US07887628B2
A layer of single crystal CVD diamond of high quality having a thickness greater than 2 mm. Also provided is a method of producing such a CVD diamond layer.
US07887626B2
The present invention provides aqueous dispersions of highly-branched polymers for coating applications and methods for making the polymers. The polymers may have high molecular weights and desirably take the form of microgels. The polymers and dispersions may be formulated with functionalities, viscosities, and solids contents that make them well-suited for use in a variety of coatings including, but not limited to, 2-pack coatings, ultraviolet (UV) curable coatings, inks, and air-dry coatings.
US07887624B2
A filtration system for a gas powered concrete saw allows the user to inspect and/or determine how much dust is accumulated in the filter. In addition, manual filter cleaners are provided to allow the user to easily clean the filter without needing to open up the tool. In addition, the system is provided to deactivate the tool or notify the user if no filter is being utilized, or the filter is damaged. The system can also provide system lock out in the case of a missing or damaged filter. In addition, automatic methods are also provided to allow cleaning of the filter.
US07887622B1
A system for condensing water from air includes a column having a substantially non-reflective surface effective for absorbing heat energy from the sun and transferring the heat to air in the interior of the column. A condenser is secured within the column, and includes a condensing surface with a thermoelectric or natural gas cooler positioned thereon for cooling the condensing surface. A collector is positioned within the column for collecting water that condenses on and falls from the at least one condensing surface of the condenser, and an accumulator is coupled in fluid communication with the collector for accumulating the water.
US07887621B2
The invention relates to a device which comprises a channel (1) carrying a flowable medium. The due operation and/or maintenance of the device is associated with the formation of inclusions (3) inside the channel (1) of a fluid or gas distinct from the aforementioned medium. The channel (1) is configured in such a manner that the inclusions are moved towards a channel exit (4) by capillary forces. The invention also relates to a method for removing inclusions (3) from corresponding devices.
US07887614B2
An air shower device which prevents allergenic substances which cause hay fever from being brought into a living space, in which a person resides or carries out an activity, by an outside body. The air shower device includes a suction unit, which takes in outside air; an air blower unit having an air blower which blows air which has been taken in, at a specific air-flow rate and a filter which cleans by removing dust, including pollen, from air which is blown; and a dust collecting unit which collects dust, including pollen, from exhaust of an air shower room which includes the air blower unit. Further, the air shower device includes an air-flow rate control unit which controls the amount of air blown by an air blower according to an amount of pollen dispersed in the outside air.
US07887606B2
A fuel reforming apparatus is provided such that an assembled unit of a reformer 1 with its associated instruments (a water vaporizer 2, primary fuel gasifier 3, desulfurizer 4, low-temperature shift converter 5 and selective oxidation CO remover 6) is covered with and enclosed by a vacuum heat insulating vessel 15 with inner and outer cylinders 15a and 15b and a vacuum heat insulating layer 15c between them. No heat insulating material such as ceramic fiber is required to be charged between the instruments and thus the heat insulating layer may be reduced in volume.
US07887600B2
The present invention relates to hair coloring and hair bleaching compositions comprising a source of hydrogen peroxide, alkalizer and a specified gel network thickener system. The compositions surprisingly provide improved hair colorant and bleaching compositions which deliver improved lift, lightening and color delivery whilst minimizing damage and scalp sensory irritation which are easy to manufacture and have long shelf life stability.
US07887596B2
The invention relates to a distractible intervertebral implant having a first assembly (10) constituted by a first prosthetic plate (16) and a first spacer element (18), the prosthetic plate being secured to the first spacer element; a second assembly (12) constituted by a second prosthetic plate (22) and by a hollow second spacer element (24), having a first end secured to the second prosthetic plate and the first spacer element being suitable for sliding in the second spacer element; and means (14) for preventing the spacer element from moving in translation or in rotation relative to each other, the means having a clamping collar (28) surrounding a portion of the outside surface of the second spacer element, and a lock screw (30) for tightening the collar onto the second spacer element.
US07887592B2
This description deals with a medical device, specifically a prosthetic intervertebral disc having a compressible core that is mechanically interactive with the prosthetic disc's end plates thereby providing excellent torque or twisting transmission between the end plates.
US07887589B2
The invention relates to a spinal implant to be inserted between two vertebra to support and stabilize adjacent vertebra and allow for physiological motion. One embodiment of the implant includes an upper assembly and a lower assembly, where the assemblies are adapted to articulate relative to one another. This implant also includes elongate elements that are deployable between a closed position and an open position. Portions of the implant can interlock to form various shapes. The invention includes an implantable device to support the vertebrae, and a minimally invasive method for inserting and deploying the device within the intervertebral space.
US07887588B2
A pair of flat support plates in a spinal fusion implant device contact and rest against the softer, central cancellous bone portion of respective endplates of adjacent vertebrae. Each support plate has a front template that is orthogonal to the plate and is bent to communicate with the anterior surface of the hard cortical endplate the vertebrae. A wedge-shaped support strut in a central channel between the two plates is configured to vary the distance between the support plates such that the height of the device proximate the anterior end is greater than the height of the device at the posterior end to maintain the natural lordosis of the spine. Channels formed on either side of the support strut are filled with bone graft material and contact the endplates of the vertebrae through large openings in the flat support plates to facilitate fusion.
US07887587B2
An orthopedic tissue spacer comprising a body portion having first and second ends, an outer surface and a longitudinal axis, at least one of the ends configured to engage a first bone segment, wherein at least a portion of the body portion is flexible and the outer surface is configured to resist tissue adhesion thereto.
US07887578B2
A stent comprises a tubular flexible body composed of a web structure that is expandable from a contracted delivery configuration to a deployed configuration and that comprises neighboring web patterns of alternating concavities extending circumferentially and adjoined by X-shaped transition sections. The web pattern may comprise either arcuate struts interconnected by bends, or a plurality of substantially straight sections with the transition sections formed by the junctions between pairs of adjacent bends of opposite curvatures.
US07887572B2
Implantable devices (e.g., stent) having a protein patterning or bioactive patterning for accelerated healing and method of forming and using the same are provided.
US07887571B2
A patient activated temperature-controlled surface is disclosed. The patient activated temperature controlled surface includes a floor, a temperature source capable of supplying heat, cold, or both to the floor, and an actuator element for turning on and off the temperature source. The actuator element is activated and deactivated by the presence or absence, respectively, of the weight of the patient either directly or indirectly upon the actuator element. An animal bed is also disclosed. A method for providing comfort to a patient employing the patient activated temperature-controlled surface of this invention is also provided.
US07887563B2
In certain exemplary embodiments, a generally U-shaped surgical staple is provided having a base and a pair of legs extending substantially perpendicularly from opposite ends of the base respectively. The legs in use of the staple are bent through approximately 90° relative to the base. To effect a greater compression of the stapled tissue, the legs can include a penetrative portion adjacent the tip and a compressive structure which, due to its increased height relative to that of the penetrative portion, spreads the compressive forces of the staple further along the length of the incision being closed. The compressive portion also provides a depth stop to avoid the tip penetrating too deeply into the tissue in which it is deployed.
US07887556B2
A method of removing material from a blood flow lumen generally includes providing a device having a cutting element and an opening, advancing the device through the blood flow lumen to a site where material is to be removed, forcing the opening toward a wall of the site where material is to be removed, and moving the cutting element and the opening so that material in the blood flow lumen is cut by the cutting element and directed into the opening for removal as the cutting element and opening are moved through the blood flow lumen. In some embodiments, the device may be deflected or bent to force the opening toward a wall to remove material. The cutting element may be rotatable and may have an axis that is movable, that is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the device, or both. In some embodiments, the cutting element is movable between retracted and deployed positions for advancing the device to a site for treatment and for removing material, respectively.
US07887552B2
A single catheter mitral valve repair device for stabilizing a tissue portion and selectively applying a tissue fastener thereto. The single catheter mitral valve repair device of the present invention includes an extendable engagement tip having at least one vacuum port formed thereon, at least one deployable fastener in communication with the engagement tip, and at least one actuator member in communication with the port. The deployable fastener is capable of controllably engaging and fastening a tissue segment located proximal to the engagement tip.
US07887544B2
The ancillary tool according to the invention comprises a plate which defines a convex surface intended to bear against the glenoid cavity of a patient's scapula and which forms a directional guide for a drilling, fashioning or like member. To allow the surgeon to apply this member in a chosen direction, the tool comprises means for adjusting the position of the guide with respect to the plate.
US07887533B2
A photoactivation device for modulating the physiology of a target biological activity by directing a photoactivating beam of light having a predetermined set of photoactivating light parameters on a target surface, the device comprising: a photoactivating light source for emitting the photoactivating beam of light; a positioning means operatively coupled to the photoactivating light source for allowing selective positioning of the photoactivating light source relative to the target surface; a position evaluating means for evaluating the position of the photoactivating light source relative to the target surface.
US07887528B2
Vacuum break vial assembly and method for reducing the incidence of nosocomial infections, comprising a vial stopper having an apertured needle sheath, and a hole in the bottom of the vial fitted with a single or multi-part bladder-retaining plug/vent assembly. The vial has an aluminum cap holding a plastic flip-off top, removal of which permits access by hypodermic needle through the stopper into the needle sheath. No pre-pressurization of the vial by ambient contaminated air via the hypodermic can occur. Rather, the needle is inserted in the vial through the stopper and the medicinal fluid withdrawn. Air is inlet via a vent into the collapsed bladder secured in the bottom of the vial and the bladder expands to permit withdrawal of fluid into the hypodermic without vacuum lock. No air having pathogen vectors is introduced into the vial medicinal fluid, as the bladder isolates volume-compensating air from the medicinal fluid.
US07887526B2
A disposable undergarment includes a front body panel having a pair of opposite first side edges, a first waist edge and a first crotch edge spaced from said first waist edge. A rear body panel has a pair of opposite second side edges, a second waist edge and a second crotch edge spaced from said second waist edge. The crotch edges of each of the front and rear body panel webs includes at least one peak and at least one valley. Each of the front and rear body panels have a minimum rise defined between the valley of each of the respective front and rear body panels and the first and second waist edges respectively. The valleys defining the minimum rises form at least in part leg opening portions of the front and rear body panels. The crotch edges of the front and rear body panels are spaced apart and form a gap therebetween in a non-overlapping relationship. A crotch member bridges the gap and has opposite end portions connected to the front and rear body panels respectively. The crotch member does not cover the valleys defining the minimum rises of each of the front and rear body panels.
US07887516B2
To protect against the health and safety risks that accompany accidental post-use needle sticks, a medical needle assembly equipped with a safety cap is described. The disclosed medical needle assembly generally includes a needle hub, a needle having a magnetized distal end, and a removable safety cap attached to and extending radially from the needle hub. In another embodiment, the removable safety cap is attached to a sheath that covers the needle. The safety cap includes a magnet and a retainer disposed between the first and second ends of the cap. The retainer is configured to prevent withdrawal of the needle once the needle perforates the retainer and the safety cap encloses the distal end of the needle.
US07887496B2
A joint orthosis including an upper member, a lower member operably connected to the upper member by one or more swivel axes at a joint mechanism, and a pad attached to the joint mechanism and positioned between the joint mechanism and the body part, wherein the joint mechanism includes a clip connection for securing the pad to the joint mechanism. The upper and lower members include a means for attaching the joint orthosis to a body part of a user, such as an extremity. The clip connection connects to a coupling element that is one or more of an adapter or pad bracket positioned between the joint mechanism and the pad. The pad, pad bracket and/or adapter are configured to cover over the joint mechanism and the pivot axis. The upper and lower members can include teeth that interlock with each other in order to form a synchronized pivot movement.
US07887491B2
A device for non-invasive measurement of blood pressure includes a blood pressure cuff, a plethysmographic electrode for acquiring an impedance plethysmogram distal to the cuff and a processing device to inflate and deflate the cuff generate the impedance plethysmogram and to determine the systolic and diastolic blood pressures. The device can be used to measure systolic or diastolic blood pressure or both. It can also be used to take ankle-brachial measurements. An autocorrelation technique can be used to correct noise.
US07887488B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for reducing noise in an imaging catheter system. In an embodiment, a catheter comprises an imaging transducer and a transmission line within the catheter to transmit signals to and from the transducer. To reduce noise caused by exposure of the transmission line to external interference, a choke balun is coupled to the transmission line. In another embodiment, the signal from a rotating imaging transducer of the catheter is coupled to a motor drive unit by a slip ring assembly. The transducer signal is passed through first and second transformers placed on opposite sides of the slip ring assembly to reduce noise from the slip ring assembly. In another embodiment, the catheter includes a position sensor to track the position of the catheter. The position sensor is coupled to a second choke balun to further reduce noise.
US07887481B2
A mountable, top-loading retractor device that is quickly and easily mountable to a surgical tool support frame. The device has two main sections a mount assembly for attaching to the support frame, and a top-loading retractor assembly pivotably linked to the mount assembly. The mount assembly has opposed upper and lower clamping jaws to a grip a section of the frame when the assembly is operated to set the clamping jaws. The retractor assembly includes a retractor mechanism having a separate arm receivable into the top surface of the retractor assembly and engageable by the retractor mechanism. The arm extends beyond the retractor assembly and is positionable along its length. The distal end of the arm is adapted to attach to a surgical retractor tool, and to apply a force to operate the tool.
US07887478B2
A percutaneous gas-line (10) for a medical device (14). The gas-line including a first gas-line part (10a) and a second gas-line part (10b). The first gas-line part (10a) is adapted to be wholly implanted in a patient and has a first end (10a′) adapted for sealing connection to the medical device (14) and a second end (10a″) with a connection fitting (20). The second gas-line part (10b) is adapted to be part-implanted and part-external and has a first (external) end (10b′) adapted for sealing connection to an external driver (12) and a second (implanted) end (10b″) adapted for removable sealing connection with the connection fitting (20) on the second end (10a″) of the first gas-line part (10a).
US07887473B2
A method of manufacturing a packaging bag includes steps of: preparing a sheet of rectangular film material; forming a bag body from the sheet of the rectangular film material; preparing a shaping member; preparing and attaching a fastener; forming a vertical sealing portion; forming the bottom surface portion so as to include a lower end seal portion; a triangular folded portion; and a flat surface folding portion; and forming the lower sealing portion so as to include a central sealing portion; and a side sealing portion.
US07887470B2
A multi-purpose exerciser has a main frame, two extending assemblies being mounted pivotally on the main frame and engaging each other and a lock assembly selectively holding the extending assemblies at specific angles. According to the angles of the extending assemblies and different exercising poses an exerciser performs, different body parts are trained.
US07887464B1
A motorized rehabilitative device for simulating and inducing normal walking motion for individuals needing physical rehabilitation includes a base, a pair of side supporting members, and adjustable u-shaped handle bars mounted to the side supporting members. Each side supporting member includes an interiorly mounted foot bar and foot bar support plate that are capable of reciprocable up and down motion to simulate and facilitate the walking motion of the individual disposed on the device having one foot secured to each foot bar and positioned upright and between the side supporting members with the handle bars used as support. The foot bars and foot bar support plates are interconnected to motor driven gear and pulley systems contained with the side supporting members and the gear and pulley systems include cyclically extending and retracting pistons that transfer mechanical motion to the foot bars and the speed of motion being controllable from a handle bar mounted control panel.
US07887460B2
The invention relates to a training and/or therapy system for the human and/or animal body, at least consisting of: a plurality of training and/or therapy devices on which physical work is generated by means of muscular force as a function of an adjustable resistance apparatus, a computer unit by means of which all the training and/or therapy devices are networked, a plurality of reader devices on which an identification element of the patient who is doing the training or is to receive therapy can be read in, with each training and/or therapy device and the computer unit being contactable via a reader device, a data memory in which the data of the patients and their training schedules are stored; at the same time the work of setting the resistances on the adjustable resistance apparatuses of the training and/or therapy devices and the documentation during the training and/or therapy are performed automatically.
US07887456B2
To provide an automatic transmission apparatus for forward 8-speed, which keeps a transmission gear ratio step in good balance.The apparatus includes: a first planetary gear device PG0 having a ring gear R0 connected to an input shaft; a second planetary gear device PG1 having a carrier C1 connected to a carrier C0 of the first planetary gear device, and a sun gear S1 connected to R0; a third planetary gear device PG2 having a ring gear R2 connected to C1; a fourth planetary gear device PG3 having a sun gear S3 connected to a sun gear S2 of the third planetary gear device; a first clutch C-1 that selectively connects S2 to the input shaft; a second clutch C-2 that selectively connects C2 to the input shaft; a first brake B-1 that selectively regulates the rotation of R0; a second brake B-2 that selectively regulates the rotation of R2; a third brake B-3 that selectively regulates the rotation of S0; and a fourth brake B-4 that selectively regulates the rotation of R3. The apparatus further includes a third clutch C-3 that connects R0 and S1 to the input shaft, or connects R2 to C1. PG0 to PG3 are each provided as a single pinion type.
US07887450B2
A clutch device is combinable with a rotating device rotating about an axis. The clutch device is provided with a clutch rotatable with the rotating device, a plunger for disengageably engage the clutch, a solenoid for generating a magnetic flux for driving the plunger, a magnetic core slidably fitting on a portion of the rotating device and incompletely enclosing the solenoid to expose the solenoid to the portion, and a support member configured to support the magnetic core to fit with the rotating device in an axial direction along the axis. The magnetic core in combination with the portion of the rotating device and the plunger is so dimensioned as to enclose the solenoid.
US07887441B1
A T-ball training system helps batters develop focus during ball hitting as well as timing skills and uses a tee that shines a light out of the top of the tee. A ball has a light tunnel therein that has a 90-degree bend, so that when the light shines out of the top, the light enters the tunnel at one end and is issued out of the other end, visible to the batter. The light is activated for a certain time interval such that the batter is expected to hit the ball whenever the light is on. The control system of the light can be either directly on the tee or can be assisted by a wireless transmitter. A second light can be provided that also issues light out of the top of the tee, this second light issuing a different color than the first and being on whenever the first light is off and being off whenever the first light is on.
US07887437B2
Golf balls consisting of a dual core and a dual cover are disclosed. The dual core consists of an inner core layer formed from a rubber composition and an outer core layer formed from a highly neutralized polymer composition. The Shore C hardness of the outer core layer's outer surface is greater than the material hardness of the inner cover layer, and is preferably 75 Shore C or greater.
US07887434B2
A golf club head includes a body defining an interior cavity. The body includes a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown positioned at a top portion, and a skirt positioned around a periphery between the sole and crown. The body has a forward portion and a rearward portion. The club head includes a face positioned at the forward portion of the body. The face defines a striking surface having an ideal impact location at a golf club head origin. Some embodiments of the club head form a club head for a fairway wood that has a high moment of inertia, a low center-of-gravity and a thin crown.
US07887432B2
Embodiments of golf clubs, golf club heads and removable golf club weights are generally described herein. According to certain embodiments, an example golf club head comprises a face for striking a golf ball, a backside portion, a sole portion, and one or more removable weights. According to such embodiments, the example golf club head may further comprise a vibration damping composition disposed between the removable weights and the golf club head.
US07887430B1
A golf putter with sighting apparatus which comprises an elongated shaft. A grip is on an upper end of the elongated shaft. The grip is to be grasped by hands of a golfer. A head is transversely positioned on a lower end of the elongated shaft. The head has a face to strike a golf ball. A support assembly is provided. A mirror has a frame carried on the support assembly. A mechanism is for securing the support assembly onto the elongated shaft above the head. The mirror will be inclined to sight a golf cup on a green spaced from the head, so that the golfer can aim the golf ball into the golf cup on the green.
US07887428B2
A training device for use with a golf club. A cylindrical shaped member enables the device to be mounted on the grip of a golf club, the member having an inner cavity tapered to the matching angle of the grip surface and a cutout portion formed along a portion of the length of the device. A self-locking member is engaged with a post which is substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the mounting member, the height of the locking member being adjustable to accommodate the hand size of the golfer. A plurality of rib members formed at the bottom of the post allows the post diameter to be reduced while increasing post stabilization thus allowing the post to be smaller in diameter and longer in length.
US07887425B2
Disclosed is a balance training apparatus for applying an exercise load to a subject, which comprises a seat adapted to allow the subject to sit thereon, a rocking mechanism for rockingly moving the seat, and a phase changer. The rocking mechanism includes a plurality of converters adapted to receive a driving force transmitted from a common driving source so as to operate in an interlocked relationship with each other, and convert the driving force from the driving source to a rocking motion having movement directions intersecting with each other. The phase changer is adapted to selectively connect and disconnect the transmission of the driving force to first converter consisting of a part of the plurality of converter, so as to change a phase relationship in rocking motion between the first converter, and second converter consisting of the rest of the plurality of converter. The seat with a subject thereon can be mockingly moved in a variety of rocking patterns according to variously changed phase relations.
US07887420B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, and systems, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for a method for providing a game on demand over a data network, in a gaming machine. The gaming machine sends a request message for a game application over the data network. In a network mode, the gaming machine receives outputted results from an executed game application over a streaming channel of the data network for network-based game play. During the network-based game play, the game application is downloaded over a download channel of the data network. In a local mode, the gaming machine executes the downloaded game application independent of the network-based game play. The gaming machine switches instantaneously from the network mode to the local mode for machine-based game play, including maintaining a status of the network-based game play.
US07887414B2
According to some embodiments, systems, methods, and/or articles of manufacture are associated with operating a gaming device having a flat rate play session or contract costing a flat rate price. The flat rate play session or contract spans multiple plays on the gaming device over a pre-established duration. In some embodiments, an expected cost of the flat rate play session or contract may be determined. In some embodiments, a flat rate play session or contract and/or one or more parameters thereof may be determined based upon a price (or other parameter) that a player is wiling to pay for flat rate play at a gaming device.
US07887410B2
When a predetermined amount of credits have been inserted into a slot machine, the game mode is switched from the non-insurance mode to the insurance mode according to the player's input operation via a touch panel. In the insurance mode, determination is made whether or not the amount of bet credits matches the maximum bet amount. When determination has been made that the amount of bet credits matches the maximum bet amount, the number of games is counted after switching of the game mode to the insurance mode. When the counted number of games reaches a predetermined number, a predetermined amount of credits is paid out. Furthermore, in this case, only in a case where determination has been made that the amount of credits bet on the game matches the maximum bet amount, the difference between the counted number of games and the predetermined number is displayed.
US07887403B2
In a game system, a PC control unit controls an attack on an enemy character by a player's character. An enemy character control unit controls an attack on the player's character by the enemy character. An MP management unit stores, in an MP storage, a current value of a magic point indicative of the power required for a magic attack and manages an increase and decrease in the current value of the magic point. The magic point stored in the MP storage is used commonly by the player's character and the enemy character. When the player's character attacks the enemy character and the enemy character attacks the player's character, the MP management unit subtracts a value required for the attack, from the current value of the magic point.
US07887398B2
Systems and methods for removing and/or recovering external fat from animal stomachs prior to further processing in an animal harvest facility are described herein.
US07887392B2
A platen assembly is provided for supporting a polish pad of the type utilized to planarize a wafer. The platen assembly comprises a sensor system and a polish platen having a first surface for supporting the polish pad. The sensor system comprises a flexible sensor and a flexible circuit operatively coupled to the sensor controller. The flexible circuit includes a first flexible sensor disposed proximate the first surface.
US07887391B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for polishing media discs by removing or reducing scratches or substances from the surface of damaged discs, including computer data CDs, DVDs, gaming discs and other media discs. The apparatus enables removal or reduction of scratches and materials that prevent the information or data contained on the disc from being read by a conventional disc reading device. The polishing pressure and time are uniformly controlled at predetermined and precision levels sufficient to remove or reduce scratches from the surface of the disc. Also disclosed is a method of removing or reducing scratches from the surface of media discs by using the apparatus of the present invention. The method can be repeated as many times as necessary or desired in order to obtain a finely polished disc from which data is obtainable by conventional disc reading devices.
US07887386B2
Sensory stimulation plush affords photographic imagery with an attractive tactile sensation. The plush has a fiber fabric skin having a linear elastic elongation of at least 50% in a first direction in the plane thereof. The skin is formed into a plush shape so as to define a cavity. A particulate fill is provided within the cavity. A photographic image emulative of a person, animal or object is imprinted on the fabric skin so as to maintain the least 50% linear elastic elongation associated with the skin.
US07887383B1
A safety seat for a child for use proximate a body of water is disclosed. The safety seat may be fixed with a vehicle, such as a boat, or used independently on a ground surface. A seat is adapted to hold the child in a seated position therein. A base engagement is fixed with a lower side of the seat and comprises a projection having therein a buoyant material in a top portion thereof. The base engagement further includes a weighted material, such as metal weights or the like, in a bottom portion thereof. A base has an open top end and is adapted to slidably receive the projection of the base engagement. If the base becomes submerged in the body of water, the seat and the base engagement slide out of the base, the weighted material maintaining the seat in an upright orientation above a surface of the water.
US07887380B2
A cable or a cable receptacle and a method of forming same are disclosed. The cable lug or cable receptacle has a flat part and a tube portion integrally formed together as one piece. The flat part has opposing surfaces which abut against each other. The flat part and the tube portion are plated with tin such that an integral bond is established between the abutting surfaces of the flat part.
US07887377B1
The low capacitance audio connector allows reduction of the interelectrode capacitance through its compatibility with driven shield techniques. This permits an entire audio cable employing these techniques to have very low total capacitance.
US07887376B1
An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing having a rectangular base, and a plurality of contacts received in the insulating housing. A front end of the base is protruded forwards to form an insertion portion. A passageway is formed at a front of the insertion portion and extends into the base. The front end of the base has a holding slot located adjacent to the insertion portion, and a through slot which passes through an outer side of the holding slot and exposes the insulating housing. A shielding shell has a barrel surrounding the insertion portion, and a grounding element of substantially inverted-L shape connected with the barrel. The grounding element has a connecting slice extending rearwards from a rear edge of the barrel, inserting into the holding slot, and a grounding slice bent perpendicularly from an edge of the connecting slice, passing through the through slot.
US07887348B2
A card connector is configured for receiving a card having contact pads with the card having a thickness and a width perpendicular to the thickness. The card connector includes a housing with a slot for receiving the card and conductive terminals within the housing and which contact the contact pads of the card. A switch includes a first contact member and a second contact member wherein the first contact member is moveable in a direction parallel to the thickness direction of the card upon insertion of the card into the housing such that the first contact member moves relative to the second contact member.
US07887346B1
A safety shutter device for an electrical receptacle comprises left and fight overlapping sliding blocks. A sliding plate supports a small sliding block. A supporting bracket supports the fight and left sliding blocks and the sliding plate. A first flexible component is between the small sliding block and the sliding plate. The sliding plate and the sliding block are between the right sliding block and the supporting bracket. During a static state, a locking block is mated with a tapered nub to form a self-locking mechanism such that the left, right, and small sliding blocks, the sliding plate, and the supporting bracket are static relative to one another and cover conductive plug bushes under the supporting bracket. When a plug is inserted into a socket of the receptacle, the locking block separates from the tapered nub to unlock the safety shutter device.
US07887338B2
A ground terminal is mounted on a circuit board. The circuit board has a through-hole. The ground terminal includes a main body, a tail part and an insertion part. The tail part is connected to the main body. The insertion part is extended downwardly from the tail part and aligned with the through-hole of the circuit board, and has a hooking element. After the insertion part is penetrated through the through-hole, the hooking element is sustained against a lower surface of the circuit board so as to facilitate fixing the ground terminal onto the circuit board.
US07887321B2
A wire mesh burner plate for use in large, gas burners for large ovens is comprised of spaced-apart wire mesh plates. The spacing between the wire mesh plates defines an air/fuel mixture space. The fuel passes through the lower or first mesh, experiences a pressure drop, mixes with air and passes through a second wire mesh. The gas combusts after passing through the second wire mesh. The fine gauge of the mesh prevents combustion from flowing backwardly into the fuel/air mixture space. Several individual wire mesh burner plates can be flexibly attached to each other such that a very wide space can be covered. Thermal stresses are reduced by being distributed across multiple burners.
US07887318B2
A tape reel assembly comprises a reel hub and flanges coaxially secured to, and extending radially outwardly from, opposite axial ends of the reel hub, respectively, each flange being molded by resin injection molding and having a tapered inside surface sloping down at a fixed taper angle from an inside periphery to an outside periphery thereof. The flange is molded by the use of an injection mold having a mold surface which borders at least a part of a mold cavity for configuration of the tapered inside surface of the flange and is convexly curved to the mold cavity.
US07887317B1
A system and method of separating a cast concrete product from a mold is provided. The system includes a rotating drum arrangement, a catch arm attached to rotate with the drum arrangement, and a mold having at least one cavity to form the concrete product. The mold includes a lead end opposite a trail end relative to a sequence of engagement by the rotating drum arrangement. The mold further includes a grab bar inserted through the mold. The rotating catch arm is configured capture the grab bar in a manner so as to cause the mold to wrap around the drum arrangement and separate the concrete product from the mold.
US07887304B2
A diaphragm type pressurized pump comprises a hollow cylinder formed on the top surface of each piston acting region of the diaphragm sheet. A piston head pushing chunk is disposed on the diaphragm sheet such that a ladder hole in the piston head pushing chunk receives the hollow cylinder. A fixing screw is driven via the center of the hollow cylinder into the threaded hole on each wobble plate. As a result of driving the fixing screw, the upper portion of the hollow cylinder expands thereby deforming and filling up the space between the bottom surface of the head of the fixing screw and the top surface of the ladder hole of the piston head pushing chunk, and thus preventing water from leaking and seeping into the motor of the pump.
US07887302B2
A variable flow pump includes: a housing with inlet and outlet chambers interconnected by a main bore and a non-rotating cylinder block positioned in the main bore. The cylinder block includes: a central bore communicating with the inlet chamber; cylinder bores arrayed around the central bore; first feed passages interconnecting the inlet chamber and the cylinder bores, defining a bypass flowpath between the cylinder bores; and at least one discharge valve disposed at the second end which permits fluid flow from the cylinder bores to the discharge chamber but prevents opposite flow; Pistons are disposed in the bores. A shaft is coupled to the pistons so as to cause them to reciprocate through an axial pump stroke when the shaft is rotated. A mechanism is coupled to the cylinder block which modulates the axial position of the cylinder block within the housing, varying the size of the bypass flowpath.
US07887300B2
An airfoil (10) as may be used in a gas turbine engine includes a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) element (12) that extends to define a leading edge portion (14) and chord portion (16) of the airfoil, and a separately formed but conjoined trailing edge element (18) that defines a desirably thin trailing edge of the airfoil without the need for using an excessively small bend radius for reinforcing fibers in the CMC element. The trailing edge element may include a plurality of interlock elements (26) that extend through the trailing edge attachment wall (22) of the CMC element and provide mechanical attachment there between. Alternatively, the trailing edge element may be adhesively bonded or sinter bonded to the CMC element. A cooling air insert (60) may be disposed within a cooling air cavity (64) of the CMC element and may include cooling tubes (66) that extend into the trailing edge element to deliver cooling air there through.
US07887299B2
A rotary body for use in a turbo machine includes a hub having an outer edge and a plurality of slots formed in the outer edge, the slots having first and second spaced-apart opposing inner surfaces extending from the outer edge to a depth within the hub, and a plurality of blades secured to the outer edge of the hub, the slots and the blades being arranged such that at least two of the blades are positioned between each pair of adjacent ones of the slots.
US07887291B2
A support arrangement for a diaphragm segment in a turbine casing that includes: 1) a support bar joined to a diaphragm segment; 2) a turbine casing comprising a vertical wall and a horizontal shoulder, wherein a portion of the horizontal shoulder underlies the support bar; 3) a cut out area defined by the vertical wall and an outer edge of the support bar; and 4) a shim interposed between the horizontal shoulder and the support bar. The cut out area may be a size that allows the shim to pass through.
US07887287B2
To provide a turbofan jet engine for a supersonic aircraft, which enables a supersonic cruise with small additional drag due to engine installation while minimizing the jet noise at takeoff. In the turbofan jet engine, two fans, i.e., a front fan and an aft fan, are disposed, and an air inlet and an air outlet are provided on each of the front and aft fans, whereby at takeoff, air is introduced to each of the air inlets of the front and aft fans to drive the front and aft fans in parallel, and the air is then ejected from each of the outlets. On the other hand, during a supersonic cruise, an inlet of an aft fan duct is coupled to an outlet of a front fan duct, where external air is introduced only to an air inlet of the front fan duct and the air compressed through the front fan is fed to the aft fan duct and further compressed through the aft fan, and ejected from a nozzle, so that the front and aft fans are driven in series.
US07887286B2
A sector of a compressor guide vanes assembly or a sector of a turbomachine nozzle assembly. It comprises an inner ring sector (4), an outer ring sector (6) and a multitude of blades (8) connecting the inner ring sector (4) to the outer ring sector (6). The outer ring sector (6) or the inner ring sector (4) comprises radial cuts (10) situated between two consecutive blades (8) in such a way as to split them into the same number of elementary sectors as there are blades. Housings (14) are provided, secant to the radial cuts (10), damping inserts (16) being positioned in said housings.
US07887285B2
A pump includes a rotatable rotor installed in a motor part and at least one impeller installed in a pump part, capable of being rotated together with the rotor in unison. The rotor and the impeller are accommodated in a casing, and the impeller has an inlet at an inner periphery thereof and an outlet at an outer periphery thereof. A housing is arranged in both sides of an axial direction of the impeller and has an outer peripheral part coupled to the rotor at a rear side portion thereof, and the outer peripheral part is projected outwards further than a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and an inner peripheral surface of the casing in which the rotor is rotatably accommodated.
US07887273B2
A blind rivet includes a hollow rivet body having a longitudinally extending indented groove. The groove may be shaped to impart rivet setting characteristics that may be varied to provide desirable fastening characteristics for joints in a number of industries. The shape of the indentation on the rivet body may be varied to cause a portion of the rivet body to collapse and form a secondary head at a predetermined longitudinal location.
US07887269B2
A spade bit includes a shaft defining an axis, and a blade attached to the shaft and having a first blade portion and a second blade portion. The first blade portion defines a first leading face portion, and the second blade portion defines a second leading face portion. The first blade portion defines a first cutting edge portion, and the second blade portion defines a second cutting edge portion. The first cutting edge portion lies on a first border portion of the first leading face portion, and the second cutting edge portion lies on a second border portion of the second leading face portion. The first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion both lie in a plane P1. An area A1 is bound by the plane P1 and the first leading face portion when the first blade portion is viewed in a first cross section taken along a plane P2 which is parallel to and spaced apart from the axis by a distance D1, and the area A1 increases as the distance D1 increases. The area A2 is bound by the plane P1 and the second leading face portion when the second blade portion is viewed in a second cross section taken along a plane P3 which is parallel to and spaced apart from the axis by a distance D2, and the area A2 increases as the distance D2 increases.
US07887264B2
Method and apparatus are provided for transferring particles from an upper zone through an intermediate zone to a lower zone. The transfer of particles between the zones through valveless conduits is regulated by varying the pressure of the intermediate zone and the flow rate of gas passing through the valveless conduits. A body within the lower zone is in particle communication with a valveless conduit and obstructs the particle flow within the lower zone.
US07887244B2
A connector assembly for reversibly terminating an optical fiber comprises a housing having a cavity extending along a longitudinal axis. An elongate member having a groove extending along a surface thereof is provided within the cavity. An end portion of the fiber is aligned with a fiber stub within the groove such that the stub's splicing face is positioned opposite the fiber's splicing face. A splice anvil is positioned adjacent the member's surface with the anvil's clamping surface overlapping the abutting stub and fiber splicing faces. The clamping mechanism comprises an actuator slideably mounted about the member for movement between a released position and a clamping position in which the inner surface of the actuator displaces the anvil in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and towards the member's surface, the anvil's clamping surface thus bringing a clamping force to bear on the abutting fiber and fiber stub.
US07887231B2
The invention relates, among other things, to a device for storing and dispensing viscous substances, which are to be mixed from at least two components for use, having a film-like carrier, for example, in which at least three or four depressions are formed, for example arranged next to one another in a row, which are open towards the top, at first, so that one of the components, in each instance, can be introduced from the top into one of two center depressions, in each instance, i.e. depressions that are adjacent and are arranged at essentially the same distance from a bending line, and afterwards, the two center depressions can be sealed with a cover film, towards the outside, forming a chamber, in each instance, in such a manner that between each center chamber and at least one adjacent outer depression, a connection channel that opens towards at least one outer depression when pressure is applied to the center chamber, in each instance, by way of a planned breakage point, remains.
US07887227B2
The transreflectors may comprise a transparent substrate having reflective surfaces and other light transmissive surfaces for respectively reflecting and transmitting a greater portion of the light striking opposite sides of the substrate. Alternatively, the transreflectors may comprise two or more transparent substrates of different indices of refraction bonded together, with a pattern of optical deformities in the mating side of one of the substrates and an inverse pattern of optical deformities in the mating side of an other substrate in mating engagement with each other. The transreflectors are used in a transreflector system or display to transmit more of the light emitted by a backlight or other light source incident on one side of the transreflectors and reflect more of the light incident on the opposite side of the transreflectors. The transreflectors and backlight may be tuned to each other to enable the transreflectors to better transmit more of the light emitted by the backlight.
US07887217B2
A multiparameter stage lighting apparatus is provided comprising a lamp housing, which may include a plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of light emitting diodes having a plurality of colors, the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes forming an additive color mixing system. The multiparameter stage lighting apparatus may further include a plurality of pie shaped light emitting circuit boards, one light emitting circuit board for each set of the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes mounted to its respective light emitting circuit board. The multiparameter stage lighting apparatus may further include a plurality of light emitting diode signaling circuit boards, one for each of the plurality of pie shaped light emitting circuit boards.
US07887213B2
A window light box with blind. A light source within the light box provides light through a front aperture. A blind is mounted to a light box front, and is extendable over the front aperture. The blind and/or light source may be colored; the blind may be opaque, translucent, or transparent. The light source is electrically connected to a power source through a switch, which may be an ON/OFF dimmer switch. An alternate embodiment is disclosed wherein the light source is electrically connected to a power source through a switching receiver, and a remote controls the receiver. A battery back-up is disclosed to power the light source in the event of power source interruption. The light source may be fluorescent, incandescent, serpentine lighting, a Christmas light string, LED, or other appropriate light source.
US07887203B2
The invention relates to a multiple reflection optical system comprising a light beam input (E) and output (S) means, a first mirror (M1) having a curvature radius (R1) and arranged at a distance (d2) in front of a second mirror (M2) having a second curvature radius (R2) and arranged at a distance (d3) in front of a third mirror (M3) having a third curvature radius (R3), wherein the and second (M2) mirrors are arranged in such a way that formula (I) is satisfied and the first (M1) and third (M3) mirrors are arranged in such way that formula (II) is satisfied, the first (M1) second (M2) mirrors form a first optical cell having a first optical axis, the first (M1) and third (M3) mirrors form a second optical cell having a second optical axis, said first and second optical axes are different, the curvature radii (R1, R2, R3) and distances (d2, d3) are not simultaneously equal, said first and second optical cells are placed in such a way that the light beams are contained in the optical system between the input and output means.
US07887199B2
A dual purpose projectable projector frame comprises a main frame body, a upper end thereof is disposed with a first through hole; the first through hole being surrounded with two side walls; two side walls are pivotally coupled to two sides of a reflector; a projecting image emitted from a projection head is projected to the front or the back of the main frame body by adjusting an angle of a reflection face of the reflector reflecting light projected from a projector to allow the projector to have a dual purpose function of a general projection and capability of projecting an image onto a table face to enable the application of the projector to be broader.
US07887198B2
An optical device includes a light source, a light valve and a projection lens configured to enlarge an image to be displayed on the light valve. The light valve is disposed in the vicinity of an object plane of the projection lens. The light source illuminates a peripheral portion more brightly than an optical axis portion, in a plane parallel to the object plane located in the vicinity of the object plane of the projection lens. The optical axis portion is a portion where an optical axis passes through and the peripheral portion is a portion located in the periphery of an optical axis portion.
US07887188B2
A heliostat for the collection of solar energy while resting on a surface is disclosed, comprising a rigid disk having an exposed surface, a back surface, and a circular peripheral edge connecting the exposed surface to the back surface. The peripheral edge includes a plurality of wheels each having a rotational axis substantially tangent to the circular peripheral edge of the disk. Each wheel is driven by an electric motor electrically connected to a power source. A hollow, substantially transparent spherical enclosure contains the rigid disk. Each wheel of the disk frictionally engages an inner surface of the enclosure such that rotation of the any of the wheels changes the orientation of the disk within the enclosure. A control circuit is electrically disposed between the power source and each motor. The control circuit includes a direction setting means for causing the motors to orient the exposed surface substantially facing a commanded direction. A rigid frame is included for supporting the enclosure and disk on the surface.
US07887186B2
A retinal scanning display device is disclosed which is configured to include: a light source emitting a light beam; a scanner scanning onto a viewer's retina the light beam emitted from the light source; a light exit at which the light beam scanned by the scanner exits the retinal scanning display device; and a pupil expanding element operable to expand an exit pupil of the retinal scanning display device. The pupil expanding element may be disposed at a position which is offset from an intermediate image plane occurring between the light source and the light exit, along and within an optical path defined between the light source and the light exit.
US07887182B2
A sports glasses construction includes an eyeglass frame for semi-rimless lenses having a pair of receivers for receiving a first pair of selectively removable lenses or lens adapter frames. A pair of lens adapter frames has respective upper connection members sized and shaped to couple to the respective pair of receivers in the eyeglass frame. The pair of lens adapters each has a lower portion sized and shaped to couple to a second respective pair of lenses while leaving the lower edges of the lenses exposed to provide a semi-rimless construction, and to permit the frame to adapt to lenses of differing geometry.
US07887180B2
A personal digital assistant (PDA) includes a body housing circuitry and an internal printer. The body bears a keypad and defines a print media ejection slot. A display is pivotally connected to the body about a hinge joint so that the display can be folded over the keypad. A releasable retainer portion is hingedly secured to the body. A print engine is housed within the body. The print engine is configured to transport the print media past the internal printer during printing and out through the print media ejection slot.
US07887157B2
There is provided a fluid ejection apparatus for ejecting a fluid including a head for ejecting the fluid and a moisture retention head cap device for retaining moisture of the head. The moisture retention head cap device is disposed so as to surround a periphery of the head to cover the whole of the head when retaining moisture of the head.
US07887152B2
The present invention provides a mask for divided printing that completes an image by plural scans using inks of different plural inks, the mask being able to suppress possible grains during printing to reduce image degradation resulting from beading. If for example, among the print permitting pixels for which the total repulsive potential is to be calculated, a print permitting pixel Do has the highest total repulsive potential, changes in repulsive potential after movement of the pixels are determined and the print permitting pixel Do is moved to a pixel having the lowest total repulsive potential after the movement. This processing is repeated to enable a reduction in the total energy of the entire plane. Consequently, the print permitting pixels are appropriately dispersed in overlapping plane masks so as to have few low frequency components.
US07887151B2
An image forming apparatus having a liquid ejection head including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting droplets and a plurality of piezoelectric elements for generating a pressure for discharging droplets in respective nozzles. The image forming apparatus includes a polarization adjustment unit that performs a polarization adjustment in parallel for adjustment of target nozzles.
US07887144B2
In order to improve an electronic system for a motor vehicle which comprises an electronic controller which is coupled via an electronic communication system to electronic controllers of other electronic systems of the vehicle in order to co-operate through data exchanges with the other electronic systems of the vehicle, wherein electronic sensor devices for controlling and/or regulating operating states of the vehicle detect quantities which are related to the operating states of the vehicle, so as to obtain cost and functional advantages, it is proposed that at least one of the electronic sensor devices be accommodated in one of the electronic controllers.
US07887140B1
A seat includes at least a pair of child restraining members which are selectively moveable to an extended position to restrain an infant or small child, or a restraining for a larger child, the seat back including a fixed portion providing a back support for an infant or child which is extended in surface area upon retraction of one of the child restraint's, forming a comfortable back support for a larger child, the respective child restraints when retracted into the seat back forming a comfortable back support for an adult. At least one child restraining member can pivot away horizontally from an exit, allowing ease of exit of the child from the child restraining device. A locking mechanism prevents the child restraining member from inadvertent pivoting horizontally during use. Apertures in the joints of the child restraining assembly allow the child restraining assembly to be mounted to the support bar of the car seat.
US07887131B2
A chair having a seat rotatably attached to a tilt spring portion of a tilt mechanism such that the tilt spring is activated by movement of the seat. A backrest and/or the seat can be rotatably connected to the tilt mechanism by parallel arm arrangements which permit the seat and backrest to tilt relative to each other. A tilt limiter can have a magnetic member which facilitates full movement of the tilt limiter between free and locked positions, and which creates an audible indication of full movement of the tilt limiter. The seat/backrest can be made from a flexible mesh material secured to a rigid overmolding which surrounds and is attached to an inner frame of the seat/backrest wherein an outer surface of the overmolding forms an outer surface of the seat/backrest frame and attachment of the overmolding causes the inner frame to stretch the mesh to a final condition.
US07887124B2
A cab structure unit includes front-left and front-right pole members, a rear-left and rear-right pole members. The pole members include a pipe member that is bent in a substantially L shape. The pole members include a straight pipe member. The rear end of a beam portion of the pole member and the upper end of the pole member arranged on the left side surface side of the cab that includes an arc part formed along the revolution circle of revolving unit are arranged at deviated positions from each other. The rear end of the beam portion of the pole member and the upper end of the pole member arranged at deviated positions from each other are joined to each other by the rear beam member.
US07887121B2
A pedestrian protection apparatus is provided which prevents occurrence of bending deformation resulting from thermal contraction after the molding of a resin base member. The apparatus includes a resin base member that is fixed to a vehicle at a rear portion thereof and a plurality of reinforcing beads that extend in a front to back direction of the vehicle and space apart from each other in a vehicle width direction at a front portion of the base member. On a portion of the base member positioned between mutually adjacent ones of these reinforcing beads is integrally formed a planar connecting rib extends in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the reinforcing beads, so that mutually opposing surfaces of the adjacent reinforcing beads are connected to each other by the connecting rib.
US07887120B2
A resilient skirt assembly is provided, the assembly comprising a skirt panel adapted to connect to a trailer to direct at least a portion of the amount of air on the side of the trailer; and a skirt support adapted to connect the skirt to a trailer, the skirt support having a resilient strut providing lateral support to the skirt panel, the resilient strut allowing substantial lateral pivotal movement of the skirt panel between a skirt panel unloaded position and a skirt panel loaded position. A method of assembling a skirt assembly and a skirt kit are also provided.
US07887110B2
An automatic detaching structure for a hook device includes a hook, a power unit, a tongue plate and an off-hook member. The power unit comprises a motor which is remote-controlled. The motor has a shaft. A first transmission transforming mechanism and a first gear are provided on the shaft. The first transmission transforming mechanism and the first gear mesh with a second transmission transforming mechanism and a second gear, respectively, to link a rotating lever and a transmission lever. The rotating lever links the tongue plate in an open status, while transmission wheels on the transmission lever pull the off-hook member to detach a rope of a cargo from the hook.
US07887107B2
A latch assembly includes a base mounted to a door and a latch bolt having a latch pivotably connected to the base. The latch bolt further includes a link pivotably connected to the latch and the base. A follower plate is pivotably connected to the link, allowing pivotal movement of the follower plate and the link relative to the base and allowing relative pivotal movement between the follower plate and the link. A linking rod is coupled with the follower plate to move therewith. When the linking rod moves in a vertical direction, the follower plate moves together with the linking rod to pivot the latch between a latching position and an unlatching position. The latch assembly can be utilized as a surfaced-type or concealed-type bottom latch. After adding some parts, the latch assembly can be converted into a surfaced-type or concealed-type top latch.
US07887101B2
A joint for connecting two tubes. The joint includes a first tube that provides a ball interface at its end. The joint also includes a second tube that provides a cup interface inside its wall. The cup interface of the second tube and the ball interface of the first tube form a cup-ball interface. This cup-ball interface is located in the interior of the second tube.
US07887098B2
A locking device for locking a threaded pipe connection where two threaded connection units are screwed together. The locking device includes two locking rings which engage each other with corresponding teeth and notches on their first sides. Each of the two rings has a different number of teeth and notches on their second side. The two second sides, which face the connection units, are formed to engage a corresponding number of notches and teeth formed on the shoulder of the connection unit's opposite side, after the rings have been spread apart in an axial direction, while maintaining the engagement between the first and the second ring.
US07887097B2
Coupling device for a fluid circuit in a motor vehicle, the device including: a functional member of a plastic material that is provided with two or more types of connection, at least one of which includes a manually-accessible member projecting from the outside surface of the functional member; and a protective metal housing formed by two shells joined by a seam around the functional member, the housing being provided with a window giving access to the manually-accessible member.
US07887085B2
A foldable people-carrying vehicle includes two pivotal members interposed between and pivoted at two ends thereof to a vehicle body and a seat of the vehicle; the vehicle further includes a fixing mechanism to fix the seat; the pivotal members each have a first fixing hole to cooperate with the fixing mechanism in order to fix the seat in a lowered not-in-use position, and a second fixing hole to cooperate with the fixing mechanism to fix the seat in a raised in-use position; the fixing mechanism includes two spring-biased fixing components, which are normally partly held in the fixing holes to fix the seat; a handle is fitted on the seat, and two pulling strings are connected to the handle, and connected to the fixing components respectively; the fixing components can be moved out of the fixing holes for the seat to become movable when the handle is pulled.
US07887082B2
A strap for a mechanical closure device is disclosed. The strap includes a wire disposed along a longitudinal axis of the strap. The wire maintains the strap in a desired geometry that is different from a previous geometry of the strap. In other embodiments, a wire-core strap can include transverse ridges, holes, or other types of grooves or apertures.
US07887075B2
A motorcycle that prevents attachment of splashed water to the entire periphery of the front fork. A front fender is separated into a front fender half and a rear fender half. The front fender half has left and right sidewalls (rear end portions), and the rear fender half has left and right sidewalls (front end portions). The front and rear fender half sidewalls enclose the outer periphery of left and right fork bodies. The sidewalls have extended portions extending downward along the left and right fork bodies and lower rear end faces that extend generally linearly from the lower front ends of the extended portions to the upper rear ends thereof obliquely upward.
US07887073B2
The invention relates to as suspension unit for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, having a rigid axle, comprising a longitudinal member or axle member having a suspension section, a support section and an axle receptacle section, wherein the suspension section is designed to be rotatably or pivotably articulatedly mounted on a frame element of the vehicle, the longitudinal member can be supported on the frame element by means of the support section, and the vehicle axle can be coupled to the axle receptacle section and to a hollow cylindrical element. The longitudinal member is formed from a cast or composite material and the hollow cylindrical element is formed from a weldable material. The hollow cylindrical element is arranged in the axle receptacle section and is connected to the longitudinal member in a form-fitting or force-fitting manner.
US07887069B2
A toothed rack or threaded rod, in particular for a steering mechanism for a motor vehicle, includes a first rod-shaped part which, as a function element of the toothed rack or threaded rod, includes at least one element for the conversion of a rotational movement into a translational movement, in particular a toothing and/or a threading for the engagement of a threaded nut or of a threaded drive, and a second rod-shaped part which is connected with the first rod-shaped part. The connection of the first with the second rod-shaped part takes place via a separate connection part which includes first and second connection pins, of which the first connection pin is held by press fit in the hollow volume opening out at the connection end of the first rod-shaped part and the second connection pin is held by press fit in the hollow volume opening out at the connection end of the second rod-shaped part. A section of the connection part located between the first and the second connection pin has at least over a region of its circumference a greater radial dimension than the first and the second rod-shaped part in the corresponding circumferential region.
US07887066B2
A device for use in activity on snow-covered surfaces, water or the like having a bottom board (1) for contact with the surface, longitudinal steering ribs on the underside and with upwardly curved faces at the front edge and preferably also at the rear edge. A top board (2) is adapted to the user and his position of use by the formation of well-like depressions along the side areas for the user's legs. On the top board (2) in the central region there is formed an elongate, trough-shaped depression (6) in which there is secured an airtight bag (3) that is adapted to the depression. The central portion (10) of the bottom board has at least one, preferably two central steering ribs/grooves (12). The front is equipped with fastening means (8) for a towing line or rope (17).
US07887062B2
A radial shaft seal is provided for accommodating large radial offset of the shaft relative to a housing. The seal includes an annular retainer insert provided for engaging the seal to a fixed housing. An annular elastomeric seal body is molded to the retainer insert and includes flexible axially extending portion extending from an inner surface of the retainer insert. A seal portion extends axially from a radially inward end of the radially inwardly extending portion and includes a seal lip with a garter spring disposed radially outward of the sealing lip and an elastomeric bearing surface disposed adjacent to the sealing lip. The bearing surface includes a plurality of raised pads adapted to engage the shaft. The pads each include a rounded edge on lateral sides thereof for encouraging the creation of a lubricating film between the pads and shaft. The pads are lubricated by direct exposure to the fluid being sealed.
US07887060B2
A game apparatus which combines with stepping, balancing and jumping is formed by assembling a plurality of seats, a level panel and a curved panel. The upper and lower seats can be stacked together to change a height of the seats; whereas, the level panel and the curved panel can serve as bridge plates to connect the seats, so that children can be provided with various games of striding and jumping. Moreover, the seat and panel surfaces of the level panel and the curved panel are provided respectively with a skid-proof block and projections in various stylistic image shapes, so as to assure game safety of the children upon striding or jumping.
US07887055B2
An improved puzzle of the type that requires an examinee to fill a geometric grid with indicia using a set of clues and guided by placement rules, comprising a plurality of geometric shapes arranged contiguously to form rows, columns, diagonals, and spaces where the geometric shapes intersect. The placement rules of an embodiment are to fill the geometric shapes with non-repeating indicia such that indicia are also not repeated in any row, column, diagonal, or geometric shape. Clues are provided by the examiner in the form of a predetermined subset of the solution indicia, aggregation information about the indicia in each diagonal, and aggregation information about the indicia bordering areas where the geometric shapes intersect. This construct provides a superior challenge for the examinee by increasing the number and types of techniques required to solve a puzzle instance.
US07887053B2
A print interface system including a printer integrated in combination with a sheet handling system such as a mailpiece inserter. The print interface system facilitates the handling of sheet material in various operating modes, including conventional printing, duplex printing, and mailpiece creation modes. The system includes a printer having multiple feed paths for printing on opposing face surfaces of a sheet material. One of the feed paths directs sheet material to a staging tray and another feed path directs sheet material to a downstream module of the sheet handling system. The system further includes a positionable diverter for directing sheet material to one of the feed paths and a sheet sensor for determining when a sheet of material has been directed along the feed path leading to the output tray. A controller is operative to alternately reposition the diverter from one of two positions. A first position directs sheet material to the staging tray following a first print operation, and a second position directs sheet material to the downstream module of the sheet handling system. The controller, furthermore, repositions the diverter following a threshold period of time from receipt of the staging signal issued by the sheet sensor.
US07887052B2
In a mailpiece feed device comprising a mailpiece-receiving deck for receiving a stack of mailpieces for printing, selector means for extracting the mailpieces for printing one-by-one from said stack, and superposed conveyor rollers including movable upper rollers for conveying downstream the mailpieces extracted one-by-one in this way, there are further provided movable optical read means that are placed downstream from said selector means and that move synchronously with said movable upper conveyor rollers for conveying the mailpieces, so that, in cooperation with processor means, said optical read means scan and recognize automatically the data printed on said mailpieces.
US07887050B2
A Right Angle Turn (RAT) module for processing multi-sheet collations includes opposed belt segments defining a conveyance channel for capturing multi-sheet collations therebetween and for conveying multi-sheet collations from an input and to an output end of the conveyance channel. The opposed belt segments define a first re-directing bend, a second re-directing bend, and a twist section disposed therebetween. The first re-directing bend includes a rolling element for re-directing the opposed belt segments about a first axis of rotation while the second re-directing bend includes a rolling element for re-directing the opposed belt segments about a second axis of rotation. The first and second axes of rotation are orthogonal to each other so as to effect a twist section therebetween. The RAT module additionally includes a mechanism for driving the opposed belt segments about the first and second re-directing bends to convey the multi-sheet collations from the input to output ends and effect a right angle turn of the multi-sheet collations.
US07887039B2
An image forming apparatus, which can efficiently align a paper supplied to a printing unit of a main body from a paper feeding unit that is removably mounted to the main body, includes a paper aligning unit, integrally provided with a paper container of the paper feeding unit, to align the paper supplied to the main body and thereby prevent paper misalignment. The paper container to automatically feed paper, the paper supply case to manually feed paper, and the paper aligning unit to align the supplied paper and to supply the paper to the main body are integrally provided within the paper feeding unit to reduce the number of components and thereby decrease manufacturing costs, increase efficiency, and increase productivity.
US07887036B2
A current invention provides a sheet processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus capable of obtaining a sheet bundle which can be double-leaved and released without use of any binding device. A slit S to which a projection Pa provided at an end portion opposite to a side to be bound by a binding portion of a front cover P1 is formed in a back cover P3 of a sheet bundle PA by an insertion portion forming portion. Further, creases L1, L2 for inserting the projection Pa into the slit S while surrounding sheets P2 existing between the front cover P1 and the back cover P2 are formed in the back cover P3 of the sheet bundle PA by a crease forming portion.
US07887031B2
A stay damper comprises a cylinder (1) in which a gas is charged, a piston rod (2) which projects under a pressure of the gas in the cylinder (1), and a stopper (10) which locks contraction of the piston rod (2) in an elongated position. The stopper (10) displaces between a lock position which locks contraction of the piston rod (2) and a release position which permits contraction of the piston rod (2) according to directional operation forces applied by an operator. The stopper (10) comprises a restricting member (12, 13) which holds the stopper (10) in the lock position when it is in the lock position and holds the stopper (10) in the release position when it is in the release position. Since the locking operation of the stopper (10) is performed manually, the releasing operation thereof is easily understood by the operator.
US07887028B2
An electric fence to span a given region between two substantially opposing supports, the fence including one or more insulators coupled to each opposing support; an electrical power source electrically connected to a first conductive strand and configured to apply an electrical current thereto, at least one further electrically distinct conductive strand coupled to the insulators and at a different electric potential than the first strand, characterised in that at least one insulator includes a substantially non-conductive element having one or more confined pathways, the element rotatable about a central axis orientated to maintain symmetrical revolution and wherein the conductive strands extend continuously and repeatedly between each support, each conductive strand in contact with at least one of the insulators.
US07887016B2
A reinforced all terrain material and tool tray, having an articulating shelf assembly mounted on an articulating base assembly in order to improve access to construction material such as paint or tools, can be used on a roof, the ground, or on ladder, with or without the ladder shelf.
US07887010B2
Controllable refueling drogues and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment includes a fuel delivery device having a deployable portion configured to be deployed overboard an aircraft during aerial refueling. The deployable portion can include at least a portion of a flexible fuel line, a drogue coupled to the flexible fuel line, and an actuatable device operatively coupled to at least one of the drogue and the fuel line. The deployable portion can further include a guidance system that is operatively coupled to the actuatable device and that includes instructions to direct the operation of the actuatable device and move the drogue during flight.
US07887004B2
An automatic winder for a winding part includes a first spindle that rotates clockwise and a second spindle that rotates counterclockwise. A first grip is associated with the first spindle, and a second grip is associated with the second spindle. A guide mechanism is positioned between the first and second spindles, and receives the winding part from a part source and selectively feeds the winding part between the first spindle and the second spindle by selectively feeding the winding part to the first grip and the second grip, wherein said first and second grips are adapted to retain a grip on a lead end of the winding part that is defined by the cutting of the winding part.
US07887000B2
A lifting element for a drum of a grinding mill to be used for grinding of ores and minerals. The lifting element is attachable to a frame of the drum and extending in the longitudinal direction of the drum. The lifting element includes a flexible body and a wear protection element located in the leading edge of the body with respect to the direction of rotation of the drum. The wear protection element includes at least two different parts manufactured of different materials having toughness and hardness different from each other.
US07886999B2
A grinder for a food item includes a top shell having a top axis, a top inner surface disposed about the top axis, and a plurality of top teeth extending downwardly from the top inner surface. The grinder further includes a bottom shell having a bottom axis, a bottom inner surface disposed about the bottom axis, and a plurality of bottom teeth extending upwardly from the bottom inner surface. A plunger is slidable within the cavity between a retracted position and an advanced position, the plunger having an upper surface directed away from the bottom inner surface, the upper surface having a perimeter configured for slidable engagement with an inner surface of the sidewall and a plurality of apertures in registration with the plurality of bottom teeth.
US07886998B2
Self-correcting plate guards for installation over an orifice plate of a grinding machine are disclosed. Each plate guard has studs that fit into apertures of an orifice plate. The studs and apertures are sized so that the correct guard must be used with a particular orifice plate. Furthermore, the mounting ring that holds the orifice plate in place on the grinding machine cannot be tightened for use of the grinding machine without the plate guard being installed.
US07886995B2
A spray nozzle mechanism capable of forming spray contents into fine particles. A channel setting core is fixedly placed in a space in a button body, between an output hole of a vertical path and a hole for discharging contents to the external space. Swirls in the same swirling direction are formed by upstream recessed paths continuous from the vertical path and downstream recessed paths continuous to the discharge hole. Also, the spray nozzle mechanism has ribs. The ribs move initial swirls created by the upstream recessed paths to the corresponding downstream recessed paths, where the initial swirls are moved in a state where they are separated as far as possible.
US07886990B2
An atomizing device, comprising a fine liquid tube, a holder to permanently fix the tube proximate to its exit end and an optional cap to homogeneously and repeatably disintegrate small liquid amounts is disclosed. A manufacturing method for reproducibly machining the atomizer assembly of the present invention is provided.
US07886989B2
An apparatus for dispensing liquid material includes a dispensing module having a liquid supply passage communicating with a supply of liquid material and an air supply passage communicating with a source of pressurized air. A nozzle is coupled to the dispensing module and has a liquid discharge passage and an air discharge passage communicating with the liquid supply passage and the air supply passage, respectively. The liquid material is dispensed from a liquid discharge outlet of the nozzle and pressurized air is directed from an air outlet of the nozzle toward the dispensed liquid material. An air valve coupled to the nozzle is operable to vary the pressure of the air discharged from the air outlet to thereby move the liquid material in a desired pattern. In an exemplary embodiment, the valve is operable to pulse the pressurized air.
US07886970B2
An IC card has a mechanism to securely manage information for each of a plurality of service providers in a memory area of the IC card. The IC card is shared by the plurality of service providers. File systems of the service providers are allocated in the memory area, and a single information recording medium is shared by the plurality of service providers. The memory area is separated into the file systems. A border between the file systems functions as a firewall, thus appropriately preventing one of the file systems from being intruded by the other file systems. Furthermore, by using a function of separating the memory area into a plurality of file systems together with a security code verification function of each file system, the security of each file system is independently managed.
US07886969B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes providing tender at a point of service terminal operated by a load agent, the point of service terminal being in operative communication with a payment processing network. The point of service terminal thereafter sends a transaction authorization request to an issuer of a portable consumer device to be used by a user. The issuer then authorizes or does not authorize the transaction authorization request. If the transaction authorization request is approved, the portable consumer device is either initially loaded or reloaded with an amount associated with the tender provided at the point of service terminal.
US07886965B2
A scaleable check processing module (SCPM) is provided for a self-service check depositing terminal. The SCPM comprises a supporting structure. The SCPM further comprises a first configurable mechanism located in the supporting structure and for (i) enabling a pocket module to be disposed at a first location of the supporting structure when the SCPM is to be installed into a first type of self-service check depositing terminal, (ii) enabling a pocket module to be disposed at a second location which is different from the first location of the supporting structure when the SCPM is to be installed into a second type of self-service check depositing terminal which is different from the first type of self-service depositing terminal, and (iii) enabling a pocket module to be disposed at a third location which is different from the first and second locations of the supporting structure when the SCPM is to be installed into a third type of self-service check depositing terminal which is different from the first and second types of self-service depositing terminals.
US07886964B2
A system allows consumers the ability to remotely transmit order and/or payment preference data to a vendor to facilitate sales transactions. A personal transmitter or key fob functions to transmit a signal to the vendor when the customer approaches the vendor, which signal comprises preferred order information for vendor processing. The vendor may acknowledge order receipt, generate the order, and automatically submit the transaction for payment through a secure connection. A web site acknowledges receipt of the payment request, retrieves specific transaction information for the target vendor, and processes the payments electronically. Customer information, vendor preferences and encrypted Customer payment specific pointers are downloaded to the personal transmitter on an ongoing basis and stored as encrypted data. If multiple vendors are within the proximity of the consumer, the transmitter will signal an error and list the vendors to the consumer, from which list the target vendor may be selected.
US07886961B2
A method and apparatus for concurrently providing automatic teller machine (ATM) and gaming machine token redemption services is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a token redemption surface having a token redemption user interface including a token acceptor for accepting tokens representing gaming machine redemption values, an ATM surface, having an ATM user interface, a bill dispenser disposed between the token redemption surface and the ATM surface, the bill dispenser having a first dispensing port adjacent the token redemption surface and a second dispensing port adjacent the ATM surface, and a processor, communicatively coupled to the token acceptor and the bill dispensing device, the processor for accepting signals from the token acceptor and for commanding the bill dispenser to dispense bills via the first dispensing port according to the gaming machine redemption values.
US07886955B2
A solder ball mounting device that can mount minute solder balls with a diameter of 200 μm or less onto a connection pad. The solder ball mounting device can mount solder balls to be solder bumps on a printed circuit board using a mask having a plurality of openings corresponding to electrodes of a printed circuit board. The device includes a cylindrical member, which is positioned above the mask for arraying solder balls, for gathering solder balls immediately below the openings by sucking in air from the openings. A movement mechanism is for moving the cylindrical member horizontally relative to the mask for arraying solder balls, wherein solder balls gathered on the mask for arraying solder balls are moved by moving the cylindrical member and are then dropped on electrodes of the printed circuit board via openings of the mask for arraying solder balls. A current plate is placed within the cylindrical member, wherein at least a part of the current plate is positioned in an inner space formed by inner walls of the cylindrical member.
US07886950B2
A nose assembly for a floor nail gun includes: a base having a bottom end that has a base contact surface; a nose plate having an abutting end defining a nose abutting surface, and a contact end having first and second nose contact surfaces; and an urging mechanism interconnecting the base and the nose plate. The nose plate is movable relative to the base from a first position, in which one of the first and second nose contact surfaces abuts against the base contact surface, to an intermediary position, in which the contact end of the nose plate is spaced apart from the bottom end of the base, and is further movable relative to the base from the intermediary position to a second position, in which the other of the first and second nose contact surfaces abuts against the base contact surface.
US07886946B2
A baby carrier comprising a shoulder harness featuring a detachable adjustable pouch system that may be worn or alternatively fastened to a secured object for supporting an infant. The detachable adjustable pouch may also feature a detachable adjustable support waist belt that may be worn by the wearer. The shoulder harness features retractable shoulder straps that may be used to securely extend the detachable adjustable pouch system away from wearer without having to detach the pouch or remove the infant while simultaneously allowing the wearer face to face access with the infant. The detachable adjustable pouch system may encapsulate and support an infant in a substantially upright sitting position. The detachable adjustable pouch system may be adjusted to accommodate infants of varying sizes. The weight of the infant may be incorporated as a design component of the seat portion of the pouch system.
US07886933B2
In a household sanitary tissue paper container 1 that has a slender taking-out opening 2 where a film for supporting a household sanitary tissue paper 10 is not provided at the taking-out opening 2, the taking-out opening 2 having finger inserting portions 2B and supporting portions 2A for supporting a pulled-out household sanitary tissue paper 10 is provided, and in outside positions of edges of the supporting portions 2A in a width direction, crush portions for raising 5 along a longitudinal direction are formed respectively so as to continue into the taking-out opening 2.
US07886924B2
A wine glass constructed from molded plastic includes an upper body defining an upwardly narrowed flume for concentrating the wine bouquet, in combination with a contoured lower base defining an annular moat surrounding a central punt for enhanced visual inspection of the wine. In addition, the upper body further includes a notched indent at an outboard side thereof forming a shelf for facilitated fingertip grasping and manipulation of the assembled glass. In one form, the upper body and lower base of the wine glass are provided as separate modules adapted for assembly to form the wine glass, and disassembly for respective compact stacking. In another form, the wine glass has a one-piece construction adapted for compact stacking by nested reception of the upwardly narrowed flume partially into the underside of the lower base of an overlying glass in the stack.
US07886913B1
Methods to separate certain valuable elements and/or minerals that utilize wet screens, hydro-cyclones, low intensity magnetic separators and/or Mag Wheel™ separators, including a specially designed magnetic field amplifying matrix. The methods are applicable to mining, manufacturing, mineral processing, or other treatment processes or systems.
US07886907B2
A vapor hydrated packaged catheter assembly and method of manufacturing and distributing same includes a gas impermeable package housing a catheter within a catheter-receiving cavity. The catheter assembly has a hydrophilic coating applied to at least a portion of the outer surface of a catheter tube or shaft which may be surrounded by a sleeve to provide a no-touch, sure grip feature. The catheter assembly is disposed within the catheter receiving cavity of the package together with a limited amount of a vapor donating liquid provided as a source of vapor to activate the hydrophilic coating. The amount of vapor donating liquid is less than the amount that would otherwise be sufficient to cause a spill hazard. It may be loose liquid as a desired percentage of the volume of a tube-receiving portion of the catheter receiving cavity of the package, or it may be contained in a liquid sequestering element. The activation of at least some of the hydrophilic coating occurs solely by reason of exposure of the outer surface of the catheter to a vapor produced by the vapor donating liquid. The distribution of the catheter following manufacture is delayed for a time sufficient to permit the vapor to complete hydration of the entire hydrophilic coating on the surface.
US07886906B1
A retainer for maintaining a tubular sheath used to store a catheter guide wire in a coiled configuration includes a body having a bottom defining a plurality of substantially parallel channels. Each channel is designed to closely receive a coil of the tubular sheath. A loop is affixed to and extends adjacently above the body and defines an aperture therethrough for receiving and guiding the catheter guide wire after removal of the guide wire from the tubular sheath.
US07886898B2
A surfboard wax bar rectangularly geometric in shape having a plurality of transverse creases or beveled break lines allowing a user to selectively separate a portion of the surfboard wax bar as desired, the surfboard wax bar encapsulated in a protective covering, the protective covering having a plurality of preformed embossed tear lines cooperative and aligned with the transverse creases or beveled break lines of said surfboard wax bar to allow the selective separation of a portion of the surfboard wax bar and associated wrapping, yet not disturb the remaining wrapping and the remaining portion of the surfboard wax bar, the surfboard wax bar and wrapping or portions thereof being stored in a container, the outer surface of which is reflective to the sun, and which is insulated from the heat of the ambient weather so as to prevent deterioration of the surfboard wax bar or any remnants thereof, and also protection from debris such as sand.
US07886885B2
The clutch of the present invention has a reaction plate, a friction plate, a friction layer, at least one non-compressible member, and a fluid lubricant. The friction plate is disposed adjacent the reaction plate for frictionally engaging the reaction plate to transfer a driving torque between the reaction plate and the friction plate when the compression force is applied. The friction layer has at least one groove. The at least one non-compressible member is disposed in the at least one groove for preventing further compression of the friction layer by the reaction plate. The at least one non-compressible member is adhered to the friction plate and a fluid lubricant is disposed between the reaction plate and the friction plate for providing a lubrication layer between the plates.
US07886881B2
A disk brake, particularly a brake pad comprising a lining support and a friction lining. At least one pin is mounted on the lining support and serves top fix the friction lining. The pin should pass through the friction lining from approximately the middle while extending approximately up to the lining surface.
US07886880B1
A drum braking system includes, a brake lever assembly having a brake lever and a cable assembly. The brake lever includes a base member, a guide spring support attached to the base member, and a connector structure attached to the base member. The cable assembly includes a guide spring supported by the guide spring support, and a cable extending through the guide spring. The guide spring support defines an aperture having a perimeter. The guide spring support includes a first tab, a second tab, and a third tab each extending from the perimeter. The guide spring extends through the aperture so as to be positioned in contact with each of the first tab, the second tab, and the third tab. The connector structure has defined therein a slot having a reduced width portion and an increased width portion. The cable further extends though the reduced width portion of the slot.
US07886874B2
A lubricator for the wheel flanges of railway vehicle wheels comprises an arm carrying a lubricating pad and a mounting element formed integrally with the arm. The mounting element fits into the entrance of the key slot in the brake beam head beside the brake retainer key. The key head fits in a groove in the top of the mounting element to retain the lubricator in place. When the lubricant is exhausted, the key is partially withdrawn to allow removal of the mounting element and the lubricator is replaced. When partially withdrawn, the key still retains the show on the brake beam head.
US07886871B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlayer film for a laminated glass excellent in a sound-insulating property, which is preferably usable for a head up display and the like wherein a driver can look at the front view and an instrument display simultaneously without requiring to look down, and to provide a laminated glass.The present invention is directed to interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises at least a pair of protection layers and a sound-insulating layer sandwiched between the pair of the protection layers, and which has a wedge shape as a cross-sectional shape, a wedge angle θ of 0.1 to 0.7 mrad, the maximum thickness of 2000 μm or thinner, and the minimum thickness of 400 μm or thicker, the minimum thickness of the sound-insulating layer being 20 μm or thicker.
US07886868B2
A self-draining grill and system incorporating the same. The grill includes a plurality of ribs extending from a surface of a housing and angled downward in a direction across the surface of the housing. One or more openings are disposed between the ribs and allow air flow to a sound generation device.
US07886852B2
The hybrid vehicle kit comprises a vehicle body capable of being interchangeably coupled to either one of a wheel kit thus forming a hybrid vehicle in a wheel mode, the wheel kit having a number of ground-engaging wheels; and a track kit, thus forming the hybrid vehicle in a track mode, the track kit having a pair of ground-engaging tracks carried by track wheels. The vehicle has a pair of powered driving hydraulic pumps and a number of wheel drives powered by a corresponding one of the driving hydraulic pumps. In the wheel mode the ground-engaging wheels are operatively mounted to corresponding wheel drives and an electronic circuit calculates hydraulic rate data on the basis of speed data to control the first and second driving hydraulic pumps so that they will administer a hydraulic rate to the wheel drives which is representative of the hydraulic rate data to control the rotational speed of the ground-engaging wheels which will propel the hybrid vehicle. In the track mode at least some of the track wheels are operatively mounted to corresponding wheel drives and the electronic circuit calculates hydraulic rate data on the basis of the speed data and of the steering data to control the first and second driving hydraulic pumps so that they will administer a respective hydraulic rate to the wheel drives which is representative of the hydraulic rate data to control the rotational speed of the at least some of the track wheels that are operatively mounted to corresponding wheel drives, to both propel and steer the hybrid vehicle.
US07886845B2
A system for monitoring auxiliary operations on a drilling unit includes at least one sensor configured to measure a parameter related to a start time and a stop time of at least one auxiliary operation on the drilling unit. The system includes a data acquisition device configured to determine a start time and a stop time of the at least one auxiliary operation from measurements made by the at least one sensor. The data acquisition device includes a data recorder for recording elapsed time between the start time and the stop time.
US07886838B2
A hammer comprising: a body; a tool holder mounted on the body for holding a cutting tool; a handle, comprising a grip portion, pivotally mounted on the body about an axis of pivot; a first vibration dampener which connects between the handle and the body and which reduces the amount of angular vibrations transmitted from the body to the handle; a motor mounted within the body; a hammer mechanism mounted in the body, capable of being driven by the motor when the motor is activated, the hammer mechanism, when driven, imparting impacts onto a cutting tool when held by the tool holder; wherein at least the grip portion of the handle is also slideably mounted on the body so that the position of the grip portion can be linearly moved relative to the body; and there is further provided a second vibration dampener located between the grip portion and the body which reduces the amount of linear vibrations transmitted from the body to the grip portion.
US07886834B2
A technique enables anchoring of a tool in a wellbore. The technique utilizes one or more arms pivotably mounted to a structure for movement between a radially inward position and radially outward position that anchors the tool to a surrounding wall. A wedge component is positioned to selectively engage the arms. When relative axial movement is caused between the wedge component and the arms, the arms are pivoted to a desired radial position.
US07886830B2
The application discloses a safety valve to replace an existing safety valve in order to isolate a production zone from a string of tubing when closed. Preferably, the safety valve includes a flow interruption device displaced by an operating conduit extending from a surface location to the safety valve through the inside of the production tubing. The application also discloses a bypass-conduit which allows communication from a surface location to the production zone through the safety valve without affecting the operation of the safety valve.
US07886823B1
A two part encapsulated cementing system is mixed downhole in a method of remediation of an active well. Using this two part system, one of the components is first placed in the well at the desired remediation depth. Next, the other component is placed in the well above the first placed component. Densities of the components have been selected such that the density of the second placed component is sufficiently higher then the density of the first placed component to facilitate gravity mixing of the two components as the second placed component moves through the first placed component and in the process activation occurs.
US07886813B2
A thermal interface material is provided using composite particles. Advantages include increased thermal conductivity and improved mechanical properties such as lower viscosity. In selected embodiments free particles such as metallic particles or carbon nanotubes, etc. are included in a thermal interface material along with composite particles. An advantage of including free particles along with composite particles includes improved packing density within selected embodiments of thermal interface materials.
US07886812B2
A heat exchanger comprising a heat exchange core composed of tube groups in the form of rows arranged in the direction of flow of air through the exchanger, each of the tube groups including a plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged at a spacing. A refrigerant inlet header and a refrigerant outlet header are positioned at the upper end of the core and having respective groups of heat exchange tubes joined thereto. A refrigerant turn tank is disposed at the lower end of the core. The turn tank has its interior divided by a partition wall into a refrigerant inflow header and a refrigerant outflow header. The heat exchange tubes have lower end portions inserted in the headers and are joined to the headers. Refrigerant passing holes are formed in the partition wall. The heat exchange tubes have their lower ends positioned below the lower ends of the holes.
US07886795B2
A label applicator system provides for high speed, accurate label transfer from a web to items moving on an item transport along a path relative to the system. The items, such as bottles, have a contoured surface. The applicator includes a supply reel for supplying labels on a web and a take-up for taking up the web after transfer of the label. A drive roller moves the web through the applicator system. The system includes a web positioning assembly and a movable label applicator head. A contour sensor senses the bottle contour and develops a profile for the head to follow to apply the labels to the bottles. The supply, take-up and the drive are operably engaged with one another to maintain a relatively constant tension in the web. The web positioning assembly is configured to advance and retract the web to accommodate a pitch difference between the bottles in the bottle transport and the labels on the web and to accommodate movement of the decorating head toward and away from the bottles in the bottle transport.
US07886793B2
A substrate bonding device for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device accurately aligns substrates of the LCD device while preventing the introduction of foreign material into the substrate bonding device, thereby substantially preventing the generation of defects within liquid crystal material of the LCD device.
US07886789B2
A noise damper disposed in a tire cavity formed by a pneumatic tire and wheel rim is disclosed. A noise damper designed to use with a wheel rim comprises an annular body disposed around a damper-mounting portion of the wheel rim, and the annular body is made of a spongy material having an inside diameter of from 0.9 to 1.10 times an outside diameter of the damper-mounting portion. A noise damper designed to use with a pneumatic tire comprises an annular body disposed in a tire hollow, and the annular body is made of a spongy material having an outside diameter of from 1.00 to 1.10 times the maximum inside diameter of the tire hollow.
US07886788B2
A pneumatic tire with a noise damper made of a spongelike multi-cellular material is disclosed. The noise damper is divided into small dampers to improve the high-speed durability of the tire. The noise damper is provided with a water-impermeable outer coating to prevent water from infiltrating into the spongelike multi-cellular material during transporting, store keeping and the like.
US07886785B2
The present invention relates to the art of installing hardwood flooring while maintaining the wood grain in the direction of any bends required to conform to a curved structure. More particularly, the invention pertains to a machine and method for installing curved hardwood flooring using three steps. First step is to establish the desired floor boundary and anchor a plurality of pressure units in place at appropriate intervals to accurately represent the desired shape of the curved hardwood floor to be installed. Second step is to make appropriate adjustments to the pressure units and position the hardwood flooring in the machine; Third step is to activate the pressure units to bend the flooring into the desired contour; hold securely; make adjustments, if necessary and nail the hardwood flooring to the sub-floor. Then repeat steps 2 and 3 until the hardwood floor is completed.
US07886766B2
The invention relates to a network system for monitoring valves in a facility, which comprises: (a) a plurality of valve monitoring devices—VMDs, each monitoring device is affixed to a valve, and comprises: (a.1) a sensor for sensing the status of the valve; (a.2) short range wireless communication unit for transmitting the status as sensed by said sensor, and for transmitting the status as sensed, together with an identification of said device, to one or more Valve Device Readers—VDRs located within said short range; (a.3) mechanism for affixing the device to the monitored valve in a manner which does not disturb the normal operation of the valve; and (a.4) one or more VDRs for receiving the transmission of the valve status and VMD identification from said VMDs, and for forwarding the same to a server by Ethernet communication.
US07886763B2
A faucet incorporating vandal resistant features is provided to limit the possibility of tampering by limiting access to the valve cartridges of the faucet. The faucet includes a valve cartridge and a handle bat operatively attached to the valve cartridge. A hub covering the valve cartridge is freely rotatable about the valve cartridge, and a mechanical fastener attaching the handle bat to the valve cartridge includes a specially-configured driver pattern.
US07886762B1
An apparatus for maintaining a tub and shower valve in a desired position during construction of a bathroom prior to the tub and shower being ready to be trimmed out. The apparatus includes a base in the form of a planar plate having an opening for receiving a portion of the valve and an aperture for receiving a fastener; and a flange for handling the apparatus attached to the base. The method includes roughing in a tub and shower valve, securing the valve in place with a special fitting, removing the special fitting, and installing the trim package to finish the tub and shower.
US07886755B2
A side-supporting sunshade includes a mast and an adjusting sleeve slideably mounted on the mast in a vertical direction. A lower end of a supporting arm is pivotably connected to the adjusting sleeve. A linking rod includes an end pivotably connected to an upper end of the mast. The other end of the linking rod is pivotably connected to an intermediate portion of the supporting arm. A canopy support frame is coupled to an upper end of the supporting arm and supports a canopy. A cable includes a first end fixed to an axle rotatably mounted in the adjusting sleeve and a second end fixed to the canopy support frame. The cable is movable in a winding direction to fold the canopy when the axle rotates in a direction. The cable is movable in a releasing direction to unfold the canopy when the axle rotates in a reverse direction.
US07886753B2
The invention relates to a disinfection apparatus (1) for disinfecting liquid cleaning of health care objects and the like, which disinfection equipment comprises a washing system (2) for supplying liquid to a chamber (3) which is adapted to hold said objects in cleaning, a pump (4) for pumping liquid in said washing system (2), and at least one collection space (5) connected to the inlet (6) of the pump for collecting liquid from said chamber (3) to the pump (4). Said collection space (5) is defined by at least one partition (7) which has an extent horizontally from the inlet (6) of the pump and which screens the inlet (6) of the pump from liquid descending into the chamber (3) at least nearest the inlet (6) of the pump.
US07886750B2
Hair clip comprising two shells (1, 3) provided with claws (5, 7) which are at the front of the clip and pivot relative to one another around two shell hinges (8-12) which extend in the same axial direction (A) at the rear of the clip, from a closure position in which the claws (5, 7) are brought together or even intersect, in order to grip the hair trapped by the claws, to an opening position in which the claws are spaced apart against the deformation of a resilient return means (13, 131, 132) which tends to return the shells (1, 3) to the closure position, and comprising a support plate (17) which is designed to receive for example a jewel and two lugs (19-22) which support the support plate (17) above the two shells (1, 3) in the closure position.The two lugs (19-22) are engaged with the two shells (1, 3), to the front of the axial direction (A) in the closure position, in order to give rise to a movement of lifting of the support plate (17) relative to the axial direction (A), in translation towards the rear, when the two shells (1, 3) pivot from the closure position to the opening position.
US07886748B2
A new configuration of intense pulsed light (IPL) equipment includes a handpiece that allows the application of IPL directly to the eye and eyelid. The handpiece is sized and configured for precise digital manipulation. The invention also includes a distance guide for maintaining precise distances between the area to be treated and a crystal mounted in the handpiece. Eye shields protect the cornea and surrounding sclera during application of IPL.
US07886743B2
A robotic surgical system includes a sterile surgical instrument, a robotic surgical manipulator, and a sterile drape covering at least a portion of the robotic surgical manipulator. The surgical instrument has a proximal interface and a distal end effector. The proximal interface includes a gimbal assembly with two intersecting rotational axes coupled to the distal end effector. The robotic surgical manipulator has a drive plate that bears against the gimbal assembly. The drive plate has two degrees of rotational freedom about a center of motion that is coincident with an intersection of the axes of the gimbal assembly. The sterile drape includes a sterile sheet covers at least a portion of the robotic surgical manipulator, a frame bonded to the sterile sheet, an instrument interface that covers the drive plate of the robotic surgical manipulator, and a diaphragm that connects the instrument interface to the frame.
US07886738B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for delivering an aerosolized medication to an infant. The apparatus includes a plaything having a fanciful image. A bore passageway extends through the plaything. The fanciful image has features attractive to an infant where one of the features includes an opening to a first end of the bore passageway. A second end of the bore passageway is adapted to be attached to a nebulizing assembly. The nebulizing assembly is adapted to deliver inhalable aerosolized medication into the bore passageway to facilitate inhalation of the medication by the infant when the opening is proximate to the nose and mouth region of the infant.
US07886736B2
An improved gas-fired burner for a fireplace. The gas-fired burner includes a substantially sealed enclosure. This enclosure, or “heat tank,” may be of any desired shape, but is preferably of a rectangular, box-like shape. The enclosure includes an inlet port for the ingestion of relatively cold air into the enclosure, and two exit ports, for the exhaust of relatively warm air. The enclosure has a front and a back end, and both the inlet and exit ports may be secured to the back end of the enclosure.
US07886732B1
A heating structure of a gasification tank in an action includes a furniture which is provided with an action and an interior of the action is provided with a gasification tank and a gas cylinder. A wall of the gasification tank in the action is provided with at least one electrothermal pad by which gas passing through the gasification tank can be heated up, avoiding that air pressure is reduced as air temperature in the gasification tank is too low, as the present invention can effectively and continuously heat up the air in the gasification tank.
US07886731B2
A reduced breakaway-friction flow control and valving device for a compressed gas-powered projectile accelerator is disclosed having an improved means of reducing break-away friction, an improved sealing arrangement, and self-contained modular components to improve efficiency, manufacturability, and reduce size and weight.
US07886729B2
An engine system includes two spark plugs in a cylinder of an engine. The two spark plugs have different heat ranges in order to address pre-ignition, where only a first spark plug operates during a first condition, and only a second spark plug operates during a second condition.
US07886728B1
A system and method are provided to control the power output, fuel efficiency and gas emissions of an internal combustion engine using an exhaust gas recirculation system. A recirculation loop containing a heat exchanger and an accumulator is installed between the exhaust ports and intake ports of the cylinders of the internal combustion engine. Diverter valves are used to control the amount of exhaust gas directed into the recirculation loop and the proportion of exhaust gas entering the intake ports. Controlling the amount of re-circulated exhaust gas and proportion of exhaust gas in the intake ports thereby controls the power output of the internal combustion engine.
US07886727B2
Systems and methods for an engine are described. In one example, a system may include a variable venturi coupled in an intake of the engine; an exhaust gas recirculation system having an exhaust gas recirculation flow path, the exhaust gas recirculation flow path coupled to the variable venturi; and a vacuum-utilizing device or system coupled to the variable venturi. In another example, a method may include coordinating adjustment of an exhaust gas recirculation valve coupled to the exhaust gas recirculation system, a fuel vapor purging valve coupled to the fuel vapor purging system, and the variable venturi in response to operating conditions.
US07886724B2
A charge air cooler arrangement includes a first charge air cooler disposed upstream of an engine inlet, a second cooler disposed upstream of the first charge air cooler, and a bypass line for bypassing the second cooler, a downstream end of the bypass line being disposed upstream of the first charge air cooler. A method of reducing condensation in an engine having charge air cooling is also disclosed.
US07886719B2
A method for controlling fuel injection timing of at least one fuel injector in a direct injection fuel delivery system of an internal combustion engine is presented. In one example, the timing of a second fuel pulse in a combustion cycle is adjusted in response to injector needle position bounce. The method can improve fuel delivery control.
US07886717B2
A fuel injector, especially for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, includes a nozzle body able to be inserted into a recess of a cylinder head, a valve housing, a plug abutting the valve housing, and at least one fixation element, which fixes the nozzle body in its position in the recess, the fixation element extending from a connection region (28) between the valve housing and the plug on the spray-discharge side. The at least one fixation element has a reinforcement having a spherical contour at an outer periphery, the reinforcement being formed by at least one outwardly projecting element having an outwardly curving end face and/or having a planar end face.
US07886714B2
An exhaust gas reflux mechanism for a multipurpose engine includes an exhaust reflux cam formed as an integral part of an single cam of the engine and having a cam lobe profiled to open an exhaust valve while an intake valve stays open during the intake stroke of the engine so that part of an exhaust gas remaining on the side of an exhaust port of the engine is drawn into a combustion chamber during the intake stroke.
US07886705B2
A thermal management system for an engine is disclosed. The thermal management system may have a first hydraulic circuit configured to circulate a fluid through the engine. The thermal management system may also have a second hydraulic circuit pressurized by the engine to heat the fluid during operation of the engine.
US07886700B2
A retractable leash assembly (10, 22, 30, 38) for tethered to the animal includes a flexible member for forming safety band (20, 26, 34, 39) wrapped around a user wrist and for forming a tethering element (22, 28, 36, 39) for tethered the safety band to a gripping handle (42) of a retractable leash housing (40). The flexible member comprises a round cord, rectangular strap or combination thereof. In addition a cord lock element (66) or adjustable loop (88) may be used to adjust the diameter of the safety band around a user wrist. In addition and adjustable length leash extension allows two animals to be tethered by different length leash extensions.
US07886699B2
An animal training apparatus is comprised of a leash connector attached to a chest portion of a harness. The harness is arranged to prevent the leash connector from shifting to the back of the animal. The harness is preferably comprised of a chest strap for positioning across the chest of the animal between the tops of the front legs, a withers strap for positioning across the withers of the animal behind the neck and between the shoulders, and a girth strap for positioning across the girth of the animal behind the front legs on the underside. The leash connector is attached to an intermediate position on the chest strap for pulling on the chest portion of the harness. The animal is prevented by the rotational force from pulling further.
US07886697B2
Described herein is a method of enhancing the reliability and reproducibility of animal experiments. As described herein, the method relates to an improved oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in animals, wherein the set up of the test has been optimized in comparison to the standard procedure for OGTT.
US07886696B2
Closed top home aquarium for setting up and maintaining a sea water aquatic environment in particular. The aquarium includes a transparent open topped box-like enclosure, a compartment integrally formed with and behind the box-like enclosure, and a hinged dual position fan cooled hood. The compartment includes a water circulation system and a multistage filtration system. The hood includes a lighting system for daytime and nighttime illumination, and a built-in 24 programmable timer. The aquarium includes a thermostat controlled water temperature system and a below water level splash proof power center for safely and aesthetically connecting all electrical aquarium components to a mains electricity outlet. Home aquariums can be provided with an integrally formed below water level splash proof power center for use with off-the-shelf electrical aquarium appliances.
US07886687B2
A plasma processing apparatus for generating plasma in a chamber maintained in a vacuum state and processing a substrate using the plasma. The plasma processing apparatus includes a refrigerant channel for circulating a refrigerant formed in a shower head, thereby easily controlling the temperature of the shower head and improving the reproducibility of plasma treatment.
US07886686B2
Installation for vacuum treatment, particularly of substrates, includes several identical independent and aligned modules. Each module is provided with a vacuum treatment chamber and a transfer chamber having a mechanism for transferring a substrate within one of the different chambers or from one chamber to another, the second chamber being located downstream or upstream from, directly next to, or separated by at least one module from the first chamber. A substrate can be transferred into one chamber in order to undergo a treatment while another substrate is placed in a different chamber for a specific treatment.
US07886680B2
For reducing the number of components required for mooring (by means of three, 120° spaced apart mooring lines) multiple floating wave energy converters (WECs), a group of six WECs is disposed in a hexagonal pattern with each WEC being disposed at a corner of the hexagon. The WECs are connected to one another by mooring lines extending along sides of the hexagon, each WEC thereby being connected by two, 120° spaced apart mooring lines and with each WEC serving as a mooring point for each of its two adjacent neighbors. A third mooring line for each WEC, spaced 120° from the other two mooring lines, is connected to an auxiliary surface buoy and thence to an anchor.
US07886671B2
A height adjustable workstation comprising a frame, a console supported by and movable up and down with the respect to the frame, and a keyboard tray supported by the console and pivotable with respect thereto when the console is moved down.
US07886669B2
Systems and methods are described for generating electrical energy and/or charging a system electrical energy storage device in a vehicle, such as a locomotive. The vehicle includes at least one airflow device coupled to an electric machine. In one example, the method includes, generating electrical energy at the electric machine, said machine being driven by an ambient air flow interacting with the airflow device; and delivering at least some of the harnessed energy to an electrical component of the locomotive. The harnessed energy may be delivered to an electrical load, or delivered to the system electrical energy storage device to charge the device, or combinations thereof.
