes a first plurality of detector elements, each detector element being configured to output signals indicative of an intensity of radiation that is incident thereon. The apparatus also includes a first plurality of adjustable... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080237483 - Carbon nanotube electron gun: An electron gun, an electron source for an electron gun, an extractor for an electron gun, and a respective method for producing the electron gun, the electron source and the extractor are disclosed. Embodiments provide an electron source utilizing a carbon nanotube (CNT) bonded to a substrate for increased stability,... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080237484 - Plasma source: A plasma source, particularly for disinfection of wounds, comprising: an ionization chamber having an inlet for introducing a gas into the ionization chamber and further having an outlet for dispensing the ionized gas onto an object; several ionization electrodes being disposed within the ionization chamber for ionizing the gas and... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080237485 - Integrated optical neutron detector: A system and method for detecting radiation from a source in a container is disclosed. A continuous optical fiber path is disposed in a medium which is part of or associated with a container and which totally encapsulates the inside volumetric space of the container. The optical fiber path provides... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080237486 - Substrate handling device for a charged particle beam system: An electron beam lithography system includes a main chamber (4) and the exchange chamber (5) connected by a gate valve (7). A robot (15) is used to transfer a chuck (8) carrying a semiconductor wafer between a cassette (10) and laser interferometer mirror assembly (13). The robot includes a bar... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080237490 - Exposure device: The present invention presents an exposure device, which includes an object stage on which the object is to be set, at least one aperture member for splitting a light beam from an optical source into first and second light beams, first and second spatial light modulators for spatially modulating the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080237489 - Lighting optical apparatus and sample inspection apparatus: A lighting optical apparatus using a deep ultraviolet light source that are easy to adjust due to a configuration with fewer components, has high illuminant and illuminant uniformity on an irradiated surface are provided. The apparatus has a deep ultraviolet light source from which deep ultraviolet rays are emitted, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080237488 - Method to analyze physical and chemical properties on the surface layer of a solid: The present invention relates generally to a method for analyzing the surface and the near-surface layers of a solid and, more specifically, to a method that utilizes activating actions to analyze the physical and the chemical properties of the layers. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention... Agent: Patent, Copyright & Trademark Law Group

20080237487 - Multiple directional scans of test structures on semiconductor integrated circuits: Disclosed is a method of inspecting a sample. The sample is scanned in a first direction with at least one particle beam. The sample is scanned in a second direction with at least one particle beam. The second direction is at an angle to the first direction. The number of... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP - Kla Tencor Kla Tencor

20080237496 - Techniques for improving the performance and extending the lifetime of an ion source with gas mixing: Techniques improving the performance and extending the lifetime of an ion source with gas mixing are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for improving performance and extending lifetime of an ion source in an ion implanter. The method may comprise introducing a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP/varian Semiconductor, Equipment Associates, Inc.

20080237497 - Pixelated modulation of illumination pupil image: The present invention describes a method of conditioning radiation upstream from a reticle including: pixelating the radiation, the pixelating involving partitioning into pixels; modulating a first set of the pixels to configure for openings; modulating a second set of the pixels to outline for specific features of the openings; modulating... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080237491 - Apparatus and methods for systematic non-uniformity correction using a gas cluster ion beam: Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for correcting systematic non-uniformities using a gas cluster ion beam are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080237494 - Configuration management and retrieval system for proton beam therapy system: In a complex, multi-processor software controlled system, such as proton beam therapy system (PBTS), it may be important to provide treatment configurable parameters that are easily modified by an authorized user to prepare the software controlled systems for various modes of operation. This particular invention relates to a configuration management... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080237493 - Electron beam lithography system: An electron beam lithography method is provided for sequentially irradiating an electron beam deflected by a deflector on a shot-by-shot basis to draw a pattern on a surface of a sample mounted on a stage. This method includes the step of irradiating the electron beam on the sample surface as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080237492 - Methods and processing systems for using a gas cluster ion beam to offset systematic non-uniformities in workpieces processed in a process tool: Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for offsetting systematic non-uniformities using a gas cluster ion beam are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080237495 - Particle therapy system: A particle therapy system for irradiating a volume of a patient to be irradiated with high-energy particles is provided. The system includes a radiation outlet of a radiation delivery and acceleration system from which a particle beam exits in order to interact with the patient positioned in an irradiation position;... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080237498 - High-efficiency, low-debris short-wavelength light sources: This invention relates generally to short-wavelength radiation from laser-produced and discharged produced plasmas, and more particularly to efficient systems and methods for obtaining short-wavelength radiation.... Agent: Smith Law Office

20080237499 - Pulsed power system including a plasma opening switch: A pulsed power system has an inductive energy storage circuit (42) including a current source (43) and a plasma opening switch (44). The plasma opening switch has a transmission line (51, 52) coupling the current source to a load (41). The plasma opening switch changes from a closed state to... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20080237500 - Thermo-optically functional compositions, systems and methods of making: A thermo-optically functional composition is disclosed. The composition includes components A, B, C, and D, and has a thermal emission or reflection spectrum that is altered with respect to a thermal emission or reflection spectrum of a composition ABn and a thermal emission or reflection spectrum of a composition CDp,... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080237501 - Extreme ultraviolet light source device and extreme ultraviolet radiation generating method: High temperature plasma raw material (21) is gasified by irradiation with a first energy beam (23). When the gasified raw material reaches the discharge region, pulsed power is applied between the electrodes (11, 12) and a second energy beam (24) irradiates. In this manner, the plasma is heated and excited... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080237502 - System and method of identifying eluant amounts supplied to a radioisotope generator: The invention, is directed to a system including a shielded container (16), a radioisotope generator disposed within the shielded container, and an elution supply mechanism. The elution supply mechanism may include an eluant supply container (4) at least partially external to the shielded container (16), a conduit (10) extending between... Agent: Mallinckrodt Inc.

20080237503 - Fuel contaminant light sensor: A fuel contaminant sensor is provided. The fuel containment sensor includes a fluid reservoir having an inlet and an outlet. A light source for projecting a light beam through the fluid reservoir is disposed on the fluid reservoir. A light beam detector for receiving the light beam projected through the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080237504 - Position detecting device: A position detecting devices includes a scale, a sensor, and a control section. The scale has a plurality of light emitting elements located at spacings along a direction in which a movable member is moved. Mounted on the member, the sensor detects light from at least one of the elements... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080237506 - Integrated puf: In a device for providing challenge-response pairs a radiation detection element, a challenge-modifying element and preferably also a light source are arranged on the same side of an imaginary plane, which separates said radiation-detecting element from a radiation scattering element. Hence, generation of a speckle pattern having a desired minimum... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080237505 - Method and system for image processing for profiling with uncoded structured light: A 3D scanning apparatus configured to image a physical entity comprises a radiation projector for projecting a plurality of radiation stripes onto the physical entity, a detector for detecting striped radiation received from the physical entity; and a data storage device for storing the received radiation as a pixellated bitmap... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20080237507 - Radiation image recording system: The radiation image recording system includes a radiation source irradiating a subject with radiation to record a subject's radiation image; a solid-state radiation detector detecting the radiation from the radiation source; a memory storing calibration information of the radiation image detected by the solid-state radiation detector; an image processor subjecting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080237508 - Radiation image detection apparatus, residual charge amount estimation method for use with the apparatus and program therefor: A residual charge amount estimation method including the steps of: providing a radiation image detector including pixels, scanning lines, and data lines, each pixel having a collection electrode, a capacitor, and a TFT switch; detecting a leak current flowing out through each data line with the TFT switches being switched... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC