US09082169B2
The present invention relates to a method for processing image data comprising image information about a body region of a patient, the method being at least partly executed by an electronic data processing device and comprising the following steps: d) providing the image data; e) assigning, to elements of the image information, a predetermined probability for the image information contained in the respective element representing a predetermined tissue class, wherein the predetermined probability is provided independently of information about at least part of a body which is different from the body of the patient; f) determining, on the basis of the predetermined probability and for a subset of the image information comprising a plurality of the elements, an element-specific probability for individual elements of the subset representing an element-specific tissue class.
US09082167B2
A method is disclosed for the reconstruction of image data of an examination object from measurement data. First and second image data are reconstructed from the measurement data with a first and second respective image characteristic, with an enhanced signal-to-noise ratio of the second image characteristic relative to the first image characteristic. Enhanced image data is calculated using an iterative algorithm using the first and the second image data. In the case of the iterative algorithm, a low pass is applied to a difference between the first image data and the image data of an iteration cycle, and a high pass to a difference between the second image data and the image data of the iteration cycle.
US09082159B2
A method, including: registering a new image volume with a composed image volume, wherein the new image volume and the composed image volume overlap each other in an overlap region, the composed image volume includes at least two image volumes that overlap each other, and each voxel in the composed image volume includes a weight; determining a deformation between the new image volume and the composed image volume; updating the weights of the voxels in the composed image volume that are overlapped by the new image volume; performing an alpha morphing on the overlap region using the updated weights and the deformation; obtaining a blend region of the overlap region by performing an alpha blending using results of the alpha morphing and the updated weights; and incorporating the blend region into the composed image volume to obtain a new composed image volume.
US09082153B2
An online sales/automatic rebate and coupon redemption system provides online customers automatic retrieval and redemption of all applicable rebates and coupons during purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system purchases from merchants using applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system makes it possible to automatically retrieve coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site. The system provides coupons to potential customers via email, based on customer profile, geographical information, etc. Manufacturers and merchants can update coupon value and content based on ongoing sales and volume of customer activity.
US09082148B1
Technologies are described herein for grouping products by size and weight. A customer-facing user interface is provided to a user that allows the user to browse and search products in a merchant system in order to identify products having similar size and weight. An extension to the customer-facing user interface facilitates the grouping of the products having similar size and weight into product groups. A source product is selected for each product group. The source product is used by the merchant system as the source for dimensional data for the products in the product group.
US09082140B2
Systems and methods to extract and utilize textual semantics are described. The system receives item information that describes an item for sale on a network-based marketplace and analyzes the item information to generate application information that identifies a plurality of applications. The plurality of applications includes a first application that further includes the item as a first component of the first application. The system stores a listing in a database that includes the application information and the item information and publishes the listing on the network-based marketplace to sell the item via the network-based marketplace.
US09082138B2
A method for representing and managing an inventory of overlapping multi-dimensional items such as advertising or ad impressions. The method uses an inventory management module to generate unique segment identifiers for sets of inventory items by processing descriptions of the sets of impressions including defining criteria. The method includes processing the unique segment identifiers to create a representation of the inventory as a plurality of inventory regions, which may include non-overlapping regions that correspond to inventory items in a single set of the inventory and also include overlapping regions that correspond to inventory items in two or more of the sets (e.g., items that match two or more sets of defining criteria or attributes). Availability and selection of inventory is determined using the information on inventory regions to control effects of cannibalization, such as by implementing logically necessary allocation to only cannibalize a region on a limited or forced basis.
US09082133B2
A computer-implemented method for monitoring the effectiveness of advertisements broadcast is described. The method includes detecting that an advertisement has been aired by a broadcast station, monitoring a network for a duration subsequent to the airing of the advertisement for activity attributable to the airing of the advertisement, and developing a quantitative relationship between the activity and a number of listeners of the advertisement.
US09082122B2
A method for managing an e-commerce system comprising: accepting an order to sell one or more goods or services from a seller to a buyer; charging the buyer an amount according to the order; holding the amount in an intermediary; receiving a first signal from the buyer upon the seller's delivery of said one or more goods or services; retrieving a second signal; verifying the first signal against the second signal; and making at least a portion of the amount available to the seller if the first signal and the second signal satisfy a predetermined relationship.
US09082120B2
Payment card transactions at a point of sale (POS) are secured in certain embodiments by intercepting, with a POS security layer installed on a POS terminal, payment data from the POS terminal, transmitting the payment data from the POS security layer to a server security application installed on a POS server, and providing false payment data from the POS security layer to a POS terminal application installed on the POS terminal. The false payment data in various embodiments is processed as if it were the payment data, such that the POS terminal transmits an authorization request to the POS server using the false payment data. In addition, the authorization request may be transmitted from the POS server to a payment gateway.
US09082102B2
A global tracking device includes a hardened case configured to be removably coupled to an object. The hardened case includes a barcode associated with information regarding the object. The data access element is configured to cause an external device to populate an interactive display application containing at least a portion of the information regarding to the object. The global tracking device can communicate with a central facility via a satellite communication.
US09082101B2
Systems and methods for facilitating online to offline commerce are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system configured to receive a request to check-in a customer at a merchant facility is disclosed. The system receives a request to access real-time pre-sale transaction data associated with a first customer and transmits the real-time pre-sale transaction data associated with the first customer to a mobile client device. The request to check-in and the request to access the real-time pre-sale transaction data are transmitted by the first mobile client device. The system is configured to authenticate the request to check-in at the merchant facility, process the request to access the real-time pre-sale transaction data, and responsively access the real-time pre-sale transaction data associated with the first customer from a point of sale device located at the merchant facility.
US09082096B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for initiating shipment of and payment for shipping a parcel. For example, in one embodiment, a customer/user can receive a message on a user device from a carrier that includes an authorization code for shipping a parcel. After the customer/user ships the parcel, the carrier can charge a variety of accounts for the shipping charges, including a wireless services provider associated with the user device. In another embodiment, the customer/user can interact with a kiosk to ship the parcel. In this embodiment, the carrier can also charge a variety of accounts for the shipping charges, including a wireless services provider.
US09082091B2
A logical customer organization model is applied to group the individual agreements into separate logical customer organizations, wherein the groupings can be region based groupings, organization groupings and departmental groupings. Unified login identification (ID) model is applied to enable a first user to login to a portal using a first login ID to access a first asset in a first asset group according to a first logical customer organization. The unified login ID model enables the first user to use the same first login ID to access a second asset in the first asset group according to the first logical customer organization. The unified login ID model also enables the first user to login to the portal using a second login ID to access one or more assets in a second asset group according to a second logical customer organization. Each of the first and second logical customer organization may be associated with one or more asset groups and one or more user groups.
US09082085B2
A computing environment climate-aware policy management system provides decision support by receiving a request to perform an action, where the request is communicated from or on behalf of a computing resource. Upon receiving the request, an indication of a computing environment climate is obtained, which may include for example, information related to the workflow associated with the requested action, information external to the workflow or other information that contextualizes the computing environment of components thereof. At least one policy is obtained that is associated with at least one of the action associated with the request, the resource associated with the request to perform the action received by the policy system manager, and the indicated climate. Each obtained policy is evaluated and a response to the request to perform the action is provided based upon the results of the policy evaluation.
US09082073B2
A finite state machine is provided. The finite state machine causes a function to be carried out in dependence on at least an event input to the finite state machine and the current state of the finite state machine. Associations between the functions that are to be carried out and combinations of the states and the events are identified using an associative array. The associations identified using the associative array are amended while the finite state machine is operating to dynamically reconfigure the operation of the finite state machine.
US09082071B2
The present disclosure relates to classification of a material type of an object. A first phase applies an object classifier and a material classifier to obtain first object and material probabilities of the object. A second phase applies an interdependent object/material classifier to the first object and material probabilities to obtain further object and material class probabilities. The interdependent object/material classifier performs multiple iterations of calculating the further object and material class probabilities, and utilizes feedback in which an immediately preceding calculated prior further object class probability is included in a next iteration of calculating a further material class probability, and an immediately preceding calculated prior further material class probability is included in a next iteration of calculating a further object class probability.
US09082066B2
A print-data generating section generates print data in accordance with a high-resolution raster image generated by a high-resolution rasterizing processor. A low-resolution rasterizing processor generates a low-resolution raster image having lower resolution than that of the high-resolution raster image. An overcoating-data generating section generates coating data in accordance with the low-resolution raster image. Overcoating data is handled with low resolution, resulting in less processing time for overcoating than when the overcoating-data is handled with high resolution.
US09082065B2
Provided is an image editing device that enables a user to easily assign images to a plurality of pages of an album or the like so as to satisfy editorial restrictions. The image editing device acquires a plurality of pieces of image data; determines, based on respective photographed times of the plurality of pieces of image data and a reference time interval, details of an assignment of the plurality of pieces of image data to each of the plurality of pages so that an interval between photographed times of pieces of image data to be assigned to the each of the plurality of pages is the reference time interval or smaller; and outputs image output data on the each of the plurality of pages based on a result of the assignment.
US09082061B2
A device having an integrated-circuit chip includes an insulating body containing at least one conductive pad, at least one electrical contact opposite the electrically conductive pad, and at least one recess in the body, including a bottom and one aperture. The recess is connected, at the bottom thereof, to the conductive pad and, at the aperture thereof, to the electrical contact. At least one coil spring is arranged in the recess and connecting the conductive pad to the electrical contact. The installation of the spring in the recess is facilitated by means of the friction of the central portion of the spring relative to the walls of the recess. The invention also relates to a method for producing an electrical connection between at least one conductive pad arranged in an insulating body and at least one electrical contact arranged opposite the electrically conductive pad.
US09082054B2
An optical based authentication device that is attachable to a security document having a substrate. The authentication device includes: a piezoelectric material layer for generating an electric field in response to mechanical stress; and an optically responsive layer directly attached to the piezoelectric material layer, the attached layers being absent a direct electrical connection, the optically responsive layer being operable between a first state and a second state having different ocular perceptions. The optically responsive layer changes from the first state to the second state in response the electric field generated by the piezoelectric material layer.
US09082048B2
Systems and methods for authenticating a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, information regarding multiple biometric parameters is gathered from a test subject and compared with a validation template. The validation template can be augmented with some or all of the information if the user is successfully authenticated.
US09082040B2
Tools and techniques for identifying visual contextual synonyms are described herein. The described operations use visual words having similar contextual distributions as contextual synonyms to identify and describe visual objects that share semantic meaning. The contextual distribution of a visual word is described using the statistics of co-occurrence and spatial information averaged over image patches that share the visual word. In various implementations, the techniques are employed to construct a visual contextual synonym dictionary for a large visual vocabulary. In various implementations, the visual contextual synonym dictionary narrows the semantic gap for large-scale visual search.
US09082039B2
An apparatus and method for recognizing a character based on a photographed image. The apparatus includes an image determining unit, an image effect unit, a binarizing unit and a character recognizing unit. The image determining unit is configured to select, from an input image, a Region Of Interest (ROI) to be used for image analysis when the input image is input, and to analyze the selected ROI to determine a type of the input image. The image effect unit is configured to apply to the input image, an image effect for distinguishing a character region and a background region in a display screen if the type of the input image indicates that the input image is obtained by photographing a display screen. The binarizing unit is configured to binarize the input image or the output of the image effect unit according to the determined type of the input image. The character recognizing unit is configured to recognize a character from the binarized input image.
US09082037B2
Methods and systems for automatically determining the issuing state of a license plate. An image of a license plate acquired by an ALPR engine can be processed via one or more OCR engines such that each OCR engine among the OCR engines is tuned to a particular state. Confidence data output from the OCR engine(s) can be analyzed (among other factors) to estimate the issuing state associated with the license plate. Multiple observations related to the issuing state can be merged to derive an overall conclusion and assign an associated confidence value with respect to the confidence data and determine a likely issuing state associated with the license plate.
US09082031B2
An apparatus for use in decoding a bar code symbol includes a first integrated circuit chip with a wafer level camera, at least one light source, and a plurality of contact pads on a surface of the chip and a second integrated circuit chip with a processor, memory, plurality of contact pads on a surface of the chip, and plurality of contact pads on another surface of the chip. The apparatus includes a PCB having a plurality of contact pads disposed on at least one surface of the PCB and wherein the first and second integrated circuit chips are vertically stacked on the PCB and the plurality of contact pads on the first and second integrated circuit chips interface with the contact pads of the second integrated circuit chip and PCB. The apparatus is operative for processing image signals generated by the WLC for attempting to decode the bar code symbol.
US09082028B2
Writing incorrect information to an IC tag affixed to a medium is prevented. When a control command including recording information, an instruction to record the recording information on a medium, and an instruction to write data including at least time-related information to an IC tag affixed to the medium is received from a host computer, the system controller 35 of a media processing device 2 records the recording information and writes the write data based on time information input from a RTC 29, but does not record the recording information and write the write data based on the control command if a RTC 29 error was detected by a RTC error detection unit 36b.
US09082019B2
A method of establishing an adjustable-block background model for detecting a real-time image object is provided to obtain a surveillance image by a surveillance apparatus. The surveillance image has a plurality of pixels. The method includes steps of: segmenting the surveillance image into a plurality of blocks each having a first pixel and at least one second pixel; defining the first pixel as a major color and comparing the first pixel with the at least one second pixel to determine a number and color information of the major color in the block; merging the blocks having the same major color into a large block to obtain a block background model; and performing image comparison to identify a moving object image. With the establishment of the block background model, a required memory space is effectively reduced while outstanding image display performance is still maintained.
US09082018B1
An electronic device with a display, processor(s), and memory displays a video monitoring user interface including a camera feed from a camera located remotely from the client device in a first region of the video monitoring user interface and an event timeline in a second region of the video monitoring user interface, the event timeline including event indicators for motion events previously detected by the camera. The electronic device associates a newly created category with a set of similar motion events from among the previously detected motion events. In response to associating the category with the set of similar motion events, the electronic device changes at least one display characteristic for a first set of pre-existing event indicators from among the event indicators on the event timeline that correspond to the category, where the first set of pre-existing event indicators correspond to the set of similar motion events.
US09082008B2
Systems and methods for feature selection and matching are provided. In certain embodiments, a method for matching features comprises extracting a first plurality of features from current image data acquired from at least one sensor and extracting a second plurality of features from a prior map, wherein the prior map represents an environment containing the navigation system independently of data currently acquired by the at least one sensor. The method also comprises identifying at least one first feature in the first plurality of features and at least one second feature in the second plurality of features that have associated two-dimensional representations; and identifying at least one corresponding pair of features by comparing a three-dimensional representations of the at least one first feature to a three-dimensional representation of the at least one second feature.
US09082003B1
A system and method for adaptive face recognition includes at least one electronic processor having a central processing unit. At least one database having a plurality of pixilated face images of known subjects of interest is associated with the processor. At least one test image of a new subject of interest is configured for input into the electronic processor. A classification processing tool is associated with the electronic processor. The classification processing tool is configured to build a dictionary and provide a classification match of the test image with one of the plurality of pixilated face images of known subjects of interest. At least one device is associated with the processor and configured to output the classification match in a tangible medium.
US09081989B2
In a method for secure cloud computing, a virtual machine (VM) associated with a client is executed at a computer within a trusted computing cloud. An image including state information of the VM is obtained; storage of the image is arranged; a freshness hash of the image is determined; and the freshness hash is sent to the client. Subsequently, at the same computer or at a different computer within the trusted computing cloud, the stored image may be retrieved; a freshness hash of the retrieved image may be determined; the freshness hash of the retrieved image may be sent to the client; and an indication may be received from the client verifying the integrity of the freshness hash of the stored image.
US09081984B2
The document access authorization violation detection apparatus detects, for each of documents, whether or not there is any violation in access authorization to access the document, by using statistical values calculated from duty position levels, which represents height levels of corresponding official positions of users who are authorized to access the document, or inter-organization distances, which are obtained by digitizing inter-organization positional removes from respective groups, to which the users belong, to a group whose member number is larger than any other one of the groups. As a result, the document access authorization violation detection apparatus makes it possible to efficiently detect whether or not there is any violation in access authorization with respect to each of documents.
US09081982B2
Access to files is properly granted regardless of whether an accessing user is located at their primary location or at any “roaming” location. In particular, the techniques herein consider the user rights, rights of any computer from which the user is accessing files, and the rights associated with the files themselves, such as by determining the User ∩ Computer intersection of access rights (an overlap between rights of the user and rights of the computer), and applying these access rights to file rights (e.g., file metadata) to determine what access the user has to the files (e.g., viewing, modifying, etc.).
US09081981B2
An information management system approves or denies user requests to access information of the system. The information includes all types of information including documents and e-mail. The information management system is driven using a policy language having policies and policy abstractions. The information management system may approve or deny many different types of requests including opening a document or file, copying a file, printing a file, sending an e-mail, reading an e-mail, cut and paste of a portion of a document, saving a document, executing an application on a file, and many others.
US09081976B2
A method of preventing unauthorized recording of electronic media according to one embodiment is described. The method comprises activating a compliance mechanism in response to a client system receiving media content. The compliance mechanism is coupled to the client system. The client system has a media content presentation application operable thereon and is coupled to the compliance mechanism. The method further comprises controlling a data path of a kernel-mode media device driver of the client system with the compliance mechanism upon detection of a kernel streaming mechanism operable on the client system. The present method further comprises directing the media content from the kernel-mode media device driver to a media device driver coupled with the compliance mechanism, via the data path, for selectively restricting output of the media content.
US09081972B2
Secondary content in encrypted for distribution to client terminals by selecting at least a portion of raw encrypted audio-video data (REAVD) that is provided on a media article as an encryption key, encrypting secondary content using the encryption key, and storing encrypted secondary content at a remotely located host. The media article can then be used for providing access to the encrypted secondary content to client terminals by receiving encrypted secondary content at a client terminal, extracting a decryption key from a media article encoded with REAVD, the decryption key being determined by at least a portion of the REAVD, using the decryption key to decrypt the secondary content, and outputting the decrypted secondary content from the client terminal.
US09081968B2
A method includes recording, during execution of a program and by a computing system, concrete values exhibited at source and sink statements in the program. The source statements read confidential information and the sink statements release the confidential information to an outside environment. The method includes determining, by the computing system, using at least the recorded concrete values and source-sink pairs whether information leakage meeting one or more quantitative criteria occurs by the program. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed.
US09081967B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods and computer program products for protecting computer systems from software vulnerabilities. In one aspect, a system is configured to detect execution of a software application and determine whether the detected application has vulnerabilities. When the application has vulnerabilities, the system may analyze the application to identify typical actions performed by the application. The system may then create one or more restriction rules based on the identified typical actions of the application. The restriction rules allow application to perform typical actions and block atypical actions. The system then controls execution of the application using the created restriction rules.
US09081966B2
Systems and methods for protection from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs in C++ are provided. A system for protecting from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs, comprises a compiler which is capable of receiving a program including a placement new instruction, and runtime which is capable of receiving binary code from the compiler and determining whether the program includes the placement new instruction and whether the placement new instruction would lead to buffer overflow, wherein the runtime is linked to a library including methods for preventing the buffer overflow, and selects a method for preventing the buffer overflow if the runtime determines that the placement new instruction would lead to the buffer overflow.
US09081965B2
In accordance embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include, during execution of an operating system on an information handling system and responsive to a user input indicating a desire to invoke a basic input/output system (BIOS) setup program for configuring a BIOS, prompting for and receiving user-provided credentials via a user interface communicatively coupled to the processor. The method may also include, during execution of the operating system, passing BIOS credentials to the BIOS based on the user-provided credentials. The method may additionally include, during execution of the operating system determining, by the BIOS, if the BIOS credentials are valid. The method may further include, responsive to determining that the BIOS credentials are valid, setting a flag to a value indicating that the BIOS setup program is to be invoked on a subsequent boot of the information handling system.
US09081963B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising acquiring an electrical circuit identifier for an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit identifier is stored in a programmable identifier unit of the electrical circuit; generating, by a computing device external to the electrical circuit, an encrypted identifier that is unique for an electrical device that includes the electrical circuit, wherein the encrypted identifier is based upon the electrical circuit identifier and an encryption block; and storing the encrypted identifier in the programmable identifier unit. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09081962B2
Anti-tamper techniques for protecting a program code portion against tampering provide for defining a sequence of code segments having a root-code segment and a plurality of sub-code segment. Each sub-code segment is provided with an integrity checking portion for checking the integrity of a target code segment. At runtime, the integrity checking portion of a given sub-code segment carries out a checking procedure on the respective target code segment to obtain a runtime result which is compared with a reference result to verify that the target portion of the program has not been tampered with.
US09081957B2
This disclosure addresses systems and methods for the protection of proprietary information by monitoring operational watermarks of an apparatus. A monitoring device may receive logical or physical watermark data from a defended apparatus. Watermark data may include any operational or environmental variable related to the defended apparatus. The monitoring device may maintain a baseline profile for the defended apparatus that includes watermark data. During monitoring of the defended apparatus by the monitor device, changes in the watermark data may be analyzed to determine if the baseline should be dynamically updated, or if the change indicates an anomaly. Anomalies may indicate an attempt to tamper with the defended apparatus. In response to the change that indicates an anomaly, the monitoring device may scrub the contents of the defended apparatus. In an embodiment, the monitoring device may also scrub its own memory in response to an anomaly.
US09081953B2
Techniques for enhancing electronic privacy utilize noise to prevent third parties from determining certain information based on search queries. Users submit search queries as part of their normal activities. For a user, the search queries submitted and information regarding search results used to generate additional search queries on different, but related topics. The generated additional search queries are submitted automatically on behalf of the user at a sufficient frequency to prevent high accuracy data analysis on search queries.
US09081944B2
A system and method are described herein that enable a vehicle user to establish, store (in a limited access storage location), and restore personalization information for the vehicle user on a vehicle. In particular the system manages personalization information to configure settings for a registered vehicle user in a vehicle including a telematics unit. The system is configured to carry out the method including establishing, for the registered vehicle user, a personalization information dataset within a networked vehicle user database. The system is further configured to submit a request to download the personalization information dataset from the networked vehicle user database, the request identifying the registered vehicle user and the vehicle. The system is also configured to download in accordance with the request to download, via a mobile wireless link to the telematics unit, values from the personalization information dataset to the telematics unit of the vehicle.
US09081943B2
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes, when power is supplied to a storage unit, counting of an elapsed time is started. If a command is input from a host device, and the elapsed time from input of a previous command to input of a current command is calculated based on time information clocked by the host device and on a counter value counted until the corresponding command is input. Matching of the time information is determined based on a temporal relation between the adding result of adding the calculated elapsed time to the time information included in the previous command and the time information included in the current command. When the mismatching is determined, data in the storage unit is invalidated.
US09081938B1
A computer-implemented method for determining whether profiles associated with social-networking websites have been compromised may include (1) creating a database of validated-content identifiers that identify valid content published on a social-networking profile, (2) determining, by monitoring the social-networking profile, that at least one item of content has been illegitimately published on the social-networking profile, and then (3) performing at least one security action on the social-networking profile. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09081934B2
A system and method for collaborative building of a shared self-refining surrogate model for engineering simulations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes running a reduced order engineering simulation model on a complex system, and querying a shared self-refining surrogate model upon receiving a request for a higher order simulation for a reduced order simulated item. The method also includes estimating a required higher order simulation result having a desired confidence interval for the reduced order simulated item, and determining whether the required higher order simulation result having the desired confidence interval is in the shared self-refining surrogate model. If not, then the method includes performing the higher order simulation to obtain the required higher order simulation result, enriching the shared self-refining surrogate model with the obtained higher order simulation result, and sending the obtained higher order simulation result to the reduced order engineering simulation model.
US09081926B2
This invention comprises a layout method to effectively protect logic circuits against soft errors (non-destructive errors) and circuit cells, with layout, which are protected against soft errors. In particular, the method protects against cases where multiple nodes in circuit are affected by a single event. These events lead to multiple errors in the circuit, and while several methods exist to deal with single node errors, multiple node errors are very hard to deal with using any currently existing protection methods. The method is particularly useful for CMOS based logic circuits in modem technologies (.ltoreq.90 nm), where the occurrence of multiple node pulses becomes high (due to the high integration level). It uses a unique layout configuration, which makes the circuits protected against single event generated soft-errors.
US09081920B2
The present invention enables structural optimization having a high degree of freedom, such as the allowance of a change in topology in a material domain Ω, and provides clear expression of the shape of optimum structures. The present invention defines a level set function φ; updates the level set function φ, under a predetermined constraint condition, so as to bring a performance of a structure, such as a rigidity, close to a target value; moves the boundary ∂Ω between the material domain Ω and a void domain; allows a change in topology in the material domain Ω, which is associated with the update of the level set function φ, to form a new void domain in the material domain Ω; and moves the boundary ∂Ω between the new void domain and the material domain Ω.
US09081919B2
System and methods for design-for-manufacturing and design-enabled-manufacturing (DFM-DEM) proactive integrated manufacturing flow are presented. A method includes receiving design data related to layout of an integrated circuit (IC); extracting information from the design data; and performing analysis on the extracted information. The method also enables DFM-DEM aware manufacturing applications using information stored in a knowledge database. The method further updates the knowledge database with new information learned from at least the extracted information and the analysis.
US09081916B2
A method and system disclosed herein provides generating an architectural diagram describing an architectural layout of a building, wherein one or more walls of the building are designated as standardized structural walls, automatically positioning each of the standardized structural walls to a geometric grid, and mapping (or “placing”), using a computer, one or more of a plurality of standardized structural components, including standardized panels, standardized columns, and standardized trusses to coordinates of the geometric grid.
US09081913B2
A bus interface includes a chip select terminal, a first transmission bus terminal, a second transmission bus terminal, and a clock control device. The chip select terminal transmits a chip select signal to start the data transmission. When the data transmission starts, the first transmission bus terminal sends data to the second device, and the second transmission bus terminal sends the data from the second device to the first device. The clock control device includes a frequency processing unit and a transmission clock generating unit. The frequency processing unit outputs a clock control signal when a frequency to set value changes. The transmission clock generating unit receives the clock control signal and generates a transmission clock in accordance with the frequency setting value.
US09081905B2
A method for enabling a low latency medium access control for an interconnect bus protocol over a wireless medium is provided. The method comprises constructing a wireless medium access control (WMAC) frame, wherein the WMAC frame includes a plurality of medium access control service data units (MSDUs) being aggregated according to their transmission order, the MSDUs include transaction layer packets generated by a component of the interconnect bus, wherein transmission of the WMAC frame over the wireless medium provides any one of an implied acknowledgment (ACK) mechanism and a block ACK mechanism.
US09081902B2
A computer system that accesses multi-transport devices and associates device instances of the multi-transport device with each other. Devices provide the same device identifier such as a device unique identifier regardless of the transport over which the device is accessed. A visual representation for the multi-transport device may be provided to a user using the device identifier. Also, a single functional representation for the multi-transport device may be provided based on an identifier provided by each function of the device. The functional representation may be independent of the addition and removal of transports and allows abstracting device access via multiple transports from a user and an application. Transports may be selected at an application and/or a system level. Operating characteristics of available transports may be used to select a desired transport, based on transport requirements specified by the application, the user or the system.
US09081886B2
A medication dispenser provides automation to the steps of locating and acquiring medications or supplies to be administered to a patient. The medication dispenser includes one or more modules housing one or more compartmentalized drawers. Access to each drawer is controlled by a lockable door, and each the drawer may only be slid from the module housing the drawer in response to a signal. A series of lights direct the user to the appropriate drawer and the appropriate compartment of the relevant drawer to remove the appropriate medication or supply.
US09081885B2
Computer-based systems and computer-implemented methods are described for monitoring medication events for an individual. Computer-based systems include systems for monitoring medication events relating to an individual, including: circuitry for analyzing data for an identifier of a first medication event for an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute of an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute relating to a medication during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one feature of visual information and at least one feature of non-visual information relating to the individual during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for a time associated with the first medication event; circuitry for determining a compliance likelihood for the first medication event based on the analyses of the received data; and circuitry for indicating the determined compliance likelihood.
US09081864B2
Various embodiments provide a client-side approach to enable late-binding, at the client, of resources associated with linguistic strings that are retrieved from a data source that is secondary to a primary server. The client-side, late-binding approach can be performed in a manner that is generally imperceptible to users and which preserves user interface formatting and client functionality.
US09081862B2
Methods and devices for resource sharing are disclosed. Address information of a resource to be shared can be acquired by a user device in response to a sharing request. A two-dimensional barcode corresponding to the address information of the resource can be generated by the user device. The generated two-dimensional barcode can be published by the user device to one or more of an Internet platform and a specified Internet communication application client via a network. The user device can include a first acquisition module, a generating module, and a publishing module.
US09081858B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for processing search queries are disclosed. A first query pertaining to a primary theme is received. One or more secondary queries are then generated. Each of the one or more secondary queries is associated with a corresponding plausible secondary theme. The first query and the one or more secondary queries are then submitted to a search engine.
US09081855B1
Systems and methods for full motion video search are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving one or more search terms. The search terms include one or more of a characterization of the amount of man-made features in a video image and a characterization of the amount of natural features in the video image. The method further includes searching a full motion video database based on the one or more search terms.
US09081850B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking an object as it traverses a sequential chain. The relationships between the object, its movement through space and time, and the entities associated with the object at a discreet point of time are captured by a sequential chain. A unique identifier may be created that is continuously modified as the object traverses the sequential chain. The unique identifier may be used to capture relationship information between the object and its related entities and movements.
US09081849B2
A multidimensional query results processing system for translating output of an execution of a multidimensional query into a data result set that reflects the semantics of an entity/relationship schema report specification is provided. The system comprises a result set description generation module for producing a result set description that reflects the semantics of the report specification, a tabular row generation module for converting the results of the single multi-dimensional query into a collection of rows of data, a tabular summary level calculation module for calculating a summarization level of a row a data, a tabular header row generation module for producing a header row to include in the row of data, and a cross-tabulated result generation module for converting the results of the single multi-dimensional query into a result set that matches the semantics of the report specification.
US09081847B2
Data stores that store content units and annotations regarding the content units derived through a semantic interpretation of the content units. When annotations are stored in a database, different parts of an annotation may be stored in different tables of the database. For example, one or more tables of the database may store all semantic classifications for the annotations, while one or more other tables may store content of all of the annotations. A user may be permitted to provide natural language queries for searching the database. A natural language query may be semantically interpreted to determine one or more annotations from the query. The semantic interpretation of the query may be performed using the same annotation model used to determine annotations stored in the database. Semantic classifications and format of the annotations for a query may be the same as one or more annotations stored in the database.
US09081842B1
In one aspect, a method to provide synchronous and asymmetric active-active-active access to a first storage volume using a global cache coupled to a first, second and third virtual storage volumes includes replicating asynchronously the first storage volume at a first site to a second storage volume at a second site and mirroring the first storage volume with a third storage volume at a third site. Either one of the first storage volume or the third storage volume has primary storage functionality. The method also includes virtualizing the first storage volume with the first virtual storage volume, virtualizing the second storage volume with the second virtual storage volume and virtualizing the third storage volume with the third virtual storage volume.
US09081836B2
A method, mechanism, and computer program product for managing, referencing, and accessing centrally managed information are disclosed. Transparency is provided to the centrally managed data by introducing a mapping system between locally expected data and the central data repository. This allows, for example, local relational database systems to transparently access information from a central LDAP directory.
US09081835B2
An edge-deployed database proxy. A database access system which has been configured with the database proxy can include a universal database connectivity driver having a first exposed interface through which access to a database server can be provided; a database proxy driver registered with the universal database connectivity driver; and, a database driven application programmatically linked to the database proxy driver. Significantly, the database proxy driver can have a second exposed interface which conforms with the first exposed interface of the universal database connectivity driver. The database proxy driver further can have a configuration for invoking at least one auxiliary task in addition to providing access to the database server through the first exposed interface of the universal database connectivity driver.
US09081834B2
A system to collect performance data and store it in a special data structure which records the metadata in the structure itself. The performance data for each day is recorded in time-series, converted into Unicode, and stored in a single directory. The performance metric data is compressed prior to transmission to a server over any data path. The data structure at the server where analysis is done has a subdirectory for every resource type. Each subdirectory contains text files each of which stores performance metric data values for a group of attributes with one section per attribute. The performance metric data values are recorded as a comma delimited list. Analysis of the performance metric data is done using regular expressions.
US09081825B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that obtains a set of reputation scores for one or more dimensions of a set of items in the reputation system and generates a ranking of the items based on the reputation scores and the one or more quantiles. The reputation system also includes a query-processing apparatus that obtains a query comprising the one or more dimensions and one or more quantiles associated with the one or more dimensions and provides the ranking in a response to the query.
US09081812B2
A system and a method of retrieving information is described. In a system according to the invention, software modules may be used to provide the user with information that is most likely to be the information desired.
US09081808B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products, including computer programs encoded on a computer readable storage medium, for pre-selecting content to be delivered to a user. A method includes: pre-selecting one or more content items for delivery to a user based at least in part on a user identifier, the user identifier identifying the user as being associated with a targeting group; storing the pre-selected content items in a list in association with the user; receiving a request for content, the request including the identifier; identifying one or more of the pre-selected content items eligible for delivery to the user based on the identifier; determining, based at least in part on evaluation criteria, that one of the pre-selected content items should be provided to the user responsive to the request; and providing, by a server system and responsive to the request, the determined content item to a client device.
US09081801B2
A method for creating and using metadata supersets for matching images includes identify images from a first source of images and identify images from a second source of images. Images from the first source that match images from the second source are identified as matching images. Metadata associated with the matching images are extracted to form a superset of metadata for the matching images. The superset of metadata is analyzed to create a product.
US09081796B2
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for providing cluster data are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, from a geographic information system (GIS) client device, geographical coordinates of a viewable extent of the GIS client device. The method may include dividing the viewable extent into portions. The method may include receiving geographically-referenced data points. The method may include determining the portions of the viewable extent in which the data points are located. The method may include transmitting, to the GIS client device, clustering information for the portions. The clustering information may be generated based on the data points determined to be within the portions. Other embodiments are also described.
US09081793B2
A content management apparatus includes: an uploaded content detection unit which detects a content item uploaded to a network service by a user; a management information generation unit which generates management information of: the content item uploaded to the network service by the user; and a content item stored on a device connected to a network; an uploaded content information storage unit which stores the management information of the uploaded content item; a home content information storage unit which stores the management information of the content item stored on the device; a home content detection unit which detects a new content item newly stored on the device; and an identification unit which verifies, when the new content item is detected, whether the new content item and the content item whose management information is stored on the uploaded content information storage unit are identical.
US09081788B2
A caching mechanism is provided in a computer server system including at least one host coupled to at least one disk, one or more virtual machines, one or more images of the one or more virtual machines created in a file system of the disk, and a virtual machine manager for assigning hardware resources of the computer server system to the one or more virtual machines. The mechanism provides a masking cache layer between the one or more virtual machines and the virtual machine manager, the masking cache layer including at least one separate entry for every cacheable data block of the file system to be referenced, collects profiling information related to one or more of the cacheable data blocks (58) and stores the profiling information in the masking cache layer and configures the masking cache layer according to the profiling information, or provides a configuration for the masking cache layer.
US09081781B2
A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by being in proximity with a local base station or WiFi hotspot (i.e., publicly available local wireless access hub connected to the Internet). The portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system preferably include a security means for monitoring and blocking unauthorized use of the player apparatus and system. The player apparatus further preferably has the capability to communicate with other neighboring player apparatus for the purpose of exchanging content data files, playlists and personal messages.
US09081780B2
A system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category using selected settings for only a subset of the media category fields is disclosed. A subset of fields for a media category is defined. A base setting for each field in the subset of the category fields is established. The base setting may be a weight or preference value. The base setting may be established by the user selecting a base setting or may be a default base setting. Once a user selects the settings for the subset of category fields, a set weight for the fields in the category not in the subset is determined using the base setting. That is possible because the fields in the subset of category fields are chosen from fields that contain aspects and attributes of the other fields.
US09081779B2
An information system includes at least one data storage device accessible through a network for storing tags and tag attribute data, a server connected to the network and to the at least one data storage device for serving tags and tag attribute data and for receiving tags and tag attribute data, and one or more processors connected to the server and to the at least one data storage device, the processor or processors running sets of instructions for managing the tags and tag attribute data.
US09081771B1
A method is used in encrypting in deduplication systems. A deduplicating technique is applied to a data object. Applying the deduplicating technique includes computing a digest of the data object. An encryption key is derived from the digest of the data object. The data object is encrypted using the encryption key.
US09081768B2
A book support and optical scanner assembly for converting printed text to an audio output includes a support for supporting an open book and a pair of optical scanners adapted to scan opposite pages. The assembly also includes means for moving the scanners from the top of the page to the bottom of a page. Further, both scanners can be rotated off of the book for turning a page. In addition, the assembly includes a text to audio converter for converting the scanned text into spoken words and in one embodiment a translator to translate the scanned text into a pre-selected language.
US09081765B2
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for a system to provide information based on a query, the method comprising: performing a first search of at least one first source for information responsive to the query; providing a result of the search to a user; searching documents using at least a part of the result of the search; providing the user with at least one example of usage of the result of the search obtained from the searching of stored documents; based on user input, performing a second search of at least one second source for information responsive to the query; and providing a result of said second search to the user. The invention provides ways of showing the most relevant examples from parallel text corpora according to a ranking.
US09081761B1
In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus, computer-readable medium, or method may be configured to avoid command mistakes and suggest corrections. Known commands may be accessed which may include at least one expected identifier, alternative identifier, and/or identifier pattern. The frequencies of occurrence of the known commands may be calculated. A command with entered identifiers may be received and at least one possible mistake in the entered identifiers may be detected. A first numerical score for the known commands may be calculated using a string matching algorithm, a keystroke penalty matrix, and/or the detected at least one possible mistake. A second numerical score may be calculated using the frequencies of occurrence of the known commands and the first numerical score. Expected identifiers may be selected using the first and second numerical scores. A user-selectable command may be created using the expected known commands and displayed.
US09081760B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for collecting web data in order to create diverse language models. A system configured to practice the method first crawls, such as via a crawler operating on a computing device, a set of documents in a network of interconnected devices according to a visitation policy, wherein the visitation policy is configured to focus on novelty regions for a current language model built from previous crawling cycles by crawling documents whose vocabulary considered likely to fill gaps in the current language model. A language model from a previous cycle can be used to guide the creation of a language model in the following cycle. The novelty regions can include documents with high perplexity values over the current language model.
US09081759B2
A handwritten area is separated from image data of printed material in which handwriting has been inserted, and the separated handwritten area is identified as an enclosing line or a class symbol. An image area enclosed within the handwritten area identified as the enclosing line is extracted and acquired as an extracted image. The class symbol is correlated to an enclosing line drawn nearest the class symbol, and the extracted images are classified into groups according to the image areas within the enclosing line correlated to the type of class symbols. The grouped images are organized as listed data.
US09081738B2
A disk array device includes a plurality of disk devices, and a computation portion generating a redundant code data denoting a redundant code able to recover an actual data sent from a higher-level device based on the actual data and operators, when at least part of the actual data is lost. The actual data is written by a predetermined device quantity of first disk devices in a first disk device group composed of disk devices as the first disk devices among the plurality of disk devices. The redundant code data is written by second disk devices of the same quantity as the predetermined device quantity of the first disk devices, in a second disk device group composed of disk devices as the second disk devices other than the first disk devices among the plurality of disk devices. The computation portion generates the redundant code data able to recover the actual data based on the data written into arbitrary disk devices of the device quantity among the plurality of disk devices, while the number of types of the operators used for generating the redundant code data is less than the device quantity by one or more.
US09081736B2
This invention relates to representations of prostaglandin synthase three-dimensional structures. Such representations are suitable for designing agents that modulate the activity of the enzyme by binding to the substrate binding domain.
US09081735B2
Systems and methods of recovering a shared information source can involve identifying a first user of a shared information source in response to detection of a data loss with respect to the shared information source. One or more additional users of the shared information source may be identified based on data associated with the first user. Additionally, the shared information source can be recovered based at least in part on data associated with the one or more additional users.
US09081732B2
Described is the backup and/or restore of virtual disks In general, metadata is backed up for restoring a virtual disk. To restore the disk, a physical disk is created, with the virtual disk the created on a partition of the physical disk. Backup and restore is described for nested virtual disks, including for block level restore. Further described is backing up of critical virtual disks and their containers, and virtual disk backup with respect to basic disks and dynamic volumes.
US09081723B2
A data processing device 10 receives a process request from an external interface 20 of a client terminal etc., carries out the transaction request with respect to a message according to the process request and passes to an API which forms the interface of various types of program carried out in the server 30. The data processing device 10 includes a process (n) which carries out transaction processing with respect to a message with a trade category [n], and a backup process (n) which carries out transaction processing with respect to a message in the case where the transaction processing carried out by the process (n) fails. In addition, the data processing device 10 includes an error process part 123 which isolates the cause of a failure according to a result of a process by the backup process (n).
US09081719B2
A method for minimizing soft error rates within caches by controlling a memory scrubbing rate selectively for a cache memory at an individual bank level. More specifically, the disclosure relates to maintaining a predetermined sequence and process of storing all modified information of a cache in a subset of ways of the cache, based upon for example, a state of a modified indication within status information of a cache line. A cache controller includes a memory scrubbing controller which is programmed to scrub the subset of the ways with the modified information at a smaller interval (i.e., more frequently) compared to the rest of the ways with clean information (i.e., information where the information stored within the main memory is coherent with the information stored within the cache).
US09081717B2
In one embodiment, an encoder reads a set of data from memory cells to obtain retrieved data influenced by one or more distortion mechanisms as a result of having been stored. A quality metric is generated responsive to the retrieved data that changes in value responsive to differences between the user data and the associated retrieved data. A quality monitor establishes a relationship between a current value of the quality metric and a threshold value and monitors the relationship as being indicative of a degradation of the quality of the retrieved data, and selectively initiates an error response. In another embodiment, a correction value is iterated through a set of values as a quality metric is monitored such that the value of the quality metric which most closely approaches the value of the quality metric immediately subsequent to an initial writing of the data can be selected.
US09081706B2
The disclosed embodiments provide techniques for reducing address-translation latency and the serialization latency of combined TLB and data cache misses in a coherent shared-memory system. For instance, the last-level TLB structures of two or more multiprocessor nodes can be configured to act together as either a distributed shared last-level TLB or a directory-based shared last-level TLB. Such TLB-sharing techniques increase the total amount of useful translations that are cached by the system, thereby reducing the number of page-table walks and improving performance. Furthermore, a coherent shared-memory system with a shared last-level TLB can be further configured to fuse TLB and cache misses such that some of the latency of data coherence operations is overlapped with address translation and data cache access latencies, thereby further improving the performance of memory operations.
US09081685B2
A data processing apparatus has data processing circuitry for performing data processing operations on data, and a hierarchical cache structure for storing at least a subset of the data for access by the data processing circuitry. The hierarchical cache structure has first and second level caches, and data evicted from the first level cache is routed to the second level cache under the control of second level cache access control circuitry. Cache maintenance circuitry performs a cache maintenance operation in both the first level cache and the second level cache. The access control circuitry is responsive to maintenance indication data to modify the eviction handling operation performed in response to the evicted data, so as to cause the required cache maintenance for the second level cache to be incorporated within the eviction handling operation.
US09081680B2
Issue detection and handling technology in which issue definitions that enable detection of issues at different devices of an enterprise level system that operate different applications are maintained. Solution definitions that relate to resolving issues detected based on the issue definitions are also maintained. Issue detection logic based on the issue definitions is provided to each of the different devices of the enterprise level system. Issue detection information collected based on the issue detection logic is received from at least one of the different devices of the enterprise level system. Based on the issue detection information, an issue at the at least one device is determined. A solution definition related to resolving the determined issue is accessed from the solution definitions. Based on the accessed solution definition, an operation directed to handling the determined issue is performed.
US09081679B2
A distributed computer system includes components. The components include embedded computer processors that make up an application within the distributed computer system. The computer processors are accessible by an end user of the system. The computer processors are operable to communicate with a plurality of system analyzers, to generate an operational status of the application in the system based on the communication with the plurality of system analyzers, to generate one or more recommendations to address or troubleshoot a non-desired operational status of the application within the system, and to provide a unified interface to the end user that provides to the end user the one or more recommendations to address or troubleshoot the non-desired operational status of the application within the system.
US09081675B2
A method begins where a processing module segments data into data segments. On a data segment by data segment basis, the method continues with the processing module performing a decode threshold level of dispersed storage error encoding on a data segment to produce a set of decode threshold level encoded data slices and caching the set of decode threshold level encoded data slices. On a set by set basis, the method continues with the processing module performing a redundancy level of dispersed storage error encoding on the set of decode threshold level encoded data slices to produce a set of redundancy error coded data slices. The method continues with the processing module outputting at least one of at least some of a plurality of sets of decode threshold level encoded data slices and at least a corresponding some of a plurality of sets of redundancy error coded data slices.
US09081660B2
A system and method for managing swaps of pieces of an address mapping table is disclosed. The method may include a controller of a storage device receiving a stream of requests for accesses to the mapping table, analyzing the stream of requests to determine at least one characteristic of the stream of requests, and determining whether to copy a piece of the mapping table stored in non-volatile memory into the volatile memory based on the determined at least one characteristic. The system may include a storage device with a controller configured to perform the method noted above.
US09081648B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a software architecture encoded on a computer readable medium is disclosed. The software architecture can be utilized for developing in-vehicle software applications for installation and execution on an in-vehicle computer system. The software architecture includes a number of vehicle application program interfaces (APIs) for accessing vehicles systems or data and for developing in-vehicle software applications; and a number of policy restrictions underlying the vehicle APIs for restricting the level of access to vehicle systems and data while the in-vehicle software application is being developed.
US09081643B2
A technique for providing an improved way to update the nodes of a wireless mesh network is described. An upgrade engine executing on a server connected to the wireless mesh network determines a topology of the network, subdivides the network into a plurality of clusters based on the topology of the network, and seeds a small number of nodes within each cluster. The upgrade engine manages the upgrade process, notifying particular nodes within each cluster when to search for an upgrade package (e.g., an image of a new firmware) stored in an adjacent node. The upgrade engine also monitors success and failure of each node and delivers the upgrade package to a node directly when the node fails to download the upgrade package from an adjacent node within the network.
US09081636B2
Provided are an a display apparatus, a system and a control method thereof for a display apparatus, comprising: a video signal processing unit which processes a video signal; a display unit which displays the processed video signal; a storage unit which stores ID information of the display apparatus; a communication unit which performs network communication based on an internet protocol (IP) with an external apparatus; and a control unit which downloads an application program determined to correspond to the ID information transmitted through the communicating unit from the external apparatus to execute the application program so that a predetermined function can be performed.
US09081630B2
A method includes receiving a request to access a resource; determining a presence of a memory buffer in a hardware-assisted memory pool; and determining a response to the request to access the resource based on the presence of the memory buffer. A system includes a plurality of processors, a resource, and a hardware-assisted memory pool including a memory buffer; one of the plurality of processors receives a request to access the resource, determines a presence of the memory buffer, and determines a response to the request to access the resource based on the presence of the memory buffer.
US09081629B2
The present disclosure provides a method, computer program product, and system for compensating for event counts for a thread occurring during targeted states on the thread. In example embodiments, the state is a spin loop state and instructions completed during the spin loop are eliminated from a performance report and are presented in the absence of the spin loop. In another embodiment, the event counts are interrupt counts eliminated during the spin loop.
US09081625B2
A method of reducing execution jitter includes a processor having several cores and control logic that receives core configuration parameters. Control logic determines if a first set of cores are selected to be disabled. If none of the cores is selected to be disabled, the control logic determines if a second set of cores is selected to be jitter controlled. If the second set of cores is selected to be jitter controlled, the second set of cores is set to a first operating state. If the first set of cores is selected to be disabled, the control logic determines a second operating state for a third set of enabled cores. The control logic determines if the third set of enabled cores is jitter controlled, and if the third set of enabled cores is jitter controlled, the control logic sets the third set of enabled cores to the second operating state.
US09081624B2
A dynamic load balancing system is described that determines the load of resources in a hosted environment dynamically by monitoring the usage of resources by each customer and determines the number of customers hosted by a server based on the actual resources used. The system receives a performance threshold that indicates when a server is too heavily loaded and monitors the resource usage by each customer. When the load of an overloaded server in the hosted environment exceeds the received performance threshold, the system selects a source customer currently hosted by the overloaded server to move to another server.
US09081612B2
A virtual machine control method and a virtual machine having the dual objectives of utilizing NIC on a virtual machine that creates sub-virtual machines operated by a VMM on virtual machines generated by a hypervisor to avoid software copying by the VMM and to prevent band deterioration during live migration or adding sub-virtual machines. In a virtual machine operating plural virtualization software on a physical machine including a CPU, memory, and multi-queue NIC; a virtual multi-queue NIC is loaded in the virtual machine, for virtual queues included in the virtual multi-queue NIC, physical queues configuring the multi-queue NIC are assigned to virtual queues where usage has started, and the physical queues are allowed direct access to the virtual machine memory.
US09081610B2
Exemplary embodiments improve return on investment in hybrid cloud environment. In one embodiment, a computer comprises: a memory; and a processor operable to manage two types of clouds, which are private and public clouds, by using information stored in the memory, and to manage migration of a set of an application and a data between a first type of clouds and a second type of clouds of the two types of clouds, the application running on a server of the first type of clouds, the data to be read or written by the application and being stored in a storage system of the first type of clouds. The processor manages the migration of the set of the application and the data between the first type of clouds and the second type of clouds based on resource utilization of resources including at least one of the server or the storage system.
US09081604B2
An exemplary system may automatically discovery externally added devices. In one embodiment, the system obtains initial device information for a virtual machine running on a host computing system. The system determines whether an external event occurred on the host computing system. A management computing system associated with the host computing system does not receive notification of the external event. Upon determining that the external event occurred on the host computing system, the system obtains updated device information for the virtual machine running on the host computing system.
US09081601B2
A virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI) includes a base platform that has a plurality of hosts. On a host operation system (OS), a quick emulator (QEMU) process is used to virtualize at least one guest cell phone operating system. A data center manages these cell phone OSes generated by this base platform, allocates the OSes to users, and allows communication between cell phone client and server via mobile terminal protocol. A virtual machine (VM) switch contains a method to use the VMI, and to acquire adapted cell phone screen and inexpensive cell phone VM. A VMI product is able to encapsulate the third-party virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) products (such as Citrix XenDesktop, LeoStream, etc.), henceforth to acquire screens from PC VM as well. Moreover, a VM manager allows administrators of enterprises to manage thousands of VMs.
US09081599B2
Systems and methods for adjusting the rate of transmission of the execution state of a virtual machine undergoing live migration. An example method may comprise: determining, by a migration agent executing on a computer system, a first rate being a rate of change of an execution state of a virtual machine undergoing live migration from an origin host computer system to a destination host computer system; determining a second rate being a rate of transferring the execution state of the virtual machine from the origin host computer system to the destination host computer system; determining that a ratio of the first rate to the second rate exceeds a threshold convergence ratio; and reducing the rate of transferring the execution state of the virtual machine from the origin host computer system to the destination host computer system.
US09081575B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for a zero voltage processor sleep state. A voltage regulator may be coupled to a processor to provide an operating voltage to the processor. During a transition to a zero voltage power management state for the processor, the operational voltage applied to the processor by the voltage regulator may be reduced to approximately zero while an external voltage is continuously applied to a portion of the processor to save state variables of the processor during the zero voltage management power state.
US09081567B1
In one embodiment, a technique may enable control of routing convergence in a computer network during reboot of a node of a routing topology represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The rebooting node, e.g., a DAG root node, may transmit a reboot notification message to nodes of the routing topology indicating that the rebooting node is unavailable during a subsequent reboot process. In response to receiving and processing the reboot notification message, the nodes of the routing topology may enter a DAG freeze state that inhibits (prevents) routing convergence in the routing topology during the reboot process so as prevent adverse consequences on network stability, such as collapse of the DAG. Thereafter upon completion of the reboot process, the rebooting node may transmit a clear message to the nodes of the routing topology that instructs the nodes to exit the DAG freeze state.
US09081559B2
An electronic system is provided, including electronic devices, power supplies and a control module. The electronic devices each have male and female connectors, wherein the male connectors are mated with the female connectors, such that the electronic devices are overlapped in a direction and electrically connected to each other. The power supplies each are connected to one of the electronic devices, respectively, for providing power to the electronic devices. The control module has first and second modes to control the male and female connectors, wherein, in the first mode, a first electronic device of the electronic devices, which is not connected to either one of the power supplies, receives power through a first female connector of the first electronic device, and outputs power to another electronic device of the electronic devices through the first male connector.
US09081556B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit such may require that a full reset of the integrated circuit occur before the integrated circuit enters either a test mode or a functional mode. The integrated circuit may include a reset detector to detect that the reset has occurred, and the integrated circuit may not progress to the test mode or the functional mode unless the reset detector detects that the reset has occurred. Accordingly, if test mode is being entered, any user data that may have been stored in the integrated circuit during a preceding functional mode may have been cleared via the reset. Similarly, if normal mode is being entered, any test data that may have been stored in the integrated circuit in a preceding test mode may have been cleared via the reset.
US09081554B2
In one embodiment a heat exchanger assembly comprises at least one heat pipe and a casing which is to receive a blower, the casing comprising a plurality of heat exchanging plates, wherein at least one of the heat exchanging plates comprises at least one tongue which is to cover a portion of an exterior surface of the at least one heat pipe. Other embodiments may be described.
US09081553B2
A power supply includes an integrated cable manager board. The integrated cable manager board is configured to integrate elements of the power supply on the integrated cable manager board. The integrated cable manager board includes a circuit monitoring device and a plurality of connectors. The circuit monitoring device is disposed on the integrated cable manager board and monitors the circuit status of the power supply. The connectors are disposed on the integrated cable manager board and each of the connectors is operable to provide power.
US09081549B2
According to one embodiment, a supporting apparatus includes a supporting portion and a suction module. The supporting portion is configured to support a wall of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first surface with a honeycomb rib protrusion. The supporting portion includes a second surface including a first groove and an inlet. The first groove is configured to receive the rib in a state in which the supporting portion supports the wall. The inlet is configured to open toward a first face at a position within a hexagonal ring-like part of the first groove. The suction module is configured to take in air through the inlet.
US09081547B2
A first device such as a portable or handheld electronic computing device can be configured to act as a text-entry device and a cursor control device for a second device. The first device can include a touch-sensitive display capable of receiving text inputs and cursor inputs for controlling the display of a second device which is communicatively coupled to the first device. The first device can be configured such that selection of certain items such as a text-entry field displayed by the second device can cause the first device to switch or change from a text-entry mode to a cursor control mode.
US09081546B2
A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.
US09081545B1
An external control pad for incorporating a mobile device includes two handheld parts, a movable set, and two fastening mechanisms is provided. The movable set is disposed in between the two handheld parts, and each said fastening mechanism is disposed on the movable set. When placing the mobile device in between the two handheld parts, a user adjusts the distance between the two handheld parts by altering the movable set such that the two handheld parts move closer to or away from, the mobile device. The fastening mechanisms for securing the distance posed by the movable set allows the mobile device to be clamped and fixed in between the two handheld parts so that the mobile device is incorporated into the external control pad for users' convenience and ease of use.
US09081544B2
A cradle for a portable terminal includes a cradle body, cradle grooves extending from a surface of the cradle body in parallel with each other, and a support plate able to emerge by a pivoting action from the surface of the cradle body that is between the cradle grooves. When the portable terminal is cradled, the support plate emerges from the surface of the cradle body to support the surface of the portable terminal, and one of the cradle grooves is selectively used to support a portion of an edge of the portable terminal so as to provide a selected facing direction for the portable terminal.
US09081540B1
An adjustable display device capable of being adjusted between flat and curved including a display panel having a rear and an adjustable system at the rear of the display panel. The adjustable system including a rod, a fixing device attached to the rear of the display panel to support the rod and a driving system to transmit power to the rod.
US09081537B2
One exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of tracking a plurality of communication paths in a connector assembly having a plurality of first attachment points and a plurality of second attachment points. The plurality of first attachment points and the plurality of second attachment points are configured to attach physical communication media to the connector assembly. The method comprises reading, from a storage device associated with the connector assembly first, information indicative of a plurality of communication paths formed within the connector assembly between the first attachment points and the second attachment points. The method further comprises reading second information stored on or in physical communication media that is attached to the connector assembly and communicating the first and second information to an aggregation point that is communicatively coupled to the connector assembly.
US09081532B2
In a method to output document data divided into pages at an output printing apparatus, a print file encoded in a page description language is provided with per-page variable document data and bin command data, the bin command data referring to at least one page input tray of a reference printing apparatus for page-shaped recording material. The page input tray is provided to accept form pages with at least one pre-print image. At least one macro data set is created that contains a group of commands of the page description language and pre-print image data with which the pre-print image can be reproduced as a rastered image. Association data are generated for an association between the bin command data and the macro data set. The print file is sent as a data stream from a document data computer to a controller. In the controller the variable document data are merged and rastered with the pre-print image data using the bin command data and the association data. The rastered document data and the pre-print image data are printed on an output recording material in the output printing apparatus.
US09081530B2
A control system for forming and outputting an image, in which an image output control apparatus cooperates with another information processing apparatus that instructs an image forming apparatus to form and output an image. The control system includes an intermediate data generator that acquires an image to be output and generates intermediate data as print data, an intermediate data storage processor that stores the generated intermediate data in a predetermined storage area, an intermediate data acquisition unit that acquires the intermediate data, an additional processor that executes an additional process in outputting the image based on the acquired intermediate data, and a print job generation controller that instructs a print job generator that generates a print job to instruct the image forming apparatus to execute forming and outputting the image to generate the print job based on the intermediate data.
US09081522B2
A method of searching for missing resources associated with an image forming apparatus, which includes the steps of: forwarding a print job having a resource call-out from a host computer to an image forming apparatus; receiving the print job on the image forming apparatus; checking the image forming apparatus for a resource, which has been called out by the print job, and if the resource is not available on the image forming apparatus, obtaining the resource by: sending a request for the resource from the image forming apparatus to a device having the resource; receiving a response from the device having the resource indicating that the resource is a non-sharable resource and including at least one link to where the non-sharable resource can be obtained; and choosing a link having the non-sharable resource and obtaining the non-sharable resource.
US09081520B2
A system for printing includes one or more printers, a send platform, a print spooling platform coupled to the one or more printers, and a one-way data link enforcing unidirectional data transfer from the send platform to the print spooling platform, wherein the send platform is configured to receive a print job, convert the print job into a print file in a printable format for the one or more printers, and send the print file to the print spooling platform across the one-way data link, and the print spooling platform is configured to receive the print file from the one-way data link, control spooling of the print file for the one or more printers, and send the print file to the one or more printers, and wherein the one or more printers cannot communicate to the send platform.
US09081503B2
In one embodiment, a method for managing access to a fast non-volatile storage device, such as a solid state device, and a slower non-volatile storage device, such as a magnetic hard drive, can include a method of managing a sparse logical volume in which unmapped blocks of the logical volume are not allocated until use. In one embodiment, a method of sparse hole filling operates in which range locks are dynamically adjusted to perform allocations for sparse hole filling, and then re-adjusted to perform standard operations using a byte range lock. In one embodiment, a high level data structure can be used in the range lock service in the form of an ordered search tree, which could use any search tree algorithm, such as red-black tree, AVL tree, splay tree, etc.
US09081501B2
A Multi-Petascale Highly Efficient Parallel Supercomputer of 100 petaOPS-scale computing, at decreased cost, power and footprint, and that allows for a maximum packaging density of processing nodes from an interconnect point of view. The Supercomputer exploits technological advances in VLSI that enables a computing model where many processors can be integrated into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Each ASIC computing node comprises a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing four or more processors integrated into one die, with each having full access to all system resources and enabling adaptive partitioning of the processors to functions such as compute or messaging I/O on an application by application basis, and preferably, enable adaptive partitioning of functions in accordance with various algorithmic phases within an application, or if I/O or other processors are underutilized, then can participate in computation or communication nodes are interconnected by a five dimensional torus network with DMA that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes and minimize latency.
US09081499B2
A mobile terminal device includes a display section having a display screen, an input section having a touch input region on the display screen, and a control section for displaying a plurality of keys. The display screen is provided as a software keyboard where a touch operation on a specific key causes an input of the specific key. In the specific display region on the display screen that can display operation keys on the software keyboard, the control section selects these keys from a previously prepared set of input candidate key groups. In response to a specific operation on the specific display region, the control section allows the plurality of keys to be displayed on the specific display region. In response to touch on a desired key in the specific display region, the control section determines that an input of the key has been performed.
US09081490B2
Apparatus and method for overlaying touch-screen input with digital display of an NDT/NDI instrument
A system and method for overlaying, combining or connecting touch-screen input either in free-form or fixed form, with NDT/NDI inspection information. The resulting user interface functionality for digital NDT instrument allows users to make touch-screen input in unrestricted or restricted format and later review and analyze the touch screen input in a complete context of an inspection session such as timing, waveform and geometric information of a defect or measurement target.
US09081489B2
A touch input method includes receiving a touch input signal corresponding to a finger from a touch-sensing device, detecting a contact area between the touch-sensing area and the finger corresponding to the touch input signal received, and if a curvature threshold value below which the contact area is recognizable as a circle, recognizing the finger corresponding to the touch input signal received as a thumb.
US09081488B2
A method and system include a processor that outputs a model of anatomical structures of a region in which a leadwire is implanted, the structures being distinguished by graphical indicia associated with respective textual descriptions in a legend. Electrodes of a model of the leadwire overlaid on the anatomical structure models are selectable, in response to which selection the processor displays a control for modifying an electrical setting of the selected contact.
US09081476B2
An electronic programming guide (“EPG”) provides pictograms and/or logos, to indicate to a television viewer the programs being displayed on a television. The EPG information display format is thus easier to recognize than prior EPG formats. The EPG pictograms may have 3D characteristics. The EPG information can be displayed in a window within a television screen while a program is being shown on the remainder of the screen. The EPG comprises a set of geometric surfaces located in virtual 3D space. The pictograms and/or logos, along with alpha-numeric text data and video clips are applied to the geometric surfaces using a 3D graphics pipeline. The appearance of the pictograms, logos, alpha-numeric data and/or video clips can be modified in response to a user actuating a control element on a remote controller. In one embodiment, internet HTML pages are parsed and applied to geometric surfaces in 3D virtual space.
US09081458B2
An in-cell touch display device is disclosed. The device includes a color filter substrate, a Thin Film Transistor array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the color filter substrate and the Thin Film Transistor array substrate. The color filter substrate includes a grid black matrix layer, a touch layer, and a color filter layer, where the touch layer includes a plurality of metal grid electrodes. In addition, each electrode is aligned with the grid of the black matrix layer in a light transmission direction, and a density of the metal grid electrodes adjacent to the edge of the metal grid electrodes is greater than a density of the metal grid electrodes adjacent to the center of metal grid electrodes.
US09081452B2
A method, apparatus and computer program wherein the method includes determining that a cover is positioned overlaying a capacitive touch pad; and adjusting, in response to the determining, a threshold input at which user actuation of the capacitive touch pad is registered.
US09081441B2
A two-dimension (2D) sensing information is analyzed for determining touch related sensing information. The touch related sensing information may include touch related sensing information with inner low values within outer high values and with inner higher values within outer low values.
US09081439B2
User interfaces, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for activating and/or displaying text input systems on display devices may include: (a) displaying a text input system activation target at a user changeable location on a display device; (b) receiving user input directed to the activation target; and (c) activating a text input system in response to the user input. Such user interfaces, methods, and systems further may include (d) displaying a pre-interaction condition of the activation target; (e) receiving user input directed to the activation target in this pre-interaction condition; and (f) changing an appearance of the activation target from the pre-interaction condition to a larger size and/or a different visual appearance in response to this user input. Additional aspects of this invention relate to computer-readable media for providing user interfaces, systems, and methods as described above.
US09081438B2
A capacitive touch panel controller has a memory and multiple driving signal output units. At least one transistor of each driving signal output unit and multiple transistors of the memory are fabricated by an identical semiconductor fabrication process so that the gate oxide layers of the transistors of the driving signal output unit and the memory are identical in thickness. As the transistor of each driving signal output unit and those of the memory are fabricated by a same high-voltage semiconductor fabrication process, the transistor of each driving signal output unit can be fabricated to provide a capacitive touch panel controller having high-voltage driving capability without using any high-voltage fabrication process and increasing the production cost. Due to the high-voltage driving, the SNR and anti-interference capability can be increased.
US09081428B2
A method and apparatus for an impact resistant touchscreen display module, such as for use in ruggedized mobile computing and display devices. The structure provided also allows for severability of the touchscreen and display screen portions, enhancing the practicability of replacing individual components for repair of a damaged touchscreen display module.
US09081423B2
A system is provided for controlling, real-time logging, and archiving complex commercial transactions such as the purchase and financing of an automobile. An electronic contract disclosure unit or ECDU includes a digitizing display for imaging documents involved in the transaction and a digitizer for manual interaction with images on the display. A computer controls the transaction, and may for instance, control the order of presentation of documents to a vehicle purchaser, receive the purchaser's signature on the displayed documents when required, offer choices of various packages that can be accepted or declined by the purchaser, and insures that the entire transaction is carried out properly. The ECDU logs the transaction for future review and preferably records video and audio. Fingerprint readers allow participants to select between options by pressing their thumb or finger on the readers.
US09081417B2
Methods and devices for identifying contactless gestures are described. In one example, the present disclosure describes a method of detecting a contactless gesture on an electronic device. The electronic device has an electromagnetic radiation transmitter and an electromagnetic radiation receiver. The electromagnetic radiation receiver is configured for receiving electromagnetic radiation emitted from the electromagnetic radiation transmitter and reflected by an object. The method includes: monitoring an amplitude of received electromagnetic radiation at the electromagnetic radiation receiver; detecting a proximity event by comparing the amplitude to a predetermined proximity threshold; after detecting the proximity event, continuing to monitor the amplitude of the received electromagnetic radiation at the electromagnetic radiation receiver; and, in response to detecting the proximity event, performing an analysis on the received electromagnetic radiation to determine whether the received electromagnetic radiation indicates a predetermined gesture.
US09081412B2
A system and method for using paper to interface with handwritten annotations and/or pre-defined templates with one or more computer applications is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes imaging content in the paper including pre-defined handwritten commands, associated syntax, one or more computer application identifiers and pointed data which is already existing on the paper, analyzing the imaged content to identify the pre-defined handwritten commands, the one or more computer applications associated with the one or more computer application identifiers, the associated syntax and the pointed data, extracting the pointed data into a specified format associated with the one or more computer applications, executing the one or more computer applications based on the identified pre-defined handwritten commands, the one or more computer application identifiers and the associated syntax, and importing the extracted pointed data into the one or more executed computer applications.
US09081407B2
A method for regulating a power line voltage includes determining a slow voltage variation by filtering an actual voltage at terminals of the voltage regulation apparatus. A fast active power variation is determined by filtering a measured active power of the DG system; wherein a first frequency of the slow voltage variation is smaller than a second frequency of the fast active power variation. The voltage regulation apparatus settings are controlled based on the slow voltage variation and a reactive power output of the DG system is controlled based on fast active power variation.
US09081406B2
Three-phase thyristor switched capacitors are delta-connected to three-phase AC buses. Each thyristor switched capacitor includes a reactor, a capacitor, and a thyristor switch that are electrically connected in series. The thyristor switches of the three phases are arranged so that the terminal-to-terminal distance between respective thyristor switches of respective phases are not uniform. The three-phase thyristor switched capacitors are configured so that the thyristor switched capacitors of two of the three phases having a shortest terminal-to-terminal distance therebetween are opposite to each other in terms of connection order in which the thyristor switch and the capacitor are electrically connected along a loop path made up of the delta-connected thyristor switched capacitors.
US09081404B2
A voltage regulator includes an output stage including a control terminal and a load path, with the load path coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal. The voltage regulator also includes a control circuit with an input stage, a first current mirror, and a second current mirror. The input stage includes a first control input configured to receive a first reference voltage, a second control input configured to receive a second reference voltage, a feedback input coupled to the output terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The first current mirror includes a reference current path coupled between a first supply terminal and the first output terminal of the input stage, and an output current path coupled between the first supply terminal and the control terminal of the pass device.
US09081402B2
A method for controlling power supply current in a CMOS circuit, the method including applying a first predetermined voltage to a diode connected n-channel replica transistor, the n-channel replica transistor operating in weak inversion, applying a first substrate voltage to the substrate of the n-channel replica transistor so that the current flowing in the n-channel replica transistor equals a first predetermined target current, and applying the first substrate voltage to substrates of n-channel transistors in the CMOS circuit.
US09081390B2
A back pressure valve comprises a pressure regulator housing affixed to a pressure controller housing and a diaphragm disposed between the pressure regulator housing and the pressure controller housing. In one aspect, the back pressure valve includes a valve member moveable between a fully open position and a fully closed position. The pressure regulator housing includes an inlet chamber communicating with an outlet chamber through at least one fluid passage in a sleeve. The valve member includes a stem connected to a valve head. The valve head includes an outer surface that is received and guided during movement by an inner surface of the sleeve. Upper and lower outer surface of the valve head provide stability to the valve member during opening and closing of the back pressure valve.
US09081386B2
It is described a working apparatus for a limited working area, comprising a base station configured to generate a magnetic field and a self-propelling robot. The self-propelling robot comprises means for moving the self-propelling robot in the working area, a gyroscope, a magnetic field sensor and a processing unit configured to control the movement of the self-propelling robot. The processing unit comprises a magnetic field search module configured to move the self-propelling robot so as to search for the set of contiguous magnetic field lines of force inside the working area according to a defined search path, and comprises a magnetic field tracking module configured to move the self-propelling robot to track at least a portion of the set of found contiguous lines of force by means of a plurality of maneuvers of crossing the set of found contiguous lines of force until reaching the base station.
US09081380B2
An apparatus for determining and/or monitoring a chemical or physical, process variable in automation technology, comprising: a superordinated control unit; and a transmitter electronics having a first interface, a second interface and a third interface. The transmitter electronics communicates with the superordinated control unit by means of the first interface via a bus protocol. The transmitter electronics can be connected with a service unit via the second interface; and the third interface has a plurality of data channels for corresponding data source components; and wherein individual data channels are addressable and tunable via the service unit as a function of the connected data source components, so that data selected from the data for the connected data source components can be transmitted at the same time in at least one telegram to the superordinated control unit.
US09081379B2
In a method of controlling operation of a processing system, a host computer, a process tool and a component of an evacuation system, for example an abatement tool, are connected to a system bus. The abatement tool monitors signals transmitted on the system bus between the host computer and the process tool, and signals received directly from the process tool. The abatement tool uses information contained within the monitored signals to generate a signal for the process tool regarding an operating characteristic of the abatement tool. This signal is transmitted either directly or over the system bus to the process tool, which uses the generated signal to control an operating state of the process tool.
US09081374B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for calibrating algorithms for determining electrical load and lifestyle characteristics. A model creation module creates an electrical usage model that includes an electrical device usage model for each electrical load assumed to be at simulated premises (an assumed load set). The simulated premises include characteristics from actual premises within an area serviced by an electric utility. A simulation module simulates a number of simulated electrical usages for a number of assumed load sets at the simulated premises. A load prediction module determines if a particular type of load is present within each simulated premises using a load prediction algorithm that includes algorithm parameters. An accuracy module determines an accuracy of the load prediction algorithm and an adjustment module adjusts the algorithm parameters of the load prediction algorithm in response to the determined accuracy.
US09081373B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides managing component driver for an energy-management system that manages energy within a predominantly closed power system. The component driver includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive current status information for a component associated with the component driver, a model-construction mechanism configured to construct a performance model for the component, and a transmitting mechanism configured to transmit the performance model to an optimization and control module.
US09081369B1
A method for assembling a mechanical modular unit includes storing in a controller a list of assembly parts of the unit. The method includes irreversibly transforming a sub-assembly of each functional module into a ready to use functional module, after adjustment and function checking of a particular timepiece function have been performed on a test bench. The method includes storing in a storage place components required for the assembly list. The method includes programming a manipulator controlled by the controller to look, in a pre-defined sequence peculiar to each assembly list, for each component or module to be assembled. The method includes programming a shape recognition part to operate the manipulator to pick up each functional module according to a locating part included therein, to arrange the module in an assembly position. The method includes each time, irreversibly assembling precisely arranged elements of the mechanical modular unit to each other.
US09081357B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body and at least one handle unit disposed on the main body. The handle unit includes a fixing bracket disposed on the main body and having a stop portion, a hinge shaft disposed on the fixing bracket, a handle member disposed to rotate with respect to the fixing bracket by the hinge shaft, a hook formed at an end of the handle member, and a hook catching portion formed on the main body, the hook catching portion to which the hook is caught. The hook is caught to the hook catching portion by weight of the handle member.
US09081355B2
A reserve portion is an inner tube that reserves waste toner in a reserve space in a main body of the reserve portion, and includes a protrusion row on an outer peripheral surface. A recovery inlet is formed in an upper portion of the reserve portion. A container portion is an outer tube that incorporates the reserve portion. An inlet protruding the container portion is formed in a lower portion of a side wall of the container portion. A driving unit makes the reserve portion rotate with respect to the container portion about a rotational shaft integrally formed with the reserve portion via a docking gear. As the reserve portion rotates with respect to the container portion, the waste toner supplied to a conveyance path is conveyed from the inlet to the recovery inlet to be supplied to the reserve space.
US09081347B2
In an embodiment, provided is a lubricant supplying device that includes: a solid lubricant; a supplying member that supplies lubricant of the solid lubricant to a lubricant supplying target; and a remaining amount detecting unit that detects an amount of the solid lubricant being at a given amount or less. The remaining amount detecting unit is provided on a downstream side in a rubbing direction of the supplying member with respect to the solid lubricant.
US09081346B2
An image forming apparatus includes a control device executing: a holding process of holding developer attached on an image carrier at a holding member; a moving process of moving the developer from the holding member to the image carrier; and a collection process of collecting the developer attached on the image carrier into a collection member. The control device executes the moving process and the collection process after completing printing. The control device sets a first flag when predetermined time period elapses from start of the moving process and unsets the first flag at start of the printing. When the first flag is not set at a startup time, the control device executes the moving process and the collection process before the printing. When the first flag is set, the control device omits the moving process before the printing.
US09081345B2
A sheet interval, serving as the distance between conveyed recording materials, is properly controlled based on a kind of a recording material and any one of a printing ratio, an adhesion amount of toner, and the presence or absence of graphic data, thus allowing printing at throughput suitable for, for example, the kind of the recording material and the printing ratio without changing an image forming condition such that image quality does not vary.
US09081332B2
An image forming apparatus transfers a negative toner image on a waste sheet of paper having larger size than that of a printing sheet of paper and transfers all the toner images on the printing sheet of paper. A first thermal transferring portion transfers an unnecessary foil of a foil sheet on the negative toner image of the waste sheet of paper image. A second thermal transferring portion transfers a foil remained on the foil sheet on the positive toner image of the printing sheet of paper. The positive toner image is formed using transparent toner. Any gradation processing is performed on an edge of the positive toner image.
US09081322B2
LED printhead apparatus and printing systems are presented in which an LED array and a first high angle lens array are housed in an LED printbar assembly and a second low angle lens array is provided between the first lens array and a photoreceptor belt or drum in order to relay the output of the first lens array to the photoreceptor to provide a larger depth of focus and to reduce waterfront and tolerance issues near the photoreceptor.
US09081318B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a ferrite carrier core material and a ferrite carrier for an electrophotographic developer, which have an excellent charging property, hardly cause carrier scattering due to cracking and chipping of the core material, and have a prolonged life, and methods for manufacturing these, and an electrophotographic developer using the ferrite carrier. For this object, the ferrite carrier core material and a ferrite carrier for an electrophotographic developer, wherein (1) the ferrite composition contains 0.5 to 2.5% by weight of Sr, and the presence amount of Sr—Fe oxides satisfies a specific conditional expression, (2) the distribution in the number of the shape factor SF-2 is in a specific range, (3) the BET specific surface area is 0.15 to 0.30 m2/g, (4) the average particle diameter D50 is 20 to 35 μm, and (5) the magnetization is 50 to 65 Am2/kg.
US09081309B2
A detector module (20) is described that includes at least one detector (30) for sensing photon radiation, an electronic circuit (40) coupled to the at least one detector (30), and a housing (50) having a first and a second body (60, 70), each having a bottom part (62, 72) and an at least partially cylindrical part (64, 74) extending from the bottom part (62, 72), wherein the at least partially cylindrical part (64) of the first body (60) is thermally coupled with the at least partially cylindrical part (74) of the second body (70), wherein the at least partially cylindrical part (64) of the first body (60) extends towards the bottom part (72) of the second body (70), and wherein the electronic circuit (40) is arranged inside the housing (50). A lithographic apparatus including the detector module (20) is also described.
US09081308B2
A guide includes a brittle material layer and a magnetically attracting magnetic body, e.g., a metal layer. A recess and a projection are formed on the metal layer. The brittle material layer is made of, e.g., a sprayed ceramic material and covers the recess formed on the magnetically attracting metal layer. A movable body moves as it levitates above the surface of the brittle material layer.
US09081293B2
A method of exposing a wafer substrate includes receiving an integrated circuit (IC) design layout defining a pattern; determining a temperature profile of a mask based on the IC design layout, the pattern being formed on the mask; calculating a pre-corrected overlay shift for the mask based on the calculated temperature profile; and exposing a resist layer coated on a substrate using the mask with overlay compensation based on the pre-corrected overlay shift.
US09081289B2
In a method, a layout of a device having a pattern of features is provided. The method continues to include identifying a first portion of at least one feature of the plurality of features. An image criteria for the first portion may be assigned. A lithography optimization parameter is determined based on the assigned image criteria for the first portion. Finally, the first portion of the at least one feature is imaged onto a semiconductor substrate using the determined lithography optimization parameter.
US09081286B2
Pattern forming method, method for producing electronic device using the same, and electronic device
Provided is a pattern forming method including, in the following order: (1) forming a resist film on a substrate; (2) exposing the resist film, and thereby forming a first line-and-space latent image; (3) subjecting the resist film in which the first line-and-space latent image has been formed, to a first heating treatment; (4) exposing the resist film that has been subjected to the first heating treatment, and thereby forming a second line-and-space latent image, so that the line direction in the second line-and-space latent image intersects the line direction in the first line-and-space latent image; (5) subjecting the resist film in which the second line-and-space latent image has been formed, to a second heating treatment; and (6) developing the resist film that has been subjected to the second heating treatment, using a developer containing an organic solvent.
US09081285B2
A method for fabricating a circuit, by defining a first set of resist features on a substrate and corresponding to a first mask layout, followed by defining a second set of resist features on the substrate corresponding to a second mask layout, wherein the second set adds to the first set for rectifying an error in either mask layout. In another aspect, the method is by defining a first set of resist features on a substrate and corresponding to a first mask layout that has an error, etching the substrate while the first set protects selected regions, defining a second set of resist features on the substrate and corresponding to a second mask layout, followed by etching the substrate to selectively remove portions of the selected regions for rectifying the error.
US09081284B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a first region and a second region contacting the first region along a boundary line, includes forming a pattern having an on-boundary-line line portion with a width defined by a first line which is arranged in the first region and is parallel to the boundary line, and a second line which is arranged in the second region and is parallel to the boundary line. The forming the pattern includes independently performing, for a photoresist applied on a substrate, first exposure for defining the first line, and second exposure for defining the second line, and developing the photoresist having undergone the individually performing the first exposure and the second exposure.
US09081283B2
The invention disclosed herein provides highly efficient methods and materials useful for surface patterning via polymerization reactions. In particular, by using a light-mediated radical polymerization procedure, brush formation from a surface can be regulated spatially by controlling the area of irradiation. In embodiments of the invention, polymer chain length (and/or film thickness) can be effectively controlled by either the amount of time a surface is irradiated with light (temporal control) or by the intensity of light allowed to reach the surface. Such light-mediated control allows artisans to use the disclosed processes to form complex 3-dimensional structures on a variety of surfaces. Moreover, the simplicity of the disclosed polymerization processes allows them to be adapted for use in a wide range of technologies.
US09081272B2
The present invention relates to a leveling apparatus that levels an object to be leveled with a surface of a substrate by measuring the force applied to the object, and an atomic force microscope including the leveling apparatus.A leveling apparatus according to the present invention, which levels an object with a substrate such that one side of the object is brought in parallel contact with the surface of the substrate, includes: force sensors disposed to measure force at at least three points on the other side of the object; an angle adjusting unit disposed to adjust the angle between the object and the surface of the substrate; and a controller connecting with the force sensors and the angle adjusting unit to drive the angle adjusting unit on the basis of data from the force sensors. The controller obtains the data on force applied to the force sensors by bringing one side of the object in contact with the surface of the substrate at a predetermined angle, calculates the degree of relative inclination between the object and the surface of the substrate from the data on force, and levels the object with the surface of the substrate by adjusting the angle of the object or the substrate with the angle adjusting unit on the basis of the degree of relative inclination.
US09081269B2
A lighting device equipped with means for receiving and delivering multimedia content is described. Such a device can be mounted on any type of pre-existing standard lamp-holder so as to transform it into a sophisticated system for providing adjustable lighting and for delivering multimedia content that can be updated as desired by the user, thus being able to be integrated in a simple and cost-effective way into the room furniture without requiring the addition of other elements or the replacement of any pre-existing lighting system.
US09081267B2
A light emitting device includes a first layer that generates light by injection of a current and forms a waveguide of the light, and an electrode that injects the current into the first layer, wherein the waveguide of the light has a belt-like first region and a belt-like second region, the first region has a first part with curvature, the second region has a second part with curvature, the first region and the second region are connected in a reflection part provided on a side surface of the first layer, and a first light output from the first region on a side surface of the first layer as an output surface opposed to the side surface on which the reflection part is provided and a second light output from the second region on the output surface are output in the same direction.
US09081263B2
A camera set up for fitting on board a motor vehicle. The camera has an electronic sensor, a multifocal, particularly bifocal optical device, an optical lens focused in long-range field, the multifocal optical device and the optical lens being set up to be able to form a first image (IM1) on the sensor, focused in long-range field, and a second image (IM2) focused in close-range field, these first and second images extending into respective distinct regions of the sensor.
US09081262B2
In exemplary implementations of this invention, a set of two scanning mirrors scans the one dimensional field of view of a streak camera across a scene. The mirrors are continuously moving while the camera takes streak images. Alternately, the mirrors may only between image captures. An illumination source or other captured event is synchronized with the camera so that for every streak image the scene looks different. The scanning assures that different parts of the scene are captured.
US09081257B2
An imaging apparatus that uses luminance information obtained through a test flash by a flash unit for illuminating a subject to determine a flash quantity of a flash unit for main photographing sets exposure conditions for the test flash based on exposure conditions for the main photographing. The imaging apparatus changes a predetermined test flash quantity for the test flash to compensate a difference between the set exposure conditions and predetermined initial values of exposure conditions for the test flash and performs the test flash based on the set exposure conditions and the changed test flash quantity.
US09081254B2
An embedded linear motor drive for an IR camera composing linear motor components that integrates into a sliding shutter is disclosed. The linear motor components can be a linear array of magnets, or a series of ridges or gear teeth. A motor drive is aligned with the linear motor components. The drive can be a series of coils connected to a power source that can move the shutter when the coils are energized in series. The drive can also be a pinion shaft with a friction wheel at one end or pinion gear that can connect to the ridges or gear teeth and move the shutter when the shaft is rotated.
US09081253B2
An integrated optical device includes first, second, third, and fourth edge portions; a plurality of modulators each of which includes an optical waveguide and an electrode portion provided on the optical waveguide, the optical waveguide extending in a direction of a first axis; a plurality of electric signal input sections arrayed along the first edge portion extending in a direction of a second axis intersecting with the first axis, each of the electric signal input sections being connected to one of the electrode portions of the modulators; an optical signal input section; and an optical signal output section provided in the second edge portion extending in the direction of the second axis. The modulators are arrayed in the direction of the second axis. In addition, the optical signal input section is provided in one of the second edge portion, the third edge portion, and the fourth edge portion.
US09081247B1
Controllers and control methods apply a drive voltage to bus bars of a thin film optically switchable device. The applied drive voltage is provided at a level that drives a transition over the entire surface of the optically switchable device but does not damage or degrade the device. This applied voltage produces an effective voltage at all locations on the face of the device that is within a bracketed range. The upper bound of this range is associated with a voltage safely below the level at which the device may experience damage or degradation impacting its performance in the short term or the long term. At the lower boundary of this range is an effective voltage at which the transition between optical states of the device occurs relatively rapidly. The level of voltage applied between the bus bars is significantly greater than the maximum value of the effective voltage within the bracketed range.
US09081235B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a spacer disposed there between. The second substrate includes a black matrix pattern, a color filter, a dummy color filter and a common electrode. The black matrix pattern is formed with an opening portion which is filled by the color filter. The dummy color filter is made of same material as the color filter and extends in a vertical direction along which the spacer also extends. The spacer is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate in correspondence with location of the dummy color filter so that the effective spaced apart distance that the spacer provides between the first and second substrates is a function of a thickness of the dummy color filter.
US09081231B2
A vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer; a second polarizer; a first optical film arranged between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal cell; and a second optical film arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the second optical film, wherein the first and the second optical films each are a resin film having an optically biaxial property, the first and the second optical films meet: Formula (1) Ro1>Ro2; Formula (2) Rth1
US09081227B2
A lighting device includes LEDs, a reflecting sheet that reflects light emitted from the LEDs, and connectors electrically connected to the LEDs. The reflecting sheet has integrated superposed portions on which the connectors are superposed, and the connector surface on the reflecting sheet side thereof serves as a sheet pressing surface for pressing down the superposed portions of the reflecting sheet.
US09081223B2
The present invention discloses a capacitive in cell touch panel and display device, wherein touch sensing electrodes are provided on a color filter substrate, the whole common electrode layer of the TFT array substrate is segmented into a plurality of strip-shaped structures functioning as touch driving electrodes, and the touch driving electrodes are driven in a time-sharing manner to achieve the touch function and the display function in a time-sharing manner. Since in the touch panel according to the present invention, structure of the common electrode layer of the TFT array substrate is altered to form the touch driving electrodes, it is not necessary to add a new film on the existing TFT array substrate and only an additional process needs to be added to segment the whole common electrode layer into a plurality of strip-shaped structures, reducing the production cost and increasing the production efficiency.
US09081222B2
A conductive elastic sheet includes: an outer portion sandwiched between a resin frame portion and a metal frame portion and brought into contact with the metal frame portion; an inner portion laminated to an image display screen; and a connecting portion connecting the outer and inner portions. An upper surface of the resin frame portion is arranged at a higher position than the image display screen. The outer portion of the conductive elastic sheet is arranged at a higher position than the inner portion. The inner portion of the conductive elastic sheet is laminated to the image display screen in a flat shape. The conductive elastic sheet has a slit formed between the outer and inner portions and adjacent to the connecting portion. The connecting portion is bent in a height increasing direction from the same height position as the inner portion.
US09081220B2
An image display device comprising an image display panel, heat dispersion material positioned proximate to the image display panel, a frame system including a framework positioned proximate to the heat dispersion material opposite the image display panel, and a plurality of electronic components engaging the framework, where the image display device exhibits a support factor of less than about 375 mm-W/m° K. The framework can be adhesively bonded to the heat dispersion material. The framework can include a height and a width wherein the heat dispersion material substantially spans the height and the width. Additionally, a first cross support can span the framework and a plurality of second electronic components can engage the first cross support. Additionally a second cross support can span the framework wherein at least one of the second electronic components engages the second cross support.
US09081212B1
A componentized eyeglass/sunglasses/slipcover system (System) that facilitates the quick and easy transformation of the eyeglasses for decorative/style changes and/or the attachment of electronic or other integrated components. The System will comprise of a faceplate assembly consisting of two or more pieces plus one or two lenses, two ear piece members and two hinges which attach and detach from either or both the face plate assembly and the ear piece members and slipcovers that are made of any flexible material plastic or other material that will cover all or a portion of the ear piece members and/or the face plate assembly. The componentized system is for decorative/style changes as well as for attaching/integrating electronic or other components. The System fits together in a clean, secure manner to present a sleek, quality appearance.
US09081211B2
A magnetic hinge (24) having a magnet (68) that is rotatably connected to frame front (14) or temples (18, 19) of eyewear (10). Magnet (68) has a contact surface that cooperates with a magnetically reactive body (76) and can be secured in a housing (34) that is rotatably connected to eyewear (10) by protrusions (60, 62).
US09081210B2
A HMD includes a pair of temple arms having spring steel that wraps around the head to provide long axis compression. The spring steel arms produce a compressive force along the long axis of the head that counters the gravitational force of a weight positioned at the forehead. The weight is supported by the long axis compression, rather than resting on the nose, ears or the top of the head. The front to back, long axis compressive force frees the head from all but the smallest amount of paraphernalia and allows for the weight to be worn in a way that is comfortable and non-intrusive. The spring steel temple arms are over bent inward well beyond the smallest size head and is used with a spine material that limits how far the temple arms can bend inward. An interface layer is also attached to provide comfort to the head.
US09081204B2
An interchangeable lens includes an image stabilizing unit, a position detector configured to detect a position of the correction lens, and a controller configured to set a movable range of the correction lens, when the interchangeable lens is mounted on a first camera body having a function of correcting at least one of a peripheral brightness and an aberration of a picked-up image according to position information of the correction lens, the controller sets the movable range of the correction lens to a first movable range, and when the interchangeable lens is mounted on a second camera body not having a function of correcting the peripheral brightness or the aberration of the picked-up image according to the position information of the correction lens, the controller sets the movable range of the correction lens to a second movable range that is narrower than the first movable range.
US09081201B2
In a wavelength selective switch, a holding member is used to rotate one end of optical fibers and a collimator array around a rotation axis to thereby change an incident angle of collimated light with respect to incident surfaces of a beam expander optical system. When the incident angle of the collimated light on the beam expander optical system is changed, an amount of variation in an emission angle of light from the beam expander optical system is not proportional (inversely proportional) to the magnification of the beam expander optical system. Thus, this wavelength selective switch can easily fine-tune the incident position (beam position) of light with respect to each reflecting surface of a MEMS mirror by rotating the holding member.
US09081190B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus relating to implementations of an electrically controlled light conditioning sheet. In one aspect, the electrically controlled light conditioning sheet includes a planar electrode having a first conductor and a second conductor and a transmissive elastic layer. The transmissive elastic layer is configured to deform in response to a potential difference applied between the first and the second conductor and produce regions of optical refractive power. The angular spread and/or the radiation pattern of an incoming beam of light incident on the electrically controlled light conditioning sheet is altered by the action of the regions of optical refractive power produced by the applied potential difference.
US09081189B2
To optionally forming a multilevel light intensity distribution on an illumination pupil plane, the illumination apparatus implements Köhler illumination on an illumination target surface, using as a light source the light intensity distribution formed on the illumination pupil plane on the basis of light from a light source. The illumination apparatus has a spatial light modulator, a condensing optical system, and a control unit. The spatial light modulator has a plurality of reflecting surfaces which are two-dimensionally arranged and postures of which can be controlled independently of each other. The condensing optical system condenses light from the reflecting surfaces to form a predetermined light intensity distribution on the illumination pupil plane. The control unit controls the number of reflecting surfaces contributing to arriving light, for each of points on the illumination pupil plane forming the light intensity distribution, according to a light intensity distribution to be formed on the illumination pupil plane.
US09081186B2
A microscope device according to the present disclosure (the present microscope device) includes: a light source configured to oscillate coherent illuminating light, the illuminating light being applied on a specimen; a detecting unit configured to detect fluorescent light from the specimen as feedback light, the specimen being irradiated with the illuminating light; a phase distribution control unit disposed in an optical path of the illuminating light, the phase distribution control unit being configured to control phase distribution of the illuminating light; a controller configured to control the phase distribution control unit to vary the phase distribution; and an image generating unit configured to operate a difference of the feedback light between before and after the phase distribution varies, to generate an image of the specimen.
US09081181B2
A Head Mounted Display (HMD) device and an image display control method are disclosed. The device includes a display unit including a left display and a right display for a left eye and a right eye for displaying images for the left eye and the right eye, a vital reaction sensor unit including a first vital reaction sensor for the left eye and a second vital reaction sensor for the right eye, detecting vital reaction changes of a user viewing the left display and the right display, and generating, when a vital reaction change is detected, an interruption signal including coordinates of a position at which the vital reaction change is detected, and a control unit for outputting images for the left eye and the right eye to the display unit.
US09081178B2
A projection display is provided including a first plate-like waveguide (7), an image providing light source device (10 and 11) located to inject image bearing light into the first plate-like waveguide 7. An input means (12) is provided on the waveguide (7) to reflect the image bearing light internally along the waveguide (7). A transmission grating (13) within the first plate-like waveguide (7) is provided to output image bearing light from the waveguide (7). A second plate-like waveguide (8) is located co-planar with the first plate-like waveguide (7) and has a coupling grating (17) therein to receive the image bearing light from the first plate-like waveguide (7). The second plate-like waveguide (8) also includes an exit grating (18) therein for diffracting the received image bearing light, diffracted by the coupling grating (17) out of the second plate-like waveguide (8) towards a viewer (6).
US09081176B2
An observation system 100 for observing a to-be-observed specimen 1 on the basis of coming light 2 coming from the to-be-observed specimen 1 includes a conversion unit 104 configured to convert the coming light 2 to a first converted light ray with a first pupil function and to convert the coming light 2 to a second converted light ray with a second pupil function and an image information generation unit 106 configured to generate image information on the to-be-observed specimen 1 on the basis of the first converted light ray obtained by converting the coming light 2 with the first pupil function and the second converted light ray obtained by converting the coming light with the second pupil function. The second pupil function is preferably different from the first pupil function.
US09081173B2
A laser scanning microscope is provided with a laser beam focusing device, a drive for the focusing device, a laser beam deflector, and a control system that coordinates movement of the focusing device with that of the laser beam deflector.
US09081167B2
One or more LED dice are mounted on a support structure. The support structure may be a submount with the LED dice already electrically connected to leads on the submount. A mold has indentations in it corresponding to the positions of the LED dice on the support structure. The indentations are filled with a liquid optically transparent material, such as silicone, which when cured forms a lens material. The shape of the indentations will be the shape of the lens. The mold and the LED dice/support structure are brought together so that each LED die resides within the liquid silicone in an associated indentation. The mold is then heated to cure (harden) the silicone. The mold and the support structure are then separated, leaving a complete silicone lens over each LED die. This over molding process may be repeated with different molds to create concentric shells of lenses. Each concentric lens may have a different property, such as containing a phosphor, providing a special radiation pattern, having a different hardness value, or curable by a different technique (e.g., UV vs. heat).
US09081166B2
An inner focus lens system comprising lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein a most object side lens unit is provided and is fixed with respect to an image surface in focusing, and the conditions: BF/Y<1.7 and (L×FNo)/f<2.2 (BF: a distance from an image side surface apex of a most image side lens element to the image surface, Y=f ×tan ω, L: an overall length of lens system, FNo: a F-number of lens system,f: a focal length of lens system, ω: a half view angle of lens system) are simultaneously satisfied, or only the condition: (L×FNo)/f<2.0 (L: the overall length of lens system, FNo: the F-number of lens system,f: the focal length of lens system) is satisfied.
US09081162B2
A rugged micromodule cable includes central strength yarns, micromodules stranded around the central strength yarns, additional strength yarns positioned around the stranded micromodules, and a jacket of polymeric material surrounding the additional strength yarns. The micromodules each include sheathing surrounding a plurality of optical fibers. The strand profile of the micromodules is tight, having an average lay length of less than 250 mm, and the sheathing is thin-walled, having an average thickness of less than about 200 micrometers. The strand of the micromodules, the positioning of the additional strength yarns, and bonding between the additional strength yarns and the jacket mitigate lengthwise movement of the optical fibers in the rugged micromodule cable.
US09081156B2
One embodiment includes a connector comprising a connector housing, a ferrule, and a crimp ring. The connector housing has inner and outer surfaces extending between forward and rear ends of the connector housing. The inner surfaces defined a passageway extending lengthwise between the forward and rear ends. The connector housing includes at least one protrusion formed on one of the outer surfaces that is configured to engage a corresponding connector engaging structure of an alignment guide to secure the connector housing within the alignment guide. The ferrule is configured to mount upon end portions of a plurality of optical fibers of a multi-fiber communication cable. The ferrule is disposed partially within the passageway. The crimp ring encompasses the rear end of the connector housing and is configured to secure the connector to the multi-fiber communication cable.
US09081151B2
An optical connector for reducing attenuation in a cable assembly. A support within the connector precludes bending of exposed fiber within the connector that might otherwise occur when the cable assembly is exposed to environmental conditions involving cyclic temperatures. In some embodiments, optical connector assemblies include an optical fiber jacket surrounding a plurality of optical fibers and a support member adjacent to the jacket. The support member includes channels for receiving regions of the optical fibers that are exposed exterior to the optical fiber jacket. The channels of the support member serve to prevent severe bending of the optical fibers which otherwise would give rise to significant signal attenuation. For multi-fiber optical connector assemblies described herein, even during harsh environmental conditions, the signal loss in the optical fibers may be less than about 0.5 dB. The support may be formed as an extension of a ferrule holder.
US09081145B2
A polarizing plate includes a polarizer, a first protective film attached to one side of the polarizer, and a second protective film attached to another side of the polarizer. A ratio between coefficients of thermal expansion of the first and second protective films, measured in a transverse direction (TD) at a temperature from about 25° C. to about 120° C., ranges from about 0.5 to about 2. A ratio between coefficients of thermal expansion of the first and second protective films measured in a machine direction (MD) at a temperature from about 25° C. to about 120° C. ranges from about 0.5 to about 2.
US09081136B2
An integrated optical circuit includes a substrate having an input face, an output face, a lower face and an upper face, at least one optical waveguide having a first waveguide end located on the input face of the substrate and a second waveguide end located on the output face of the substrate. The lower face of the substrate includes a first part that is planar and parallel to the upper face and an optical block, the optical block being positioned in the median plane and in the incidence plane, the optical block forming a protrusion at least at the primary reflection point of the integrated optical circuit with respect to the first planar part of the lower face and the optical block being capable of receiving and attenuating at least one non-guided optical beam propagating on the optical path of a primary reflection.
US09081132B2
An adhesive film for a reflection sheet and a reflection sheet using the adhesive film is provided. The adhesive film comprises a plastic base film having a heat shrinkage of −0.1 to 0.5% at 150° C. in machine and transverse directions; an adhesive layer formed on one side of the base film by applying an adhesive composition; and an anchor coating layer formed on the other side of the base film, opposite to the side on which the adhesive layer is formed. The adhesive film for a reflection sheet according to the present invention is manufactured by applying an adhesive composition on a plastic base film where heat shrinkage is controlled. Thus, the adhesive film has superior dimensional stability at a high temperature and excellent workability in a post process for laminating a reflection layer. Partial detachment does not occur when an adhesive layer is detached from an adherent, and stable physical properties can be achieved.
US09081123B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems provide conversion of evanescent electromagnetic waves to non-evanescent electromagnetic waves and/or conversion of non-evanescent electromagnetic waves to evanescent electromagnetic waves. In some approaches the conversion includes propagation of electromagnetic waves within an indefinite electromagnetic medium, and the indefinite medium may include an artificially-structured material such as a layered structure or other metamaterial.
US09081114B2
Multi-array laterolog tool systems and methods acquire a set of array measurements sufficient to provide laterolog tool measurements of differing array sizes. Such systems and method offer multiple depths of investigation while offering greater measurement stability in borehole environments having high resistivity contrasts. In at least some system embodiments, a wireline or LWD tool body has a center electrode positioned between multiple pairs of guard electrodes and a pair of return electrodes. At least some of the guard electrodes are positioned between component electrodes of associated split monitor electrodes that enable more accurate measurement of the guard electrode potential. The tool's electronics provide a current from the center electrode to the pair of return electrodes and currents from each pair of guard electrodes to the pair of return electrodes. Each of the currents may be distinguishable by frequency or distinguishable by some other means.
US09081112B1
A well borehole seismic sensing system having one or more rotatable sensor arrays. The sensor arrays can have one or more groups of sensors disposed on a cam shaft located along a portion of a well pipe. The sensors can be located within a housing contacting the cam shaft. A motor can rotate the sensors around a longitudinal axis of the pipe.
US09081101B2
Sensitive charge for passive dosimeter includes a plurality of flexible photostimulable screens designed to be stacked inside a dosimeter casing and each having a radiosensitive layer of radiophotoluminescent material which can therefore be read differentially by illumination. The screens being integral with a foldable support having two configurations, namely a folded detection configuration, in which the screens are stacked on one another, and an unfolded reading configuration, in which the screens are arranged alongside one another on the same face of the support. Intercalated sheets with reinforcing/absorbing effect can also be fixed to the support, alternating with the screens, the screens being separated from the adjacent screens by two folds and the sheets are separated from the adjacent sheets by two folds.
US09081099B2
A method and system for detecting special nuclear materials are disclosed. Said method and system detect the special nuclear materials by making use of the photofission characteristic and thermal neutron induced fission characteristic thereof. In one preferred embodiment, the high density and/or high atomic number region in the object to be detected is also detected first as a suspicious region.
US09081094B2
Embodiments described herein are directed towards a radar altimeter for mounting onto an aircraft. The radar altimeter includes a base configured to mount to an external surface of an aircraft, the base having an inner portion and a flange disposed around the inner portion, wherein the inner portion has a generally rectangular geometry defining a long dimension and a short dimension. A chassis is mounted to the base and has a planar portion that is disposed perpendicular to a plane formed by the base. A plurality of circuit boards are mounted to the planar portion of the chassis and disposed parallel to the planar portion of the chassis. The base is configured to mount over a second aperture in the external surface of the aircraft such that the chassis and the plurality of circuit boards are placed through the aperture and are disposed inside of the aircraft.
US09081089B2
To achieve an unnecessary signal identifying device that can accurately identify an unnecessary signal from a reception signal. Correlators 321-32n correlation process the reception signal and a replica code at every predetermined timing, and output correlation data. Each of Buffers 331-33n stores a predetermined sampling number of the correlation data along a code phase axis, and output them to FFT processors 341-34n and a identifier 35. Each of the FFT processors 341-34n FFT processes the predetermined sampling number of the correlation data to acquire a frequency spectrum, and output it to the identifier 35. From a correlation data series on the code phase axis and the frequency spectrum, the identifier 35 acquires a property of the correlation data for a two-dimensional range of the code phase axis and a frequency axis, and identifies the signal with the property coinciding matching with characteristics of the unnecessary signal as the unnecessary signal.
US09081085B2
A radar apparatus includes: a transmission circuit; a reception circuit; a Doppler filter that discriminates baseband signals per distance and per Doppler frequency corresponding to the speed of an object; a threshold processing unit group that removes unwanted signals from output signals of the Doppler filter; and an estimation unit that estimates a position and speed of the object from the output signals removed of the unwanted signals. The threshold processing unit group includes threshold processing units corresponding to respective discriminated Doppler frequencies. Each threshold processing unit calculates a threshold value for a corresponding Doppler frequency using a peak value of the output signals in a range of distance corresponding to an object detection area, and determines output signals in the range that are no greater than the threshold value to be the unwanted signals.
US09081081B2
A guided wave radar level measurement instrument comprises a probe defining a transmission line for sensing material level. A pulse circuit is connected to the probe for generating pulses on the transmission line and receiving reflected signals from the transmission line. The pulse circuit comprises a pulse generator for generating a transmit pulse, a bridge circuit having a diode switched front end connected between the pulse generator and a differential circuit. The transmission line is connected to one side of the differential circuit. Generated pulses from the pulse generator are supplied to both sides of the differential circuit and reflected signals from the transmission line are supplied to one side of the differential circuit.
US09081078B2
In providing a wireless location communication service including a location based service to a user of a mobile device, the mobile device sends information concerning a location of the device relative to a given position in a wireless communication system. The given position may be that of a base station in the system. First information concerning a location of the base station (e.g, GPS information) is communicated to the mobile device, e.g., via broadcast. The mobile device determines second information concerning its location, e.g., based on signals from GPS satellites received thereby. The mobile device then generates relative location information based at least on the first and second information.
US09081075B2
An image in which an area of interest on an image is optimally susceptibility-emphasized is obtained in susceptibility-emphasized imaging. A measuring order of plural echo signals is controlled in accordance with the size of a desired area of interest of an examinee. Preferably, a target frequency in a K space is determined in accordance with the size of the area of interest, and the measuring order of plural echo signals is controlled so that an echo signal corresponding to the target frequency is measured at a target echo signal or in the neighborhood of the target echo time.
US09081070B2
A tesseral shim coil for shimming the magnetic field of a magnetic resonance system by generating the spherical harmonics of the sine and cosine type of the magnetic field, the tesseral shim coil comprising at least four saddle coils, wherein the sum of the azimuthal span of the at least four saddle coils is less than 360 degrees. First and second sets of shim coils, respectively generating sine and cosine components of the shim fields are combined into a single coil layer, thereby reducing the radial thickness of the shim coil assembly.
US09081066B2
The present invention is a method and apparatus for generating an effective equivalent of a simultaneous transmission of excitation signals to a targeted living tissue using an existing MRI system assembly or transceiver apparatus which structurally has a small number of independent transmit channels in operative communication with a large number of individual transmission RF coils. The inventive methodology and apparatus is suitable for use with any conventionally known and used transceiver apparatus which operationally complies with the requisite difference existing between the lesser available numbers of independent transmission channels and the greater number of individual transmit RF coils. For this reason, the methodology is broadly and generally useful for many different applications of magnetic resonance imaging technology.
US09081064B2
An integrated circuit die includes a substrate of semiconductor material having a top surface, a bottom surface, and an opening through the substrate between the top surface and the bottom surface. A through silicon via (TSV) has a conductive body in the opening, has a top contact point coupled to the body at the top surface, and has a bottom contact point coupled to the body at the bottom surface. A scan cell has a serial input, a serial output, control inputs, a voltage reference input, a response input coupled to one of the contact points, and a stimulus output coupled to the other one of the contact points.
US09081062B1
Integrated circuits with memory error detection and correction (EDC) circuitry are provided. The EDC circuitry may include first and second data registers and a comparator. The first data register may store data read from a selected frame. The second data register may be loaded with a predetermined bit stream. If a soft error is detected, correct bits generated using a logic function associated with the predetermined bit stream may be written back to the selected frame. In another suitable arrangement, the EDC circuitry may include first and second registers, a mask register, and a comparator. The first data register may store data read from a selected frame. The second data register may be loaded with desired data. The mask register may be loaded with mask bits. If a soft error is detected, the correct bits may be written back to the selected frame if the corresponding mask bits are high.
US09081060B2
A reconfigurable instruction cell array (RICA) is provided that includes a plurality of master switch boxes that are configured to read and write from a plurality of buffers through a cross-bar switch. A master built-in-self-test (MBIST) engine is configured to drive a test word into the write path of at least one master switch box and to control the cross-bar switch so that the driven test word is broadcast to all the buffers for storage. The MBIST engine is also configured to retrieve the stored test words from the buffers through a read bus within the cross-bar switch.
US09081059B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for allowing response data output from the scan outputs of a circuit under test to be formatted and applied as stimulus data input to the scan inputs of the circuit under test. Also the disclosure described a novel method and apparatus for allowing the response data output from the scan outputs of a circuit under test to be formatted and used as expected data to compare against the response data output from the circuit under test. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure.
US09081058B2
To improve a delay fault coverage without increasing an area overhead, provided is a scan test circuit including: scan flip-flops forming a clock domain that operates according to the same clock within a semiconductor integrated circuit including a target of a delay fault test; a test pattern generation mode control unit (scan flip-flop) that is supplied with the same clock as that supplied to the scan flip-flops, and selects one of a skewed-load mode and a broadside mode as a test pattern generation mode of the delay fault test; and a scan enable signal output unit (OR gate) that outputs a first scan enable signal, which is determined based on the test pattern generation mode, to the scan flip-flops.
US09081053B2
A system and method for measuring the frequency response of a system under test using a single swept-frequency chirp signal. A tapered chirp-frequency test signal is created with a bandwidth defined by first and second frequencies. The test signal is routed to a calibration path, and the output of the calibration path is routed to a digitizer. The output of the calibration path is digitized, and a Fourier transform of the calibration path output is generated. The test signal is then routed to a test system, and the output of the test system is coupled to the digitizer. The output of the test system is digitized, and a Fourier transform of the test system output is generated. A normalized frequency-domain representation of the test system created by dividing the Fourier transform of the test system output by the Fourier transform of the calibration path output.
US09081041B2
A sensor with multiple magnetic field sensing elements for use in current sensing and other applications is presented. In one configuration, the sensor can obtain differential and absolute current measurements of current in current-carrying conductors. When employed in a ground fault interrupter (GFI) application, a first magnetic field sensing element can be used to measure the absolute current flowing in the phase conductor (phase current), a second magnetic field sensing element can be used to measure the absolute current flowing in the neutral conductor (neutral current) and a difference between the phase and neutral currents can be measured by a third magnetic field sensing element or determined from measurements of the first and second magnetic field sensing elements. In another configuration, the sensor can obtain a measure of the difference between currents and/or the sum of currents in current-carrying conductors.
US09081035B2
A measuring device used for registering a test signal originating from a circuit structure applied to a wafer. The measuring device provides at least one test probe and at least one test transformer. The at least one test transformer is connected to the at least one test probe in an electrically conductive manner. In this context, the test transformer is arranged on the test probe.
US09081034B2
A method of probing compliant bumps of a circuit with probes is described. The method includes disposing the probes on a substrate, a base of each of the probes being coupled to the substrate. The method also includes disposing the circuit such that each of the compliant bumps is in contact with the probe tip of a corresponding one of the probes, each probe tip being connected to each base of each probe through a cantilever, and supplying current to the probes to test the circuit.
US09081028B2
An SPM assembly includes an SPM and a wide field image acquisition device that can be used to rapidly locate a region of interest and position that region within a SPM scan range of 100 microns or less. The wide field image acquisition device may include a low resolution camera having wide field of view in excess of 12 mm, and a high magnification camera having a field of view in the single mm range. Alternatively, a single camera could be used if it has sufficient zoom capability to have functionalities commensurate with both cameras. Collocation preferably is employed to coordinate translation between the low magnification and high magnification cameras (if separate cameras are used) and between the high magnification camera and the SPM.
US09081026B2
An opening/closing body inspection apparatus evaluates the closing performance of an opening/closing body open-and-closably attached to an opening/closing body support member. The apparatus includes a marker configured to be attached to the opening/closing body, a load-detecting device for detecting a load upon the opening/closing body attached to the marker, an image-capturing device for capturing an image of the movement path of the marker as the marker moves in tandem with the motion of the opening/closing body being closed by the load, an image-processing device for analyzing image data obtained by the image-capturing device, and a performance-assessing device for assessing the closing performance of the opening/closing body on the basis of the movement distance calculated by the image-processing device and the load detected by the load-detecting device.
US09081022B2
A rotor is provided for use in a centrifuge system configured to spin the rotor for separating complex fluids. The rotor includes a housing configured to be secured by the centrifuge system and several chambers formed in the housing. Each chamber includes a first chamber portion having a port formed therein and a second chamber portion in fluid communication with the port of the first chamber portion. The second chamber portion may be disposed generally below the port of the first chamber portion. Other rotor designs and methods for separating complex fluids are further disclosed.
US09081017B2
This invention relates to the identification and characterization of specific cellular responses which are associated with tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1) and tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR2). Selective modulation of these tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNFRs) Selective modulations of these responses may be useful in the promotion or inhibition of cell growth, for example, in the treatment of disease conditions, including cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Therapeutic methods employed selective TNFR1 and TNFR2 modulators are provided, along with screening methods for the identification of selective TNFR1 and TNFR2 modulators useful in such methods.
US09081014B2
The invention provides a protein labeling and detection system based on self-complementing fragments of fluorescent and chromophoric proteins. The system of the invention is exemplified with various combinations of self-complementing fragments derived from Aequorea victoria Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), which are used to detect and quantify protein solubility in multiple assay formats, both in vitro and in vivo.
US09081010B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of nucleic acids and, more particularly, to aptamers capable of binding to toxins produced by Clostridium difficile; diagnostic kits and methods comprising such aptamers; and methods of making and using such aptamers.
US09081006B2
The present invention concerns methods, compositions and apparatus for detection and/or determination of concentration of target molecules. In preferred embodiments the methods comprise allowing target molecules to form a complex with a first binding agent conjugated to a detection molecule and a second binding agent conjugated to a capture molecule, allowing the complex to further bind to an essentially uncharged polymer capable of binding to the capture agent, and performing a vertical gradient electrophoresis to separate the complex from unbound target, first and second binding agents and polymer. The intact complex is concentrated by electrophoresis at a stacking layer and the detection molecule is detected and/or quantified. Because the complex contains a very high mass to charge ratio, it becomes essentially immobile at the stacking layer, while unbound components migrate through the stacking layer and are separated from the complex. This provides a very rapid and sensitive assay that can detect very low concentrations of target molecules in short time.
US09081003B2
A system is provided that simulates the in vivo micro-environment of three-dimensional cellular structures or bodies, such as tumors. The system simulates the pressure gradients and fluid flows of the vascular and lymphatic systems as well as the interstitial and capillary transport mechanisms between the 3D cellular structure and the vascular and lymphatic systems. The system can be used to introduce drugs or drug delivery carriers to a tumor, for example, to assess the uptake capability and effect on the tumor. The system maintains the viability of the tumor cells for a sufficiently long period of time to permit testing of several different drugs and/or delivery carriers.
US09080997B2
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.
US09080993B2
Provided a microdevice capable of performing analysis quickly and at a high level of sensitivity even when a minute amount of sample solution is used. The microdevice is equipped with a rotation board, a reaction field provided on the rotation board, and an introduction portion for introducing a solution into the reaction field. The microdevice is characterized in that the following angle is always 45 to 90°: an angle of a part of a wall surface of the reaction field where the centrifugal force has the greatest effect with respect to the direction of the centrifugal force generated when the rotation board is rotated.
US09080972B2
The scattered light from the measurement target substance passes through a light receiving window, and is received by a detector for +θ scattered light and a detector for −θ scattered light which are arranged symmetrically to each other across an optical axis at an equal angle or an equal interval in a vertical direction. A light source is fixed by a light-source holder (that is a base member on which the light source is arranged), and the detectors are arranged on and fixed to a detector holder (that is a base member on which the detectors are arranged). In this manner, drift of the light quantity data caused by the thermal deformation of the optical system can be corrected by comparing values of the light quantity data of the detectors.
US09080966B2
The present application discloses a detection device including a light source configured to emit emission light, a scattering substance situated near a target object and configured to generate plasmon resonance between the scattering substance and the target object, a light guide portion configured to guide the emission light to the scattering substance and cause first reflected light, which is reflected from the scattering substance, and a detector configured to detect a state in phase of the first reflected light.
US09080963B2
Devices and methods for remotely collecting data for the assessment of value and/or like, kind, and quality are provided, including a mobile device equipped with an application configured to enable collection of data; the data acquired using the device are received by a service provider; and following the assessment transmitting of the assessment analysis by the service provide to the display of the mobile device of the user.
US09080959B2
Multi-well plates having contoured well designs allow multi-stage high throughput parallel assaying of ion channels or ion transporters. A well of a multi-well plate has a bottom region that is sized and shaped to simultaneous accommodate a sensing electrode and a pipette for delivering, e.g., test compounds, wash fluid, and optionally ligands. Such multi-well plates may be coupled with an instrument having a pipette head and an electrode plate. Such arrangement facilitates fluidic contact between cells and fluids provided via a pipette. It also facilitates washing of wells with buffers or other wash solutions to allow serial exposure of test cells to various reagents or other stimuli. Generally, the design allows control and test experiments to be performed on the same cell (or cells) in a single well.
US09080957B2
A biosensor includes a working electrode 101, a counter electrode 102 opposing the working electrode 101, a working electrode terminal 103 and a working electrode reference terminal 10 connected to the working electrode 101 by wires, and a counter electrode terminal 104 connected to the counter electrode 102 by a wire. By employing a structure with at least three electrodes, it is possible to assay a target substance without being influenced by the line resistance on the working electrode side.
US09080953B2
A sensor arrangement including a light source, a first optical element, a second optical element, a first photo detector, and a second photo detector. The light source is optically coupled to the first optical element that is optically coupled to the second optical element. The first photo detector is optically coupled to the first optical element for detecting a first component of the part of the light which is not transmitted by the second optical element, and the second photo detector is optically coupled to the second optical element for detecting a second component of the part of the light which is transmitted by the second optical element. One of the first and the second optical elements is an optical filter and the other is a sensor element, where the sensor element or the filter is tunable.
US09080950B2
A method of capturing and processing a multi-spectral image of an object comprises placing the object on a flat-bed scanner (1), using the flat-bed scanner (1) to illuminate the object successively with monochromatic light at a series of wave-lengths to produce a plurality of images together forming a composite multi-spectral image, determining a spectral profile of at least a portion of the multi-spectral image and comparing the spectral profile to a stored spectral profile (22, 24).
US09080946B2
The pore structure of rocks and other materials can be determined through microscopy and subject to digital simulation to determine the properties of multiphase fluid flows through the material. To conserve computational resources, the simulations are preferably performed on a representative elementary volume (REV). The determination of a multiphase REV can be determined, in some method embodiments, by deriving a porosity-related parameter from a pore-matrix model of the material; determining a multiphase distribution within the material's pores; partitioning the pore-matrix model into multiple phase-matrix models; and deriving the porosity-related parameter from each phase-matrix model. The parameter's dependence on phase and saturation can then be determined and analyzed to select an appropriate REV size.
US09080945B2
A cross-section processing and observation method performed by a cross-section processing and observation apparatus, the method comprising: a cross-section processing step of forming a cross-section by irradiating a sample with an ion beam; a cross-section observation step of obtaining an observation image of the cross-section by irradiating the cross-section with an electron beam; and repeating the cross-section processing step and the cross-section observation step so as to obtain observation images of a plurality of cross-sections, wherein, in a case where Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry (EDS) measurement of the cross-section is performed and an X-ray of a specified material is detected, an irradiation condition of the ion beam is changed so as to obtain observation images of a plurality of cross-sections of the specified material, and the cross-section processing and observation of the specified material is performed.
US09080944B2
An apparatus for examining the surface of a crystalline sample uses in-plane grazing incidence diffraction with a position-sensitive detector. The x-ray source illuminates an extended region of the sample and, for crystal sections having the appropriate lattice orientation, an elongated diffraction signal is produced. The relative position of the sample and the x-ray beam may then be changed to illuminate different regions of the sample so that the diffraction signal corresponds to these other regions. By scanning across the entire sample, a spatial profile of the sample surface may be generated. The system may be used to locate crystal boundaries, defects, or the presence of attenuating materials on the sample surface.
US09080942B2
A flexible chemiresistor (CR) sensor for sensing a molecule of interest in a fluid (liquid or gas) is provided. The flexible CR sensor comprises a flexible chemiresistor (CR) module. The flexible CR module comprises a flexible substrate such polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) or polyimide (PI), and a thin film nanoparticle assembly assembled on the flexible substrate. The thin film nanoparticle assembly comprises metal or metal alloy core, ligand-capped nanoparticles and molecular linkers connecting the nanoparticles. The flexible CR sensor and an intelligent pattern recognition engine can be incorporated in a handheld device that can detect a molecule of interest in a fluid (e.g., a liquid or gas) accurately, rapidly, and without false positives. Any sensing array nanomaterial, pattern recognition, and compact/or electronic hardware can be integrated to achieve a desired detection limit and response speed.
US09080938B2
A system and method for detecting an anode pressure sensor failure in a fuel cell system. The system and method include a controller that sets an initial minimum anode pressure sensor value and an initial maximum anode pressure sensor value. The controller determines a desired time interval for sampling anode pressure measurements and determines a total number of samples of anode pressure measurements to be collected by the controller from an anode pressure sensor. The controller also compares a pressure difference between the initial or a measured minimum anode pressure and the initial or a measured maximum anode pressure to a predetermined pressure difference threshold and sets a pressure sensor fault if the pressure difference between the initial or measured minimum anode pressure and the initial or maximum anode pressure is less than the predetermined pressure difference threshold.
US09080937B2
A sample carrier suitable for receiving a sample, a first investigation device for investigating the sample and having a first optical beam path for a first measurement light, a second investigation device for investigating the sample and having a second optical beam path for a second measurement light, wherein the first or the second investigation device comprises a probe microscope suitable for investigating the sample and an optical component having a light-permeable section for the first measurement light and an at least partially reflecting section for the second measurement light and disposed in the first and in the second beam path such that the first optical beam path is formed by a material of the optical component in the light-permeable section and that the second optical beam path is formed with a light-reflecting deflection at the at least one partially reflecting section is provided. An associated method is also provided.
US09080936B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a glow discharge device within the initial vacuum chamber of the mass spectrometer. The glow discharge device may comprise a tubular electrode (14) located within an isolation valve (15) which is provided in the vacuum chamber. Reagent vapor may be provided through the tubular electrode (14) which is then subsequently ionized by the glow discharge. The resulting reagent ions may be used for Electron Transfer Dissociation of analyte ions generated by an atmospheric pressure ion source. Other embodiments are contemplated wherein the ions generated by the glow discharge device may be used to reduce the charge state of analyte ions by Proton Transfer Reaction or may act as lock mass or reference ions.
US09080933B2
Stimuli-responsive polymer diagnostic assay comprising magnetic nanoparticles and capture conjugates
The present disclosure utilizes the aggregation of stimuli-responsive polymers to isolate a diagnostic target (e.g., an antigen) from a solution using magnetophoresis. Isolating the diagnostic target provides a route to identify the presence of the diagnostic target in the solution.
US09080932B2
An electronic device may contain electrical components mounted on one or more substrates such as printed circuit boards. During a drop event, the printed circuit boards and components may be subjected to stresses. Strain gauges may be formed from metal traces embedded within dielectric layers in the printed circuit boards. The strain gauges may be used to make stress measurements at various locations on the boards. Stress data may be collected in response to data from an accelerometer indicating that the device has been dropped. Stress data collection may be halted in response to determining that the device has struck an external surface. Impact may be detected using accelerometer data, strain gauge output, or other sensor data. Stress data may be analyzed by the electronic device or external equipment.
US09080931B2
A method of impact testing an article of protective equipment includes mounting the article of protective equipment on a deformable member. The method also includes impacting the article of protective equipment with an impact object. Moreover, the method includes detecting an effect of impact on the deformable member due to impacting the article of protective equipment with the impact object.
US09080918B2
A compliant tactile sensor may include sponge-like material, a flexible skin, and a fluid pressure sensor. The flexible skin may have a shape, absorb fluid, compress in response to force applied to the sponge-like material, and decompress and return to its original shape when the force is removed. The flexible skin may cover an outer surface of the sponge-like material. The fluid pressure sensor may sense changes in pressure in fluid that is within the sponge-like material caused by a force applied to the flexible skin. A robotic system may include a movable robotic arm, a compliant tactile sensor on the movable robotic arm that senses contact between the compliant tactile sensor and an object during movement of the movable robotic arm and that cushions the effect of that contact, and a reflex system that causes the moveable robotic arm to move in response to commands.
US09080916B2
The color response of camera devices may be calibrated, using a correction factor that can account for differences in the spectra of light emitted by different light sources used during calibration. The correction factor may be calculated based on the expected spectral sensitivities of the camera devices, the power spectrum of an actual light source, and the power spectrum of a canonical light source. The correction factor is then applied to adjust a measured color response of a given camera device, so that the adjusted color response is effectively the response of the given camera device if it had been illuminated by the canonical light source. In this manner, any measured color response differences, which may be due to differences between the actual light source used and the canonical light source, can be effectively reduced (if not essentially eliminated.) Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09080903B2
A pitot tube system having a pitot tube containing a porous hydrophobic fabric that blocks water and contaminants from reaching a pressure sensor. The distance in the pitot tube between the fabric and a front orifice of the tube is less than 2.4 times the height of the orifice, and preferably less than or equal to 0.38 times the height. The section of the tube through which the fabric extends defines an opening characterized by a minimum dimension greater than 0.15 inches, and preferably being at least 0.21 inches. The tube is a removable structure that attaches to a mount that forms a passage for communicating the pressure in the tube. That passage contains a second porous hydrophobic fabric that also blocks water and contaminants from reaching a pressure sensor.
US09080897B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes a display device including a mechanical indicator, a reference photodetector, a measurement photodetector, and an opaque shroud. The opaque shroud is connected to the mechanical indicator to variably cover the measurement photodetector based on a position of the mechanical indicator. The opaque shroud does not cover the reference photodetector.
US09080889B2
Methods and systems respectively provide for receiving a wireless signal coverage map request from a wireless device. A map is generated in accordance with the request and provided to the wireless device. The map includes symbology keyed to wireless signal services within a particular geographic area. Such symbology can be indicative of recommended areas and travel routes having particular types of wireless signal coverage, regions of poor or non-existent wireless signal service, areas presently experiencing heavy wireless signal usage, and so on. In this way, a wireless device user can seek to access specific wireless services and/or avoid suspect trouble regions within a geographic area.
US09080886B1
UMAPS is a multifaceted system that can be robot-mounted, human-worn, or canine carried. UMAPS produces real-time, 3D mapping and localization for the user as they move throughout a GPS-denied environment (e.g. buildings, caves, or tunnels). An Operator Control Unit (OCU) displays information collected by UMAPS; 2D floorplans; 3D textured-enriched surfaces of the structure's interior; and the location of the users within that structure. UMAPS has an open architecture that allows it to function with any OCU. UMAPS has three distinct subsystems: obstacle maps for robot mobility, mapping, and positioning.
US09080881B2
An apparatus for providing navigational information associated with locations of objects includes an imaging device configured to acquire image data, a visual display coupled to the imaging device and configured to display the image data, a position measuring device configured to determine position information associated with the imaging device, and an orientation device configured to determine orientation information associated with the imaging device. The apparatus may also include a rendering system coupled to the visual display, the position measuring device, and the orientation device. The rendering system may be configured to determine image coordinates associated with a location of an object and provide a navigational graphic on the visual display oriented relative to the image coordinates.
US09080878B2
A mobile computing device can be used to locate a vehicle parking location. In particular, the mobile device can automatically identify when a vehicle in which the mobile device is located has entered into a parked state. The mobile device can determine that the vehicle is in a parked state by analyzing one or more parameters that indicate a parked state or a transit state. The location of the mobile device at a time corresponding to when the vehicle is identified as being parked can be associated with an identifier for the current parking location.
US09080877B2
Customized images can be used to improve navigation of a user to a particular destination. For example, a mobile device can receive a first destination location of the first user. Additionally, the mobile device can receive one or more media files of the first destination location, wherein at least one of the media files is created with a recording device. Furthermore, the mobile device can further receive an indicator associating the one or more media files with the first destination location. Subsequently, the mobile device can receive a current location of the mobile device of the first user. Finally, the mobile device can display the one or more media files when the current location is within a specified distance of the first destination location.
US09080876B2
A system for determining a suitable geographic rendezvous location for a plurality of geographically separated participants, preferably realized as a computer application which may be entered into devices such as Smartphones. The system inputs initial locations of the participants, determines a location which is intermediate the participants, and communicates the determined location to the participants. Optionally, the system may generate graphic displays on screens of the Smartphones, showing identification of the determined location, travel directions such as maps, warnings of impediments to travel, and supplementary information pertaining to the determined location such as addresses and contact data. The system may accept conditions influencing determination of a suitable location, may offer a choice of determined locations, and may draw on internet based sources for background information necessary for determining the determined location and for generating the displays. Some processing may be sourced remotely rather than within a participating Smartphone.
US09080875B2
An electronic device is operable to determine a Global Positioning System (GPS) mode of operation based upon accelerometer input. The electronic device includes a communications interface, a GPS receiver, an accelerometer module, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives an accelerometer output from the accelerometer module and compares the accelerometer output to a plurality of acceleration signatures. Based upon the comparison, an acceleration profile is selected. A GPS mode of operation is selected for the GPS receiver based upon the acceleration profile. The acceleration profile can be selected based upon one or more types of communications being serviced by the communications interface. In one embodiment, a selected GPS mode of operation selected corresponds to a distinct operating environment.
US09080874B2
There is provided an apparatus caused to acquire information indicating a measured magnetic field vector and information relating to an uncertainty measure of the measured magnetic field vector in at least one known location inside the building, wherein the indicated magnetic field vector represents magnitude and direction of the earth's magnetic field affected by the local structures of the building, and to generate the indoor magnetic field map for at least part of the building on the basis of at least the acquired information and the floor plan.
US09080870B2
A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) structure for an angular rate sensor includes seismic masses arranged to have a first degree of rotational freedom about an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the plane of a silicon substrate, and a second degree of rotational freedom about an axis substantially coincident with the longitudinal axis of driving beams to which the seismic masses are attached. A sensing system is arranged such that, when the structure is subjected to an angular velocity around a third axis that is substantially in the plane of the silicon substrate and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the beams, a Coriolis force arises which causes the secondary oscillation of the seismic masses.
US09080860B2
A method for detecting the shape or dimensions of a wheel on vehicle repair workshop machines comprises the stages of: projection of a line of light onto the surface of a portion of a wheel (3) mounted rotating on a vehicle repair workshop machine; acquisition of at least a two-dimensional image of the projected line of light; processing the acquired image to determine the profile of the portion of the wheel; at least two stages of complete rotation of the wheel; and a distributed detection stage, wherein the projection stage and acquisition stage are performed in correspondence to first angular positions of the wheel during the first rotation stage, and in correspondence to second angular positions of the wheel during the second rotation stages, the first angular positions and the second angular positions being at least partially distinct the one from the other.
US09080857B2
A device for interferential distance measurement that includes a light source that emits a light beam along a propagation direction and a scanning plate including a splitter that splits the light beam into a measurement beam and a reference beam. The device further including a reflector disposed spaced-apart in a direction of the propagation direction and a detector element. The measurement beam and the reference beam are propagated from the splitter along different optical paths toward the reflector, where a back reflection of the measurement beam and the reference beam occurs at the reflector toward the scanning plate. In addition, at a combining location the measurement beam and the reference beam attain interfering superposition, and wherein the measurement beam and the reference beam interfering at the combining location are detected by the detector element so that the detector element generates a distance signal regarding a distance between the scanning plate and the reflector.
US09080844B2
There is provided a method for analyzing at least one object under a first microscope and a second microscope concurrently by linking the two microscopes together. Movement of one microscope will result in movement of the other. This is done by computing a transformation to link a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system and generating guidance data when one of the two microscopes is displaced, the guidance data corresponding to a set of operations to be applied to the other microscope to follow movement of the microscope that is displaced.
US09080843B2
System for steering, about its axes of rotation, a moving body propelled by jet reaction, particularly a missile. The system (1) comprises two first flow deflectors (3, 4) of which one (3) is able to act exclusively on the outlet flow from one of the nozzles (17) of the moving body (M) which is provided with two jet nozzles (17, 18), and of which the other (4) is able to act exclusively on the outlet flow from the other jet nozzle (18) of said moving body (M), these two first flow deflectors (3, 4) interacting in such a way as to be able to steer the moving body (M) about two of its three axes of rotation, and a second flow deflector (5) which is able to act on the outlet flows from the two jet nozzles (17, 18), but on just one outlet flow at a time, so as to be able to steer the moving body (M) about the third of its axes of rotation.
US09080835B1
A system for mounting a plurality of tactical attachments to firearms having a magazine tube is disclosed. Tactical attachments or devices such as laser illumination sights, flashlights, magazine extension tubes, and breaching tools are interchangeable and attached with a single adapter mounted to the end of a magazine ammunition tube. Adapters of varying lengths provide increased ammunition capacity. The tactical devices have a common mounting structure for mating to the adapter, which includes a optional locking ring to assure the tactical device cannot become dislodged from the adapter during firearm usage. The adapter/tactical device interface allows rapid swapping of tactical devices without the need of tools.
US09080828B2
An assembly of a turret and low radar reflection weapon includes a turret (100) and a weapon (200) associated with the turret (100). The weapon (200) includes a first rest configuration, in which the weapon (200) is totally hidden inside the turret (100), and a second operating configuration, in which at least part of a barrel of said weapon projects from said turret (100). The turret (100) includes shielding, hatches and a false deck (110, 120, 111, 112; 121, 122) for hiding said weapon (200) with a low radar reflection shape.
US09080818B2
Heat exchangers are described that employ fins made of a heat conducting foam material to enhance heat transfer. The foam fins can be used in any type of heat exchanger including, but not limited to, a plate-fin heat exchanger, a plate-frame heat exchanger or a shell-and-tube heat exchanger. The heat exchangers employing foam fins described herein are highly efficient, inexpensive to build, and corrosion resistant. The described heat exchangers can be used in a variety of applications, including but not limited to, low thermal driving force applications, power generation applications, and non-power generation applications such as refrigeration and cryogenics. The fins can be made from any thermally conductive foam material including, but not limited to, graphite foam or metal foam.
US09080811B2
A process and an apparatus are disclosed for the recovery of ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, and heavier hydrocarbon components from a hydrocarbon gas stream in a compact processing assembly. The gas stream is cooled and divided into first and second streams. The first stream is further cooled to condense substantially all of it and is thereafter expanded to lower pressure and supplied as a feed between first and second absorbing means inside the processing assembly. The second stream is expanded to lower pressure and supplied as the bottom feed to the second absorbing means. A distillation vapor stream is collected from the upper region of the first absorbing means and directed into one or more heat exchange means inside the processing assembly to heat it while cooling the gas stream and the first stream. The heated distillation vapor stream is compressed to higher pressure and divided into a volatile residue gas fraction and a compressed recycle stream. The compressed recycle stream is cooled to condense substantially all of it by the distillation vapor stream in the one or more heat exchange means inside the processing assembly, and is thereafter expanded to lower pressure and supplied as top feed to the first absorbing means. A distillation liquid stream is collected from the lower region of the second absorbing means and directed into a heat and mass transfer means inside the processing assembly to heat it and strip out its volatile components while cooling the gas stream. The quantities and temperatures of the feeds to the first and second absorbing means are effective to maintain the temperature of the upper region of the first absorbing means at a temperature whereby the major portions of the desired components are recovered in the stripped distillation liquid stream.
US09080809B2
A cooling device of the present invention, includes: a cooler provided on at least one side-wall side of a chamber formed with a thermal insulating box; a cooling chamber in front of the cooler; and a fan that allows air in the cooling chamber to flow. The cooler and the cooling chamber are partitioned by a partition so as to allow cold air to be accumulated in the cooler, the fan is disposed on a side of the cooler relative to the partition, the partition in front of the fan has an aperture, and cold air accumulated in a space inside the partition and hot air in the cooling chamber are exchanged by the fan through the aperture. Thereby, a cooling device with a simple configuration and excellent cooling performance can be provided, by which the amount of frost deposited on a cooling coil can be reduced and the miniaturization of the device can be realized.
US09080808B2
A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator may include a refrigerator body having at least one storage compartment and an opening, and a main door for opening and closing the storage compartment, the main door also having an opening corresponding to a receiving compartment formed therein. A sub door may be provided to open and close the opening of the main door, and a gasket may be provided along an edge of a rear surface of the sub door to contact a front surface of the main door and seal an interior of the main door when the sub door is closed. A heat transfer member may extend from the inside of a side to the inside of a front surface of the main door.
US09080803B2
A method and device comprising a cooling chamber and a rotating portion located inside said chamber whereby a beverage container is attached frictionally to said rotating portion and is spun inside the cooling chamber whereby ice and water or other cooling means are employed to chill the exterior walls of a beverage container. Rotation is achieved by a manual operation of a spring-plunger spinning means and causes suitable chilling in a reasonable period of time without electrical power.
US09080802B2
A backup cooling storage system comprising at least one cooling and storage unit configured to cool a liquid supply using a quantity of cooled material when a main chiller of the liquid supply is not operational, and at least one chilling element configured to generate the quantity of cooled material for the at least one cooling and storage unit when the main chiller of the liquid supply is operational. Additional embodiments and methods are further disclosed.
US09080801B2
A refrigerator having its heat exchanger outdoors. In one embodiment, a thermos is attached to the front of a window air conditioner. In another embodiment, the refrigerator has gated conduits to allow cold outdoor air into the refrigerator. The refrigerator has a compressor that circulates refrigerant in an auxiliary evaporator adjacent to the refrigerator compartment to freeze the water in the refrigerator at night and to allow the ice to keep the refrigerator cold. In another embodiment, the refrigerator is combined with a heat pump such that the outdoor heat exchanger of the heat pump and the outdoor heat exchanger of the refrigerator are in close thermal contact. Another embodiment includes a heat pump having a second evaporator near the refrigerator compartment to cool the inside of the refrigerator compartment and heat the home simultaneously by transferring the heat from inside the refrigerator to the indoors.
US09080798B2
A method of controlling a refrigerated merchandiser including a plurality of display case modules each having a separate refrigeration circuit with a compressor and an evaporator. The method includes selectively starting and stopping a first compressor of a first refrigeration circuit having a first evaporator associated with a first display case module to regulate a temperature in a product display area of the first display case module, and selectively starting and stopping a second compressor of a second refrigeration circuit having a second evaporator associated with a second display case module to regulate a temperature in a product display area of the second display case module. The method also includes controlling the first refrigeration module and the second refrigeration module based on a heat load of the merchandiser and a predetermined number of start/stop cycles of each of the first compressor and the second compressor within a given time period.
US09080794B2
An expansion engine operating on a Brayton cycle which is part of a system for producing refrigeration at cryogenic temperatures that includes a compressor, a counter-flow heat exchanger, and a load that may be remote, which is cooled by gas circulating from the engine. The engine has a piston in a cylinder which has nearly the same pressure above and below the piston while it is moving. The piston and valves can be either mechanically or pneumatically actuated and the pressures above and below the piston can be nearly equal by virtue of a regenerator that connects the two spaces or by valves.
US09080792B2
Solar panel array with a plurality of solar panels on support system attached at corners or off such corners for foundation structure needs and irregularities secured to roof by lag bolt with mount channel and flashing pre-assembled into mount by crimp for positive seal and mount riser height adjustable can include bilateral or quadrilateral mounts, a coupler seat to affix panel to mount and lateral movement seat for solar panel. An intercalative junction piece, nut, or washer has tines for grounding, a dissociation guide and flexture and keeps off the surface for association and perforation to clamp panel firmly via different clamps including wedge clamps, top restraints, lip end clamps, side support clamps, compression clamps, etc.
US09080789B2
Systems, methods and devices for utilizing an energy chassis device designed to sense, collect, store and distribute energy from where it is available using devices that harvest or convert energy to locations requiring energy such as but not limited to HVAC (heating, ventilation and cooling) systems. The systems, methods and devices can also be used with a next generation geothermal heat exchanger that achieves higher energy harvesting efficiency and provides greater functionality than current geothermal exchangers.
US09080776B2
A fan apparency arrangement for an appliance is disclosed. The appliance has a chamber with a first port and a second port. The arrangement includes a fan for moving air in or out of the chamber, and a sail switch disposed adjacent to the second port. When activated, the fan moves air in or out of the chamber through the first port to create a pressure difference between an inside and an outside of the chamber. The pressure difference causes the sail switch to change position and signal that the fan is activated. An appliance incorporating such a fan apparency arrangement is also disclosed.
US09080775B2
A potentiometer for a household cooking appliance including a gas valve having a valve stem. The potentiometer includes a circuit board having a contact, a wiper rotor that is rotatable with respect to the circuit board and having an opening corresponding to an axis of rotation of the wiper rotor, the opening of the wiper rotor for engaging the valve stem of the gas valve, the wiper rotor including a wiper electrically contacting the contact of the circuit board, a housing coupled to the circuit board and enclosing the wiper rotor between the housing and the circuit board, and a first interior edge and a second interior edge formed in each of the circuit board, the wiper rotor, and the housing and defining a channel extending from an outer edge of the potentiometer to the opening of the wiper rotor.
US09080771B2
A combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine including a wall, a well secured to the wall, the well forming a recess for a spark plug leading into the combustion chamber, and a spark-plug guide mounted on the well to be transversally mobile relative to the axis of the well, the spark-plug guide including a cylindrical wall portion for guiding and supporting the spark plug and a seal ring mounted such as to engage slidably with a bearing surface of the well. In the combustion chamber the spark-plug guide includes a cooling chamber having openings for supplying cooling air to the chamber.
US09080770B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine is provided. The combustor includes an inner liner; an outer liner circumscribing the inner liner; and a combustor dome having a first edge coupled to the inner liner and a second edge coupled to the outer liner. The combustor dome forms a combustion chamber with the inner liner and the outer liner. The combustion chamber receives air flow through the inner and outer liners, and the combustor dome is configured to bifurcate the air flow at the combustor dome into a first stream directed to the inner liner and a second stream directed to the outer liner.
US09080769B2
An apparatus is provided for a heating appliance that includes a manually-opened pilot valve that is held in an open position when a sufficient voltage is applied to a valve operator, and a thermocouple that converts heat from a pilot flame into a voltage that is applied to the valve operator. The apparatus includes a voltage measuring circuit that provides an output indicative of a magnitude of the voltage generated by the thermocouple, and a light emitting device. A controller is coupled to the voltage measuring circuit and the light emitting device. The controller is configured to establish, based on the output indicative of the magnitude of the voltage generated by the thermocouple, a switch sequence for switching the light emitting device on and off in a flashing manner, to provide an indication of when the magnitude of the voltage is sufficient to cause the valve operator to hold the gas valve open.
US09080766B2
An emission control apparatus which can be used on an outdoor wood-fired boiler. Ambient air, which has a much higher concentration of available oxygen in relation to exhaust gases, is caused to be heated before being passed through catalyst-coated media along with exhaust gases, thereby improving the performance of the catalytic reaction. An embodiment also relates to an emission control apparatus having a housing with an internal wall and an external wall, the internal wall defining an exhaust flow path and having a catalyst-coated media disposed therein, at least one ambient air duct disposed within the housing between the internal wall and the external wall, where each ambient air duct includes an air inlet in the external wall of the housing and an air outlet in the internal wall of the housing in communication with the catalyst-coated media, insulation disposed within the housing between the internal wall and the external wall, and wherein the at least one ambient air duct and insulation are positioned such that, during operation of the emission control apparatus, ambient air enters through the air inlet, travels upwardly through the air duct on a cool exterior side of the insulation before turning and traveling back down on a hot interior side of the insulation where the ambient air is heated from conduction through the internal wall of the housing before being introduced into the catalyst-coated media.
US09080762B2
A decorative display apparatus comprising a flameless candle with an integrated fountain is disclosed. The flameless candle with integrated fountain is designed to be a stand-alone device. The flameless candle with integrated fountain includes a translucent candle body containing a water reservoir to which an optional scent may be added, a power source which may be a battery, USB or DC supply from an AC converter, a pump and an integrated water and light diffuser. The flameless candle with integrated fountain may be operated in either candle-only mode or candle and fountain mode. The device may also be operated on a timer.
US09080760B1
A light fixture assembly including an illumination assembly in the form of one or more light emitting diodes is interconnected to an electrical energy source by control circuitry. A mounting assembly supports the illumination assembly and a cover structure is disposed in heat transferring relation to the illumination assembly, wherein the cover structure and/or mounting assembly have enlarged surface areas formed of a heat conductive material, facilitating heat dissipation generated by the illumination assembly into the surrounding environment. At least one connector, formed of an electrically conductive material, is disposed in interconnecting, current conducting relation between a source of electrical energy and the illumination assembly. The mounting assembly is disposed in electrically segregated relation to the connector(s), wherein said interconnecting relation of said one connector at least partially defines an assembled orientation of the illumination assembly and mounting assembly.
US09080752B2
A light emitting element array for an illumination apparatus, an illumination apparatus and method of manufacture of the same in which an array of light-emitting elements and an array of light directing optics are provided between first and second attached mothersheet substrates wherein the thermal resistance of at least one of the mothersheet substrates is reduced by means of thickness reduction so as to provide reduced LED junction temperature.
US09080742B2
A near infrared illuminator can facilitate the adjustment of an optical axis thereof with favorable accuracy. The near infrared illuminator can include: a light source configured to emit near infrared rays; and a projector lens configured to project the near infrared rays emitted from the light source forward to form a predetermined light distribution pattern in front thereof. The projector lens can include a light distribution control section configured to project part of the near infrared rays emitted from the light source forward to form the predetermined light distribution pattern, and a marker forming section configured to project part of the near infrared rays emitted from the light source forward to form an alignment marker for positioning the light distribution pattern at a predetermined position beside the light distribution pattern.
US09080741B2
A light device includes a light engine having light emitting device, an optical device, and at least a first magnetic element disposed between the light emitting device and the optical device. The light device further includes a support holder having a magnetic material adapted to couple to the at least one magnetic element, to magnetically attach the light engine to the support holder.
US09080739B1
An optic can receive light from a dome of a light emitting diode and output light that, when cast upon a nearby flat surface, forms a strip of illumination. The optic can comprise a cavity that receives the light from the dome and an outer surface that emits the received light. An edge of the cavity can extend peripherally around the cavity in an oblong geometry. An edge of the outer surface can extend peripherally around the outer surface in an oblong geometry that is rotated ninety degrees relative to the oblong geometry of the cavity. A sidewall of the outer surface can comprise a region that is concave in nature or sags.
US09080737B2
A lighting device for a vehicle has a base member and a lens. A light emitting diode and a reflector are housed in a space formed by the base member and the lens. The light emitting diode is disposed at a predetermined position on a support member extending into the space. The support member is provided with a wall which is located in front of and near the light emitting diode and which is higher than the light emitting diode. In a front view, the wall hides the light emitting diode and blocks light exiting directly from the light emitting diode without propagating through the reflector.
US09080730B2
A combination reflector and LED conversion module for a non-LED flashlight includes a cup-shaped reflector including an interior with a reflective surface, an exterior, an open end, and an end opposite the open end; and one or more LEDs carried by the cup-shaped reflector adjacent the end opposite the open end. The combination reflector and LED conversion module replaces an existing non-LED bulb and reflector of a non-LED flashlight to convert the non-LED flashlight to a LED flashlight.
US09080726B2
A tank system for a motor vehicle, tank system including at least one first compressed gas vessel defining a first vessel space configured to receive natural gas, and at least one second compressed gas vessel defining a second vessel space configured to receive at least one of natural gas and liquefied gas.
US09080724B2
An extruded beam element suitable for the construction of sandwich structures, comprises two parallel plates (2,3), each having a first part (2) and a second part (3), wherein the first parts of said plates (2) are connected by multiple webs, wherein at least two of said webs (1) are inclined with respect to the longitudinal plane (Y) perpendicular to the plates (2,3), and wherein the first parts (2) and the webs (1,5) form a relatively rigid portion of the beam element and the second parts (3) form a relatively flexible portion of the beam element, as well as sandwich panels and tanks comprising said beam elements.
US09080721B2
Embodiments of the invention include an apparatus for positioning an electronic display. The apparatus can be combined with an existing work surface to provide a multi-position workstation. In some cases the apparatus includes a mounting portion configured to support an electronic display and a keyboard. The mounting portion may be movable with respect to the work surface between multiple positions, including for example, a sitting position and a standing position. Methods for positioning an electronic display and a keyboard are also included.
US09080716B2
A case construction encases an electronic device and enables a user to rotatably and linearly displace the electronic device relative to a select surface of the case construction. The case construction includes a case with a cradle-receiving surface, a cradle sized and shaped to removably receive an electronic device, and a device-to-surface anchor assembly. The cradle includes a centralized region having an oblong aperture. The oblong aperture defines a cradle displacement zone segment. The device-to-surface anchor assembly secures the cradle device to the cradle-receiving surface and is cooperable with the oblong aperture for enabling a user to linearly and rotatably displace the centralized region along the cradle displacement zone segment. Certain methodology for displacing an electronic device relative to select surfacing so as to position the electronic device in a select orientation relative to the select surfacing is further provided.
US09080704B2
A universal pipe coupler is disclosed. The coupler has a support ring with an outer surface, a plurality of blades arranged into a blade array surrounding the support ring, each blade having a proximal end and a distal end, and a flexible restraining member moveable between an elongated position and a shortened position. Each blade proximal end is pivotally attached to the outer surface of the support ring. Each blade distal end extends radially away from the ring and is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The restraining member is positioned to slidably engage each blade, whereby when the restraining member is in the elongated position, the blades are movable to the open position and when the restraining member is in the shortened position the blades are drawn to the closed position.
US09080702B2
The present invention relates to a method for the highly-thick thermal coating of joints by using electrofusion in pipes used for conducting fluids, made of steel tubes externally coated with polyolefins, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a) Placing an anticorrosive coating on the steel pipes to be joined; b) Placing and adjusting the half-round pipes in the connection area of the pipes, and possibly, the linking parts; c) Exerting pressure between the half-round pipes by using compression equipment; d) Connecting the electrical resistances to an external power source; e) Electrofusion welding the adjacent surfaces; f) Cooling and disassembling the compression elements of step c).
US09080696B2
The present invention relates to a marine pipelaying vessel for S-lay pipelaying an offshore pipeline and integrating one or more accessories into the pipeline, and a method for S-lay pipelaying wherein use is made of such a vessel. The vessel according to the invention comprises a hull (1) having a stinger end and a stinger (20) for guiding the launched pipeline in a curved pipeline trajectory, which stinger is pivotably connected to the hull, and an accessory handling J-lay tower (30) at the stinger end of the hull. The J-lay tower allows the pipeline and connected accessory to be laid in J-lay mode while connecting further pipe sections to the pipeline at least until the accessory has been lowered past below the retracted stinger. A stinger support assembly (15) is provided for supporting the stinger in a pipelay position, and for allowing movement of the stinger between the pipelay position and a steep downwardly pivoted retracted position by pivoting the stinger about its stinger pivot axis, wherein the stinger in the retracted position is away from the J-lay firing line.
US09080690B2
Tunable check valves reduce valve-generated vibration to increase the reliability of tunable fluid ends. Selected improved designs described herein reflect disparate applications of identical technical principles (relating to, e.g., the vibration spectrum of an impulse). Tunable check valve embodiments comprise a family including, but not limited to, tunable check valve assemblies, tunable valve seats, and tunable radial arrays. Each such tunable embodiment, in turn, contributes to blocking excitation of fluid end resonances, thus reducing the likelihood of fluid end failures associated with fatigue cracking and/or corrosion fatigue. By down-shifting the frequency domain of each valve-closing impulse shock, initial excitation of fluid end resonances is minimized. Subsequent damping and/or selective attenuation of vibration likely to excite one or more predetermined (and frequently localized) fluid end resonances represents further optimal use of fluid end vibration-control resources for improving high-pressure fluid end reliability.
US09080684B2
A solenoid device includes a magnet armature and an armature counterpiece which is arranged at the end of the magnet armature. The magnet armature and the armature counterpiece are movable in relation to one another and an air gap is provided between a magnet armature end face and an armature counterpiece end face. The air gap creates a magnetic series path of the solenoid device. A disc is composed of a magnetizable material and is arranged in the air gap. The disc is configured to make physical contact with the magnetic armature end face and the armature counterpiece end face at least in regions. A magnetic shunt path is present when the magnetic armature and the armature counterpiece are in at least one position relative to one another. The magnetic shunt path runs across the disc at least in regions. The series path has a lower reluctance than the shunt path which runs across the disc when the magnet armature and the armature counterpiece are in the at least one position relative to one another.
US09080683B2
A method for conducting a partial stroke test of an emergency shutdown valve includes receiving a request to initiate the partial stroke test from a user interface or another source, establishing a direct or an indirect wireless communication link with the emergency shutdown valve, and generating one or more commands of a digital industrial automation protocol to be transmitted to the emergency shutdown valve via the wireless communication link, so that a partial stroke test of the emergency shutdown valve is initiated in response to these commands.
US09080682B2
A latching valve is provided. The latching valve comprises a valve seal movable between first and second positions to selectively open a fluid communication path between fluid inlet and outlet ports. The latching valve also includes a first pilot valve seal movable between first and second positions. The first pilot valve seal selectively provides a pressurized fluid to a pilot control chamber, wherein pressurized fluid within the pilot control chamber biases the valve seal towards the first position. The latching valve also includes a second pilot valve seal movable between a first position and a second position. The second pilot valve seal selectively exhausts the pressurized fluid in the pilot control chamber. The latching valve also includes one or more shape memory alloy elements to actuate one or more of the first and second pilot valve seals between the first and second positions upon heating above a transformation temperature.
US09080677B2
A valve assembly comprising an inner housing in which is provided a first port, a second port, and a third port, and a valve member assembly which is movable between a first position, a second position, and a third position. An outer housing is separate from and encloses at least part of the inner housing, the outer housing having a first port and a second port, the Inner housing and outer housing each being provided with first mating parts, which engage to provide a substantially fluid tight seal while enclosing a conduit for fluid communication between the first port of the inner housing and the first port of the outer housing, and second mating parts, which engage to provide a substantially fluid tight seal while enclosing a conduit for fluid communication between the second port of the Inner housing and the second port of the outer housing.
US09080675B2
A gate valve for blocking a pipe, wherein the gave valve comprises a valve body and a wedge, which is insertable into a wedge receptacle disposed in the valve body, wherein the wedge has a wedge plate on at least one side in the passage direction of the pipe, which is disposed on the wedge with a clearance in the direction of the center longitudinal axis of the pipe, wherein the wedge plate is adapted to be pressed by at least one elastic element against the wedge receptacle in the valve body, wherein the at least one elastic element is configured as an approximately circular-shaped circumferential bellows having a central opening.
US09080673B2
An adjustable seal apparatus for mounting a mixing apparatus having a movable shaft in sealed engagement with a wall of a vessel and in a selected orientation with respect to the wall of the vessel. The adjustable seal apparatus includes a seal mechanism for creating a gas-tight seal between the shaft of the mixing apparatus and the wall of the vessel and an adjustable mounting mechanism for selectively positioning the shaft in a desired orientation.
US09080672B2
In a sealing device installed to an installation groove which is provided in an outer peripheral surface of one member among two members relatively moving, and sealing between the two members by coming into close contact with the other member which is positioned in an outer peripheral side of the installation groove and one side wall of the installation groove, the sealing device has a seal ring, a support ring having a pressing surface which comes into contact with an inner peripheral corner portion the seal ring, and a spring means which presses the support ring and the seal ring. A collapsing margin in relation to the taper surface shaped pressing surface in the support ring is normally set in an inner peripheral corner portion in the seal ring. According to the sealing device, it is possible to improve pressure resistance and sealing performance.
