US09090590B2
The invention relates to compounds of the formula (1), to a method for producing compounds of the formula (1), to the use of the compounds in electronic devices and to electronic devices containing compounds according to formula (1), preferably as electron transport materials, as matrix materials, as electron blocking materials or as emitting materials.
US09090589B2
Methods for melanoma treatment and prevention with selective nitric oxide synthase inhibitor compounds and related pharmaceutical compositions, alone or in conjunction with one or more other melanoma therapies.
US09090580B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing furfural by reacting pentose in water and in the presence of carboxylic acid and of a heterogeneous acid catalyst, the method being conducted in an aqueous solution of carboxylic acid as a reaction medium. The present invention also relates to the preparation of furfural by reaction of pentose in water and in the presence of carboxylic acid and of a heterogeneous acid catalyst. The invention also relates to an aqueous solution of carboxylic acid rich in furfural.
US09090578B2
The present disclosure provides a preparation method of glycidylester of tertiary carbonic acid. The synthesis is performed in two steps: first, the tertiary carbonic acid reacts with a halo substituted epoxide under a catalyst to produce tertiary carbonic halo substituted alcohol ester; after dehydrohalogenation of the halo substituted alcohol ester of tertiary carbonic acid, the glycidylester of tertiary carbonic acid is formed. In the first step of preparing the halo substituted alcohol ester of tertiary carbonic acid through synthesis, the reaction between the tertiary carbonic acid and the halo substituted epoxide is only performed in the existence of water and the catalyst, and the water comprises water added before the reaction. The present disclosure significantly increases the product output in the unit volume, and is particularly suitable for industrial production of glycidylester of tertiary carbonic acid having the low cost, high purity, low color and stable color.
US09090571B2
A preparation replete with a meglumine salt of 6-fluoro-3-hydroxy-2-pyrazine carboxamide has superior solubility, and is useful as a preparation for injection.
US09090548B2
A method for preparing a carboxylic acid by acidification of a liquid feed including a carboxylate salt, which method includes the steps of providing a liquid feed including magnesium carboxylate; providing a gas feed including gaseous hydrogen chloride; and acidifying the carboxylate to carboxylic acid by bringing the liquid feed into contact with the gas feed, thereby forming a liquid effluent including carboxylic acid and magnesium chloride, wherein the gas feed including gaseous hydrogen chloride is derived from a thermal decomposition step wherein an aqueous liquid including magnesium chloride is subjected to a temperature of at least 300° C., thereby decomposing magnesium chloride into magnesium oxide and hydrogen chloride, thus obtaining a solid including magnesium oxide and a gas comprising gaseous hydrogen chloride.
US09090539B2
Compounds and methods for preparing substituted 3-(1-amino-2-methylpentane-3-yl)phenyl compounds from an isomerically pure starting material are described. In particular, methods of preparing a 3-(1-(dimethylamino)-2-methylpentane-3-yl)phenol as a substantially optically pure (R,R) stereoisomer are described. Using a method of the present invention, only the (R,R) and (S,S) stereoisomers of the target compound are produced, increasing the yield and stereoselectivity of the desired (R,R) stereoisomer.
US09090528B2
In a process for producing phenol, benzene is hydroalkylated with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst under conditions effective to produce a hydroalkylation reaction product comprising cyclohexylbenzene and cyclohexane. At least a portion of the cyclohexane from said hydroalkylation reaction product is then dehydrogenated to produce a dehydrogenation effluent comprising benzene, toluene and hydrogen. At least a portion of the dehydrogenation effluent is washed with a benzene-containing stream to transfer at least a portion of the toluene from the dehydrogenation effluent to the benzene-containing stream.
US09090526B2
The present invention provides a method for inhibiting unwanted polymerization of reactive monomers within a liquid. The method comprises the combined usage of a quinone methide with a quinone diimide to the liquid monomer. This combination has an unexpected synergistic effect. Thus, in some ratios, the combination results in practically 100% inhibition.
US09090524B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon, the method including bringing metal Mg into contact with water and carbon dioxide and reducing the carbon dioxide. In the method, one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Group 8 elements, Group 9 elements, B, C, S, Ca, V, Mn, Ni, Ge, Zr, Nb, Pd, Ag, Sn, Pt, Au, and Ce are used as combination element(s), and the contact is effected under presence of one or more of simple substance(s) of the combination element(s), water-soluble compound(s) of the combination element(s), and ion(s) of the combination element(s).
US09090523B1
A process for flushing the rounded top head and rounded bottom head of a vessel used in an adsorption process in which the rounded top head and the rounded bottom head of the vessel are flushed with a flush fluid. The extract stream from the adsorption process is split into a desorbent rich stream and desorbent lean steam. The flushing fluid is a fraction separated from a desorbent lean split of the extract stream.
US09090514B2
An expandable refractory for high temperature sealing, the expandable refractory includes un-expanded vermiculite and one or more mixtures of ceramic fibers in a water based refractory binder.
US09090510B2
A mullite body comprising: a plurality of crystals, wherein about 70 percent or greater of the crystals have a crystal diameter that is within about 3 microns or less of an average diameter of the plurality of crystals, and a porosity of 55 percent or greater; and made using a process comprising: mixing precursor materials together with an average aggregate particle size of about 3 microns or smaller measured using a particle size analyzer; heating greenware in air to a first temperature such that the greenware is dried and forms calcineware, heating the calcineware in a silicon tetrafiouride atmosphere to form flurotopaz, and heating to a second temperature so that a mullite structure is formed.
US09090509B2
The present invention relates to panels or slabs formed by stone agglomerate for the manufacture of which an organic binder containing an ingredient of a plant origin is used. The panels or slabs object of the invention are formed from stone materials or the like, granulated and subsequently agglomerated by means of a binder, specifically an organic resin containing one or more polyols of a plant origin.Furthermore, by means of using this binder together with materials from waste and used and/or recycled products, a material with good features and with a very high content of recycled material or material of a renewable origin can be obtained.The manufactured panel or slab containing a resin part of a plant origin of the present invention is particularly suitable for its use indoors as a kitchen counter, a bathroom counter, or any work surface, as well as for its use as flooring or sidings.
US09090504B2
A coated article is provided with at least one infrared (IR) reflecting layer. The IR reflecting layer may be of silver or the like. In certain example embodiments, a titanium oxide layer is provided over the IR reflecting layer, and it has been found that this surprisingly results in an IR reflecting layer with a lower specific resistivity (SR) thereby permitting thermal properties of the coated article to be improved.
US09090502B2
A nanoimprint-mold release agent including an alkoxysilane compound represented by general formula (1) is provided wherein Rf and Rf′ are each independently a fluoroalkyl group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R1 is a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic monovalent hydrocarbon group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R2 and R3 are each independently methyl group or ethyl group; X and Y are each independently an ether linkage or an ester linkage; a and b are each 0 or 1; m, n, and p are each an integer of 0 to 6; q is an integer of 1 to 6 and r is an integer of 0 to 2.
US09090500B2
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.
US09090490B2
A system and method for wastewater treatment using ultraviolet (UV) irradiation of wastewater flowing in a treatment chamber. Wastewater to be treated flows into the first UV exposure chamber where it is exposed to UV illumination. Wastewater exposure time is lengthened by channeling the wastewater to first flow down a first UV exposure chamber and then back up through a second UV exposure chamber both of which are in a single structure. The first and second UV exposure chambers are separated by the UV illumination source so that wastewater on the two sides of the UV illumination source (i.e. both UV exposure chambers) cannot mix, and so that UV illumination time is dictated by the flow rate of the wastewater and the length of the UV illumination source. Thus the UV illumination path is roughly twice the length of the UV illumination source.
US09090488B2
The present invention relates to a reactor for the purification of influent water by means of anaerobic microorganisms comprising at least one separator which is configured so as to separate a three phase mixture withdrawn from the reactor into three phases, namely into sludge, water and gas.
US09090483B2
The invention provides a water dispensing system comprising a container having a first region adapted to store unfiltered water, a second region adapted to store filtered water, and a spout region, a meter housing adapted to receive a water meter, a reservoir disposed within the first region of the container, a filter coupled to the reservoir, the filter being adapted to filter water flowing from the reservoir into the second region of the container, a valve assembly disposed in the second region of the container, the valve assembly being adapted to dispense filtered water from the second region of the container, and a lid coupled to the reservoir. In addition, the invention provides a system for filtering and testing water, comprising a water filtering system used in combination with a water meter for testing the quality of the effluent.
US09090480B2
A process for preparing various morphology NTE compound ZrW0.5Mo1.5O8 comprising: preparing 0.4M Zr4+ solution, 0.2M W6+ solution and 0.6M Mo6+ solution with zirconyl nitrate, ammonium tungstate and ammo-nium molybdate separately, mixing them with the same volume and stirring until they are mixed well, adding 6-12M hydrochloric acid with the volume of 1/5-1/7 of the mixed solution, or adding 6-12M hydrochloric acid with the volume of 1/3-1/5 of the mixed solution and 0.2-0.4 wt % ammonium monoacid phosphate of all raw materials, or adding 9-18M sulfuric acid with the volume of 1/10-1/5 of the mixed solution, well mixing, transferring the mixed solution into the hydrothermal reactor, reacting at 150-180° C. for 8-25 hours, washing, drying and getting the precursor, heating the precursor at 480-500° C. for more than 5 hours and obtaining the product is provided.
US09090478B2
The invention discloses an improvement over the existing process of producing solar salt of high purity from seawater and minimizes the need for downstream purification. More particularly, the invention teaches the practical utility of recrystallization of salt in solar salt pans using seawater itself as the dissolving medium. The resultant recrystallized salt is obtained with a yield up to 80% and with much reduced levels of impurities. Special mention is made of the bromide level which is reduced 7-10 fold. The invention is most ideal for trace impurities which reside in the salt crystal lattice and are difficult to dislodge by conventional methods adopted for salt purification and where conventional recrystallization would be cost ineffective and scalability would pose a problem. The invention can be practiced by solar salt works based on seawater and where spare land is available to set up additional crystallizers required for the purpose of recrystallization.
US09090476B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising causing motion of an enclosed container comprising substrate material and graphite material within the container; and coating surfaces of the substrate material with the graphite material responsive to the motion of the container, the coated surfaces comprising graphene or graphene layers.
US09090470B2
A method of producing a positive electrode active substance comprising steps of: dissolving a lithium source, an M source, a phosphorus source and an X source in amounts needed to form a lithium-containing composite oxide having an olivine structure and represented by the following general formula (1): LixMyP1−zXzO4 (1) wherein, in the formula, M is at least one kind of element selected from the group of Fe, Ni, Mn, Zr, Sn, Ti, Nb, V, Al and Y; X is at least one kind selected from the group of Si and Al; 0
US09090454B2
Embodiments of methods of fabricating a sensor device includes attaching a first wafer to a sensor wafer with a first bond material, and attaching a second wafer to the sensor wafer with a second bond material, the second bond material having a lower bonding temperature than the first bond material. After attaching the second wafer, an opening (e.g., a trench cut) through the second wafer is formed, and an adhesive material is provided through the opening to further secure the second wafer to the sensor wafer. Embodiments of sensor devices formed using such methods include a first device cavity having a first pressure, and a second device cavity having a second pressure.
US09090451B1
A TPoS resonator includes a substrate and a resonator body suspended over the substrate by at least a first pair of fixed supports (e.g., tethers) that attach to first and second ends of the resonator body. The resonator body includes monocrystalline silicon, which has a [100] crystallographic orientation that is offset by ±α degrees relative to a nodal line of the resonator body (e.g., tether-to-tether axis) when the resonator body is operating at a resonant frequency, where a is a real number in a range from about 5 to about 19 and, more preferably, in a range from about 7 to about 17. The resonator may be an extensional-mode resonator and the resonator body may be rectangular-shaped with unequal length and width dimensions.
US09090435B2
A coupling shaft includes: a boss portion; and a rotation detector mounting shaft portion that protrudes outward from the boss portion away from the motor shaft. An inner circumferential surface of a penetrating aperture disposed on a mounting member is an inclined pressing surface that is inclined relative to a shaft axis of the motor shaft such that an inside diameter of the penetrating aperture increases continuously toward the motor shaft. An inclined bearing surface that is inclined relative to a shaft axis of the coupling shaft is disposed on the boss portion so as to be formed into an annular shape around the shaft axis of the coupling shaft, and such that an outside diameter of the boss portion increases continuously toward the motor shaft. The inclined pressing surface is able to contact the inclined bearing surface by the mounting member being displaced toward the motor shaft.
US09090432B2
A lift device includes a lifting mast having a top, and a drive assembly for moving the lifting mast in lifting and lowering directions. A head is positioned above and over the top of the lifting mast, and is mounted to the lifting mast for displacement between a neutral position and a safe position with respect to the lifting mast in response to the head contact encountering an object above the top of the lifting mast and the head. The drive assembly is enabled for moving of the lifting mast in the lifting and lowering directions in the neutral position of the head, the drive assembly is enabled for moving the lifting mast in the lowering direction in the safe position of the head, and the drive assembly is disabled for moving the lifting mast in the lifting direction in the safe position of the head.
US09090429B2
A filament winding apparatus in which a fiber bundle easily passes through a fiber supplying guide. The filament winding apparatus winds a fiber bundle around a liner, and includes a plurality of fiber supplying guides each supplying a fiber bundle to the liner. Each of the fiber supplying guides includes a bottom portion that guides a wide surface of the fiber bundle, side portions respectively disposed along both sides of the bottom portion, and an opening portion formed between the side portions.
US09090423B2
A recording apparatus includes a movable belt and a recording mechanism. The movable belt is configured and arranged to convey a recording medium. The recording mechanism is configured and arranged to record onto the recording medium. The movable belt has a mark serving as a reference for when the recording medium is being set thereon.
US09090419B2
A recording medium containing cassette includes a recording medium support plate and a width cursor. The width cursor positions a stack of recording media in a widthwise direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a recording medium. The recording medium support plate is allowed to swing so that a downstream portion in the conveyance direction of the recording medium support plate is moved upward and downward. The width cursor includes a first limiting portion and a second limiting portion. The first limiting portion limits the upward movement of the recording medium support plate when an amount of the stack of recording media is larger than a predetermined value. The second limiting portion limits the upward movement of the recording medium support plate when the amount of the stack of recording media is smaller than the predetermined value.
US09090405B2
A removable cartridge cleaner assembly is provided that allows for faster and easier removal of the belt cleaner blades out from under a conveyor belt. In one aspect the assembly includes a biasing surface of one of an elongate support assembly and a channel member configured to be engaged by a securing member and urge distal ends of legs of the channel member into tight engagement with the elongate support assembly and minimize debris accumulation therebetween. In another aspect, the elongate base member and rail member each include lateral portions configured to slidably engage corresponding wedge portions to urge the rail member toward the base member. A method of installing a belt cleaner assembly is also provided which includes camming a rail member downwardly toward the support member upper surface.
US09090404B2
A carrier member is configured to receive a discrete article from a transfer assembly. The carrier member includes a cylindrical roll having a receiving surface and a resilient member connected with the receiving surface. The resilient member has a plurality of intermittently spaced first voids extending circumferentially about the axis of rotation at a first radial distance from the axis of rotation and a plurality of intermittently spaced second voids extending circumferentially about the axis of rotation at a second radial distance from the axis of rotation. The first radial distance is greater than the second radial distance. Each first void is separated from each second void.
US09090403B2
The present invention is directed to a carrier tape having pockets for carrying electronic components. The carrier tape includes a longitudinally extending elevated central portion having a plurality of pockets formed therein and two side portions, each side portion disposed on opposite sides of the elevated central portion and extending longitudinally therewith, wherein each side portion is attached to the elevated central portion by an inclined portion such that the central portion is higher than the side portions when disposed in a flat configuration.
US09090400B2
A method for fulfilling requests in an inventory system includes receiving a request indicating an activity to be completed. The method also includes selecting a holder to fulfill the request and an inventory station at which to fulfill the request. The inventory station is associated with a queue that includes a plurality of queue spaces. The method further includes moving the selected holder from a first location to a second location remote from the selected inventory station. Additionally, the method also includes determining that a trigger event has occurred and, in response to determining that the trigger event has occurred, moving the selected holder from the second location to a queue space of a queue associated with the selected inventory station.
US09090392B2
A liner for a shipping container that surrounds cargo and packaging therefore to protect the cargo and packaging from moisture and contamination. The liner includes a bag that can be expanded to line the interior of a shipping container. The bag has an end within an opening, through which cargo can be loaded. In certain embodiments, a skirt is configured to seal the bag to the open end of the container to create an enclosure between the exterior of the bag and the interior of the container. Air can be drawn through an opening in the skirt to create a vacuum thereby expanding the bag to line the walls of the container. A cover is configured to seal the bag opening shut after cargo has been loaded in the bag. A valve enables air to be vacuumed from the interior of the bag to collapse the bag around the cargo and packaging.
US09090387B2
The present invention provides a dispensing cap for attaching to a container, which includes a dispensing chamber having an interior compartment for holding an ingredient to be dispensed into the container. The top end of the dispensing chamber has a flexible diaphragm and an actuator button and the lower end of the dispensing chamber is connected to a movable cone-shaped member. The dispensing chamber includes a threaded bottle cap for attaching the container to the dispensing cap. A vertical shaft includes four rectangular shaped vanes which engage and push the cone-shaped member at the bottom of the dispensing chamber. This causes the cone-shaped member to move to an open position and thereby form a dispensing opening in the bottom of the interior compartment of the dispensing chamber so that the ingredient housed within the compartment freely passes through the dispensing opening and into the container.
US09090385B2
An embodiment of a container may comprise a cap and a body. The cap may include a top portion, cap walls that form an outer perimeter, and a protruding end that forms an inner perimeter sized smaller than the outer perimeter. The body may include a bottom portion and body walls with distal outermost ends that form a cavity and a body perimeter. The body perimeter may be substantially the same as the outer perimeter. The body may also include upper outer and inner rims disposed around the entire distal outermost ends and having a channel between them. The channel may be sized to receive the protruding end in a friction seal when the container is in a closed position. No portion of the cap may be configured to extend into the cavity or beyond the body perimeter in the closed position.
US09090381B2
A blinking wine bottle stopper includes a base, a power supply unit, and a light guide unit. The base has a receiving chamber having an opening The receiving chamber receives therein a light-emitting unit and the power supply unit. The light guide unit is fixed in the opening of the base to correspond to the light-emitting unit so that light emitting from the light-emitting unit is allowed to travel into and spread in the light guide unit.
US09090374B2
Disclosed is a bottomed tubular bottle including an annular groove which is formed so as to be circumferentially and radially recessed inward along the outer peripheral surface of a body of the bottle with a bottle axis as a center and which contracts and deforms the body in the axial direction of the bottle when the internal pressure is reduced. The annular groove is recessed and formed by a first wall surface arranged on a mouth side of the bottle and a second wall surface arranged on a bottom side of the bottle. The body is formed so that the outer diameter on the bottom side is larger than the outer diameter on the mouth side with the annular groove interposed therebetween.
US09090366B2
A device is provided for winding an envelope (A) around a product (B), such as a group of cigarettes or the like. The product is to be packaged in a corresponding box-shaped body, or packet. The device includes an apparatus (10) for winding the envelope (A) around the product (B) and an apparatus (20) adapted to supply the product (B) and the envelope (A) to the winding apparatus (10).
US09090362B2
A method of filling a cartridge having one or more pouches. The method may include the steps of placing the pouch on a support, placing a first cartridge half over the pouch and the support, placing the pouch and the first cartridge half on a second cartridge half to form the cartridge, maneuvering the cartridge to a filling unit, and filling the pouch within the cartridge.
US09090360B2
A cryogenically cooled radiation shield device and method are provided to shield an area, such as the capsule of a space vehicle, from radiation. A cryogenically cooled radiation shield device may include at least one first coil comprised of a superconducting material extending about an area to be shielded from radiation. The cryogenically cooled radiation shield device also includes a first conduit extending about the area to be shielded from radiation. The at least one first coil is disposed within the first conduit. The cryogenically cooled radiation shield device also includes a second conduit extending about the area to be shielded from radiation. The first conduit is disposed within the second conduit. The cryogenically cooled radiation shield device also includes a first cryogen liquid disposed within the first conduit and a second cryogen liquid, different than the first cryogen liquid, disposed within the second conduit exterior of the first conduit.
US09090355B2
A composite tank that can suppress electrification, corrosion and strength degradation, a wing comprising the composite tank, and a method for manufacturing the composite tank. The composite tank comprises: a tank body inside which a combustible material is stored, having a first resin portion (11, 12) formed from a fiber reinforced resin and a metal portion formed from a metal material, a second resin portion (22) formed from a fiber reinforced resin, which covers at least those regions on the inner surface of the tank body where the first resin portion (11, 12) adjoins the metal portion, and a plurality of conductive portions (23) that enable charge transfer through the second resin portion (22), from the surface that contacts the combustible material to the first resin portion (11, 12), wherein the fiber in the second resin portion (22) has a higher electrical resistivity than fiber in the first resin portion (11, 12), and the second resin portion (22) forms a layer that isolates the first resin portion (11, 12) from the metal portion.
US09090348B2
A control system for portable control of a rotary-wing aircraft includes a portable, hand-held, control device executing a control application, the control device operating in a loaded mode when a load is attached to the rotary-wing aircraft and an unloaded mode when no load is attached to the rotary-wing aircraft, the control device presenting command icons in response to being in loaded mode and unloaded mode; a vehicle management system in the rotary-wing aircraft; a sensor package on the rotary-wing aircraft; and a communication system providing communications between the control device and the rotary-wing aircraft, vehicle management system and sensor package; wherein the control device communicates commands to the vehicle management system to implement loading and unloading of the rotary-wing aircraft.
US09090338B2
The invention relates to a protection panel (115) for a vehicle that comprises an outer surface (140) including at least one composite material, and is mounted via deformable parts on a mounting (135) attached to the vehicle structure. The deformable parts are attached to several stiffening parts (145) of the mounting. In some embodiments, the deformable parts are perpendicular to the outer surface of the panel and are capable of buckling under the effect of impacts. In some embodiments, the deformable parts are in the form of clips, the composite material consists of CFRP and the mounting is rigid.
US09090334B2
In some embodiments, a method of provided boosted actuation to an aircraft flight control device includes receiving an input from a pilot input device via a mechanical input member, providing mechanical energy to a driving member of a controlled-slippage actuator, and varying the strength of a magnetic field applied to a magnetorheological (MR) fluid disposed between the driving member and a driven member of the controlled-slippage actuator based on the relative positions of the mechanical input member and a mechanical output member that is in mechanical communication with the driven member and the aircraft flight control device.
US09090330B2
A device is used to plug an opening in a structure having a front side and a back side. The device includes a removable plug body for plugging the opening, and a retainer that is expandable into engagement with the back side of the structure to retain the plug in the opening. Means coupled with the retainer and the plug is provided for expanding the retainer.
US09090328B2
Provided is a fuselage segment that extends in a longitudinal fuselage segment axis and is closed in a circumferential direction around this longitudinal fuselage segment axis. The fuselage segment features a plurality of shell components for forming a skin of the fuselage segment that respectively feature two first shell component edges extending along a longitudinal shell component direction and two second shell component edges extending along a lateral shell component direction. The shell components are respectively connected to at least one adjacent shell component along at least one first shell component edge and along at least one second shell component edge. Methods for manufacturing such a fuselage segment are also provided.
US09090327B2
An intermediate support structure for the cockpit of an aircraft is provided. The intermediate support structure includes a raised floor and at least one structural element extending as an arch above the raised floor, the arched structure being adapted to hold in position at least one item of equipment in the upper part of the cockpit. The intermediate support structure also includes a fastener for mounting the intermediate support structure onto a fuselage primary structure, where the fuselage primary structure defines a portion of the cockpit of the aircraft.
US09090317B2
A form-fitting comfortable mask, or sun screen, can be disposed, in tension, over a viewing compartment of a flotation device. The floatation device can provide the viewer with a safe, light and water resistant compartment that will greatly enhance their viewing of underwater details while minimizing or eliminating impact to their face from rough water conditions. The flotation device is designed to incorporate a tension surface with molded, water and light resistant air vents that support and secure a Neoprene and/or fabric sun screen mask with molded fasteners in a way that positions the sun screen/mask above the clear glass and/or plastic window. A hidden snorkel system between the viewing window and tension surface provides a fresh supply of clean air while restricting light and water from entering the viewing compartment.
US09090316B2
A device for the remote tracking of water masses through a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver equipped with a telecommunications modem and an electronic control board is provided. The device includes GPS locator enclosed within a floating watertight and sealed container or float. A method for the simultaneous management and operation of a set of one or more of such devices is also provided.
US09090314B2
The present invention relates to an underwater foil (1) for a marine vessel of the type floating on water disposed completely below the waterline and extending in the port-starboard direction. The underwater foil (1) comprises a plurality of foil members (2, 3) connected to each other in order to form the underwater foil (1).
US09090303B2
A bicycle control device is provided with a mounting bracket, a first lever and an adjustment arrangement. The first lever is pivotally arranged relative to the mounting bracket about a first-axis and about a second axis being non-parallel to the first axis. The first lever is configured relative to the mounting bracket such that a free end of the first lever moves closer to the mounting bracket as the first lever pivots about the first axis from a rest position to an operated position. The adjustment arrangement adjusts the rest position of the first lever relative to the mounting bracket around the second operating axis.
US09090295B2
A modular intelligent transportation system, comprising an environmentally protected enclosure, a system communications bus, a processor module, communicating with said bus, having a image data input and an audio input, the processor module analyzing the image data and/or audio input for data patterns represented therein, having at least one available option slot, a power supply, and a communication link for external communications, in which at least one available option slot can be occupied by a wireless local area network access point, having a communications path between said communications link and said wireless access point, or other modular components.
US09090290B2
The invention relates to a door sill assembly for a vehicle body, having a door sill outer part connected to a door sill inner part, wherein the door sill parts are, in part, constituents of a floor assembly of the vehicle. According to the invention, the door sill outer part is provided from an extruded aluminum profile and is connected to the door sill inner part by way of longitudinally running joining flanges that correspond to one another, wherein the door sill inner part is provided at least from a sheet aluminum part and a sheet steel part connected to said sheet aluminum part.
US09090281B2
A laterally tiltable, multitrack vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes a vehicle body and at least three wheels, with two of the wheels being assigned to a common axle to form a first wheel pair. A first wheel control part suspends the first wheel of the wheel pair from the vehicle body and a second wheel control part suspends the second wheel of the wheel pair from the vehicle body. The first wheel control part is configured to be coupled to the second wheel control part via a first gearwheel mechanism, and the second wheel control part is configured to be coupled to the first wheel control part via a second gearwheel mechanism. The first and second gearwheel mechanisms each have a negative transmission ratio between a drive shaft and an output shaft. The laterally tiltable, multitrack vehicle may be a motor vehicle.
US09090277B1
A baby stroller includes a frame unit, two support units connected with the frame unit, two linking units connected with the frame unit and the support units, a cross connection unit mounted between the support units and the linking units, a locking mechanism mounted between the support units, a handle unit connected with the support units, and a pull strap connected with the linking units. Thus, the upper frame and the lower frame of the frame unit are pivoted downward to be close to each other so as to collapse the frame unit into two parts after the stroller is folded. In addition, the user has to unlock the locking mechanism and each of the linking units so as to collapse the baby stroller so that the baby stroller is folded by two stages.
US09090276B1
A system and method for facilitating the organization, transport, and storage of items while shopping. A cart provides a mobile transport for carrying at least one detachable container. The container can contain and enable access to items in an organized manner. The items are placed inside the container during selection. The item are removed from the container during check out and returned back inside the container for further transport to a storage area, such as a pantry or refrigerator. At the storage area, the container is detached from the cart for stationary storage in the storage area, or stored as a system with a pantry cart without detaching from the cart. In this manner, the container has the dual purpose of serving as a mobile shopping basket, and a stationary storage container. Additionally, handling of the items is minimized by eliminating the need to transfer the items between containers.
US09090275B1
A carrying device has an elongate body with a handle toward a first end, a pair of wheels toward a second end, and a moveable end member toward the second end. A latch hooks the moveable member in either an opened or closed position. In one form, a wheel is positioned below the handle at the first end with the elevation of the handle being vertically adjustable. In one form, a flexible carrier is retained over the elongate body and cushions at the ends of the flexible carrier aid in carrying an injured person.
US09090269B2
A key lock which can be used particularly flexibly and cost-effectively has a communication device for wire-free linking of the key lock to an actuating mechanism. The key lock further has a cable-independent power supply device for autonomously providing the electrical power required for extended operation of the key lock.
US09090253B2
A vehicle energy management system for gathering, storing the energy, and distributing the stored energy supports various subsystems on the vehicle such as driver comfort systems, payload refrigeration, liftgate mechanisms, and roof de-icing, for example. The system harvests energy from various sources available to the vehicle, such as solar panels, regenerative braking and shock absorbers. The harvested energy is gathered for battery storage. Management logic allocates the stored electricity to various vehicle loads defined by the subsystems, based on factors such as time of day, ambient temperature, and weather conditions, which are used to predict the electrical demand called for by the loads. Harvestable energy sources available to the vehicle, combined with sufficient battery storage, provides electrical power for supporting these loads without relying on an idling engine for providing electrical or hydraulic power to accommodate the vehicle subsystems, such as comfort stations for an idle-free vehicle implementation.
US09090246B2
Systems and methods for controlling a throttle plate to adjust airflow to the engine are provided. A transmission having an input speed and an output speed and including a clutch and a driver-selectable transmission lever is controlled to adjust engine speed to a synchronous speed in a future gear ratio in response to driver foot pedal positions and driver-selectable transmission lever positions.
US09090237B2
An electronic control unit includes a controller configured to interrupt a failsafe relay for a predetermined time period while an external load, such as an electric servo motor, is in a non-operating state and to perform a diagnosis of a short-circuit fault, which may occur at a load power supply line, based on a difference between a first voltage applied to a positive power supply line and a second voltage applied to the load power supply line.
US09090233B2
A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes an adding section and a control differential pressure setting section. The adding section adds a feedback differential pressure obtained by executing a PI operation in accordance with a yaw rate deviation which is a difference between a target yaw rate being set to a value at which a vehicle turns to a higher coefficient-of-friction road side and an actual yaw rate and a feedforward differential pressure obtained by adding (i) a differential pressure based on a steering angle and (ii) a differential pressure based on a velocity of a vehicle body and the target yaw rate. The control differential pressure setting section sets a control differential pressure based on a value obtained by the adding section, after a predetermined time elapses since start of differential pressure control.
US09090231B2
A wiper blade apparatus, having a main lever which is formed of synthetic resin, includes a rotation shaft that is disposed at a center of the main lever, and formed to connect both sidewalls of the main lever; and a connector that is rotatably coupled to a rotation shaft, and formed to be detachable from the rotation shaft, wherein a first fool-proof assembly unit is formed at the rotation shaft, and restricts a range of a rotation angle of the connector that prevents misassembly of the connector; and a second fool-proof assembly unit is formed on the coupling unit of the connector and, in correspondence with the first fool-proof assembly unit, restricts a range of a rotation angle of the connector.
US09090226B2
When an attempt is made to insert a fitting-shaft section into a fitting-hole section where phases of the fitting-shaft section of a spring-screw and the fitting-hole section of an adapter about a central-axis line of a spool-body are not matched, shaft-section-side inclined-surfaces formed at shaft-section-side protrusions abut to hole-section-side inclined-surfaces formed at hole-section-side protrusions, so the shaft-section-side inclined-surfaces press the hole-section-side inclined-surfaces in such a direction inclined in a pull-out direction to a projecting-direction of a shaft-section body from a flange section. The adapter upon receiving a pressing force generated by this pressing at the hole-section-side inclined-surfaces rotates in the pull-out direction, thereby aligning phases of the fitting-hole section and the fitting-shaft section about the central-axis line such that each shaft-section-side protrusion inserts into a gap between the hole-section-side protrusions adjacent to each other, and the fitting-shaft section fits into the fitting-hole section.
US09090219B2
A bumper system for a vehicle includes a fascia having an integral energy absorber portion configured to dissipate an amount of energy due to an impact upon the fascia. The energy absorber portion includes multiple spaced formations configured to extend rearward and forward when the bumper system is installed on the vehicle. The bumper system may also include an impact beam. The fascia can be secured to the vehicle so that the fascia is positioned immediately adjacent the impact beam. The bumper system can also include a valence that covers the energy absorber portion from view, so that only a remaining display portion of the bumper system is visible from outside of the vehicle.
US09090216B2
A barrier element for protecting a vehicle door interior panel of a vehicle door from an occupant of an adjacent vehicle seat comprises a body and an arm rest portion. The body is shaped to enclose the vehicle door interior panel and to block the occupant's access to an interior door handle, a lock control and a window control. The body has a self-supporting shape and is configured to cover the vehicle door interior panel. The arm rest portion is formed in the body and projects away from a surrounding surface of the body. The arm rest portion defines a self-supporting shape that follows contours of an arm rest of the interior vehicle door panel and provides an arm rest surface upon which an arm can be rested. The barrier element is securable to the vehicle door with fasteners that are positioned to be inaccessible to the occupant.
US09090214B2
A self-propelled device includes a spherical housing and an internal drive system including one or more motors. The internal drive system acts to provide power to an interior surface of the spherical housing, thereby causing the self-propelled device to move. A biasing mechanism is coupled to the internal drive system and includes a spring and a spring end in contact with the inner surface of the spherical housing. An accessory component magnetically interacts with the biasing mechanism through the spherical housing such that as the self-propelled device rotates along, the accessory component remains stable with respect to the biasing mechanism.
US09090213B2
An accessory mounting system for a vehicle includes spaced apart fixing elements adhesively attached at a surface of a vehicle windshield. A frame has receiving portions that are spaced apart from one another in a manner that corresponds with the spacing apart of the fixing elements, and each of the receiving portions is configured to receive a respective and corresponding one of the fixing elements. Elongated portions of the fixing elements are at least partially received in respective and corresponding ones of the receiving portions of the frame and cooperate with the receiving portions to attach the frame at the windshield. The frame includes structure for receiving an accessory thereat. The accessory includes a camera and, when the accessory is received at the structure of the frame, the line of vision of the camera passes through an aperture existing in the frame.
US09090210B2
A motor vehicle includes, but is not limited to a loading floor, a height adjusting device for the loading floor with a guide, on which the loading floor is mounted pivotably on a front end portion about a pivot axis and movably for a movement with a component in vertical direction and the loading floor with the guide can be mounted in at least two different height positions, at least two support elements formed in a different vertical orientation for supporting a rear end portion of the loading floor in the at least two different height positions. The guide includes, but is not limited to a first guideway for moving the front end portion towards the top and a second guideway for moving the front end portion towards the bottom and the first and second guideway are formed spatially separated on the guide.
US09090204B2
A holder arrangement of a light module in the housing of a headlamp includes a headlamp leveling actuator being arranged between the light module and the housing for the adjustment of the position of the light module in the housing, wherein the position of the headlamp leveling actuator can be changed in the housing by means of an adjustment device. The adjustment device may include a connecting link which is embodied for the compensation of thermally induced changes of the position of the light module in the housing of the headlamp.
US09090201B2
A center door assembly for a dump bed and a method for removing the door from the dump bed. A frame is mounted in a wall of the dump bed and has a pair of opposite and spaced apart channels. A pair of elastomeric inserts are removably mounted in the channels. A retractable door has a pair of edges slidably received in the inserts and is movable linearly within the channels between a closed position and an open position. A pivot linkage assembly is operatively connected to the door for linearly moving the door between the closed and open positions. The elastomeric inserts are removed from the channels through a bottom opening in the channels providing lateral space between the channels to enable the door to be removed from the frame. The elastomeric inserts are provided with bend areas enabling them to be compressed for removal from the channels.
US09090197B2
A camping assembly is provided having a frame with a base and a superstructure, and a tent mounted on the frame superstructure, wherein the tent is configurable from a closed position for transport to an open position with the tent floor forming a cantilever relative to the frame. The camping assembly may be mounted on a typical vehicle trailer hitch by engaging the receiver, and braces extending from the frame superstructure to the vehicle act to stabilize the camping assembly during transport. The camping assembly may be used on or off of the vehicle. When the camping assembly is used off of the vehicle, it is supported on adjustable legs on outriggers, with the tent supported on top of the frame superstructure.
US09090183B1
A deployable or fixed armrest support for a vehicle includes an elongate body operable between a vertical stowed position and a horizontal deployed position. The elongate body is configured to support the weight of a passenger in the vehicle. An extendable support is configured to be withdrawn from a cavity in the elongate body. The extendable support is operable between a deployed position and a stowed position. A plurality of spokes are disposed on and configured to rotate about a distal end of the deployable armrest support. The plurality of spokes including polymeric pads configured to support a portable computing device. One of a power port and a data port is disposed on the elongate body.
US09090176B2
A method and device for cooling an electrochemical cell is provided. In one embodiment, the cooling element for an electrochemical cell includes a metal element configured to engage with an electrochemical cell and absorb thermal energy from the electrochemical cell. The metal element is configured to melt into a liquid when the electrochemical cell exceeds an eutectic temperature of the metal element.
US09090152B2
A beltline molding for a vehicle door includes a molding main body that extends from a window raising and lowering area to a surface of a door frame, and a step cross-section section including a seal lip that comes in sliding contact with a window, a vertical flange that extends downward from the upper part of the molding main body, and a clinch flange that extends downward from the vertical flange through a step that extends inward, the beltline molding being fitted to an upper edge of an outer panel of the vehicle door in the window raising and lowering area in a state in which the upper edge is held between the molding main body and the clinch flange, and the seal lip and the clinch flange having been removed in an area situated on the surface of the door frame while allowing the vertical flange to remain.
US09090147B2
A sunshade assembly includes a sunscreen of which the longitudinal edges are provided with guide strips which are substantially rigid in transverse direction. Opposed elongated longitudinal guide rails each include a guide channel section defining a guide channel in which the respective guide strip is accommodated when the sunscreen is moved between open and closed positions. The guide channel of each guide rail being bounded on the side facing the opposed guide rail by a guide flange (14) supporting the guide strip in a direction towards the opposed guide rail. A part of the guide channel section of at least one guide rail is resilient such that at least the portion of the guide flange supporting the guide strip is resiliently yieldable in a direction towards the opposed guide rail under the influence of forces exerted by the sunscreen.
US09090145B2
An air conditioning system for supplying air conditioned air to a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle has left and right hand side distribution ducts connected to a blower by a common distribution chamber. The blower causes air to flow through the common distribution chamber into the left and right hand side distribution ducts via an air conditioning unit. Each of the distribution ducts includes a distribution valve to vary the flow through the respective distribution duct and through a dump duct that exhausts air outside of the passenger compartment. Each of the dump ducts has the same resistance to flow as the respective distribution duct to which it is connected. The flow from the distribution ducts is adjusted by varying the proportion of air that flows through the cooperating dump duct without affecting the flow from the other distribution duct or requiring the blower speed to be altered.
US09090136B2
A hitch pin for use in a hitch assembly is provided. The hitch pin includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and a transition portion. The size of the first end portion is different relative to the size of the second end portion. The two end portions are configured to fit different size apertures defined by a hitch assembly component. In further examples, the hitch pin can include a first end portion, a second end portion, a third end portion, and a transition portion. The first end portion is of a different size relative to both the second end portion and the third end portion.
US09090135B2
A device for fitting and removing tires includes a support having a connecting portion associable with the movable arm of a tire changing machine, a first protruding element associated with the support and suitable to be positioned in correspondence with a section of the edge of a wheel rim, a guide element having a substantially elongated shape and extending substantially orthogonal to the protruding element, a gripping tool associated with the support, suitable to be inserted between the tire and the rim and having a substantially curved end section, the gripping tool being movable between a retracted position, wherein the end section is arranged in proximity of the first protruding element, and an extracted position, wherein the gripping tool extends from the first protruding element towards the wheel. The first protruding element is arranged substantially at the side of the gripping tools, in correspondence with a side of the gripping tool substantially opposite to the guide element.
US09090133B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire that can desirably prevent generation of static electricity between the road face and the tire, while maintaining a low rolling resistance, so that the safety in use is further improved. In pneumatic tire of the present invention, each of tread rubber, breaker rubber and sidewall rubber that are respectively formed on a tread section, a breaker section and a sidewall section has a volume resistivity of 1×108 Ω·cm or more, with a conductive layer having a volume resistivity smaller than 1×108 Ω·cm and a thickness in a range from 0.2 to 2.0 mm being formed between a carcass ply forming the carcass and the sidewall rubber, and at least either conductive layer or a rubber cement layer that is formed so as to be made in contact with conductive layer and has a volume resistivity lower than that of the tread rubber is exposed to the surface of the tire.
US09090132B2
An installation members 20 is structured detachably by a fitting structure between a groove portion 12 and a projection 21 extending in a tire peripheral direction CD, with respect to a tire side wall surface 10. a structure in which the groove portion 12 and the projection 21 interfere with each other in the tire peripheral direction is provided between the groove portion 12 and the projection 21.
US09090126B1
A roller assembly includes a housing that has a top end, a bottom end and a peripheral wall extending therebetween. The top end has a first well extending downwardly therein. The bottom end has a second well extending upwardly therein. The top end has a groove extending downwardly therein. The groove extends into the first well. The first well may insertably receive a leg of a walker. The peripheral wall is convexly arcuate, giving the housing a spherical shape. A grip is positioned within the first well. The grip may engage the leg of the walker. A lock is coupled to the housing to releasably engage the leg. A roller is coupled to the housing. The roller may roll the walker along the support surface.
US09090119B2
A pattern-forming method includes forming a resist underlayer film on a substrate using a resist underlayer film-forming composition. The resist underlayer film-forming composition includes a base component, and a crosslinking agent. A content of hydrogen atom in the resist underlayer film is from 0 to 50 atom %. The crosslinking agent has a partial structure represented by a following general formula (i). X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or —NR—. R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms. n1 is an integer from 1 to 6. R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms.
US09090115B2
Disclosed herein is a paperboard structure designed to house a product, e.g. but not limited to a candy or chocolate bar, such that the combination forms a giftable paperboard structure. In this way, the paperboard structure serves as both a greeting card and as packaging for a gift, such as a candy bar or other product.
US09090104B2
A device for serial printing of print media, particularly mailpieces, with a print head having a planar printing face and a printing area extending longitudinally, and with a transport device for feeding print media to be printed to the print head. The transport device includes first and second transport units, which move the print media parallel to the printing face and can be moved in an orthogonal direction relative to the printing face in order to guide a print medium on the transport units to the printing face of the print head and at a distance away from the printing face that is suitable for printing. The first and second transport units can be moved independently of one another and a transfer area of the printing face is provided to transfer a print medium from the first to the second transport unit.
US09090103B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a conveying unit disposed below the recording unit, a return path unit configured to return the recording medium from the upstream side of the recording unit to the conveying unit, and a casing. The return path unit is disposed below the conveying unit and includes a horizontal conveying path including an upper portion and a lower portion. The side walls of the casing include a drawing port through which the conveying unit and a least the upper portion of the horizontal conveying path are drawn out, and an opening facing in a direction perpendicular to the drawing direction thereof. The inner edge of the lower end of the opening is positioned the same or lower in height than the uppermost portion of the horizontal conveying path in the return path unit.
US09090101B2
An image is printed by ink on a first face of a sheet of which the first face has low absorbency and the second face has a water-absorbing property greater than the first face. The first face of the sheet that has been printed upon is heated and the second face is moisturized.
US09090099B2
There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which, even in a case where a landing position of ink changes due to a change in a distance between an ejection port of a print head and a support surface of a print medium, the print medium is conveyed by an appropriate conveyance amount. The inkjet printing apparatus detects a changing amount of the landing position of an ink droplet. The conveyance amount of the print medium by a conveying roller and a pinch roller is controlled based upon the detected changing amount.
US09090089B2
A thermal printer and control method for a thermal printer is provided. The thermal printer includes a print head and a paper feed mechanism for conveying a print medium past the print head at a controlled print speed based on predetermined print speed control factors. Operations include determining the print speed of the print medium based on the print speed control factors; determining a change, if any, in the print speed; determining if the change in print speed exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and controlling the paper feed mechanism to limit the change in the print speed if the change in the print speed is determined to have exceeded the threshold value. The change of the print speed is decreased for at least one predetermined time when the change in the print speed is determined to have exceeded the threshold value.
US09090083B2
A flow path opening/closing device includes a tube through which a recording liquid flows, a tube support member on which the tube is mounted, an opening/closing member configured to rotate between a closing position and an opening position, and an elastic support member. In the closing position, the opening/closing member crushes the tube mounted on the tube support member, thereby cutting off a flow path defined within the tube. In the opening position, the opening/closing member allows the cutoff of the flow path to be cancelled by a restoring force of the tube. The elastic support member elastically supports the tube support member so as to move the tube support member toward and away from the opening/closing member.
US09090082B2
A fluid container usable with an image forming apparatus having a fluid container receiver is disclosed. The fluid container includes a housing unit including a free-fluid chamber to store a first fluid and a regulated chamber to store a second fluid. The regulated chamber includes a regulator unit configured to regulate the second fluid and an outlet configured to transport the second fluid outside of the housing unit. The fluid container also includes a fluid channel configured to establish fluid communication between ambient atmosphere and the free-fluid chamber, and a check valve configured to establish fluid communication between the free-fluid chamber and the regulated chamber.
US09090078B2
In a liquid containing vessel that is inserted in a −Y axis direction with regard to a mounting section, a substrate support member includes a first engaging section configured to engage with the liquid containing vessel, and a second engaging section configured to engage with a supply side adhering section. The first engaging section includes a position determining section that determines position of the substrate support member with regard to the liquid containing vessel in Z axis directions due to contacting with regard to the liquid containing vessel from a +Z axis direction. The position determining section is configured to regulate movement of the liquid supply member in a −Z axis direction through the supply side adhering section.
US09090076B2
An ink cartridge used for an inkjet printer, with an ink storage chamber, an ink outlet and an air inlet, and a detection component designed inside the ink storage chamber for detecting residual ink volume. The ink storage chamber includes an ink detection chamber and a relatively enclosed ink refilling chamber with an opening at a lower part. The opening of the ink refilling chamber is inside the ink detection chamber. The detection component is designed inside the ink detection chamber.
US09090068B2
There is provided a capping device having a bottomed box-shaped cap having an opening at one of ends of short side walls and long side walls formed in a ring shape and a bottom portion on the other side, the bottom portion is formed with a waste liquid disposal port configured to discharge liquid flowed therein from the opening and a rib extended so as to connect two opposing wall surfaces of the long side walls at a position overlapping at least partly with the waste liquid disposal port two-dimensionally when viewed from the side of the opening, and the rib including a communication hole configured to penetrate in the width direction intersecting the direction of extension of the rib and communicate with the waste liquid disposal port.
US09090062B2
According to one embodiment, a circuit board includes a board main body, an electrode, a circuit plate and a connector. The board main body includes a first surface, a second surface located opposite to the first surface, a first side edge that extends between the first surface and the second surface, and a second side edge that extends between the first surface and the second surface and intersects the first side edge. The second side edge is provided with a fitting part. The electrode is provided on the first surface. The circuit plate is soldered to the electrode and has flexibility. The connector is attached to the board main body. A cable is inserted into the connector in a direction perpendicular to the first side edge.
US09090061B2
Liquid is forced to be ejected from a liquid chamber as a drive voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element that forms part or all of the walls of the liquid chamber by means of a drive circuit to deform the piezoelectric element. The drive circuit applies a pre-drive voltage to the piezoelectric element prior to the application of the drive voltage waveform for driving the piezoelectric element. The pre-drive voltage is higher than the highest voltage level of the drive voltage waveform.
US09090059B1
A printing apparatus includes a piezoelectric element; a cavity whose internal volume is increased or decreased by displacement of the piezoelectric element; a nozzle connected to the cavity and ejecting the ink as ink droplets onto a print medium by increasing or decreasing of the internal volume of the cavity; a printing mode receiver receiving selection of at least one photographic paper printing mode for printing onto photographic paper and at least two plain paper printing modes for printing onto plain paper from among printing modes; and a control unit controlling a meniscus position in the nozzle to be separated further from an orifice surface of the nozzle when the selection of one plain paper printing mode from among the at least two plain paper printing modes is received by the printing mode receiver than when the selection of the photographic paper printing mode is received.
US09090058B2
The aim of the present invention is to propose a method for assessing and correcting the alignment of print heads carried out using at least one linear adjustment algorithm, allowing greater accuracy in the use of same by eliminating inaccuracies linked to the ejection of drops from the print heads, while limiting the use of the resources of the IT system on which the method is used. Moreover, the number of print heads of which the alignment needs to be assessed and optionally corrected has very little influence on the overall processing time required by said method.
US09090053B1
An air dispenser attached to a printing press has a tube with a plurality of holes for directing air toward sheet material moving toward the gripper of the printing press to ensure registration and accurate feeding of the sheet material to the gripper of the printing press.
US09090052B2
Provided are a member with recessed portions which solves the problem of fogging, and a method of manufacturing the same. The member with recessed portions, includes: a printing area in which a large number of recessed portions are formed on a surface thereof; and a non-printing area in which the recessed portions are not formed on the surface thereof, the surface being brought into contact with a viscous material so that the viscous material accumulates in the recessed portions, the excess viscous material being scraped off the surface by causing a doctor blade to horizontally stick up on the surface and relatively moving the doctor blade. The member with recessed portions further includes: a base member having the printing area in which the large number of recessed portions are formed on the surface and the non-printing area in which the recessed portions are not formed on the surface; and a DLC coating formed so as to cover the printing area and the non-printing area. The surface is provided with a plurality of grinding traces, which are formed by grinding the DLC coating, and form an inclined angle of other than 0° and 90° with respect to an imaginary extension of the doctor blade which horizontally sticks up on the surface.
US09090051B2
A sheet binding device binds a sheet bundle by causing a movable-crimping-member moving unit to move a movable crimping member thereby holding a sheet bundle between crimping members. The movable-crimping-member moving unit includes: a link mechanism that includes a first link member rotatably connected to the movable crimping member, a second link member rotatably connected to a fixed member fixed to a device body and connected to the first link member through a connecting part; a connecting member rotatably connected to the connecting part, and capable of moving between a first position causing the link mechanism to be extended and a second position causing the link mechanism to be more flexed than in the first position; and a connecting-member moving unit that includes a rotary member capable of rotating on a displaceable rotating shaft, and reciprocates the connecting member by rotation of the rotary member in one direction.
US09090046B2
To manufacture a ceramic article, a ceramic body comprising Al2O3 is roughened to a roughness of approximately 140 micro-inches (μin) to 240 μin. The ceramic body is subsequently cleaned and then coated with a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating comprises a compound of Y4Al2O9 (YAM) and a solid solution of Y2-xZrxO3. The ceramic coating is then polished.
US09090043B2
In an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a molybdenum composite hybrid laminate. The laminate has a plurality of composite material layers. The laminate further has a plurality of surface treated molybdenum foil layers interweaved between the composite material layers. The laminate further has a plurality of adhesive layers disposed between and bonding adjacent layers of the composite material layers and the molybdenum foil layers.
US09090036B2
A crimping press (1) for manufacturing crimp connections is disclosed, comprising a frame (2), a die (14), a plunger (15) movable relative to the frame (2), and a drive (4) attached to the frame (2) for moving the plunger (15). According to the invention, the crimping press (1) furthermore comprises a beam (5) arranged between said drive (4) and said plunger (15) and/or said frame (2) and said die (14) and a sensor (8) for measuring the bending of the beam (5) arranged on or in the beam (5).
US09090027B2
A method of constructing a composite component includes at least one of laterally and longitudinally aligning a material strip relative to a concavity of a layup tool, at least one of laterally and longitudinally extending the material strip to a predetermined location relative to the layup tool, wherein the material strip is substantially rectangular, and vertically abutting the material strip to the concavity of the layup tool, wherein the longitudinally extending the material strip includes at least one of (1) measuring a longitudinal distance of the material strip and (2) aligning a longitudinal end of the material strip with a longitudinal distance indicium and wherein the laterally extending the material strip includes at least one of (1) measuring a lateral distance of the material strip and (4) aligning a lateral end of the material strip with a lateral distance indicium.
US09090025B2
A fitting including at least one composite material bracket with two flat segments forming an angle less than 180° on an inside of the bracket and an angle greater than 180° on an outside of the bracket, together with a stiffener extending on the inside of the bracket between the two flat segments is disclosed. The bracket presents a slot crossing a straight line between the two flat segments, the slot extending into the two flat segments. The stiffener is folded in register with the slot and includes tabs fastened to each of the two flat segments.
US09090014B2
Systems for controlling velocity of a contact line and height profile between a template and a substrate during imprinting of polymerizable material are described.
US09090010B2
A method is provided of cleaning of a portion of a mold component, the portion of the mold component including a passage configured, in use, to allow passage of fluid and to prevent passage of melt, the method comprising: entering the mold component into a cleaning configuration, whereby a portion of the passage becomes part of a molding surface; performing a molding cycle to fill in at least the portion of the passage with molding material for incorporation and removal of a residue there from. Also provided is a mold having a first mold half and a second mold half, the halves being movable relative to each other. A mold shut height adjustment apparatus can provide for a change in the mold shut height.
US09090005B2
A method for forming a film of plastic material includes urging molten resin through a die head opening to form a stalk having an extrusion profiled rail of resin material extending radially outward from a tubular wall, the die head opening including an annular orifice that defines a thickness of the tubular wall and a cross-sectional shape of the rail; cutting the rail to form discrete elements while leaving the tubular wall un-punctured; and inflating the stalk with a gas bubble maintained within an interior space of the tubular wall to form a thin film tube.
US09090004B2
A method for enhancing internal layer-layer thermal interface performance and a chip stack of semiconductor chips using the method. The method includes adding a thermosetting polymer to the thermal interface material, dispersing a plurality of nanofibers into the thermal interface material, and un-crosslinking the thermosetting polymer in the thermal interface material. The method further includes extruding the thermal interface material through a die to orient the conductive axis of the nanofibers and polymer chains in the desired direction, and re-crosslinking the thermosetting polymer in the thermal interface material. The chip stack includes a first chip with circuitry on a first side, a second chip coupled to the first chip by a grid of connectors, and a thermal interface material pad between the chips. The thermal interface includes nanofibers and a polymer that allows for optimal alignment of the nanofibers and polymer chains.
US09089995B2
A rock breaking device employs a falling weight and a striker pin or other tool held within a tool holding structure supported by a recoil assembly includes a number of isolator structures that protect the rock breaking device by absorbing excess forces that may be applied to the recoil assembly. Each isolator structure includes a front plate that extends below a lower side of a recoil tube flange. In new rock breaking devices, the front plates may be incorporated as part of the isolator structures. Alternatively, an existing rock breaking device can be retrofitted by welding a heavy plate onto the front of an existing front plate of the isolator structures. The heavy plate extends beyond the lower side of the recoil tube flange to provide greater strength.
US09089988B2
An apparatus includes a cartridge holder configured to receive a pen or a cutter, a platen configured to receive an object, a moving mechanism configured to move the cartridge holder in a direction that the cartridge holder comes close to the platen, a read unit configured to read image data from the object, and a processor configured to instruct the apparatus to set a specific size of a pattern in the image data, eliminate, from the image data, one or more of specific patterns whose size is less or equal to the specific size, and instruct the moving mechanism to move the cartridge holder close to the platen, based on the image data after eliminating one or more of specific patterns from the read image data.
US09089982B2
An apparatus includes a cartridge configured to receive a pen or a cutter, a receiving mechanism configured to receive an object, a first moving mechanism configured to move the cartridge in a first movement direction, a second moving mechanism configured to move the object in a second direction perpendicular to the first movement direction, a third moving mechanism configured to move the cartridge in a direction such that the cartridge comes close to the receiving mechanism, and a processor configured to instruct the apparatus to set an orientation of a pattern to be formed on the object, to arrange the pattern while conforming the pattern orientation to an object orientation, to drive the first and second moving mechanisms according to the pattern orientation, and to drive the third moving mechanism to cause the cartridge to move in a direction such that the cartridge comes close to the receiving mechanism.
US09089978B2
Two-stage force multiplier tin snips are provided which have a pair of cutting blades and associated tangs, both being pivotable about a cutting axis. Each respective tang is coupled to a pair of handles by a pair of respective tang pins. The handles are pivotably attached to one another about an adjustable handle axis. The handle axis is adjustable between an upper position and a lower position to provide a mechanism for changing a force multiplier of the cutting blades. The handle axis may be a sliding axis disposed in longitudinal slots on the handles. The handle axis may also be upper and lower fixed pins that are slidable in lateral slots.
US09089977B2
A grasper includes a base, a finger, a tendon cable and a magnetic breakaway mechanism. The finger has a proximal end connected to the base by a proximal joint. The tendon cable is configured to move the finger relative to the base. The magnetic breakaway mechanism releasably couples the finger to the base.
US09089971B2
An information processing apparatus for performing recognition processing by a recognizer for a position and orientation of a work subject to undergo work by a working unit of a robot arm. The information processing apparatus including an obtaining unit adapted to obtain, for each of a plurality of positions and orientations of the work subject, a position and an orientation of the working unit in which the working unit can perform the work, and a restriction unit adapted to restrict a position and an orientation of the work subject used in the recognition processing by the recognizer to a position and an orientation of the work subject corresponding to the position and the orientation of the working unit that have been obtained by the obtaining unit.
US09089970B2
A robotic apparatus and system for cutting turbine bucket covers on a turbine rotor are provided. The robotic apparatus includes a grinding device operable to drive a grinding wheel, a robotic arm coupled to the grinding device, a base member coupled to the robotic arm, a vision system for locating the fastener on the turbine bucket cover, and a control system. The base member is mounted independently of the turbine bucket cover. The control system is coupled to the vision system, the grinding device, and the robotic apparatus, and configured to control movement of the robotic apparatus and the grinding device based upon vision system data and spatial information related to the turbine bucket cover. The system includes at least a portion of a turbine rotor including a turbine bucket cover having at least one fastener thereon, and a robotic device for cutting the turbine bucket cover.
US09089969B1
Devices, systems and methods are provided for loading articles on one or more support surfaces. One of the methods includes autonomously modeling at least some of the articles in a stable article arrangement on a first of the support surfaces using a controller. The articles in the modeled article arrangement are autonomously gathered using one or more manipulators. The gathered articles are autonomously arranged on the first of the support surfaces according to the modeled article arrangement using the one or more manipulators.
US09089956B2
An impact power tool includes an impact mechanism for applying a striking impact to an output shaft by using an output power of a motor. A strike detection unit detects the striking impact applied by the impact mechanism to obtain a striking timing and a striking speed detection unit calculates a striking speed from the striking timing obtained by the strike detection unit and a rotation angle of the motor obtained by a rotation angle detection unit. A control unit counts the number of striking impact detected by the strike detection unit and stops the motor if the number of striking impact reaches a predetermined strike number. The control unit is designed to correct the predetermined strike number when the striking speed obtained in the striking speed detection unit is equal to or lower than a specified striking speed.
US09089949B2
Automated polishing systems include a polisher for polishing the coating on the article and a robotic positioner for moving the polisher relative to the article on an automated path, wherein the polisher polishes at least a part of the coating during movement, a force feedback sensor for determining a force of the polisher against the article during polishing, and a controller for maintaining the polisher within a predetermined force range against the article based at least in part on the force determined by the force feedback sensor.
US09089948B2
The proposed polishing tool has a base body with an open interior space with which the polishing tool can be slidably fitted onto a holder of a tool spindle, initially as far as a latching position. A retaining ring placed in an annular groove of the interior space engages in a counter-groove of the holder. The polishing tool can then be slid further onto the holder under the polishing work pressure, until, under the simultaneous action of torque, driver elements of the base body engage in driver counter-elements of the holder for transmitting rotary movement. At least in the latter relative position between the polishing tool and tool spindle, the retaining ring provides a seal against penetration of the abrasive polishing agent.
US09089946B1
A tool grinder is disclosed which includes a variable speed DC motor having an output shaft, and a cutter wheel mounted on the output shaft and having a precision coating of prone superabrasive particles. The grinder preferably further includes a motor controller for governing a rotational speed of the motor between 400 rpm and 3500 rpm, preferably between 400 rpm and 2000 rpm. The motor preferably has two output shafts, respectively at opposite ends of the motor and a pair of cutter wheels, preferably having a first cutting surface parallel to an axis of rotation of the wheel and a second cutting surface perpendicular to the axis of rotation, or at an angle to the axis of rotation other than perpendicular.
US09089937B2
The present invention relates to a retractable shank for machine tools and use of said retractable shank in machine tools made up of a shank core, on which there is arranged at least one front unit formed by a rotating bush which is associated, by means of bearings, with respect to a fixed portion of the machine structure, this front unit being removable by means of outwards extraction or inwards movement, leaving a space in which the rear rotating shaft of the headstock can be housed.
US09089933B2
A method for making or repairing a laser drilled hole in a component of gas turbine engines, to meet requirements of air flow through the hole, includes deformation of an excess material melted during the laser drilling process and remaining around an opening end of the hole, thereby causing a marginal reduction in an effective diameter of the hole.
US09089931B1
Systems and methods for laser cleaving optical fibers are disclosed. In certain embodiments discussed herein, a ferrule of a fiber optic connector with an optical fiber disposed therein may precisely position an optical surface of the optical fiber when establishing an optical connection with another optical fiber. The optical surface may be thermally formed by laser beam(s) directed to an end face of the ferrule and to an end portion of the optical fiber extending therefrom. By having at least ninety (90) percent of the light incident on the ferrule as S-polarized light, the optical surface may be formed closer to the ferrule. This is because the laser beam may be more readily reflected away from the ferrule instead of being absorbed within the ferrule and thereby causing ferrule damage.
US09089924B2
An indirect spot welding method is provided in which, in indirect spot welding, nuggets formed in a fused state can be stably obtained. In the indirect spot welding method, the welding time is divided into two time periods t1 and t2, where electrode force F1 and current C1 are applied in the first time period t1, and electrode force F2 lower than electrode force F1 and current C2 higher than current C1 are applied in the next time period t2.
US09089921B2
An arc welder including an integrated monitor is disclosed. The monitor is capable of monitoring variables during a welding process and weighting the variables accordingly, quantifying overall quality of a weld, obtaining and using data indicative of a good weld, improving production and quality control for an automated welding process, teaching proper welding techniques, identifying cost savings for a welding process, and deriving optimal welding settings to be used as pre-sets for different welding processes or applications.
US09089917B2
A method for closing housing having first and second heat conductive housing elements, involves arranging a joining material between the housing elements. At least one of the housing elements is heated such that the joining material is conditioned for the joining of the housing elements. At least one of the housing elements has a localized reduction in the heat conductivity such that the dissipation of heat in the at least one housing element is reduced.
US09089916B2
A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a wire electrode, a guide roller that arranges wire electrodes in parallel by winding the wire electrode therearound, a plurality of slidable contact conductors that are in slidable contact with the wire electrodes arranged in parallel, respectively, and a power feeding jig that holds the slidable contact conductors individually and feeds power individually to the wire electrodes arranged in parallel via each of the slidable contact conductors, in which the power feeding jig includes a plurality of reference surfaces that determine a fixing interval between the slidable contact conductors.
US09089915B2
A method of manufacturing a two-piece or composite graphite blank applicable for EDM or other similar needs. The composite electrode will combine a low cost backer substrate material manufactured to size for fixture holding without additional machining for attachment with a high cost material sufficient for the EDM process. The two pieces will be physically attached by an adhesive suitable for bonding graphite or copper impregnated graphite. The pre no-machining backer material sized for fixture holding reduces waste and machining costs for end users.
US09089910B2
A cutting tool (10) includes a cutting portion (14) and a clamping mechanism (16) configured to be brought between an unclamped position in which a cutting insert (12) is removable from the cutting portion (14), and a clamped position in which the cutting insert (12) is clamped to the cutting portion (14). The clamping mechanism (16) includes a clamp (20) and a cam shaft (18). The clamp (20) is formed with a growth pattern region (20C6) having a varying diameter. The cam is formed with a growth pattern region (18C1) having a varying diameter. The growth pattern regions (20C6, 18C4) are configured for engaging each other to transform rotary motion of the cam shaft (18) into linear motion of the clamp (20) to thereby move the clamping mechanism (16) into the clamped position.
US09089899B2
An apparatus for facing a flange of a pipe includes a housing and an anchor assembly rotatably supported by the housing. The anchor assembly is configured to engage an inner surface of the pipe. The apparatus further includes a tool holder translatably supported by the housing. The tool holder is configured to support a facing tool for facing the flange of the pipe. The apparatus further includes a drive shaft that is rotatable relative to the housing to translate the tool holder relative to the housing. The housing is rotatable relative to the anchor assembly about a first axis in a first direction and the drive shaft is simultaneously rotatable relative to the housing about a second axis in a second direction opposite the first direction to move the tool holder along a spiral path and thereby face the flange of the pipe.
US09089894B2
A chamfered narrow side copper plate for a mold with a funnel-shaped curved surface has a working face contacting molten steel that includes a middle area and two chamfered areas, which are arranged at two sides. The working face has a funnel-shaped curved surface, which is larger at a top and smaller at a bottom. The chamfered narrow side copper plate for mold with funnel-shaped curved surface can ensure the uniformity of the cooling effect of the chamfered surface and enhance the service life of the narrow side copper plate.
US09089892B2
Joining method, in particular for connecting at least two workpieces, in which during a joining operation the profile (F) of a force exerted by a joining tool is recorded and compared with a reference force profile (FR) in order to be able to check the quality of the joined connection produced, the difference (Δ) between the force profile (F) and the reference force profile (FR) being formed, and at least one segment (A; B) of the difference profile (ΔF) thereby determined being mapped numerically onto a quality value (QW).
US09089882B2
A self-limiting vacuum (SLV) nozzle is provided for collecting or removing combustible dust. The nozzle comprises a nozzle body comprising a nozzle inlet port, a nozzle unloader port, and a suction port; a suction tube assembly operably connected to the nozzle inlet port; a material deflector for directing vacuumed material from the suction tube assembly into the suction port; and an unloader hood installed in the unloader port. Discs can be installed in the unloader or suction port to control collection of combustible dust by the nozzle so that the concentration of dust collected within the hose stays below the minimum explosive concentration (MEC). The nozzle is operably connected to a vacuum source. Systems and methods for collecting combustible dust using the nozzle and a vacuum system are provided. Operation of the nozzle regulates the MEC of the combustible dust that is collected in the vacuum system.
US09089877B2
A vibrating screen separator machine including a frame bounding a first screening assembly, the first screening assembly forming a first sifting plane. The first screening assembly comprises a mesh screen and a planar backing panel proximate the mesh screen, the backing panel having a plurality of perforations. The screen separator also includes a material input slot on the frame and an un-sifted material output slot and a sifted material output slot on the frame where material travels from the material input slot into the screening assembly and where un-sifted material exits the frame through the un-sifted material output slot and sifted material exits the frame through the first sifted material output slot. The screen separator also includes a vibration mechanism supported by the frame and connected to the screening assembly, the vibration mechanism imparting vibrational energy to the screening assembly to sift material passing through the screening assembly.
US09089869B2
A device for applying a two-part adhesive to a substrate includes a carrier, a first pump, a second pump, at least one manifold and at least one applicator. The first pump and the second pump are mounted on the carrier and each pump has an inlet and an outlet. The first pump pumps a first part of the two-part adhesive from its inlet to its outlet, and the second pump pumps a second part of the two-part adhesive from its inlet to its outlet. The at least one applicator is configured to mix the first part with the second part to form the two-part adhesive that is discharged from the outlet of the at least one applicator onto the substrate.
US09089854B1
A method and system for the atomized dispersion of a liquid composition using one or more electrically or hydraulically driven fans with atomizers. In one example, air flow from a plurality of fans, each in proximity to an atomizer driven by an overdrive unit at 2-10 times the fan speed, provides an efficient dispersion 30-50 micron droplets of a scavenger in order to effectively suppress hydrogen sulfide in an area such as an oil well. The system provides a rapid response when H2S exceeds a threshold concentration. The fans deliver atomized scavenger over a relatively large area, so that the scavenger can tie-up or neutralize large amounts of H2S very quickly.
US09089852B2
A fully jacketed screw centrifuge includes a rotatable drum having a horizontally oriented rotational axis, a rotatable screw arranged in the drum, and at least one discharge opening oriented at an angle to the rotational axis of the fully jacketed screw centrifuge for discharging solid from the drum in the jacket of the drum. A collecting chamber for solid, which surrounds the drum that rotates during operation in some sections and which does not rotate during operation, is associated with the at least one discharge opening. At least one hose segment not circumferentially closed in the cross-section is arranged in the collecting chamber. The hose segment is composed of an elastomeric material, which oscillates when impinged by discharged solids to reduce accumulation of the discharged solids on the hose segment.
US09089851B2
The invention relates to a method for the amplification of DNA and apparatus for such amplification. The method comprises steps typically found in amplification methods but utilizes an optical procedure to detect denaturation of DNA or attainment of the desired denaturation temperature. The apparatus (1) comprises a temperature controllable chamber (2) including a rotor (3) for holding a plurality of reaction vessels (see 7 for example) for reaction mixtures including DNA, a drive means for the rotor, a heater (8) within the chamber for transiently supplying infrared energy to the reaction vessels, and an optical system (12-16) for determining denaturation of at least a reference DNA or for detecting attainment of a desired denaturation temperature in at least a reference reaction vessel.
US09089847B2
Polycrystalline silicon in the form of chunks packed in plastic bags containing a mass of at least 5 kg, including chunks of size from 20 to 200 mm, wherein any fines fraction in the plastic bag is less than 900 ppmw, preferably less than 300 ppmw, more preferably less than 10 ppmw. The polycrystalline silicon, after comminution of a silicon rod obtained by CVD (Siemens process), is sorted and classified, optionally dedusted and then metered and packed. Metering and packing units include elements for removing fines or small particles during metering and during packing. The packing unit includes an energy absorber or a reservoir vessel which enables sliding or slipping of the silicon chunks into the plastic bag. Gas flow generated within the plastic bag after the bag has been filled transports the dust or small particles out of the bag, and these are sucked out with a suction device.
US09089838B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst for preparation of chlorine by catalytic gas phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride with oxygen, in which the catalyst comprises calcined tin dioxide as a support and at least one halogen-containing ruthenium compound, and to the use thereof.
US09089826B2
A fluidized-bed reactor system with at least two fluidized-bed reactors, each being a circulating fluidized bed, a particle line with a particle separator for transferring fluidized-bed particles from the first to the second reactor, and a particle line exiting at the lower half of the second reactor for transferring fluidized-bed particles back to the first reactor, wherein, at least in the second reactor, two or more reaction zones separated by one or more flow controllers and that the particle line opens into the second reactor above at least one flow controller.
US09089823B2
A gel comprising water, pectin having a DE from about 62 to 75, soluble saccharide or sugar alcohol solids present in an amount from about 44 to 60% by weight of the gel, and a pH reducing agent for reducing the pH of the gel from a level from about 2 to 3. A method for making the gel without heating or cooling is also disclosed.
US09089822B2
An aeration system including a housing, a fluid inlet at a first end of the housing, an outlet at a second end of the housing, a cylindrical support member rotatably mounted within the housing between the inlet and the outlet, and supported by a plurality of bearings, the support member having an interior surface enclosing an interior cavity, the cavity being in communication with the inlet and the outlet, at least one vane disposed on the interior surface of the support member and extending from the interior surface towards the rotational axis of the support member, the vane including an inner edge positioned such that a gap is defined between the inner edge of the vane and the rotational axis of the support member, at least one gas inlet in communication with the cavity of the support member, and a motive device for rotating the support member within the housing.
US09089820B2
A selective membrane having a high fouling resistance. In one embodiment, the selective membrane is a composite polyamide reverse osmosis membrane having a hydrophilic coating made by covalently bonding a hydrophilic compound to the polyamide membrane, the hydrophilic compound including (i) a reactive group that is adapted to covalently bond directly to the polyamide membrane, the reactive group being at least one of a primary amine and a secondary amine; (ii) a non-terminal hydroxyl group; and (iii) an amide group. In another embodiment, the hydrophilic compound includes (i) a reactive group adapted to covalently bond directly to the polyamide membrane, the reactive group being at least one of a primary amine and a secondary amine; (ii) a hydroxyl group; and (iii) an amide group, the amide group being linked directly to the hydroxyl group by one of an alkyl group and an alkenyl group.
US09089815B2
A process and apparatus for removing NOx from exhaust gases produced by combustion-based energy sources. An array of high voltage pulsed electron beams are repetitively generated and transported through a thin foil into the exhaust gas containing NOx. The electron beam deposits its energy into the gas and produces reactive radicals N2+, N+, e, N2 from the NOx in the gas. These radicals recombine through chemical reactions to produce benign by-products nitrogen N2 and oxygen O2 which are output into the atmosphere.
US09089814B2
Systems and methods of automatically operating dehumidifiers in response to dehumidifier operating conditions are disclosed herein. A method of operating a dehumidifier configured in accordance with one embodiment includes directing air flow through the dehumidifier at a first volumetric flow rate while the dehumidifier is operating at a first operating condition. The method further includes changing the first volumetric flow rate to a second volumetric flow rate when the first operating condition of the dehumidifier changes to a predetermined second operating condition.
US09089807B2
A filter pack includes a filter construction and a sealing system for sealing the construction within a duct or housing. The filter construction has first and second opposite flow faces and is configured for a straight-through flow. The sealing system includes a frame construction and a compressible seal member. The compressible seal member is molded around a portion of the frame construction. The compressible seal member is sufficiently compressible to form a radial seal between and against the frame construction and a surface of a housing when the filter pack is inserted within the housing.
US09089806B2
An exhaust gas collection system for capturing exhaust gas emitted by auxiliary engines, auxiliary boilers and other sources on an Ocean Going Vessel (OGV) while at berth or anchor, so that these gases may be carried to an emissions treatment system for removal of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. The exhaust gas collection system includes a diverter to redirect exhaust gas normally carried to the OGV's stack for release to the atmosphere, to an emissions treatment system. The emissions treatment system may be land-based, water-based, or on the OGV. When the emissions treatment system is land-based or water-based, the exhaust gas is carried to a connection location that accessible by a ducting system to carry the exhaust gas to the emissions treatment system. The exhaust gas collection system preferably includes parallel-flow ducts and a manifold to combine the parallel-flows into a single duct for more convenient routing through the vessel.
US09089805B2
A filter assembly and filter element are provided. The filter assembly includes a housing with a filter element disposed therein. The filter assembly also includes a separate and removable inlet tube which projects from an interior of the housing to an exterior of the housing through an opening in a lid of the housing. The filter element includes a ring of filter media with upper and lower end cap constructions attached to opposed ends of the ring of filter media. The upper end cap construction includes a base portion and an axial seal portion extending axially from the base portion. The lower end cap construction includes a support ring and a resilient portion.
US09089803B2
A separator for separating solid particles from a vapor-gas mixture includes a dust chamber with a main body having an inlet for a vapor-gas mixture containing semi-coke particles and an outlet chute in a bottom of the main body for removal of semi-coke particles. The main body is covered with an external insulation. The separator also includes a cyclone, wherein an upper part of the main body is connected to an inlet of the cyclone for removal of fine semi-coke particles from the vapor-gas mixture. A screw conveyor unit is connected to a bottom part of the main body.
US09089800B2
A gas filtration apparatus and method comprises a housing with an inlet for gas to enter and an outlet for the gas to exit. The housing contains a filter comprised of sintered metal fibers having an active filtration area through which the gas flows to remove suspended particles from the gas. The filter is substantially uniform in thickness and porosity through the active filtration area. The filter media being sealed to a metal structure in the housing with the metal structure having an opening to permit gas to flow through. A method of making a vapor/gas mixture includes the steps of producing a vapor in a gas to form the vapor/gas mixture passing the vapor/gas mixture through an opening in a housing containing a filter comprised of sintered metal fibers through which the vapor/gas mixture flows.
US09089792B2
A multi-phase flow separation apparatus has a vessel having a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and an enclosure separating the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The enclosure has an open bottom that extends below the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The open bottom of the enclosure has a plurality of distributed points of egress that are below the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The fluid inlet induces an inlet flow vector on an inflow of fluid. Each point of egress defines a flow path, that, when defined as the path of least resistance from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet while traversing the respective point of egress, includes a reversal of the inlet flow vector.
US09089789B2
Methods and system relate to in-situ treatment of fluid to remove a heavy metal, such as mercury. The treatment utilizes a sorbent injected into a wellbore and disposed in a flow path of the fluid being produced to above ground. The mercury retained by the sorbent upon contact with the fluid may remain within a reservoir from which the fluid is recovered.
US09089780B1
Techniques for gamifying real-time network communications between users. In one implementation, a video puzzle based may be created based on scrambling a live video stream from a first user. The video puzzle may be displayed to a second user in communication with the first user. Responsive to a solving of the video puzzle by the second user, communications functionality between the first user and second user may be modified. For example, a fee assessed by a chat service or other facilitator for hosting the communications between the first user and second user may be waived or reduced.
US09089763B2
A skate boot appliance for absorbing impact force of landing skating maneuvers by disposing a plunger or displacement member in a receptacle in response to an impact force, such that the receptacle is attached to a skate boot bottom and has a counterforce mechanism for resisting displacement below a threshold force, and resiliently deforming in response an impact force greater than the threshold force. The impact force is transferred from a skate blade through the plunger in response to a figure skating maneuver The disclosed plunger has a post and a horizontal displacement portion adapted to be disposed through the receptacle and engage the counterforce mechanism, such as the resilient planer member, in response to the threshold impact force, in which the horizontal displacement portion includes a convex ridge or protrusion for engaging the resilient planar member along an annular surface defined by the convex ridge.
US09089751B1
A batting practice device for developing and enhancing a baseball player's batting skills. The device provides a computer program, control module, batting target with a display module and a target mounted display. The bat may have a weighted end or a weight within the body of the bat, which will develop batter's upper body strength.
US09089750B2
A device designed for modifying the length of a golf club shaft. The device is a three-piece mechanism with a bottom part bonded into the top end of a tubular golf club shaft, a top part provided within the grip, a threaded screw provided within the top part and threadably connected to the bottom part such that movement of the screw will adjust the distance between the top part and bottom part thereby adjusting the club length. The extension device is hidden within the shaft and grip and does not require a custom grip or shaft.
US09089749B2
A hollow golf club incorporating a stress reducing feature having a shield serving to lessen the visual impact of the stress reducing feature, reduce the likelihood of debris from entering the stress reducing feature, and reduce the likelihood of damage to the stress reducing feature, while adding rigidity to a portion of the stress reducing feature and still allowing the stress reducing feature to selectively increase the deflection of the face.
US09089748B2
A golf club head including a head body selected from a group of golf club heads consisting of a fairway-wood type head, a driver-type head, and a hybrid-type head, the head body bounding an interior cavity and comprising a body opening. A shell portion is configured to couple to the body opening. The shell portion includes a first shell side, a second shell side opposite the first shell side, and a capsule defined between the first and second shell sides. The shell portion also includes first and second shell sheet capsule sections that define the capsule and contain a weight member. A density of the weight member is greater than a density of the shell portion.
US09089743B2
A racquet including a frame having a head portion coupled to a handle portion, and a string bed of interlaced cross and main string segments. The head portion includes a hoop having inner and outer peripheral walls. The hoop defines a head size having a maximum longitudinal and transverse dimensions, a, and b, respectively. The dimension a is at least 1.2 times the dimension b. The inner peripheral wall includes string holes. The cross segments transversely extend from one of the string holes to another, and the main segments longitudinally extend from one of the string holes to another. The cross segment closest to the handle portion and the end point of the longitudinal dimension, a, closest to the handle portion define a second longitudinal dimension, c. The ratio of dimension a to dimension c is at least 6.5. The string bed has at least one more main segment than cross segment.
US09089737B2
Exercise apparatus and method with selectively variable stabilization enabling a user to progressively increase his/her core body muscular strength. In various embodiments, the exercise apparatus includes a resistance cabling system providing a user defined line of motion, and a partial stabilizer pad being adjustably positionable offset from the line of motion, wherein the user's core body is positionable against the pad and required to resist the torque created by the offset. The user can progressively increase the distance between the line of motion and partial stabilizer pad, in order to progressively increase the force which the user's core body must resist to maintain an upright stature. In this way, the user can progressively, over time, increase his or her core body strength. A vertically and rotatably adjustable handle/arm assembly, resistance cabling and pulley assembly, and an overall exercise apparatus having a relatively small footprint but allowing multiple variable exercise routines, are also provided.
US09089732B2
A trampoline which is reliable and efficient in use, and which does not require extension springs to secure the jumping mat to the frame. The trampoline may maintains the traditional feel of a trampoline more satisfactorily than presently known soft edged trampolines. The trampoline may also be efficiently manufactured.
US09089728B2
A firefighting platform assembly that is attachable to the rear of existing fire vehicles outfitted with a self-contained firefighting apparatus or skid unit. The platform assembly comprises a platform base, upstanding side walls, and a means for attaching the platform assembly to a trailer hitch.
US09089725B2
Devices are provided that allow helicopters and Transport Aircrafts to carry or lift liquid compounds to fumigate, spray or a single massive drop for purposes such as irrigation, fumigation, chemical treatment and fire control with no modification to the aircrafts and no power or direct electromechanical assistance from the aircraft, thus preserving the original integrity and applications of the aircraft.
US09089723B2
A safety apparatus for personnel on an oil drilling rig includes a cylindrical quick disconnect switch having a receptacle and a plunger. The receptacle has an open circuit pair of electrical wires. The plunger is configured to attach to a derrick man. The plunger and the receptacle are configured to mate when the plunger is inserted into the receptacle and to remain frictionally mated until pulled apart. The mating results in closing the circuit between the pair of electrical wires.
US09089715B2
Methods of forming a feedthrough using a mold that defines a cavity when closed and includes one or more cores configured to move in and out of the mold cavity. The methods include injecting non-electrically conductive powder injection molding (PIM) feedstock into the mold cavity to form an insulative body around a portion of each of the cores disposed in the mold cavity, removing each of the cores from the insulative body to form one or more core cavities in the insulative body, injecting electrically conductive PIM feedstock into the core cavities to form one or more conductors in the core cavities, respectively, and sintering the insulative body and the conductors to form the feedthrough.
US09089712B2
An implantable medical device includes a case having a conductive housing defining an opening. A dielectric material is coupled to the conductive housing to hermetically seal the opening. A header block is coupled to the case over the dielectric material. An antenna is within the case under the dielectric material and there is no antenna feedthrough extending through the case into the header block.
US09089708B2
Systems and methods for stimulation of neurological tissue apply a stimulation waveform that is derived by a developed genetic algorithm (GA), which may be coupled to a computational model of extracellular stimulation of a mammalian myelinated axon. The waveform is optimized for energy efficiency.
US09089700B2
Systems and methods for treating a patient with dyspnea are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, and, based at least in part on identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, implanting an electrical signal delivery element within the patient in signal communication with an afferent neural pathway of a carotid body chemoreceptor. The method can further include at least reducing dyspneic sensations in the patient by directing an electrical signal from the electrical signal delivery element to the neural pathway to at least partially block afferent signals from the chemoreceptor.
US09089699B2
In one example, a system includes a therapy module and a processor. The processor detects a voiding event of a patient and controls the therapy module to deliver electrical stimulation to the patient at a first intensity level for a period of time in response to the detection of the voiding event. Immediately following the period of time, the processor controls the therapy module to increase intensity of the electrical stimulation from the first intensity level to a second intensity level before a subsequent voiding event of the patient by at least controlling the therapy module to deliver stimulation to the patient at a plurality of intermediate intensity levels between the first and second intensity levels prior to delivering stimulation to the patient at the second intensity level following the detection of the voiding event.
US09089696B2
Systems, devices, and methods for pre-treatment verification of radiation dose delivery in arc-based radiation therapy devices using a time-dependent gamma evaluation method.
US09089693B2
A therapy assembly configured for at least partial insertion in a living body. At least one fixation structure is attached to the therapy delivery element proximate the electrodes. The fixation structure is configured to collapse radially inward and wrap circumferentially around the therapy delivery element to a collapsed configuration when inserted into a lumen of an introducer. The fixation structures deploy to a deployed configuration when the introducer is retracted. The fixation structure includes major surfaces generally parallel with, and extending radially outward from, a central axis of the therapy delivery element, proximal edge surface oriented toward the proximal end, and a distal edge surface oriented toward the distal end. The proximal and distal edge surfaces provide generally symmetrical resistance to displacement of the therapy delivery element within the living body in either a proximal direction or a distal direction along the central axis.
US09089683B2
It is the purpose of this invention to provide methods and systems for non-invasive deep brain neuromodulation using ultrasound for the treatment of anorgasmia, hypo-orgasmia, and for the production of orgasms (Orgasmatron). This can include impacting one or multiple points in a neural circuit to produce Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) or Long-Term Depression (LTD). The ultrasound transducers are attached at fixed positions on a holder. Use of ancillary monitoring or imaging to provide feedback is optional. Control of the ultrasonic transducers includes control of direction of the energy emission, intensity, frequency, and phase/intensity relationships to targeting and accomplishing up-regulation and/or down-regulation.
US09089677B2
A transcutaneous multimodal delivery device for drug delivery and the methods of making and using the same are provided.
US09089674B2
An apparatus for positioning an introducer sheath includes a sheath having a distal end including first and second ports, the second port being located distally from the first port. An obturator is slidable within the sheath that includes a distal region that sealingly engages an interior surface of the sheath. The obturator includes first and second openings in the distal region that are alignable with the first and second ports in the sheath. A housing is slidable on the exterior of the sheath that releasably holds a closure element. The sheath may be inserted into an incision communicating with a blood vessel, the first and second ports providing backbleed indication of the depth of the insertion of the sheath into the vessel. The housing is actuated to deploy the closure element to engage and close the incision.
US09089667B2
A step-design cannula and delivery system for chronic delivery of therapeutic substances into the brain using convention-enhanced delivery of therapeutic substances and which effectively prevents reflux in vivo and maximizes distribution in the brain.
US09089663B2
A device for providing access through a body wall of a patient to a target site includes a hollow tube having a first large diameter segment and a second small diameter segment. A first distally tapered portion joins the first segment and the second segment, and a second distally tapered portion is distal of the second segment. A first lumen extends through the tube, and a second lumen extends from a proximal portion of the tube to the second segment. A needle received in the first lumen is deployable for piercing the body wall. A port is provided along the second segment in communication with the second lumen, and a balloon is disposed along the second segment at the port. The balloon is inflatable to a diameter at least as large as the first segment diameter for dilating an opening in the body wall.
US09089658B2
A dispensing device, and a method for dispensing powder in which powder is dispensed through a duct with a flat cross section to de-agglomerate the powder and to generate a spray with fine particle size. A storage chamber for the powder may be closed by a bursting element which is burst by pressurized gas for discharging the powder, the gas pressure reaching or exceeding a peak value before the bursting element bursts so that the powder is dispensed at a lower gas pressure. The powder may be forced through the duct by a gas pressure of less than 300 kPa to de-agglomerate the powder and/or to generate the spray. The storage device can have multiple storage chambers and associated ducts or nozzles, so that each dose of powder can be dispensed through a separate duct or nozzle, the storage chamber and duct or nozzle being formed of a one-piece construction.
US09089652B2
A drive mechanism for a medication delivery device (1) is proposed, the drive mechanism comprising a housing (13, 17, 40) having a proximal end and a distal end, a rotation member (21) which is adapted to be rotated in a first direction with respect to the housing during setting of a dose of a medication and to be rotated in a second direction with respect to the housing during delivery of the dose, the second direction being opposite to the first direction, a piston rod (12) which is adapted to be displaced in a distal direction with respect to the housing for delivering the dose, a drive member (20) which follows rotational movement of the rotation member in the second direction during delivery of the dose, and a stop member (26) which prevents rotational movement of the drive member with respect to the housing in the first direction during setting of the dose, wherein the rotational movement of the drive member in the second direction is converted into movement of the piston rod in the distal direction with respect to the housing. Furthermore, a medication delivery device is provided for.
US09089648B2
A medicated module (4) for an injection system to co-deliver at least two medicaments (1, 2) is disclosed where a primary delivery device (7) contains a first drug agent and accepts a medicated module (4) containing a single dose of a secondary premix medicament (2) containing the first drug agent and at least a second drug agent, where both the primary medicament (1) and the secondary premix medicament (2) are delivered through a single hollow needle (3, 16, 21, 31).
US09089627B2
Stents fabricated from polymer composites toughened by a dispersed phase are disclosed.
US09089624B2
The present invention relates to ultrathin fluid-absorbent cores comprising a substrate layer, water-absorbent polymer particles and an adhesive, wherein dry SAP shake out of water-absorbent polymer particles out of the fluid-absorbent core is less than 0.6% by weight.
US09089621B1
A device for dispensing organic scents comprising a base assembly; a controller; a bowl assembly; at least one screen disposed within the bowl assembly having a plurality of apertures configured to hold one or more flowers; at least one row of air inlets proximate to one or more flowers; a top assembly having an angled top surface and at least one vent; and a fan electrically connected to the controller, where the controller may be configured to turn the fan on continuously, cycle the fan between on and off modes, or turn the fan off responsive to a user input.
US09089613B2
The present invention discloses a drug activator carrier comprising: a) particles having a metallic or metallic oxide core prepared from a paramagnetic material, said metallic core being coated with a coating material selected from polymer, metal or metal oxide; b) a biological material, having reductase activity, bound onto the metal coating the particles of step a), and wherein said biological material is capable of activating non-toxic pro-drugs into active and toxic drugs suitable for treating a disease; said drug activator carrier allowing targeted delivery of the toxic drug.
US09089611B2
The present invention is directed membrane active poly(vinyl ester) polymers and compositions for targeted delivery of RNA interference (RNAi) polynucleotides to cells in vivo. RNAi polynucleotides are conjugated to the poly(vinyl ester) polymers and the polymers are reversibly modified to enable in vivo targeted delivery. Membrane activity of the poly(vinyl ester) provides for movement of the RNAi polynucleotides from outside the cell to inside the cell. Reversible modification provides physiological responsiveness.
US09089610B2
The present invention relates to complexes of small-interfering nucleic acids (siNA). Compositions of siNA suited for administration to a patient are described. Methods for delivering the compositions are also described.
US09089609B2
Bioactive agents are delivered to a body site in need of the same by providing a first aliquot portion of a reaction mixture which includes an aldehydic polymer solution, and a second aliquot portion of a reaction which includes a cross-linking hydrazide and a bioactive agent. The first and second aliquot portions may be mixed (e.g., by expelling such portions from respective syringe barrels) to form the reaction mixture thereof. The thus formed reaction mixture may then be installed at the body site whereby the reaction mixture is allowed to solidify in situ within about 1 to 10 minutes into a reaction product comprised of a hydrazide cross-linked oxidized aldehydic polymer matrix with the bioactive agent entrapped therein.
US09089608B2
The current invention provides a controlled release oral solid formulation of levodopa comprising levodopa, a decarboxylase inhibitor, and a carboxylic acid. Also provided by this invention is multiparticulate, controlled release oral solid formulations of levodopa comprising: i) a controlled release component comprising a mixture of levodopa, a decarboxylase inhibitor and a rate controlling excipient; ii) a carboxylic acid component; and iii) an immediate release component comprising a mixture of levodopa and a decarboxylase inhibitor.
US09089603B2
Compounds and methods are disclosed that are useful for noninvasive imaging in the near-infrared spectral range. The cyanine compounds of Formula I are presented: wherein Q is a portion of a polymethine bridge: Also included are bioconjugates of the compounds of Formula I, methods of labeling biomolecules with the compounds, and methods of imaging.
US09089600B2
Disclosed herein are generally to methods and systems that facilitate imaging of cells on a substrate and more particularly to pre-implantation (in vitro) and post-implantation (in vivo) imaging of cell-seeded substrates implanted in target tissues in the context of stem cell therapy.
US09089598B2
An in vivo assay to measure anchorage-independent growth and phenotypic stability of a certain cell population comprising subcutaneous or intramuscular injection in a mammal of a cell suspension of articular chondrocytes in an iso-osmotic liquid, the same suspension comprising articular chondrocytes in an amount equivalent to at least 1×106 chondrocytes as applied to immune-deficient mice. The outcome is linked to molecular markers. The present invention further relates to DNA chips and diagnostic tools comprising the latter to predict the outcome of ACT. Antibodies raised against positive and negative markers of chondrocyte stability can also be used for quality control on the chondrocytes. Therapeutical composition comprising stable chondrocytes are very useful for tissue repair.
US09089591B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions useful for topical, non-invasive delivery of an oligonucleotide to the ear and to methods for the treatment of an ear disorder, including hearing loss arising from chemical-induced ototoxicity, acoustic trauma and presbycusis; and microbial infections. The method comprises topically administering to the ear of a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising an inhibitory oligonucleotide, a permeability enhancer and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the oligonucleotide reduces or inhibits expression of a gene associated with the ear disorder in the subject.
US09089580B1
The present invention provides a composition comprising a corticosteroid and an insulin analog. Further provided is a composition comprising a corticosteroid, insulin lispro and at least one organic acid. The present invention also provides methods of stimulating bone and/or cartilage growth by administering the formulation described herein for the treatment of bone fractures and cartilage damage. Further provided are the methods for the treatment of tumors and cysts of the jaw by administering the formulation described herein.
US09089579B2
Provided are methods, compositions, systems, and kits for treating metabolic syndrome or a disorder associated with metabolic syndrome, e.g., obesity, dyslipidemia, and/or a diabetic condition, comprising administering systemically to a subject one or more compounds of the Formula (I) and/or (II): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, stereoisomer, polymorph, tautomer, isotopically enriched derivative, or prodrug thereof, wherein, L, R1; R2, Z, X, A and B are defined herein.
US09089575B2
The present invention relates to substituted benzene compounds. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating cancer by administering these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to subjects in need thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for research or other non-therapeutic purposes.
US09089574B2
Compounds, compositions, and methods of treatment and prevention of HIV infection are disclosed. The compounds are pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridines and pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyrimidine JAK inhibitors. Combinations of these JAK inhibitors and additional antiretroviral compounds, such as NRTI, NNRTI, integrase inhibitors, entry inhibitors, protease inhibitors, and the like, are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the combinations include a combination of adenine, cytosine, thymidine, and guanine nucleoside antiviral agents, optionally in further combination with at least one additional antiviral agent that works via a different mechanism than a nucleoside analog. This combination has the potential to eliminate the presence of HIV in an infected patient.
US09089566B2
The present invention relates to the intrathecal (IT) administration of recombinant enzyme to treat lysosomal storage disorders. In an exemplary embodiment, intrathecal administration of human α-L-iduronidase (rhIDU) injections in MPS I affected animals resulted in significant enzyme uptake, significant rh-iduronidase activity in brain and meninges and a decrease of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) storage in cells of MPS I subjects to that of normal subjects. Intrathecal administration proved more effective than intravenous treatment at alleviating MPS I symptoms, indicating it is a useful method of treating lysosomal storage disorders.
US09089562B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of presbyopia. The compositions preferably use aceclidine separate or together with a cycloplegic agent and/or with a nonionic surfactant and viscosity enhancer, and or with low concentrations of a selective α-2 adrenergic receptor agonist.
US09089557B2
The invention described herein provides for human antibodies produced in non-human animals that specifically bind to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The invention further provides methods for making the antibodies in a non-human animal, expression of the antibodies in cell lines including hybridomas and recombinant host cell systems. Also provided are kits and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of treating or preventing pseudomonas infection by administering to a patient the pharmaceutical compositions described herein.
US09089548B2
The present invention relates to a composition consisting of Vitamin C, L-glutamine, L-cystine or L-cysteine, riboflavin, succinic acid, fumaric acid, coenzyme Q10, and niacin. The present invention relates further to the use of the composition for minimizing the cell-damaging effect of radicals and harmful forms of oxygen, in particular of oxygen radicals or reactive oxygen species. The present invention relates to a composition comprising Vitamin C, L-glutamine, L-cystine or L-cysteine, riboflavin, succinic acid, fumaric acid, coenzyme Q10, and niacin, wherein the composition is administered in a concentration ranging from 10 to 20 mg/kg body weight. The present invention relates further to the composition for use in the treatment and/or prevention of radical and harmful forms of oxygen derived diseases, in particular of oxygen radical or reactive oxygen species derived diseases. The present invention relates further to the composition as a food supplement or dietary supplement.
US09089545B2
Small molecule inhibitors of bacterial ribonuclease (e.g., RnpA) and methods for their synthesis and use are described herein. The methods of using the compounds include treating and preventing microbial infections and inhibiting bacterial ribonuclease.
US09089542B2
According to some embodiments, a method of treating a subject having diabetes or symptoms associated with diabetes is provided. The method includes delivering a neuromodulation catheter within a vessel (e.g., hepatic artery) having surrounding nerves that innervate the liver (e.g., sympathetic nerves of the hepatic plexus). The method may also include modulating (e.g., disrupting, ablating, stimulating) the nerves by mechanical compression, energy delivery, or fluid delivery.
US09089532B2
The invention relates to improved and stable pharmaceutical formulations of phenylalanine derivatives and the use thereof as urokinase inhibitors, particularly for the treatment of malignant tumors and tumoral metastases.
US09089531B2
In certain embodiments methods are provided for the therapeutic or prophylactic amelioration of one or more symptoms or disorders associated with metabolic syndrome. In various embodiments the methods involve administering to a subject in need thereof, a GABA receptor agonist, in an amount sufficient to ameliorate said one or more symptoms. In certain embodiments methods are provided for the prophylaxis or treatment of type I diabetes and related pathologies that involve the use of GABA or GABA agonists in combination with certain other compounds (e.g., one more antigens (e.g., GAD) that have a therapeutic effect in type I diabetes and/or an anti-CD3 antibody, an anti-CD20 antibody, exendin-4, and/or or a pro-insulin therapeutic).
US09089521B2
A method is described for repressing production of β-globin protein and increasing production of γ-globin protein in a human cell utilizing a ferritin-H protein, a vector encoding ferritin-H, or an exogenous ferritin-H inducer.
US09089520B2
Provided herein are methods for cell therapy by modifying transfused cells to express an inducible caspase 9 protein, so that the cells may be selectively killed if the patient experiences dangerous side effects. Provided also within relates in part to methods for preventing or treating Graft versus Host Disease by modifying T cells before administration to a patient, so that they may be selectively killed if GvHD develops in the patient.
US09089508B2
The present invention relates to the targeted delivery of molecules to cells expressing toll-like receptors (TLRs). Aspects of the invention provide compounds comprising a positively charged group linked to a TLR ligand. These compounds are useful for in vitro and in vivo methods of transfection of TLR-expressing cells. Other aspects of the invention relate to the use of such compounds for repression of gene expression and DNA vaccination approaches.
US09089507B2
Glycopeptide antibiotics, such as oritavancin, demonstrate significant activity against B. anthracis. Methods for the treatment, prophylaxis and prevention of B. anthracis infection and disease in animals, including humans, are described.
US09089496B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of methylphenidate complexed with ion-exchange resin particles to form drug-resin particles are provided. The compositions have a first plurality of drug-resin particles that are uncoated and a second plurality of drug-resin particles that are coated with a delayed release coating.
US09089487B2
The present invention relates to microspheres comprising a core material, wherein the microsphere is perfectly spherical and has a moisture content less than 1%, and the method of manufacturing the same. The present invention is useful in the manufacture of sustained and modified release active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) microspheres, as a free flowing excipient for mini-tablets and in the manufacture of API dispersions.
US09089486B2
The present invention belongs to the field of pharmaceutical industry and relates to a process for preparing dosage forms containing ezetimibe, comprising the steps of: a) providing a composition comprising ezetimibe, b) sieving a composition comprising a composition of step (a), c) shear mixing of the composition after step (b), preferably the mixing of the composition is carried out by high shear mixing, d) formulation into a dosage form. The present invention also relates to dosage forms containing ezetimibe and ezetimibe and simvastatin, which have been prepared according to the process according to the invention.
US09089482B2
The present invention provides a dental mill blank having excellent mechanical strength and having gloss retention high enough to maintain the gloss similar to that of natural teeth in an oral cavity for a long period of time. The present invention is a dental mill blank made of a cured product of a curable composition containing: a polymerizable monomer (A); and a spherical inorganic filler (B) having an average primary particle size of not less than 0.1 μm and less than 1 μm.
US09089472B2
In order to monitor the administration of medicament portions Ta in a reliable and simple manner, the invention provides a display device for a dispenser for medicament portions Ta, it being necessary to administer the medicament portions at regularly recurring reference administration times, and the display device comprising a display 1 and an electronic actuation means for the display, characterized in that the display comprises a first visualization means 30, 40 for displaying a first period of time between a first reference administration time and the current time, and the first reference administration time being distinguished in that the medicament portion has not been taken by the first reference administration time.
US09089467B2
A casket lid assembly includes a plurality of layers of corrugated paper and a bridge assembly. The plurality of layers of corrugated paper are formed into a lid structure having a top surface, a bottom surface, a first end and a second end, Thea bridge assembly is attached to the second end of a casket lid. The bridge assembly includes two end pieces and at least one intermediate piece, and wherein the at least one intermediate piece is configured to be removably attached to the end pieces.
US09089464B2
An inclined lift for patient transfer is designed to allow a patient to be pulled on an inclined ramp which is subsequently movable to a raised generally horizontal position. IN the raised generally horizontal position a patient may be transferred to a chair or to a further horizontal structure such as a bed. In a preferred embodiment the inclined lift includes a patient slide mat that is movable onto the ramp by a retraction mechanism. The patient sits or lies on the mat and a winch type mechanism pulls the mat onto the inclined ramp. There is no requirement for a patient harness to directly pull the patient onto the inclined ramp.
US09089461B1
The present inventions relate to a mobility and comfort auxiliary bed apparatus, and in particular to a modular and free-standing apparatus that is customizable with many components. In one embodiment, two spaced apart and parallel frame bars are provided, each with opposed vertical risers and a longitudinal rail that is positionable over a bed. An overhead grip such as a trapeze bar may be movably supported by the frame bars. A balance pole may be provided and be adjustably connected to both frame bars laterally and longitudinally. Assist rails and night stands may be further provided, and may be supported by one or more centrally located longitudinal supports underneath the bed. The present invention can be fixed to the bed and may be adjusted in width, length and mattress height to accommodate many components.
US09089458B2
An absorbent article includes a liquid permeable bodyside liner for facing the wearer, an outer cover for facing away from the wearer, and an absorbent body disposed between the liner and the outer cover. A primary fastening system is provided for securing the article in a wear configuration having a waist opening and a pair of leg openings spaced from the waist opening. A secondary fastening system comprises a pair of tabs having a fastener region selectively attachable to the article and an attachment region defining a portion of the primary fastening system.
US09089453B2
Apparatus and methods are provided to allow for creation of a configured laminate of a non-woven material, to which a character strip is applied, the character strip exposed by either heat severing and removal of overlying materials, or intermittent application of overlying materials to leave the desired portions of the character strip exposed. A simultaneously formed core insert is applied to a preformed chassis web.
US09089448B2
An expandable stent and delivery system are provided for treating body vessel defects, such as partially occluded blood vessels and aneurysms. The delivery system includes a core member having a threaded core member portion configured to interlock with a threaded strut member portion of the expandable stent. The expandable stent is mounted thusly onto the core member for movement within a delivery catheter and deployment to a body vessel defect. The deployment catheter is used to compress the interlocked threaded strut member portion into engagement with the threaded core member portion.
US09089444B2
Devices, systems, and methods relating to a valve that may be used with a prosthesis attachment include a valve assembly that includes a spring loaded insert portion and a base portion that interfaces to lock and unlock by depressing the spring loaded insert portion.
US09089440B2
A tool head for a surgical tool for knockout and/or insertion of prostheses is disclosed, comprising a tool body (10, 11, 12) having at least two clamping jaws (14, 14a, 14b, 14c, 15, 15a, 15b, 41) for clamping a prosthetic part, wherein at least one of the clamping jaws is mounted to be movable in relation to the tool body (10, 11, 12); wherein at least one of the movable clamping jaws has at least one pressure area (16), which is arranged so that applying a pressure to the pressure area (16) of the at least one clamping jaw causes a movement of the clamping jaws (14, 14a, 14b, 14c, 15, 15a, 15b, 41) toward one another or away from one another, to thereby clamp the prosthetic part between the holding areas of the clamping jaws.
US09089431B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is a porous article including a porous portion with an average ratio between about 2:1 and about 5:1 of major pore size to minor pore size, having a substantially uniform pore distribution and a porosity of at least 70 percent, the porous article for use as a biological implant. The biological implant can be, for example, an acetabular cup.
US09089426B2
A dual poppet valve assembly for a pump assembly of an implantable penile prosthesis having a suction poppet engagable by a plurality of fingers allowing free travel of the poppet and to prevent vacuum lockup of the pump assembly. The suction poppet can also include an elongated shaft receivable within a corresponding bore of a cylinder poppet to prevent the suction poppet from becoming misaligned during the operation of the pump assembly.
US09089420B2
The invention relates to a intra lens (1) comprising a posterior surface and an anterior surface, said posterior surface having a curvature which is optimized for providing a minimal spherical aberration, wherein said curvature is optimized using the posterior chamber depth of an eye in which the IOL is to be inserted.
US09089419B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an intraocular lens with an optic zone having a first surface topology and a haptic zone having a second surface topology. The surface roughness of the haptic zone may be greater than the surface roughness of the optic zone. The surface topology of the optic zone may have a first surface geometry and the surface topology of the haptic zone may have a second surface geometry. The first and second surface geometries may retain lubrication fluid in a space formed therein. The haptics formed by the manufacturing process may have a reduced ability to adhere to the optic zone, such as when the lens is folded or advanced through a cannula.
US09089412B2
A bioabsorbable scaffold composed of a multilayer structure of alternating layers of different polymers is disclosed. The multilayer structure can have 20 to 1000 layers and the individual thickness of the layers can be 0.2 to 5 microns. A method of making the scaffold including a layer multiplying extrusion process is disclosed.
US09089407B2
Orthopedic and dental implants coated with an antibacterial coating and methods of making and using, are described herein. The implant can be coated with a hydrophobic, polycationic antibacterial polymer. The polymer can be covalently or non-covalently associated with the surface; however, in particular embodiments, the polymer is non-covalently associated with the surface. As shown in the examples below, clinical observations, digital radiography, and a battery of well-accepted ex vivo analytical methods show that the presence of a hydrophobic polycationic polymer coating, such as N,N-dodecyl,methyl-PEI coating on the surface of a metal implant, was effective in eliminating the clinical signs of infection in vivo in a large animal infection model. Moreover, the coated plates supported bone healing, and in fact decreased healing times, even in the presence of significant bacterial contamination compared to a control.
US09089398B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide an apparatus and method for gas and debris management. The apparatus comprises a surgical cassette, wherein the surgical cassette is at least partially formed of a cassette material defining a chamber. The surgical cassette has a floor and a plurality of walls. The apparatus also has a drain conduit with a drain entry and a drain exit. The drain entry is connected to the chamber near the floor. The drain conduit has a top portion and a bottom portion. The apparatus also has an aspiration conduit. The aspiration conduit has an aspiration port and an aspiration exit. The aspiration conduit is in liquid communication with the chamber and the drain conduit. At least a portion of the top portion of the drain conduit is positioned above at least a portion of the aspiration exit.
US09089394B2
A urethral stabilization system includes a suspending member attached between a stabilizer and support member. The support member is implantable into a patient to support a urethra. A first suspending member is attached between a first end of the support member and a first stabilizer, and a second suspending member is attached between a second end of the support member and a second stabilizer. A first thread member continuously extends between a first end that is attached to the first stabilizer and a second end of the first thread member that is free, and a second thread member continuously extending between a first end that is attached to the second stabilizer and a second end of the second thread member that is free.
US09089388B2
An oral appliance is provided for delivering a medicament to at least a portion of teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside a mouth. The oral appliance contains an interior surface having a medicament disposed in or on at least a portion of and/or the entire interior surface of the oral appliance. The interior surface of the oral cavity is formed to fit contours of at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity and is configured for holding the medicament in contact with at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity to deliver the medicament to strategic areas in need of treatment. In some embodiments, computer, network and computer readable storage media are provided.
US09089387B2
Herein are provided methods, systems, computer-readable media, techniques and processes for surface manipulation in dental prosthesis design. These include providing an interface for modifying the surface of a model of a dental prosthesis. This interface may be provided to an operator, dentist, dental practitioner, or any other appropriate person via a computer and a computer display. The operator provides areas in which the operator would like to add a layer or other limited manipulation to the surface of the model. This may include an addition to the surface or a subtraction from the surface. As the operator is defining additional areas to manipulate on the surface (e.g., add or subtract a layer), invariably some of them will overlap. Unlike previous methods, this overlap will not cause the amount added to the surface to increase beyond the predefined limit for the layer. This allows operators to define cleanly added layers or cleanly subtracted layers from dental prostheses.
US09089380B2
Methods of selecting or designing an implant to be used in a patient are provided. A CT scan of a patient's mouth is performed. A 3D CAD model of the patient's mouth is created utilizing data generated by the CT scan. Properties of the patient's mouth are determined based upon CT scan data and assigned to the 3D CAD model. A desired location for an implant is selected. A FEA simulation is performed on the 3D CAD model to choose an implant or to design an implant that optimizes a selected variable.
US09089378B2
A Kirschner wire clamp is used to reliably and simply fix bone plates to a bone surface. The wire clamp consists of a tubular guide member for receiving a Kirschner wire. The guide member has a bore surrounded by a wall and a base for engaging a hole in a bone plate such as a bone screw hole. A spring clamp is mounted adjacent an open end of the tubular guide bore opposite the base which clamps the Kirschner wire to the guide member after the wire has been fixed in bone. The Kirschner wire clamp can be aligned simply and reliably by the guide member, and by the clamping mechanism, can be reliably fixed to the Kirschner wire.
US09089356B2
A control system for allowing a user to control the orientation of a medical device or a medical instrument in a variety of directions. An actuator selectively tensions one or more control cables having ends secured at or adjacent a distal tip of the medical device in order to bend the distal tip in a desired direction. In one embodiment, a physician can adjust the movement of the distal tip in a desired direction without affecting the orientation of the medical device in other directions.
US09089342B2
A resection guide locator includes a bone engagement portion with surfaces that are complementary to the surface topographies of a bone to be resected during surgery. A housing includes a socket defined by a resilient annular wall that is sized and arranged so to accept a resection guide by press-fit to thereby position and hold the resection guide within he socket. The resection guide is maintained in a predetermined, preferred position while the surfaces are releasably locked in position on the bone. A method is disclosed for forming and using the resection guide locator.
US09089332B2
A vascular remodeling device is provided. The device has an anchor portion, sized for deployment in a blood vessel, that is radially expandable from a collapsed state to an expanded state. The device also includes a distal portion sized for deployment in a blood vessel. The distal portion is radially expandable from a collapsed state to an expanded state and has a distal face that is sufficiently occlusive in the distal-to-proximal direction to perform a therapeutic blocking function in an aneurysm neck. The device also has an intermediate portion that interconnects a distal end of the anchor portion and a proximal end of the distal portion. In some embodiments, the anchor portion and/or distal portion has a plurality of interconnected struts.
US09089331B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with characterizing Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) lesions using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are described. One example method includes acquiring an OCT signal from a Region Of Interest (ROI) in an ablated material. The example method may also include determining whether a lesion was formed by the ablation by analyzing optical properties of the ROI as recorded in the OCT signal.
US09089328B2
An apparatus for closing a surgical incision comprises left and right base panels, a plurality of closure components, and a plurality of left and right axial supports coupled to the respective base panels. The closure components couple the left and right base panels to each other laterally and have left and right ends coupled to the respective base panels. The closure components are positioned laterally across the left and right panels, the left axial supports are disposed between pairs of left closure component ends, the right axial supports are disposed between pairs of right closure component ends, and the left and right axial supports are offset from one another such that a serpentine arrangement of consecutive closure components and axial supports is formed. The apparatus can be made of antimicrobial materials or materials impregnated with antimicrobial agents. A flexible adhesive cover can be provided over the apparatus when in use.
US09089324B2
A suture lock including a first bore, a first restriction member extending into the first bore for restricting the movement of a suture element within the first bore, an optional second bore, and a second restriction member extending into the second bore for restricting the movement of a suture element. The suture lock may be provided in a system including a suture element. Methods of using the suture locks are also described.
US09089320B2
Methods and devices are provided for deploying and applying multiple suture anchors. In one embodiment, a surgical device is provided having a shaft configured to be introduced into a body, e.g., through a scoping device, and to deliver a plurality of suture anchors into tissue, preferably without the need to remove the shaft from the body. The shaft can have a plurality of channels, with each of the plurality of channels configured to seat at least one of a plurality of suture anchors. Each of the anchors can be removably seated in a channel such that the anchors can be removed from the device, such as by pulling on sutures attached to the respective anchors.
US09089306B2
A blood vessel ultrasonic image measuring method capable of facilitating the positioning of an ultrasonic probe and acquiring sufficient positioning accuracy. Because of inclusion of an around-X-axis positioning step of causing a multiaxis driving device to position an ultrasonic probe such that distances from respective ultrasonic array probes to the center of a blood vessel are equalized, and an X-axis direction positioning step and an around-Z-axis positioning step of causing the multiaxis driving device to position the ultrasonic probe such that the image of the blood vessel is positioned at the center portion in the width direction of the first short axis image display area and the second short axis image display area, the positioning may be performed by using the positions in the longitudinal direction of the ultrasonic array probes relative to the blood vessel or the distances of the ultrasonic array probes to the blood vessel.
US09089296B2
An illumination device comprises at least one LED (36), which can be connected through circuit means (50) to a voltage source optionally formed by a battery unit (70) or an accumulator unit (74). Furthermore, a first contact means (60) is provided for connecting the battery unit (70) and a second contact means (64) for connecting the accumulator unit (74) to the circuit means (50). A bottom unit for a battery grip (11) comprising a grip sleeve (90) in which the accumulator unit (74) is arranged, has a basic body (84) mountable at the lower end of the grip sleeve (90), wherein an upper contact element (89) for contacting the accumulator unit (74) and a lower contact element (95) for contacting a contact element (107) of a charging station, to which a current is applied, are arranged in the basic body (84). An electronic circuit unit (99) having a microprocessor (1) is connected between the upper and the lower contact elements (89, 95), which electronic circuit unit (99) is formed and configured such that it controls a charging process for charging the accumulator unit (74).
US09089293B2
A test element includes a puncture element and a test panel. The puncture element has a tip positioned at one end for generating a wound in a body part. A capillary structure extends from the tip to the test panel and has a fluid connection to the tip. The test panel contains at least a part of a reagent system and is positioned in the test element adjacent to a part of the capillary structure of the puncture element so that body fluid penetrating into the capillary structure contacts a liquid entry side of the test panel. The test panel comprises a transparent support layer and a test layer applied to the support layer by coating. The side of the test panel facing away from the support layer forms its liquid entry side, which faces toward the capillary structure.
US09089283B2
A method determines the position and/or radius of the limbus and/or the position and/or radius of the pupil of a patient eye. In the method, an image of the patient eye is obtained and a plurality of different ring-shaped comparison objects having respective radii and respective centers are provided. The image is correlated with the plurality of comparison objects to yield a local best match between the image and the comparison objects when there is a coincidence of one of the ring-shaped comparison objects and a ring-shaped jump in brightness in the image having the same radius and the same center. The comparison objects having a local best match with the image are determined. Thereafter, the position of the center of the comparison object having a local best match with the image is selected as the position of the center of the limbus and/or the position of the center of the pupil.
US09089273B2
The present invention is related to a textile electrode (1) for measuring an electrical signal from a body part, said electrode comprising, successively from the side to be applied on the body part to the outside: a conductive textile contact (3) to be applied to said body part; a textile support (2) for supporting said textile contact (3); a vapor barrier sheet material (7) able to reduce, in use, evaporation of liquid from said textile electrode (1).
US09089262B2
Medical systems, devices and methods are disclosed for suturing a perforation in tissue, that may be employed endoscopically and/or laparoscopically, and that offer simple, reliable and controllable placement of sutures around a perforation for complete closure thereof. One embodiment of the medical system generally includes an endoscope, an endcap, an elongated side tube, a needle, a suture and a retrieval device. The endcap is fitted to a distal end of the endoscope. The elongated side tube defines a side channel and is connected to the endcap. The needle has a shaft and a needle tip detachably connected to a distal end of the shaft. The needle is sized to be translated through the side channel of the side tube. The suture is attached to the needle tip. The retrieval device is sized to be translated through a working channel of the endoscope and retrieve the needle tip.
US09089261B2
A clip or flexible handles extension facilitate simultaneous retention and operation of a bronchoscope and associated bronchoscopic tools held in one hand to allow operation by a single practitioner. Also provided is an adapter for the connection port of the working channel of a bronchoscope which performs both sealing and tool-locking functions. Also disclosed is a guide sheath arrangement with a reduced flexibility proximal portion to facilitate insertion of tools into the guide sheath.
US09089259B2
An endoscope includes an insertion section, a bending section, a bending operation section and a shift mechanism. The bending section includes a first bending section and a second bending section provided at a proximal end of the first bending section. The second bending section includes an actuation pipe interposed between an angle wire extending in the second bending section and a wire guide through the angle wire and guiding the angle wire, and supported to be moved in the extending direction of the wire guide with respect to the wire guide. A rigidity of the second bending section is shifted while the actuation pipe is moved in the extending direction of the wire guide.
US09089252B2
A cleaning tool comprises a cleaning body having such a layer structure that non-woven fabrics and fiber bundles are laminated onto each other. In the cleaning body, a hardening treatment is applied to the fiber bundles disposed in the storage space of a cylindrical part in which the holding part of a holder is stored.
US09089247B2
A surface treating appliance including an electrical influence machine comprising a first non electrically conductive support structure spaced from a second non electrically conductive support structure, at least one of the support structures being arranged to move with respect to the other support structure, and at least two charge collecting points, and further comprising an air turbine for rotating at least one of the support structures.
US09089245B1
A replacement rod device for replacing a broken towel rack rod includes a main rod, a spacer rod, and pair of sleeves. The main rod includes a durable rod of a diameter enabling insertion into the existing rod receiving indentations of the existing brackets. The spacer rod includes an identical diameter and material to the main rod and the sleeves include a hollow cylindrical portion. In use, a user places the rods end-to-end with one in each existing indentation and slides the end sleeves to engage each bracket while providing support between the rod portions.
US09089225B2
A child holding accessory can be desirably installed on the play yard for use, and has two opposite regions adapted to receive a child in different configurations of use. Examples of construction for these holding regions can include, without limitation, a changing table and a child sleep bed. The child holding accessory can be attached with the play yard via one or more fixtures that is adjustable to turn upward either of the first and second regions for use.
US09089217B2
A seat support with adjustment systems allowing a height and swivel adjustment functionality of the seat in a manner free of any wobble and shaking motion. The seat mechanism for height and swivel adjustments have screw adjustment applying a pre-load on a resilient component which gives a resilient force on a load bearing surface. The load bearing surface guides the seat part in motion during seat adjustment in a way to reduce friction and wear with use in time. The screw adjustment and the resilient component are configured such that play in guiding of the seat part in motion during seat adjustment is eliminated regardless of fabrication and component variations, and wear, with use in time. A screw adjustment locking device is configured to assure a stable adjustment with use in time.
US09089213B2
According to one embodiment, a stabilizer includes a jaw portion which contacts a bottom of an apparatus, a fastener to fasten the stabilizer to a lateral side of the apparatus, and a foot portion extending from the bottom of the apparatus toward far side and in obliquely downward.
US09089204B2
A foldable table includes a first tabletop panel, a second tabletop panel, and a reinforcing frame which includes first through fourth reinforcing members mounted along longitudinal sides of the first and second tabletop panels respectively, a first transverse member transversely extended between outer end portions of the first and second reinforcing members at the first tabletop panel, and a second transverse member transversely extended between outer end portions of the third and fourth reinforcing members at the second tabletop panel. Two ends of the first transverse member are affixed to the first and second reinforcing members in a non-rotatably movable manner. Two ends of the second transverse member are affixed to the third and fourth reinforcing members in a non-rotatably movable manner. Therefore, the first and second transverse members enhance the rigidity of the reinforcement frame to support two transverse sides of the first and second tabletop panels respectively.
US09089181B1
A headwear apparatus including a crown. A visor can extend outward from the crown, the visor having an outer peripheral edge. An outer visor layer can cover at least a portion of the visor. A visor pocket can be defined between the outer visor layer and the visor, the visor pocket including an opening defined in the outer visor layer, the visor pocket oriented with the opening positioned toward the outer peripheral edge of the visor. In some embodiments, the opening in the visor pocket can be located proximate the outer peripheral edge of the visor to allow for easy access to the visor pocket. In some embodiments, a fastener can connect the outer visor layer to the visor, the fastener defining the visor pocket.
US09089177B2
Wrist guards configured for providing support to a user's wrist are disclosed. An illustrative wrist guard includes a wrist pad having a dorsal section configured for placement adjacent to the anterior side of the user's wrist and a palmar section configured for placement adjacent to the posterior side of the wrist. A number of stiffener elements coupled to the dorsal section of the wrist pad provide support against hyperextension of the user's wrist.
US09089172B2
Laminates are described having a durable outer film surface for use in making lightweight liquidproof articles of apparel, such as outerwear garments. A method of making the laminate and a lightweight outerwear garment having an abrasion resistant exterior film surface is described.
US09089169B1
A garment for allowing a caretaker to engage and entertain a user which has an article of clothing which has toys attached thereon by releasable attachment devices. The releasable attachment devices engage fixed attachment points on the article of clothing. Further, the article of clothing has attached thereon an interactive engagement device for entertaining a user by providing means to open and close the device or sub-elements thereof.
US09089162B2
Disclosed is a smoking article containing a rod containing a smokable composition, an optional wrapper for the rod, and at least one polymer or oligomer comprising monomer units of a polycarboxylic acid ester disposed on or in the rod, the wrapper, or both. The polycarboxylic acid ester contains an acid moiety having at least two carboxylic groups, and at least two alcohol moieties independently selected from those corresponding to a cycloalkyl alcohol or an aryl alcohol. The cycloalkyl alcohol or aryl alcohol is a flavorant, or chemesthetic agent, or both. In addition, a method for the controlled release of these flavorant or chemesthetic agents is described, which comprises pyrolyzing at least one polymer or oligomer.
US09089156B2
Edible compositions, such as sports drinks which limit muscle soreness, and methods of making and using the same are provided. Existing food products are commonly used during exercise to quickly replace fluids and electrolytes lost by sweating and/or to supply a boost of carbohydrates to improve sports or exercise performance. Aspects of the invention relate to compositions including glucosamine to alleviate or prevent muscle soreness. In certain embodiments, the glucosamine may be derived from a plurality of glucosamine sources. Further aspects relate to concentrated products for preparing beverage compositions. In certain embodiments, a concentrated form of a beverage composition may be provided in a packaging. Instructions for preparing the beverage composition having an effective amount of glucosamine may also be provided. Further embodiments may include a notification that indicates the benefit of reducing or preventing muscle soreness following physical exertion by consuming the beverage formulation.
US09089154B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a modified soybean product, such as a modified soybean meal, comprising use of a proteolytic enzyme. The invention further relates to use of a proteolytic enzyme in the production of a feed or feed additive product.
US09089151B2
The disclosure relates to enzyme producing Bacillus strains that provide benefits to animals and methods of using these strains. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates compositions comprising the enzyme producing Bacillus strains. In yet another embodiment, the disclosure relates to a feed for an animal comprising enzyme producing Bacillus strains.
US09089147B2
A device and a method for loading a food processing machine, in particular a filling machine or a cutter, with food, including a container for receiving the food, a lifting means by which the container can be driven upwards, a drive for the lifting means, and a measuring means for detecting the amount of food in the container.
US09089142B2
An air dispensing duct that can be used in an oven to heat or cook food products passing through the oven on a conveyor. The air dispensing ducts comprise a cover plate and at least one columnating plate, and a plurality of orifices disposed on the cover plate and the columnating plate. The orifices are larger than those of the prior art, which advantageously, and counterintuitively, provides for faster cooking of the food product.
US09089137B2
The present invention relates to the control of fish parasites, especially Copepodae, by means of phenyl-substituted ketoenols.
US09089133B2
Aniline derivatives represented by formula (8) and formula (9): The aniline derivatives can be used as insecticides.
US09089129B2
A non-aerosol, foaming high alcohol content hand sanitizer is provided which has excellent antimicrobial activity and tolerance for organic load and excellent residual activity, as well as enhanced moisturization and skin-feel properties over currently marketed alcohol-based sanitizers. The inventive composition achieves an unexpectedly large amount of quality, stable foam even in the presence of significant quantities of skin conditioning agents through the use of novel silicone surfactants and achieves enhanced and prolonged antimicrobial efficacy through the combination of high alcohol content and activity enhancing components.
US09089124B1
A hunting assembly for dragging game or predators such as coyotes or bobcats. A belt or waste strap which carries one, two, or more drag pouches or other containers is secured around the hunter's waist. A drag cord with a loop at the end thereof is retained and carried by each of the containers. The drag cords are extended from the containers for dragging the game or predators to the hunter's vehicle or camp or to any other location.
US09089123B1
An apparatus and methods for collecting data and monitoring vocalizations of wildlife and transmitting same to a user are described. The apparatus comprises one or more microphones coupled to a device for recording and processing captured audio signals and providing the captured information to a user. Several methods for use of the apparatus to collect data and monitor subjects of information are disclosed.
US09089119B1
A self-contained solar powered floating apparatus stores energy during the day and uses the stored energy to emit light underwater during the night, thereby attracting fish to the vicinity of the apparatus. The fishing bobber apparatus includes a floatable housing, a photovoltaic module disposed within the housing and including photovoltaic cells to receive solar radiation and convert the solar radiation into DC electricity. An energy storage module is electrically coupled to receive and store the DC electricity from the photovoltaic module during a storage mode, and a light emitting module is electrically coupled to receive DC electricity discharged from the energy storage module during a discharge mode and convert the DC electricity into light that is emitted through a portion of the housing. A light sensing module and associated control circuitry detects the presence of ambient light.
US09089115B2
An aquarium system having a tank supported by a base, the base having a drawer that that retains the operational components of the filtration system. An overflow chute is positioned within the tank, the chute having an open top such that water from the tank may flow into the chute and into the drawer. The drawer has a receiving compartment located beneath the chute and a return compartment separated from the receiving compartment by a filter such that water is drawn through the filter and into the return compartment by a pump. The pump then delivers the filtered water from the return compartment into the tank through a conduit passing up through the chute. The filtration system is fully operational with the drawer closed or partially open.
US09089098B2
The invention relates to a method for testing a plant or plant part for exhibiting a reduced or absent wound-induced surface discoloration as compared to a control plant or plant part, which method comprises providing a plant or plant part that is obtained from a plant population that shows genetic variation, in particular a gene bank; optionally creating a wound surface on the plant or plant part; incubating the plant or plant part or the wound surfaces created thereon to allow for discoloration to occur therein or thereon; observing the discoloration in or on the plants or plant parts; comparing the observed discoloration with the discoloration that is observed in the control plant or plant part to assess whether the plant or plant part shows no discoloration or a discoloration that is reduced as compared to the control plant or plant part; and identifying a plant or plant part that shows no discoloration or a discoloration that is reduced as compared to the control plant or plant part as a plant that harbors the reduced wound-induced surface discoloration trait.
US09089094B1
A combine harvester thresher includes a combine harvester threshing drum formed with a helical auger flight and which is mounted for rotation in a threshing direction for threshing crop cuttings to form threshings. The helical auger flight has a leading end directed into the threshing direction and an opposed trailing end directed away from the threshing direction, an outer face and an opposed inner face angled toward the threshing direction for driving cuttings to the threshing drum for threshing in response to rotation of the threshing drum in the threshing direction. A sacrificial shield and wear plate is releasably attached to the leading end of the helical auger flight for shielding the leading end of the helical auger flight from impacting cuttings and for deflecting cuttings to the inner face of the helical auger flight in response to rotation of the threshing drum in the threshing direction.
US09089090B2
A combine harvester includes a grain tank with an upper opening and a foldable attachment disposed on the upper opening. The attachment has two opposing, one-piece, flat attachment parts and two opposing, multiple-component, flat attachment parts. The attachment parts are swivellably disposed on the upper edge of the upper opening of the grain tank, are swivellably connected to one another and, in lying-flat, closed positions, form a cover. The cover at least partially closes the opening. In erected filling positions, the attachment parts increase the volume of the grain tank.
US09095086B2
An unloading system includes a casing, a conveying device, a capturing device and a control device. A first entrance, a first exit and a second exit are formed on the casing. The conveying device is for conveying a carrying component and a circuit board disposed on the carrying component from the first entrance. The capturing device is for capturing the circuit board and then conveying the circuit board to the first exit. The control device is electrically connected to the conveying device and the capturing device. The control device is for controlling the capturing device to capture the circuit board entering from the first entrance and then to convey the circuit board to the first exit. The control device is further for controlling the conveying device to convey the carrying component from which the circuit board is unloaded to the second exit.
US09095083B2
A manufacturing method for a multi-layer circuit board includes the following steps. Firstly, a substrate having a first via penetrating the substrate is provided. Next, a patterned circuit layer is formed on a surface of the substrate by using the first via as an alignment target. The first patterned circuit layer includes a first concentric-circle pattern surrounding the first via. Next, a first stacking layer is formed on the surface. Then, a first through hole penetrating regions where a first concentric circle from the center of the concentric-circle pattern is orthogonally projected on the first stacking layer and the substrate is formed. Next, a second stacking layer is formed on the first stacking layer. Afterward, a second through hole penetrating regions where a second concentric circle from the center of the concentric-circle pattern is orthogonally projected on of the first, the second stacking layers and the substrate is formed.
US09095076B2
An electronic device may have a housing in which electronic components are mounted. The electronic components may be mounted to a substrate such as a printed circuit board. A heat sink structure may dissipate heat generated by the electronic components. The housing may have a housing wall that is separated from the heat sink structure by an air gap. The housing wall may have integral support structures. Each of the support structures may have an inwardly protruding portion that protrudes through a corresponding opening in the heat sink structure. The protruding portions may each have a longitudinal axis and a cylindrical cavity that lies along the longitudinal axis. Each of the support structures may have fins that extend radially outward from the longitudinal axis.
US09095069B2
A printed circuit board is disclosed. The board has a first end having a plurality of fingers in a cooperating relationship with a second end of a second adjacent circuit board. The board has a second end having a second plurality of fingers in a cooperating relationship with a first end of a first adjacent circuit board. The board has a first portion of an electrical trace on at least one of the first plurality of fingers positioned to allow an electrical connection to the second end of the second adjacent circuit board, and a second portion of the electrical trace on at least one of the second plurality of fingers positioned to allow an electrical connection to the first end of the first adjacent circuit board.
US09095067B2
An electronic device is presented for electrical connection between a first pad contact of an integrated circuit component and a target contact positioned substantially in a first plane of a target platform. The electronic device includes a first surface substantially parallel to the first plane and a second surface below the first surface substantially parallel to the first plane. The first surface includes a first contact region configured to connect to the first pad contact when the electronic device is connected between the first pad contact and the target contact. The second surface includes a second contact region configured to connect to the target contact when the electronic device is connected between the first pad contact and the target contact. The electronic device further includes a multitude of electrically passive elements connected between the first and second contact regions.
US09095063B2
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same. In detail, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the printed circuit board includes: an insulating layer; and a metal layer formed on the insulating layer, wherein in the metal layer, a ratio occupied by crystal orientations of (110) and (112) is 20 to 80%. By doing so, the preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a printed circuit board including the metal layer having different crystal orientations to minimize factors of hindering electrical characteristics such as electric conductivity and improve isotropy of mechanical properties and a method of manufacturing the printed circuit board.
US09095060B2
A manufacturing process for manufacturing a layered structure is provided. In the manufacturing process, transfer layers including conductive layers are transferred from transfer films so as to form a first transfer layer defining a first conductive pattern and a second transfer layer defining a second conductive pattern on a surface of a substrate, such that the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are stacked onto each other. At least one of the first transfer layer and the second transfer layer has a non-conductive layer on a surface facing the other of the first transfer layer and the second transfer layer. The non-conductive layer is provided between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern.
US09095059B2
A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery, a driving chip disposed out of the active display area for driving the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the active display area. The width of at least one wire at a portion adjacent to the driving chip is smaller than the width of the at least one wire at the other portion adjacent to the active display area.
US09095058B2
A touch panel includes first and second sets of electrodes separated by a dielectric and oriented so that the electrodes of the first set intersect with the electrodes of the second set without touching. Each of the electrodes can be made of a plurality of individual conductors shorted together. The conductors can be provided in the form of flat cable or clockspring material.
US09095057B2
A media appliance and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a housing is adapted to be mounted within a wall. A panel forms a front portion of the housing and the panel includes vents and the panel may be mounted substantially flush with the wall. A media player, which includes a set-top box, is disposed within the housing. A pair of ports, disposed within openings defined by the housing, are configured to receive respective optio-electric connectors. Each port includes optio-electrically conductive elements. The pair of ports are coupled to the media player and one port configured for providing a connection to a television and the other port is configured for providing a connection to an external source of signal for the television.
US09095047B2
In one implementation a display apparatus, a display area of a display screen of a display panel is defined by edge portions of a first window formed in a first frame body. The first frame body is formed from a thin synthetic resin sheet and has upper airflow passages and side airflow passages formed therein. An outer communication portion of each of the upper airflow passages and an outer communication portion of each of the side airflow passages are exposed inside holes formed in a second frame body disposed in front of the first frame body. An inner communication portion of the upper airflow passage and an inner communication portion of the side airflow passage are exposed inside the edge portions of a second window of the second frame body. A space formed between the display panel and a cover plate communicates with the outer space via the upper airflow passages and the side airflow passages.
US09095046B2
Devices and methods are provided for connecting device cover components. In general, the devices and methods can allow first and second covers of an electronic device to be connected together at a plurality of attachment points without any gap space between the first and second covers at the attachment points. In an exemplary embodiment, an electronic device can include a housing that has first and second covers attached to one another at a plurality of attachment points. The first cover can be formed from a first material, and the second cover can be formed from a second, different material. The first material can be a softer material than the second material, which can allow the second cover to penetrate into and deform the first cover during manufacturing of the housing such that no gap space is present between the first and second covers at each of the attachment points.
US09095045B2
Protective containers for electronic equipment, and methods of testing, use, and/or manufacture thereof, are provided. The cabinets provide a HEMP protection level to electronic equipment housed therein that meets a HEMP protection level according to MIL-STD-188-125-1.
US09095041B2
A method and apparatus is provided for reducing interference in circuits. A management strategy is provided to reduce reference spurs and interference in circuits. The management strategy uses a combination of one or more techniques which reduce the digital current, minimize mutual inductance, utilize field cancellation, prevent leakage current, and/or manage impedance. These techniques may be used alone, or preferably, used on combination with one another.
US09095036B2
An accelerator system includes a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a focus magnet and a defocus magnet each configured to create a magnetic field so as to confine and accelerate a particle beam, the focus magnet being configured to focus the particle beam in a horizontal direction and defocus the particle beam in a vertical direction, and the defocus magnet being configured to focus the particle beam in a vertical direction and defocus the particle beam in a horizontal direction. Each of the plurality of cells is configured to confine the particle beam in an isochronous orbit during acceleration. The accelerator system is a non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient particle accelerator (FFAG).
US09095031B2
The disclosed technical solution relates to an organic light emitting diode driving circuit, and a display panel, a display and a driving method using the same. The organic light emitting diode driving circuit includes a driving unit, a threshold compensation unit and an organic light emitting diode. The preferred threshold compensation unit comprises 5 transistors and a capacitance. The organic light emitting diode driving circuit compensates the threshold voltage Vth of the driving transistor by means of this 6T1C circuit, eliminates the inconsistent operation states of the organic light emitting diode caused by the different threshold voltages of the driving transistor in the entire circuit, thereby solving the problem regarding the brightness and evenness of the organic light emitting diode.
US09095029B2
A light source apparatus includes a light-emitting module and a control unit. The light-emitting module is for providing a light. The control unit switches the light emitted from the light-emitting module between a first light and a second light, wherein the circadian stimulus value (CS/P value) of the second light is less than CS/P value of the first light, and the color temperatures of the second light and the first light are substantially the same as each other.
US09095028B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method, computer-readable medium and apparatus for monitoring a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) light banks for each one of a plurality of LED beacon lights. In one embodiment, the method includes determining an amount of ambient light, selecting an operating mode for each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights based upon the amount of ambient light, determining a value of a threshold for the operating mode that is selected, receiving a light output value of each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights, comparing the light output value of each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights to the predetermined value of the dynamic threshold and generating an alarm when the light output value of any one of the plurality of LED beacon lights falls below the predetermined value of the dynamic threshold.
US09095027B2
A circuit coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) driver circuit is described. The circuit is operative to control functionality of the LED driver circuit based on a firing angle from a power switch.
US09095021B2
A circuit arrangement for operating at least a first and a second cascade of LEDs is provided. The LED cascades have a different number of LEDs, which are operated alternately in a manner adapted to the instantaneous value of the rectified AC supply voltage by a suitable drive logic. The cascades are assigned to LED units, wherein each unit includes a driving device for driving the respective cascade. The units are coupled in series between the two input terminals, wherein the input terminals are formed by the output of a rectifier. A linear regulator is provided in series with the cascades, said linear regulator being driven via a voltage divider coupled between the two input terminals. An auxiliary voltage supply is provided for operating the respective driving devices, wherein the auxiliary voltage is generated from the voltage dropped across the linear regulator during the operation of the circuit arrangement.
US09095019B2
By diverting a small amount of current from a string of LED(s) powered by a LED driver at low current levels in a process of dimming the LED string, performance of the LED string light emission is improved.
US09095012B2
The present disclosure provides a variable energy lamp control circuit, including a power supply management circuit, an alternating current detection and high-frequency signal transmission circuit, a manual switch, a high-frequency signal receiving circuit, a delay circuit working power input control circuit, a work delay circuit, an alternating current sensing circuit, a control signal conversion circuit, and a driving circuit. The control signal conversion circuit is configured for controlling on and off of the variable energy lamp via the driving circuit according to a first control signal outputted from a first control signal output terminal of the alternating current detection and high-frequency signal transmission circuit, a second control signal outputted from an output terminal of the alternating current sensing circuit, and a third control signal outputted form a third control signal output terminal of the work delay circuit.
US09095010B2
Provided is a conductive film, which is suitably used in a heating element of a transparent property (a transparent heating element) excellent in visibility and a heating power. The conductive portion of a first conductive film includes mesh patterns having multiple intersecting points (intersecting portions), which are constituted of a plurality of first metal filaments and a plurality of second metal filaments, and the conductive portion between the intersecting portions is formed into an undulating shape having at least one curve. The first conductive film is shaped such that the curves are arcuate and two arcs are formed continuously between the intersecting portions, wherein the protrusion-recess directions of the arcs are opposite to each other. Each arc has a center angle of about 90 degrees. Moreover, the conductive portion has a crossing angle of about 90 degrees.
US09095007B2
A heating system for use with roofing shingles, the heating system including a flexible grounding layer having a transverse dimension that is no greater than substantially equal to a transverse dimension of the roofing shingles, a flexible heater laminated to the flexible grounding layer, wherein the flexible heater includes a substrate, a conductive resistive ink pattern disposed on the substrate, wherein the ink pattern generates heat when electricity passes through the ink pattern, wherein the heating system includes a nailing portion that extends longitudinally along one side of the heating system, the nailing portion of the heating system having a transverse dimension that is at least substantially equal to a transverse dimension of a nailing portion of the roofing shingles, wherein the flexible heater is disposed on the flexible grounding layer such that the ink pattern is disposed outside of the nailing portion of the heating system.
US09095003B2
To provide a heater that can reduce fixing failure in a paper passing area while suppressing a temperature rise in a sheet non-passing area, and a fixing apparatus including the heater.Resistors are connected in parallel between two conductive patterns that are provided on a heater substrate along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and resistors are arranged so that the shortest current path of each of the resistors can overlap the shortest current path of an adjacent resistor in the longitudinal direction of the substrate.
US09095000B2
Provided are machine type communication (MTC) gateway user equipment (MGUE) and an MTC data relay method of the same. The MGUE includes a first radio matching unit configured to process a signal having a first frequency band characteristic and provide radio access matching with a base station, a second radio matching unit configured to process a signal having a second frequency band characteristic and provide radio access matching with at least one MTC device, a radio access switching processor configured to convert data respectively output by the first radio matching unit and the second radio matching unit and provide the converted data, and a controller configured to find an identifier of at least one MTC device related to MTC control information received from the first radio matching unit and control the second radio matching unit to transmit the MTC control information to the MTC device.
US09094995B2
The present application relates to a method for enabling a terminal to transmit channel status information in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method for enabling the terminal to transmit the channel status information in the wireless communication system includes the steps of: receiving a reference signal from a serving cell or an adjacent cell; determining the priority of the predetermined precoding matrix index (PMI) based on the reference signal; and transmitting the PMI together with a stacking flag to the serving cell according to the priority, wherein the number of PMI to be transmitted to the serving cell is determined based on a size of a buffer commonly set in the serving cell and the terminal, and the stacking flag indicates storing the PMI into the buffer or initializing the buffer.
US09094987B2
Disclosed are a method for generating a random access signal of a machine type communication (MTC) device using a narrow bandwidth, and an MTC device. The method generates a random access signal by allocating a position in a frequency domain of a random access signal dedicated to the MTC device, that is, a position of a frequency for transmission of a random access preamble, to a center position of a base station system bandwidth, or by shifting a center frequency of the MTC device to a position of a random access frequency allocated for a legacy LTE terminal by a base station.
US09094985B2
In a system that performs mobile communication using at least two beams, by determining a size of a beam based on information that is acquired for mobile terminals attempting an access, a beam of a form having an adaptive size is formed and thus communication is performed. A beam sector including a plurality of beam segments and a beam segment that forms a beam of a minimum size within entire coverage is set, and while forming one beam per beam sector, a size of a beam is adaptively determined.
US09094981B2
The present disclosure provides a method, system and device for processing the release failure of a PDN. The method includes: a UE, when the UE determines that it currently connects with at least two PDNs, sends a PDN release request message to an EPC and then receives a release rejection message from the EPC, wherein a rejection reason is that the last PDN connection is not allowed to be released; and the UE releases each PDN connection with the EPC and then resets up a PDN connection with the EPC. Through the technical solution, the PDN connection information of the UE and that of the EPC are kept consistent, so that resources are saved and the reliability of data transmission is improved.
US09094977B2
A base station and mobile station are configured to perform control beam association. A method at the base station includes transmitting at least one first control beam including reference signals on which the mobile station can perform a measurement. The method also includes receiving a first measurement report from the mobile station of the at least one first control beam. The method further includes, based on the first measurement report, selecting at least one of the at least one first control beam for at least one control channel for the mobile station to associate with. The method still further includes transmitting control information in the at least one control channel to the mobile station using the at least one selected control beam, the control information comprising at least one resource allocation indication for the mobile station. The at least one selected control beam is associated to the mobile station.
US09094976B2
Method and related apparatus for enhancing resource utility rate in a wireless communications system
In order to reduce power and computing resource consumption in a user equipment of a wireless communications system, a method for enhancing a resource utility rate for the user equipment is provided. The method includes stopping receiving data and control signals through a first common channel and a second common channel and clearing configuration corresponding to the first and second common channels when the user equipment receives a connection setup message configuring the user equipment to enter a CELL_DCH state.
US09094969B2
System(s) and method(s) are provided for transmitting data code symbols and control code symbols spanning disparate transmission time intervals in the uplink. Data and control symbols that overlap in time-domain within a transmission time interval are multiplexed and transmitted employing resources scheduled for data transmission, whereas data and control code symbols that are not multiplexed are transmitted in respective allocated resources. Multiplexing in conjunction with localized and distributed resource scheduling preserves the single-carrier characteristics of a single-carrier frequency division multiple access system.
US09094961B2
A system and method is disclosed for resource block-specific control signaling in a communication system. Communication data is transmitted using a transmission channel comprising a plurality of resource blocks defined by allocating time-frequency slots in a transmission resource. Resource block control information is transmitted in a “feed-forward” manner to a user end (UE) or group of UEs using channels physically mapped into scheduled resource blocks (RBs) for that user or group of users. Embodiments of the invention provide an RB-specific control channel that comprises RB control elements that are embedded within scheduled resource blocks. The invention, therefore, reduces the amount of control information that must be transmitted by common or shared control channels.
US09094956B2
A wireless communication terminal has input devices for inputting an operation content for operating an application, a communicator for transmitting the operation content input from the input devices to a server, and receiving a server processing result as a result of predetermined processing executed by the server, and a controller determining in accordance with the application as an operation target based on the operation content whether the operation based on the operation content input before interruption of the communication is continued after the communication with the server is recovered, when the communication with the server is interrupted after the operation content is input from the input means and before a server processing result corresponding to the operation content is received from the server.
US09094949B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to input devices configured for use with computing devices. The present invention relates to methods and devices for establishing, maintaining and managing, wireless connections with between an input device and one or more host devices that the input device is paired with. The input device may include sensory feedback indicating the host device actively paired with the input device, and may enable switching between host devices.
US09094944B2
A technique is disclosed for re-enabling transmission protection at enhanced stations while in the presence of high, enhanced modulation traffic conditions once protection has been disabled. Transmission protection allows enhanced modulation stations to co-exist with legacy modulation stations on a shared-communications channel. The problem being solved is when transmission protection is set to inactive and the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (i.e., enhanced modulation) traffic load is high, legacy traffic is likely to collide repeatedly with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing transmissions, with the result that the access point does not notice that a legacy station has become active again. Consequently, the access point does not activate transmission protection. The present invention addresses the problem by defining access point mechanisms that are capable of re-enabling transmission protection, once protection has been disabled, in the presence of high, enhanced modulation traffic conditions.
US09094939B2
Each of two or more base stations notifies a communication controller of information on a first frequency band that the base station uses for radio communication. Based on the information on the first frequency bands acquired from the two or more base stations, the communication controller selects a second frequency band to be used by the two or more base stations to transmit the data with common content, and notifies the two or more base stations of information on the selected second frequency band. The two or more base stations transmit the data with common content based on the information on the second frequency band acquired from the communication controller.
US09094937B2
After a user equipment (UE) in a communication network selects a serving cell for multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS), the UE waits an average time before it can re-select a new MBMS serving cell. The average time is based on keeping track of average MCCH reading time, which varies among network operators. In other words, the UE uses time hysteresis but adapts the value of the time hysteresis to the way an operator has deployed its MBMS functionality.
US09094928B2
A mobile wireless device maintains registration on two parallel wireless communication networks that each use different wireless communication protocols. In response to a first connection request received from a first wireless network, the mobile wireless device tunes a single receiver contained therein from the first wireless network to a second wireless network. Subsequently in response to a second connection request received from the second wireless network, the mobile wireless device connects to the second wireless network.
US09094927B2
A location continuity application server described herein is configured to access from an access network a set of location data associated with a position measurement for a mobile device. The location continuity application server may also access from another access network another set of location data associated with another position measurement for the mobile device and combine the sets of location data to determine a location of the mobile device. Further, prior to accessing the set of location data, the location continuity application server may provide reference location data associated with a reference location of the mobile device to the access network to enable the access network to obtain the position measurement based at least on the reference location data. The location continuity application server may also access the set of location data and determine the location of the mobile device responsive to a request from an emergency service provider.
US09094920B2
The invention relates to a method in a radio communications network for controlling a transmission power of a user equipment (12) transmitting data to a radio base station (10) in the radio communications network. The radio base station (10) retrieves a target signal to interference ratio value and measures a signal to interference ratio of a signal transmitted with a current transmission power from the user equipment (12). The radio base station (10) then determines a user equipment capability of power control of the user equipment (12). Furthermore, the radio base station (10) computes a power control command based on the measured signal to interference ratio, the retrieved target signal to interference ratio, and the user equipment capability of power control, which power control command indicates a power control adjustment step of the user equipment (12). The radio base station (10) then transmits the power control command to the user equipment (12). The user equipment (12) calculates a transmission power step based on said received power control command and adjusts the transmission power by applying the calculated transmission power step to the current transmission power.
US09094910B2
A method utilized in a mobile device includes: starting a time alignment timer when receiving a time alignment message transmitted by a base station, wherein the time alignment timer is used for determining whether the mobile device is synchronized with the base station on uplink timing, and the time alignment message is utilized to update timing advance for the mobile device; and ignoring at least a first control message sent from the base station after the time alignment timer expires.
US09094909B2
A mobile station device transmits a random access preamble to a base station device. The base station device receives the random access preamble from the mobile station device and transmits, to the mobile station device, a Random Access-Radio Network Temporary Identity (RA-RNTI) which notifies a resource assignment of a random access response. The mobile station device further monitors downlink control channels while detecting both a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identity (C-RNTI) and the RA-RNTI, in which a downlink control channel includes the RA-RNTI and a downlink control channel includes the C-RNTI which notifies a resource assignment of downlink data. Upon detection of the C-RNTI and the RA-RNTI in a same sub-frame, the mobile station receives both the random access response and the downlink data, or receives either the random access response or the downlink data.
US09094908B1
Interfacing between radio units in a base station in a mobile communication system may use synchronized clocks. A controller device has a tracking clock circuit for generating a transmit clock, the tracking clock circuit comprising a clock input for receiving a reference clock and a sync input for receiving an external synchronization signal. A multiplying phase locked loop generates the transmit clock in dependence on the reference clock and a divider output of a controllable divider coupled to the transmit clock. A tracking loop has a phase detector coupled to the sync input and the divider output for detecting a phase error between the external synchronization signal and transmit clock, and a phase control circuit for generating a phase control signal based on the phase error, the phase control signal being coupled to a control input of the controllable divider for adapting the division function.
US09094906B2
According to exemplary embodiments of the invention, timing and frequency offset estimation is divided into two or more stages. In each stage, a different subset of the available reference symbols is selected to perform timing synchronization, frequency synchronization, or joint timing and frequency synchronization. In each non-final stage, a respective set of the reference symbols is used to perform timing synchronization or frequency synchronization in order to narrow the uncertainty window for the timing or frequency offset, and thus reduce the search space for the final stage. In the final stage, a different set of reference symbols may be used to perform joint timing and frequency synchronization over the reduced search space.
US09094899B2
A dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system may include a dynamic spectrum policy controller (DPC) and a dynamic spectrum controller (DSC) that together dynamically manage the allocation and use of resources (e.g., spectrum resources) across different networks. A wireless device may be configured to intelligently select and use these allocated resources. For example, the wireless device may be configured to traverse an ordered list of preferred of networks to identify and select a first cell site in a first telecommunication network, establish a first communication link between the wireless device and the selected first cell site, receive network information identifying a geographic region in which the wireless device is allowed to use resources of a second telecommunication network, determine whether the wireless device is in the geographical region, and establish a second communication link to a second cell in the second telecommunication network based on the received network information.
US09094892B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided for wireless communication in which wireless signal information is received through at least one wireless wide-area-network technology. In addition, data related to the wireless signal information is aggregated. Furthermore, the data is provided to a wireless node through a wireless wide-area-network technology different from the at least one wireless wide-area-network technology.
US09094885B2
A portable terminal is configured to support a handoff between heterogeneous networks. The portable terminal includes a first communication unit, a second communication, a coverage identifying unit, and a switching unit. The first communication unit communicates with a mobile communication network. The second communication unit communicates with a heterogeneous network. The coverage identifying unit identifies entry of the portable terminal into a heterogeneous network area while performing a call connection through the mobile communication network. The switching unit attempts call connection through the heterogeneous network while maintaining the call connection through the mobile communication network when the entry of the portable terminal into the heterogeneous network area is identified. When a response to the call connection through the heterogeneous network is received, the switching unit terminates the call connection through the mobile communication network and maintains the call connection through the heterogeneous network.
US09094884B2
Disclosed is a method for changing a communication network for video communication, the method including performing, by a User Equipment (UE), video communication through a mobile communication network; searching for whether there is a WLAN currently accessible by the UE at every predetermined interval; displaying the accessible WLAN if one is found; and when the displayed WLAN is selected by a user, changing a communication network for the video communication to perform the video communication through the selected WLAN.
US09094882B2
A network sends to a user equipment UE downlink signaling indicating at least one frequency which is subject to special handling. In response the UE measures and reports neighbor cells operating on any of that/those frequencies without regard to a threshold signal strength of a serving cell which is configured for reporting neighbor cells. In more specific examples, if the neighbor cells operating on any of that/those frequencies is considered a first set of neighbor cells, then the network also sends a second set of neighbor cells in other downlink signaling. Measuring and reporting on the first set of neighbor cells is less frequent than for the second set of neighbor cells, when measurements of the second set is required. Measuring and reporting on the second set is dependent on measured signal strength of a serving cell being greater than the configured threshold signal strength of the serving cell.
US09094880B2
Confusion resulting from assigning the same node identifier to multiple nodes is resolved through the use of confusion detection techniques and the use of unique identifiers for the nodes. In some aspects a network may provide a time gap (e.g., an asynchronous time gap) during which an access terminal may temporarily cease monitoring transmissions from a source node so that the access terminal may acquire a unique identifier from a target node. In some aspects an access terminal may commence handover operations at a target node after determining whether the access terminal is allowed to access the target node. In some aspects a source node may prepare several target nodes for potential handover in the event confusion is detected or likely. Here, the source node may send information relating to the preparation of the potential target nodes to the access terminal whereby the access terminal uses the handover preparation information to initiate a handover at that target node.
US09094878B2
A method is described that is for handing over a multi-mode mobile device from a first network technology to a second network technology. The method includes initiating by the multi-mode mobile device a first packet session in a first wireless network and detecting by a multi-mode mobile device a second wireless network supporting a different access network technology. The method also includes determining a Quality of Service requirement and completing pre-registration session establishment procedures for a second session in the second wireless network when the first session includes at least one of a QoS sensitive service and real time service by the first wireless network and mobile device and after completion of the pre-registration session establishment procedures the multi-mode mobile device receives service from the first wireless network and remains dormant on the second wireless network.
US09094870B2
A method for measuring a signal of a deactivated cell by a terminal in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation is provided. The method includes receiving measurement information including a measurement interval for the deactivated cell, from a base station, acquiring a measurement period using the measurement interval, measuring the signal of the deactivated cell, and generating a filtered measurement result based on the measurement period.
US09094867B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining channel quality in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving Channel Quality Information (CQI) from a receiver; generating a channel quality reference value by correcting the received CQI using first resource use/nonuse information received from a scheduler that indicates whether an adjacent cell used resources at a previous time, and received signal power information measured in the adjacent cell; and determining a channel quality value at a current time using the generated channel quality reference value and second resource use/nonuse information received from the scheduler that indicates whether an adjacent cell uses resources at the current time.
US09094864B2
Architecture for performing WLAN offload in a wireless device is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes an application section configured to form IP packets from data to be transmitted, a modem section configured to apply a cellular protocol to the IP packets to form cellular protocol packets, an endpoint configured to encapsulate the cellular protocol packets to form outer IP tunnel packets, and a WLAN interface configured to transmit the outer IP tunnel packets over a WLAN communication channel. In another exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a WLAN interface configured to receive outer IP tunnel packets over a WLAN communication channel, an endpoint configured to extract cellular protocol packets from the outer IP tunnel packets, a modem processor configured to remove a cellular protocol from the cellular protocol packets to form IP packets, and an application processor configured to extract received data from the IP packets.
US09094859B2
The claimed subject matter is directed to defining a framework that enables wireless communicability between base stations for maintenance and configuration purposes, even while disconnected from an operator network, and/or deployed in the field. Embodiments are particularly applicable in the cases of small-cell base transceiver stations deployed in inconvenient, secluded, elevated and/or difficult to reach locations. The small cell base transceiver station is operable to communicate wirelessly to wireless terminals and mobile computing devices by emulating select functionality from dedicated components in an operator network.
US09094858B2
Example methods and apparatus to conditionally invoke network recovery are disclosed. A disclosed example method in a wireless device involves detecting a radio resource connection failure and identifying whether downlink data is expected. The disclosed example method also includes initiating a registration procedure when downlink data is expected.
US09094853B2
Systems and methods provide adaptability in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), based on an existing protocol, such as adaptive hybrid domain routing (AHDR). The systems and methods are especially suited for fast changing topologies that may change after a reactive route discovery has been completed.
US09094852B2
A method for transferring a data packet associated with a service from a packet data network to a mobile communication network, be characterized by comprising steps of: forming a message by adding either a service identifier (SI) for identifying the service or an indicator for indicating that the data packet is associated with the SI to the data packet, the SI corresponding to a session identifier for the data packet; and sending the message from the packet data network to the mobile communication network.
US09094849B2
In communication of data between a first base station and a mobile terminal, a second base station may handle uplink transmissions from the mobile terminal. For this purpose, the first base station sends, to the second base station, a request to handle the uplink transmissions from the mobile terminal. Further, the first base station sends carrier information to the second base station. The carrier information indicates one or more uplink carriers for receiving the uplink transmissions. The one or more uplink carriers are controlled by the second base station. Moreover, the first base station sends downlink transmissions to the mobile terminal. The downlink transmissions include configuration data. By means of the configuration data, the mobile terminal is configured to send uplink transmissions on the one or more uplink carriers as indicated by the carrier information, e.g., on an uplink payload channel controlled by the second base station.
US09094847B2
The present invention relates to a method, a base station, and a wireless communication system for TRX mutual aid, where the method comprises: obtaining, by the base station, capability information of a TRX board in the base station, and obtaining from a base station controller information of a cell to which a carrier that is configured on the TRX board belongs; and selecting, by the base station, a corresponding TRX mutual aid way according to the capability information and the information of the cell to perform TRX mutual aid with a faulty BCCH dominant frequency carrier. By implementing TRX mutual aid on the base station, the capability of the board can be easily learned, and the TRX mutual aid is performed based on the capability in comprehensive consideration of another carrier in the cell and standard configuration of the carriers, so that more carriers continue providing services.
US09094827B1
A mobile device collaboration method includes provisioning a first mobile device with unique user identification related to a role and skill set of an associated user of the first mobile device, detecting a second mobile device responsive to a condition at the first mobile device, communicating the unique user identification to the second mobile device, authenticating the first mobile device through the second mobile device communicating the unique user identification to an external database, and providing access for the first mobile device through the second mobile device if the authenticating is successful. A mobile device collaboration system and a mobile device are also described.
US09094825B2
An approach for providing a service over a communication session based on an authentication from a voice session is described. A voice session enhancement platform may determine that a voice session is established among a plurality of devices. The voice session enhancement platform may further retrieve one or more authentication parameters associated with the voice session for the plurality of devices. The voice session enhancement platform may also initiate a service among the plurality of devices, wherein the service is separate from the voice session. Additionally, the voice session enhancement platform may authenticate the plurality of devices for the service based on the one or more authentication parameters.
US09094823B2
A method of data processing for securing local resources in a mobile device. The method includes: a) when network connectivity is available: coupling the mobile device with a first identity module associated to a first International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), receiving in the first identity module a network challenge from a communication network, ciphering the network challenge using a secret key, and sending a corresponding response to the network for subsequent successful authentication, b) after a successful authentication to the communication network: associating at least a part of the local resources to the first IMSI, and storing, in a database of the mobile device, authentication data related to the challenge/response duplet, granting access to local resources associated to the first IMSI.
US09094807B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing improved service to wireless devices in a radio access network (RAN). This is accomplished through affording cooperative arrangements wherein a helper mobile device having a good link to the RAN assists another mobile device having a poorer quality link to access the RAN, thereby offering improved service. The arrangement includes an out of band link between the mobile devices that does not use the same radio access technology as the RAN. Additionally, an incentive scheme provides credit to users of the assisting devices that is configured to encourage and sustain future cooperative arrangements. Credit may be transferred from a user of the assisted device to the user of the helper device as compensation. Further, an operator of the RAN may also inject credit to users of helper devices to incentivize and sustain future cooperative arrangements.
US09094806B2
Sending apparatus, receiving apparatus, sending method, receiving method and sending and receiving system for supporting application based MMS. The body of an incremental MMS includes a dynamic data section of MMS, a static data indicator associated with the MMS, and a link tag between indicated static data and the dynamic data. The amount of the message quantity transmitted may be reduced because the changed section of the incremental MMS is sent directly via short message channel in dynamic data mode. In turn, the incremental MMS may be sent via short message channel instead of MMS channel due to the reduction of transmitted message, which further reduces the communication cost.
US09094805B2
A method for performing a service for a mobile device is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request from the mobile device for a service that is not natively supported by the mobile device; determining one or more resources needed to fulfill the request; and performing the service associated with the request using the one or more resources.
US09094803B2
In embodiments of the present disclosure, improved capabilities are described for a sensor platform in a wireless network, where optimization servers utilizing publish-subscribe broker services are provided within the wireless network to provide conferenced connectivity between sensor devices and communicating entities.
US09094802B2
A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.
US09094795B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a geo-location centroid of each of one or more geo-location clusters. The geo-location centroid corresponds to one or more geo-location data points within its geo-location cluster. The geo-location data points represent one or more location readings from a mobile computing device associated with a user. The geo-location centroids are based at least in part on location readings obtained during a particular time of day of a particular day of a week. The method also includes grouping one or more geo-location centroids into one or more groups; and determining a time-based routine based at least in part on a number of geo-location centroids within each group.
US09094782B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instruction which configures a processor to function as: a first communication unit configured to execute a communication using a first type interface with a communication target device; a second communication unit configured to obtain, by using the first communication unit, identifying information used to execute a communication with the communication target device through a second type interface when a first network in which the communication target device is included is different from a second network set as a communication destination for a communication through the second type interface; a third communication unit configured to execute a communication with the communication target device through the second type interface when the first type network is same as the second type network; and a fourth communication unit configured to execute a restoring process where the communication destination is restored to the second network.
US09094771B2
In some embodiments, a method for upmixing input audio comprising N full range channels to generate 3D output audio comprising N+M full range channels, where the N+M full range channels are intended to be rendered by speakers including at least two speakers at different distances from the listener. The N channel input audio is a 2D audio program whose N full range channels are intended for rendering by N speakers nominally equidistant from the listener. The upmixing of the input audio to generate the 3D output audio is typically performed in an automated manner, in response to cues determined in automated fashion from stereoscopic 3D video corresponding to the input audio, or in response to cues determined in automated fashion from the input audio. Other aspects include a system configured to perform, and a computer readable medium which stores code for implementing any embodiment of the inventive method.
US09094770B2
In some embodiments, a receiver tube for use with a hearing aid having a receiver may include a receiver tube that is removably connectable to the hearing aid and removably connectable to the receiver, wherein the receiver tube includes a locking mechanism configured to interface with a mating feature disposed about the receiver such that the receiver tube may be selectively coupled to the receiver; and an ear wax trap comprising a microporous membrane disposed within the receiver tube. The length of the receiver tube may be adjusted by the dispenser or audiologist during the office visit by clipping it accordingly.
US09094760B2
Solution Means: Earphone 10 possesses an outer ear canal insertion member for which at least a portion can be inserted into the outer ear canal, housing 11 onto which the outer ear canal insertion member can be installed and removed, and driver unit 41 which is disposed within housing 11 and which generates sound, and driver unit 41 is maintained within the interior space of the support member by the rigid support member being installed within housing 11.
US09094751B2
The present invention provides a headphone apparatus and a headphone driving apparatus thereof The headphone driving apparatus includes a first and second driving circuits, a signal transmitting circuit, a first and second reference signal generators. The first driving circuit receives a first audio signal pair and generates a first driving signal. The second driving circuit receives a second audio signal pair and generates a second driving signal. The signal transmitting circuit transmits the first audio signal pairs or the reference signal to the first output end pair. The signal transmitting circuit decides to transmit the second audio signal pairs to the second output end pair or not according to the mode selecting signal. The second reference signal generator receives signals and generates the second reference signal. Wherein, the first and second reference signal generators are turned off according to the mode selecting signal.
US09094747B2
A weatherproof loudspeaker includes a rigid enclosure having two or more sides, an interface between the sides being sealed sealing an internal space from an environment external to the rigid enclosure, and a sound projecting region formed on at least one side of the rigid enclosure. The sound projecting region includes an active driver speaker rigidly connected with the rigid enclosure, the active driver speaker to project sound outward from the sound projecting region and to reflect sound waves within the rigid enclosure. The speaker includes a flexible inner surround that frames the active driver speaker, and a passive radiator at least partially around the active driver speaker and connected between the inner surround and a flexible outer surround. The outer surround is connected with the rigid enclosure.
US09094742B2
An event-drivable and programmable matrix that permits reconfigurable mixing of a first plurality of audio sources into a second audio outputs via digital control of analog-only signal paths is disclosed.
US09094740B2
An architecture is provided for a core network of a service provider. Intra-connect routers operate multiprotocol label switching under Internet protocol for packets. Network planes are coupled in parallel to the intra-connect routers to form the core network for the service provider. Each of the network planes is defined by a maximum optical load capacity of an optical switch.
US09094739B2
An IP switching system that includes a coder/decoder configured for converting voice between analog and digital; and a first switch coupled to the coder/decoder configured to isolate non-secure entities in a network and comprising a plurality of fiber optic ports; wherein two of the plurality of fiber optic ports are configured to pass classified and unclassified data to one of a classified IP network and an unclassified IP network; and wherein the first switch is configured to operate in a plurality of states including secure, non-secure, and configuration/cut-off. The IP switching system also includes at least one controller connected to the coder/decoder via the first switch such that the at least one controller is accessible to the coder/decoder only when the first switch is in the configuration/cut-off state; wherein the at least one controller is configured to store and retrieve sensitive coder/decoder parameters for operation of the coder/decoder.
US09094738B2
Systems and methods are operable to present summaries of a media content event. An exemplary embodiment receives a media content stream having at least one media content event, receives a summary feed stream having at least one media content event summary segment associated with the received at least one media content event, receives a user request for presentation of the media content event summary residing in the received at least one media content event summary segment, ends or pauses presentation of the media content event on a media presentation device, and presents the media content event summary of the media content event summary segment on the media presentation device.
US09094725B2
According to one embodiment, a receiver receives first data that enables recognition that a first program has been viewed in a first television set. And a transmitter transmits a message, using the first data, the message is addressed to a first device registered in association with the first television set and includes information relating to the first program.
US09094717B2
Systems and/or methods are disclosed herein to identify a user interacting with a content presentation system, adaptively learn, in a passive manner, a user's pattern of accessing content over time, and globally store the user's identifying and use information. Specifically, disclosed are systems and/or methods for creating a smart electronic programming guide, including determining an identity of a user interacting with a content presentation system, collecting channel use information for each of a plurality of channels from the user's interaction with the content presentation system, storing the channel use information, determining a value for each of the plural channels as a function of the channel use information, and creating a smart electronic programming guide for the plural channels as a function of the determined value.
US09094714B2
A system and method is disclosed for detecting locally-generated or other unknown graphics that are superimposed on a video program displayed on a television receiver or other like device. Devices external to a television receiver, such as a cable or satellite set-top box, can generate logos, electronic program guides, or other images that are then graphically overlaid on the television signal emanating from the device to the television's display. The system and method described herein provides a means to detect the presence of such on-screen graphics both to detect and identify graphical information and to also enable automated resolution of any interference among or between a plurality of video graphic sub-systems.
US09094713B2
Methods and apparatus for perform association of stored content downloaded over a network with a unique identification. In one embodiment, the content is stored locally, and the association is performed in a secure manner using network or source-specific information (e.g., the organization identification or “orgID” of the bearer network or MSO). This association is used to ensure that the content stored on the playback device can be accessed for viewing only when the playback device is connected to the same network from which the content was obtained. Use of the orgID allows the content association and protection functionality to be implemented in existing networks with only minor software changes.
US09094710B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for using location information to manage spillover in an audience monitoring system are disclosed. In an example method, a first location signal and a second location signal are received substantially simultaneously at a portable metering device. The first location signal is emitted via a first device located at a first location and includes a first signal characteristic associated with the first location. The second location signal is emitted via a second device located at a second location and includes a second signal characteristic associated with the second location. The first location signal or the second location signal is selected based on the first and second signal characteristics. Media monitoring information is generated based on the selected signal.
US09094703B2
At least one trickplay source file is generated from original media content. Trickplay view files for rendering particular trickplay view rates are then generated from the trickplay source file.
US09094702B2
Program code on mobile computing devices and a server computer receive information about mobile computing devices within a defined area. The program code selects an announcement, from a database based on the information received, having audio that is in a language determined as being utilized within the defined area, wherein the language is assigned a first highest ranking, and wherein the first highest ranking indicates that the language is spoken by a majority of persons within the defined area. The program code selects a transcription of the audio from the database, wherein the transcription is in a language determined as being utilized within the defined area, and wherein the language is assigned a second highest ranking. The program code instructs a television within the defined area to output the audio, and to output the transcription of the audio on a display screen of the television.
US09094697B2
A method of processing media data received at a receiver over a bitstream having a standardized format that supports descriptors includes receiving at the receiver an extension descriptor that specifies a descriptor tag having a value within a prescribed tag value range, a descriptor length having a value within a prescribed length value range, at least one extension descriptor tag value that identifies a descriptor, and extension descriptor data associated with the identified descriptor. Responsive to the extension descriptor tag value, the identified descriptor and the extension descriptor data associated with the identified descriptor are employed to process the media data at the receiver.
US09094695B2
Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for inserting personalized information into digital content. A digital media player receives a personalized video content stream comprising personalized data associated with a user that replaces one or more frames of requested video content. The player extracts the personalized data from the one or more replaced frames of the video content stream, and displays the personalized data and the video content stream to a user.
US09094681B1
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for selecting different coding parameters for different portions of a video frame or image to be transmitted or stored for later decoding. The coding parameters for a particular portion of a video frame or image are selected according to their distance from a selected point of interest, where the parameters can be selected to alter the tradeoff between transmission bandwidth and perceived image quality to preserve image quality in areas designated as high interest while saving transmission bandwidth for areas designated as having less interest. Also disclosed are associated systems, methods, and apparatuses for decoding such encoded video frames or images.
US09094679B2
A display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a polarizer disposed on a first side of the display panel, a phase retardation film disposed on the polarizer and glasses comprising a first eye glass portion and a second eye glass portion, wherein at least one of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and the phase retardation film includes a first phase retardation portion corresponding to the first sub-pixel and a second phase retardation portion corresponding to the second sub-pixel.
US09094664B2
Provided is an image processing device including a frame image generation unit for generating a frame image in which a first image and a second image are arranged next to each other, and a compression processing unit for compressing the frame image in units of macroblocks. The frame image generation unit arranges the first image and the second image such that a boundary between the first image and the second image coincides with boundaries of the macroblocks.
US09094662B2
An encoder and decoder to encode one or more input signals into a scalable codec and to decode the scalable codec, and encoding and decoding methods using a bitstream with a layered structure in the scalable codec change a top coding bit rate to encode the input signals according to a network status, and the bitstream is decoded by analyzing the top coding bit rate included in the bitstream.
US09094660B2
Methods for hierarchical hole-filling and depth adaptive hierarchical hole-filling and error correcting in 2D images, 3D images, and 3D wrapped images are provided. Hierarchical hole-filling can comprise reducing an image that contains holes, expanding the reduced image, and filling the holes in the image with data obtained from the expanded image. Depth adaptive hierarchical hole-filling can comprise preprocessing the depth map of a 3D wrapped image that contains holes, reducing the preprocessed image, expanding the reduced image, and filling the holes in the 3D wrapped image with data obtained from the expanded image. These methods are can efficiently reduce errors in images and produce 3D images from a 2D images and/or depth map information.
US09094659B2
To reduce burden of a viewer at the time of performing stereoscopic display by a stereoscopic display device and to show a stereoscopic image in a natural and comfortable manner.A disparity estimating unit 210 estimates disparity from the left and right images of an input image to generate a disparity map. A disparity analyzing unit 230 analyzes the disparity map to generate a disparity control parameter for performing suitable disparity control. A disparity control unit 240 controls the content of processing at an image conversion unit 250 in accordance with the disparity control parameter. The image conversion unit 250 performs image conversion on the input image based on the control by the disparity control unit 240 to output an output image. The image conversion unit 250 performs image conversion of two steps. The image conversion unit 250 performs shift processing for shifting the relative positions of the left and right images of the input image in the horizontal direction as first step image conversion, for example. The image conversion unit 250 performs scaling processing for performing enlargement/reduction of the entire screen with each center of the left and right images as a reference, as second step image conversion, for example.
US09094657B2
According to one embodiment, a stereoscopic image converting method includes: generating a first depth map comprising depth values of pixels of an input video, wherein the depth values are estimated based on an amount of a characteristic of the input video, and wherein the depth values are represented by pixel shading; generating a second depth map by correcting the depth values of pixels within a distance from each of right and left ends of the depth map to become closer to a depth value corresponding to a screen of a display not protruding forward or recede rearward in stereoscopic viewing as the pixels within the first distance are positioned closer to the each of the right and left ends of the depth map; and generating a multi-parallax image by shifting pixels of the input video by an amount horizontally based on the depth values of the second depth map.