US07886667B1
A warhead includes a body, a patterned liner made of plastic, and an explosive charge disposed within the liner. The liner pattern is formed of gaps and liner elements. The explosive charge includes a first set of sections that are disposed adjacent to the liner gaps and a second set of sections that are disposed adjacent to the liner elements. Upon detonation of the explosive charge and because of the temporal delay in transmitting the detonation energy between these two sets of sections, the warhead body is caused to shear and break into fragments with controlled size. The use of plastic as the liner material also provides a welcome safety feature for this warhead. In the event of unwanted heat ignition, the plastic (which is also low melt temperature material), would melt to seal the explosive and would also flow. Because of the plastic, neither sudden pressure nor heat/ignition inside the round, would therefore be as catastrophic.
US07886659B2
An automatic plant for the treatment and packing of meat product, including an injection station for injecting brine into a meat product, first and second maceration stations for macerating the injected meat product, and a packing station for packing the treated meat product. The injection station is connected to the first and second maceration stations by an accumulating and loading unit for accumulating meat product coming from the injection station and selectively loading it into the first and second maceration stations which are connected to the packing station by a transfer unit adapted for transferring the meat product from the first and second maceration stations to feed hoppers for feeding the packing station. The plant is controlled by computerized control.
US07886658B2
A speed cooking with improved gas flow by-pass mechanism for radiant cooking mode. A speed cooking oven with radiant mode is disclosed comprising a cooking cavity, a controller, thermal heating source, blower assembly, air directing means, a vent assembly and a single door gas by-pass system. Hot gas is circulated by the blower motor assembly into the oven cavity where the hot air is directed in a manner wherein a conflicting, colliding turbulent gas flow is directed at a food product providing for the rapid cooking of food products. Alternatively, a single movable door may be utilized that operates between an open position wherein gas flow exhausts from the top of the oven or in the closed position wherein gas is diverted through a conduit and back to the blower mechanism. Gas may therefore flow into the oven cooking cavity or may be diverted around the cooking cavity and maintained at the same temperature, lower temperature or elevated temperature as compared to the cooking cavity without having a direct effect on the food product being cooked.
US07886656B2
The present invention relates to an automatic pasta-cooker comprising a cooking chamber (1) and a stabilization chamber (2) for the pasta. Said cooking chamber (1) is provided with a feeding valve (3) and a discharge valve (5) for the pasta through which it is connected with a junction pipe (6) that opens into said stabilization chamber (2). Said pasta-cooker also comprises a boiler (7) suitable for heating mains water to be supplied to said cooking chamber (1). The stabilization chamber (2) is provided with an openable bottom and of at least one portion whose lateral wall has a curvature of constant sign. Said junction pipe (6) opens into the stabilization chamber (2) eccentrically with respect to a central axis of the stabilization chamber (2).
US07886655B1
An insulated brew basket assembly (12) having a metallic brew basket body (54) with an external surface covering non-metallic, insulating material (62) having a heat conductivity characteristic that is significantly less than that of the metal of the basket body (54), such as an insulating coating adhered to the inside, the outside or both the inside and the outside of the surrounding wall, an internal insulating liner fixedly or releasably attached to the surrounding wall at the inside or a releasably or permanently attached insulating jacket covering the outside of the surrounding side wall. The brew basket body may have a double-wall construction with an interior wall section (70) connected with an exterior wall section (72) in spaced relationship to define a gap (68), within which a non-metallic, insulating material, such as (a) a relative vacuum, (b) air at normal ambient air pressure, (c) an inert gas, (d) a foam insulation material and (e) a substantially solid plastic material, is protectively contained within the gap (68), is contained. The beverage is brewed in the insulated brew basket assembly (12) while being insulated to reduce heat loss and temperature loss of the beverage being passed to a dispenser (46) of a brewer.
US07886654B2
A filter holder for a coffee machine is used for receiving a pod with an infusible product and includes a cup (2) having a bottom (3) provided with a discharge orifice (19) and an annular wall (4) extending to a top circumference (5) defining an opening which is mountable on a hot water outlet, and a pod support (10) which extends between the annular wall (4) of the cup at a distance from the bottom (3) and is provided with perforations (7, 8). At least one perforation (7) which is embodied in the form of an elongated slot extends on the plane of the support (10) and has a thickness which enables the infusion to freely flow. The filter holder (1) is particularly suitable for a coffee machine producing a low-pressure hot water.
US07886653B2
The built-in coffee machine (1) comprises an operation device (2) and a front panel (3) arranged on the front of the operation device and movable with respect to the cupboard (4) for containing the device from at least a first position closing the device inside the cupboard (4) to at least a second position for access to said device and vice-versa, with there also being an access opening (5) on the front panel at least to a dispenser of coffee drink and to a steam and/or water delivery group, the dispenser of the coffee drink and the steam and/or water delivery group (7) being directly connected to the operation device of the machine.
US07886643B2
A sheet cutting apparatus includes: a cutting blade for cutting an edge of a sheet bundle conveyed to a cutting position of the sheet bundle; a cutting blade moving section for moving obliquely the cutting blade with respect to a sheet surface of the sheet bundle; a fixed supporting table for supporting the sheet bundle in a vicinity of the cutting position; a blade receiving member for pressing the sheet bundle and receiving the cutting blade in the vicinity of the cutting position; and a blade receiving member moving section for ascending or descending the blade receiving member. A center position of a load application action of the blade receiving member by the blade receiving member moving section, is set to a position upstream of the sheet cutting position in a conveying direction of the sheet bundle, and in the vicinity of the sheet cutting position.
US07886640B2
The present invention relates to a rotational cutting machine, it has a base, on the base is first motive power source to bring the cutting blade rotate; near the cutting blade is a fixing tool that tightly holds an object to be cut, on the side the fixing tool is a second motive power source to turn the fixing tool together with the object to be cut; the fixing tool is set on a platform that is adjustable; when cutting an object, the first motive power source turns the blade rotate, while the second motive power source also turns the object to be cut rotate, through the platform that is movable, the fixing tool is moved towards the cutting blade, such that the object tightly held in the fixing tool can be in contact with the cutting blade, the object then can be cut efficiently and accurately.
US07886639B2
A method for cutting an industrial-size roll of paper or other sheet material into two or more rolls is disclosed. The method enables sections to be cut from the roll, without first having to remove a previously cut section from the roll. The roll is supported on two parallel rollers. A circular saw is mounted in a saw frame that travels along a carriage and positions the saw blade at any desired cutting position on the roll. The saw blade has a radius large enough to cut through such a roll in a single cut, leaving press-ready rolls that require no finish-trimming on the ends.
US07886625B2
An actuator with self-locking assist device comprises an actuator and a self-locking assist device, wherein the self-locking assist device is disposed at one end of the actuator, and the friction force between the self-locking assist device and the actuator is used to improve the self-locking capability of the actuator, thus preventing the uncontrollable movement of the actuator caused by the influence of the load carried.
US07886608B2
An implantable pressure sensor, which may be incorporated within an implantable medical electrical lead, includes an insulative sidewall, which contains a gap capacitor and an integrated circuit. The insulative sidewall of the pressure sensor includes a pressure sensitive diaphragm portion, and the gap capacitor includes a first electrode plate, which is attached to an interior surface of the diaphragm portion of the sidewall, and a second electrode plate, which is spaced apart from the first electrode plate and coupled to the integrated circuit, which is coupled, through the sidewall, to a supply contact and a ground contact. A conductive layer extends over one of the interior surface of the diaphragm portion of the sidewall and an exterior surface of the diaphragm portion; and the conductive layer is coupled to the ground contact to either shield or ground the first electrode plate.
US07886606B2
A vibration table for testing products employs threaded inserts for mounting the test products or fixtures therefor on the table. The threaded inserts have enlarged and elongated threaded shafts that engage threaded openings in the upper surface of the table, with enlarged heads on the inserts being positioned adjacent the outer surface of the table or the outer surface of an insulation layer mounted on the table. The inserts have elongated internally threaded openings therein, to which the test products or fixtures are bolted by elongated bolts. The inserts enhance the transmission of vibration forces to the test product with or without an insulating layer. They also provide improved temperature uniformity by providing air circulation between the test product and the table.
US07886604B2
An electromagnetic ultrasonic flaw detection method is provided which ensures highly accurate inspection of an interior surface of a fin-implanted heat transfer tube for detection of corrosion and requires less time for the inspection, no contact medium such as water, and less time and less costs for a pretreatment. The method may include moving an EMAT in a fin-implanted heat transfer tube of an air cooling heat exchanger axially of the tube; causing the EMAT to generate an axially symmetric SH wave by utilizing an electromagnetic force to vibrate a tube body of the fin-implanted heat transfer tube to cause resonance; causing the EMAT to detect a resonant frequency; and if the detected resonant frequency is different from a resonant frequency observed when the tube body has a normal wall thickness, judging that an interior surface of the tube body has a corroded portion.
US07886601B2
A microelectromechanical sensing structure is provided with a mobile element adapted to be displaced as a function of a quantity to be detected, and first fixed elements, capacitively coupled to the mobile element and configured to implement with the mobile element first detection conditions. The sensing structure is further provided with second fixed elements, capacitively coupled to the mobile element and configured to implement with the mobile element second detection conditions, which are different from the first detection conditions. In particular, the first and second detection conditions differ with respect to a full-scale or a sensitivity value in the detection of the aforesaid quantity.
US07886600B2
A motion sensor which can easily and accurately detect bearing, attitude and acceleration in any of three-dimensional directions and a portable telephone using the same. The motion sensor comprises three magnetic sensing parts for detecting magnetic field strength in 3-axis directions orthogonal to one another, and three acceleration sensing parts for detecting accelerations in the 3-axis directions. Each of the acceleration sensing parts has a magnet body constituted to be able to displace depending on acceleration, and a magnet displacement detection head for detecting a displacement of the magnet body. The three magnetic sensing parts and the three magnet displacement detection heads are all made of the same type of magnetic detection elements which operate based on common operation principles. The three magnetic sensing parts and the three acceleration sensing parts are integrated into one modular package together with one electronic circuit for controlling these six magnetic detection elements.
US07886594B2
A thermal-type fluid flow sensor is provided to measure an air flow rate flowing through an air intake passage. The thermal-type fluid flow sensor includes a heating resistive element; a first temperature-measuring resistive element for detecting a temperature of the heating resistive element; a second temperature-measuring resistive element for detecting the temperature of air on an upstream side of air heated by the heating resistive element; a third temperature-measuring resistive element for detecting the temperature of air on a downstream side of air heated by the heating resistive element, and a fourth temperature-measuring resistive element for detecting the temperature of air, wherein the heating resistive element and the first, second, third and fourth temperature-measuring resistive elements are formed on a substrate, the heating resistive element is disposed in an upper layer or a lower layer of the first temperature-measuring resistive element, and a resistance ratio of materials of the heating resistive element is larger than a resistance ratio of materials of the first temperature-measuring resistive element.
US07886584B2
A stroke detection apparatus performs a stroke detection of 4-cycle engine based on a rotary engine speed when a throttle opening is large. A first crank-pulse time interval between a crank pulse inputted before a top dead center by 30°, and a crank pulse of the top dead center is measured by a pulse-interval calculation unit, and at the same time, a second crank-pulse time interval between a crank pulse inputted after the top dead center by 60° and a crank pulse inputted after the top dead center 90° is measured. An interval difference calculation unit calculates time-interval difference by subtracting the second crank-pulse time interval from the first crank-pulse time interval, for two continuous top dead centers. A stroke detection unit determines whether two top dead centers are a compression top dead center or an exhaust top dead center based on magnitudes of the time-interval differences.
US07886579B2
A portable sampler for use in an explosion-endangered area, having a housing, in which at least the following components are arranged: a pump unit having a first drive unit, a sensor for determining the amount of sample supplied from the pump unit, a control unit, which controls the taking of a desired amount of sample and the filling thereof into at least one container, and at least one power supply unit, which provides the power for driving the first drive unit, the sensor and the control unit, The following components: the control unit, the power supply unit, the first drive unit and the sensor, are modularly constructed, and each such module is embodied such that it satisfies a specified ignition protection type.
US07886576B2
A photoacoustic sensor includes a sensor system for photoacoustic detection, at least one noise canceling pressure sensor and a control system in operative connection with the noise canceling pressure sensor to actively cancel the effects of noise in the environment on the sensor system. Another photoacoustic sensor includes a measurement volume, a source of light energy, a photoacoustic pressure sensor, and at least one vibration canceling sensor (for example, a microphone or an accelerometer). A further photoacoustic sensor includes a measurement volume, a source of light energy and a photoacoustic pressure sensor. The measurement volume has an inner surface that is continuously curved over substantially the entire inner surface other than where a window in optical connection with the source of light intersects the measurement volume.
US07886570B2
A hand tool comprising first and second jaw members and first and second handle members, the first handle and both jaw members being cooperatively connected by a force multiplying linkage system. A force applied to the first handle drives the linkage system to close the jaws to crimp or cut a work piece. In one embodiment of the invention, a link in the linkage system has a first end movable between first and second positions relative to its first end pivot pin wherein the first and second jaw members close a first distance when the link first end is in the first position and close a second distance when the link first end is in the second position. Other embodiments comprise other step-wise changes in distance between force-bearing pivot locations in the linkage system to close the jaws progressive distances with successive closures of the first and second handles.
US07886568B2
In a rolling step of feeding an electrode hoop (1) having electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) formed on both sides of a band-shaped core (2) made of a metal thin plate to between a pair of mill rolls (8a, 8b) for rolling, the electrode hoop (1) is fed so that side a is wound about one of the mill rolls if the electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) of the electrode hoop (1) have different average thicknesses, where the side a is one of the electrode mixture layers of the electrode hoop (1) having the smaller average thickness and side b is the other. This realizes a method for rolling an electrode hoop capable of making a rolled flat electrode even if the electrode mixture layers on both sides of the core have respective different thicknesses.
US07886567B2
A die apparatus and method for performing a flashless forging operation to manufacture the toothed portion of a steering rack. The die apparatus includes first and second die members and at least one punch member, each having a forming surface shaped substantially as the obverse of a portion of the toothed portion. At least a portion of the forming surface of the first die member is shaped substantially as the obverse of the teeth of the rack. The first and second die members are moveable towards each other to a closed position, thereby partially forging the toothed portion from a blank placed in the die apparatus, and forming a substantially closed cavity defined by the forming surfaces. The punch member is adapted to move into the cavity once the die members are in the closed position, thereby completing the forging operation.
US07886566B1
A swager machine and die includes a base with a product holder assembly mounted thereon for linear reciprocating movement between a start and a finished position along an axis of movement. A disc is rotatably mounted on the base and has a swaging die mounted thereon. The swaging die defines a die cavity having an open and a closed position. The die cavity has a longitudinal axis coaxial with an axis of rotation of the disc and coaxial with the axis of movement of the product holder assembly. A hub assembly is rotatably mounted on the disc for relative rotation between the hub assembly and the disc. The hub assembly includes actuating apparatus positioned to engage a portion of the swaging die and move the swaging die from the open to the closed position during relative rotation of the hub assembly and the disc.
US07886563B2
A washer-dryer apparatus has a blower for sucking air from a water tank and blowing the air into a washing and dewatering tub. At an inlet of the blower is provided a filter, which is cleaned by a cleaning device (300). The cleaning device (300) has a main body (301) pivotable about one end thereof relative to an outer bottom surface of the water tank, a brush (302) provided on the other end of the main body, and a bias spring (303) for biasing the main body toward an opening direction. The main body (301) is subjected to a dynamic pressure of water in the water tank and thereby pivots in an opening direction. When the main body (301) has the pivoting angle of 90°, the brush (302) is in contact with the filter.
US07886562B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing glass strands coated with a hot-melt size, whereby molten glass streams, flowing out of orifices located in the base of one or more bushings, are drawn in the form of one or more sheets of continuous filaments, the filaments are then assembled into one or more strands that are collected on one or more moving supports, this process consisting in depositing a first composition containing a coupling agent on the glass filaments and then in depositing a second composition comprising a hot-melt polymer in the melt state, at the latest during assembly of the filaments into one or more strands. It also relates to the glass strands obtained according to this process and to the composites containing said strands.
US07886560B2
A cooling unit and method for reducing the temperature of tool holders and heat shrink machine tool extensions to ambient temperature. The cooling unit includes a housing. The housing includes a cooling chamber disposed therein. The cooling chamber disposed within the housing includes a water tank. The water tank is capable of receiving a plurality of the tool holder sleeves. Additionally, a cooling plate is disposed within the cooling chamber. The cooling plate includes a plurality of apertures formed therein. Each one of the apertures is configured to receive the tool holder sleeve. The tool holder sleeve is configured to receive the tool holder. The cooling unit includes a chiller disposed within the housing approximate the water tank. The chiller is in fluid communication with the water tank. The chiller provides the water tank with chilled water to cool the heat shrink tool holders to ambient temperature.
US07886551B2
A humidity control system (10) includes a refrigerant circuit (50) including a compressor (53), a first adsorption heat exchanger (51) carrying an adsorbent thereon, an expansion valve (55) adjustable in opening and a second adsorption heat exchanger (52) carrying an adsorbent thereon, supplies humidity-controlled air to a room by operating alternately in a first batch mode in which the second adsorption heat exchanger (52) adsorbs moisture in air and the first adsorption heat exchanger (51) releases moisture to air and a second batch mode in which the first adsorption heat exchanger (51) adsorbs moisture in air and the second adsorption heat exchanger (52) releases moisture to air, and controls the opening of the expansion valve (55), when a valve control start time has come a predetermined time after the start of each batch mode, so that the degree of superheat of refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit (50) reaches a predetermined value.
US07886538B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a steam power station and a power plant as well as a corresponding steam power station. According to the invention, essentially all of the water that is drained from at least one pressure stage of the steam power station is collected, stored, and recirculated into the water circuit of steam power station.
US07886532B2
A compressed air supply device is provided for a utility vehicle, having a compressor which can be driven by a drive via a pneumatically switchable clutch, and a valve which can be activated by an electrical signal in order to optionally feed compressed air to a switching inlet of the clutch. The compressed air, which is fed to the switching inlet via the valve, is extracted from a compressed air preprocessing system via a non-return valve.
US07886531B2
An exhaust system associated with a power source is disclosed. The exhaust system may have an exhaust stack extending from the power source to an exterior of the exhaust system and a moisture collection device disposed within the exhaust stack to collect moisture from the exhaust stack. The exhaust system may also have a moisture entrainment device associated with the moisture collection device to facilitate entrainment of the collected moisture into an exhaust flow of the power source.
US07886526B2
The present invention provides a fuel control for an internal-combustion engine having an exhaust gas purifying device that is disposed in an exhaust system of the engine. A reducing agent is supplied to the exhaust gas purifying device by injecting fuel in an expansion stroke or an exhaust stroke of the engine. An intake air amount supplied to the engine is controllable. The fuel control includes decreasing the intake air amount supplied to the engine during the fuel injection for the supply of the reducing agent. The fuel control also includes advancing an injection timing of the fuel injection for the supply of the reducing agent when an actual intake air amount is less than a desired intake air amount or when an actual boost pressure is higher than a desired boost pressure. The advancement of the injection timing improves the combustibility of engine while decreasing the HC exhaust amount.
US07886525B2
An exhaust gas purification device of an internal combustion engine is taught that preferably include a storage tank storing an exhaust gas purification solution that is injected into an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, a solution supply line that is constructed to introduce the exhaust gas purification solution from the storage tank to the exhaust passage, a supply pump disposed on the solution supply line, and a gas-liquid selection device. The gas-liquid selection device is constructed to selectively introduce the exhaust gas purification solution and air into the solution supply line.
US07886515B2
The present invention provides a novel process for making yarn from a unique combination of fibers of cotton, nylon (preferably nylon6) and silver and a process for forming this yarn utilizing a unique sequencing of individual steps. The final yarn product is extremely strong, stable and useful for being woven into various fabrics and/or materials and, most particularly, possesses enhanced antimicrobial properties.
US07886511B2
A harvesting machine includes a harvesting header with a header frame, a flexible cutterbar assembly shiftably mounted to the header frame, and a draper assembly supported on the header frame behind the cutterbar assembly to flex therewith. The draper assembly includes a pair of side drapers and a fore-and-aft draper located between the side drapers. The cutterbar assembly includes a relatively inflexible center section and relatively flexible side sections on opposite sides of the center section.
US07886499B2
An emulsion composition for building exterior walls is provided comprising in admixture, [A] a graft copolymerized emulsion obtained by adding to (1) an oil-in-water type emulsion containing at least one organopolysiloxane having an organic group containing a radical reactive group or SH group, (2) a monomer or monomeric mixture containing at least 70 wt % of at least one monomer selected from acrylic and methacrylic monomers and effecting emulsion graft polymerization of component (2) to the organopolysiloxane, and [B] a silicone resin-containing emulsion. The emulsion composition is capable of forming an elastic, flexible coating which is endowed with water resistance, weather resistance, water repellency, adhesion and heat resistance and maintains these properties over a long period of time. It can thus be used as a base in a variety of paints and coating agents.
US07886488B2
An acoustic isolation medium configured for placement between a subfloor and a finished floor with a poured underlayment, includes a first layer being a sound reduction mat disposed upon the subfloor, a second layer placed upon the first layer and being one of a sheet of fibrous material and a web of limp mass material with a high internal damping coefficient, and a third layer placed upon the second layer and being the other of a sheet of the fibrous material and a web of the limp mass material.
US07886487B2
A vehicle weatherstrip, beltstrip or door seal includes a hybrid carrier or core and extruded or molded elastomeric sealing features. The hybrid carrier includes lineal sections of diverse flexibility and compressibility which are achieved by upsetting the metal carrier by lancing, stamping or coining and, optimally, stretching. Preferably, the carrier is manufactured in a continuous length, the elastomeric material is extruded or molded thereover and the resulting product is cut into useable lengths having the desired more flexible and more rigid regions disposed along its length which correspond to corners and straight sections, respectively, of for example, a glass run.
US07886485B2
A planter includes a plant growing container having a chamber formed by an outer peripheral wall, a number of posts erectly disposed on the outer peripheral wall, an upper cover disposed on top of the posts and having a number of channels, and a number of door panels slidably engaged through the channels of the upper cover and engageable between the posts covering or shielding the plant growing container and for preventing diseases and insect pests from entering into the plant growing container. The door panels and the partitions and the posts may be engaged into the container for forming a compact folding structure and for storing and transportation purposes.
US07886475B2
A sight for a firearm including a body having an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion having opposing sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls including at least one protrusion. The protrusions abuttingly engage sidewalls of a barrel receptacle to secure the sight to the firearm. Additionally, the protrusions facilitate insertion of the sight in the receptacle without the need to machine or grind the lower portion prior to insertion.
US07886470B1
A method of assembling a firearm is provided. The method includes providing a bolt assembly that includes a bolt carrier that includes a cammed slot and a first passage, a bolt member slidably coupled to the bolt carrier and positioned within the first passage, the bolt member includes at least one aperture and a second passage, a piston member slidably coupled to the bolt member and positioned within the second passage, the piston member includes an elongated slot and a third passage, wherein the elongated slot includes a first length, and a cam pin slidably coupled to at least one of the bolt carrier, the bolt member and the piston member, the cam pin includes a fourth passage; and coupling the bolt assembly within a cavity of the firearm such that the bolt assembly is slidably coupled to an upper receiver of the firearm.
US07886464B2
Disclosed herein is a kit for travelers comprising at least one document holder having at least one pocket for storage of travel related documents; said document holder having a luggage identifier code dispose thereon and readily visible; at least one tamper proof mechanism for securing luggage access to avoid tampering; and one or more luggage tags, wherein the luggage tags, the document holder, the tamper proof mechanism each have a substantially similar indicia disposed thereupon providing a visual means for associating the items together.
US07886450B1
A leveling device that facilitates quick and precise placement of laser beams at a standardized distance from the surfaces against which it bears for the purpose of establishing plumb and level reference lines. It includes a mounting platform that includes various methods of bearing and attachment, including a telescoping pole that includes various features for deployment and stabilization. While the device can be used as a conventional level, it is specifically designed to be temporarily attached to vertical surfaces by a variety of methods, enabling all the advantages of laser use for the operation of plumb alignment, and also eliminating the need for a full time attendant.
US07886440B2
A manufacture method for an inner-fin tube includes a tube forming process for continuously forming a tube member joined at one end side thereof, an inner fin transferring process for continuously transferring an inner fin member, an inner fin twisting process for twisting the transferred inner fin member at at least two portions, and an inner fin inserting process for inserting the inner fin member into the tube member through the one end side thereof at the halfway stage of the tube forming process. At the inner fin twisting process, a transfer direction of the inner fin member is altered so that the inner fin member faces the one end side of the tube member and a longitudinal direction of a cross section (perpendicular to transfer direction thereof) of the inner fin member corresponds with a major axis direction of a flat cross section of the tube member.
US07886436B2
Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board with an embedded thin-film capacitor, and a method of manufacturing the same.Specifically, the present invention relates to a printed circuit board with an embedded thin-film capacitor, comprising a lower electrode formed on an insulating substrate; an amorphous paraelectric film formed on the lower electrode; a metal seed layer formed on the paraelectric film; and an upper electrode formed on the metal seed layer and having a surface roughness (Ra) of more than 300 nm; and a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board with an embedded thin-film capacitor, comprising forming a lower electrode on an insulating substrate; forming an amorphous paraelectric film on the lower electrode, using a low-temperature film formation process; forming a metal seed layer on the paraelectric film; and forming an upper electrode having a surface roughness (Ra) of more than 300 nm on the metal seed layer, using an electroplating method.
US07886420B2
A method of manufacturing a double pipe includes a step of inserting a straight inner pipe into a straight outer pipe such that the inner pipe and the outer pipe are positioned at a predetermined relative position, a step of fixing a first end portion of the outer pipe to the inner pipe so as to form a first fixing portion, a step of bending the outer pipe and the inner pipe at the same time at a predetermined portion so as to form at least one bending portion after the fixing step of the first end portion, and a step of fixing a second end portion of the outer pipe to the inner pipe so as to form a second end portion after the bending.
US07886417B2
A method for mounting a machine element to a work piece in one embodiment includes performing a mounting process for mounting a machine element to a work piece; and sucking air from a vicinity of the machine element while moving the machine element during at least part of the mounting process. A method for mounting a machine element to a work piece in another embodiment includes feeding a machine element to an actuation section of handling and actuation apparatus using a feeding section; sucking air in the vicinity of the machine element during the feeding of the machine element; initiating an actuation section for mounting the machine element to a work piece using a moveable actuation member; and sucking air in the vicinity of the actuation member at least during operation of the actuation member.
US07886416B1
A replacement accumulator plate for use in CHRYSLER 45RFE and CHRYSLER 5-45RFE transmission valve bodies is redesigned to increase the service longevity of the original equipment manufacture accumulator assemblies disposed in the valve body including the low/reverse clutch accumulator, the 2nd clutch accumulator, the 4th clutch accumulator, the underdrive clutch accumulator, and the overdrive clutch accumulator. The present replacement accumulator plate includes a plurality of stress reduction zones, which are integrated into the replacement accumulator plate to reduce flexion imparted to the plate in operation. A method of the present invention provides for the formation of such stress reduction zones on the replacement accumulator plate and for the installation of additional fasteners which extend through the replacement accumulator plate to engage mating threaded holes formed in the valve body adjacent to the accumulator assemblies to minimize the mechanical stress and breakage commonly found in the original equipment manufacture accumulator plate.
US07886410B2
A vertically opening vehicle door hinge has a base member secured to a chassis at bolt slots disposed as elongated openings on the base member. A primary swivel member is swivel mounted to the base member so that the primary swivel member swivels on the plane defined by the base member. The primary swivel member has a primary swivel axis normal to the point defined by the base member. The arm is swivel mounted to the primary swivel member at a secondary swivel. The secondary swivel has a secondary swivel axis of rotation normal to the primary swivel axis. A motor actuates the primary swivel member. The arm has an extended position corresponding to an open vehicle door and a retracted position corresponding to a closed vehicle door.
US07886399B2
In embodiments of the present invention, a gutter-cleaning device comprises a housing containing an impeller drive facility, the housing configured to fit into a gutter, an impeller, disposed at an end of the housing and driven by the impeller drive facility, and a transport facility for transporting the housing along the gutter. The impeller may have an axis of rotation, the axis of rotation oriented toward an inside corner of the gutter and the impeller drive facility may be adapted to rotate the impeller on the axis of rotation. Transport of the housing through the gutter may cause the impeller to travel along an axis of motion, the axis of motion differing from the axis of rotation.
US07886397B2
An applicator for applying a cosmetic product includes a support comprised of plastic material and at least one bundle of bristles associated with the support. In some examples, the bundle may include an end portion defining a first row of bristles extending substantially in a longitudinal direction of the support, and the bundle may being split into at least two sub-bundles extending away from the end portion. The at least two-sub bundles may define second and third rows of bristles extending at least in part outside of the support.
US07886390B2
An apparatus for wet-processing strand-shaped textile good, includes a closed container, a transport nozzle array to which a gaseous transport medium can be supplied, and a device for applying a liquid treatment agent in atomized form to the moving strand of goods in the region of the transport nozzle arrangement. The device for the application of the treatment agent is designed to apply the treatment agent to the strand of goods in two sections (I, III), which are at a distance from each other in transport direction of the strand of goods, in a form enclosing the strand of goods at least partially in a ring-shaped manner. In so doing, the gaseous transport medium is applied to the strand of goods in an intermediate region (II) located between said two sections.
US07886387B2
A multiple configuration air mattress pump system is disclosed. The pump system includes a number of standard components with a few inexpensive varied components to allow for easy and less expensive use of the pump with mattresses having varying numbers of inflatable zones.
US07886385B2
A quilted zoned topper formed with a quilted panel and a memory foam is disclosed. The quilted panel has a ticking material, a backing material, and a support material having a degree of compression provided between the ticking and backing materials. The ticking material, the support material and the backing material all are quilted together by a stitching pattern providing an increased amount of stitching in a center section of the quilted panel than adjacent head and foot sections of the quilted panel such that the support material pre-compresses in the center section thereby defining a pocket. The memory foam is provided in the pocket. A mattress provided with the quilted zoned topper is also disclosed.
US07886378B2
The invention is in the field of child, human, or animal or unnatural protective covers for beds, furniture, car seats, floors, or any surface that needs to be protected from spills, or waste or bedwetting or accidental discharges of any type. The invention is washable, and has patterns that look nice and can be varied. In its preferred form, there are about five layers, with the top pleasing to the human eye and skin, which is quilted or otherwise attached to the second layer that is substantially absorbent such as a batting type of material that allows some liquid or other material to pass to the third set of liquid catching layers, which is typically a polymer having bonded thereto two cotton type fabric layers. All layers are bound together in some fashion.
US07886374B2
Disclosed herein is a passively discharging and water-saving toilet bowl having an operation mechanism in which all parts are accurately operated as well as a water supply controlling mechanism by which the water level in a water reservoir can be controlled arbitrarily. The toilet bowl, having an operation mechanism conducted with an operation unit comprising: a first operation unit, operated with a manipulation lever, communicating both with a stool-discharging piston for opening or closing a stool-discharging pipe and with a flap valve for opening or closing a water reservoir; and a second operation unit, operating in response to the position of a float for controlling the water level of the water reservoir in such a manner that the second operation unit is connected to and separated from the first operation unit when the float is situated at an upper position and a lower position, respectively.
US07886370B2
A chin pad assembly and method of construction thereof provides an outer shell of plastics material having straps attached thereto and an inner cushion member attached to the shell independently of the straps. The shell has an outer surface and an inner surface providing a pocket with a pair of openings formed in the shell between the outer and inner surfaces. The inner cushion member is received in the pocket of the shell and provides a pocket to receive a wearer's chin. An attachment mechanism has a pair of elongate members extending from an outer surface of the cushion member. Each of the elongate members is received through a separate one of the openings in the shell and coupled outwardly from the outer surface of the shell to releasably attach the cushion member to the shell independently of the straps.
US07886369B2
A glove of the present invention includes a stretchable member and protective members arranged on a side corresponding to a back of a hand, and when the glove is placed in a stationary state and viewed from the back side, the stretchable member forms two or more separate curve surfaces, and upper end portions thereof are located somewhere in lower half parts of finger covering parts, each of the curve surfaces formed with the stretchable member extends toward a wrist part, crossing a center line of at least one finger covering part selected from a second finger (forefinger) covering part, a third finger (middle finger) covering part, a fourth finger (ring finger) covering part, and a fifth finger (little finger) covering part, at least twice in a region from the upper end portions to a normal to the center line of the third finger (middle finger) covering part that passes an interdigit part between the first finger (thumb) covering part and the second finger (forefinger) covering part, and in regions between the curve surfaces of the stretchable member, the protective members are provided. This configuration makes it possible to provide a glove that is capable of following changes in shape caused by a gripping action of the hand, providing both of the feeling of fitting and the feeling of support, and having a high-level protection function and a high-level mobility function.
US07886367B2
A sports garment made mainly of a laminate of a stretchable fabric and an elastic film. The elastic film is a PU, PVC, silicone film. The film is precut prior to laminating so as to provide ventilation zones on the fabric.
US07891014B2
According to the invention, a method for authenticating download of a number of digital content files ordered from a web site is disclosed. In one step, a selection of the digital content files is received with the web site. Download manager software, media information, the digital content files, and first codes for each of the digital content files are sent to the client computer. The media information indicates a location of each of the number of digital content files. A first code is calculated for each of the digital content files. If the client computer determines that the first code doesn't match a second code for a particular digital content file, it is resent.
US07891013B2
A contents supply apparatus supplies sub-content that relates to main content. A DVD-ROM stores a bind key unique to the DVD-ROM and main content that is a digital work. A main player reads the bind key from the DVD-ROM, acquires sub-content that relates to the main content stored on the DVD-ROM, generates encrypted sub-content by encrypting the acquired sub-content based on the read bind key, and writes the generated encrypted content to an SD memory card. A sub-player reads the bind key from the DVD-ROM, reads the encrypted sub-content from the SD memory card, generates sub-content by decrypting the read encrypted sub-content based on the bind key, and plays back the generated sub-content.
US07891002B2
This invention concerns a method for processing computer system input data including at least one detection step for a specific word INSTR present among said data.In the method according to the invention, the specific word to be detected represents an instruction necessary for the execution of a program present among said data.Because it focuses detection on the means necessary for the execution of an attack program that thus reveal the presence of said program, the invention can be used to simply and effectively detect different types of attacks.
US07890996B1
A security gateway receives messages rejected by a message filter based on a set of rules. The security gateway also receives attributes of the rejected messages that triggered the rules. The security gateway maintains frequencies with which the messages with a particular attribute were rejected by the rules. The security gateway finds rejected messages or attributes having a high frequency of occurrence. Since messages or attributes having a high frequency of occurrences are more likely to represent legitimate requests rather than malicious attacks, the security gateway generates exception rules, which would allow messages that have similar attributes to pass through the gateway.
US07890990B1
An improved system and method for providing a security system with the capability to stage a modification to its operation is disclosed. Staging the modification before actually modifying normal operation of the security system allows the impact of the modification on the security system to be examined prior to deployment. If the staging of the modification to the security system is deemed successful, the modification can be fully deployed with reduced risk of unexpected security lapses or other detrimental consequences.
US07890986B2
Presented herein are system(s) and method(s) for reducing channel change time. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for transmitting data. The method comprises receiving a request for video data from a client; transmitting a transaction header to the client, said transaction header comprising media metadata; and transmitting compressed video data to the client after transmitting the transaction header.
US07890981B2
The invention makes configuring satellite decoders easier. An automatic detection method can configure the decoder without having to determine the installation beforehand. The automatic detection method tests different configuration possibilities in order to determine the used antenna system. A series of input selection commands are sent for a remote antenna switch corresponding to a given range of switch control possibilities, the said range being independent from the used antenna system.
US07890974B2
An electronic program guide (EPG) generation apparatus that generates an EPG, the apparatus comprising: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding each program to be displayed in the EPG; a first determination unit configured to determine the size of a first display area representing the broadcast times of each program in the EPG, based on information regarding the broadcast times of each program included in the information regarding each program; a second determination unit configured to determine the size of a second display area for displaying, in the EPG, information regarding details of each program included in the information regarding each program, based on the information regarding each program; and a display controller configured to control the display, on a display means, of the EPG based on the sizes of the first and second display areas, determined by the first and second determination means.
US07890947B2
A wireless module is provided for wirelessly updating code to any appropriate peripheral device and may allow for wireless communication with the desired peripheral device to update an operating software code. The wireless module has the similar size, shape, and form factor as the current Memory Stick™. In one embodiment, the method of updating code to the wireless module and/or the desired peripheral devices includes providing a fail-safe code to the peripheral device, updating the peripheral device with a new code utilizing the wireless module, and executing a primary code for operation of the peripheral device. Further, the wireless module may be provided to any number of peripheral devices compatible with the Memory Stick™ removable data storage media. The wireless module is removably connected to the desired peripheral device and provides the peripheral device with a fail-safe system, method and apparatus for updating the embedded operational software code without recalling and servicing the peripheral device.
US07890945B2
According to exemplary embodiments, a method is provided for versioning classes in an OSGi-enables J2EE environment. A first version of code is packaged into a first OSGi (Open Service Gateway initiative) bundle, and the first version of code is marked for export. A second version of code is packaged into a second OSGi bundle, and the second version of code is not marked for export. A determination is made whether an application needs the first version of code or the second version of code. If the application needs the first version of code, a classloader hierarchy is constructed using existing classloaders. If the application needs the second version of code, a new classloader is created which is able to load application classes and unversioned application server classes normally, while only loading the correct version of versioned code.
US07890940B2
To collect frequencies with which processes of a program are executed at high speed. A compiler apparatus for optimizing a program based on frequencies with which each process is executed has a loop process detection portion for detecting a repeatedly executed loop process of the program, a loop process frequency collection portion for collecting loop process frequencies with which the loop process is executed in the program, an in-loop process frequency collection portion for collecting in-loop process frequencies with which, as against times of execution of loop process, each of a plurality of in-loop processes included in the loop process is executed, an in-loop execution information generating portion for generating in-loop execution information indicating the frequencies with which each of the plurality of in-loop processes is executed in the case where the program is executed, and an optimization portion for optimizing the program based on the in-loop execution information.
US07890934B2
A system for monitoring a computer software system includes a first user actuated tuning knob for allocating space in memory for performance monitoring; a second user actuated tuning knob for a specifying time out value for in-flight units of work; and a transaction monitor responsive to the first and second user actuated tuning knobs for accumulating in synonym chain cells in the allocated space timing statistics for a plurality of in-flight units of work.
US07890923B2
Computer apparatus and method for detecting patterns in structured models, obtains a pattern specification of a subject pattern. The pattern specification (a) defines the subject pattern as a meta-class in a target domain, and (b) specifies one or more pattern roles as meta-properties of the subject pattern. Using the pattern specification, the pattern detector navigates user models, each user model having respective model elements. Through said navigating, the pattern detector looks for structures of model elements that fulfill the pattern roles. The pattern detector indicates conforming pattern instances as detected instances of the subject pattern.
US07890922B2
Techniques are provided for processing a workflow. A workflow including one or more data management activities is received. A workflow description is generated from the workflow that includes a description of the one or more data management activities. One or more data management operations are generated from the workflow description. The one or more data management operations are executed against one or more data management systems.
US07890915B2
The electrical circuit timing method provides accurate nominal delay together with the delay sensitivities with respect to different circuit elements {e.g., cells, interconnects, etc.) and variational parameters (e.g., process variations; environmental variations). All the sensitivity computations are based on closed-form formulas; as a consequence, the method provides rapidly and at low cost high accuracy and high numerical stability.
US07890903B2
A new and convenient methodology for proving the correctness of multiplier and multiply-accumulate circuit designs in a full custom design flow. Such an approach utilizes a basic description of the implemented algorithm, which is created in early phases of the design flow and requires only little extra work for the designer who spends most of the time in full-custom optimizations. Such an approach also defines arithmetic circuit at the arithmetic bit level and allows for the generation of a gate level netlist. Given a structural similarity between the specification and design under verification, a large amount of structural similarity between the generated netlists is obtained so that a standard equivalence checker can be utilized to verify the design against the specification.
US07890896B2
Ordinary minterm counting (OMC) and weighted minterm counting (WMC) are applied as combinational design discriminators to a pair of combinational designs D1 and D2. OMC assigns the same weight to each minterm, while WMC assigns a weight that can vary. For application of minterm counting, D1 and D2 can be converted into BDDs. The size of the BDDs can be reduced by assigning binary values to some of the input variables. If the minterm counts of D1 and D2 are within a certain tolerance, then D1 and D2 cannot be distinguished. Even if D1 and D2 are determined to represent different functionalities, they may still be sufficiently related such that classification of them as differing functionalities is inappropriate. Each such test of relatedness, between a pair of designs D1 and D2, can be referred to as an “exception.” Minterm counting can also be applied when don't cares are part of a design specification. Exceptions can apply to such minterm counts.
US07890892B2
Disclosed is a design structure of an improved large scale memory system and, more particularly, an improved memory system that incorporates an array of memory cells that are subjected to minimal location dependent power variations and that, optionally, allows for bi-directional random access of millions of bits. Specifically, the system architecture provides a consistent amount of bit line resistance in the write and read paths to each memory cell in the array, independent of position, in order to minimize variations in power delivery to the cells and, thereby, allow for optimal cell distributions. The system architecture further allows current to pass in either direction through the cells in order to minimize element electro-migration and, thereby, extend memory cell life.
US07890884B2
In a computer system having a display surface; a portion of the display surface is reserved to allow contents rendered by a program to be persistently visible. In one embodiment, a shared portion of the display surface managed by a window manager may be reduced. In another embodiment, the window manager may work with a pixel resolution smaller than the operative pixel resolution of a display device driver. In one embodiment, HTML advertisements may be rendered in the reserved portion by an advertising rendering program, such as through a direct draw component. The direct draw component may be provided with an unreduced surface area to support direct drawing of displays. A cursor control device driver may likewise be provided with an unreduced surface area to monitor for cursor movements and events. In other embodiments, multiple portions of the display surface may be reserved and/or full screen applications may be accommodated.
US07890883B2
Digest screen display content deciding means selects display elements belonging to respective regions of a document based on display priorities of the display elements, which are obtained by digest screen display priority information creating means, and decides selected display elements as display content of a digest screen under a condition where a total display area does not exceed a required display area. A merging relationship among the regions is set based on layout information for the regions, created by digest screen region layout information creating means. Display content deciding means decides the display content of a detail screen based on the merging relationship among the regions, and creates a digest of the detail screen based on control information created by control information creating means. Moreover, digest screen display content changing means changes the display content of the digest screen in response to an operation of a user.
US07890882B1
A content and proximity based window layout optimizer is described, including receiving a request to adjust one or more windows in a user interface, the one or more windows having content, determining an adjustment order based on the request, the adjustment order comprising a sequence of the one or more windows on which the request to adjust is applied successively, adjusting the one or more windows based on the request, the adjustment order, and the content of the one or more windows being adjusted.
US07890879B2
There is provided a technique concerning a preview display function used when predetermined processing is performed for predetermined data, which contribute to enhancement of user's convenience.A display controller comprises: a control section 205 that displays, based on the information acquired by the relevance information acquisition section 203, the objects to be displayed extracted by the extraction section 202 in the display area 902 and 903, such that objects to be displayed having higher relevance than those to be displayed in the area 903 are displayed in the area 902 and, at the same time, displays the target data acquired by the target data acquisition section 201 inside the area 902 ahead of execution of the predetermined processing to be performed for the target data.
US07890877B2
A portal can be generated using a portal designer allowing dragging and dropping of components into a display. The dragging and dropping of components can initiate the update of a display, such as a design view and/or a hierarchal display and the update of a portal file. The portal file can be used to generate the portal. The portal designer can include a property editor window for editing a selected component.
US07890876B1
An electronic messaging contextual storefront system and application provides electronic and instant messaging with contextual graphical and textual content which corresponds with or is related to the subject matter of an electronic or instant message string or chat stream. Graphical and textual content for the contextual storefronts is retrieved based upon detected keywords, and presented in contextual storefronts which are associated with conversation and text entry boxes or other parts of an electronic message system display. Selected graphical and textual content can be placed directly in the text stream or elsewhere in the display either by user commands or automatically by the system. The graphical and textual content is stored by subject matter or theme or by association with keywords in a relational database. Access to contextual storefront content can be tracked, accounted for and controlled by a payments processing system.
US07890874B2
In accordance with the present invention, an interactive user display application is provided. The application displays and refreshes images that are intended to represent users or members of a social network or other web-based service. Using these images, the interactive user display application allows a user of the application to interact with other users or their profiles while viewing their images or while interacting with or consuming media.
US07890873B2
The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product references for selection by the user; displaying on the template a selected product reference to create a proposed advertisement; and creating a preview of the proposed advertisement, all of which may be implemented using the Internet. The invention further relates to a computerized system for creating an advertisement that comprises a template database for storing advertising formats; a product database for storing product references; and a computer to access the databases. Preferably, the user has a network interface such as Internet access that permits access via a remote location, software to permit a user to specify specifications such as quantity, printing information, ship date, paper type, pricing information, and payment information, and may be configured to receive images and text for new products.
US07890870B1
A computerized method, computer system, and computer-readable media for monitoring network functions concurrently on a performance display is provided. In particular, the performance display is presented to an operator at a user-interface display that includes performance images that represent various network functions. These network functions may be selected from a listing of network functions by the operator for a personalized display. Upon selection, configuration settings are compiled based on the selected network functions and other information. The configuration settings direct a web server to retrieve corresponding performance images stored in a known location by a communications-network server that generates the network performance images from network-function data files. These performance images may be populated onto a layout pattern to generate the performance display. Accordingly, the operator is provided with a mechanism to monitor a plurality of network functions at the same time on a single user-interface display.
US07890860B1
A method and apparatus for modifying the context of messages based on a selected rule set are provided. The method comprises selecting a rule set from the database, scanning the message while comparing content of a textual message to the rule set, and determining textual modifications to the textual message based on the selected rule set to define a modified message having content that is different from the textual message.
US07890857B1
A method and system for utilizing sizing directives for media. According to one embodiment, a method includes determining a size of a media slot to be filled. A sizing directive can be selected from a plurality of sizing directives associated with media that enables the media to fit within the size of the media slot. The sizing directive can be applied to the media.
US07890855B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer systems and computer program products are provided for separating and processing layout information and data of a document. The computer system provides a predefined document description. The document description is decomposed into a layout template and a data description. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, decomposition is achieved by using style sheet language transformations. Optionally, the computer system may instantiate a data instance from the data description and merge the data instance with the layout template into an individual document description. The individual document description can be rendered by a conventional browser.
US07890847B2
A method and an apparatus for calculating an error metric in a digital communication receiver. In the receiver, an input data stream is used to generate at least one input bit stream. The combinational logic unit performs an error-check operation on delayed and current bits of the input bit stream using a polynomial error-check equation previously determined. Finally, an accumulator is used to accumulate a number of trials with respect to the error check operation and generates a nominal error-check number based on the number of the correct trials.
US07890840B2
The present invention discloses devices and methods for improving data correlation using a multiple-correlation state-machine, the method including the steps of: (a) pre-processing a data frame having a plurality of symbol sets, wherein each symbol set demarks a respective frame field of the frame, to provide a threshold-compared hamming-distance indicator; (b) comparing the threshold-compared hamming-distance indicator with at least one multiple-correlation threshold to provide a threshold-compared multiple-correlation indicator; and (c) combining the threshold-compared hamming-distance indicator and the threshold-compared multiple-correlation indicator to determine a match/no-match comparison indicative of the respective frame field. In some embodiments, the step of combining includes forming a logical-AND of the threshold-compared hamming-distance indicator and the threshold-compared multiple-correlation indicator. Preferably, the method further includes the step of: (d) prior to the step of combining, comparing a BER of the frame to a BER threshold. Also disclosed is a weighted-correlation method for improving data correlation.
US07890834B2
During operation of a transmitter a circular buffer is created where only column tops of the circular buffer are defined as a starting position for a redundancy version. Where the circular buffer is in sequence format, all possible redundancy versions are at positions ┌Kstream/32┐(12×i+σ), i=0, 1, . . . , 7 where σ indicates the column index of the starting position of the first RV (RV0).
US07890831B2
A system and method for testing a processor. The system includes a gold processor and a test processor, wherein the test processor is the device under test (DUT). The test processor and the gold processor are identical. A first memory is coupled to the gold processor by a first memory bus and a second memory, independent of the first, is coupled to the test processor by a second memory bus. The first and second memories are identical. A memory bus comparator coupled to the first and second memory buses compares memory bus signals generated by the gold and test processors, and selectively provide a first indication if a mismatch occurs. A peripheral bus comparator is also coupled to the gold and test processors, and compares downstream transactions generated by the gold and test processors and to provide a second indication if a peripheral bus comparison results in a mismatch.
US07890821B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved communication system test techniques. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a wireless device test system is disclosed having a channel emulator for multipath and/or MIMO applications to allow the testing of wireless devices (e.g., WLAN devices) in a cabled environment.
US07890819B2
A non-volatile storage device on a memory module comprising a plurality of memory devices is used to store the locations of defective parts on the memory module, such as data query (“DQ”) terminals, identified during a testing procedure. After testing, the non-volatile storage device, such as an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (“EEPROM”), may be accessed to determine specific memory devices such as dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) which need to be repaired or replaced rather than re-testing the specific memory module.
US07890810B1
A method and system for injecting a deterministic fault into storage shelves in a storage subsystem. The method comprises injecting a known fault condition on demand into a hardware component in a storage shelf to cause a failure of the storage shelf. The hardware component incorporates a circuit that is configurable to select between a normal operating condition and a faulty condition of the hardware component. The method further comprises verifying that a reported failure is consistent with the known fault condition.
US07890804B2
A memory access device includes logic to switch data from a processor memory bus to a memory bus in a first operational mode, and to switch data from a test bus to the memory bus in a second operational mode, and logic to switch address signals from the processor memory bus to the memory bus in the first operational mode. In the second operational mode the device accepts from the test bus a starting memory address for memory reads and writes, and automatically and independently of the test bus adjusts a memory address for reads and writes during burst memory operations.
US07890803B2
A system for creating a system configuration data set includes an input operable to receive a set of system properties with attributes and values and a set of expressions representing a set of system test goals. The system further includes a processor operable to define a hierarchical tree structure with a plurality of nodes where each node represents one of the system properties and includes at least one of the attributes and the values and an output operable to output a set of system test data utilizing the hierarchical tree structure combined with the expressions. A method includes creating a hierarchical tree structure with a plurality of nodes where each node represents a system property. The method further includes receiving a set of expressions representing a set of system test goals and creating a set of system test data utilizing the hierarchical tree structure combined with the expressions.
US07890796B2
File systems possibly impacted by a bad sector in a disk drive are unmounted. Then the disk drive is scanned in order to identify additional bad sectors, and for each identified bad sector, a logical address of the bad sector is re-vectored to a good sector. An attempt is made to restore the data of each bad sector, and then the file system is checked for consistency. If a bad sector cannot be restored, any application relying on the bad sector is aborted. Once the file system is found to be consistent, the file system is remounted. Re-vectored blocks are reverse mapped to identify damaged or repaired directories and files. Damaged or repaired directories and files are reported to a system administrator, and damaged directories or files of a client are reported to the client.
US07890795B1
A system, method and computer program product for detecting a failed storage device within an “n” device array. The “n” device array is configured to store “n” device array formatted data. The “n” device array is reconfigured into an “n−1” device array. The “n” device array formatted data is written to the “n−1” device array in an “n−1” device array format.
US07890781B2
The operating voltage of an integrated circuit (e.g., a processor) is changed in response to one or more conditions (e.g., a laptop computer is connected to an AC power source). Both the operating frequency and the operating voltage of the integrated circuit are changed. The voltage regulator providing the operating voltage to the integrated circuit is caused to transition between voltage levels using one or more intermediate steps. The integrated circuit continues to operate in the normal manner both at the new voltage and throughout the voltage transition.
US07890766B2
The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer instructions for warning of a presence of a person in a zone having an inadequate security clearance. Movement of the person in the zone is detected. A message is broadcast to selected data processing systems associated with the zone, wherein the data processing systems initiate actions to protect data in the selected data processing systems.
US07890762B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing input to a workflow application. Source documents are received that have respective original signatures but no digital signatures. The source documents can be paper documents, or they can be scanned representations of paper documents. Proxy digital signatures are applied to digital representations of the source documents. The proxy digital signatures are differentiated in that they are annotated with metadata indicating the quality of the respective original signatures.
US07890756B2
A software package in accordance with one embodiment comprises a software application, and a declaration of operation associated with the software application. The declaration of operation is examined by a system module running on the computing system. The system module is configured to control access requests submitted by the software application after software application is installed on the computing system. The system module monitors a request for accessing a resource accessible via the computing system. The system module grants the software application access to the resource, in response to determining that the request for access complies with the declaration of operation.
US07890754B2
Upon occurrence of a trigger condition, writes of allocation units of data (including code) to a device, such as writes of blocks to a disk, are first encrypted. Each allocation unit is preferably a predetermined integral multiple number of minimum I/O units. A data structure is marked to indicate which units are encrypted. Upon reads from the device, only those allocation units marked as encrypted are decrypted. The disk protected by selective encryption is preferably the virtual disk of a virtual machine (VM). The trigger condition is preferably either that the virtual disk has been initialized or that the VM has been powered on. Mechanisms are also provided for selectively declassifying (storing in unencrypted form) already-encrypted, stored data, and for determining which data units represent public, general-use data units that do not need to be encrypted. The “encrypt-on-write” feature of the invention may be used in conjunction with a “copy-on-write” technique.
US07890751B1
A system for increasing data access in a secure socket layer network environment includes a web server computer having SSL acceleration server software (SSLAS) and a client computer communicatively linked to the web server computer having SSL acceleration client software operably associated with the client computer which communicates with the SSLAS software to receive a copy of a pseudo CA certificate and a public key from the SSLAS software and present the pseudo CA certificate to web browser software on the client computer for validation thereof.
US07890747B2
A system, method, and processor executable instructions are disclosed for offloading encryption and/or decryption processing to a system having a parallel processing structure that may include a graphics processing unit. Lookup tables support executing encryption/decryption transformations solely on the graphics processing unit. In one version, the look-up tables support Rijndael encryption/decryption transformations. Also, a system, method, and processor executable instructions are disclosed for visualizing decrypted ciphertext.
US07890736B2
A control device (D) is a part of an integrated circuit (IC) comprising at least two cores (C1, C2) coupled, via buses (BC1, BC2), to a memory (M) arranged to store data to be transferred between these cores (C1, C2). This control device (D) comprises at least one flag register (FR1, FR2) coupled to the cores (C1, C2) via the buses (BC1, BC2) and arranged to store, at Ni addresses, Ni flag values associated to data stored into the memory (M) by one of the cores and ready to be transferred towards the other core, each flag value stored at a first address being able to be set or reset by one of the cores (C1, C2) by means of a command designating the first address, thus authorizing another flag value stored at a second address to be simultaneously set or reset by the other core (C2, C1) by means of a command designating the second address.
US07890734B2
In one embodiment, a multithreaded processor includes a plurality of buffers, each configured to store instructions corresponding to a respective thread. The multithreaded processor also includes a pick unit coupled to the plurality of buffers. The pick unit may pick from at least one of the buffers in a given cycle, a valid instruction based upon a thread selection algorithm. The pick unit may further cancel, in the given cycle, the picking of the valid instruction in response to receiving a cancel indication.
US07890732B2
A memory card includes a controller and a nonvolatile semiconductor memory. The controller manages a correspondence between a first address in a semiconductor memory of a first erase block size and a second address in a semiconductor memory of a second erase block size other than the first erase block size. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory is a memory of the second erase block size. The controller executes access to the nonvolatile semiconductor memory by the second address.
US07890727B2
A processing unit includes an authority check for controlling access by the processing unit to pages of memory according to whether a hardware protection key set currently loaded in an authority mask register allows access to the pages. In particular, each page of memory is assigned a page key number that indexes into the hardware protection key set. The currently loaded hardware protection key set specifies those page key numbers that are currently accessible to the processing unit for the execution context. Each hardware key within the hardware protection key set is associated with a particular data object or group of data objects. Thus, effectively, the currently loaded hardware protection key set identifies which data objects or groups of data objects are currently accessible. Software keys are assigned to data objects and dynamically mapped to hardware protection key sets, such that when a module is called, the software keys assigned to that module are mapped to the hardware protection key set to be loaded for controlling current access to memory.
US07890713B2
A storage apparatus and data protection method that can substantially improve the use efficiency of volumes.A virtual first volume is provided to a host apparatus, and a storage area with a necessary capacity from among one or more storage areas is dynamically allocated to the first volume in response to a write access request from the host apparatus; and write data from the host apparatus is stored in the storage area, and an access attribute representing the possibility or impossibility of access is set for the storage area.
US07890712B2
A method for managing memory in a virtual computing system is provided. The method comprises providing updated monitor data for a plurality of data domains in the virtual computing system and determining based upon the updated monitor data provided whether there is a memory constraint in a memory of the virtual computing system. Further, the method comprises calculating based upon the updated monitor data, when the memory constraint is determined, a total release-amount of the memory that is to be released by the virtual computing system in order to relieve the memory constraint and issuing a notification to release the total release-amount of the memory in order to relieve the memory constraint. The method further comprises assessing based upon the updated monitor data, when the memory constraint is ended, a reuse-amount that can be reused by the plurality of virtual guests.
US07890711B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that improve management of a dynamic memory area. One aspect is a method that reclaims memory referenced by a finalizable-object that has been instantiated from a class definition that incorporates at least one parent class and one or more class-extensions into a class hierarchy. The method includes marking for retention a related memory reachable from a reference field of the finalizable-object, and adding the finalizable-object to a finalization set for subsequent invocation of a non-trivial finalize-method. The method also determines whether the portion of the finalizable-object that includes the reference field to the related memory is a class-extension that has a finalizer-free characteristic and conditions the marking for retention on that determination. Thus, a portion the finalizable-object's related memory can be more quickly reclaimed from a dynamic memory area.
US07890709B2
In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a management area storing management information. The management information includes navigation information for reproducing data from the recording medium, and the navigation information including region information. The region information indicates at least one geographic region in which reproduction of the data is permitted.
US07890699B2
A circuit arrangement and method bypass the storage of requested data in a higher level cache of a multi-level memory architecture during the return of the requested data to a requester, while caching the requested data in a lower level cache. For certain types of data, e.g., data that is only used once and/or that is rarely modified or written back to memory, bypassing storage in a higher level cache reduces the likelihood of the requested data casting out frequently used data from the higher level cache. By caching the data in a lower level cache, however, the lower level cache can still snoop data requests and return requested data in the event the data is already cached in the lower level cache.
US07890694B2
An EEPROM system includes flash EEPROM cells organized into subarrays. Pairs of subarrays share row address decoders by sharing word lines, and individual subarrays have dedicated column address decoders and data registers. Each row decoder has an associated row address latch, and each column decoder has an associated column address latch. Multiple data chunks are concurrently written into the subarrays by first latching chunk addresses into the row and column address latches, and corresponding chunks of data into the data registers, then activating a programming signal to initiate concurrent programming and verifying the programming of the data chunks.
US07890692B2
Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed in the Programmable Intelligent Search Memory (PRISM) action(s) associated with the matched rule(s) are taken. Content search rules comprise of regular expressions which are converted to finite state automata (FSA) and then programmed in PRISM for evaluating content with the search rules. PRISM architecture comprises of a plurality of programmable PRISM Search Engines (PSE) organized in PRISM memory clusters that are used simultaneously to search content presented to PRISM. A context switching architecture enables transitioning of PSE states between different input contexts.
US07890685B2
To provide a multi-core LSI capable of improving the stability of operation. A multi-core LSI comprises a plurality of CPUs coupled to a first shared bus, one or more modules coupled to a second shared bus, a shared bus controller coupled between the first shared bus and the second shared bus, for arbitrating an access to the module(s) by the CPUs, and a system controller that monitors whether or not a response signal to an access request signal of the CPUs is output from module to be accessed, wherein the system controller outputs a pseudo response signal to the first shared bus via the shared bus controller to terminate the access by the CPU while accessing if the response signal is not output from the module to be accessed after the access request signal is output to the second shared bus from the shared bus controller and before a predetermined time elapses.
US07890677B2
A local KVM module with an on-screen display interface in which a chassis management controller is included within a list of servers which may be accessed by the local KVM module. The local KVM module includes keyboard, mouse and video connectors as well as a tiering network connector. When accessing the local KVM module, the CMC is presented as any other blade server, but with the name Chassis Management Controller (CMC). When a user selects the CMC module from the onscreen display, the user is presented with a text console, where the user can login to a text terminal interface of the CMC module. The text interface can be implemented as for example, a serial connection via a local area network (LAN) or through a tiny telnet client via a chassis private network.
US07890672B2
A data processing apparatus which can copy necessary data without imposing a burden on a CPU when broadcasting specific data is realized. A data processing apparatus includes a reception FIFO memory which temporarily stores received data sequentially; a buffer management unit which reads out the received data stored in the reception FIFO memory, discriminates whether or not a plurality of the same data are required for transferring the received data, and searches a plurality of buffer memory areas that are different from each other when the plurality of the same data are required; and a DMA (Direct Memory Access) control circuit which writes the received data read from the reception FIFO memory into each of buffer memory areas designated by the buffer management unit.
US07890670B2
DMA transfer completion notification includes: inserting, by an origin DMA engine on an origin node in an injection first-in-first-out (‘FIFO’) buffer, a data descriptor for an application message to be transferred to a target node on behalf of an application on the origin node; inserting, by the origin DMA engine, a completion notification descriptor in the injection FIFO buffer after the data descriptor for the message, the completion notification descriptor specifying a packet header for a completion notification packet; transferring, by the origin DMA engine to the target node, the message in dependence upon the data descriptor; sending, by the origin DMA engine, the completion notification packet to a local reception FIFO buffer using a local memory FIFO transfer operation; and notifying, by the origin DMA engine, the application that transfer of the message is complete in response to receiving the completion notification packet in the local reception FIFO buffer.
US07890663B2
Methods are provided for determining a master node on a ring network. According to one embodiment, a first node on the ring network initiates circulation of an arbitration token by (i) determining an arbitration token timeout period has elapsed and (ii) transmitting the arbitration token to a neighboring node. Upon receipt of the arbitration token by a node, it determines its relative priority by comparing its ID to an ID field of the arbitration token, initialized by the first node. If the node is determined to be higher priority, then it overwrites the ID field and retransmits the arbitration token onto the ring network. If the node is determined to be lower priority, then the node retransmits the arbitration token without overwriting the ID field. If the node is determined to be of equal priority and the node is the first node, then it assumes the master node role.
US07890660B2
A data processing system having a client apparatus for requesting target data to be processed and a server apparatus for performing a process on the target data transmitted from the client apparatus is disclosed that includes a client process request transmitting part provided in the client apparatus and configured to transmit a process request and processible data indicating data that can be processed by the client apparatus to the server apparatus, and a processing part provided in the server apparatus and configured to perform a suitable process on the target data based on the processible data transmitted together with the process request from the client process request transmitting part.
US07890655B2
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for improving data transfers between hosts and targets connected through fiber channel switches. A host connected intelligent port and a target connected intelligent port associated with fiber channel edge switches are configured to snoop frames from the host and target and establish flows for acceleration. The host connected intelligent port and the target connect intelligent port preemptively respond to host and target transmissions to reduce data transfer latency.
US07890653B2
A user agent unit includes an pattern extracting unit which extracts a frequent operation pattern of the log data that fulfills predetermined conditions from the operation log data registered in the operation log data database a pattern database which memorizes the frequent operation pattern; a pattern monitoring unit which monitors an operation pattern, from the operation log data to be newly registered, that correspond with the frequent operation pattern registered in the pattern database; and a pattern classifying unit which specifies the operator of the frequent operation pattern memorized in the pattern database.
US07890651B2
In an embodiment, a request is received from a client that includes a content identifier that identifies content. Content servers are determined that store the content, which is divided into frames. Time reference points and a time period are determined. The time period separates each of the time reference points. Logical groups of the frames are sent from the content servers to the client at the time reference points. The client receives the frames, reorders the frames into a play order, and displays the frames in the play order.
US07890648B2
One aspect of the invention is a method for playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At least one segment is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The method includes playing at least one segment with the temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired prior to reaching the second terminus. If the content expansion is desired, then linking to an expansion segment and playing the expansion segment. If the content expansion is not desired, then linking to a continuing segment and playing the continuing segment. The method includes an additional link from the expansion segment to the continuing segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played. Other aspects of the invention include other methods for playing stored content, for capturing and playing content, capturing segment and linkage descriptions, storage devices of the segment content, storage mechanisms referencing the continuous media content by segments and linkages and apparatus for capturing and playing continuous media content.
US07890630B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for supporting transformation to a shared on-demand infrastructure. Exemplary embodiments include a method including identifying a CPU resource type (or, in general, other sharable resource) to analyze, calculating a number of servers in scope, Ns, collecting current resource usage data for systems in the scope, wherein the current resource data is provided by systems and performance management tools, identifying a Period P, counting a number of peaks (Np) in the Period, excluding adjacent spikes to each of the number of peaks, calculating an average of CPU usage, Um, which is generally provided by the usage collection tools, defining an amplitude Am, defining a value for % Ks, in the range of 0.2-0.3 (value suggested) and applying transformation formulas to obtain a minimum size of a resource pool, a size of a target environment and a resource saving.
US07890629B2
A system, method and computer-readable media for providing a reservation mask for compute resources such as a cluster or a grid. The method aspect comprises identifying a need type and a group of available resources, creating a reservation mask over the identified group of resources and if a request from a consumer matches the need type, then constraining the creation of a reservation for the consumer to only use resources within the reservation mask.
US07890617B2
Embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus and system for managing SAS zoning, using end device grouping. A SAS end device grouping management application is configured to group SAS end devices, such as SAS initiator devices and SAS target devices, into any number of zones or zone configurations. The end device grouping application uses these defined zones to create a minimal number of zone groups, e.g., by creating one zone group per defined zone and populating the zone group with the ZPSDS entry point phys of the end devices in the zone from which the zone group is based, and to configure the respective permissions of the created zone groups. The end device grouping application then compares all existing zone groups for common phys and removes them to a new zone group. The zone groups are compared and processed in this manner until no zone groups have common phys.
US07890615B2
A system performs information technology (IT) tasks using a computer. Examples of IT tasks include installing or configuring software, displaying alerts, executing programs or scripts on the endpoint, or logging activities. In an embodiment of the system, a connection initialization module receives a request for a persistent connection over a network from a managed endpoint. The request is accepted and a persistent connection is opened with the managed endpoint. A tier-1 module then receives configuration information from the managed endpoint over the persistent connection. The configuration information includes a list of functional plugins on the managed endpoint, where a functional plugin comprises a software module for performing an IT task. The tier-1 module stores this configuration information along with information describing the persistent connection and maintains the persistent connection in an open state.
US07890608B2
An electronic-data distribution system includes a distribution server transmitting a distributed article of electronic data to a distribution client. The distribution client includes a distribution-information requesting means and a distribution requesting means. The distribution server includes a distributed-article creating means, a distribution-information transmitting means transmitting to the distribution client, at least a part of distribution information as a distribution plan stored in a distribution-information DB provided in the distribution server, and a distributing means for transmitting a distributed article for which a transmission request is made to the distribution client.
US07890607B2
An execution apparatus for executing a function in response to a request received via a network obtains interface information representing an interface via which a component that provides a function accepts a request, and generates an interface for allowing the execution apparatus to accept a request via a network, based upon the obtained interface information of the component that accepts the request received via the network.
US07890606B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that transmits information to a server, the apparatus including: connection determination means for determining whether a portable terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus; information acquisition means for, when the connection determination means determines that the terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus, acquiring, from the terminal, identification information of the terminal and operation information concerning playing of a content played by the terminal; and transmission means for transmitting, to the server, play history information of the terminal together with the identification information of the terminal, the play history information of the terminal being composed of the operation information acquired by the information acquisition means.
US07890604B2
Described herein are systems and methods for client-side callbacks to server events in which a Web server receives a message indicating a client-side event. The client-side event is associated with a specific component of a client resource, the specific component being one of multiple static components of the client resource. A server-side component generates a response to the received message and implements at least a subset of logic of the specific component. In generating the response to the message, server-side logic corresponding to other static components that are different than the specific component are not used.
US07890602B1
The present inventions may be implemented by tools enabling preferred domain positioning on a registration website. An example may comprise a computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by a server computer, cause the server to receive a bid from a registry seeking such preferred placement for a domain (that may be administered by the registry), generate a quality score for the domain, and determine the preferred placement based upon the bid and the quality score.
US07890595B2
A method of and system for providing enhanced user control of computer chat minimize a chat window in response to user input and then restore the chat window in response to receipt of a message from a sender, in which the message has a predetermined characteristic. The user input may include activation of an intelligent or smart minimize function. An example of a predetermined characteristic that may cause the chat window to be restored in the intelligent minimized mode is the presence of the user's name in a chat message. Other examples of predetermined characteristics that may cause the chat window to be restored include the text of the message being in a bold font or otherwise marked as being urgent, the sender of the message being on an exception list or occupying a management position with respect to the recipient. Embodiments may include a shout function by which a sender can override the intelligent mode. Embodiments include informing the other chat participants when a participant is in intelligent minimize mode.
US07890593B2
A process of segmenting a single email so that portions of it may be directed to or away from select recipients is disclosed. The sender highlights portions of the email and right clicks (or key command, button, or menu item) and selects an option to select recipients. The operator interface then provides the sender with the option of selecting recipients from their address book or the server's address book. To speed the process along, the sender may select those already on the To, Cc, or Bcc distribution lists. The sender then selects whether those chosen will receive the highlighted portion or if they will be excluded from receiving it. Lastly, the sender will have the option of providing text that is unique to each of the selected groups.
US07890587B1
A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, an electronic mail message is identified such that at least one of a date and a time associated with the electronic mail message may be corrected.
US07890578B2
A method for controlling display of a web page on the client, the contents in said web page being assigned different priorities, includes sending an access request for the web page from the client to the server; in response to said access request, the server sending controllers for implementing prioritization of said contents in the web page to the client, and the controllers retrieving the web page contents the server according to the priority order thereof for display. With the system and method, it is possible to prioritize different contents in a web page and to ensure contents with higher priority are downloaded and displayed earlier than those with lower priority, and thereby avoiding the disadvantage of multi-thread parallel download in the prior art.
US07890573B2
A method of processing medical imaging volume data in a computer network is described. The method comprises loading a medical imaging data set to be processed to a server computer, processing the data set on the server computer, e.g. by executing a software application, and generating corresponding server-generated results. The server-generated results, e.g. rendered images, may then be transmitted to a client computer for display to a user. This allows users to quickly view the results of the processing because they have not had to wait for the data set to be transferred to their local machine before locally processing the data. However, while this is happening, the data set itself is also transmitted, e.g. as a background operation, to the client computer. Thus eventually the client computer has access to a local copy of the data set and may start processing the data set itself, thus freeing up server resources.
US07890564B2
An interpolation FIR filter uses a coefficient to generate an interpolation value of a first and second input value. The interpolation FIR filter has several arithmetic units, an adder, and a divider. The nth arithmetic unit outputs a partial product by selecting one of the first and second input values according to an nth bit of the coefficient, and multiplying the selected input value by 2(n−1). The adder outputs a sum all the partial products and the first input value. The divider divides the sum by 2m, wherein m is an amount of the arithmetic units.
US07890558B2
An method and/or apparatus for representing and/or operating on numerical values in binary systems whereby numerical values having integer and fractional portions are stored in non-contiguous memory locations.
US07890556B2
A content recording apparatus includes: a content management file storing section that stores a content management file that records hierarchical entries organized in a virtual hierarchical structure; a content inputting section that inputs content files; a virtual management information creating section that creates virtual management information for virtually managing each of the inputted content files, on the basis of the content file; a meta data creating section that creates meta data related to each of the inputted content files, on the basis of the content file; and a recording control section that records file entries, which are the hierarchical entries including the created virtual management information, into the content management file, and records meta data entries, which are the hierarchical entries including the created meta data, at a lower hierarchical level than the file entries in the content management file.
US07890551B2
Techniques and systems, including computer program products, for providing timely file change notification. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes a recorder that records changes to one or more files in a file system and a broker that receives and responds to change notification request from external applications. The recording of changes can be system- initiated and can pertain to changes occurring anywhere in the file system. The recorder and broker can perform asynchronously from each other and can persist independently of the external applications.
US07890544B2
In a method of customizing a software-implemented business process on a mobile computing device, customized metadata defining customizations of the business process are provided. Next, the metadata is deployed to the mobile computing device and stored in a data store of the mobile computing device. The customizations defined by the metadata are then applied to the software-implemented business process.
US07890534B2
A system (and corresponding methodology) that dynamically alters a storybook (e.g., literary work). Preferences, policies and contexts can be considered and incorporated into the storyline of the book to enhance interest by creating a rich, personalized experience. By enhancing readability and features (e.g., sensory features), stories become more true-to-life and enjoyable by altering the story over time or to differing context (or content).
US07890529B1
A system for implementing a distributed, segmented file system includes file servers that each are configured to control separate segments of the distributed-file system, the file servers including: a memory interface configured to communicate with a memory storing at least one of the segments of the distributed file system; a communication interface coupled to at least another of the file servers; and a processor coupled to the memory interface and the communication interface and configured to control, read, and write to file system objects stored in the memory. The system further includes means for transferring permission for access to a requested file system object from an owner server currently controlling a segment where a requested object resides to an access-requesting server.
US07890524B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that allow saved abstract queries to be referenced from within query statements constructed using standard query languages, such as Structured Query Language (SQL), are provided.
US07890515B2
An article distribution system is provided that can find threads that are active for articles among the users of a community. A user terminal for receiving the contribution of articles that are viewed among users is connected by way of a communication network to an article distribution device for registering articles and appraisal data in an article database. The article distribution device is provided with an article distribution unit, an article registration unit for performing registration, and an article appraisal unit. The article distribution unit receives article distribution requests from the user terminal and transmits article registration data that are relevant to the user terminal. The article registration unit displays article registration data that have been transmitted by the article distribution unit and receives the input of articles that contain cited portions to register these article registration data in the article database. Based on the articles that have been registered in the article registration unit, the article appraisal unit calculates appraisal values that include the article volume, the citation volume, and the citation ratio for each article and each thread and registers these appraisal data in the article database.
US07890513B2
Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for providing a user with media item ratings based upon media item ratings of a community of related users. The user sends information about herself to the system. The system places the user in a community of users based upon the user information and provides media item ratings to members of the community based upon media item ratings by other community members.
US07890496B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a system for optimizing query processing in a federated information system. The system may be used to identify alternative query plans in a simulated environment and to calculate cost estimates associated with the alternative query plans, based not only on database statistics and query statements, but also based on workload and processing latencies associated with specific data source and with the federated information system as a whole. In addition the calculated cost estimates may also factor in data source availability and reliability. The system may use the alternative query plans and the associated cost estimates to influence query processing in a federated information system by feeding to the federated information system query plans that allow for cost-efficient query plan-level load distribution, cost-efficient query fragment plan-level load distribution, and load distribution based upon quality of service cost constraints.
US07890491B1
A technique for optimizing execution of a query that accesses data stored on a data store connected to a computer. Statistics on one or more automatic summary tables are used to determine an optimal query execution plan for the query. In particular, improved cardinality estimates are generated for one or more query execution plans for the query using statistics of one or more automatic summary tables that vertically overlap the query. These cardinality estimates are used to make more accurate cost estimates, thus improving the likelihood of determining the optimal query execution plan.
US07890483B1
A method of outputting an alert indicating that an unauthorized event has occurred. The method includes obtaining a status from a sensor and retrieving personnel information from a database, the personnel information relating to the sensor. The method also includes generating the alert, applying a filter to determine whether to modify a severity of the alert, and outputting the alert.
US07890471B2
The present invention provides a ViST (or “virtual suffix tree”), which is a novel index structure for searching XML documents. By representing both XML documents and XML queries in structure-encoded sequences, it is shown that querying XML data is equivalent to finding (non-contiguous) subsequence matches. A variety of XML queries, including those with branches, or wild-cards (‘*’ and ‘//’), can be expressed by structure-encoded sequences. Unlike index methods that disassemble a query into multiple sub-queries, and then join the results of these sub-queries to provide the final answers, ViST uses tree structures as the basic unit of query to avoid expensive join operations. Furthermore, ViST provides a unified index on both content and structure of the XML documents, hence it has a performance advantage over methods indexing either just content or structure. ViST supports dynamic index update, and it relies solely on B+Trees without using any specialized data structures that are not well supported by common database management systems (hereinafter referred to as “DBMSs”).
US07890467B2
A technology for verifying backup data capable of synchronizing timings of checksum calculation and verifying data consistency regardless of the storing position of the data is provided. In a backup system using a data update log, a checksum of data of a backup source and a checksum of backup data are checked, thereby verifying data consistency. Data check log generation means and the like are provided so that the data update log and the data check log are transmitted in order to a secondary site. By this means, the timings of the checksum calculation are synchronized. Further, by providing data area extraction means and the like, the verification of data consistency can be performed regardless of the storing position of the data.
US07890463B2
A geographically distributed storage system for managing the distribution of data elements wherein requests for given data elements incur a geographic inertia. The geographically distributed storage system comprises geographically distributed sites, each comprises a site storage unit for locally storing a portion of a globally coherent distributed database that includes the data elements and a local access point for receiving requests relating to ones of the data elements. The and geographically distributed storage system comprises a data management module for forwarding at least one requested data element to the local access point at a first of the geographically distributed sites from which the request is received and storing the at least one requested data element at the first site, thereby to provide local accessibility to the data element for future requests from the first site while maintaining the globally coherency of the distributed database.
US07890459B1
Non-disruptive modification of data in-place includes generating a copy of source data to a holding area. Data modification, such as encryption and/or other transformation process, may be performed on the source data in the source area while I/O operations of applications needing access to the source data is diverted to the data copy in the holding area. Updates to the data copy in the holding area from the continued I/O operations are tracked and the data updates are modified and transferred to the source area. Following successful modification of the source data, the I/O operations of the applications are re-directed back to the source area having the newly modified source data. The holding area may then be freed for subsequent use.
US07890458B2
A method and apparatus for capturing database system workload and replaying that workload in a database system is provided. According to one aspect, in order to subject a test database system to the same workload to which the production database system actually would be subjected, a database server in the production system captures and records workload that the database server receives from external entities. This captured workload is processed. Processes external to a database server in the test database system send the processed workload to that database server. As a result, the test database system is subjected to the same workload to which the production database system originally was subjected. The foregoing technique permits a database administrator to determine how the production database system will fare if the difference that is present in the test database system is introduced into the production database system.
US07890455B2
A system and method to ensure a low-latency read of log records from a Database Management System (“DBMS”) in asynchronous log-based database replication capture from a blocking log read Application Programming Interface (“API”). The system may include a replication server with a log read module to initialize a log read thread. The reading module of the log read thread may read a predefined number of DBMS log records. A log flush module of the log flush thread may be executed by the log read thread and waits for a read complete notification. The update module, in response to a log flush thread time out, may also generate a plurality of loggable transactions such that a number of log records in an internal API log satisfies a DBMS threshold and unblocks the DBMS API. Therefore, the latency time may be constant, low, and predictable ensuring an accurate replication capture.
US07890454B2
A method and system for migrating source data from a source database to a destination database based on energy efficiency and conservation. A migration server evaluates the source data for usage and requirements and defines data usage and requirement tags for the source data. The source data is disaggregated into one or more source data sets based on the data usage and requirement tags. The migration server then identifies candidate destinations for the source data, wherein each candidate destination has stored data identified with usage and requirement tags. The data migration server compares the first usage and requirement tags of the source data with the second usage and requirement tags of the stored data and identifies an optimal destination database based on the comparing step. The data migration server migrates the source data to the optimal destination database.
US07890453B2
A method of configuration controlling a hierarchy of data arrays is disclosed, each data array in the hierarchy having at least one version, each version of each data array in the hierarchy being associated with one version of at least one other data array in the hierarchy, each data array comprising at least one data entry, each data entry comprising a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields comprising a version field and at least one characteristic field having a characteristic, the version field indicating which version of that data array the associated characteristic fields belong to. The method comprises the steps of: (i) defining a package of data arrays comprising a predetermined version of at least two data arrays in the hierarchy and in which at least one of the data arrays is to be updated to a new version based on a previous version; and (ii) appending a new version indicator indicative of the new version to each data entry having the previous version in the at least one of the data arrays. By associating data entries with more than one version, the need to copy all the data entries within a data array to be updated is obviated. This in turn reduces the amount of additional data which needs to be created and can simplify the relationships between characteristics in different levels of the hierarchy.
US07890452B2
Presentation methods are determined from a work context and/or user preferences. The presentation methods can be combined in any manner with various navigational methods and working modes, to present any type of enterprise data to a user.
US07890448B2
A set of decision activities can be provided to a business process management and design software tool. The tool can be used to define various processes that contain one or more activities linked by transitions. During process design time, a business analyst can identify process-relevant data of the process to be presented to the end users. The relevant data can be rendered to the end users at runtime, along with a set of possible options for the activities in a process instance. Upon receiving a decision of the user, the process instance can follow the selected transition to a different activity. Over time, the system can capture the decisions taken by users and enter the data associated with these decisions into a data classifier. In doing so, the software tool can generate suggestions, provide probabilities, automate and distribute workloads, flag abnormalities and deviations and generally improve process design and management.
US07890440B1
Systems and methods for evaluating a group detection tool are described. One described method includes a set of data including a collection of asserted links between pairs of individuals, creating a sorted list of the individuals present in the collection of asserted links, and creating a square co-occurrence matrix describing the collection of asserted links, the square co-occurrence matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns each containing the sorted list of individuals. The method also includes inserting a link indicator in each cell of the square co-occurrence matrix, the link indicator having a first value if a first individual associated with the row and a second individual associated with the column are linked and a second value if they are not, identifying a plurality of square sub-co-occurrence matrices in the square co-occurrence matrix, generating a statistic for a characteristic of at least one class of the plurality of square sub-co-occurrence matrices, and identifying one of the plurality of sub-co-occurrence matrices for each of the at least one class of square sub-co-occurrence matrices. The method further includes evaluating the performance of the group detection tool by: applying the group detection tool to the set of data, and determining the extent to which a plurality of individuals in the at least one square sub-co-occurrence matrix are associated in one or more groups generated by the group detection tool.
US07890437B2
A computer-aided configuration for a technical installation includes a presentation layer with operator control interfaces, an application layer containing all applications, a realtime basic processing layer for providing all applications and operator control interfaces with information and a data manager for creating and maintaining data models for operating and system functions. One such configuration is constructed in such a way that the structure thereof is favorable to extension and offers high availability. The applications in the realtime basic processing layer are respectively combined to form bundles, wherein the same data model is respectively common to the applications of a bundle. The data of a respective application bundle is stored in an application bundle storage unit as shared memory mapped files. A method for operating such a configuration includes storing the data in the realtime basic processing layer in an application bundle storage unit as shared memory mapped files.
US07890430B2
A software protection is presented comprising software license management and online software license enforcement, wherein individual licenses are provided for regulating the use of a software product, and the software product is individualized while being downloaded from a license server, and the execution of each individualized software product is monitored in agreement with the individual license terms corresponding to the individual software download.
US07890429B2
In a method for managing a time-limited license on a computer application that can be run on a network component, a license data record is created that contains at least information concerning the computer application to be licensed, a license period and a signing time. The license data record is read from a license server, and based on the information concerning the signing time a reference date for this computer application is created. The reference date is compared with a system time, which is defined for the network component in order to determine a binding current time base for the license server. Based on this comparison, it is determined whether the computer application is run on the basis of at least one of the current time base and the granted license period. The reference date is continuously updated and stored on the license server.
US07890423B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a financial account. The disclosed systems and methods may include providing a financial account offer to a customer. The disclosed systems and methods may also include receiving an acceptance of the offer, providing the financial account, setting an account variable equal to a first account value, and monitoring the financial account. The monitoring may further comprise resetting the account variable equal to a second account value when a number of purchase transactions corresponding to a currently monitored time period are less than a threshold value. Furthermore, the account variable may be reset equal to a third account value when the number of purchase transactions corresponding to the currently monitored time period are greater than or equal to the threshold value and a number of purchase transactions corresponding to the previous time period were less than the threshold value.
US07890421B2
Ways are provided to allow a credit card issuing financial institution and the card member to customize a credit card account by defining an unlimited number of special-purpose lines of credit, while maintaining the overall risk at or below the overall line of credit. The individual specialized lines of credit share the overall line of credit, where the total amount of credit actually extended to the card member based on one or more of the specialized lines of credit is limited by the overall line of credit. To provide flexibility in allocating credit toward a plurality of different expenses, the sum of all of the individual lines of credit is preferably greater than the overall line of credit. Therefore, numerous special-purpose lines of credit are created for promotional, budgetary, fraud prevention, or other purposes, without negatively affecting the consumer's credit profile and/or credit score.
US07890415B1
A trading process represents an order that it is handling at multiple market processes simultaneously. Each of the market processes and the trading process follow a two-phase commit protocol, wherein permission to execute the order is obtained from the process controlling the order, and then the order is executed. Accordingly, multiple executions of an order are prevented. The control process is typically the trading process that originated the order. However, in some market methodologies, the market process may assume control over the order. Permission to execute the order is explicitly given by a trading process. Permission to execute the order may be inferred after a market process determines that no other market processes have control over the order.
US07890410B1
A trading process wishing to perform market depth discovery sends a trial order to a market process. The trading process and the market process are both operative on a platform. The market process receives the trial order and enters the trial order into its order book. When responding to market inquiries from trading processes, the market process ignores the trial order. At some point, the market process selects the trial order for pairing with an active contra-side order, as if the trial order was a regular order, and sends a pairing report for zero shares to the trading process that originated the trial order. The market process then removes the trial order from its order file, and pairs the regular orders in its order file such that their pairing priority is unaffected by the trial order.
US07890395B2
A method and system for processing tax pertaining to a transaction between a seller and buyer. The transaction triggers a tax due to a tax imposing jurisdiction (TIJ). The transaction has been authorized to be financed for the tax due to the TIJ by a financing network. First transaction data fields are received as data that includes an indication of the tax due to the TIJ and is sufficient for determining the tax due to the TIJ. Second transaction data fields are generated as a copy of the first transaction data fields. A tax transaction identification is assigned to the transaction and appended to the second transaction data fields. An audit and verify process is performed on the second transaction data fields. Results of the audit and verify process are merged into the second transaction data fields. The second transaction data fields are transferred to a transaction data warehouse.
US07890394B2
The present invention includes a system and method for securing information and accessing secured information. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, information is secured by associating a context in which the information was generated, for example. To access the secured information, a user provides a point in time and a user identifier, which are used to determine whether that user is authorized to access the information.
US07890388B2
Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for remote data validation of shipment information. In some embodiments consistent with the present invention shipment information including at least one item identifier of an item in the shipment and at least one entity identifier of an entity associated with the item is captured by a remote unit and sent to a dispatcher with a request for validation. Entity identifiers in the received validation request are used to identify validators that are targets of dispatcher generated validation requests. Validators retrieve additional shipment information using item identifiers in the validation request received from the dispatcher and return a response based on degree to which information in the received request corresponds to stored information. In some embodiments consistent with the present invention, the dispatcher assimilates the received responses and relays the assimilated response to the remote unit.
US07890387B2
A system and method is provided for enabling respondents at their computer systems to connect with a server computer over a network, such as the Internet, and receive an executable configuration program enabling each respondent to select a single subfeature, or multiple (zero, one, or more) different subfeature attributes or levels, for each of the features of a product. Each of the subfeatures for each feature has a price value and the combination of selected subfeatures for the features of the product provides a total price value of the product. The total price value is displayed and updated as subfeatures for the features are selected or changed by the respondent. When the total price value of the product is acceptable to the respondent, and the desired subfeatures have been selected for the features of the product, the program returns configuration information to the computer server having data representing the subfeatures selected for the product, the total price of the product, the time for the respondent to complete the configuration of the product, and each of the features and subfeatures selected and changed by the respondent in arriving at the final configured product. The configuration program may be part of a survey being conducted over the network by the server computer in which questions of the survey following receipt of the configuration information by the computer server may be in accordance with such configuration information.
US07890384B2
A web-enabled resin panel customization website, hosted through a web portal, provides, through a client computer system, one or more user interfaces configured to receive a plurality of user selections, and provide a realistic display of the resulting output. In one implementation, a processing module overlays transparent portions of images representing a translucent resin substrate with one or more images representing decorative objects, films, or the like. The processing module can also combine pixel information from each of the added/overlain layers. In either case, the processing module sends a combined pixel data stream that can be rendered by a client system, and thus provide a user with a realistic depiction of the user's resin panel selections. The customization website further includes one or more user interfaces that enable a user to store specific resin panel design profiles, and order resin panels corresponding to those specific design profiles.
US07890376B2
A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example hyperlinked content can be received from a user including current geographical position data. The current geographical position data can be extracted from the hyperlinked content. Location or geographically-based content can be selected based on the current geographical position data. The geographical based content can be returned to the user.
US07890375B2
A method to facilitate pre-ordering of an offering via a network-based transaction facility includes, responsive to user identification of an offering, communicating offering information to the user regarding the offering. In conjunction with the offering information, a selectable option is communicated to the user to pre-order the offering by specifying pre-order attribute information. Following selection the pre-order option by a user and provision of the pre-order attribute information, a pre-order relating to an item is recorded at the transaction facility. The pre-order specifies a plurality of pre-order attributes. An offer to sell the item is received at the transaction facility, the offer specifying a plurality of offer attributes. A matching operation is automatically performed to detect a correspondence between the pre-order and the offer. The matching operation utilizes at least one pre-order attribute of the pre-order attributes and at least one offer attribute of the offer attributes to detect the correspondence. Responsive to a detection of the correspondence by the matching operation, a transaction facilitating operation is automatically performed to facilitate establishment of a transaction whereby the pre-order is satisfied by the offer to sell the item.
US07890365B2
A method of leasing a gaming machine is provided that includes determining a monetary average machine net win in monetary units per gaming machine per unit of time for a group of existing gaming machines, receiving the leased gaming machine, and determining a monetary payment amount for the leased gaming machine for a second time period based on the average machine net win, the monetary payment amount equaling corresponding to a flat fee amount.
US07890361B2
In a rules based management system for controlling multiple levels of related catalogs, a method for immediate escalation of, and response to, a request from a customer to change a rule associated with the customer. The rules associated with the customer are used to derive the customer's catalog and each rule is associated with the person imposing the rule, called the owner of the rule. The method prevents, or at least minimizes, customer frustration with administrators of the catalogs by providing automated escalation of the customer's rule change request to the owner of the rule. The owner of the rule may physically reside in the same geographic location as the customer or in an entirely different country than the customer. Starting with the catalog used by the customer, catalogs are search in order of ancestry until the owner of the rule is found. The rule owner is alerted to the presence of the customer's request and a response, which may be an approval, a denial, or a request to discuss the matter further, is sent to the customer. If the response is an approval, then the rule is changed and the catalog reflects the rule change the next time the customer accesses the catalog.
US07890353B2
Methods and systems for providing vehicle accident information to a computer system are provided. In one embodiment, a roadway configuration of a vehicle accident may be provided to the computer system via a graphical user interface. The computer system may include a memory. The memory may have sets of characteristics regarding one or more past or theoretical accidents. In an embodiment, at least one characteristic in the sets of characteristics may be a roadway configuration. The computer system may display one or more of the roadway configurations in the memory as a graphical image on the graphical user interface. A user may select a roadway configuration of the vehicle accident from the graphical user interface.
US07890342B1
A computer-implemented method for tracking and monitoring a patient's compliance with a medical device usage prescription for a medical device is disclosed. This method and system includes the steps of: (a) providing a minimum medical device usage compliance value for the medical device for a predetermined compliance period; (b) providing the quantity of compliance periods in a measurement cycle; and (c) determining a compliance period value as the number of compliance periods in the measurement cycle in which an actual medical device usage value is at least equal to the minimum medical device usage compliance value. In another embodiment, the method also includes: providing a weighting factor, and applying the weighting factor to at least one actual medical device session usage value.
US07890334B2
Provided is a system and method for controlling voice detection of a network terminal. The system includes the network terminal for, if detection of a voice signal is requested, detecting voice by receiving and setting a voice detection setting value corresponding to a predetermined service and generating a trigger signal for the voice detection according to the voice detection setting value corresponding to the service; and a server for determining the service of the network terminal and transmitting the voice detection setting value corresponding to the service to the network terminal. Accordingly, by controlling to commence voice detection according to a service, voice detection optimized to a relevant service can commence.
US07890329B2
Disclosed is directed an apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among multiple dialogue turns. The apparatus includes a rule set storage unit having a rule set containing one or more rules, an evolutionary rule generation module connected to the rule storage unit, and a rule trigger unit connected to the rule storage unit. The rule set uses dialogue turn as a unit for the information described by each rule. The method analyzes a dialogue history through an evolutionary massive parallelism approach to get a rule set describing the context relation among dialogue turns. Based on the rule set and recognition result of an ASR system, it reevaluates the recognition result, and measures the confidence measure of the reevaluated recognition result. After each successful dialogue turn, the rule set is dynamically adapted.
US07890322B2
A method for speech signal processing is provided. Energy attenuation gain values are set for background noise signals corresponding to obtained background noise frames subsequent to an erasure concealment frame, so that differences between the energy attenuation gain values of the background noise signals corresponding to the background noise frames and the energy attenuation gain values of signals corresponding to their respective previous frames are within a threshold range. Energy attenuation of the background noise signals corresponding to the background noise frames is controlled by using the energy attenuation gain values. An apparatus for speech signal processing is also provided in embodiments of the present invention. By using the embodiments of the present invention, the energy transition between the area of erasure concealment signal and the area of background noise signal may be made natural and smooth, so as to improve the audio comfortable sensation of the listener.
US07890321B2
A noise reduction device is configured by use of: means for calculating a predetermined constant, and a predetermined reference signal Rω(T) in the frequency domain, respectively by use of adaptive coefficients Wω(m), and for thereby obtaining estimated values Nω and Qω(T) respectively of stationary noise components, and non-stationary noise components corresponding to the reference signal, which are included in a predetermined observed signal Xω(T) in the frequency domain; means and for applying a noise reduction process to the observed signal on the basis of each of the estimated values, and for updating each of the adaptive coefficients on the basis of a result of the process; and an adaptive learning means and for repeating the obtaining of the estimated values and the updating of the adaptive coefficients, and for thereby learning each of the adaptive coefficients.
US07890319B2
An improved and computationally efficient signal processing is provided to estimate and reduce noise in a sampled signal. Hence, a first filter recursive filters a vector in the signal in one direction along the vector, a second filter recursive filters the vector in the opposite direction to the first filter along the vector, and a combining section combines the results of the first and second filters. Coefficients of the first and second filters are dependent on a position in the vector.
US07890317B2
A system for designing a circuit, which includes a module, uses a computer. A user may program or adapt the computer to perform computer-aided design functions. The computer obtains a description of the module from the user. The computer parses the description of the module to identify a port of the module, and to obtain information about the port. The computer presents to the user the information that it has obtained about the port.
US07890316B2
Emulation information indicative of internal operations of a data processor can be provided for use by an apparatus external to the data processor. A stream of emulation trace information indicative of data processing operations performed by the data processor is provided. A stream of timing information indicative of operation of a clock used by the data processor to perform data processing operations is also provided. The trace stream and the timing stream have inserted therein information indicative of a temporal relationship between the trace information and the timing information.
US07890315B2
A novel approach to performance engineering that leverages expertise to enable a user to design, build and deploy reliable and efficient applications is disclosed. In doing so, the innovation discloses novel techniques and mechanisms that integrate performance into the application development lifecycle and to adapt current software engineering practices and methodologies to include specific performance related activities. These activities include identifying performance objectives, creating performance models, applying performance-related design guidelines, conducting performance-related design inspections, performing regular code inspections, testing for performance, and conducting performance-related deployment inspections.
US07890301B2
Representative embodiments are directed to distributed sensor systems from which measurement data is extracted using mobile devices. Representative embodiments record access attempts by the mobile devices and calculate the probabilities of future access by a mobile device to sensor devices using the recorded information. Collection points are selected in response to the probabilities of future access. Additionally, memory management and data prioritization may occur that is at least partially dependent upon the probabilities of future access.
US07890299B2
Providing for event-controlled continuous logging for a mobile operating environment is described herein. For instance, collection of mobile device operating system (OS) log data can be initiated and terminated as a result of one or more predetermined events. The events can both trigger collection as well as terminate collection of the log data. Further, limiting collection/termination of log data to particular log index codes is also described herein, enabling logging of data pertinent to one or more determinable events. As described, the subject specification discloses mechanisms to initiate and to terminate continuous logging of mobile OS log codes as a result of occurrence of one or more determinable events.
US07890298B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that manages a performance of a computer system. During operation, a current expert policy in a set of expert policies is executed, wherein the expert policy manages one or more aspects of the performance of the computer system. Next, a set of performance parameters of the computer system is monitored during execution of the current expert policy. Then, a next expert policy in the set of expert policies is dynamically selected to manage the performance of the computer system, wherein the next expert policy is selected based on the monitored set of performance parameters to improve an operational metric of the computer system.
US07890296B2
A method of analysing measured data from a system having multiple associated system variables, the method including the steps of: a) optimizing an error function relating the measured data to a predetermined number of the system variables to adjust the system variables; b) selecting a subset of the adjusted variables; and c) re-optimizing the error function by adjusting only the variables in the subset. A method of identifying likely contributors to an error caused in measured data from a system which has multiple associated system variables. A method of analysing measured engine service or test data form an engine having a plurality of associated system variables, includes the step of optimizing an error function which relates the measured data to a predetermined number of the system variables, by least-absolutes optimization wherein the error function is a sum of absolute variations.
US07890273B2
To determine fluid flow information associated with a well, data from plural discrete temperature sensors in zones without radial fluid flow in the well are received. The fluid flow information associated with the well is derived by combining the received data from the plural discrete temperature sensors with reservoir data that is independent of the fluid flow. That information can be further enhanced by monitoring the changes of temperature data over time.
US07890264B2
A method of analyzing a subterranean formation. The method includes specifying a volume of interest in the subterranean formation, specifying an injector wellsite that penetrates the volume of interest, specifying a first producer wellsite and a second producer wellsite, each of which penetrates the volume of interest, calculating a first Injectivity-Productivity Index (IPI) for a first injector-producer wellsite pair which includes the injector wellsite and the first producer wellsite, calculating a second IPI for a second injector-producer wellsite pair which includes the injector wellsite and the second producer wellsite, determining whether the first IPI is substantially equal to the second IPI to obtain an analysis result, and adjusting a wellsite operation based on the analysis result.
US07890258B2
A navigation device that calculates an expected travel time or an expected arrival time for each retrieved route, using link costs predetermined for calculation of expected travel times regardless of search conditions. As the link costs for the calculation of expected travel times, are used link travel times obtained by statistically processing traffic information collected in the past, for example.
US07890256B2
A map scrolling method and apparatus enables to incrementally tracing back to previous relevant locations of the map image. The method includes the steps of: recording information on a stopped location of a map image every time when a user stops during a map scrolling operation; comparing the recorded information with a predetermined threshold value to determine whether the information satisfies threshold value; recording the stopped location in a memory as a traceable location when the recorded information satisfies the threshold value; and tracing back to the map image of the traceable locations recorded in the memory, one by one, every time when the user presses a cancel key or its equivalent of the navigation system.
US07890255B2
A map information processing apparatus includes a map information storage unit (15) for storing map information, a map update information storage unit (8) for storing one or more pieces of map update information (30 to 32) used for updating yet-to-be-updated map information, a map update information selection unit (19) for selecting one or more pieces of map update information required to update the map information stored in the map information storage unit (15) from the one or more pieces of map update information stored in the map update information storage unit, and a map information updating unit (20) for updating the map information stored in the map information storage unit (15) by applying the one or more pieces of map update information selected by the map update information selection unit to the map information one by one in order of updating.
US07890251B2
A map information providing system has a map information providing apparatus 1 and an onboard information terminal 3. The map information providing apparatus 1 selects a road represented by the coordinate point string data indicating a newly established road in accordance with distribution request information obtained from the onboard information terminal, and distributes the distribution road information containing the coordinate point string data about the road selected to the onboard information terminal. The onboard information terminal obtains the distribution road information containing the coordinate point string data from the map information providing apparatus, and generates, in the same format at least in part as the map information, road data for adding a new road to a road network represented by the map information stored in a map information storing section from the coordinate point string data contained in the distribution road information obtained, and generates new map information from the road data and map information.
US07890246B2
Systems and methods of interpolating traffic information data may accumulate, for each link, a link travel time and a congestion degree at a plurality of trip times. The systems and methods may determine, for each link, whether at least one of the link travel time and the congestion degree properly exists at each of the plurality of trip times, and may interpolate, for each non-existent at least one of the link travel time and the congestion degree, an acceptable value.
US07890243B2
A method controls an automatic shut-off process of an internal combustion engine having a start/stop device, when predetermined shut-off conditions are satisfied by corresponding influential variables, and controls a start-up process, when predetermined start-up conditions are satisfied by corresponding influential variables. Variables influencing the evaluation of the shut-off and/or start-up conditions include the presence of a vehicle key, the state of a tank ventilation system, the fuel tank fill level, the state of a diesel particulate filter, an activity state of a workshop mode, works mode, service mode and/or production mode, the current ambient temperature outside the vehicle, an evaluation of a device for detecting the occupancy, the detection of a cylinder synchronization process, an activity state of a driving speed control system, an auto hold function in vehicles with automatic transmissions, an electric parking brake, and/or a hill hold function.
US07890237B2
A control device of a vehicle which switches a lockup clutch to an operating state depending upon vehicle conditions determines switching of the lockup clutch from lockup-ON switching lines established when the lockup clutch is in an engaged state, or from lockup-OFF switching lines established when the lockup clutch is in a released state. When switching of the lockup clutch is determined based on one of the lockup-ON switching lines and the lockup-OFF switching lines, a determination based on the other switching lines is selected as an effective determination about switching once the same switching of the operating state as that determined based on the above-indicated one of the switching lines is determined based on the other switching lines.
US07890223B1
A system for remotely monitoring compliance with a railroad signal associated with a section of railroad track includes a remote aspect compliance subsystem for monitoring compliance with an indication for the section of railroad track represented by an aspect of the railroad signal. The remote aspect compliance subsystem selectively generates corresponding compliance messages, which are communicated via a network to server for display and processing.
US07890222B1
A mechanical flight control system for a rotary-wing aircraft is disclosed. The flight control system comprises an upstream portion, a downstream portion, and an assembly for connecting the upstream portion to the downstream portion. The assembly may comprise dual concentric valve actuators and/or a variety of system load limiting features.
US07890221B2
A method for synchronising two asynchronous control and monitoring units of a computer, wherein each of these units comprises a computation unit. The method includes a computation of independent local Boolean signals, each having a Boolean inertia greater than the temporal uncertainties, due to the latencies in transmission between computers and the precision of the sampling controlled by the clock cycle of each unit, capable of affecting them. The method also includes an exchange, between the two units, of local signals, with each unit sending a locally computed value to the other unit, the generation of a pair of synchronised signals, in each unit, based on the local value and the value received from the other unit, and the formation of a consolidated signal based on the pair of synchronised signals.
US07890209B2
A method, apparatus and system for preventing unauthorized equipment usage that involves providing equipment, such as beverage making equipment, to a customer. Authorized product is provided to the customer in packaging that has a technological measure attached. The equipment includes a technological measure reader to read information from the technological measure to set the equipment to perform an authorized number of food or beverage making cycles. An authorization deactivator may also be provided in association with the equipment to erase, decrement, or otherwise prevent the technological measure from being reused.
US07890205B2
A system for determining a processing sequence of steel plates includes a constraint storage unit for storing positional constraints that define ranges of positions into which each type of steel plate is to be inserted when the steel plates are arranged in the processing sequence; a selecting unit for preferentially selecting, as a position into which a new steel plate is to be inserted in an array of steel plates already arranged in the processing sequence, a position having a larger expectation value of the number of steel plates that can be further inserted into the array of steel plates after the insertion of the new steel plate while satisfying the positional constraints; and an inserting unit for inserting the new steel plate into the selected position and for outputting data indicating the array of steel plates after the insertion.
US07890203B2
A wiring forming system comprises: maskless exposure unit which directly exposes an unexposed board by using exposure data generated based on design data relating to an wiring board; post-development inspect unit which tests the board after development, by using the exposure data and the image data of the board exposed and developed by the maskless exposure unit; etching unit which etches the developed board; and post-etching inspect unit which tests an etching pattern formed on the etched board, by using etching inspect data generated based on the design data and the image data of the board etched by the etching unit.
US07890196B2
A device includes an integrated circuit, a fan that cools the integrated circuit, and an audio monitoring module that analyzes audio signals that are based on noise generated by the fan during operation. The audio monitoring module is integrated into the integrated circuit.
US07890195B2
A controller equipped with a user interface having multiple-day programming capabilities, including methods of programming such devices, are disclosed. The user interface may include one or more menus or screens that can be used to program a schedule for one or more selected days during the week. An illustrative method of programming the controller may include the steps of entering a scheduling routine, selecting multiple days for schedule modification, changing the schedule parameters for one or more periods during the selected days, and then exiting the scheduling routine.
US07890194B2
A programming interface for a hardware system includes an embedded layer for programmatic access to a physical realization of hardware, a simulation system for simulation of the hardware, and a diagnostics engine that analyzes and compares feedback data from the simulation system and the physical realization. The programming interface may be usefully employed, for example, in the design, purchase, and deployment of robotics for semiconductor manufacturing.
US07890188B2
A lead body includes an electrode coupled to an intermediate portion of the lead body. A distal end of the lead includes a pre-formed, biased shape adapted to passively fixate the distal end of the lead within a pulmonary artery with the electrode positioned in the right ventricle or ventricular outflow tract. The lead body can include a preformed J-shape, with the electrode coupled to the intermediate portion of the lead body and located distally from a bottom of the pre-formed J-shape. The lead body can include a section of the intermediate portion of the lead body being less stiff than adjacent sections of the lead body with the electrode coupled to the intermediate portion of the lead body and located distally from the less stiff section.
US07890187B2
A lead including a tether with a sensor for measuring a physiologic parameter within the body and methods for implanting such devices are disclosed. An illustrative lead includes a lead body with one or more conductors, an electrode, and a tether extending from the lead body including a sensor for measuring a physiologic parameter within the body such as blood pressure, blood chemistry or blood gas. A method of implanting a lead includes disposing a lead body of the lead at a first position within a patient, anchoring the lead body at the first position, flowing a sensor and tether tethered to the lead body to a second position, and measuring a physiologic parameter using the sensor at the second position.
US07890179B2
A device for stimulating the osteogenesis of a traumatized bone is mounted on a bone stabilizing implant. The device comprises a first component part comprising a first electrode, an isolating element, which is mounted at the first component part and a second component part comprising a second electrode. The second component part is mounted at the isolating element such that the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically isolated from each other. The power generation unit is electrically coupled both to the first electrode and to the second electrode. The first component part is designed to be attached to the implant in such a manner that the second component part intrudes in a region defined by a trauma within the bone. Further described is a medical system for stimulating the osteogenesis of a traumatized bone, the medical system comprising a bone stabilizing implant, which is adapted to be fixed to the traumatized bone, and an osteogenesis stimulation device as has been described above is mounted thereon.
US07890178B2
Artificially stimulated deglutition methods and systems including providing a portable system born by a user for controlling a component of a complete swallowing act without substantial aspiration. The system includes a controller, a signal generator, and a subcutaneously positioned electrode array with at least one electrode. The electrode array is subcutaneously positioned and is operated to stimulate a single deglutition muscle where the single deglutition muscle is the only deglutition muscle directly artificially stimulated via the electrode array during the complete swallowing act. Systems and methods of nerve stimulation and selective nerve stimulation are also provided to artificially stimulate deglutition.
US07890173B2
Receiver-stimulators comprise a nearly isotropic transducer assembly, demodulator circuitry, and at least two tissue contacting electrodes. Use of near isotropic transducers allows the devices to be implanted with less concern regarding the orientation relative to an acoustic energy source. Transducers or transducer elements having relatively small sizes, typically less than ½ the wavelength of the acoustic source, enhance isotropy. The use of single crystal piezoelectric materials enhance sensitivity.
US07890171B2
An apparatus includes an implantable device, such as a chronically implantable device that has a device body. One or more chemical sensors are coupled with the device body. A drug eluting substance is disposed at a location including at least one of on, directly adjacent, or near the one or more chemical sensors, where the drug eluting substance prevents fibrotic growth on the one or more chemical sensors.
US07890170B2
A cardiac rhythm management system can be used to detect episode beats associated with cardiac events in a subject's body. These events may be monitored and depolarization morphology information can be derived for candidate arrhythmic beats in an arrhythmia episode. An arrhythmic beat morphology template may be formed from selecting at least one of the candidate arrhythmic beats based upon user's labeling according to specific morphologies of one or more candidate episodes. Methods of use are also presented.
US07890162B2
Method and apparatus for sensing improvement using pressure data. The method and apparatus may be used in an implantable medical device to confirm that an EGM event signifies a true mechanical cardiac activity and not just electrical oversensing. The mechanical activity may be used to create a mechanical marker channel in the implantable medical device.
US07890149B2
The present invention provides a portable terminal enabled to eliminate complexity caused when the placement of a display portion is changed by a user to view a picture.A portable terminal 10 is configured to be able to cause a control portion 20 to select a picture display mode in which a picture display is started in a display portion 18, when a configuration is changed by turning a lower casing 12 and an upper casing 13 around a first support shaft 22 to an intersecting configuration, in which the lower casing 12 and the upper casing 13 intersect with each other, from one of a spread configuration, in which an operating portion 15 and the display portion 18 are arranged substantially in the same direction by performing a relative turn of the lower casing 12 and the upper casing 13 around a second support shaft 23, and a standby configuration in which the operating portion 15 and the rear surface 26 of the upper casing 13 are faced to each other by performing a relative turn of the lower casing 12 and the upper casing 13 from the spread configuration around the first support shaft 22 in a direction of an arrow.
US07890148B2
A mobile station for a CDMA communication system which comprises a transmitting section that transmits a location registration request signal to a base station, and a receiving section that receives an acknowledge signal transmitted from the base station after the location registration request signal from the transmitting section is received by the base station. A control section prohibits the power supply to the receiving section for a predetermined period of time if the acknowledge signal from the base station is not received within a predetermined period of time after the location registration request signal has been transmitted.
US07890146B2
A method and system for providing a mobile service is disclosed. In one embodiment, both of numbers and characters, corresponding to numeric buttons entered by a user, are displayed on two separate display regions, respectively. According to one embodiment, a voice call or wireless Internet service being selected by the user can be quickly performed. Furthermore, it does not need to learn how to use, it is easy for a user to access information quickly, and to enhance the user convenience because a user can select one of various services via one button push.
US07890142B2
To realize high quality reproduction of sound on a portable telephone by suppressing deterioration in quality of sound data being provided through a wireless communication network while sustaining the quality of sound in the portable telephone there is provided sound data to a portable telephone through a wireless base station, the wireless base station transmitting sound data to the portable telephone by codec, the sound data being encoded previously in compliance with the codec of the portable telephone.
US07890127B2
A phone number only messaging experience is provided in an Inter-Carrier Messaging System service. Subscriber to subscriber digital messages containing user data are routed between carrier's networks using an Inter-Carrier messaging module with appropriate MIN/carrier/carrier routing look-up capabilities. Digital messages containing user data (e.g., short messages, email, digital messages in general, etc.) may be sent to a subscriber in another carrier's network addressed only with a phone number. If the recipient is outside of the sender's carrier network, the Inter-Carrier messaging module of the Inter-Carrier service provider (ICSP) determines the appropriate carrier for the recipient, appends the appropriate syntax to the digital message containing user data to allow internet protocol (IP) or other standardized communication techniques between message service centers of the two carriers, and routes the digital message containing user data to the destination carrier. The recipient in the other carrier's network may reply back to the ICSP's sender using only the subscriber's directory number.
US07890117B1
The present invention is a method and apparatus to provide remote communication using network telephony. In a transmitter, an activation message is decoded to generate an activation command. The activation message is sent from an activator via a communication medium in response to a telephony call. An information message is transmitted, responsive to the activation command, to a receiver using a communication protocol. In a receiver, an activation message is decoded to generate an activation command. The activation message is sent in response to a telephone call. An information message is received, responsive to the activation command. The information message is sent from a transmitter according to a communication protocol via a communication medium.
US07890114B2
The present invention relates to a method of sending first and second signals to a plurality of user equipments, the method comprising the steps of providing of a dedicated channel for each one of the plurality of user equipments, providing of a code-multiplexed shared channel for the plurality of user equipments, assigning of an antenna of a set of antennas to each one of the user equipments, sending of one of the first signals to one of the plurality of user equipments on one of the dedicated channels on a carrier frequency by applying transmit diversity, sending of one of the second signals to one of the plurality of user equipments on the code-multiplexed shared channel on the carrier frequency by applying multi-user diversity.
US07890113B2
A method, NodeB (320) and User Equipment (330) for TDD operation in a communication system operating in TDD mode in a frequency band allocated for FDD operation. Preferably, operation is in TDD uplink and downlink mode in a first frequency band designated or normally used for FDD uplink communication, and in TDD downlink-only mode in a second frequency band designated or normally used for FDD downlink communication. The invention provides the following advantages: Provides a flexible method to deploy a time division duplex architecture in frequency division duplex spectrum. Allows flexible use of system capacity by adjusting the uplink and downlink capacity split. Removes previous FDD duplex restrictions.
US07890112B2
The route maintenance unit outputs a period setting request to the period setting unit when the communication unit normally receives a Hello packet for the first time. The period setting unit sets a link connection confirmation period in response to the period setting request and outputs the set period to the route maintenance unit. The route maintenance unit maintains a radio link between the radio device in which the route maintenance unit is provided and an adjacent device upon receiving a data packet other than a Hello packet from the adjacent radio device even if a Hello packet is not received in the link connection confirmation period. Consequently, route disconnection or switching occurs less often.
US07890100B2
The invention relates to a method for allocating a roaming number to a subscriber in a mobile network comprising networks elements jointly used by at least two network operators. The invention further relates to a method for forming a visitor location register which allocates roaming numbers in a shared mobile network. The invention also relates to a shared mobile network. The invention is based on the idea of forming, in the visitor location register, roaming numbers of the network operators sharing the mobile network such that when the roaming numbers are being allocated, calls of the subscriber are routed in a desired manner in the networks of the network operators sharing the network.
US07890092B2
Methods and apparatuses for efficiently accessing and downloading web pages on high-latency communication networks are provided. After a user requests a web page, the web page is retrieved from a web server, image portions of the web page are separated from non-image portions, and an image-free web page comprising the non-image portions of the original web page is prepared such that the images of the original web page are replaced in the image-free web page by correspondingly sized and positioned placeholders. Additionally, an image including the non-image portions of the original web page is created such that the non-image portions are made transparent, and the original images are grouped into a single composite image while maintaining their positions and sizes. The image-free page and the image are then superimposed to form an optimised web page suitable for downloading to a user.
US07890089B1
The communication device implements a voice communicating function, a specific event location producing function, a multiple device door locking function, a multiple device door unlocking function, and a phone call making log recording function.
US07890085B2
A sender-specified courtesy notification scheme to delay notification by a receiving device of the receipt of a data message is disclosed. A sender may specify a notification parameter defining a delay and send the parameter in association with the data message to a recipient. The recipient's receiving device evaluates the parameter and notifies in response. Local notification data defined by the recipient may also be evaluated. Received data messages subject to delayed notification may be hidden by the receiving device or quietly displayed (e.g. as per other received messages) until the expiry of the delay. Notification parameters and data can be formulated as one or more rules which may take into account the current location of the receiving device. A notification delay may be ignored in certain situations depending on recent use of the receiving device.
US07890082B1
A method for billing wireless telecommunications services based upon density parameters includes determining a cell resolution for a subscriber during a billing period, associating the cell resolution with the subscriber, translating the cell resolution into a set of cells that approximate to of a density map, determining a rating structure for the set, calculating a rating for service rendered to the subscriber based upon the set and the rating structure, and generating a bill reflecting the rating. An apparatus for implementing the above method is also taught.
US07890079B2
A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) includes a silicon substrate, CMOS processing circuitry, and a bipolar power amplifier module. The CMOS processing circuitry is on the silicon substrate. The bipolar power amplifier module is on the silicon substrate and is operable in a 5 GHz frequency band.
US07890073B2
A method for detecting carrier wave dropout may include but is not limited to: a) receiving a carrier wave; b) determining a carrier wave power; c) applying a Kalman filter to the carrier wave power; d) detecting a decrease in carrier wave power; and e) delaying a transmission of the carrier wave to a demodulator. A system for detecting carrier wave dropout may include, but is not limited to: a) circuitry for receiving a carrier wave; b) circuitry for determining a carrier wave power; c) circuitry for applying a Kalman filter to the carrier wave power; d) circuitry for detecting a decrease in carrier wave power; and e) circuitry for delaying a transmission of the carrier wave to a demodulator.
US07890069B2
A low-noise amplifier in a receiver has a differential mode of operation and at least one single-ended mode of operation. A control signal is used to select between or among the modes and the switching between differential and single-ended operations may be performed on the fly.
US07890068B2
A receiving device includes a first demodulator operable to demodulate data transmitted by at least one of a plurality of propagation paths in a first channel having transfer functions which are different from one another; a second demodulator operable to demodulate data transmitted by at least one of a plurality of propagation paths in a second channel having transfer functions which are different from one another; and a data processor operable to merge the data demodulated by the first demodulator and the data demodulated by the second demodulator.
US07890064B1
A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit board. In another embodiment of the invention, the wave guide is formed within a die of an integrated circuit radio transceiver. A plurality of transceivers with different functionality is defined. Substrate transceivers are operable to transmit through the wave guides, while local transceivers are operable to produce very short range wireless transmissions through space. A third and final transceiver is a typical wireless transceiver for communication with remote (non-local to the device) transceivers.
US07890061B2
Methods and apparatuses enable selective operation in an extended bandwidth channel of a wireless communication band. For example, a client station can be selectively authorized to operate on a 40 MHz channel in a 2.4 GHz band. The client station or an access point or both can determine whether interference exists in the wireless communication band. If potential interference exists, the client station may operate on a non-extended bandwidth channel. If potential interference does not exist, the client station may operate on an extended bandwidth channel. Operation between the two channels can be dynamic based on continued monitoring of the wireless communication band for potential interference.
US07890052B2
A communication system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of main array elements for generating a plurality of communication beams and a plurality of auxiliary elements for canceling interference between the communication beams. A gateway station communicates with the stratospheric platform. The gateway station scales the plurality of elements to form a reconfigurable plurality of beams. The gateway station communicates an embedded control signal to the stratospheric platform to communicate a scaling of elements to form the communication beams and the auxiliary element output. The auxiliary element output is used to provide interference canceling.
US07890048B1
A ground station multiplexes audio digital data of a plurality of audio broadcasts, GUI data, and download audio data and transmits the multiplexed signal to a receiving side through a satellite. The receiving side displays a GUI screen corresponding to an audio broadcast. When a music information selection command is input on the display screen, an audio broadcast of a music program corresponding to the music information is selected. When a music information download command is input on the display screen, download audio data corresponding to the music information is output. The download audio data is stored to a storage device so as to download audio data corresponding to a desired music title.
US07890047B2
A communication system 100 includes a plurality of user devices 110 and a content delivery network 120 that is in communication with the plurality of user devices 110. The content delivery network 120 communicates a participation signal to each of the plurality of communication devices. The content delivery network 120 communicates a secure authorization message signal to each of the plurality of user devices. The content delivery network 120 authenticates the participation signal for each of the plurality of user devices and, after authentication, communicates the content to the plurality of users.
US07890041B2
A fixing device and an image forming apparatus including the fixing device are supplied capable of preventing life of roller from shortening due to big shearing warp. In the fixing device to fix a toner image that is transferred on a record medium though using an endless belt heated by a heating member, the endless belt is extended by a first pressing member and the heating member; a second pressing member and the first pressing member sandwich and hold the endless belt to press the endless belt; and a rotating member is externally contacted with the endless belt and drives the endless belt to move.
US07890040B2
A fusing unit is formed along a printing path in an image forming apparatus and fuses an image transferred to a printing medium. The fusing unit includes: a heat source; a nip plate which is heated by the heat source, and includes a nip part to heat and press the printing medium; and a reflection member to reflect heat generated by the heat source toward the nip part. A belt member is rotatably provided about the heat source, the nip plate and the reflection member, and guides the movement of the printing medium. A driving roller faces the nip part and rotatably drives the belt member. The nip plate and the driving roller form a fusing nip, which quickly heats and provides for quick fusing of a toner image to a printing medium.
US07890036B2
An image forming method, which includes transferring an image of toner on an image carrying member to a recording medium, and fixing the image transferred to the recording medium, includes: smoothening a surface of the image transferred to the recording medium; and penetrating the image into the recording medium without contact on the surface of the image on the recording medium. The penetrating is a final process of the fixing.
US07890032B2
A developing apparatus has a developer carrying member carrying a developer thereon, a developer supplying member for supplying the developer to the developer carrying member, and a scraping member for contacting the developer carrying member upstream of the closest position between the developer carrying member and the developer supplying member with respect to the movement direction of the developer carrying member to thereby scrape off the developer from the developer carrying member. There is formed a developer supplying portion surrounded by the scraping member, the developer carrying member and the developer supplying member for supplying the developer from the developer supplying member to the developer carrying member, and the developer scraped off by the scraping member is conveyed to a collecting passage differing from the closest position.
US07890031B2
The invention provides a developing device, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus that allow preventing abrupt variations in toner charge on a developing roller, caused by intrusion, into a nip, of toner accumulated above a regulating member of the developing device. A developing device using a one-component developer includes: a supply roller to which one-component developer is replenished, by natural motion, from a developer storing section. The bottom of the developing device is of a size that allows the supply roller to rotate. The developing device further comprises a filling member for filling a space above the regulating member, in order to prevent the toner located above the regulating member from intruding into a nip formed between the supply roller and a developing roller.
US07890019B2
A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a main body, cartridge support, an engaging portion, and a pressure member. The support supports a plurality of cartridges and moves between a first position in the main body and a second position for mounting and detaching the cartridges. The engaging portion is provided to one of the support and the main body at a position corresponding to the second position for at least one cartridge. The pressure member is provided to the other and is elastically urged to disengageably engage the engaging portion. When the support moves from the first to the second position, a load required for movement of the support at the second position is larger than a load required for the movement at other positions than the second position, by engagement of the pressure member with the engaging portion.
US07890018B2
An image forming device includes a body having a top, a bottom, a front and a back. In one embodiment, a plurality of horizontally-aligned imaging units, each comprising a photoconductive member, transfer toner images to an intermediate transfer mechanism located below the plurality of imaging units. A pick mechanism may pick media sheets from a media input tray and feeds the media towards the front of the body. For duplex printing, the media sheets may travel along a duplex path that extends along the front of the body. In one embodiment, an access door at the front of the body pivots between a closed position and an open position. In the open position, a user may gain access to both media paths.
US07890011B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of functions including a function of executing an operation involving use of a consumable, a selecting unit that selects one function from the plurality of functions, a detector that detects a remaining level of the consumable and a controller. The controller is operable to switch displayed contents to information corresponding to the one function when the one function is selected, instruct execution of an operation corresponding to the changed displayed information, display a warning indication when the remaining level of the consumable is not more than a predetermined level, determine whether the selected one function is the function of executing the operation involving use of the consumable, and inhibit the switching the displayed contents when one function is selected and is determined to be the function of executing the operation involving use of the consumable while the warning indication is displayed.
US07890008B2
An image forming apparatus is provided having a fixing device which heats a fixing roller from the surface thereof by means of an external heating device, which image forming apparatus is capable of improving fixability immediately just after a start-up and enhancing a job efficiency. An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming section, a transfer section, a fixing device, and an interrupt control section. At least two levels are set as a job interrupt reference temperature, the interrupt control section individually selects, from among the at least two levels of job interrupt reference temperature, the level to be used for either or both of a job immediately after the start-up from a power-on and a job immediately after a return from a sleep mode, and the level(s) for other job(s), and carries out an interrupt control using the selected level of job interrupt reference temperature.
US07890006B2
Methods and devices for operating a toner patch sensor in an electrophotographic image forming device. A characterization procedure for a light detector in the toner patch sensor may use one or multiple reflectance standards. A gain setting is determined that produces a predetermined target output from the toner patch sensing circuit for each of the standards. The characterization procedure may be carried out at a test bench or with the toner patch sensor installed in the corresponding device.
US07890004B2
An image forming apparatus that enables a post-processing apparatus to perform optimum control in accordance with the type (thickness) of sheet. A user sets on an image forming apparatus main unit 10 a thickness of sheet to be conveyed. A CPU circuit section 150 obtains first thickness-determination information used for the sheet conveying speed control in a finisher 500 from the finisher 500. A plurality of candidate sheet thicknesses that can be set, are determined based on the first thickness-determination information obtained by the CPU circuit section 150 and second thickness-determination information used when image-forming process speed control is performed in the image forming apparatus main unit 10 according to sheet thickness.
US07889999B2
A method and an apparatus for correcting a color imbalance of visible light in wavelength division parallel visible light communications (VLC). The method includes the steps of: transmitting a visible light signal including information from a VLC transmitter to a VLC receiver during a preset correction unit, and setting correction bits corresponding to a basis for correcting a color imbalance by each of wavelengths of the VLC transmitter A generating of a first adjustment light corrects the color imbalance between the wavelengths from the VLC transmitter during a preset color adjustment period, and generating of a second adjustment light corrects a color imbalance between a previous correction unit and a current correction unit from the visible light communication transmitter.
US07889998B2
An optical receiver for visible light communication includes a lens system for converging visible light for light communication and an optical filter for passing converged visible light to the optical receiver. A photoelectric transmission device detects data from visible light for light communication in a VLC system. An optical filter is positioned between the lens system and the photoelectric transmission device, the optical filter having a first film for transmitting visible light and a second film arranged/grown around the first film to transmit ultraviolet rays or infrared rays. A first optical detects data from visible light passing through the first film of the optical filter. A second optical detector detects the intensity of light transmitting the second film. The encoding, encoding rate or intensity of the optical transmitted signal can be adjusted in response to the detection of at least the second optical detector.
US07889996B2
Embodiments of a system are described. This system includes an array of chip modules (CMs) that are configured to communicate data signals with each other via optical communication. In a given CM module, optical signal paths, such as waveguides, are routed in the same way as in the other CMs in the array. In this way, a common optical design in the CMs may be used in the system to prevent data conflicts during the optical communication.
US07889981B2
A weather-sealing structure of a lens barrel includes an inner annular member and an outer annular member which are concentrically arranged to be movable relative to each other, and a water-repellent ring made of synthetic leather which is impregnated with a water repellent, one of two sides of the water-repellent ring being fixed to one of an inner peripheral surface of the outer annular member and an outer peripheral surface of the inner annular member. The other of the two sides of the water-repellent ring includes a hair-implanted surface including a large number of hairs which is in contact with the other of the inner peripheral surface of the outer annular member and the outer peripheral surface of the inner annular member to be slidable thereon.
US07889974B2
A reception unit receives data streams. A moving image data for normal reproduction selector acquires moving image data for use with normal reproduction and identification information. A position specifying unit specifies the position at which moving image data for use with special reproduction is present, and so forth. A reproduction unit reproduces moving image data for normal reproduction, at a standard frame rate. An instruction receiving unit receives instructions from a user to the effect that moving image data for special reproduction be reproduced in slow motion. A reproduction determining unit specifies moving image data for special reproduction which are necessary for a slow-motion reproduction. A data acquiring unit acquires, based on the specified position thereof, the moving image data for special reproduction based and reproduces the acquired moving image data in slow motion.
US07889973B2
A method of increasing the available storage space on an electronic storage medium comprising the steps of providing a free memory list for the electronic storage medium; selecting a portion of a file stored on the electronic storage medium; and adding the selected portion of the file to the free memory list. A method of increasing the available storage space on a personal video recorder comprising the steps of storing a media file on a memory of the personal video recorder; receiving a signal for marking a starting flag for the media file; receiving a signal for marking an ending flag for the media file; and freeing the memory of the personal video recorder that contains a portion of the media file between the starting flag and the delete flag.
US07889969B2
The invention concerns a method and apparatus for audio content playback during fast forward playback video trick modes. A storage medium reader is provided for reading coded digital data from a storage medium such as a DVD. The coded digital data comprises a video programming and a corresponding audio programming. A decoder decodes from a portion of the digital data comprising the audio programming a plurality of digital audio samples corresponding to a selected portion of the video programming. Subsequently, an audio processor key shifts a playback audio pitch associated with the audio samples to compensate for the higher pitched audio associated with the fast forward video playback mode.
US07889967B2
Disclosed herein is an information editing and displaying device for editing information using an editing screen area and a reference screen area, the information editing and displaying device including: an operating section; an editing input section; a search requesting section; a search result displaying section; an instruction determining section; and an information transferring section.
US07889964B1
Tags are inserted into a broadcast stream. The tags contain command and control information that a receiver acts upon. For example, tags may indicate start and end points of a program segment. The receiver may skip the segment automatically or in response to the viewer pressing a button. Or, the receiver may automatically replace commercial segments with new segments. As another example, menus, icons, and Web pages may be displayed based on tags. If a menu requires that the viewer exit from playback of program material, the receiver returns the viewer back to the same exit point when the interaction is complete. Menus and icons may be used to generate leads, generate sales, and schedule the recording of programs. As another example, an icon is displayed to indicate that an advertised program is available for recording. The viewer presses a single button to cause the receiver to schedule the recording.
US07889962B2
A fiber distribution system having a rack mounted chassis and a fiber distribution rack to mount in the chassis. The system includes one or more splitter modules which are designed to be mounted in the fiber distribution rack. The splitter modules have a compact design and contain a plurality of fiber splitters. The system also includes a plurality of spools, which are located on opposite sides on the rack mounted chassis, and used to support the routing of fibers. The spools are configured to equally share the fiber load coupled to a fiber distribution rack between a pair of spools. The fiber distribution system also contains a cable guide tray for supporting the fiber cables and the system includes a plurality of radius limiters to minimize cable bends.
US07889958B2
An apparatus includes an optical wave guide and a ferrule. The optical wave guide has a prespecified horizontal-positioning surface and a prespecified vertical-positioning surface. The ferrule is to precisely couple with the optical wave guide. The ferrule defines a first datum plane mating with the prespecified vertical-positioning surface of the optical wave guide to precisely mechanically vertically position the optical wave guide within the ferrule. The ferrule defines a second datum plane mating with the prespecified horizontal-positioning surface of the optical wave guide to precisely mechanically horizontally position the optical wave guide within the ferrule.
US07889945B2
A method of reconstructing a phase of a radiation wave field including determining a representative measure of an intensity variation of the radiation wave field on a selected surface extending globally from one end to another of the radiation wave field, determining a representative measure of the intensity of the radiation wave field on the selected surface, transforming the representative measure of the intensity variation to produce a first representation of integral transform and to apply to the first representation of integral transform a first filter and producing a first representation of modified integral transform, applying a first function of the first representation of integral transform to the first representation of modified integral transform and producing an untransformed representation, applying a correction based on the measure of intensity on the selected surface to the untransformed representation, transforming the untransformed corrected representation to produce a second representation of integral transform and applying a second filter to the second representation of integral transform, and applying a second function of the second integral transform to the second modified representation of integral transform to produce a measure of phase of the radiation wave field on the selected surface extending globally from one end to another of the radiation wave field, wherein the first and second filters are measures of a representation of a Green's function in a space of eigenfunctions of the Helmholtz equation with separable coordinates such that the first and second integral transforms are one-dimensional integral transforms in the space of the radiation wave field.
US07889944B2
An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by real world light signals being cast upon a plurality of detecting elements, and a real world estimating unit configured to estimate real world light signals by approximating image data with discontinuous functions.
US07889943B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for characterizing noise in a set of data based on an analysis of subsets of the data. For example, noise for an image can be characterized based on analyzing selected regions of the image. The characterization of the noise can be stored in a data structure that models the noise as jointly dependent on values of multiple parameters (pixel values for multiple channels). The noise can be further characterized for one or more wavelet subbands of the set of data.
US07889939B2
Simulation of film grain in an image can occur by compressing a video image, then transmitting compressed video together with a message containing at least one parameter indicative of the original film grain, to a decoder, and restoring the original grainy appearance of images by having the decoder simulating film grain based on the content of the film grain message. To improve efficiency, one or more parameters of film grain information undergo scaling in accordance with a target pixel block size for pixel blocks in the image. Such scaling allows for the use of conventional circuitry for performing block-based operations in connection with the film grain simulation.
US07889938B2
In an image processing method, contour information is extracted on the basis of terminal points and intersections included in a thinned line drawing, the contour information being extracted for each of closed curves and line elements connecting the terminal points and the intersections included in the line drawing, and skeletonized vector data is generated on the basis of the contour information. Start and end terminal points in the skeletonized vector data are determined. Artificial vectors to be inserted between the determined start and end terminal points are generated, and artificial-vector-inserted vector data including the generated artificial vectors is generated. A smoothing process is performed for the artificial-vector-inserted vector data, and then smoothed, non-circumference vector data is generated on the basis of the start and end terminal points. The thinned line drawing is raster-scanned in units of a pixel matrix.
US07889936B2
An image forming apparatus and method capable of decompressing and compressing image data. More specifically, the apparatus and method include decompressing first compressed image data, processing the decompressed image data, selecting from among a plurality of quantization tables a quantization table providing a compression ratio lower than a compression ratio of the first compressed image data, and compressing the processed image data.
US07889933B2
A method and apparatus for data compression comprises applying a decorrelating transform to multi-dimensional data to be compressed, then using a sequence of one or more one-dimensional matching pursuits algorithms to code the output of the transform. The invention finds particular application in video and still image coders, particularly real-time coders, those intended for use at very low bit rates, and those for which scalable bit rates are of importance.
US07889932B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for detection of image regions of various content types using a masking condition and an entropy measure.
US07889926B2
An image processor obtains character images included in input image and the character codes for identifying the characters represented by the character images, classifies the character images included in the input image into a plurality of character image groups based on the obtained character codes, determines typical image patterns constituting the input image based on the character images classified in the character image groups, assigns indices for identifying the image patterns to the determined image patterns, and codes the occurrence position information of the character images included in the input image and the indices of the image patterns corresponding to the character images so as to be associated with each other.
US07889917B2
An image color determining device. A ground color presence detecting section determines the presence of a ground color of a target image based on image data relating to the target image. A ground color region specifying section specifies a ground color region in a color space when it is determined that the ground color is present. The ground color region determining section determines whether or not the image data to be determined is a ground color region based on the specified ground color region. The ground color replacing section replaces the image data determined as the ground color region with a predetermined color.
US07889915B2
An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes an image capturing device, a memory device and a microprocessor. The image capturing device captures a first image having plural first pixels. The memory device has a memory space with a size greater than a size of the first image and stores the first image therein. The microprocessor transforms a format of the first image stored in the memory device. The memory device stores the plural first pixels via a first sequence, and the microprocessor transforms the plural first pixels via a second sequence opposite to the first sequence.
US07889914B2
A method of providing an automated classifier for 3D CAD models wherein the method provides an algorithm for learning new classifications. The method enables existing model comparison algorithms to adapt to different classifications that are relevant in many engineering applications. This ability to adapt to different classifications allows greater flexibility in data searching and data mining of engineering data.
US07889900B2
A method, computer program and device for creating a viewing protocol for medical images is described. At least a first site of interest is identified in a medical imaging data set captured from the patient. Patient record data or computer assisted detection information can be used to identify the site of interest, which may be a potential lesion. A viewing protocol for displaying medical images to a user is planned. The viewing protocol includes a viewing path along which an image of the site of interest will be displayed. The viewing protocol also includes a trigger associated with the site of interest. When the trigger event is encountered the dynamic mode of image display is reconfigured to dynamically highlight the site of interest. The viewing protocol can then be used to control the display of images so as to provide, for example, a virtual endoscope.
US07889894B2
A method of navigation in three-dimensional, electronic image data sets is disclosed, whereby the image data sets contain three-dimensional image data subsets. The method includes optically representing at least one two-dimensional projection of an image data set that includes a two-dimensional subprojection of at least one image data subset, optically highlighting the at least one two-dimensional subprojection, receiving a user input directed to the selection of a certain subprojection, and optically representing, in accordance with said user input, at least one additional two-dimensional projection of the image data set that includes a two-dimensional projection of the selected image data subset. The method can be used for an image data set that is formed by fusion of at least two source image data sets. The source image data sets can especially comprise computer tomography and a positron-emission tomography image data set.
US07889893B2
The invention relates to a method of checking the authenticity of biometric sensing performed optically, in which a body organ (6) placed on a main face (2) of a prismatic optical element (1) is illuminated (8) with total internal reflection, and then the reflected radiation carrying the biometric image of said body organ is picked up (9). The method comprises the steps of superposing on the main illumination (8) on the main face (2) of the prismatic optical element (1), encoding illumination (14) in such a manner that it is the encoded combined radiation that is reflected by said main face (2) and picked up (9), and comparing (17) the encoded combined radiation with the encoding of the encoding illuminating radiation; thereby detecting the authenticity of the reflected radiation conveying the biometric image associated with the body organ placed on the main face.
US07889884B2
An image processing apparatus includes an information acquiring portion that acquires information on image process conditions for processing image data, a creating portion that creates additional image data, serving as a watermark image, with additional information to be embedded into the image data on the basis of the information on the image process conditions acquired, and a merging portion that merges the image data with the additional image data to create composite image data.
US07889881B2
An earpiece adapted to transmit acoustic sound into an year, the earpiece having a flexible ear canal engagement member that is adapted to be repositioned longitudinally inwardly by way of some form of an extension member. When the extension member is released, the member contracts to a first position, thereby increasing a portion of its cross-sectional diameter at some portion thereof to engage the ear canal of a user's ear to securely fit the device to the user's ear.
US07889879B2
An auditory prosthesis (30) comprising a microphone (27) for receiving the sound and producing a microphone signal responding to the received sound, an output device for providing audio signals in a form receivable by a user of the prosthesis (30), a sound processing unit (33) operable to receive the microphone signal and carry out a processing operation on the microphone signal to produce an output signal in a form suitable to operate the output device, wherein the sound processing unit (33) is operable in a first mode in which the processing operation comprises at least one variable processing factor which is adjustable by a user to a setting which causes the output signal of the sound processing unit (33) to be adjusted according to the preference of the user for the characteristics of the current acoustic environment.
US07889869B2
A method includes, in response to receiving a certain type of HTTP request message from a device during a browsing session, sending a HTTP response message to the device. The HTTP response message includes a dedicated MIME-type for indicating that a device management session is being initiated, and the device management session is identified by an identifier that forms part of the HTTP response message. The device replies to the HTTP response message with a device management session reply that comprises device details and the identifier. Using the device details, the system develops a list containing at least one download option that is compatible with the device and sends the list to the device. In response to a user selecting the at least one download option from the list, the system delivers the selected at least one download option to the device during a device management session.
US07889868B2
A method is provided for distributing quantum cryptographic keys. The method includes receiving a first quantum signal from an initial quantum key generating transmitter. Following correspondence with the initial quantum key generating transmitter, a first quantum key is generated. A second quantum signal is transmitted to a recipient quantum key generating transmitter. Following correspondence with the recipient quantum key generating receiver, a second quantum key is generated. The first quantum key is encoded using the second quantum key. The encoded first quantum key is transmitted to the recipient quantum key generating receiver using the second quantum key.
US07889862B2
A memory stores data in an encrypted form. A modifiable register stores a memory address, a0, defining a boundary separating the memory into two regions. The lower region stores data encrypted using a key B, and the upper region stores data encrypted using a different key A. Data stored on the boundary address is encrypted using key A. Accordingly, when data is read from a memory address a, key A is used to decrypt the data if a≧a0, and key B is used if a
US07889855B1
By using letters, this invention provides telephone numbers that contain the actual initials or name of the recipient. With business subscribers, each company's stock marker ticker symbol is their telephone number, such as ‘GE’ for General Electric. With most individual accounts, the telephone number consists of the subscriber's initials plus date of birth. Custom programming routes a call with the simple dialing input of only the recipient's initials or name. Only one well-defined area code is needed per State, such as ‘AZ’ for Arizona. The same number is used for landline, facsimile, internet, and cellular connections.
US07889849B2
Communication systems and methods are described that enable mobile devices to route telephone calls via an enterprise telephone system. The communication system is configured to receive via a data channel a request from the mobile device. The mobile device corresponds to a user making a call. The server receiving the request includes a private branch exchange (PBX) and one or more other servers hosted by or coupled to the enterprise. A first call leg is initiated over a first voice channel in response to the request. The first call leg is coupled to the server and mobile device. Numerous second call legs are initiated over a second voice channel, and the second call legs are coupled to the server and numerous client devices corresponding to an intended call recipients. A voice conference call is formed between the mobile device and client device by joining the first and second call legs.
US07889848B2
A method and system for implementing pre-paid telephone service with direct dial pre-paid access and direct dial or indirect dial post paid access. The method includes receiving a telephone call and routing the telephone call to a pre-paid platform if the access designation is a direct dial access designation other than 1 or 011. The system includes a local exchange carrier configured to receive a telephone call and route the call to a long distance carrier, where the long distance carrier is configured to route the call to a pre-paid platform if the access designation is a direct dial access designation other than 1 or 011.
US07889842B2
The invention relates to a crystalline lithium fluoride doped with at least 0.018 mol per kg of a divalent positive ion M present in the fluoride state, in particular of the single-crystal type. The ion may be Mg2+, Zn2+ or Co2+. This fluoride has a high reflectivity and intense radiation that can emanate therefrom may be effectively received by a fast light scintillator, especially of the rare-earth halide type. It is particularly useful as a monochromator for X-ray fluorescence radiation for the purpose of elemental analysis.
US07889834B2
A method and CT system are disclosed for preparing reconstructed CT image data records. In at least one embodiment of the method, an initial material distribution of an examination object is determined from CT data records determined from among at least two different spectral weightings with local energy-determined attenuation values, and local measurement-spectrum-dependent weighting functions are determined using this material distribution, enabling local measurement-spectrum-dependent attenuation functions to be calculated, and the distribution of local reference materials to be determined, with the help of plausibility considerations, from a list of reference materials over at least one specified region of interest in the examination object on the basis of previously calculated local measurement-spectrum-dependent attenuation functions.
US07889833B2
The present invention provides an X-ray tomography apparatus that reduces artifacts. The X-ray tomography apparatus includes scan device for exposing X rays to a subject to create projection data of the subject, CT value change specifying device for specifying the amount of change in CT value in a body-axis direction with respect to a target pixel of a tomographic image obtained by backprojecting the projection data, a first artifact determination unit for determining whether the amount of change in CT value is contained within a predetermined range in a peripheral decision pixel area containing the target pixel, a second artifact determination unit for determining that when the number of pixels contained in the predetermined range is found to be a first threshold value or more by a first artifact decision, the target pixel is as an artifact, and an artifact reduction unit for, when it is judged by the second artifact determination unit that the target pixel is as the artifact, performing image processing so as to reduce the artifact.
US07889830B2
A nuclear reactor having a coolant flow deflector secured to a reactor core barrel in line with a coolant inlet nozzle. The flow deflector redirects incoming coolant down an annulus between the core barrel and the reactor vessel. The deflector has a main body with a front side facing the fluid inlet nozzle and a rear side facing the core barrel. The rear side of the main body has at least one protrusion secured to the core barrel so that a gap exists between the rear side of the main body adjacent the protrusion and the core barrel. Preferably, the protrusion is a relief that circumscribes the rear side of the main body.
US07889828B2
A method of suppressing deposition of radionuclides on components of a nuclear power plant comprises forming a ferrite film by contacting a first chemical including iron (II) ions, a second chemical for oxidizing the iron (II) ions to iron (III) ions, and a third chemical for adjusting the pH of a processing solution containing a mixture of the first and second chemicals to be 5.5 to 9.0 with the metal member surface in a time period from a finishing stage in decontamination step of removing contaminants formed on the surface of metal member composing the nuclear power plant, and suppressing deposition of radionuclides on the metal member by the ferrite film.
US07889815B2
A receiver assembly for use in an optical telecommunications network is provided that automatically generates a reference level for the incoming signal burst based on its preamble without the need to pre-process the entire signal burst. The entire signal burst is fed directly from the TIA into the input of the limiting amplifier. A differential amplifier, tapped from the data and data bar outputs of the limiting amplifier, samples the signal stream to capture the preamble portion of each signal burst. The preamble portion of the signal burst is then passed, post amplification, into a sample and hold circuit. The sample and hold circuit samples the amplitude of this preamble portion of the signal and then holds the sampled level for use as a reference level for the processing of following payload signal.
US07889810B2
A method and apparatus for a nonlinear feedback control system is disclosed, such as for electrical and electronic systems, for pre-distorting a nonlinear device. A nonlinear feedback control system includes a nonlinear device having a first input and a first output. A detection stage is in communication with the first output of the nonlinear device. A derivation stage is in communication with the detection stage, and the derivation stage is in communication with the first input of the nonlinear device.
US07889806B2
The Hadamard transform is used to spread data within data blocks in a multicarrier MIMO system, before transmission. In this manner, the negative effects caused by the clustering of bad subcarriers (i.e., subcarriers having a low transmission coefficient due to fading) may be reduced. In at least one embodiment, a MAP-type detection scheme is used in the receiver to extract bit reliabilities from the received signals.
US07889805B2
A mobile station transmitting and receiving method and a corresponding mobile station transmitter and receiver of a smart antenna system for forming uplink eigenbeams of the OFDM/TDD (orthogonal frequency division multiplex/time division duplex), wherein OFDM symbols are received from a base station through a downlink via multiple antennas (250) and an FFT (fast Fourier transform) is performed on the received OFDM symbols by the FFT units (270). By means of a channel estimator (290) the channels are estimated and a beam weight generator (310) generates respective beam weights from the channels of the respective pilot tones of the respective subcarriers according to the channel estimation result. A beam weight multiplier (230) forms the uplink beam by multiplying the respective beam weights with the output of the signal repeater (220) and IFFT units (240) generate respective OFDM symbols which are transmitted via multiple antennas (250) through an uplink.
US07889804B2
A signal constellation for a multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) communication system when channel knowledge at the receiver is imperfect includes at least two (n−1)-dimensional sub-constellations of points that together form an n-dimensional constellation, the number n representing real dimensions and n=2M where M is the number of transmit antennas. The n-dimensional spherical constellation may define a single sphere or a plurality of concentric subset spheres, and points between subsets are separated by a Kullback-Leibler distance rather than a Euclidian distance. Each sphere has sub-constellations that preferably are arranged in symmetric pairs that define equal numbers of points that lie in parallel planes, to allow recursive construction that minimizes computational complexity. An appropriate constellation may be chosen by ceasing a search once the optimum minimum distance stops increasing as a number of the concentric levels increases.
US07889802B2
A demodulator includes a complex conjugate signal generator to generate a complex conjugate signal of an OFDM time domain signal (complex signal including an I channel signal and Q channel signal) supplied from an orthogonal demodulation circuit, a delaying unit to delay, by an integral multiple of a predetermined period 1H or 2H, the complex conjugate signal supplied from the complex conjugate signal generator, a complex multiplier to make complex multiplication on the basis of the complex signal generated by the orthogonal demodulation circuit and complex conjugate signal delayed by the integral multiple of the predetermined period by the delay unit, and a determining unit to determine whether an interference wave is included in the modulated signal by making a comparison between the complex multiplication value resulted from the complex multiplication made by the complex multiplier and an arbitrary threshold.
US07889801B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a cell identification (ID) by determining the number of transmit (TX) antennas used for transmission; applying at least two codes to the reference symbols (RSs) transmitted from the TX antennas, to determine a set of de-coded RSs; in the event it is determined that there is more than one TX antenna used for transmission, grouping the de-coded RSs from the TX antennas and summing the de-coded RSs within the group; equalizing the grouped de-coded RSs; and determining the code of the at least two codes that gives the maximum correlation so as to obtain the cell ID.
US07889800B2
Methods and receiver circuits for determining and employing decision boundary estimates for use in de-mapping QAM symbols in an OFDM receiver are disclosed. The disclosed methods efficiently use memory resources, while taking account of the frequency-selective and time-varying nature of the signal propagation. An OFDM receiver calculates a decision boundary estimate using QAM-modulated symbols selected from a group of OFDM tones and determines soft bit values for symbols selected from an adjacent tone using the decision boundary estimate. The receiver updates the decision boundary estimate using the symbols from the adjacent tone and determines soft bit values for symbols selected from a next-adjacent tone using the updated decision boundary estimate. Once the decision boundary estimate has been updated and the soft bit values have been determined for each tone, the symbol data for that tone may be discarded.
US07889795B2
A method and apparatus for motion estimation in which the amount of computation can be reduced are provided. The method for motion estimation includes storing an interblock match difference calculated for a previous matching block to be motion estimated, calculating an interblock match difference for a current matching block to be motion estimated using the stored interblock match difference, and performing motion estimation on the current matching block using the interblock match difference calculated for the current matching block.
US07889793B2
A method and apparatus of improving the compression efficiency of a motion vector by efficiently predicting a motion vector in an enhancement layer from a motion vector in a base layer in a video coding method using a multi-layer are provided. The method includes obtaining a motion vector in a base layer frame having a first frame rate from an input frame, obtaining a motion vector in a first enhancement layer frame having a second frame rate from the input frame, the second frame rate being greater than the first frame rate, generating a predicted motion vector by referring to a motion vector for at least one frame among base layer frames present immediately before and after the same temporal position as the first enhancement layer frame if there is no base layer frame at the same temporal position as the first enhancement layer frame, and coding a difference between the motion vector in the first enhancement layer frame and the generated predicted motion vector, and the obtained motion vector in the base layer.
US07889786B2
A method and system for reducing the frequency of operation for a transversal Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the transversal filter operates in such a way that it has an even and odd row of data, which are latched on rising and falling edges of the clock respectively. This allows the clock frequency to be reduced by a factor of 2, and thus allows the use of more power efficient latches. A reduction in the frequency of operation causes the high speed latches within the transversal filter to hold the data bits twice as long as is required, which changes the desired impulse response of the FIR filter. A circuit is required to select the appropriate data bits from the output of the appropriate half-speed latch, and subsequently scale it to apply the co-efficient gain. Each of the subsystems is analog, and operates in accordance with a synchronous clock system. In a more general embodiment of the invention, the data is provided to Q shift registers that operate at a clock rate which is reduced by a factor of Q.
US07889773B2
A semiconductor device includes an InP substrate, an AlGaInAs-based first layer, an AlGaInAs-based second layer, an InGaAsP-based third layer, and an InGaAsP-based fourth layer. The first and second layers have compositions which are same or substantially same as each other on an interface therebetween. The composition of the layer varies such that a band gap continuously increases from the first layer side toward the third layer side. The compositions of the second and third layers are set such that energy levels of a valence band maximum are substantially equal to each other on an interface between the second and third layers. The composition of the third layer varies such that a band gap continuously increases from the second layer side toward the fourth layer side. The compositions of the third and fourth layers are same or substantially same as each other on an interface between the third and fourth layers.
US07889772B2
A laser output power command determination value from a controller (17) is input to an upper limit current determination unit (32), and an upper limit current value to be decided based on the laser output power command determination value is determined. Then, a second comparator (30) compares a command current value determined from the laser output power command determination value and a laser output power command determination value measured with a power monitor (13), with an upper limit current value determined with a upper limit current determination unit (32). The second comparator (30) determines a command current value when the upper limit current value is greater than the command current value and the upper limit current value when the command current value is greater than the upper limit current value, as a reference current value, by which reference current value a current to be supplied to pumping means is configured to be controlled. In such a configuration, an upper limit current value is determined according to a laser output power command determination value, whereby an increased current to be supplied to the pumping means, i.e., the increase of energy to be supplied to a laser oscillator apparatus is avoided, and an energy loss in the optical component is reduced, which prevents damage development from leading to the replacement of the component.
US07889770B2
A semiconductor laser beam device, comprising a stem type package having a base part and a heat sink part, wherein the heat sink part is cylindrically formed so as to be concentric to the base part, a groove is formed along the axial direction of the heat sink part, and a semiconductor laser beam element is disposed at the bottom part of the inner wall surfaces of the groove whereby the radiating capability of the semiconductor laser beam device can be increased by increasing the volume of the heat sink part, and the element can be protected by the groove.
US07889769B2
A multi-spectral laser system produces first and second output frequencies by nonlinear mixing of a first, second, and third laser light frequency in a single periodically polled crystal, where the first and second output frequencies are separated by a range greater than the degeneracy of the crystal.
US07889742B2
A method and system provides for efficient data throughput by efficiently re-sequencing received data packets at a remote station. The method and system assigns identification information to each received packet, and then re-sequences the received packets by putting the identification information in order. The disclosed method and system allows partial re-sequencing and partial transmission of received data packets, thereby reducing data transmission delay.
US07889740B2
In order to provide the routing information of both the present time and the past, provide the latest routing information very quickly and improve searching speed of the routing information, a routing information management apparatus includes: a routing information receiving portion receiving routing information which broadly notifies a change/withdrawal of a communication route and which is received from an observation apparatus of communication routes; and a routing state table generation portion which generates a routing state table of each of the communication routes including both a route existing time based on a received time of the routing information and a range of an address space obtained by digitizing a prefix involved in the routing information, and which stores the routing state table in a routing information database.
US07889731B1
A system and non-transitory computer storage medium storing a computer program for delivering messages to a wireless access terminal are provided. A messaging center is in communication with a 1xEV-DO network. The messaging center is arranged to receive a message having a telephone number as a destination address for delivery to the wireless access terminal. The messaging center has a storage device and a central processing unit. The storage device stores a mapping between the telephone number, a mobile static identifier corresponding to a user of the wireless access terminal and a destination address corresponding to an IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network. The central processing unit is in communication with the storage device. The mapping between the telephone number and the IP address is based on a correspondence between the telephone number and the mobile static identifier. The mapping is evaluated to determine the IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network and the message is transmitted to the wireless access terminal using the 1xEV-DO network.
US07889728B2
A system and method of managing data packets for transmission in a virtual network are disclosed. In some implementations, a network switch may generally comprise a packet modifier that modifies a VLAN tag state of a packet to be egressed as a function of an egress interface and a VLAN-ID assignment. The modified VLAN tag state may include one or more VLAN tags that are in a different order, or that have a different content, in comparison to the VLAN tags of the packet at the time of ingress.
US07889727B2
A content matching engine (CME) uses a content addressable memory (CAM) array that stores a plurality of strings in separate entries. The strings define one or more rules to be matched. The strings of each rule are linked, thereby providing a required order. The strings of each rule can be linked by per-entry counters associated with each string, or by a state machine. The strings in the CAM array are compared with a packet, which is shifted one symbol at a time (because the strings can start on any boundary). When the CAM detects a match, the CAM skips over the string that resulted in the match, thereby preventing erroneous matches. The CAM allows parallel matching to be performed for multiple rules. If the contents of a packet match all of the strings of a rule, in order, then the CME asserts a match/index signal that identifies the matched rule.
