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<title><![CDATA[Direct flow injection analysis nebulization electrospray and APCI mass spectrometry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus for Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) into Atmospheric Pressure Ion sources (API) including Electrospray (ES) and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization (APCI) sources whereby the sampling and spray needles are one and the same. The sampling and spray needle configured with an autoinjector apparatus or used in manual injection is introduced directly into a mating ES or APCI probe configured in an API source. Such a sampling and spray needle eliminates the need for injector valves, transfer lines or additional fluid delivery systems in FIA into API sources interfaced to mass spectrometers or other chemical analyzers. The use of a sampling and spray needle configuration reduces component costs, liquid dead volume, sample dilution effects, and minimizes cross contamination effects, solvent consumption and waste while increasing sample throughput.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method of motion correction in optical coherence tomography imaging]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An image data set acquired by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system is corrected for effects due to motion of the sample. A first set of A-scans is acquired within a time short enough to avoid any significant motion of the sample. A second more extensive set of A-scans is acquired over an overlapping region on the sample. Significant sample motion may occur during acquisition of the second set. A-scans from the first set are matched with A-scans from the second set, based on similarity between the longitudinal optical scattering profiles they contain. Such matched pairs of A-scans are likely to correspond to the same region in the sample. Comparison of the OCT scanner coordinates that produced each A-scan in a matching pair, in conjunction with any shift in the longitudinal scattering profiles between the pair of A-scans, reveals the displacement of the sample between acquisition of the first and second A-scans in the pair. Estimates of the sample displacement are used to correct the transverse and longitudinal coordinates of the A-scans in the second set, to form a motion-corrected OCT data set.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Temperature detecting unit with fixing apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7363859.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A temperature detecting unit including a temperature detecting sensor, a window member, and a frame which holds the window member. The temperature detecting sensor receives infrared rays radiated by an object, thereby detecting the temperature of the object without contact with the object. The window member is arranged between the object and the temperature detecting sensor, and transmits the infrared rays. The window member includes a surface with a fluorination organic compound.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adaptor with gimbal mounted sensor]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364329.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An adaptor ( 10 ) including a sensor ( 18 ), a gimbal housing ( 12 ) having a male connector ( 14 ) at one end and an female connector ( 16 ) at another end, wherein the male connector ( 14 ) is configured to connect with an electrical socket and the female connector ( 16 ) is configured to connect with an electrical device, and a circuit for selectively controlling the electrical device in response to the sensor ( 18 ). The gimbal housing ( 12 ) is adapted to rotate around the male connector ( 14 ) about a first axis and support the sensor ( 18 ) for independent rotation about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis so that the sensor ( 18 ) can be moved to a selectable sensing orientation.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Particle concentration method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366377.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for concentrating particles, including: placing the particles close to and/or on at least one waveguide of a support, and injecting light radiation into the waveguide causing grouping of particles into one or plural clusters on the waveguides.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System for infrared spectroscopic imaging of libraries]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364697.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus for screening diverse arrays of materials using infrared imaging techniques are provided. Typically, each of the individual materials on the array will be screened or interrogated for the same material characteristic. Once screened, the individual materials may be ranked or otherwise compared relative to each other with respect to the material characteristic under investigation. According to one aspect, infrared imaging techniques are used to identify the active sites within an array of compounds by monitoring the temperature change resulting from a reaction. This same technique can also be used to quantify the stability of each new material within an array of compounds. According to another aspect, identification and characterization of condensed phase products is achieved, wherein library elements are activated by a heat source serially, or in parallel. According to another aspect, a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer is used to rapidly characterize a large number of chemical reactions contained within a combinatorial library.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for obtaining a temperature measurement using an InGaAs detector]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364355.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of linearizing the output a infrared camera having an InGaAs includes determining the an equivalent black body temperature of an object by utilizing a plurality of calibration constants determined by collecting data from a number of temperatures of the object, and determining a target temperature of the object by utilizing the equivalent black body temperature and the emissivity of the object.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System and technique for detecting the presence of foreign material]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7363817.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Systems and techniques for detecting the presence of foreign material in food utilizing optical backlighting and/or ultrasonic inspection are presented. In optical backlighting, a substantially monochromatic light source optically backlights a food stream with source light having a wavelength between about 500 and 600 nm. An image of the food stream is captured and the presence of foreign material is determined when a portion of the detected image exceeds a predetermined threshold. The technique is especially suitable for the detection of bone in chicken meat, and the light source can be a planar array of green LEDs. In ultrasonic inspection, a process stream is interrogated with pulses of ultrasound and the presence of foreign material is determined based on the detected off-angle ultrasound scattering response.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CMOS APS with stacked avalanche multiplication layer and low voltage readout electronics]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365773.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image sensor includes a pixel having a protection circuit connected to a charge multiplying photoconversion layer. The protection circuit prevents the pixel circuit from breaking down when the voltage in the pixel circuit reaches the operating voltage applied to the charge multiplying photoconversion layer in response to the image sensor being exposed to a strong light. The protection circuit causes additional voltage entering the pixel circuit from the charge multiplying photoconversion layer over a predetermined threshold voltage level to be dissipated from the storage node and any downstream components.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In-home water treatment system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364654.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus are provided for a water treatment system that includes both filtration and ultraviolet disinfection elements in a single unit. Various embodiments include a complete treatment system having replaceable filter elements or granular filter media and ultraviolet disinfection within a single vessel. A control valve controls flow through the system in filtering, backwashing, cleaning, and rinsing modes of operation. Other embodiments include couplings that may be adapted to new or existing treatment systems to provide ultraviolet disinfection to a vessel containing replaceable filter elements or granular filter media. The coupling is adapted to receive a control valve assembly that controls flow through the vessel in filtering, backwashing, cleaning, and rinsing modes of operation.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mass determination for biopolymers]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7366617.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for determining the masses of ions of a sample that contains a known class of biopolymers and is measured with a mass spectrometer having a statistical or pseudo-statistical error distribution includes acquiring a mass spectrum of ions of biopolymers of the known class in the sample in which mass spectrum the mass values of ions of biopolymers from the known class are concentrated in known distributions around a set of most probable mass values. At least one measured mass value of the mass spectrum is replaced by that one of a set of most probable mass values that is nearest to the measured mass value, or by a weighted average of the measured mass value averaged with that one of the set of most probable mass values that is nearest to the measured mass value.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Methods of adjusting airborne geophysical measurements based on mapping instrument measurements]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365544.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This invention concerns a method of making airborne geophysical measurements. Such measurements may be made from fixed or moving wing airplanes or dirigibles. The method comprises the following steps: taking first real time measurements from one, or more, geophysical instruments mounted in an aircraft to produce geophysical data related to the ground below that instrument. Taking second real time measurements from navigation and mapping instruments associated with or carried by the aircraft. Computing a background response of each geophysical instrument using the second real time measurements to take account of its time varying altitude, and the time varying topography of the ground below it. Adjusting an operating or data processing condition of each geophysical instrument using the respective background response and the instrument's attitude to enhance the performance of that instrument. And, adjusting the geophysical data output for that instrument having reduced effects resulting from variations in altitude, attitude and topography.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus for inspecting an object]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7365862.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for generating a mask for use with a light measurement system that includes a light source for projecting light onto an object, and an imaging sensor for receiving light reflected from the object. The method includes determining a profile of the object to be inspected, and generating an electronic mask based on the determined object profile. The electronic mask has an electronic opening having a profile defined to substantially match the determined object profile as viewed from one of the light source and the imaging sensor.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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