US09067186B2
A method of and apparatus for efficient on-demand production of H2 and O2 from water and heat using environmentally safe metals are disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus for hydrogen generation through water-decomposition reaction includes a main reactor, an oxidizer reactor, and a computer-control system. The computer system is configured to control each of the components of the hydrogen gas production system for stable hydrogen-gas production.
US09067185B2
The present invention performs special heat treatment on a polymer film in a temperature range from (i) a lower limit to temperature rise being equal to or higher than a starting temperature of thermal decomposition of the polymer film, i.e., which is a temperature observed at an early stage of the thermal decomposition of the polymer film, to (ii) an upper limit to temperature rise being equal to or lower than an intermediate temperature of thermal decomposition of the polymer film. This reduces foaming in the film during graphitization treatment following the special heat treatment. Thus, even with a higher heating rate for graphitization, it is possible to produce a graphite film having good quality.
US09067176B2
An ammonia injection grid covered with sound adsorption material for a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that provides uniform distribution of ammonia to the SCR catalyst in NOX reduction systems and provides noise suppression for heat recovery steam generation systems, packaged boilers, simple cycle catalyst systems and fired heaters for superior operational efficiency. The ammonia injection grid covered with sound adsorption material includes an injection tube having at least one nozzle for injecting ammonia into a flow of flue gas. The ammonia injection grid also includes a corrugated turbulence enhancer covered with sound adsorption material associated with the injection tube to generate turbulent wake to enhance turbulent mixing and noise suppression.
US09067168B2
An adsorber with minimal dead volume especially suited to reverse-flow applications comprises: a) an adsorber body; b) a first head engaged with said adsorber body; c) a first conduit extending from outside said head to at least partially through said head; and d) a first valve in flow communication with said first conduit controlling fluid flow along a flow path extending from the first valve and through the adsorber body. The adsorber is especially suited for use in a process for swing adsorption separation processes.
US09067160B2
A diesel particulate defuser (“DPD”) is connected to an exhaust pipe of a diesel engine, an exhaust gas temperature during automatic regeneration of the DPD is detected, and the difference between the detected exhaust gas temperature and a target regeneration temperature is determined. In a case where an exhaust pipe injection amount is PID controlled based on this difference, when an exhaust brake valve is closed during traveling automatic regeneration, the exhaust pipe injection is stopped and calculation of an integral control term by the PID control is continued as long as the exhaust valve brake valve is closed, and when the exhaust brake valve is opened, the integral control term that has been continuously calculated is taken as an initial operation amount.
US09067153B2
The invention relates to a device for separating a flowing liquid mixture into at least two fractions with differing mass density, comprising: a plurality of plates disposed substantially parallel to each other and a frame engaging at least substantially round the plates. The invention also relates to a throughflow tank provided with such a plate separator device and a method for manufacturing a plate separator device.
US09067152B2
Systems and methods for increasing the rate of evaporation for a liquid. Systems and methods include use of evaporation membranes having large surface areas exposed to the ambient environment.
US09067146B1
A swing includes a body with a concave central portion defining a recessed concave seat and a peripheral edge surrounding the concave central portion. The peripheral edge includes a plurality of tether openings, each of which is adapted to receive an associated tether. A top wall extends radially outward from the recessed concave seat. An outer wall is connected to and projects downwardly from an outer end of said top wall. A peripheral groove is defined adjacent the top wall and the outer wall, wherein said plurality of tether openings each open through the top wall and into the peripheral groove. A tether system is adapted to suspend the body from an associated support member, the tether system engaged with the tether openings and at least part of said tether system located in said peripheral groove. The peripheral edge of the body can be circular, a non-rectangular polygon, or an oval or other non-circular curved shape.
US09067142B2
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating a shared activity conducted by multiple participants via remote devices, particularly when there are more players then available remote devices. For example, the shared activity may be users playing electronic versions of a variety of card games or board games (or other game types). Users interact with a central device and one or more remote devices. The central device may be used to present “public” information on a central game play field—such as a game board, draw and discard piles, place cards, current scores, whose turn it is, etc. And the remote devices are used to present “private” game information to individual players—such as a player's “hole cards” or letter tiles. Further, users may make game choices and provide game input by interacting with the handheld device.
US09067139B2
A method for determining the position of a controller device, comprises: receiving dimensions of the display input by a user of the computer-based system; capturing successive images of the display at the controller device; determining a position of the controller device relative to the display based on the dimensions of the display and a perspective distortion of the display in the captured successive images of the display; providing the determined position of the controller to the computer-based system to interface with the interactive program to cause an action by the interactive program.
US09067138B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for playing browser based game with alternative controls and interfaces are presented. One method includes an operation for detecting an alternate device for playing the game. The alternate device generates alternate inputs, and the game is not predefined to be played with the alternate device. A query for information to map the alternate inputs to play the game is sent to a server, and a mapping of alternate inputs to native inputs is generated with the information received from the server. The game is predefined to be played with a native device that provides the native inputs to the game. Further, the method includes an operation for translating the alternate inputs generated with the alternate device to corresponding native inputs according to the mapping to cause corresponding actions in the game.
US09067134B2
Sounded reproduction of basic sound data indicating a game sound to be reproduced in a video game and sound deadening reproduction of coda data indicating coda used as a termination sound are started when it becomes predetermined reproduction start timing in the video game to reproduce the basic sound data and the coda data in synchronization with each other. By referring to marker data indicating a plurality of markers when it becomes predetermined reproduction end timing in the video game, switching timing to switch reproduction modes and stop timing to stop reproducing are determined. When it becomes the switching timing, the sounded reproduction of the basic sound data and the sound deadening reproduction of the coda data are respectively switched into sound deadening reproduction and sounded reproduction. The reproduction of the basic sound data and the coda data is stopped when it becomes the stop timing.
US09067132B1
Individuals can operate processor enabled devices at a high level of performance, even if they have little or no familiarity with those devices, by indirectly operating them through a first processor enabled device. The direct interactions of individuals with a familiar device can be communicated to one or more processors that perform signal processing functions in order to generate control signals that direct the operation of a second, unfamiliar processor-enabled device. In this closed-loop system, individuals can receive real-time feedback on the performance of the second device in a form associated with the operation of the first device.
US09067126B2
This invention is a Cue easy hold glove to be worn by cue sports players while engaging the game of cue sports. It is of a wearable material and has stalls for the thumb and the index finger, extends in a semi circular pattern to point on the wrist and extends along a line parallel the fore arm to a point below the wrist, held down with a band.
US09067123B1
A workout glove can include an integrated wrist wrap. The workout glove comprises a hand portion within which a wearer's hand is placed and a wrist wrap attached to a proximal edge of the hand portion and configured to extend around the wearer's wrist when the wearer's hand is placed in the hand portion. The hand portion includes one or more open-ended sheaths through which corresponding one or more of the wearer's fingers extend and a thumb opening through which the wearer's thumb extends and which exposes the wearer's thumb.
US09067121B1
A swim pacing device for providing a real time visual reference to a swimmer of a given pace. The swim pacing device comprises a waterproof strand of signal lights, a programmable control, a cord reel, and a low voltage battery power source. The strand of signal lights is placed in the water along the bottom of a pool and the signal lights are independently illuminated by the controller according to a pre-defined pace. It is not necessary to orient the strand of lights upward since the signal lights are viewable from all directions. The control is preferably permanently integrated into the cord reel and the means for wiring and control is simplified creating a single piece low cost reliable device.
US09067114B2
A flying disc target which includes a frame having a plurality of adjustable legs and a support member having a plurality of hinges, each leg coupled to a hinge of the support member and a target member detachably coupled to the frame, the target member having a first surface and an opposing second surface, the target member includes at least one pocket extending from the first surface toward the second surface, wherein the pocket is configured to receive and store a flying disc.
US09067112B2
A training method for measuring detrimental movements to more accurately deliver a bat to a ball, including positioning a stiff and straight leading or front leg at the start of and during the process until after contact with the ball, pointing and planting the leading or front foot at least partially in the direction from which the ball is traveling, positioning the hands and the bat such that the distal end of the bat is below the shoulders and the bat is held substantially parallel to the ground at the start of the process, delivering the bat directly forward in the same plane as the ball is traveling, and utilizing pivoting of the torso and hips about an axis to deliver the bat to a ball with little or no forward or lateral movement of the body.
US09067110B1
The present invention comprises a golf club head comprising a body having a crown, a sole, a front wall and a hosel, wherein the body defines a hollow interior. The golf club head further comprises a center of gravity adjustment assembly wherein the center of gravity adjustment assembly is positioned within the hollow interior of the body, and allows the center of gravity of the golf club head to be adjusted by at least 0.050 inch, preferably along a vertical axis.
US09067109B2
A ball bat extending about an axis, and configured for hitting a ball. The bat including a barrel portion coupled to a handle portion, a tubular sleeve positioned within the barrel portion, and an end cap. The barrel portion is formed of a fiber composite material, and includes a proximal end region, a distal end region, and an inner and outer layer. The layers are separated by a first separation configured to allow for independent movement between the layers upon impact with the ball. The sleeve is coupled to the handle portion. A portion of the sleeve is separated from the inner layer by a second separation within the range of 0.030 to 0.125 inch when measured radially from the axis. Upon impact, the barrel portion deflects inwardly such that the inner wall operably engages the sleeve. The cap is coupled to the sleeve and to the barrel portion.
US09067103B2
A gymnastic machine (1) comprising a frame (10) supporting a load group (20) that can be actuated cyclically for power exchange with a user during training; a pair of first levers (24), substantially identical to each other, each of which being carried by the frame (10) in a rotatable manner around a first pivot axis (A1) and being provided with a respective interface (243), so that the interface (243) can move cyclically along a given trajectory (T); a transmission group (30) being provided mechanically to connect the first levers (24) with the load group (20); the transmission group (30)(30′) comprising a modulating device (300′)(300) designed to limit a speed change of each user interface (243) along the annular trajectory (T) and to avoid, in use, a sudden movement of the interface (243) transversally to the trajectory (T) as the motion is inverted.
US09067099B2
An exercise apparatus with a generator. The exercise apparatus includes a frame, a rotating component, a generator, and a battery. The rotating component is rotatably connected to the frame and the rotating component rotates in response to operation of the exercise apparatus. The generator is connected to the rotating component and the frame. The generator includes a rotor connected to the rotating component and a stator. The rotor rotates in response to rotation of the rotating component. The stator is connected to the frame. The stator interacts with the rotor to produce electric current at an output. In one embodiment, the battery is connected to the output wherein the battery is charged by electric current from the generator.
US09067098B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes a system and method for alleviating symptoms of a medical disorder of a patient by forced exercise. The system includes an exercise machine having movable portions that move in response to a first contribution by a patient and in response a second contribution by a motor. The system further includes at least one mechanical sensor and a control system programmed to alter the second contribution by the motor in response to the sensed data.
US09067095B2
A game for cycling takes place on velodromes, or tracks. The game has three teams competing at the same time to claim victory and advance to higher levels of competition. Each cyclist on a team accumulates points based upon crossing a finish line in the first group of five. Each team has nine members with sprinter and long distance roles. Each team competes in up to ten races during a single game. When teams increase to four in an area, the four teams form a division. After twelve games, the teams and divisions hold a two game playoff that aids in the selection of a national team. The national teams then compete in a worldwide championship game. The game includes select lighting and camera equipment suitable for creating an attractive television product.
US09067081B2
A substantially rigid defibrillator carrying case having a hinged side, a latch disposed on a latch side opposite the hinged side, and a handle disposed on a handle side disposed between the hinged side and the latch side. The carrying case is constructed without protrusions and with an arcuate and semi-rigid or rigid handle, which combine to allow easy removal and deployment of the contents from a vehicle storage location to a cardiac arrest patient. The carrying case is further constructed with a wide angle viewing ready status light pipe for greater ease of maintenance of the contents.
US09067075B2
Apparatus and methods for detecting lead migration through the use of measured artifactual data about the tissue in the vicinity of the lead.
US09067064B2
Systems, techniques, and processes are disclosed for implementing aperture-based optimization techniques. In one aspect, a method performed by an aperture-based radiation treatment system includes implementing a volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment plan by generating apertures at beam angles. Beam intensities of the generated apertures are determined, which can be used to control generation of a radiation dose in a radiation therapy.
US09067063B2
Brachytherapy treatment apparatus are provided that include an elongate core member, a plurality of expandable catheters or other elongate members and a balloon or other expandable member on a distal portion adjacent the core member. Each catheter includes a distal end coupled to the core member distal end, a proximal end movable relative to the core member, and a lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends for receiving a source of radiation therealong. The balloon is expandable independently of the catheters such that the balloon may be expanded after expanding the catheters, e.g., to facilitate imaging and/or dose planning. Optionally, a working channel may be provided for receiving an aspiration catheter or other instrument or at least one of the catheters may include an aspiration lumen and one or more ports, e.g., for aspirating material from a region surrounding the distal portion.
US09067060B2
The present invention relates to the fields of skin care and energy-tissue interaction. More particularly, the invention relates to a device and method for enhancing operation and treatment safety during applications of energy to the skin and human body.
US09067057B2
A percutaneous gateway is provided for permanently transmission between inside of a body and outside of the body, comprising an implant (10) adapted to be at least partly anchored in a bone (1). The implant (10) has a transmission means (30) that allows a long-term stable communication through a transmitting device (20) adapted to extend from an implantable component (90) through the bone (80) to a device (91) at the outer end (3) of the percutaneous gateway.
US09067056B2
A combined dissection tool and blank for implanting a paddle lead having an electrode portion and a lead body. The combined dissection tool and blank includes a blank with a maximum cross-sectional area substantially equal to a maximum cross sectional area of the electrode portion of the paddle lead. An elongated body portion is attached to the blank. A guide wire extends through the body portion substantially to a distal end of the blank. The guide wire provides sufficient column strength to separate fatty tissue to create a space for receiving the paddle lead.
US09067055B2
A defibrillator electrode set for a defibrillator and a defibrillator which senses the capacitance of an attached electrode set includes an electrode set coupled to the defibrillator by an adapter cable. The adapter cable and electrode set are pre-connected to the defibrillator prior to use. The electrodes are stored in a sealed foil package to retard gel desiccation prior to use. To reduce the capacitance of the electrode set seen by the defibrillator, the capacitance between the stored electrodes and the foil package is reduced by using a thicker dielectric layer for the layer of an electrode which opposes a wall of the foil package. In a constructed embodiment, one sixteenth inch thick polyethylene foam may be used for the electrode layer opposing the wall of the foil package.
US09067053B2
There is provided an ultrasonic treatment device that is minimally-invasive and that achieves embolization treatment having a high blood flow blocking effect. To this end, the ultrasonic treatment device is provided with a function to transmit to a target area of a subject both a bubble generation pulse that vaporizes a contrast agent, and a bubble generation pulse that causes the diameter of the formed bubble to increase.
US09067047B2
Embodiments of a material delivery device including a deformable reservoir and associated controllable output mechanism are described. Methods of use and control of the device are also disclosed. According to some embodiments, a material delivery device may be placed in an animal in order to controllably dispense at least one material into the animal. The material delivery device may include a programmable mechanism to control the release of the material into the animal. In selected embodiments, a remote controller may be used to program or to control the material delivery device. Some embodiments are described wherein a magnetic field, an electric field, or electromagnetic control signal may be used.
US09067034B2
A nasal delivery device for and a method of delivering substance to a nasal airway of a subject, the nasal delivery device comprising: a mouthpiece (519) through which the subject in use exhales to cause closure of the oropharyngeal velum of the subject; a nosepiece (517) for fitting to a nostril of a subject, the nosepiece including a nozzle (549) through which substance is in use delivered to the nasal airway; and a manually-actuatable substance supply unit (520) for delivering substance through the nozzle of the nosepiece.
US09067033B2
A breathing arrangement includes a patient interface, at least one inlet conduit, and a headgear assembly. The patient interface includes a mouth covering assembly including a cushion structured to sealingly engage around exterior of a patient's mouth in use, a nozzle assembly including a pair of nozzles structured to sealingly engage within nasal passages of a patient's nose in use, and a flexible element connecting the mouth covering assembly and the nozzle assembly. The at least one inlet conduit is structured to deliver breathable gas into at least one of the mouth covering assembly and the nozzle assembly for breathing by the patient. The headgear assembly is removably connected to at least one of the mouth covering assembly and the nozzle assembly so as to maintain the mouth covering assembly and the nozzle assembly in a desired position on the patient's face.
US09067032B2
The present invention regards a novel administration form and a novel administration regime useful in the treatment and prevention of a bacterial lung infection in patient in need thereof, in particular by providing a composition useful for aerosolization of a highly concentrated solution of aminoglycosides such as Tobramycin.
US09067030B2
A surgical gas delivery system is disclosed that includes a device housing supporting a control unit and a filter interface having a seat for receiving a filter cartridge, the filter cartridge having a filter housing defining an interior reservoir, wherein sensors are coupled to the control unit for sensing a level of liquid within the reservoir of the filter cartridge to prevent contamination of the device, and wherein a set of blocking valves are provided in the device housing for interacting with the filter cartridge when it is received in the filter interface to control flow through suction and pressure lines of the device, and wherein the control unit is adapted to recognize a characteristic of the filter cartridge received in the filter interface.
US09067022B2
An injection amount measuring apparatus for a syringe indicated with injection amount absolute value information is provided. The injection amount measuring apparatus includes an injection amount absolute value information extracting unit configured to extract the injection amount absolute value information; a control unit configured to analyze the extracted injection amount absolute value information to determine injection amount information for an injection amount to be injected from the syringe; and a storage unit configured to store the injection amount information.
US09067019B2
A pistol-shaped needleless injector includes a readily replaceable barrel (36) in the front end thereof facilitating adjustment of the dosage administered using the injector. A disposable nozzle (98) mountable on a holder (97) extending outwardly from the front discharge end of the barrel (36) provides an indication that the nozzle (98) has been used and should be discarded.
US09067009B2
A core, rotatably fitted within a body of a manifold assembly, includes a flow channel configured so that, when the core is rotated 360 degrees, fluid communication between ports of the body is only established by the channel at a first position, between first and second ports, and at a second position, between third and fourth ports. The channel may define an angle greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees, preferably 120 degrees; and, the rotation, between first and second positions, may be approximately 180 degrees. In a medical injection system, the first and second ports are fill ports of the assembly, the first being coupled to a reservoir, and the second being coupled to a pump; and the third and fourth ports are injection ports of the assembly, the third being coupled to the pump, and the fourth being coupled to an injection line.
US09066991B2
Improved matrix or hydrogel that is formed by enzymatic crosslinking of polymers wherein the crosslinking enzyme molecules have been modified for the purpose of improving the crosslinking density, mechanical properties, or other properties of the matrix, and/or to provide improved control over the rate and/or extent of crosslinking, wherein the enzyme molecules are modified to alter the perceived volume of the enzyme molecules in the crosslinked matrix being formed. Methods of production and of use are also provided.
US09066974B1
A treatment regimen for psoriasis includes administering to a patient diagnosed with psoriasis periodic doses of a combination including emodin and digoxin, or a combination of emodin, digoxin, Sheng Di Huang, Da Huang and Jin Yin Hua, or a combination of emodin, digoxin, Sheng Di Huang, Da Huang, Jin Yin Hua, Mu Dan Pi, Di Gu Pi, Xian He Cao and Chun Gen Pi.
US09066973B2
A composition is provided for promoting weight loss. This comprises a component for supporting healthy thyroid function; a component for increasing satiety; a component for inhibiting carbohydrate uptake and usage; a component for increasing calorie expenditure; and a component for increasing fatty acid oxidation therefore improving lean body composition. A method promoting weight loss in a human is also provided. The method comprises the following steps: supporting healthy thyroid function; increasing satiety; inhibiting carbohydrate uptake and usage; increasing calorie expenditure; and increasing fatty acid oxidation therefore improving lean body composition.
US09066972B2
Amide compounds, amide polymers, compositions including amide compounds and amide polymers may be used to bind target ions, such as phosphorous-containing compounds in the gastrointestinal tract of animals. In some cases, amide compounds and amide polymers may include a core derived from an amide polyol and an organic polyacid or ester.
US09066971B2
Disclosed is a method for the treatment and/or diagnosis of cancer, using bacterial cell-derived microvesicles, which is highly effective in cancer therapy with a significant reduction in side effects. Also, a method is provided for delivering of a drug therapeutic or diagnostic for a disease, using bacterial cell-derived microvesicles loaded with the drug, thereby treating and diagnosing the disease effectively and specifically.
US09066947B2
The disclosure describes compounds of formula I,wherein the wedged bonds, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R5a, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, X and Y have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof; and methods of using such compounds useful in the treatment of cancer and conditions affected by inhibition of angiogenesis. Also provided, are processes for the preparation of formula I, by reacting formula I with other compounds; and processes for the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation by bringing into association, a compound of formula I, with therapeutic agents and/or a pharmaceutically-acceptable adjuvant, diluent, or carrier.
US09066946B2
The present invention is directed to compounds of Formulas (I, IIa and IIb): The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formulas (I, IIa and IIb). Methods of making and using the compounds of Formulas (I, IIa and IIb) are also within the scope of the invention.
US09066944B2
The invention provides compounds of formulas (I) or (II): wherein the variables are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, that are inhibitors of replication of the hepatitis C virus. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat hepatitis C viral infections, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
US09066935B2
Composites and methods of producing a moldable bone substitute are described. A scaffold for bone growth comprises nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite (HA), a bioresorbable plasticizer, and a biodegradable polymer. Plasticizers of the invention include oleic acid, tocopherol, eugenol, 1,2,3-triacetoxypropane, monoolein, and octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside. Polymers of the invention include poly(caprolactone), poly(D,L-Lactic acid), and poly(glycolide-co lactide). Methods of regulating porosity, hardening speed, and shapeability are also described. Composites and methods are described using nanocrystalline HA produced with and without amino acids. The scaffold for bone growth described herein displays increased strength and shapeability.
US09066930B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treating disorders associated with angiogenesis or lymphangiogenesis using ALK-1 antagonists.
US09066924B2
The present invention relates to a composition consisting of ellagitannins rich extracts originated from plant extracts of the Fagaceae family, for use in a method for improving sexual fitness or wellness of both sexes, the male sexual enhancement, the treatment of sexual dysfunction and the health of the sexual vascular system of both sexes.
US09066923B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising a combination of PKC activators and PKC inhibitors and methods to modulate α-secretase activity; improve or enhance cognitive ability; and/or reduce neurodegeneration in individuals suffering from diseases that impair cognitive ability, particularly Alzheimer's Disease. The invention also relates to methods for improving or enhancing cognitive ability. The present invention also provides methods for increasing the generation of non-amyloidogenic soluble APP (sAPP) comprising the activation of protein kinase C (PKC) in the brain and inhibiting PKC in peripheral tissues. Macrocyclic lactones (i.e. bryostatin class and neristatin class) are preferred PKC activators and Vitamin E is a preferred PKC inhibitor for use in the inventive composition.
US09066921B2
Combined therapies and oral dosage forms based on genistein for the support of osteoporotic health.
US09066920B2
This invention relates to the use of one or more cannabinoids in the treatment of epilepsy and more particularly to the use of one or a combination of cannabinoids in the treatment of generalized or partial seizure. In one embodiment it relates to the use of the cannabinoid THCV, as a pure or isolated compound, or as a plant extract in which significant amounts of any THC naturally present has been selectively removed. In another embodiment the phytocannabinoid is CBD.
US09066917B2
There is provided a method of producing a mixed metal compound comprising at least Mg2+ and at least Fe3+ having an aluminum content of less than 10000 ppm, having an average crystal size of less than 20 nm (200 A) comprising the steps of: (a) combining a Mg2+ salt and a Fe3+ salt with Na2CO3 and NaOH to produce a slurry, wherein the pH of the slurry is maintained at from 9 5 to 1 1, and wherein the Na2CO3 is provided at an excess of 0 to 4.0 moles than is required to complete the reaction (b) subjecting the slurry to mixing under conditions providing a power per unit volume of 0 03 to 1.6 kW/m3 (c) separating the mixed metal compound from the slurry, to obtain a crude product having a dry solid content of at least 10 wt % (d) drying the crude product either by (i) heating the crude product to a temperature of no greater than 150° C. and sufficient to provide a water evaporation rate of 0.05 to 1 5 kg water per hour per kg of dry product, or (H) exposing the crude product to rapid drying at a water evaporation rate of 500 to 50000 kg water per hour per kg of dry product.
US09066915B2
A food composition having a high protein level and comprising DHA, preferably for use as a meal replacement, is administered to subjects in order to control their weight.
US09066911B2
A composition having an extract of seed of Emblica officinalis. Methods of preparing extract of seed of Emblica officinalis. An amla seed blend composition having various ratios of extracts of seeds of Emblica officinalis. Nutraceutical or pharmaceutical methods for decreasing the total cholesterol, decreasing triglyceride, decreasing blood glucose level, enhancing HDL-C levels, increasing the HDL-C level to total cholesterol ratio, lowering LDL-C levels, decreasing the CRP level, decreasing the intima media thickening, reducing hair fall in mammals especially human beings. The extract of seed of Emblica officinalis, or the amla seed blend composition is more effective compared to extracts prepared from fruits of Emblica officinalis.
US09066898B2
The present disclosure provides (a) isolated immunogenic PAA polypeptides; (b) isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding immunogenic PAA polypeptides; (c) vaccine compositions comprising an immunogenic PAA polypeptide or an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding an immunogenic PAA polypeptide; (d) methods relating to uses of the polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules, and compositions; and (e) vaccine-based immunotherapy regimens which involve co-administration of a vaccine in combination with an immune-suppressive-cell inhibitor and an immune-effector-cell enhancer.
US09066886B2
Disclosed herein is a transdermal system in a matrix form capable of enhancing granisetron carrying efficiency and improving transdermal absorption while inhibiting recrystallization, which comprises: at least one transdermal enhancer selected from a group consisting of polyglyceryl-3 oleate, polyethyleneglycol-20 almond glyceride, polyethyleneglycol-12 palm kernel glyceride, isopropyl myristate and oleyl alcohol; and an acrylate polymer.
US09066885B2
The present invention provides a novel biomaterial which is a hybrid, self-assembling biopolymeric networked film that is functionalized through hydrophobic interactions with vesicles loaded with bioactive agents. The biomaterial compound is a polymeric network of hydrophobically modified chitosan scaffolds that is taken from solution and formed as a solid film. This solid state film is capable of hydrophobic interactions with the functionalized vesicles. The vesicles include one or more lamellar structures forming one or more nano-compartments that are capable of containing similar or alternative active moieties within. Use of the film results in a degradation of the chitosan scaffold thereby releasing the active moieties within the vesicles from the scaffold. Application of the current invention occurs through various delivery mechanisms and routes of administration as will be described herein.
US09066882B2
This disclosure relates to a method and a system of producing nanoparticles and nanoparticle matrices of thermolabile, biocompatible matrix materials, like lipids and biopolymers with controlled properties. A prototype pulse-heat aerosol system is described for single-step production of free, thermolabile nanoparticles with sufficient control over size, morphology and crystallinity with controlled-release properties, for possible therapeutic, cosmetic or diagnostic use. Nanoparticles of the range 50 to 500 nm are obtained and are found suitable for controlled drugs delivery.
US09066875B2
A drug delivery device that includes a capsule for implantation into the body; the capsule further includes a reservoir for containing a substance such as a therapeutic agent, at least one port for allowing the substance to diffuse from or otherwise exit the reservoir, and a nanopore membrane in communication with the capsule at or near the exit port for controlling the rate of diffusion of the substance from the exit port. The device also includes an optional screen for providing structural stability to the nanopore membrane and for keeping the pores of the nanopore membrane clear. One embodiment of the drug delivery device includes an osmotic engine internal to the device for creating fluid flow through the device.
US09066873B2
A white, color-stable, stain-free emulsion formulation containing vanillin for sunless tanning. The amount of vanillin can be adjusted, from about 1% up to about 45%, to provide light or dark tanning of the skin. Lime oil and lime juice form a preferred white emulsion foundation.
US09066867B2
A serum-stable mixture of lipids capable of encapsulating an active agent to form a liposome, said mixture comprising phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine in a ratio in the range of about 0.5 to about 8. The mixture may also include pH sensitive anionic and cationic amphiphiles, such that the mixture is amphoteric, being negatively charged or neutral at pH 7.4 and positively charged at pH 4. Amphoteric liposomes comprising such a mixture may be used for encapsulating nucleic acid therapeutics, such as oligonucleotides and DNA plasmids. The drug/lipid ratio may be adjusted to target the liposomes to particular organs or other sites in the body.
US09066862B2
Provided are cosmetic compositions of incompatible cosmetic composition provided long term stability by the interfacial reaction of two immiscible polymers having complementary reactive pair functional groups.
US09066861B2
The invention discloses a dermaceutical cream containing steroids and an antibacterial agent in the form of Fusidic acid, which Fusidic acid is formed in situ from Sodium Fusidate as the starting raw material, wherein Sodium Fusidate is converted into Fusidic acid under oxygen-free environment. The cream of the present invention has greater shelf-life stability and the finer particle size of the API than the conventional creams containing Fusidic acid. The cream of the present invention contains Fusidic acid as the API that has been formed in situ from Sodium Fusidate, and steroids in a cream base comprising an acid, a co-solvent, an emulsifier and a waxy material along with water, preferably purified water.
US09066828B2
A medical device includes an elongate metallic hypotube having an open proximal end and an opposed open distal end defining a tubular wall having an open internal diameter and an exterior diameter. The tubular wall has a first flexible portion disposed near the proximal open end and a second portion disposed near the distal open end. The first flexible portion of the hypotube includes a plurality of slots extending through the tubular wall and having a circumferential arc from about 150° to about 300°; and where adjacent slots are axially offset from one and the other from about 30° to about 60°. The medical device may be used as part of an endovascular delivery system.
US09066824B2
Assemblies, devices, and methods for positioning the same proximate a target site within a body lumen are provided. The assembly includes first and second components that can function independently of one another to address a patient's vascular abnormalities or can cooperate to form an assembly. The assembly is designed to address aortic pathologies near clusters of arterial branches in a way that allows blood to continue flowing to the arterial branches during the procedure while providing an adequate landing zone for the adjoining component. One of the components may include a tapered portion near one end that can be received by a corresponding end of the other component. Alternatively, one of the components may include an invaginated end that is able to receive a corresponding end of the other component such that the position of each component is substantially fixed with respect to the other.
US09066817B2
A high torque active mechanism for an orthotic and/or prosthetic joint using a primary brake which can be provide by magnetorheological (MR) rotational damper incorporating and an additional friction brake mechanism driven by the braking force generated by the MR damper. This combination of MR damper and friction brake mechanism allows an increase in torque density while keeping the same level of motion control offered by the MR damper alone. The increased torque density achieved by this high torque active mechanism allows to minimize the size of the actuating system, i.e. its diameter and/or breath, while maximizing its braking torque capability. In this regard, the friction brake mechanism is advantageously positioned around the MR damper, such that the dimension of the package is minimized.
US09066816B2
A multi-piece intervertebral disc augmentation implant that may be assembled within the annulus fibrosus is disclosed. The implant may be guided into a precise location through a relatively small opening in the annulus fibrosus with the aid of an elongated guide.
US09066813B2
Unidirectional dynamic interbody fusion devices and methods of use for insertion into a patient in order to maintain a space between two vertebral bodies. A first interbody fusion device including a body member, at least one side member, and a means for moving the at least one side member relative to the central body member. A second interbody fusion device including a base member, a top member, and a means for moving the top member relative to the base member. A surgical method for maintaining a space between two vertebral bodies in a spine, including obtaining a medical device, inserting and coupling an expansion tool into an opening within the medical device, slidingly inserting the medical device into a space between two vertebral bodies; and rotating the expansion tool to move the at least one side member in a direction relative to the body member.
US09066812B2
An ostomy device that comprises an adhesive wafer for attaching to the skin around the stoma. The wafer comprises an adhesive layer having a proximal adhesive surface and a distal surface. The distal surface is covered with a backing layer. The wafer comprises a central portion and a peripheral portion, and it comprises at least a first and a detection zone, wherein the detection zone is configured to provide a tactile sensation on the distal surface of the wafer when exposed to moisture.
US09066809B2
A method for inserting an intervertebral artificial disc is provided with the intervertebral disc including a first endplate having a plurality of protrusions for attaching to an adjacent vertebrae and an extension portion extending towards a second adjacent vertebrae. A second endplate is provided with a plurality of protrusions for attaching to a second adjacent vertebrae and an extension portion extending towards the first adjacent vertebrae. A flexible member having an upper portion and a lower portion and a slider plate positioned within the upper portion of the flexible member is also provided. The extension portion of the first endplate is adapted to fit within a first cavity in the upper portion of the flexible member and the extension portion of the second endplate is adapted to fit within a second cavity in the lower portion of the flexible member.
US09066808B2
A method and system of interdigitating flowable material with spinal tissue is disclosed which in one embodiment, includes forming a structure that may partially surround a portion of the spinal material and introducing flowable material into the portion of spinal tissue surrounded by the structure.
US09066805B2
An arthroplasty plate and method of use to repair a fractured end of a bone are described. The arthroplasty plate comprises a fixation plate (2) arranged to be secured to a surface of a bone and a connector assembly (6) comprising a barrel (18) extending from the fixation plate and having a bore which opens through the fixation plate. A connector rod (22) is arranged to slide within the bore of the barrel. An articulation component (4) comprises a bearing surface coupled to or arranged to couple to an end of the connector rod which extends from the barrel away from the fixation plate. The connector assembly incorporates an adjustment mechanism (24) arranged to cause the connector rod to slide into or out of the barrel and a locking mechanism (26) arranged to lock the position of the connector rod within the barrel to rigidly space the articulation component apart from the fixation plate.
US09066801B2
Heart valve prostheses are provided for replacing a cardiac valve. The heart valve prosthesis includes a self-expanding frame including a first portion and a second portion. In the collapsed configuration, the first portion is positioned adjacent to the second portion. In the expanded configuration, the first portion moves to be positioned within an interior area of the second portion.
US09066796B2
The invention pertains to methods, components, and operations of multi-focal intraocular lens systems, including range finding for driving same and for discriminating between multiple objects and varying brightness conditions. The invention also pertains to intraocular photosensors and range-finding methods to be used with intra-ocular lens systems, and components, that provide multi-focal IOL capabilities in dynamic visual environments.
US09066793B2
A method of implanting an aortic stent comprising steps of: putting a main tube on a metal guide wire; moving the main tube along the metal guide wire to the descending aorta, the main tube is constrained by a first cover, and first and second tube bifurcations are branched from the main section; removing the first cover; inserting a second and third metal guide wire through the first tube bifurcation into the ascending aorta and branchiocephalic artery respectively; a first and a second tube branch moving into the ascending aorta and the branchiocephalic artery respectively; inserting a fourth and fifth metal guide wire through the first tube bifurcation into the ascending aorta and branchiocephalic artery respectively; a third and a fourth tube branch moving into left common carotid artery and the left subclavian artery respectively; removing a second cover constraining said tube branches.
US09066791B2
The present ventilation system for goggles includes a fan wherein the system is readily and removably attached to the goggles.
US09066789B2
Apparatuses to be worn by users proximate their ankles to manage pressure and swelling, the apparatus including a wrap shaped to conform to a portion of a foot and a lower leg of the user. In some examples, the wrap defines a compressible multiple layer construction including at least one layer that including a compressible foam, a channel sized to receive a portion of the foot and the lower leg, a substantially stretchable flap sized to extend across the channel when the foot and the lower leg are positioned within the channel, a leg portion, and a foot portion, wherein the leg portion may be flexibly angled from the foot portion a bandaged area including the user's ankles. In some examples, the wrap is configured to be fitted around a portion of the user's foot and lower leg to compress at the ankle area to a selected barrier pressure.
US09066786B1
A laterally applied orthosis having a dynamic flexible stiffener that is configured to extend across a joint and impede joint movement caused by muscle contractions by resisting flexing but allowing some movement in the joint. The stiffener is elastic so that it rebounds to its original form after flexing due to movement of the joint. The stiffener is disposed within a brace having a plurality of adjustable straps extending from the brace. The straps can be fastened to one another or the brace itself to form a substantially tubular structure for securing the brace to a limb. At least one of the plurality of straps is semi-rigid and malleable.
US09066785B2
A packaging system is disclosed for shipping a prosthetic tissue valve in a storage solution and preparing and loading of the bioprosthetic valve onto a catheter-based delivery system. The packaging system includes a fluid tight container filled with the storage solution attached to a delivery catheter, wherein the container surrounds the prosthetic tissue valve that is in a pre-loaded position on the delivery catheter during shipment and storage. The prosthetic tissue valve may include an attachment mechanism that attaches to the delivery catheter to properly position the tissue valve for loading within the delivery catheter. In another embodiment where the prosthetic tissue valve is not attached to the delivery catheter during shipment, the attachment mechanism may interact with the prosthetic tissue valve shipping container to prevent the bioprosthetic valve from moving during shipment.
US09066777B2
A light device includes a housing and a tip structure configured to be removably coupled with the housing. The tip structure includes a light emitting device that is operable for emitting light positioned at a distal end of the tip structure and a body for housing the light emitting device. The housing is formed of an autoclavable material capable of withstanding autoclaving. A power supply circuit is positioned in the housing and coupled to the light emitting device to power the device when the tip structure is coupled with the housing. The power supply circuit is rechargeable and includes at least one ultracapacitor element for being charged and the power supply circuit configured to discharge the ultracapacitor as a current source to drive the at least one light emitting device.
US09066774B2
A holder for a delivery device for delivering filler material into a prepared root canal comprises a body, a mounting portion adapted to removably receive the delivery device; and a heating circuit having a heating device wherein said heating device is positioned to be in thermal communication with said delivery device when the delivery device is mounted to the holder. The holder thus enables heating of the filling material in situ in the prepared root canal at the time of insertion of the filling material in to the canal and while the filler material is being packed into the prepared canal.
US09066765B2
Orthopedic plating assemblies and methods for bone fixation that include an orthopedic plate and orthopedic anchors that can accommodate subsidence in the vertebral bodies as well as prevent the anchors from “backing out” of their installed position. The orthopedic anchors may be capable of rotating and translating with respect to the plate, and the plate may be able to translate after being fastened to the vertebral bodies.
US09066764B2
A method of stabilizing a fractured bone includes: a) providing a first support member in a medullary canal of a fractured bone; b) providing a second support member outside the fractured bone; c) providing a transverse connector adapted to link the first support member to the second support member in an angle-stable connection; d) connecting the transverse connector to the first and second support members in an angle-stable connection; e) providing one or more bone screws adapted to be connected to the second support member in an angle-stable connection; and f) implanting the bone screws such that the shank of the screw is implanted in the fractured bone while the head of the screw is connected to the second support member in an angle-stable connection. The system provides superior fixation of long bones that allows for early functional range of motion without loss of alignment or fixation.
US09066758B2
An extender comprises an outer member including a lateral opening, first and second extensions defining first and second axial cavities, the axial cavities including a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. An inner member includes a body defining a tab, first and second arms having first and second projections. The inner member is configured for axial translation relative to the outer member between a first position, a second position and a third position. The tab is movable into at least one locking cavity of the lateral opening to fix the inner member relative to the outer member. Methods of use are disclosed.
US09066757B2
An orthopedic apparatus is provided for bridging a first bone unit to a second bone unit. The apparatus is demonstrated on a finger joint, wherein one of the bones and/or ligaments and/or tendons of the joint is/are injured. A method for implanting and using the apparatus also is presented. The apparatus includes a reformably deformable span portion which is generally circular and preferably rhombic. By deforming or reforming the span portion, it can be repositioned laterally, and/or it can be rotated to allow range of rotary motion so as to promote healing.
US09066747B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument including an ultrasonically actuated blade or end effector having a treatment portion. The blade can define a central axis and at least one axis which is transverse to the central axis, wherein the transverse axis can lie within a plane which is perpendicular, or normal, to the longitudinal axis and can define a cross-section of the treatment portion. Such a cross-section can include a central portion and a step extending from the central portion, wherein the central portion can comprise a width, and wherein the step can comprise a cutting edge. In at least one embodiment, the cutting edge can be defined by first and second surfaces which define an angle therebetween. In various embodiments, the position of the cutting edge and/or the angle between the cutting edge surfaces can be selected in order to balance the blade with respect to the transverse axis.
US09066742B2
A laser catheter with a pressure sensor is provided according to embodiments of the invention. The pressure sensor may be coupled with the distal end of the laser catheter and may comprise any of various piezoelectric materials, for example Polyvinylidene Difluoride (PVDF). In various embodiments of the invention the pressure sensor is configured to detect pressure longitudinally and coaxially. The pressure sensor may provide an electric potential that is proportional to the vessel pressure and may be used to monitor and/or adjust laser parameters. In other embodiments the results from the pressure sensor may be used to determine the vessel size and/or the type of material being ablated.
US09066738B2
The invention provides a system and method for percutaneous energy delivery in an effective, manner using one or more probes. Additional variations of the system include array of probes configured to minimize the energy required to produce the desired effect.
US09066737B2
A method for moving an instrument arm of a laparoscopy robot into a predeterminable position relative to a trocar placed in a patient is proposed. A spatial marker that can be localized from outside of the patient is applied to the trocar. The spatial position of the trocar is detected based on the spatial marker. The intended position of the instrument arm is established from the spatial position and the relative position. The actual position of the instrument arm is detected. The instrument arm is moved into the intended position based on the actual position, the intended position and an error minimization method.
US09066728B2
Disclosed herein are tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
US09066723B2
A bipolar clamp for high-frequency surgery, in particular for coagulating tissue, having at least two bipolar clamping parts which are movable relative to one another, defining a grasping region between an open position and a coagulation position (e.g., closed position) and having electrodes for coagulating tissue that is grasped by the clamping parts in the grasping region. The clamping parts are formed of an electrically conductive core which is surrounded by a thin-layer electrical insulation and the electrodes are arranged on the clamping parts as thin pin electrodes that protrude through the thin-layer electrical insulation into the grasping region.
US09066722B2
An instrument (10) for fusing and severing vessels in accordance with the invention comprises a first branch (19) with a first electrode (33) and a second branch 20 that is supported so as to be movable toward and away from the first electrode (33), wherein the second branch (20) has a longitudinal slit (31). A knife (21) is arranged in said slit so as to be movable longitudinally relative to the shaft (11). The knife (21) is associated with a vertical adjustment mechanism (54) for adjusting the knife (21) perpendicularly to the longitudinal movement as a function of the longitudinal movement of said knife. As a result of this, a premature dulling of the tip (28b) or the sliding edge (28a) of the knife 21 due to contact with the ceramic base body (23) or the edges or the step (55) is avoided.
US09066719B2
Some embodiments relate to a device for delivering shape-memory staples. The device comprises a grippable portion comprising a first actuator; and a delivery portion coupled to the grippable portion. The delivery portion comprises retention walls for retaining the staples within the delivery portion in an elastically deformed configuration and release apertures for releasing the staples to adopt a deployed configuration based on their shape memory. The delivery portion is configured to cause one end of each staple to protrude from the delivery portion in response to actuation of the first actuator. In some embodiments a striking mechanism is coupled to the grippable portion and configured to communicate a striking blow to the delivery portion.
US09066713B2
Neuromodulation cryotherapeutic devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A cryotherapeutic device configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes an elongated shaft and a cooling assembly at distal portion of the shaft. The shaft can be configured to locate the distal portion intravascularly at a treatment site within or otherwise proximate a renal artery. The cryotherapeutic device can further include a supply lumen configured to carry liquid refrigerant toward the cooling assembly. The cooling assembly can include an applicator in fluid communication with the supply lumen and configured to deliver cryotherapeutic cooling to nerves proximate the target site when in a deployed state.
US09066711B2
Applicators for storing, sterilizing, and dispensing adhesives. The applicators comprise a porous tip, a body, and a container containing a polymerizable cyanoacrylate monomer adhesive. The applicators are sterilized by radiation, and following sterilization, the adhesive remains substantially unpolymerized for about twenty four months.
US09066709B2
Methods and devices to detect analyte in body fluid are provided. Embodiments include receiving one or more analyte sensor data, receiving a reference measurement value associated with an analyte level, determining a sensitivity parameter based on the received one or more analyte sensor data and the reference measurement value, performing a probability analysis based on prior analyte sensor data to determine presence of signal attenuation, and generating an output value based on the probability analysis.
US09066708B2
Methods to generate luminal organ profiles using impedance. One embodiment of such a method comprises the steps of introducing an impedance device having at least two detection electrodes positioned in between at least two excitation electrodes into a treatment site of a luminal organ at a first position, measuring a first treatment site conductance at the first position using the impedance device and at least two injections of solutions having different conductivities, moving the impedance device to a second position in the luminal organ, measuring a second treatment site conductance at the second position using the impedance device and the at least two injections of solutions having different conductivities, calculating a first position cross-sectional area using the first treatment site conductance and a second position cross-sectional area using the second treatment site conductance, and constructing a profile of the treatment site.
US09066705B1
A hydration and composition measurement device and technique that in one embodiment includes a microcontroller; a phase lock loop frequency synthesizer controlled by the microcontroller to generate radio frequencies; a cavity for use in resonating at a set of frequencies; a radio frequency power detector for measuring perturbed cavity resonance; and an analyzer. The hydration and composition measurement device may further include a circulator, which receives frequencies from the phase lock loop frequency synthesizer, and an antenna connected to the circulator and cavity. The cavity may be defined by a metallic material or members, and the cavity includes a hole configured to provide access of tissue to be tested to the cavity.
US09066701B1
A surgical access system comprising a tissue retraction assembly equipped with two or more electrodes for use in monitoring the status of nearby neural structures, including the localized depth of neural structures relative to one or more components of the tissue retraction assembly. Additional neurological testing may be performed to monitor the health and status of the neural structures during the portions of the surgical procedure in which the tissue retraction assembly is used to maintain the operative corridor.
US09066698B2
A tube assembly, system and method for biological sample collection. In one embodiment, the tube assembly of the present disclosure includes a first tube, a second tube, a mechanism for securing the first and second tubes. The securing mechanism orients the first ends of the first and second tubes in a manner such that the first end of the second tube extends beyond the first end of the first tube to create an interstitial space between the outer diameter of the first tube and the inner diameter of the second tube.
US09066696B2
The present invention provides a sensor insertion and removing device which is user-friendly and which does not cause infection. The sensor insertion and removing device has a sensor; a puncture blade member; a housing which houses the sensor and the puncture blade member; a guide part which is provided within the housing and which glidably supports the puncture blade member; a puncture blade operating part which inserts the sensor under the skin by causing the puncture blade member to glide along the guide part integrally with the sensor, upon delivering the puncture blade member outside the housing to puncture the skin, and which causes the puncture blade member to glide along the guide part in a state of being separated from the sensor, upon removing the puncture blade member from under the skin into the housing, and a sensor operating part which pulls out the sensor from under the skin and removes it from under the skin into the housing.
US09066688B2
A lancet device including a housing and a lancet structure having a puncturing element. The lancet structure disposed within the housing and adapted for movement between a retaining or pre-actuated position wherein the puncturing element is retained within the housing, and a puncturing position wherein the puncturing element extends through a forward end of the housing. The lancet device includes a drive spring disposed within the housing for biasing the lancet structure toward the puncturing position, and a retaining hub retaining the lancet structure in the retracted position against the bias of the drive spring. The retaining hub includes a pivotal lever in interference engagement with the lancet structure. An actuator within the housing pivots the lever, thereby moving the lancet structure toward the rearward end of the housing to at least partially compress the drive spring, and releasing the lever from interference engagement with the lancet structure.
US09066684B2
The present application is directed to a detector to detect or generate measuring signals that are indicative of the respiration of a person, wherein said detector can be used advantageously in view of hygiene and stands out due to a simple and robust configuration. According to a first aspect, the detector detects a signal that is indicative of the activity of the respiratory muscles of a person to be examined, the detector comprising a band which, in the application position, is passed around a torso region which widens and narrows when the person to be examined breathes, as well as a structure that is included in the band and loaded in accordance with the narrowing or widening of the torso region. The structure is configured such that it causes a change in the volume of a measuring space device depending on a tensile force. It is thus advantageously possible to detect or measure the forces acting on the band in a non-electric manner and, on the basis of this detection or measurement, draw conclusions relating to the widening or narrowing of the torso.
US09066681B2
In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, electrosurgical systems are provided generally including at least one energy-delivery device for delivering energy to tissue when inserted or embedded within tissue. The energy-delivery device can be a tissue ablation device, such as an ablation probe, needle, etc. for ablating tissue as commonly known in the art. The electrosurgical systems include at least one structure and/or operational characteristic for enhancing ultrasonic visibility of the energy-delivery devices within tissue during ultrasonography.
US09066671B2
A system and method for detecting cancerous tissue in a subject is provided. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and method for non-invasively identifying cancerous regions in breast tissue. The system includes a sensor system, a drive system, and a processor. The sensor system includes a sensor plate and, similarly, the drive system includes a drive plate. A time-varying voltage is applied to the drive plate and induced currents are subsequently measured by the sensor plate. Signals indicative of an induced current are then acquired and analyzed by the processor to determine the spatial location of anomalous regions. Subsequently, the anomalous regions are characterized as either cancerous or non-cancerous.
US09066663B2
A heart monitor for use as a non-invasive screening tool for identifying potential atrial fibrillation in patients comprises a sensor for producing an output waveform of the patient's actual sinus rhythm, a processing unit arranged to store the normalized waveform of an ideal sinus rhythm and to compare the actual and ideal sinus rhythm waveforms and to produce an output dependant on the difference on a display. The value of the output is indicative of whether the patient is atrial fibrillation or other cardiac arrhythmia.
US09066651B2
Scanning beam device calibration using a calibration pattern is disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include acquiring an image of a calibration pattern using a scanning beam device. The acquired image may be compared with a representation of the calibration pattern. The scanning beam device may be calibrated based on the comparison. Software and apparatus to perform these and other calibration methods are also disclosed.
US09066642B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a floor cleaning unit having a surface cleaning head, an upright section having a handle, a cleaning unit removably mounted to the handle and an air flow conduit forming part of an air flow path from the surface cleaning head to the cleaning unit, wherein the flexible air flow conduit comprises a portable portion removably mounted to the surface cleaning apparatus and a rigid extension wand. Reconfiguring the surface cleaning apparatus components permits the use of the surface cleaning apparatus in various operating modes such as a first upright operating mode wherein the surface cleaning apparatus is operable with the cleaning unit mounted to the handle, and a second operating mode wherein the cleaning unit is carried by a user and is operable when removed from the handle.
US09066641B2
A tool for removing ice and residual moisture from a surface includes a semi-annular attachment having multiple teeth arrayed about the periphery on the forward facing edge thereof, the attachment including a substantially straight-edged scrapper bar disposed laterally across the anterior edge of the attachment opposite the multiple teeth, a semi-annular handle guard affixed to the semi-annular attachment, the handle guard including a laterally disposed handle grip, and a flexible squeegee panel mounted to the semi-annular handle guard along the front peripheral edge thereof, the panel disposed above the multiple tooth array.
US09066637B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a shower rod assembly including a first tube, a second tube aligned with the first tube, a rod between the first tube and the second tube, a sleeve member, a bracket device, and a locking device. The rod has a macro adjustment portion, a threaded insert, and a stop member positioned between the macro adjustment portion and the threaded insert. The sleeve member slides over the tubes and can cover the rod between the tubes. The second tube engages the macro adjustment portion for a set length when the locking device is engaged. The first tube engages the threaded insert for micro adjustment of the set length to a locked length. Each bracket device has a base body with ridges, a casing with an inner core, a lock on the side of the casing and a mount.
US09066636B2
One embodiment discloses a dispenser having a liquid container for holding a liquid, a liquid pump for moving the liquid from the liquid container to a first outlet, a grit container for holding grit, and an air pump for moving the grit from the container to a second outlet. The dispenser includes an actuator for actuating the liquid pump and the air pump. During operation, the liquid pump dispenses a liquid and the air pump causes air to flow through a first passageway into the grit container causing at least some grit to flow through a second passageway, out of the second outlet and into the liquid.
US09066635B2
An air jet includes a body portion defining a hollow main body portion having an interior opening, and a connection portion having an air passageway in communication with the interior opening. The connection portion includes at least one connection port for attachment to a hose carrying pressurized air, and a flange portion defining a recessed mount surface inside a peripheral lip surrounding a recess, with a plurality of open regions defined in the peripheral lip. At least one protrusion is defined between the peripheral lip and the interior opening to reduce the volume of the recess and the amount of adhesive for installation of the air jet to the wall of the vessel. A nozzle member is fitted into the interior opening and has a nozzle orifice and nozzle tip protruding into the recess.
US09066632B2
A portable, walk in type bathtub includes an entrance and a door attached thereto to allow someone to walk into the bathtub without stepping over a wall. A replaceable water tank is attached to the tub such that clean water is directed from the water tank to the tub. Once the water has been used, the dirty or black water is directed to a separate tank within the water tank attachment. Once all of the clean water from the water tank has been used, the water tank is detached from the tub housing and a new tank containing clean water is attached to the tub to further facilitate bathing. The tub and water tank include wheels attached to the bottoms thereof to facilitate movement of the tub and water tank. The wheels may be raised and lowered to facilitate movement and locking of the tub in place.
US09066629B1
A coffee grinder using a stepper or servo motor in which the amount of ground coffee output is correlated to degrees or increments of burr rotation. By controlling burr rotation a precise amount of coffee is delivered eliminating excess coffee from being ground.
US09066628B2
The invention relates to a grinder with granularity adjusting mechanism, which comprises a container (1) for holding condiments and a grinding head assembly for grinding the condiments; wherein the grinding head assembly comprises a driving component (2), a female grinding head (3) and a male grinding head (4), the grinder further comprises the adjusting knob (5) that changes a gap between the male grinding head (4) and the female grinding head (3) by moving axially the male grinding head (4). As the design of the adjusting knob, it is convenient for the adjustment between the male grinding head and the female grinding head.
US09066626B2
An apparatus for treating food substances, includes a cutting plate defining a longitudinal axis and having at least one cutting surface for supporting food substances and a collecting tray mounted with respect to the cutting plate. The collecting tray is dimensioned and adapted to transition between a first stored condition to facilitate storage or transport thereof and a second operative condition to provide a reservoir for collecting food substances cut on the cutting surface.
US09066625B2
A device to break dried pasta, including a body, driveshaft, plate and driver. The body includes a receptacle and a recess. The receptacle is to receive a pasta strand and to communicate a portion of the pasta strand into the recess. The driveshaft extends through the body into the recess, and has a first portion extending at least along the receptacle and a second portion extending in relation to a height of the recess. The plate is secured to the second portion and includes a planar surface having a radial projection extending toward the recess. The planar surface is to abut the portion of the pasta strand received into the recess. The driver has an axial opening to removeably engage the first portion. The driver is enabled to rotate the driveshaft that in turn rotates the plate causing the projection to break the pasta strand.
US09066619B2
An apparatus and method for decocting ingredients in a solvent wherein said apparatus includes a first container for containing the solvent, a pipe connecting an output of the first container to an input of the first container, and a pump placed in series with the pipe for circulating the solvent from the output to the input. The apparatus also includes a second container for containing the ingredients, where the second container is placed in series with the pipe such that the solvent circulating in the pipe can circulate in between the ingredients. A wave generator is placed next to the second container for generating a field of waves towards the ingredients.
US09066609B2
A patient transfer device is utilized to transport infant patients between locations within a hospital environment. The patient transfer device includes a center, support section and a pair of side sections that can be moved into contact with each other to surround the infant patient. The first and second side sections each include a handle that can be brought into close proximity to each other and can be grasped by a single hand of a clinician. The patient transfer device includes a stiffening device that is positioned within the center section to provide support for the infant patient during transport. A hold down device is included on one or both of the first and second side sections to securely hold tubes and wires connected to the infant patient during transport of the infant patient.
US09066605B2
A seat unit for child is disclosed in the invention, which comprises a seat frame and locking devices. The seat frame includes a framework, a left lower bracket, a left upper bracket with one end being rotatably connected to one end of the left lower bracket by a left first shaft, a right lower bracket, and a right upper bracket with one end being rotatably connected to one end of the right lower bracket by a right first shaft. The other end of the left lower bracket is rotatably connected to the other end of the right lower bracket, and the other end of the left upper bracket is rotatably connected to the other end of the right upper bracket. The axis of the left first shaft and the axis of the right first shaft extend along the left-right direction respectively.
US09066595B2
The structure for mounting a seating body according to the present invention includes a seating body mounting portion, a leg mounting portion and a screw. The seating body mounting portion is provided to a back surface of a seating face of a seating body, and has a screw hole. The leg mounting portion is provided to a leg member, and includes a through-bore formed thereon into which a screw shaft can be inserted. The screw fixes the seating body mounting portion and the leg mounting portion. The seating body mounting portion contacts the leg mounting portion on a first region in which the screw hole is formed and on a second region which is spaced from the first region via a groove.
US09066592B2
A portable chair for outdoor activities that includes a blade that is inserted in the ground on one end of a main support and a seat on the other end of the main support. The blade and a mud stop bar resist displacement of the portable chair. A back rest support bar is attached to the seat and the main support. A back rest is attached to the back rest support bar. The back rest support bar may be completely disconnected or partially disconnected from the portable chair for transportation or storage.
US09066591B2
A fixing device of a slide assembly has a bracket. The fixing device includes an insertion member, an engaging member and a resilient member. The insertion member is connected to the bracket and has a slot. The engaging member is pivotally connected relative to the bracket and has an operation portion and an arm which extends through the slot of the insertion member. The arm has a first protrusion. The resilient member provides a force to the engaging member to extend the first protrusion beyond the slot of the insertion member. By moving the operation portion, the first protrusion is controlled to be retracted toward the slot of the insertion member.
US09066590B2
In an industrial computer cabinet and a two-way slide rail structure, the industrial computer cabinet includes a cabinet having a receiving space, a first opening, and a second opening; a drawer in the receiving space; and a two-way slide rail assembly including a first slide rail assembly having at least one slide rail, a second slide rail assembly, and at least one roller installed on the second slide rail assembly and rolling along the slide rail. The two openings communicate with the receiving space, at opposite sides thereof. The first slide rail assembly is fixed to one of the cabinet and the drawer; the second slide rail assembly is fixed to the other such that the drawer can be pulled out, sliding relatively to the cabinet through the first or the second opening, enhancing the use convenience of the industrial computer cabinet.
US09066585B2
A storage rack having a flexible moment frame adapted for receiving pallets with stored goods. The frame flexes or floats when a vector, lateral force “V” is applied thereto, such as an earthquake. The frame includes spaced apart vertical posts. A plurality of sets of horizontal load and cross beams are releasably attached along a length of the vertical posts. When the lateral, vector force “V’ is applied to the moment frame, a top portion of the frame is displaced from the vertical at an angle “Δ Flexible”. This angle is greater than an angle “Δ Rigid” for similar storage racks with rigid frames. Thus with this angle of flexibility, the moment frame reduces potential damage to the stored goods.
US09066582B2
There is provided in a preferred embodiment of the present invention a maintenance device having a central body and a lubricant container attached to the upper end of the central body. At a lower end of the central body, at least one dynamic body is provided and biased by a spring to an extended position relative to the central body. The dynamic member comprises a pair of cleaning arms that are outwardly biased. As a compression force is applied to the dynamic body, the biasing spring is compressed and the dynamic body is moved toward a retracted position relative to the central body. As the dynamic body retracts, the cleaning arms pivot inward and engage the fastener for cleaning.
US09066578B2
A device connectable to an electric power line conductor including an electrically conductive insulated wire wound at least twice. A first end of the wire is configured to be connected to a first power line conductor and a second end of the wire is configured to be connected to a second power line conductor. A housing is mountable to the wire and includes an iron core power supply transformer configured to surround the wire to power a power supply module.
US09066576B1
A system for securing a hammock in a vehicle bed. The system includes a hammock. The system also includes a bed support configured to attach to the vehicle bed and secure a first end of the hammock. The system further includes a hitch support configured to attach to a vehicle hitch receiver and secure a second end of the hammock.
US09066570B2
The present application discloses a cosmetic device for accessing residual liquid and gel like cosmetics in hard to reach containers and applying the cosmetics. Specifically, the device is a stand-alone lip gloss wand with a long flexible stem capable of reaching every spot in a tube of lip gloss and retrieving hard to reach residual lip gloss and a specially designed flame shaped applicator tip for applying both thin and broad strokes of the retrieved lip gloss. Additionally, the device is easily cleaned allowing for use across multiple tubes without cross-contamination.
US09066558B2
An electronically controlled bladder assembly includes an adjustable pressure bladder and a constant pressure reservoir connected by an electronically controlled valve. The electronically controlled valve is operated in a manner that inflates the adjustable bladder when the current pressure is below a target pressure and in a manner that deflates the adjustable bladder when the current pressure is above the target pressure. The inflation and deflation of the adjustable bladder are achieved in an iterative manner by controlling the flow of fluid between the constant pressure reservoir and the adjustable bladder over several cycles of heel strikes.
US09066557B2
A framework-chamber arrangement for an article of footwear, and an article of footwear having a sole structure including a framework-chamber arrangement, is provided that can cooperate to provide various advantageous features, such as multiple-stage cushioning and specialized attenuation of and reaction to ground contact forces. The framework-chamber arrangement can include a fluid-filled chamber forming laterally extending arms and a framework having corresponding recesses formed therein and receiving a lower portion of the chamber. The fluid-filled chamber can be retained within the framework without a bond being formed between lower regions of the chamber arms and the framework. Peripheral portions of some of the chamber arms can be spaced apart from adjacent portions of corresponding channels while in a relaxed state.
US09066547B2
Disclosed is a jacket having warm pockets with both pockets being attachable and detachable which is characterized in that in an ordinary jacket which can be opened and closed by a certain engaging element such as a zipper and buttons and has a pocket at left and right sides formed about the engaging element, respectively, for a user to insert his hands into the left and right pockets, both the separated pockets can communicate like one longitudinal pocket, and a tube-like passage is formed from both the pockets and the backside of a jacket, and a warming element is accommodated in both the pockets or the tube-like passage for the purpose of effectively warming the hands of a user as well as a user's body.
US09066544B1
A knee pad includes a double layer elastic fabric tube which is proportioned to cover the knee region of a child and a pattern of rubber-like miniature pads located on the outer surface of the fabric tube. The elastic fabric tube includes an outer layer and an inner layer. The inner surfaces of both of the layers include cloth loops which are disposed in a facing relationship with each other allowing the outer and inner layers to slide relative to one another.
US09066543B2
An apparatus including a box having a plurality of compartments, a first cover movable to open a first compartment adapted to hold one or more fluid vaporization related products, and a second cover movable to open a second compartment adapted to hold an electronic charging device. The movement of the second cover can be restricted by one or more objects inserted through a partition between the first and the second compartments, such as an electronic cigarette battery and/or an electronic cigarette. A hinge can be adapted to move the covers between a first position in which a compartment is closed and a second position in which the compartment is open, the covers can be detached to open a compartment and reattached to close the compartment, and the cover can be a first portion of one or more exterior faces of the box and can slide to open the compartment.
US09066542B2
A multi-section filter (5) for a smoking article comprises at least a first (5B) and a second filter section (5A). The first filter section (5B) is at a mouth end of the filter (5) and the second filter section includes a set of ventilation holes (17) and a set of grooves (7). The grooves (7) extend from respective ventilation holes (17) along the second filter section (5A) up to but not into the first filter section (5B).
US09066512B2
A hunting blind includes frame formed by first and second tubular support poles into which first and second rods, respectively, are slideably received. A connector of the frame couples the first and second tubular support poles in a manner that enables those poles to pivot with respect to each other. A brace pole engages the connector. A sheet is attached to each of the first and second support poles and the first and second rods, such as by caps placed onto ends of the support poles and rods. When the rods are extended from the support poles, the sheet is held taut on the frame forming a wall held upright by the brace pole and behind which a hunter can sit. Another embodiment of the hunting blind is formed by connecting two such frames together to form an enclosure for a hunter.
US09066511B2
An intercepting device (e.g. a furniture coaster device) is placed under furniture (bed, sofa, chair. etc.), other climable object, or the floor adjacent an object to intercept crawling arthropods and other crawling pests. The intercepting device can be used to monitor the presence of crawling arthropods and other crawling pests (such as bed bugs, ants, cockroaches, beetles, spiders, etc.), reduce pest numbers, and monitor efficacy of pest control procedures. The intercepting device includes pitfall trap surfaces that form multiple pitfall traps.
US09066493B2
An animal containment fence includes posts that may be anchored to a surface, connection members that may be transversely coupled to the posts, and flexible cross-members disposed between the posts by telescopically and reciprocally engaging the connection members transversely coupled to the posts. The engagement between the connection members and the cross-member moves reciprocally upon a flexion of the cross-member due to application of a force less than a release force to the cross-member. The engagement between the connection members and the cross-member releases upon a flexion a flexible cross-member due to application of a force equal to or greater than a release force. A method of assembling the animal containment fence includes anchoring posts to a surface, transversely coupling connection members to the posts, and telescopically and reciprocally engaging cross members with the connection members.
US09066486B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety WN1013170 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety WN1013170 and its progeny, and methods of making WN1013170.
US09066484B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 10R013B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 10R013B2R2. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 10R013B2R2 and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 10R013B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US09066483B2
The subject invention provides low fiber, yellow-seeded canola, and related canola meal and animal feed. Oil produced from this seed has at least 68% oleic acid and no more than 3% linolenic acid, relative to the total fatty acids in the oil. Specific canola lines exhibiting these characteristics are also provided. Canola seed offering the combined advantages of excellent oil together with high-quality meal has not heretofore been provided.
US09066481B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US09066480B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the watermelon line designated TCS-146-1901. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of watermelon line TCS-146-1901, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing a plant of watermelon line TCS-146-1901 with itself or with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of watermelon line TCS-146-1901, including the fruits and gametes of such plants.
US09066466B2
A supply device for a single seeder via a flow of air from a main reservoir containing product to at least one auxiliary reservoir depending on its filling rate, each auxiliary reservoir being connected to the main reservoir by a respective leak-tight duct, the number of auxiliary reservoirs corresponding to the number of distributors of the single seeder. A regulating system is associated with each auxiliary reservoir and the regulating system has a sensor for detecting the level of product and a valve for regulating the flow of air in the corresponding auxiliary reservoir. A single seeder using a supply device according to the invention.
US09066464B2
An agricultural vehicle tracking system provides a moving geofence about the location of a vehicle. When the moving geofence contacts a point of interest, such as another moving geofence, an alert is issued. The particular characteristics of the moving geofence may be generated in accordance with a predetermined scheme.
US09072206B2
A light source device includes a light source, a holder, and a lead board. The holder has a first face to hold the light source. The lead board has a first electrode connected to the light source through a solder, a second electrode to be connected to a circuit board, a first connector connected to the second electrode, and a second connector to connect the first electrode and the first connector. The first electrode and the first connector are exposed from the first face of the holder. The second connector is unable to be exposed from the first face of the holder.
US09072198B2
The invention provides a variable impedance device including a first bus bar refrigeration system, a first bus bar thermally connected to the first bus bar refrigeration system to be maintained at a target bus bar temperature by the first bus bar refrigeration system, a variable impedance component refrigeration system, a variable impedance component electrically connected to the first bus bar and thermally connected to the component refrigeration system, a variable impedance component may be at least partially made of a material that is superconducting below a critical temperature and may be maintained at a target component temperature, wherein the target bus bar temperature may be between the 300K and critical temperature and the target component temperature may be below the critical temperature and a second bus bar connected to the variable impedance component so that current flows between the first and second leads through the variable impedance component.
US09072193B1
An air containment system for a datacenter. The air containment system includes horizontally slidable vertical rails that engage the rear rails to two adjacent server racks. The vertical rails can include a front face that is compressible to provide an airtight connection with the server racks. Filler plates attach to adjacent vertical rails and fill the space between a top of the server rack and the top of the rails.
US09072191B2
A configurable rack for supporting components of an uninterruptible power supply includes a frame assembly having a front and a rear. At least one of the front and the rear is configured to receive electronic modules in stacked relation along a height of the frame assembly. The configurable rack further includes a busbar backplane disposed between the front and the rear. The busbar backplane extends vertically within the frame assembly and is configured to be electrically coupled to the at least one electronic module received within the front and/or the rear of the frame assembly.
US09072183B2
An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) shielding printed circuit board (PCB) has at least a routing layer and a ground layer. The shielding PCB has an opening that receives a motor bushing and at least one opening that receives motor terminals.
US09072182B2
A flexible circuit board includes a base film formed by a metallic material, a first protective film formed on a first surface of the base film, and a circuit pattern adhered to the first protective film through an adhesive film. Projections and recesses for heat release are formed on a second surface that is a surface on the opposite side of the first surface of the base film.
US09072175B2
According to one embodiment, a synthesizer for a transmitter includes a transformer, a plurality of core support units and a fixing member. The plurality of core support units includes a support plate, fixing unit and an insertion. The support plate supports a toroidal core around which the primary winding is wound. The fixing unit fixes the toroidal core to the support plate. The insertion portion is formed inside or around the toroidal core and into which the secondary winding is inserted. The fixing member includes a plurality of receiving portions to and from which the plurality of core support units are attached and detached. The plurality of receiving portions are formed along a direction in which the plurality of core support units are stacked.
US09072174B2
An electronic device includes a first body and a second body. The first body includes a first main body and a first magnetic element fixed in the first main body. The second body includes a second main body, a supporting unit, a second magnetic element, and a third magnetic element. The second main body is adapted to hold the first body. The supporting unit is pivoted to the second main body. The second magnetic element is fixed in the second main body. The third magnetic element is slidably configured in the second main body to restrict a rotation of the supporting unit relative to the second main body. When the first body leans against the second main body, the third magnetic element is subject to a magnetic attraction force from the first magnetic element and escapes from the supporting unit, so that the supporting unit supports the first body.
US09072172B2
An auxiliary device for mobile electronic apparatus includes an electrically insulative housing for accommodation a mobile electronic apparatus, an electrical connector slidably coupled to the electrically insulative housing and movable between an extended position to electrically connect a card-edge connector thereof to the accommodated mobile electronic apparatus in the electrically insulative housing and a received position to electrically disconnect the card-edge connector from the accommodated mobile electronic apparatus, and a back cover detachably mounted in a back side of the electrically insulative housing to electrically connect a storage battery cell to the electrical connector for charging the accommodated mobile electronic apparatus in the electrically insulative housing.
US09072161B2
This invention provides an Electro-Static shielding apparatus, an electronic device, and a method for manufacturing said Electro-Static shielding apparatus. Said Electro-Static shielding apparatus comprises: a base layer; a printed circuit block embedded into the base layer; an Electro-Static shielding layer located on an upper surface of the base layer and at least covering sensitive areas, the sensitive areas are those corresponding to the areas required to be shielded on the printed circuit block; and an insulating layer for at least covering the Electro-Static shielding layer. According to the technical solution of this invention, an effective shielding effect can be achieved, moreover, the manufacture cost can be reduced and a good flatness will be reached.
US09072130B2
An illumination system includes lighting apparatuses (20), a camera (11), an image processing unit (12) (person position detection unit), and a lighting control unit (14) and a storage unit (13) (control unit). The illumination apparatuses (20) are placed on a ceiling surface (C), and each include a first light source (24) and a second light source (25) that irradiate a floor surface (F) and the ceiling surface (C) with light, respectively. The control unit controls an illumination apparatus (20b2) corresponding to a person (P)'s position detected by the person position detection unit among the illumination apparatuses (20) so as to turn on the first light source (24). The control unit controls at least one of one or more illumination apparatuses (20) that are each adjacent to the illumination apparatus (20b2) so as not to turn on the first light source (24) and turn off the second light source (25).
US09072128B2
A driving circuit includes a first PWM driving module and a second PWM driving module. The first PWM driving module generates a first square-wave signal to drive a first illumination unit according to a first data signal of a data stream, wherein the first square-wave represents an illumination period of the first illumination unit in a display cycle. The second PWM driving module generates a second square-wave signal to drive the second illumination unit according to a second data signal of the data stream, wherein the second square-wave signal, which has a different phase with the first square-wave signal, represents an illumination period of the second illumination unit in the display cycle.
US09072126B2
A open-circuit protection circuit of a constant current driving circuit for light emitting diodes is disclosed, which includes that: a transformer (Ta1), which has at least one secondary winding (WT1), is connected to at least two load branches (A1, A2); a commutating loop is composed of each load branches (A1, A2) and one secondary winding (WT1), wherein the secondary winding (WT1) has tap ends; a current sharing transformer (T1) is set in two neighbor load branch (A1, A2); each load branch (A1, A2) is separately connected to one open-circuit protection module (10). The open circuit protection module (10) includes: a detection control unit (101), used for outputting a control signal to a processing unit (102) when the detection control unit detects that the output voltages of each load branch (A1, A2) or the voltages proportionate to the output voltages are not less than a corresponding preset threshold; the processing unit (102), used for shorting one secondary sub winding (WT11, WT12) in the corresponding load branch (A1, A2) and a sharing current winding (W1) of the current sharing transformer (T1) in series with the secondary sub winding (WT11, WT12) when receiving the control signal. With the embodiments of the present invention, the cost and the bulk of the current sharing transformer (T1) can be reduced.
US09072124B2
A dimming controlling apparatus including: a lighting driving unit for driving a lighting appliance; a power supply unit for supplying power required to drive the lighting appliance; a storage unit for storing a plurality of dimming profiles including time zones for driving the lighting appliance and dimming levels in accordance to the time zones; and a controller for controlling the lighting driving unit and the power supply unit by using the dimming profiles. An operating time of the lighting appliance is divided into a plurality of time zones, and dimming profiles are generated to include an intensity of illumination for driving the lighting appliance in each of the plurality of time zones and each of the time zones.
US09072114B2
A communication method in a wireless sensor system of networks served by a first non-beacon mode coordinator and a second beacon-mode coordinator, initially, placing all network devices in a first network of the first coordinator; monitoring a parameter of each entity by sensors of the network devices; transmitting sensor data from the network devices in the first network to the first coordinator; detecting an emergency state with respect by using the monitored parameters; in response to detection of the state, handing over the network devices to the second network; transmitting sensor data from the network devices in the second network to the second coordinator; and in response to detection of the emergency state, handing over the associated network devices to the first network.
US09072106B2
A system and method are provided for mitigating interference between wireless access points (APs). A user equipment (UE) device uses a first set of radio resources to wirelessly communicate with a first AP and a second set of radio resources to wirelessly communicate with a second AP. The UE device then uses the first and second radio resources to communicate cooperation data between the first and second access points to mitigate interference thereinbetween.
US09072094B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided that may support signaling, such as a Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB), over a flexible bandwidth carrier. For example, an SRB rate for a SRB over for a normal bandwidth carrier may be identified. A Transmission Time Interval (TTI) may be determined for the SRB over for the flexible bandwidth carrier that facilitates a SRB rate of the SRB over the flexible bandwidth carrier that maintains at least the SRB rate for the SRB over the normal bandwidth carrier. The determined TTI may be utilized for the SRB over the flexible bandwidth carrier, which may help avoid increased call setup delay, increased latency for handover, etc. that may be introduced in flexible bandwidth carrier systems. Some embodiments may include reducing spreading factors, increasing transmission power, and/or concatenating multiple transport blocks with respect to the SRB over the flexible bandwidth carrier.
US09072093B2
A wireless node configured to communicate with a remote node using a timeslot structure. The timeslot structure includes a plurality of data channels and a plurality of control channels, wherein each of the control channels comprises a plurality of control units. The wireless node is further configured to assign any one of a plurality of control messages for the data channels to any one of the control units.
US09072091B2
A control channel transmission/reception method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channels using a resource allocation scheme applicable regardless of reference signal transmission or whether the reference signal is transmitted in distributed transmission mode or localized transmission mode are provided. The control channel transmission method includes mapping a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) to Resource Elements (REs) of a Resource Block (RB) for transmitting a control channel, mapping the control channel to the REs numbered with numbers of predetermined number of Resource Element Groups (REGs) in a frequency-first ascending order cyclically, with the exception of the REs to which the DMRS is mapped, and transmitting the DMRS and the control channel.
US09072087B2
A method of wireless communication includes determining a capacity of a control channel based on whether multiplexing of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) bits for multiple component carriers with periodic channel state information (CSI) is allowed. A threshold for a number of ACK/NAK bits is determined based at least in part on a payload size of the periodic CSI and the determined capacity. The method also includes bundling ACK/NAK bits when a number of the ACK/NAK bits is greater than the determined threshold. The ACK/NAK bits and the periodic CSI are transmitted via the control channel.
US09072086B2
Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit and for a base station to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from the UE in response to a detection of a PDCCH transmitted from the base station and conveying a DCI format that, depending on the PDCCH type, can include a HARQ-ACK PUCCH Resource Offset (HPRO) information field. The UE and the NodeB determine the PUCCH resource depending on the PDCCH type and, if the DCI format includes the HPRO, also depending on a PDCCH transmission type.
US09072073B2
An apparatus (STA) receives from a first node (AP1) at least one channel access related parameter and a first congestion indication; and receives from a second node (AP2) a second congestion indication. The apparatus determines a combined congestion indication which is based at least on the first congestion indication and the second congestion indication; and determines a first channel access parameter for a channel between the apparatus and the first node based at least partly on the at least one channel access related parameter and the combined congestion indication. In specific embodiments, the channel access related parameters may be an initial EDCA parameter and a degradation factor.
US09072070B2
A mobile terminal includes two subscriber identification module (SIM) interfaces, a transceiver, and a scheduling module. The transceiver is configured to provide communication with mobile communication networks identified by subscription information respectively provided through the two subscriber identification module (SIM) interfaces. The scheduling module controls the transceiver in receiving paging information from a mobile communication network. The scheduling module maintains concurrent paging reception with the mobile communication networks identified by subscription information respectively provided through one of the two subscriber identification module (SIM) interfaces by factoring in periodic occurrences of paging indicators and paging messages.
US09072068B2
The present invention discloses a group call method, device and terminal, belonging to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: calculating, according to the load of a RAN device, the number of subgroups in a group maintained by the RAN device; and send a paging message carrying relevant information of the number of the subgroups, so that a terminal receiving the paging message determines, according to relevant information of the number of the subgroups, whether to respond to the paging message. The device is a RAN device or a CN device. The terminal includes a receiving module and a processing module. In the present invention, the number of paging groups and an in-group terminal being paged are determined dynamically without requiring a core network to maintain subgroup information, thereby greatly saving subgroup maintaining resources as well as signaling and processing resources.
US09072063B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing interference in the downlink direction of a cellular radio communication system comprising base stations communicating with terminals using a frame structure showing a time and frequency extension, said frame comprising a preamble portion and at least one data portion, said terminals being adapted to receive frames for which the receive power of said at least one data portion is varying in a predefined range relative to the receive preamble power of said preamble portion,According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting the part of said data portion destined to said terminal with a transmit power adapted to generate a first receive power (Plow) at said terminal within said range if said terminal belongs to a first group of terminals; transmitting the part of said data portion destined to said terminal with a transmit power adapted to generate a second receive power (Phigh) at said terminal within said range, said second receive power being higher than said first receive power, if said terminal belongs to a second group of terminals.
US09072059B2
When it is determined that a first estimate of the total level of interference towards transmissions associated with a first access node from transmissions associated with other access nodes exceeds a predetermined target maximum value; then in dependence on the extent to which said first estimate exceeds said target maximum value, selecting one or more of said other access nodes to which to make a request to reduce the transmission power of interfering transmissions, and/or selecting an amount by which to request any one or more of said other access nodes to reduce the transmission power of interfering transmissions.
US09072058B2
A method and apparatus for communication between a wireless base station and a population of one or more terminals are provided, involving, in each of a plurality of iterations, transmitting a block of forward-link data from an array of multiple base station antennas to the terminal population. In each iteration, a forward-link power level is updated for each said terminal using a distributed algorithm and purely local information. Meanwhile, a set of beamforming coefficients based on channel state information (CSI) obtained from reverse-link pilot signals is periodically updated, and each data block is precoded with the most recently updated beamforming coefficients. Each data block is transmitted at the most recently updated forward-link power levels.
US09072048B2
A power control method and device for mobile communication are disclosed. The power control method, performed by a mobile communication device including a controller, a radio frequency (RF) circuit and a baseband circuit, includes receiving, by the RF circuit, a first signal; determining, by the controller, when a second signal is come; turning off, by the controller, the RF circuit when the first signal is received and the second signal has not yet arrived; and processing, by the baseband circuit, the received first signal.
US09072042B2
Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A breakout component in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation, and hosts edge applications, including third party edge applications, that perform one or more mobile network services at the edge of the mobile data network based on the broken out data.
US09072039B2
A method, network node and UE device (115) for wireless access control and load balancing among various access nodes (105, 110) in a radio access network that contains both base stations (105) and relay notes (110). A wireless UE device (115) receives a message containing at least one of the respective loads for a group of access nodes and weighting factors for possible connections. The device determines a preferred access node (325, 425, 525) using at least one of the respective loads and weighting factors and attaches to the preferred access node.
US09072037B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, by which to facilitate selection of a WLAN through which a mobile node communicates. Selection takes into account the geographic positioning of the mobile node. The mobile node ascertains its geographic positioning by monitoring cellular-positioning signals. And, availability of WLANs through which to communicate is ascertained by detecting signals broadcast by the WLANs.
US09072036B2
A method for selecting an air interface on a multi-mode wireless device capable of communicating over a plurality of air interfaces. The method comprising starting a first application and selecting a first application specific access list of a set of application specific access lists, the first application specific access list corresponding to the first application. The method also comprising selecting a first active network from the first application access specific list, the first network representing an available and most desirable network for the first application in the first application specific access list. The method further activating the first active network for use by the first application and switching from the first active network to a second active network if a user switches from the first application to a second application, wherein the first active network and the second active network are ascertained based on the set of application specific access lists.
US09072027B2
A method of facilitating path switching, for a communication path between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, from a device to device (D2D) path to network path, includes receiving switch point information from the first UE that identifies a data block; establishing, at the access network, a connection with the first UE over an uplink path between the first UE and the access network; establishing, at the access network, a connection with the second UE over a downlink path between the network element and the second UE; setting, at the access network, a data block sequencing numbering to be the same for the uplink path and the downlink path based on the switch point information; and forwarding, at the access network, data from the first UE to the second UE via the network path, the network path including the uplink path and the downlink path.
US09072019B2
The technology involves data processing during intra-site handover procedures. At least two directional antennas of a base station receive data carrying signals originating from a mobile units positioned in an intra-site handover area defined by the overlapping radio coverage of the antennas. The directional antennas performs an initial data signal detection of the received data signals resulting in detected data, which typically results in a loss of radio performance of the antenna. The detected data from the directional antennas is then processed to generate processed data. The performance loss is compensated by providing differential antenna gain of the directional antennas within the handover area.
US09072014B2
A method of and arrangement for detecting a manipulated or defect base station of a communication network is disclosed, wherein a target base station, having selected one or more algorithms on the basis of a prioritized algorithm list (PAL) and a UBE security capabilities (SCAP), reports UE SCAP related information to a core network node. The core network node having knowledge of the UE SCAP compares this information or parts of this information with the retrieved UE SCAP related information in order to be able to identify a manipulated or defect base station when a comparison fails to match.
US09072013B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing a message. The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications, and can increase the connection reestablishment success rate in a wireless communication system using an RN. The method for processing a message includes: receiving a handover request message A from an SeNB; parsing the handover request message A to obtain identity information of a reestablished cell controlled by an RN and user equipment context information prepared for the reestablished cell; and sending a first message to the RN according to the identity information of the reestablished cell, where the first message includes the user equipment context information prepared for the reestablished cell, where the user equipment context information provides a basis for the RN to prepare a connection. The present invention is mainly applicable to handover and reestablishment in a wireless communication system.
US09071986B2
A method and apparatus for dynamically controlling quality of service (QoS) is provided herein. During operation, a QoS manager will determine if a device is currently being used by an individual. The QoS of the device will then be tailored based on whether or not the device is currently being used by the individual. Devices that may be running applications, yet unused by anyone may have their QoS reduced. This will allow the QoS to be increased for devices that are currently being used.
US09071983B2
A communication system includes: a signal identification module configured to receive a repeat response for receiving the repeat response associated with a receiver signal; a signal analysis module, coupled to the signal identification module, configured to determine a serving data, a serving channel estimate, an interference channel estimate, or a combination thereof an interference data from the repeat response with an interference-aware processing mechanism; a combining module, coupled to the signal analysis module, configured to combine the repeat response and the receiver signal based on the serving data, the serving channel estimate, the interference channel estimate, the interference data, or a combination thereof; and a decoding module, coupled to the combining module, configured to generate a replication data based on combining the repeat response and the receiver signal based on the serving data, the serving channel estimate, the interference channel estimate, the interference data, or a combination thereof for communicating with a device.
US09071981B2
A method of monitoring search space of enhanced downlink control channel (EPDCCH) for a user equipment in an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) system includes determining whether to blind decode a monitoring downlink control information (DCI) candidate in a search space of a EPDCCH according to a code rate of the monitoring DCI decoding candidate, wherein the search space is determined according to a fixed threshold associated to a number of available resource element in a physical resource block pair for the EPDCCH.
US09071977B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing communication by obtaining available channel information through an unlicensed device in which operations are permitted within an available channel and is not used by a licensed device in a white space band, includes the steps of: transmitting a message for requesting available channel information to a database device; receiving the available channel information including first information for indicating a format of the available channel information and second information for identifying the available channel, in response to the message for requesting the available channel information; and obtaining the second information using the first information and transmitting and receiving signals within the available channel corresponding to the second information, wherein the format of the available channel information can be changed according to country.
US09071975B2
An electronic device may be located in a geographical cell that is served by a base station. The electronic device may communicate with the base station on a frequency band. The frequency band may be subject to adjacent band emissions requirements to help prevent interference with wireless devices that are operating in adjacent frequency bands. The adjacent band emission requirements may vary based on the frequency band used to communicate with the base station, the geographical cell, and/or the presence of public safety radios. To satisfy the adjacent band emissions requirements while minimizing power consumption, the electronic device may receive cell information from the base station and adjust power amplifier linearity based on the received information.
US09071967B1
Various embodiments enable devices to share network authentication credentials or other information. For example, a computing device authorized to access a wireless network can be used to manage access to the wireless network, such as by modifying, sharing, or creating a password to access the wireless network. A peer-to-peer connection can be established between the authorized computing device and at least one other computing device (e.g., a guest computing device). Upon establishing the peer-to-peer connection between the devices, a service, application, or system component operating on each device can be used to share network authentication credentials between the devices. For example, the user of the authorized device can cause to be transmitted network authentication credentials to a guest computing device. When the guest computing device receives the network authentication credentials, the guest computing device can connect to the wireless network, authenticate with the wireless network using the network authentication credentials to access, and access at least one network.
US09071964B2
A radio is authenticated at the site and unique authentication information for the radio is stored at the site. A subsequent non-authentication message from the radio is received at the site and authentication information in the non-authentication message is identified. The unique authentication information stored at the site is compared with authentication information identified in the non-authentication message. If there is a match, the non-authentication message is authenticated with an authentication code included in the non-authentication message, wherein a predefined portion of the authentication code is obtained from at least one of a header portion or a data portion of the non-authentication message. Upon successfully completing authentication, the site repeats the non-authentication message towards destination radios indicated in non-authentication message.
US09071963B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for secure near field communication (NFC) of a non-secure memory element payload. The method includes receiving, at an NFC enabled mobile device and from a content provider, a payload. The method also includes storing the received payload in a non-secure memory element of the NFC enabled mobile device. The method further includes transferring the stored payload from the non-secure memory element of the NFC enabled mobile device to a secure memory element of the NFC enabled mobile device, wherein transferring the stored payload includes loading the stored payload into a secure reloadable payload instance. The method further includes establishing a NFC link between the NFC enabled mobile device and an NFC reader. The method further includes communicating, via the NFC link, the transferred payload from the secure reloadable payload instance to the NFC reader.
US09071962B2
A monitoring system is coupled to interfaces in an LTE network and passively captures packets from the network interfaces. First data packets associated with an authentication and key agreement procedure are captured on a first interface. Second data packets associated with the authentication and key agreement procedure are captured on a second interface. Individual ones of the first data packets are correlated to individual ones of the second data packets based upon a same parameter. An authentication vector table is created comprising information from the correlated first data packets and second data packets, wherein entries in the table comprise authentication data for a plurality of security contexts. A cipher key is identified to decipher additional packets for the user. The cipher key can also be identified in case of Inter Radio Access Technology Handover by the user equipment.
US09071960B2
A remote management method for a terminal supporting a mobile broadcast service is provided. The terminal receives a service guide with a terminal function management condition from a mobile broadcast service broadcasting server, stores and processes the service guide, and delivers a service subscription request to the mobile broadcast service broadcasting server, receives a message with a Device Management (DM) command generated by a DM server, as the mobile broadcast service broadcasting server receiving the service subscription request sends a request for a DM command regarding a function and a management operation of a terminal to be managed, to the DM server, and stores the DM command and executes the DM command if a status of the terminal satisfies the terminal function management condition.
US09071957B2
The provision of emergency response services to a user can be based on transitioning a communications device associated with a user to a listening mode, setting a first timer, recording user actions with the communications device, ascertaining, based on a status of the first timer and the user actions, whether a criteria with respect to at least user interaction is met, and, if the criteria is met, transitioning the communications device to an emergency communications mode, else resetting the timer and repeating the recording and the ascertaining until the criteria is met. The emergency communication mode consists of forwarding user and live location information to a remote server and receiving emergency contact information, selected based on the user and live location information, for establishing a communication with emergency response personnel.
US09071952B2
Methods and systems for detecting unintentional calls placed to a call center. In some implementations, a device with telephone capability recognizes that it is being used to place a call, and automatically collects information usable to estimate whether the call is intentional or unintentional. For example, the device may record the timing of presses of a button used to initiate the call, the force used to press the button, or other parameters. The device may analyze the information, or may forward at least some of the information to the call recipient for analysis. When a suspected unintentional call is detected, the device may signal the user of the device, or other actions may be taken.
US09071948B2
An indication of the location of multimedia information for an emergency alert is distributed via text based protocols such as a Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) and/or a Short Message Service (SMS). Multimedia information can include maps, graphics, video clips, audio clips, still pictures, and the like. A text based alert message along with an indication of the location of the associated multimedia is distributed to users. The indication can comprise a link to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or the like, from which the multimedia can be retrieved. The indication can comprise a pointer to a link. For example, the alert message can comprise an address in storage of a user device, and the address can contain the link to the URL. Further, the multimedia can be retrieved automatically or manually.
US09071921B2
A system and method for event driven operations in a communications system. A method for communications subsystem operation includes detecting an occurrence of an event initiated by a user, accessing a database to retrieve information related to the user and the event, establishing a connection with an application, and performing an operation with the application through the connection. The application is based on the event and the information, and the operation is based on the event.
US09071917B2
A power dongle for a hearing aid includes conductive wires, each wire having a computing device end and a hearing aid end. A first connector is connected to the computing device end of each of the plurality of conductive wires to releasably couple to an input/output port of the computing device and a second connector is connected to the hearing aid end of each of the plurality of conductive wires to releasably couple to an interface of the hearing aid, the second connector configured to deliver at least one of a first power supply and an audio signal from the computing device to the interface of the hearing aid.
US09071912B1
This disclosure relates to a portable audio test tool configured for testing an audio circuit. The portable audio test tool may replace an assortment of non-portable and/or bulky test equipment. The portable audio test tool may comprise a small and efficient troubleshooting tool that includes the functionality of multiple pieces of test equipment in a hand-held, pocket sized form. The portable audio test tool may be powered by a rechargeable power source recharged via power from a wet intercom's DC voltage power circuit cable. In some implementations, the portable audio test tool may comprise a tool connector, a tone generator, a transducer, a voltage indicator device, a power circuit, a switching device, a housing, a user interface, and/or other components.
US09071900B2
An apparatus including a microphone array and a removing system. The microphone array includes a binaural microphone system having first and second transducers, and a voice microphone system having at least one third transducer. The removing system is configured to remove, from signals created from the binaural microphone system, components corresponding to sound of a user's voice sensed at the at least one third transducer.
US09071889B2
A radio tag sensor system includes a plurality of radio tag sensor chips, which incorporate respective sensors, store unique identification numbers, a plurality of micro base stations, and a central processing unit which perform communications with the micro base stations via a connection network. Each of the micro base stations performs wireless communications with and wirelessly supplies electric power to only those of the radio tag sensor chips which are disposed in an assigned region thereof. Each of the assigned regions includes at least one radio tag sensor chip which is not included in the other assigned regions. The central processing unit controls the communications via the connection network. The central processing unit collects the sensed values from sensors of the radio tag sensor chips through the micro base stations, generates a spatial distribution map of the sensed values, and updates the spatial distribution map with time.
US09071886B2
A profile provider: (i) associates a set of devices (including two or more online devices and possibly a set-top box); and (ii) delivers an advertisement targeted using profile information associated with one of the online devices. The advertisement is presented along with media content. If the media content is viewed using a single-viewer display, then profile information is used that is associated with an online device used to select or receive the media content. If the media content is viewed using a multiple-viewer display, then profile information is used that is associated with an online device used to select, receive, or present the media content or with an online device associated with one or more of those online devices.
US09071884B2
A storage file format for replaying an adaptively streamed multimedia stream, a client apparatus using the storage file format, and a method of storing a multimedia stream in the client apparatus are provided. According to the storage file format, meta-information for playing fragments and fragment access meta-information for replaying fragments are added to fragments.
US09071880B2
According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided a system and an article of manufacture allowing a set top box to be controlled from an interactive voice response unit. A system according to an example embodiment may include a set top box control processor having a common-layer application interface and a control plug-in framework. An interactive voice processor obtains voice inputs from a voice call and through the set top box control processor remotely accesses control features of a set top box. The set top box control processor performs command process management to manage set top box commands including changing channels and controlling volume. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09071876B2
Video content may be transmitted with enhanced content or ancillary information that includes viewer loyalty incentives. The viewer loyalty incentives may be in the form of incentives, certificates or other information which may accumulate depending on viewing time. The more the viewer watches, the more incentives the viewer may receive.
US09071872B2
An interactive television system is provided in which an interactive television application is used to support network-based or local personal video recorder capabilities. A user may use this application to view lists of program listings. The user may select a program listing of interest. The interactive television application may allow the user to set a reminder for the selected program at the scheduled broadcast time. This application may also allow the user to set a reminder for the selected program at a later time at which the program is not scheduled to be broadcast. The user may be provided with a reminder at this later time. In response, the user may direct the network-based or local personal video recorder to play back the program or may defer the reminder again. The interactive television application may collect information on program usage and popularity to determine how long to retain certain programming.
US09071869B2
A broadcasting receiving apparatus and a method for providing broadcasting signal relation information are provided. The broadcasting receiving apparatus, which accesses a server through a network, includes a broadcasting signal receiver which receives a broadcasting signal; a channel identifier which identifies a change of a channel of the broadcasting signal, generates a fingerprint corresponding to the broadcasting signal of the changed channel, and receives identification information of the changed channel from a matching server based on the generated fingerprint; and a relevant information provider which receives conditional information that indicates a condition for receiving relevant information of the broadcasting signal if the channel is changed, receives the relevant information based on the conditional information and displays the received relevant information.
US09071866B2
This invention is new to the field in two ways: [1] it sends audio/video signals wirelessly between tablet computing devices and smartphones to projection devices instead of using attached cables, and [2] it does not require an app, a second computing device, a driver, a download, or a “jailbreak” of the computing device to function properly.
US09071852B2
A method for providing media content-related information by using a device capable of accessing a server via a network is provided, the method comprising: generating identification information of media content being reproduced by the device; transmitting the identification information from the device to the server; receiving at least one of key information and media content-related information, from the server, in response to the identification information; and providing a user of the device with the media content-related information about the media content based on the at least one of the key information and the media content-related information received from the server.
US09071850B1
An intra prediction mode decoding method includes reconstructing an intra prediction mode group indicator and a prediction mode index, constructing an MPM group including three intra prediction modes using valid intra prediction modes of left and top blocks of the current block, determining the intra prediction mode corresponding to the prediction mode index in the intra prediction group corresponding to the intra prediction mode group indicator, and assigning the lowest mode numbers to non-directional modes. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of information for encoding the intra prediction mode of the current block by using intra prediction modes having higher possibility of being equal to the intra prediction mode of the current block. Also, it is possible to reduce the amount of information by assigning lowest mode numbers to the non-directional modes.
US09071847B2
A video codec provides for encoding and decoding pictures of a video sequence at various coded resolutions, such that pictures can be encoded at lower coded resolutions based on bit rate or other constraints while maintaining a consistent display resolution. The video codec employs a coding syntax where a maximum coded resolution is signaled at the sequence level of the syntax hierarchy, whereas a lower coded resolution is signaled at the entry point level for a segment of one or more intra-coded frames and frames predictively encoded based thereon. This allows the use of a separate out-of-loop resampler after the decoder to up-sample the pictures to the display resolution.
US09071838B2
Disclosed is a display driving device, a display device including the same, and an image data compression and decompression method. The display driving device comprises an encoder that compresses PenTile® matrix encoded input image data using a binary encoding scheme and a DPCM encoding scheme, calculates errors produced by each encoding scheme, and selects an encoding scheme mode and its compressed data according to the calculated errors. A decoder decompresses the compressed data according to a decoding scheme corresponding to the selected encoding scheme mode. And a source driver drives source lines connected with a display panel based on decompressed data.
US09071831B2
A monoscopic camera comprising one or more image sensors and a depth sensor may generate video based on two-dimensional image data captured via the one or more image sensors and corresponding depth information captured via the depth sensor. The camera may process corresponding audio for the generated video based on the captured depth information. The audio processing may comprise mitigating noise in the corresponding audio, enhancing voice quality in the corresponding audio, and/or enhancing audio quality of the corresponding audio. The camera may be operable to determine, based on the captured depth information, one or more sound paths between a source of the corresponding audio and a microphone utilized to capture the corresponding audio emanating from the source. The processing of the audio may comprise removing portions of the captured audio arriving at the microphone via one or more reflection paths.
US09071823B2
A method and apparatus for predicting reference data transfer scheme for motion estimation. The method includes computing, via the processor, hypothetical rectangle region in reference frame containing all the predicting and reference data for doing motion estimation search around the region, if the macroblock is not the first in a row, utilizing overlap with previously fetched reference data, computing overlap with previously fetched reference data, and transferring needed data, invalidating any predictor, wherein the predictor is not part of the fetched data, and regulating the motion estimation and setting the motion vector to an effective value based on the fetched and computed data.
US09071821B2
A method and system for test monitoring video assets provided by a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) includes an expert test monitoring platform (ETMP) configured to emulate MCDN client systems at a facility of an MCDN service provider. The ETMP may be used to test monitor MCDN performance by acquiring a baseband video signal and performing a test operation. The test operation may involve determining if a video freeze event and/or an audio freeze event has occurred with respect to the baseband video signal. In one example, detection of both an audio and a video freeze event may determine a freeze event for an MHD. After a freeze event is detected, the MHD may be restarted. The freeze event may be logged as a result of the test operation. A predetermined network address may be sent a notification of the freeze alert.
US09071819B2
A video imaging system for use with or in a mobile video capturing system (e.g., an airplane or UAV). A multi-camera rig containing a number of cameras (e.g., 4) receives a series of mini-frames (e.g., from respective field steerable mirrors (FSMs)). The mini-frames received by the cameras are supplied to (1) an image registration system that calibrates the system by registering relationships corresponding to the cameras and/or (2) an image processor that processes the mini-frames in real-time to produce a video signal. The cameras can be infra-red (IR) cameras or other electro-optical cameras. By creating a rigid model of the relationships between the mini-frames of the plural cameras, real-time video stitching can be accelerated by reusing the movement relationship of a first mini-frame of a first camera on corresponding mini-frames of the other cameras in the system.
US09071816B2
A method of storing a substantially real time stream of information signals arranged in separate, consecutive data packets of digital format on a disc like record carrier. A new stream pack (S_PCK) is defined comprising a pack header and a multiple of source packets containing said data packets with corresponding added time stamps related to a time of arrival of said data packets. The pack header comprises data packet retrieval information, such as the number of new source packets in the stream pack and the effect of the start location of the first source packet in the stream pack. Preferably private stream 2 of the MPEG-format is employed for this new stream.
US09071814B1
Systems and methods for automatically detecting scenes in a video based on parameters employed to encode the video are presented. In one or more aspects, a system is provided that includes a scene identification component configured to analyze a video comprising a plurality of sequential frames, including a plurality of intra-frames (I-frames) and a plurality of predictive frames (P-frames), and identify N groups of adjacent frames constituting N scenes of the video based in part on respective locations of the I-frames throughout the plurality of sequential frames, where N is an integer. The system further includes a video clip generation component configured to generate one or more video clips from one or more of the N scenes of the video, respectively, using portions of frames respectively associated with the one or more scenes of the N scenes of the video.
US09071813B2
Disclosed herein are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, a recording medium, and a program which are capable of processing imaging data in a manner similar to that of a normal frame rate. Image data captured by a solid-state imaging element capable of performing imaging at a high resolution and a high frame rate is supplied to a memory control. The memory control, at the same time as writing the imaging data input from the imaging element in a frame memory, reads preceding frames of imaging data that are recorded on the frame memory, and sequentially respectively outputs them in parallel, as video image data items, for each frame, to respective camera signal processing units. In the camera signal processing units, a video output, a viewfinder output, codec units, and recording units, processing similar to that when a frame rate that is ¼ the imaging frame rate is executed.
US09071807B2
Real-time access by a public authority emergency responder to surveillance video of a privately-controlled source is conditionally pre-authorized dependent on the existence of at least one pre-specified emergency condition, and recorded in a data processing system. A public authority emergency responder subsequently requests real-time access to the surveillance video (e.g., during an emergency), and if the pre-specified emergency condition is met, access is automatically granted, i.e., without the need for manual intervention. A pre-specified emergency condition could, e.g., be an alarm condition detected by a sensor at the site of the video surveillance, or a declared state of emergency, properly declared by an appropriate public official.
US09071797B2
A method for remotely accessing selected content can include receiving a list of content separate from a video stream. The list of content can include content previously recorded according to a user-defined recording schedule. The method can further include sending a request for content selected from the list of content, receiving the content through a network, and displaying the content.
US09071792B2
A method includes presenting media content on a mobile device; receiving a command during the presenting to change the destination of presentation from the mobile device to a display device associated with a media client; and providing a first portion of the media content stored on the mobile device to the media client for presentation on the display device in communication with the media client. Providing the first portion of the media content includes providing a portion of the media content associated with a time in the media content when the command to change the destination was received.
US09071790B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a remote control method, a remote controller, a remote control response method, and a set-top box. The remote control method includes: sensing a user selection operation event, and judging a type of the user selection operation event; when the type of the user selection operation event is corresponding to an operation control mode type, sending a user selection operation event message; when the type of the user selection operation event is not corresponding to the operation control mode type, switching an operation control mode. The remote control method complies with a use habit of a user in terms of operation control mode switching, so that the user may trigger operation control mode switching through natural association without special learning, thereby improving a user experience effect.
US09071782B2
A solid-state image sensor with one or more control lines driven at arbitrary dividing points along the control line.
US09071778B2
An apparatus for acquiring an i-bit digital code by a first stage AD conversion and a j-bit digital code by a second stage AD conversion includes a comparing unit which compares a reference signal and an analog signal in the first stage AD conversion; and an amplifying unit for outputting an amplified residual signal acquired by amplifying a difference between the analog signal and an analog signal corresponding to the i-bit digital code. The comparing unit compares the amplified residual signal and the reference signal in the second stage AD conversion.
US09071777B2
An information processing system includes a determination part, a history storage part, a provisional history storage part, and a changing part. The determination part determines whether or not a printing mode of a job set at a terminal matches a recommended printing mode. The history storage part stores printing histories of plural jobs. The provisional history storage part stores, in a case where the printing mode does not match the recommended printing mode, provisional printing histories including resource-saving effect which represents an effect of reduced resources based on an assumption that the jobs are printed in accordance with the recommended printing mode. The changing part changes the recommended printing mode, based on the stored printing histories and the provisional printing histories.
US09071765B2
A system, method, and computer program product for generating high-dynamic range image data is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving image sensor data from an interleaved image sensor. The interleaved the image sensor includes a first portion of pixels exposed for a first exposure time and a second portion of pixels exposed for a second exposure time that is shorter than the first exposure time. The method further includes the steps of identifying a first subset of pixels in the second portion having an intensity value above a first threshold value, identifying a second subset of pixels in the first portion having an intensity value below a second threshold value, and generating high-dynamic range (HDR) data based on the first subset and the second subset.
US09071762B2
An imager and a method for real-time, non-destructive monitoring of light incident on imager pixels during their exposure to light. Real-time or present pixel signals, which are indicative of present illumination on the pixels, are compared to a reference signal during the exposure. Adjustments, if necessary, are made to programmable parameters such as gain and/or exposure time to automatically control the imager's exposure to the light. In a preferred exemplary embodiment, only a selected number of pixels are monitored for exposure control as opposed to monitoring the entire pixel array.
US09071761B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section and a correction section. The acquisition section acquires information of lightness distribution of a first image captured by an imaging section capable of capturing an image of an observed area provided on an optical path of an optical system of an optical microscope, the image of the observed area being obtained by the optical microscope, the first image being an image of the observed area in a state where no sample is placed therein, the lightness distribution resulting from the optical system of the optical microscope. The correction section corrects, based on the information of lightness distribution acquired by the acquisition section, lightness unevenness of a second image captured by the imaging section, the second image being an image of the observed area in a state where the sample is placed therein.
US09071754B2
This image capture device is configured to generate a restored image by reducing a motion blur that has been induced by a camera shake during shooting. The device includes: an image sensor 10; an optical system 20; and an image processing section 220 which processes an image signal that has been obtained by the image sensor 10. The image processing section 220 includes: a blur kernel determining section which determines a blur kernel that defines the camera-shake-induced motion blur of the image captured; and an image restoration section which generates the restored image. The blur kernel determining section changes the size of the blur kernel by reference to information that affects the degree of the blur of the image such as the zoom power of the optical system 20.
US09071748B2
An image sensor (810) comprises a plurality of image pixels (R, G, B) and a plurality of focus-pixels (F), each focus-pixel comprising a light shield (51a, 51b) for partly shielding the focus-pixel from incident light so as to obtain a focus-related signal in a first mode of operation. The image sensor further comprises additional circuitry for processing the focus-related signal, which additional circuitry is conveniently located underneath the light shields. The additional circuitry may be adapted for accumulating the charge of two focus-pixels (F1a, F2a), e.g. by charge binning, and for providing the accumulated charge in a second mode of operation.
US09071747B2
A digital camera of the present invention includes a receiving portion 155 that receives a control signal from a remote controller, and a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 130 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 130 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid crystal monitor 150 as a moving image in real time, wherein when the receiving portion 155 receives the control signal from the remote controller, the microcomputer 110 controls so as to shift the digital camera to a live view mode. Due to this configuration, in a digital camera that includes a movable mirror and is capable of displaying a subject image in a live view through an electronic viewfinder, the operability thereof can be enhanced.
US09071744B1
Techniques for calibrating spatial uniformity of light emitted by a light source include receiving light from a unit under test with an array of photo detectors. Sampling circuitry receives an output signal generated by each of the photo detectors in response to the received light, and samples each of the output signals to generate a sampled output signal for each of the photo detectors. One or more processors determine a spatial uniformity measure of one or both of luminous intensity and chromaticity for the received light using the sampled output signals.
US09071738B2
An integrated broadcast/auxiliary camera system includes a broadcast camera and an auxiliary camera. The broadcast camera may capture a first image of a scene, wherein operational parameters of the broadcast camera including a broadcast focus distance, a broadcast focal length, a broadcast pan angle and a broadcast tilt angle are operator controlled. The auxiliary camera may capture a second image of the scene, the second image different from the first image. A controller may automatically control operational parameters of the auxiliary camera including an auxiliary focus distance, an auxiliary focal length, an auxiliary pan angle and an auxiliary tilt angle based on the operational parameters of the broadcast camera.
US09071723B2
An invention for measuring, maintaining and correcting synchronization between signals which suffer varying relative delays during transmission and/or storage is shown. The present invention teaches measuring the relative delay between a plurality of signals which have suffered differing delays due to transmission, storage or other processing. The preferred embodiment of the invention includes the use of a marker which is generated in response to a second signal and combined with a first signal in a manner which ensures that the marker will not be lost in the expected processing of the first signal. Subsequently a first delayed marker is generated in response to the marker associated with or recovered from the first signal, and a second delayed marker is generated from the second signal. The first delayed marker and second delayed marker are compared to determine a measure of the relative timing or delay between said first signal and said second signal at said subsequent time.
US09071715B2
A method for detecting whether a paper is remained and a multi-function printer (MFP) thereof are provided. The method includes executing a detection procedure when the MFP accomplishes image capturing and outputting of the paper; recording a time of starting executing the detection procedure; calculating an executed time of the detection procedure; and determining whether to activate an alarm according to the executed time of the detection procedure and a similarity comparison result obtained by executing a scan procedure, so as to remind a user whether the paper is remained in the MFP.
US09071711B2
In an image processing system, a control device (11) of a first host PC (1) controls (i) a storage device (12) of the first host PC (1) to store an icon registered on the first host PC (1), (ii) the icon to be registered on a multifunction peripheral (5), and (iii) the icon to be transmitted to a first client PC (3). In the image processing system, a control device (31) of the first client PC (3) controls a storage device (32) of the first client PC (3) to store the icon received from the first host PC (1), and controls a display device (35) of the first client PC (3) to display the icon.
US09071708B2
A device management apparatus which manages a device and a terminal which remotely uses the device, the apparatus comprises a log acquisition unit configured to acquire a log of the device; a usage location specification unit configured to specify a location of the terminal at the time of use of the device based on the log acquired by the log acquisition unit; and a generation unit configured to generate information of an area where the device is used, based on the location of the terminal at the time of use of the device which is specified by the usage location specification unit.
US09071702B2
A mobile terminal includes a memory configured to store a prior usage pattern of at least one application, the prior usage pattern being used to control when the at least one application is executed. The controller further includes a controller configured to apply at least one setting related to execution of the at least one application in accordance with the prior usage pattern or provide a menu for applying the at least one setting related to execution of the at least one application in accordance with the prior usage pattern and execute the at least one application after the at least one setting is applied.
US09071701B2
A wireless characteristic of a wireless signal may be used to trigger generation of a position fix. A mobile computing device may include a wireless transceiver, a location determination circuit and a processing circuit. The wireless transceiver may be configured to receive a wireless signal over a short range wireless network from a wireless system. The processing circuit may be configured to detect a change in the wireless signal and, in response to the detected change, to generate a position fix using the location determination circuit.
US09071689B2
Facilities are provided herein for backing up messages and related activities. An active telephone call is initiated to a voicemail server and recording of the audio stream of the active telephone call is initiated to record a voicemail message being played back during the telephone call. The recorded voicemail message may then be edited, tagged, enhanced, organized with other messages, and shared, as examples. In another aspect, backup of messages is facilitated by an intermediary system that establishes an active telephone call between a voicemail server and a client. The intermediary system passes a request from the client to the voicemail server to commence playback of a voicemail message, and the intermediary system records a portion of the audio stream of the active telephone call.
US09071686B2
A system and method for automated connection triggered by availability status. The present invention includes a method of determining whether a connection request is pending to connect to a previously unavailable party and automatically making the connection now that the party is available. An alternate method includes generating a request to automatically connect to a party when the party becomes available. Application of embodiments of the present invention includes a telephony and/or an internet system.
US09071684B2
In an example embodiment, a Voice over IP (VoIP) system that provides for media forking at the caller's (ingress) gateway. The gateway receives data with a first address on a recording server for sending forked caller stream media and a second address on the recording server for sending forked called party stream media. The gateway sends forked media from the caller stream to the first address and forked media from the called party media to the second address. This provides a recording from the caller's perspective. By using this technique, the recording can include for example call transfer data and interactive voice response (IVR) data.
US09071682B2
A method and device for providing dynamic communication options on a communications device are provided. The communications device is configured to provide communication services using a plurality of communication methods. The method for providing dynamic communication options comprises: monitoring communications with a contact associated with the communications device and obtaining communication method usage information based on the communication methods used for the communications with the contact; ranking communication methods for the contact based on the communication method usage information; and displaying at least two of the communication methods in an ordered list, wherein the respective positions of the displayed communication methods in the list are determined in accordance with the rankings.
US09071678B2
A method of diagnosing a transmission loop in an Internet protocol television (IPTV) network includes configuring the loop as an open loop and performing a single-ended loop test (SELT), configuring the loop as a terminated-loop and performing another SELT, subtracting a trace of the first SELT from a trace of the second SELT, and determining the length of the loop from the result. A service assurance system in an IPTV network includes a test module and a DSLAM coupled to a residential gateway by a transmission loop. The test module operates to determine that a fault condition on the IPTV network is caused by a fault in the loop, direct the DSLAM to perform an open loop SELT and a terminated-loop SELT on the loop, receive the results of the SELTs, and determine a location of a tap on the loop based upon the results.
US09071667B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for media content streaming can include transacting access information associated with a media stream and transacting one or more fragments associated with the media stream to facilitate a delivery of media content associated with the media stream. Access information can include fragment sequencing information to facilitate individual retrieval of fragments associated with the media stream using a uniform resource identifier via a processing device configured to cache content. A fragment can include one or more stream messages. A stream message can include a message header and a corresponding media data sample. The message header can include a message stream identifier, a message type identifier, a timestamp, and a message length value.
US09071666B2
An edge router (Broadband Remote Access Server) and a method are described herein that obtain a Media Access Control (MAC) address of an end device (consumer premises equipment). Once, the edge router obtains the MAC address of the end device then it can use Ethernet Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) tools to troubleshoot the end device.
US09071660B1
The present invention provides a method in which when receiving an invitation request to a new PoC session, a PoC client participating in multiple sessions for which a maximum limit is set determines whether it is now participating in the maximum number of sessions, the PoC client notifies a user that the maximum number of sessions are used if the maximum limit is reached, and releases one of an existing session or the last requested session according to user selection.
US09071654B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for ensuring data consistency and concurrency for globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) and associated content items via locking. A content management system configured to practice the method can receive, from a client device, a request to perform a content item operation in a storage environment that affects a GUID. Then the content management system can acquire a first mutex for a namespace associated with the content item operation, such as an application-level lock, and acquire a second mutex for the GUID, such as a row-level lock in a database table. After acquiring the locks, the content management system can perform the content item operation according the request, and update the GUID based on the content item operation. Then the content management system can release the mutexes and provide a confirmation to the client device in response to the request.
US09071639B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide technology for detecting malicious action of an application upon a terminal device using a low load as well as to increase accuracy of detection; in particular, to provide technology capable of performing detection even regarding an application which has been deleted upon the terminal device. A change in the installation state of an application in a terminal device is detected, upon which information for the installed application is reported to a fraud detection server so as to be recorded. In addition, a predetermined feature value based on an application file or component files configuring a package of the application is reported to the fraud detection server. The feature value is associated with the malicious action of the application so as to be registered in an application DB, whereupon if malicious action of the application is detected, fraud detection information is transmitted to the terminal device. When the fraud detection information is received, predetermined response processing is performed upon the terminal device.
US09071632B2
A distributed node service management system utilizes multiple existing processor nodes of a distributed computing system, in support of the primary data processing functions of the distributed computing system. The distributed node service management system coordinates and manages service functions on behalf of processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US09071626B2
A security installation positions a peering ability with a peer installation by establishing a peering agreement to define the conditions constituting a situation for which peering applies, and identifies the resources and assets which will be shared, as well as the duration of the peering, typically until the resolution of the exigent situation or circumstances that prompted the peering. Peering selectively couples security installations for monitoring a particular upon determining that a situation responsive to mediation has occurred within an area monitored by the security installation for monitoring an area. The security installation initiates a peering invitation to a peer installation, in which the peer installation is configured to share resources with the security installation for mitigating the cause of the situation. The resulting peered access provides communication between the peer installation and the security installation, the access being temporary and conditional on the exigency of the determined situation.
US09071623B2
Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to interpret or translate the application code written in an XML programming language into code that is suitable for execution across computer platforms. Moreover, the XML virtual machine supports the Model View Controller (MVC) design paradigm that facilitates true data abstraction from applications to a common data model. Multi-instance applications, with each instance potentially supporting multiple views, may be created and executed.
US09071620B2
The invention provides a method and a system for enabling communication with a device (206) of a party operating in a hybrid network. The hybrid network combines an Internet-protocol based network (202) and a non-internet-protocol based network (203), wherein the device is an Internet-protocol based device (206). The method includes contacting a first registry being (209) a member in the non-Internet-protocol based network (203) for registering the device in the non-internet-protocol based network. The method also includes contacting a second registry (210) being a member in the Internet-protocol based network (202), for registering the device in the Internet-protocol based network.
US09071619B2
A Unified Bandwidth Manager that functions as a multi-service bandwidth manager to interface with and hierarchically manage a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems for at least one associated network resource is described. The Unified Bandwidth Manager includes a hierarchical control structure, and an interface for providing observed information relevant to policy, goal, and observed resource usage to the hierarchical control structure. At least one service-specific observation element and at least one network monitor observation element provide observation information relating to network conditions imposed on and observed in the associated network resource. The hierarchical control structure is provided with a plurality of feedback inputs that are responsive to associated ongoing observation information from each of an associated observation reporting element. The hierarchical control structure uses the plurality of feedback inputs, together with policy information or goal information, to produce at least one element of outgoing control information.