US09080669B2
A system and method of selecting optimum gear of automobile is provided. The system includes a data processor; a running vehicle data collection module; an output module; and a memory. The memory is stored with universal characteristic curve of an engine, gear ratios of a gearbox, speed reduction ratios, and a tire radius. The running vehicle data collection module collects and sends a current vehicle speed, revolutions of the engine, and an output torque of the engine to the data processor. The data processor processes the universal characteristic curve of the engine, the gear ratios of the gearbox, the speed reduction ratios, and the tire radius to determine a current gear and an optimum gear. The data processor outputs the optimum gear to the output module if the current gear is not the optimum gear. The system can select optimum gear in real time and lower fuel consumption.
US09080663B2
An actuating device for selecting gear steps of a shift-by-wire gearshift transmission with a base housing, a selection lever, a mechanical transmission means for actuating the parking lock, and with a coupling element are arranged between the selection lever and the transmission means. The transmission means is selectively actuated by the coupling element only during selection and/or deselection of the parking lock position on the selection lever. The coupling element has an end which is linearly guided in a slot and an end which is pivotally guided in certain sections in the base housing. The coupling element and the selection lever are kinematically coupled with each other by way of a swivel support. The structure and the installation of the mechanical transmission linkage required for selectively actuating the transmission means to the parking lock can be simplified. The mechanical transmission linkage provides a smoothly operating haptic without significant play and can be used without complex changes also for actuating devices having more than one shift gate.
US09080662B2
A vehicle incorporating an engine, an automatic, robotic, or continuously variable transmission mechanically coupled to the engine, a vehicle control system coupled to the engine and the transmission, a braking system, a gas pedal for controlling the operation of the engine, a brake pedal for controlling the operation of the braking system, the gas pedal and the brake pedal being disposed in the vehicle for control by a right foot of the driver, the vehicle further comprising an additional pedal being disposed in the vehicle for control by a left foot of the driver and coupled to the vehicle control system. The additional pedal may be configured to control the gear shifting of the automatic, robotic, or continuously variable transmission of the vehicle. Upon an activation of the additional pedal, the automatic, robotic, or continuously variable transmission of the vehicle may be configured to downshift.
US09080655B2
A no-lash nut assembly for installation on a threaded rod and including a lead nut, a trailing nut, a transition nut and a torsion spring. The lead and trailing nuts have threaded bores for mating with the rod. The trailing nut has an external surface configured for engagement with the lead nut to prohibit relative rotation and allow relative axial movement. The transition nut has a threaded bore for mating to trailing nut, an external surface defining a slot, and a front face having a mating surface corresponding to the rear face of the lead nut to allow relative axial movement between the lead nut and the transition nut. The torsion spring has a pin and a hook. The pin protrudes into the rear face of the lead nut and the hook protrudes into the transition nut slot to apply a rotational force on the transition nut.
US09080654B2
An actuator device of a sliding cam system having at least one sliding cam and at least one engaging pin (2) projecting out from a housing (1), the housing (1) being fastenable to a component of a cylinder head or to the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, and the engaging pin (2) being able to be contacted by at least one groove of the sliding cam system that has at least one lead-out slope, and the engaging pin (2) being spring-loaded toward the sliding cam, and, in the retracted position thereof facing the groove, the engaging pin(s) (2) or at least one component connected thereto can be secured in place by an arrestable latch device.
US09080652B2
The present invention provides a toroidal continuously variable transmission capable of reducing loss which occurs at a bearing and achieving range-widening at low cost with easy disc machinability.In the toroidal continuously variable transmission, a bearing ring 100 of a ball bearing 6 is formed at a small end surface 3a of an inner disc 3. Further, at least a part of the bearing ring 100 is axially overlapped with a traction surface 12 which is a boundary surface between a power roller and the inner disc 3. Further, a position adjustment member 120 is inserted between support posts 8a, 8b and a bearing ring facing to the disc 3 (the other bearing ring of the ball bearing 6 opposed to the bearing ring 100 of the small end surface 3a).
US09080648B2
A two-step multi-step transmission in which a first planetary gear set (1) has two radially nested transmission sub-assemblies. The first planetary gearset has an inner sun gear (11), inner planetary gears (12), an outer sun gear (14) which is rotationally fixed to the inner ring gear (13), outer planetary gears (15), an outer ring gear (16), and a carrier (17) on which the inner planetary gears (12) and the outer planetary gears (15) are mounted. The inner ring gear (13) and the outer sun gear (14), respectively, are rotationally fixed to a second, traditionally designed planetary gear set (2) and can be locked via a brake (42).
US09080647B2
A pulley assembly for combining of a wire, may include a groove member having a first guide groove helically threaded in an outer circumferential surface thereof and having a truncated cone shape, and a cylindrical guide pulley selectively combined with a bottom surface of the groove member and having a second guide groove formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, wherein the wire may be configured to move to the second guide groove of the guide pulley along the first guide groove of the groove member when the groove member combined with the cylindrical guide pulley rotates in a direction.
US09080636B2
A dual wet clutch in a closed housing. A damper is arranged in the power flow from the housing to the input parts of the wet clutches. The input parts are connected to one another substantially without play. Furthermore, a centrifugal force pendulum is arranged on at least one input part. The arrangement has a particularly short axial structural length.
US09080633B2
The present invention relates to a shock absorbing device (100) for mating an integrated deck to a jacket leg (51), characterized by: a hollow constraining cylinder (10) having a bottom closure (11), connected to the top of the jacket leg (51); an elastomer module (20) provided in the hollow constraining cylinder (10), wherein inner diameter of the hollow constraining cylinder (10) is larger than outer diameter of the elastomer module (20) thereby forming an annular space; a plurality of reinforcing plates (30) embedded within the elastomer module (20), vertically spaced apart from each other; a protective assembly comprising a elastomeric cap (41) and a minimum of one protective ring (42) mounted to the elastomeric cap (41); wherein during mating of the integrated deck to jacket leg (51), a support column (52) of the integrated deck abuts on the protective assembly and compresses the elastomer module (20) to secure the connection of the integrated deck to the jacket leg (51).
US09080631B2
A damper unit includes first and second chambers, a first piston dividing the first chamber into first and second volumes, and a second piston dividing the second chamber into third and fourth volumes. Each piston is moveable along the respective chamber. The second chamber has a cross-sectional area that is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first chamber so that the second chamber at least partially slides inside the first chamber and at least part of the first chamber can be located around the outside of the second chamber. The first piston is attached to the part of the second chamber that slides inside the first chamber. The position of the second piston is fixed relative to the first chamber as the second chamber slides relative to first chamber. The length of the damper unit changes as the second chamber slides relative to the first chamber.
US09080629B2
A shock absorber includes a piston disposed within a pressure tube. A valve assembly is attached to the piston. The valve assembly defines a first fluid flow through an always open fluid passage; a second fluid flow due to elastic deformation of a valve disc of the piston assembly; and a third fluid flow due to movement of the entire valve disc away from the piston. In one embodiment, the valve assembly is designed to be pre-assembled at an off-line and/or off-site location.
US09080626B2
A self-energizing disc brake includes a brake-internal hydraulic arrangement with a supply circuit and an expansion vessel; a brake application device with a brake application cylinder for applying a brake pad toward a brake disc; a force transmission unit supporting the brake pad at a wedge angle on the brake application device; a tangential-force absorbing cylinder for switching over the wedge angle; an electric-motor actuator acting on the brake application device via the hydraulic arrangement; a distributor cylinder arranged in series between the electric-motor actuator and the brake application device for pressure boosting; and a control unit. A parking brake device has an adjustable screw spindle for adjusting the brake pad, which spindle is coupleable to the electric-motor actuator for driving. The tangential-force absorbing cylinder is connectable hydraulically to the supply circuit and the expansion vessel.
US09080615B2
A fastening portion is formed from a rivet hole of a first side wall portion of a clutch drum, a rivet hole of a second side wall portion of a clutch drum, and a rivet that is inserted into the rivet hole and the rivet hole to hold together the first side wall portion and the second side wall portion. The fastening portion is provided between a first engagement side oil chamber enclosed by the clutch drum and a clutch piston, and a second engagement side oil chamber enclosed by the clutch drum and a clutch piston.
US09080606B2
A device for mounting and driving a rotatable part of a gantry of a computed tomography system with respect to a stationary part of the gantry around a system axis of the stationary part, has a magnetic bearing that magnetically supports the rotatable part relative to the stationary part, and an electromagnetic drive that drives the rotatable part of the gantry relative to the stationary part.
US09080605B2
A sliding bearing having a metallic outer ring and a self-lubricating liner formed on the inner circumferential surface of the outer ring. The self-lubricating liner has a self-lubricating resin composition consisting of a mixture of 60 to 80% by weight of polyetherketone-based resin, 10 to 30% by weight of polytetrafluoroethylene, 5 to 15% by weight of carbon fiber, and not more than 15% by weight of aramid fiber, a total amount of the carbon fiber and the aramid fiber being 10 to 25% by weight. The inner circumferential surface of the outer ring has a surface roughness in terms of center line average roughness not less than Ra 4.0 μm and a surface roughness in terms of maximum height not less than Rmax 30.0 μm; and the outer ring and the self-lubricating liner are unified. A method of producing the bearing is also provided.
US09080603B2
A linear motion bearing assembly comprising a load bearing plate structure having at least a portion of a plurality of open axial ball tracks formed therein, each of said plurality of open axial ball tracks comprised of at least two concentric ball tracks. The ball tracks including an open load bearing portion, an open return portion and turnarounds interconnecting the load bearing and return portions. A plurality of bearing balls are disposed in the ball tracks. At lease one load bearing plate is axially positioned adjacent said load bearing plate structure for receiving load from the balls disposed in the load bearing portion of the ball tracks. Various outer housing sleeves are disclosed including a structure split axially and a monolithic structure.
US09080588B2
Quick fastening clip, such as those used in the motor vehicle industry, having formed therein, extending from a vault-like surface, legs which by means of a fold are folded in the form of an internal extension, forming, when both of them on each side are joined together, the contact point for a retaining sill; having flanges inclined so as to be directed approximately towards the centre of said bottom surface; flexible wings are provided, being formed by means of a fold which creates a surface, and, by means of another fold which extends into a descending vertical zone, a through-opening with approximately vertical access is created by means of a band which protrudes transversely from said descending surface.
US09080584B2
A pneumatic cylinder having end position damping of the cylinder piston is controlled by means of a vent path and a control valve, the control valve comprises a control piston, the control side of which is pressurized by a pneumatic pressure which exists in a control chamber. The movement of the control piston into its closing position is pneumatically controlled by the increasing pressure in the damping chamber during the beginning of the damping. No additional components or controls are to be provided, so that the control of the end position damping occurs exclusively by the pressure conditions prevailing at the time when the damping begins.
US09080576B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling a processing system are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of controlling a processing system may include operating a vacuum pump coupled to a process chamber at a first baseline pump idle speed selected to maintain the process chamber at a pressure equal to a first baseline pump idle pressure; monitoring the pressure in the process chamber while operating the vacuum pump at the first baseline pump idle speed; and determining whether the first baseline pump idle pressure can be maintained in the process chamber when the vacuum pump is operating at the first baseline pump idle speed.
US09080574B2
A system for energy storage, in particular for mechanical energy, including a system for quasi-isothermal compression of a gas via a hydraulic fluid. The mechanical energy stored is then released by quasi-isothermal expansion of the gas. The system is also configured to store electrical energy, in particular from intermittent sources such as photovoltaic or wind energy. The storage of excess electrical energy can also be considered for use during consumption peaks.
US09080573B2
A coolant pump for delivering a coolant in a coolant circuit of a combustion engine, including: a housing; a drive shaft, rotatably mounted by the housing and rotationally driven by the combustion engine; a radial feed wheel, rotationally driven by the drive shaft, for delivering coolant from a radially internal inflow region into a radially more external outflow region; a setting structure, adjustable into different positions relative to the housing by control fluid, for adjusting a flow geometry which influences the delivery volume of the pump at a given rotational speed; a control valve for setting a pressure or volume flow of the control fluid which determines the position of the setting structure; and a servo pump, which is a rotary pump including at least one servo pump wheel and can be rotationally driven by the drive shaft, for delivering the control fluid to the control valve.
US09080571B2
A pump comprises a rotor arrangement and a stator arrangement. The stator arrangement comprises a first part made from a corrosive resistant material which defines a volume which in use is swept by the rotor arrangement for pumping fluid from an inlet to an outlet of the stator arrangement. A second part of the stator arrangement is made from a thermally conductive material which envelopes the first part so that heat generated in the first part can be transferred to the second part at the interface surface between the two parts. The second part has formed therein at least one duct for conveying a liquid coolant through the second part so that heat can be transferred from the second part to the liquid coolant for cooling the stator arrangement.
US09080563B2
A disclosed connector assembly for connecting abutting ends of a pair of rods includes a pair of outer clamp members, each adapted to receive one of two inner clamp members. Each inner clamp member has two opposed inner surfaces, each adapted to contact a corresponding shoulder of one of the rod ends. The assembly includes means for urging the outer clamp members toward one another. A described method for connecting the rod ends includes installing one of the inner clamp members in each of the outer clamp members and positioning the outer clamp members about the abutting ends of the rods such that the inner surfaces of the inner clamp members contact the corresponding shoulders. When the outer clamp members are urged toward one another, the inner surfaces of the inner clamp members impart forces on the corresponding shoulders that urge the ends of the rods toward one another.
US09080549B2
A hydrostatic axial piston machine (1), in particular an axial piston motor, has a rotating cylinder block (3) with a cylinder block body (3a) and a cylinder block neck (3b), and a drive shaft (14). Located in the cylinder block body (3a) are a plurality of piston bores (4) with pistons (5) that can move longitudinally and which are supported on a swashplate (7). Between the cylinder block neck (3b) which projects from the cylinder block body (3a) and extends in the direction of the swashplate (7) and the drive shaft (14) there is a synchronization gearing (20) and a braking device (25) that acts on the cylinder block (3). In the vicinity of the cylinder block neck (3b) within the axial dimension of the cylinder block body (3a), there is an additional synchronization gearing (21). The additional synchronization gearing (21) has a larger gear tooth clearance (SF) in the vicinity of the cylinder block body (3a) than the synchronization gearing (21) in the vicinity of the cylinder block neck (3b).
US09080545B2
The invention relates to methods and means of regulating the speed of a two-stroke combustion engine. An arrangement for alternating an ignition timing relative to a top dead center position is provided. For a given engine speed, the ignition timing may be step-wise adjustable. One or more steps may be used while alternating between two ignition timings. The ignition timing may be adjusted when the engine speed increases above a threshold engine speed.
US09080532B2
An exhaust manifold and diffuser integrated cylinder head, includes an exhaust manifold and a exhaust passage. The exhaust manifold is integrally formed with the cylinder head. The exhaust passage is integrally formed with the cylinder head such that a turbocharger is mounted on a joining part of exhaust ports of the exhaust manifold and exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust passage flows to the turbocharger.
US09080525B2
A method adjusts fuel injection based on a fuel make-up, such as a fuel ethanol content. The fuel make-up may be learned during transient conditions by correlating transient fueling effects caused by the different evaporation rates of higher and lower ethanol content to measured exhaust air-fuel ratio. In this way, an ethanol content independent of combustion stoichiometry can be obtained, even during transients, that is less sensitive to part variation and sensor drift.
US09080521B2
Methods and a related system of preventing a pre-ignition event in a spark ignition engine. Unusual crankcase pressure fluctuations often occur prior to a Low-Speed Pre-Ignition (LSPI) event. A high speed high resolution pressure transducer (60) attached to the crankcase (30) of an engine (10) takes a plurality of engine crankcase pressure measurements and relays these measurements to an engine control module (70). The pressure measurements are analyzed to determine if unusual pressure fluctuations within the crankcase are occurring. If so, one or more engine control parameters are adjusted in order to mitigate a LSPI event. Various engine control parameters may be adjusted including fuel injection, engine load and combustion timing.
US09080516B2
A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a timing control module and a diagnostic module. The timing control module controls engine valve timing by sending fluid to an advancing chamber of a cam phaser to adjust the cam phaser to an advanced position and by sending fluid to a retarding chamber of the cam phaser to adjust the cam phaser to a retarded position. The diagnostic module identifies a fault in a variable valve lift (VVL) mechanism based on a first difference between an advancing pressure of the advancing chamber and a retarding pressure of the retarding chamber.
US09080508B2
A piston compound internal combustion engine is disclosed with an expander piston deactivation feature. A piston internal combustion engine is compounded with a secondary expander piston, where the expander piston extracts energy from the exhaust gases being expelled from the primary power pistons. The secondary expander piston can be deactivated and immobilized, or its stroke can be reduced, under low load conditions in order to reduce parasitic losses and over-expansion. Two mechanizations are disclosed for the secondary expander piston's coupling with the power pistons and crankshaft. Control strategies for activation and deactivation of the secondary expander piston are also disclosed.
US09080507B2
The present system provides a power plant comprising plurality of distinct small displacement engines that are removably coupled to a crankshaft using a clutch system. This allows the power plant to operate both as a small displacement engine, with its inherent fuel efficiency advantages, as well as a large displacement engine, with its advantages in power and torque. The system uses a management system to determine when to activate or deactivate engine modules for maximum efficiency. Because the system does not rely on prior art valve deactivation, the system does not suffer from the frictional losses of the prior art, and greater fuel efficiency is achieved.
US09080498B2
Improvements in a combustion engine performance and reduced temperature of the combustion engine therefore resulting in an increase in the brake thermal efficiency where the pistons move linearly within the combustion cylinder. A pair of one-way clutches is used to convert the reciprocating linear motion into rotary motion without a crank shaft and without friction or power loss in the engine. High pressure oil is used to intercool the piston and the cylinder walls and is used for lubricating the piston ring. This configuration will improve the engine efficiency and reduce emission and result in a low cost engine.
US09080497B2
A water-cooled engine includes first connection paths continuous with a cylinder-head-side water jacket and a second connection path continuous with a cylinder-body-side water jacket. The paths are disposed in a sidewall of a cylinder body. A thermostat valve is attached to the sidewall. An oil cooler having a cooling water lead-in pipe and a cooling water lead-out pipe is attached to one sidewall of an engine main body to face the same direction as that of the thermostat valve. The cooling water lead-in pipe and the cooling water lead-out pipe are connected to the thermostat valve.
US09080490B2
A Selective Catalytic Reduction sensor that does not degrade a measurement accuracy of a quality sensor even when a remaining amount of a urea tank is reduced. A quality sensor is installed between a minimum remaining amount liquid level and a bottom portion of the urea tank; a drop pipe is installed from a ceiling portion of the urea tank to a top space in the urea tank; a support is installed from a bottom portion to the ceiling portion of the urea tank; the quality sensor and the drop pipe are integrated through the support; and a bubble diffusion region caused by the urea aqueous solution dropping from the drop pipe is out of a sensitive region of the quality sensor.
US09080488B2
A method for determining NH3 and NOx slippage through a SCR is described. In one example, signals from NOx sensors positioned upstream and downstream of a SCR are processed and provide indication of NH3 and NOx slippage. Engine emissions may be reduced with information provided via the NOx sensors, at least during some conditions.
US09080482B2
Methods and systems for controlling operation of exhaust of an engine including a particulate filter are provided. One example method includes generating vacuum during engine operation, and storing the vacuum. The method further includes, during or after engine shutdown, drawing ambient air through the particulate filter via the vacuum.
US09080481B2
A construction machine hydraulic drive system that performs load sensing control is capable of efficiently burning and removing deposits on a filter in an exhaust gas purifying device through pump output increasing control and to be free from faults in the pump output increasing control even when an actuator is operated during the pump output increasing control. A solenoid switching valve is switched so that output pressure of an engine speed detecting valve is guided to a pressure receiving portion of an LS control valve and a pressure receiving portion of an unloading valve when a start of regeneration is not directed, and delivery pressure of a pilot pump is guided to the pressure receiving portion and the pressure receiving portion when the start of the regeneration is directed, to thereby disable load sensing control to increase capacity of a main pump and increase set pressure of the unloading valve.
US09080476B2
An engine provided with a turbocharger includes a timing chain, a chain case mounted to one end in an axial direction of a crankshaft disposed in the so as to cover the timing chain to define a chain chamber, a turbocharger disposed on one side in a width direction of the engine and driven by an exhaust gas and including a bearing portion, and a lubricating device for lubricating oil within the engine. The lubricating device includes an oil pan disposed below the engine, and an oil drain passage through which the oil lubricating the bearing portion returns to the oil pan. The oil drain passage has an oil drain port which is opened to the chain chamber defined by the one end portion of the axial direction of the crankshaft in the engine and the chain case.
US09080466B2
A method and a system for limiting steam flow entering a steam turbine are provided. The method and system may intentionally unbalance the steam flow apportioned between sections of the steam turbine. The steam turbine comprises at least: a first section, a second section, and a rotor disposed within each section. The method may receive a speed/load command, or the like, which provides reference strokes for a first valve, associated with the first section; and a second valve, associated with the second section. The method may also determine an operational parameter that may limit the reference strokes relative to the speed/load command. The operational parameter may determine the allowable steam flow for each section of steam turbine, independent of the speed/load command.
US09080465B2
A method is provided for controlling a short-term increase in power in a steam turbine including a fossil-fired steam generator having a flow path through which a flow medium flows. The method involves tapping off the flow medium from the flow path in a pressure stage and injecting it into the flow path on the flow-medium side upstream of a super heater heating surface of the respective pressure stage. A first characteristic value is used as a controlled variable for the amount of injected flow medium. The first characteristic value is characteristic of the deviation between the outlet temperature of a final super heater heating surface of the respective pressure stage on the flow medium side and a predetermined nominal temperature value. The nominal temperature value is reduced and, for the duration of the reduction in the nominal temperature value, the characteristic value is temporarily increased over-proportionately to the deviation.
US09080464B2
A gas turbine includes a combustor chamber that houses a combustor unit configured to include a combustor that burns fuel to generate combustion gas for rotating a rotor, a turbine unit chamber that houses a turbine-unit rotor blade and a disk that rotate upon reception of the combustion gas, a combustor casing that forms the combustor chamber, and a casing that is configured to include the combustor casing in which a divided portion on a surface orthogonal to a rotation axis of the rotor is not formed in the combustor casing, but is formed in a portion on a downstream side of flow of the combustion gas lower than the combustor casing.
US09080463B2
A turbine ring assembly includes a ring support structure and a plurality of ring sectors, each including a single piece of ceramic matrix composite material. Each ring sector includes a first portion forming an annular base with an inside face defining an inside face of the turbine ring and an outside face from which there extends two tab-forming portions including ends that are engaged in housings in the ring support structure. The ring sectors present a section that is substantially π-shaped and the ends of the tabs are held without radial clearance by the ring support structure. The tabs can have a free length in meridian section that is not less than three times their mean width.
US09080457B2
A gas turbine engine ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes first and second outer layers of plies, and an intermediate layer of plies between the first and second outer layers of plies. The intermediate layer of plies is offset relative to the first and second outer layers of plies. The offset forms a protrusion on one side of the CMC component and a recess in an opposite side of the CMC component such that when two CMC components are assembled together, the protrusion of the one CMC component engages the recess of the other CMC component to form an edge seal between the CMC components.
US09080454B2
A method of fabricating a turbomachine blade out of a composite material including fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the method including making a one-piece fiber blank by three-dimensional weaving; shaping the fiber blank to obtain a one-piece fiber preform having a first portion forming a blade airfoil and root preform and at least one second portion forming a preform for an inner or outer blade platform; and densifying the preform with a matrix to obtain a composite material blade having fiber reinforcement constituted by the preform and densified by the matrix, forming a single part with incorporated inner and/or outer platform.
US09080449B2
A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an annular body and a flow-through tube that extends through the annular body. The flow-through tube includes an upstream orifice, a downstream orifice and a tube body that extends between the upstream orifice and the downstream orifice. The tube body establishes a gradually increasing cross-sectional area between the downstream orifice and the upstream orifice.
US09080448B2
One embodiment of the present invention is a gas turbine engine. Another embodiment is a gas turbine engine vane system. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for gas turbine engine vanes. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application shall become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
US09080447B2
Turbine systems are provided. In one embodiment, a turbine system includes a transition duct comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a duct passage extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of the transition duct is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. The duct passage includes an upstream portion extending from the inlet and a downstream portion extending from the outlet. The turbine system further includes a rib extending from an outer surface of the duct passage, the rib dividing the upstream portion and the downstream portion.
US09080445B2
A rotary volumetric machine having a stationary structure; a rotor, which can turn with respect to the stationary structure about a principal axis of rotation; a work chamber formed within said rotor; a disk, which is housed in said work chamber and can turn with respect to the stationary structure about a secondary axis of rotation fixed with respect to said stationary structure, the secondary axis of rotation being inclined with respect to said principal axis of rotation, said disk having a radial through groove; a diaphragm, which is fixed with respect to said rotor, extends in said work chamber, and engages said radial groove of said disk; and an inlet opening and an outlet opening for a working fluid, which are formed in said rotor, communicate with said work chamber, and are located on opposite sides of said diaphragm.
US09080441B2
A method for heating a subsurface formation using electrical resistance heating is provided. The method includes placing a first electrically conductive proppant into a fracture within an interval of organic-rich rock. The first electrically conductive proppant has a first bulk resistivity. The method further includes placing a second electrically conductive proppant into the fracture. The second electrically conductive proppant has a second bulk resistivity that is lower than the first bulk resistivity, and is in electrical communication with the first proppant at three or more terminal locations. The method then includes passing an electric current through the second electrically conductive proppant at a selected terminal and through the first electrically conductive proppant, such that heat is generated within the fracture by electrical resistivity. The operator may monitor resistance and switch terminals for the most efficient heating. A system for electrically heating an organic-rich rock formation below an earth surface is also provided.
US09080427B2
Apparatuses useable in an offshore drilling installation close to the seabed for controlling well influx within a wellbore are provided. An apparatus includes a centralizer and flow constrictor assembly, a sensor and a controller. The centralizer and flow constrictor assembly are configured to centralize a drill string within a drill riser and regulate a return mud flow. The sensor is located close to the centralizer and flow constrictor assembly and configured to acquire values of at least one parameter related to the return mud flow. The controller is coupled to the centralizer and flow constrictor assembly and the sensor. The controller is configured to control the centralizer and flow constrictor assembly to achieve a value of a control parameter close to a predetermined value, based on the values acquired by the sensor.
US09080425B2
There is provided a high power laser system for powering a remotely located laser device, such as an ROV, using a high power laser fiber optic tether and a photo-conversion device, such as a laser photovoltaic assembly. Laser device systems, such as ROV systems that utilizes a high power laser cutting and/or cleaning tools are also provided.
US09080418B2
An apparatus for controlling a fluid flow in a borehole may include a tool body that retrieves a fluid sample from a subsurface formation. The tool body has a fluid conduit having an inlet for receiving the fluid sample and an outlet for conveying the fluid sample to a selected location. A mandrel selectively blocks flow across the fluid conduit; and a seal disposed on the mandrel includes at least one chevron seal element that cooperates with the mandrel to selectively block flow across the fluid conduit.
US09080417B2
The invention relates to an improved downhole tool apparatus for limiting the extrusion of a sealing elements in downhole tools. The apparatus provides for using a limiter ring or shoe located in a channel on the slip wedge so as to abut the sealing element. The limiter ring extends outward to the casing to minimize the gap through which the sealing element can extrude when the tool is in a set position.
US09080416B2
An anchoring and sealing device includes at least one slip, a seal and a tubular in operable communication with the at least one slip and the seal. The anchoring and sealing device is configured to cause radial movement of the at least one slip into anchoring engagement with a structure and to cause radial movement of the seal into sealing engagement with the structure in response to longitudinal compression of the anchoring and sealing device. The anchoring and sealing device is also configured to maintain anchoring and sealing engagement with the structure without additional components remaining in contact therewith.
US09080402B2
A method of removing an unexpanded shoe comprises disposing a tool in a wellbore. The tool includes a latch assembly and a mill body. The latch assembly is engaged with a shoe assembly that is coupled to the wellbore by a tubular having an expanded portion and an unexpanded portion. The mill body is rotated relative to the latch assembly so as to mill the unexpanded portion of the tubular until the shoe assembly is uncoupled from the wellbore. The tool and the shoe assembly are then pulled through the expanded portion and out of the wellbore.
US09080397B2
The invention relates in general to pipe handling apparatus to position pipe through a range of horizontal and vertical positions. In one embodiment a pipe handling apparatus comprises a longitudinal base having a longitudinal axis, a boom carrying member slidably mounted to the longitudinal base for axial movement there-along, member actuating means operable to move the boom carrying member axially relative to the longitudinal base, a boom supported by the boom carrying member, the boom having a trough adapted for receiving at least one section of pipe therein and boom actuating means operable to raise and lower the boom.
US09080396B2
A telescopic elevator bail is arranged to be able to be used dynamically in well operations in the petroleum industry. The elevator bail comprises a sleeve provided with a first attachment organ and a muzzle portion, and a rod arranged to be able to be displaced telescopically relative to the sleeve along the common longitudinal axis of the sleeve and the rod. The rod is provided with at least one through hole perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the rod and the hole is arranged to be able to accommodate an actuator actuable holding bolt. The sleeve is provided with at least one catch bolt. The catch bolt is provided with an inward projecting holding portion. The rod is provided with a first shoulder portion arranged to rest on the holding portion of the catch bolt when the sleeve and the rod exhibit their relatively longest longitudinal displacement. A method is for utilizing the elevator bail.
US09080392B1
A vortex-induced vibration (VIV) suppression device including a body portion dimensioned to surround a structure subject to VIV, the body portion having a first side and a second side separated by a first opening formed along a length dimension one side of the body portion and a second opening formed along the length dimension of another side of the body portion. The device further including a biasing hinge mechanism attached to the first side and the second side at the first opening, the biasing hinge mechanism to bias the first side and the second side toward one another. The device further including a closure mechanism attached to the first side and the second side at the second opening, the closure mechanism to secure the first side and the second side in a closed position around the structure. The device may be installed according to a retrofit installation method.
US09080391B2
A downhole drilling tool includes a tubular housing having a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end, and a stator disposed in the tubular housing, said stator defining an internal cavity passing there through. The stator includes at least a first protective electrically insulated layer, a second protective electrically insulated layer, and an electrically conductive layer disposed between the first and second protective layers. The electrically conductive layer coupled at a first end to a first electrical device and coupled at a second end to a second electrical device. A rotor is operatively positioned in the internal cavity to cooperate the stator.
US09080386B2
A wellbore rotating instrument system includes a source of rotational energy for transmission thereof to within a wellbore. At least one magnetic gear assembly is coupled at its input to an output of the source. A rotating load is coupled at its input to a rotational output of the magnetic gear assembly. The at least one magnetic gear assembly comprises a housing, a stator disposed in the housing proximate an inner wall thereof, a second shaft rotatably supported on bearings disposed at longitudinally spaced apart locations inside the housing and a first shaft rotatably supported inside the output shaft. The stator comprises a plurality of magnets disposed in generally circular laminations. The second shaft comprises a non-magnetic, electrically non-conductive body and a plurality of pole pieces disposed circumferentially therearound. The first shaft comprises magnets disposed around its exterior circumference and shaped to fit rotatably within the second shaft.
US09080384B2
An apparatus for cutting a wellbore includes a motor having a stator and a rotor. The rotor has an output shaft connected to a cutting structure. The stator and rotor are spaced radially outwardly of the axis of rotation of the rotor such that at least one of the stator and the rotor had an access bore extending through the motor to adjacent the cutting structure. A further object can pass therethrough, without obstruction. The further object comprises a further cutting. A flow diverter is disposed in the motor proximate a connection between the motor and a wellbore tubular, and has a first fluid outlet in fluid communication with a power section of the motor, and a second fluid outlet in fluid communication with the access bore. The flow diverter is coupled to the stator such that axial loading created by fluid pressure is substantially transferred to the stator.
US09080366B2
The invention relates to a drive configuration for the motorized displacement of a displacement element of a motor vehicle, at least one drive having an electrical drive motor, in particular a DC motor, and a drive controller, which is associated with the drive and connected to a supply voltage UV, being provided, the drive not being designed as self-locking, so that in the case of a non-motorized displacement of the displacement element, the drive motor operates as a generator and generates a generator voltage UG. It is proposed that the drive controller is equipped with an overvoltage protector, which can be triggered by exceeding a limiting supply voltage UV, and that the configuration is further made so that the overvoltage protector can additionally be triggered by a non-motorized displacement of the displacement element if a limiting generator voltage UG is exceeded.
US09080365B2
An appliance lid hinge assembly has a channel housing including first and second spaced-apart side walls and a transverse face walls, a cavity located between the first and second side walls and a slot having first and second slot portions respectively located in said first and second side walls. The channel housing is pivotally connected to a cam via a rivet or other pivot fastener at a pivot point. A biasing element acts between the housing and the cam in order to control the movement of housing relative to the cam about the pivot point. Alternatively, a damper can be used to control movement of the housing relative to the cam about the pivot point. A snubber subsystem can also be added to provide further damping resistance.
US09080356B2
A casement window hinge protects against sash sag by providing a guide arm that substantially fills the space between the sash and the window frame when the window is closed. This space-filling guide arm may be produced with lightweight thermoplastic material whose pivoting connection to the sash arm may be strengthened through a wood screw providing an axis for the pivot that may be stabilized within the sash into which the screw is driven.
US09080355B2
Described herein is a circuit arrangement for a motor vehicle door having a detent mechanism which keeps the motor vehicle door in the closed position and opens it and at least one operating element, for example, an outer door handle and/or inner door handle, wherein an electric drive, for example, an electric motor, drives the detent mechanism, and the motor can be connected by means of a control module. In one embodiment, at least one electrical switching element is arranged in the circuit of the motor. In another embodiment, when the operating element is operated, the electrical circuit of the motor can be completed by means of the electrical switching element. Also described is a method for actuating a detent mechanism in a motor vehicle door and a controller for a detent mechanism which keeps a motor vehicle door in the closed position or opens it.
US09080354B2
A fuel door and a sliding door are on the same side of a vehicle. The sliding door has power locking and power child locking. To prevent the sliding door from interfering with the fuel door during refueling, a lock controller responds to the fuel door moving to the open position by 1) preserving a current outside locked or unlocked state and a current inside locked or unlocked state of the sliding door, 2) initiating or maintaining the outside locked state and inside locked state, and 3) after the fuel door moving to the closed position, restoring or maintaining the preserved current outside locked or unlocked state and the preserved current inside locked or unlocked state.
US09080349B2
A device for preventing unwanted opening of a locked enclosure includes a lock bolt moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position. A face gear is meshable with and rotatable by the worm gear between locking and unlocking positions when the worm gear is driven in the first and second directions, respectively. A blocker member is rotatable between first and second positions. A biasing member is operatively coupled to the face gear and the blocker member to bias the blocker member in a biasing direction. A sliding member selectively disengages the blocker member to allow the blocker member to rotate in the biasing direction. A lever arm is operatively coupled to the sliding member such that the lever arm is in the disengaged and engageable positions when the sliding member engages the blocker member in the first and second positions, respectively.
US09080347B2
A defeater latch handle with a handle, a lock, and escutcheon. The handle has a through hole and a recess. The recess has a generally semi-circular ring portion and a recess notch portion that communicates with and extends out of the semi-circular ring portion. The lock is accessible through the cylinder hole. Opening the lock moves a movable blocking device to an unlocked state. The escutcheon has a bore formed therein. The bore has a notch formed therein that receives the blocking device when in its locked state. A trigger slot formed in the escutcheon receives a slidable trigger with an extension catch. In a locked state, the extension catch is in the recess notch. In an unlocked state, the extension catch moves out of the recess notch and into the semi-circular ring portion. The handle can only be turned when both the lock and the slidable trigger are unlocked.
US09080345B2
A bivouac shelter for residing outdoors, including a basis unit that forms a tunnel-like or sack-like body receiving space with an access opening for a person. The bivouac shelter includes a closure unit, by way of which the body receiving space is closable in a thermally insulating and airtight manner. The closure unit moreover includes a connection body that can be assembled transversely over the access opening and that is connectable to the basis unit in a thermally insulating manner. The closure unit moreover includes a hood attached onto the connection body for receipt of a head of a person lying with the body in the body receiving space. The basis unit can also include a foot-side terminating element.
US09080339B2
A structural frame for a building includes first structural members and second structural members, with a discontinuous elastic zone at locations where the first and second structural members are coupled and through which a load passes therebetween. Discontinuous elastic zone connections couple the first and second structural members and are configured to provide elasticity in the structural frame and dampen the effects of transient loads on the structural frame. Each discontinuous elastic zone connection includes faying surfaces opposing each other, fastening devices configured to secure respective first and second structural members, and a compression element positioned on each fastening device configured to act in combination with a fastening device to regulate movement of the faying surfaces relative to each other, and thus regulate the behavior of the discontinuous elastic zone connection resulting from loads applied by first and second structural members on opposing sides of a respective discontinuous elastic zone.
US09080335B2
The invention relates to a scaffolding component (45) with at least one connection head (61) for forming a releaseable connection with a vertical scaffolding element (41) extending in the direction of a longitudinal axis (47). On this scaffolding element is fastened a projection (44) which extends transversely to its longitudinal axis (47) and which has an aperture (55) for the insertion of a wedge (62). The connection head has an upper head part (74) with an upper wedge opening (80) and a lower head part (75) with a lower wedge opening (81), for the wedge (62) which can be inserted through the wedge openings (80, 81). Disposed between the upper head part (74) and the lower head part (75) is a slot (67) which is open towards the front and which is intended for the fitting of the connection head (61) onto the projection (44). The connection head (61) has a wedge-support body (85) with wedge-support surfaces which is arranged above the slot (67) so as to engage over the latter towards the front, for vertically supporting the wedge (62) in the region of its lower wedge end against unintended movement of the wedge (62) vertically downwardly into a blocking position. Above the wedge-support surfaces of the wedge-support body (85), the connection head (61) has a wedge-pivoting abutment (86).
US09080334B2
A recyclable formwork adds a new function without destroying other functions of the recyclable formwork. The recyclable formwork includes a main unit including a contact surface contacting with cast concrete, a non-contact surface parallel and opposite to the contact surface, and a plurality of ribs projecting from the non-contact surface and reinforcing the main unit. A case is housed between the plurality of ribs and fixed on the non-contact surface. A circuit is stored in the case. A highest point of the case at the side of the non-contact surface is not higher than a highest point of upper ends of the plurality of ribs.
US09080324B2
A ring-shaped biodegradable shower drain weep holes gasket is disclosed that slips over the top of the shower drain. The gasket fits tightly over the top of the drain to solve the problem of material clogging the shower drain weep holes and additionally preventing any deck mud or debris from entering and clogging the weep holes during installation. Approximately ⅞ths inch high by 5/2ths inch wide at an inner diameter of 31/5ths inch, the biodegradable shower gasket then surrounds the shower drain's top flange and weep holes. Over a short period of time, the moisture in the cement along with any moisture that seeps through the tile or grout will dissolve the biodegradable gasket creating a permanent opening for water to drain out through the weep holes.
US09080323B2
A flush toilet includes a base and a bowl assembly defining a bowl. The bowl assembly is mounted to the base and defines a discharge opening at a lower end of the bowl. A waste ball valve assembly is mounted to the flush toilet for selectively opening and closing the discharge opening of the bowl assembly. A common sealing member operates to seal the bowl to the base and to wipe a ball of the waste ball valve assembly as the waste ball valve assembly is selectively opened and closed. The common sealing member has a generally horizontal portion for wiping the ball of the ball valve assembly and a compressible cylindrical portion upwardly extending from the generally horizontal portion. The cylindrical portion is compressed between the base and the bowl to define a seal therebetween.
US09080317B2
An excavation control system includes a working unit, hydraulic cylinders, a prospective speed obtaining part, a speed limit selecting part and a hydraulic cylinder controlling art. The prospective speed part is configured to obtain a first prospective speed depending on a first distance between the bucket and a first designed surface, and a second prospective speed depending on a second distance between the bucket and a second designed surface. The speed limit selecting part is configured to select one of the first and second prospective speeds as a speed limit based on a relative relation between the first designed surface and the bucket and a relative relation between the second designed surface and the bucket. The hydraulic cylinder controlling part is configured to limit a relative speed of the bucket relative to one of the first and second designed surfaces to the speed limit.
US09080313B2
A lock for an excavation tooth assembly, the lock comprising: a body; first and second engaging portions mounted to the body and movable between respective first and second positions; wherein the engaging portions being interdependent so that movement of at least one of the first and second engaging portions causes a corresponding movement of the other of the first and second engaging portions.
US09080308B2
Provided is a working machine, which can release exhaust gas at a position above a counterweight even if no space is secured for the installation of an exhaust pipe on an upperstructure or on an upper wall of the counterweight, and which can suppress heating of the counterweight by exhaust gas. The working machine is provided with a muffler (10) into which exhaust gas is guided from an engine, and a tailpipe (11) connected to the muffler (10). Defined through a counterweight (7) is a passage (7a) in which the tailpipe (11) is inserted. The working machine is further provided with an exhaust pipe holding member (12) and an exhaust pipe (13). The exhaust pipe holding member (12) is attached to an outer side wall of the counterweight (7), and has a passage (12a) which is in communication with the passage (7a) of the counterweight (7) and in which the tailpipe (11) is inserted. The exhaust pipe (13) is disposed and held upright on the exhaust pipe holding member (12), and has a lower part, in which the tailpipe (11) is inserted, and an upper part defining therein an exhaust outlet (13a) through which the exhaust gas guided via the tailpipe (11) is released.
US09080303B2
A reinforced soil structure comprising:—a fill (1);—a facing (3) placed along a front face of the structure;—at least one main reinforcement member (2, 9, 26) connected to the facing and extending through a first reinforced zone (Z1) of the fill situated behind said front face; and—at least one secondary reinforcement member (6) disconnected from to the facing and extending in a second reinforced zone (Z2) of the fill which has, with said first reinforced zone (Z1), a common part (Z′), wherein the secondary reinforcement member (6) extends into the fill (1) up to a distance substantially shorter than the main reinforcement member (2, 9, 26), with respect to the front face and wherein the stiffness of the secondary reinforcement member (6) is greater or equal to the stiffness of the main reinforcement member (2, 9, 26).
US09080293B2
The present invention relates to a self-propelled surface milling machine, preferably in the form of an asphalt-milling machine, snow-milling machine or Surface Miner, having a mill roll which is drivable about a rotational axis, and a mill roll drive comprising an electrical motor which is accommodated within the mill roll, wherein stator and rotor of the electrical motor are accommodated within a dust and air-tightly sealed motor housing. It will be suggested to associate a cooling device comprising a closed circuit liquid cooling system to the electrical motor located within the milling roll body. Due to the high heat capacity of a suitable coolant, such as oil or mixed water and glycol small volume flows and hence small conduit cross sections will be sufficient. On the other hand, any incorporation of dust into the mill-roll drive as well as any formation of dust by discharge air can be avoided by the closed form of the circuit liquid cooling system.
US09080279B2
A washing machine includes a main body defining an outer appearance, a tub disposed within the main body, a main drum rotatably mounted in the tub, a sub drum mounted in the main drum to be relatively rotatable with respect to the main drum, an outer shaft for rotating the main drum, an inner shaft for rotating the sub drum, being disposed inside the outer shaft, and a driving motor having a stator, an outer rotor connected to the inner shaft that is rotatable outside the stator, and an inner rotor connected to the outer shaft that is rotatable inside the stator, wherein the driving motor independently drives the main drum and the sub drum.
US09080276B2
A method of operating a washing machine to detect unbalanced loads has been developed. The method includes operating a motor to rotate a tub holding a load at a first rotational rate that is below a threshold rotational rate, identifying a mass of the load, operating the motor to rotate the tub at a second rotational rate that is above the threshold rotational rate, identifying a power applied to the motor to continue rotation of the tub at the second rotational rate, obtaining an out of balance mass value from a memory with reference to the power applied to the motor, second rotational rate, and identified mass, identifying a maximum rate for the tub with reference to the out of balance mass value, and operating the motor to rotate the tub at a rate that is less than or equal to the maximum rate.
US09080275B2
A washing machine capable of reducing noise generated during a drain operation or a spin dry operation with a simple structure. The washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub disposed inside the cabinet to accommodate wash water, a drain pump disposed at a lower side of the tub to drain the wash water contained in the tub, a first drain hose connecting the tub to the drain pump to allow the wash water contained in the tub to be introduced into the drain pump, and a second drain hose guiding the wash water, which is introduced into the drain pump, to outside the cabinet.
US09080266B2
A method for weaving a pile fabric on a weaving loom, in which successive positions of the ground warp threads (3-8) relative to the weft threads (1), (2) are determined according to a ground weave repeat which extends over at least eight weft introduction cycles, and in which pile tufts are formed, so that at least one pile fabric is obtained with weft threads (1), (2) which are bound in on at least two levels (I), (II), (III) and pile tufts which are bent over weft threads (2) which are not situated on the pile side, in which, per ground weave repeat, at least two different orientations (i), (ii), (iii) of the pile legs are achieved and/or two or more different pile densities are achieved.
US09080264B2
A fabric is made up of at least two laps (20, 21), each of which is formed by a series (22, 24) of longitudinal threads of yarn that are interwoven with one or more series (23, 25) of threads of yarn transverse to these. The first (20) and second laps (21) are joined along a common interweave stretch (30), respectively, parallel to the threads of warp yarn (22, 24) or parallel to the threads of weft yarn (23, 25) and in which the threads of weft yarn (23, 25) and of warp yarn (22, 24) of the two laps (20, 21) are interwoven. The common interweave stretch (30) extends laterally to the laps (20, 21) in such a way as to form a sort of third lap of width at least sufficient to guarantee the solidity of the join of the laps (20, 21) along the stretch of joining (30).
US09080256B2
Methods and compositions are provided for producing libraries of soluble random polypeptides. In the methods, the fraction of hydrophilic residues in the polypeptide is controlled so as to maintain the solubility of the polypeptide constructs.
US09080249B2
The anodizing treatment station (3) in a vertical paint plant (2) of aluminum profiles hanging in succession by means of hooks (8) on a main overhead conveyor (4) moving along a main conveyor line (5) which passes through at least one pre-treatment station and at least one powder or liquid paint station, comprises at least one oxidation bath (9) and a secondary overhead conveyor (10) moving along secondary conveyor line (11) in synchronism with said main conveyor (4), the main conveyor line (5) having a first main loading and/or unloading segment (12), facing said oxidation bath (9), wherein specific first main loading and/or unloading means (13) are adapted to transfer groups (8c) of hooks (8) from said main conveyor (4) to said oxidation bath (9) and/or vice versa, in that the secondary conveyor line (11) has a first secondary loading and/or unloading segment (14), facing said oxidation bath (9), wherein specific first secondary loading and/or unloading means (15) are adapted to transfer groups (8c) of hooks (8) from said secondary conveyor (10) to the oxidation bath (9) and/or vice versa, a first diverter (21) being provided which upstream of the oxidation bath (9) alternately transfers to the secondary conveyor (10) groups (8c) of hooks (8) conveyed by the main conveyor, and a second diverter (22) which to recompose the continuous succession of hooks (8) downstream of the oxidation bath (9) transfers the groups (8c) conveyed by the secondary conveyor (10) to the segments (8b) without hooks (8).
US09080240B2
The present disclosure is a method and system for electrochemically co-producing a first product and a second product. The system may include a first electrochemical cell, a first reactor, a second electrochemical cell, at least one second reactor, and at least one third reactor. The method and system for for co-producing a first product and a second product may include co-producing a glycol and an alkene employing a recycled halide.
US09080235B2
A composition for diffusion surface alloying of ferrocarbon alloys with chromium, consisting essentially of, by weight, about 25%-40% ferrochromium; about 54%-74% aluminum oxide or mixtures of aluminum oxide, silicon oxide and magnesium oxide in a weight ratio of about 3:2:1; about 1%-3% ammonium chloride; and a reducing agent consisting essentially of about 0.1%-3% aluminum, about 0.1%-2% silicon, about 0.1%-1.5% magnesium, or about 0.1%-3% of a mixture of aluminum, silicon and magnesium in a weight ratio of about 3:2:1. A method for diffusion surface alloying of a ferrocarbon workpiece with chromium, comprising providing the above composition; exposing the workpiece to the composition; and heating the workpiece and composition for sufficient time and temperature to form a chromium containing diffusion layer on the surface of the workpiece.
US09080231B2
The present invention provides a hot-dipped steel 1 that demonstrates favorable corrosion resistance and formability, and has a favorable appearance of a plating layer. The hot-dipped steel of the present invention includes a steel substrate formed thereon with an aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer. The aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer contains Al, Zn, Si and Mg as constituent elements thereof and the Mg content is 0.1% to 10% by weight. The aluminum-zinc alloy plating layer contains 0.2% to 15% by volume of an Si—Mg phase, and the weight ratio of Mg in the Si—Mg phase to the total weight of Mg is 3% or more.
US09080230B2
A steel alloy with excellent creep strength and corrosion resistance that is ferritic at usage temperatures above 620° C. has the following chemical composition (in wt. %): C≦1.0%; Si≦1.0%; Mn≦1.0%; P max. 0.05%; S max. 0.01%; 2≦Al≦12%; 3≦Cr≦16%; 2≦Ni≦10% and/or 2≦Co≦10%, where 2≦Ni+Co≦[% Cr]+2.07×[% Al]>=0.95×([% Ni]+[% Co]); N max. 0.0200%. The remainder is iron with steel production-related impurities. Optionally, one or more elements of V, Ti, Ta, Zr, Nb, Mo and W, as well as one or more elements of Hf, B, Se, Y, Te, Sb, La and Zr with a cumulative content of <0.1% can be added. The steel structure includes uniformly distributed coherent precipitates based on a chromium-stabilized (Ni, Co)Al—B2 intermetallic ordered phase.
US09080227B2
A copper alloy sheet according to one aspect contains 28.0 mass % to 35.0 mass % of Zn, 0.15 mass % to 0.75 mass % of Sn, 0.005 mass % to 0.05 mass % of P, and a balance consisting of Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which relationships of 44≧[Zn]+20×[Sn]≧37 and 32≦[Zn]+9×([Sn]−0.25)1/2≦37 are satisfied. The copper alloy sheet according to the aspect is manufactured by a manufacturing process including a finish cold-rolling process of cold-rolling a copper alloy material, an average grain size of the copper alloy material is 2.0 μm to 7.0 μm, and a sum of an area ratio of a β phase and an area ratio of a γ phase in a metallographic structure of the copper alloy material is 0% to 0.9%.
US09080211B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions and kits for using a transposase and a transposon end for generating extensive fragmentation and 5′-tagging of double-stranded target DNA in vitro, then using a DNA polymerase for generating 5′- and 3′-tagged single-stranded DNA fragments without performing a PCR amplification reaction, wherein the first tag on the 5′-ends exhibits the sequence of the transferred transposon end and optionally, an additional arbitrary sequence, and the second tag on the 3′-ends exhibits a different sequence from the sequence exhibited by the first tag. The method is useful for generating 5′- and 3′-tagged DNA fragments for use in a variety of processes, including processes for metagenomic analysis of DNA in environmental samples, copy number variation (CNV) analysis of DNA, and comparative genomic sequencing (CGS), including massively parallel DNA sequencing (so-called “next-generation sequencing.).
US09080208B2
A sample handling method may include drawing an encapsulating liquid from an encapsulating-liquid input; discharging the drawn encapsulating liquid (a) onto a free surface of a carrier liquid in a carrier-liquid conduit comprising a stabilization feature and (b) proximate to the stabilization feature, the encapsulating liquid being immiscible with the carrier liquid, so that the discharged encapsulating liquid does not mix with the carrier liquid, floats on top of the carrier liquid, and is immobilized by the stabilization feature; drawing a sample liquid from a sample-liquid input; and discharging the drawn sample liquid, the sample liquid being immiscible with the encapsulating liquid and with the carrier liquid, so that the sample liquid does not mix with the encapsulating liquid or with the carrier liquid.
US09080198B2
The invention relates to a growth medium allying a fluorogenic substrate and a pH-sensitive fluorophore, in particular the combination of 4-methylumbelliferone (4-MU) and derivatives of fluorescein. This growth medium is used for the detection by fluorescence of microorganisms by coupling the fluorescence measurements relating to the pH-sensitive fluorophor and the fluorescence measurements relating to the activation of the fluorogenic substrate(s) by the microorganisms.
US09080193B2
Processes for the synthesis of (3aS,7aR)-hexahydroisobenzofuran-1-(3H)-one, comprising comprising enzymatic hydrolysis of dimethyl cyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylate to form (1S,2R)-2-(methoxycarbonyl) cyclohexanecarboxylic acid. The enzyme can be from a non-mammalian source.
US09080190B2
A method produces cadaverine more efficiently and at a higher yield than production methods by the conventional fermentation methods. The method includes culturing coryneform bacterium/bacteria having an ability to produce cadaverine and having a resistance to 2,2′-thiobis(ethylamine). Preferably, the coryneform bacterium/bacteria has/have lysine decarboxylase activity and, preferably, the coryneform bacterium/bacteria has/have homoserine auxotrophy and/or a resistance to S-(2-aminoethyl)-L-cysteine.
US09080188B2
This invention describes genes, metabolic pathways, microbial strains and methods to produce methylbutanol and other compounds of interest from renewable feedstocks.
US09080186B2
This disclosure provides compositions consisting of solid mixture of cationic lipids and a polynucleotide, wherein the cationic lipid molecules form a water-insoluble ionic complex with the polynucleotide. What is also described is an anhydrous mixture of the cationic lipids and the polynucleotide solubilized in an organic or polar aprotic solvent. The anhydrous compositions are useful in preparing therapeutic formulations and in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions. The compositions are useful for delivery of agents such as nucleic acid therapeutics to cells, tissues, organs, and subjects.
US09080181B2
Nucleic acid constructs and methods are disclosed for modifying fiber length, plant height, and/or plant biomass in plant tissues. Plants are genetically engineered with constructs encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana wall-associated kinase gene, which alters fiber length and/or plant height when overexpressed under the control of a cambium/xylem preferred promoter. Plant transformants harboring a wall-associated kinase gene show increased fiber length, a trait that is thought to improve woody trees for pulping and papermaking.
US09080179B2
A high flux of metabolites from pyruvate to 2,3-butanediol in Lactobacillus plantarum was achieved through genetic engineering. Substantial elimination of lactate dehydrogenase activity in the presence of heterologously expressed butanediol dehydrogenase activity led to 2,3 butanediol production that was at least 49% of the total of major pyruvate-derived products.
US09080172B2
Disclosed herein is a method for activating a dormant epithelial stem cell, or population thereof, to a state of multipotency comprising, reducing the level of ΔNp63 in the cell(s). The dormant epithelial stem cell(s) may be a horizontal basal cell (HBC) of the olfactory epithelium and the level of ΔNp63 may be reduced by contacting the cell or population with an effective amount of one or more agents that downmodulate ΔNp63. One example of an agent is an RNAi. Also disclosed is a method for treating olfactory dysfunction in a subject, comprising activating HBCs of the subject by reducing the level of ΔNp63 in one or more HBCs of the subject, to thereby treat the olfactory dysfunction. Activated horizontal basal cell (HBCs) are also disclosed.
US09080168B2
A device includes: a tube having a first portion and a second portion; and a plunger insertable from the first portion side of the tube and having a tubular portion that can fit an inner surface of the first portion and a rod-like portion that can fit an inner surface of the second portion and is supported by the tubular portion, wherein when the tubular portion fits the inner surface of the first portion, a first state where the inner surface of the second portion and the rod-like portion are spaced apart from each other and a second state where the inner surface of the second portion and the rod-like portion fit together are formed, and in the first state, a communication path communicating the inside of the second portion with the inside of the tubular portion is formed, while in the second state, the communication path is blocked.
US09080167B2
Method and apparatus for processing paraffin embedded samples, e.g., to disassociate paraffin from tissue components and/or other biomolecules from the paraffin. The sample may be exposed to focused acoustic energy while held in a vessel containing a non-solvent, aqueous solution. Disassociated paraffin may be emulsified into the liquid or otherwise separated from the sample.
US09080159B2
Provided herein are compositions designed to reduce or prevent bacterial infections (for example pneuomococcal infections), nasal carriage, nasal colonization, and central nervous system invasion. Provided herein is a composition comprising a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:19 or a variant thereof that can elicit an anti-neuraminidase immune response. Further provided are methods of making and using the compositions disclosed herein. Specifically provided are methods of generating antibodies in a subject comprising administering to the subject an agent or composition taught herein. Also provided are methods of reducing or preventing nasal carriage or pneumococcal infection in a subject comprising administering to the subject a composition taught herein.
US09080158B2
A method for producing a dry yeast containing S-adenosyl-L-methionine using a yeast having production capability of S-adenosyl-L-methionine, in which an ascorbic acid compound or a salt thereof is added to a yeast concentrate separated from a fungus culture liquid of the yeast, and the concentrate is then dried, a dry yeast containing SAMe obtained by the production method, and a composition for oral ingestion formed by molding the dry yeast. A method capable of producing a dry yeast containing SAMe in a high concentration excellent in storage stability conveniently at low cost is established, and a dry yeast containing SAMe obtained by the production method and a composition for oral ingestion formed by molding the dry yeast are provided.
US09080146B2
This disclosure relates to substrates containing at least one polyphosphazene with a forming surface as matrices for producing biological materials that can be implanted in a mammal. The disclosure also relates to a method for producing such substrates and substrates containing polyphosphazene with a micro-structured surface.
US09080145B2
The present invention relates to the field of pluripotent stem cell culture and methods facilitate pluripotent stem cell culture at industrial levels.
US09080143B2
The present invention provides isolated infectious polynucleotides, such as infectious clones, having a nucleotide sequence with identity to PRRS viruses such as VR-2332, Lelystad, or others, and optionally further including a deletion in a region of ORF1 that encodes the nsp2 polypeptide.
US09080131B2
The disclosed device and method produce high concentration ozonated water by connecting a high concentration ozone gas-supplying system that comprises an ozone gas-generating unit (1) for forming ozone gas, an ozone gas-concentrating unit (2) for concentrating the ozone gas formed, a concentrated ozone gas-pressurizing unit (3) for pressurizing the concentrated ozone gas output from the ozone gas-concentrating unit (2), and a cooling mechanism (13) for cooling the concentrated ozone gas-pressurizing unit (3), to an ozone gas-dissolving unit (4) to dissolve the high pressure, concentrated ozone gas in pure water and produce the high concentration ozonated water.
US09080123B2
A rust preventive oil composition is provided, which includes: (A) a base oil that is at least one oil selected from a mineral oil and a synthetic oil; (B) 0.1 to 10% by mass of water based on a total mass of the composition; and (C) one or more specific rust preventive additives selected from the group consisting of a sarcosine-type compound, a nonionic surfactant, a sulfonate salt, an ester, an amine, a carboxylic acid, a fatty acid amine salt, a carboxylate salt, paraffin wax, a salt of oxidized wax, and a boron compound, wherein the rust preventive oil composition has a kinetic viscosity of 20 to 100 mm2/s at 40° C. The rust preventive oil composition can suppress rust development over a long period of time even when there remains a rust-causing agent, which adheres to the metal parts assembled by bare hands, such as steel sheets, bearings, steel balls, and guide rails.
US09080117B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, a renewable energy fuel is prepared by a process including the steps of: a) providing a renewable energy feedstock; b) providing an alcohol; c) providing a catalyst; d) mixing (a), (b), and (c) to form a blend; and e) homogenizing the blend at a pressure greater than 400 kilogram-force per square centimeter (Kg/cm2).
US09080115B2
A flow splitter is operable to divide flow of a fuel mixture. The flow splitter includes a first tube having an outlet end and a plurality of second tubes that are coupled at the outlet end to divide flow from the first tube. Each of the plurality of second tubes has a respective inside diameter that satisfies Equation (I) and Equation (II) disclosed herein.
US09080112B2
A novel design of filters for removing iron rust particulates and other polymeric sludge from refinery and chemical process streams that are paramagnetic in nature is provided. The performance of these filters is greatly enhanced by the presence of the magnetic field induced by magnets. Basically, the filter comprises a high-pressure vessel with means to support the plurality of magnets in the form of bars or plates that are encased in stainless steel tubes or columns. Filters with various configurations are disclosed for accommodating the removal of contaminants from the process streams of different industries, with high efficiency for contaminants removal, simple construction, low operational and maintenance costs, and low hazardous operation.
US09080109B2
Methods for deoxygenating a biomass-derived pyrolysis oil are provided. A method comprising the steps of diluting the biomass-derived pyrolysis oil with a phenolic-containing diluent to form a diluted pyoil-phenolic feed is provided. The diluted pyoil-phenolic feed is contacted with a deoxygenating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen at hydroprocessing conditions effective to form a low-oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil effluent.
US09080099B2
The present invention relates to a fluorine-bridged associate consisting of an oligomer or polymer containing fluorine radicals which are bonded to the oligomer or polymer backbone, and up to three types of functional units in the backbone which differ with respect to function and are selected from the group consisting of a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit, an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit and an emitter unit, and one to three types of compounds containing a fluorine radical which differ with respect to function and are selected from a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit, an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit and an emitter unit, and to an opto-electronic device in which the fluorine-bridged associate is employed.
US09080093B2
Antifreeze concentrate with corrosion protection which is suitable for coolants and heat transfer fluids and comprises freezing point-lowering liquids and also particular sulfur-comprising organic compounds, inorganic molybdate salts, inorganic phosphate salts and aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic or tricarboxylic acids as corrosion inhibitors. Aqueous coolant compositions which are suitable for cooling an internal combustion engine whose cooling apparatus has been made of aluminum using a soldering process using a fluoroaluminate flux can be obtained therefrom.
