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Radiant energy September class, title,number 09/09

20090236495 - Autofocus for high power laser diode based annealing system: Apparatus for thermally processing a substrate includes a source of laser radiation comprising a plurality diode lasers arranged along a slow axis, optics directing the laser radiation from the source to the substrate, and an array of photodetectors arranged along a fast axis perpendicular to the slow axis and receiving... Agent: Patent Counsel, Ms/2061 Legal Affairs Dept.

20090236496 - Photoelectric conversion device: Objects are to suppress reduction in current output from a photoelectric conversion device and to prevent ESD from occurring in the photoelectric conversion device without greatly increasing the number of steps for manufacturing the photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device includes a photodiode generating current by light irradiation; an... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090236497 - Convex lenslet array diffuser: An illuminator system comprising an illuminator array positioned adjacent to an image bearing surface, the illuminator array comprising a plurality of discrete illuminator elements spaced in a linear arrangement, the illuminating elements each being configured to emit a light beam for transmission to the image bearing surface at an incidence... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20090236498 - Variable transfer gate oxide thickness for image sensor: A light sensor cell includes a photosensitive element, a floating diffusion region, and a gate oxide disposed between the photosensitive element and the floating diffusion region. The gate oxide has a non-uniform thickness, with a greater thickness near the photosensitive element and a lesser thickness near the floating diffusion region.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090236499 - Key device and electronic device comprising the same: The key device of the present invention is provided with: first light-emitting portions that emit light propagating in a first direction; second light-emitting portions that emit the light R propagating in a second direction; converters H that can convert a propagating direction of light from the first direction to the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090236500 - Dark current and lag reduction: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate reducing dark current and lag in a CMOS imaging System-on-Chip (iSoC) sensor. For instance, a vertical output driver can output a signal upon a node connected to gates of reset transistors and/or gates of transfer transistors of pixels in the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090236502 - Optical receiver utilizing apd and control method thereof: e

20090236501 - Photon detection method and circuit having phase adjuster: A photon detection circuit in which photon detection is performed by applying gate pulses to a light-receiving element at predetermined periods, includes: a gate-period waveform averaging section that generates averaged waveform data by averaging sampled waveform data output from the light-receiving element in the individual predetermined periods; a phase shifting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090236504 - Photo-sensing device, photosensor, and display device: A photo-sensing device is disclosed, comprising a photoelectric conversion semiconductor thin film, thin films for ohmic contacts to be provided to form an incident light window on one face of the photoelectric conversion semiconductor thin film, first and second ohmic electrodes installed on the thin films for the ohmic contacts,... Agent: Masao Yoshimura, Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090236503 - Housing with a sensed power switch: A housing with a sensed power switch includes a shell, a motherboard power switch, and a sensed switch module. The motherboard power switch is located in the shell for turning on or off the computer. The sensed switch module is located in the shell, and has a sensing element and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090236505 - Multifunctional optical sensor comprising a photodetectors matrix coupled to a microlenses matrix: Multifunctional optical sensor, comprising a matrix of photodetectors of the CCD or CMOS type, having a sensitive area divided into sub-areas, each of which, individually or combined with others, is dedicated to a specific function of monitoring the scene or measuring environmental parameters. The optical sensor comprises a matrix of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090236506 - Light-emitting device on-wafer test systems and methods: On-wafer test systems and methods for light-emitting devices, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), are provided. The test system may be designed, for example, to characterize the light output from the LED die (e.g., power in Lumens).... Agent: Luminus Devices , Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks , P.C.

20090236507 - Shaft-mounted detector for optical encoder: A transmissive optical encoder is disclosed. The transmissive optical encoder includes a detector, a code wheel, and an emitter. The detector includes an aperture through the detector. The aperture is configured to receive a rotary shaft of a motor. The code wheel is coupled to the rotary shaft of the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090236508 - Incremental encoder: An incremental encoder, which comprises a light source, a code wheel, a first photo-sensitive unit, a second photo-sensitive unit, a first inverse-phase photo-sensitive unit and a comparison circuit, is disclosed. The light source provides a detecting light. The code wheel comprises many diaphanous holes. The detecting light is sieved into... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090236509 - Photosensitive resin composition, light-shielding color filter, method of producing the same and solid-state image sensor: The invention provides a photosensitive resin composition including a black colorant, a photopolymerizable compound, a resin, a photopolymerization initiator and a solvent, the composition capable of forming a light-shielding color filter having a ratio OD1200/OD365 of from 0.5 to 3, where OD1200 is an optical density at a wavelength of... Agent: Moss & Burke, PLLC

20090236511 - Method for evaluating an image dataset acquired by a radiation-based image acquisition device: The invention relates to a method for evaluating an image dataset obtained by a radiation-based image acquisition device. A scatter background dataset is determined as a function of the image data. The image dataset is corrected pixel by pixel by multiplying the image dataset with the inverse of a function... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090236510 - Scintillating fiber dosimeter array: A radiation dosimetry apparatus and method use a scintillating optical fiber array for detecting dose levels. The scintillating optical fiber detectors generate optical energy in response to a predetermined type of radiation, and are coupled to collection optical fibers that transmit the optical energy to a photo-detector for conversion to... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090236512 - Mass spectroscope: A mass spectroscope includes a mass analysis device having a surface provided with metallic members capable of exciting plasmons when irradiated by laser light, the mass analysis device allowing an analyte to be attached to the surface, a light radiation unit for irradiating the surface of the mass analysis device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090236514 - Measurement of ion mobility spectra: The invention relates to measuring the mobility spectra of ions with ion mobility spectrometers (IMS). The invention provides an analog modulation of the ion current of an IMS ion source with a continuous modulation function, the instantaneous frequency of which temporally varies across a large frequency range, and a generation... Agent: O'shea Getz P.C. Suite 912

20090236515 - Method for the characterization of the three-dimensional structure of proteins employing mass spectrometric analysis and computational feedback modeling: A method for characterizing the three-dimensional surface structure of molecules, particularly proteins and protein complexes, employing mass spectrometric analysis, an electrospray ionization (ES) source, a novel data interpretation process that utilizes comparisons of particular binding constants (KB) and heats of formation (ΔHf), and computational feedback modeling.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090236513 - Systems and methods for analyzing substances using a mass spectrometer: Systems and methods for analyzing compounds in a sample. In one embodiment, the present technology is directed towards a method of analyzing a sample, comprising: emitting ions from the sample; selectively filtering the emitted ions for at least one designated trigger ion; fragmenting the designated trigger ions; scanning for a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090236516 - Mass spectrometer, method of mass spectrometry and program for mass spectrometry: An object of the present invention is to provide a mass spectrometer, a method of mass spectrometry, and a program for mass spectrometry for narrowing the range in which the mass-to-charge ratio is scanned without the ion peak of the fragment ion becoming out of the range. In order to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090236517 - Time of flight mass spectrometer and charged particle detector therefor: In a charged particle detecting apparatus 100 for which an MCP is sandwiched with an IN electrode 1 and an OUT electrode and an anode electrode and a rear cover are installed therebehind, the component members in the rear of the IN electrode 1 are arranged further inside than the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090236518 - Mass spectrometer: In a liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer having an ionization interface capable of simultaneously performing ionization operations by ESI and APCI, a spray nozzle 22 for spraying a liquid sample given form a liquid chromatograph section as charged droplets, and a corona discharger 25 for ionizing mobile phase solvent molecules are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090236519 - Particles: Particles in a mobile solid phase for chromatographic separation of sample components are disclosed. These particles comprise a core and a coating, wherein said core interacts with at least one analyte and said coating essentially prevents flocculation or aggregation. The core is preferably a polymer and the analyte is preferably... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090236520 - method and apparatus allowing simultaneous direct observation and electronic capture of scintillation images in an electron microscope: A method and apparatus allowing for simultaneous direct viewing and electronic capture of images in an electron microscope (TEM). For this, the usual opaque direct viewing plate in the TEM is replaced in form and in function by a two-sided direct viewing plate including at least one scintillator. This plate... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090236521 - Method and system for ultrafast photoelectron microscope: An ultrafast system (and methods) for characterizing one or more samples. The system includes a stage assembly, which has a sample to be characterized. The system has a laser source that is capable of emitting an optical pulse of less than 1 ps in duration. The system has a cathode... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090236522 - Optical zoom system for a light scanning electron microscope: For a confocal scanning electron microscope (1) an optical zoom system (41) with linear scanning is provided, which not only makes a zoom function possible, in that a variable magnification of an image is possible, but rather which additionally produces a pupil image in the illuminating beam path (IB) [BS]... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090236523 - Analysis apparatus and analysis method for semiconductor device: An analysis apparatus for a semiconductor device, capable of attaining highly efficient analysis of failure in the semiconductor device by a secondary-electron image, including: a region determination unit which determines a region constituting a secondary-electron image of a semiconductor device to be analyzed obtained by irradiating charged particle beam, based... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090236524 - Optical analysis device: An optical analysis device that operates according to the principle of radiation absorption, has a housing (2) with at least one radiation-permeable housing element (3), at least one radiation source (4) having a reflector (5) associated with it, at least a first detector (6) and a second detector (7) as... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090236526 - Infrared ray sensor element: An infrared ray sensor element includes: a first signal wiring part including a first signal wire and provided on a first region of a semiconductor substrate different from a region on which a concave part is provided; a second signal wiring part including a second signal wire and provided on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090236525 - Spectrally tunable infrared image sensor having multi-band stacked detectors: A tunable infrared detector is provided that includes a substrate, a bottom wavelength detector formed over the substrate, a top wavelength detector formed over the first wavelength detector layer, and an interferometer filter formed over the top wavelength detector layer and the bottom wavelength detector layer. The interferometer filter is... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090236527 - Device for indicating illicit substances in the exhalation air of a machine operator: A device for a continuous indication of illicit substances in the exhalation air of face of the machine operator comprises an IR source and an IR detector being sensitive to wave length having an absorbance of the illicit substance, whereby the beam path of the IR source to the detector... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090236528 - Chemical sensing system and method: A photo-thermal, interferometric spectroscopy system is disclosed that provides information about a chemical, such as explosives and the like, at a remote location. It may be used for solid residue detection on a surface. The system includes a novel light detector system with a matrix of optical elements focusing portions... Agent: Celight, Inc.

20090236529 - Detecting apparatus, and detecting method: A detecting apparatus for detecting information of a liquid object or sample includes a transmission path, a THz wave supplying unit, a THz wave detecting unit, and an infiltrative holding member for infiltration and holding of a liquid object. The supplying unit supplies an electromagnetic wave in a frequency range... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090236530 - Boron loaded scintillator: A scintillating composition for detecting neutrons and other radiation comprises a phenyl containing silicone rubber with carborane units and at least one phosphor molecule. The carborane units can either be a carborane molecule dispersed in the rubber with the aid of a compatiblization agent or can be covalently bound to... Agent: Novak Druce +quigg LLP

20090236531 - Horizontal sensor arrays for non-invasive identification of hazardous materials: A system, method, and frame structure detect radiation and identify materials associated with radiation that has been detected. An entity to be examined is determined to have entered between a frame structure. A set of radiation data is received from a set of radiation sensors mechanically coupled to a portion... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090236532 - Time of flight measurements in positron emission tomography: A positron emission tomography apparatus (100) includes a plurality of radiation sensitive detector systems (106) and selective trigger systems (120). The selective trigger systems identify detector signals resulting from detected gamma radiation (310) while disregarding spurious detector signals (310). In one implementation, the apparatus (100) includes a time to digital... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090236534 - Pixelated scintillation detector and method of making same: A scintillation detector may include a pixelated scintillation crystal mechanically and optically coupled to a position sensitive photodetector, such as a position sensitive photomultiplier tube (PSPMT). The pixelated scintillation crystal may be coupled to the position sensitive photodetector without using a window between the crystal and photodetector. According to one... Agent: Saint-gobain/gtpp

20090236533 - Spectrometer with plastic scintillator provided with a specular reflector: A gamma-ray detector (42, 52, 72, 92) comprising a large-area plastic scintillation body (44, 64, 74, 94) and a photon detector (38, 58, 68, 78) optically coupled to the scintillation body to receive and detect photons (P1, P2, P3) generated by gamma-ray interactions. Selected portions of the scintillation body surface... Agent: O''melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-13-a7

20090236535 - Radiation detector with co-planar grid structure: A semiconductor radiation detector (1′, 1″, 1′″, 1″″) includes a body of semiconducting material (2) responsive to ionizing radiation for generating electron-hole pairs in the bulk of said body (2). A conductive cathode (4) is disposed on one side of the body (2) and an anode structure (6) is disposed... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090236536 - Radioactivity dose calibrator: A radioactivity dose calibrator system measures the quantity of radioactive material contained in a sample-vial or syringe without removing the vial or syringe from its primary radiation shield. The system comprises a first radiation detector, a second radiation detector, a transportable, shielded radioactive material sample-holder, a signal-processing circuit and a... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP

20090236538 - Mobile radiation threat identification system: A system, method, and mobile vehicle, identify materials associated with radiation that has been detected. A set of radiation data associated with radiation from at least one radiation source is received from a set of radiation sensors mechanically coupled to the mobile vehicle. At least one histogram is generated based... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090236537 - System and method capable of simultaneous radiogrpahic examination and radioactive material inspection: The present invention relates to the field of radiographic examination and radioactive material inspection, and provides a system and a method capable of simultaneous radiographic examination and radioactive material inspection. The system comprises a radiographic examination system and a radiation monitor; wherein the radiographic examination system comprises an accelerator and... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090236539 - Method for generating surface plasmon emission: A nanostructure is used to generate a highly localized nanoscale optical field. The field is excited using surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (SPASER). The SPASER radiation consists of surface plasmons that undergo stimulated emission, but in contrast to photons can be localized within a nanoscale region. A... Agent: King & Spalding

20090236540 - Stage and electron microscope apparatus: A sample stage for electron microscope according to an embodiment of the invention includes at least two actuators capable of expanding and contracting or capable of swinging for moving a target sample in a predetermined direction. With a coordination of the two actuators, various controls are available by combining the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090236541 - System and methods for optical imaging: The invention relates to imaging methods and systems. The systems may comprise a white light source configured to generate light in a first wavelength range, an excitation source configured to generate light at one or more wavelengths for exciting a fluorescent substance, a first detector configured to acquire reflectance image... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090236543 - Fluorescence detection using lyman-alpha line illumination: A method and system is provided that takes advantage of the atmospheric transmission properties of the Hydrogen Lyman-α radiation line (121.6 nm wavelength) to illuminate a sample with high energy VUV photons at least partially in an atmospheric environment. Thus, according to the principles of the present invention, a sample... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20090236542 - Optical inspection: This invention relates to methods of determining physical characteristics of and identifying and locating defects in substrates, such as semiconductor wafers, optical thin films, display screens and the like. The method involve use of PC scanners to image the substrate. In particular PC scanners used in transmission mode imaging allow... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090236546 - Information recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: An information recording medium manufacturing method includes steps of forming, on a support, a recording layer containing a polymer compound having an azobenzene structure, irradiating the recording layer with first writing light to form a first light-diffracting structure having a three-dimensional relief pattern on the surface of the recording layer,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090236545 - Non-continuous particle beam irradiation method and apparatus: Method and apparatus are disclosed for treating a non-continuous particle beam produced by an accelerator in order to irradiate a target volume, wherein an irradiation spot located in the target volume is formed from this beam, and wherein the location of the irradiation spot is controlled by location controlling elements.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP (varian)

20090236544 - Uv reactive spray chamber for enhanced sample introduction efficiency: An analyte for atomic spectrometry detection is prepared by introducing an aerosol of the analyte into a chamber, and irradiating the aerosol with ultraviolet light in the presence of a low molecular weight organic acid or other suitable photoactivatable ligand donor species to create vapor containing the analyte. The vapor... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20090236547 - Extraction electrode system for high current ion implanter: A system and method extraction electrode system, comprising an extraction electrode, wherein the extraction electrode, further defines an aperture and forms a portion of the outside wall of the ion source and is configured to extract ions from the ion source, a suppression disk half assembly comprising two suppression electrode... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20090236548 - Fused test source: A test source that combines infrared energy and visible light to produce a uniform output of energy in the visible and infrared spectra is disclosed. The test source includes an infrared energy source and a visible light source. The infrared energy source has a white coating thereon. The visible light... Agent: James A. Hudak, Esq.

20090236549 - Apparatus for improving detection efficiency of multiphoton microscopy systems by focus compensation, pupil image division, and parallel pupil rearrangement: Disclosed is an apparatus for division and rearrangement of light from a source object. The apparatus splits the light from the source object, or image of the source object, and recombines it in a parallel, fashion to increase the efficiency of multiphoton microscopy in general and harmonic or fluorescence emission... Agent: Intellectual Property Department Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.c.

20090230284 - Luminous intensity measuring device: A luminous intensity measuring device includes a photoresistor, a number of voltage-dividing resistors, a plurality of comparators, a micro control unit (MCU), and an indicator. The photoresistor is connected to a current-limiting resistor in series between a direct current (DC) power supply and ground. The voltage-dividing resistors are connected in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090230285 - Drive and measurement circuit for a photomultiplier: A method of measuring an anode current in an electron-multiplier device having an anode, a cathode, dynodes and a voltage divider network for applying voltages to the dynodes, which method includes applying an HV positive voltage to the anode and intermediate voltages to the dynodes, the cathode being at or... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20090230286 - Micro channel plate assembly: In an MCP assembly 10 having one or a plurality of MCPs 5, 6 sandwiched with an input-side electrode 4 and an output-side electrode 7, there provided at the surface facing the MCP 5, 6 of at least either (preferably, both) of the input-side electrode 4 and the output-side electrode... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090230288 - Method for the operation of a photoelectric sensor array: A method for operating a sensor array of pixels which each generate a content corresponding to light incident thereon over an exposure period includes the following operations. The pixels are arranged into first and second regions and are reset such that the contents are cleared. The pixels are then exposed... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090230289 - Pixel structure having shielded storage node: A pixel structure having a shielded storage node. A pixel comprises a sample transistor coupled to a light detecting stage. The sample transistor comprises an inner junction region surrounding and coupled to a storage node and a gate disposed around at least three sides of the inner junction region that... Agent: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

20090230287 - Stacked image sensor with shared diffusion regions in respective dropped pixel positions of a pixel array: A CMOS image sensor or other type of image sensor comprises a sensor wafer and an underlying circuit wafer. The sensor wafer comprises a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in respective positions of a two-dimensional array of positions in which a subset of the array positions do not include photosensitive... Agent: F-p, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20090230290 - Image sensor, image-sensing apparatus using the image sensor, and image-sensing system: An image sensor has a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric converter and a pixel circuit for processing signals from the photoelectric converter and outputting processed signals and a scanning circuit, disposed between the photoelectric converters, included in each of at least two adjacent pixels among a plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090230291 - Automatic analyzer and analysis system using photomultiplier tube: When the sensitivity of the photomultiplier tube is to be adjusted by voltage, measurement is performed under the optimum condition by setting a voltage to be applied suitable for measurement according to a concentration range specified for measurement items and adjusting the voltage based on selected items, previous values for... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090230292 - Protection circuit and photoelectric conversion device: A protection circuit and a photoelectric conversion device are provided, each of which includes a first wiring, a second wiring, a first switch, a second switch, a capacitor, and a comparing circuit configured to generate a signal corresponding to a potential of the first wiring and a potential of the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090230293 - Method for correction of non-uniformity in detector elements comprised in an ir-detector: A method for correction of non-uniformity in signal level in different image points in an IR-camera, based on a scene being observed during movement in time of detector elements, of a camera in which the detector elements are arranged and/or of the scene, with deviating output signals for the same... Agent: Venable LLP

20090230294 - Methods and systems for in situ calibration of imaging in biological analysis: Software, methods, and systems for calibrating photometric devices are provided. These involve using a non-uniform test illumination field to approximate a photon transfer curve by calculating stable pixel values and statistical dispersions on a pixel-by-pixel basis.... Agent: Life Technologies Corporation C/o Intellevate

20090230295 - Measurement of hydraulic conductivity using a radioactive or activatable tracer: A method of determining the distance, from a reference point, of a tracer emitting radiation comprising a first component emitted at a first known energy level and a second component emitted at a second known energy level, the intensity of a penetrating portion of the first component that penetrates a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090230298 - Data processor for mass spectrometer: A main peak list is created with the data obtained by an MSn analysis (S1), the difference between the mass-to-charge ratio of each product ion listed on this main peak list and that of the precursor ion is calculated (S2), and an auxiliary peak list for forming a virtual peak... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090230297 - High-voltage power unit and mass spectrometer using the power unit: The output terminal P2 of the positive voltage generating circuit 2 and the output terminal Q1 of the negative voltage generating circuit 4 are connected in series. The output terminal Q2 of the negative voltage generating circuit 4 is connected to the ground via the resistor 10. Each of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090230296 - Radial arrays of nano-electrospray ionization emitters and methods of forming electrosprays: Electrospray ionization emitter arrays, as well as methods for forming electrosprays, are described. The arrays are characterized by a radial configuration of three or more nano-electrospray ionization emitters without an extractor electrode. The methods are characterized by distributing fluid flow of the liquid sample among three or more nano-electrospray ionization... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20090230302 - Electron transfer dissociation for biopolymer sequence analysis: The present invention relates to a new method for fragmenting ions in a mass spectrometer through the use of electron transfer dissociation, and for performing sequence analysis of peptides and proteins by mass spectrometry. In the case of peptides, the invention promotes fragmentation along the peptide backbone and makes it... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090230299 - Ion source, ion beam processing/observation apparatus, charged particle beam apparatus, and method for observing cross section of sample: An ion beam machining and observation method relevant to a technique of cross sectional observation of an electronic component, through which a sample is machined by using an ion beam and a charged particle beam processor capable of reducing the time it takes to fill up a processed hole with... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090230301 - Mass spectrometry apparatus and method: Disclosed is a mass spectrometry apparatus and method capable of providing enhanced analysis sensitivity in a mass spectrometric analysis for a small amount of ions. A quadrupole rod-type ion guide is employed to temporarily accumulate ions to be introduced into an ion trap, and ions are introduced into the ion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090230300 - Rapid detection of volatile organic compounds for identification of bacteria in a sample: In various embodiments, the invention relates to a method for identifying the presence of particular bacteria in a sample. The method includes collecting a sample that includes or has been exposed to the particular bacteria and detecting, in the sample, at least one volatile organic compound indicative of the presence... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090230303 - Defect analyzer: The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for analyzing defects in an object such as a semiconductor wafer. In one embodiment, it provides a method of characterizing defects in semiconductor wafers during fabrication in a semiconductor fabrication facility. This method comprises the following actions. The semiconductor wafers are inspected... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20090230304 - Scanning electron microscope: In a VP-SEM that uses gas multiplication induced within a low-vacuum sample chamber and uses a method of detecting a positive displacement current, a secondary electron detector for the VP-SEM that responds at high speed, which can acquire a TV-Scan rate image at a low cost while saving a space... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090230305 - Radon monitor: A radon monitor includes a housing defining a housing cavity and having an opening in an exterior wall that is in fluid communication with the housing cavity to allow air to diffuse into and out of the housing cavity. The monitor also includes input and output units and a circuit... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090230306 - Spectroscopic prediction of formaldehyde emission and thickness swell of wood panels: A process for spectroscopic measurement of the emission of formaldehyde from refined wood products destined to be used in the manufacture of composite wood products such as medium density fiberboard (MDF), particleboard, and plywood. The process employs near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to measure the absorption of light by the wood furnish;... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20090230307 - Device to detect heat source, home appliance having the same and method of detecting heat source: A device to detect a heat source, which can detect position of a heat source faster and more efficiently using a sensor capable of detecting a heat source, a home appliance having such a detecting device and a method of detecting a heat source are disclosed. The heat source detecting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090230308 - Fluorescence detecting method and fluorescence detecting apparatus: Fluorescence detection utilizes surface plasmon. The intensity of scattered light, which is substantially proportionate to the intensity of an electric field enhancing field generated on a metal film, is employed, to normalize and correct the intensity of fluorescence emitted by fluorescent labels with respect to the intensity of the electric... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090230311 - Image pickup apparatus and radiatioin image pickup apparatus: To improve a sensor resetting method and thereby implement a high rate at which a moving image is read, the invention provides an image pickup apparatus and a radiation image pickup apparatus including: a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate in row and column directions, each pixel having a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090230310 - Image sensing apparatus: An image sensing apparatus provided with a plurality of image sensing elements each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections and an adding circuit adapted to add signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion sections to obtain a one-pixel signal, wherein the adding circuit adds the signals such that the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090230309 - Method for manufacturing a solid state radiation detector, and radiation imaging system: A method for manufacturing a solid state radiation detector having an active matrix layer, in which a great number of reading elements are arranged, and a radiation photoconductive layer that generates electric charges when irradiated by electromagnetic waves that bear image information, provided such that the electric charges are read... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090230312 - Image sensor, image-sensing apparatus using the image sensor, and image-sensing system: An image sensor has a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric converter and a pixel circuit for processing signals from the photoelectric converter and outputting processed signals and a scanning circuit, disposed between the photoelectric converters, included in each of at least two adjacent pixels among a plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090230313 - Light quantity measuring device and method for measuring light quantity: A light quantity measuring device includes a first light reception element, a second light, reception element, an identification circuit, and a selection circuit. The first light reception element receives a predetermined incident light at a first light reception surface. The second light reception element receives the incident light at a... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090230314 - Gamma source for active interrogation: A cylindrical gamma generator includes a coaxial RF-driven plasma ion source and target. A hydrogen plasma is produced by RF excitation in a cylindrical plasma ion generator using an RF antenna. A cylindrical gamma generating target is coaxial with the ion generator, separated by plasma and extraction electrodes which has... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20090230315 - Neutron imaging camera, process and apparatus for detection of special materials: Systems, processes, and apparatus are described through which fast neutrons are detected, their momenta are measured and a position of a source of the fast neutrons is determined from the measured momenta. For example, a multiple-cell neutron-sensitive camera is described. Each cell includes a neutron detection cell that also functions... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20090230317 - Aberration correction apparatus that corrects spherical aberration of charged particle apparatus: To provide an aberration correction configuration that can realize both an aberration correction function for a long focus and an aberration correction function for a short focus. While having a conventional aberration correction apparatus configuration that has two rotationally symmetric lenses arranged between two multiple lenses, three rotationally symmetric lenses... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090230316 - Method of suppressing beam position drift, method of suppressing beam dimension drift, and charged-particle beam lithography system: A lithography method and system have means for determining a convergence value dc from a relation of beam current to beam position drift (or beam dimension drift) produced in the past; means for finding a beam current i(t) as a function of the convergence value dc of beam position drift... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090230318 - Target design for high-power laser accelerated ions: Methods for designing a laser-accelerated ion beam are disclosed. The methods include modeling a system including a heavy ion layer, an electric field, and high energy light positive ions having a maximum light positive ion energy, correlating physical parameters of the heavy ion layer, the electric field, and the maximum... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090230320 - Scanning probe apparatus: In a scanning probe apparatus capable of always effectively canceling an inertial force to suppress vibration even in repetitive use while replacing a sample holding table or a probe, a stage for a sample or the probe includes a drive element for moving the sample holding table and movable portions... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090230319 - Specimen stage-moving device for charged-particle beam system: A charged-particle beam system is offered which is equipped with a Z-motion mechanism to enable tomography. The Z-motion mechanism includes a rotary disk having three tapering surfaces on which balls are nested. The rotary disk is rotated via a worm gear to cause the balls to go upward along the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090230321 - Ultraviolet ray sterilization device: A sterilization device includes a shell, an ultraviolet ray lamp tube fixed with a lamp support on an upper end of the shell, an inner quartz tube around the lamp tube, an outer quartz tube around the inner quartz tube, a stainless steel tube around the outer quartz tube, an... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090230322 - Fluorescence based detection of substances: A method for the fluorescent detection of a substance, the method comprising providing particles comprising a metal or a metal oxide core, wherein one or more optionally fluorescently tagged antibodies or human specific peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers for binding to a substance is/are bound, directly or indirectly, to the... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090230323 - Fluorometer with low heat-generating light source: This invention concerns a fluorometer preferably combined with a thermal cycler useful in biochemical protocols such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA melting curve analysis. The present fluorometer features a low heat-generating light source such as a light emitting diode (LED), having a one-to-one correspondence to each of a... Agent: Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP Attn: Janet E. Reed, Ph.d.

20090230324 - Methods and devices for characterizing particles in clear and turbid media: The invention provides methods and devices for detecting, identifying, classifying and characterizing particles in a fluid sample. Optical analyzers are provided having a rotating and/or translating sample container for measuring the concentrations of fluorescent particles present in very low concentrations and for characterizing fluorescent particles on the basis of size,... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20090230325 - Method for measuring activity of a specific fraction of albumin: Methods of measuring the SFA and sPLA2 activities in a mammalian subject are provided. The methods include: providing a substrate comprising a fluorescently labeled carboxylic acid and a negatively charged phospholipid in an organic solvent such as ethanol, mixing the substrate with phospholipase A2 and a biological sample from the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090230326 - Systems and methods for target material delivery in a laser produced plasma euv light source: Devices are disclosed herein which may comprise an EUV reflective optic having a surface of revolution that defines a rotation axis and a circular periphery. The optic may be positioned to incline the axis at a nonzero angle relative to a horizontal plane, and to establish a vertical projection of... Agent: Matthew K. Hillman Cymer, Inc., Legal Dept.

20090230329 - Ion implantation method: An ion implantation method is provided. The method, before ion implanting, is to rotate the substrate by an angle and shift the scan path of the ion beam with an interlace pitch in the direction perpendicular to the scan direction and on the plane of the substrate. Therefore a plurality... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090230330 - Method of repairing a specimen intended to be analysed by electron microscopy:

20090230328 - Electron beam writing method, fine pattern writing system, method for manufacturing uneven pattern carrying substrate, and method for manufacturing magnetic disk medium: When writing element shapes of a fine pattern on a substrate applied with a resist by scanning an electron beam thereon, ON/OFF control is performed for emitting the electron beam at a predetermined rotational position of the substrate by a blanking-OFF signal, performing writing in a rotational direction of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090230327 - Particle therapy apparatus and method for modulating a particle beam generated in an accelerator: The invention relates to a particle therapy apparatus having an accelerator for generating a particle beam, a passive energy modulator comprising an absorber element, and a control entity. The control entity is designed to switch between an active adjustment of the energy in the accelerator and a passive energy modulation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090230331 - Device having active region with lower electron concentration: A device comprising a two-dimensional electron gas that includes an active region located in a portion of the electron gas is disclosed. The active region comprises an electron concentration less than an electron concentration of a set of non-active regions of the electron gas. The device includes a controlling terminal... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090230332 - Depressed anode with plasmon-enabled devices such as ultra-small resonant structures: Plasmon-enable devices such as ultra-small resonant devices produce electromagnetic radiation at frequencies in excess of microwave frequencies when induced to resonate by a passing electron beam. The resonant devices are surrounded by one or more depressed anodes to recover energy from the passing electron beam as/after the beam couples its... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090230333 - Metallic screens for sub-wavelength focusing of electromagnetic waves: A method and apparatus for near-field focusing of an incident wave, over a range of frequencies from microwaves to optical frequencies, into a sub-wavelength spot having a peak-to-null beamwidth of λ/10. The screen may be made out of closely spaced, unequal slots cut on a metallic sheet. Nano-scale focusing capability... Agent: Stephen R. Burri

20090230334 - Lightweight radiation protection material for a large energy application range: The invention relates to a lead substitute material for radiation protection purposes, wherein the lead substitute material comprises from 12 to 22 wt. % matrix material, from 0 to 75 wt. % Sn or Sn compounds, from 0 to 73 wt. % W or W compounds, from 0 to 80... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090224136 - Light source device, image display apparatus, and light amount correcting method: A light source device includes: a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits, according to an input value, light having first wavelength; a wavelength converting element that converts, with a nonlinear optical effect, the light having the first wavelength emitted by the semiconductor light-emitting element into light having second wavelength; a light-amount... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090224138 - Electrically programmable hyper-spectral focal-plane-array: A voltage supply is connected to provide a variable bias voltage to a plurality of optical quantum tunneling photodetectors to thereby vary the spectral response of the photodetectors and thus detect radiation.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090224137 - Light barrier: The present invention relates to a light barrier for the monitoring of a light path having a base assembly of a first transmitter emitting a light signal and a first receiver generating an output signal for a control. In accordance with the invention, the light barrier has an active reflector... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20090224139 - Drift field demodulation pixel with pinned photo diode: A pixel based on a pinned-photodiode structure that creates a lateral electric drift field. The combination of the photodiode with adjacent CCD gates enables the utilization of the drift field device in applications such as 3-D imaging. Compared with recently used demodulation devices in CCD or CMOS technology, the new... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090224141 - Linear distributed pixel differential amplifier having mirrored inputs: A pixel circuit that partially incorporates an associated column amplifier into the pixel circuitry. By incorporating part of a mirrored amplifier into the pixel, noise from the pixel is reduced.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090224140 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device including: pixel section having two-dimensionally arranged pixels, each pixel containing photoelectric conversion device, charge retaining section, amplification section, and reset section controlled by reset control signal applied on control terminal, pixel section having vertical signal line and constant current supply; CDS circuit for outputting pixel signal... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090224142 - Reverse bias processing apparatus and reverse bias processing method for photoelectric conversion devices: When reverse bias processing is performed, on a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices connected in series, different potentials are applied to electrodes of three or more photoelectric conversion devices to simultaneously perform reverse bias processing on two or more reverse photoelectric conversion devices. Thereby, time taken to perform reverse bias... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090224143 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and ic card system: A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of protection from card hacking, by which erroneous actions are actively induced by irradiation with light and protected secret information is illegitimately acquired, is to be provided. Photodetectors, configured by a standard logic process, hardly distinguishable from other circuits and consumes very little standby power,... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090224144 - Optical circuit and method for measuring monitor characteristic: An optical circuit includes a selector that supplies an output current from a first photodetector to a converter provided for a second photodetector, and a processor that imaginarily calculates the level of signal light output from an optical device, which is detected by the second photodetector, based upon the level... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090224145 - Optical displacement sensor for infusion devices: An optical sensor for a delivery device having a piston that displaces a substance, such as a fluid, from a reservoir. The optical sensor has a light source and a detector array for imaging encoding features disposed along a plunger rod coupled to the piston. By virtue of the pattern... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090224146 - Apparatus and method for determining thermal neutron capture cross section of a subsurface formation from a borehole using multiple detectors: A well logging instrument including a plurality of detectors having different precisions and accuracies, the more precise detectors generally having lower accuracies. The detectors are responsive to the interaction of radiation from a suitable source on the instrument with earth formations. Outputs from the plurality of detectors are smoothed and... Agent: Madan & Sriram, P.C.

20090224148 - Apparatus and method for performing mass spectroscopy: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to apparatus and methods for performing mass spectrometry. Data pair information is subjected to an ion audit process in which data pair information that relates to scored compounds is subtracted from the data pair information. The depleted information more readily reveals data pair... Agent: Waters Technologies Corporation C/o Waters Corporation

20090224150 - Chemical detection method and system: A system and method for detecting an analyte of interest in a sample is provided. The method includes passing a set of ions obtained from the sample through an ion mobility spectrometer to filter out ions that are not ions of interest and to generate an ion mobility spectrum. A... Agent: Rick Comoglio Sr. Intellectual Property Counsel

20090224147 - Method for separation of molecules: A method for separating molecules, such as enantiomers, other stereoisomers and constitutional isomers by ion mobility spectrometry (IMS). Molecules of interest are ionised after addition of a suitable chiral reference compound, resulting in the formation of cluster ions that can be separated by IMS techniques such as ion drift mobility... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090224149 - Raster scan system, raster scan method and program: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique through which a raster scan program which can obtain a signal which is more excellent in strength and sensitivity than a signal which is areally averaged within a well formed in a channel in an electrophoresis chip can be... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090224151 - Detector and inspecting apparatus: An inspecting apparatus for reducing a time loss associated with a work for changing a detector is characterized by comprising a plurality of detectors 11, 12 for receiving an electron beam emitted from a sample W to capture image data representative of the sample W, and a switching mechanism M... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090224152 - Method and apparatus for measuring dimension using electron microscope: Disclosed is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) for realizing high-precision dimension measurement of a sample, such as an ArF exposure photoresist, that requires the measurement of a dimension by a low S/N signal waveform. To this end, partial waveforms (or partial images) of sample signal waveforms (or an images) acquired... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090224154 - Swir vision and illumination devices: An aiming device is configured to generate an infrared cross on a target. The cross having a principal wavelength above the wavelength detectable by image intensification night vision devices. A night vision system having a short wave infrared detector includes an illuminator having a principal wavelength above the wavelength detectable... Agent: Insight Technology Incorporated Attn: Peter W. Murphy

20090224153 - Target marker having quantum cascade laser for thermally marking a target: A handheld target marker is provided, wherein the target marker includes a housing retaining a quantum cascade laser, a collimating or focusing lens, a driver and a power supply. The quantum cascade laser produces a thermal infrared beam which can be selectively directed to impinge upon a target. The impinging... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

20090224155 - Method and apparatus for detecting em energy using surface plasmon polaritons: An apparatus and method are disclosed for detecting electromagnetic (EM) energy. An exemplary apparatus includes a dielectric layer for receiving incident EM energy, a metal film and a circuit. The metal film has a first surface adjacent to the dielectric layer and has a thickness selected to stimulate surface plasma... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090224156 - System and method for viewing an area using an optical system positioned inside of a dewar: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for viewing an area includes a dewar and an optical system positioned within the dewar. The dewar permits operation of the flux detector at cryogenic temperatures, in some embodiments. The optical system includes an infrared radiation system capable of focusing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090224157 - System and method for high z material detection: A method and system for high Z material revealing using muon detection technique is presented. The system measures muons' coordinates, velocities, incidence angles and leaving angles. Two series of detectors: one above and one below the interrogated volume are used. A muon trajectory deviation from an expected trajectory is used... Agent: Celight, Inc.

20090224158 - Data acquisition for positron emission tomography: A method for estimating the start time of an electronic pulse generated in response to a detected event, for example the start time for pulses received in response to photon detection in positron emission tomography, includes providing a detector that detects an external event and generates an electronic analog pulse... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090224159 - Observation apparatus: An observation apparatus can observe the temporal fluctuations of the two-dimensional distribution of oxygen concentration in the bottom sludge and also in the bottom water on the seabed at an observation site. The observation apparatus includes a pressure-resistant container main body section that has a pressure-resistant window and is hermetically... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090224160 - Radiation analysis devices, radiation analysis methods, and articles of manufacture: Radiation analysis devices include circuitry configured to determine respective radiation count data for a plurality of sections of an area of interest and combine the radiation count data of individual ones the sections to determine whether a selected radioactive material is present in the area of interest. An amount of... Agent: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20090224161 - Dental intraoral radiological image sensor with a fiber-optic plate: The invention relates to dental radiological image sensors for intraoral use. What is described is a method of fabricating an image sensor, comprising steps for the collective production of a structure combining a semiconductor wafer (12), bearing a series of image detection circuits, and a fiber-optic plate (20) fixed to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090224162 - Imaging device and production method of imaging device: An imaging device is provided and includes a plurality of pixel parts each including a photoelectric conversion layer that generates an electric charge according to an X-ray. The plurality of pixel parts includes: a substrate including a signal output unit that outputs a signal to an outside of the imaging... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090224163 - Radiation imaging apparatus, apparatus control method, and computer-readable storage medium storing program for executing control: To provide a radiation imaging apparatus which is capable of both connecting state radiographing for radiographing with a C arm connected and non-connecting state radiographing for radiographing with the C arm disconnected, and is convenient and obtains high quality images, the apparatus includes: a flat panel detector; a holding unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090224166 - Radiation image device: Wiring substrates 11 and 12 are positioned on a fixed base 10 in a manner such that there is a step between the wiring substrates, and radiation imaging elements 2 and 3, respectively having scintillators 25 and 35 deposited on photosensitive portions 21 and 31, are respectively mounted on the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090224165 - Radiation imaging device: Wiring substrates 11 and 12 are positioned on a fixed base 10 in a manner such that there is a step between the wiring substrates, and radiation imaging elements 2 and 3, respectively having scintillators 25 and 35 deposited on photosensitive portions 21 and 31, are respectively mounted on the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090224164 - Scintillation detector for positron emission tomography: The invention disclosed herein is directed to scintillation detectors capable of detecting the position or depth of gamma photon interactions occurring within a scintillator, thereby improving the resolution of ring based positron emission tomography (PET) imaging systems. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a scintillation detector that comprises... Agent: Thomas Loop

20090224167 - Method and apparatus of detecting ionizing radiation: A method of detecting ionizing radiation is provided. The method includes detecting ionizing radiation using a detector assembly having a pixelated semiconductor substrate, each pixel including a central region and a region of variable response, each pixel further including at least one anode, the detector assembly including a grid electrode... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090224168 - System for measuring ultraviolet solar radiation with means for displaying uv information in a public place: The present invention refers to a system and corresponding device to measure instantly and permanently the ultraviolet radiation with display adequate to be located in places visible by people and that allows to show the ultraviolet radiation detected in a panel, billboard or ad by means of the color code... Agent: Eric Hanscom

20090224169 - Scanning transmission electron microscope and method of aberration correction therefor: A scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) and method of aberration correction have autocorrelation function calculation means, aberration coefficient calculation means, and feedback control. At least two images are obtained by varying a value at which one of the electron optical means is set. The at least two images are autocorrelated.... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090224170 - Scanning electron microscope: An object of the present invention is to provide a scanning electron microscope suitable for monitoring apparatus conditions of the microscope itself, irrespective of the presence of charge-up, specimen inclination, and the like. In order to achieve the object, proposed is a scanning electron microscope including a function to monitor... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090224171 - System and method for controlling elution from a radioisotope generator with electronic pinch valves: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for controlling an elution process with at least one electronic pinch valve. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention include supplying eluent to a radioisotope generator of a radioisotope elution system, and controlling elution of the radioisotope generator with at... Agent: Mallinckrodt Inc.

20090224175 - Apparatus and method for batch non-contact material characterization: An apparatus for performing non-contact material characterization includes a wafer carrier adapted to hold a plurality of substrates and a material characterization device, such as a device for performing photoluminescence spectroscopy. The apparatus is adapted to perform non-contact material characterization on at least a portion of the wafer carrier, including... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090224174 - Calibration device and laser scanning microscope with such a calibration device: A calibration device for managing a variety of performance tests and/or calibration tasks in a laser scanning microscope. The calibration device, which has focusing optics and a test structure arranged in the focal plane of the focusing optics, with structural elements detectable in reflected and/or transmitted light aligned to each... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090224173 - Grating waveguide structure for reinforcing an excitation field and use thereof: The invention relates to a variable embodiment of a grating waveguide structure, based on a planar thin-film waveguide with a first optically transparent layer (a) on a second optically transparent layer (b) having a lower refractive index than layer (a), and a grating structure (c) modulated in layer (a), wherein... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090224172 - Spatially-resolved measurement method for the detection of melanin in fluorophor mixtures in a solid sample: A method of obtaining a spatially resolved measurement for the detection of melanin in fluorophore mixtures of a solid sample includes emitting at least one pulse of light from a laser light source onto the solid sample at an excitation wavelength between 300 nm and 1000 nm so as to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090224176 - A self indicating multi-sensor radiation dosimeter: Described is a multi-sensor radiation dosimeter system with (1) a self-indicating, instant radiation sensor and (2) a conventional radiation sensor for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray, electrons and neutrons. Conventional radiation sensors, such as X-ray film, TLD (Thermoluminescence Dosimeters), RLG (Radioluminescence Glass) and OSL (Optically Simulated Luminescence), are... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20090224177 - Color conversion member and light emitting apparatus using the color conversion member: A color conversion member of a high efficiency achieved by restraining fluorescence emitted from a certain phosphor from being absorbed again by another different phosphor, as well as a light emitting apparatus including the color conversion member are provided. The color conversion member includes N light transmissive members each containing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090224179 - Connection device: There is provided a connection device for connecting a first depressurization vessel to a second depressurization vessel. The connection device includes a communication hole comprising a first opening which is connected to the first depressurization vessel, and a second opening which is connected to the second depressurization vessel, the first... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090224178 - Method and device for laser ablation of a surface coating from a wall, such as a coat of paint in a nuclear plant: The invention concerns a method for laser ablation of a surface coating from a wall, such as a painted wall finish, for example in a nuclear plant to be decontaminated, and a device for implementing said method. The inventive ablation method includes sweeping shots on the coating of at least... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090224180 - Apparatus and method for processing a wafer: An method for processing a processing surface of a wafer by means of a processing-beam is disclosed. The method comprises moving the wafer and the processing-beam relative to each other so that the processing-beam scans the processing surface of the wafer in a scanning path having a curved course with... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090224181 - Extreme ultra violet light source apparatus: An extreme ultra violet light source apparatus in which debris staying and accumulating within a chamber can be prevented from contaminating the chamber and deteriorating the performance of important optical component. The extreme ultra violet light source apparatus includes: a chamber in which extreme ultra violet light is generated; a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090224182 - Laser heated discharge plasma euv source with plasma assisted lithium reflux: A self-magnetically confined lithium plasma that has an applied axial magnetic field is irradiated at sub-critical density by a perpendicularly oriented carbon dioxide laser to generate extreme ultraviolet photons at the wavelength of 13.5 nm with high efficiency, high power and small source size. Lithium reflux is facilitated by ionization,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090224183 - Hadron treatment planning with adequate biological weighting: Treatment planning methods are provided that determine the variability of relative biological effectiveness (RBE) along a beam line and calculate, among other things, what intensity of hadron beam such as a proton or a carbon ion beam should be applied to achieve a desired biological dose at treatment site of... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090224184 - Lightweight rigid structural compositions with integral radiation shielding including lead-free structural compositions: Lightweight and rigid, leaded or lead-free integral radiation shielding structural compositions comprising two or more radiation attenuating elements or compounds thereof, selected for having compatible radiation attenuating characteristics, dispersed in a thermoplastic or thermoset resin. The radiation shielding structural compositions of the present invention can be used to functionally and... Agent: Gomez International Patent Office, LLC

20090224185 - Security protection device and method: A method, device and retrofitting kit is disclosed that will protect materials that are housed within a storage device from one or more forms of radiographic imaging. A target subject is at least partially covered with a first and second layer of radiographic cloaking material. The first layer of radiographic... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20090224186 - Dual opto-coupler optical isolation circuit: An electrical control circuit detects a sensed value on a load and outputs an analog sensor signal. The analog sensor signal is passed through a plurality of isolation couplers which isolate a controller from a load. The plurality of isolation couplers are arranged such that the scaling factor of the... Agent: Masco Corporation

20090224187 - Counting device for small series: The invention concerns a device for counting series of thin products (2), stacked side by side, and includes a means of illuminating the stack (5) producing one or more light beams covering the whole length of the stack (5), —a detection resource with a detection circuit, including a multiplicity of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090224188 - Radiation image detecting apparatus: Radiation images, which are obtained while reciprocally moving a scattered radiation removing means, are efficiently corrected. An image processing apparatus performs shading correction and gain correction on a radiation image which is obtained by detecting radiation that passes through a subject and is detected by a radiation detector while reciprocally... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090218475 - Laser annealing apparatus and method: The irradiation unevenness caused by drift occurring in a beam short-axis direction is reduced without adding a new beam shaping unit and affecting the propagation characteristic of a beam in an optical resonator. A position deviation detector for detecting a position deviation of a laser beam before passing through a... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20090218476 - Radiation image pickup apparatus, its control method, and radiation image pickup system: A radiation image pickup apparatus or the like which realizes improvement of noise resistance characteristics when adding pixel signals is provided. For this purpose, the radiation image pickup apparatus has a switching unit which is arranged between a signal wiring and an amplifier and can switch electrical connection among a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090218477 - Image sensing apparatus and image sensing system: An image sensing apparatus having a pixel array with a plurality of pixels, comprises an amplification unit, wherein the amplification unit amplifies a difference-voltage between a voltage level input corresponding to signals output from the pixel array and a reference voltage level, outputs a non-inverted output signal to a first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090218478 - Position detection device for mobile robot and robot cleaner including the same: The present invention relates to a position detection device for a mobile robot, including a light-emitting element for emitting light, a light reception element on which light transferred from a bottom, of the light emitted from the light-emitting element and then reflected from an obstacle, is focused, and a signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090218479 - Image sensing apparatus and imaging system: An image sensing apparatus includes a pixel array, a first color filter, a second color filter, and a light shielding portion. The amount of electric charges generated in a first pixel after light of a first wavelength enters the first pixel is larger than that of electric charges generated in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090218480 - Method of and system for calibration of inspection systems producing x-ray images: According to one embodiment, a calibration system for calibrating image data produced by an imaging system is provided. The calibration system includes a processor configured for: receiving the image data from the imaging system; receiving a plurality of reference values from the imaging system; and calibrating the image data using... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Foley & Larder, LLP

20090218481 - High-speed molecular analyzer system and method: This invention relates to a device for the determination of the sequence of nucleic acids and other polymeric or chain type molecules. Specifically, the device analyzes a sample prepared by incorporating fluorescent dyes at the end of copies of varying lengths of the sample to be sequenced. The sample is... Agent: Dewalch Technologies, Inc.

20090218483 - Analyzing method and analyzing apparatus: An analysis apparatus includes a first process part for removing a film formed on a substrate by irradiating the film with ultraviolet light, a second process part for providing a solution onto a surface of the substrate for dissolving an object being analyzed on the substrate, and a third process... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090218484 - Concentrating mass spectrometer ion guide, spectrometer and method: An ion guide includes multiple stages. An electric field within each stage guides ions along a guide axis. Within each stage, amplitude and frequency, and resolving potential of the electric field may be independently varied. The geometry of the rods maintains a similarly shaped field from stage to stage, allowing... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090218482 - Method and device for the mass spectrometric detection of compounds: A method for mass-spectrometric detection of compounds in a gas flow includes: alternatingly forming first and a second beams by switching between electron pulses/pulse trains and photon pulses/pulse trains, the photon pulses/pulse trains being generated by an excimer lamp, and the switching between the electron pulses/pulse trains and the photon... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090218485 - Ion-trapping devices providing shaped radial electric field: Disclosed are ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) cells and other ion-trapping cells with plural groups of multiple trapping electrodes for shaping (e.g., flattening) the radial electric field within the ICR cell. Also disclosed are methods for controlling the electric field to diminish effects of de-phasing. The diminished effects are achieved by... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090218487 - Mass-spectrometer interface housing: An apparatus for performing chemical analyses includes a mass spectrometry module and an interface module that processes sample materials for delivery to the mass spectrometry module. The interface module includes a vessel having an opening to access a vessel chamber, a door to block the opening, a sealing member disposed... Agent: Waters Technologies Corporation C/o Waters Corporation

20090218486 - Multipole ion guide interface for reduced background noise in mass spectrometry: Ions that are transported from an ion source to a mass spectrometer for mass analysis are often accompanied by background particles such as photons, neutral species, and cluster or aerosol ions which originate in the ion source. Background particles are also produced by scattering and neutralization of ions during collisions... Agent: Levisohn, Berger , LLP

20090218490 - Apparatus and method of semiconductor defect inspection: An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method of semiconductor defect inspection in which an optimal process condition can be determined without performing electrical evaluation. To achieve the object, the present invention includes a configuration in which the type of an extracted defect is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090218488 - Beam positioning for beam processing: An improved method and apparatus of beam processing corrects for beam drift while a beam is processing a sample. The beam position is aligned using a fiducial that is sufficiently near the working area so that the fiducial can be imaged and the sample processed without a stage moving. During... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20090218489 - Systems and methods for material treatment and characterization employing positron annihilation: Methods of treating materials include providing positrons within the material and detecting radiation emitted upon annihilation of positron-electron pairs within the material while treating the material. Treating the material may include subjecting the material to one or more of a pressure change, a temperature change, and a change in atmosphere... Agent: Traskbritt / Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20090218491 - Sample dimension inspecting/measuring method and sample dimension inspecting/measuring apparatus: One of principal objects of the present invention is to provide a sample dimension measuring method for detecting the position of an edge of a two-dimensional pattern constantly with the same accuracy irrespective of the direction of the edge and a sample dimension measuring apparatus. According to this invention, to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090218492 - Radiation sensor device and method: A radiation sensor device including an integrated circuit chip including a radiation sensor on a surface of the integrated chip, one or more electrical connections configured to connect between an active surface of the integrated circuit chip and a lead frame, a cap attached to said integrated circuit chip spaced... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090218493 - Wide spectral range hybrid image detector: An apparatus for detecting radiation of a plurality of wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum may be provided. The apparatus includes a substrate, a laser irradiated layer proximal to a first side of the substrate, and a microbolometer and at least one readout circuit proximal to a second side of the... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090218494 - Radiation image capturing system, sorting apparatus for sorting image capturing instruction information, program and radiation image capturing method: A radiation image capturing system includes an image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject by irradiating the subject with a radiation emitted from a radiation source, a supply apparatus for supplying image capturing instruction information for capturing a plurality of radiation images of the subject, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090218495 - Device and method for discriminating cernkov and scintillation radiation: A device for discriminating Cerenkov and scintillation radiation and a beam inspection device, including an inspection head comprising a scintillator and at least one ionizing radiation diffuser block, a device for discriminating Cerenkov and scintillation radiation, and an imaging system for forming an image from at least a part of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090218497 - Radiation image capturing system, radiation image capturing method and program: The present invention relates to a radiation image capturing system, a radiation image capturing method and a program. The radiation image capturing system includes a plurality of image capturing apparatus of different specifications for capturing a radiation image of a subject, a processor for controlling the image capturing apparatus according... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090218496 - Sensing apparatus and a method of detecting substances: A sensing apparatus comprises: a prism; a metal film provided on a surface of the prism and which has provided on its surface a material that binds to an analyte; a substrate that is provided on a surface of the prism and which has formed therein a channel for supplying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090218498 - Method of and system for obtaining linear data for object scanned using non-collimated, poly-energetic x-rays: I is an intensity of the image data, I0 is an intensity of energy produced by the imaging device for outputting the image data, μ is an attenuation coefficient of the one or more objects, and l is the thickness of the one or more objects.... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Foley & Larder, LLP

20090218499 - Sensing apparatus: A sensing apparatus comprises: a prism; a metal film provided on a surface of the prism; a substrate that is provided on a surface of the prism and which has formed therein a channel for supplying a sample to the metal film; a light source for issuing light; an optical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090218501 - Detection signal processor: A detection signal processor that includes a signal processing unit, bias current supply components, and a bias current control component is provided. The signal processing unit applies a first signal processing in parallel to plural detection signals input in parallel, converts the plural detection signals to serial detection signals by... Agent: Moss & Burke, PLLC

20090218500 - Imaging device for single x-ray photon counting: A photon-counting imaging device for single x-ray counting includes an assembly of a number of photon-counting imaging modules which are connected to generate a flat detector plane. Each photon counting imaging module includes an L-shaped support structure connectable with adjacent support structures, a monolithic pixellated semiconductor detector layer and a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090218502 - Beta-radiation detector for blood flow and chromatography: A detection device for beta radiation includes first and second adjacent detectors and a coincidence counter unit. The same beta particle may be counted twice. Alternatively, one or more positrons may be detected along with one or more gamma photons.... Agent: Ge Healthcare, Inc.