US09071618B1
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for providing multiple access levels to a single user account using different login credentials are presented. In one or more embodiments, a computing platform may receive an access request to access a user account for which at least two valid passwords have been defined. The request may include one or more login credentials. Based on determining that a password included in the one or more login credentials matches a valid password for the user account, the computing platform may determine an access level to be provided. Subsequently, the computing platform may provide access to the user account based on the determined access level. For example, when a first password is received from a third-party system, read-only access may be provided to the user account, whereas when a second password is received from a user device, full access may be provided to the user account.
US09071614B2
The present invention prevents the deterioration of security while maintaining usability in a case where a plurality of policies are applied to a client computer. Policies created by respective management servers 10 (Ma through Md) and by a highest-level management server 10 (Msa) are set in a client computer 20. The highest-level management server delivers, to the client computer, a merge rule for creating one policy from a plurality of policies. The client computer creates a new policy from a plurality of policies and the merge rule, and manages a security function.
US09071601B2
An authority delegate system including a first server system to manage specific information, a second server system to provide a service, an authentication device, and a client operated by a first user who is authorized to use the service, includes a reception unit, a transmission unit, a management unit, a determination unit, and a provision unit. The reception unit receives an authorization token shared range for authorizing specific information usage. The transmission unit transmits to the client a setting screen for setting whether to permit users within the shared range to share the authorization token. The management unit manages the setting screen set shared range, and the authorization token issued by the authentication device. The provision unit provides, in response to determining that the second user is included in the shared range and confirmation that the authorization token is valid, the service to the second user using the specific information.
US09071600B2
Phishing and online fraud prevention in one aspect includes a user computer implementing operations such as establishing a VPN tunnel between the user computer and a network operations center, activating a website launcher, reading user credentials from a smartcard, launching a browser in a sandboxed execution environment, and requesting a whitelisted webpage from the network operations center, via the VPN tunnel. The network operations center comprises one or more servers implementing operations such as determining if a user requested webpage is listed for access by the user, and loading and sending the requested webpage to the user, via the VPN tunnel, if the requested webpage is listed for access by the user. The user computer supplies the user credentials to the website and presents a webpage, a homepage, or a one-time password entry page for the website.
US09071582B2
Lookaside-type communication apparatus and reception and transmission control methods make high-rate communication of a packet including encrypted data. Receive data including encrypted data are supplied to an encryption data processing part, and supplied to a security part through a second bus when the packet is received. The encrypted data becomes plain-text data in the security part, and supplied to the control part through the system bus. Transmit data including a data body including a plain-text data to be encrypted are supplied to the security part when the packet is transmitted. The plain-text data become the encrypted data in the security part, and the transmit data having the data body including the encrypted data are supplied to the encryption data processing part through the second bus. The transmit data are transmitted in the form of the packet in the transmission and reception part.
US09071574B1
Systems and methods for remote access of network-enabled devices that provide seamless, firewall-compliant connectivity between multiple users and multiple devices, that allow collaborative operations by multiple users of remote devices, that allow point to multipoint control of multiple devices and which allow rapid, secure transmission of data between remote users and devices. In general terms, the system includes at least one connection server, and at least two computers operatively coupled to the connection server via a public or global network. In an example where at least one client computer is operatively connected to at least one network-enabled device through a connection server via the public or global network, the connection server is configured to route control instructions from the client to the network-enabled device, and route data from the network-enabled device to the client.
US09071571B2
A computational device receives a first text message in a text messaging format from a mobile device to access a website that stores information in a markup language format. The computational device converts one or more elements of the stored information from the markup language format to the text messaging format. The computational device sends a second text message that indicates how to interact with the website in the text messaging format to the mobile device.
US09071568B2
A system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a vehicle computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server is configured to receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider. The at least one server is further configured to parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider and identify information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data. The at least one server is further configured to extract the identified information and transmit the information for communication to the vehicle computing system.
US09071565B2
Devices, systems and methods for sending messages from a web service server to a computing device shared by a current user and another offline user while maintaining privacy for the other offline user's messages and decreasing bandwidth requirements for transmission of messages may include registering the user and the offline user of the computing device with the web service server, receiving at the web service server from the computing device a login by a first user, wherein the first user is determined to be the current user, checking a database for undelivered messages for the at least one offline user who is not currently accessing the web service server, wherein any user who is not a current user is determined to be an offline user, encrypting each offline user's undelivered messages, sending the undelivered messages to the computing device, and storing offline user encrypted undelivered messages in the computing device.
US09071554B2
First, a packet may be received and a timestamp value may be placed on the packet. The timestamp value may comprise a place time value comprising a time when the timestamp was placed on the packet plus a delay time value comprising an estimated time delay between when the timestamp was placed on the packet and when the packet leaves a port exit. Next, the packet may be sent to a first in first out (FIFO) memory. The packet may then be sent from the FIFO memory out the port exit.
US09071552B2
An automated tool for migrating a website hosting service from a first website hosting architecture to a second website hosting architecture, the first architecture comprising a server architecture that serves the services necessary for a specific website from a single machine and the second web hosting architecture comprising a server architecture that serves a plurality of common services from a plurality of machines to a plurality of unaffiliated websites using a cloud computing architecture.
US09071551B2
A device is configured to determine that the device is experiencing a problem, and to determine a problem type associated with the problem. The device is configured to determine a set of questions, based on the problem type, and to provide the set of questions to a user of the device. The device is configured to receive user input including responses to the set of questions. The device is configured to determine device information associated with one or more hardware components, hardware attributes, or software attributes associated with the user device. The device is configured to generate a trouble ticket based on the set of questions, the user input and the device information, and to transmit the trouble ticket.
US09071550B2
The disclosed invention involves a framework and method based on hardware base tool to monitor the performance of virtualized systems, wherein the said framework comprises at least one master host, and each of the said master host comprises user space components, guest space components, kernel space components and hardware. The said user space components comprise policy manager, workload mediator, monitor library, and host performance monitor. The said host performance monitor is connected to workload mediator, and host performance monitor comprises user space monitor and kernel space monitor. The disclosed invention applies PMU or the similar tools to monitor the performance of virtualized systems. The performance monitoring of the disclosed invention is to monitor CPU, memory, cache, IO, network, processes, etc. of the host of virtualized systems. Meanwhile, the method based on hardware to monitor performance in this disclosed invention resolves the problem to acquire performance data for virtualized systems.
US09071536B2
A bus-based optical network system comprising optical fibers, optical line terminals (OLTs), and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) is revealed. The OLT consists of the near part (OLTN) and the far part (OLTF). Optical fibers respectively form the transmitting and receiver buses (T Bus and R Bus) with the technique of time-division multiple access (TDMA). The slot flows on both buses are in opposite directions. The OLTN performing traffic control is situated in or near a central office (CO) while the OLTF is far from the CO. ONUs, whose MAC performs traffic control, connect with two buses and share their bandwidth. The MAC with traffic control keeps the performance of the network from degradation. The required numbers of COs and optical fibers for establishing the bus-based network are so smaller that the cost of the network can be significantly reduced.
US09071533B2
In one embodiment, a source node (e.g., responsible node) determines a plurality of destination nodes of a message, and generates a probabilistic data structure that encodes each of the plurality of destination nodes without any false negatives and with zero or more false positives. The source node may then transmit the message with the probabilistic data structure toward the plurality of destination nodes, wherein nodes receiving the message interpret the probabilistic data structure to determine whether the receiving node is probabilistically one of the intended plurality of destination nodes.
US09071530B2
A device receives, from a managed device, endpoint information associated with an unmanaged device connected to the managed device in a network. The device also receives unmanaged device information that partially identifies the unmanaged device, and completely identifies the unmanaged device based on the endpoint information and the unmanaged device information.
US09071502B2
A system and method for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request for an original resource and any embedded resource. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine a set of service providers for alternatively hosting, processing, and/or transmitting at least a portion of the original resource and/or any embedded resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent resource requests for the original resource and any embedded resources using each of a variety of alternative set(s) of service providers. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations associated with monitoring the operation and performance of service providers with respect to specific resource requests are also provided.
US09071497B2
An apparatus is used for modulation classification of unknown input signal in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a signal classification unit configured to classify the input signal into a PSK signal and an FSK signal and a modulation index decision unit configured to decide a modulation index for the PSK signal and the FSK signal classified by the signal classification unit.
US09071495B2
A radio receiver apparatus that can effectively utilize GI to improve the reception quality. In this apparatus, a data extracting part extracts a data portion of a direct wave from a signal subjected to a radio reception process by a received RF part. A GI extracting part extracts, from the signal subjected to the radio reception process by the received RF part, GI having a length determined by an extracted GI length deciding part. The extracted GI is adjusted by a data position adjusting part such that its rear end coincides with the read end of the extracted data portion. A combining part combines the extracted data portion with the GI the data position of which has been adjusted. The combined signal is then supplied to a frequency axis equalizing part, which equalizes the signal distortions of the combined signal on the frequency axis.
US09071494B2
Systems and methods are provided for fast and precise estimation of frequency with relatively minimal sampling and relatively high tolerance to noise.
US09071485B2
An approach for providing remote interaction (e.g., technical support) with electronic devices (e.g., mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) is provided. Specifically, remote control of a first electronic device may be obtained by an administrator device or the like. The first electronic device may then be remotely operated by the administrator device to view, indicate, and/or perform features/functions of a second electronic device needing technical support.
US09071480B2
A communication device, such as a smart phone, includes logic to determine a noise power estimate. In an example, a frequency domain calculation may be used to determine noise components within the noise power estimate. Further, a product of a channel estimate and equalizer effect may be used in the determination of the levels noise components, such as, inter-symbol interference power and neighbor cell interference power.
US09071478B2
A method for performing adaptive equalization includes: dynamically detecting current levels of a plurality of sets of pattern levels respectively corresponding to a plurality of data patterns, wherein each set of the sets of pattern levels includes a previous level, a current level, and a next level respectively corresponding to one of the plurality of data patterns; and dynamically calculating a plurality of data decision levels according to the current levels of the sets of pattern levels, for use of data decision, wherein each data decision level of at least one portion of the plurality of data decision levels is not equal to zero, and the data decision levels are dynamically adjusted in accordance with the current levels of the sets of pattern levels, in order to enhance a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). An associated method for performing adaptive equalization is also provided. Associated apparatus are also provided.
US09071464B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of a new message is displayed in a form representing the matched entry. Each entry may be associated with a category and the step of displaying notification represents the category of the matched entry. The entries may be any one of or a combination of words, phrases and/or symbols which commonly appear in messages such that a user can determine the category of a message content without focusing on the message.
US09071456B2
A method and a device for realizing an optical channel data unit (ODU) shared protection ring (SPRing) are disclosed by the present invention. The method includes: A first ODU of a first service transmitted in an optical line is taken as a protection granularity, where the first ODU is an ODUk that is directly multiplexed to the optical line; the first ODU is monitored, and a monitoring result is obtained; when the monitoring result indicates that a failure occurs, a switching is performed through cross of a second ODU of the first service, where the second ODU is an ODUm that is multiplexed to the first ODU, and m is smaller than or equal to k. Through the embodiments of the present invention, a protection switching speed may be accelerated.
US09071454B1
A method and apparatus in which multiple Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless data transmissions are simultaneously provided between a wireless device and a server, including providing multiple antennas, multiple T/R units, multiple processors and multiple I/O ports on the wireless device. The method includes receiving multiple IP data packets on the I/O ports at substantially the same time, and sending multiple data packets from the wireless device to the server, whereby the transmission rate between the wireless device and the server is increased.
US09071445B2
The invention relates to a method of generating an implicit certificate and a method of generating a private key from a public key. The method involves a method generating an implicit certificate in three phases. The public key may be an entity's identity or derived from an entity's identify. Only the owner of the public key possesses complete information to generate the corresponding private key. No authority is required to nor able to generate an entity's private key.
US09071438B2
A secure communication module that accepts a cryptographic message if a nonce value for the received message is greater than the largest nonce value yet seen. If the received nonce value is not the largest nonce value yet seen, the secure communication module compares the received nonce value with a nonce acceptance window. If the nonce value falls outside the nonce acceptance window, the secure communication module rejects the received message and assumes a replay attack. Alternatively, if the nonce value falls within the nonce acceptance window, the secure communication module compares the received nonce value with a replay window mask. If comparison with the replay window mask indicates that the received nonce value has been seen before, the secure communication module rejects the received message and assumes a replay attack. Otherwise, the secure communication module accepts the message and adds the received nonce value to the replay window mask.
US09071431B1
Disclosed is a method and corresponding apparatus to make use of hybrid-ARQ repetition factors as a way to differentiate service quality to various mobile terminals. Depending on a mobile terminal's subscription service class, such as the mobile terminal's PLMN, the mobile terminal may be made to use a particular hybrid-ARQ repetition factor. For instance, a mobile terminal of a high service class may be made to use a low hybrid-ARQ repetition factor, which may help the mobile terminal experience less downlink transmission delay and thus a higher downlink data rate. Whereas, a mobile terminal of a low service class may be made to use a high hybrid-ARQ repetition factor, which may cause the mobile terminal to experience more downlink transmission delay and thus a lower downlink data rate, and may further free up downlink transmission resources to facilitate better service for other mobile terminals.
US09071423B2
A system and method for identifying the player that leaked content encryption keys by loading a set of player keys into individual content players and determining the number of encryptions and the number of encryption keys to use in multiple encrypting critical content. The method produces copies of critical data content packets, each copy of which is separately encrypted using any one of a set of encryption keys that are related to one another through a mathematical algorithm. The related set of encryption keys and data describing key relationship and content player identity are transmitted to a previously determined license management agency. The transmitted encrypted content is written to a receiving device or file, or streamed to an individual player for non-synchronous playback. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US09071419B2
A wireless telecommunications network supplies a semi-persistent resource that a wireless station can use for special purposes (such as a retransmission of packets for ARQ purposes or a control signal. The semi-persistent resource can be allocated by the system to other terminals if, e.g., a retransmission is not required. Since a retransmission is generally performed in response to a NACK received from a base station, the NACK may itself serve as a token that permits the wireless station to use the semi-persistent allocation. Thus, the technology includes, e.g., a method for resource allocation on a semi-persistent basis and efficient signaling for the usage of such allocation.
US09071416B2
A system including a nonce module and an encryption module. The nonce module is configured to generate a nonce for each packet of a plurality of packets to be encrypted using a first temporal key. Each nonce includes a packet number that is different than packet numbers associated with other nonces generated by the nonce module for the plurality of packets. The packet number is greater than N bits in length, where N is an integer greater than 40. The encryption module is configured to encrypt, without reusing a value of the packet number, more than 2(N−1) packets of the plurality of packets using (i) the first temporal key and (ii) the nonces corresponding to the more than 2(N−1) packets using Galois/Counter Mode encryption.
US09071411B2
A control channel element detection method and apparatus is provided for detecting the Control Channel Elements (CCEs) carrying control information for a mobile station using a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI). A CCE detection method includes searching a current subframe for CCEs, and locating the CCEs carrying control information for the mobile station by decoding the current subframe with variable code rates. Searching for the CCEs includes searching the current subframe for the CCEs carrying the control information for the mobile station while changing a size type of the CCEs according to a result of a comparison between a CQI of the current subframe and a CQI of a previous subframe.
US09071407B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of receivers, each having a clock and data recovery circuit. A first local clock recovery circuit in a first receiver can be caused to produce a test clock which simulates a condition to be tested, and while a second receiver in the plurality of receivers that includes a second local clock recovery circuit is caused to use the test clock in place of the reference clock while receiving a test data sequence at its input. The clock and data recovery circuits in the receivers can include clock control loops responsive to loop control signals to modify the selected reference clock to generate the local clock in response to selective one of (i) a corresponding data signal for normal operation or during a test, and (ii) a test signal applied to the clock control loop in which case the test clock is produced.
US09071403B2
Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request) techniques are provided for use with OFDMA systems. In various embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for dealing with issues such as Handling non-full rate vocoder frames, VoIP packet jitter handling, VoIP capacity increasing schemes, persistent and non-persistent assignment of resources in OFDMA systems.
US09071402B2
Improvements in the performance of HARQ operation are achieved by considering two channel coding parameters, the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND, in the selection of the retransmission settings for HARQ operation. In one exemplary embodiment, an optimal RV setting for the retransmission is selected based on the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND. In another exemplary embodiment, an address offset to the RV starting point for a selected RV setting is selected based on the number of filler bits F and the number of dummy bits ND.
US09071401B2
Presented herein are pilot-less noise estimation techniques that utilize a correlation between attributes of a received signal and the noise to generate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimate for the signal. More specifically, an interval of a digital signal is received a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) value is calculated for a plurality of bits in the interval of the signal. A scalar value that relates to a distribution of the calculated LLR values is computed. The SNR for the interval of the signal is determined based on a predetermined correlation between the scalar value and noise within the received interval of the signal.
US09071398B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving image data. The method for transmitting image data includes classifying each pixel of image data into upper bits and lower bits, enabling the classified upper bits to be included in a payload of a Most Significant Bit (MSB) packet, and also enabling the classified lower bits to be included in a payload of a Least Significant Bit (LSB) packet, generating a header of the MSB packet and a header of the LSB packet, combining the payload and the header to respectively generate the MSB packet and the LSB packet, and transmitting the generated MSB packet and the LSB packet.
US09071370B2
In a video delivery context, collection and analysis of viewing data can provide insight into viewer interaction with video and the Internet. The viewing data can be transmitted in a controlled manner to a data repository. The system can selectively target specific viewers/households to obtain viewing data, which can be combined with demographics, anonymized, and encrypted. Embodiments enable precision selection of media opportunities, by determining detailed characteristics associated with broadcasts including movement of audiences and specific viewer behavior, such as visits to websites on the Internet. The effective yield of broadcasts, including promotional spots and advertisements, can be determined and predicted based on concrete data at a level of detail down to individual viewers. Accordingly, embodiments enable improvement of the effectiveness and return on investment for programming, promotional spots, and advertisements.
US09071369B2
The invention relates to an optical waveguide system (20) for a display device (1) and to such a display device (1), wherein the optical waveguide system (20) comprises at least one optical waveguide group (20-1, 20-2, 20-3, 20-4, 20-5, 20-6), wherein at least one of the optical waveguide groups (20-1, 20-2, 20-3, 20-4, 20-5) comprises: several optical waveguides (18) made of a material that is transparent to the light of a LED (14), spacers (34) for adjusting a distance of an interspace (30) between a circuit carrier (12) and a front panel (2), and a housing (22) which is made of a material that is intransparent to the light, surrounds each of the several optical waveguides (18) and connects the optical waveguides (18) and the spacers (34) among each other and to each other.
US09071368B2
A mixing board for sound signals received on at least two channels, which can include the following circuits: a circuit for pre-listening to the sound signals through headphones that can be connected, a circuit for changing the timbre by means of a sound filter, and a circuit for cross-fading and/or mixing sound signals of the channels by means of a cross-fader, and which comprises several outputs, wherein the sound signals received on the channels are headphone output signals of players, the relevant channels are divided by means of circuitry and the signals are passed on to the outputs in parallel and without amplification: a) through a passive sound filter and subsequently a passive cross-fader to an output to which an amplifier can be connected, and b) via a switch (6, 7) of the relevant channel to a headphone output of the mixing board, wherein the channels can be selected by means of the switches.
US09071367B2
Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of emergency including crime broadcast data generation and publication in a constrained geospatial vicinity around a broadcast location of a neighborhood social network. In one embodiment, the emergency broadcast data is radially distributed as a notification data through an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and/or a push notification delivered to (1) a set of recipients through an internet protocol (IP) based network associated with users and/or their user profiles around an epicenter defined at a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the emergency broadcast data generated through a computing device or (2) a set of service providers through a cellular network using the radial algorithm in addition to the set of recipients through the IP based network associated with users and/or their user profiles.
US09071361B2
Integrated performance monitoring (PM); optical layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P); alarming; amplification, or the like is described in optical transceivers, such as multi-source agreement (MSA)-defined modules. An optical transceiver defined by an MSA agreement can include advanced integrated functions for carrier-grade operation which preserves the existing MSA specifications allowing the optical transceiver to operate with any compliant MSA host device with advanced features and functionality. An XFP module can include integrated circuitry configured to provide forward error correction encoding and decoding; a transmitter communicatively coupled to the integrated circuit; a receiver communicatively coupled to the integrated circuit; and a module housing in which the integrated circuitry, the transmitter, and the receiver are disposed, wherein the module housing is pluggable in a host device configured to operate the pluggable optical transceiver, and wherein the forward error correction encoding and decoding is performed transparently to the host device.
US09071358B2
An optical-coax unit (OCU) includes an optical PHY to receive and transmit optical signals and a coax PHY to receive and transmit coax signals. The OCU also includes a media-independent interface to provide a first continuous bitstream from the optical PHY to the coax PHY and a second continuous bitstream from the coax PHY to the optical PHY. The first continuous bitstream corresponds to received optical signals and transmitted coax signals, and the second continuous bitstream corresponds to received coax signals and transmitted optical signals.
US09071354B2
An optical receiving apparatus includes: a compensator configured to compensate an amount of change in a characteristic; a controller configured to obtain, based on a first amount of change in the characteristic with respect to a first optical signal with a first wavelength, the first wavelength, and a wavelength characteristic in the characteristic, a second amount of change in the characteristic made when a second optical signal with a second wavelength is propagated in an optical path, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength, and obtain a compensation amount based on the second amount of change; and a first setting unit configured to set the compensation amount for the compensator so that the compensator compensates the amount of change in the characteristic.
US09071349B2
Performance monitoring (PM); optical layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P); and alarming are provided in optical transceivers, such as multi-source agreement (MSA)-defined modules. The present disclosure provides an optical transceiver defined by an MSA agreement with integrated PM and alarming for carrier-grade operation. The integration preserves the existing MSA specifications allowing the optical transceiver to operate with any compliant MSA host device. Further, the host device can be configured through software to retrieve the PM and alarming from the optical transceiver. The optical transceiver can include XFP, XPAK, XENPAK, X2, XFP-E, SFP, SFP+, 300-pin, and the like. The optical transceiver is configured to frame incoming signals to provide overhead and FEC. The transceiver provides access to all alarms in ITU-T G.709, all Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) bytes in G.709, far end monitoring as specified in G.709, loopbacks, historical and real-time PM values, and the like.
US09071348B2
An optical transmission apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits to a counterpart receiver via a transmission path and transmits as optical signals for a plurality of channels, input signals for a plurality of channels; and a controller that when a transmission failure between the transmitter and the receiver is detected, distributes to properly operating channels, data for a channel subject to the transmission failure, increases a transmission rate for the properly operating channels to a given transmission rate, and continues data transmission for all channels including the channel subject to the transmission failure.
US09071346B2
A receiver for receiving a frame including a pilot signal and a data signal, referring to an impulse response of a propagation path estimated from the pilot signal, and performing compensation processing on the data signal, the receiver includes: an extraction unit configured to extract the pilot signal of the frame; and an estimation unit configured to execute orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) method which is a decoding algorithm for compressive sensing and to estimate the impulse response from the pilot signal, wherein the estimation unit refers to a pilot signal of a first frame, estimates an impulse response, determines position information on the estimated impulse response, refers to a pilot signal corresponding to the determined position information, of a second frame subsequent to the first frame, estimates an impulse response, and determines position information on the estimated impulse response.
US09071344B2
A method and system for reverse link interference cancellation. One method comprises demodulating and decoding at least one signal sent from at least one access terminal and received by a first base station, sending demodulated, decoded information of the signal to a second base station, reconstructing the signal at the second base station, and subtracting the reconstructed signal from a buffer at the second base station.
US09071341B2
Presented is a random non-cyclical binary code generator for communications systems. A random non-cyclical sequence of integers from a random number generator is extended in length to form an extended integer sequence. This integer set is immediately loaded into a 10-minute epoch memory consistent with 10 minutes of chips. These integers are then synchronously retrieved from memory under GPS time-of-day control. Retrieved integers are immediately converted into pulse pairs of all ones followed by all zeros with each pulse width equal to the integer value in chips. The chips are immediately concatenated to a chipping clock shifting memory wherein each memory location is a unique phase source of the binary code. The memory length in chips is twice the range uncertainty for a 10 MHz chip rate, with the center chip of the shifting memory maintained as the source of universal time synchronized local binary code.
US09071338B2
A method for controlling data communication within a locomotive consist is disclosed. The method may include receiving, at a first access point, a first set of data packets that represent a communication sent from a second access point via a first set of wires. The method may also include receiving, at the first access point, a second set of data packets that represent the same communication sent from the second access point via a second set of wires. Further, the method may include processing the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets to create a resultant set of data packets and generating, at the first access point, a communication related to operating the locomotive based on the resultant data packets.
US09071326B2
A distributed radio system comprising a first receiver (1) and a second receiver (2) each receiver comprising a tuner (11, 21) adapted to receive radio signals and to transmit tuned radio signals, a first baseband unit (12, 22) coupled to the tuner (11,21) and adapted to receive the tuned radio signals and to partially demodulate the tuned radio signals, the first baseband unit (12,22) being further adapted to transmit partially demodulated signals, a second baseband unit (14, 24).The distributed radio system further comprising a digital communication channel (3) adapted to receive the partially demodulated signals and to redistribute the partially demodulated signals to the second baseband unit (14, 24).
US09071325B2
A low noise receiver includes a downconverter configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, the downconverter comprising a switching architecture configured to generate a plurality of output phases based on a respective plurality of local oscillator (LO) signals, a differencing circuit configured to combine the plurality of output phases such that an nth output phase is differenced with an (n+K)th output phase, resulting in gain-added output phases, and a summation filter configured to receive the gain-added output phases and configured to combine the gain-added output phases such that a response of the receiver effectively reduces odd harmonics of the RF signal.
US09071322B2
Methods and apparatus are described for enabling downlink transparent relay in a wireless communication network. In a wireless communications network, a base station and a mobile station may communicate with each other via a relay station, as needed. Transparent relay may allow for relay communication between a base station and a mobile station although the mobile station is unaware of the relay station. However, non-contiguous transmission of a relay station may lead to channel quality measurement and channel estimation degradation during downlink transparent relay. According to some aspects, a base station may schedule a mobile station to a transmission mode that utilizes dedicated pilot signals for downlink transparent relay, and a relay station may transmit data and dedicated pilot signals over the same channel resources as the base station. According to some aspects, the relay station may null common pilot signals transmitted by the base station.
US09071321B2
Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station for providing communication between the BS and MS. Methods are provided for allocating OFDM resources for communicating between the BS, RS and/or MS for example dividing transmission resources into uplink and downlink transmissions and methods of inserting pilot symbols into transmission resources used by the RS. In some embodiments on the invention, the methods are consistent and/or can be used in conjunction with existing standards such as 802.16e.
US09071311B2
A method is adapted for controlling an antenna system that includes multiple antenna groups, each including multiple antenna units. The method includes: controlling each of the antenna units of each of the antenna groups to receive one and the same test signal; generating, for each antenna unit, a quality indicator, which is associated with a signal quality of the test signal, with reference to the test signal received thereat; and selecting, for each antenna group, one of the antenna units, the quality indicator corresponding to which indicates an optimum signal quality from among the antenna units of the respective antenna group, to be a working antenna unit of the respective antenna group for performing subsequent data transmission.
US09071304B2
Embodiments of a digital-to-time converter (DTC) and methods for generating phase-modulated signals are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a divide by 2N+/−1 operation on an oscillator signal generates first and second divider signals, the first divider signal is sampled to provide a rising-edge correlated signal, a divider unit output signal is sampled to provide a falling edge correlated signal, and either the second divider signal or a delayed version of the second divider signal is provided as the divider unit output signal. A selection between the rising-edge and the falling-edge correlated signals generates edge signals. A fine phase-modulated output signal is generated based on an edge interpolation between a first and second edge signals.
US09071298B2
Method and apparatus for conveying precoding information in a control message (M) from a first node (400) to a second node (402), with information on properties of an associated wireless data transmission (D) between the first and second nodes employing spatial multiplexing, and precoding for the data transmission. The first node determines precoding parameters (P) for signal transmission to the receiving node, optionally based on feedback reports (F) from the receiving node. The first node encodes control information bits in precoding information fields of the control message by means of values in TBS fields of the control message, such that the TBS field values determine the interpretation of the bits in the precoding information field(s). The control message (M) is then sent to the second node.
US09071292B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting frames of N>2 symbols for use in a distributed system having at least two transmitter nodes. The method includes circularly permutating a frame of N symbols; multiplying m first permutated symbols by a phase coefficient φ≠1, for 0
US09071283B2
A method for controlling a modulation index of a near field communication (NFC) device includes: in a calibration mode of the NFC device, temporarily coupling a receiver of the NFC device to a transmitter of the NFC device to form a probing path between the receiver and the transmitter; and in the calibration mode of the NFC device, dynamically adjusting at least one portion of a plurality of modulation parameters corresponding to the modulation index according to probed results of outputs of the transmitter, in order to calibrate the modulation index, for use of transmitting through the transmitter in a normal mode of the NFC device. An associated apparatus is also provided.
US09071282B1
In general, techniques and systems for selecting a read rate for short-range communication with a computing device are described. In one example, a method includes detecting, by a computing device, a trigger event. The method may also include, responsive to the detection of the trigger event, changing a near-field communication (NFC) read rate from a first read rate to a second read rate by multiplying the first read rate by a predetermined value. The method may also include generating, by the computing device, NFC signals at the second read rate. In some examples, the trigger event may include an acceleration or velocity of the computing device exceeding a threshold, detecting the computing device within a predetermined geographical location, or detecting an ambient light intensity exceeding a threshold.
US09071269B2
A data storage device includes a memory and a controller. A method performed in the data storage device includes performing a first transformation of a unit of data to generate a first transformed unit of data. Performing the first transformation includes sorting permutations of the unit of data. The method includes performing a move-to-front transformation of the first transformed unit of data to generate a second transformed unit of data. The method includes performing a weight-based encoding of the second transformed unit of data to generate an encoded unit of data. The encoded unit of data has a same number of bits as the unit of data.
US09071261B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide accuracy enhancement techniques to improve ADC SNRs. For example, regular bit trials from a most significant bit (MSB) to predetermined less significant bit of a digital word and extra bit trials may be performed. The results of the regular and extra bit trials may be combined to generate a digital output signal. A residue error may be measured, and the digital output signal may be adjusted based on the measured residue error.
US09071249B2
In one embodiment, a touch sensor includes a substrate. A plurality of conductive elements are formed on the substrate. A plurality of sacrificial conductive members overlay portions of the plurality of conductive elements. The sacrificial conductive members function as sacrificial anodes for the conductive elements.
US09071239B2
A semiconductor apparatus is provided herein for reducing power when transmitting data between a first device and a second device in the semiconductor apparatus. Additional circuitry is added to the semiconductor apparatus to create a communication system that decreases a number of state changes for each signal line of a data bus between the first device and the second device for all communications. The additional circuitry includes a decoder coupled to receive and convert a value from the first device for transmission over the data bus to an encoder that provides a recovered (i.e., re-encoded) version of the value to the second device. One or more multiplexers may also be included in the additional circuitry to support any number of devices.
US09071238B2
The present invention includes a family of level converting flip-flops that accepts data and clock inputs at a lower voltage level while producing data outputs at a higher voltage level. These flip-flops enable fine-grained dual supply voltage techniques such as low-swing clocking (distributing the clock signal at a lower voltage level) and clustered voltage scaling (CVS). The level conversion is accomplished in a very efficient manner by sharing the positive feedbacks inside a flip-flop for both storage and level conversion. Additionally, the presented flip-flops are contention-free and non-ratioed, thus having reduced timing and power overheads due to the level conversion function.
US09071236B1
Embodiments of a method for controlling a charge pump and a control device for a charge pump are described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling a charge pump involves monitoring a power-on status of the charge pump, calculating a duty cycle of the charge pump within a time period based on the power-on status of the charge pump, and adjusting at least one of a clock frequency setting and a capacitance setting of the charge pump in based on the duty cycle of the charge pump. Other embodiments are also described.
US09071220B2
A termination network circuit for a differential signal transmitter comprises a plurality of n resistance elements and a plurality of differential signal drivers. A first end of each of the resistance elements is coupled at a common node, where n is an integer value and is the number of conductors used to transmit a plurality of differential signals. Each differential signal driver may include a positive terminal driver and a negative terminal driver. The positive terminal driver is coupled to a second end of a first resistance element while the negative terminal driver is coupled to a second end of a second resistance element. The positive terminal driver and the negative terminal driver are separately and independently switchable to provide a current having a magnitude and direction. During a transmission cycle each of the resistance elements has a current of a different magnitude and/or direction than the other resistance elements.
US09071217B1
A wireless communication device includes a digital modulation signal generator that generates digital modulation signals, a DAC that converts digital output of the digital modulation signal generator into analog signals, a modulator that generates amplified quadrature modulation signals by exerting quadrature modulation and amplification on the analog signals, an antenna that radiates the amplified quadrature modulation signals, a power detector that outputs power detected signals obtained from power detection of the amplified quadrature modulation signals, a controller that adjusts gain of the modulator by using the power detected signals and a desired power value, a thermometer that measures ambient temperatures at a plurality of burst transmission periods, and a high-power prevention circuit that readjusts the gain of the modulator for a present burst transmission period.
US09071212B2
An audio amplifier may comprise a signal limiting circuit and a power amplifier. The signal limiting circuit may be configured to limit an audio signal received at an input and to provide it as a limited audio signal at an output. The power amplifier may have a supply connection which may be coupled to a power supply unit in order to supply power to the power amplifier. The power amplifier may be configured to amplify a signal, which may be based on the limited audio signal, and to provide it as a level-limited audio signal at an output which may be coupled to a load, so that the load may be operated at limited power. The signal limiting circuit may be configured to produce an audio signal which may be limited depending on the load.
US09071211B1
A combiner coupled to output terminals of a Doherty amplifier, the combiner comprising an inverter circuit and a transformer circuit. The inverter circuit comprising at least a first network and a second network, wherein each of the first network and the second network includes lumped elements. The transformer circuit comprising at least a third network and a fourth network, wherein each of the first third and the fourth network includes the lumped elements, wherein the lumped elements are selected from the group of capacitors and inductors.
US09071204B2
A power amplifier (PA) which improves dynamic range of previous ZVS contour-based power amplifier architectures is presented. The inventive circuit combines ZVS contour-based power amplification with a current mode digital-to-analog converter (DAC) based digital polar power amplifier. The inventive elements interoperate to provide high efficiency even at large peak power back-off levels and increased dynamic range. The invention is particularly well-suited for use in modulation schemes (e.g., WLAN/LTE/WIMAX) having large peak-to-average output power ratios. Utilizing the inventive PA in generating modulation in these systems can increase RF transmitter efficiency of by approximately two-fold.
US09071188B2
A protective redundancy circuit is provided for a power tool having an electric motor. The protective redundant subsystem is comprised of: a motor switch coupled in series with the motor; a motor control module that controls the switching operation of the motor switch; and a protective control module that monitors switching operation of the motor switch and disables the power tool when the switching operation of the motor switch fails. In the context of an AC powered tool, the switching operation of the motor switch is correlated to and synchronized to the waveform of the AC input signal. During each cycle or half cycle, the motor control module introduces a delay period before closing the motor switch and the protective control module determines the operational status of the motor switch by measuring the voltage across the motor switch during the delay period.
US09071187B2
A method of increasing a current sensing range for a vehicle or other polyphase motor system includes measuring phase currents delivered to a motor of the system. A controller calculates an absolute value of each phase current, compares each calculated absolute value to a saturation limit to determine whether only one sensor is saturated, and extrapolates a phase current value of the saturated sensor. The calculated temporary phase current is used as the extrapolated phase current value for the saturated sensor, and a control action is executed using the extrapolated phase current value only when the calculated temporary phase current value exceeds the measured value for the saturated sensor and a sign of the calculated temporary phase current value matches that of the measured value for the saturated sensor. A system includes the motor, a power inverter module, phase current sensors, and a controller which executes the method.
US09071186B2
In one example embodiment, a device for controlling an alternating current (AC) machine is disclosed. The device includes a processor configured to determine a plurality of instantaneous voltages corresponding to a plurality of phase voltages of an inverter, the inverter driving the AC machine. The processor is further configured to determine an actual line-to-line voltage of the inverter based on the plurality of instantaneous voltages. The processor is further configured to determine a terminal voltage feedback for controlling the AC machine, based on the determined actual line-to-line voltage and a terminal voltage threshold.
US09071182B2
A motor drive device includes a converter which mutually converts power between AC power and DC power, an inverter which converts the DC power into AC power for driving a motor to output to a motor side, and converts regenerated AC power from the motor side into DC power to output to the DC side, a DC link unit which connects a DC side of the converter and a DC side of the inverter, a voltage detecting unit which detects a DC voltage value, an alarm level setting unit which sets an alarm level of the DC voltage value, an alarm determining unit which determines whether or not the DC voltage value exceeds the alarm level, and an alarm reporting unit which instructs the inverter to stop conversion operation when it is determined that the voltage value exceeds the alarm level.
US09071180B2
An electric drive unit includes an electric motor, an inverter supplying electricity to the motor, a continuous current stage supplying electricity to the inverter, a controller including a modulator for driving the inverter controlled by a first digital signal representing the amplitude of the phase voltages to be applied to the motor and by a second digital signal representing the electrical frequency of the phase voltages. An analog/digital stage calculates the optimum value of the advance angle (δopt) of the voltage applied to the motor relative to the counter-electromotive force (“CEMF”) as a linear function of the peak value of the phase current and an analog/digital stage for measuring the angle (φact) between the voltage applied to the electric motor and the phase current. The controller is programmed for estimating the angle (γact) between the phase current and the CEMF as the difference between δopt and φact.
US09071179B2
A single-phase brushless motor includes a plurality of coils configured to be driven with a single phase, a sensor which detects a magnetic pole change according to the rotation of a rotor, and an energization mechanism which drives the rotor at a predetermined rotational speed. The energization mechanism is arranged to switch between a rectangular wave energization in which a voltage applied to the coil represents a rectangular waveform and a pseudo-sine wave energization in which the applied voltage represents a waveform of a pseudo-sine wave. The switching between the rectangular wave energization and the pseudo-sine wave energization is performed by gradually changing the waveform.
US09071178B2
This disclosure is directed to a traction motor drive system. The traction motor drive system may include a field winding subsystem comprising a field winding associated with a traction motor. The traction motor drive system may also include an armature subsystem arranged in parallel with the field winding subsystem. The armature subsystem may include an armature having first and second armature terminals and a grid resistor selectively electrically coupled in series with the armature. The armature subsystem may also include an armature chopper arranged in parallel with the grid resistor and electrically coupled in series with the armature. The armature chopper may be configured, when the grid resistor is electrically coupled to the armature, to conditionally conduct current to the armature.
US09071174B2
A state switching unit switches the state of a motor that has caused an alarm, from an excited state to an un-excited state at an alarm generation timing. A state switch timing setting unit sets a state switch timing of switching the state of a motor other than the motor that has caused the alarm, from an excited state to an un-excited state. This setting is made on the basis of a physical quantity concerning at least one of the motor and a driven body. At the set state switch timing, a state switching unit switches the state of the motor other than the motor that has caused the alarm, from an excited state to an un-excited state.
US09071171B2
A power generation device including: a housing; an elastic element disposed in the housing in a preloaded state; a power source operatively connected to the elastic element such that release of the elastic element from the preloaded state converts potential energy in the elastic element to electric power by the power source; and a locking element for releasably locking the elastic element in the preloaded state such that removing the locking element causes the potential energy preloaded in the elastic element to be converted to electric power by the power source.
US09071170B2
A movable side mounting portion transmits extension and contraction of a polymer actuator to an electric prosthetic hand. The polymer actuator deforms elastically in accordance with voltage application and returns to its original shape in accordance with stoppage of voltage application. A rear end of the polymer actuator is fixed and a front end of the polymer actuator is movable. When one of a pair of electrodes of the polymer actuator is electrically connected to the fixed side mounting portion, the fixed end is fastened by a bolt to the fixed side mounting portion. Also, when the other electrode is electrically connected to the movable side mounting portion, the movable end is fastened by a bolt to the movable side mounting portion.
US09071168B2
The invention relates to a power inverter circuit for coupling a power station to a power supply system. The invention addresses the problem to reduce the risk of damages to components of the power station and the power supply system in the course of coupling action by providing a power inverter circuit for adjusting symmetry of the AC voltage before coupling the inverter output to a load, comprising: first switching means for selectively connecting a positive voltage to the inverter circuit output, second switching means for selectively connecting a negative voltage to the inverter output, and ohmic resistance means coupled in parallel to the inverter output, a controller for selectively switching the first and second switching means with a switching frequency to produce an AC voltage from the positive and negative voltage, wherein the controller is adapted to alter the duty ratio of the switching frequency to adjust the symmetry of the AC voltage produced by the inverter.
US09071167B2
An AlGaN/GaN-HEMT has a structure including: compound semiconductor layers formed on a substrate; a gate electrode, a gate pad that has a current path formed between the gate electrode and itself, and a semiconductor layer that is spontaneously polarized and piezoelectrically polarized, which are formed on the compound semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode connection layer formed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the gate electrode connection layer and the gate electrode are electrically connected with each other. This structure which is relatively simple allows the AlGaN/GaN-HEMT to realize an intended normally-off operation without causing such inconveniences as increase in a sheet resistance, increase in an on-resistance, and increase in a leakage current.
US09071156B2
A current resonance type switching power supply device controls an ON/OFF operation of two switching elements according to an amount of change in voltage of a current resonance capacitor.
US09071155B2
A resonant capacitor and an inductor are connected in series between a primary winding of a transformer and a second switching element. A first rectifying and smoothing circuit including a first rectifier switching element and a capacitor rectifies and smoothes a voltage generated in a first secondary winding of the transformer, and takes out a first output voltage. A second rectifying and smoothing circuit including a second rectifier switching element and a capacitor rectifies and smoothes a voltage generated in a second secondary winding of the transformer, and takes out a second output voltage. A control circuit controls an on-time of a first switching element and an on-time of the second switching element in accordance with the first output voltage and the second output voltage, respectively.
US09071151B2
System and method for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes a first controller terminal associated with a first controller voltage and coupled to a first transistor terminal of a first transistor, the first transistor further including a second transistor terminal and a third transistor terminal, the second transistor terminal being coupled to a primary winding of a power conversion system, a second controller terminal associated with a second controller voltage and coupled to the third transistor terminal, and a third controller terminal associated with a third controller voltage. The first controller voltage is equal to a sum of the third controller voltage and a first voltage difference. The second controller voltage is equal to a sum of the third controller voltage and a second voltage difference.
US09071139B2
A step-up switching voltage regulator includes two or more inductors and a switching network. A control circuit drives the switching network in a repeating sequence that includes: a magnetizing phase where the inductors are connected in series between an input voltage and ground; and a charge transfer phase where the inductors are connected in parallel to provide current to an output node with at least one of the inductors is connected between ground and the output node.
US09071137B2
An error amplifier and a driving circuit are disclosed herein. The error amplifier is configured to charge a compensation capacitor with an error current. The error amplifier includes an input stage, a main output stage, and an auxiliary output stage. The input stage is configured to provide a first differential output signal and a second differential output signal in response to a comparison between a reference voltage and a feedback voltage. The main output stage is configured to charge the compensation capacitor. The auxiliary output stage is configured to be activated to charge the compensation capacitor. a first operation, both the main output stage and the auxiliary output stage charge the compensation capacitor. In a second operation, the main output stage charges the compensation capacitor, and the auxiliary output stage is deactivated and does not charge the compensation capacitor.
US09071135B2
The present invention employs a pin of a controller to set an over current protection value and a time period respectively by means of time-division and/or voltage and current. Therefore, the cost of the controller is reduced due to reducing the amount of pins thereof. Furthermore, the time period is not only used to setting a constant on time, but also used to setting a constant off time and an operating frequency for different controlling mode.
US09071131B2
A conversion system includes a transformer, a rectifier element, a filter circuit, a voltage regulator circuit, and a divider circuit. The voltage regulator circuit includes a first option switch, a first regulator, and a second regulator. The transformer outputs an AC voltage, and the rectifier element converts the AC voltage to a pulsating DC voltage. The filter circuit converts the pulsating DC voltage to a ripple DC voltage. The divider circuit outputs a first DC voltage of a constant positive value when the first option switch connects to the first regulator, and the divider circuit connects to the first regulator to control value of the first DC voltage value. The divider circuit outputs a second DC voltage of a constant negative value when the first option switch connects the second regulator, and the divider circuit is connected to the second regulator to control value of the second DC voltage.
US09071127B2
The invention proposes a direct current voltage conversion circuit which can operate as a step-up circuit, a step-down circuit, or operate as a step-up or step-down circuit depending on the modes of operation.
US09071126B2
A wireless power transmission device includes a power transmitter, a first transmission unit, a power receiver, a feedback regulator, a receive controller, and a second transmission unit. The power transmitter is for generating power, and the first transmission unit is for wirelessly transmitting power generated by the power transmitter. The power receiver is for receiving and rectifying the power from the first transmission unit. The feedback regulator is for receiving a feedback signal from the power receiver to generate an AC control signal. The receive controller is for receiving the control signal to generate a driving signal. The second transmission unit is for wirelessly transmitting the control signal to the receive controller.
US09071123B2
A voice coil motor includes a case, a stationary module, and a movable module. The stationary module is retained within the case, and includes a housing and a number of magnets. The housing and the plurality of magnets are integrally formed. The movable module is movably retained within the case, and includes a barrel and a coil coupled to the barrel. When electric current is applied to the coil, the coil generates a magnetic field and the magnetic field repels the magnets, thereby driving the movable module to move.
US09071117B2
An electric machine (10; 100) comprises a rotor (14) having permanent magnets (24) and a stator (12) having coils (22) wound on stator bars (16) for interaction with the magnets across an air gap (26a, b) defined between them. The rotor has two stages (14a, b) arranged one at either end of the bars. The bars have a shoe (18a, 8) at each end of each bar that links magnetic flux through the bars with said magnets on each stage. Adjacent shoes facing the same stage of the rotor have a high-reluctance shoe gap (27) between them; adjacent magnets on each stage of the rotor have a high-reluctance magnet gap (25) between them; and the shoe and magnet gaps (25, 27) are angled with respect to each other such that they engage progressively as the rotor rotates. Alternatively, the shoes facing each stage are in a ring of connected shoes such that the magnets experience a continuous reluctance that is at least 90% constant as a function of rotor position. The bars (16) and shoes (18) are formed separately from one another and at least a part of each is formed by moulding soft-iron particles so that the particles have a short dimension that is arranged transverse a reluctance-plane. The bars and shoes are assembled so that the reluctance-plane of the bar is parallel a longitudinal axis (16a) of the bar and said reluctance-plane of the shoe is transverse said longitudinal axis.
US09071114B2
In a method for correcting a coil wound in two layers, the coil is corrected as follows: a conductor is wound from an outside layer toward an inside layer to form a first row; the conductor is wound from the inside layer toward the outside layer to form a second row; the conductor is wound from the outside layer toward the inside layer to form a third row; a crossover portion is formed by connecting adjacent rows of the conductor; and a load is applied to the crossover portion from a coil correcting die through a crossover-portion correcting die so as to push first and second ends of the crossover portion along adjacent rows and move an intermediate portion of the crossover portion to an adjacent row.
US09071112B2
A squirrel-cage rotor and a production method thereof, the rotor having conductors with sufficient strength. In the invention, conductor particles are sprayed onto a core and/or conductive bars in a solid-state. As a result, in the coating material, the enlargement of the crystal grain of the conductors is significantly restricted, whereby conductive end rings are connected to the core and/or the conductive bars. Since conductor particles do not melt, a gap formed by thermal contraction when the conductor melts between different kinds of members is prevented from being formed. Therefore, the deterioration of the conductor may be limited, and the conductor may have sufficient strength. The reliability of the rotor is improved.
US09071107B2
A rotor unit includes a rotor core made of laminated steel sheets that are vertically laminated, and a holder made of resin. The rotor core and the holder are fixed together through insert molding. For this reason, the process of manufacturing the rotor core and the holder is shortened. Additionally, in the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, a portion of resin that defines the holder is present between the plurality of steel sheets that defines the rotor core. For this reason, the fixing strength of the rotor core and the holder improves. Additionally, since a separation between the rotor core and the holder is prevented, magnets can be easily press-fitted.
US09071105B2
An electrical machine is provided, comprising a stator (8) and a rotor (9). The stator comprises slots (1, 2) for receiving a coil of an electrical winding. The coil has a first number of turns (n1) in a first slot (1) and a second number of turns (n2) in a second slot (2).
US09071101B2
A disclosed terminal block assembly for a generator includes a terminal block with a base with first and second transverse terminal surfaces adjoining one another. One of the terminal surfaces includes an increased width greater than a length of a cable terminal lug for providing a lightning strike and creepage barrier. The terminal surfaces include spaced apart protrusions extending from the first and second surfaces to provide spaced apart terminal areas overlapping the first and second surfaces. First and second terminal studs are disposed within each corresponding first and second terminal areas and are electrically connected by a bus bar.
US09071098B2
A centrifugal heat dissipation device and a motor using same are disclosed. The centrifugal heat dissipation device includes a main body having a shaft hole, a heat-absorption zone and a heat-transfer zone. The heat-transfer zone has a radially outer side connected to the heat-absorption zone and a radially inner side connected to the shaft hole. The shaft hole axially extends through the main body for receiving a shaft of a motor therein. A centrifugal force generated by the rotating shaft and accordingly, the heat dissipation device enables enhanced vapor-liquid circulation of a working fluid in the heat dissipation device, so that heat generated by the operating motor is absorbed by the centrifugal heat dissipation device and transferred to the shaft for guiding out of the motor, allowing the motor to have largely upgraded heat dissipation performance.
US09071096B2
A generator is provided comprising: a frame; a stator core comprising laminations; and clamping structure to axially clamp the laminations together. The clamping structure may comprise: a plurality of first finger plates engaging a first end of the stator core; a first spacer plate associated with the first finger plates and including a plurality of spaced apart first recesses; a plurality of first engagement structures, each comprising a bolt and a corresponding slidable bushing; a first spring ring in engagement with the first engagement structures; and first load-applying structure coupled to the frame to imparts a load to the first spring ring.
US09071090B2
A motor includes a stator having a stator iron core wound with stator windings, a rotor rotatably mounted on a shaft, a bearing for supporting the shaft, and a conductive bracket for fixing the bearing. The rotor is formed of a rotary body that holds a permanent magnet and the shaft that extends through the rotary body at center and joined to the rotary body. An electrostatic capacity between the shaft and an outermost wall of the rotary body is set smaller than an electrostatic capacity between an inner ring and an outer ring of the bearing during rotation of the bearing.
US09071073B2
Charging at least one rechargeable battery includes regulating a voltage applied to the at least one rechargeable battery by coupling a circuit between an output of a rectifier circuit and the at least one rechargeable battery, limiting the charging current to be within a first predetermined range and when a predetermined battery charging voltage is reached, dropping the charging current to be within a second predetermined range.
US09071072B2
A method includes steps of dividing resistance R into a physical and chemical resistances Ro and Rp, obtaining corrected open-circuit voltages Vo corresponding to setting currents Ia to Ix, acquiring predicted reaching voltages Va to Vx corresponding to the setting currents Ia to Ix, and creating a current-voltage curve. The corrected open-circuit voltages Vo are obtained to predict available maximum currents I—target in a particular time t2. The predicted reaching voltages Va to Vx are acquired based on corrected physical and chemical resistances Ro and Rp, and the corrected open-circuit voltages Vo. The current-voltage curve is creased based on the setting currents Ia to Ix and the predicted reaching voltages Va to Vx to acquire upper and lower limit voltages Vmax and Vmin, and upper and lower limit currents Imax and Imin at a temperature whereby assigning these limit currents to available maximum currents I—target in charging and discharging operations, respectively.
US09071071B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that adaptively charges a battery, wherein the battery is a lithium-ion battery which includes a transport-limiting electrode governed by diffusion, an electrolyte separator and a non-transport-limiting electrode. During operation, the system determines a lithium surface concentration at an interface between the transport-limiting electrode and the electrolyte separator based on a diffusion time for lithium in the transport-limiting electrode. Next, the system calculates a charging current or a charging voltage for the battery based on the determined lithium surface concentration. Finally, the system applies the charging current or the charging voltage to the battery.
US09071069B2
A method is provided for operating a power tool having a motor powered by a battery. The method includes: delivering power from the battery to the motor in accordance with an operator input; detecting a condition of the power tool indicating a shutdown of the power is imminent; and fading the power delivered from the battery to the motor, in response to the detected condition, through the use of a controller residing in the power tool.
US09071066B2
Devices, implementations and techniques for measuring the environment impact of electronic devices, such as CO2 emission reduction by using alternative power sources for powering or charging electronic devices.
US09071062B2
An inductive power transfer apparatus is disclosed. A transmitter generates a first time varying magnetic field. A receiver is separated from the transmitter by a gap, but is located with the first time varying magnetic field. The receiver comprises: a conductor; and a receiver magnet located in the first time varying magnetic field and supported for movement in response to the first time varying magnetic field. The conductor and receiver are positioned relative to one another such that movement of the receiver magnet creates a second time-varying magnetic field in a vicinity of the conductor to thereby induce current in the conductor.
US09071057B2
Disclosed herein are a contactless power transmitting system having an overheat protection function, which protects a battery cell module from damage due to overheating while the battery cell module is being charged, and a method thereof. In the contactless power transmitting system, a contactless power transmitting apparatus transmits a first power to a contactless power receiving apparatus through a power transmitting coil to charge the battery cell module with the first power, and transmits a second power, of lower wattage than the first power, to the contactless power receiving apparatus through the power transmitting coil to charge the battery cell module with the second power if an overheat alarm signal is received from the contactless power receiving apparatus, thereby making it possible to fully charge the battery cell module while preventing overheating of the battery cell module.
US09071055B2
Mobile devices have limited power sources. In some cases, such as camera flash operations in cell phones or digital cameras, the power required to provide bright illumination is significant and exceeding the battery voltage level. In order to supply burst power or continuous high power to light sources, such as white LEDs (light emitting diodes), mobile devices typically employ charge storage functioning as energy reservoir that can supply the required power. One such charge storage is a supercapacitor that can supply the needed power repeatedly by discharging and recharging. Various embodiments of the present invention include devices and methods for providing the charge energy and controlling the charge and discharge operations.
US09071047B2
Provided is a voltage regulator including an overcurrent protection circuit using a simple circuit. The voltage regulator includes the overcurrent protection circuit including: a first sense transistor having a gate connected to an output terminal of an error amplifier circuit and a drain connected to a sense resistor; a second sense transistor having a gate connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier circuit; and a control transistor having a gate connected to an output terminal of a control circuit, a source connected to a drain of the second sense transistor, and a drain connected to the sense resistor, in which the control transistor is turned on in response to a detection signal output by the control circuit until a reference voltage exceeds a predetermined voltage.
US09071030B2
Described herein is a novel technique used to make novel thin III-V semiconductor cleaved facet edge emitting active optical devices, such as lasers and optical amplifiers. These fully processed laser platelets with both top side and bottom side electrical contacts can be thought of as freestanding optoelectronic building blocks that can be integrated as desired on diverse substrates for a number of applications, many of which are in the field of communications. The thinness of these platelets and the precision with which their dimensions are defined using the process described herein makes it conducive to assemble them in dielectric recesses on a substrate, such as silicon, as part of an end-fire coupled, coaxial alignment optoelectronic integration strategy. This technology has been used to integrate edge emitting lasers onto silicon substrates, a significant challenge in the field of silicon optoelectronics.
US09071020B2
The invention relates to a locking system for a plug coupling device and to a plug coupling device having a housing in which the locking system according to the invention is arranged. A plug having a projection, which may for example be a guide pin of a commercially available safety plug, can be coupled to the plug coupling device by means of the locking system according to the invention, wherein a locking device in the form of a slider engages behind the projections of the plug such that the plug coupled to the plug coupling device cannot be removed from the plug coupling device. In addition, the locking device being in the locking position prevents an unauthorized insertion of a plug into the plug coupling device.
US09071015B1
An electrical connector having a squib connector and a squib assembly for mating by moving them together in a mating direction. A retaining means is provided for retaining the squib connector and squib assembly in a fully mated condition. A spring, acting in a direction opposite the mating direction, provides a resisting force to oppose mating. During the application of a mating force to overcome the resisting force of the spring and move the squib connector and squib assembly in the mating direction, and prior to the squib connector and squib assembly reaching the fully mated condition, removal of the resisting force of the spring is triggered and the mating force is instantly applied to moving the squib connector and squib assembly to the fully mated condition, whereat the retaining means is activated. The spring is molded to have features that assure dependable operation of the connector.
US09071012B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a coaxial cable connector. A coaxial cable connector in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention provides a connector member which is soldered to a coaxial cable to provide an electrical interface for the coaxial cable, and a mating shell having an electrically insulating shell which protects the connector member. The insulating shell is threadably mateable over an externally threaded portion of the connector member, and an internally threaded portion of an outer shell is threadably mateable over the insulating shell.
US09071011B2
An electrical connector of the present invention includes a housing, an electrical terminal, and a moving member that has a moving member body and a detection portion. The housing is provided with a first step portion, and the detection portion is provided with a second step portion. When the moving member is at a first position, the second step portion comes into contact with the first step portion so as to prevent the moving member from moving forward. When the mating portion is completely fitted into a retainer, the detection portion becomes displaced toward the counter mating side due to being pressed by the retainer or the inflator housing, and the second step portion becomes separated from the first step portion so as to permit the moving member to move forward. Also, a squib connection device of the present invention includes this electrical connector.
US09071004B2
A self-supported jacket seal designed for a cable connector so that after a cable is inserted into the cable connector, the integrated jacket seal protects any exposed portion of the cable without requiring any additional installation steps. The self-supported feature is provided by a plurality of rigid ridges positioned on the outer surface of the jacket seal. The ridges strengthen the construction of the component so that the jacket seal substantially maintains its shape when a cable is slidably inserted therewithin. Because the seal does not buckle when installed, it does not require any additional installation steps as found in other similar inventions known in the art.
US09070998B2
A contact assembly that comprises a conductive outer body that defines an outer perimeter and an insulative insert body that is receivable in that outer body. The insert body supports first and second contacts in a spaced arrangement. The insert body includes an area that surrounds the conductors between the conductors and the outer perimeter of the outer body, wherein the distance between the conductors and the outer perimeter of the outer body defined by the area of the insert body is substantially constant.
US09070992B2
An electrical connector has a carbon nanotube (CNT) conductor, a terminal terminated to the CNT conductor, and a conductive intermediary electrically coupled to the CNT conductor and the terminal to enhance an electrical connection between the CNT conductor and the terminal. Optionally, the terminal may have a crimp barrel that receives the CNT conductor. The electrical connector may include a second CNT conductor where the terminal splices the CNT conductor and the second CNT conductor together.
US09070990B2
Power connector including a pair of discrete contact springs configured to electrically engage a conductive component. Each of the contact springs includes a contact body having opposite inner and outer side surfaces and a contact edge that extends between the inner and outer side surfaces. The contact body is shaped to form a spring base and a mating portion. The spring bases of the contact springs are joined by a locking feature. The locking feature includes a localized portion of at least one of the spring bases. The localized portion frictionally engages the other spring base to interlock the spring bases. Each of the mating portions extends from the corresponding spring base. The mating portions are separated by a receiving space and are configured to engage the conductive component when the conductive component is inserted into the receiving space.
US09070988B2
In a structure of connection of a connector terminal 10 connected to an electric wire whose core wire is covered with a outer cover, the connector terminal has a barrel portion for crimping the end of the electric wire and an electric connection portion electrically connected to a mating terminal. The outer cover of the electric wire is cut and separated in the vicinity of the end portion of the electric wire and displaced to expose the core wire. The separated portion of the outer cover displaced toward the end portion of the electric wire, an exposed portion of the core wire, and a portion of the electric wire covered with the outer cover are crimped to the barrel portion of the connector terminal.
US09070985B2
A mobile device includes a metal body element, a feeding element, and a second antenna. The metal body element is substantially a planar structure and has a slot, wherein a first antenna is formed by the slot of the metal body element. The feeding element extends across the slot of the metal body element, and is coupled to a first signal source. The second antenna is substantially located inside the slot of the metal body element, and is coupled to a second signal source. The slot is used as a portion of a resonant structure of the second antenna in order to reduce a total size of the first antenna and the second antenna.
US09070984B2
Provided are a mobile communication device and a communication control method which can perform communication by using a stable high-quality antenna while suppressing a power consumption. The mobile communication device includes: a first antenna (31); a second antenna (32); a communication unit (33) which performs a continuous communication by using the first antenna (31) and intermittently receives a signal by using the second antenna (32); an analysis unit (34) which analyzes the communication quality of the second antenna (32) according to the information on the signal intermittently received via the second antenna (32) by the communication unit (33); and a control unit (35) which performs control so as to perform a continuous communication by using the second antenna (32) while intermittently receiving a signal by using the first antenna (31) if the communication quality of the second antenna (32) analyzed by the analysis unit (34) reaches a predetermined communication quality level.
US09070983B2
A wireless communication system, comprises a tower-shaped antenna includes a leaky coaxial cable that leaks a radio wave and a reflective member that reflect the radio wave leaked from the leaky coaxial cable in the direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the leaky coaxial cable.
US09070978B2
Substantially-linear dipole antenna for safety helmets, of the type comprising two conductive branches arranged to be electrically connected, at one of their ends, to respective radio equipment, the two conductive branches being disposed substantially aligned. The two conductive branches have a length essentially equal to ¼ of the expected operative wavelength of the radio equipment. The dipole antenna further comprises at least two conductive arms, each having a length essentially equal to ½ of said operative wavelength, each of which is electrically connected respectively to the free end of both of the two conductive branches, both having a length essentially equal to ¼ of the operative wavelength.
US09070963B2
A duplexer includes: a reception filter connected between a reception terminal and an antenna terminal; a transmission filter connected between a transmission terminal and the antenna terminal; and a wiring substrate including the reception filter and the transmission filter on an upper surface, the reception terminal, the transmission terminal and the antenna terminal being formed on a lower surface, and a reception electrode electrically connected to the reception terminal, a transmission electrode electrically connected to the transmission terminal, an antenna electrode electrically connected to the antenna terminal, and a circular metal layer surrounding the reception, transmission and antenna electrodes, and electrically connected to a ground being formed on an upper surface, wherein a shortest distance between a side of the circular metal layer closest to the reception and transmission terminals and the reception electrode is larger than a width of the side of the circular metal layer.
US09070962B2
A surface communication device of the present invention includes: an electromagnetic wave propagation unit which propagates electromagnetic waves and has a sheet shape; and at least one of a power feeding device unit which is disposed on the electromagnetic wave propagation unit in a non-conductive state with the electromagnetic wave propagation unit and feeds the electromagnetic waves to the electromagnetic wave propagation unit, and a reception device unit which is disposed on the electromagnetic wave propagation unit in a non-conductive state with the electromagnetic wave propagation unit and receives the electromagnetic waves propagated via the electromagnetic wave propagation unit. The at least one of the power feeding device unit and the reception device unit includes: an electromagnetic wave coupling unit which transmits the electromagnetic waves to the electromagnetic wave propagation unit or receives the electromagnetic waves from the electromagnetic wave propagation unit; and an electromagnetic wave suppression unit which includes a plurality of conductor unit structures arranged along a surface of the electromagnetic wave propagation unit so as to surround the electromagnetic wave coupling unit, and suppresses leakage of the electromagnetic waves from a space between the electromagnetic wave coupling unit and the electromagnetic wave propagation unit.
US09070959B2
A connection unit includes: a ceramic substrate; a first signal line on the ceramic substrate; a first grounded conductor on the ceramic substrate and electromagnetically coupled to the first signal line; a first lead pin having a first end connected to an upper surface of the first signal line and a second end protruding beyond the ceramic substrate; a second lead pin having a first end connected to an upper surface of the first grounded conductor and a second end protruding beyond the ceramic substrate; a flexible substrate including an insulating layer through which the first and second lead pins penetrate, a second signal line on a first major surface of the insulating layer and connected to the second end of the first lead pin, and a second grounded conductor on a second major surface of the insulating layer and connected to the second end of the second lead pin.
US09070955B2
Disclosed is a sealed structure for an electrochemical device having a hollow space therein, further comprising a material generating gases via thermal decomposition in the hollow space. Also, disclosed is an electrochemical device comprising a cathode, an anode, a separator, an electrolyte, a casing for the device, and the structure for the electrochemical device.
US09070951B2
The present invention provides a solvent for a nonaqueous electrolyte solution enabling a lithium secondary battery to exhibit an excellent discharge capacity, load characteristics, and cycle characteristics even under high voltages, as well as a nonaqueous electrolyte solution that uses this solvent and a lithium secondary battery. This solvent for a nonaqueous electrolyte solution is a solvent for a nonaqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the solvent for a nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a fluorine-free cyclic carbonate (I), a fluorine-free chain carbonate (II), and a 1,1-di(fluorinated alkyl)ethylene carbonate (III), and wherein with a sum of (I), (II), and (III) being 100 volume %, the fluorine-free cyclic carbonate (I) is 10 to 50 volume %, the fluorine-free chain carbonate (II) is 49.9 to 89.9 volume %, and the 1,1-di(fluorinated alkyl)ethylene carbonate (III) is from at least 0.1 volume % to not more than 30 volume %.
US09070948B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution obtained by dissolving lithium salt to a non-aqueous solvent. The separator includes a porous substrate having pores; and a porous coating layer located on at least one surface of the porous substrate and having inorganic particles and a binder polymer, the inorganic particles being connected and fixed to each other by means of the binder polymer, the porous coating layer having pores therein formed by interstitial volumes among the inorganic particles. The non-aqueous solvent is a high-viscous non-aqueous solvent having a viscosity of 1.4 cP or above at 25° C. This lithium secondary battery gives improved safety and excellent charging/discharging characteristics since it has the high-viscous non-aqueous solvent and the separator with good wettability against the solvent.
US09070945B2
The present invention relates to primary and secondary electrochemical energy storage systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to such systems as battery cells, especially battery cells utilizing metal fluorides with the presence of phosphates or fluorophosphates, which use materials that take up and release ions as a means of storing and supplying electrical energy.
US09070940B2
A lithium secondary battery with superior cycle performance is provided. The lithium secondary battery includes a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer disposed on a negative electrode current collector and containing negative electrode active material particles, negative electrode conductor particles, and a negative electrode binder; a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The concentration of the negative electrode conductor particles in a surface layer of the negative electrode active material layer facing away from the negative electrode current collector is higher than the concentration of the negative electrode conductor particles in a center of the negative electrode active material layer.
US09070937B2
Fuel cell systems (10) and related methods for limiting fuel cell slippage are provided. A stacked plurality of adjacent fuel cells (14) collectively forming a fuel cell stack (12). The fuel cells each include a pair of first and second plates (30, 30′, 30″; 32, 32′, 32″) at respective opposite ends thereof. A first fuel cell has a first plate (30, 30′, 30″) in engagement with a second plate (32, 32′, 32″) of a second fuel cell adjacent to the first fuel cell. A slip mitigation arrangement (50, 50′, 50″) between at least one of the pairs of the first and second fuel cells comprises first and second seats (62, 62′, 62″; 64, 64′, 64″) recessed in the engagement surfaces of the first and second conductive plates respectively, and a key member (60, 60′, 60″) having opposite ends seated in the first and the second recessed seats such that relative movement between the first and the second fuel cells is limited.
US09070936B2
Technologies are generally described for methods and systems for implementing a thermal electrochemical cell. Some example electrochemical cells described herein may comprise a first container including a first electrode and an electrolyte effective to receive electrons from the first electrode. Some electrochemical cells may further comprise a second container including a second electrode and an aqueous suspension including zinc oxide nanoparticles. Some electrochemical cells may also further comprise a contact member in between the first container and the second container.
US09070935B2
Provided is a multilayer porous film having a porous film comprised of a resin composition comprising a polypropylene and one or more polyolefins other than polypropylenes and an inorganic filler-containing porous layer stacked on at least on one side of the porous film. The multilayer porous film is capable of preventing short circuit between two electrodes even when a heat generation amount is large at the time of abnormal heat generation and therefore satisfying both excellent heat resistance and good shutdown function.
US09070927B2
An exterior member for a battery element includes: a first sheet piece made of a laminated sheet; a second sheet piece made of a laminated sheet; a bending part for partitioning the first sheet piece and the second sheet piece from each other; a sealing part which is formed by a peripheral part of the first sheet piece and a peripheral part of the second sheet piece corresponding to the peripheral part of the first sheet piece and which hermetically seals a battery element; and a thick-walled part formed so as to include at least a part of the bending part.
US09070915B2
A hydrogen generator associated with the invention comprises a hydro-desulfurizer (1) configured to remove sulfur compounds from a raw material; a reformer (2) configured to generate hydrogen-containing gas with use of the raw material that has passed through the hydro-desulfurizer (1); a raw material supply device (3) configured to supply the raw material to the reformer (2); a recycle flow passage (4) configured to supply a portion of the hydrogen-containing gas, discharged from the reformer (2), to the raw material before the raw material flows into the hydro-desulfurizer (1); an on-off valve (5) provided in the recycle flow passage (4); a pressure detector (6) located at a position upstream of the on-off valve (5) in the recycle flow passage (4); and an abnormality detector (7) configured to detect an abnormal clogging in the recycle flow passage (4) based on a pressure detected by the pressure detector (6), in a state in which the raw material supply device (3) is supplying the raw material to the reformer (2) with the on-off valve (5) closed.
US09070913B2
Disclosed is a humidifier for fuel cell, which facilitates to maximize humidifying performance and reducing the maintenance cost through the uniform humidification among all the hollow fiber membranes by preventing high-humidity unreacted gas introduced to the inside of membrane housing from flowing concentratedly toward a specific region in the membrane housing, wherein the humidifier comprises a membrane housing; a partition plate for dividing an inner space of the membrane housing into plural unit spaces; plural hollow fiber membranes in each of the unit spaces; and a cover mounted on an end of the membrane housing, the cover including an inlet for introducing unreacted gas of high-humidity discharged from a stack into the membrane housing, wherein plural distribution holes are provided in the membrane housing, the distribution holes corresponding to the unit spaces respectively.
US09070905B2
A manufacturing method including: forming a first electrode; forming a first bank; forming a first organic functional film; forming a second bank; forming a second organic functional film; and forming a second electrode. In the forming of the second bank, the second bank is formed such that, in plan view, a bottom edge of a sidewall surface of the second bank facing the second aperture is located at the same position as or is set back from a bottom edge of a sidewall surface of the first bank facing the first aperture. In the forming of the second organic functional film, the droplet of the second ink is applied such that an upper edge of the second organic functional film within the second aperture is located at a same level as or at a higher level than the bottom edge of the sidewall surface of the second bank.
US09070900B2
A method of manufacturing a display not needing a complicated post-process for forming a reflecting mirror film and allowing degradation in an organic light-emitting device to be prevented, and a display. The method of manufacturing a display includes the steps of: forming a plurality of organic light-emitting devices in a display region on a substrate to form a light-emitting panel; forming projection-shaped reflection elements corresponding to the plurality of organic light-emitting devices, respectively, on a base to form a reflector; forming an adhesive layer along an outer edge of the light-emitting panel; and bonding the light-emitting panel and the reflector together with the adhesive layer in a vacuum atmosphere, thereby to form a vacuum layer in a space between the light-emitting panel and the reflector.
US09070895B2
There is provided an OLED package including a substrate, a lighting component, a compound barrier layer, a moisture absorption zone and an inorganic barrier layer. The lighting component is formed on the substrate. The compound barrier layer completely seals the lighting component configured to block moisture and oxygen. The moisture absorption zone is formed on the substrate surrounding the compound barrier layer and is not formed upon the lighting component. The inorganic barrier layer completely seals the compound barrier layer and the moisture absorption zone configured to block moisture and oxygen.
US09070893B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first hole transport layer between the first electrode and the emission layer; and a second hole transport layer between the first hole transport layer and the emission layer, wherein the first hole transport layer includes a first compound represented by Formula 1 and the second hole transport layer includes a second compound represented by Formula 2:
US09070876B2
A variable resistance element is formed by sandwiching a metal oxide layer whose resistance changes between a pair of electrodes and the metal oxide layer includes a pair of variable resistance layers whose resistances change by formation of a current path and a branching suppression layer which is sandwiched between the variable resistance layers and suppresses branching of the current path.
US09070864B2
A piezoelectric vibration device capable of being made thin and generating strong vibration, and a portable terminal using the same. Disclosed are a piezoelectric vibration device including at least: a support body; a vibration member that is mounted to the support body to be able to vibrate; a vibration element capable of being independently subjected to bending vibration by application of an electric signal; and a deformable first connecting member that is at least partly formed of a viscoelastic body, the deformable first connecting member being disposed between a first surface of the vibration element that is a bending surface and one main surface of the vibration member, and connecting the first surface of the vibration element and the one main surface of the vibration member, and a portable terminal using the piezoelectric vibration device.
US09070857B2
A laminated piezoelectric element includes a base part that is configured from a piezoelectric layer, and a laminate configured by a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode, which are alternately laminated with the piezoelectric layer interposed therebetween, and that includes a displacement part extending from the base part in a laminating direction of the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode.
US09070856B1
An electrical waveform generator for driving an electromechanical load includes a digital signal processor connected to a waveform generator component in turn connected to an amplifier section with a filter network, the latter being connected to sensing and conditioning circuit componentry that is in turn connected to analog-to-digital converter circuitry. A digital memory stores digitized voltage and current waveform information. The processor determines a phase difference between voltage and current waveforms, compares the determined phase difference to a phase difference command and generates a phase error or correction signal. The processor also generates an amplitude error signal for inducing the amplifier section to change its output amplitude to result in a predetermined amplitude error level for a respective one of the voltage and current waveforms.
US09070855B2
The present invention is directed to a spin transfer torque (STT) MRAM device having a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) memory element. The memory element includes a perpendicular MTJ structure in between a non-magnetic seed layer and a non-magnetic cap layer. The MTJ structure comprises a magnetic free layer structure and a magnetic reference layer structure with an insulating tunnel junction layer interposed therebetween, an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer formed adjacent to the magnetic reference layer structure, and a magnetic fixed layer formed adjacent to the anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer. At least one of the magnetic free and reference layer structures includes a non-magnetic perpendicular enhancement layer, which improves the perpendicular anisotropy of magnetic layers adjacent thereto.
US09070846B2
The invention provides a primer composition which adheres a substrate mounting an optical semiconductor device and a cured material of an addition reaction curing silicone composition that encapsulates the optical semiconductor device includes (A) an acrylic resin containing either one or both of an acrylate ester and a methacrylate ester that contains one or more SiCH═CH2 groups in the molecule, and (B) solvent. There can be provided a primer composition in which the adhesion between a substrate mounting an optical semiconductor device and a cured material of an addition reaction curing silicone composition that encapsulates the optical semiconductor device can be improved, the corrosion of a metal electrode formed on the substrate can be prevented, and the heat resistance of a primer itself can be improved.
US09070838B2
Disclosed is an optoelectronic device that includes a light source, an emission layer disposed on the light source including a light emitting particle dispersed in a matrix polymer, and a polymer film disposed on the emission layer, the polymer film including a polymerized polymer of a first monomer including at least two thiol (—SH) groups and a second monomer including at least two carbon-carbon unsaturated bond-containing groups at a terminal end.
US09070837B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a laminated structure, a first electrode, a second electrode and a dielectric laminated film. The laminated structure includes, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light-emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, in which the second semiconductor layer and the light-emitting layer are selectively removed and a part of the first semiconductor layer is exposed to a first main surface on the side of the second semiconductor layer. The first electrode is provided on the first main surface of the laminated structure and connected to the first semiconductor layer and has a first region including a first metal film provided on the first semiconductor layer of the first main surface, and a second region including a second metal film provided on the first semiconductor layer and having a higher reflectance for light emitted from the light-emitting layer than the first metal film and having a higher contact resistance with respect to the first semiconductor layer than the first metal film. The second electrode is provided on the first main surface of the laminated structure and connected to the second semiconductor layer. The dielectric laminated film is provided on the first and second semiconductor layer being not covered with the first and second electrode and has a plurality of dielectric films having different refractive indices being laminated.
US09070824B2
A heterogeneous laminate including: graphene; and a thermoelectric inorganic compound disposed on the graphene.
US09070817B2
A photocoupler includes: a light emitting element; a light receiving element; and a bonding layer. The light emitting element includes a semiconductor stacked body, and a first and a second electrode. The semiconductor stacked body includes a light emitting layer. The light receiving element includes a first and a second electrode on a side of a light receiving surface. The bonding layer bonds the light emitting element and the light receiving surface, and has transparency and insulating property.
US09070812B2
An active matrix substrate includes: an electrode layer formed on the insulating substrate within a display region; a mark disposed on the insulating substrate within a non-display region, and made of a same material as the electrode layer; a first insulating film directly covering each of the electrode layer and the mark; and a second insulating film covering a part of the first insulating film. Within at least a part of the sealing region, the second insulating film is removed from the insulating substrate. The mark is disposed in the at least the part of the sealing region in which the second insulating film is removed, and is provided to overlap at least a part of the sealing region. A protective film is formed on the insulating substrate to cover a side surface and a surface of the first insulating film covering the mark, the surface of the first insulating film being located opposite from the insulating substrate.
US09070811B2
Multi-crystalline group II-VI solar cells and methods for fabrication of same are disclosed herein. A multi-crystalline group II-VI solar cell includes a first photovoltaic sub-cell comprising silicon, a tunnel junction, and a multi-crystalline second photovoltaic sub-cell. A plurality of the multi-crystalline group II-VI solar cells can be interconnected to form low cost, high throughput flat panel, low light concentration, and/or medium light concentration photovoltaic modules or devices.
US09070809B2
A method for effectively collecting solar energy, including disposing solar panels substantially inter-facing each other, and reflecting sun light between inter-facing solar panels. A solar panel, including a first portion adapted to convert sun light into usable energy at a first optimal wavelength; and a second portion adapted to convert sun light into usable energy at a second optimal wavelength. A method for effectively collecting solar energy, including using a first portion of a first solar panel to partially convert a beam of sun light into usable energy, and partially reflect the beam of sun light into a second solar panel; and using the second solar panel to partially convert the reflected beam into collectable energy.
US09070803B2
Systems and methods for fabrication of nanostructured solar cells having arrays of nanostructures are described, including nanostructured solar cells having a repeating pattern of pyramid nanostructures, providing for low cost thin-film solar cells with improved PCE.
US09070793B2
The semiconductor device package includes a conformal shield layer applied to the exterior surface of the encapsulant, and an internal fence or separation structure embedded in the encapsulant. The fence separates the package into various compartments, with each compartment containing at least one die. The fence thus suppresses EMI between adjacent packages. The package further includes a ground path connected to the internal fence and conformal shield.
US09070781B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a floating gate formed over a substrate; a contact plug formed on a first side of the floating gate and disposed parallel to the floating gate with a gap defined therebetween; and a spacer formed on a sidewall of the floating gate and filling the gap, wherein the contact plug and the floating gate have a sufficiently large overlapping area to enable the contact plug to operate as a control gate for the floating gate.
US09070764B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to epitaxial lift off (ELO) thin films and devices and methods used to form such films and devices. In one embodiment, a method for forming an ELO thin film is provided which includes depositing an epitaxial material over a sacrificial layer on a substrate, adhering a flattened, pre-curved support handle onto the epitaxial material, and removing the sacrificial layer during an etching process. The etching process includes bending the pre-curved support handle to have substantial curvature while peeling the epitaxial material from the substrate and forming an etch crevice therebetween. Compression is maintained within the epitaxial material during the etching process. The flattened, pre-curved support handle may be formed by flattening a pre-curved support material.
US09070757B2
A semiconductor device includes a superlattice buffer layer formed on a substrate. A first semiconductor layer is formed by a nitride semiconductor on the superlattice buffer layer. A second semiconductor layer is formed by a nitride semiconductor on the first semiconductor layer. A gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the second semiconductor layer. The superlattice buffer layer is formed by alternately and periodically laminating a first superlattice formation layer and a second superlattice formation layer. The first superlattice formation layer is formed by AlxGa1-xN and the second superlattice formation layer is formed by AlyGa1-yN, where a relationship x>y is satisfied. A concentration of an impurity element serving as an acceptor doped into a portion or a whole of the second superlattice formation layer is higher than a concentration of the impurity element serving as an acceptor doped into the first superlattice formation layer.
US09070749B2
A method of forming a fluorine-free tungsten diffusion barrier layer having a reduced resistivity, and a semiconductor device, and method for forming such semiconductor device, using the fluorine-free tungsten diffusion barrier layer.
US09070740B2
A memory unit includes a substrate, at least one charge storage element, at least one first recessed access element, and an isolation portion. The substrate has a surface and the first recessed access element is disposed in an active area of the substrate and extending from the surface into the substrate. The first recessed access element is electrically connected to the charge storage element and induces in the substrate a first depletion region. The isolation portion is adjacent to the active area and extending from the surface into the substrate. The isolation portion includes a trenched isolating barrier and a second recessed access element. The second recessed access element is disposed in the trenched isolating barrier and induces in the substrate a second depletion region merging with the first depletion region.
US09070739B2
A method includes forming a slot in a sheet through a conductive layer thereof, the slot having width in a first direction between first and second edges and length in a second, transverse direction between first and second ends, providing a non-conductive layer on the sheet, the non-conductive layer having at least one window including a first window with length greater than the slot length and width less than the slot width, the first window positioned with respect to the slot such that edges of the first window are inside the edges of the slot and ends of the first window are outside the ends of the slot, placing a component on the conductive layer within the first window so as to bridge the slot and cutting through the sheet and the non-conductive layer along first and second lines outside sides of the component and within the edges the slot.
US09070737B2
A semiconductor device having a p+ collector region in the surface of an n− drift region. The p+ collector region forms a p-n junction with the n− drift region. A collector electrode is in contact with the p+ collector region. A low-lifetime region having a carrier lifetime shorter than in other regions is provided, extending from the n− drift region to the p+ collector region, at the interface between the n− drift region and p+ collector region. The low-lifetime region, being partially activated in accordance with the concentration distribution of a p-type impurity implanted in order to form the p+ collector region, is in a barely activated state. The low-lifetime region has an activation rate lower than that of the p+ collector region. The p+ collector region is completely electrically activated as far as a depth of, for example, 0.5 μm-0.8 μm, from the surface on the collector electrode side.
US09070735B2
The invention generally relates to a lateral power semiconductor transistor for example in integrated circuits. In particular the invention relates to Lateral Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors or other lateral bipolar devices such as PIN diodes. The invention also generally relates to a method of increasing switching speed of a lateral bipolar power semiconductor transistor. There is provided a lateral bipolar power semiconductor transistor comprising a first floating semiconductor region of the first conductivity type located laterally spaced to an anode/drain region and a second floating semiconductor region of the second conductivity type located laterally adjacent the first floating semiconductor region, and a floating electrode placed above and in direct contact to the first and second floating semiconductor regions.
US09070733B2
Systems and methods for molecular sensing are described. Molecular sensors are described which are based on field-effect or bipolar junction transistors. These transistors have a nanopillar with a functionalized layer contacted to either the base or the gate electrode. The functional layer can bind molecules, which causes an electrical signal in the sensor.
US09070718B2
A thin film transistor, a display device, and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a control electrode, a semiconductor overlapping the control electrode, and an input electrode and an output electrode disposed on or under the semiconductor and opposite to each other. The semiconductor includes a first portion disposed between the input electrode and the output electrode and having a first crystallinity, and a second portion connected with the first portion, which overlaps the input electrode or the output electrode, and having a second crystallinity. The first crystallinity is higher than the second crystallinity.
US09070716B2
A thin film transistor including a substrate having first and second regions, a semiconductor layer pattern formed in the first region and the second region, and a first gate insulating layer pattern formed on a channel region of the semiconductor layer pattern of the first region. A second gate insulating layer is formed on the substrate, a first conductive layer pattern is formed above the channel region of the first region and above the semiconductor layer pattern of the second region, and an inter-layer insulating layer is formed on the substrate. A second conductive layer pattern is formed in the first region and above the first conductive layer pattern of the second region. The second conductive layer pattern of the first region is coupled to the semiconductor layer pattern of the first region through the second gate insulating layer and the inter-layer insulating layer.
US09070703B2
In some developing interconnect technologies, such as chip-to-chip optical interconnect or metal waveguide interconnects, misalignment can be a serious issue. Here, however, a interconnect that uses an on-chip directional antenna (which operates in the sub-millimeter range) to form a radio frequency (RF) interconnect through a dielectric waveguide is provided. This system allows for misalignment while providing the increased communication bandwidth.
US09070701B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second storage electrodes formed to be spaced apart from each other on a substrate, an insulating continuous support pattern connected to top surfaces of the first and second storage electrodes, a storage dielectric layer formed to cover the first and second storage electrodes and the continuous support pattern, and a plate electrode formed on the storage dielectric layer. The continuous support pattern includes a first contact part connected to the top surface of the first storage electrode, a second contact part connected to the top surface of the second storage electrode, and a connection part connecting the first and second contact parts with each other.
US09070697B2
A device for detecting a laser attack made on an integrated circuit chip comprises a bipolar transistor of a first type formed in a semiconductor substrate, that bipolar transistor comprising a parasitic bipolar transistor of a second type. A buried region, forming the base of the parasitic bipolar transistor, operates as a detector of the variations in current flowing caused by impingement of laser light on the substrate.
US09070679B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide configurations for a semiconductor package and associated methods of fabricating the semiconductor package. A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes attaching a semiconductor die to a first substrate, attaching a second substrate to the first substrate, wherein the semiconductor die is embedded in between the first substrate and the second substrate, and forming an electrically insulative structure to substantially encapsulate the semiconductor die, wherein forming the electrically insulative structure is performed subsequent to the second substrate being attached to the first substrate. Additional embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09070675B2
A plating structure for wafer level packages are disclosed and may include a semiconductor wafer comprising a plurality of semiconductor die and a plating structure for forming an under bump metal on redistribution layers on the plurality of semiconductor die. The plating structure may comprise a plating connection line around a periphery of the semiconductor wafer, and a plating bar coupling the plating connection line to plating traces on the plurality of semiconductor die. The plating traces may be electrically coupled to the redistribution layers on the plurality of semiconductor die. The semiconductor wafer may comprise a reconstituted wafer of said semiconductor die. The semiconductor wafer may comprise a wafer prior to singulating the plurality of semiconductor die. The plating bar may be located in a sawing line for the singulating of the plurality of semiconductor die. A passivation layer may cover the redistribution layer and the plating traces.
US09070668B2
A three dimensional semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate including a plurality of circuits; a plurality of pads, each pad coupled to a circuit; and a memory array positioned above or below the substrate and coupled to a circuit to program the memory array.
US09070665B2
A high-voltage switch comprises one or more high-voltage transistors and a cooling substrate which may be manufactured from an electrically insulating material and on and/or through which a cooling medium can flow, wherein the one or more high-voltage transistors are mounted on at least one surface of the cooling substrate.
US09070663B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for fabricating a semiconductor gate. The apparatus includes, a substrate having an active region and a dielectric region that forms an interface with the active region; a gate electrode located above a portion of the active region and a portion of the dielectric region; and a dielectric material disposed within the gate electrode, the dielectric material being disposed near the interface between the active region and the dielectric region. The method includes, providing a substrate having an active region and a dielectric region that forms an interface with the active region; forming a gate electrode over the substrate, the gate electrode having an opening near a region of the gate electrode that is above the interface; and filling the opening with a dielectric material.
US09070656B2
Heat spreaders for dissipating heat from semiconductor devices comprise a contact surface located within a recess on an underside of the heat spreader, the contact surface being configured to physically and thermally attach to a semiconductor device, and a trench extending into the heat spreader adjacent to the contact surface sized and configured to receive underfill material extending from the semiconductor device into the trench. Related semiconductor device assemblies may include these heat spreaders and methods may include physically and thermally attaching these heat spreaders to semiconductor devices such that underfill material extends from a semiconductor device into the trench.
US09070649B2
A light-emitting device includes a drive transistor for controlling the quantity of current supplied to a light-emitting element, a capacitor element electrically connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and an electrical continuity portion for electrically connecting the drive transistor and the light-emitting element, these elements being disposed on a substrate. The electrical continuity portion is disposed on the side opposite to the capacitor element with the drive transistor disposed therebetween.
US09070646B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display device defined into a non-display area and a display area which is provided with pixels. Each of the pixels includes: first through fourth nodes; an organic light emission element connected to the fourth node; a drive transistor disposed between the second, third, and fourth nodes and configured to generate a drive current which drives the organic light emission element to emit light; a storage capacitor disposed between the first and third nodes; first through fifth transistors; wherein the fifth transistor is disposed between the second node with the non-display area and a reference voltage line and configured to control an initialization of the second node.
US09070645B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a substrate main body; a thin film transistor on the substrate main body; and an organic light emitting diode including a transparent electrode connected with the thin film transistor and being capable of injecting electrons, an organic emission layer on the transparent electrode, and a reflective electrode on the organic emission layer and being capable of injecting holes, wherein the organic emission layer includes an electron injection unit on the transparent electrode, the electron injection unit including an electron injection metal layer, an electron injection layer, and an electron injection dipole layer, and a light emitting unit on the electron injection unit.
US09070642B2
An electronic module includes a first semiconductor chip and a passive component, wherein the first semiconductor chip is arranged on a surface of the passive component.
US09070635B2
A removing method including the following steps. A substrate is transferred into an etching machine, wherein the substrate has a material layer formed thereon. A cycle process is performed. The cycle process includes performing an etching process to remove a portion of the material layer, and performing an annealing process to remove a by-product generated by the etching process. The cycle process is repeated at least one time. The substrate is transferred out of the etching machine. In the removing method of the invention, the cycle process is performed multiple times to effectively remove the undesired thickness of the material layer and reduce the loading effect.
US09070631B2
In certain embodiments the metal liftoff tool comprises an immersion tank for receiving a wafer cassette with wafers therein, the immersion tank including an inner weir, a lifting and lowering mechanism capable of raising and lowering the wafer cassette while submerged in fluid in the immersion tank, low pressure high velocity primary spray jets for stripping the metal, the primary spray jets positioned at opposing sides of the immersion tank parallel to the wafer surfaces planes, and secondary spray jets for pressure equalization force, positioned at the bottom of the immersion tank. A wafer lift insert is positioned at the bottom of the immersion tank to receive and periodically lift the wafers within the cassette.
US09070624B2
A described method includes providing a semiconductor substrate. A first gate structure is formed on the semiconductor substrate and a sacrificial gate structure formed adjacent the first gate structure. The sacrificial gate structure may be used to form a metal gate structure using a replacement gate methodology. A dielectric layer is formed overlying the first gate structure and the sacrificial gate structure. The dielectric layer has a first thickness above a top surface of the first gate structure and a second thickness, less than the first thickness, above a top surface of the sacrificial gate structure. (See, e.g., FIGS. 5, 15, 26). Thus, a subsequent planarization process of the dielectric layer may not contact the first gate structure.
US09070617B2
Embodiments of this invention provide a method to fabricate an electrical contact. The method includes providing a substrate of a compound Group III-V semiconductor material having at least one electrically conducting doped region adjacent to a surface of the substrate. The method further includes fabricating the electrical contact to the at least one electrically conducting doped region by depositing a single crystal layer of germanium over the surface of the substrate so as to at least partially overlie the at least one electrically conducting doped region, converting the single crystal layer of germanium into a layer of amorphous germanium by implanting a dopant, forming a metal layer over exposed surfaces of the amorphous germanium layer, and performing a metal-induced crystallization (MIC) process on the amorphous germanium layer having the overlying metal layer to convert the amorphous germanium layer to a crystalline germanium layer and to activate the implanted dopant. The electrical contact can be a source or a drain contact of a transistor.
US09070615B2
A graphene layer is generated on a substrate. A plastic material is deposited on the graphene layer to at least partially cover the graphene layer. The substrate is separated into at least two substrate pieces.
US09070610B2
A solid-state imaging device includes an image sensor chip and a signal processing chip, which are electrically connected. A low thermal conductivity region is positioned between the image sensor chip and the signal processing chip. The low thermal conductivity region is configured to insulate the image sensor chip from heat, which may be generated by the signal processing chip.
US09070601B2
The present invention permits a capacitance value of an electro-optical element such as organic EL element to be arbitrarily set without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel. That is, the present invention permits a capacitance value Coled of an organic EL element (21) to be arbitrarily set by adjusting the light emission area of the organic EL element (21) without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel (20) in an organic EL display device. The organic EL display device has the pixels (20) arranged in a matrix form. A light extraction opening (56) is formed on the surface of the pixel with a light-shielding film (black matrix) (57). The light extraction opening (56) has an opening area smaller than the light emission area of the organic EL element (21).
US09070598B2
A thin film transistor display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix format, the plurality of pixels include thin film transistors, respectively, a plurality of first signal lines connected with the pixels, a plurality of second signal lines connected with the pixels, the plurality of second signal lines cross the first signal lines in an insulated manner, at least one of the second signal lines includes a cut portion, and an organic repairing member overlaps the cut portion
US09070587B2
A vertical structure non-volatile memory device includes semiconductor regions that vertically extend on a substrate, a plurality of memory cell strings that vertically extend on the substrate along sidewalls of the semiconductor regions and include a plurality of memory cells and at least one or more first selection transistors, which are disposed on sides of the memory cells and are adjacent to one another. A plurality of wordlines is connected to the memory cells of the memory cell strings. A first selection line is connected to the selection transistors of the memory cell strings and insulating regions are formed as air gaps between the first selection transistors of the adjacent memory cell strings.
US09070582B2
A semiconductor device includes the following elements. A semiconductor substrate includes an isolation region. The semiconductor substrate has a groove in the isolation region. A pad electrode is disposed in the groove. A pad contact plug is disposed in the groove. The pad contact plug is disposed on the pad electrode. A gate contact plug is disposed on the pad contact plug. The gate contact plug is electrically coupled through the pad contact plug to the pad electrode. An insulating side wall is disposed in the groove. The insulating side wall covers side surfaces of the pad contact plug and a lower portion of the gate contact plug, and the insulating side wall covers a part of an upper surface of the pad electrode.
US09070581B2
In a vertical-type memory device and a method of manufacturing the vertical-type memory device, the vertical memory device includes an insulation layer pattern of a linear shape provided on a substrate, pillar-shaped single-crystalline semiconductor patterns provided on both sidewalls of the insulation layer pattern and transistors provided on a sidewall of each of the single-crystalline semiconductor patterns. The transistors are arranged in a vertical direction of the single-crystalline semiconductor pattern, and thus the memory device may be highly integrated.
US09070577B2
In order to fabricate a semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate in a peripheral region is etched to form a plurality of holes. A gap-filling material is buried in the holes of the semiconductor substrate in the peripheral region, and first and second device isolation films are formed in the semiconductor device. A fin structure is formed by recessing the gap-filling material, and a gate is formed over a surface including the fin structure. As a result, operation characteristics of transistors formed in the peripheral region are improved and the short channel effects are also reduced.
US09070568B2
A chip package includes an electrically conducting chip carrier and at least one first semiconductor chip attached to the electrically conducting chip carrier. The chip package further includes a passive component. The electrically conducting chip carrier, the at least one first semiconductor chip, and the passive component are embedded in an insulating laminate structure.
US09070560B2
A semiconductor wafer with modified regions formed in the substrate is provided. A modified region is formed apart from the side of a wafer and a pad is formed over an insulating film, which is formed over the main surface of the substrate of the wafer. Further, the modified region is formed closer to the side surface of the substrate than the pad. In this manner, defects in cutting shape in a cutting process of a semiconductor wafer using stealth dicing can be reduced or prevented.
US09070550B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor formed by dividing into a first and a second areas, a source electrode pad connected with a first source region formed in the first area and a second source region formed in the second area, a drain electrode pad connected with a first drain region formed in the first area and a second drain region formed in the second area and a connection line to connect a first gate line and a second gate line, where the connection line being provided in a same layer as the first gate line formed in the first area and the second gate line formed in the second area. A wiring for connecting between nodes of another circuit can be provided over the layer having the connection line provided therein and thus the size of a circuit chip can be reduced.
US09070542B2
Selective ionization at atmospheric or near atmospheric pressure of a sample diluted in air is provided in multiple steps. Initially, components of air and/or other gas are ionized to generate reactive ions. The reactive ions are then filtered using a high frequency filter to yield selected reactive ions. Thereafter, the selected reactive ions are reacted with sample molecules of a sample being analyzed in a charge transfer process. Depending on the properties of the sample molecules, the filter may select some reactive ions to enter the sample zone and block others entirely thus controlling ion chemistry and charge transfer yields in the sample zone. The described system is directed to controlling ions at the ion source level, using a high frequency filter technique, in connection with subsequent analysis. The method generates the ions of choice for subsequent analysis in such platforms as ion mobility and differential mobility spectrometers.
US09070536B2
Undesirable heating of a semiconductor process ring is prevented by thermally isolating the process ring from the insulating puck of an electrostatic chuck, and providing a thermally conductive and electrically insulating thermal ring contacting both the semiconductor process ring and an underlying metal base having internal coolant flow passages.
US09070534B2
A process control method is provided for ion implantation methods and apparatuses, to produce a high dosage area on a substrate such as may compensate for noted non-uniformities. In an ion implantation tool, separately controllable electrodes are provided as multiple sets of opposed electrodes disposed outside an ion beam. Beam blockers are positionable into the ion beam. Both the electrodes and beam blockers are controllable to reduce the area of the ion beam that is incident upon a substrate. The electrodes and beam blockers also change the position of the reduced-area ion beam incident upon the surface. The speed at which the substrate scans past the ion beam may be dynamically changed during the implantation process to produce various dosage concentrations in the substrate.
US09070529B2
In a radiation imaging apparatus, an envelope has a first window for transmitting radiation and is filled with an insulating liquid, and a radiation tube in the envelope has, at a position facing the first window, a second window for transmitting the radiation, and a shielding member. A solid insulating member is arranged between the shielding member and the inner wall of the envelope, and an opening is formed at a position on the insulating member corresponding to the first window. The shortest distance from the shielding member to the first window or the inner wall of the envelope through the opening of the insulating member without the insulating member is made to be longer than the shortest distance from the shielding member to the first window or the inner wall of the envelope through the insulating member, thereby improving withstand voltage performance without reducing an radiation amount.
US09070518B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a starter system including a starter, capable of being in communication with an electronic control unit. The starter can include a motor coupled to a circuit and a pinion including a plunger, and a plurality of solenoid assemblies including a plurality of biasing members. The plurality of solenoid assemblies can include at least one solenoid winding capable of moving the plunger, and at least one solenoid assembly capable of holding the plunger, and at least one solenoid assembly capable of controlling current flow to the motor. Some embodiments include a first switch coupled to the circuit that is capable of being activated by the plunger to control current flowing to at least a portion of the circuit. Some embodiments include at least two power isolation switches capable of controlling a current flow within the circuit.
US09070516B2
An electric double-layer capacitor, which provides enhanced heat release-ability with a simple configuration ensuring vibration resistance and impact resistance and to improve durability in a severe marginal environment, is provided. The electric double-layer capacitor includes capacitor cells; a pair of end plates, respectively disposed on both sides of a plurality of parallelly arranged capacitor cells; a metallic case for housing the end plates, a plurality of capacitor cells; and an insulating resin, filling the interior of the metallic case to cover the end plates, a plurality of capacitor cells and lead terminals, wherein the electric double-layer capacitor further includes an external connecting terminal having two end sections, one of the end sections being disposed in the end plate within the insulating resin, and wherein the lead terminal of the capacitor cell disposed adjacent to the end plate is configured to be connected to the one of the end sections of the external connecting terminal.
US09070494B2
A fixation structure for fixing a superconducting cable including a cable core and a thermal insulation tube. The fixation structure includes a fixation box connected to the thermal insulation tube, including a hollow thermal insulation structure, and through which the cable core is passed, a fixation body for fixing the cable core on the inner wall of the fixation box, and a diameter-expanded reinforcement layer that is an electrical insulation layer that has a diameter decreasing toward both ends and is formed on the cable core. A refrigerant flows through the inside of the inner wall of the fixation box. The cable core is fixed on the inner wall with the fixation body through the diameter-expanded reinforcement layer. The structure implements a simple and low-cost fixation structure appropriate for an electric field design.
US09070484B2
A servicing platform for a nuclear reactor refueling floor is provided. In various embodiments, the servicing platform includes a base structured to be anchored to a refueling floor of the nuclear reactor. The servicing platform additionally includes a telescoping mast having a mounting collar at a first end that is rotationally attached to the base, and a personnel work basket pivotally coupled to a second end of the mast.
US09070482B2
An MCP type semiconductor memory device having a defective cell remedy function, enables easy design and manufacture while minimizing chip area increase. The semiconductor memory device includes memory chips and a memory controller chip that designates an address of a memory chip according to an access request received from outside and controls access to the designated address. Each memory chip includes first and second storage regions and an information holder that holds address information representing associations between addresses in the first and second storage regions. The memory controller chip includes an address translating part that performs, upon receiving a request to access a specific address in the first storage region indicated by the address information, address designation by translating the specific address in the first storage region to an address in the second storage region corresponding to the specific address based on the associations represented by the address information.
US09070480B2
A semiconductor memory device and a memory system including the same are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a first memory unit and a plurality of second memory unit, each including a plurality of memory cells and page buffers corresponding to the memory cells, and a redundancy memory unit including a plurality of redundancy memory cells and a plurality of redundancy page buffers corresponding to the redundancy memory cells. First input/output (I/O) data lines coupled to the first memory unit and second I/O data lines coupled to the second memory unit are coupled to the redundancy memory unit.
US09070471B2
Provided is a shift register of a display-driving circuit which carries out simultaneous selection of a plurality of signal lines by using a simultaneous selection signal. A stage of the shift register includes (i) a set-reset type flip-flop and (ii) a signal generating circuit which generates an output signal of the stage by selectively outputting a signal in response to an output of the flip-flop. The output signal of the stage (i) becomes active due to an activation of the simultaneous selection signal and then (ii) remains active while the simultaneous selection is being performed, and the output from the flip-flop is inactive during a period in which a setting signal and a resetting signal are both being active. This makes it possible to quickly carry out the simultaneous selection of all the signal lines and the initialization of the shift register.
US09070465B2
An anti-fuse circuit includes an array of anti-fuses. Each anti-fuse has a tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) element series connected with a transistor, such that breakdown of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) in response to an applied first voltage stores fuse information. A sensing circuit senses and amplifies respective output signals provided by the anti-fuses.
US09070449B2
In a flash memory, erase blocks containing shorted or broken word lines may be used, at least in part, to store user data. Such blocks may use different parameters to those used by non-defective blocks, may be subject to different wear leveling, and may store data selected to reduce the number of access operations.
US09070445B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell array having a plurality of electrically rewritable memory transistors arranged therein; and a control unit configured to govern control that repeats a voltage application operation and a step-up operation, the voltage application operation applying an applied voltage to a selected memory transistor to change a threshold voltage at which the selected memory transistor is conductive, and the step-up operation, in the case where a threshold voltage of the selected memory transistor has not changed to a desired value, raising the applied voltage by an amount of a certain step-up value. The control unit is configured to control the step-up operation to monotonically decrease the step-up value as the number of times of the voltage application operations increases.
US09070435B2
A pre-computation based TCAM configured to reduce the number of match lines being pre-charged during a search operation to save power is disclosed. The pre-computation based TCAM stores additional information in a secondary TCAM that can be used to determine which match lines in a primary TCAM storing data words to be searched need not be pre-charged because they are associated with data words guaranteed to not match. The additional information stored in secondary TCAM can include a pre-computation word that represents a range inclusive of a lower and upper bound of a number of ones or zeroes possible in a corresponding data word stored in the primary TCAM.
US09070420B2
A memory sharing system includes a master control device, a slave control device and a memory device. The master control device selectively generates a clock signal to the memory device. The slave control device receives and tracks the clock signal via a delay phase locked loop (DLL) to generate and align an output signal with the clock signal. The master control device arbitrates an access right.
US09070412B2
It is an objective of the present invention to provide a technique, when using fixed-length run-length limit codes based on enumeration, that generates fixed-length channel bit words satisfying maximum run-length limitation using a simple configuration. A channel bit word processor according to the present invention includes an avoidance list that describes a difference between a user bit word satisfying a maximum run-length limitation of run-length limit code and a user bit word not satisfying the maximum run-length limitation. The channel bit word processor, if a user bit word does not satisfy the maximum run-length limitation, generates a channel bit word using a user bit word after the difference is added.
US09070405B2
An implementation of a system disclosed herein provides a method of determining a frequency of baseline noise in a target or read sensor signal and rejecting a band of signals from the target or read sensor signal substantially around the frequency of the baseline noise, including devices to implement this method.
US09070392B1
Various embodiments concern a gimbaled flexure having a dual stage actuation structure. The flexure comprises a gimbal on which a motor is mounted. The motor comprises a first terminal, one or more layers of piezoelectric material, and a metal stiffener disposed directly on the first terminal. The stiffener comprises a layer of metal defining a majority of a top side of the motor. The first terminal can be gold sputtered on the piezoelectric material while the stiffener can be nickel plated on the gold. The stiffener can cause the motor, and the flexure on which it is mounted, to curl upon electrical activation of the motor.
US09070389B2
According to an embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a recording medium and a reproducing head. The recording medium includes a concentric circular plurality of tracks. The reproducing head includes a spin torque oscillator and reproduces information from the recording medium using the spin torque oscillator, the spin torque oscillator including an oscillation layer with a first cross-track direction width, a polarizer layer with a second cross-track direction width, and a spacer layer provided between the oscillation layer and the polarizer layer. The first cross-track direction width is larger than double the second cross-track direction width, and the second cross-track direction width is smaller than an inter-track distance.
US09070383B2
A structure and a process for a perpendicular write pole that provides increased magnetic flux at the ABS is disclosed. This is accomplished by increasing the amount of write flux that originates above the write gap, without changing the pole taper at the ABS. Three embodiment of the invention are discussed.
US09070379B2
Migration of data in a data storage device (DSD). A spindle motor of the DSD is controlled to rotate a disk of the DSD to perform at least one operation on the disk and an operational activity level is determined for performing the at least one operation. It is determined whether the operational activity level is greater than a target level, and if it is determined that the operational activity level is not greater than the target level, data is transferred between a solid state memory of the DSD and the disk while the disk rotates.
US09070378B2
A method and system can be implemented to perform a read-modify-write operation on data recorded in a shingled media format. In one embodiment, a write operation on a band of data stored on a magnetic recording medium is initiated at an intermediate position within the band of data. This is particularly well-suited for data written by a shingled media write operation.
US09070373B2
A decoding device to decode a main signal code obtained by encoding low-frequency components of an original signal and to output a lowband main signal for output of a main signal, includes: a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, decoding auxiliary information code obtained by encoding auxiliary information, the auxiliary information being for generating, from the lowband main signal, a highband main signal corresponding to high-frequency components of the original signal; decoding residual code obtained by encoding low-frequency components of a residual signal indicating error components produced by encoding of the original signal, and thereby output a lowband residual signal; generating a highband residual signal indicating high-frequency components of the residual signal, based on the lowband residual signal output by the residual decoder and the output auxiliary information; generating an output signal.
US09070365B2
Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard prosody from input text. Multiple prosody models can be used to represent different prosody styles.
US09070358B2
An encoder for a multi-channel audio signal which comprises a down-mixer (201, 203, 205) for generating a down-mix as a combination of at least a first and second channel signal weighted by respectively a first and second weight with different amplitudes for at least some time-frequency intervals. Furthermore, a circuit (201, 203, 209) generates up-mix parametric data characterizing a relationship between the channel signals as well as characterizing the weights. A circuit generates weight estimates for the encoder weights from the up-mix parametric data; and comprises an up-mixer (407) which recreates the multi channel audio signal by up-mixing the down-mix in response to the up-mix parametric data, the first weight estimate and the second weight estimate. The up-mixing is dependent on the amplitude of at least one of the weight estimate(s).
US09070354B2
To reproduce sound in an extremely compact size, fluid injectors are used that can generate fluid flow sufficient to create a desired acoustic pressure wave, but which fluid flow operates in a manner that is decoupled from the desired acoustic pressure wave. Fluid flow within the fluid injectors needed to generate the desired acoustic pressure wave need not be directly proportional to the frequencies of the desired acoustic pressure wave. The fluid injector has a control input capable of altering fluid flow relative to a received control signal, which is generated by a controller in response to an electrical signal. The fluid injector produces fluid flow outward and inward in response to the control signal, thereby creating an acoustic wave proportional to the electrical signal. The devices herein may employ valves or not. Synthetic jets may also be used.
US09070352B1
A system and method are provided for mixing song data based on measure groupings. A player or program may recognize measure groupings in a song through identifying cuepoints. The player or program may use the cuepoints and/or other identifiers of measure groupings to generate a transition between the song and other songs. Parts of one or both songs may be time-stretched, or frames may be added or deleted, such that the beats in both songs are substantially aligned during the transition. The system and method may also involve altering the sequence of frames in one or both of the songs, so that the transition may have various sonic qualities as desired by a user. A choice of transition modes may be provided via a user interface that allow the user some control over when and how transitions between songs are executed.
US09070351B2
A system for automatic rearrangement of a musical composition includes a process of assigning metadata to an existing piece of music to divide it into sections and identify sections of the same type, and logic to remove and rearrange sections to produced a customized playback with a desired duration and additional options for including or removing specific sections or instruments under the control of a user.
US09070349B1
An apparatus for holding a musical instrument has a strap that is secured at a first end to a base of the instrument by magnetism. An opposite second end is secured around a neck of the instrument by any of various ways. If available, an overall length of the strap is adjusted. The first end of the strap is secured to the base of the instrument by the use of one or more magnets disposed on one side of a planar rear surface of the base and by a ferric or steel member disposed on an opposite side of the rear surface. Magnetic attraction pinches and secures the magnets and steel member in position until urged apart. Fabric covering around the magnets and steel member prevent damage. The magnets or, alternately, the steel member are inserted through a sound hole into an interior of the instrument base.
US09070348B2
A cymbal stand for mounting at least one cymbal. The cymbal stand comprises a base assembly including a base pipe, a support pipe assembly including a first support pipe, and a first locking clamp for releasably locking said first support pipe and said base pipe together. The base pipe has an upper end and a longitudinal axis. The first support pipe has a length, opposite terminal ends and a first longitudinal axis along the length. The first support pipe is telescopically and coaxially movable relative to the base pipe. The first support pipe is connected to the base pipe along the longitudinal axis of the first support pipe by the first locking clamp at a nodal point of the first support pipe.
US09070347B2
A file having concave portion is most well-known. The use of this file has a risk of ruining an effect of a leveling of frets due to undesirable scrape of a top portion of the fret and to losing a normal function of the fret due to a change of the height thereof. Since the file is held by hand, a tool angle varies in use. Since the size of a polishing surface of the tool is not suitable for all types of frets, a complete set including a various size of the files is required in order to select and use one of them as necessary and appropriately. Therefore, a tool of the invention has been made to solve these problems as follows: 1. the top portion of the fret is not scraped and the resultant fret after the leveling thereof are protected as important; 2. since the tool is placed on the fretboard with two side portions of the tool, and thus the tool angle is kept constant (thus, during use the axis of the tool is not rotated and the centerline of the tool is not displaced); 3. one model of the tool may be used for all types of frets; and 4. all the frets take a fine symmetrical shape.
US09070346B2
A white key for a keyboard instrument, which makes it possible to improve yield and marketability and reduce manufacturing costs. The white key for a keyboard instrument includes a wooden key body, a synthetic resin-made upper cover bonded to the key body, and a synthetic resin-made front cover bonded to a front end face of the key body. The upper cover has a protrusion protruding downward from a front end thereof, and the protrusion and an upper end of the front cover are in contact with each other via respective inclined surfaces formed on the protrusion and the upper end of the front cover.
US09070345B2
An approach is provided in which a system retrieves a street view image that depicts a geographical area viewed from a street view perspective. The system identifies a video device depicted in the street view image that provides a live video stream of a real-time viewable area corresponding to at least a portion of the depicted geographical area. In turn, the system generates a composite image that combines the street view image with a viewing area overlay corresponding to the real-time viewable area.
US09070325B2
This invention relates to a display device, a method, a computer program and a system including a display device, wherein said display device includes at least one light transmissive area configured to be coupled to a light source in order to be provided with backlight, at least one light reflective area, at least one light transmission control element associated with said at least one light reflective area, wherein said display device is configured to be switched into a reflective blocking state when said at least one light transmissive area is provided with backlight, and wherein in said reflective blocking state said at least one light transmission control element causes light-blocking.
US09070317B2
A device and a method of automatic display brightness control are provided. Human fatigue index and environmental factors for dry eyes are combined as an indicator to dynamically adjust the display brightness. Heart rate variability (HRV) is used as the human fatigue index, and the environmental CO2 concentration is used as the environmental factors for dry eyes here.
US09070315B2
A display device is disclosed which includes: a control substrate configured to include a timing controller; a data connector configured to transfer signal from the control substrate to a display panel; a data driver mounted to the data connector; at least one outer connector disposed by at least one of both sides of the data connector and loaded with a driver chip, wherein the driver chip and the data driver are loaded on the outer connector and the data connector using the same bonding system, respectively.
US09070313B2
A cosmetic logo insert is adapted for fitting into an opening in the housing of an associated computing device, is formed from a single piece of metal, has a thickness less than about 0.8 mm, and provides by itself adequate shock impact and fire enclosure protection at the opening for internal device components. The insert can include a lower portion having a first circumferential shape in the form of a logo and an outer surface that is substantially flat and polished to a mirrored finish, and also an upper portion integrally formed with the lower portion and having a second circumferential shape that is larger than the first circumferential shape. A computing device can include an outer housing having a wall with a stepped and logo shaped opening, a processor located within the housing, and a cosmetic housing insert fitted into the wall opening.
US09070305B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining the status of traffic lights through a mobile device and communicating the status to the user of the device. The mobile device detects its geographical location, direction and elevation. The mobile device also receives information related to traffic lights, such as location and type. The device calculates positional deviation from the device to the traffic light and generates one or more prompts in the form of audible or tactile cues that progressively guide the user to point the device at the traffic light. The mobile device detects the image and color of the traffic light and determines the illumination and sign status of the traffic light. Then the mobile device communicates the traffic light status to the user.
US09070296B1
Maps are created that display representations of GPS data generated from a plurality of GPS devices. The GPS data received from the GPS devices is embodied as a representation having descriptive features that visually indicate the location, direction of travel, and speed of travel of the GPS device, and the representation is associated with a road segment on the map. The display of the GPS data from a plurality of GPS devices can be used for editing information about roads on maps and determining preferred routes.
US09070295B2
A system for providing location information of a vehicle includes a communications interface and a correlation logic that correlates location information of a communications device to location of the vehicle. The communications interface communicates electronic signals including: a first signal including data representing a request for the location of the vehicle, a second signal transmitted to a location information provider corresponding to a party or device other than the communications device including data representing a request for location information of the communications device, a third signal received from the location information provider corresponding to the party or device other than the communications device including data representing the location information of the communications device, and a fourth signal including data representing the location of the vehicle.
US09070292B2
A portable terminal apparatus is configured to obtain provided information including character data from an information distribution server apparatus, transmit partial data, which is a portion of the character data, to a voice synthesizing server apparatus, and obtain voice data obtained by converting the partial data into voice from the voice synthesizing server apparatus, and when a predetermined notification is received from a vehicle-mounted apparatus, a command is given to cause the vehicle-mounted apparatus to display the provided information corresponding to the voice data, and the vehicle-mounted apparatus displays information given by the portable terminal apparatus, plays the voice data, and when selection operation performed by a user is received, the portable terminal apparatus is notified that the selection operation has been performed.
US09070282B2
In some implementations a non-transitory storage device on a smartphone having a multi-sensory-recognition engine stored thereon is coupled to a microcontroller, a device-controller for an electrical device that is wirelessly coupled to the microcontroller, and at least one of a plurality of sensors is operably coupled to the microcontroller.
US09070279B2
An electronic key registration system includes a controller arranged in a communication subject communicable with an electronic key. A registration tool is in wired or wireless connection with the communication subject. The registration tool registers the electronic key to the controller when receiving a registration permission signal. An information center is connected to a network. The registration tool includes an operator ID acquisition unit that acquires an operator ID from a key registration operator. A communication unit sends the operator ID to the information center through the network. The information center includes an operator ID verification unit that verifies the operator ID received from the registration tool. A permission information notification unit sends, when the operator ID is verified, a registration permission signal to the registration tool through the network to permit the registration tool to perform the registration process.
US09070272B2
An environmental monitoring device that includes a sensor mechanism is described. During operation of the environmental monitoring device, heat generated by a processor in the environmental monitoring device may result in a convective fluid flow over the sensor mechanism that facilitates measurements of sensor data associated with an environmental condition in an external environment that includes the environmental monitoring device. Alternatively, a fluid driver (such as a fan) associated with the processor may produce the fluid flow over the sensor mechanism. Note that the fluid flow may include an airflow and/or a liquid flow. Moreover, the environmental monitoring device may include baffles that direct the fluid flow over a selected sensor in a set of sensors in the sensor mechanism.