US09094654B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed; a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers each indicating a specific photographing location at which the photographic image among a plurality of photographic images was captured, over the map image displayed at the display; and an instruction unit that issues an instruction indicating a display mode for the identifier.
US09094653B2
An electronic device includes: a communication unit that is engaged in communication with an external device; a control unit that adds image information into transmission data to be transmitted to the communication unit; and a decision-making unit that makes a decision in correspondence to information indicating a recipient of the transmission data as to whether or not to allow photographing location information included in the image information to be included in the transmission data.
US09094652B2
An exemplary method includes a digital video recording (“DVR”) data migration management system 1) receiving a request for a user account to migrate from being associated with a first DVR system to being associated with a second DVR system, 2) accessing a first DVR data set associated with the first DVR system and separate from data representative of a library of one or more media content assets stored by the first DVR system, 3) generating a second DVR data set based on the first DVR data set and in accordance with one or more attributes of the second DVR system, and 4) associating the second DVR data set with the second DVR system. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09094643B2
A method for performing color-to-color correction while printing multiple copies of a print job having one or more documents includes printing one or more copies of the print job and determining at least one color registration error for at least one type of color registration error produced during the printing of the one or more copies of the print job. A color plane correction value is then determined for each document in the print job and for each color plane error produced during the printing of the one or more copies of the print job. One or more subsequent copies of the print job is printed using the color plane correction values, where the color plane correction values used for each document are the correction values determined for that document. The color plane correction values can be updated periodically, at select times, or after each copy is printed.
US09094639B2
Provided is a broadcasting receiving apparatus and a control method thereof capable of receiving recommendation information, the control method of a broadcasting receiving apparatus receiving recommendation information about a broadcasting program; comparing a time of confirming the recommendation information and a broadcasting time of a recommended program included in the recommendation information; and supplying a function of the broadcasting receiving apparatus for using the recommendation information to correspond to a comparison result. Accordingly, a broadcasting receiving apparatus and a control method thereof capable of supplying a broadcasting service having an improved user convenience is provided.
US09094637B2
A server apparatus comprises an instruction transmitting unit that transmits an instruction to a user apparatus, the instruction instructing the user apparatus to send to the printer a print request for pull printing including authorized information used for an authorizing process at the time of receiving the print service. A printer comprises a receiving unit that receives the print request for pull printing including the authorized information sent from the user apparatus according to the instruction, and a request transmitting unit that transmits, in accordance with the received print request for pull printing including the authorized information, the authorized information and a document obtaining request to the server apparatus.
US09094628B2
By adding stabilization and super-sampling to a digital pixel readout integrated circuit (ROIC), line of sight motion, that is usually costly and difficult to control, instead becomes an ally, doubling the effective FPA resolution in some systems. The base repartitioned digital pixel architecture supplements analog signal accumulation with off-pixel digital accumulation, greatly increasing dynamic range. Adding address mapping and increasing the ratio of memory locations to pixels, enables stabilization and resolution enhancement. Additional stabilization at sub-frame intervals limits the effect of latency and simplifies complex address mapping. Pixels gains are compensated in-ROIC, without requiring multipliers. A unique partitioning of functions between the ROIC and subsequent logic allows pixel biases and non-isomorphic sampling effects to be compensated off-ROIC, reducing overall system complexity and power.
US09094622B2
An information processing apparatus receives a reception notification of FAX information from a FAX client that receives the FAX information from a FAX server that receives the FAX information via a network. The information processing apparatus monitors the FAX client, reads address information of the FAX server from a storage unit when the information processing apparatus determines from a monitoring result that the FAX client is not operated, and sends address information of the information processing apparatus and address information of the FAX client to the FAX server.
US09094612B2
A back side illuminated image sensor may be provided with an array of image sensor pixels. Each pixel may include a substrate having a front surface and a back surface. The pixels may have a charge storage region at the back surface and a charge readout node at the front surface of the substrate. The pixels may receive light at the back surface. Photo-generated charge may be accumulated at the charge storage region during a charge integration cycle. Upon completion of the charge integration cycle, a transfer gate formed at the front surface may be pulsed high to move the charge from the charge storage region to the charge readout node using a global shutter algorithm. The pixels may include two reset transistors that are coupled to column feedback amplifier circuitry for mitigating kTC-reset noise when the pixels are operated in a global shutter mode.
US09094610B2
An image capturing apparatus has either one of a first display mode for continuously displaying a captured image on an image display unit and a second display mode for not displaying the captured image on the image display unit and displays an image according to the detection result on the image display unit when the second display mode is set.
US09094605B2
A stabilized camera system has a roll frame formed as a parallelogram linkage and pivotably attached to a pan frame. A tilt frame is pivotably attached to the roll frame. Control circuits are provided to compensate for drift, to allow manual aiming of the camera during stabilized camera operation, and for providing rapid leveling. The stabilized camera system is compact with low moments of inertia to allow rapid movements.
US09094600B2
An apparatus and method such that when a signal intensity evaluation value is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, a signal intensity amplification factor of each color component is changed in accordance with the signal intensity evaluation value of the color component, and when the signal intensity evaluation value is less than the predetermined value, at least a signal intensity amplification factor of a color component, of which signal intensity evaluation value of the color component is the least, is set at a predetermined value not dependent upon the signal intensity evaluation value of the color component.
US09094599B2
A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. When the composition of a subject displayed on a display of the apparatus is changed during application of a first shutter-release signal, a current auto-focus (AF) region moves along with the subject and displayed on the display at the same time as the subject. The apparatus can further display an initial AF region on the display in a manner distinguishable from the current AF region. After the composition of the subject is changed, while the current AF region moving along with the subject is being displayed on the display, when the application of the first shutter-release signal is interrupted, an AF region is reset as the initial AF region. Also, an image file can be generated and stored after application of a second-shutter release signal which occurs after application of the first shutter-release signal.
US09094588B2
This invention provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that operates in connection with a machine vision detector or other machine vision system, which provides a highly intuitive and industrial machine-like appearance and layout. The GUI includes a centralized image frame window surrounded by panes having buttons and specific interface components that the user employs in each step of a machine vision system set up and run procedure. One pane allows the user to view and manipulate a recorded filmstrip of image thumbnails taken in a sequence, and provides the filmstrip with specialized highlighting (colors or patterns) that indicate useful information about the underlying images. The programming of logic is performed using a programming window that includes a ladder logic arrangement.
US09094581B2
An imaging device is provided that includes an imaging processor, a distance information detector, an outline-component maximum image detector, and a distance information correcting processor. The imaging processor captures a plurality of secondary images of the same object at different lens positions. The distance information detector detects distance information of the objects captured in each area of an image based on the sum of outline components in each of the areas in each of the secondary images. The outline-component maximum image detector calculates the sum of outline components for each of the secondary images and detects an image with the maximum sum. The distance information correcting processor replaces distance information of a target area, where the sum of outline components is less than a threshold value, with distance information of the image with the maximum sum.
US09094577B2
A digital broadcast receiver is provided. The digital broadcast receiver includes a broadcast reception unit which receives a digital broadcast signal; a signal separation unit which separates a main audio signal, an auxiliary audio signal, and an audio description descriptor from the received digital broadcast signal; an extraction unit which extracts auxiliary information from the audio description descriptor; a mixing unit which generates an audio signal by mixing the main audio signal and the auxiliary audio signal based on the auxiliary information; and an audio output unit which outputs the audio signal.
US09094573B2
A communication system includes a call management server; communication terminals; and a positional information server. The positional information server stores therein positional information and information leakage risk information of each communication terminal, updates the positional information and the information leakage risk information in accordance with a position of the communication terminal, and transmits the updated information together with corresponding communication terminal information to the call management server. The call management server updates the positional information and the information leakage risk information of a communication terminal when receiving the information from the positional information server, and transmits a list containing at least a terminal name, latest positional information, and latest information leakage risk information of each communication terminal capable of joining the communication to a communication terminal. The communication terminal displays the list in a different manner of the positional information in accordance with the information leakage risk information.
US09094572B2
A conferencing system includes an authentication module for establishing a communication session. The communication session includes a communication interface to a plurality of participants. The conferencing system further includes a selection module for letting a participant select a leader among the plurality of participants. The conferencing system further includes a duplication module configured to provide audio and visual views of the communication session to the participant based upon audio and visual views of the communication session associated with the leader. The conferencing system further includes a recording module for storing a history of actions made by the leader in the conferencing system and letting the participant view the history of actions made by the leader and reach a present state of audio and visual views of the communication session associated with the leader.
US09094570B2
A system for providing a two-way interactive 3D experience includes a first video capture system configured to capture a first set of images of a first person in a first location, and a first display system in the first location. A second video capture system is configured to capture a second set of images of a second person in a second location. A second display system is in the second location. A two-way communication link is configured to deliver the first set of images to the second display system for display and deliver the second set of images to the first display system for display. The second display system is configured to generate a substantially life-sized 3D display of the first person based on the first set of images.
US09094565B2
A system and method provide for an adaptive median filter with edge protection and four line buffers to remove the impulse noise for a Bayer pattern image. The system and method separates the Bayer pattern image data into different channels by color and applies the adaptive median filter to remove the impulse noise on each channel. The adaptive median filter has five threshold values that may be modified to achieve different light condition response based on the detected noise level of the image. Thus, proper threshold values with better brightness response to the input pixels may be applied and impulse noise may be suppressed effectively, while preserving image details.
US09094560B2
In a facsimile system including a gateway apparatus and a transmission-side facsimile apparatus capable of performing facsimile communication via the gateway apparatus, the transmission-side facsimile apparatus codes image data, and packetizes the coded image data so that one line is included in one packet, and transmits the packetized image data to the gateway apparatus. The gateway apparatus receives a packet transmitted from the transmission-side facsimile apparatus, inserts predetermined data into image data included in the received packet, and transmits the image data into which the predetermined data has been inserted, to a receiving-side facsimile apparatus.
US09094556B2
An image processing method includes scanning a document, separating a text region from the scanned document and detecting symbols included in the text region, calculating feature values of the detected symbols, selecting a representative value from the calculated feature values, and converting the symbols having the feature values other than the representative value into a preset color or form.
US09094553B2
A sheet conveyer includes: a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path comprising an inversion path, which is configured to convey the sheet from a lower side to an upper side and is defined by an inner circumference side and an outer circumference side; and a guide provided in a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the inversion path, the guide provided between the inner circumference side and the outer circumference side so that the guide is to be displaced toward the outer circumference side by contacting with a front end of the sheet that is conveyed from an upstream side in the conveyance direction.
US09094545B2
An image processing apparatus which is capable of performing scanning of an original, using a plurality of scan settings stored in an information processing apparatus, without necessitating a dedicated server or a complicated user operation before execution of the scanning. An image processing apparatus (MFP) receives and displays host PC names and scan setting names transmitted from host PCs on a display section. The MFP finalizes a host PC name selected by a user from the host PC names and one of scan setting names associated with the finalized host PC name, which is selected by the user. The MFP sends a scan execution instruction to the host PC to instruct the same to execute scanning using a scan setting associated with the finalized scan setting name.
US09094544B2
An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a print job generated based on a plurality of records, a determination unit configured to detect a boundary or boundaries of records based on a result of analysis obtained by the analysis unit and to determine a print page corresponding to each respective record, and a storage unit configured to store each record of the print job and a respective print page corresponding to each respective record while associating them with each other according to content determined by the determination unit. Related methods are also disclosed.
US09094540B2
Panoramic and spherical cameras often currently capture respective portions of a scene using a set of lenses that focus images on imagers for sampling by photosensitive elements. Because the images are often circular and imagers are often rectangular, the orientation of the lenses may be selected as a tradeoff between capturing capture the entire image while leaving unused portions of the imager, and maximizing imager coverage to increase resolution while creating cropped image portions that extend beyond the edges of the imager. The techniques presented herein involve displacing the image from the imager center in order to increase a first cropped area and reduce or eliminate a second cropped area. The lenses may also be oriented such that the first cropped area comprises a portion of the composite image that may be acceptable to omit from the composite image (e.g., the user's hand or a camera mounting apparatus).
US09094538B2
Disclosed is system comprising: a server platform operative to communicate with a wireless communication network; and data storage coupled to the server platform to store a plurality of business rules, wherein the server platform is operative to: generate a first provision instruction to provision a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) with a first rule set associated with a first set of business rules for wireless usage incurred by a mobile terminal operating in the wireless communication network; generate a first billing instruction based on the first set of business rules and a first data type determined by a packet gateway that inspects packet data communicated to or from the mobile terminal.
US09094521B2
An embodiment of the invention includes a method for detecting fraudulent use in a conference calling system. One or more time duration thresholds are received for a conference call. The conference call is monitored to determine an attendee duration, a participants duration, and/or a conference call duration. The attendee duration represents the call duration of an attendee of the conference call; the participants duration represents the total call duration of all of the attendees combined; and, the conference call duration represents the call duration of the conference call. The time duration thresholds are compared to the attendee duration, participants duration, and/or conference call duration. Actions are performed by a processor if the attendee duration, participants duration, and/or conference call duration exceeds the time duration thresholds.
US09094511B2
A mobile telephone obtains (or is supplied) advertising content from a remote server and locally stores that advertising content. The advertising content is then automatically shown in association with a running, in use (e.g. in foreground) application that generates a screen that an end-user interacts with (‘an end-user application’). The content is shown ‘automatically’ in the sense that the advertising content is displayed without the end-user explicitly requesting any specific item of content, (although he may opt-in to the general approach of having advertising content displayed on his mobile telephone). The telephone itself determines which adverts etc. it should display, depending on which application is currently being used (i.e. is currently displayed on screen).
US09094501B2
A system for collecting earpiece data from a mobile terminal comprising an earpiece includes an earpiece data module in the mobile terminal configured to obtain earpiece data based on usage of the earpiece. A mobile terminal memory is in the mobile terminal and is configured to store the earpiece data. A communications module is in the mobile terminal and is configured to connect the mobile terminal to a remote earpiece data collection module that is remote to the mobile terminal. The earpiece data module is further configured to determine if the earpiece data in the mobile terminal memory satisfies a threshold and to transmit the earpiece data to the remote earpiece data collection module by the communications module if the earpiece data satisfies the threshold.
US09094498B2
A water resistant structure includes a first member having a stepped portion at an opening thereof; a second member having a rib protruding from a back surface thereof; and a water-stop member having an elastically deformable water-stop portion at a tip of a second plate portion that extends upward from a first plate portion. The first plate portion is attached to a horizontal surface of the stepped portion by double-sided adhesive tape. The second plate portion faces a vertical surface of the stepped portion. The water-stop portion is spread along the vertical surface of the stepped portion. The rib is pressed into an inner side of the water-stop portion, and the water-stop portion is pushed against the vertical surface of the stepped portion and the rib.
US09094487B2
Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications via a telephonic apparatuses that support data communications. In one embodiment, a telephonic apparatus includes: a network interface to submit a query through a data communication network and to receive a listing with embedded information about the query; and a call module coupled to the network interface to establish a telephonic connection according to the listing and to identify a relation between the telephonic connection and the information about the query.
US09094485B1
A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for real time adjustment for better caller experience are provided. The method comprises obtaining caller experience of a call flow, notifying a service provider of the caller experience, receiving at least one corrective action from the service provider, and implementing the at least one corrective action for better caller experience.
US09094484B2
A method of providing QoS to a session from a client to a first network includes providing data packets from the client to be conveyed in a session from the client to a first network, inserting each of the data packets into an encapsulating packet, and transmitting the encapsulating packets through the second network to the first network, forming a tunnel through the second network. The method includes receiving the encapsulating packets at a terminating device in the first network. The terminating device removes the encapsulating headers to recover the data packets. The method includes determining an association between the packet headers of the data packets and the encapsulating headers, identifying data packets requiring QoS, and using the association to identify encapsulating packets corresponding data packets requiring Quality of Service. The method includes applying QoS to the encapsulating packets, corresponding to the session of data packets requiring the QoS, being conveyed through the tunnel.
US09094483B2
An apparatus and method are described for collecting and evaluating statistics for different network addresses and/or subnets when establishing network connections. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: receiving a set of potential network addresses for establishing a connection to a remote host; evaluating routing statistics associated with each of the potential network addresses; prioritizing the set of potential network addresses based on the evaluation; and initially attempting to connect to the remote host using the highest priority one or more network addresses.
US09094475B2
A method for storing a conversation upon a user's real-time request in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service is provided. The method includes storing a conversation in a message storage server on a network or stopping the storage of the conversation upon a user's request. A target that can be stored within a conversation includes a pager mode message, a large message, and media delivered through the session. In this manner, media in the conversation may be limited to media selected by a user.
US09094470B2
A web services-based communication system and technique uses an information server to facilitate the communication of process control data and analysis results between a plurality of web services coupled to a communication network. A graphical user interface coupled to the network enables users to store user profile information and configuration information in a database within the information server. The information server uses the configuration information and the profile information to control the operations of a scheduler and a router within the information server to enable users to selectively view process control information via the graphical user interface and to route process control information to appropriate ones of the web services.
US09094468B2
The present invention relates to communication technologies, and discloses a device capability invocation method, a widget device, and a server. The device capability invocation method includes: receiving a device capability invocation request sent by a widget, where the device capability invocation request carries conditions of a device capability that needs to be invoked; search a device capability database for the device capability compliant with the conditions; invoking the found device capability; receiving an invocation result that is returned after the found device capability is invoked; and sending the invocation result to the widget. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention enables a widget device to invoke device capabilities of all devices in the system.
US09094466B2
Example embodiments relate to maintaining caches of object location information in gateway computing devices using multicast messages. In example embodiments, upon updating a cache with an object identifier and a corresponding object location, a gateway computing device may transmit an update message using a simple multicast transport protocol to a plurality of other gateway computing devices. In contrast, upon deleting an object from a cache, the gateway computing device may transmit a delete message using a reliable multicast transport protocol to the plurality of other gateway computing devices.
US09094464B1
In various aspects, provided herein are systems, methods and computer-program products for delivering content objects over the Internet from a content delivery network to end-user systems. The systems, methods and products described herein optionally utilize one or more techniques for reducing the delay associated with obtaining non-cached content objects from their respective origin servers, including by re-using existing open connections, by making use of a TCP hand-off technique and by transmitting updates to system digests simultaneous with the exchange of keepalive signals between servers.
US09094460B2
A fast send method may be selectively implemented for certain data packets received from an application for transmission through a network interface. When the fast send method is triggered for a data packet, the application requesting transmission of the data packet may be provided a completion notice nearly immediately after the data packet is received. The fast send method may be used for data packets similar to previously-transmitted data packets for which the information in the data packet is already vetted. For example, a data packet with a similar source address, destination address, source port, destination port, application identifier, and/or activity identifier may have already been vetted. A socket table may be maintained listing previously-transmitted data packets and an instruction for handling additional data packets similar to the data packet entered in the socket table.
US09094457B2
A method for automated network deployment of cloud services into a network is suggested. The method includes receiving a certain cloud service with a certain resource protection template specifying an isolation policy for isolating zones in the network, receiving certain customer protection parameters specifying customer needs regarding protection in the network, providing security requirements by matching the received resource protection templates and the received customer protection parameters, and automatically deploying the certain cloud service into the network by using the provided security requirements.
US09094452B2
A system and method for locating phishing kits on the internet is disclosed herein. The system is configured to perform a method comprising storing phishing kit file names and file host names into a database, navigating to a search engine, searching the file hosts stored in the database for the phishing kit file names stored in the database, saving URLs where the phishing kit file names are located on the internet into the database, and displaying URLs where the phishing kit file names are located as results.
US09094448B2
A vulnerability identification and resolution (VIR) computer device for identifying security vulnerabilities in a computer system is provided. The VIR computer device includes a memory device for storing data including data representing computing assets installed in the computer system and a processor in communication with the memory device. The VIR computer device is programmed to receive an asset identifier identifying a computing asset selected for evaluation and execute a query on at least one database storing security vulnerabilities, the query searching for security vulnerability data associated with the selected computing asset. The VIR computer device is further programmed to receive the security vulnerability data at the VIR computer device in response to the query.
US09094440B1
Systems and methods to facilitate communication between users may use communication channels and/or communication sessions that are accessed through a network address, including but not limited to a universal resource locator (URL). Individual communication channels may regard a particular purpose. Individual communication sessions may regard a particular purpose. Each user taking part in an exchange of information may choose to remain anonymous. Each user taking part in an exchange of information may prevent being contacted and/or exchanging information through a particular communication channel at any moment of the user's choosing.
US09094434B2
A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server providing a user interface allowing a user to schedule and configure a network audit. The configured audit is stored in an audit repository until its scheduled time. At such a time, the compliance server automatically invokes one or more audit servers to gather information about the network. The compliance server receives the gathered information and electronically applies a network policy to the information for determining compliance with the policy. A remediation task may be generated if the policy has been violated, and the task monitored until its completion.
US09094424B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments for digital stream swapping between digital signal sources. A new event handler functionality enables swapping an existing digital stream to a next one if more than one digital stream is identified, enabling a user to easily and intuitively switch between the existing streams.
US09094416B2
A method of admitting a joining contribution-aware peer to a peer-to-peer network is described including receiving a plurality of system parameters at the joining peer, the plurality of system parameters further including a system resource index and determining an entitled incoming degree value for the joining peer, the determined entitled incoming degree reflecting a value of the system resource index. Also described is a bootstrap node for a contribution-aware peer-to-peer network including a processor device and a network interface device coupled to the processor device, the network interface device being adapted to be coupled to a communication network, the processor device being adapted to receive a request for potential parent peer identification information from the communication network through the network interface device and whereas the processor device is adapted to respond with a plurality of device identification values and a system parameter.
US09094415B2
A cloud capacity on demand manager manages capacity on demand for servers in a server cloud. The cloud capacity on demand manager may borrow capacity from one or more servers and lend the capacity borrowed from one server to a different server in the server cloud. When the server cloud is no longer intact, capacity borrowed from servers no longer in the server cloud is disabled, and servers no longer in the server cloud reclaim capacity that was lent to the server cloud.
US09094414B2
An electronic arrangement includes a computer device that provides a media profile entity configured to store and maintain at least one user-adjustable personal media profile for a user capable of accessing a network, and related sites, services and/or applications via a number of terminal devices, the personal media profile describing the user's interests preferably excluding identifiable information, the interests being represented on a number of levels including interest categories, and the interests are at least partially determined based on monitoring the user behavior relative to the network, and an authentication entity configured to associate a terminal utilized by the user with the media profile of the user based on profile-identifying data provided to/by the terminal.
US09094413B2
An application management agent running on a wireless communications device restricts access to device functionality (e.g., applications and device features) unless the application management agent has determined that a particular configuration profile has been installed on the device (after which the application management agent permits access to device functionality, and an operating system of the device enforces policy settings specified in the configuration profile). The application management agent confirms the presence of the configuration profile by initiating an SSL handshake with a client certificate request for a client SSL certificate embedded in the configuration profile. Validation against the embedded client SSL certificate implicitly confirms the presence of the configuration profile and validates the content of the configuration profile.
US09094411B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for resuming the evaluation of initial Filter Criteria (iFC) at a specific point. Two new parameters are defined for inclusion in the service logic of application servers and serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) servers. The first parameter, an iFC index parameter, is a number which indicates an index to a current specific position in the iFC evaluation. The S-CSCF may insert the iFC index parameter into route headers of SIP messages that originate from the S-CSCF to the application servers. The second parameter, an iFC resume parameter, is based on the iFC index parameter or another number along with an original dialog identifier, which the application servers may insert into route headers of SIP messages that originate from the application servers to the S-CSCF to indicate a desire to resume operations at the specific position in the iFC evaluation.
US09094401B2
A secure front-end interface for a PLC, RTU or similar device is disclosed. A first server is coupled to the PLC via a communications link and is configured to receive status information from the device and transmit the information to a second server via a one-way data link. The second server has a network interface for coupling to a network and receives the information from the first server via the one-way data link and outputs the information via the network interface based upon a user request. The front-end interface may further include a second one-way data link coupled from the second server to the first server to allow user command entry. The secure front-end interface may alternatively consist only of a single server coupled between the device and the network which requires a user to enter a password before obtaining access to the status information.
US09094397B2
According to various embodiments, a radio device may be provided. The radio device may include a configurable component, a configuration information transmitter configured to transmit information identifying the radio device and an identifier of a configuration of the configurable component to a regulation server; and a permission information receiver configured to receive from the regulation server information indicating as to whether the radio device is permitted to use the configuration of the configurable component or as to whether a pre-determined configuration of the configurable component is to be used by the radio device.
US09094385B2
Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for monitoring and using data in an electric power grid. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a sensor for measuring an electrical characteristic of a power line, electrical generator, or electrical device; a network interface; a processor; and one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions. In this embodiment, the computer-executable instructions include instructions for implementing an authorization and authentication module for validating a software agent received at the network interface; instructions for implementing one or more agent execution environments for executing agent code that is included with the software agent and that causes data from the sensor to be collected; and instructions for implementing an agent packaging and instantiation module for storing the collected data in a data container of the software agent and for transmitting the software agent, along with the stored data, to a next destination.
US09094376B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating communications based on a trusted relationships. A system configured to practice the method first receives a communication request from a second communication device for a specific resource, wherein the communication request is based, at least in part, on trust information generated by a previously established trusted relationship. The system confirms, via an access to a trust database and using the trust information, (1) an identity of a sender of the communication request and (2) access permissions for a requested resource. Then, if the identity and the access permissions are confirmed, the system establishes communications between the first communications device and the second communications device in response to the communication request according to the specific resource. The trust information can include a trust user ID and a trust key.
US09094374B2
The processing of a first data stream to generate a second stream conforming to a remote desktop protocol (RDP) is described. Operations may include facilitating storage of first data from the first stream at a first index indicated in the first stream, facilitating retrieval of second data from a second index included in the first stream, and facilitating generation of the second stream conforming to the RDP and including the first and second data. Additionally, the processing of a third data stream conforming to the RDP to stream a fourth stream is described. Operations include facilitating processing of the third stream to identify a package data unit (PDU), facilitating storing of a hash value corresponding to the PDU, and facilitating generating an altered PDU for inclusion in the fourth stream and including an index identifying a location in memory storing the hash value.
US09094370B2
The invention relates to a method and system for managing information stored and/or services configured in a mobile terminal from a remote terminal, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to connect to a mobile communications network and comprises a web server having an API defined for each piece of information and for each service provided by the mobile terminal, and wherein said remote terminal has access to a data network. It comprises: making, from an extension of a web browser of the remote terminal to the mobile terminal, an HTTP request for managing one piece of information stored or a service configured in the mobile terminal, wherein the HTTP request is in accordance with said API defined in the web server of the mobile terminal and comprises an identifier of said information or service which is to be managed; sending an HTTP response from the mobile terminal to the extension in accordance with said API defined in the web server of the mobile and showing in the remote terminal an interface comprised in said extension for managing said information stored or service configured in the mobile.
US09094367B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates optimizing content delivery on a network. During operation, the system receives an item of content at a first client. During the download of the content or after downloading the content, the first client receives a broadcast request for the content from a second client on the same local subnet. Upon receiving the broadcast request, the first client sends a broadcast response to the local subnet, wherein the broadcast response identifies a multicast address to which the first client will deliver the content. The first client then delivers the content to the multicast address so that the second client and any other interested clients on the local subnet can receive the content.
US09094345B2
An improved computer system may include a server carrying a computer processor in a Fiber Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) network. The system may also include a reservation system in communication with the server that utilizes enhanced transmission selection (ETS) to reserve bandwidth for a priority group by scheduling bandwidth for the priority group based upon a projected workload.
US09094344B2
In one embodiment, a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) asynchronous mode session is established between two packet switching devices interconnected by one or more physical links. Prior to L2 or L3 services being established, each of these packet switching devices does not know the Media Access Control (MAC) nor Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of each interface of the other packet switching device that is connected to one of these link(s). A request to establish a BFD session is sent from one packet switching device to the other, with a MAC frame including the request being addressed to a group, broadcast, or other address that the receiving packet switching device will recognize and thus process the received request. Based on information contained in this received MAC frame, the receiving packet switching device has the information it needs, and sends a BFD control frame to the other packet switching device.
US09094342B2
An approach is provided for creating a single mobile virtual router (MVR) to share pooled resources. A mobile virtual router is formed to utilize resources of multiple routers of a network, wherein the routers include one or more physical routers, one or more virtual routers, one or more other mobile virtual routers, or a combination thereof. The resources of the single mobile virtual router are dynamically partitioned in response to an operational criterion of the network.
US09094335B2
In one embodiment, a packet switching device assigns a same particular packet switching label to each particular route of a plurality of particular routes having the same one or more best paths, wherein the plurality of particular routes includes routes from at least two different forwarding groups. A forwarding group is defined as a specific route, one or more routes associated with a same customer edge router, or one or more routes associated with a single virtual routing and forwarding domain (VRF). The packet switching device advertises to other packet switching device(s) to add this same particular label to packets having one of the plurality of particular routes, which they do. The packet switching device then packet switches packets based on the particular label received in a label field in a header of these packets.
US09094334B2
A solution for virtual router redundancy for server virtualization includes, at a network device configured as a backup router of a virtual router, examining a packet stored in a memory of the network device. Responsive to the examining, the network device determines whether to forward the packet via a network towards a destination or to send the packet via the network to a master router of the virtual router for forwarding of the packet, by the master router, towards the destination.
US09094333B1
A network device is provided. The network device includes a port complex having a plurality of ports configured to operate at different operating speeds for sending and receiving information complying with different protocols. The network device further includes a processor complex having a plurality of processors for processing information complying with different protocols and received by the plurality of ports; and a message queuing system (MQS) for managing messages for the plurality of processors regarding the received information complying with different protocols. Each processor can process information complying with any of the different protocols.
US09094330B2
An example of a data transport system includes transport nodes of a transport network, communication devices which communicate via the transport network, and a transport network logical path management server for setting logical paths between the transport nodes within the transport network, and a logical path control server. In a case where a first communication device is newly connected with a first transport node, the first communication device transmits control data to a logical path control server via the first transport node. The logical path control server obtains information about a connection relation between the newly connected first communication device and the first transport node from the control data, and establishes a logical path between the first communication device and a second communication device based on the obtained information about the connection relation and on information about logical paths between transport nodes in a logical path database.
US09094327B2
Network switching and/or routing devices can use multiple priority data streams and queues to support prioritized serial transmission of data from line cards (or the like) through a fabric switch to other line cards (or the like). Preemption logic is used to insert within a data stream commands indicating a switch from one priority level data to another. Delimiter commands and combination switch/delimiter commands can also be used. Multiple crossbars are implemented in the fabric switch to support the various data stream priority levels.
US09094325B2
Described herein are devices and techniques for detecting an inbound message (e.g., text, voice, voicemail) directed from an identifiable message sender to one of a collection of message recipients (e.g., by telephone numbers). The message is selectively forwarded to the message recipient's communication devices in response to a reputation score of the identifiable message sender. The devices and techniques described herein are further adapted to automatically determine or otherwise update the reputation score of the identifiable message sender, for example, in response to previously detected incoming messages. User preferences can be provided to override one or more of forwarding and blocking of detected messages regardless of any automatically obtained reputation score.
US09094322B2
A first party cookie system and method are provided, The system and method allow a third party to be able to drop a cookie on a computer in a privacy-compliant fashion thereby increasing the acceptance rate of cookies on computing devices.
US09094319B2
The invention provides a CDeX system of equipment lists and a method thereof, the method includes following steps: scanning electronic devices in the first LAN conformable to the UPnP protocol by the first OTT-box to thereby establish a first equipment list; when the first router is capable of communicate with a second LAN through a wireless network tunnel, delivering the first equipment list to the first router by the first OTT-box; accessing a second identifier of the second router by the first OTT-box; delivering the first equipment list to the second router in the second LAN by the first router according to the second identifier; and delivering a second equipment list provided by the second OTT-box to the first router by the second router, in which the second equipment list is corresponding to electronic devices in the second LAN conformable to the UPnP protocol.
US09094316B2
A dynamic name of a device within a network may be generated by accessing information related to the device; accessing information related to a remote, neighbor device; generating a dynamic name of the device based on the accessed information related to the device and the accessed information related to the remote, neighbor device; and storing the generated dynamic name of the device. Alternatively, a topology map of devices within a network may be generated where a central controller may access, from memory, a dynamic name of controlled devices, the dynamic name of the controlled devices including information related to remote, neighbor devices of the controlled devices. The topology map may include dynamic names of the controlled devices.
US09094313B2
A device may receive a request, from a client, to obtain throughput statistics for Ethernet frames transmitted under a given set of constraints; send a request to collect data about the Ethernet frames to a network element; receive the collected data from the network element in response to the request; determine Ethernet frame statistics based on the collected data; and forward the collected data, the Ethernet frame statistics, and predetermined Ethernet frame information to the client.
US09094312B2
A communication device includes a controller configured to control the communication device to determine whether to permit measurement of a transmission channel bandwidth which is a usable bandwidth in a transmission channel to and from another communication device via a network, based on whether the other communication device satisfies a specified condition, in response to receiving an establishment request that requests establishment of a session from the other communication device, measure the transmission channel bandwidth to and from the other communication device, in response to determining that the measurement of the transmission channel bandwidth is permitted, and communicate with the other communication device using the measured transmission channel bandwidth, in response to measuring the transmission channel bandwidth and receiving a permit command that is a command to permit the establishment of the session with the other communication device.
US09094311B2
A method performed by a network system communicatively coupled to a device over a wireless access network, the method comprising transmitting a traffic flow to, or receiving the traffic flow from, a software application on the device, the traffic flow comprising one or more related data transfers over the wireless access network, the traffic flow being routed between the software application and the network system through an assisting element comprising a control application or a proxy agent on the device, wherein the traffic flow has a characteristic associating the traffic flow with the first software application, the characteristic preserving the association between the traffic flow and the software application when the traffic flow is routed by the one or more assisting elements; identifying the characteristic; and implementing at least a portion of a control, accounting, or notification service policy based on the identified characteristic.
US09094307B1
Presented herein are techniques to measure latency associated with packets that are processed within a network device. A packet is received at a component of a network device comprising one or more components. A timestamp representing a time of arrival of the packet at a first point in the network device is associated with the packet. The timestamp is generated with respect to a clock of the network device. A latency value for the packet is computed based on at least one of the timestamp and current time of arrival at a second point in the network device. One or more latency statistics are updated based on the latency value.
US09094304B2
Systems and methods reconfigure data transmitted on a network, the network using a communication protocol. The systems and methods include a processor that is operable to receive data from a second device on the network; a memory medium; and a data configurator operable to dynamically reconfigure the data from the second device, with the data from the second device being in the form of a network item defined by the second device. The data configurator is operable to pass the reconfigured data to the processor and/or the memory medium in the form of a device item that is native to the device. A data design tool generates a map configuration to define a unique relationship between the network item and the device item. The map configuration includes a network representation portion for data in the network item and a device representation portion for data in the data item.
US09094299B1
A network device is described that parses configuration data of the network device in accordance with a schema, for candidate configuration parameters. The device outputs a parameter identifier of each candidate configuration parameter, and in response, receives an indication of a selection of the candidate configuration parameters and corresponding labels. Both the selected parameters and the labels conform to a platform-independent interface for a remote procedure call for provisioning a service on any one of a plurality of different devices within a network. The device generates a device-specific configuration script for modifying the configuration data of the device in accordance with the schema of the device. The device-specific configuration script can receive, via the platform-independent interface for the remote procedure call, parameterized information associated with the selected parameters and update the configuration data based on the parameterized information.
US09094295B2
The communication device, which is connectable by straight or crossover wiring to another communication device, comprises a transmission port configured to send signals to the other communication device, a reception port configured to receive signals, a communication controller including an automatic transmission and reception switching component that determines whether or not the wiring is correct and automatically switches the transmission and reception of signals by the transmission port and the reception port 1, and a wiring state notification component. The controller (i) actuates the automatic transmission and reception switching component when communication with the other communication device has not been established in a state in which the automatic transmission and reception switching component is not actuated, and (ii) through the wiring state notification component, outputs information that there is an error in the wiring when communication with the other communication device has been established as a result of (i).
US09094290B2
Methods and test systems for reporting transmit bandwidth contention. A histogram representing transmit bandwidth demand for a network device may be built, the histogram including a plurality of bins representing for a plurality of contiguous time intervals of equal duration including a current time bin and plural future time bins. The histogram may be displayed and periodically updated.
US09094279B2
A communication apparatus includes a detecting unit, a process performing unit, and a range setting unit. The detecting unit detects a boundary pattern periodically appearing between codes in a binary coded signal transmitted through a transmission line. The boundary pattern is information showing a boundary appearing between codes. The process performing unit performs a process in synchronization with timing of appearance of the boundary pattern. The range setting unit sets an allowance range which is set include timing at which it is estimated that the next boundary pattern appears. The timing is counted from the timing currently detected by the detecting unit. The detecting unit includes a section which detects the timing of appearance of the boundary pattern during the allowance range.
US09094275B1
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for interference cancellation (IC) are provided. One method includes detecting, by a receiver, a synchronization signal with most power in correlation peak and obtaining the network identity and a location of a corresponding synchronization signal in a received signal. The method may further include extracting a corresponding portion of the received signal that corresponds to the location of the interfering synchronization signal, passing the portion of the received signal through fast fourier transform (FFT) and multiplying result with corresponding frequency-domain conjugated reference synchronization signal to produce channel estimate H, passing the channel estimate H through inverse fast fourier transform (IFFT) to produce channel estimate h, truncating h to a length x, obtaining an estimate of the interfering signal by filtering the time-domain reference synchronization signal by the truncated h, and performing interference cancellation by subtracting the estimated interfering signal from a received signal at said location.
US09094273B2
To improve a quality of a combined signal obtained by maximum ratio combining performed when a transmission signal of OFDM system is diversity-received with a small computation amount or a small circuit size. In a receiving apparatus, a combining unit corrects, when combining a sub-carrier signal of each branch obtained by performing Fourier transform on a reception signal of each branch at a maximum ratio for each sub-carrier, a weighting coefficient of each branch according to a magnitude relation of an intensity of the reception signal of each branch before Fourier transform. Specifically, the combining unit corrects the weighting coefficient of each branch so as to weaken an influence of a transmission path response estimated for a sub-carrier signal of the branch in branches with smaller reception signal intensities.
US09094272B2
A method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a signal in a frequency band using non-uniform sampling includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) (110) for sampling an analog input signal (105) to create discrete signal samples (115), an ADC exciter (120) for exciting the ADC to sample at non-uniform time periods, a digital filter (130) for converting the discrete signal samples into an energy versus frequency spectrum (300), and an energy comparator (140) coupled to an output of the digital filter. The energy comparator (140) detects the presence of any frequency bands exceeding an energy setpoint.
US09094267B2
A method of transmitting a multi-carrier signal by a transmitter uses at least two transmit antennas to at least one receiver using at least one receive antenna. At least one estimate of at least one transmission downlink channel is obtained. A transmission stage performs at least one iteration of the following steps, for at least one downlink channel: transmitting payload data over the downlink channel, while taking account of the downlink channel estimate; and updating the downlink channel estimate, while taking account of acknowledgment information transmitted by the receiver associated with the downlink channel and acknowledging reception of the payload data.
US09094258B2
Optimizing a set of graphical display elements on a client device. A first set of graphical display elements may be transmitted from a first server to a client device. A second set of graphical display elements may be generated on a second server. The second set of graphical display elements may be transmitted from the second server to the client device. A third set of graphical display elements may be created in a first window including the first set of graphical display elements and the second set of graphical display elements.
US09094256B1
The present invention allows a network policy server or other centralized entity to provide arbitration for selecting media capabilities to use in a communication session between communication clients. In operation, the network policy server will directly or indirectly receive a first message in association with an attempt to establish a communication session from a first communication client. The first message will include the available media capabilities of the first communication client. The network policy server will apply appropriate policies for the first communication client, the network in general, or a combination thereof to select one or more of the first media capabilities to determine a second set of media capabilities, which are provided in response to the first message. This reduced set of media capabilities will ultimately be used to establish the communication session with the first communication client.
US09094252B2
A method and an apparatus for feedback transmission in a wireless communication system are provided. A terminal receives information about a short-term feedback period and a long-term feedback period from a base station, and then transmits to the base station short-term feedback information per short-term feedback period or long-term feedback information per long-term feedback period over a primary fast feedback channel (PFBSCH). The long-term feedback information contains an index of a subband subjected to channel measurement and a difference in measurement values that is a difference between a reference channel measurement value and a channel measurement value being measured.
US09094251B2
Provided is a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication method and system that may exchange information associated with a coordinated rank for a neighbor cell. In a MIMO communication system, a target terminal may feed back the information associated with the coordinated rank to a serving base station, and the serving base station may exchange the information associated with the coordinated rank with the neighbor base station. The serving base station may perform precoding based on the exchanged information associated with the coordinated rank.
US09094250B2
A method of channel cancellation for a cellular communication device comprises receiving a signal comprising desired symbols and interfering symbols; regenerating a symbol sequence of interfering symbols expected to be received; determining, prior to any complete decoding of the interfering symbols by the cellular communication device, whether received interfering symbols agree with the regenerated interfering symbols, and then if the received interfering symbols are determined to agree with regenerated interfering symbols, subtracting the regenerated symbol sequence from the received signal to form an adapted signal, or if the received interfering symbols are determined not to agree with regenerated interfering symbols, omitting at least the regenerated interfering symbols not agreeing with the received interfering symbols from the subtracting of the regenerated symbol sequence from the received signal when forming the adapted signal; and then decoding the desired symbols from the adapted signal.
US09094249B2
An apparatus comprises a plurality of delay elements connected in series. Each delay element is configured to delay a respective input signal and to output a respective delayed signal. The apparatus also comprises a weight generator configured to generate a plurality of tap weights based on the delayed signals. The apparatus further comprises a tap controller configured to (1) generate tap weight enabling signals corresponding to one or more of the tap weights based on a determination that the corresponding tap weights are greater than a predetermined threshold value, and (2) generate a set of bias factors. The apparatus additionally comprises a summer configured to output a weighted signal based on the delayed signals, the tap weight enabling signals, the tap weights, and the bias factors.
US09094246B1
A circuit may include a splitter, a controller, and a termination. The splitter may generate, based upon input signals, a plurality of output signals, wherein at least one of the input signals is in more than one different modes at different times and the output signals comprise a first set of the output signals generated based upon comparison of pairs of signals of the first set against each other and a second set of the output signals generated based upon comparison of each signal of the second set to a predetermined threshold voltage. The controller may determine, based upon the second set of the output signals, whether the input signals are in the one of the more than one different modes to generate one or more control signals. The termination may connect loads to each of the input lines, based upon the one or more control signals.
US09094244B2
A receiver circuit includes a first differential amplification unit including a variable load section, and configured to receive first and second input signals, and to generate first and second output signals, which are amplified based on an impedance value of the variable load section and a voltage difference between the first and second input signals, a second differential amplification unit configured to receive the first and second output signals and to generate a third output signal based on a voltage difference between the first and second output signals, and a signal generating unit configured to generate an equalization signal for controlling the variable load section based on the third output signal.
US09094238B2
A signaling system includes a pre-emphasizing transmitter and an equalizing receiver coupled to one another via a high-speed signal path. The receiver measures the quality of data conveyed from the transmitter. A controller uses this information and other information to adaptively establish appropriate transmit pre-emphasis and receive equalization settings, e.g. to select the lowest power setting for which the signaling system provides some minimum communication bandwidth without exceeding a desired bit-error rate.
US09094235B2
An information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes systems and methods for providing link bandwidth conservation between a local area network and a TRILL campus network. Such an information handling system includes a plurality of processing modules provided by a computer processor where the plurality of processing modules including a selective packet filter and a control plane unit and memory in communication with the plurality of processing modules. The memory stores a VLAN port bitmap and a snooping table. The information handling system also has a plurality of ports, which includes at least one Ethernet port for connecting the information handling device to a LAN and a plurality of bridging ports for connecting the information handling device to a plurality of routing bridges.
US09094234B2
Systems and methods for carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols for power line communications (PLC) are described. In some embodiments, a method may include performing a virtual carrier sensing operation and, in response to the virtual carrier sensing operation indicating that a communication channel is idle, calculating a contention window. The method may also include performing a physical carrier sensing operation subsequent to the virtual carrier sensing operation, the physical carrier sensing operation based, at least in part, upon the contention window. In response to the physical carrier sensing operation indicating that the communication channel is idle, the method may then include transmitting data over the channel. In other embodiments, another method may include determining that a data transmission is a unicast transmission and that an acknowledgement message has not been received. The method may further include incrementing a backoff parameter and repeating one or more carrier sense operations.
US09094233B2
In a communication system, nodes are coupled to a transmission path in a bus topology. The nodes communicate with each other via the transmission path using communication signals that have a communication frequency and are synchronized with a power supply signal. Each of the nodes includes a coupling portion that transmits and receives the communication signal and the power supply signal using electromagnetic induction in non-contact with the transmission path. Each of the nodes determines whether a collision of the communication signals occurs on the transmission path based on a voltage level of a signal that has the communication frequency and is induced at the coupling portion.
US09094231B2
The router is used to relay a packet to be transmitted from one node to another in an integrated circuit that has distributed buses according to a packet exchange method. The router includes: a plurality of buffers, each of which configured to store packets with information indicating their transmission node; a classifying section configured to classify the buffers that store the packets into a number of groups according to the transmission nodes of the packets; a selecting section configured to select at least one of the buffers of each group; and an output port configured to sequentially output the packets that are stored in the selected buffer.
US09094230B1
Systems, methods and computer program products facilitate communication on a network by transmitting a communication on the network from a first node to a second node, the communication including a first segment and a second segment. The first segment consists essentially of a destination port and a data length of the communication, and the second segment includes a payload and at least one of a connection ID, a sequence number, and an opcode. A responsive communication is then received from the second node, the responsive communication acknowledging receipt of the communication transmitted from the first node.
US09094226B2
A demarcation point unit connected between a home network backbone and an external network. The demarcation point unit includes a blocking filter and splitter. The blocking filter receives a home network signal from the home network backbone and an external signal from the external network. The blocking filter separates the home network signal from the external signal, and returns the home network signal back to the home network backbone. The splitter has an input and at least two outputs. The input of the splitter receives the home network signal from the blocking filter.
US09094212B2
A client is authenticated by a server receiving an initial request from the client at the beginning of a session. The server receiving the initial request generates an authentication token and returns the authentication token to the client in response to the client being authenticated. The user's credentials used to authenticate the client are stored in the authentication token along with other information. After receiving the authentication token from the server that generated the authentication token, the client passes the authentication token with each of the future requests to the pool of servers. Using the client to pass the transferrable authentication token, the servers share the user's identity/credentials in a decentralized manner. Any server from the shared pool of servers that receives a subsequent client request is able to decrypt the token and re-authenticate the user without having to prompt the client for authentication credentials again.
US09094211B2
The present application relates to systems and methods using biometric data of an individual for identifying the individual and/or verifying the identity of an individual. These systems and methods are useful for, amongst many applications, more secure identification of high-risk individuals attempting to gain access to an entity, transport, information, location, security organization, law enforcement organization, transaction, services, authorized status, and/or funds.
US09094209B2
A system and method for generating a limited use login credential associated with an account maintained by an institution, where the credential facilitates secure access to the account.
US09094191B2
A method operational on a receiver device for exchanging and/or generating security keys is provided. A first encrypted master key Km is received at the receiver device from a transmitter device, the first encrypted master key Km secured by a receiver public key Kpub-rx. The first encrypted master key Km may be decrypted with a receiver private key Kpri-rx to obtain the master key Km. The master key Km may be encrypted using a block cipher that applies a receiver secret key Kh to obtain a second encrypted master key.
US09094186B2
A method and system for the transmission of digital data (210) over existing analog radio frequencies (230) is presented, wherein the digital data may include audio data, visual data or audio-visual data for presentation either with analog broadcast data or at a selectable time. The digital data may be transmitted over a plurality of sub-channels that have varying degrees or reliability (250). A “quality-of-service” process manages the transmission of digital data over various sub-channels based on the reliability of the sub-channel, the amount of digital data and the type of digital data to be transmitted. The digital data may further be encrypted and authenticated.
US09094184B2
A phase locked loop circuit (30, 100, 110) includes a controllable oscillator (42) for generating an output signal of desired frequency responsive to a control signal, a first phase detection circuit (32, 102, 112) for generating an output indicative of phase differential responsive to the output signal and a first edge of a reference signal and a second phase detection circuit (34, 104, 114) for generating an output indicative of phase differential responsive to the output signal and a second edge of a reference signal. The control signal to the controllable oscillator (42) is driven by the outputs of the first and second phase detections circuits.
US09094183B2
A receiving circuit includes a clock input portion configured to buffer a first pattern signal and configured to retard the buffered first pattern signal by a first delay time to generate an input clock signal, a data input portion configured to buffer a second pattern signal and configured to retard the buffered second pattern signal by a second delay time to generate an input data signal, and a comparator configured to compare a phase of the input clock signal with a phase of the input data signal to generate a comparison signal for adjusting the second delay time.
US09094180B2
A user equipment obtains channel state information for base stations serving the user equipment according to a coordinated multi-point transmission, arranges the channel state information in a predetermined order, and transmits the channel state information in the predetermined order. At least one base station of the base stations receives the channel state information, arranges the channel state information in the predetermined order into a datagram, and transmits the datagram to at least one other base station of the base stations.
US09094176B2
This disclosure details example methods and apparatuses for a wireless communication network and for devices operating in such networks that reduce or eliminate the need for performing random access procedures to obtain appropriate Timing Advance, “TA”, values for use with new TA groups that include cells split from an existing TA group and/or new cells not in any existing TA groups defined for a given device. It is advantageously recognized herein that a TA relationship between one or more cells in an old or existing TA group of a device and one or more cells in a new TA group of the device may be known or otherwise estimated, e.g., based on known delay differences, cell sizes, etc. The TA relationship is used to initialize the TA value used for the new group, e.g., by copying or offsetting the current TA value of the old or existing TA group.
US09094173B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate recovering from error due to false detection of completion signals at an access terminal. An access terminal specific request signal can be sent to a target base station to initiate handoff or semi-connected state exit. A completion signal can be transferred in response to the access terminal specific request signal. To mitigate errors stemming from false detection of the completion signal at the access terminal, forward link and reverse link confirmation signals can be transferred to confirm successful handoff or connected state re-entry completion. For example, the access terminal can determine handoff or re-entry to be successful when a forward link confirmation signal is detected prior to expiration of a timer. Moreover, the forward link and reverse link confirmation signals can each include more CRC bits as compared to a number of CRC bits included in the completion signal.
US09094170B2
A method for processing downlink control information in a mobile terminal capable of receiving multiple component carriers. The mobile terminal receives on a component carrier, downlink control information that includes a bit field allocated for a transmit power control (TPC) command. If the bit field comprises one or more bits that are not used for the TPC command, the mobile terminal interprets the meaning of the bits not used for the TPC command based on an ACK/NACK feedback mode with which the mobile terminal is configured.
US09094167B2
A base station can communicate with a plurality of subscriber stations in a Multi-User (MU) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The base station includes a transmitter and plurality of antenna configured to transmit control information. The base station can transmit a resource block to a first subscriber station. The resource block includes at least two downlink reference signal (DRS) patterns. The base station can assign a first DRS pattern for use by the first subscriber station. The base station informs the subscriber station regarding the assignment by reserving a state in a downlink grant. In response, the subscriber station can utilize the first DRS pattern as a pilot resource element and, optionally, avoid other DRS patterns.
US09094163B2
Methods and systems for improving the quality of transmitted data are described. Multiple distinct communication channels are used to transmit segments representing the same pre-transmission block of a data packet. Upon receipt of these segments, a system identifies differences between the segments for those segments that meet a quality threshold. The system selects one of segments for subsequent transmission or re-assembly into a data packet based on the prior performance of the communication channels used to transmit the segments.
US09094155B2
A disclosed transmission apparatus includes a multiplexing portion that multiplexes a common pilot channel, a shared control channel, and a shared data channel; a symbol generation portion that performs an inverse Fourier transformation on the multiplexed signal so as to generate a symbol; and a transmission portion that transmits the generated symbol. The multiplexing portion multiplexes the shared control channel including control information necessary for demodulation of the shared data channel including a payload and the common pilot channel to be used by plural users in a frequency direction, and the shared data channel in a time direction with respect to the common pilot channel and the shared control channel. Even when the number of symbols composing a transmission time interval (TTI) is reduced, transmission efficiency of channels excluding the common pilot channel can be maintained by reducing insertion intervals of the common pilot channel accordingly.
US09094150B2
In a telecommunications network including an optical line terminal (OLT) having optical subscriber units (OSUs) and an optical network unit (ONU) connected to the OLT, bandwidth allocation signals are periodically transmitted at a first period from the respective OSUs to the ONU, and an acknowledgement request signal is transmitted from at least one of the OSUs to the ONU at a second period having a value corresponding to the first period multiplied by a constant. If an ONU is registered in none of the OSUs, the first period is determined from reception intervals of the assignment signals, and a second period is calculated from the first period. Transmissive wavelength of a variable-wavelength (VW) filter in the ONU is periodically changed at a third period longer than the second period. In the OSU having transmitted the request signal, the unregistered ONU having received the request signal is registered.
US09094149B1
An arrangement is provided for transporting information from a central information distribution center (CIDC) to locations where such information is intended. Upon receiving a request for narrowcast information to be delivered to a node associated with a head end, the CIDC selects the requested information, generates an optical signal encoded with the requested information using information channels dedicated to narrowcast information transport for the node, and sends the optical signal to the head end via an optical fiber. When the head end receives the optical signal, the narrowcast information transport channels dedicated to the node are translated into subcarriers acceptable to the node before the requested narrowcast information is forwarded to the node.
US09094148B2
An optical amplifier that uses software-defined optical networking (SDON) technology, with a centralized controller and flexible physical hardware (the adaptive amplifier here) to optimize the power distribution among different WDM channels in the amplifier. It considers the detailed information for each channel through the information from centralized controller. It is suitable for both single line rate and mixed line rate system, and is suitable for a wavelength division multiplexing WDM system with the same signal type or different signal types.
US09094146B2
Timing parameters and an identity of a particular one of a number of cell groups are indicated in a signal transmitted in a cellular communication system having a radio frame in a physical layer, the radio frame comprising a number of time slots. In a known one of the time slots, a synchronization signal, S1, is transmitted that comprises a pair of sequences, Si%,Sj% (Si%≠Sj% arranged in a first ordering. In another known one of the time slots, a synchronization signal, S2 is transmitted that comprises the pair of sequences, Si%,Sj% arranged in a second ordering. The selected pair of sequences is uniquely identified with the particular cell group, and the first ordering of the sequences is used only for transmission in the known one of the time slots, and the second ordering of the sequences is used only for transmission in said another known one of the time slots.
US09094144B2
A method and apparatus are provided for generating a code book for use in a CDMA system. The code book comprises of a plurality of vectors that are used to encode user data. An amplitude and polarity for each vector in the code book are selected to provide a reduced peak-to-average power ratio. The amplitude values can be selected to provide a reduced peak-to-average power ratio while maintaining a desired average energy per chip. The desired energy per chip can be based on the energy per chip of a CDMA system having a lower order spreading factor. Performance can be further improved by employing a first code book under a first signal-to-noise ratio condition and a second code book under a second signal-to-noise ratio condition.
US09094142B2
A method 10 of providing a path delay asymmetry for time synchronization between a master clock at a first client node and a slave clock at a second client node across a server communications network. The method comprises: mapping a first time protocol signal (TPS) carrying master clock time protocol data onto a first transmission signal, determining a forward mapping delay, dmf, and providing dmf to a path delay asymmetry calculation element 12; mapping a second TPS carrying slave clock time protocol data onto a second transmission signal, determining a reverse mapping delay, dmr, and providing the dmr to the patch delay asymmetry calculation element 14; applying FEC to the first transmission signal, determining a forward FEC delay, dfecf, and providing the dfecf to the path delay asymmetry calculation element 16; applying FEC to the second transmission signal, determining a reverse FEC delay, dfecr, and providing dfecr to the path delay asymmetry calculation element 18; calculating a path delay asymmetry in dependence on dmf, dmr, dfecf and dfecr 20; and providing the path delay asymmetry to a time protocol client at the second client node 22.
US09094139B2
A method and apparatus are provided for blending analog and digital portions of a composite digital audio broadcast signal by using look ahead metrics computed from previously received audio frames to guide the blending process and prevent unnecessary blending back and forth between analog and digital if the look ahead metrics indicate that future digital signal quality is degraded or impaired.
US09094137B1
A computer implemented method includes creating an event gallery associated with an event using messages received from devices located within a geo-location fence. The messages are scanned to identify a specific brand in a message. An endorsement of the message is received from an owner of the specific brand. In response to the endorsement, the placement of the message is prioritized in the event gallery. The event gallery is supplied in response to a request from a user.
US09094135B2
A high density, low power, high performance information system, method and apparatus are described in which a laser source (213) on a first die (210) generates a source light beam of unmodulated monochromatic coherent light (281) for distribution via optical beam routing structures (e.g., 214/214a, 224/224a, 234/234a) to a plurality of receiving die (220, 230), each of which includes its own modulator (e.g., 223, 233) for optically receiving at least a portion of the source light beam (281a, 281b) from the first die and generating therefrom an output source light beam of modulated monochromatic coherent light (291, 292) which is encoded at said modulator in response to electrical signal information.
US09094129B2
A transmitter module includes a processor configured to receive input data, and determine input values corresponding to the input data; a digital-to-analog converter configured to receive the input values from the processor, and generate first and second voltage signals based on the input values; a laser configured to output light; a Mach-Zehnder modulator configured to receive the light from the laser and the first and second voltage signals from the digital-to-analog converter, and modulate the light based on the first and second voltage signals to generate a modulated optical signal that includes distortion; and a filter configured to receive the modulated optical signal from the modulator, process the modulated optical signal to reduce or eliminate the distortion and produce an output optical signal, and output the output optical signal.