US09080091B2
It is provided that a polyester composition for electrical/electronic part-sealing material having melt fluidity, initial peel strength, and initial dielectric breakdown strength that are required for electrical/electronic part-sealing material while also having excellent heat resistance, resistance to thermal aging, and durability with respect to hot-cold cycling.A polyester resin composition for electrical/electronic part-sealing material, comprising, as a main component, a copolymer polyester elastomer containing 50 weight % or more and 70 weight % or lower of an aliphatic polycarbonate segment and having 6 equivalents/106 g or more and 50 equivalents/106 g or lower of terminal vinyl groups.
US09080090B2
Specific fluid, which is a site of energy conversion, characterized in that it comprises water, strongly scattering mineral powder, in general calcium carbonate, antifreeze and/or a colorant, a surfactant and an antifoam, the powder having a concentration by mass of between 1% and 3% and a median particle size of between 0.8 and 10 μm.
US09080087B2
Low modulus, polyurethane sealant or adhesive compositions and a method of reducing the modulus of a polyurethane sealant or adhesive composition, including adding a modulus reducing additive of at least one of rosin esters, hydrogenated rosin esters, or mixtures thereof, to a sealant or adhesive composition including a polyurethane prepolymer, optionally having a bio-based content of from about 15% to about 75% by weight.
US09080085B2
A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for an optical member is obtained by blending 100 parts by weight of an acrylic polymer, which contains 80 to 98.7 parts by weight of (a) a monomer constituted of an alkyl acrylate monomer having an alkyl group of 1 to 12 carbon atoms and/or an aromatic ring-containing acrylic monomer, 0.2 to 1.5 parts by weight of (b) an amide group-containing acrylic monomer and 1 to 5 parts by weight of (c) a hydroxyl group-containing acrylic monomer, with 0.12 to 1 part by weight of (d) an isocyanate-based curing agent having an isocyanurate skeleton as a curing agent, and is characterized by substantially containing no metal chelate-based curing agent. Accordingly, a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, which has excellent heat resistance and wet heat resistance and whose aging time can be particularly shortened, is provided.
US09080080B2
Provided is a method for producing a polishing composition capable of reducing scratches and particles of an object to be polished, after polishing. It is a method for producing a polishing composition including a step of filtering with a filtration filter a silica particle dispersion containing colloidal silica whose primary particles have an average particle diameter in a range of 1 to 100 nm, wherein the filtration filter includes diatomite cationized by use of a polyvalent amine compound having 9 to 200 cationic groups in the molecule.
US09080079B2
The present invention relates to a slurry for chemical mechanical polishing, comprising an abrasive; an oxidant; an organic acid; and a polymeric additive comprising polyolefin-polyalkyleneoxide copolymer, wherein the polyolefin-polyalkyleneoxide copolymer comprises a polyolefin repeat unit and two or more polyalkyleneoxide repeat units, and at least one polyalkyleneoxide repeat unit is branched.
US09080077B2
A silicone composition comprises (A) an organopolysiloxane resin having the formula (R1R22SiO1/2)v(R22SiO2/2)w(R2SiO3/2)x(R3SiO3/2)y(SiO4/2)z, wherein R1 is C1 to C10 hydrocarbyl, R2 is R1 or an epoxy-substituted organic group, R3 is C4 to C8 alkyl, v is from 0 to 0.3, w is from 0 to 0.5, x is from 0 to 0.9, y is from 0.1 to 0.8, z is from 0 to 0.5, and v+w+x+y+z=1, provided that the organopolysiloxane resin has an average of at least two silicon-bonded epoxy-substituted organic groups per molecule; (B) an organic solvent; and (C) a photoinitiator. Planar optical waveguide assemblies having one or more layers comprising the silicone composition, and methods for preparing the planar optical waveguide assemblies are provided.
US09080047B2
The present invention relates to polyol dispersions comprising at least one polyol and at least one polymer particle mixture comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer (P) and at least one block copolymer (B), wherein the block copolymer (B) has at least one block which is compatible with the thermoplastic polymer (P) and at least one block which is compatible with the polyol, a process for producing such polyol dispersions, their use for producing polyurethanes and a process for producing polyurethanes.
US09080044B2
This invention is a rubber stopper for medical treatment, which is obtained by molding a resin composition containing a component (A): at least one of a block copolymer having at least two of a polymer block P containing a vinyl aromatic compound as the core and at least one of a polymer block Q containing a conjugated diene as the core and a hydrogenated block copolymer thereof, a component (B): a hydrocarbon-based softening agent for rubbers, and a component (C): a polyolefin-based resin, wherein the resin composition contains a specified amount of the component (C) based on the total amount of the component (A) and the component (B), and the resin composition has a specified molecular weight distribution.
US09080041B2
A rubber composition used for forming a tread of a tire includes an elastomer matrix, a reinforcing filler, and a coupling agent. The elastomer matrix includes from 60 to 95 phr of at least one diene elastomer and from 5 to 40 phr of a polar thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). The polar TPE includes at least one elastomer block and one polar thermoplastic block selected from a homopolymer or copolymers of an alkylacrylic acid ester, with an alkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms. The reinforcing filler includes a reinforcing inorganic filler. The presence of the polar TPE makes it possible to improve a compromise of wet grip and dry grip performances of the tread.
US09080038B2
Halogen-free, thermoplastic polyurethane-based compositions having good mechanical and flame-retardant properties are provided. The compositions include flame-retardant aromatic organic phosphate compounds that do not exhibit migration in molded products, such as cable and wire jacketing and insulation. The compositions include a continuous resin phase comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, at least one aromatic organic phosphate flame retardant having a melting point of at least 50.
US09080032B2
The present invention relates to novel succinic acid ester mixtures and to the use thereof as plasticizers for plastic materials. The claimed mixtures are characterized by having good plasticizing effects with low dissolution temperatures.
US09080027B2
Disclosed is a heat-shrinkable polyester film which, even when stored in an outside warehouse which is not temperature-controlled during a hot summer, does not result in the film shrinking (so-called natural shrinkage); which further has a low decrease in shrinkage rate in the main shrinkage direction, and which can be attached aesthetically and efficiently without changing the temperature conditions for causing heat shrinkage when attaching as a label by heat-shrinking the same to a container (e.g., a plastic bottle). The disclosed heat-shrinkable polyester film comprises a polyester resin having ethylene terephthalate as a main component and containing at least 7 mol % of at least one monomer capable of forming an amorphous component in the whole component of polyester resin. In the heat-shrinkable polyester film, the 80° C.-120° C. glycerin shrinkage, the natural shrinkage rate after high temperature aging, and the number of initial break age after high-temperature aging are adjusted within a specific range.
US09080024B2
A heat control system for an adaptive consolidation roller (8) for the production of consolidated layers (2) made of fiber reinforced polymers comprising the adaptive consolidation roller (8) for applying, on an application surface (3), a band (4) formed of at least one resin pre-impregnated flat tape (5), and a heating system (6, 7) adapted to emit heat radiation directed towards the band (4). Said adaptive consolidation roller (8) is rotatable on a spindle (9) and comprises a surface made of an elastic deformable, flexible material. At least one additional roller (10) with thermal control means is provided and said at least one additional roller (10) is pressed from radial outside against the surface of the adaptive consolidation roller (8).
US09080018B2
The present invention provides a polydialkylsilane, and a method for producing a polydialkylsilane, including a step of adding a compound represented by formula (I) (in formula (I), R1 and R2 independently represent an alkyl group, and X1 and X2 independently represent a halogen atom) to an organic solvent containing an alkali metal, in which 0.010 [hr−1]≦the average addition rate of compound (I) [moles·hr−1]/the amount of the alkali metal [moles]≦0.055 [hr−1].
US09080011B2
A biorenewable thermoplastic, poly(dihydroferulic acid) (PHFA), is an effective polyethylene terephthalate (PET) mimic that is prepared by a step-growth condensation polymerization of acetyldihydroferulic acid. Other biorenewable thermoplastic copolymers, poly(dihydroferulic acid-co-ferulic acid) are effective mimics of polystyrene and other thermoplastics. The PHFA copolymers can be prepared by the copolymerization of acetyldihydroferulic acid with acetylferulic acid, which are monomers that can be synthesized from starting materials isolated from lignin, rice bran, or other biorenewable sources.
US09080001B2
A chemical compound of structural formula (I) useful in preparation of flame retardant materials is disclosed. Homopolymer, and copolymers of a compound of formula (I), as well as methods of preparing said homo- and copolymers are also disclosed. Polymers described herein advantageous possess low heat release capacities and high char yields.
US09079998B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an aqueous dispersion of acrylic modified starch with excellent long-term storage stability, as well as an aqueous coating composition that can form a coated film with excellent finished appearance, curability and weather resistance, obtained using the dispersion.The aqueous dispersion of the present invention is obtained by separate graft polymerization of a radical polymerizable unsaturated monomer mixture for formation of a hydrophobic polymer and a radical polymerizable unsaturated monomer mixture for formation of a hydrophilic polymer, in the presence of starch and/or modified starch, and neutralizing the carboxyl groups in the acrylic modified starch with a basic substance if necessary.
US09079996B2
The present invention relates to a polymer mixture consisting of at least one comb copolymer I containing blocks consisting of special structural units and at least one copolymerisate II comprising polymerised, optionally substituted styrene and maleic anhydride units, the carboxyl groups of which are present at least partially as alkali metal, earth alkali metal or ammonium salts, and also to the use of these polymer mixtures as wetting and dispersing agents.
US09079988B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a propylene copolymer P1 having ethylene-derived comonomer units, which comprises the following steps: (i) introducing propylene, ethylene, and hydrogen into a polymerisation reactor R1, wherein the ethylene is fed to the polymerisation reactor R1 in a periodically varying amount, (ii) preparing the propylene copolymer in the polymerisation reactor R1 in the presence of a catalyst.
US09079986B2
A system and method for producing polyolefin, including a polyolefin reactor system having: a first reactor to produce a first reactor discharge stream having a first polyolefin and a first diluent; and a second reactor to receive at least a portion of the first reactor discharge stream and to produce a second reactor discharge stream having a second polyolefin and a second diluent, wherein the second diluent is different than the first diluent.
US09079984B2
A process for thermal separation of a solution comprised of a thermoplastic polymer and a solvent involves heating a solvent under pressure above a critical point of the solvent; decompressing the heated solvent in a first vessel, such that a polymer-rich and a low-polymer phase form; and supplying the polymer-rich phase to a second vessel. In embodiments, on entry into the second vessel, a pressure jump occurs, the pressure jump leading to a thermal flash in the second vessel such that a polymer part of the polymer-rich phase rises to at least 70%, and a resulting polymer-rich solution is provided.
US09079982B2
A process for producing high impact polystyrene including feeding at least one vinyl aromatic monomer, an elastomer, and a free radical initiator to a first linear flow reactor to form a reaction mixture. Polymerizing the reaction mixture in the first linear flow reactor to a point below the point at which phase inversion occurs to produce a first polymerization mixture and feeding the first polymerization mixture from the first linear flow reactor to a second linear flow reactor. Polymerizing the reaction mixture in the second linear flow reactor to at least a phase inversion point of the mixture to produce a second polymerization mixture and feeding the second polymerization mixture from the second linear flow reactor to at least a third linear flow reactor for post-inversion polymerization of the second polymerization mixture. The product stream can have an ESCR value of at least 10% toughness retained with less than 10 wt % rubber content.
US09079979B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of hydrogenated nitrile rubber polymers having lower molecular weights and narrower molecular weight distributions than those known in the art, wherein the process is carried out in the presence of hydrogen and optionally at least one co-olefin. The present invention further relates to the use of specific metal compounds in a process for the production of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber by simultaneous hydrogenation and metathesis of a nitrile rubber.
US09079978B2
The invention relates to a method of treating chemical pulp fibers by a polymerizing hydroxy acid, the fibers thus obtained and the products refined from them. In the method, the hydroxy acid reacts with the reactive groups of the fibers in the presence of a catalyst, forming ester bonds. The following units of the same hydroxy acid are oligomerized and/or polymerized to these grafted acid residues. The fibers thus treated and the products refined thereof endure better processing stages that include drawing and stretching than untreated fibers.
US09079973B2
Materials and methods related to using natriuretic polypeptides to reduce proliferation of smooth muscle cells, and to reduce or prevent restenosis.
US09079971B2
Modified FGF-21 polypeptides and uses thereof are provided.
US09079970B2
A series of stapled BCL-2 family peptide helices were identified as able to target the survival protein MCL-I with high affinity and a subset with unprecedented selectivity. Agents and methods for selective pharmacologic neutralization of MCL-I are provided for drug discovery and therapeutic uses, including use in overcoming the apoptotic resistance of cancer and other diseases associated with impaired cell death.
US09079967B2
The present invention relates to isolated Chaperonin 10 polypeptides possessing immunomodulatory activity, but lacking, or substantially lacking, protein folding activity.
US09079965B2
Provided are bispecific antibodies comprised of a single-chain unit having specificity to an immune cell and a monovalent unit having specificity to a tumor cell or a microorganism. The single-chain unit includes a single-chain variable fragment (scFv) fused to an Fc fragment and the monovalent unit includes a light chain and heavy chain pair. Also provided are methods of preparing bispecific antibodies and pharmaceutical and diagnostic uses of these antibodies.
US09079951B2
The present invention relates to newly identified genes that encode proteins that are involved in the synthesis of L-ascorbic acid (hereinafter also referred to as Vitamin C). The invention also features polynucleotides comprising the full-length polynucleotide sequences of the novel genes and fragments thereof, the novel polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides and fragments thereof, as well as their functional equivalents. The present invention also relates to the use of the polynucleotides and polypeptides as biotechnological tools in the production of Vitamin C from microorganisms, whereby a modification of the polynucleotides and/or encoded polypeptides has a direct or indirect impact on yield, production, and/or efficiency of production of the fermentation product in the microorganism. Also included are methods/processes of using the polynucleotides and modified polynucleotide sequences to transform host microorganisms. The invention also relates to genetically engineered microorganisms and their use for the direct production of Vitamin C.
US09079945B2
The inventive subject matter relates to the methods for the induction of immunity and prevention of diarrhea resulting from Escherichia coli. The inventive subject matter also relates to the use Escherichia coli adhesins as immunogens and to the construction of conformationally stability and protease resistant Escherichia coli adhesin constructs useful for inducing immunity to Escherichia coli pathogenic bacteria. The methods provide for the induction of B-cell mediated immunity and for the induction of antibody capable of inhibiting the adherence and colonization of Escherichia coli including enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, to human cells.
US09079942B2
A method of obtaining nucleic acid encoding a plurality of antibodies is provided. In certain embodiments, the method comprises obtaining from an immunized animal nucleic acid encoding the amino acid sequence of the heavy and light chains of a second antibody that binds to the antigen as a first antibody and differs in amino acid sequence to the first antibody, wherein the obtaining is done by amplification using: i. a first primer pair that includes oligonucleotides are complementary to CDR-encoding regions first antibody.
US09079941B2
The present invention concerns multimeric proteinaceous molecules comprising at least two members that bind each other via a region of noncovalent interaction, wherein a first of the members comprises a conditionally reactive group that, when activated, cleaves a covalent bond within the first member. Cleavage of the covalent bond results in a reduction in the binding strength with which the at least two members bind to each other via the region of noncovalent interaction. The reduction in the binding strength can result in the separation of the members under mild conditions.
US09079940B2
Disclosed are polynucleotides and methods for expressing light activated proteins in animal cells and altering an action potential of the cells by optical stimulation. The disclosure also provides animal cells and non-human animals comprising cells expressing the light-activated proteins.
US09079936B2
Derivatives of a novel antiproliferative factor comprising a glycopeptide is disclosed. In specific embodiments, the novel antiproliferative factor is associated with the bladder. Compositions, diagnostic kits and reagents, and methods of using the compounds for identifying and/or treating interstitial cystitis and cancer are disclosed. In particular embodiments, the glycopeptide comprises D-proline.
US09079929B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) or stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein all of the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are inhibitors of factor XIa and/or plasma kallikrein which may be used as medicaments.
US09079912B2
The present invention provides heteroaryl substituted pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridines and heteroaryl substituted pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyrimidines that modulate the activity of Janus kinases and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to activity of Janus kinases including, for example, immune-related diseases, skin disorders, myeloid proliferative disorders, cancer, and other diseases.
US09079911B2
Disubstituted octahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole compounds are described, which are useful as orexin receptor modulators. Such compounds may be useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of diseased states, disorders, and conditions mediated by orexin activity, such as insomnia.
US09079910B2
Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2, R2a and R3 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are inhibitors of PDK1 and cell proliferation/cell vitality and can be employed for the treatment of tumors.
US09079900B2
Provided herein are methods to prepare Heteroaryl Compounds having the following structure: wherein R1-R4 are as defined herein. The Heteroaryl compounds are useful for treating or preventing cancer, inflammatory conditions, immunological conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, obesity, neurological disorders, age-related diseases, or cardiovascular conditions.
US09079887B2
The invention is related to anti-viral compounds, compositions containing such compounds, and therapeutic methods that include the administration of such compounds, as well as to processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
US09079881B2
The invention provides a new polymorph of 1-(2-methyl-4-(2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1-benzazepin-1-ylcarbonyl)benzyl-carbamoyl)-L-proline-N,N-dimethylamide, pharmaceutical compositions containing it and its use in therapy.
US09079875B2
The invention relates to a method for decarboxylating C—C bond formation by reacting carboxylic salts with carbon electrophiles in the presence of transition metal compounds as catalysts. The method represents a decarboxylating C—C bond formation of carboxylic acid salts with carbon electrophiles, wherein the catalyst contains two transition metals and/or transition metal compounds, from which one is present, preferably, in the oxidation step, which are different from each other by one unit, and catalyzes a radical decarboxylation which is absorbed during the second oxidation steps, which are different from each other by two units and catalyzes the two electron processes of a C—C bond formation reaction.
US09079861B2
This invention relates to novel compounds of the Formula (I), (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id), (Ie), (If), (Ig), (Ih)1 (Ij), (Ik), (Il1-3). (Im1-3), (In1-3), (Io1-2), (Ip1-6), (Iq1-6), (Ir1-6) and (Is1-2), pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are useful for the therapeutic treatment of diseases associated with the modulation or inhibition of 11β-HSD1 in mammals. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions of the novel compounds and methods for their use in the reduction or control of the production of Cortisol in a cell or the inhibition of the conversion of cortisone to Cortisol in a cell.
US09079858B2
The present invention relates to new kinase inhibitors, more specifically ROCK inhibitors, compositions, in particular pharmaceuticals, comprising such inhibitors, and to uses of such inhibitors in the treatment and prophylaxis of disease. In particular, the present invention relates to new ROCK inhibitors, compositions, in particular pharmaceuticals, comprising such inhibitors, and to uses of such inhibitors in the treatment and prophylaxis of disease. In addition, the invention relates to methods of treatment and use of said compounds in the manufacture of a medicament for the application to a number of therapeutic indications including sexual dysfunction, inflammatory diseases, ophthalmic diseases and respiratory diseases.
US09079852B2
Provided are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment or prophylaxis of disorders associated with NMDA receptor activity, including neuropathic pain, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and related neurologic events or neurodegeneration. Compounds are of the general Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester, prodrug or derivative thereof are provided: wherein: each (L)k-Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted, mono or bicyclic aryl or heteroaryl; W is a bond, alkyl, or alkenyl; X is a bond, NR1 or O and each R1 and R2 is independently H, alkyl, alkenyl or aralkyl or R1 and R2 taken together form a 5-8 membered ring; R3−-R6 are selected from certain specific substituents or a carbonyl; Y is a bond, O, S, SO, SO2, CH2, NH, N(alkyl), or NHC(═O); and Z is OH, NR6R7, NR8SO2(alkyl), NR8C(O)NR6R7, NR8C(O)O(alkyl), NR8-dihydrothiazole, or NR8-dihydroimidazole or wherein Z can fuse with Ar2 to form selected heterocycles.
US09079848B2
Provided are 5-acetoxy-(E3)-3-pentenyl methoxymethyl ether which can be prepared in conventional reaction equipment and a method for preparing an (E3)-3-alkenyl acetate by using it. More specifically, 5-hydroxy-(E3)-3-pentenyl methoxymethyl ether obtained by reacting 4-formyl-(E3)-3-butenyl methoxymethyl ether with a reductant is reacted with an acetylating agent to prepare 5-acetoxy-(E3)-3-pentenyl methoxymethyl ether. (E3)-3-alkenyl methoxymethyl ether obtained by a coupling reaction between the 5-acetoxy-(E3)-3-pentenyl methoxymethyl ether and a Grignard reagent is treated with an acid, and then reacted with an acetylating agent to prepare the (E3)-3-alkenyl acetate.
US09079846B2
A process for oxidizing solid crude terephthalic acid is described. The process includes contacting solid crude terephthalic acid with a solvent comprising a carboxylic acid and one or more of an ionic liquid or ammonium acetate; a bromine source; a catalyst; and an oxidizing agent to produce solid purified terephthalic acid at a temperature of about 100 to about 210° C., and a pressure of about 2 to about 4.5 MPa, for a time of about 5 to about 60 min, and recovering the solid purified terephthalic acid.
US09079844B2
Disclosed is the oxidation of uronic acids, such as galacturonic acid, to the corresponding aldaric acids (characterized by the formula HOOC—(CHOH)n-COOH, with n being an integer of from 1 to 5) such as galactaric acids. The starting material comprising the uronic acid is subjected to oxygen under the influence of a supported gold catalyst and in the presence of a base. The oxidation occurs in good selectivity and yield, under unexpectedly mild conditions. A source of galacturonic acids is pectin, such as that derived from sugar beet pulp.
US09079840B2
A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry [Bi1WbOx]a[Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5hOy]1, in which a finely divided oxide Bi1WbOx with the particle size d50A1 and, formed from element sources, a finely divided intimate mixture of stoichiometry Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5h with the particle size d90A2 are mixed in a ratio of a:1, this mixture is used to form shaped bodies and these are treated thermally, where (d50A1)0.7·(d90A2)1.5·(a)−1≧820. A shaped catalyst body obtained by the process. A catalyst obtained by grinding the shaped catalyst body. A process for heterogeneously catalyzing the partial gas phase oxidation of an alkane, alkanol, alkanal and/or an alkenal of 3 to 6 carbon atoms using the catalyst.
US09079832B2
Disclosed is a process for making diastereomeric N-sulfinyl α-amino amides by reaction of chiral sulfinimines with formamides and lithium diisopropylamide. The process of the invention provides the N-sulfinyl α-amino amides in high yields and with high diastereoselectivity.
US09079830B2
A method for producing a biaryl compound represented by the formula (2) Ar—Ar (2) wherein Ar represents an aromatic group which can have a substituent, comprising conducting a coupling reaction of a compound represented by the formula (1) Ar—Cl (1) wherein Ar represents the same meaning as defined above, in the presence of copper metal and a copper salt.
US09079824B2
The present invention relates to a method for the synthesis of an α amino acetal, comprising (i) oxidizing a tertiary amine in the presence of a copper catalyst, at least one oxidant and a solvent, or (ii) reacting a secondary amine and an aliphatic aldehyde in the presence of a copper catalyst, at least one oxidant and a solvent.
US09079818B2
Disclosed is a process for the synthesis of fluorinated olefins, and in particularly preferred embodiments tetrafluorinated olefins having F on an unsaturated, non-terminal carbon, such as 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The preferred processes of the present invention in accordance with one embodiment generally comprise: (a) reacting a compound of formula (I) X1X2 (I) with a compound of formula (II) CX1X2X3CX1═CX1X2 (II) to produce a reaction product comprising a compound of formula (III) CF3CHX1CH2X2 (III), and (b) exposing said compound of formula (III) to reaction conditions effective to convert said compound of formula (III) to a compound of formula (IV) CF3CZ═CH2 (IV) wherein X1, X2, and X3 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, fluorine and iodine, provided that X1 and X2 in formula (I) are not both hydrogen and Z is Cl, I, Br, or F.
US09079814B2
A linear alkyl benzene product and production of linear alkylbenzene from a natural oil are provided. A method comprises the step of deoxygenating the natural oils to form a stream comprising paraffins. The paraffins are dehydrogenated to provide mono-olefins. Then, benzene is alkylated with the mono-olefins under alkylation conditions to provide an alkylation effluent comprising alkylbenzenes and benzene. Thereafter, the alkylbenzenes are isolated to provide the alkylbenzene product.
US09079805B2
The present invention relates to novel mixtures based on sulfur-crosslinked triglyceride, a process for their preparation, and their use as fertilizers, in particular for promoting the growth of plants which require sulfur.
US09079804B2
The invention relates to phosphate compounds obtained according to a method comprising reaction of a source of insoluble phosphate with an organic source, principally of vegetable origin, optionally in the presence of a mineral acid or an organic acid, said organic source having at least 10% of complexing functional groups.The compounds of the invention are useful for preparing fertilizer.
US09079803B2
A hybrid core for manufacturing high temperature parts includes a non-refractory metal portion and a refractory metal portion wherein at least a portion of the non-refractory metal portion and the refractory metal portion are manufactured by using an additive manufacturing process.
US09079799B2
Disclosed are ceramic bodies comprised of composite cordierite aluminum magnesium titanate ceramic compositions and methods for the manufacture of same.
US09079792B2
A fused silica body comprising a layer of vitreous silica adjacent at least a portion of an inner surface is described in embodiments herein. In other embodiments, a method of making a fused silica body with a layer of vitreous silica adjacent at least a portion of an inner surface is described herein, comprising heating at least a portion of the inner surface to the point of vitrification. In certain embodiments, the method involves passing a linear local heat source over the inner surface in a particular manner, such as a helical fashion transverse to the linear shape, and may involve creating on the inner surface of the body overlapping swaths of temporarily melted silica material.
US09079777B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing inorganic oxide particles, comprising at least the following steps of: coagulating a dispersion obtained by carrying out the hydrolysis reaction and the polycondensation reaction of a metal alkoxide in the presence of a basic catalyst; filtering the dispersion to obtain particles; and drying the particles, wherein the step of coagulating the dispersion is carried out by adding a coagulant comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, ammonium carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate and ammonium carbamate to the dispersion. The inorganic oxide particles obtained by the method of the present invention have high purity and are excellent in flowability.
US09079776B2
The present invention relates a method for producing a graphite intercalation compound (GIC) and to the production of graphene using the same. The method of the present invention comprises the following steps: (a) obtaining alkaline metals or alkaline metal ions, or alkaline earth metals or alkaline metal ions, from alkaline metal salts or alkaline earth metal salts; (b) forming a graphite intercalation compound using the alkaline metals or alkaline metal ions, or the alkaline earth metals or alkaline earth metal ions; and (c) dispersing the graphite intercalation compound so as to obtain graphene. As the method of the present invention uses salts which are inexpensive and safe, graphite intercalation compounds can be easily produced at a low cost, and the graphene can be obtained from the thus-produced compounds, thereby reducing the costs of producing the graphene and enabling the easy mass production of the graphene.
US09079775B2
A method for dispersing nanomaterial comprising an electrochemical process, a solution of dispersed nanomaterial, comprising individual charged nanomaterial at a concentration of about 0.1 mgm−1 or more and a solvent and an electrochemical cell are described.
US09079774B2
An inorganic material is described, which consists of at least two elementary spherical particles, each one of said spherical particles comprising metallic nanoparticles of size ranging between 1 and 300 nm and a mesostructured matrix based on an oxide of at least one element X selected from the group made up of silicon, aluminum, titanium, tungsten, zirconium, gallium, germanium, tin, antimony, lead, vanadium, iron, manganese, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, yttrium, cerium, gadolinium, europium and neodymium, and the mixture of at least two of these elements, said mesostructured matrix having a pore diameter ranging between 1.5 and 30 nm and having amorphous walls of thickness ranging between 1 and 30 nm, said elementary spherical particles having a diameter D greater than 10 μm and less than or equal to 100 μm. Said material can also contain zeolite nanocrystals trapped within said mesostructured matrix.
US09079770B2
The invention relates to a combined reforming process for making synthesis gas from a desulphurized gaseous hydrocarbon feedstock, wherein the feedstock is split into a first and a second feedstock stream, the first feedstock stream is mixed with steam and fed to a gas heated reformer (GHR) and a steam methane reformer (SMR) operated in series, and the second feedstock stream is mixed with reformed gas coming from the SMR and fed with oxygen to a non-catalytic partial oxidation reformer (POX). The process of the invention enables to produce syngas with adjustable composition and at very high capacity in a single line. The process specifically allows designing a methane-to-methanol production plant with a capacity exceeding 10000 mtpd using technically and economically feasible reforming equipment, and showing high feedstock and energy efficiency. The invention further relates to an integrated process for making methanol from a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising said combined reforming process.
US09079756B2
An elevating platform including a chassis having a motor drive unit, a platform, elevator for elevating the platform relative to the chassis, sensors for delivering signals representative of a configuration of the elevating platform or its environment, a control unit for controlling the elevator means as a function of a plurality of parameters, including parameters corresponding to the signals delivered by the sensors, and a selector for selecting at least one priority parameter and a threshold value for the parameter whereby the control unit determines operating conditions for the elevating platform under which the threshold value for the priority parameter can be reached, and for controlling at least the elevator within a limit of the operating conditions.
US09079746B2
An apparatus, kits, and methods for reeling a pool lane line are described herein. Some embodiments of the apparatus can include a lane line guide configured to guide the positioning of a pool lane line along an axis of the apparatus. Some embodiments of the apparatus can include a manipulandum in communication with an axle of the apparatus.
US09079744B2
A paper folding device is configured so that a folding line is always formed at a predetermined position of paper sheets. A paper supply section is provided with a conveyor belt for conveying paper sheets (P) sequentially supplied from a paper sheet stack. A guide plate (4) for aligning the positions of the conveyed paper sheets is provided on a conveying surface of the conveyor belt. A paper folding section has a buckle (10) comprising an outer frame (11) and bars (12) which extend between opposite sides (11a, 11b) of the outer frame and are arranged at intervals from each other. Paper sheet introducing gaps extended in the direction of the length of the bars are provided in the buckle. Before the start of paper folding operation, a control section calculates and processes data relating to the size of paper sheets and data relating to the position of the bars, so that the distance to the guide plate from a reference point in the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction (R) is set to a value with which a side edge of each paper sheet introduced into the paper sheet introducing gaps in the buckle is separated by a distance not less than a predetermined level from a side edge of a bar located closest to the side edge of the paper sheet. Then, the control section sets the position of the guide plate according to the set value.
US09079743B2
Discharging a sheet bundle of a sheet N and a sheet N-1 on preceding sheets already stacked on a stacking tray can cause the already-stacked sheets to be pushed out by the front end of the succeeding sheets. By pressing already-stacked sheets with a bundle pressing member when a sheet bundle of succeeding sheets is discharged, it is possible to reduce the likelihood of the already-stacked sheets being pushed out. Employing the bundle pressing member reduces disturbance of sheet alignment that can occur when a sheet bundle is discharged on already-stacked sheets.
