US09134083B2
According to the invention, a handgun has an electronic device with a timer. The timer defines a period of time. If the period of time has expired, the mechanical device for triggering the cartridge is mechanically blocked.
US09134077B2
An exemplary heat sink assembly includes a heat sink, a connecting member, and a mounting member. A mounting hole and a receiving hole are defined in the heat sink and communicating with each other. The connecting member is adapted for fixing the heat sink. The connecting member includes a connecting section and an extending section extending from the connecting section. The mounting member fixes the connecting member to the heat sink. The connecting section is received in the receiving hole of the heat sink, the extending section is protruding from the heat sink, and the mounting member extends through the mounting hole and engaging with the connecting section to fix the connecting member to the heat sink.
US09134072B2
The present disclosure includes geometry of a two-fluid heat exchanger to provide higher energy efficiency than conventional heat exchangers. The geometry is based upon sequential branching of nearly circular passages in sets, followed by some deformation and twisting of the sequential branches that intermingle flow passages of one fluid with flow passages of another fluid. The flow passages gradually vary in dimension from larger branching at fluid entrance and exit to smaller branching in the middle section of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is substantially symmetric, with the sequential branching in the first half being mirrored as serial regrouping in the second half. The present disclosure also provides stacking methods and layered manufacturing methods for fabricating the three-dimensional geometry of the heat exchanger.
US09134069B2
In a device for transmitting a torque to a rotary kiln (13), including a drive shaft driven by a motor and having a drive pinion driving a gear rim connected to the rotary kiln, the drive pinion (5) drives the gear rim (12) via an interposed transmission (6), wherein a gear wheel (7) of the transmission (6) engages with the drive pinion (5) in a manner displaceable in the axial direction.
US09134064B2
A system and method of use of same for cooling process vessels, particularly those having reactor beds inside such as hydrotreaters, hydrocrackers, and catalytic reformers as part of processing units, during unit turnarounds. While the process vessel is in normal operation or in a preliminary cool down phase, quench gas flow is routed through a bypass flow path while a recirculating gas cooling system is installed in the primary flow path, requiring no unit downtime. During a turnaround, the process vessel temperature is lowered to a desired temperature, permitting entry and replacement of catalyst inventory, using the existing hydrogen recirculating (recycle gas) compressor to circulate a recirculating gas stream through the recirculating gas cooling system, the process vessel, and back through the compressor and recirculating gas cooling system. The cooling system removes heat from the circulating flowstream, thus lowering the process vessel temperature, faster than cold nitrogen injection methods.
US09134056B2
An air-cooled absorption refrigerating system and method is provided An evaporated refrigerant is mixed with a weak refrigerant stream Portions of the evaporated refrigerant are absorbed into the weak refrigerant stream via air-cooled absorber means to form a reconstituted solution which is pumped into heater means in heat exchange relationship with a hot weak refrigerant. The hot weak refrigerant stream is conducted therefrom Refrigerant is evaporated from the reconstituted solution via generator means in heat exchange relationship with a heat transfer fluid The generator means stream is separated into a hot weak refrigerant stream and a main refrigerant vapor stream The main refrigerant vapor stream is condensed via air-cooled condenser means The pressure of a condensed refrigerant vapor stream is reduced and conducted into evaporator means, where it is evaporated to form an evaporated refrigerant stream and conducted therefrom.
US09134053B2
A vapor cycle refrigeration system includes a thermoelectric device (TED) as a sub-cooler to sub-cool liquid refrigerant exiting a condenser to increase cooling capacity of an evaporator and pull down temperature within a refrigerated compartment quickly. The TED sub-cooler is turned off after initial temperature pull down and is not operated during steady state operation for maintenance of the compartment temperature.
US09134052B2
A magnetic heat exchange unit includes a magnetocaloric material, and at least one fluid pathway. The fluid pathway is formed in the magnetocaloric material and has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A main fluid flowing direction is defined between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, and the cross-section of the fluid pathway varies along the main fluid flowing direction.
US09134049B2
An energy recovery apparatus for use in a refrigeration system, comprises an intake port, a nozzle, a turbine and a discharge port. The intake port is adapted to be in fluid communication with a condenser of a refrigeration system. The nozzle is configured to expand refrigerant discharged from the condenser and increase velocity of the refrigerant as it passes through the nozzle. The turbine is positioned relative to the nozzle and configured to be driven by refrigerant discharged from the nozzle. The discharge port is downstream of the turbine and is configured to be in fluid communication with an evaporator of the refrigeration system.
US09134019B2
An LED light fixture is provided and includes a housing with a circular main body portion with a rear wall. A plurality of fins integrally extends from an outer surface of the rear wall of the main body portion. A spindle with an internal bore integrally extends from the outer surface of the rear wall of the main body portion wherein the spindle is positioned among the fins. A light engine assembly is positioned within the main body portion and includes a plurality of LED light modules mounted to a printed circuit board. Each module comprises a LED and a lens extending from the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board resides against an inner surface of the rear wall. An external enclosure configured to enclose power management components is connected to a rear portion of the housing proximate the fins. The enclosure includes a housing wall arrangement and leads that extend through both an opening in the housing wall and the internal bore of the spindle, past the rear wall of the main body portion and to the printed circuit board.
US09134018B2
A backlight module for a liquid crystal display and a method for manufacturing a heat dissipation part of the backlight module. The method includes the steps of: preparing a hollow pipe (20), wherein the hollow pipe (20) has a hollow structure, the section of the hollow pipe (20) in a transverse direction is a “” shape, and the hollow pipe (20) comprises a first bearing part (211), a second bearing part (212), a first vertical part (221) and a second vertical part (222); and cutting the hollow pipe (20), wherein the first vertical part and the second vertical part are respectively cut in a vertical direction to cut the hollow pipe into two heat dissipation parts, a heat dissipation part is formed by the first bearing part (211) and the first vertical part (221), and the other dissipation part is formed by the second bearing part (212) and the second vertical part (222). According to the method, the production cost can be reduced and the product can be thinned and lightened.
US09134016B2
The present invention relates to a luminaire having a base assembly and a lighting assembly. The luminaire further includes an adjustment arm having a first portion pivotally connecting to a first one of the assemblies. The adjustment arm has a second portion pivotally connecting to and being moveable relative to a second one of the assemblies along a defined path. The adjustment arm has an elongate opening positioned between the first and second portions. The luminaire includes an adjustment member adjustably connected to and selectively moveable from a first position adjacent to the first one of the assemblies to a second position spaced-apart from the first one of the assemblies. The adjustment member operatively connects to and engages with the adjustment arm via the elongate opening of the adjustment arm.
US09134014B2
A downlight that can be easily installed into and dismounted from a ceiling is provided. The housing of the downlight includes an adjustable spring clipping device. Utilization of the adjustable spring clipping device saves a user from having to spend much effort on installation or dismounting of the downlight, and allows installation and dismounting of the downlight to be easily and conveniently performed.
US09134013B2
An elongate tube formed from a composite material comprising a polymer and a photoluminescent material has a cylindrical wall that defines an arc of between about 180 degrees and 360 degrees or greater. An elongate opening is defined in the wall along the length of the tube. The wall of the tube is flexible which permits the opening to be manually enlarged to enable the tube to be mounted over an electric light source. The wall is configured to approximate the outer dimensions of the light source which retains the tube on the light source. The photoluminescent material in the tube wall is energized by the light source and emits sufficient light for a period of time if the electricity to the light source is temporarily interrupted.
US09134010B2
A light source apparatus includes a primary light source that emits primary light, a diffusing member that diffuses and converts the primary light into diffused light, a reflection portion that regularly reflects or diffuse-reflects and converts the diffused light into reflected light, and an emission portion that emits the reflected light to an outside. A portion of the primary light is converted in an order of the diffused light and the reflected light and emitted to the outside from the emission portion in a state of the reflected light.
US09133994B2
Lighting systems for remote placement and powering of a lighting device. The lighting systems include a lighting device for placement on a wall or ceiling and an external power supply selectively attachable to and detachable from the lighting device. The lighting device includes a power receiving structure that receives power from the external power supply and delivers electrical power to a rechargeable battery and/or light source. The external power supply includes a corresponding power delivery structure that delivers power to the power receiving structure of the lighting device. The power receiving and delivery structures may constitute an inductive power transfer system composed of one or more batteries or capacitors, a DC-to-AC inverter, electromagnetic power transfer and receiving coils, and an AC-to-DC convertor or rectifier. Alternatively, the power receiving and delivering structures may constitute direct electrical contacts.
US09133991B2
The present invention relates to a cylindrical flashlight and a ring element for use as a roll-away safeguard of a cylindrical flashlight. In order to prevent a cylindrical flashlight from rolling away, the invention proposes a cylindrical flashlight having a ring element that is connected to the flashlight and has radially protruding elevations which have surface sections that are arranged at a distance from the surface of the cylindrical flashlight in some areas in the assembled state. Also proposed is a ring element for use as a roll-away safeguard of a cylindrical flashlight, which can be detachably connected to the flashlight and has radially protruding elevations which have surface sections that are arranged at a distance from the cylindrical surface of the flashlight in the assembled state.
US09133990B2
An LED array includes three or more strings of bare LEDs mounted in close proximity to each other on a substrate. The strings of LEDs emit light of one or more wavelengths of blue, indigo and/or violet light, with peak wavelengths that are less than 490 nm. Luminescent materials deposited on each of the LED chips in the array emit light of different wavelength ranges that are of longer wavelengths than and in response to light emissions from the LED chips. A control circuit applies currents to the strings of LEDs, causing the LEDs in the strings to emit light, which causes the luminescent materials to emit light. A user interface enables users to control the currents applied by the control circuit to the strings of LEDs to achieve a Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) value and hue that are desired by users, with CIE chromaticity coordinates that lie on, or near to the black body radiation curve. Preferably a transparent material is dispensed on the substrate between the LED semiconductor chips to substantially surround the LED semiconductor chips. Thereafter at least one layer containing luminescent materials is applied on the LED semiconductor chips and the transparent material.
US09133980B2
In an example embodiment, a system of lifting, lowering and rotating a display may include a housing, a rotator, and a hoist. The rotator may be configured to selectively rotate the housing such that a display functionally coupled to the housing is rotated. The rotator may include an anchor and a rotating portion. The anchor may be configured to be attached to an elevated surface. The rotating portion may be configured to be functionally coupled to the housing, and configured to rotate relative to the anchor. The hoist may include a member and a hoist motor. The hoist motor may be configured to selectively rotate the member such that a cable functionally coupled to the member is wound about the member when the member is rotated in a first direction, and the cable is unwound from the member when the member is rotated in a second direction.
US09133978B2
A mountable attachment apparatus and method includes an attachment shaft where the attachment shaft is at least partially tapered. A combination headless drive shaft-hang shaft is connected with the attachment shaft. The headless drive shaft-hang shaft includes a hang shaft connected to the attachment shaft and the hang shaft includes a mounting element in the hang shaft. The combination headless drive shaft-hang shaft also includes a drive shaft connected to the hang shaft and the drive shaft includes a drive element in the drive shaft. In combination the attachment shaft and the combination headless drive shaft-hang shaft form a single, rigid, undivided, straight shaft. Further, a stability plate is connected transversely between, and extending outwardly from, the attachment shaft and the hang shaft where the stability plate includes a first side facing the attachment shaft and a second side.
US09133977B2
A supporting mechanism is disclosed in the present invention. The supporting mechanism includes a base, a supporter, a latch and an actuating component. A hole and an accommodating structure are formed on a bottom of the base, and an opening of the accommodating structure faces outward of the base. The supporter is movably disposed inside the accommodating structure. The supporter includes a contacting pillar, which pierces through the hole and stretches into the base. The latch is slidably disposed inside the base. The latch includes a pushing portion for pressing the contacting pillar, so as to move the supporter out of the accommodating structure. The actuating component is pivotably disposed by a side of the base. The actuating component includes a handle and an actuating portion. The actuating portion can rotate toward an inner of the base for pushing the latch when the handle rotates outwardly.
US09133976B2
A variable height trolley and a height displaying assembly thereof, and the height displaying assembly includes a height indicator unit, a spool and an connecting unit. The height displaying assembly obtains a height of platform from a serial mechanical action between the connecting unit and the platform. The height displaying assembly uses mechanical approach to instantly show the height of the platform.
US09133961B2
An anti-freezing valve (1) comprises: a valve body (2) made of metal material (M), defining a passageway (5) for a liquid; an open/close member (9), mounted displaceable in the valve body (2), an anti-freezing arrangement. The valve body (2) is a valve body obtained by casting, which defines a valve seat (8), with respect to which the open/close member (9) is displaceable in a slidable manner between a raised position of opening and a lowered position of closing of the passageway (5).Embedded in the metal material (M) constituting the valve body (2) is an axially extended hollow member (13), belonging to the anti-freezing arrangement, for the passage of a thermovector fluid (F), the hollow member (13) having respective ends (14) accessible from outside the valve body (2), for connection to a circuit of the thermovector fluid (F).The valve (1) has preferred application on vehicles for the transport of liquids, in particular tankers, gully emptiers and similar vehicles for transporting waste water and sewage.
US09133960B2
A valve assembly comprises: a valve body including a passageway through which a first gas can be transmitted through the valve assembly; a valve flow control element movable relative to the valve body between an opened position wherein flow through the passageway is at a maximum flow, and a closed position wherein flow through the passageway is at a minimum flow, the valve flow control element is shaped so that a control gap is provided between the valve body and valve flow control element through which the first gas can flow, and the dimensions of the control gap vary depending on the position of the valve flow control element relative to the valve body; and a gas injector arrangement for selectively injecting a second gas into the control gap when the valve assembly is used to control the flow of the first gas through the passageway. The injection of the second gas when the valve flow control element is at or near its closed position helps minimize condensate being deposited on the valve flow control element, as well as reduce the closed conductance of the valve.
US09133957B2
A magnet valve configured to control a fluid includes an armature with a base region, a casing region, and a head region. The magnet valve also includes a valve element that is connected to the armature and an armature housing component. A flow path is formed between the armature and the armature housing component. The flow path runs from a lower armature chamber to an upper armature chamber and back to the lower armature chamber. The head region of the armature has a flattened section, and the upper armature chamber is defined between the armature housing component and the flattened section. At least one groove is formed on the casing region of the armature starting from the base region. The at least one groove ends in the casing region before the flattened section of the head region.
US09133956B2
An electromagnetic valve device includes an armature body; a coil housing; a static, hollow cylindrical armature guide tube; and at least one electromagnetic coil interacting with the armature body and accommodated in the coil housing; the armature body being guided in the static, hollow cylindrical armature guide tube and can abut against a head part, which closes off the armature guide tube at the head side, of the armature guide tube extending through a central passage opening of the housing and through a central opening in a yoke disk at the base side as to the coil and at least partially engaging under the yoke disk by a radially outwardly projecting annular base part, in which, for axial support of the head part, the head part is at least partially engaged over by a coil housing support part that makes contact with the head part in a contact region.
US09133955B2
A flow control proportional valve comprises a valve body and a valve core disposed below the valve body, a valve cover plate is disposed at an upper end of the valve core, the bottom of the valve cover plate is connected to an upper end of a connection rod, a coil rack fixedly mounted at a lower end of the connection rod is wound by an enameled wire which is connected to a power supply unit, a magnetic core and a magnetic ring are disposed under the coil rack, the magnetic ring surrounds the magnetic core, a gap is kept between the magnetic ring and the magnetic core to form a magnetic field, the coil rack is sleeved on the magnetic core and is disposed in the gap.
US09133954B2
An electromagnetic linear valve includes a housing including a core closing an opening at one end portion of the body portion, and a separation portion separating an interior into a first liquid chamber located in a core side and a second liquid chamber; a plunger disposed in the first liquid chamber so as to move along the axis in a state in which one end thereof faces to the core and the other end can sit on a hole; an elastic member applying a force to move the plunger away from the core; and a coil generating magnetic field to move the plunger toward the core. A recess is formed in a section of an inner circumferential portion of the body portion which intersects with an end face of the core in the first direction.
US09133951B2
An orifice changeable pressure type flow rate control apparatus comprises a valve body of a control valve for a pressure type flow rate control apparatus installed between an inlet side fitting block provided with a coupling part of a fluid supply pipe and an outlet side fitting block provided with a coupling part of a fluid takeout pipe; a fluid inlet side of the valve body and the inlet side fitting block, and a fluid outlet side of the valve body and the outlet side fitting block are detachably and hermitically connected respectively so a flow passage for gases through the control valve is formed; and, a gasket type orifice for a pressure type flow rate control apparatus is removably inserted between a gasket type orifice insertion hole provided on the outlet side of the valve body and a gasket type orifice insertion hole of the outlet side fitting block.
US09133948B2
A water flow controlling device for a faucet includes a controlling mechanism having a housing and a casing disposed on a bottom wall and having compartment and chamber communicating with each other, a valve seat formed in the casing, a check valve device engaged in the casing for engaging with the valve seat and for controlling the water to flow out of the casing, a receptacle includes a chamber for engaging with the housing and the casing and the bottom wall of the controlling mechanism, and an actuator tube is attached to the receptacle and includes a protrusion for disengaging the check valve device from the valve seat of the casing when the receptacle is engaged onto the casing.
US09133947B2
Disclosed therein is an excess flow shut off device which is operated under the same conditions by integrally modulating an opening and closing member, a support member for supporting the opening and a blocking member for blocking a passage by the opening and closing member. The excess flow shut off device is easy in quality management and allows an easy manufacture of uniform products operating under the same conditions because a support member, a spring, an opening and closing member, a joining member, and a cylindrical member are integrally joined together and modulated.
US09133946B2
A slam-shut device includes an inlet, an outlet, a valve seat, and defines a flow path. A valve disc is shiftable between an open position and a closed position, and reset pin responsive to an actuator is coupled to the valve disc and shifts between an untripped position and a tripped position. A cylindrical cage is mounted within the valve body and is disposed in the flow path, and includes a plurality of flow apertures slidably receives the valve disc. The cage includes a first end adjacent the valve seat and a second end away from the valve seat, and the cage forms a cylindrical recess disposed adjacent the second end of the cage and spaced from the flow apertures.
US09133942B2
A valve structure for a fluid pressure device. A valve element for constituting a pressure reducing valve is provided with a first housing which is interconnected with a stem, a second housing which is provided on the outer peripheral side of the first housing, and packing which is provided between the first housing and the second housing. The packing is mounted and sandwiched between a tapered section of the first housing and an outer wall section of the second housing, and thereby the packing is affixed. A first tube section of the first housing is inserted into a second tube section of the second housing, and the first housing and the second housing are affixed integrally to each other by, for example, welding or adhesion.
US09133936B2
A seal retainer device for fixing the position of at least one sealing device, comprising at least one contact surface for fixing the position of a seal in the radial and/or axial direction, a first functional surface for linking to a component, and at least one second functional surface to form an axial or radial bearing sliding surface. In addition, the invention relates to a power transmission unit having a seal retainer that holds seals for sealing off two pressure chambers.
US09133935B2
An elastomer sealing gasket (10) having a length (L) along a contour (C) and a cross section (S) of width (I) and of height (H) considered in a transverse plane (T) perpendicular to said length (L), wherein the cross section (S) has a geometry that is continuously varying along the length (L) of the gasket.
US09133931B2
A ball stud has a flange that outwardly projects in a radial direction of a stud portion. The flange has a concave portion that has a curved shape from a root to an outer circumferential portion in cross section. The concave portion is concave with respect to a straight line connecting an end on the root side and an end on the outer circumferential portion side of the curved shape. A dust cover has a lip to be abutted on a sealing portion and the flange of the ball stud. The lip is formed with a side lip portion. The side lip portion has a shape corresponding to the curved shape of the concave portion of the flange so as to be abutted on the concave portion.
US09133927B2
A method for controlling lubrication of a gear unit, where the lubrication method of the gear unit is changed between circulating lubrication and splash lubrication during operation of the gear unit, wherein the temperature of the lubrication fluid is measured, and the change between circulation lubrication and splash lubrication is based on the measured temperature of the lubrication fluid. The invention also relates to such a gear unit.
US09133903B2
A vibration damping device has a first support member and a second support member. A first component and a second component are disposed between the first support member and the second support member to define a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber. A channel extends between the first and second chambers. During compression and extension of the vibration damping device, fluid transfers between the first and second chamber to provide a damping force for the vibration damping device. The fluid within the chambers of the vibration damping device has a fluid density in the range of 1.25 g/cm3 to 2.2 g/cm3, a fluid viscosity below 10 cSt @ 20° C. and a fluid surface tension below 40 dynes @ 20° C.
US09133897B2
A freewheel, which has an inner ring, an outer ring that can be rotated relative to the inner ring in at least one rotational direction and which is disposed radially around the inner ring, a plurality of rolling bodies, which are disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and at least one rolling body suspension for suspending the rolling bodies in the direction of the inner ring. The rolling body suspension has a spring which overall has a circular shape and is adapted such that the rolling bodies are loaded radially inward in the radial direction of the freewheel. In a plane that is formed by the longitudinal direction and the radial direction of the freewheel, the spring has a substantially rectangular profile.
US09133888B2
A counter track joint includes an outer joint part with first and second outer ball tracks, an inner joint part with first and second inner ball tracks. The first outer and inner ball tracks, together, form first pairs of tracks, which, when the joint is in an aligned position, widen towards the aperture end of the outer joint part and each accommodate first torque transmitting balls. The second outer and inner ball tracks, together, form second pairs of tracks which, when the joint is in the aligned position, widen towards the attaching end of the outer joint part and which each accommodate second torque transmitting balls. The centers of the balls of the first pairs of tracks each define a first track center line. The first track center line, in the direction from the central joint plane towards the attaching end extends radially inside a first reference arc.
US09133886B2
A constant-velocity universal joint includes an outer joint member; an inner joint member arranged in an inside of the outer joint member; and torque transmitting members. At least one of the outer joint member and the inner joint member comprises track grooves that are engaged with rolling surfaces of the torque transmitting members. At least one of the components of the constant-velocity universal joint is formed of a metal sintered compact. The metal sintered compact has a relative density of 80% or more and less than 100%. The metal sintered compact comprises a hardened layer formed on a surface thereof through heat treatment. Among the components each formed of the metal sintered compact, a component having a ring shape is subjected to a cold rolling process.
US09133882B2
Sealing unit adapted to be coupled to a rolling-element bearing to seal off the annular space between an inner ring and an outer ring of the bearing, the sealing unit having a stiffening core, and an elastomeric annular element that is rigidly secured to the stiffening core and provided with a sealing lip and a root portion, which is positioned radially on the opposite side of the sealing lip, and which can be snap-fitted into a groove of the outer ring in order to abut the root portion on a front wall of the groove with the core facing toward the outside of bearing.
US09133880B2
A lubricating member is composed of a lubricant reservoir plate of a porous compact and a lubricant-containing member of fibrous material. The lubricating member is packed in an empty space in the end cap to make sure of maintenance-free operation for lubrication over a prolonged period of time. The lubricant reservoir plate is stowed in a recess formed on an outward end surface of the end cap major body and the lubricant-containing member is placed in the space lying deeper than the recess. A packing plate is placed between the lubricant reservoir plate and the lubricant-containing member with making close engagement with an edge defining the recess on the end cap to cover entirely a whole area of the lubricant reservoir plate to seal the lubricant impregnated in the lubricant reservoir plate inside the end cap.
US09133879B2
An effective contact length in race surfaces formed on grooved races cut in an outer ring and an inner ring is made as greater as permitted to improve the load-carrying capacity, and correspondingly guide parts born against axially opposite ends of a roller are made as less as possible in width to reduce frictional contact resistance applied to the axially opposite ends of the roller, thereby preventing a skew of the roller. An inside circular surface on the outer ring is staggered or different in level on opposite sides of a outside grooved race to make greater the race surface than an effective contact length of circular rolling surfaces of the rollers and correspondingly less the guide part in width than the race surface.
US09133869B2
The invention relates to a shielding device with a shielding element and at least one fastening eyelet for fastening the shielding device to a counterpart fastening piece and for receiving a fastening element. The fastening eyelet is movably supported in a fastening opening of the shielding device. The fastening eyelet is supported by a resiliently embodied coupling device so that the fastening eyelet is resiliently supported relative to the shielding element in an axial direction and is movable in the fastening opening relative to the shielding element in at least one radial direction when acted on with friction force. To produce friction force, radially outer regions of the coupling device cooperate in a resiliently prestressed fashion with sliding zones of opposing outsides of the shielding element.
US09133864B2
A small, flexible fluidic actuator is presented which may be of millimeter scale in size and made of suitable flexible materials such as silicone. A manufacturing method and two analytical models for the device along with experimental test results are also disclosed. The flexible fluidic actuator devices disclosed include multidirectional fluidic actuator joints providing independently controllable multi-directional actuation movement. The dynamic behavior of the joints for various pressure loads was also characterized and described herein.
US09133863B2
Optimized hydraulic control device for minimizing locking of a brake system in a two-wheeled vehicle
The present invention relates to a hydraulic control device for an antilock brake system, which is capable of maintaining a certain amount of braking performance even in the event of a disturbance or repeated use, by enabling the restriction of the displacement of a control bolt to a certain range. Therefore, through the present invention, braking ability is not lost under any circumstances, and accidents caused by a loss of braking function due to the malfunctioning of a hydraulic control device for an antilock brake system can be averted.
US09133828B2
A method for determining a mass change at a rotating blade of a wind turbine is provided. The method includes measuring a vibration quantity representative of a vibration of the wind turbine, measuring an azimuthal quantity representative of a rotation angle of the blade, determining a frequency quantity representative of a vibration frequency of the blade from the vibration quantity and the azimuthal quantity, and determining the mass change at the blade based on the frequency quantity.
US09133822B2
The present application is directed to a horizontally-laid tangential rooftop wind power generator comprising: a generator mounted on a chassis and coupled to a tangential fan wheel or a plurality of tangential fan wheels, all housed in a cover with two long fan openings one at each of the two sides. Wind-directing panels extend outwardly from the two fan openings to form two shrouded duct openings.
US09133817B2
A method of manufacturing a longitudinally extending composite structure including a shell part comprising a fiber reinforced polymer material including a polymer matrix and fiber material embedded in the polymer material is described. The shell part is manufactured in a closed mold comprising at least a first outer mold part having a first forming surface and a second outer mold part having a second forming surface. The method comprises the steps of: arranging a first fiber material in the first forming surface of the first outer mold part, arranging a pre-fabricated longitudinally extending reinforcement element, such as a beam or a web, on top of the first fiber material, arranging a second fiber material in the second forming surface of the second outer mold part, and sealing a polymer foil above the second fiber material so as to retain the second fiber material against the second forming surface.
US09133814B2
Flexible pipe liner harvests energy from pressure fluctuations of a fluid in a pipe and converts it to electricity to power local sensors or other equipment. Pipe may be a pipeline for carrying water, sewage, or oil; or may be an open-ended segment suspended in a body of water. Pipe liner also serves to reinforce or repair a pipeline and is constructed of conventional materials.
US09133808B2
Apparatus and methods for injecting gaseous fuel into a compression ignition engine are disclosed. A gaseous fuel injector includes a pintle valve and an intensifier. The pintle valve includes a pintle body defining a pintle bore therethrough, a first sealing surface disposed on a distal end of the pintle body, and a pintle disposed within the pintle bore. The pintle includes a shaft, a radially flared portion, and a second sealing surface disposed on a proximal face of the radially flared portion, such that the first sealing surface faces the second sealing surface. The intensifier includes an intensifier body defining a fuel pump chamber therein, the fuel pump chamber being fluidly coupled to a gaseous fuel supply and the pintle bore, a plunger having a distal end disposed in the fuel pump chamber, and an intensifier piston disposed on a proximal end of the plunger.
US09133807B2
A flow control system for a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine is provided and includes an inlet port, an outlet, a return port, a 2-way control valve including a control valve member, a shuttle valve and a main valve. The control valve includes a first seat, a first resilient arrangement configured to force the control valve member towards the seat so as to close the control valve, and a first abutment that limits the lift of the control valve member away from the first seat. The first seat of the control valve is slidably arranged in the shuttle control chamber. An end stop for the first seat is provided such that the pressure in a shuttle control chamber tends to move the first seat towards the end stop. The first seat, upon its mechanical contact with a valve member is able to transmit at least a part of the force of the resilient means onto a shuttle valve body in the opening direction of the shuttle valve.
US09133806B2
A passive hydraulically actuated non-electric shutdown pressure relief valve relieves pressure in the high pressure volume of a low static leak common rail fuel system after shutdown. When the common rail fuel system is in operation, a transfer pump provides medium pressure to hold the shutdown pressure relief valve closed. At shutdown, the residual medium pressure downstream from the transfer pump decays back to tank, and the residual high pressure trapped in the common rail and fuel injectors pushes open the shutdown pressure relief valve to release the high pressure after back to tank.
US09133803B2
The fuel injector provides an oncoming flow out of spray-discharge orifices in a manner that reduces variance in the spray and flow-through characteristics variables. The fuel injector includes at least one excitable actuator and a valve element that is movable along a longitudinal valve axis, which collaborates in a sealing manner with a valve seat. Upstream of the valve seat, circumferentially a plurality of flow-through regions are provided, between which there are guidance regions for the valve element. The spray-discharge orifices downstream from the valve seats, whose number differs from the number of the flow-through regions, discharge the fuel finely atomized. At least two flow-through regions differ in size, such as circumferential width and/or radial depth, and/or contour. The fuel injector directly injects fuel into a combustion chamber of an engine using compression of a fuel/air mixture and spark ignition.
US09133802B2
A device for sealing one or more orifices on a vessel for pressurizing fluid is provided. The device includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface includes one or more substantially semi-spherical protrusions corresponding to the orifices. The protrusions are configured to contact with edges of the orifices and seal the orifices.
US09133799B2
An injector comprises a cylindrical body portion, a holding ring capable of centering an axial center of the injector, and a small-diameter cylindrical portion. There are provided an assembly forming step of forming a fuel rail assembly by inserting the injectors into respective cup portions via spring members for reaction force absorption, a press inserting step of pressing and inserting respective tip-side portions of the injectors by pressing pressure-receiving portions such that the respective spring members are compressed up to a middle compressive state thereof with a pressing movable apparatus which is capable of pressing the pressure-receiving portions of a fuel rail via respective pressing springs, and a fastening step of fastening plural boss portions concurrently to a cylinder head in a state in which a pressing force of the press inserting step is maintained.
US09133795B2
An engine system utilizing a split flow exhaust system for distributing different portions of exhaust gases to a turbocharger and to an EGR system and methods of controlling the flow of the exhaust gases are provided. The split flow exhaust system includes a high-pressure exhaust valve in fluid communication with a turbine of a turbocharger and a high-pressure exhaust manifold interposed therebetween. Also, a low-pressure exhaust valve is in fluid communication with an intake system and a low-pressure exhaust manifold is interposed therebetween. Initial exhaust gases expelled from the engine are delivered to the turbine while secondary exhaust gases expelled from the engine are delivered as EGR to the intake system. The flow to the turbine and the intake system is controlled using the high-pressure exhaust valves and low-pressure exhaust valves of the engine rather than an EGR valve.
US09133791B2
The disclosure relates to a carrier housing for an internal combustion engine having an engine block with a V arrangement of cylinders and having a charging group, designed for two-stage charging. The carrier housing is designed to bear at least a number of components of the charging group, and is designed to be arranged on an upper face of the engine block in an intermediate space of the V arrangement. The carrier housing includes a bottom fastening mechanism for attaching the carrier housing to the upper face of the engine block, a charge air channel formed in the interior of the carrier housing for conducting the charge air of a high-pressure and/or low-pressure stage of the charging group, a cooling fluid channel formed in an interior of the carrier housing for conducting the cooling fluid of an exhaust gas recirculation of the charging group, a channel for coolant and a channel for lubricant formed in the interior of the carrier housing for the high-pressure and/or low-pressure stage of the charging group, and upper carrying elements for components of at least the high-pressure and/or low-pressure stage of the charging group.
US09133787B2
A method is provided for estimating an instantaneous pressure value Pinst in a fuel line of a fuel injection system during a fuel multi-injection pattern. The method includes, but is not limited to determining a mean pressure value P inside the fuel line of the fuel injection system (15), and correcting the mean pressure value P with pressure contributions generated by the previous injections of the multi-injection pattern.
US09133776B2
A control apparatus and a control method diagnose whether an internal-combustion engine is rotated in forward or reverse directions is being properly implemented. Specifically, based on a pulse width WIPOS of a rotation signal POS output by a crank angle sensor, it is determined whether a crankshaft is rotated in the forward or the reverse directions. Based on the determination of the rotating direction of the crankshaft, a counter CNTPOS, which denotes a count value of rotation signal POS, is updated. At the time of restarting the engine, counter CNTPOS is updated, using a value on counter CNTPOSz at the time of stopping the engine as an initial value. If the value on counter CNTPOS at a crank angle position determined after the starting of the engine differs from an expected value, then the function for determining the rotating direction of the crankshaft is diagnosed to be abnormal.
US09133772B2
An aircraft engine fuel system is provided and includes a pump, including an inlet and an outlet, from which pressurized output is produced, a valve disposed downstream from the pump outlet to receive and to direct the pump output flow toward the engine and to provide a leak tight seal when the pump is not operating, a sensor configured to issue a signal reflective of a state of the valve at first and second conditions and a controller, operably coupled to the pump and the sensor, which is receptive of the signal and which modifies performance models of the pump and engine to control pump speed to modify pump flow accordingly.
US09133752B2
An apparatus and method for controlling a urea injection amount of a vehicle provides precision improvement of urea injection by determining a urea injection amount according to a collection amount of soot that is collected at an SCR integral diesel particulate filter and an accumulation amount of ash. The method includes: detecting a collection amount of soot that is collected at the SCR integral diesel particulate filter and calculating an effective volume of the SCR integral diesel particulate filter according to enlargement of an accumulation amount of ash; calculating an NH3 target storage amount by reflecting the soot collection amount and an effective volume decrement according to ash accumulation; and providing urea injection by determining an NH3 storage control amount and determining a urea necessary injection amount according to the NH3 target storage amount.
US09133750B2
A method and control system for a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter and an ammonia dosing module that stores ammonia in a selective catalyst reducing (SCR) catalyst and that depletes the ammonia level by discontinuing or reducing dosing. The control system also includes an SCR conversion efficiency module that determines an SCR efficiency. An SCR efficiency comparison module compares the SCR efficiency to an efficiency threshold and generates a fault indicator when the SCR efficiency is not above the efficiency threshold.
US09133748B2
An SCR system (8) is arranged in an exhaust path (4) of an internal combustion engine (2) to which the invention is applied, and a particulate filter (14) is arranged downstream thereof. A control apparatus (16) includes temperature controlling means for controlling a temperature of an element portion of the particulate sensor. The temperature controlling means performs control to increase the temperature of the element portion of the particulate sensor to a first temperature range (T1), when a cumulative value (t) of a time for which the particulate sensor is used in a specific operating state reaches a reference time (t1), after detection of a particulate amount by the particulate sensor has started this time. Here, the specific operating state is an operating state set taking into account an operating state in which urea related substances tend to be discharged to a downstream side of the SCR system (8). Also, the first temperature range (T1) is a temperature that is higher than a temperature at which the urea related substances decompose, and lower than a temperature at which the particulates are burned off.
US09133746B2
A method is provided for predicting NOx loading at a DeNOx catalyst by which a NOx amount actually stored in the DeNOx catalyst can be precisely predicted and to an exhaust system which controls a regeneration timing of the DeNOx catalyst and amount of a reducing agent which is injected by using the method. The method may include calculating mass flow of NOx stored at the DeNOx catalyst, calculating mass flow of NOx thermally released from the DeNOx catalyst, calculating mass flow of NOx chemically released from the DeNOx catalyst, and calculating NOx amount actually stored at the DeNOx catalyst by using the mass flow of NOx stored at the DeNOx catalyst, the mass flow of NOx thermally released from the DeNOx catalyst, and the mass flow of NOx chemically released from the DeNOx catalyst.
US09133731B2
A joint assembly for securing flanges of two casings comprising a plurality of bolts, a plurality of collars and a plurality of nuts. Each bolt extends through an aperture in the first flange and an aperture in the second flange, each collar being arranged around a shank of a respective bolt and each nut being secured on a respective one of the bolts. Each collar being arranged between one of the flanges and a nut or a head of a bolt. Each collar comprises a first member and a second member, the second member being arranged at a first end of the first member. The second member being substantially U-shaped in cross-section, the second member having first and second radially inner ends and a radially outer mid portion and an axial space is defined between the first radially inner end and the second radially inner end of the second member.
US09133727B2
A foreign material exclusion device adapted for use in a cavity of a system or construction, for example a tube, pipe, or the like, the device having a body that is adapted to seal a first side of the cavity from a second side of the cavity and prevent passage of debris past the body, the device further including a sensor operatively connected to the body and adapted to measure a property of the environment adjacent at least one surface of the device. Methods for utilizing the device to seal a portion of the cavity and to record, and preferably distribute, the data are also described.
US09133724B2
A turbomachine component includes a body having a first end that extends to a second end. One of the first and second ends includes a mounting element, and a mounting component. A cover plate is arranged at the one of the first and second ends to establish an interface region. The cover plate includes a mounting member configured to align with the mounting element, and a mounting portion configured to align with the mounting element. A fastener member is configured and disposed to cooperate with the mounting element and the mounting member to constrain the cover plate to the body along at least two axes with the interface region being devoid of a metallurgical bond.
US09133720B2
An integrally bladed rotor for a gas turbine engine includes at least one discontinuity formed in an outer face of an outer rim. The discontinuity reduces hoop stress in the outer rim.
US09133714B2
An electrothermal heater assembly, configured to be embedded inside a component for anti-icing and/or deicing the component, includes a titanium foil configured for use as a heating element, at least one reinforcement layer adjacent the titanium foil, and an adhesive configured to bond the titanium foil to the at least one reinforcement layer. The heater assembly is configured such that the titanium foil carries a structural load within the heater assembly.
US09133702B2
An alternative piston pump employed in mechanical pumping systems for oil extraction. The alternative piston pump includes a case part having at least one cavity disposed along its inner surface. Thus, during the pumping cycle, a gas transfer from a bottom chamber to the case part above a piston and an oil transfer from the case part above the piston to the bottom chamber is established.
US09133700B2
An apparatus and method for delivering a thickened fluid mixture, including a CO2 recapture system. The apparatus including a proppant storage vessel and a fracturing fluid storage vessel providing a continuos supply of a proppant material and a fracturing fluid to a mixing apparatus. The mixing apparatus configured to output and deliver a thickened fluid mixture of the proppant, the fracturing fluid and a thickener agent at or above the fracturing fluid blending pressure to a high pressure pump assembly. The high pressure pump assembly configured to deliver a high pressure thickened fluid mixture to one or more downstream components at an injection pressure. The apparatus including a CO2 recapture system configured to recapture an exhaust stream from the one or more downstream components and/or other CO2 output sources, and provide a purified and liquefied CO2 fluid stream to the fracturing fluid storage vessel. The apparatus configured for continual operation.
US09133687B2
A tubing pressure insensitive, pressure compensated actuator system includes a housing having a bore therein. A force transmitter sealingly moveable within the bore. The force transmitter defining with the bore two fluid chambers. The two fluid chambers being in fluid communication with each other, one at each longitudinal end of the force transmitter. An activator in one or both of the two fluid chambers and operatively connected to the force transmitter. At least two seals sealingly positioned between the housing and the force transmitter. One of the seals disposed near one end of the force transmitter and another of the seals disposed near another end of the force transmitter. A separate compensation piston disposed in the housing so as to expose one end of the compensation piston to tubing pressure and to expose the other end of the compensation piston to a fluid volume including the fluid chambers. Also included is a method for reducing force requirements of an actuator.
US09133684B2
A downhole tool comprising an inner sleeve with a plurality of sleeve ports and a housing positioned radially outwardly of the inner sleeve and having a plurality of housing ports, with the housing and inner sleeve partially defining a space radially therebetween. The space is occupied by a shifting sleeve. A fluid path extends between the interior flowpath of the tool and the space. A fluid control device, occupies at least portion of the fluid path, and may selectively permit fluid flow, and thus pressure communication, into the space to cause a differential pressure across the shifting sleeve. When a sufficient differential pressure is reached, the shifting sleeve is moved from a first position to a second position, which opens the communication paths through the housing and sleeve ports between the interior flowpath and exterior of the tool.
US09133682B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for remotely and selectively controlling fluid flow through tubular string disposed within a wellbore and further control fluid flow between the tubular string inner flow passage and the annular flow passage. The present invention further discloses a method of selectively and remotely receiving and interpreting a form of command or information at a desired apparatus within the wellbore caused by the operator on earth surface.
US09133678B2
A wellhead seal assembly forms a metal-to-metal seal between inner and outer wellhead members. A metal seal ring has inner and outer walls separated by a slot. An energizing ring has a C-ring captured on its outer surface. When the energizing ring is moved further into the slot, the C-ring is forced from its pocket and engages a profile on the seal ring, locking the energizing ring to the seal assembly.
US09133677B2
An offshore well system for a subsea well. The system includes a floating platform, an external riser and an internal riser nested within the external riser. A external riser tension device tensions the external riser. The drilling system also includes a surface wellhead system that includes a wellhead, a collet, and a flange assembly. The wellhead, collet, and flange assembly are assembled to establish a common bore for receiving the top of the internal riser. A gasket located between the top of the internal riser and an inner shoulder of the flange assembly seals between the wellhead system and the top of the internal riser. The surface wellhead system also retains the internal riser in tension with the wellhead, the internal riser extending above the wellhead into the collet.
US09133676B2
Techniques for axial vibration control of wireline tools and cables during logging operations. In undesirable cases the axial vibrations may lead to or exasperate the stick-slip problems of the logging tool. Control systems and strategies to minimize vibrations and techniques for identifying and inhibiting the sticking of the cable. A system includes a surface actuator and a sensor. The actuator generates an axial wave on the wireline cable which travels down the cable. If there is sticking of the cable, a reflection can also occur at the location of sticking. This shift in the transmission of the wave on the wireline cable is used to identify the onset and/or presence of sticking.
US09133669B1
A tubular lift safety system can include a wellbore tubular removal system for removing tubulars from wellbores, which can have an upper section movable relative to a lower section. The upper section and the lower section can both have gripping members for gripping and releasing the tubulars while the upper section is moved relative to the lower section; thereby removing the tubulars from the wellbore. The upper section can have cutting devices for forming lifting holes and a saw for cutting the tubulars. A fluid source can control extension and retraction of the upper section relative to the lower section, operation of the gripping members, and operation of the saw. A remote control can monitor pressure from the fluid source.
US09133668B2
A system for monitoring a drilling rig operation includes a drilling rig assembly and at least one sensor coupled to a member of the drilling rig assembly to sense a parameter related to operation of the drilling rig assembly. A client device coupled to the at least one sensor includes a data acquisition device for receiving data from the at least one sensor. The client device also includes a first radio, which is coupled to the data acquisition device. A base station located a distance from the client device comprises a second radio that communicates wirelessly with the first radio in order to transfer data between the data acquisition device and the base station.
US09133665B2
Borehole diameter enlargement occurs while drilling, circulating, reaming, and/or cleaning the borehole, and such borehole diameter enlargements can be detrimental to proper tripping of a drillstring or running of a casing string. Methods and systems are disclosed for detecting or measuring borehole diameter enlargement, diagnosing the cause of the borehole diameter enlargement, and potentially mitigating the borehole diameter enlargement based on the diagnosed and identified causes.
US09133651B2
A device for securing closed a drawer of a dresser, cabinet or desk. The device includes a base that is secured to an interior surface of the frame, which cannot be accessed when the drawer is closed within the drawer opening of the frame, and an extending member. The extending member has a first end portion that attaches releasably to the base, and a second end that extends exteriorly through the drawer opening and between the drawer and the frame. The device is not built into or integral with the drawer or the frame of the dresser, cabinet or desk.
US09133644B1
An easy fold layout hunting blind framework structure comprises a first and a second bottom frames, two side supporting frames, a front supporting frame, a rear supporting frame and two upper supporting frames. When folding to put away, two ends of the front and the rear supporting frames are respectively separated from the connection boxes provided at right and left sides of the two side supporting frames, then the two side supporting frames may turn towards the first and the second bottom frames to fold up, and further may fold in the right and left directions of the first and the second bottom frames. When developing, sequence of the operation can be carried out vice versa simply and easily without need for any hand tools. The size of the folded structure is so compact to carry or change the hunting sites.
US09133626B2
A multi-purpose tile is installable on ceilings walls and floors. The tile includes a base layer of foam plastic material bonded to an upper substrate layer of non-foam plastic or metal material. The bonding process includes pressurization of the foam layer to the non-foam constituents of the tile. The pressure is at a selected level that basically does not change the density of the foam base layer before and after pressurization. The thickness ratio of the foam based layer relative to other constituent layers of the tile can be approximately 15 to 20 times thicker than the other constituent layers thus ensuring that the tile is a lightweight, low density structure that is easy to handle and install.
US09133623B1
A tensioned panel extended insulation system includes a support structure, a panel support structure and a pair of insulation panels. A telescoping tube extended insulation system includes a support structure and an ceiling sheet material. A rafter clip may be attached to a rafter for attachment of an end of the support structure. The telescoping tube extended insulation system may be arched. A cable arched telescoping tube extended insulation system includes an arched support structure, an adjustable spacer, a cable and the ceiling sheet material. A bar joist extended insulation system includes a support structure, an insulation support structure and an ceiling sheet material. A bar joist extended insulation system may be arched. A building heat collection power generator includes a heat exchanger, a pressure driven turbine, an electrical generator, a condenser and two fluid pumps.
US09133620B1
A prefabricated panel system includes a plurality of panel assemblies to be adjoined together to form partitions. A panel assembly comprises two panel members disposed in spaced relation via a plurality of connecting members disposed therebetween; at least one of the connecting members defining a male connector projecting from a male connecting end; at least one of the plurality of connecting members defining a female connector defining a recess in a female connecting end; the panel assembly connectable to at least one other panel assembly by disposing the male connector of one panel assembly within the recess of another panel assembly. The system also includes a base channel to be disposed along a floor to receive and house the prefabricated panel assemblies, as well as a cap channel to be disposed along a cap portion of the panel assemblies.
US09133617B2
A coating system comprising: (1) a liquid intumescent coating composition comprising a resin system comprising at least one polymeric component, at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomeric component, and at least one intumescent ingredient, the coating composition being curable to a solid state by free radical polymerization, and (2) a reinforcement structure. The reinforcement structure may comprise any of mesh, fabric and/or tape. The reinforcement structure preferably comprises an inorganic fabric, and may be installed by application of a suitable adhesive binder.
US09133601B2
A hydraulic excavator includes an engine, a revolving frame supporting the engine, a vehicle body frame, a diesel particulate filter device, and a first connecting pipe. The vehicle body frame is disposed on the revolving frame. The diesel particulate filter device and the selective catalytic reduction device are supported by the vehicle body frame. The first connecting pipe connects the engine and the diesel particulate filter device. The first connecting pipe includes a bellows part that is extendable in at least a portion thereof. The diesel particulate filter device is located further away from the engine than the selective catalytic reduction device. The first connecting pipe passes below the selective catalytic reduction device and is connected to the diesel particulate filter device. A connecting portion for the diesel particulate filter device and the first connecting pipe is located below the diesel particulate filter device.
US09133598B2
A sealed mat system that protects an environment from discharge of a fluid or a solid material is disclosed. The mat system comprises interconnected channels, seals, and a composite panel structure.
US09133596B2
A method for forming a barrier in a subterranean formation is described comprising connecting two pipes to each other by a tensile member, cutting a continuous path through the subterranean formation with the pipes and tensile member, and providing grout into the path. An apparatus for forming such a barrier is described comprising a tensile member, at least two pipes wherein the pipes are connected to the tensile member wherein the pipes are configured to deliver grout to the subterranean formation, and at least one drilling apparatus wherein the drilling apparatus, pipes, and cable are configured to cut a path through the subterranean formation.
US09133589B2
A bollard apparatus comprising an outer bollard member (3) comprising a bore, an inner bollard member (5) at least a part of which is located within said bore and is moveable along the bore from a retracted state in which at least some of the inner bollard member is located within the bore to an extended state in which less of the inner bollard member is located within the bore. At least one urging member (19) is arranged to exert an urging force upon the inner bollard member to urge the inner bollard member towards the extended state. A lifting apparatus (12) is coupled to the inner bollard member and operable to exert a lifting force thereupon sufficient to lift the inner bollard to the extended state when also subject to the urging force.
US09133584B2
A method of preparing a treated article comprises the step of providing a slurry comprising fibers. The method further comprises the step of combining the slurry and a first fluorinated composition to form a mixture. In addition, the method comprises the step of forming at least one sheet from the mixture. Finally, the method comprises the step of applying a second fluorinated composition on at least one surface of the at least one sheet to prepare the treated article.
US09133581B2
Non-cementitious compositions and products are provided. The compositions of the invention include a carbonate additive comprising vaterite such as reactive vaterite. Additional aspects of the invention include methods of making and using the non-cementitious compositions and products.
US09133580B2
A method for modernizing a existing multiroll calender, having at least one stack of calender rolls (10, 20), each stack comprising at least two calender rolls (11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24) and at least one of the calender rolls being a smooth-surfaced press-roll (12, 22). In an existing multiroll calender the smooth-surfaced press roll (12, 22) is replaced by an ultra thermo roll that is a thermo roll with a diameter substantially the same or less than the thermo roll to be replaced, so that the surface temperature of the ultra thermo roll when heated is at least 110° C., and has at least 10° C. higher than the surface temperature of the existing roll with the same heating fluid temperature and having flow channels arranged in such a way that vibration excitation is minimized, by being arranged to form a spiral geometry in the mantle.
US09133578B2
The present invention relates to a polymer made of a primary amine functionalized polymer and a hemicellulose e.g. chitosan and xyloglucan, wherein the primary amine functionalized polymer is covalently bound to the hemicellulose, and to a cross-linking agent composition comprising the polymer. A method wherein manufacturing a cellulose containing product comprises the steps of; providing a cellulose containing product; treating said cellulose product with a cellulose adsorbing agent comprising a polymer made of a primary amine functionalized polymer and a hemicellulose e.g. chitosan and xyloglucan, and optionally other additives is also provided.
US09133575B2
A washing machine and a control method therefore are disclosed. The washing machine includes a cabinet (10); a tub (100) fixed to the cabinet (10); a drum (300) rotatably provided in the tub (100); a dry duct (20) which heats air exhausted from the tub (100) a predetermined temperature, to re-supply the heated air to the tub (100); condensation unit (170) which condenses moisture on at least a predetermined area of an inner circumferential surface of the tub (100) by heat-exchanging external air of the cabinet (10) with at least predetermined area of an outer circumferential surface of the tub (100); and sensing unit (410) which senses the amount of condensate generated in the tub (100). A washing machine and a control method thereof are disclosed. The washing machine includes a cabinet; a tub fixed to the cabinet; a drum rotatably provided in the tub; a dry duct which heats air exhausted from the tub a predetermined temperature, to re-supply the heated air to the tub; condensation unit which condenses moisture on at least a predetermined area of an inner circumferential surface of the tub by heat-exchanging external air of the cabinet with at least predetermined area of an outer circumferential surface of the tub; and sensing unit which sense the amount of condensate generated in the tub.
US09133573B2
Agitator provided with floating element with blades applied in washing machine, more particularly, it's about an agitator of the type applied in clothes washing machines, preferentially with top load, conventionally provided with a water reservoir or tank, a perforated basket with pulsing/alternated spin movement, configuring the place where the clothes are accommodated; the agitator element is from type installed at the bottom of the basket and in the center of the same, and it can be followed by an accessory, provided with vertical blades, integrated to the pulsing rotating system of the basket, the agitator includes a base sector with skirt shape configuration which surface is multi-perforated and provided with radial threads, equidistantly distributed; from the interior face of the plan is developed the tubular body that, along with the lateral wall of the skirt configures space for the assembly of a floating element with radial vertical blades dimensioned for acting at the respective radial threads; referred floating element has a vertical displacement course foreseen between the internal face of the surface and the bumper ring appropriately fixed at the base of the tubular body for allowing the blades to adopt a projecting position in projection or a collected position with regards to the surface based on the existence or not of water inside the reservoir/basket of the clothing washing machine.
US09133570B2
A process for using recycled waste cotton material to produce a textile product is provided. The process can include collecting different categories of waste cotton material from a variety of textile formation processes. The process can also include selecting specific categories of waste cotton material to be blended together depending on the textile product to be produced. In the process, sequence of cleaning, opening and blending processing steps can be selected to be used in making a yarn depending on the textile product to be produced. The selected specific categories of waste cotton material can be cleaned, opened and blended into blended cotton fibers. The blended cotton fibers can then be processed into the textile product to be produced. Thus, a textile product can be provided that includes yarn that can have at least three different categories of waste cotton material that are from textile formation processes.
US09133569B2
A mat includes inorganic fibers, a first main surface, a second main surface, a first interlaced part group and a second interlaced part group. The first interlaced part group includes a plurality of first interlaced parts arranged in rows. Each of the plurality of first interlaced parts is formed from a point on the first main surface to a point present between the first main surface and the second main surface. The second interlaced part group includes a plurality of second interlaced parts arranged in rows. Each of the plurality of second interlaced parts is formed from a point on the second main surface to a point present between the first main surface and the second main surface. A direction of rows formed by the first interlaced part group and a direction of rows formed by the second interlaced part group are different from each other.
US09133567B2
A method of identifying attributes in a plurality of biological samples including the steps of determining a source tag sharing number “d” for each of the attributes; providing a plurality of pools for the source tag sharing number “d” wherein each pool comprising a pooled subset of biological samples; for each pool of the plurality of pools, producing at least one pooled pool comprising attribute-specific reaction products comprising a marker tag that uniquely identifies an attribute and a source tag identifying said pool; and identifying said attribute-specific reaction products to identify the attributes. If “d” is equal to or larger than a maximum pool size, the reaction products may not comprise a source tag identifying each pool. Attributes may be binned together.
US09133562B2
Provided is a method of forming a uniform graphene layer on a substrate (metal- or conductive-polymer-coated, ITO) by doping expanded graphite using various kinds of dopants (Lewis acid) to grant a positive charge thereto, dispersing the doped expanded graphite in an organic solvent using ultrasonic waves to obtain a solution in which the graphene is dispersed in the organic solvent, and electrically applying a negative voltage to the solution.
US09133560B2
The object of the present invention is an electroplating composition intended in particular for coating a copper-diffusion barrier layer with a seed layer, This composition comprises a source of copper ions, in a concentration of between 0.4 and 40mM; at least one copper complexing agent chosen from the group of primary aliphatic amines, secondary aliphatic amines, tertiary aliphatic amines, aromatic amines, nitrogen heterocycles and oximes; the copper/complexing agent(s) molar ratio being between 0.1 and 2.5, preferably between 0.3 and 1.3; and the pH of the composition being less than 7, preferably between 3.5 and 6.5.
US09133558B2
A method for manufacturing an anodized film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) providing a multilayer structure that includes a base, a sacrificial layer which is provided on the base and which contains aluminum, and an aluminum layer which is provided on a surface of the sacrificial layer; (b) partially anodizing the aluminum layer to form a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of minute recessed portions; and (c) after step (b), separating the porous alumina layer from the multilayer structure. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a self-supporting anodized film which includes a porous alumina layer can be manufactured more conveniently as compared with the conventional methods.
US09133549B2
The present invention provides a gas sensor, including: a sensor substrate provided with an electrode; and a thin layer of sensor material formed by spraying a solution in which metal oxide nanoparticles are dispersed onto the sensor substrate. The gas sensor is advantageous in that a sensor material is formed into a porous thin layer containing metal oxide nanoparticles having a large specific surface area, thus realizing high sensitivity on the ppb scale and a high reaction rate. Further, the gas sensor is advantageous in that it can be manufactured at room temperature, and the thickness of a sensor material can be easily adjusted by adjusting the spray time, so that a thin gas sensor or a thick gas sensor can be easily manufactured.
US09133548B2
A TiN film forming method repeatedly performs for a plurality of substrates to be processed, a step of loading each substrate into a processing chamber, supplying a Ti-containing gas and a nitriding gas into the processing chamber, and forming a TiN film on a surface of the substrate by generating a plasma of the supplied gases. The TiN film forming method includes a Ti film forming step of forming a Ti film by supplying a processing gas containing Ti-containing gas into the processing chamber in a state where no substrate exists in the processing chamber after the TiN films are formed on a predetermined number of the substrates.
US09133547B2
The disclosed plasma CVD apparatus (1) is provided with a vacuum chamber (3); a pair of deposition rollers (2, 2) disposed within the vacuum chamber (3) that are connected to both poles of an AC power supply and around which a substrate (W) is wound; a gas-supplying device (5) that supplies process gas containing a source gas to a deposition zone (D) which is a portion of or all of the region that is on one side of a line linking the centers of rotation of the pair of deposition rollers (2, 2); and a magnetic-field-generating device (7) that, by means of the AC power supply being applied to each of the deposition rollers (2, 2), forms a magnetic field that causes the source gas in a predetermined region to become plasma. The magnetic-field-generating device (7) causes the source gas in the region adjacent to the surface of the portion of the pair of deposition rollers (2, 2) located within the deposition zone (D) to become plasma, forming a plasma region (P). The substrate (W) is wound around the pair of deposition rollers (2, 2) so as to pass through the plasma region (P).
US09133545B2
An insulating glass-ceramic substrate for synthesizing graphene includes discrete, crystalline, nanophase metallic regions capable of catalyzing graphene growth. The nanophase regions may be formed by thermal treatment of a glass-ceramic substrate containing the corresponding metal oxide. Single layer and double layer graphene are prepared on the modified glass-ceramic substrate in a vacuum chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process from hydrocarbon precursors. The graphene-coated glass-ceramic substrate is electrically conductive.
US09133541B2
An enhanced environmental barrier coating for a silicon containing substrate. The enhanced barrier coating may include a bond coat doped with at least one of an alkali metal oxide and an alkali earth metal oxide. The enhanced barrier coating may include a composite mullite bond coat including BSAS and another distinct second phase oxide applied over said surface.
US09133540B2
Provided is an apparatus for efficiently removing a pollutant source in a snout of a steel plating line such as a steel galvanizing line. The pollutant removing apparatus includes at least one pollutant collecting member connecting to a snout between a heating furnace and a plating tank, and a contact-free inducer varying magnetic field within the snout to forcibly guide, without contact, a pollutant source of a steel plate or a processing unit to the pollutant collecting member.
US09133534B2
A method of processing a metal for improved damping of a metal part is provided. The method comprises placing the metal part inside a current carrying coil and closing a circuit for to apply current to the coil, thus producing a magnetic field in the metal part. Thereafter, the circuit is opened for a time and then the circuit is closed a second time to apply a second current to the coil. The circuit is then opened a second time and the metal part is removed from the current carrying coil.
US09133529B2
A distribution device for distributing bulk material with a distribution spout on a cardan suspension that has a first and a second gimbal member pivotable about two perpendicular suspension axes where a drive arrangement has a first and a second transmission mechanism for controlling pivotal motion of the distribution spout about the suspension axes, and the drive arrangement has a further cardan joint, with a first part pivotable about a third axis and a second part pivotable about a fourth axis, and a rotary motor for driving a rotary drive shaft that is connected to the cardan joint by means of an articulated connecting arm such that the rotational position and the axial position of the drive shaft determine the pivotal position of the second part about the third and fourth axes respectively, where the transmission mechanisms transmit torque about the third and fourth axes from the cardan joint to the cardan suspension for pivoting the distribution spout about the first and second axes respectively.
US09133528B2
The invention concerns an improved method for purification of raw sugar beet juice, which is obtained by extraction from sugar beets, and to devices for purification of raw sugar beet juice. The invention further concerns a method for producing sucrose syrup or sucrose from raw sugar beet raw.
US09133527B2
Accurate and rapid differentiation of the outbreak strain ribotype 027 from other possible Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) strains, using stool samples, facilitates decision making for treatment options. Cell wall protein V (CwpV) contains a cell wall binding domain conserved among C. difficile strains and a variable domain which is antigenically different among C. difficile strains. In embodiments, antibodies against the 027-specific region in CwpV are used in diagnostic tests to detect ribotype 027 in culture or fecal samples.
US09133518B2
Provided herein are methods and materials for diagnosing a subject's predisposition for pulmonary infection in a CF subject by detecting a pulmonary infection genetic marker. Pulmonary infection markers have been identified in the IL-1 gene cluster and may be useful in predicting CF disease progression and assessing a CF subject's response to therapy.
US09133517B2
Disclosed herein are methods and sequences to preferentially suppress the expression of the mutated huntingtin (“htt”) protein over expression of the normal htt protein. Also disclosed are methods comprising screening an individual for the heterozygous presence of one or more single nucleotide polymorphisms within the individual's Huntington's genes; administering nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that preferentially suppress the expression of amino acid sequences encoding for mutated huntingtin (“htt”) over suppressing the expression of amino acid sequences encoding for normal htt by targeting an area of a Huntington's disease gene that is heterozygous for the presence of one or more single nucleotide polymorphisms.
US09133511B2
This invention provides methods for attaching a nucleic acid to a solid surface and for sequencing nucleic acid by detecting the identity of each nucleotide analogue after the nucleotide analogue is incorporated into a growing strand of DNA in a polymerase reaction. The invention also provides nucleotide analogues which comprise unique labels attached to the nucleotide analogue through a cleavable linker, and a cleavable chemical group to cap the —OH group at the 3′-position of the deoxyribose.
US09133510B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions, kits, systems and apparatus that are useful for isolating nucleic acid molecules from a sample. In particular, the methods generally relate to normalizing the concentration of target nucleic acid molecules from a sample. In one aspect, the invention relates to purifying a primer extension product from a primer extension reaction mixture. In some aspects, nucleic acid molecules obtained using the disclosed methods, kits, systems and apparatuses can be used in various downstream processes including nucleic acid sequencing.
US09133509B2
The present invention relates to methods and kits for nucleic acid detection in an assay system.
US09133504B2
This invention provides methods and systems for measuring the binding of analytes in solution to probes bound to surfaces in real-time. The method involves contacting a fluid volume having a plurality of different analytes with a solid substrate having a plurality of different probes. The probes are capable of specifically binding to the analytes. The method also involves measuring signals at multiple time points while the fluid volume is in contact with the substrate. The signals measured at multiple time points can be correlated with the amount of binding of the analytes with the probes. The method eliminates the need to wash the probes before measuring the binding characteristics.
US09133500B2
The present invention discloses novel screening strategies for the identification of binders that target the active site of enzymatic antigens. The present invention also discloses antigen-binding moieties which bind to the NS2B-NS3 Proteinase of West Nile Virus, in particular binders which bind to the active site, thereby inhibiting the enzymatic activity of the proteinase. The antigen-binding moieties of the present invention have numerous therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
US09133498B2
A testing method is disclosed. The testing method includes: providing a mixture solution of a gelling agent and a microbe to a gelling device; solidifying the mixture solution to form a solid thin film in which the microbe is immobilized; supplying a bioactive agent to the solid thin film and allowing the bioactive agent to diffuse into the solid thin film; and imaging the individual responses of the single microbial cells to the bioactive agent, and determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the bioactive agent based on the analysis of the images to obtain AST results.
US09133493B2
The present invention relates to methods for mammalian cell culture. The methods make use of independent tyrosine and cystine feed streams.
US09133491B2
A new method of RNA-PAP was developed that can directly amplify RNA template without additional treatment. RNA-PAP brings in a new mechanism for amplification of RNA template in which RNA-dependent DNA pyrophosphorolysis and RNA-dependent DNA polymerization are serially coupled using 3′ blocked primers. Due to this serial coupling, RNA-PAP has high selectivity against mismatches on the RNA template, providing highly specific amplification of RNA template. In addition, mutant polymerases were genetically engineered for higher efficiency of RNA-dependent DNA pyrophosphorolysis and RNA-dependent DNA polymerization.
US09133485B2
The invention lies in the field of production of recombinant gene products in eukaryotic cells. The invention refers to methods and materials for the fast and reproducible generation of production cells lines suitable for large scale production of recombinant gene products. The invention encompasses specific vector systems, genetic engineered host-cells and methods of use.
US09133482B2
The present invention relates to RNA interference-based methods for inhibiting the expression of the myotilin gene. Recombinant adeno-associated viruses of the invention deliver DNAs encoding microRNAs that knock down the expression of myotilin. The methods have application in the treatment of muscular dystrophies such as Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 1A.
US09133468B2
Plant metabolism and alkaloid levels can be regulated by transcription factors that regulate the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a transcription factor that negatively regulates alkaloid biosynthesis, such as nicotine biosynthesis.
US09133467B2
Methods for producing pathogen-inducible promoters for the expression of genes in plants are provided. The pathogen-inducible promoters are inducible by one, two, three, or more plant pathogens. Methods for producing R genes that are inducible in a plant by more than one plant pathogen are further provided. Additionally, provided are R genes and other nucleic acid molecules comprising the pathogen-inducible promoters and that are made by such methods as well as plants, plant parts, plant cells, seeds, and non-human host cells comprising the R genes and other nucleic acid molecules.
US09133466B2
The invention relates to efficient, high-throughput methods, systems, and DNA constructs for identification and isolation of transcription termination sequences. The invention relates further to specific terminator sequences identified by said methods isolated from rice.
US09133465B2
The present invention relates to methods for the production of ω-3 and/or ω-6 fatty acids in oleaginous yeast. Thus, desaturases and elongases able to catalyze the conversion of linoleic acid (LA) to γ-linolenic acid (GLA); α-linoleic acid (ALA) to stearidonic acid (STA); GLA to dihomo-γ-linoleic acid (DGLA); STA to eicosatetraenoic acid (ETA); DGLA to arachidonic acid (ARA); ETA to eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA); DGLA to ETA; EPA to docosapentaenoic acid (DPA); and ARA to EPA have been introduced into the genome of Yarrowia for synthesis of ARA and EPA.
US09133463B2
The present disclosure provides, inter alia, Thraustochytrium and relevant methods and reagents, including engineered regulatory sequences from and/or operative in Thraustochytrid or Thraustochytrium, selectable markers useful for engineering microorganisms such as Thraustochytrids, methods for mutagenizing microorganisms, novel strains produced by mutagenesis and methods and compositions related to production of particular compounds in microorganisms.
US09133458B2
It is disclosed a method for the treatment of hepatitis B (HBV) infection or HBV/hepatitis D (HDV) co-infection, the method comprising administering to a subject in need of treatment a first pharmaceutically acceptable agent that removes the hepatitis B surface antigen from the blood and a second pharmaceutically acceptable agent which stimulates immune function.
US09133457B2
The invention provides a method of incorporating nonstandard amino acids into a protein by utilizing a modified aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase to charge the nonstandard amino acid to a modified tRNA, which forms strict Watson-Crick base-pairing with a codon that normally forms wobble base-pairing with natural tRNAs.
US09133456B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of an Antiviral gene, in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of an Antiviral gene. The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of Antiviral genes.
US09133454B2
The invention relates to an isolated RNA that mediates RNA interference of an mRNA to which it corresponds and a method of mediating RNA interference of mRNA of a gene in a cell or organism using the isolated RNA.
US09133448B2
The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 93% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 93% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.
US09133443B2
This invention relates to mutant enzymes with enhanced properties and processes for oxidation of organic compound substrates using such enzymes.
US09133442B2
The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds.
US09133441B2
Provided herein are pharmaceutical and transplant compositions and methods related to the treatment and prevention of diabetes. More specifically, the compositions and methods are related to activation of glial derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) receptors or overexpression of the GFR-α1/c-Ret receptor complex in insulin secreting cells so as to promote cell survival and proliferation.
US09133430B2
An apparatus for production of a biogas by anaerobic digestion of organic material, the apparatus comprising: a digester chamber defining: a gas generating zone and a gas collecting zone. A biogas outlet is defined in the gas collecting zone, and one or more nozzles is/are arranged to spray a gas cooling liquid into the gas accommodated in the gas collecting zone so as to cool the gas. A collecting member is arranged in the gas collecting zone to collect the gas cooling liquid when sprayed from the one or more nozzles towards the collecting member so as to prevent the gas cooling liquid from entering the organic material. The collecting member is arranged to cause the collected gas cooling liquid to flow into a liquid based safety valve.
US09133418B1
Warewashing detergents suitable for dishwashing, immersion or dipping cleaning, and hard surface cleaning are disclosed for use on hard surfaces, including for example alkaline sensitive metals, such as aluminum or aluminum containing alloys. Alkaline compositions of a mixture of phosphono ethane carboxylates phosphono oligomers and methods employing the same are disclosed. The compositions eliminate the use of highly abrasive silicates, while retaining cleaning performance and corrosion prevention. The compositions according to the invention prevent the corrosive effect of highly alkaline compositions on aluminum or aluminum containing alloys.
US09133416B2
A method for suppressing isomerization of an olefin metathesis product produced in a metathesis reaction includes adding an isomerization suppression agent to a mixture that includes the olefin metathesis product and residual metathesis catalyst from the metathesis reaction under conditions that are sufficient to passivate at least a portion of the residual metathesis catalyst. The isomerization suppression agent includes (i) a salt and/or an ester of a phosphorous oxo acid, and/or (ii) a derivative of the phosphorous oxo acid in which at least one P—H bond has been replaced by a P—C bond, and/or (iii) a salt and/or an ester of the derivative. Methods of refining natural oils are described.
US09133407B2
Systems and process for volatile degradation removal from amine plant wash water are provided. The systems and processes include a separation device disposed within a water circulation loop and configured to continuously remove at least a portion of the volatile degradation products from the wash solutions. The separation device can be configured for stripping, distillation, and/or extraction of the volatile degradation products from at least a fraction of the spent wash water. Optionally, a chemical agent can be reacted with the volatile degradation products to form heat stable salts for subsequent removal.
US09133406B2
Methods and compositions for producing fatty acid derivatives, for example, fatty esters, and commercial fuel compositions comprising fatty acid derivatives are described.
US09133401B2
An improved catalyst for hydrodemetallization of heavy crude oils and residua is disclosed. The catalyst is adopted for fixed bed hydroprocessing units. The invention is characterized for having a large pore diameter catalyst principally for hydrodemetallization of heavy oil and residue in a first reactor of a multi-reactor process. The catalyst has high demetallizing activity and high metal deposition capacity which results in good stability with time on stream (TOS). The hydrorefining catalyst is obtained by kneading a porous starting powder principally composed of gamma-alumina and having a pore capacity of 0.3-0.6 ml/g or larger and a mean pore diameter of 10 to 26 nm, extrudating and calcining, and after that supported with active metals component of elements belonging to groups VIIIB and VIB of the periodic table.
US09133395B2
The present invention relates to polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerizable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS (“polymer sustained”) or PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type.
US09133387B2
A method of treating a subterranean formation of a well bore comprises providing a treatment fluid comprising a carrier fluid, a particulate material, a viscosifying agent and fumed silica, wherein fumed silica is in such concentration to reduce the settling rate of the particulate material in the treatment fluid; and introducing the treatment fluid into the wellbore.
US09133386B2
A method of treating a well the method including the steps of: (A) forming a fluid including: (i) a shear-thinning aqueous liquid phase; and (ii) an inorganic setting material; wherein the fluid is shear-thinning, pumpable, and settable; and (B) introducing the fluid into the well.
US09133380B2
Mixtures of select neopentyl polyol esters are found to be highly miscible with the refrigerant R-32 over a wide temperature range. Working fluids are provided comprising R-32 and a lubricant containing these select neopentyl polyol esters and having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 32 cSt or higher. Specifically, the lubricant composition of the invention comprises a mixture of alkylcarboxy esters of neopentyl polyols, wherein at least 10 wt % of all neopentyl polyol esters are esters of pentaerythritol oligomers of 4 or more pentaerythritol monomer groups, and wherein a majority of the alkylcarboxylate groups of the alkylcarboxy esters of neopentyl polyols are pentanoyl groups wherein at least 15% of the pentanoyl groups are branched.
US09133379B2
The invention relates to binary compositions of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and difluoromethane, and especially to the uses thereof as a heat transfer fluid in compression systems with exchangers operating in counterflow mode or in split flow mode with counterflow tendency. The invention also relates to a heat transfer method.
US09133370B2
The present invention discloses processes for forming polythiol compositions from olefinic hydrocarbons such as cyclooctadiene, cyclododecatriene, and trivinylcyclohexane. The polythiol compositions produced from these processes, including the sulfur-containing compounds of these compositions, also are described.
US09133353B2
In a method for preparing a polyimide resin by reacting diamine and dianhydride, the polyimide resin is polymerized under the presence of a solvent having a boiling point ranging from 130° C. to 180° C. so as to be curable at a low temperature ranging from 150° C. to 250° C. Because the polyimide is curable even at a low temperature, when the polyimide resin is used as an electronic material, damage to equipment due to an otherwise high temperature process can be minimized, and in addition, the polyimide resin can be extensively used as an electronic material such as for a plastic substrate, or the like.
US09133352B2
A monosilane compound or bissilane compound of a specific structure having dimethylamino groups is contained in a surface treatment agent used in the hydrophobization treatment of substrate surfaces.
US09133347B2
A process for making an antifouling coating composition comprising the following steps: a) preparation of a binder polymer in an organic solvent; b) emulsification of the binder polymer and the organic solvent into water; c) removal of all or part of the organic solvent from the emulsion; and d) formulation of the emulsion into a water-based anti-fouling coating composition.
US09133341B2
Methods and compositions are provided for producing thermoset, water repellent binders particularly effective for forming combustible composite materials. The binders include a mixture of an alkaline protein hydrolyzate and a bio-oil or an acidic protein hydrolyzate and a lignin compound. Desirably, the binders and the resulting combustible composite materials are substantially free of formaldehyde.
US09133332B2
A flexible tubing material includes a radiation crosslinked blend of a first elastomeric polymer including a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer, an ethylene vinyl acetate elastomer, a polylefin elastomer with a second elastomeric polymer including a polyolefin elastomer, a diene elastomer, or combination thereof, with the proviso that the first elastomeric polymer and the second elastomeric polymer are different. In an embodiment, a method of making a material includes providing the first elastomeric polymer, providing the second elastomeric polymer, blending the first elastomeric polymer and the second elastomeric polymer, extruding or injection molding the blend, and crosslinking the blend with radiation.
US09133331B2
A crosslinkable polymer composition having (a) a polyolefin bearing hydrolysable silane groups and a silanol condensation catalyst compound, as well as to an article, preferably a cable, thereof. A silanol condensation catalyst compound utilized for crosslinking an article, preferably a layer of a cable.
US09133330B2
A composition for use as material for electrical or electronic parts, comprising (A) a vinyl polymer having, at a molecular terminal thereof, at least one (meth)acryloyl group per molecule of the polymer, (B) a vinyl monomer having a (meth)acryloyl group and (C) an initiator, wherein the component (B) is comprised in an amount of from 25% by weight or more to 45% by weight or less to the total 100% by weight of the components (A) and (B).
US09133325B2
A functionalized silica product includes particles of a hydrophobated silica having a thin coating of an emulsion polymer. A ratio of the hydrophobated silica to the emulsion polymer is from about 4/1 to about 50/1. The functionalized silica product is in the form of a friable crumb or a powder that may be mixed into a elastomer formulation for a rubber article, such as a tire component.
US09133323B2
A flame retardant thermoplastic resin composition includes (a) a polycarbonate resin, (b) an impact modifier, and (c) resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate). The impact modifier includes (b1) a large rubber particle-modified vinyl graft copolymer wherein the rubber particle has an average particle diameter of about 0.3 to about 0.7 μm, and (b2) a small rubber particle-modified graft copolymer wherein the rubber particle has an average particle diameter of about 0.05 to about 0.27 μm. The flame retardant thermoplastic resin composition can have excellent flowability, mold formability, flame retardancy, impact strength, and gloss characteristics.
US09133320B2
Disclosed is a polyolefin composition comprising (i) a polyolefin (A), (ii) a benzil derivative (B) comprising the structural unit according to the following formula (I), wherein one or more of the carbon atoms in the phenyl rings to which residue R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 or R10 is attached may also be a heteroatom; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 independently are hydrogen, or a hydrocarbyl group which may contain heteroatoms; or at least two of said R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 form a further aromatic or non-aromatic ring and such system has one to eight substituents, R1′ to R8′, and n=2 to 9; with the proviso that at least one hydrocarbyl group is present.
US09133317B2
There is provided a coating material comprising a mixture of a water-based resin composition of a thermoplastic elastomer (A) and/or a thermoplastic elastomer (B) in which at least one moiety is modified with a functional group; one of a water-based resin composition of a resin (G) formed from a copolymerizable monomer (G-1) which includes a monomer having an α,β-monoethylenic unsaturated group and other copolymerizable monomer, and a water-based resin composition of an urethane resin (U); and a water-based resin composition of a petroleum-based hydrocarbon resin (D) and/or a rosin-based resin (E) and/or a terpene-based resin (F). The coating material causing no separation phenomenon provides a coating composition or a primer with which spray coating is possible, and is a completely water-based coating material exhibiting an excellent adhesivity to a molded article of various resins such as polyolefin and a synthetic rubber or to metals such as a steel plate and aluminum.
US09133314B2
An anisotropic self assembled structure comprises isotropic grafted nanoparticles in a polymeric matrix, the self-assembled structure comprising (a) a one-dimensional string of the grafted nanoparticles within the matrix, the string having a width of one nanoparticle and a length of 1-10 nanoparticles, (b) a substantially two-dimensional sheet of the grafted nanoparticles within the matrix, the sheet having a length and a breadth of at least one micron respectively, wherein the sheet is about 2-5 nanoparticles in thickness, or (c) a plurality of three dimensionally interconnected structures where the width of each of the structures is 1-10 nanoparticles; wherein each grafted nanoparticle comprises a substantially spherical inorganic core nanoparticle and a polymeric brush structure grafted thereto.
US09133306B2
The present invention provides novel polymeric amine compositions employing amine compounds having multiple tertiary amine groups. Methods of making these new compositions are also disclosed. Amine compositions and amine-epoxy compositions employing the polymeric amine compositions of the present invention are also provided.
US09133305B2
The present invention relates to a compound with the following formula (I) where: R1 is particularly a straight or branched alkyl group, a is a single or double bond; R2 is particularly a hydrogen atom; R3 and R5 are a hydrogen atom when a is a single bond, and absent when a is a double bond; R4 is a hydrogen atom or an ORb group, where Rb is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group including 1 to 12 atoms of carbon, and A1 is a divalent alkylene radical.
US09133298B2
This invention relates to novel polyol blends, a process for the production of foam with very low resistance to air flow from certain polyol blends and to the resultant foams produced from certain polyol blends. The polyol blends comprise one or more monofunctional polyethers having a hydroxyl number of less than 28; one or more polyether polyols having a hydroxyl number of 20 to 240 and containing at least 50% of copolymerized oxyethylene; one or more polyether polyols having a hydroxyl number of 47 to 300 and containing from 5 to 40% of copolymerized oxyethylene; and optionally, one or more polyether polyols having a hydroxyl number of 10 to 45. This process of the invention comprises reacting one or more polyisocyanates, with an isocyanate-reactive component in the presence of at least one catalyst, at least one surfactant and at least one blowing agent. The isocyanate-reactive component comprises one or more monofunctional polyethers having a low hydroxyl number; one or more polyether polyols having a hydroxyl number of 20 to 240 and containing at least 50% of copolymerized oxyethylene; one or more polyether polyols having a hydroxyl number of 47 to 300 and containing from 5 to 40% of copolymerized oxyethylene; and optionally, one or more polyether polyols having a hydroxyl number of 10 to 45.
US09133296B2
Herein are disclosed an apparatus and method for reaction injection molding of polyurethane foam. In the method, a recirculation loop containing polyols along with an effective amount of water, and a recirculation loop containing isocyanates, are each partially evacuated.
US09133290B2
A macromolecule includes at least one polymer chain with at least one functionality. The polymer can include unsaturated mer units and can be provided via anionic and pseudo-living polymerization techniques. In either technique, the functionality can include at least one 5- or 6-membered ring which includes a secondary amine group and at least one additional heteroatom; in the latter technique, the functionality can include a hydrazone radical. Such polymers can be used to provide compositions that also include particulate fillers, such compositions being useful for the production of vulcanizates.
US09133287B2
A Ziegler-Natta procatalyst composition in the form of solid particles and comprising magnesium, halide and transition metal moieties, said particles having an average size (D50) of from 10 to 70 μm, characterized in that at least 5 percent of the particles have internal void volume substantially or fully enclosed by a monolithic surface layer (shell), said layer being characterized by an average shell thickness/particle size ratio (Thickness Ratio) determined by SEM techniques for particles having particle size greater than 30 μm of greater than 0.2.
US09133282B2
Provided herein is a (meth)acrylic resin that has less impurities and is less likely to deteriorate in transparency or turn yellow during molding processing, which is not obtainable by conventional suspension polymerization. The invention is a method for producing a methyl methacrylate polymer, comprising suspension polymerization of 30 to 100 wt % of methyl methacrylate and 70 to 0 wt % of a monomer copolymerizable therewith to produce a methyl methacrylate polymer, wherein the polymerization is initiated in the presence of 350 ppm or less of a suspension stabilizer relative to the monomer(s) and then a suspension stabilizer is added when a polymerization conversion ratio reaches 20 to 90%.
US09133275B2
Novel anti-cancer agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies and immunoconjugates, that bind to human folate receptor 1 are provided. Methods of using the agents, antibodies, or immunoconjugates, such as methods of inhibiting tumor growth are further provided.
US09133273B2
The present invention relates to novel humanized, chimeric and murine antibodies that have binding specificity for the human CC chemokine ligand 20 (CCL20). The present invention further relates to heavy chains and light chains of said antibodies. The invention also relates to isolated nucleic acids, recombinant vectors and host cells that comprise a sequence which encodes a heavy chain and/or a light chain of said antibodies, and to a method of preparing said antibodies. The anti-CCL20 antibodies of the invention can be used in therapeutic applications to treat, for example, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and cancer.
US09133267B2
Provided is an antibody that selectively binds to an epitope formed by residues 1-11 of Aβ in an Aβ oligomer, a method comprising using the antibody to treat a disease characterized by such an Aβ amyloid deposit in a patient, and kits comprising same.
US09133264B2
The present invention relates to a method for selecting a host cell population expressing a functional fusion protein comprising at least one epitope-providing amino acid sequence (epitope-tag) and the amino acid sequence of a protein that is expressed on the surface of said host cell. Preferably, the amino acid sequence comprises an alpha or beta chain of a T-cell receptor. The present invention further relates to uses of said functional T-cell receptor (TCR) alpha or beta chain fusion protein in medicine, in particular in adoptive transfer.
US09133262B2
The invention features somatostatin antagonists having a D-amino acid at the second residue.
US09133259B2
The present invention relates to protein complexes or scaffold comprising cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) polypeptides bound to one or more growth factors, and methods of their use in promoting chondrogenesis and/or osteogenesis, and repair of cartilage and bone lesions.
US09133256B2
The present invention relates to various polypeptides from fish hatching fluid, their encoding nucleic acid sequences, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules and their use in various medical and cosmetic applications to the skin, particularly for moisturizing skin and/or for exfoliation of the horny layer of the skin for treating or preventing skin disorders or conditions in an animal.
US09133250B2
The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance.
US09133244B2
Peptide antagonists of γc-family cytokines, Interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, IL-15, and IL-21 are described. The γc-cytokines are associated with important human diseases, such as leukemia, autoimmune diseases, collagen diseases, diabetes mellitus, skin diseases, degenerative neuronal diseases and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). Thus, inhibitors of γc-cytokine activity are valuable therapeutic, cosmetic agents and research tools. Traditional approaches to inhibiting γc-cytokine activity involve raising neutralizing antibodies against each individual γc-cytokine family member/receptor subunit. However, success has been limited and often multiple γc-cytokine family members co-operate to cause the disease state. Combinatorial use of neutralizing antibodies raised against each factor is impractical and poses an increased risk of adverse immune reactions. To overcome these shortcomings, use of peptide antagonists based on the consensus γc-subunit binding site to inhibit γc-cytokine activity is provided. Such approach allows for flexibility in antagonist design. Peptides can exhibit Simul-Block activity, inhibiting the activity of multiple γc-cytokine family members.
US09133243B2
The γc-family cytokines, Interleukin-2 (IL-2), Interleukin-4 (IL-4), Interleukin-7 (IL-7), Interleukin-9 (IL-9), Interleukin-15 (IL-15), and Interleukin-21 (IL-21), are associated with important human diseases, such as leukemia, autoimmune diseases, collagen diseases, diabetes mellitus, skin diseases, degenerative neuronal diseases and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). Thus, inhibitors of γc-cytokine activity are valuable therapeutic and cosmetic agents as well as research tools. Peptide antagonists based on the consensus γc-subunit binding site to inhibit γc-cytokine activity are described. In several embodiments, peptide antagonists simultaneously inhibit the activity of multiple γc-cytokine family members.
US09133234B2
Methods for the synthesis and use of functionalized, substituted naphthalenes are described. The functionalized, substituted naphthalenes display useful properties including liquid crystals and fluorescence properties, such as solvatochromatic fluorescence, with high quantum yields, Stoke's shift, and show emission maxima that are significantly red-shifted.
US09133233B2
The present disclosure relates to RNA amidates and thioamidates useful for RNA interference applications. The RNA amidates and thioamidates contain at least one internucleoside linkage chosen from ribo-N3′→P5′ phosphoramidate (NP) and ribo-N3′→P5′ thiophosphoramidate (NPS) linkages, and optionally further containing at least one covalently conjugated lipid moiety. Compositions comprising the amidates and thioamidates are disclosed, as are methods for their use in modulating gene expression.
US09133231B2
Rel proteins as a novel therapeutic agent for treating bacterial threats. More specifically, a novel class of compounds of Formula (I) as disclosed herein which possess antibacterial activity and which inhibit RelA, RelSeq or RelSpo synthetic activity or bacterial spore formation. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of such compounds and a method of combating bacteria, or treating bacterial infections, by administering to a subject in need thereof such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.
US09133230B2
A patentable new class of hydrazone derivative compounds is described, as are methods for synthesizing such compounds. The hydrazones of the invention can be used, for example, as potent anti-cancer agents, including to inhibit the growth of cancer cells that exhibit multidrug resistance.
US09133211B2
To provide an organic semiconductive material, expressed by the following general formula I: General Formula I where R1 to R10 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkylthio group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and may be bonded to each other to form a ring; and X is a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom.
US09133209B2
The compounds of general formula I, wherein X, R1, R2, R3 and A are defined as in the description, are of the class of 4-amino-thieno[2,3-d]-pyrimidine compounds useful to control pests that damage plants and crops, and parasites that harm animals:
US09133207B2
The present invention belongs to the field of natural medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry and specifically relates to novel 5-substituted tetrandrine derivatives of formula (I) and a pharmaceutically acceptable adduct, complex and salt thereof, to a process for the preparation of these compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and their use in preparing antineoplastic medicaments.
US09133206B2
The present application relates to benzodiazepine and pyridodiazepine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, X1, Y1, Y2, and Y3 are as defined in the specification. The present application also relates to compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating disease conditions using such compounds and compositions, and methods for identifying such compounds.
US09133205B2
Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple configuration. This organic EL device has a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode piled one upon another on a substrate and the said light-emitting layer contains a fused polycyclic compound in which seven or more rings are fused together as a host material. The aforementioned fused polycyclic compound has a structure formed by fusing two or more indole rings to a carbazole ring. A specific example thereof is the compound represented by the following formula.
US09133202B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of Formula (A) that form covalent bonds with Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk). Also described are irreversible inhibitors of Btk. Methods for the preparation of the compounds are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include the compounds. Methods of using the Btk inhibitors are disclosed, alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases or conditions, heteroimmune diseases or conditions, cancer, including lymphoma, and inflammatory diseases or conditions.
US09133198B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of Formula (A) that form covalent bonds with Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk). Also described are irreversible inhibitors of Btk. Methods for the preparation of the compounds are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include the compounds. Methods of using the Btk inhibitors are disclosed, alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases or conditions, heteroimmune diseases or conditions, cancer, including lymphoma, and inflammatory diseases or conditions.
US09133197B2
The present invention relates to new triazolyl purine derivatives of formula (I), processes for their preparation, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them for the treatment of neurological disorders or cerebral ischaemia for which inhibition of adenosine A2A receptor will result at improving the health state of a patient.
US09133191B2
The present application relates to novel substituted fused pyrimidines, to processes for their preparation, to their use alone or in combinations for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, and to their use for producing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cardiovascular disorders.
US09133189B2
Described herein are compounds of Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Compounds described herein are useful for inhibiting arginine methyltransferase activity. Methods of using the compounds for treating arginine methyltransferase-mediated disorders are also described.
US09133160B2
Disclosed are heteroaryl compounds of Formula (I), (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Z is CH or N; W is CR3 or N; and R1, R2, and R3 are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds in the treatment of at least one CYP17 associated condition, such as, for example, cancer, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds.
US09133156B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel method for preparing selenyl-substituted aromatic aldehyde compounds by forming a selenolate nucleophile and performing a nucleophilic substitution reaction between the selenolate nucleophile and an aromatic aldehyde starting material.
US09133148B2
This disclosure provides piperazine carbamates and compositions which may be modulators of MAGL and/or ABHD6 and their use as medicinal agents, processes for their preparation, and pharmaceutical compositions that include disclosed piperazine carbamates as at least one active agent. The disclosure also provides for method of treating a patient in need thereof, where the patient is suffering from indications such as pain, solid tumor cancer and/or obesity comprising administering a disclosed compound or composition.
US09133145B2
The present invention relates to inhibitors of 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase Type 1 enzyme and their use in treatment of non-insulin dependent type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, lipid disorders, metabolic syndrome, central nervous system disorders, and diseases and conditions that are related to excessive glucocorticoids.
US09133144B2
A process for the manufacture of 1-[2-(2,4-dimethyl-phenylsulfanyl)-phenyl]-piperazine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts is disclosed that involves reacting compounds of formula II, III, IV under Pd catalysis and in presence of phosphine ligands to give Compound I.
US09133133B2
The present invention provides 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds that inhibit the IgE and/or IgG receptor signaling cascades that lead to the release of chemical mediators, intermediates and methods of synthesizing the compounds and methods of using the compounds in a variety of contexts, including in the treatment and prevention of diseases characterized by, caused by or associated with the release of chemical mediators via degranulation and other processes effected by activation of the IgE and/or IgG receptor signaling cascades.
US09133130B2
In accordance with various embodiments, an organic electronic device includes an n-type dopant material including an imidazole-based material having a hydrogen-based material bonded between nitrogen atoms. The n-type dopant material n-dopes an organic material, and can be used to mitigate degradation in mobility due to conditions such as exposure to ambient atmosphere, which can effect an undesirable reduction in charge transport. Other embodiments are directed to carbon nanotubes or graphene structures with this type of n-type dopant, wherein the Fermi level for the carbon nanotubes or graphene structures is below −2.5 eV to effect such n-type doping.
US09133129B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
US09133127B2
The present invention provides novel, diastereomeric pyrazolines that are useful as cannabinoid receptor blockers and pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of using the same for treating obesity, diabetes, inflammatory disorders, cardiometabolic disorders, hepatic disorders, and/or cancers.
US09133114B2
The present invention provides for monodispersed dendrimers having a core, branches and periphery ends, wherein the number of branches increases exponentially from the core to the periphery end and the length of the branches increases exponentially from the periphery end to the core, thereby providing for attachment of chemical species at the periphery ends without exhibiting steric hindrance.
US09133093B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing polyester alcohols by catalytic reaction of at least one at least polyfunctional carboxylic acid with at least one polyfunctional alcohol and/or by catalytic ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters in the presence of catalysts, wherein a zeolite is used as catalyst.
US09133089B2
A process for synthesis of sulfonated, arylated 3-pentadecyl phenol (cross linking catalyst) of formula I starting from Cashew Nut Shell Liquid. Formula I wherein R is benzenesulfonic acid; X is —SO3H, where n is 0 or 1; wherein the process steps comprises hydrogenating cardanol with 5% Pd/C in presence of lower alcoholic solvent at 70° C. under 600 psi hydrogen pressure to obtain 3-pentadecyl phenol; arylating 3-pentadecyl phenol to obtain 3-pentadecyl diphenyl ether; and sulfonating the 3-pentadecyl diphenyl ether to obtain compound of formula I.
US09133078B2
Processes and systems for synthesizing hydrocarbon products, such as high molecular weight hydrocarbons, olefins or mixtures thereof, from alkyl bromides wherein one or more streams of alkyl bromides may be reacted in sequential or concurrent stages at different temperatures. The catalyst used in the synthesis stages may be the same or different and at least in one instance is chosen to form hydrocarbon products having a significant C6+ paraffin content. The stages may be conducted in one or more reactors and the catalyst may be deployed in fixed beds or fluidized beds.
US09133077B2
A process for the preparation of an olefin product comprising ethylene, which process comprises the steps of: a) converting an oxygenate feedstock in an oxygenate-to-olefins conversion system, comprising a reaction zone in which an oxygenate feedstock is contacted with an oxygenate conversion catalyst under oxygenate conversion conditions, to obtain a conversion effluent comprising ethylene and/or propylene; b) separating at least a portion of the propylene from the conversion effluent to form a propylene stream; c) separating the remainder of the olefins from the conversion effluent; and d) recycling at least a portion of the propylene stream to step a).
US09133074B2
Carbon monoxide conversion processes are described for the conversion of carbon monoxide via hydrogenation to methanol. The process utilizes initial carbon monoxide priming before introduction of 3:1 hydrogen/carbon dioxide mixture to the reactor. After the optimum reaction conditions are established the feed of carbon monoxide may be withdrawn and any required carbon monoxide provided via reactor effluent recycle. The process provides for enhanced catalyst performance and life.
US09133064B2
A substrate may be coated with a various combinations of a water-dispersible polyisocyanate, a water-soluble acid or salt thereof, and/or an isocyanate-reactive compound. The resulting coated article has improved coating adhesion, especially near coated burnished surfaces such as sawn edges or grooves.
US09133061B2
A method for making a ceramic body, the method including: mixing inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients to form a batch; adding a rapidly hydratable cellulosic binder and a liquid vehicle to the batch and further mixing to form a plasticized mixture; extruding the plasticized mixture to form a green body. The green body can then be heated sufficiently to produce a predominant ceramic phase, thereby transforming the green body into the ceramic body.
US09133056B2
The invention concerns a PROCESS for the preparation of cement/mortar/concrete (for simplicity: “cement”) compositions or systems, (hereafter “cement” compositions or systems for simplicity), of a general known type, in which the filler(s) is/are comprising or consist of “calcium carbonate-based filler(s)”, comprising at least one step where the said filler(s) is/are treated with an efficient treating amount of at least one treating agent consisting of or comprising superplastifier(s). The main purpose of this invention is to build a process aimed at providing improved, “High performance”, FLUID, cement or mortars or concrete systems or compositions having an improved compacity, an improved flowability, and globally speaking a definitely improved “workability”, and “regularity” of the properties of the final systems. The present invention also concerns a filler for “cement” compositions, characterized in that if consists of or comprises, a calcium-carbonate-based filler or blends of same, pre-treated with an “efficient amount” of at least one superplastifier.
US09133054B2
Crystallizable glasses, glass-ceramics, IXable glass-ceramics, and IX glass-ceramics are disclosed. The glass-ceramics exhibit β-spodumene ss as the predominant crystalline phase. These glasses and glass-ceramics, in mole %, include: 62-75 SiO2; 10.5-17 Al2O3; 5-13 Li2O; 0-4 ZnO; 0-8 MgO; 2-5 TiO2; 0-4 B2O3; 0-5 Na2O; 0-4 K2O; 0-2 ZrO2; 0-7 P2O5; 0-0.3 Fe2O3; 0-2 MnOx; and 0.05-0.2 SnO2. Additionally, these glasses and glass-ceramics exhibit the following criteria: a. a ratio: [ Li 2 O + Na 2 O + K 2 O + MgO + ZnO ] [ Al 2 O 3 + B 2 O 3 ] between 0.7 to 1.5; b. a ratio : [ TiO 2 + SnO 2 ] [ SiO 2 + B 2 O 3 ] greater than 0.04. Furthermore, the glass-ceramics exhibit an opacity ≧about 85% over the wavelength range of 400-700 nm for an about 0.8 mm thickness and colors an observer angle of 10° and a CIE illuminant F02 determined with specular reflectance included of a* between −3 and +3, b* between −6 and +6, and L* between 88 and 97.
US09133053B2
A crystallizing glass solder for high-temperature applications, which is free of PbO and contains, in % by weight on an oxide basis: 45% to 60% of BaO; 25% to 40% of SiO2; 5% to 15% of B2O3; 0 to <2% of Al2O3; 2 to 7.0, preferably 4.4 to 7.0%, of MgO; and at least one alkaline earth metal oxide from the group consisting of MgO, CaO and SrO, wherein CaO is 0% to 5% and the sum of the alkaline earth metal oxides MgO, CaO and SrO is 2% to 15%. Preferred embodiments of the glass solder contain from 3 to 15 wt. % of Y2O3 and have low porosity and high stability with respect to a moist fuel gas environment.
US09133049B2
A soda-lime-silica glass for solar collector cover plates and solar mirrors has less than 0.010 weight percent total iron as Fe2O3, a redox ratio of less than 0.350, less than 0.0025 weight percent CeO2, and spectral properties that include a visible transmission, and a total solar infrared transmittance, of greater than 90% at a thickness of 5.5 millimeters, and reduced solarization. In one non-limiting embodiment of invention, the glass is made by heating a pool of molten soda-lime-silica with a mixture of combustion air and fuel gas having an air firing ratio of greater than 11, or an oxygen firing ratio of greater than 2.31. In another non-limiting embodiment of the invention, streams of oxygen bubbles are moved through a pool of molten glass. In both embodiments, the oxygen oxidizes ferrous iron to ferric iron to reduce the redox ratio.
US09133042B2
A wastewater treatment facility with a rotating biological contactor (“RBC”) that has a control system. The RBC sits in a tank that receives wastewater to be purified over which a reversible rotatable shaft is supported. One or more stages of rotating disk assembles progressively purify incoming wastewater. Each stage is oriented transversely to the shaft and has a plurality of disk assemblies. Each disk assembly has a number of disks that are sandwiched between end plates. Each of the disks comprises an innermost monolithic ring surrounded by multiple concentric truncated pie-shaped segments. Posts extend from the front and back faces of the disks for stirring wastewater and for offering numerous sites to which biomass may adhere and be suspended in the wastewater or exposed to ambient atmosphere during rotation.
US09133036B2
The present invention relates to a method for obtaining borazane, said method being suitable for obtaining borazane containing a low level of impurities. The borazane (obtained by reaction of at least one ammonium salt with at least one alkali and/or alkaline earth metal borohydride) in solution in THF is selectively precipitated with a non-solvent. The precipitated borazane can further be purified by selective dissolution. The borazane obtained after selective precipitation and dissolution contains less than 1% by weight of impurities and/or does not exhibit exothermic decomposition in the solid state with a temperature range of the endothermic melting peak above 110° C.
US09133035B2
A method of manufacturing a graphene oxide composite fiber includes forming a supporting fiber having positive charges thereon; forming a solution containing graphene oxide having a negative charge thereon to provide a graphene oxide-containing solution; coating the supporting fiber with the graphene oxide-containing solution; and permitting self-assembly of the graphene oxide of the graphene oxide -containing solution and the supporting fiber by an attraction between the positive and negative charges to form the graphene oxide composite fiber. The method may include coating the supporting fiber with a solution containing a material having an amine group to provide a positive surface charge on the supporting fiber. The method may include reducing the graphene oxide composite fiber to a graphene composite fiber, such as by one of a thermal reduction method, an optical reduction method, and a chemical reduction method. Large-area graphene fiber structures having high strength, flexibility, and porosity are enabled.
US09133022B2
A structure comprising high aspect ratio molecular structures (HARM-structures), wherein the structure comprises an essentially planar network (2) of HARM-structures, and a support (3) in contact with the network (2). The support (3) has an opening (5) therein, at the peripheral region (4) of which opening (5) the network (2) is in contact with the support (3), such that the middle part of the network (2) is unsupported by the support (3). The network (2) comprises essentially randomly oriented HARM-structures.
US09133011B2
Systems and methods for providing customized renewable fuels are disclosed. The present invention can provide customized renewable fuels to users after communicating with users and receiving the information regarding the fuel requirements and their preference. The present invention also provides quality control mechanisms to maintain the qualities of renewable fuels and heat exchangers to improve the energy efficiency of the whole system. The system of the present invention includes: a first storage tank for storing a first renewable fuel; a second storage tank for storing a second renewable fuel; a communicator for receiving a first set of information from the user; a controller for receiving the first set of information from the communication device and generating a second set of information by analyzing the first set of information; and a dispenser for dispensing the first and the second renewable fuels to the user according to the second set of information.
US09133008B2
Devices and methods for extracting a beverage from a container, such as a wine bottle. Beverage can be extracted from a container by inserting a needle through a container closure, such as a cork, delivering pressurized gas into the container via the needle, and dispensing beverage from the container via the needle. A pressure regulator may control a pressure of gas introduced into the container, and a lance used to pierce a pressurized gas cylinder may include a leading face arranged to reliably pierce a cylinder closure. The regulator may include valve features to reduce valve chatter or hammering and provide a more reliable pressure seal.
US09132993B1
A pipe connecting sleeve with offset end plate is disclosed. The pipe connecting sleeve with offset endplate may include a flange having a first side and a second side; first and second insertion parts each including an extension portion extending from their respective sides of the flange each including a distal end, the distal end including an end plate, the end plates being adapted for abutment with an inside diameter of a spreader bar pipe, wherein the end plates are of a greater diameter than the extension portions and are fixed in an offset manner relative thereto; first and second grooves formed on their respective sides of the flange, the grooves being adapted for receiving an end of a spreader bar pipe.
US09132990B2
When a size of a reversing unit is smaller than that of a printing medium, errors can be detected without adding any other mechanism, and if such errors are not caused by a paper jam, the printing can be continued. A printing apparatus is provided with: an reversing unit provided with an reversing roller; a sensor; and a control unit configured to, if when the detecting unit detects a load equal to or more than a predetermined value, a conveyance amount of the printing medium after the sensor has detected the fore end is longer than a threshold value that is a distance from a position of the fore end at the time of being detected by the sensor to a position of the fore end at the time of exiting from the conveyance path of the reversing unit, perform control to continue conveyance.
US09132985B2
The invention relates to a conveying device for conveying electrical or optical lines (8) such as wires, cables, line bundles, optical fibers etc. comprising a gripper (3) for gripping a line (8), wherein the gripper (3) is displaceable along a guide (1) between a first position (5) and a second position (6), characterized in that in the region of the first position (5) and in the region of the second position (6), respectively one active interface is provided which is configured to come into operative communication with the gripper (3) and bring this into a closed position or open position when the gripper (3) is located in one of the two positions (5, 6).
US09132977B2
A sheet conveying apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit including a drive roller and a driven roller; a downstream detection unit and an upstream detection unit; a conveying amount measuring unit that measures a conveying amount of the sheet; and a conveying distance calculation unit that calculates a conveying distance of the sheet, wherein a distance between the downstream detection unit and the upstream detection unit or a perimeter of one of the drive roller and the driven roller is set such that an expected conveying distance calculated based on a set sheet length of an expected value of the sheet becomes a substantially integer multiple of a perimeter of the one of the drive roller and the driven roller.
US09132976B2
A paper separating device for separating a paper sheet includes a frame member, an image carrier, a securing plate, and two types of assemblies. The two types of assemblies include: a first assembly that includes a separation claw configured to separate the paper sheet from the image carrier, a guiding member configured to guide the paper sheet, and a holder with an engaging portion; and a second assembly that engages the guiding member alone to the holder with the engaging portion without holding the separation claw. The frame member and the securing plate each include an assembly securing portion with an engaged portion to be engaged with the engaging portion of the holder. One of the two types of assemblies is secured to the assembly securing portion disposed at the securing plate while another is secured to the assembly securing portion disposed at the frame member.
US09132975B2
An automatic case loader for loading product in a trailer is disclosed. A mobile base structure provides a support framework for a drive subassembly, conveyance subassembly, an industrial robot, a distance measurement sensor, and a control subassembly. Under the operation of the control subassembly, product advances through a powered transportation path to an industrial robot which places the product within the trailer. The control subassembly coordinates the selective articulated movement of the industrial robot and the activation of the drive subassembly based upon the distance measurement sensor detecting objects within a detection space, dimensions of the trailer provided to the control subassembly, and dimensions of the product provided to the control subassembly.
US09132971B2
The present disclosure is directed, in part, to a method of transporting products. The method comprises providing a V-shaped conveying mechanism and positioning a plurality of the products on the V-shaped conveying mechanism such that a first portion of the plurality of the products engages a first side of the V-shaped conveying mechanism, and such that a second portion of the plurality of the products engages a second side of the V-shaped conveying mechanism.
US09132970B2
The invention relates to a method for grouping together products that arrive in line and are spaced apart from each other on an infeed conveyor (2), consisting of: collecting the products on the fly by means of a pair of collectors (4) that move transversely relative to the products on said conveyor (2); moving the products collected by collector (4A) to a removal station (11) and, at the same time, replacing said collector (4A) with the second collector (4B) that, in turn, collects the products; and dropping off the products from collector (4A) to the removal station (11) and bringing said collector (4A) back to a collecting position while intersecting collector (4B). The equipment includes a pair of carriages (7), each of which has a collector (4), said carriages being moved transversely and said collectors (4) being mounted on actuators (12) that move the collectors so as to transfer the latter from the removal position to a retracted position that makes it possible for said collectors (4) to intersect one other.
US09132969B2
An improved feed mechanism for a processor of solid objects includes a plunging paddle connected via connectors and eccentrics to a rotating shaft driven by a motor. The rotating shaft has an axis offset from the centers of the eccentrics. The plunging paddle plunges product on a conveyor belt from a feed tank to create a single layer for conveying the product to a processor.
US09132962B2
The accumulator includes at least one pair of chains substantially parallel to each other to which cradles are connected for receiving products to be stored, the cradles being mutually spaced along the pair of chains. Each cradle is connected to the pair of chains through constraining members. On each chain at least one intermediate constraining member is arranged between two adjacent cradles connected to the chains.
US09132961B2
A conveyor for transporting products includes a mounting frame for one or more product feed lanes, each lane being defined by a respective conveyor belt which extends along a respective path, and by element for centering the products on the conveyor belt and including respective first and second lateral guides which are spaced from each other transversely to the direction of extension of the conveyor belt in order to define a track having a respective width. A unit for adjusting the distance between the guides are provided which includes a first transversal support and movement member for the corresponding lateral guide of the lane, and a second transversal support and movement member for the other lateral guide of the lane. Also provided is a respective transversal member for supporting the first and second support and movement members and a defining unit for fastening to the conveyor frame.
US09132960B2
A modular conveyor belt having electronics modules with antennas at the hinge joints between rows of modules or extending laterally across the width of the belt. The antennas may be linear antennas received in hinge-rod passageways or embedded in intermediate transverse ribs in belt modules or may be loop antennas formed in the hinge elements of electronics modules.
US09132958B2
The circuit board transportation device has: a guide member that is provided in such a manner as to extend in the transport direction and has a guide surface that comes into abutment with a circuit board from the outside of the circuit board in a perpendicular direction that is a direction perpendicular to the transport direction; a conveyor belt that extends in the transport direction to support an end of the circuit board; and a drive unit that moves the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt has: a belt base portion that is located under the guide member and extends both ways of the perpendicular direction from the position of the guide surface; and a projection that extends upward from the belt base portion up to a position between upper and lower ends of the guide surface. The conveyor belt supports the circuit board by means of the projection.
US09132957B1
A misplaced item service identifies a plurality of inventory storage locations in a materials handling facility associated with a misplaced item. The misplaced item service determines an ordered list of the plurality of inventory storage locations, wherein the inventory storage locations are arranged in the ordered list based at least in part on a location density of the inventory storage locations, a population density of the inventory storage locations and a last inventory storage location inspected.
US09132955B2
A compressible valve is used with a pressurized container for dispensing an aerosol product. The compressible valve includes a valve cup connected to a dispensing structure disposed inside an open top end of a bottle. A grommet is disposed in the valve cup and has an integral sealing portion and spring portion. A grommet longitudinal passageway passes through the spring portion and the sealing portion and is coaxial with a valve cup longitudinal passageway. An elongate valve stem is disposed in the grommet passageway. The grommet sealing portion provides a seal between the valve stem and the valve cup and between the dispensing structure and the valve cup.
US09132954B2
The present invention relates to a fluid reservoir (21), said fluid reservoir (21) comprising at least one first cavity (29) and one second cavity (30) in fluidic communication with each other and adapted to accommodate fluid (7), the fluid reservoir (21) further being connected to a fluid-container system (7, 8, 9, II, 22), a fluid consumer (5) in fluidic communication with at least the second cavity (30), a pressurization system (I, 2) adapted to generate a substantially constant pressure, and a vacuum system (58, 59, 60) adapted to generate a pressure below ambient pressure. The invention further comprises a fluid-supply system.
US09132948B2
Several embodiments of a beverage carrier are disclosed. In one embodiment, four side walls and a bottom are joined together to form an open box-type structure. The open box-type structure comprises an opening sized and shaped to allow a disposable drink carrier to be placed inside. The beverage carrier additionally comprises an insert for placing and retrieving the disposable drink carrier inside the box-type structure, the insert comprising a frame for receiving the disposable drink carrier and placement handles connected to the frame for raising and lowering the disposable drink carrier into and out of the box-type structure. Further, the beverage carrier comprises means for removably securing the box-type structure to a portion of a vehicle interior.
US09132946B2
A rotary airtight container having a body, a lid that covers the opening of the body, a cover plate connected to the underside of the lid, a lifting mechanism for driving the cover plate to move with respect to the lid, a circumferential cone-shaped seal ring positioned all around the lid, and a tapered annular interface that on the bottom of the lid and engages the seal ring. As the lifting mechanism drives the cover plate to lift relative to the lid, the cone-shaped seal ring lifts relative to the lid and moves upwards along the tapered annular interface to seal the space between the tapered annular interface and the opening of the container, thus isolating the inside of the container from outside. This container changes the ordinary way of sealing that uses a locking nut for tightly pressing on the opening of the container, and is easier to operate.
US09132944B2
A spout, in particular weldspout, has a plastic body that forms a duct for filling or emptying a plastic pouch, the plastic body having lateral surfaces which are directed at least regionally away from one another, are provided with a surface structure, and merge into one another at two sides, wherein the lateral surfaces are configured for connecting to a plastic film, wherein the surface structure comprises at least one profile having a height of between 0.10 and 0.5 mm above a base surface of the lateral surface. Furthermore, the invention relates to a container comprising a film pouch and a spout connected to the latter.
US09132939B2
Described herein is a reusable, multi-purpose bag, comprising a flexible, resiliently deformable body comprising a first material and a second material. The first material has a first degradation temperature and an absorption ratio of at least two to one of absorbed water weight to bag weight. The first material forms an anterior panel and a posterior panel, and the anterior panel is coupled to the posterior panel to define a cavity therebetween. The second material has a second degradation temperature that is lower than the first degradation temperature, and at least a portion of the anterior panel is bonded to at least a portion of the posterior panel by the second material.
US09132926B2
Systems and methods provide a multi-layer insulation (MLI) that includes a plurality of sealed metalized volumes in a stacked arrangement, wherein the plurality of sealed metalized volumes encapsulate a gas therein, with the gas having one of a thermal insulating property, an acoustic insulating property, or a combination insulating property thereof. The MLI also includes at least one spacer between adjacent sealed metalized volumes of the plurality of sealed metalized volumes and a protective cover surrounding the plurality of sealed metalized volumes.
US09132918B2
A row of a plurality of adjacent seats supported by a support frame. The seat includes a seat back, a seat pan and a leg rest. The leg rest of each seat includes a leg support surface and is mounted relative to the seat frame in a manner to allow it to move between (a) a stored condition and (b) a fully deployed condition where the seat pan and the leg rest support surface are substantially coplanar. The leg rest and seat pan of each seat in the row can cooperate to define a reconfigurable horizontal support surface for at least one passenger.
US09132916B2
An aircraft system incorporates a first aircraft having a grappling device including a first gripper with a first actuator and a second gripper with a second actuator. The first gripper and the second gripper are movable between an open and a closed position to engage a hooking device and pivot together to change a capture angle. A first controller receives a command and operates the actuators in response to open and close the first and second grippers of the grappling device. The controller also receives a second command and operates the first and second actuators to pivot the grippers and provide grappling at a range of capture angles. A second aircraft, which may be a UAV, incorporates the hooking device. The hooking device includes a ring rotatable from the surface and a third actuator to rotate the ring between a stowed and an extended position.
US09132911B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to measuring, via at least one sensor, at least one of a damage and a compromise associated with a vehicle, determining at least one of a region and a location of the at least one of a damage and a compromise and a level of the at least one of a damage and a compromise, and adapting an operational envelope for the vehicle based on the determined at least one of a region and a location of the at least one of a damage and a compromise and the level of the at least one of a damage and a compromise.
US09132905B2
The present disclosure relates to a door for a transport means, which structurally provides the largest possible door width. Using a movable carrier arm device, the width of the door aperture can be reduced with little complexity from about 42 inches (Type “A”) as an additional equipment option to about 34 inches (Type “C”). To this end, the movable, for example, foldable, carrier arm device is provided which, when the door opens, automatically moves from a retracted position to an extended position in order to reduce the door aperture width to a value which has been predetermined for evacuation. Afterwards, the extended carrier arm device can be folded in again. In this manner, it may be possible to increase the comfort for the passengers and the crew when the aircraft is in the normal operating state since the carrier arm device provides a greater aperture width in the retracted position.
US09132904B2
An air vehicle has a gas-filled hull of a flexible sheet material. Strakes extend along an exterior of the hull, each strake comprising a gas-filled tube of a sheet of a flexible sheet material. A rigid board extends outwardly from the gas-filled tube and away from the vehicle. A further sheet of a flexible sheet material extends from one side of the strake over the board to another side of the strake, to provide a strake that is generally triangular in cross section.
US09132900B2
A trolling motor control system that includes a main controller configured interface with a trolling motor is provided. The main controller is configured to control the output power and directional heading of the trolling motor. In at least one embodiment, the main controller has an electronic interface configured to establish a two-way day data connection between the main controller and an electronic GPS-equipped mapping device. This two-way connection allows the main controller to use data stored on the GPS-equipped mapping device to execute functions of the trolling motor control system. It also allows functions of the trolling motor control system to be executed via controls on the GPS-equipped mapping device.
US09132898B2
A kayak paddle has blades configured to generate forward kayak momentum in each one of the three paddling movements, being more effective than known paddles, using its hydrodynamic profile to reduce formation of turbulent and eddy currents when moved in the water both, during insertion and retrieval. The paddle is characterized by a blade with a cross section in which both edges are curved, the frontal face is convex, and the back face is either flat, concave or both, but not convex, so as to benefit from the water flow around the surface or “Bernoulli Effect”, specifically on insertion in deep water and retrieval from it, producing forward motion of the kayak due to such hydrodynamic forces.
US09132893B2
A shelf including a mounting bracket having two arms is provided. The length of the arms and the distance between the arms are adjustable so the shelf may be attached to and project outwardly from various support structures.
US09132890B2
This socket, intended primarily to be mounted at the end of a mooring cable for an anchoring system of a mobile massive element, comprises a socket body 12 having an internal cavity 14 comprising a guide chamber 34 for the mooring cable 22, an intermediate section 18 and a fastening receptacle 20 intended to receive and block the ends of the strands of the mooring cable 22, and means 30, 30′ for coupling with the mobile massive element to be anchored, positioned on the socket body 12 so as to define a pivoting axis 32 of the socket body 12, which axis passes through the intermediate section 18. The use of the socket in anchoring systems, especially in the offshore environment, assures natural self-alignment thereof with the cable on which it is mounted, during the diverse movements by which the anchoring system is affected.
US09132888B1
An improved boat hull is described. The new hull includes a bow, a stern and a lower longitudinal keel extending between the bow and stern. The hull includes a first V hull formed at the bow and a second V hull formed aft the bow. The second V hull is defined by a bilaterally symmetrical indention having a forward end and a rearward end. The indention is directed rearwardly and outwardly from the lower longitudinal keel, and the rearward end of the indention is above the water line for displacement of water toward the stern on both the portside and starboard side of the boat. The new hull provides a smooth, less jarring ride, a reduction of drag forces, and an improved load along with increased deck area.
US09132886B2
A shift operating device is basically provided with a bracket member, a support structure, a wire takeup member, a positioning mechanism, and a control member. The bracket member is mounted to a bicycle. The support structure is removably mounted to the bracket member. The wire takeup member is movably supported by the support structure. The positioning mechanism includes first and second positioning members supported by the support structure. The first positioning member integrally moves with the wire takeup member. The second positioning member engages the first positioning member such that the first positioning member has a plurality of operating positions. The control member has a first portion movably supported by the support structure inside the bracket member and a second portion disposed outside the bracket member. The control member is operatively coupled to the positioning mechanism for changing the operating position of the first positioning member.
US09132885B2
A derailleur is configured to be mounted to a bicycle frame. The derailleur includes a clamp mountable to the bicycle frame. The clamp includes a first end having a threaded portion receiving a clamp fastener for tightening of the clamp about the bicycle frame. A base member is connected to the clamp and includes a bore receiving the clamp fastener. A chain guide receives and laterally displaces a chain. First and second link members pivotably connect the base member and the chain guide. One of the link members includes an opening aligned with the bore such that the clamp fastener passes through the opening and into the bore of the base member.
US09132883B2
A rear-wheel drive for a bicycle or a trailer bike comprises an output sprocket of a chain drive, a rear-wheel shaft, and a driving mechanism being supported outside to the bicycle frame. The rear-wheel shaft is supported only on one side of the driving in a supporting manner relative to the bicycle frame. The driving mechanism on the side facing the bicycle frame is not, as commonly known, supported relative to the rear wheel shaft but relative to the bicycle frame. That creates the required space for arranging a freewheel clutch, that fulfills the strength requirements for transmitting the occurring torques even when using sprockets with only a few teeth. Thus, short distances between the rear wheel and the bottom bracket and single-arm suspensions in the bicycle frame can be implemented together with the implementation of suitable developments of the chain drive for small running wheels.
US09132881B2
A bicycle fork leg including a pressurized gas chamber functioning as a shock absorber and a piston adjacent to the bicycle fork leg. A movable compression rod which moves toward the piston when a force is imparted to the bicycle leg. A rubber or compliant member within the piston. The movable compression rod coming in contact with the compliant member to reduce low amplitude high frequency shocks.
US09132872B2
A system for assembling a vehicle includes a first assembly line having a plurality of first stations, including a welding station for welding first structural components that define a vehicle body portion. The first structural components are formed of a first material. The second assembly line receives the vehicle body portion from the first assembly line and has a plurality of second stations, including a second welding station where a second structural component is secured to the first structural components. The second structural component is formed of the first material or a second material. The second assembly line is configured such that the second component is one of welded to the first components in the second welding station when the second component is formed of the first material and fastened to the first components in the second welding station when the second component is formed of the second material.
US09132871B2
A walking system for moving a load over the ground includes a substructure having laterally spaced-apart, rigidly interconnected main beams for carrying the load. A jack support beam is mounted as a cantilever on top of each main beam, and each includes a lifting jack assembly. Each lifting jack assembly includes a power-driven hydraulic cylinder having a ram and foot plate, and each is selectively operable for extending a ram downwardly to force the foot plate against the ground to raise the substructure off the ground, and for retraction to disengage the foot plates from the ground, thereby lowering the substructure to the ground. Each jack lifting assembly includes a shifter mechanism operable for displacing the main beams and the substructure along the ground in a selected steering mode when the lifting jack assemblies are actuated to raise the main beams and the substructure above the ground.
US09132869B2
Provided is an aerodynamic drag reduction apparatus for reducing aerodynamic drag on an over-the-road vehicle while underway. The aerodynamic drag reduction system includes a frame assembly that is adapted to cooperate with a cargo-carrying portion of the over-the-road vehicle to couple the drag reduction apparatus to the over-the-road vehicle. First and second skirts are adapted to be supported beneath opposite lateral sides of the cargo-carrying portion of the over-the-road vehicle by arcuate rails. The first and second skirts are coupled to the frame assembly in a manner that allows thermal expansion and contraction of the first and second skirts relative to the frame assembly without warping of material forming an air-deflecting surface of the first and second skirts to an extent that would otherwise occur if the first and second skirts were fixedly connected to the frame assembly.
US09132857B2
A motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a parking assistance system with a system controller. During the assisted performance of a parking maneuver, the system controller receives one or more pieces of information from other controllers or units, which is continuously stored in the system controller. When restarting the internal combustion engine that has previously stalled during the ongoing parking maneuver, information previously stored by the system controller is accessed and forms the basis of a continued parking maneuver during a defined time interval, after which the assistance is once again based on current information acquired from the controllers or units.
US09132851B2
The present invention provides a steering apparatus having simple construction, and good left and right balance of the clamping force, such that the clamping force does not fluctuate depending on the forward-backward position of the steering wheel 103. When fastening the tilt and telescopic function, by rotating an operation lever 349, the peak of a movable cam 344 runs over the peak of a stationary cam 343, which pushes the stationary cam 343 to the right side, and pulls a clamping rod 34 to the left side at the same time, so as to clamp side plates 32A, 32B. The inside surfaces 321A, 321B of the side plates 32A, 32B clamp flat surface section 61A, 62B of a distance bracket 6. The flat surface sections 62A, 62B elastically deform toward the inside in the width direction of the vehicle, and a pair of left and right clamping sections 66A, 66B of bent sections 64A, 64B clamp the outer circumferential surface of an inner column 2 from both the left and right sides.
US09132845B2
A method for communications in a vehicle consist (e.g., for managing network services among a plurality of networked locomotives or other vehicles in the consist) includes monitoring a first available device of a first locomotive (or other first vehicle) in the consist to determine an operational status of the first available device, and maintaining information of the operational status of the first available device in a database.
US09132844B2
A mounting arrangement 10 for mounting a utility 26 to an end 16 of a post 17. The mounting arrangement 10 includes an attachment member 11 for attachment to the post 17 fixed against rotation when attached to the post 17. A rotatable member 12 is connected to the attachment member 11 and is rotatable relative to the attachment member 11 about the axis of the post 17. The rotatable member 12 includes a connection arrangement 13 for connecting a utility 26 to the rotatable member 12, so that the utility 26 can rotate with the rotatable member 12. The rotatable member 12 is rotatable between first and second positions. A cooperating arrangement comprising at least one abutment 35, 37, 38, 42 is provided for cooperation with the rotatable member 12 to facilitate accurate return of the rotatable member 12 from the second position to the first position.
US09132840B1
Autonomous vehicles use various computing systems to transport passengers from one location to another. A control computer sends messages to the various systems of the vehicle in order to maneuver the vehicle safely to the destination. The control computer may display information on an electronic display in order to allow the passenger to understand what actions the vehicle may be taking in the immediate future. Various icons and images may be used to provide this information to the passenger.
US09132829B2
A control device of a vehicle drive device includes a hydraulic power transmission device having an input-side rotating element to which power from an engine is input and an output-side rotating element outputting power to drive wheels, a first electric motor coupled to the input-side rotating element, and a second electric motor coupled to the drive wheels, the vehicle drive device having an electric path through which power is electrically transmitted between the first electric motor and the second electric motor and a mechanical path through which power is mechanically transmitted via the hydraulic power transmission device, the control device controlling an operating point of the engine by adjusting a torque of the first electric motor, the control device changing a proportion of power transmitted through the electric path and power transmission through the mechanical path based on a request amount when the operating point of the engine is controlled.
US09132826B2
The present disclosure relates generally to an energy capture for an electric drive machine, and more particularly to systems and methods for capturing energy during braking of the electric drive machine. In some examples, the disclosure describes an energy capture device including at least two planetary gear assemblies. The first planetary gear assembly can be operatively coupled to an engine, and can engage and disengage, via a first overrunning clutch, a shaft coupled to a generator. The second planetary gear assembly can be at least partially fixed to the first planetary gear assembly, and can engage and disengage, via a second overrunning clutch, the shaft. The first overrunning clutch can disengage the shaft and the second overrunning clutch can engage the shaft during a braking period.
US09132821B2
The present invention provides a stop lamp drive circuit and apparatus. The stop lamp drive apparatus includes a stop lamp switch, a vehicle battery, and a stop signal module. The stop lamp switch outputs a signal according to an operation state of a brake pedal in a vehicle. The vehicle battery supplies operation power of a stop lamp. In the stop signal module, an external controller outputting a signal for on/off control of the stop lamp is connected to an input thereof, and the stop lamp is directly connected to an output thereof.
US09132810B2
A parking device includes a drive cam disposed around an MG shaft that transmits a drive force of a second motor generator by being coupled with a parking gear, a driven cam disposed around an MG shaft so as to be able to rotate integrally with the MG shaft and capable of moving in the axial direction of the MG shaft by a relative rotation generated between the driven cam and the drive cam when the parking gear is locked by a pilot clutch, and a dog type brake that engages the parking gear with the MG shaft and a transaxle case accommodating the parking device by the movement of the driven cam. With the configuration, a shock load at the time of operation can be suppressed and the parking device can be reduced in size.
US09132805B1
An unattended-vehicle engine-idling system controls a vehicle powertrain in a non-motive mode with the engine running. An ignition switch operables with a removable ignition key. A control circuit has multiple states including a PREARMED state which is entered when the powertrain is in the motive mode and the user generates a manual activation signal. An ARMED state is entered when the transmission is in Park and holds an ignition switch status signal at RUN. An ACTIVE state is entered when the ignition switch is moved to the Accessory or Off positions or the key is removed. The powertrain is switched to non-motive mode and the switch status signal stays at RUN. A DISARMED state is entered in response to a manual deactivation signal generated independently of the ignition switch. In the DISARMED state, the ignition switch status signal corresponds with the ignition switch position, thereby turning off the engine.
US09132801B2
A seatbelt retractor and method of incorporating a spindle into a retractor frame. The seatbelt retractor includes a spindle having a recessed portion in a cylindrical surface for retracting a webbing, and a retractor frame including two flat plate-shaped side walls that are provided in parallel via an interval (A) in order to support the spindle, each of the two side walls being provided with a circular through hole having a diameter (C). An element on a first end of the spindle is contained within a range of a distance (D) from a deepest portion of the recessed portion, and an element on a second end of the spindle is contained within a range of a distance (B) from the deepest portion of the recessed portion. The distance (D) is smaller than the height (C), and the distance (B) is smaller than the interval (A).
US09132797B2
An exemplary knee airbag assembly may include an airbag cushion that has a first end and a second end. The airbag cushion may be inflatable from a stowed position to a deployed position in which it has a length and a thickness. The exemplary knee airbag assembly may also include an enlarged portion at at least one of the ends of the airbag cushion when the knee airbag assembly is in at least the deployed state. The enlarged portion increases the thickness of the airbag cushion along at least a portion of the length of the airbag cushion at the at least one of the ends of the airbag cushion such that the knee airbag assembly may be non-symmetrical.
US09132796B1
A spider web clearing device is mountable on the front of an off road vehicle, such as an all terrain vehicle. The device includes an upright flexible rod that when positioned at the front will engage and sever or snap any spider webs and will prevent the spider webs from engaging the driver. The rod will deflect equally in any direction when it strikes and obstruction. The rod is attachable to a mounting bracket which includes a top and a bottom mount. Curved recesses in each mount allow the bracket to be secured to a tubular member on the vehicle and the bottom mount can serve as a spacer when the top mount is attached directly to a horizontal surface on the vehicle.
US09132795B1
A bumper apparatus and system for use with vehicles, particularly law enforcement vehicles such as police cars and the like, that is configured to allow the user to easily and quickly remove the apparatus from the vehicle and to protect the vehicle from damage when executing a PIT maneuver (Precision Immobilization Technique). The bumper apparatus comprises a bumper guard and one or more attachment mechanisms configured to removably attach the bumper guard to the vehicle with the bumper guard disposed outwardly of the bumper at an end of the vehicle and outwardly from a side of the vehicle. The bumper guard has a side section which extends across a forward or rearward portion of the vehicle. The bumper guard can extend across the back wheel and rear door of the vehicle. The attachment mechanisms have mounting members that engage the frame of the vehicle at one or more existing connectors thereon.
US09132794B2
A vehicle front body structure includes: a vehicle body structural member disposed below a front end of a hood and extends substantially along the vehicle width direction; and an energy absorbing member that protrudes toward a vehicle front side from the vehicle body structural member, extends substantially along the vehicle width direction, and deforms so as to absorb energy upon a collision. The energy absorbing member is secured to the vehicle body structural member at opposite ends of the energy absorbing member in the vehicle width direction. A clearance is defined between a central part of the energy absorbing member in the vehicle width direction and the vehicle body structural member.
US09132789B2
A clip includes a first member engaging a first attached member, and a second member supported in the first member and engaging a second attached member. The clip connects both attached members, and when a load acts in a direction separating both attached members, the clip allows a separation of both attached members only for a predetermined distance. The first member includes a base portion engaging the first attached member, a protruding piece portion in the base portion, and an expanded head portion wider than the protruding piece portion formed in an end portion of the protruding piece portion. The second member includes a through hole through which the protruding piece portion loosely passes, and a cylinder portion supported in the protruding piece portion to be displaced in a protruding direction thereof, and also retained in the protruding piece portion by the base portion and the expanded head portion.
US09132783B2
A cargo supporting apparatus for use with a support structure includes a framework having an upper frame member having opposed first and second ends and a lower frame member having opposed first and second ends, the first end of the lower frame member being coupled to the first end of the upper frame member. The second end of the lower frame member is selectively coupled to a first location on the support structure. The second end of the upper frame member is selectively coupled to a second location on the support structure.
US09132772B2
A seat passenger determination apparatus includes: a door closing timing detector configured to detect door closing timing after having gotten out of the vehicle directly or indirectly; a counter unit configured to start counting when the load detected by the load detector falls within a threshold value and reset the count when the load is deviated from the threshold value; a determination processing unit configured to determine that no passenger is seated on the vehicle seat because the passenger has gotten out, and transfer the mode to the not-seated recognition mode when the state in which the load within the predetermined threshold value continues for a predetermined time is detected by the counter unit; and a count restricting unit configured to stop the counting process performed by the counter unit temporarily when the door-closed state is detected by the door closing timing detector during the determination by the determination processing unit.
US09132770B2
A vehicle includes a chassis, a bed assembly, and a light assembly. The chassis includes a frame member that defines a longitudinal direction. The bed assembly includes a deck coupled to the frame member and moveable between a transport position and a loading position. The light assembly includes a housing, a marker light coupled to the housing and positioned to deliver light across the longitudinal direction, and an indicator light coupled to the housing and positioned to deliver light in the longitudinal direction. The light assembly is coupled to the bed assembly to improve lateral and longitudinal visibility of the vehicle when the deck is in the transport position and the loading position.
US09132764B2
A mobile structure includes first and second rigid frames and first and second horizontal roof supports supported by the rigid frame. Each of the rigid frames includes a first vertical support, a second vertical support substantially parallel to the first vertical support, and a lateral rigid frame support extending perpendicularly at least from the first vertical support to the second vertical support. The mobile structure further includes a floor under the first and second horizontal roof supports, a wheel-axle assembly under the floor, and leveling assemblies that are extendable away from the floor. Each leveling assembly is in weight-bearing and in-line relationship with respect to one of the vertical supports of the first rigid frame.
US09132760B2
A frame structure for a backrest made of a resin and having a gate-shaped profile includes side frames extending parallel to each other on both sides thereof and a transverse frame extending like a sheet between top portions of the side frames integrally connected to the transverse frame, wherein the transverse frame connects to backrest back-side portions of the side frames at the top portions and connects to backrest front-side portions of the side frames at bottom portions, the transverse frame being formed into a sheet-like shape smoothly extending obliquely with respect to the side frames in a longitudinal cross section, and provided with reinforcing fibers extending continuously or intermittently at least between both side frames.
US09132753B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for an energy attenuating vehicle seat and seat extension. In one embodiment the seat and seat extension includes a substantially vertically oriented support column, at least one end of which is rigidly fixed to the vehicle structure. Upper and lower spaced apart seat mount bushings are attached to the seat and slidably mounted to the support column. An energy attenuating linkage connects the seat to the vehicle structure proximate an upper end of the support column. The seat may further include a seat extension platform pivotally connected at one end to the front of the seat, and the other end to an independent energy attenuating mount.
US09132748B2
A seat back mounting structure of a vehicle body may include a side pin that is fixed on a seat back frame, a seat back bracket formed with an insertion hole through which the side pin is inserted, a fixation hole, and a guide route between the insertion hole and the fixation hole such that the side pin moves from the insertion hole to the fixation hole, and an elastic bracket including a fixation portion formed at one side thereof, the fixation portion being fixed on the seat back bracket, and a protruded portion formed at a central portion of the elastic bracket, the protruded portion reducing a width of the guide route and elastically deformed by the side pin when the side pin moves from the insertion hole to the fixation hole.
US09132746B2
A first range, a second range, and a third range are determined for a state-of-charge associated with a battery. The second range is determined based on a first set of information. The third range is determined based on a second set of information different from the first set of information. A map including a first zone associated with the first range, a second zone associated with the second range, and a third zone associated with the third range is displayed.
US09132745B1
A hybrid powertrain system includes a battery and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to determine instantaneous battery power limits during operation of the system using filtered battery voltage signals and current input signals. The at least one controller is further configured to separate medium-to-high frequency dynamics of the measured battery voltage. The filtering process, in certain examples, is realized using a low pass filter or a high pass filter. The at least one controller is further configured to correlate the medium-to-high frequency loads to estimate battery parameters and determine battery dynamics using, in one example, an Extended Kalman Filter.
US09132736B1
One embodiment provides a method of operating a first motor/generator and a second motor/generator in a vehicle drive. The first motor/generator is electrically coupled to the second motor/generator by a DC bus. The vehicle drive is configured to propel a vehicle. The method includes operating the first motor/generator as a generator, providing electrical power to the DC bus. The first motor/generator provides the electrical power required by the second motor/generator and the electrical power required to offset losses. The method also includes operating the second motor/generator as a motor, consuming electrical power from the DC bus. The sum of the electrical power provided, the electrical power losses, and the electrical power consumed is zero. The first motor/generator provides electrical power and the second motor/generator consumes electrical power without providing electrical power to an energy storage device or consuming electrical power from an energy storage device.
US09132727B2
An object of the invention is to always maintain an outer pin holder and a housing in a speed reducer section at their predetermined positions, to prevent damage to such components as revolving members, outer circumferential engagers, and motion conversion mechanism upon a large axial load due to turning or sudden acceleration/deceleration, etc., and to eliminate rattling noise caused by the housing and the outer pin holder. A casing immobilizing member which is fixed to an inner surface of a speed reducer section casing and a housing immobilizing member which is fixed to an outer surface of a speed reducer section housing are provided between the speed reducer section casing and the speed reducer section housing. The casing immobilizing member and the housing immobilizing member are bonded with each other via a rubber member.
US09132726B2
A hybrid power train for a vehicle may include an input shaft, an engine-side drive gear provided on the input shaft, an output shaft, an engine-side driven gear rotatably provided on the output shaft and meshed with the engine-side drive gear, a motor-side drive gear rotated by a motor, a motor-side driven gear fixedly provided on the output shaft and meshed with the motor-side drive gear, an output gear rotatably provided on the output shaft, a one way clutch installed between the output gear and the output shaft, a clutch unit provided to switch an operating state of the output gear and to switch an operating state of the engine-side driven gear between a fixed state and a released state relative to the output shaft, and a planetary gear mechanism installed to couple the output shaft and the output gear to each other.
US09132720B2
A sash mounting structure includes positioners which are respectively provided at the lower end of an insertion support portion and the upper end of a lower sash that are inserted into and supported by a door panel, and which define the position of the lower sash relative to the side sash by being mutually engaged; and a fixer which is provided between the lower sash and the door panel, has a predetermined degree of freedom in fixing position in a vertical direction and fixes the lower sash to the door panel, wherein the lower sash is fixed to the door panel with the lower sash being positioned by the positioners. This structure strikes a balance between easiness of positioning the lower sash and accommodation of variations in accuracy, thus making it possible to improve the mounting workability when mounting the lower sash to the door panel.
US09132717B2
A vehicle interior component to which a shade assembly, which includes a shade and a shaft, is mounted includes an interior component body including a top wall, and a protruding member. The top wall is arranged such that a longitudinal direction thereof corresponds to an axial direction of the shaft. The top wall has an opening through which the shade is drawn. The top wall has exterior and interior opening edges at the opening. The interior opening edge includes a straight section and a raised section having a different shape from the straight section. The protruding member is arranged below the raised section and having a protruded edge extending straight in the longitudinal direction and on which the shade leans from an exterior side of the vehicle such that the shade bends toward an interior of the vehicle at the protruded edge when the shade is unrolled.
US09132707B2
A hitch system for coupling a hitch post to a ball portion employs a control system configured to operate in a service mode and a master mode. The control system operates in the master mode upon entry of a master code. Entry of the master code is not required to operate the control system when the control system is in the service mode. Entry of the master code is required to operate the control system when the control system is in the master mode.
US09132705B2
In a method for the measurement and analysis of tire air pressure with an allocation of wheel positions (I, II, III, IV) of a vehicle (1) for analysis in a tire air pressure measurement system each wheel (2) of the vehicle (1) is allocated an air pressure checking device (10), an LF receiver (11), in particular a magnetic field strength receiver, an analysis unit (13), an RF-transmission device (12) and an individual wheel code. The LF receiver (11) receives electrical LF signals from an LF transmission device (4) of a central unit (3) arranged in the vehicle (1), the analysis unit (13) analyzes the received signal amplitudes and from these determines a wheel rotation rate and the RF transmission device (12) of the wheel (2) sends RF signals with information about the wheel rotation rate and the individual wheel code to the central unit (3) of the vehicle (1). The central unit (3) determines the wheel position (I, II, III oder IV) of the wheel (2) using another measurement system (7) and allocates the air pressure checking device (10) and its individual wheel code to the known wheel position (I, II, III or IV) on the vehicle (1). A tire air pressure measurement system has a central unit (3) arranged in a vehicle (1) with an LF transmission device (4), an RF receiver device (5) and a central analysis device (6). An air pressure checking device (10) arranged on each wheel (2) of the vehicle (1), an LF receiver device (11), RF transmission device (12) and analysis unit (13) for determining a rotation rate using a periodically varying amplitude of the received LF signal, and a measurement system (7) for measuring the wheel rotation rate at each wheel (2) and/or for determining the type of bend are additionally provided.
US09132703B2
Pneumatic vehicle tire includes at least two bracing plies arranged to intersect each other at an angle and including reinforcements of steel arranged substantially parallel to and at a distance from one another and embedded in a rubber material. Bracing ply reinforcements are oriented at an angle of 18° to 45° with the circumferential direction of the tire. A bracing bandage is also included having at least one ply with reinforcements of a non-metallic material arranged substantially parallel to and at a distance from one another and generally extending a circumferential direction of the tire. Bracing bandage reinforcements include a material with heat shrinkage properties. Under a predetermined extension of 1% in the longitudinal direction of the reinforcements, each bracing ply, has a tension of <17,500 N per dm of width, and the bracing bandage as a whole has a tension of >2,000 N per dm of width.
US09132690B2
A visual display assembly adapted for use as an anti-counterfeiting device on paper currency, product labels, and other objects. The assembly includes a film of transparent material including a first surface including an array of lenses and a second surface opposite the first surface. The assembly also includes a printed image proximate to the second surface. The printed image includes pixels of frames of one or more images interlaced relative to two orthogonal axes. The lenses of the array are nested in a plurality of parallel rows, and adjacent ones of the lenses in columns of the array are aligned to be in a single one of the rows with no offset of lenses in adjacent columns/rows. The lenses may be round-based lenses or are square-based lenses, and the lenses may be provided at 200 lenses per inch (LPI) or a higher LPI in both directions.
US09132687B2
A doctor blade for scraping printing ink from a surface of a printing plate, comprising a flat and elongated main body having a working edge area formed in a longitudinal direction, the working edge area being coated with at least one first coating on the basis of a nickel-phosphorus alloy, and is characterized in that the first coating contains at least one additional component for improving the wear behavior of the doctor blade.
US09132685B2
A fixed structure and a printing method are provided with which cracking and detachment of a UV ink coating do not occur even when a UV ink of high surface hardness is used. As a solution, an adhesive primer layer 12 is provided between a substrate 11, and a UV ink coating 16 having a surface hardness higher than a pencil hardness H.
US09132684B2
A light guide plate and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The light guide plate includes a substrate, a screen-printed layer, and a light-solidified layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface and the second surface are opposite. The screen-printed layer is formed on the first surface of the substrate by a screen-printing process. The light-solidified layer is formed on the second surface of the substrate by a light-solidification and imprinting process. The screen-printed layer has a plurality of screen point patterns. The light-solidified layer has a plurality of micro-structures.
US09132680B2
A check pattern is printed which makes it possible to detect, with high precision, individual patterns corresponding to nozzles of a print head of an inkjet printing apparatus. More specifically, after an alignment mark is printed, ejection of an ink from the nozzles is stopped for a certain time. Because of this stoppage time, the concentration of a coloring material of the ink ejected from the nozzles increases, whereby the optical density of an analysis pattern which is printed later can be increased. In this manner, a scanner can read, with high precision, the patterns corresponding to the nozzles.
US09132675B1
A pressure-balanced mechanism for a print head includes a fixation frame, a pivot point assembly, a print head assembly and a depression assembly. The pivot point assembly further includes a supportive shaft and a pivotal structure. The supportive shaft is connected to the fixation frame. The pivotal structure is to movably sleeve the supportive shaft. The print head assembly further includes a frame structure and a print head module. The frame structure is to sleeve the supportive shaft and has the pivotal structure to contact at an inside thereof. The print head module is mounted inside the frame structure by separating from the pivotal structure. The depression assembly further includes a fix shaft and two depression structures. The fix shaft is connected to the fixation frame. The depression structure slippery along the fix shaft can contact elastically the frame structure outside to the print head module.
US09132669B2
There is provided a printing control apparatus configured to cause a printing unit to print an image on a printing medium. In the printing control apparatus, the printed image has a size determined based on a candidate, which is acquired by a sensor detecting the size of the printing medium and is one of the candidates for a size of the printing medium, corresponding to a combination of a plurality of conditions for specifying the size of the printing medium.
US09132659B2
Unevenness correcting information is generated based on property information indicating a recording property of each of a plurality of recording elements which are included in a recording head, the recording elements being subjected to output correction in a first output correction unit based on unevenness correcting information obtained after a flattening processing and output correction in a second output correction unit, and the unevenness correcting information close to an appropriate value with which an image in an appropriately-corrected state can be obtained can be generated.
US09132657B2
A printing apparatus includes a print head that ejects ink for printing, an ink tank from which ink is fed to the print head, a first channel provided between the print head and the ink tank to feed ink in the ink tank to the print head, a second channel through which the ink in the first channel is transferred, and a pump connected to the second channel to transfer the ink in the first channel. The pump allows air or the ink in the first channel to be discharged via the second channel.
US09132644B2
In a waste liquid container which is attachable and detachable to a recording portion including a liquid ejecting head which discharges a waste liquid and can store the waste liquid which is discharged from the liquid ejecting head in a state of being mounted on the recording portion, an engagement portion which protrudes from a side wall of the waste liquid container and is disposed lower in a vertical direction than a guide portion which is provided on the recording portion in the state of being mounted on the recording portion is provided.
US09132641B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head in which a nozzle ejecting liquid onto a recording medium is provided; a first wiping member which performs a first wiping process of wiping off foreign materials adhered to a nozzle opening surface of the head by moving a relative position thereof with respect to the head to the other side from one side in a predetermined direction, in a state of being in contact with the nozzle opening surface; and a second wiping member which performs a second wiping process of removing the foreign materials adhered to a side surface of the head at the other side in the predetermined direction.
US09132639B2
A method for fabricating an ejection chip of a fluid ejection device includes forming a drive circuitry layer on a substrate, fabricating at least one fluid ejection element on the substrate, forming at least one slot within a top portion of the substrate, filling each slot of the at least one slot with a protective material, grinding the substrate from a bottom portion of the substrate up to a predetermined height, removing the protective material from the each slot of the at least one slot, and laminating a flow feature layer and a nozzle plate over the substrate having the at least one slot.
US09132638B2
An object is to shorten the printing time of an inkjet printer capable of forming a plurality of ink layers on a medium. An inkjet printer (100) includes an ink head unit (102) for ejecting ink toward a medium (M); a moving mechanism (130) for moving the ink head unit (102) in a left-right direction; a transfer mechanism (55) for transferring the medium (M) in a forward-rearward direction; and a control device (50). The control device (50) performs first printing of causing the ink head unit (102) to eject the ink while sequentially transferring the medium (M) forward and second printing of causing the ink head unit (102) to eject the ink while sequentially transferring the medium (M) rearward.
US09132631B2
There is provided a printing apparatus that can perform print timing control while moving a print head with high precision even when variation in moving speed of the print head is relatively large. More specifically, a prediction speed is obtained based on a detected moving speed of the print head and a control target speed at the time of detection, and then a print timing of the print head is controlled based on the prediction speed. Accordingly, a correction speed of the print timing is considered to be the obtained prediction speed. This makes it possible to minimize a landing error even when a speed variation is large.
US09132626B2
An inkjet printer forms low and high area coverage test patterns using inkjets in a printhead. The printer identifies process direction offsets for the inkjets in both test patterns using scanned image data of the printed test patterns. The printer identifies a level of cross-talk in the printhead with reference to a standard deviation difference between the process direction offsets identified in the low area coverage and high area coverage test patterns. The printer generates a recommendation for an operational configuration of the printhead based on the identified level of cross-talk.
US09132624B2
A contact pressure adjusting method and a contact pressure adjusting apparatus for a printing press, which can adjust a contact pressure automatically and always highly accurately without the influence of mechanical oscillations (disturbance such as noise), are provided. For this purpose, the contact pressure (load) of a wiping roll on an intaglio cylinder is converted into the torque value (electric current value) of a wiping roll drive motor, and given as feedback to a wiping roll contact pressure adjusting motor.
US09132623B2
A multi-station flexographic printing system includes a first flexographic printing station that includes a first flexo master. The system includes one or more additional flexographic printing stations, wherein each of the one or more additional flexographic printing stations includes a flexo master. The first flexo master includes one or more alignment boxes in one or more unique positions. Each flexo master of the one or more additional flexographic printing stations includes an alignment box completion in a predetermined position. A method of marking a substrate for visual alignment includes printing one or more alignment boxes in one or more unique positions on a substrate. One or more alignment box completions are printed in one or more predetermined positions on the substrate. The one or more predetermined positions correspond to the one or more unique positions.
US09132621B2
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprises an imageable layer comprising a free radically polymerizable component, an initiator composition capable of generating free radicals upon exposure to imaging infrared radiation, an infrared radiation absorbing dye that is defined by Structure (I) shown in the disclosure, which dyes comprise one or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable groups in an organic group that is attached to the methine chain. These infrared radiation absorbing dyes exhibit a reduced tendency to crystallize in the imageable layers in the presence of tetraaryl borate counter anions and therefore provide improved shelf life.
US09132618B2
In an indirect process, acrylic adhesive is coated on a silicone liner. A soft rubber roller is employed between a reverse anilox cylinder and an anvil cylinder in a flexo print station to reduce shear hardening in the coating process and prevent or reduce shear hardening on the print rollers. Once the coated silicone liner passes the rollers, air knives are used to speed up the drying of the adhesive on the silicone liner before the coated liner is laminated to a face stock.
US09132614B2
The present disclosure relates to the preparation of composite molds and methods of preparing the same, wherein the composite molds may be prepared exclusive or inclusive of a plug. Certain composites comprise a substrate, a structural laminate, and a syntactic foam molding product.
US09132606B2
An intermediate material made up of an array of individualized ribbons, each ribbon being composed of a tape of unidirectional reinforcing fibers associated, by adhesion, on each of its faces with a veil of thermoplastic fibers.
US09132598B2
A combination cooler and can crusher is an apparatus assembly that allows a user to compact empty aluminum beverage cans for facilitated transport. The apparatus combines a cooler with an integrated wheel assembly with a can crushing mechanism. The integrated wheel allows a user to transport a large quantity of food and beverage items to an event. The can crushing mechanism provides the user to compact emptied aluminum beverages cans for facilitated transport upon leaving the event. The apparatus accomplishes both functions in a compact design by integrating the can crushing mechanism with the elongated handle of the cooler with integrated wheel assembly.
US09132597B2
Assemblies and methods for processing a workpiece in a ram-driven press employ an active tool contained by a housing that is interchangeable with a passive forming tool assembly in a mounting assembly of the press. The active tool includes a microprocessor and a functional head coupled to the microprocessor. Some assemblies including the active tool include a switch for activating the functional head; the switch may be mounted to the housing such that, when the housing is mounted in the mounting assembly of the press, the switch is triggered by movement of the housing in response to the ram stroke of the press.
US09132596B2
The method and the device serve for aligning a belt strip, which has a middle part and triangular end pieces. The belt strip is wound onto a tire building drum in such a way that the triangular end regions extend next to one another, at least in certain regions. At least one of the triangular regions is changed in its alignment, at least in certain regions. This achieves the effect that the triangular regions extend next to one another on the tire building drum with matching edge contours
US09132595B1
The current inventive technology includes improved methods, apparatus and material applications for the fabrication of seamless helium-free balloons and display systems. Specific embodiments of the invention include rotational molding techniques to produce seamless helium-free balloons having, in some cases seamless integral attachment supports that may secured to external displays. Additional embodiments of the invention include techniques for the fabrication of seamed, as well as seamless polyurethane (PU) and/or thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) helium-free balloons that may be integrated with external display systems.
US09132591B2
The present invention regards a fiber-reinforced composite molding with an outer (102) structure and an inner structure (106), wherein the outer structure (102) is formed from at least one layer of fibrous reinforcing material and a cured first resin material, and the inner structure (106) is formed from a plurality of layers of fibrous reinforcing material and a second cured resin material, wherein the viscosity of the uncured first resin material is lower than the viscosity of the uncured second resin material and wherein in the composite molding the two cured resin materials are at least partially mixed with each other. It also regards a process for the production of such a fiber-reinforced composite molding.
US09132589B2
A method for producing a curved profile from a rectilinear preform of preimpregnated fiber webs, including stacking webs on the deformable mandrel and winding the deformable mandrel and the stacked webs on a bending tool along an axis of rotation (X), the profile including a stack of N webs, at least one first part of the profile being positioned in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation (X) and at least one second part parallel to the axis (X) whereof a face can be in contact with the bending tool. The method includes stacking the N fiber webs on the deformable mandrel, generating a heat gradient between the face and the rest of the preform that is hotter than the face, bending, in a single phase, the N webs inserted between the deformable mandrel and the bending tool, and polymerizing the N bent webs.
US09132580B2
In extrusion system includes an extrusion die and a deckle system. In one embodiment, the deckle system includes a deckle rod and a cam member operatively coupled to the deckle rod. A cam controller controls the cam member. The cam member cams with the deckle rod in response to actuation of the cam controller. The camming action forces the deckle rod to seal an end region of the extrusion die.
US09132568B2
A saw having a power unit with a drive component and a housing for the power unit with a frame. A bar on the housing guides movement of an operatively positioned cutting chain driven by the drive component in an endless path. The bar is movable guidingly in opposite directions in a predetermined path relative to the housing to thereby vary tension upon an operatively positioned cutting chain. A bar fixing assembly has a knob that is turnable around a first axis relative to the housing in: a) a first direction to a tightened state; and b) a second direction to a loosened state. A first assembly resiliently bears against the knob to at least one of: a) inhibit turning of the knob around the first axis; b) provide a sensory indication to a user grasping and turning the knob that the knob is moving around the first axis; and c) reduce play in the knob.
US09132567B2
Tools with a thermo-mechanically modified working region and methods of forming such tools. The tool includes a working region containing steel altered by a thermo-mechanical process to contain modified carbide and/or alloy bands. In use, a surface of the working region contacts a workpiece when the tool is used to perform a metal-forming operation.
US09132560B2
A hair remover includes a main unit having a gripper, a head unit having a blade, and a drive unit for driving the blade. One end of the main unit has an extension portion extending in an extension direction. The direction in the head unit along the hair removing direction of the blade is defined as a first direction. A second direction in the head unit is perpendicular to the first direction. The hair remover also includes a rotating mechanical section having a rotation center, the axis of which is perpendicular to the extension direction, enabling the head unit to rotate around the rotation center with respect to the main unit, and thereby switching between a state where the second direction of the head unit is parallel to the extension direction and a state where the second direction of the head unit is perpendicular to the extension direction.
US09132559B2
A knife for cutting food products having a proximal end, a distal end and a length defined therebetween. The knife includes a blade portion having a cutting edge and a spine disposed on a top side of the blade portion and generally opposed to the cutting edge. The knife includes a handle portion disposed proximal of the blade portion with a top surface and a bottom surface, a first end proximal to the blade portion and a second end distal to the blade portion. The handle portion includes a bolster section with at least a first thickness, a first lateral sidewall and a second lateral sidewall. The bolster section is disposed at the first end of the handle portion and adjacent to the blade portion. The first sidewall of the bolster section includes an arcuate proximal bolster boundary defined by a curvilinear ridge extending downwardly toward the blade portion from a point proximate the top surface of the handle portion. The first sidewall of the bolster section also includes an arcuate distal bolster boundary being defined by a curvilinear ridge extending downwardly toward the blade portion from a point proximate the bottom surface of the handle portion. A portion of the curvilinear ridge defining the arcuate proximal bolster boundary is spaced a distance along the length of the knife from a portion of the curvilinear ridge defining the arcuate distal boundary. A surface depression is formed in at least one of the first lateral sidewall and the second lateral sidewall, the surface depression being disposed between the curvilinear ridge defining the arcuate proximal bolster boundary.
US09132558B2
A folding knife with a handle and blade connected at a axle pin, with a tension spring within the handle pinned to the handle on one end and pinned to a flexible tendon in the form of a chain on the opposite end. The flexible tendon in the form of a chain is pinned at opposite ends to the spring and the blade at a distance from the blade axle pin. When the blade is folded about the axle pin energy is stored in the tension spring by force transferring from the blade through the flexible tendon in the form of a chain to the spring. When the blade is folded a catch blocks the blade from unfolding, and when the user actuates this blocking catch the stored energy in the tension spring is released thus causing the blade to rotate about the axis point and deploy to the opened position.
US09132555B2
A robot gripping device (60) where each finger part has a finger part body (1) which is comprised of a plate-shaped elastic member, a first anti-slip part (2) which is provided at an inside of a front end side of the finger part body, and a reinforcing member (20) which is arranged along an outer surface of the finger part body, is connected to the front end of the finger part body, and is higher in rigidity than the finger part body, the reinforcing member having a first rotary joint (4) which makes the reinforcing member pivot about a first axis of rotation which is vertical to a longitudinal direction of the finger part body, and the robot gripping device having a drive part (62) which makes a base end of the finger part body move along the center of grip to make the finger part open and close.
US09132553B2
A robot system includes a container, a disposed-state detector, and a robot arm. The container is configured to accommodate a plurality of to-be-held objects and includes a reticulated portion. The disposed-state detector is configured to detect disposed states of the plurality of respective to-be-held objects disposed in the container. The robot arm includes a holder configured to hold a to-be-held object among the plurality of to-be-held objects based on the disposed states of the plurality of respective to-be-held objects detected by the disposed-state detector.
US09132547B2
A robot and method to recognize and handle abnormal situations includes a sensing unit to sense internal and external information of the robot, a storage unit to store the information sensed by the sensing unit, an inference model, a learning model, services providable by the robot, subtasks to provide the services, and handling tasks to handle abnormal situations, and a controller to determine whether an abnormal situation has occurred while the subtasks to provide the selected service are being performed through the learning model in the storage unit and to select a handling task to handle the abnormal situation through the inference model in the storage unit if it is determined that the abnormal situation has occurred. The robot may recognize and handle abnormal situations even though data other than that defined by a designer of the robot is input thereto due to noises or operational environment.
US09132530B2
A knife sharpening device contains: a main whetstone portion and a sub whetstone portion. The main whetstone portion includes a bevel seat, two stopping protrusions, at least one first support piece, at least one second support piece, and a main sharpening block. The bevel seat has a tilted face, the at least one first support piece, the at least one second support piece, the main sharpening block, and the sub whetstone portion. The sub whetstone portion includes at least one sub sharpening block, an auxiliary sharpening face, and a concave wall. Each sub sharpening block has the auxiliary sharpening face defined on a front surface thereof and corresponding to the main sharpening block of the main whetstone portion, and the concave wall is defined below the auxiliary sharpening face.
US09132524B2
A polishing pad has a polishing layer including a non-foamed polyurethane, wherein the non-foamed polyurethane is a reaction cured body of a polyurethane raw material composition containing an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer obtained by reacting a prepolymer raw material composition containing a diisocyanate, a high-molecular-weight polyol and a low-molecular-weight polyol; an isocyanate modified body polymerized by adding three or more diisocyanates; and a chain extender, and the addition amount of the isocyanate-modified body is 5 to 30 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the isocyanate-terminated prepolymer. The polishing pad hardly causes scratches on the surface of an object to be polished and has an improved dressing property.
US09132516B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a bearing arrangement for a roll journal, wherein the bearing arrangement comprises a bearing insert, with a bearing bush, and a journal bush which is mounted with bearing play in the bearing bush and can be pushed onto the roll journal. In order to extend the service life of the bearing arrangement and therefore to save costs, the method according to the invention provides, in order to eliminate scoring, for the external diameter Da of the journal bush also to be reduced below a threshold value Dak and at the same time for a novel bearing bush to be supplied which, with regard to its internal diameter Di new, is adapted to the reduced external diameter of the bearing bush in such a way that the bearing play remains within a predefined permissible value range.
US09132514B2
A solder powder having an average particle diameter of, for example, 0.05 μm or more and less than 3 μm is obtained by a method of producing a solder powder, including the steps of: putting solid or liquid metal, a non-aqueous solvent, and crushing balls having a diameter of 0.05 mm to 5 mm into a container to obtain a mixture; heating the mixture to 150° C. or higher and stirring the mixture; separating the crushing balls from the mixture after the stirring to obtain a mixture of the solder powder and the non-aqueous solvent; and performing solid-liquid separation on the mixture of the solder powder and the non-aqueous solvent to obtain a solder powder.
US09132497B2
This viscous material feeder includes a nozzle to discharge a viscous material stored in a storage portion storing the viscous material and a feeding mechanism transferring the viscous material from the storage portion to the nozzle and discharging the viscous material from the nozzle. The nozzle has a bent feed route to guide the viscous material from the storage portion to a tip of the nozzle and is configured to be dividable along the bent feed route.
US09132496B2
In certain embodiments, a system includes a deposition system and a plasma/bonding system. The deposition system deposits a solder outwardly from a substrate of a number of substrates. The plasma/bonding system comprises a plasma system configured to plasma clean the substrate and a bonding system configured to bond the substrates. The plasma/bonding system at least reduces reoxidation of the solder. In certain embodiments, a method comprises depositing solder outwardly from a substrate, removing metal oxide from the substrate, and depositing a capping layer outwardly from the substrate to at least reduce reoxidation of the solder.
US09132494B2
A wiring board and a method for manufacturing the wiring board reinforced by means of a resin is provided. Embodiments of the wiring board allow for reliable attachment of a connection member, like a socket, to a terminal member. For example, a base of terminal pins is put on pin grid array (PGA) terminal pads, and a bonding material paste including solder and an electric insulation material made of a resin is placed on each of the PGA terminal pads. The bonding material paste is then heated to fuse the solder and soften the electric insulation material. Subsequently, the bonding material paste is cooled to solidify the solder and bond each of the bases to a corresponding PGA terminal pad and form an electric insulation surface layer on an exposed surface of each of solder junctions to which the respective bases are bonded.
US09132491B2
A power tool includes a housing having a handle configured for a user, the handle defining a first axis, a motor supported by the housing, the motor defining a second axis along a length of the motor, a tool element movably supported by the housing and drivingly coupled to the motor, the tool element defining a third axis along a length of the tool element. Each of the first, second, and third axes are oblique with respect to each of the other axes.
US09132482B2
A method of forming micrometric or millimetric sized granules by the agglomeration of nanometric sized particles, comprising the addition of a set of nanometric sized particles into a container having an inside wall surface with a circular or approximately circular section and setting the set of particles in motion along said inside wall surface by rotating the container about a rotation axis passing through said container. The setting in motion of the particles is done in a dry state and the container is rotated continuously at constant speed for several consecutive hours.
US09132479B2
The teachings provide a fill tube assembly for a casting mold and methods of using the assembly. The fill tube assembly includes a fill tube having a tubular member with a receiving end, a mold-engaging end and an intermediate portion. The mold-engaging end has a tapered flange radially extending therefrom, the remainder of the tubular member has a substantially, uniform cross-section. A clamping assembly is structured to maintain a substantially leakproof seal at the fill tube, casting mold interface while accommodating dimensional variations. The clamping assembly includes a gasket, a load ring, a clamping plate and a pre-load gap between the clamping plate and the casting mold and optionally includes a dimensional compensating ring. When tightened, the clamping plate biases the load ring against the flange thereby distributing a uniform load against the casting mold, compressing the gasket therebetween while narrowing the pre-load gap to accommodate dimensional variations.
US09132476B2
A multi-wall gas turbine airfoil (192) and method of forming same using a casting core (150) having a monolithic body configured to define a pressure side wall (12), a suction side wall (14), and a third wall (16). The casting core is formed around a fugitive insert (96) during a single pour casting process.
US09132475B2
An object is to provide a mold molding method which can provide a high general-purpose property and can reduce a usage quantity of molding sand. In a method for molding a mold (sand mold) by self-hardening molding sand using a caking additive, the mold is molded by disposing hollow spheres each formed to have no clearance therein among molding sand mixed with the caking additive. Preferably, the hollow sphere may be formed by working two metal plates to semispherical shapes and then connecting the semispherical-shaped metal plates to each other by welding their respective whole peripheries. A specific gravity of the hollow sphere may be 0.5 to 2.0 times a specific gravity of the molding sand.
US09132472B2
A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a feed device for feeding a wire from a wire reel rotatably mounted on a binding machine body, a braking device for braking a rotation of the wire reel, and a control device that starts a braking to the rotation of the wire reel by the braking device after the wire is fed to a predetermined amount by the feed device.
US09132467B2
In a method of producing a connection between the neck area of a light metal cartridge, particularly an aluminium cartridge, and a plastic container inserted therein, by a drawing process that forms a connection area and applies areas of the wall of the light metal cartridge against the plastic container using a rotating main body (15) of a drawing tool (2), said main body supporting at least one profiled drawing roller (3) which can rotate about a rotation axis (5) in order to delimit a tool working opening (1), wherein the drawing roller (3) lies against the outer surface of the light metal cartridge, the rotation axis (5) of the drawing roller (3) is arranged at a tool-internal end area of a lever (9) arranged transversely relative to the longitudinal axis (16) of the drawing tool (2), said lever being supported at its opposite tool-external end area on the drawing tool (2) so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis (11) in a force-controlled manner and so as to apply the drawing roller (3) against the outer surface of the light metal cartridge.
US09132463B2
A die cushion device includes: a cushion pad which is located below a blank holder and is movable up and down while being synchronized with the blank holder; a linear driving device which drives a brake member along a predetermined line and regenerates energy from the linear movement of the brake member by combination of a servo motor and a conversion mechanism; and a hydraulic speed change device which transfers the speed of the cushion pad to the brake member via the pressure of hydraulic fluid while increasing the speed and transfers the speed of the brake member to the cushion pad via the pressure of the enclosed hydraulic fluid while decreasing the speed.
US09132459B2
An adjustment device and method to guide a metal product along a determinate nominal rolling axis. The device comprises a central body disposed astride the rolling axis, two guide units mounted movable on the central body, opposite each other with respect to the rolling axis and each provided with at least a guide roller for the metal product, and an adjustment mechanism mounted on the central body and operatively connected to both the guide units, in order to actuate the selective movement thereof with respect to the central body at least in an approach toward the rolling axis. The adjustment mechanism comprises a system of pantograph levers having two levers pivoted to each other and to the central body in correspondence to the rolling axis by means of a pin, and first constraint means disposed on each lever on opposite sides to the pin, so as to connect each lever to both the guide units.
US09132454B2
A system, method and apparatus for separating materials of different specific gravities including a material flow-path surface having a trap structure with an oscillator coupled thereto to cause oscillation thereof while the surface is immersed in a standing fluid.
US09132452B2
A mining classifier assembly includes a round main body member with a flat bottom portion, preferably adapted to be received into the top portion of a round bucket or similar container, including a series of holes in the bottom portion thereof. The main body member may be placed into the top of a bucket that contains water. A load of dirt, containing rocks, minerals, gemstones, and the like, may be loaded into the main body member so that the water at least partially covers the load, and an operator may agitate the particulate within the water, so that the particulate small enough to fall through the holes in the main body member may fall through, while the larger particulate remains within the main body member. Additionally, a series of trays having a mesh bottom may be inserted into the main body member, to catch and separate smaller particulate.
US09132447B2
The invention provides apparatus and methods for organic continuum vapor deposition of organic materials on large area substrates.
US09132446B2
Apparatus and methods are configured to coat a medical device, such as a stent, with a beneficial medicinal agent using one or more liquid feeds and one or more micromist nozzles. In one implementation, an agent coating rig includes a vertical adjustment means, a rotation means, and a traverse adjustment means for moving a medical device along virtually any point on an x or y axis. In additional or alternative implementations, the agent coating rig can further include a secondary horizontal adjustment means that allows adjustment along virtually any point on a z axis. Furthermore, methods and apparatus are provided for distributing the beneficial agent on the medical device, including delivering the beneficial agent efficiently over time.
US09132444B2
A coating apparatus includes: a transport unit configured to transport an object to be coated; a coating liquid pan configured to store a coating liquid; a roller configured to be partially immersed in the coating liquid, rotate around an axis to draw up the coating liquid, and coat the coating liquid on the object; a support unit configured to detachably support the coating liquid pan and slidably supports the coating liquid pan; a positioning unit configured to position the coating liquid pan attached to the support unit at an attachment position; and a relative movement unit configured to relatively moves the support unit and the roller. When the support unit is located at an immersion position, a part of the roller is immersed in the coating liquid. When the support unit is located at a retraction position, the coating liquid pan is slidably supported without contact with the roller.
US09132435B2
A separator in which a product such as milk is to be processed, the separator includes: a centrifugal drum; an admission tube; a distributor including an admission chamber located downstream of the admission tube and distribution channels leading into a centrifugal chamber of the centrifugal drum. A rib body is located in the admission chamber and the rib body provides an outlet to the distributor channels. The rib body includes a plurality of ribs and a base section connecting the plurality of ribs along a periphery of the base section.
US09132433B2
The present invention provides a diverter or flow controller 1.060, 26.060 for controlling a flow on or within an apparatus 1.001, 26.500, including at least one diverter or flow controller element 1.065, 26.2 and one or more displacement members 1.064, 26.064 adapted to move at least part of the diverter or flow controller element 1.065, 26.2 or a corresponding one of the diverter or flow controller element 1.065, 26.2 into or out of contact with a flow path. The invention also provides a remotely controlled diverter or flow controller and is applicable to flow devices or apparatus such as spiral concentrators and banks of these as up-current classifiers, hydraulic classifiers, teeter bed style classifiers, sluices, weirs, or channels.
US09132432B2
Systems and methods for increasing recyclable material recovery from automobile shredder residue (4). Embodiments include separation of automobile shredder residue with a sorting system (5) such as an air sorting system, a non-ferrous automobile shredder residue air sorter, an air-locked automobile shredder residue sorting system, a non-magnetic magnetic sorter, a substantially isotropic quantization sorting system, an air-locked Z-box air classifier, low susceptance microparticle separator, a magnetic fuzz separator, a wind tunnel system, or the like perhaps with substantially horizontal laminar air flow (7) and can be used with or without out other traditional automobile shredder residue sorting systems (16) or (15) perhaps creating additional recyclable quantities and even better separated results such as with zorba and zurik and the like.
US09132423B2
A microfluidic cartridge and methods for performing a diagnostic, molecular or biochemical assay thereon, where all dried and/or liquid reagents necessary for the assay are contained in the cartridge and the assay requires only the addition of sample. Pneumohydraulic features, chamber and diaphragm technologies are introduced for overcoming the problems of bubble interference and reagent washout during operation of a microfluidic cartridge. The cartridges are inserted into a host instrument for performance of an assay and the cartridge is supplied as a consumable.
US09132415B2
A method of upgrading heavy oil in which the heavy oil is preheated to above a boiling point of water to remove water as steam and lighter fractions as vapors. The heavy oil passes downwardly through a series of sequential horizontal heat gradients in a temperature gradient reactor. A temperature of each sequential heat gradient progressively increases so that lighter fractions of the heavy oil vaporize with minimal cracking and heavier heavy oil fractions continue to fall by force of gravity downwards. As they pass through further sequential heat gradients of progressively increasing temperature, they tend to crack into lighter fractions in the presence of nascent hydrogen. Coke, formed from heavier heavy oil fractions generated and deposited on a fluidized catalytic bed a bottom of the temperature gradient reactor, is fluidized with superheated steam. The superheated steam generates the nascent hydrogen required to promote hydrogen reactions by indirect heated steam reforming and water-gas shift reactions.
US09132411B2
A linking ligand compound includes three bidentate chemical moieties distributed about a central chemical moiety. Another linking ligand compound includes a bidentate linking ligand and a monodentate chemical moiety. Coordination polymers include a plurality of metal clusters linked together by residues of the linking ligand compounds.
US09132410B2
Silicalite particles, methods of making silicalite particles, systems comprising silicalite particles and methods for using silicalite particles to separate ethanol from water.
US09132406B2
The invention describes a high-pressure vessel for holding samples which are to be heated, the high-pressure vessel having: a lower part (5, 104) and a lid part (6, 105) which can be locked together and when closed surround on all sides a reaction chamber for initiating and/or promoting chemical and/or physical high-pressure reactions, it being possible for the lower part (5, 104) and the lid part (6, 105) to be moved relative to each other in an automated fashion between an open access position and a closed microwave processing position, a sample holder (101) and/or a vessel insert (9) being connected to the lid part (6, 105).
US09132404B2
A system operating in an environment having an ambient pressure, the system comprising: a reactor configured to combine a plasma stream, powder particles and conditioning fluid to alter the powder particles and form a mixture stream; a supply chamber coupled to the reactor; a suction generator configured to generate a suction force at the outlet of the reactor; a fluid supply module configured to supply the conditioning fluid at an original pressure; and a pressure regulation module configured to: receive the conditioning fluid from the fluid supply module, reduce the pressure of the conditioning fluid from the original pressure to a selected pressure relative to the ambient pressure regardless of any changes in the suction force at the outlet of the reactor, and supply the conditioning fluid at the selected pressure to the supply chamber.
US09132402B2
Apparatus, systems, and processes for reforming hydrocarbons are provided. The process can include reforming a first hydrocarbon in the presence of steam and one or more first catalysts in a first reformer to produce a first reformed hydrocarbon. The process can also include reforming the first reformed hydrocarbon in the presence of one or more second catalysts in a second reformer to produce a second reformed hydrocarbon. The process can also include reforming a second hydrocarbon in the presence of steam and one or more third catalysts in a third reformer to produce a third reformed hydrocarbon, where heat from the second reformed hydrocarbon is transferred to the second hydrocarbon to support reforming of the second hydrocarbon.
US09132400B2
A method for dispensing liquid for use in biological analysis may comprise positioning liquid to be dispensed via electrowetting. The positioning may comprise aligning the liquid with a plurality of predetermined locations. The method may further comprise dispensing the aligned liquid from the plurality of predetermined locations through a plurality of openings respectively aligned with the predetermined locations. The dispensing may be via electrowetting.
US09132394B2
System, including methods and apparatus, for detection of spaced droplets.
US09132388B2
A pervaporation element includes a ceramic monolith having an array of parallel channels separated by porous channel walls extending along an axial length of the monolith, and a functional membrane coating a first plurality of the porous channel walls along the axial length of the monolith. The functional membrane functions to separate a fluid into a retentate portion and a permeate portion. The porous channel walls coated by the functional membrane define a plurality of discrete through segments, where each of the discrete through segments are separated from one another by a plurality of uncoated porous channel walls. Fluid entering the discrete through segments is separated into a retentate portion that exits in substantial portion through the discrete through segments and a permeate portion that exits the ceramic monolith radially outward through the uncoated porous channel walls and through a skin of the monolith.
US09132384B2
Provided are a gas decomposition component, a power generation apparatus including the gas decomposition component, and a method for decomposing a gas. A gas decomposition component includes a cylindrical MEA including a first electrode layer, a cylindrical solid electrolyte layer, and a second electrode layer in order from an inside toward an outside, in a layered structure; a first gas channel through which a first gas that is decomposed flows, the first gas channel being disposed inside the cylindrical MEA; and a second gas channel through which a second gas flows, the second gas channel being disposed outside the cylindrical MEA, wherein the gas decomposition component further includes a heater for heating the entirety of the component; and a preheating pipe through which the first gas to be introduced into the first gas channel passes beforehand to be preheated.
US09132382B2
A system for water extraction from air is provided. The system includes a housing having a plurality of openings allowing an air flow to enter into an inner space defined by the housing. The system also includes a sponge disposed within the inner space defined by the housing. The sponge includes a water absorbing/adsorbing material for absorbing/adsorbing water vapor from the air flow. The system further includes a presser disposed above the sponge and configured to compress the sponge to discharge water from the sponge.
US09132381B2
The hydrogen separation device comprises a laminate formed by laminating and integrating a hydrogen separation layer, a mixed gas layer kept adjacent to one surface of the hydrogen separation layer and having a mixed gas flow path, and a transmitted gas layer kept adjacent to the other surface of the hydrogen separation layer and having a transmitted gas flow path, and a vessel containing the laminate therein and filled with a buffer gas, wherein a buffer space is provided between the laminate and the inner wall of the vessel in which a buffer gas can reach at least one end face of the laminate in the lamination direction, and wherein the pressure in the buffer space is equal to or higher than the higher one of the pressure in the mixed gas flow path and the pressure in the transmitted gas flow path.
US09132379B2
Contemplated configurations and methods for gas processing use a refluxed absorber that receives a liquid and a vapor hydrocarbon feed. The absorber further receives a stripping medium that is at least in part formed from a vapor portion of a stabilizer overhead and also receives a scrubbing medium that is at least in part formed from a liquid portion of the stabilizer overhead. Most preferably, the absorber overhead is maintained at a temperature near or even below the hydrate point of the feed.
US09132353B2
To reduce labor of a player to search for game content sought by the player. A game program according to the present invention causes a computer to execute: when an operation to designate game content is performed by a player, play event selection processing to select a play event in which the designated game content is obtainable from among a plurality of play events set in advance; game screen generation processing to generate a game screen including a guidance operation area that guides the player to the selected play event; and game progress processing to make a game progress with the guided play event and to make the player play the game when the guidance operation area is operated by the player while the game screen is displayed.
US09132351B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some examples, the operations can include connecting social network user accounts to a wagering game session for a wagering game. The operations can further include controlling, for the wagering game, monetary wagering associated with a first of the social network user accounts and controlling non-monetary wagering associated with a second of the social network user accounts.
US09132341B2
In one embodiment there is provided a pinball game comprising a play field having a plurality of different achievable objects, a plurality of different reward cards, each reward card associated with one of the achievable objects and capable of being dispensed by a card dispenser in response to the achieving of its associated achievable object, and wherein at least one reward card is dispensed by the card dispenser during or after game play upon at least one of the achievable objects being achieved, and wherein a different reward card is dispensed depending on the achievable object that is achieved. In one embodiment, a networked redemption system is associated with the game and the game further enables connectivity with social media and/or other publishing avenues for communicating information about the player and/or game play.
US09132338B2
A deck wheeled device is provided comprising a deck, a subframe connected to at least one point of the deck, at least one truck assembly connected to the subframe, at least one wheel connected to each truck assembly, and at least one spring connecting each truck assembly to the deck. A wheel is provided comprising a tire, two substantially symmetrical hub halves, and at least one bolt that connect the two hub halves together.
US09132336B2
Combination ski-snowboard devices reversibly configured in both: a ski configuration comprising two skis each with both an inside and outside edge and a ski binding mounting systems, and in a snowboard configuration having two outside edges and two binding mounting systems. Methods for converting ski-snowboard devices from a snowboard configuration to a ski configuration and from a ski configuration to a snowboard configuration. A reconfigurable binding provides an interchangeable all-in-one binding for at least alpine touring, snowboard, split board and alpine ski mode. One aspect of the reconfigurable binding discloses binding connection adaptable for use in alpine touring and traditional ski mode. Another aspect of the reconfigurable binding discloses a bolt/pin pattern configuration for split board and snowboard mode.
US09132334B2
A shoulder pad for use in a contact sport, such as football, hockey or lacrosse is provided. The shoulder pad includes a pair of curvilinear, continuous arch members joined together to define a central opening that receives the player's head. A side pad assembly, including an epaulet and a shoulder cap, is operably connected to each arch member by a flexible band that provides a common connection point on the arch member. The band provides a single pivot point for the epaulet and the shoulder cap about the common connection point. A curvilinear internal padding assembly is connected to each arch member and configured to absorb and lessen impacts received while wearing the shoulder pad and playing the contact sport.
US09132331B2
A system for capturing high quality sound information from an impact includes a microphone stand and microphone array. The microphone stand is configured so that the microphone array arranged thereupon is focused on a single point so that ambient noise may be reduced.
US09132328B1
The device is for play of games that use rackets or paddles with handles to propel objects between two or more players. A skirt is attached to a nose. The nose may have a tip formed of a hard synthetic material with a springy, elastic quality, and the tip may have a generally curved front surface and a back surface attached to a body. The body may be a generally solid cylinder shape formed of a cork like consistency material and be formed with an insert of hollow cylindrical form positioned in the center of the material about a central axis. The skirt may have at least three panels formed of a plastic material attached at adjacent edges to form a truncated polyhedron with a base edge shaped as a polygon and a truncated top edge attached to the nose.
US09132326B2
A system for providing loaner clubs to novice golfers includes a coding scheme for golf club holders, which can be provided at a golf range having targets, in order to facilitate play by people entirely new to the game of golf. In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can include a golf club stand including holders for golf clubs of different types, and visual indicators associated with the holders for the golf clubs of different types, where the visual indicators correspond to targets of different distances within a golf range.
US09132324B2
A golf putter head is made entirely of pottery clay and can have a glazed body and an unglazed striking face. This putter head is preferably fabricated by forming a basic disc shape on a potter's wheel and then removing a portion of the disc shape away to form a striking face. A putter with a mallet shaped head can be formed. After drying, the clay can be glazed and then fired. The putter head can alternatively be fabricated using a ram press molding technique.
US09132320B2
A method and system for resurfacing one or more lacrosse balls is provided. The system includes a container, a rotatable member, and a motor. The container is configured to hold the one or more lacrosse balls. The rotatable member includes an abrasive surface configured to scuff the lacrosse balls while in the container, The motor includes a drive shaft coupled to the rotatable member and configured to facilitate rotation of the rotatable member. With this arrangement, the lacrosse balls are positioned over the abrasive surface such that, upon rotation of the rotatable member the abrasive surface scuffs the lacrosse balls to, thereby, resurface the balls.
US09132310B2
A reformer exercise apparatus is disclosed that has a generally rectangular frame. The rail portions of the frame each have an upright outer wall and a hidden outwardly open slot therein. A foot bar support assembly movably carried by each of the outwardly open slots supports the foot bar. Each foot bar support assembly has an elongated slide plate movably supported within the slot, a hook plate fastened to the slide plate, and a foot bar support arm rotatably and slidably fastened to the hook plate. A pair of tubular risers each having a lower and upper roller therein at the head end of the frame direct arm cord ends to a cord retraction assembly mounted on the carriage. The retraction assembly mounted to the carriage releases the cords by pivoting either one of the shoulder stops toward the foot end of the frame.
US09132307B2
A trampoline swingset suspension includes a trampoline frame having at least three legs. A trampoline bed is suspended from the trampoline frame. Springs connect between the trampoline bed and the trampoline frame to provide resilient restoring force for a user. The trampoline enclosure frame includes a plurality of vertical trampoline enclosure frame members. An enclosure net is mounted to the trampoline enclosure frame. A swingset frame is mounted to at least two of the at least three legs of the trampoline frame. A swing seat is suspended from the swingset frame. A spring suspension connects the swingset frame to the trampoline frame. The spring is a coil spring having an upper end bounded by an upper pin and the coil spring has a lower end bounded by a lower pin.
US09132305B2
A fire protection sprinkler includes a sprinkler body having a fluid passage extending therethrough. A plug member disposed in the fluid passage. A heat responsive unit releasably secures the plug member in the fluid passage. A pair of frame arms extend from the sprinkler body. A deflector is mounted to the pair of frame arms and includes a peripheral edge including a plurality of slots extending radially inward from the peripheral edge. The plurality of slots include a pair of slots orthogonal to the pair of frame arms and the deflector includes a pair of apertures radially inward of the pair of slots and orthogonal to the pair of frame arms. The pair of apertures include an inner arcuate portion and a radially outwardly extending portion extending from the inner arcuate portion.
US09132304B1
A self-contained firefighting system to be incorporated into the trunk of a motor vehicle to include a reel with 7 to 15 feet of easily deployable hose, a high-pressure pump, and a refillable reservoir for fire-extinguishing foam, intended for use in the vehicles of first responders such as police, highway patrol, and EMS units, as well as for use in private passenger vehicles.
US09132291B2
The present invention is directed to water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion compositions containing gellan gum which provide an enhanced rate of release of active ingredients for delivery to the skin or mucosa.
US09132290B2
A film-forming cosmetic composition that provides superior feel, look, and wear characteristics while also delivering UV protection to the skin. The cosmetic composition may be in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion that includes a water compatible film-forming polymer, a sunscreen active, and one or more particles. The foundation provides suitable feel and appearance during application, UV protection, and excellent wear and appearance after application, yet provides flexible, light feel.
US09132283B2
A surface covering that is a multilayered composite material. The multilayer composite material includes a top facing layer of polymeric film and a bottom layer of unsupported foam.
US09132281B2
An approach combining immune-based therapies with focused radiation, including stereotactic radiation, to treat cancers is disclosed. The use of focused radiation primes the immune system in a similar manner to vaccines to augment immune-based therapies and can counteract the suppressive effects of a tumor. The combination of focused radiation and immune-based therapies, including administration of at least one immunotherapeutic agent, improves survival compared to each therapy alone and can, in some cases, lead to a durable cure. Accordingly, focused radiation can be an adjuvant for immune-based therapies for treating cancers.
US09132276B2
An implantable medical device, comprising an implantable component having a rechargeable power supply and an external wireless charger. The wireless charger has a rechargeable power supply, and an inductive coil configured to transcutaneously transfer power from the charger power supply to the implantable power supply, and configured to detect and receive, via the inductive coil, power from an auxiliary charger for recharging of the charger power supply.
US09132274B2
An exemplary computer-implemented method is disclosed for detection of onset of depolarization on far-field electrograms (EGMs) or electrocardiogram (ECG)- or ECG-like signals. The method includes determining a baseline rhythm using a plurality of body-surface electrodes. The baseline rhythm includes an atrial marker and a ventricular marker. A pre-specified window is defined as being between the atrial marker and the ventricular marker. A low pass filter is applied to a signal within the window. A rectified slope of the signal within the window is determined. A determination is made as to whether a time point (t1) is present such that the rectified slope exceeds 10% of a maximum value of the rectified slope. A point of onset of a depolarization complex in the signal is determined. The point of onset occurs at a largest curvature in the signal within the window.
US09132268B2
Formation of a feedthrough in a substrate for use in an implantable medical device is presented. A substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, and a via that extends through the first and the second surfaces. A dielectric layer is formed over one of a first surface of the substrate. Conductive material is introduced into the via to form a feedthrough.
US09132264B2
An apparatus comprises a housing and one or more deployable protrusions. The apparatus defines a fluid reservoir and presents an upper surface. The housing is sized and configured to be implanted within a patient. The protrusions are selectively movable from a first position to a second position. The protrusions are at least partially retracted relative to the housing when the protrusions are in the first position. The protrusions are at least partially extended relative to the housing when the protrusions are in the second position. The protrusions may be in the form of substantially cylindraceous posts, semi-circular members, or other shapes. The protrusions may be actuated mechanically, electromechanically, or otherwise. The apparatus may be provided as an injection port, as part of a gastric band system or otherwise. The deployed protrusions may facilitate location of the implanted port through external palpation of the patient's abdomen.
US09132262B2
An applicator 270 includes a stem 174 having an axially-formed slot delivery passage 200. A slot 176 is formed transaxially through the stem 174 and is in communication with the slot delivery passage 200. An extended side wall 176b is formed on one side of the slot 176. A flat surface 276 is formed in the stem 174 and extends angularly away from an opposite side of the slot 176 and from the extended side wall 176b to provide a wide slot opening at an external surface 195 of the stem for dispensing a cream from the opening. A trough-like cleft 306 can be formed in the external surface 195 of a solid portion of the stem 174, distally of the slot 176, to provide an axially-extended path for the cream being dispensed through the slot.
US09132258B2
An apparatus for imparting a tensile force to deflect a distal portion of a catheter while maintaining its exterior dimensions may include a handle grip including a cross-section of generally predetermined exterior dimensions, and a longitudinal axis. A flexible elongate member may include proximal and distal end portions, with the proximal end portion being coupled to the handle grip. An adjustment knob may include a cross-section of generally predetermined exterior dimensions, and is rotatably coupled to the handle grip around the longitudinal axis. An elongate deflection member may be operably coupled to the adjustment knob and to the distal end portion of the elongate member. Rotation of the adjustment knob may impart a tensile force to the deflection member thereby causing the distal end portion of the elongate member to deflect from a prior configuration while maintaining the generally predetermined exterior dimensions of the handle grip and the adjustment knob.
US09132254B2
Various embodiments of mouthpieces for use during endoscopic procedures are disclosed herein. According to various embodiments, a mouthpiece may include a shield, a primary instrument channel, a bite block, an oxygen administration channel and a tongue depressor. The shield, bite block, oxygen administration channel and tongue depressor may be integrally formed.
US09132250B2
Systems and methods may include a gas source, a gas delivery circuit, and a nasal interface allowing breathing ambient air through the nasal interface. A gas flow path through the nasal interface may have a distal gas flow path opening. A nozzle may be associated with a proximal end of the nasal interface a distance from the distal end gas flow path opening. At least a portion of an entrainment port may be between the nozzle and the distal end gas flow opening. The nozzle may deliver gas into the nasal interface to create a negative pressure area in the gas flow path at the entrainment port. The nasal interface and the nozzle may create a positive pressure area between the entrainment port and the distal end gas flow path opening. Gas from the gas delivery source and air entrained through the entrainment port may increase airway pressure or lung pressure or provide ventilatory support.
US09132246B2
A dry inhaler system includes a vibrating mechanism. A supply of a dry powder is operatively coupled to the vibrating mechanism. A power source communicates with the vibrating mechanism. A sensor communicates with the vibrating mechanism. A feedback control communicates with the sensor and the power source. The feedback control controls power delivered to the vibrating mechanism relative to information provided by the sensor about the performance of the vibrating mechanism.
US09132244B2
A medication delivery apparatus (5) includes a reservoir for holding a liquid medication and a metering device (25) coupled to the reservoir for supplying a dose of the liquid medication to the reservoir. The metering device includes an upper chamber, a lower chamber coupled to the upper chamber, a piston selectively moveable within the upper chamber and the lower chamber and a valve providing selective fluid communication between the lower chamber and the reservoir in response to movement of the piston.
US09132227B2
A system for pairing a controller and an infusion pump is disclosed. The system includes an infusion pump, a controller device and a user interface residing on both the infusion pump and the controller. The user interface includes a pairing mode for enabling wireless communication between the infusion pump and the controller device, wherein the user interface requires both the infusion pump and the controller to be in the pairing mode simultaneously. Also, a method of changing a power source in an infusion pump is disclosed. The method includes placing the infusion pump in idle mode wherein the infusion pump stops delivery. Removing the first power source from the infusion pump. Replacing the first power source with a second power source in the infusion pump, and maintaining the insulin on board during the changing of the first power source with the second power source.
US09132212B2
A multi-layer inflatable balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endrotracheal tube. The outer layer and the inner layer of the balloon cuff may have different material properties that may enhance a cuff's mechanical pressure seal by reducing wrinkles or folds that may form against a patient's tracheal walls.
US09132202B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions to genetically modify substantially intact cells having cosmetic function to enhance the cosmetic appearance in mammals so as to enhance and/or maintain a biochemical and/or physiological process that has a positive effect on cosmetic appearance. The methods and compositions may provide cosmetic benefits such as reduced skin sagging, increased skin thickness, reduced wrinkles, increased skin thickness and collagen content, increased skin tone and elasticity, increased skin hydration, and improved skin texture and color.
US09132200B2
The invention provides small molecule drugs that are chemically modified by covalent attachment of a water soluble oligomer. A conjugate of the invention, when administered by any of a number of administration routes, exhibits characteristics that are different from the characteristics of the small molecule drug not attached to the water soluble oligomer.
US09132195B2
With regard to compositions derived from active ingredients and other additives in medical, food and industrial fields, there have been problems that the active ingredients cannot be uniformly mixed, and that the active ingredients become segregated and lose uniformity as the active ingredients undergo transport, input, and filling processes. There is provided a cellulose powder which improves the uniformity of compositions containing active ingredients or other additives to prevent segregation of the active ingredients, wherein the cellulose powder contains cellulose I type crystals, has an average particle diameter of less than 30 μm, a powder density of 0.1 to 0.45 g/cm3, a tapping density of 0.1 to 0.5 g/cm3, a repose angle of 35 to 50°, a specific surface of more than or equal to 0.1 m2/g and less than 20 m2/g, an internal friction angle of 36 to 42°, and is a cellulose powder including a secondary flocculation structure in which primary particles are flocculated.
US09132186B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the percentage of concomitant infections in pigs or a herd of pigs caused by pathogens other than PCV2 comprising the step administering to said pig(s) an effective amount of PCV2 antigen or an immunogenic composition comprising PCV2 antigen. It also refers to a method for improving the resistance of pigs against concomitant infections with pathogens other than PCV2, comprising the step administering to said pig(s) an effective amount of PCV2 antigen or an immunogenic composition comprising PCV2 antigen.
US09132183B2
The present invention is a live vaccine from a culture of cells of Haemophilus parasuis exhibiting attenuated pathogenicity and capable of triggering a protective immune response when administered to pigs. The cell culture was modified from a pathogenic parent strain by MNNG mutagenesis and was selected by complete dependence on streptomycin for growth. Several SNPs have been identified as associated with specific proteins that are associated with virulence as seen in the literature in H. parasuis or related bacterial species.
US09132178B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of cancer, especially carcinomas, such as lung carcinoma. The invention discloses peptides, polypeptides, and polynucleotides that can be used to stimulate a CTL response against lung and other cancers.
US09132174B2
The present invention provides a method of protecting the heart from damage, by administering to a patient at risk of such damage, a pharmaceutically effective amount of a composition which inhibits the interaction of RSK3 and mAKAPβ, or the expression or activity of one or both of those molecules. This composition may be in the form of a peptide that specifically inhibits mAKAPβ binding to RSK3 or in the form of an siRNA construct which inhibits the expression of RSK3.
US09132170B2
A method of treating or preventing cognitive impairment deficits in subjects with age-associated cognitive decline or a dementing illness includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of amylin, an amylin agonist, or an amylin derivative to treat the cognitive impairment or deficit.
US09132168B2
The subject invention concerns materials and methods for treating a person or animal having cognitive impairment. In one embodiment, the method comprises administering an effective amount of one or more inflammatory mediator(s), for example, fms-related tyrosine kinase 3 (Flt3) ligand, interleukin-6 (IL-6), macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-3 (IL-3), erythropoietin (EPO), vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A), hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (HIF-1alpha), insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), Stem Cell Factor (SCF), Darbepoetin (ARANESP), and metalloproteinases, to an animal or person in need of treatment.
US09132167B2
The present invention provides compositions useful for cardiac therapy comprising a cyclin-associated agent. The present invention also provides kits for use in delivering a cyclin-associated agent to cardiac cells in a subject, comprising the composition of the present invention and a catheter. The present invention additionally provides a methods for enhancing cardiac function; promoting regeneration of cardiac tissue; inducing endogenous myocardial regeneration; and preventing or treating heart failure in a subject in need thereof by augmenting cyclin in cells.
US09132166B2
This document provides diuretic and natriuretic polypeptides. For example, this document provides polypeptides having diuretic and/or natriuretic activities. In some cases, a polypeptide provided herein can have diuretic and natriuretic activities, while lacking the ability to lower blood pressure. This document also provides methods and materials for inducing diuretic and/or natriuretic activities within a mammal.
US09132163B2
The present invention relates to a method for the purification of Micafungin. Specifically, a method is provided in which a micafungin starting material containing a first micafungin salt is adsorbed to a solid support, the adsorbed micafungin is washed with an aqueous solution comprising a dissolved second salt, the second micafungin salt is eluted using a water miscible organic solvent.
US09132162B2
Antioxidant compositions are disclosed that include muscadine pomace extract and resveratrol from a source other than muscadine. In other examples the composition also includes polyphenols from a source other than muscadine. The compositions increase the expression of antioxidant genes and/or genes associated with mitochondrial biogenesis.
US09132159B2
It is intended to provide a composition which demonstrates an excellent antioxidative action in the body. The composition is an antioxidative composition containing an acacia bark derivative.
US09132158B2
The present invention relates to a new approach for treating a cancer or fibrosis, such as hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver fibrosis using an extract from a plant of Graptopetalum sp., Rhodiola sp., or Echeveria sp., and prepared by extracting the plant with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), its fraction or the compound isolated from the extract.
US09132151B2
A method for treating urinary system disorders comprising: a pharmaceutical composition comprising a carbon material and a water-containing carrier, the pharmaceutical composition comprising a carbon material in an amount from 0.001 mgs to 100 mgs, both of the carbon material and the water-containing carrier constitute a pharmaceutically acceptable water-containing carrier carrying the carbon material, and the carbon material having a diameter falling within a range from 2 nm to 2 mm; Then instilled this pharmaceutical composition into the bladder for adsorb LPS of bacteria, aqueous vehicle in a volume of from 50 mL to 700 mL. After adsorb, discharging the LPS together with urine out of cystitis patients. This method is capable of reducing symptoms of cystitis by contacting the carbon material with a bladder or related tissues of the bladder in an animal body.
US09132150B2
The invention provides a system for supplying a magnesium enriched drinking water, including circulating water through a bed of magnesium compound. The health-promoting water contains magnesium between 10 and 500 mg/liter, and further it may contain additional health promoting salts, while being sodium free.
US09132147B2
The present invention relates to the use of LNA antisense apoB oligonucleotides for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome.
US09132139B2
A novel maintenance therapy regime/regimen for the treatment of acne related diseases includes administering an oral antibiotic with a topical fixed-dose combination of a retinoid, such as adapalene, and an anti-bacterial agent, such as benzoyl peroxide.
US09132130B2
Disclosed are: a novel purine derivative, a composition thereof, a method for treating tumor using the purine derivative, and an antitumor agent using the purine derivative. Specifically disclosed is a compound represented by formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or hydrate thereof, or a prodrug thereof.
US09132124B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of extended release solifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a therapeutically effective amount of pilocarpine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating a patient suffering from overactive bladder, the method comprising identifying a patient in need thereof, and administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of extended release solifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a therapeutically effective amount of pilocarpine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of alleviating a side effect of treatment for overactive bladder in a patient suffering therefrom, the method comprising identifying a patient in need thereof, and administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of extended release solifenacin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a therapeutically effective amount of pilocarpine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09132120B1
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of treating a subject suffering from a breast cancer tumor which is non-responsive or intrinsically resistant to anti-estrogen therapy comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of alternative (ALT) non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) factor to the subject.In another embodiment the invention provides a method of treating a subject who suffers from a pancreatic cancer which is non-responsive to chemotherapy and/or radiation comprising co-administering a therapeutically effective amount of PARP1 inhibitor and a DNA ligase IIIα inhibitor to the subject. Related diagnostic methods, nucleic acid arrays, devices and kits are also provided.
US09132116B2
Provided herein are mast cell stabilizers used to prevent, treat, or mitigate severity of laminitis. Mast cell stabilizers can be combined with antihistamines and other medicaments to prevent, treat, or mitigate severity of laminitis.
US09132108B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for ameliorating and/or preventing leptin resistance. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention contains flurbiprofen.
US09132106B2
Compositions and methods for disinfecting contact lenses using the compositions are disclosed. The compositions include a combination of alexidine and chlorhexidine, which surprisingly causes the composition to exhibit synergistic antimicrobial activity against Candida albicans by reducing a concentration of Candida albicans by at least 1.2 log.
US09132097B2
Described herein are carrier nanoparticles comprising a polymer containing a polyol coupled to a polymer containing a boronic acid, configured to present the polymer containing a boronic acid to an environment external to the nanoparticle. Targeted versions of the described nanoparticles are also described, as are related compositions, methods and systems.
US09132092B1
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising (i) 50% to 99% of doxycycline as an immediate-release portion; (ii) 1% to 50% of doxycycline as a controlled-release portion; and (iii) one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients; wherein the pharmaceutical composition provides a total daily dosage of 40 mg when administered once daily. It also relates to process for preparation of the pharmaceutical composition and its use for treating rosacea.
US09132091B2
The present invention relates to an oil-in-water (O/W) type nano-emulsion composition comprising an oil component containing oil and a polyethylene glycol ester-based emulsifier; and a water component containing a polyol or a polyol derivative. The present invention also relates to a cosmetic composition comprising the oil-in-water type nano-emulsion composition, and to a method for preparing the oil-in-water type nano-emulsion composition. According to the present invention, a nano-sized low-viscosity emulsion having a high inner phase can be obtained through the method that is different from the conventional methods of phase inversion temperature emulsification or high pressure emulsification, thereby significantly improving the stability of the emulsion. In addition, the nano-emulsion composition of the present invention can be added to a variety of cosmetic compositions having a variety of methods of use and can thus deliver active ingredients to the skin effectively since it has small-sized particles.
US09132067B2
The aim of the invention is to improve the bond between the oxide ceramic and the veneer material and to increase the durability of said bond. According to the invention, an adhesion promoter (mixture of silicate ceramic and quartz) is applied as a sol to a main body that is to be veneered and that has not yet been densely sintered, the main body being made of oxide ceramic or starting materials thereof. The main body is then sintered to a final state together with the worked-in adhesion promoter, and afterwards the veneer material is applied. The invention is used, for example, to produce dental crowns and bridges having a high load-bearing capacity.
US09132063B2
Inline liquid drug medical device having a longitudinal device axis, a housing with a linear displaceable sliding flow control member displaceable along a transverse bore from a first flow control position for establishing flow communication between a first pair of ports for liquid drug reconstitution purposes to a second flow control position for establishing flow communication between a second pair of ports for liquid drug administration purposes, and a manually operated actuating mechanism for applying a linear displacement force for urging the flow control member to slide along the bore from its first flow control position to its second flow control position.
US09132061B2
This disclosure relates to drug vial spikes, fluid line sets, and related systems. In some aspects, a fluid line set includes a frame, multiple spikes extending from the frame, and multiple fluid lines connected to the frame. The frame is configured to hold the fluid lines in a spaced apart configuration.
US09132060B2
A medicine feeder that causes no axial rotation beyond control during fitting between transmission mechanisms includes a medicine storing device and a drive device. The medicine storing device includes a container and discharge mechanism. The container stores medicines. The discharge mechanism is rotationally driven to discharge medicines from the container, and includes a first transmission mechanism with a fitting portion. The drive device rotationally drives the discharge mechanism when the medicine storing device is brought into a cooperation enabling position, and includes a second transmission mechanism. When the fitting portion of the first transmission mechanism and the fitted portion of the second transmission mechanism are fitted with each other, the drive device can rotationally drive the discharge mechanism of the medicine storing device. The fitted portion is supported to be displaceable in the axial direction of a drive shaft, and moved by an energy storing member.
US09132057B2
The subject matter of the invention relates to therapy wraps for the application of compression and/or thermal therapy to a patient. The wraps are formed of at least two layers of material which are sealed together to form at least one cavity between them. The wraps may be used in conjunction with a therapy machine which fills the cavity or cavities of the wraps with fluid such as a gas and/or a liquid. The unique shapes of the wraps are particularly suitable for providing therapy to the human body. The shapes permit the manipulation of the wraps around various portions of the human body such as the shoulder, back and foot.
US09132047B2
The absorbent article provides a signal viewable from the top surface of the absorbent article which gives a perception of depth within the absorbent article. This creation of depth perception is accomplished by the use of a colored portion having at least a first shade and a second shade.
US09132040B2
The invention relates to a transparent, absorbent device for the dressing of wounds and insertion sites of percutaneous and drug delivery devices. The device provides 360 degree or complete circumferential protection of a wound or insertion site of a percutaneous or drug delivery device and comprises a hydrogel center and at least one absorbent material. The hydrogel center can optionally comprise a bioactive agent(s).
US09132037B2
A diving mask including at least one lens, a facepiece made of a soft and elastically yielding material, provided with at least a front positioning opening that positions the at least one lens, and a rear profiled element that rests on a user's face. Also included is a rigid frame that includes a first frame element and a second frame element anterior to the first frame element, fixed to one another such as to guarantee a seal between the facepiece and the lens. The front positioning opening of the facepiece can exhibit, along a perimeter edge thereof, a hollow positioning flange for the first frame element, the hollow positioning flange extending from an internal side of, and at least partially posteriorly to, the front positioning opening of the facepiece.
US09132031B2
A cooling device for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a subject having skin is provided. The cooling device includes a plurality of cooling elements movable relative to each other to conform to the contour's of the subject's skin. The cooling elements have a plurality of controllable thermoelectric coolers. The cooling elements can be controlled to provide a time-varying cooling profile in a predetermined sequence, can be controlled to provide a spatial cooling profile in a selected pattern, or can be adjusted to maintain constant process parameters, or can be controlled to provide a combination thereof.
US09132030B2
A therapeutic wrap includes a plurality of substantially rectangular chambers configured to receive a first amount of a thermoconductive material, and a plurality of substantially square chambers coupled to at least one of the substantially rectangular chambers, the square chambers configured to receive a second amount of a thermoconductive material. The substantially rectangular chambers and the substantially square chambers collectively define a substantially rectangular apparatus.
US09132029B2
A warmer device includes a rechargeable warmer bag containing liquid, a protection device for disposing the rechargeable warmer bag thereat, a charging unit for charging the rechargeable warmer bag to heat up liquid at a usable temperature, and a monitoring device for monitoring the rechargeable warmer bag, wherein the monitoring device includes an actuator operatively linked to the charging device and arranged in such a manner that the actuator is switched on to ensure the heating unit being operated to heat up the liquid, wherein the actuator is actuated by the bag when the bag is expanded, such that the actuator is switched off in response to an expansion of the bag at the protection device to cut off a power supply of the charging unit for preventing the bag being over-expanded.
US09132028B2
A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.
US09132026B2
An orthopedic apparatus includes an orthopedic knee brace including at least one hinge, an adjustable pad removably attachable to the hinge, the adjustable pad including a top plate, a base plate, an adjuster located between the top plate and the base plate, at least one ramp including a plurality of ramp angles, the ramp inclined so that at least two of the ramp angles are spaced differently from a foot of the ramp, and at least one spoke positioned and arranged to selectively engage one of the ramp angles of the at least one ramp to set an overall height of the pad, and wherein the adjustable pad is installable on the brace hinge for adjusting the side force applied to the user's knee to help relieve the pain of medial or lateral unicompartmental osteoarthritis while providing additional stability for ligament or cartilage insufficiencies.
US09132020B2
Instruments and methods for distracting an intervertebral space and inserting and impacting artificial intervertebral discs. A wedge distractor employing opposing ramps through which an inserter/impactor holding an artificial intervertebral disc is admitted, the passage of which through the distractor results in distraction of the intervertebral space simultaneous with insertion of the artificial intervertebral disc. A method of distracting an intervertebral space comprising the steps of inserting a distractor having opposing ramped surfaces into an intervertebral space and inserting an inserter/impactor holding an artificial intervertebral disc between the opposing ramped surfaces of the distractor to insert/impact the artificial intervertebral disc in the intervertebral space. A system for distracting an intervertebral space employing a wedge distractor, inserter/impactor and artificial intervertebral implant.
US09132019B2
A surgically implantable metacarpal-phalangeal prosthetic replacement device having engaging male and female components. The male and female components each include a conically shaped shank. The male head portion connected to the first conically shaped shank includes two spaced-apart lateral condyles having convex condylar surfaces and an intercondylar portion juxtaposed between the first and second convex condyles. The female component has a female head portion connected to the second conically shaped shank. The female head portion includes spaced-apart lateral side portions having concave recessed load-bearing surfaces that are complementary to and moveably engage the convex condylar surfaces of the male component. The lateral sides portions further define an intermediate concave condylar recess that moveably engages the outwardly extending intercondylar portion. The female head portion further includes substantially longitudinally aligned first and second protuberances which define a median channel portion for reception of the extensor tendons.
US09132015B2
Technologies related to tumid implants and pumps are generally described. In some examples, a tumid implant device may comprise an enclosed sack membrane adapted to fit between bones in a joint. Articulation of the joint may cause a first layer of the membrane to move through a first boundary section into a second layer of the membrane, while the second layer moves through a second boundary section into the first layer. A working fluid may be disposed inside the sack membrane, and a reservoir may optionally be coupled to the membrane via a gate. The working fluid may be expelled from the sack membrane into the reservoir, and may re-enter the sack membrane from the reservoir in response to changes in pressure in the joint. The working fluid may be conducted into the reservoir or sack membrane by a pump, and several artery pump designs are disclosed.
US09132010B2
Devices and methods for controlling blood perfusion pressure. In an exemplary device for controlling blood perfusion pressure within a vessel of the present disclosure, the device comprises an elongated body having a lumen, a proximal end configured for placement in a first area having a first blood pressure, and a distal end configured for placement in a second area having a second blood pressure, partial occluder positioned within the lumen of the elongated body between the proximal end and the distal end, the partial occluder configured so not to fully occlude a blood vessel, wherein the partial occluder is configured to equalize the first blood pressure at the first area with the second blood pressure at the second area.
US09132008B2
A delivery device for percutaneously deploying a prosthetic valve includes a sheath, an inner shaft, and a release assembly. The release assembly is disposed between the sheath and the inner shaft, and includes a retraction member, a release member, and a retention member. The retraction member can self-retract in length from an extended condition to a retracted condition. The release member can self-expand from a compressed condition to an expanded condition. The retention member is distal the release member. In a delivery state, the sheath end is distal the retention member, the release member is in the compressed condition and the retraction member in the extended condition to retain the prosthesis. In a deployment state, the sheath end is positioned to permit the release member to self-transition to the expanded condition, allowing the retraction member to self-transition to the retracted condition and release the prosthesis.
US09131994B2
The present invention discloses a drill bit 100 comprising a plurality of cutting blade portions 131 for gradually cutting the surface and the inner wall of bones, a plurality of channels 132 for temporarily storing bone chips produced to be agglomerated by the cut bones and for discharging outside the chips, and a working portion 130 having a blocking portion for blocking further approach of the drill bit 100 after it approaches in the bones as much as the length of the plurality of cutting blade portions 131, wherein the plurality of cutting blade portions 131 and the plurality of channels 132 are alternatively formed to have equal interval in circumferential direction, and at least portion of the bone chips produced to be agglomerated in the plurality of channels 132 is located before the plurality of cutting blades 131.
US09131989B2
A system that serves to facilitate communication between members of an operating team in an operating room. Among others the system supports operation of different devices and expression of different command by gazing at a proper area on the monitor.
US09131988B2
A device for cleaning the interior wall of a catheter has a cleaning lumen and skives as non-inflatable removal elements on the exterior surface of the cleaning lumen. Each skive has a first position when unconstrained and a second position when within the catheter. The skives self-position the device concentrically within the catheter. Suction is desirably applied to the cleaning lumen during use.
US09131987B2
Surgical devices are disclosed herein that generally include an intracorporeal elbow joint to facilitate translational movement of an end effector while allowing a body portion of the surgical device and a trocar or working channel through which the device is inserted to be maintained in a fixed angular orientation relative to the patient. This allows a plurality of such devices to be used effectively with a single incision or access device. Such devices also generally provide end effector movement with six degrees of freedom, while maintaining a mechanical linkage between the user and the end effector and while mimicking and/or mirroring natural user movement. Various methods related to such devices are also disclosed.
US09131982B2
An ablation catheter includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end. At least one ablation element is disposed on the body between the proximal end and the distal end and configured to ablate renal tissue to control hypertension. At least one localization sensor is disposed on the body and configured to interact with a magnetic field. The at least one localization sensor aids in determining an appropriate target tissue for ablation.
US09131980B2
An electrosurgical device includes a tubular shaft defining a shaft lumen, and a tubular electrode defining an electrode lumen, the electrode being coupled to the shaft. In a straight configuration, the electrode is configured to retain fluid within the electrode lumen, and, in a bent configuration, the electrode is configured to release fluid from within the electrode lumen to an exterior of the electrode.
US09131978B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for bilateral renal neuromodulation, e.g., via a pulsed electric field, via a stimulation electric field, via localized drug delivery, via high frequency ultrasound, via thermal techniques, etc. Such neuromodulation may effectuate irreversible electroporation or electrofusion, necrosis and/or inducement of apoptosis, alteration of gene expression, action potential attenuation or blockade, changes in cytokine up-regulation and other conditions in target neural fibers. In some embodiments, neuromodulation is applied to neural fibers that contribute to renal function. In some embodiments, such neuromodulation is performed in a bilateral fashion. Bilateral renal neuromodulation may provide enhanced therapeutic effect in some patients as compared to renal neuromodulation performed unilaterally, i.e., as compared to renal neuromodulation performed on neural tissue innervating a single kidney.
US09131975B2
Ablation devices useful for destroying nerve and soft tissue via a minimally invasive procedure to alleviate pain are provided. The device comprises a probe comprising an outer tube having an exterior surface comprising a tip and an interior surface that defines an internal passage. An inner tube is disposed within the outer tube and comprises an interior surface that defines an internal passage having a filament disposed therein. The filament has an opening configured to release a pressurized material into the interior surface of the probe so as to cool the exterior surface of the outer tube to a selected temperature. Disposal of the inner tube within the internal passage of the outer tube produces an air gap that surrounds the exterior surface of the inner tube, and the tip is configured for ablating nerve and/or soft tissue. Methods for ablating nerve and/or soft tissue utilizing the ablation devices are also provided.
US09131973B2
The present invention relates to an osteosynthesis system (1) comprising at least one bone plate (2), at least one blade (3) and at least one bone anchor (4). The blade (3) is configured such as to be insertable at a predefined angle (α) in relation to the bone plate (2) through a through hole (8) provided on a first longitudinal portion (6) of said bone plate (2) and into a bone. The blade (3) comprises at least one opening (9) which is configured such as to be aligned with at least one bone anchor hole (5) provided on a second part (7) of the bone plate (2) when the blade (3) is fully inserted into said through hole (8), such that the bone anchor (4) may be inserted through said bone anchor hole (5) and said opening (9).
US09131967B2
Systems of manipulating (e.g., compressing or distracting) a spinal construct are provided herein. In general, the system can include a surgical sleeve extending from a vertebra and a fulcrum movably coupled to some component of the system thereby allowing the fulcrum to be positioned at various location along the length of the sleeve. As indicated, the fulcrum can be movably coupled to virtually any component of the system. For example, the fulcrum can be movably coupled to the surgical sleeve, to a manipulation device sized and configured to receive the surgical sleeve, to a driver configured to apply a manipulation force, etc. Additionally, methods for manipulating a spinal construct are also provided herein.
US09131966B2
A vertebral manipulation assembly includes a vertebral fixation assembly that is configured to be attached to a first vertebra and a second vertebra that is spaced from the first vertebra. The vertebral fixation assembly can include vertebral fixation members that attach to the first and second vertebrae, respectively. The vertebral manipulation assembly can further include a vertebral manipulation instrument that is configured to be coupled to the vertebral fixation assembly, and provide a first compression force that biases the first and second vertebral fixation members to move toward each other, and a second distraction force that biases the first and second vertebral fixation members to move away from each other. The vertebral manipulation instrument can include a coarse adjustment assembly that, when actuated, causes the first and second vertebral fixation members to incrementally move with respect to each other in first increments. The vertebral manipulation instrument can further include a fine adjustment assembly that, when actuated, allows for finer adjustment of the position of the first and second vertebral fixation members.
US09131964B2
Devices and methods are disclosed for treating the vertebral column. One embodiment provides a transverse connector for vertebral fixation systems comprising a first connector body comprising a first engaging member for engaging a first elongate member and a first locking member, a second connector body comprising a second engaging member for engaging a second elongate member, and a transverse rod coupled to the first connector body and the second connector body, thereby forming an articulation between a first end of the transverse rod and the first connector body, wherein the first locking member is configured to secure both the articulation and the first elongate member to the first connector body.
US09131959B2
A delivery system for an implantable member includes an elongated dilator splittable at both the proximal and distal ends. The dilator has a tapered distal end and a pair of tabs at the proximal end. An introducer for the implantable member is received in a passageway of the dilator and extends along a length of the dilator to the tapered distal end. The introducer is arranged relative to the dilator such that upon a relative proximal movement of the dilator, the tapered distal tip of the dilator splits whereby the distal end of the introducer extends therethrough. A handle has a gripping mechanism for engagement with each tab for initiating proximal movement of the dilator relative to the introducer upon rotation of the gripping mechanism. The handle is structured for splitting the dilator proximal portion upon the relative proximal movement of the dilator.
US09131952B2
A fluid ejection device for ejecting a fluid to incise or excise a target includes: a fluid supplying unit which supplies the fluid; an operation unit to which the fluid supplied from the fluid supplying unit continues; a fluid ejection tube which ejects the fluid continuing to the operation unit; an ejection mode selecting unit which allows a predetermined ejection mode to be selected; an acceleration sensor which detects an operation acceleration of the operation unit; and a controller which controls ejection of the fluid, using a preset acceleration that is set on the basis of the ejection mode that is selected, and the operation acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor.
US09131946B2
The present invention relates to a surgical instrument for a technique for attaching bone fragments using a cannulated screw, the implantation of which is guided by a pin. The instrument (1) comprises: (i) a central channel (5) defining a longitudinal axis (6), enabling the slidable and rotatable insertion of said instrument (1) onto said guide pin; (ii) a nesting structure (15) suitable for being inserted into a recess made in the head of said cannulated screw and for blocking the rotation thereof; (iii) cutting edges (20, 21) suitable for boring at least one of said bone fragments by rotating said surgical instrument (1) about said longitudinal axis (6); and (iv) a means (11) for gauging the insertion depth of said guide pin in said bone fragments. Said instrument (1), which is conveniently inserted onto said guide pin and rotatably moved, enables either the boring of at least one of the bone fragments by means of said cutting edges (20, 21), or the screwing of said cannulated screw, inserted onto said guide pin, by engaging with said nesting structure (15).
US09131927B2
A method and apparatus are provided for treating cardiac tissue to modulate ischemic heart tissue with topical sub-atmospheric pressure to minimize cell death and damage.
US09131926B2
A medical device may include a handle housing having a side wall defining an interior space and proximal and distal apertures extending through the side wall, an elongated outer sheath, an elongated inner member, a proximal flush port disposed within the interior space and in fluid communication with the elongated inner member, and a distal flush port disposed within the interior space and in fluid communication with the elongated outer sheath. A control knob may be rotated to move the distal flush port within the interior space.
US09131925B2
Device and method for rapid extraction of body tissue from an enclosed body cavity. Hollow entry cannula with optional core element provides entry into body tissue space such as bone marrow. Aspiration cannula is inserted through the hollow entry cannula into the body tissue and is manipulated to advance directionally through the body cavity. Optional stylet within the aspiration cannula aids in advancing the aspiration cannula through the body tissue and is removed to facilitate extraction of the body tissue through the aspiration cannula. Inlet openings near the distal tip of the aspiration cannula allow tissue aspiration, with negative pressure source at the proximal end of the aspiration cannula providing controlled negative pressure. The aspiration cannula may be withdrawn and its path adjusted for multiple entries through a same entry point, following different paths through the tissue space for subsequent aspiration of more tissue.
US09131924B2
A surgical device, in particular for percutaneous osteoplastic surgery, for example vertebroplastic operations or the like, and/or for biopsy operations, includes at least a guide for injection of a therapeutic fluid into a bony part, for example a cementing fluid, a needle being slidable internally of said guide, which needle having a first end provided with a gripping knob, and a second end opposite the first end, the guide having a first end which defines an obliquely-shaped dispensing opening of the fluid internally of the bony part, and a second end which defines a loading opening of the fluid at the outside of the bony part, the second end including a grip exhibiting two wings having different shapes, such that the position and orientation of the oblique profile of the opening can be recognized.
US09131920B2
An ultrasonic probe includes a substrate having an opening section, a support film disposed on the substrate, a piezoelectric body disposed on the support film at the opening section, first and second resin sections, and a communicating section. The first resin section is disposed at a position overlapping the opening section in the plan view and spaced apart from the support film with the liquid being arranged therebetween. The communicating section is connected to the first resin section. The second resin section is connected to the communicating section to house the liquid flowing in through a communication hole of the communicating section. At least portions of the first and second resin sections are configured to deform such that a first liquid filled volume formed between the first resin section and the support film and a second liquid filled volume formed by the second resin section are changed.
US09131894B2
Provision of a biological information detecting device capable of stably detecting a biological signal in good condition. A device body, a pair of electrode portions 26A and 26B provided in the device body and respectively contacting a biological surface and a band-shaped fixing band 30 for covering the pair of electrode portions 26A and 26B and fixing the device body to a body are provided, and a guide portion 40A which allows relative movement between each of the electrode portions 26A/26B and the fixing band 30 in an extending direction of the fixing band 30 and restricts movement in a width direction orthogonal to the extending direction is arranged between each of the electrode portions 26A/26B and the fixing band 30.
US09131889B2
Cerebral blood flow data during cognitive task execution is measured using a functional near infrared spectroscopy method, then characteristic amount extraction is performed after performing primitive analysis on the measured cerebral blood flow data. Then, by using the extracted characteristic amounts and a pre-built model for employing in determination of cognitive impairment, automatic determination is made into clinical diagnostic groups of normal (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is thereby possible to perform cognitive impairment determination that is suitable for mass early stage screening of elderly people.
US09131869B2
Methods and systems for determining the position of an object, such as tracking the position of one or more catheters in a patient's heart cavity are disclosed herein.
US09131863B2
The invention is directed to an implantable insulated electrical circuit that utilizes polyparaxylylene, preferably as Parylene, a known polymer that has excellent living tissue implant characteristics, to provide for chronic implantation of conductive electrical devices, such as stimulators and sensors. The device is thin, flexible, electrically insulated, and stable after long exposure to living tissue. Layers of Parylene may be combined with layers of a polymer, such as polyimide, to yield greater design flexibility in the circuit. Multiple electrical conduction layers may be stacked in the circuit to increase packing density.
US09131854B2
An apparatus and a method of measuring a blood pressure of an examinee while detecting the body activity of the examinee uses a pressurizing unit of a blood pressure gauge having first and second driving modes for pressurizing a cuff. A central processing unit classifies signals, which represent the movement, the position, or the direction of the blood pressure gauge detected by a sensor installed in a body of the blood pressure gauge, into a plurality of groups, and selectively performs the first driving mode or the second driving mode according to signal bands classified into the groups. The central processing unit is configured to generate blood pressure data so that the variation in the blood pressure of the examine is exactly determined according to the activity degree and the posture of the examinee.
US09131841B2
An image acquisition apparatus irradiates light from a light source to an inspection object, obtains a tomographic image of the inspection object on the basis of a combined beam obtained by combining a return beam from the inspection object due to the irradiated light and a reference beam corresponding to the light, and obtains a plane image of the inspection object on the basis of the return beam from the inspection object due to the irradiated light. The apparatus performs a first scanning process to main-scan the irradiated light when the tomographic image is obtained, performs a second scanning process to main-scan the irradiated light at a speed higher than that in the first scanning process when the plane image is obtained, and performs a third scanning process to sub-scan the irradiated light when each of the tomographic image and the plane image is obtained.
US09131840B2
An imaging apparatus that irradiates an object with a first measuring beam and a second measuring beam that differ from each other in a center wavelength, and acquires an image of the object using returning light from the object. A first adjustment unit adjusts a focusing position of the first measuring beam in a depth direction. A second adjustment unit adjusts a focusing position of the second measuring beam in the depth direction. A controlling unit controls at least one of the first adjustment unit and the second adjustment unit such that the focusing position of the first measuring beam and the focusing position of the second measuring beam are at different positions in the depth direction.
US09131816B2
A central vacuum cleaner having a housing, a suction chamber, a suction motor at an upper end of the suction chamber, a suction motor inlet, a dirt receptacle, a suction chamber inlet into the suction chamber, and a filter bag between the suction chamber inlet and the suction motor inlet cover. The suction motor has an impeller axis and a suction motor inlet located on and surrounding the impeller axis. The suction motor inlet cover has a bottom wall on the impeller axis below the suction motor inlet, a sidewall extending upwards from the bottom wall and surrounding the suction motor inlet, an inlet chamber formed by the bottom wall and sidewall, and an inlet cover opening fluidly connecting the suction chamber to the inlet chamber. The inlet cover opening is offset from the impeller axis and faces at an upwards angle towards the upper end of the suction chamber.
US09131810B2
A hair collection system including a backboard for providing a location for detached hair collection, a basin for capturing detached hair, and an attachment means to couple the system to a wall. The system provides a new method and apparatus for collecting detached hair before it becomes entrapped in the drain.
US09131809B2
A bathtub insert is configured for retrofit installation into a bathtub. The bathtub insert includes a frame and a door. The frame includes a step-plate and a pair of end pillars. The door is movably coupled with the frame and movable with respect to the frame between an opened position and a closed position.
US09131805B1
The Ultimate Taco Shaper is a tortilla shaping device which includes a rounded taco shell shaped portion of the device which is smaller than the tortilla and shapes the tortilla into a taco shape having a more circular u-shaped shell having a larger filling capacity. The taco shaping device includes clip portion that moves in and out which holds the tortilla in place while cooking thereby forming a more rounded u-shaped taco shell.
US09131804B2
A toaster comprises a housing, at least one spring-loaded bread tray, one or more heating elements, a bread tray retaining mechanism, a bread tray partial retaining mechanism, and a lifter arm slot. The bread tray is movable between an up position and a down position and is biased toward the up position. The bread tray retaining mechanism selectively retains the bread tray in the down position while the toasting operation is in progress and releases the bread tray from the down position when the toasting operation is complete. The bread tray partial retaining mechanism selectively retains the bread tray in a position between the down position and the up position after the bread tray is released by the bread tray retaining mechanism. In one embodiment, the lifter arm slot comprises an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion being wider than the upper portion.
US09131797B2
A method and a device for producing filter inserts (1), in particular filter inserts (1) for preparing a coffee or tea filtrate, including the continuous folding (A) of a filter paper sheet (2) into a double layer (3), partially binding (B) the double layer (3) to a plurality of interconnected filter inserts (1) using at least one stamped seam (4) and separating (D) the interconnected filter inserts (1) from the filter paper sheet (2). The filter inserts (1) are provided with a label (5) after folding (A).
US09131796B2
A corn creamer includes a blade bit with a cylindrical body having a first circular end and a second circular end, and said cylindrical body and circular ends define an interior chamber with an interior circumference defined by an interior surface of the circular ends and the cylindrical body. Teeth are disposed on the first circular end of said blade bit, and a scraping blade member with a cutting edge is attached to said cylindrical body and said cutting edge extends inward from the cylindrical body partially into the interior chamber. The second circular end of the blade bit is attached to a shaft and the device is used to cut and cream corn.
US09131793B2
A system and method for reducing manufacturing costs of patterned constructible utensils and improving their constructability. One constructible utensil includes a set of scores (e.g., a quad of scores including an outer pair and an inner pair, a single such pair, or other number of scores) that are shaped to converge when moving from a bowl-region towards the handle portion. The scores do not intersect but stop and produce various alterations in the converging score pattern. These alterations in the converging pattern help with propagation of a bowl-forming fold responsive to a constructing manipulation of the handle portion (e.g., folding, bending, and other operation on the handle portion and one or more scores on the handle portion).
US09131791B2
The embodiments disclosed herein are related to a supportive head and neck pillow with a supportive bone structure inside the pillow. The pillow is used for head and neck support, and comfort while sleeping sitting up during transportation. It can also be used for head and neck support for people who have neck injuries, or to prevent neck injuries during transportation. The sleepy heads neck pillow disclosed comprises a pillow with a bone structure support inside it.
US09131787B2
A shelf clamp for connecting a rack unit to a display shelf has a flat body with a clasp extending from the top end of the flat body, a support lip extending from the mid-section of the flat body, and a front fin extending diagonally upward from the front face of the flat body, wherein the front fin is comprised of flexible material such that the front fin can flex towards the flat body. The bottom end of the shelf clamp is fashioned to slide down between an edge of the shelf and a wall, causing the front fin to flex upward toward the flat body as it presses between the shelf and the wall, and then return to its diagonally upward position once it passes the shelf. Thereby, the shelf clamp engages the edge of the shelf and the support rib and the front fin.
US09131779B2
An foldable bed frame including a plurality of longitudinal beams spaced apart and parallel to each other. Each longitudinal beam is formed by a pair of longitudinal bars that are pivotally connected together. The bed frame also includes a plurality of transverse beams spaced apart and parallel to each other. Each transverse beam is formed by a pair of transverse bars that are pivotally connected together. Each transverse bar has a first sliding member slidingly coupled with a second sliding member for adjusting the bed frame to predetermined widths. The bed frame also includes legs connected to a corresponding lower side of each longitudinal bar free end. The longitudinal and transverse bars are coupled together to form a generally rectangular frame when the bed frame is in an open configuration, and are folded adjacent and parallel to each other when the bed frame is in a folded configuration.
US09131778B2
A foldable tent-cot includes two elongated rods each having a pair of connecting rods pivotally connected to each other. The foldable tent-cot also includes a pair of outer X-shaped support racks pivotally connected to outer ends of opposing elongated rods and a central X-shaped support rack pivotally connected to central portions of opposing elongated rods. Each X-shaped support rack is defined by a pair of support legs that intersect adjacently at an intersection point and is further supported by support rods. The foldable tent-cot also includes vertical supports connected to the intersection points of each outer X-shaped support rack. A tent is coupled to the elongated rods and to the vertical supports. The integral tent-cot is foldable to a compact state wherein the connecting rods, support rods, X-shaped support racks and vertical supports are collectively folded substantially parallel and adjacent to each other along with the tent.
US09131766B2
An oral care implement such as a toothbrush includes a head defining a longitudinal axis and a plurality of tooth cleaning elements supported by the toothbrush head. The tooth cleaning elements preferably include at least one tooth polishing unit having a polishing element including a supporting base and a flexible tooth polishing head extending angularly from the base and defining a polishing surface. In a preferred embodiment, the polishing element is made of an elastomeric material. In some embodiments, the polishing element may be comprised of a plurality of individual polishing members.
US09131746B2
A foot orthotic comprising: a toe platform, the toe platform comprising a toe, sulcus, and ball; a longitudinal arch pad in communication with the toe platform; a heel cup in communication with the longitudinal arch pad, the heel cup comprising a heel; where the orthotic is made from a flexible material, and where in order to form an angle β that is greater than 0° between the toe platform and the remainder of the orthotic, a pre-load pressure P is required.
US09131745B2
Footwear includes an upper, a sole, a cavity, a location determining device, a wireless communication device, a communication antenna, a first electrical conductor, a location signal antenna, a second electrical conductor, and a bus cable. The cavity is formed in the sole and includes a first portion located on a bottom heel region of the sole and a second portion located on a rear heel region of the sole. The location determining device and the wireless communication device are disposed in the first portion of the cavity. The communication antenna and the location signal antenna are mounted in the second portion of the cavity. The bus cable includes a first end that is electrically coupled to the location determining device and a second end that is mounted in the second portion of the cavity.
US09131724B2
This disclosure relates to methods of removing contaminating microcystins toxins from preparations of blue-green algae. It also relates to methods of purifying phycocyanin from blue-green algae extracts.
US09131723B2
A pharmaceutical composition comprising a substantially coumarin-free extract derived from cinnamon. Its production method including some steps: grinding the raw material, extracting raw material from previous step by maceration using a first solvent to obtain crude extract of Cinnamomum burmanii, fractionating the extracted raw material from previous step through liquid-liquid extraction using a second solvent, wherein the second solvent is immiscible with the first solvent to obtain substantially coumarin-free extract, and optionally drying the substantially coumarin-free extract.The pharmaceutical composition comprising the substantially coumarin-free extract as a single component or in a combination with suitable pharmaceutical excipient(s) to produce a pharmaceutical composition that is safe to be consumed daily and in long-term use.
US09131722B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the extract of hardy kiwifruit as an active ingredient in an effective amount to treat and prevent allergic disease and non-allergic inflammatory disease by reducing inflammation action, by inhibiting histamine release from mast cell, and by increasing the level of Th1 cytokines, IgG2a in serum and reducing the level of Th2 cytokines and IgE in serum. The present invention also provides a use of above extract for the preparation of pharmaceutical composition. The present invention also provides a health food or food additives, a cosmetic composition, a feed or feed additives comprising above extract for prevention or alleviation of allergic disease and non-allergic inflammatory disease by reducing inflammation action, by inhibiting histamine release from mast cell, and by increasing the level of Th1 cytokines, IgG2a in serum, and reducing the level of Th2 cytokines and IgE in serum.
US09131713B2
In order to provide a product that is suitable as fat substitute in foods, which can be produced simply and inexpensively and is deemed safe from the nutritional physiology viewpoint and with which the typical texture of fat-containing foods can be simulated as favorably as possible, particles of collagen material are proposed which are substantially insoluble and swellable in water, wherein in swollen state the particles have an average diameter of less than approximately 150 μm. A process for the production of this product is additionally proposed.
US09131712B2
A cooking aid and methods of manufacturing and using the same are disclosed. The cooking aid includes a piece of foil for wrapping around a turkey or other fowl or food to serve as a cooking blanket to retain heat and moisture, and also serve as a lifter for lifting the fowl out of a roasting pan. The foil typically includes one or more pleated sections having panels folded along longitudinal folds which may be unfolded to expand the piece of foil. The foil may include left and right pleated sections with a central section of the foil therebetween. Drain holes are typically formed in the central section, which may also be embossed with logos or the like. Axial sections of the foil may be folded at an axial fold to overlay one another. Portions of the foil may be formed into rolled handles to help lift the fowl.
US09131702B2
The food material cutter of the present invention has a feeding port for feeding a doughnut, titled plates and guiding plates for guiding the fed doughnut, and rotary blades for slicing the guided doughnut in half in the thickness direction. The link mechanism causes the tilt angles of the tilted plates to be increased due to the own weight of the doughnut, and causes the guiding plates to move by an equal distance from the center of the clearance between the respective guiding plates while matching with the thickness of the doughnut. The doughnut-is guided by the titled plates and guiding plates, and falls down to the palette in a state where it is sliced in half in the thickness direction.
US09131696B2
Herbicidal compositions containing (a) fluoroxypyr or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) flumetsulam or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof provide synergistic herbicidal control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in wheat, barley, oats, rye, sugarcane, rice, sorghum, corn/maize, soybean, rice, sunflower, canola/oilseed rape, sugarcane, sorghum, cotton, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, industrial vegetation management and rights-of-way; or crops comprising an aad-12 gene. Also provided herein are methods of using herbicidal compositions containing (a) fluoroxypyr or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) flumetsulam or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof.
US09131687B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to compounds and methods for controlling algal growth, for example, in bodies of water or surfaces exposed to algae. Provided are compounds having algicidal activities and methods of use of these compounds as well as formulations and compositions comprising the compound having algicidal activities.
US09131686B2
Microbicidal compositions that exhibit enhanced microbial efficacy are disclosed, as well as methods of producing and using the microbicidal compositions.
US09131684B2
The present invention relates to the field of carrier and delivery systems for active molecular compounds. In particular, the present invention provides aqueous dispersions for delivery of active molecular compounds.
US09131683B2
A high quality paint formulation comprises water, latex polymer, pigment, and a quaternary ammonium compound. The high quality paint is capable of killing gram positive bacteria, gram negative bacteria at a rate of greater than 3 logs within 2 hours of application of bacteria to a painted surface. The high quality paint is also capable of inactivating viruses.
US09131680B2
Nanoemulsion compositions with low toxicity that demonstrate broad spectrum inactivation of microorganisms or prevention of diseases are described. The nanoemulsions contain an aqueous phase, an oil phase comprising an oil and an organic solvent, and one or more surfactants. Methods of making nanoemulsions and inactivating pathogenic microorganisms are also provided.
US09131670B2
An earthworm collecting device that is highly effective in causing earthworms to surface from their holes during the day time or at night and come to the surface. The device generates a rasping noise and a series of vibrations that resonate through the ground. These resonating vibrations cause the earthworms to surface which then allows for easy and rapid collection.
US09131661B2
An apparatus for the sanitary collection of dog waste using an extendable pole with a teardrop shaped loop supporting a plastic bag and a method of collecting dog waste by extending the pole and positioning the loop with the plastic bag under the butt of a dog while pooping to collect the dog's waste.
US09131656B1
A wheat variety designated W010072I2, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W010072I2, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W010072I2 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W010072I2 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W010072I2. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W010072I2 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