20090218503 - Semiconductor x-ray detector device: A semiconductor X-ray detector device has an i layer configured to substantially a circular cylindrical shape but not a conventional top-hat shape and a p layer provided to substantially cover the circumferential side of the i layer. Both an n+ layer and an n surface electrode are arranged smaller in... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090218505 - Evaluation method and fabrication method of optical element having multilayer film, exposure apparatus having the multilayer film, and device fabrication method: A fabrication method of an optical element having a multilayer film includes the steps of forming a multilayer film on a substrate, measuring a secondary radiation radiated from the multilayer film when a light with a wavelength of 2 to 40 nm is irradiated to the multilayer film, determining a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090218504 - Radiometer with spectral response equivalent to the erythema action curve cie, for measuring the total effective irradiance: A radiometer for measuring the total effective UV radiance of the type comprising, in an optical pathway sequence, a diffuser, an interference filter and a detector. Said interference filter comprises a plurality of alternating layers of magnesium fluoride and zirconium oxide, where the diffuser/interference filter/detector system has a spectral response... Agent: Venable LLP

20090218507 - Charged particle beam device: The present invention provides a charged particle beam device which can effectively restrain misalignment of an optical axis even if a position of an anode is changed. The present invention is a charged particle beam device comprising a cathode provided with a charged particle source which emits a charged particle,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090218508 - Cold cathode field emission electron gun and its application to electron beam instruments: The present invention provides an electron beam instrument in which variation of the trajectory of the electron beams can be suppressed even when the voltage applied to the first extractor electrode is controlled in order to stabilize the emission current amount of the electron beams. The electron beam instrument has... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090218506 - Electron beam apparatus: An electron beam emitted from an electron gun (G) forms a reduced image on a sample (S) through a non-dispersion Wien-filter (5-1), an electromagnetic deflector (11-1), a beam separator (12-1), and a tablet lens (17-1) as an objective lens. The beam separator (12-1) is configured such that a distance by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090218509 - Charged particle beam apparatus: A charged particle beam apparatus can be constructed with a smaller size (resulting in a small installation space) and a lower cost, suppress vibration, operate at higher speed, and be reliable in inspection. The charged particle beam apparatus is largely effective when a wafer having a large diameter is used.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090218510 - Specimen stage: An object of the present invention is to provide a specimen stage which is simple in structure, and which suppresses a positional shift due to a friction heat caused by a brake or the like. One aspect to achieve the object provides a specimen stage including: a thrust portion thrust... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090218511 - Stage apparatus and exposure apparatus: The present invention provides a stage apparatus wherein an object is disposed in an atmosphere with a gas pressure lower than atmospheric pressure, and the object can be driven with high accuracy. The stage apparatus that drives a reticle comprises: a vacuum chamber, which forms a space and has an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090218512 - Ultraviolet treatment device: A keyboard and touchpad or mouse UV treatment system with optical sensor and inclined slide is described. A proximity sensor, microcontroller firmware, and motorized mechanism allow activation of the sanitization cycle by personnel with contaminated hands without risk of additional spreading of pathogens to other personnel and patients. The inclined... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090218513 - Fluorescence-based scanning imaging device: A device for analysing a specimen by fluorescence includes a confocal microscope, illumination means capable of emitting a light beam that converges, by means of an objective, on a focal spot, means for successively positioning the focal spot at various points on the specimen during analysis. The confocal microscope includes... Agent: Perman & Green

20090218515 - Eliminating fluorescence background noise: A method for measuring a fluorescent sample on a substrate. The method includes exciting the fluorescent sample with an exciting light source for the generation of a sample fluorescent optical signal and a substrate fluorescent optical signal substantially eliminated. The microfluidic substrate fluorescent optical signal is leaving the sample fluorescent... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090218514 - Multi-spot investigation apparatus: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the investigation of a sample material by multiple sample light spots (501) generated by evanescent waves. An array of source light spots (510) is generated by a multi-spot generator, e.g. a multi-mode interferometer (106), and mapped onto sample light spots... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090218517 - Multiplex fluorescence detection device having removable optical modules: Techniques are described for the detection of multiple target species in real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction). For example, a system comprises a data acquisition device and a detection device coupled to the data acquisition device. The detection device includes a rotating disk having a plurality of process chambers having a... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090218516 - Ratiometric surface plasmon coupled emission detector: The present invention includes methods for ratiometric detection of analytes by surface plasmon coupled emission detection that includes disposing a target on the metal layer of a surface plasmon resonance detection system; coupling a first analyte to a first fluorescent dye and a second analyte to a second fluorescent dye;... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20090218518 - Apparatus for carrying out real-time pcr reactions: Apparatus for carrying out real-time PCR reactions, including a thermocycler having a reaction region with a plurality of temperature-regulable receptacles for reaction vessels, an illumination device, which has a plurality of light-emitting diodes and is assigned to the reaction region and by means of which excitation light can be radiated... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090218519 - Three-dimensional direct-write lithography: A method of creating a region of index change in a photopolymer includes providing a photopolymer having a photosensitivity to light of a particular wavelength and creating a region of index change in the photopolymer by applying direct write lithography to expose the photopolymer of the region to light that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090218520 - Low-volume biomarker generator: A low-volume biomarker generator for producing ultra-short lived radiopharmaceuticals. The low-volume biomarker generator system includes a low-power cyclotron and a radiochemical synthesis system. The cyclotron of the low-volume biomarker generator is optimized for producing radioisotopes useful in synthesizing radiopharmaceuticals in small quantities down to approximately one (1) unit dose. The... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20090218522 - Extreme ultra violet light source apparatus: In an LPP type EUV light source apparatus, the intensity of radiated EUV light is stabilized by improving the positional stability of droplets. The extreme ultra violet light source apparatus includes: a chamber in which extreme ultra violet light is generated; a target supply division including a target tank for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090218521 - Gaseous neutral density filters and related methods: Gaseous neutral density (ND) filters are disclosed that produce a stream of gas to interact with and thereby attenuate a beam of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. The gaseous ND filter can be located in a system that receives the beam of EUV radiation from an EUV source and delivers the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090218523 - Electromagnetic cloaking and translation apparatus, methods, and systems: Apparatus, methods, and systems provide electromagnetic cloaking and/or translation. In some approaches the electromagnetic cloaking and/or translation is achieved with transformation media. In some approaches the electromagnetic cloaking and/or translation is achieved with metamaterials.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090218524 - Electromagnetic cloaking and translation apparatus, methods, and systems: Apparatus, methods, and systems provide electromagnetic cloaking and/or translation. In some approaches the electromagnetic cloaking and/or translation is achieved with transformation media. In some approaches the electromagnetic cloaking and/or translation is achieved with metamaterials.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090218525 - Light guide and image reader: A rod-shaped light guide which does not cause unevenness in color at the portion near an incident face is produced by injection-molding transparent resin such as acryl and its surfaces include a light-emitting surface, a bottom face, left and right sides and end faces. One end face opposes a light... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090218526 - Scattering centre detector assembly and method: An assembly which comprises (a) a duct (22) for transmission of fluids, said duct having longitudinal axis, (b) at least one emitter (301) capable of exciting a beam of radiation (21) in the form of a cone having root angles βex and βey, which may be the same or different,... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090218527 - Confocal microscopy with a two-dimensional array of light emitting diodes: A confocal microscope 2 uses as a light source a two-dimensional array of light emitting diodes 4. A two-dimensional array of detector cells 18 in the form of a CCD camera array or a CMOS camera array is provided. A sequence of illumination patterns are generated by the array of... Agent: Rissman Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20090218528 - Radiation image capturing system and method of capturing radiation image: A radiation image capturing system includes an image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject by a radiation emitted from a radiation source and applied through the subject, a detecting unit for detecting whether the radiation source is oriented to the image capturing apparatus or not, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090218529 - Radiation image capturing system, radiation image capturing method, and program: A radiation image capturing system includes a first image capturing apparatus incorporating a radiation detector for detecting a radiation which has passed through a subject and converting the radiation into radiation image information, a second image capturing apparatus incorporating a stimulable phosphor panel for detecting a radiation which has passed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC