114 results about "Entire cell" patented technology

A thin printed flexible electrochemical cell, and its method of manufacture, using a “picture frame” structure sealed, for example, with a high moisture and oxygen barrier polymer film and featuring, for example, a printed cathode deposited on an optional, highly conductive carbon printed cathode collector with a printed or a foil strip anode placed adjacent to the cathode. A viscous or gelled electrolyte is dispensed and/or printed in the cell, and a top laminate can then be sealed onto the picture frame. Such a construction could allow the entire cell to be made on a printing press, for example, as well as gives the opportunity to integrate the battery directly with an electronic application, for example.

An integrated electronic device, and its method of manufacture, are provided. The integrated electronic device can include an electronic assembly, such as an active RFID assembly, that is electrically coupled to a thin printed flexible electrochemical cell. In one example, the electronic assembly and the electrochemical battery are provided on a single substrate. In one example method of manufacture, the entire cell to be made on a printing press to integrate the battery directly with the electronic assembly.

The energy density of the entire cell may be improved while retaining high power density by use of an alkali metal transition metal polyanion compound as the cathode and a thin film metal or metalloid anode. The thin film anode may be initially unalloyed or partially unalloyed. During use, the thin film anode may be only partially unalloyed relative to the theoretical maximum. The high volumetric capacity of the metal anode makes it possible to use a dense or porous thin film anode in conjunction with a relatively thin particle-based cathode to thereby improve the energy density of the cell.

A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a Base Station (BS) of a communication system are provided. A controller determines a location of a Mobile Station (MS), and determines a transmission/reception scheme for data transmission and reception to/from the MS according to the location of the MS. A transceiver transmits and receives data to/from the MS using the determined transmission/reception scheme. Preferably, the MS is located in any one of a cell's inner region and a cell's outer region, the cell's inner region has a radius which varies according to interference between adjacent cells, and the cell's outer region is a region defined by excepting the cell's inner region from the entire cell region.

A system and method for designing integrated circuits is disclosed. An embodiment comprises placing a standard cell with a first cell height into a cell row with a different height. The standard cell may have a height smaller than the cell row or else may have a height that is larger than the cell row. Vertical fillers and horizontal fillers are utilized to extend and connect the standard cell to adjacent cells without having to redesign the entire cell row.

Screen (10) for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array (24) of irregular cells (26), which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. The array is arranged as three columns (28) of one-half hour in duration, and twelve rows (30) of program listings. Some of the program listings overlap two or more of the column (28) because of their length. Because of the widely varying length of the cells (26), if a conventional cursor used to select a cell location were to simply step from one cell to another, the result would be abrupt changes in the screen (10) as the cursor moved from a cell (26) of several hours length to an adjacent cell in the same row. An effective way of taming the motion is to assume that behind every array (24) is an underlying array of regular cells. By restricting cursor movements to the regular cells, abrupt screen changes will be avoided. With the cursor (32), the entire cell (26) is 3-D highlighted, using a conventional offset shadow (34). The offset shadow (34) is a black bar that underlines the entire cell and wraps around the right edge of the cell. To tag the underlying position—which defines where the cursor (32) is and thus, where it will move next—portions (36) of the black bar outside the current underlying position are segmented, while the current position is painted solid.

The invention provides a light low-frequency broadband sound insulation combined structure. The light low-frequency broadband sound insulation combined structure includes a thin film phononic crystal structure and a local resonance crystal structure which are arranged in parallel; the middle part of the light low-frequency broadband sound insulation combined structure is a cavity; when the first-layer thin film phononic crystal structure is stimulated by sound waves, a local resonance phenomenon occurs in weights and tensioned adhesive elastic films both, so that the average displacement of an entire cell is zero, and sound is effectively insulated; an anti-phase oscillation phenomenon occurs in weights and tensioned adhesive elastic films in adjacent cells, and therefore, efficient sound insulation can be realized at a lower-frequency position; and when the second-level local resonance crystal structure is stimulated by sound waves, efficient sound insulation can be realized at a designed sound insulation target frequency. The light low-frequency broadband sound insulation combined structure has the sound insulation advantages of the two kinds of structures. According to the light low-frequency broadband sound insulation combined structure, sound insulation broadband can be broadened at low frequencies, and the sound insulation amount of the light low-frequency broadband sound insulation combined structure is higher than that of a homogeneous plate having same surface density as the combined structure by more than 10dB.

The present invention is generally directed to devices and methods for sensing a variety of biologically-related substances. In a device aspect, the present invention is directed to a multilayer device for sensing metal ions, biological molecules, or whole cells. The device comprises: a) one or more cavities that provide for the introduction of a sample to be analyzed and one or more channels that provide for exit of the sample, or one or more channels that provide for the introduction and exit of the sample; b) one or more single-walled carbon nanotubes presented to the one or more cavities or one or more channels; c) a plurality of electrodes electrically connected to the one or more single-walled carbon nanotubes; and, a reference gate electrode presented to the one or more cavities or one or more channels. In a method aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for sensing species such as a metal, biological cells, and one or more biological molecules using the device.

A method of non-thermally ablating undesirable tissue in the body by application of pulsed, bi-polar, instant charge reversal electrical fields of sufficient energy to cause complete and immediate cell membrane rupture and destruction. Energy is delivered through radio frequency pulses of particular frequencies, wave characteristics, pulse widths and pulse numbers, such that enhanced physical stresses are placed on the cell membrane to cause its immediate and complete destruction thereby spilling the entire cell content and membrane constituents into the extracellular space without denaturing proteins so as to enable animmunological response to destroy and remove the target tissue and similarly marked tissue elsewhere in the subject.

The invention relates to a device and method for sorting cells. In the device, a micro-fluidic chip is used as a core; after a sterile capillary and a medical extraction and injection device are connected to the outer side of the device, a fully enclosed sterile environment is formed in the micro-fluidic chip; mixed cell culture solution is injected into a cell sorting chamber in the micro-fluidic chip by using the extraction and injection device; cells to be sorted are captured in the cell sorting chamber by using femtosecond optical tweezers and are moved into a cell collection chamber; andafter a sufficient number of cells are stored in the cell collection chamber, cells in the cell collection chamber are injected into the sterile capillary by injecting the sterile culture solution into the cell sorting chamber, and the capillary is taken off, closed and stored, so that an entire cell sorting operation process is finished. In the cell sorting operation process, the mixed cell culture solution is isolated from the exterior, and the cell culture solution is prevented from being polluted. The device has the advantages of reasonable structure, easiness for manufacturing, convenience for sorting operation and high success rate and can be applied to the field of life science.

A system and method is provided for limiting or disabling cellular telephone usage during operation of a motor vehicle. In one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a wireless transmission device and a cell phone. The wireless transmission device, which includes at least an IR modulation circuit, a processor, and a memory device, is configured to transmit a wireless signal toward a driver of the motor vehicle. The cell phone, which includes at least an IR modulation detection circuit, a processor, a memory device, a keypad, and a display, is configured to receive the wireless signal and, in response thereto, limit or disable certain features of the cell phone. This can be done by disabling certain features (e.g., cellular service, Bluetooth™, telephone calls, text messaging, emailing, its antenna, its keyboard, and/or its display) or disabling (e.g., powering down, etc.) the entire cell phone.

The invention belongs to the technical field of a lithium ion battery, and particularly relates to a preparation method of a lithium ion battery. The method mainly comprises the steps of preparing an electrode, preparing a naked cell which is convenient to be infiltrated by an electrolyte, injecting the electrolyte, infiltrating the naked cell, forming a solid electrolyte interface (SEI), and preparing a finished product cell. By utilizing the method to prepare the lithium ion battery, the rapid infiltration of the electrolyte can be realized, and the membrane reaction can be maximally limited by virtue of infiltration, so that after the entire cell is infiltrated, the composition consistency of the electrolyte on the electrode is relatively good, and thus the SEI formed in each area of the cell electrode is good in consistency.

Differentiation of a large number of embryonic stem cells or artificial pluripotent stem cells such as induced pluripotent stem cells can be readily induced by the following method. A substrate surface having a cell non-adhesive region on the periphery of a cell adhesive region is used, and

• (1) the cells are allowed to adhere to the cell adhesive region of the substrate surface in a differentiation-inducing medium;
• (2) the cells are subsequently allowed to grow on the cell adhesive surface to reach confluence;
• (3) the culture is further continued to three-dimensionally stratify the cells from the boundary with the cell non-adhesive region surrounding the cell adhesive region; and
• (4) a plurality of the stratified portions formed in the cell adhesive region is finally bound to one another to produce a cell agglomerate spreading over the entire cell adhesive region with a certain thickness.

A system and method for monitoring cell voltages for a plurality of electrochemical cells connected in series forming a cell stack. The method includes dividing the cells into at least two cell groups, measuring the voltage across each cell group and estimating the minimum cell voltage for each group based on the average cell stack voltage and an estimated number of deficient cells in each group. The lowest minimum cell voltage for the entire cell stack is then determined.

A CDMA base station is disclosed that prevents significant increase in the amount of interference within an entire cell even when there exist in the cell mobile stations that perform high-speed packet communication. The CDMA base station comprises a noise estimation circuit, a noise comparator and a TPC bit generating circuit. The noise comparator receives noise power N1 estimated by the noise estimation circuit, compares the noise power N1 with a threshold N2 for interference supplied from packet communication circuit 1 and outputs the result of comparison N3 to the TPC bit generating circuit. The TPC bit generating circuit sets TPC2=0, outputting TPC command TPC2 to direct a TPC multiplex circuit to reduce the transmission power, without using TPC command TPC1 from a SIR estimation circuit when the increase in the transmission power of a mobile station that is performing high-speed packet transmission within a fixed period of time has exceeded the threshold for the increase or when the amount of interference in the entire cell has exceeded the threshold for the amount of interference.

The present invention is directed to the use of silicic acid to transform biological materials, including cellular architecture into inorganic materials to provide biocomposites (nanomaterials) with stabilized structure and function. In the present invention, there has been discovered a means to stabilize the structure and function of biological materials, including cells, biomolecules, peptides, proteins (especially including enzymes), lipids, lipid vesicles, polysaccharides, cytoskeletal filaments, tissue and organs with silicic acid such that these materials may be used as biocomposites. In many instances, these materials retain their original biological activity and may be used in harsh conditions which would otherwise destroy the integrity of the biological material. In certain instances, these biomaterials may be storage stable for long periods of time and reconstituted after storage to return the biological material back to its original form. In addition, by exposing an entire cell to form CSCs, the CSCs may function to provide a unique system to study enzymes or a cascade of enzymes which are otherwise unavailable.

The invention discloses a method and device for real-time monitoring experiment of living cells based on terahertz time-domain attenuated total reflection spectrums. The method and device are characterized in that by utilization of the characteristic of matching between the penetration depth of terahertz time-domain attenuated total reflection evanescent waves and the cell-layer thickness, terahertz time-domain attenuated total reflection measurement is carried out by using double ATR (Attenuated Total Reflection) prisms, the time-domain electric field and the complex dielectric constant (complex refraction index) of cells at the terahertz band can be directly obtained by a terahertz time-domain spectrum technology, so that real-time monitoring for the whole process of the internal physiological change of the cells can be realized, the limitation that the traditional transmission type or reflection type terahertz spectrums are easily influenced by high absorption rate of polar liquid is avoided, and the defect that the cells need to be dyed and invaded in the traditional cell-biology method is also avoided. The method and device disclosed by the invention have the advantages that the integration level of an optical system is high, the accuracy of a terahertz optical path is guaranteed, the adjustment for optical elements in the experiment is omitted, and convenience is brought for realizing carry and movement of the whole spectrum system, so that the method and device are very suitable for use in cell-biology laboratories.