US09203080B2
A rechargeable metal ion cell comprising: an anode comprising at least one metal; a charge-carrying electrolyte comprising a charge carrying medium and at least one metal salt; and an organic polymer cathode, wherein such cathode comprises at least one N-substituted polyphenothiazine polymer [polymer (P)], such polymer (P) comprising at least one N-substituted phenothiazine recurring unit of formula: wherein R′ is an electron-withdrawing group comprising at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, S, P, and N.
US09203078B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, capable of obtaining a lithium ion secondary battery which is excellent in initial charge characteristics and is also excellent in charge/discharge cycle characteristics, and a method for producing the same, as well as a lithium ion secondary battery comprising the negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery. A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a current collector layer, and a negative electrode active material layer composed of a tin structure, the tin structure includes a plurality of protrusions which protrude approximately perpendicularly to a main surface of the current collector layer, and a cross-sectional area of the tip portion parallel to the main surface of the current collector layer of the protrusion is smaller than that of the base end portion.
US09203066B2
A battery and an electrical apparatus accommodated in a battery pack body (1, 4) are effectively cooled. The battery pack body (1, 4) includes a battery region in which a battery module (2) is accommodated and an electrical apparatus region in which the electrical apparatus is accommodated. An air-suction portion (3) and an air-exhaust portion (37) are formed in the battery pack body (1, 4). Air which flows through the air-suction portion (36) is made to flow in the battery pack body (1, 4), thereby cooling the battery module (2) and the electrical apparatus and then, the air is made to flow out through the air-exhaust portion (37). The electrical apparatus region includes an electrical apparatus cover (27) which covers at least a portion of the electrical apparatus and which branches air which is sucked through the air-suction portion.
US09203062B2
A battery is disclosed. The battery includes a battery housing containing operable battery elements. A battery cover is secured to the battery housing and has a cover recess in an outer surface. A handle is provided which has a crossbar interconnecting first and second arms. The handle is pivotally attached to the battery cover in the recess. The battery handle is pivotable between a raised position relative to the battery cover and a lowered position in which the first and second arms and the crossbar are positioned within the cover recess. A cam is carried by the handle and positioned to interact with a surface on the battery cover. A first mating attachment element is also carried by the handle and mates with a second mating attachment element carried by the battery cover. A battery handle and a method of attaching a handle to a battery cover are also disclosed.
US09203058B2
Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly including a separator disposed between a cathode and an anode is mounted in a battery case, wherein an asymmetric structure with respect to a central axis crossing the electrode assembly in plane is formed at a portion of at least one side of the electrode assembly constituting the outer circumference of the electrode assembly.
US09203056B1
The present disclosure provides an OLED structure. The OLED structure includes a cathode layer, an organic light emitting layer, and an anode layer. The organic light emitting layer is located between the cathode layer and the anode layer. A reflective layer is formed under the cathode layer and the anode layer, an insulation isolation layer is formed on the reflective layer. In the present disclosure, structural modification is performed on the anode of the OLED structure to directly avoid possibility of hill lock in the anode. Thus, improvement in the reliability, productivity and yield of the OLED is ensured.
US09203048B2
An organic electroluminescence device comprise an organic electroluminescence element including a pair of electrodes and an organic layer disposed between the pair of electrodes and a sealing resin layer covering a surface of the organic electroluminescence element. The organic layer includes an emitting layer. The sealing resin layer includes a thermoplastic resin composite. The thermoplastic resin composite contains a matrix resin component constituted by at least one resin having a molecular weight of 5000 or more. A content of an organic component having a molecular weight of less than 500 in the thermoplastic resin composite is less than 6 ppm.
US09203045B2
Provided is a novel light-emitting element and a light-emitting element with high light emission efficiency. A light-emitting element at least includes a first electrode, a first light-emitting layer over the first electrode, a second light-emitting layer over and in contact with the first light-emitting layer, a third light-emitting layer over and in contact with the first light-emitting layer, and a second electrode over the third light-emitting layer. One of the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer contains at least a green-light-emitting phosphorescent compound. The other of the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer contains at least an orange-light-emitting phosphorescent compound. The third light-emitting layer contains at least a blue-light-emitting hole-trapping fluorescent compound and an organic electron-transport compound that disperses the fluorescent compound.
US09203042B2
An electronic component having an encapsulation which has at least two double layers is described. In addition, a method for producing an electronic component in which a layer sequence is encapsulated is described.
US09203035B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a material having a high Tg and a wide energy gap. The present invention provides a spirofluorene derivative represented by General Formula 1. (In the formula, R1 is any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a group represented by General Formula 2. Each of R2 and R3 is either hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and may be identical or different. R4 is an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms. Each of R5 and R6 is any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms and may be identical or different.)
US09203034B2
An organic light-emitting diode includes a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer (EML) between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first charge generation layer between the EML and the first electrode and including a first compound and a first charge generation material; a first layer between the EML and the first charge generation layer and including a second compound; a second charge generation layer between the EML and the first layer and including a third compound and a second charge generation material; a second layer between the EML and the second charge generation layer and including a fourth compound; and a buffer layer between the EML and the second layer. The first and third compounds each independently includes a compound represented by Formula 1, and the second and fourth compounds each independently includes a compound represented by Formula 2.
US09203027B2
A coating method in which ink droplets containing functional material are ejected through nozzles on a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions and lyophobic portions adjacent to the respective pixel regions, to form a functional layer in each of the pixel regions includes: landing an ink droplet on a first pixel region and on a first lyophobic portion adjacent to the first pixel region; measuring a deviation of a landing position of the ink droplet on the first lyophobic portion from a set ink landing position; and ejecting an ink droplet on a second pixel region of the substrate while correcting the timing of ink ejection through the nozzles based on the deviation.
US09203025B2
Some embodiments include integrated memory having an array of repeating plates across a plurality of nodes. The array includes rows and columns. The plates along individual columns and individual rows alternate between two orientations which are substantially orthogonal to one another. Some embodiments include methods of forming repeating structures. A pattern is formed which includes a lattice of intersecting wavy lines and a box surrounding the lattice. The pattern has a plurality of openings extending therethrough. A liner material is along sidewalls of the openings. The liner material and the pattern are sliced along a row direction and a column direction substantially orthogonal to the row direction. Such slicing subdivides the liner material into a plurality of plates. The plates are within an array comprising columns and rows. The plates along individual columns and individual rows alternate between two orientations which are substantially orthogonal to one another.
US09203023B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array. The memory cell array comprises a plurality of first wiring lines, a plurality of second wiring lines extending crossing the first wiring lines, and a plurality of memory cells disposed at intersections of the first and second wiring lines. The memory cells are stacked in a direction perpendicular to a substrate, and each memory cell comprises a variable resistance element. The semiconductor memory device also includes a select transistor layer comprising a plurality of select transistors, each select transistor being operative to select any one of the first wiring lines or one of the second wiring lines. Two select transistors are connected to two different respective first wiring lines, stacked in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and configured to share one gate electrode.
US09203021B2
According to one embodiment, a resistance change memory includes a first interconnect line extending in a first direction, a second interconnect line extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and a cell unit which is provided between the first interconnect line and the second interconnect line and which includes a non-ohmic element and a memory element, the non-ohmic element including a conductive layer provided on at least one of first and second ends of the cell unit and a silicon portion provided between the first and second ends, the memory element being connected to the non-ohmic element via the conductive layer and storing data in accordance with a reversible change in a resistance state, wherein the non-ohmic element includes a first silicon germanium region in the silicon portion.
US09203019B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a plurality of first lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of second lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a resistance variable layer interposed between the first lines and the second lines, a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the resistance variable layer and the first lines, and an intermediate electrode layer interposed between the resistance variable layer and the tunnel barrier layer. The tunnel barrier layer and the intermediate electrode layer overlap with at least two neighboring intersection regions of the first lines and the second lines.
US09203013B2
An apparatus includes a structure that includes a bottom cap layer surrounding a metal pad. The apparatus also includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device that includes a bottom electrode coupled to the structure. The MTJ device includes magnetic tunnel junction layers, a top electrode, and a logic cap layer. The MTJ device is offset with respect to the metal pad.
US09203006B2
A light-emitting device includes a first lead frame and a second lead frame spaced apart from each other, the first and second lead frames each including a first portion, and a second portion disposed on the first portion, a light-emitting diode chip disposed on the second portion of the first or second lead frame, and a resin at least partially covering the first and second lead frames. The first and second portions of the first lead frame have different planar shapes from each other, the first and second portions of the second lead frame have different planar shapes from each other, and the second portion of the first or second lead frame includes a first fixing element. A first space is disposed between the first portion of the first lead frame and the first portion of the second lead frame, and the first fixing element is disposed on the first space.
US09203003B2
A light-emitting diode device comprises a substrate; a plurality of LED units formed on the substrate, each LED unit including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, and an active layer formed therebetween; and a first sidewall with a length of A microns; and a plurality of conductive connecting structures, spatially separated from each other, wherein one end of the conductive connecting structure are formed on the first sidewall of one of the LED units, and a spacing between two adjacent conductive connecting structures is less than 100 microns; wherein each conductive connecting structure comprises a first extending part formed on one LED unit and a second extending part formed on the adjacent LED unit, wherein lengths of the first and the second extending parts are different; wherein a number of the conductive connecting structures is an integer larger than (A/100)−1.
US09202996B2
A lighting device is provided comprising a chip-on-board (COB) light emitting diode (LED) light source, a light source encapsulant, a quantum dot distributed color conversion medium, and a quantum dot glass containment plate. The COB LED light source comprises at least one LED and defines a light source encapsulant cavity in which the light source encapsulant is distributed over the LED. The quantum dot glass containment plate is positioned over the light source encapsulant cavity and contains a quantum dot distributed color conversion medium. The distributed color conversion medium comprises a quantum dot structure and is distributed in two dimensions over an emission field of the lighting device within the quantum dot glass containment plate.
US09202992B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor layer, a p-side and an n-side interconnect portions, a fluorescent substance layer and a transparent layer. The semiconductor layer has a first major surface, a second major surface, and a first side surface, the semiconductor layer including a light emitting layer. The p-side and n-side interconnect portions are electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The fluorescent substance layer is provided on the first major surface side. The transparent layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and the fluorescent substance layer, and has a second side surface. The device further includes an insulating film covering the first side surface and the second side surface, and a reflecting member covering the first side surface and the second side surface via the insulating film.
US09202990B2
Provided are a light emitting diode package and a backlight assembly including the light emitting diode package. The light emitting diode package may comprise a package main body including a cavity; a light emitting diode (LED) chip positioned in the cavity; a lead frame installed in the package main body, positioned in the cavity at least partly, electrically connected to the light emitting diode chip mounted on the lead frame, and having one surface having a diffusion reflective layer thereon.
US09202987B2
The present invention provides a peeling off method without giving damage to the peeled off layer, and aims at being capable of peeling off not only a peeled off layer having a small area but also a peeled off layer having a large area over the entire surface at excellent yield ratio. The metal layer or nitride layer 11 is provided on the substrate, and further, the oxide layer 12 being contact with the foregoing metal layer or nitride layer 11 is provided, and furthermore, if the lamination film formation or the heat processing of 500° C. or more in temperature is carried out, it can be easily and clearly separated in the layer or on the interface with the oxide layer 12 by the physical means.
US09202975B2
A light emitting diode includes a substrate, graphene layer, a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a reflection layer. The first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer are stacked on the substrate in sequence. The first electrode is electrically connected with the second semiconductor layer and the second electrode electrically is connected with the second part of the carbon nanotube layer. The graphene layer is located between the active layer and the second semiconductor layer. The reflection layer covers the second semiconductor layer.
US09202968B2
Provided is a method of fabricating a vertical light emitting diode (LED). Initially, a semiconductor structure layer including an active layer is formed on a front surface of a growth substrate. A conductive support substrate is formed on the semiconductor structure layer. A rear surface of the growth substrate is abraded to reduce the thickness of the growth substrate. The rear surface of the growth substrate whose thickness is reduced due to the abrasion is dry etched to remove the growth substrate.
US09202962B2
A solid state imaging device includes a circuit unit formed on a substrate and a photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion circuit includes a lower electrode layer placed on the circuit unit, a compound semiconductor thin film of chalcopyrite structure which is placed on the lower electrode layer and functions as an optical absorption layer, and an optical transparent electrode layer placed on the compound semiconductor thin film. The lower electrode layer, the compound semiconductor thin film, and the optical transparent electrode layer are laminated one after another on the circuit unit.
US09202960B2
Leakage pathway layers for solar cells and methods of forming leakage pathway layers for solar cells are described.
US09202959B2
A photovoltaic device and method include a crystalline substrate and an emitter contact portion formed in contact with the substrate. A back-surface-field junction includes a homogeneous junction layer formed in contact with the crystalline substrate and having a same conductivity type and a higher active doping density than that of the substrate. The homogeneous junction layer includes a thickness less than a diffusion length of minority carriers in the homogeneous junction layer. A passivation layer is formed in contact with the homogeneous junction layer opposite the substrate, which is either undoped or has the same conductivity type as that of the substrate.
US09202955B2
The present invention relates generally to the photovoltaic generation of electrical energy. The present invention relates more particularly to photovoltaic roofing products for use in photovoltaically generating electrical energy. One aspect of the invention is a photovoltaic roofing element including a roofing substrate; a photovoltaic element disposed on the roofing substrate; an electrical connector operatively connected to the photovoltaic element, the electrical connector having a top side, a down-roof side and an electrical terminus; and a shield disposed adjacent the electrical terminus of the electrical connector on its down-roof side, its top side, or both.
US09202953B1
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a solar cell with a nanostructural film, including steps of treating a glass substrate with UV ozone, uniformly coating a polystyrene nanospherical layer containing plural nanospheres on the surface of the glass substrate and curing the polystyrene nanospherical layer for adhesion onto the glass substrate, forming a first optical layer on the surface of the polystyrene nanospherical layer, curing and releasing the first optical layer from the polystyrene nanospherical layer to obtain a concave spherical nanostructured film, and finally affixing the concave spherical nanostructured film on the surface of a solar cell to manufacture a solar cell with nanostructure after curing by baking.
US09202949B2
A sensor substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix pattern, a sensing electrode pattern, a driving electrode pattern, and at least one bridge line. The black matrix pattern is disposed on the base substrate and divides the base substrate into a light transmission area and a light blocking area. The sensing electrode pattern includes a plurality of first unit patterns arranged in association with a first direction. The driving electrode pattern includes a plurality of second unit patterns arranged in association with a second direction and disposed adjacent to the plurality of first unit patterns. The at least one bridge line is connected between at least two of the plurality of first unit patterns or between at least two of the plurality of second unit patterns.
US09202947B2
A photovoltaic device manufacturing method is disclosed. Methods include manufacturing a photovoltaic cell using nanoimprint technology to define individual cell units of the photovoltaic device. The methods can include providing a substrate; forming a first conductive layer over the substrate; forming first grooves in the first conductive layer using a nanoimprint and etching process; forming an absorption layer over the first conductive layer, the absorption layer filling in the first grooves; forming second grooves in the absorption layer using a nanoimprint process; forming a second conductive layer over the absorption layer, the second conductive layer filling in the second grooves; and forming third grooves in the second conductive layer and the absorption layer, thereby defining a photovoltaic cell unit.
US09202945B2
An apparatus including first and second layers of electrically conductive material separated by a layer of electrically insulating material, wherein one or both layers of electrically conductive material include graphene, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that electrons are able to tunnel from the first layer of electrically conductive material through the layer of electrically insulating material to the second layer of electrically conductive material.
US09202943B2
A photovoltaic device includes a thermal stress relieving layer on top of a substrate; a back ohmic contact on the thermal stress relieving layer; and a p-type semiconductor photon absorber layer on the back ohmic contact. The back ohmic contact comprises a metallic compound of the sacrificial back electrode metal layer and the absorber layer, in combination with the thermal stress relieving layer. The thermal stress relieving layer has a substantially similar thermal expansion coefficient with respect to the substrate and the absorber layer and a lower Young's modulus with respect to the sacrificial back electrode metal layer.
US09202941B2
A semiconductor unit includes: a first device substrate including a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer, in which the first wiring layer is provided on one surface side of the first semiconductor substrate; a second device substrate including a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer, in which the second device substrate is bonded to the first device substrate, and the second wiring layer is provided on one surface side of the second semiconductor substrate; a through-electrode penetrating the first device substrate and a part or all of the second device substrate, and electrically connecting the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer to each other; and an insulating layer provided in opposition to the through-electrode, and penetrating one of the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate.
US09202937B2
A semiconductor device comprising: a p or p+ doped portion; an n or n+ doped portion separated from the p or p+ doped portion by a semiconductor drift portion; an insulating portion provided adjacent the drift portion and at least one of the doped portions in a region where the drift portion and said at least one doped portion meet; and at least one additional portion which is arranged for significantly reducing the variation of the electric field strength in said region when a voltage difference is applied between the doped portions.
US09202936B2
A semiconductor device includes: an N-type drift layer; a P-type anode layer on the N-type drift layer; a trench penetrating the P-type anode layer; a conductive substance embedded in the trench via an insulating film; and an N-type buffer layer between the N-type drift layer and the P-type anode layer and having impurity concentration which is higher than that of the N-type drift layer.
US09202934B2
A method of forming a junction field effect transistor, the transistor comprising: a back gate; a channel; a top gate; a drain and a source in current flow with the channel; wherein the method comprises selecting a first channel dimension between the top gate and the back gate such that a significant current flow path in the channel occurs in a region of relatively low electric field strength.
US09202933B2
Disclosed is a flash memory using fringing effects and an electrostatic shielding function. A gap between adjacent gate stacks is controlled by fringing effects, and an operation of each of the gate stacks is electrostatically shielded by a gate electrode extending to a tunneling insulation layer. Thus, coupling between the adjacent gate stacks is minimized by electrostatic shielding.
US09202929B2
An object is to increase the on-state current of a thin film transistor. A solution is to provide a projection in a back-channel portion of the thin film transistor. The projection is provided so as to be off a tangent in the back-channel portion between a source or a drain and a channel formation region. With the projection, a portion where electric charge is trapped and a path of the on-state current can be apart from each other, so that the on-state current can be increased. The shape of a side surface of the back-channel portion may be curved, or may be represented as straight lines in a cross section. Further, a method for forming such a shape by performing one etching step is provided.
US09202918B2
One method includes forming a raised isolation structure with a recess above a substrate, forming a gate structure above the fin, forming a plurality of spaced-apart buried fin contact structures within the recess and forming a stress-inducing material layer above the buried fin contact structures. One device includes a plurality of spaced-apart buried fin contact structures positioned within a recess in a raised isolation structure on opposite sides of a gate structure, a stress-inducing material layer formed above the buried fin contact structures and a source/drain contact that extends through the stress-inducing material layer.
US09202914B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a plurality of isolation structures, at least a gate structure, a plurality of dummy gate structures and a plurality of epitaxial structures is provided. The substrate has an active area defined by the isolation structures disposed within the substrate. That is, the active area is defined between the isolation structures. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate and located within the active area. The dummy gate structures are disposed on the substrate and located out of the active area. The edge of each dummy gate structure is separated from the boundary of the active area with a distance smaller than 135 angstroms. The epitaxial structures are disposed within the active area and in a portion of the substrate on two sides of the gate structure. The invention also provided a method for fabricating semiconductor device.
US09202909B2
A semiconductor device includes a source metallization, a source region of a first conductivity type in contact with the source metallization, a body region of a second conductivity type which is adjacent to the source region. The semiconductor device further includes a first field-effect structure including a first insulated gate electrode and a second field-effect structure including a second insulated gate electrode which is electrically connected to the source metallization. The capacitance per unit area between the second insulated gate electrode and the body region is larger than the capacitance per unit area between the first insulated gate electrode and the body region.
US09202903B2
Methods of forming a transistor include providing a semiconductor epitaxial structure including a channel layer and barrier layer on the channel layer, forming a gate electrode on the barrier layer, etching the semiconductor epitaxial structure using the gate electrode as an etch mask to form a trench in the semiconductor epitaxial structure, and depositing a source metal in the trench. The trench extends at least to the channel layer, and the source metal forms a Schottky junction with the channel layer. Related semiconductor device structures are also disclosed.
US09202891B2
The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of source regions formed in a stripe shape on the semiconductor substrate, a plurality of gate electrodes formed in a stripe shape between a plurality of the stripe shaped source regions on the semiconductor substrate, an insulating film for covering the source regions and the gate electrodes, the insulating film including a contact hole for partly exposing the source regions in a part of a predetermined region with respect to a longitudinal direction of the source regions; and a source electrode formed on the insulating film and electrically connected to the source region via the contact hole.
US09202874B2
A gallium nitride (GaN) device with leakage current-based over-voltage protection is disclosed. The GaN device includes a drain and a source disposed on a semiconductor substrate. The GaN device also includes a first channel region within the semiconductor substrate and between the drain and the source. The GaN device further includes a second channel region within the semiconductor substrate and between the drain and the source. The second channel region has an enhanced drain induced barrier lowering (DIBL) that is greater than the DIBL of the first channel region. As a result, a drain voltage will be safely clamped below a destructive breakdown voltage once a substantial drain current begins to flow through the second channel region.
US09202871B2
Devices for providing transistors with improved operating characteristics are provided. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory device. A transistor of the processor or the memory device includes a channel in a semiconductor substrate that is undoped or intrinsic. A metal gate is disposed directly on top of the channel, and the bandgap of the semiconductor substrate and the work function of the metal form a Schottky barrier.
US09202869B2
A collector region is formed between insulating shallow trench isolation regions within a substrate. A base material is epitaxially grown on the collector region and the shallow trench isolation regions. The base material forms a base region on the collector region and extrinsic base regions on the shallow trench isolation regions. Further, a sacrificial emitter structure is patterned on the base region and sidewall spacers are formed on the sacrificial emitter structure. Planar raised base structures are epitaxially grown on the base region and the extrinsic base regions, and the upper layer of the raised base structures is oxidized. The sacrificial emitter structure is removed to leave an open space between the sidewall spacers and an emitter is formed within the open space between the sidewall spacers. The upper layer of the raised base structures comprises a planar insulator electrically insulating the emitter from the raised base structures.
US09202864B2
A structure includes a silicon substrate; at least two wells in the silicon substrate; and a deep trench isolation (DTI) separating the two wells. The DTI has a top portion and a bottom portion having a width that is larger than a width of the top portion. The structure further includes at least two semiconductor devices disposed over one of the wells, where the at least two semiconductor devices are separated by a shallow trench isolation (STI). In the structure sidewalls of the top portion of the DTI and sidewalls of the STI are comprised of doped, re-crystallized silicon. The doped, re-crystallized silicon can be formed by an angled ion implant that uses, for example, one of Xe, In, BF2, B18H22, C16H10, Si, Ge or As as an implant species to amorphize the silicon, and by annealing the amorphized silicon to re-crystallize the amorphized silicon.
US09202863B2
A structure is provided with a self-aligned resist layer on a surface of metal interconnects for use in forming air gaps in an insulator material and method of fabricating the same. The non-lithographic method includes applying a resist on a structure which has at least one metal interconnect formed in an insulator material. The method further includes blanket-exposing the resist to energy and developing the resist to expose surfaces of the insulator material while protecting the metal interconnects. The method further includes forming air gaps in the insulator material by an etching process, while the metal interconnects remain protected by the resist.
US09202862B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first well, a first heavily doping region, a field oxide, a first dielectric layer, and a conductive layer. The first well is disposed on the substrate, and the first heavily doping region is disposed in the first well. The field oxide is disposed on the first well and adjacent to the first heavily doping region. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the field oxide and covering the field oxide. The conductive layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The first well and the first heavily doping region have a first type doping.
US09202856B2
An organic light emitting diode display device is disclosed. The device includes, for example, a thin film transistor with an active layer on a substrate, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a pixel electrode formed on the same layer as the gate electrode, an electrode pattern partially exposing the pixel electrode and formed on the pixel electrode, a pixel electrode contact formed between the electrode pattern and the drain electrode and electrically connected to the drain electrode, a pixel defining film exposing the pixel electrode and formed to cover the drain electrode and the source electrode, an intermediate layer formed on the exposed pixel electrode and including an emissive layer, and an opposite electrode formed opposite the pixel electrode to at least partially cover the intermediate layer. A method of manufacturing the device is also disclosed.
US09202854B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and an OLED display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units disposed on a substrate, wherein each pixel unit includes a TFT structure formed on the substrate and an OLED driven by the TFT structure; the TFT structure includes a drive TFT. A drain electrode of the drive TFT is connected with the OLED; a gate electrode and the drain electrode of the drive TFT are at least partially overlapped to form a storage capacitor. A recess is formed in an insulating layer interposed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode corresponding to the overlapped area, so that the distance between the gate electrode and the drain electrode is less than the thickness of the insulating layer corresponding to the non-overlapped area.
US09202849B2
A thin film semiconductor device including a thin film transistor (TFT) that maintains a constant electrical characteristic and an organic light-emitting display device. The thin film semiconductor device includes: a substrate; and a thin film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate and comprising a semiconductor layer comprising a source region and a drain region, wherein a part of the source region is spaced apart from the drain region and partially surrounds the drain region, and wherein a part of the drain region is spaced apart from the source region and partially surrounds the source region.
US09202848B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting display apparatus, including a substrate, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode, disposed on the substrate separated from one another, a red emission layer disposed corresponding to the first pixel electrode, a green emission layer disposed corresponding to the second pixel electrode, and a blue emission layer disposed corresponding to the third pixel electrode, an opposite electrode disposed over the red, green, and blue emission layers facing the first to third pixel electrodes, a first capping layer disposed on the opposite electrode corresponding to the first and second pixel electrodes, and a second capping layer disposed on the first capping layer corresponding to the first and second pixel electrodes and disposed on the opposite electrode to correspond to the third pixel electrode.
US09202843B2
A highly productive method for sealing substrates with the use of glass frit is provided. A method for sealing substrates with the use of glass frit, which can be used for a substrate provided with a material having low heat resistance, is provided. A highly airtight sealed body which is manufactured by such a method is provided. A light-emitting device having high productivity and high reliability and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A heat generation layer containing a conductive material which generates heat by induction heating is formed to overlap with a region where a paste including a frit material and a binder is applied. Alternatively, a conductive material which generates heat by induction heating is added to the paste itself. The paste is locally heated by induction heating to remove the binder included in the paste.
US09202835B2
A lensfree imaging and sensing device includes an image sensor comprising an array of pixels and a substantially optically transparent layer disposed above the image sensor. Nano-sized features that support surface plasmon waves are populated on the substantially optically transparent layer separating the image sensor from the nano-sized features. The nano-sized features may include apertures through a substantially optically opaque layer (e.g., metal layer) or they may include antennas. An illumination source is provided that is configured to illuminate a sample. At least one processor is operatively coupled to the image sensor. Changes to the detected transmission pattern at the image sensor are used to sense conditions at or near the surface containing the nano-sized features. Conditions may include binding events or other changes to the index of refraction occurring near the surface of the device.
US09202831B2
One embodiment is an imaging apparatus including multiple pixels. The pixels include first and second photoelectric conversion units, a floating diffusion portion, and first and second transfer transistors configured to transfer electric carriers generated at the respective first and second photoelectric conversion units to the floating diffusion portion. The imaging apparatus includes a first conductive member electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transfer transistor, a second conductive member electrically connected to the gate electrode of the second transfer transistor, and a control unit. The distance of closest proximity between the first conductive member and the floating diffusion portion is shorter than distance of closest proximity between the second conductive member and the floating diffusion portion.
US09202830B2
An imaging element includes an amplifying transistor. A signal charge from the photodiode is transferable to the gate of amplifying transistor, the photodiode being within a semiconductor substrate. The source and drain of the amplifying transistor are electrically isolated from a semiconductor substrate, wherein the source is within a well or the source and drain are within a silicon-on-insulator layer.
US09202822B2
To manufacture a transistor whose threshold voltage is controlled without using a backgate electrode, a circuit for controlling the threshold voltage, and an impurity introduction method. To manufacture a semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics, high reliability, and low power consumption using the transistor. A gate electrode including a tungsten oxide film whose composition is controlled is used. The composition or the like is adjusted by a film formation method of the tungsten oxide film, whereby the work function can be controlled. By using the tungsten oxide film whose work function is controlled as part of the gate electrode, the threshold of the transistor can be controlled. Using the transistor whose threshold voltage is controlled, a semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics, high reliability, and low power consumption can be manufactured.
US09202816B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a cell unit having a select gate transistor and a memory cell connected in series, a select gate line connected to the select gate transistor, and a word line connected to the memory cell. One end of the word line is bent to the select gate line side, and a fringe is connected between a bent point and a distal end of the word line.
US09202813B2
An electrode structure is disclosed. The electrode structure includes a first polysilicon layer doped with resistance adjustment impurities; a second polysilicon layer for adjusting grains, formed in the first polysilicon layer and doped with grain adjustment impurities; an ohmic metal layer formed on the first and second polysilicon layers; a barrier metal layer formed on the ohmic metal layer; and a metal layer formed on the barrier metal layer.
US09202812B2
A method of forming a field effect transistor (FET) device includes forming a diffusion facilitation layer on top of a semiconductor substrate; forming a doped, raised source/drain (RSD) layer on the diffusion facilitation layer; removing a portion of the diffusion facilitation layer, corresponding to a region directly above a channel region of the FET device; and performing an anneal so as to define abrupt source and drain junctions in the semiconductor substrate, wherein dopant atoms from the doped RSD layer diffuse within the diffusion facilitation layer at a faster rate than with respect to the semiconductor substrate.
US09202811B2
In an exemplary implementation, an integrated assembly includes a printed circuit board, and a depletion mode III-Nitride transistor die and a group IV transistor die coupled to the printed circuit board. The depletion mode III-Nitride transistor die is situated on one side of the printed circuit board and the group IV transistor die is situated on an opposing side of the printed circuit board. At least one via in the printed circuit board electrically connects the depletion mode III-Nitride transistor die to the group IV transistor die. In some implementations, the depletion mode III-Nitride transistor die is in cascode with the group IV transistor die. Furthermore, the depletion mode III-Nitride transistor die can be situated over the group IV transistor die.
US09202807B2
A semiconductor structure includes a P well formed on a P type substrate; a first N type electrode area formed on a central region of the P well; a first insulating area formed on the P well and surrounding the first N type electrode area; a second N type electrode area formed on the P well and surrounding the first insulating area; a second insulating area formed on the P well and surrounding the second N type electrode area; and a P type electrode area formed on the P well and surrounding the second insulating area; wherein periphery outlines of the first N type electrode area and the second N type electrode area are both 8K sided polygons or circles, and K is a positive integer.
US09202802B2
A semiconductor apparatus with a through via includes a semiconductor chip and a through via formed by penetrating through the semiconductor chip. The system further includes a first metal layer connected to a portion of the through via at an end of the through via and a second metal layer connected to another portion of the through via at the end of the through via.
US09202793B1
An integrated circuit packaging system and method of manufacture thereof including: providing a substrate; forming contact pads on top of the substrate; forming a protection layer on top of the contact pads and the substrate; exposing the contact pads from the protection layer; printing under bump metallization (UBM) layers over the exposed contact pads extended over the protection layer with conductive inks; and forming bumps on top of the under bump metallization layers. It also including: printing an adhesion layer using conductive ink, wherein the adhesion layer comprises interconnected adhesion layer pads; forming additional under bump metallization (UBM) layers and bumps on top of the adhesion layer pads utilizing an electro-deposition process; and removing connections among the interconnected adhesion layer pads.
US09202780B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate in which a cell region and a contact region are defined, a pad structure including a plurality of first conductive layers and a plurality of first insulating layers formed alternately with each other in the contact region of the substrate, wherein an end of the pad structure is patterned stepwise, portions of the first conductive layers exposed at the end of the pad structure are defined as a plurality of pad portions, and the plurality of pad portions have a greater thickness than unexposed portions of the plurality of first conductive layers.
US09202766B2
A power device includes a chip of semiconductor material and a further chip of semiconductor material on each of which at least one power transistor is integrated; each chip comprises a first conduction terminal on a first surface, and a second conduction terminal and a control terminal on a second surface opposite the first surface, and an insulating body embedding said chip and said further chip. In the solution according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, the first surface of said chip faces the second surface of said further chip, and the power device further comprises a first heat-sink arranged between said chip and said further chip and electrically coupled with the first conduction terminal of said chip and with the second conduction terminal of said further chip, the control terminal of said further chip being electrically insulated from the first heat-sink.
US09202765B2
A semiconductor device includes a functional block unit, external terminals and, and an external resin sealing body. The functional block unit includes an internal resin sealing body having an edge and an opposite edge. The edge side of the internal resin sealing body covers a first end of an internal terminal, but does not cover a second end of the internal terminal. The edge side of the internal resin sealing body covers a first end of an internal terminal, but does not cover a second end of the internal terminal. The external resin sealing body covers the root portion and a portion of the middle portion of the external terminal, but does not cover the terminal portion of the external terminal. The functional block unit and the external terminals and are integrally connected together and sealed by the external resin sealing body.
US09202763B2
According to a defect pattern evaluation method of an embodiment, defects are detected by performing optical defect inspection on a pattern on a substrate. Then, the defects are classified according to a type of a pattern layout using a pattern layout corresponding to coordinates of the defects. Further, a computer calculates a defect occurrence rate by dividing the number of defects of each pattern layout by an arrangement number of the pattern layouts in an inspection region. Then, the defect occurrence rate of each pattern layout is output as an evaluation result.
US09202757B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor module includes: a first circuit component: a second circuit component; and a third circuit component. The first circuit component includes: an insulating first substrate; a first conductive layer; a first switching element; and a first diode. The second circuit component includes: an insulating second substrate; a second conductive layer; a second switching element; and a second diode. The second circuit component is disposed between the first circuit component and the third circuit component. The third circuit component includes: an insulating third substrate; a third conductive layer provided on the third substrate and including a third element mounting unit; a third switching element provided on the third element mounting unit; and a third diode provided on the third element mounting unit. A direction from the third switching element toward the third diode is an opposite direction to the first direction.
US09202756B1
A method of forming a stacked low temperature transistor and related devices. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising forming at least one integrated circuit device on a front surface of a bulk semiconductor substrate, and depositing an inter-layer dielectric on the at least one integrated circuit device. A semiconductor layer may then be deposited on the inter-layer dielectric. In some embodiments, a transistor is formed within the semiconductor layer. In some examples, the transistor includes a gate structure formed over the semiconductor layer as well as source/drain regions formed within the semiconductor layer disposed adjacent to and on either side of the gate structure. A metal layer may then be deposited over the transistor, after which an annealing process is performed to induce a reaction between the source/drain regions and the metal layer.
US09202753B2
A method includes applying a reinforcing wafer to a semiconductor wafer, thereby forming a composite wafer. Further the method includes dividing the composite wafer, thereby generating a plurality of composite chips each including a semiconductor chip and a reinforcing chip.
US09202752B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate including a first integrated circuit, a second semiconductor substrate mounted over the first semiconductor substrate, the second semiconductor substrate including a second integrated circuit, a post made of an inorganic substance and formed over the first semiconductor substrate, an adhesive layer made of an organic substance arranged between the first and the second semiconductor substrates, and a substrate-through-via made of an electrical conductor extending through the second semiconductor substrate and the post, the substrate-through-via extending to the first semiconductor substrate.
US09202751B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an improved semiconductor structure and methods of fabrication that provide transistor contacts that are self-aligned in two dimensions. Two different capping layers are used, each being comprised of a different material. The two capping layers are selectively etchable to each other. One capping layer is used for gate coverage while the other capping layer is used for source/drain coverage. Selective etch processes open the desired gates and source/drains, while block masks are used to cover elements that are not part of the connection scheme. A metallization line (layer) is deposited, making contact with the open elements to provide electrical connectivity between them.
US09202748B2
A radio frequency (RF) module comprises an electrical reference, or ground, plane to which one or more RF devices disposed on the module are electrically coupled, and may be disposed beneath the RF devices. The reference plane may be segmented as to form one or more segments of the reference plane that are at least partially electrically isolated from surrounding segments or devices. A module may have a plurality of devices disposed thereon, wherein separate, at least partially isolated reference planes, correspond to different devices of the module. The reference plane may be etched or cut to achieve such segmentation.
US09202741B2
Embodiments relate to semiconductor structures and methods of forming them. In some embodiments, the methods may be used to fabricate a semiconductor substrate by forming a weakened zone in a donor structure at a predetermined depth to define a transfer layer between an attachment surface and the weakened zone and a residual donor structure between the weakened zone and a surface opposite the attachment surface. A metallic layer is formed on the attachment surface and provides an ohmic contact between the metallic layer and the transfer layer, a matched Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) for the metallic layer that closely matches a CTE of the transfer layer, and sufficient stiffness to provide structural support to the transfer layer. The transfer layer is separated from the donor structure at the weakened zone to form a composite substrate comprising the transfer layer and the metallic layer.
US09202740B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate having active regions that are defined by an isolation layer and that have first sidewalls extending upward from the isolation layer, floating gates adjoining the first sidewalls of the active regions with a tunnel dielectric layer interposed between the active regions and the floating gates and extending upward from the substrate, an intergate dielectric layer disposed over the floating gates, and control gates disposed over the intergate dielectric layer.
US09202731B2
Disclosed is a liquid processing apparatus that processes a substrate with a processing liquid. The processing apparatus includes: a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate; a processing liquid supply unit configured to supply the processing liquid to the substrate held by the substrate holder; a rinsing liquid supply unit configured to supply a rinsing liquid to the substrate; and a light emitting element configured to emit light of a wavelength range, which is absorbed only by the substrate, and irradiate the emitted light to the substrate.
US09202723B2
A cleaning device for cleaning substrates is provided. The device comprises a cleaning brush having an outer cleaning surface surrounding a hollow bore and positioned around a first central axis al defining a first rotational direction α; and a plurality of cantilevered nodules formed on the outer cleaning surface, each nodule having a mounting portion connected with the outer cleaning surface, a cleaning portion connected with the mounting portion, and a contact member for engaging the substrate. The cleaning portion extends in a first direction D1 from the mounting portion to the contact member, wherein a radial direction Dr is defined as extending radially from the central axis a1 towards the outer cleaning surface and normal to the rotational direction α, and wherein the first direction D1 intersects with the radial direction Dr at an angle γ. Angle γ is greater than 0° and less than 180°.
US09202710B2
A method includes depositing a material layer over a semiconductor substrate and using a first mask in a first exposure/patterning process to pattern the material layer thereby forming a plurality of first and second features. The first features include patterns for the semiconductor device and the second features include printing assist features. The method includes using a second mask in a second exposure/patterning process to effectively remove the second features from the material layer and to define at least one separating structure between two first features.
US09202699B2
The present description relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic transistors, including non-planar transistors, for microelectronic devices. Embodiments of the present description relate to the formation a recessed gate electrode capped by a substantially void-free dielectric capping dielectric structure which may be formed with a high density plasma process.
US09202696B2
An antenna cell for preventing plasma enhanced gate dielectric failures, is provided. The antenna cell design utilizes a polysilicon lead as a gate for a dummy transistor. The polysilicon lead may be one of a group of parallel, nested polysilicon lead. The dummy transistor includes the gate coupled to a substrate maintained at VSS, either directly through a metal lead or indirectly through a tie-low cell. The gate is disposed over a dielectric disposed over a continuous source/drain region in which the source and drain are tied together. A diode is formed with the semiconductor substrate within which it is formed. The source/drain region is coupled to another metal lead which may be an input pin and is coupled to active transistor gates, preventing plasma enhanced gate dielectric damage to the active transistors.
US09202692B2
An integrated circuit and method having a JFET with a buried drift layer and a buried channel in which the buried channel is formed by implanting through segmented implant areas so that the doping density of the buried channel is between 25 percent and 50 percent of the doping density of the buried drift layer.
US09202689B2
A method and structure of an embedded stressor in a semiconductor transistor device having a sigma-shaped channel sidewall and a vertical isolation sidewall. The embedded stressor structure is made by a first etch to form a recess in a substrate having a gate and first and second spacers. The second spacers are removed and a second etch creates a step in the recess on a channel sidewall. An anisotropic etch creates facets in the channel sidewall of the recess. Where the facets meet, a vertex is formed. The depth of the vertex is determined by the second etch depth (step depth). The lateral position of the vertex is determined by the thickness of the first spacers. A semiconductor material having a different lattice spacing than the substrate is formed in the recess to achieve the embedded stressor structure.
US09202678B2
One aspect of the system provides the use of a laser with a mass spectrometer. Another aspect of the present application employs a laser emitting a pulse of less than one picosecond duration into an ion-trap mass spectrometer. In yet another aspect of the present application, a femtosecond laser beam pulse is emitted upon an ionized specimen to remove at least one electron therefrom.
US09202674B2
A bridge assembly includes an electrically insulating hollow tube or bridge having a pair of ends, the bridge being supported at one of the ends over the cylindrical side wall and being supported at the other of the ends over the electrode. The bridge assembly further includes a set of conductive rings surrounding the hollow tube and spaced from one another along the length of the bridge, and plural electrically resistive elements. Each of the resistive elements has a pair of flexible connectors, respective ones the resistive elements connected at their flexible connectors between respective pairs of the rings to form a series resistor assembly.
US09202673B2
A multi charged particle beam writing method includes performing ON/OFF switching of a beam by an individual blanking system for the beam concerned, for each beam in multi-beams of charged particle beam, with respect to each time irradiation of irradiation of a plurality of times, by using a plurality of individual blanking systems that respectively perform beam ON/OFF control of a corresponding beam in the multi-beams, and performing blanking control, in addition to the performing ON/OFF switching of the beam for the each beam by the individual blanking system, with respect to the each time irradiation of the irradiation of the plurality of times, so that the beam is in an ON state during an irradiation time corresponding to irradiation concerned, by using a common blanking system that collectively performs beam ON/OFF control for a whole of the multi-beams.
US09202662B2
A system includes an integrated circuit (IC) design data base having a feature, a source configured to generate a radiation beam, a pattern generator (PG) including a mirror array plate and an electrode plate disposed over the mirror array plate, wherein the electrode plate includes a lens let having a first dimension and a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension with the first dimension larger than the second dimension so that the lens let modifies the radiation beam to form the long shaped radiation beam, and a stage configured secured the substrate. The system further includes an electric field generator connecting the mirror array plate. The mirror array plate includes a mirror. The mirror absorbs or reflects the radiation beam. The radiation beam includes electron beam or ion beam. The second dimension is equal to a minimum dimension of the feature.
US09202658B2
A multi-axis magnetic lens with stable performance in focusing a plurality of charged particle beams is provided. The multi-axis magnetic lens comprises a plurality of magnetic dub-lens modules. On the one hand, the multi-axis magnetic lens employs an annular permanent-magnet unit to provide a basic and stable magnetic flux to the plurality of magnetic sub-lens modules. One the other hand, the multi-axis magnetic lens uses a plurality of subsidiary coils to provide additional and adjustable magnetic flux to the plurality of magnetic sub-lens modules respectively. The invention also proposes a method to turn off or adjust the basic and stable magnetic flux for some applications. Hence, this invention will benefit the applications which need to execute in a long time period while keeping a high stabilization in performance.
US09202653B2
An electromagnetic relay which is provided with an armature, a moving electrode which has a moving plate and a moving contact and a fixed electrode which faces the moving electrode and has a fixed plate and a fixed contact. At least a portion of the moving plate onto which the moving contact is arranged and at least a portion of the fixed plate onto which the fixed contact is arranged are inclined in width direction.
US09202644B2
A cord switch including a cord switch main body including a hollow tubular member having elasticity and electrical insulating property and a plurality of electrode wires provided to face each other with an interval at an inner surface of the tubular member and spaced from each other by the elasticity of the tubular member, and a mounting member having an elastic modulus greater than an elastic modulus of the tubular member and being provided along the cord switch main body. The cord switch also includes a strip-shaped impact absorption member having an elastic modulus lower than the elastic modulus of the tubular member, which is interposed between the cord switch main body and the mounting member.
US09202640B2
A ceramic body includes an inner electrode disposed inside the ceramic body and in which an end portion of the inner electrode extends to a surface of the ceramic body. An electrode layer is formed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode, the electrode layer including a resin, a first metal filler that contains a first metal component, and a second metal filler that contains a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. A step of heating the electrode layer is performed to form an electrode including a metal layer that is located on the surface of the ceramic body and that includes the first and second metal components and a metal contained in the inner electrode.
US09202637B2
The present invention has as its object the provision of a lithium ion capacitor having high capacity and high output characteristics and also having high safety that allows suppression of an increase in surface temperature even when an internal short circuit accidentally occurs.The lithium ion capacitor of the present invention comprises: a lithium ion capacitor element formed by overlaying a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet on top of one another with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrolyte solution; and an outer container that contains the lithium ion capacitor element and the electrolyte solution, a porous layer is formed on an outer surface of the lithium ion capacitor element, and the lithium ion capacitor satisfies following relational expressions (1) and (2): 35≦T×R/C relational expression (1): 0.01≦R/C≦5 relational expression (2): where C is a capacitance [kF] of the lithium ion capacitor, R is a direct current resistance value [mΩ] of the lithium ion capacitor, and T is a thickness [μm] of the porous layer.
US09202633B2
A laminate type energy device includes a plurality of cells, each having a laminated body of at least two layers laminated such that positive and negative electrodes are alternated, with a separator through which an electrolyte and ions are passed, interposed between the positive and negative active material electrodes, and positive and negative lead-out electrodes are exposed. Tab electrodes that allow electricity to flow outside of the laminate type energy device are joined to the lead-out electrodes via connecting portions. The cells are sealed by a sheathing laminate sheet via a sealing material covering at least the connecting portions.
US09202627B2
An electronic component comprises an element body and an outer electrode. The element body has a pair of end faces opposing each other, a pair of main faces opposing each other while extending so as to connect the pair of end faces to each other, and a pair of side faces opposing each other while extending so as to connect the pair of main faces to each other. The outer electrode is formed on the end face side of the element body and covers a portion of the main and side faces adjacent to the end face. At least a surface of an electrode portion of the outer electrode located on the side face side thereof is covered with an insulating layer.
US09202613B2
A ferrite magnet and a ferrite sintered magnet including a ferrite magnetic material are provided. A main phase of the ferrite magnetic material includes a ferrite phase having a hexagonal crystal structure, and metal element composition expressed by Ca1-w-x-yR wSr xBayFezMm wherein 0.25
US09202601B2
A tritium production element for use in a conventional power reactor, and methods of use and making, are provided, wherein the element experiences reduced tritium permeation during irradiation by incorporating a silicon carbide barrier that encapsulates one or more burnable absorber pellets. The tritium production element includes a tubular cladding that encloses a plurality of burnable absorber pellets, such that individual pellets or groups of pellets are disposed within a silicon carbide barrier layer.
US09202594B2
The invention relates to a semiconductor device including N memory modules, N being greater than or equal to three, each module having an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, a write circuit coupled to each module and configured to write data in the memory cells, a read circuit coupled to each module and configured to supply output data from the memory cells, a module selection circuit configured to individually select one memory module in a regular operation mode, and to collectively select two or more of the modules in a parallel mode, and a comparator circuit coupled to the N modules and configured to compare, in the parallel mode, the output data supplied by the N modules.
US09202588B1
Disclosed is a ROM memory device including a plurality of rows and columns of memory cells, each memory cell including a bit line pair and a transistor to store two bits of data therein, and a virtual ground line disposed between adjacent pairs of bit line pairs, wherein the bit line pair and virtual ground line are used to read data stored in the memory cells.
US09202587B2
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device comprises performing an N-th program loop based on state data stored in data latches according to a default state ordering, determining whether conversion of the default state ordering is required according to a predetermined criterion, as a consequence of determining that conversion of the default state ordering is required, converting all or part of the state data stored in the data latches from the default state ordering to another state ordering, and performing a (N+1)th program loop based on the converted state data.
US09202577B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for solid state drive management in power loss recovery. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09202575B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including: a memory cell array including NAND strings; a plurality of word lines; a plurality of bit lines; a source line; and a control circuit configured to execute a write operation. The control circuit is configured to, when charging an unselected memory string prior to the write operation, execute both first and second charging operations, the first charging operation applying to the bit line connected to the unselected memory string a first voltage and rendering conductive a first select transistor to charge the unselected memory string, and the second charging operation applying to the source line connected to the unselected memory string a second voltage and rendering conductive a second select transistor to charge the unselected memory string, the first and second charging operations being executed at different timings.
US09202572B2
In response to detecting an event during operation of an integrated-circuit memory device containing charge-storing memory cells, an electric current is enabled to flow through a word line coupled to the charge-storing memory cells for a brief interval to heat the charge-storing memory cells to an annealing temperature range.
US09202554B2
Various embodiments include solutions for generating a physically unclonable function. In some cases, a method includes an electronic circuit including: a static random access memory (SRAM) device having at least one memory cell with at least one transistor device therein, SRAM bias temperature instability aging circuitry coupled with the SRAM device and configured to apply aging conditions to the at least one memory cell to degrade the at least one transistor device within the at least one memory cell, and at least one computing device coupled with the SRAM device and configured to: skew a storage cell value in the at least one transistor device, measure a skewed value of the storage cell after the skewing, and create a physically unclonable function from the skewed value of the storage cell.
US09202549B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of word lines each of which are connected to a plurality of memory cells, a row control unit suitable for sequentially activating and precharging a word line corresponding to a target address and a predetermined (N) number of adjacent word lines during a target activation mode, and a mode exit control unit suitable for counting the number of activation operations by the row control unit during the target activation mode to determine whether or not to exit from the target activation mode.
US09202548B2
An apparatus is described having invert determination logic circuitry to determine if a read data path that transports data read from a PCMS memory device is to be inverted or not inverted as a function of whether information represented by the data was last written in an inverted or non inverted logical state to the PCMS memory device during a refresh of said PCMS memory device.
US09202543B2
A sense amplifier system includes a first path, a second path, a memory cell, a first reference cell, a second reference cell, and a switch component. The switch component is configured to switch connections between the first and second reference cells and the first and second paths according to a sampling phase and an amplification phase.
US09202530B2
A semiconductor device includes a power-on reset circuit configured to receive a power voltage and generate a power-on reset signal varying with a voltage level of the power voltage, an internal circuit configured to be initialized and operated in response to the power-on reset signal and generate a hold signal based on an operation mode of the internal circuit, and a reset protection circuit configured to deactivate the power-on reset circuit in response to the hold signal and provide a replacement signal for replacing the power-on reset signal to the internal circuit when the power-on reset circuit is deactivated.
US09202524B2
An indication of user interest of a program of a particular television channel may be identified based on user interaction with a programming guide that displays first content. A selectable icon positioned in association with a descriptor that identifies the particular television channel may be generated in response to identifying the indication of user interest and for display within the programming guide. An interactive pane that identifies at least one particular program that is stored within an omnibus channel file containing a plurality of programs broadcast consecutively on the particular television channel over a predefined period of time may be generated in response to user selection of the selectable icon for display within the programming guide.
US09202521B2
A comment creating-displaying device includes: a comment storing unit that stores comment information in which a comment character string representing a character string displayed during reproduction of video captured during movement and a comment coordinate value representing coordinate information of a capture location at which the comment character string is displayed are associated with each other; a first acquisition unit that acquires positioning data that is information including the video, positioning time representing time when the capture location of the video is positioned, and a positioning point representing coordinate information of the capture location of the video; a reproduction control unit that controls reproduction of the acquired video; and a second acquisition unit that acquires the comment character string, which has a distance from the positioning point of the positioning data corresponding to the reproduction time of the video.
US09202504B2
A method for producing a magnetic disk device includes injecting replacement gas into a hermetically-sealed enclosure by means of an injection nozzle while suctioning gas from inside of the hermetically-sealed enclosure by means of a suction nozzle in such a way that the gas pressure inside of the enclosure does not fall below the vapor pressure of the organic compounds present inside of the enclosure, wherein the hermetically-sealed enclosure houses within a magnetic disk for storing data, a magnetic head for writing/reading the data, and an actuator for moving the magnetic head relative to the magnetic disk, and wherein a gas injection port and a gas expulsion port are formed in the hermetically-sealed enclosure and provide communication between the inside and outside, wherein an injection nozzle is disposed at the gas injection port and a suction nozzle is disposed at the gas expulsion port.
US09202496B2
In response to positioning a read/write head of a hard drive, a voice coil motor (VCM) input signal is applied to a voice coil motor and a microactuator (PZT) input signal is applied to a microactuator. A position signal is determined in response to positioning the read/write head. A PZT component is decoupled from the position signal to determine an estimated VCM response. The estimated VCM response used to determine an estimated VCM disturbance. A VCM component is decoupled from the position signal to determine an estimated PZT response. The estimated PZT response used to determine an estimated PZT disturbance. The VCM input signal and the PZT input signal are modified respectively to compensate for the estimated VCM disturbance and the estimated PZT disturbance.
US09202492B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a HAMR device for use in a magnetic reading system. The HAMR device has a primary waveguide extending from a media facing surface to a surface opposite the media facing surface. In one embodiment, the HAMR head has a secondary waveguide having a first and second end positioned within the HAMR head. The secondary waveguide is positioned near the primary waveguide, and the first and second ends of the secondary waveguide are non-reflecting. A thermal sensor is coupled to the secondary waveguide, and responds only to optical power fluctuations in the primary waveguide. In another embodiment, the HAMR head has a second thermal sensor rather than a secondary waveguide. The first thermal sensor and the second thermal sensor are coupled together to act as one optical power sensor and are disposed on the primary waveguide.
US09202489B2
An apparatus that includes a slider having a mounting surface, the mounting surface opposite a media-facing surface of the slider. The apparatus includes a laser diode mounted on a side surface to the mounting surface. The laser diode has an active region of the laser diode is disposed substantially perpendicular to the mounting surface.
US09202484B1
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a MAMR head. The MAMR head includes an STO. The STO has a first surface at a media facing surface, and a portion of the first surface has a trapezoidal shape. Having this configuration, the acute angles of the trapezoidal shaped portion provide a greater width of the STO at the media facing surface, which protect the main pole from over-etching during the fabrication of the STO. In addition, the acute angles of the trapezoidal shaped portion of the first surface are large enough to keep a low STO driving voltage and provide the MAMR head with a long operation lifetime and higher reliability.
US09202481B1
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a HAMR head. The HAMR head includes a main pole, a waveguide and a NFT disposed between the main pole and the waveguide. The NFT includes an antenna, and the antenna is made of a compound that has a composition that varies based on the location within the antenna. In one embodiment, the antenna has a surface at a media facing surface (MFS) and the surface has an apex, and the composition of the compound varies from the apex in a direction away from the apex. The apex has the highest temperature during the operation of the HAMR head, and having a composition that is thermally stable at the apex helps achieve higher reliability.
US09202478B1
A head and a method to manufacture a head are disclosed. A slider is provided and has a mounting face that is opposite but substantially parallel to its air bearing surface. According to an example embodiment, a first plurality of layers may be deposited on the mounting face, including a tin layer, a first underlayer that comprises platinum, and an interface layer disposed between the first underlayer and the tin layer. The interface layer may comprise Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, or W. A submount with an attached laser diode may include a gold layer and be positioned adjacent to the first plurality of layers. The tin layer may then be melted so that the gold layer is dissolved therein, upon solidification attaching the submount to the mounting face by a solder layer that preferably comprises at least 45% gold by weight dissolved in tin.
US09202472B1
Systems and methods for generating unique pitch-resistant descriptors for audio clips are provided. In one or more embodiments, a descriptor for an audio clip is generated as a function of relative magnitudes between interest points within the audio clip's time-frequency representation. A number of techniques for leveraging the relative magnitudes to generate descriptors are considered. These techniques include ordering of interest points as a function of ascending or descending magnitude, creation of binary vectors based on magnitude comparisons between pairs of points, and calculation of quantized magnitude ratios between pairs of points. Descriptors generated based on relative magnitudes according to the techniques disclosed herein are relatively invariant to common transformations to the original audio clip, such as pitch shifting, time stretching, global volume changes, equalization, and/or dynamic range compression.
US09202465B2
A method of automatic speech recognition. An utterance is received from a user in reply to a text message, via a microphone that converts the reply utterance into a speech signal. The speech signal is processed using at least one processor to extract acoustic data from the speech signal. An acoustic model is identified from a plurality of acoustic models to decode the acoustic data, and using a conversational context associated with the text message. The acoustic data is decoded using the identified acoustic model to produce a plurality of hypotheses for the reply utterance.
US09202456B2
Active noise cancellation is combined with spectrum modification of a reproduced audio signal to enhance intelligibility.
US09202447B2
Disclosed is a musical instrument including a persistent memory, persistent clock, a device connection interface and one or more processors configured to send a practice session alert message to remind a user that a practice session is scheduled.
US09202442B2
A display control circuit of a display performs generation of overdrive processed data and detection of a proper direction of overdriving from current frame uncompressed compressed data obtained by performing compression processing and uncompression processing on compressed data corresponding to image data of a current frame, and previous frame uncompressed compressed data obtained by performing the compression processing and the uncompression processing on image data of a previous frame, and generates post-correction overdrive processed data by correcting the overdrive processed data according to the detected proper direction. The display control circuit transmits post-correction compressed data obtained by compressing the post-correction overdrive processed data to a driver as transfer compressed data.
US09202433B2
An image editing application with a novel color modification slider tool adjusts one or more color attributes of different pixels differently when moved in one direction, and adjusts one or more color attributes of the same pixel differently when moved in another direction. This tool produces non-photorealistic effects by treating differently the highly saturated and lowly saturated pixels of an image. Specifically, the saturation tool performs either (1) a positive de-saturation effect that de-saturates the low saturated pixels of an image while enhancing the saturation of the high saturated pixels, or (2) a negative de-saturation effect that de-saturates the high saturated pixels of the image while leaving intact or slightly modifying the saturation level of the lowly saturated pixels.
US09202427B2
An LCD includes multiple pixel units and a processing unit. The pixel units are used for displaying 2D or 3D images upon receiving 2D image signals or 3D image signals. The processing unit is used for outputting the plurality of 2D/3D image signals upon receiving a 2D/3D image enbaling signal. Each pixel unit includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode. The first pixel electrode is used for receiving a first voltage signal in response to the 2D or 3D image enbaling signal. The second pixel electrode is used for receiving the first voltage signal in response to the 2D image enbaling signal or for receiving a second voltage signal when corresponding to the 3D image enbaling signal. The third pixel electrode is used for receiving the plurality of 2D or 3D image signals. The first, second, and third pixel electrodes are disposed on the same substrate and are not connected to one another.
US09202426B2
A driving method of a display unit includes: executing a first display procedure, for displaying a first frame on a display unit of the display driving circuit, and executing a counting mechanism; determining, if a second display procedure for displaying a second frame on the display unit is confirmed to be executed, whether or not a counting value of the counting mechanism is larger than a predetermined value; sequentially executing a specific display procedure and the second display procedure if the counting value is larger than the predetermined value; and directly executing the second display procedure if the counting value is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value. A display driving circuit applicable to be used by the display unit is also provided.
US09202424B2
A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the signal lines have a mirror type circuit arrangement symmetric about the axis of the column direction, and there are lines different from the signal lines between signal lines of adjacent pixel circuits.
US09202422B2
A pixel of a liquid crystal panel is constituted by three subpixels. When the gradation of the pixel can be represented by only the subpixel, with setting the gradations of the subpixels to their minimum gradations, the gradation of the subpixel is determined. When the gradation of the pixel is represented by the subpixels, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its maximum gradation and setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradation of the subpixel is determined so that the ratio of the transmittance of the subpixel to the transmittance of the pixel is less than a limit value. When the gradation of the subpixel cannot be determined to satisfy a condition, with setting the gradation of the subpixel to its minimum gradation, the gradations of the subpixels are determined to obtain a gradation higher than or equal to the gradation of the pixel.
US09202409B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels respectively include: 1) a first capacitor connected between a data line and a first node and 2) a switching transistor including a gate electrode connected to a scan line and first and second electrodes respectively connected to the first node and a second node. The display device also includes a driving transistor including a first electrode connected to a first power source voltage and a second electrode connected to an anode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The device further includes a compensation transistor including a first electrode connected to the first node and a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor.
US09202404B2
A display driving apparatus for outputting control signals to a number of driver integrated circuits (ICs). The plurality of driver ICs are connected in a cascade manner such that, when a first control signal is input to a first driver IC, a transmission signal corresponding to the first control signal is transmitted to a subsequent driver IC using a cascade method. The display driving apparatus includes a restoration signal generation unit for generating restoration signals with respect to the first control signal and transmission signals of the number of driver ICs; an error detection unit for detecting an abnormal driver IC that does not operate normally from among the plurality of driver ICs; and a restoration signal output unit for outputting a restoration signal to the abnormal driver IC.
US09202400B2
An elongated rail member for end-wise attachment to a further elongated rail member for the manufacture of a two-sided flexible fabric display supporting quadrilateral-frame-assembly, each elongated rail member comprising an elongated outermost bridging member; an innermost elongated bridging member and an intermediate elongated bridging member each connected along their elongated edges by a first side member and a second side member resectively, including a graphic bead supporting slot arranged on each side of an elongated bridging member to enable simultaneous one or two sided display of a flexible graphic.
US09202392B2
A label for a bottle where the label is comprised of a laminate where an outer layer (3) is a material susceptible to losing opaqueness when made wet, and an inner layer (5) behind this first layer which is a material that is opaque, and such that it will maintain such opaqueness when wet.
US09202391B1
The present disclosure and related inventions is directed to a three-dimensional (3D) greeting card. The greeting card is shaped like a chair which folds and unfolds and which plays audio upon interaction with the greeting card by a user. It also contains a miniature greeting card attached to the seat portion of the chair to provide a user with space for writing a message or adding his/her signature.
US09202386B2
A center of gravity shifting training system includes a display device having a display screen, a measurement device configured to measure a center of gravity position of the user, and a control device. The control device has a training mode and a setting mode of preparing setting data indicating a position of the target image in the display screen. In the setting mode, the control device performs estimation of a deviation of the center of gravity position based on the center of gravity position measured, and prepares the setting data indicating the position of the target image according to a result of the estimation. In the training mode, the control device displays the operation image on the screen in accordance with the center of gravity position measured, and displays the target image on the screen based on the setting data prepared through the setting mode.
US09202379B2
A convoy travel apparatus in a self vehicle of a convoy organizes plural convoys of traveling vehicles in consideration of a non-convoy vehicle that desires to pass the plural convoys when the plural convoys are traveling in parallel on a multi-lane road. The apparatus determines whether the plural convoys are traveling in parallel with each other on a multi-lane road, and if an in-parallel travel state of the convoys is determined, the self vehicle in one of the convoys may be accelerated or decelerated to allow the non-convoy vehicle to pass the plural convoys.
US09202376B1
A parking management system and method with regard to street cleaning and parking regulations. A data collection method and system. A system and method to make available multiple parking spots at a time.
US09202372B2
A remote control device may include: first circuitry to control a function of a first electronic device; second circuitry to be set to control a function of a second electronic device; and a setup controller to set the second circuitry to control a function of a target electronic device based on a code received from a separate device. An electronic device to be controlled by a remote control device may include: an input device to receive a signal from the remote control device; an output device to send a signal to the remote control device; and a processor coupled to the input and output devices, and configured to access a database of codes and to selectively provide codes from the database to the remote control device, the codes configured to set circuitry of the remote control device to control a function of the electronic device and/or an auxiliary electronic device.
US09202371B2
If the number of rows in a matrix of wireless devices is greater than the number of columns, then vertical sweeping is performed including passing data along each of the columns of wireless devices to an end wireless device in each column. If the number of rows is less than the number of columns, then horizontal sweeping is performed including passing data along each of the rows of wireless devices to an end wireless device in each row. If the number of rows is equal to the number of columns, then diagonal sweeping is performed including passing data diagonally across each of the rows and columns of wireless devices to an end wireless device in each row and each column. The data is passed along the end wireless devices to a final destination data collector.
US09202355B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that allow an electronic device to autonomously adapt one or more user alerts of the electronic device. For example, some embodiments may include a method for operating a haptic device including driving a haptic device using a control signal, measuring a frequency related to the operation of the haptic device and comparing the measured frequency with a target frequency. A control signal is adjusted based on the comparison to drive the haptic device to the target frequency.
US09202348B2
There is provided a computerized reel-based gaming system configured to return at least part of a player's credits back to the player when at least one pre-defined combination of symbols has not been winning after a certain number N of spins of the reels. The method of operating the gaming system comprises: a) responsive to a spin of the reels, automated obtaining a result of matching between the spin output corresponding to a cash-back combination and a winning cash-back combination, thus, in case of a mismatch, giving rise to a non-winning event; b) automated assessing a number of consecutive non-winning events with respect to the cash-back combination; and c) automated initiating a cash-back award once the number of consecutive non-winning events reaches a cash-back triggering number corresponding to the cash-back combination.
US09202344B1
Pair 9 Poker Plus is a card game wherein a five card hand is dealt and a single card discard made such that a first and a second two card hand remains of the selected four cards to be held by a player. Wagers and payouts in physical items are provided for which may be electronic, currency or virtual currency that are validated, and, if accepted, establish credit for game play and are likewise utilized for payout. The first two card hand is ranked according to poker and so a pair of aces is high and the second two card hand is ranked according to baccarat rules where a ten, jack, queen or king are zero, the tens digit of the sum of two cards is not part of a point value and so a nine is the highest ranking hand by point value. A virtual dealer uses artificial intelligence from memory stored game rules to make a choice of discard and first and second two card hands to play.
US09202337B2
A gaming machine and method are provided which allow a player to play a gaming machine. The gaming machine and method allow a player to make a wager, display a first game on a display device, generate an outcome associated with the first game, and award the player an award for the first game based at least in part on the generated first game outcome. In addition, the gaming machine determines if a triggering condition occurred, displays a second game if the triggering condition has occurred, and calculates a current trigger cycle of the generated second game. The current trigger cycle is equal to a number of first games played after an occurrence of a previous second game triggering condition. The player is provided an award for the second game based at least in part on the second game current trigger cycle.
US09202336B2
Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for promotional or bonus awards in a gaming environment. Certain embodiments provide, in a gaming system having one or more gaming devices for play by players, a method for awarding promotional awards. The method includes detecting an award at a gaming device in the gaming system. The method also includes determining satisfaction of one or more promotional criterion by the award. The method further includes initiating, upon satisfaction of the one or more promotional criterion, a promotional award to a group of one or more players satisfying one or more eligibility criterion.
US09202335B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include logging in a first user account based on login information received via a gaming widget, wherein the gaming widget is configured to communicate with a server that provides non-wagering game content. The operations can further include detecting wagering game activity for a second user account associated with the first user account. The operations can further include providing the non-wagering game content for presentation via the gaming widget based on the wagering game activity for the second user account.
US09202319B2
A diagnostic tool may include a user interface operating system comprising a computer processor that operates in a first operating environment. The diagnostic tool may also include a vehicle diagnostic operating system comprising a computer processor that operates in a second operating environment, wherein the second operating environment is different from the first operating environment.
US09202318B2
A ground fleet operations quality management system for use with one or more vehicles which includes a gateway module mounted on each vehicle, a centralized data server to collect, store and pre-process data from multiple vehicles, and a web application designed to provide access to and analysis of the conditions of the entire fleet of vehicles.
US09202317B2
An apparatus is provided including a processor, a memory, and a vehicle tracking portal. The vehicle tracking portal is configured to obtain vehicle identification information regarding a vehicle. Then diagnostic information regarding the vehicle can be obtained. Then, based on the vehicle identification and the diagnostic information, a recommended service for the vehicle can be determined. A user can then be alerted to the recommended service.
US09202308B2
An exemplary aspect relates generally to graphics processing systems and more specifically relates to executing vertex and fragment shading operations to a pixel blender device. The technology is at least applicable to graphics processing systems in which vertex and fragment shading operations are executed by dedicated fragment and vertex units or by unified shading units. The graphics processing unit driver is responsible to determine if a shading operation can be assigned to a multi-threaded, multi-format pixel blender. Based on the determination, the fragment shading operations or the vertex shading operations or both are assigned to the pixel blender for execution; the execution of the fragment and/or vertex shading operations by the shader unit(s) is skipped. The determination is based on a code analysis. Forwarding shading operations from the fragment and vertex shaders, i.e., bypassing the shading units, to a programmable, multi-threaded and multi-format pixel blender may save electrical power consumption because a programmable, multi-threaded, and multi-format pixel blender is a less complex circuit compared to a fragment or a vertex or a unified shading unit.
US09202293B2
Contour information is extracted from nuclear medicine projection data on a subject not subjected to a scattering correction and an absorption correction by performing a pixel value binarization processing based on a threshold scheme. If necessary, an interpolation processing is performed before reconstructing an image through an image reconstruction processing. Based on the reconstructed image, a second binarization processing is performed to generate a contour image.
US09202288B2
In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises receiving color image frames and panchromatic image frames associated with a scene. The color image frames correspond to the panchromatic image frames. The method further comprises computing registration information based on a panchromatic image frame and one or more panchromatic image frames from among the panchromatic image frames. A color image frame corresponding to the panchromatic image frame is modified based on the registration information.
US09202287B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus and method for adjusting a color image using a depth image. The image processing apparatus may include a color image segmenting unit to segment a color image into a plurality of color segments, using a color layer of the color image, a depth image segmenting unit to segment a depth image into a plurality of depth segments, using a depth layer of the depth image, and a layer boundary adjusting unit to adjust a boundary value of the color layer, using the plurality of color segments and the plurality of depth segments.
US09202284B2
An apparatus includes an extraction unit to extract a feature point in a first image. A determination unit determines a motion vector that corresponds to the feature point extracted from the first image by the extraction unit and a corresponding point that is located in a second image and that has a highest degree of similarity between image data for the feature point and image data for the corresponding point, among candidates of the corresponding point in the second image. A correction unit corrects a first motion vector determined by the determination unit by employing a second motion vector determined by the determination unit. The correction unit employs the second motion vector, in accordance with both of a first degree of similarity between the feature point and the corresponding point, and a second degree of similarity between the feature point and another candidate among the candidates.
US09202283B2
A method for detecting a fall of a person by analysis of a stream of video images originating from an image capture device, including: acquisition of successive images of a determined scene; selection of at least one point of the scene in the images; determination of the movement of each point selected by analysis of the displacement of the point in the successive images in the form of a temporal succession of vectors oriented proportionally to the instantaneous velocity of the movement of the point; computation of the instantaneous acceleration of each point associated with each vector representing the instantaneous velocity; detection of a fall when the determined instantaneous velocity is above a predefined threshold velocity and the instantaneous acceleration is above a predefined threshold acceleration.
US09202282B2
The present invention discloses a boundary extraction method and apparatus, the method including: a gradient estimation step of estimating a gradient of each pixel in a captured image; a gradient adjustment step of adjusting, by enhancing a gradient of a target boundary of an object contained in the captured image and weakening a gradient of a noise boundary, the estimated gradient, so that the adjusted gradient is considered as a current gradient; and a boundary extraction step of extracting a boundary of the object based on the current gradient. According to the embodiments of the invention, in a case of using a non-contact imaging device to capture an image, it is possible to more accurately extract a boundary of an object contained in the captured image.
US09202278B2
Robust techniques for self-calibration of a moving camera observing a planar scene. Plane-based self-calibration techniques may take as input the homographies between images estimated from point correspondences and provide an estimate of the focal lengths of all the cameras. A plane-based self-calibration technique may be based on the enumeration of the inherently bounded space of the focal lengths. Each sample of the search space defines a plane in the 3D space and in turn produces a tentative Euclidean reconstruction of all the cameras that is then scored. The sample with the best score is chosen and the final focal lengths and camera motions are computed. Variations on this technique handle both constant focal length cases and varying focal length cases.
US09202275B2
Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels that could be indicative of calcification relative to other pixels or of other image features of clinical interest.
US09202267B1
A Digital Video Processing System is provided to process an input digital image, where the video data information of the input digital image includes an undesired noise and a comfort noise. The Digital Video Processing System extracts the input noise which corresponds to both the undesired noise and the comfort noise out of the input image, processes a remaining image, scaling the remaining image to a desired output resolution, extracts the comfort noise from the input noise, processes the comfort noise to regenerate the comfort noise at the desired output resolution, adds the processed comfort noise to the processed remaining image to produce the output digital image at the desired resolution, displays the processed output digital image using an electronic display device, or a region of an electronic display device at the desired output resolution.
US09202257B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and video analyzing computing device that generates a scene averaged frame value for each scene of an original video and a each scene of a resembling video. Each of a subset of the scenes of the resembling video is mapped to a corresponding scene of the original video based on a comparison of the scene averaged frame values. A singular value score is generated for each frame of each of the subset of scenes of the resembling video and each frame of the corresponding one of the scenes of the original video is generated. Matching one(s) of the one or more frames of each of the at least a subset of scenes of the resembling video is identified based on a comparison of at least a subset of the singular value scores. A first watermark is extracted from the identified matching frames.
US09202252B1
Software, databases, computer models, and a series of monitoring devices are provided that are used collectively to optimize farming operations for the purpose of efficiently utilizing the water right associated with the land while recognizing the potential to transfer a proportional amount of the water right in a lease or sale arrangement to other water users. The contemplated system encourages water conservation by allowing those owning water rights to determine the feasibility of changed farming practices intended to maximize net returns and profitability of their overall farming operations.
US09202244B2
A method provides for using a portable patron unit in a venue or in a vicinity of the venue. The method includes wirelessly connecting the patron unit to be in communication with the venue, and providing at least one display on the patron unit enabling a patron to place a patron order for at least one item or service provided by the venue. The method also includes displaying the patron order and a location of the patron unit on the patron unit and at least one portable staff unit, and updating a status of the patron order, and a location of the patron unit when the patron moves to a different location, on both the patron unit and the at least one staff unit. The method further includes indicating that the at least one item or service ordered has been completed on both the patron unit and the at least one staff unit when the at least one item or service ordered has been provided to the patron.
US09202231B2
A system for creating a new advertisement unit is disclosed. The system can include a web browser, an ad server, and an advertisement creator server. The ad server is communicatively connected to the web browser, the ad server can be configured to store and deliver a plurality of advertisement units, and an advertisement creator server communicatively connected to the web browser and can be configured to host an ad creator engine, the ad creator engine can be configured to facilitate the creation of the new advertisement unit, wherein the web browser is configured to function as a graphical interface with the advertisement creator engine.
US09202223B2
A system and method for using targeted network traffic as payment-in-kind in exchange for rights to anything that may be connected to a network, such as network-connected computer hardware and copyrighted software or content on such hardware, is disclosed. The method may be adapted for use with almost any product or service which may be tracked over a network. The system and method are for use with transactions between a user of a subject product or service and a provider of the subject product or service desiring to receive traffic to a target in exchange for it.
US09202209B2
A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.
US09202204B2
Disclosed is an employee vacation scheduling system for enabling an employee to purchase vacation travel services on the basis of the availability of the paid leaves thereof. The vacation scheduling system comprises a database comprising a plurality of employees wherein, each employee is associated with the number of paid leaves the employee is entitled to. The scheduling system further comprises a store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service that spans a predetermined number of vacation days, a date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, and a payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon determining that the number of vacation days being variable based upon a selected day are lesser than or equivalent.
US09202203B2
A method for classifying email includes receiving an email. Several recipient email accounts of the email are extracted. Several email feature values of the email are generated according to the recipient email accounts. A classification algorithm is utilized to classify the email as an official email or a private email according to the email feature values of the email.
US09202201B2
There is provided a method and system for an approval based economy. The method comprises, receiving input corresponding to media content associated with a user, determining a number of approval units corresponding to the input, retrieving a user account associated with the user, and saving the approval units in the user account. The user account may include past approval units and an approval total. The approval total may account for the approval units and the past approval units, the approval units and the past approval units of active users and available media content only, or a maximum lifetime total of active users and available media content only. The approval based economy may provide new media content to users based on their respective approval total in their user account.
US09202199B2
A method for obtaining one or more signatures on a document is disclosed, which includes: inputting information of a requestor and one or more approvers into an image forming apparatus and requesting signature approval on one or more documents; generating an e-mail from the image forming apparatus to the one or more approvers; forwarding the generated e-mail to the one or more approvers, wherein the one or more approvers can approve or reject the request for the signature approval from the requestor, forwarding the approval or rejection from each of the one or more approvers to the remote server upon selection of an approval or a rejection icon, and processing the approval or rejection of each of the one or more approvers on the remote server and generating a notification on the remote server, which is forwarded to the image forming apparatus.
US09202180B2
Described are systems and methods for designing certain aspects of an event venue and for communicating information regarding the event and the event venue to others. Certain embodiments provide a dynamic seat map via which an operator can assign certain characteristics to specific seats and/or seating sections. Certain embodiments generate interactive maps for users, via which information from a plurality of sources may be integrated and visually displayed. The user may specify certain criteria, and the interactive map may identify to the user seats and/or sections that match such criteria. Certain embodiments provide an interactive seat map via which users can select seats and share information.
US09202179B2
The invention relates to a multi-component device Z to document processes R comprising at least one step wherein a device Y collects information from all components Cij used to make the product Di of an individual process step i, a device X calculates a hash code for each component Cij, a device W calculates a hash code Ji from all hash codes components used in process step i, and a device T provides the product Di with a mark MDi comprising a visual representation of the hash code Ji, and to the use of this process in control and documentation of product or service quality, logistics, or manufacturing.
US09202177B2
An adaptive cognitive method has been revealed where each distinguishable information unit, entering a given input channel, receives a unique label /identifier/ which serves as a center for the dynamic building of a structure for the presentation of knowledge on the respective information unit. A basic marker for the analysis of the correlation between the separate information units is the time quantum which is recorded—for each change—in the data base. The time quantum is the number of the shortest periods of time for the system, which have so far passed.
US09202169B2
Provided are systems and methods for drilling fluids expert systems using Bayesian decision networks to determine drilling fluid recommendations. A drilling fluids expert system includes a drilling fluids Bayesian decision network (BDN) model that receives inputs and outputs recommendations based on Bayesian probability determinations. The drilling fluids BDN model includes a temperature ranges uncertainty node, a formation uncertainty node, a potential hole problems uncertainty node, and a drilling fluids decision node.
US09202162B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) device is described. In one or more implementations, the RFID device includes an integrated circuit (IC) die electrically connected to a radio frequency (RF) antenna winding for transmitting electronically stored information via the RF antenna winding. The RFID device also includes a substrate comprising a first core laminated to a second core. The RF antenna winding is routed through the first core and the second core. The first core defines a cavity for retaining the IC die. The cavity is disposed within the RF antenna winding in the first core.
US09202158B2
There is described a method of, and a circuit for supplying power to an integrated circuit card, ICC, of a wireless device comprising a first power supply unit. The circuit comprises a power pin connected configured to selectively operate as a power input pin or as a power output pin, and adapted to be connected to the first power path of the device through a second power path of the device; a second power supply unit; and a controller configured to cause the power pin to operate as a power input pin in the first operation mode of the device, or as a power output pin in the second operation mode of the device. A wireless device comprising the circuit and a method of supplying power to an ICC are further disclosed.
US09202156B2
An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof.
US09202139B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating a subset of a low discrepancy sequence. In use, a low discrepancy sequence is identified. Additionally, a threshold value is determined. Further, a single dimension of the low discrepancy sequence is selected. Further still, for each element included within the low discrepancy sequence, the selected single dimension is compared to the determined threshold value. Also, a subset of the low discrepancy sequence is generated, based on the comparing.
US09202137B2
A method for determining a salient region of an image is disclosed. For a plurality of different saliency cue functions, a single saliency value is calculated for each pixel in a plurality of adjacent pixels in an image using the saliency cue function, wherein one of the saliency cue functions is based on whether the pixel is in a region of the image whose colors contrast with the region's background and another of the saliency cue functions is based on a foreground and background color models of the image. A classifier is used to calculate a combined single saliency value for each pixel based on the single saliency values for the pixel. The salient region of the pixels is determined with a subwindow search based on the combined single saliency values.
US09202135B2
An image processing device configured to detect a detection target, which is all or a part of a predetermined main body on an image has a detection target detection unit that detects an estimated detection target that the image processing device assumes to be the detection target from the image, a heterogeneous target determination unit that determines whether the estimated detection target detected by the detection target detection unit is an estimated heterogeneous target that the image processing device assumes to be a heterogeneous target, which is all or a part of a main body different in class from the main body, and a detection target determination unit that determines whether the estimated detection target detected by the detection target detection unit is the detection target based on a determination result of the heterogeneous target determination unit.
US09202129B2
In one example, a method for exiting an object detection pipeline includes determining, while in the object detection pipeline, a number of features within a first tile of an image, wherein the image consists of a plurality of tiles, performing a matching procedure using at least a subset of the features within the first tile if the number of features within the first tile meets a threshold value, exiting the object detection pipeline if a result of the matching procedure indicates an object is recognized in the image, and presenting the result of the matching procedure.
US09202126B2
The object detection apparatus prevents or eliminates detection errors caused by changes of an object which frequently appears in a background. To this end, an object detection apparatus includes a detection unit which detects an object region by comparing an input video from a video input device and a background model, a selection unit which selects a region of a background object originally included in a video, a generation unit which generates background object feature information based on features included in the background object region, and a determination unit which determines whether or not the object region detected from the input video is a background object using the background object feature information.
US09202122B2
The present specification relates to an apparatus for detecting a medium image. According to one aspect, the apparatus for detecting the medium image comprises: a light emitting unit to emit the light toward the medium to be transferred along a transferring path; an image sensor having a light receiving unit to receive the light emitted from the light emitting unit; a reference medium which is arranged at a position separated from the transferring path and enables the image sensor to obtain an image; and a control unit to compensate the image of the medium obtained from the image sensor using the image of the reference medium obtained from the image sensor.
US09202121B2
The present disclosure concerns a method of verifying the presence of a living face in front of a camera (112), the method including: capturing by said camera a sequence of images of a face; detecting a plurality of features of said face in each of said images; measuring parameters associated with said detected features to determine whether each of a plurality of liveness indicators is present in said images; determining whether or not said face is a living face based on the presence in said images of a combination of at least two of said liveness indicators.
US09202116B2
The invention discloses an image processing method and an imager processing apparatus using the same. The method includes the following steps: receiving an training image; finding a minimum difference among the differences; determining whether the minimum difference is larger than a first threshold; if no, generating a first output value according to the first pixel, the background candidates and a plurality of weightings corresponding to the background candidates; updating a first background candidate corresponding to the minimum difference; updating a first weighting related to the first background candidate; if yes, adding the first pixel as a new background candidate to the background candidates and adding a new weighting corresponding to the new background candidate to the weightings; and detecting whether a moving object existing in an incoming image according to the background candidates and the weightings.
US09202103B2
Finger biometric sensing device including coupling capacitor and reset circuitry and related methods
A finger biometric sensing device may include an array of finger biometric sensing pixel electrodes and amplifiers coupled together in series and to be selectively coupled to respective ones of the array of finger biometric sensing pixels. The finger biometric sensing device may further include at least one coupling capacitor between an output of a given amplifier and a corresponding input of a next amplifier of the plurality thereof, and reset circuitry capable of selectively resetting the input of the next amplifier.
US09202102B1
A method of capturing biometric data is provided that includes activating a security application in a device. The security application is activated by an operator of the device and is configured to cause the device to display an outline image. Moreover, the method includes displaying the outline image in a stationary position on a display of the device, positioning desired biometric data proximate the device such that the desired biometric data appears as a biometric image on the device display, and monitoring the outline and biometric images shown on the device display. Furthermore, the method includes positioning the device and the desired biometric data to better align the outline and biometric images when the outline and biometric images do not align and capturing the desired biometric data from an individual after approximately aligning the outline image with the biometric image.
US09202092B2
A system for RFID communication includes an antenna device for emitting a wireless signal, and a circuit connected to the antenna device. The antenna device, as a near field antenna, has a dual stripline having a first stripline and a second stripline formed parallel to the first stripline. The antenna device further has a termination, and a balancing element for damping a common mode signal. The balancing element is connected to first connections of the dual stripline, and the termination is connected to second connections of the dual stripline. The circuit is connected to the balancing element for symmetrical emission of the wireless signal to the dual stripline.
US09202090B2
An information processing system includes an information bearing medium and an information reading unit. The information bearing medium has a two-dimensional array of unit data zones. Marks are provided on some of the unit data zones so as to form a digital code. Mark patterns of any two Y-directional adjacent unit data zone strings based on the arrangement of marks in an X-direction differ from each other. The information reading unit generates a data string on the basis of a unit signal formed from a plurality of signals output from a group of detection units that detect the marks in synchronization and recognizes the digital code of the information bearing medium on the basis of a group of the data strings sequentially obtained from the array of the unit data zones.
US09202088B2
A method and an apparatus for selecting a reference tag used for positioning are provided. The method includes: obtaining first signal strength emitted by a reference tag and second signal strength emitted by a tag to be positioned, where the first signal strength and the second signal strength are detected by each radio frequency reader; comparing the first signal strength with the second signal strength to determine a boundary of the radio frequency readers, and dividing a network into a first area and a second area with the boundary; determining an estimated direction of the tag to be positioned relative to the reference tag according to a relative position of the reference tag and the boundary; and according to the estimated direction and according to the specified number of reference tags, selecting a valid reference tag group as the reference tag used for positioning.
US09202082B2
An embodiment of the invention includes determining a first security status for first information and a second security status for second information, the second security status being more secure than the first security status; establishing a first communication path between the system and a first local computing node via a first wireless path; conveying the first information to the first local computing node via the first wireless path based on the first security status; and withholding the second information from the first local computing node based on the second security status; wherein the first and second information are stored on at least one of the system and a remotely located computing node. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09202078B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method for anonymizing data from multiple data sources according to an embodiment of the invention. The data sources include record identifiers identifying entities associated with the data, wherein the record identifiers are only stored by the data sources. The data is collected by a central data aggregation module connected to the data sources. A record identifier is received by an anonymization engine from a first data source; and, a first anonymous identifier is generated with the anonymization engine to replace the record identifier. A map is sent to a mapping module if the anonymization engine has anonymized the record identifier before, wherein the map includes a list of anonymous identifiers that have been used to replace the record identifier. The first anonymous identifier and first data associated with the first anonymous identifier are sent to the data aggregation module.
US09202077B2
A method of managing file security in a cluster environment is provided. The method includes passing a request for a file from a secure file system layer to a secure volume manager layer and locking at least a portion of the file as affected by the request, at a cluster file system layer. The method includes passing one or more keys from the secure file system layer to the secure volume manager layer. The method includes decrypting the file as received, in response to the request for the file including a read request for the file, prior to sending the decrypted file to the secure file system layer. The method includes encrypting the file as received, in response to the request for the file including a write request for the file, prior to sending the encrypted file to the input/output layer.
US09202073B2
This document discusses, among other things, security measures for shielding or protecting data or sensitive signals on an integrated circuit (IC). The systems and methods disclosed herein can allow erasing sensitive data when access is not locked, locking out access to sensitive data during normal operations through both indirect and direct means, and shielding sensitive signals from invasive probing or manipulation.
US09202072B2
Accepting a third party new article submission is disclosed. A first submission, including a first URL of a first news article that is different from a second URL of a previously accepted second news article submission, is received. One or more automated checks are performed on at least a portion of the first submission. Whether to accept the first submission is automatically determined based at least in part on the performed checks.
US09202066B2
Systems and methods described herein may store and analyze patient data sets. A processor in communication with a database may generate a plurality of patient data sets, each of the patient data sets being associated with one of a plurality of patients and comprising an attribute. The processor may de-identify each of the patient data sets so that they are not associated with the patients. The processor may encrypt each of the de-identified data sets to generate a plurality of encrypted data sets and store the encrypted data sets in the database. The processor may analyze one of the patient data sets to determine a relationship between the one of the patient data sets and the other of the patient data sets based on the attribute of the one of the patient data sets and the attributes of the other of the patient data sets.
US09202062B2
A system, method, and computer program product for providing validation of the compliance of a trusted host environment with a requirement of a virtual machine (VM). The system includes: a store component for cryptographically storing configuration data associated with the trusted host environment in at least one cryptographic data structure; a send component, responsive to the store component storing the configuration data, for sending the at least one cryptographic data structure to a control component; an analyze component, responsive to the control component receiving the at least one cryptographic data structure, for analyzing the at least one cryptographic data structure; a compare component, responsive to the analyze component determining the configuration data, for comparing the configuration data with the requirement; and a verify component, responsive to the compare component determining that the configuration data matches the requirement, for allowing verification of the VM.
US09202061B1
An SOC implements a security enclave processor (SEP). The SEP may include a processor and one or more security peripherals. The SEP may be isolated from the rest of the SOC (e.g. one or more central processing units (CPUs) in the SOC, or application processors (APs) in the SOC). Access to the SEP may be strictly controlled by hardware. For example, a mechanism in which the CPUs/APs can only access a mailbox location in the SEP is described. The CPU/AP may write a message to the mailbox, which the SEP may read and respond to. The SEP may include one or more of the following in some embodiments: secure key management using wrapping keys, SEP control of boot and/or power management, and separate trust zones in memory.
US09202052B1
Machine generated event log data which includes event(s) occurring over a window of time is received where each event includes one or more events having a first node, a second node, and a timestamp. The events are aggregated into a plurality of aggregated graph snapshots. One or more communities are identified within the plurality of aggregated graph snapshots. One or more community tracking links are determined between communities in the plurality of aggregated graph snapshots. Communities in the plurality of aggregated graph snapshot which are anomalous are identified based on one or more of the following: a community level anomaly or an evolutionary path level anomaly.
US09202043B1
A self-service system is provided that can automatically identify one or more existing groups to which a user can self-select to access a resource. The self-service system can identify any suitable existing group without requiring an administrator to predefine groups according to roles. In some implementations, the system intelligently identifies one or more suitable groups for a user from a list of available groups by analyzing a set of rules or criteria. For instance, the system can perform a weighted analysis of various rules and/or criteria to automatically and dynamically identify groups that have a closest fit to the access rights needed or requested by the user. Further, the system can evaluate certain best or preferred grouping practices to identify suitable groups. As a result, in certain embodiments, the self-service system alleviates planning burdens on administrators and provides greater flexibility in providing users with access to resources.
US09202040B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a chip authentication system using multi-domain intrinsic identifiers. Multiple intrinsic identifiers taken from multiple domains (areas or sections of the chip) are compared against the intrinsic identifiers collected during the manufacture of the chip. If at least one intrinsic identifier matches those collected during manufacture, the chip may be designated as authentic.
US09202039B2
A method implemented on a computing device provides for identifying the device and/or a user to an application on the device. The method comprises receiving a function call for a public identifier, responding to the function call, performing a hash operation and returning the public identifier. Responding to the function call comprises requesting a publisher ID from a first memory location within the device and requesting a private ID from a second memory location. Performing a hash operation on the publisher ID and the private ID creates the public identifier. The public identifier is then returned to the application. A method of allowing a developer to test an application on a mobile device or emulator is also described. A mobile device programmed to return a public identifier to an application is also described.
US09202038B1
A method for authenticating a request for access to resources is described. A request for access to a resource is received from a user, and the user accesses a proof-of-work challenge. An adjustment factor associated with the user is determined. The adjustment factor may be generated as a function of a password associated with the user and the requested resource. The proof-of-work challenge may have a complexity that is determined based on the adjustment factor. A selected password and a solution to the proof-of-work challenge are received from the user. It is determined whether the received solution is correct based on the determined adjustment factor.
US09202035B1
A technique authenticates a user. The technique involves receiving, by processing circuitry, a handwritten code. The technique further involves performing, by the processing circuitry, a set of assessment operations which includes (i) a handwriting evaluation to analyze a set of biometric handwriting aspects of the handwritten code and (ii) a code evaluation to analyze code accuracy of the handwritten code. The technique further involves providing, by the processing circuitry, an authentication result based on the set of assessment operations. Such a technique strengthens security by including a “who you are” factor (i.e., handwriting biometrics uniquely identify the genuine user).
US09202034B2
A method of logging a first user in to an computing device includes receiving a an image of the first user via a camera operably coupled with the computing device and determining an identity of the first user based on the received image. If the determined identity matches a predetermined identity, then, based at least on the identity of the first user matching the predetermined identity, the first user is logged in to the computing device.
US09202030B2
To reduce a fear in that another person notices limitation of a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to a user, a page generation unit identifies a publicly-displayable range of information on the user based on control information, which is information different from a password and is identified based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device. The page generation unit limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the page generation unit.
US09202025B2
A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium product are provided for enterprise-specific functionality watermarking and management. In the context of a method, a method is provided that includes identifying a request to perform at least one function of a user device associated with an enterprise and identifying at least one watermark template associated with an enterprise. The method further includes applying the at least one watermark template associated with the enterprise to at least one function of the user device associated with the enterprise and authorizing the request to perform the at least one function of the user device associated with the enterprise.
US09202021B2
A method and apparatus for verifying licenses of binary files and to a computer readable storage medium storing a program realizing license verification is provided. The method includes obtaining a binary file, extracting a character string to be searched for from the obtained binary file, and comparing the extracted character string against a knowledge base created according to a license to be verified, an apparatus capable of executing the license verification method, and a computer readable storage medium storing a program realizing the license verification method.
US09202018B2
Disclosed is a method and system for sharing a DRM file between portable terminals. The method includes selecting a DRM file stored in a memory by a transmitting terminal, extracting license information from the DRM file by the transmitting terminal, transmitting the license information to a receiving terminal by the transmitting terminal, checking if the receiving terminal acquires a license by the transmitting terminal, externally receiving the DRM file corresponding to the license by the receiving terminal, and reproducing the DRM file in synchronization with the receiving terminal by the transmitting terminal.
US09202010B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for modeling changes in patient-specific blood vessel geometry and boundary conditions resulting from changes in blood flow or pressure. One method includes determining, using a processor, a first anatomic model of one or more blood vessels of a patient; determining a biomechanical model of the one or more blood vessels based on at least the first anatomic model; determining one or more parameters associated with a physiological state of the patient; and creating a second anatomic model based on the biomechanical model and the one or more parameters associated with the physiological state.
US09202004B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for electronic design verification. Embodiments may include providing an electronic design including, at least in part, one or more hardware description languages and one or more software programming languages. Embodiment may also include calculating, using one or more processors, configuration information without analyzing the electronic design, wherein the configuration information includes one or more memory elements configured to control a mode of operation of the electronic design. Embodiments may further include storing a seed for each configuration, wherein each seed may be configured to cause a constraint solver to set a defined set of values for one or more random variables in a class associated with the seed.
US09201999B1
A method and a system are provided for planning feedthrough ports on a floorplan for an integrated circuit. In one example, the system groups paths (e.g., nets) into mutually exclusive families of paths (e.g., nets). The system analyzes the simpler path combinations for each path family. Advantageously, the system can find consistent design solutions for paths (e.g., nets), while adding fewer ports and fewer nets, within a practical amount of time.
US09201990B2
A simulation method predicts wet spreading and unions of a plurality of droplets arranged on a patterned surface defined by a fine pattern of protrusions and recesses, the patterned surface causing anisotropy to occur in the wet spreading of the droplets. The influence imparted by the pattern of protrusions and recesses that defines the patterned surface, which is the target of analysis, on the wet spreading of the droplets is treated as wetting properties of an analysis surface, and the wet spreading and unions of the plurality of droplets on the analysis surface are analyzed by gas liquid two phase flow analysis that incorporates the wetting property parameters that represents the wetting properties.
US09201982B2
A processor implements a priority search tree on data elements. A data point having two component values is stored for each data element. A comparison is performed to determine an order for two data points. When the first component values of the two data points are equal, a comparison is made using the second component values. When the second component values of the two data points are equal, a comparison is made using the first component values.
US09201980B2
A method for reconstruction includes providing a directed input graph generated from a set of n-grams and statistics for the n-grams, edges of the graph being joined through nodes of the graph. Each edge has an associated label and a multiplicity of at least one. Each of the n-grams in the set being represented by a respective one of the labels, whereby a Eulerian cycle through the graph traverses each edge the respective multiplicity of times. Reduction rules are applied iteratively to generate a refined graph which is both irreducible and equivalent to the input graph. Information is output based on the labels of the refined graph.
US09201977B2
Flowchart-based webpages may be automatically generated for troubleshooting or task completion without manual programming by a website developer. A canvas may be displayed that can be used for placement of a plurality of nodes to be associated with respective webpages. Content to include in the respective webpages for the nodes may be received, and connections between the nodes may be validated based on node type. Each node type may have its own respective connection rules. The webpages may be generated for the respective nodes based on the node content and the validated connections between the nodes when the validation succeeds.
US09201976B1
The present invention relates generally to a system and method of interactive verification of an immigration card holder's identity. Specifically, by using an electronic immigration card with a coded frame displayed thereon that includes one or more hot corners with one or more hyperlinks or icons embedded within the coded frame, that is activated for display when image capturing means scans the coded frame. Upon activation, a hyperlink or icon may be engaged for controlling interactive multimedia content pursuant to a control command associated with the one icon or hyperlink. The multimedia content may include authenticating information, e.g. security questions, a photograph and the like. Because the interactive multimedia content is not visible prior to the coded frame being scanned, the immigration card has varied layers of securing the information electronically stored thereon.
US09201965B1
A method is provided in one example and includes receiving a media file and generating a text file based on the media file. The method includes identifying selected words within the text file based on a whitelist, the whitelist includes a plurality of designated words to be tagged. The selected words are compared to a group of words associated with an individual. One or more of the selected words are removed based on the selected words not being found in the group of words associated with the individual. In more specific embodiments, the method includes generating a resultant after removing one or more of the selected words, the resultant can be separated into fields that identify a title and an author associated with the resultant. At least one of the selected words that is removed is associated with a false positive associated with two words that phonetically sound similar.
US09201964B2
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for identifying related entities are provided. One or more entities may be identified from a search query. The one or more entities may include any identifiable term having related information associated therewith. An entity store may be referenced to identify one or more related entities related to the entity. The one or more related entities, along with their relationship(s) to the entity (and one another, perhaps) may then be ranked and displayed to a user.
US09201959B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying importance of scenes or moments in video content relative to one another. Closed captioning data is extracted from a video content feature. A textual analysis of the closed captioning data is performed. The importance level of scenes can be ranked with respect to one another.
US09201951B2
Disclosed are a system and method for providing search results. The system for providing search results comprises: a keyword-receiving unit which receives a keyword from a user; an exposure-order-applying unit which applies, to a collection search bar, the order of exposure of a collection containing a listing of keyword search results; and a search-result-providing unit which provides the user with a webpage of the keyword search results, said webpage containing the collection search bar.
US09201950B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information sources using the record retrieval program; using the record retrieval program to enter first information into search fields provided in the record retrieval program; entering the execute command using the input device after the step of entering the first information; searching, using the record retrieval program, the local and remote information sources for second information associated with the first information; and displaying the second information in the record retrieval program, when one of the local and remote information sources includes second information associated with the first information.
US09201922B2
Systems and methods are provided in which a content guide includes one or more tags associated with a single user, a group of users or a channel subscribed to by users that enables the retrieval of content for subsequent viewing and which can be supplemented by recommendations and data from other sources.
US09201918B2
In one embodiment, a node of a cluster executing a storage input/output (I/O) stack having a volume layer, stores a multi-level dense tree metadata structure. Each level of the dense tree metadata structure includes volume metadata entries for storing volume metadata. One or more non-volatile logs (NVLogs) are updated. The one or more NVLogs including a volume layer log configured to record changes to the volume metadata, wherein volume metadata entries inserted into a top-level of the dense tree metadata structure are recorded in the volume layer log. The node writes volume metadata entries from the volume layer log to one or more storage devices to be stored as extents.
US09201917B2
Methods and systems are described for performing storage operations on electronic data in a network. In response to the initiation of a storage operation and according to a first set of selection logic, a media management component is selected to manage the storage operation. In response to the initiation of a storage operation and according to a second set of selection logic, a network storage device to associate with the storage operation. The selected media management component and the selected network storage device perform the storage operation on the electronic data.
US09201906B2
A data storage system, according to certain aspects, automatically backs up source data when the replication data is faulty. For instance, the system performs data backup using replication data rather than source data to reduce the processing load on the source system. The backup data is then associated with the source data as if the backup had been performed on the source data. If the replication system fails, then backing up replication data results in backup data that does not accurately reflect the source data. When permitted by the user system configuration, the system automatically backs up source data when replication has failed.
US09201897B1
A device establishes access to a first set of storage devices associated with a first storage characteristic and a second set of storage devices associated with a second storage characteristic. The first storage characteristic and the second storage characteristic include at least one of a consistency characteristic or a latency characteristic. The device receives a first request to store content, and determines a storage rule associated with the content, based on the first storage characteristic and the second storage characteristic. The storage rule specifies a manner in which the content is to be stored. The device transmits first information, associated with the content, to a first storage device of the first set of storage devices, based on the storage rule. The device transmits second information, including the content, to a second storage device of the second set of storage devices, based on the storage rule.
US09201896B2
A processing device causes a plurality of storage servers to create tenant identifiers for a tenant of a multi-tenant distributed file system that is distributed over the plurality of storage servers, the plurality of storage servers having underlying local file systems that interface with the multi-tenant distributed file system. The processing device maps the tenant to the tenant identifiers. The processing device assigns a global storage quota to the tenant. The processing device divides the global storage quota into a plurality of local storage quotas and assigns a local storage quota of the plurality of local storage quotas to each storage server of the plurality of storage servers.
US09201885B1
A time-based intelligence system provides robust storage, access, and processing of information on an electronic device. An automated assistant system provides automated, proactive and anticipatory services for the user of the system.
US09201876B1
Methods and apparatus related to contextual weighting of words. Methods are provided for determining co-occurrence relationships between words in a corpus of word groupings and for contextually weighting words in a word grouping as a function of which other words are present in the word grouping.
US09201863B2
Methods and systems for extracting and analyzing user-generated content (UGC) in order to provide opinion-bearing information concerning different categories of a product. Harvested Web pages are examined for keywords to identify categories to which they pertain. Opinion-bearing information regarding those categories is then extracted and analyzed to determine its orientation and, optionally, its strength. The resulting sentiment determinations can be aggregated across multiple product reviews and the like to develop a sentiment summary, which can be reported and used as the basis for advertising, marketing and purchasing decisions, among others.
US09201862B2
Disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for symbolic correction in human-machine interfaces that comprise (a) implementing a language model; (b) implementing a hypothesis model; (c) implementing an error model; and (d) processing a symbolic input message based on weighted finite-state transducers to encode 1) a set of input hypothesis using the hypothesis model, 2) the language model, and 3) the error model to perform correction on the sequential pre-segmented symbolic input message in the human-machine interface. According to a particular embodiment, the processing step comprises a combination of the language model, the hypothesis model, and the error model performed without parsing by employing a composition operation between the transducers and a lowest cost path search, exact or approximate, on the composed transducer.
US09201851B2
Methods and apparatus for in-line editing of web page content stored in multiple data stores are described. In one embodiment, a rendering of a web page is presented in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing environment. The presenting includes combining business transaction data from an inventory and accounting data store and web page presentation data from a page content data store. The presenting further includes rendering in the what-you-see-is-what-you-get environment the web page as viewable in a browser. Responsive to receiving an edit of an element of editable content from the what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing environment, the element of editable content of the electronic commerce web page is updated in both the inventory and accounting data store and the rendering.
US09201847B2
A composite finite field multiplier is disclosed. The multiplier includes a controller, an input port, an output port, a GF((2n)2) multiplier, a GF(2n) standard basis multiplier, and a GF(2n) look-up table multiplier; the controller is connected respectively to the input port, the output port, the GF((2n)2) multiplier, the GF(2n) standard basis multiplier and the GF(2n) look-up table multiplier; the GF((2n)2) multiplier is connected respectively to the GF(2n) standard basis multiplier and the GF(2n) look-up table multiplier. By using the GF((2n)2) multiplier, the GF(2n) standard basis multiplier and the GF(2n) look-up table multiplier, the multiplication of three operands is realized. Compared with the existing multiplier, the multiplier of the present invention has significant advantages in the speed of multiplying three operands over GF((2n)m).
US09201842B2
Vehicle event recorder systems are arranged to be in constant communication with remote servers and administrators via mobile wireless cellular networks. Vehicle event recorders equipped with video cameras capture video and other data records of important events relating to vehicle use. These data are then transmitted over special communications networks having very high coverage space but limited bandwidth. A vehicle may be operated over very large region while maintaining continuous communications connections with a remote fixed server. As such, systems of these inventions may be characterized as including a mobile unit having: a video camera; a microprocessor; memory; an event trigger; and mobile wireless transceivers, and a fixed network portion including: mobile wireless cellular network, a protocol translation gateway, the Internet and an application-specific server.
US09201841B2
In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device that is associated with the correlated accelerometer profile. Each acceleration profile can correspond to a sequence of acceleration forces a mobile device would be subjected to when carried with a user during an activity that corresponds to the correlated acceleration profile.
US09201840B2
Methods and systems for generating a proxy automatic configuration (PAC) script based on the location of a device. One example method includes receiving a request for a proxy automatic configuration (PAC) script from a source address associated with a device; determining, based at least in part on the source address, a location of the device; generating a PAC script based at least in part on the determined location of the device; and sending a response to the request for the PAC script including the generated PAC script.
US09201839B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a plurality of communication units connected to one another in a ring shape by a bus, each of the plurality of communication units being connected to one of processing units, each of which executes a predetermined process, and transmitting data processed by the one of the processing units to the bus as a packet, the information processing apparatus transferring data between the processing units and processing the data in a predetermined order. Among the plurality of communication units, in at least one communication unit, a packet including a value indicative of suspension of the process is generated when the connected processing unit has suspended a process, and information showing whether or not the generation unit has generated the packet including the value indicative of suspension of the process is stored.
US09201838B2
Systems and methods are disclose for facilitating the transfer of hierarchical data to a computer memory are provided. A disclosed method may include receiving an electronic document containing hierarchical data, memory layout information, and memory address information, wherein the memory address information comprises a base address. The data may be restructuring to conform with the memory layout of the computer memory when it is determined, based on the memory layout information, that a memory layout of the hierarchical data does not match the memory layout of the computer memory. Memory address information may be translated when it is determined that the base address is not available in the computer memory. The restructured hierarchical data may be loaded into the computer memory based on the translated memory address information.
US09201828B2
The present disclosure provides a memory interconnection architecture for a processor, such as a vector processor, that performs parallel operations. An example processor may include a compute array that includes processing elements; a memory that includes memory banks; and a memory interconnect network architecture that interconnects the compute array to the memory. In an example, the memory interconnect network architecture includes a switch-based interconnect network and a non-switch based interconnect network. The processor is configured to synchronously load a first data operand to each of the processing elements via the switch-based interconnect network and a second data operand to each of the processing elements via the non-switch-based interconnect network.
US09201820B2
A master memory controller comprises a plurality of memory communication channels. At least one of the memory communication channels is used to communicate with one or more slave memory controllers. The master and slave memory controllers can operate in a parallel operation mode to communicate with a plurality of memory devices coupled to the memory communication channels of each memory controller.
US09201816B2
A data processing apparatus and method for setting priority levels for transactions has a shared resource for processing transactions, and at least one master device for issuing the transactions to the shared resource. The master device provides a plurality of sources of the transactions, and each of the transactions has a priority level associated therewith. Arbitration circuitry applies an arbitration policy to select a transaction from amongst multiple transactions issued to the shared resource. Adaptive priority circuitry is associated with at least one of the sources and monitors throughput indication data for previously issued transactions from the associated source. For each new transaction from the associated source, the circuitry sets the priority level to one of a plurality of predetermined priority levels dependent on the throughput indication data. The adaptive priority circuitry sets the lowest priority level from amongst the plurality of predetermined priority levels.
US09201815B2
A data-forwarding system establishes a network connection to a plurality of network devices to facilitate an interfacing device communicating with a device-controlling system, a peer interfacing device, or other computing devices. During operation, when the system receives data from a network device, the system determines a peer network device that is to receive the data, such as a device that is subscribed to receive the data. The system can forward the sensor data to the peer network device by determining an established network connection for communicating with the second network device, and sending the sensor data to the peer network device via the established network connection.
US09201813B2
Signal distribution circuitry for use in an integrated circuit, the signal distribution circuitry comprising: first and second output nodes, for connection to respective output signal lines; first and second supply nodes for connection to respective high and low voltage sources; and switching circuitry connected to the first and second output nodes and the first and second supply nodes and operable based on an input signal to conductively connect the first and second output nodes either to the first and second supply nodes, respectively, in a first state when the input signal has a first value, or to each other, in a second state when the input signal has a second value different from the first value, so as to transmit output signals dependent on the input signal via such output signal lines.
US09201805B2
A dispersed storage network includes a dispersed storage device to store data. The dispersed storage device includes a processing module operable to slice a data segment of a data object into data slices. The processing module further creates a slice name for each of the data slices. The slice name includes routing information containing a vault identifier that identifies a vault associated with the data object, in which the vault identifies at least one user. The slice name further includes a source data name containing an identifier of the data object.
US09201801B2
A computing device includes: an instruction cache storing primary execution unit instructions and auxiliary execution unit instructions in a sequential order; a primary execution unit configured to receive and execute the primary execution unit instructions from the instruction cache; an auxiliary execution unit configured to receive and execute only the auxiliary execution unit instructions from the instruction cache in a manner independent from and asynchronous to the primary execution unit; and completion circuitry configured to coordinate completion of the primary execution unit instructions by the primary execution unit and the auxiliary execution unit instructions according to the sequential order.
US09201798B2
A computer implemented method for prefetching data. The method includes: receiving one or more addresses by a prefetching unit upon execution of an enqueuing command in a first piece of program logic; enqueuing each of the received addresses to a recording-list; identifying one of the positions in the recording-list as jump position; providing the identified jump position to a frame-shifter; using a sub-list of the recording-list defined by a shiftable frame as a playback-list; executing a frame-shift command which triggers the frame-shifter to shift the frame in dependence on the jump position to provide an updated playback-list; fetching data identified by the updated playback-list from a second memory; and transferring the fetched data to a first memory.
US09201794B2
Described is a system and computer program product for implementing dynamic hierarchical memory cache (HMC) awareness within a storage system. Specifically, when performing dynamic read operations within a storage system, a data module evaluates a data prefetch policy according to a strategy of determining if data exists in a hierarchical memory cache and thereafter amending the data prefetch policy, if warranted. The system then uses the data prefetch policy to perform a read operation from the storage device to minimize future data retrievals from the storage device. Further, in a distributed storage environment that include multiple storage nodes cooperating to satisfy data retrieval requests, dynamic hierarchical memory cache awareness can be implemented for every storage node without degrading the overall performance of the distributed storage environment.
US09201792B2
A multi-core processing apparatus may provide a cache probe and data retrieval method. The method may comprise sending a memory request from a requester to a record keeping structure. The memory request may have a memory address of a memory that stores requested data. The method may further comprise determining that a local last accessor of the memory address may have a copy of the requested data up to date with the memory. The local last accessor may be within a local domain that the requester belongs to. The method may further comprise sending a cache probe to the local last accessor and retrieving a latest value of the requested data from the local last accessor to the requester.
US09201786B2
According to an embodiment, a retention time of each block group is managed and a degree of wear of each block is managed. A free block allocated to each block group is determined based on the retention time of each block group and the degree of wear of each block.
US09201785B2
A data writing method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided. The method includes receiving a write command and data corresponding to the write command from a host system and temporarily storing the data into a buffer memory, and the data includes a plurality of sub-data streams. The method still includes transmitting the sub-data streams into the rewritable non-volatile memory module, thereby writing the sub-data streams into at least one physical erasing unit of the rewritable non-volatile memory module. The method further includes generating parity information based on at least portion of the sub-data streams; storing the parity information into the buffer memory and deleting the data from the buffer memory. Accordingly, the method can effectively utilize the storage space of the buffer memory.
US09201779B2
A management system manages a computer system having multiple storage apparatuses, which provide a virtual volume to a host. The computer system includes a pool, and the storage apparatus allocates a physical page in the pool to a write destination when writing to the virtual volume. The management system stores logical volume management information for managing a corresponding relationship between a storage apparatus in which a logical volume resides and a physical page forming the logical volume, and virtual volume management information for managing the corresponding relationship between a virtual segment in a virtual volume and a page allocated to the virtual segment, and based on the logical volume management information and the virtual volume management information identifies a first page migration, which is affected in a case where either a determination-target storage apparatus is stopped or a first storage area is blocked, and displays the first page migration information.
US09201777B2
A die-stacked memory device implements an integrated QoS manager to provide centralized QoS functionality in furtherance of one or more specified QoS objectives for the sharing of the memory resources by other components of the processing system. The die-stacked memory device includes a set of one or more stacked memory dies and one or more logic dies. The logic dies implement hardware logic for a memory controller and the QoS manager. The memory controller is coupleable to one or more devices external to the set of one or more stacked memory dies and operates to service memory access requests from the one or more external devices. The QoS manager comprises logic to perform operations in furtherance of one or more QoS objectives, which may be specified by a user, by an operating system, hypervisor, job management software, or other application being executed, or specified via hardcoded logic or firmware.
US09201771B2
A method for evaluating a production rule for usage as a test input process for a memory management analysis is carried out via a server process. The server process accesses at least a database of a manufacturing execution system. At least one user table is retrieved out of the database. A first number of records are retrieved for the user table. A single execution of the production rule is triggered by the server process. A second number of records are retrieved for the user table. The first number of records are compared to the second number of records and either, classifying the production rule as a suitable rule for the memory management analysis if the first and the second number of records are equal, or, classifying the production rule as an unsuitable rule for the memory management analysis if the first and the second number records are unequal.
US09201768B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for recommending a number of test cases and effort to allocate to one or more business processes associated with a software testing project. In use, one or more business processes associated with a software testing project are identified. A business priority and customization level is set for each of the one or more business processes associated with the software testing project Additionally, a number of defects are estimated for each of the one or more business processes associated with the software testing project. Further, a quality level is determined for each of the one or more business processes associated with the User Acceptance Testing software testing project. In addition, a number of test cases to be executed to achieve the quality level is determined for each of the one or more business processes associated with the software testing project, the number of test cases to be executed to achieve the desired quality level being based, at least in part, on the estimated number of defects and the business priority. Furthermore, an effort analysis associated with one or more past software testing projects is identified. Moreover, an estimated effort is determined for each of the one or more business processes associated with the software testing project, the estimated effort being based, at least in part, on the number of test cases to be executed to achieve the quality level, the business priority, and the effort analysis of the one or more past software testing projects. Still yet, the estimated effort is displayed for at least one of the one or more business processes associated with the software testing project utilizing at least one interface.
US09201759B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing remote debugging of a cloud application across a wide area network. A method includes transmitting, from a remote communication device to a cloud computing device, instructions to adjust a running application to a debugging mode; receiving, at the remote communication device from a server coupled to the cloud, aggregated thread data in a data packet by using a second debugging data protocol different from the Java Debug Wire Protocol; receiving a debugging command and applying the debugging command to the cloud application running in the debugging mode.
US09201756B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for administering event pools for relevant event analysis are provided. Embodiments include assigning, by an incident analyzer, a plurality of events to an events pool; determining, by the incident analyzer, an event suppression duration; determining, by the incident analyzer in dependence upon event analysis rules, to suppress events having particular attributes indicating the events occurred during the event suppression duration; and suppressing, by the incident analyzer, each event assigned to the events pool having the particular attributes indicating the events occurred during the event suppression duration.
US09201750B2
Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a test module that communicates with the device under test to test the device under test; and a control apparatus that executes a plurality of test programs, causes the test module to perform tests corresponding respectively to the test programs, receives test results from the test module, and performs predetermined result processes on the test results. The control apparatus stores an execution order of the test programs, and executes at least a portion of the result processes in an order indicated by the stored execution order.
US09201749B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a processor to execute in a single step mode such that a single instruction from the instruction stream is executed, the processor determines if the single instruction is one of at least one predetermined type of instruction and stores a type indicator in a data storage location and a diagnostic exception is taken after the processor has processed the single instruction. Additionally, a diagnostic operation is performed including accessing the type indicator stored in the data storage location and, when the single instruction was not one of the predetermined type, controlling the processor to continue executing instructions in the single step mode, and, when the single instruction was one of the at least one predetermined type, controlling the processor to exit the single step mode and not execute the next instruction within the instruction stream as a single instruction followed by an exception.
US09201734B2
A storage control system includes: storage units each including a first storage area storing information and a second storage area storing management information that contains attribute information of partition information indicating how information is stored in partitions obtained by partitioning the first storage area; an obtaining unit to obtain the management information from the plurality of storage units; a determination unit to determine whether abnormal management information is present in the obtained management information by comparing the obtained management information with itself; and a recovery unit to reconfigure, when it is determined there is the abnormal management information, for each unit of partition, information stored in the first storage area of the storage unit from which the abnormal management information has been obtained by using one of the storage units from which normal management information has been obtained, based on attribute information of the normal management information in each partition.
US09201727B2
A system for providing error detection or correction on a data bus includes one or more caches coupled to a central processing unit and to a hub by one or more buses. The system also includes a plurality of arrays, each array disposed on one of the buses. Each of the arrays includes a plurality of storage cells disposed in an insensitive direction and an error control mechanism configured to detect an error in the plurality of storage cells.
US09201724B2
A technique for providing end-to-end data protection while supporting multiple cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC) algorithms includes receiving a data block protected by a first CRC. The first CRC is generated using a first CRC algorithm. The integrity of the data block is checked using the first CRC and the first CRC algorithm. A second CRC for the data block is then computed using a second CRC algorithm different from the first CRC algorithm. The data block, first CRC, and second CRC are stored on a storage medium, such as magnetic tape.
US09201718B2
Methods for data recovery and memory systems are provided. According to at least one such method, when defective data is read from a memory location, the data is recovered by an XOR operation on the remaining good data and associated RAID data to reconstruct the defective data. The defective data is excluded from the XOR operation.
US09201716B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for automatically determining a preferred queue size for an individual queue based on message traffic. The method includes referencing a plurality of queue data sets corresponding to messages associated with a queue within a collection time period. A queue data set associated with a largest number of messages in the queue is identified from within the plurality of queue data sets and, thereafter, a target-queue size is determined using queue data associated with the largest number of messages in the queue. In further aspects, the individual queue can be automatically tuned based on the target-queue size.
US09201714B2
A method for managing application modalities using dialogue states can include the step of asserting a set of activation conditions associated with a dialogue state of an application. Each of the activation conditions can be linked to at least one programmatic action, wherein different programmatic actions can be executed by different modality components. The application conditions can be monitored. An application event can be detected resulting in an associated application condition being run. At least one programmatic action linked to the application condition can be responsively initiated.
US09201706B2
A method, system and computer program product for minimizing workload migrations during cloud maintenance operations. Upon receiving an indication that a scheduled maintenance operation is to be performed, a cloud controller uploads the maintenance binaries associated with the scheduled maintenance operation and analyzes the maintenance binaries so as to evaluate the requirements of the maintenance packages and dependencies associated with the scheduled maintenance operation. A matrix is then generated by the cloud controller to identify the classes of hardware that will be disrupted by the scheduled maintenance operation based on the analysis. The workloads running on the classes of hardware identified in the matrix will then be consolidated prior to the scheduled maintenance operation. By consolidating the workloads onto a fewer number of hardware components, a fewer number of workload migrations will need to be performed during the cloud maintenance operation.
US09201700B2
To provision computer resources on a computing network, for instance a cloud network, an associated resource request parameter of a received resource request is determined. A system attribute is calculated based upon the resource request parameter. Based upon the calculated system attribute, a computing resources repository is queried to retrieve a computing resource. Upon querying, a persisted computing resource with a sufficient capacity to execute a client system process is retrieved. If the computing resources repository does not include a persisted computing resource, an expandable computing resource is retrieved. If the computing resources repository does not include an expandable computing resource, a new computing resource is rendered to execute the client system process. The retrieved computing resource is assigned to the received resource request, and the assigned computing resource is provisioned to execute the client system process.
US09201697B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for collocating VMs based on memory sharing potential. In an embodiment of the invention, a VM co-location method has been claimed. The method includes selecting a VM from amongst different VMs for server colocation. The method additionally includes computing an individual shared memory factor for each of a set of the VMs with respect to the selected VM. The method yet further includes determining a VM amongst the VMs in the set associated with a highest computed shared memory factor. Finally, the method includes co-locating the determined VM with the selected VM in a single server.
US09201696B2
Systems and techniques for utilizing resource aware queues and/or service sharing in a multi-server environment. Requests directed to an application server are received into one or more queues in front of the application server. An acknowledgement of the requests is provided in response to the requests being received by the one or more queues. Metadata associated with the requests is utilized to manage the one or more queues. The requests from the one or more queues are processed based on the metadata.
US09201694B2
A job management apparatus that searches for an available node to which a job is allocatable in an n-dimensional mesh-connected or n-dimensional torus-connected computer network, includes: a one-dimensional search information generating unit that generates one-dimensional search information related to one dimension of n dimensions, which includes a plurality of bits and which indicates, using one-bit information, whether or not the job is allocatable for each of computation nodes belonging to the one dimension; a search information generating unit that generates a search mask pattern with as many bits as corresponds to the plurality of bits, which includes consecutive bits being set to a preset value and corresponding to a size required by the job in the one dimension; and an available node searching unit that searches for the available node by performing, for the one dimension, a preset logic operation with the one-dimensional search information and the search mask pattern.
US09201688B2
Managing a concurrency based system. A method includes determining a defined number of concurrent operations for a concurrency based management system. An operation queue is accessed. The operation queue stores or has therein zero or more asynchronous operations. An asynchronous operation is an operation that returns an object representing the asynchronous completion of the operation. The method further includes, as long as the queue is not empty, scheduling asynchronous operations from the queue until a number of asynchronous operations equal to the defined number has been reached.
US09201686B2
Described herein, are methods and devices for execution of a task in a grid computing system. According to an implementation, free time-slots are identified and durations of the free time-slots are estimated, by an edge device, for execution of a sub-task. The free time-slots are indicative of an idle state of the edge device. At least one computation capability parameter of the edge device is determined by the edge device for execution of a sub-task during the free time-slots. An advertisement profile having at least one free time-slot, and the duration and the at least one computation capability parameter associated with the at least one free time-slot is created by the edge device. The advertisement profile is provided by the edge device to grid servers in the grid computing system for partitioning a main task to create a sub-task executable by the edge device.
US09201677B2
Systems and methods for managing data input/output operations are described that include virtual machines operating with a shared storage within a host. In such a system, a computer-implemented method is provided for dynamically provisioning cache storage while operating system applications continue to operate, including stalling the virtual machine's local cache storage operations, changing the provision of cache storage size; and resuming the operations of the virtual machine.
US09201663B2
A computer system and a remote control method for a computer device are provided. The computer system includes a computer device and a remote device. The computer device includes a network communication unit and an ID table. Before the computer device enters into a power-saving state, the computer device reads an ID code of the network communication unit and searches the ID table according to the ID code to obtain a particular packet format type. The computer device sends an agreement packet including a message of the particular packet format type to notify the remote device. The computer device receives a response packet from the remote device for setting a packet receiving procedure and enters into the power-saving state. When the computer device receives a wake-up packet compliant with the packet receiving procedure from the remote device, the computer device returns to a normal operation state.
US09201653B2
A source computer system with one instruction set architecture (ISA) configured to run on a target hardware system that has its own ISA. During execution from binary translation, synchronous exceptions may be either transparent (requiring processing action wholly within the target computer system) or non-transparent (requiring processing that alters a visible state of the source system, and asynchronous exceptions may also be either transparent or non-transparent, in which case an action that alters a visible state of the computer system needs to be applied. The system also includes subsystems, and related methods of operation, for detecting the occurrence of all of these types of exceptions, to handle them, and to do so with precise reentry into the interrupted instruction stream. The binary translation and exception-handling subsystems are included as components of a virtual machine monitor which is installed between the target hardware system and the source system.
US09201652B2
A system for translating compressed instructions to instructions in an executable format is described. A translation unit is configured to decompress compressed instructions into a native instruction format using X and Y indices accessed from a memory, a translation memory, and a program specified mix mask. A level 1 cache is configured to store the native instruction format for each compressed instruction. The memory may be configured as a paged instruction cache to store pages of compressed instructions intermixed with pages of uncompressed instructions. Methods of determining a mix mask for efficiently translating compressed instructions is also described. A genetic method uses pairs of mix masks as genes from a seed population of mix masks that are bred and may be mutated to produce pairs of offspring mix masks to update the seed population. A mix mask for efficiently translating compressed instructions is determined from the updated seed population.
US09201650B2
A super input/output (I/O) module for controlling a universal serial bus (USB) port of a computer system is provided. The super I/O module includes a USB host, a switch and a processor. The switch selectively couples the USB port of the computer system to the USB host or a controller of the computer system according to a switching signal. When a trigger event occurs, the processor provides the switching signal to control the switch, so as to couple the USB port of the computer system to the USB host and to transmit a basic input/output system (BIOS) code to a flash memory of the computer system via the switch and the USB port.
US09201649B2
The technique relates to a system and method for estimating an impact of changing one or more source files in a software based on a clone dependency graph. This technique involves extracting the source files from a repository and detecting code cones present in the source files. After detecting the code clones the clone dependency graph is created. Several graph metrics are calculated and applied to the clone dependency graph to estimate the impact of changing a source file on other source files of the software. Finally, the output is visualized with the help of graph visualization technique.
US09201646B2
Systems and methods for performing automatic code review are described. The system receives a version of source code and processes it for potential coding issues based on a code review configuration. Upon detecting a coding issue, the system generates an automatic code review that contains a location identifying the coding issue in the version of source code and an associated review comment selected from the code review configuration. The method includes receiving a version of source code and generating a review request for a specific change in the version of source code. The method then assigns a code reviewer for handling the review request by selecting a reviewer from a subset code reviewers based on the number of times each code reviewer has been assigned to prior review requests associated with the specific change.
US09201643B2
An aspect of an embodiment of the invention provides a communication apparatus for receiving update data for an application, which carries out data communication of transferring data containing at least any one of video data and audio data over a network, and updating the application using the update data. The communication apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive related information that is information related to the update data; an update unit configured to start downloading the update data based on the related information; and a determining unit configured to make determination about an execution state of the application. The update unit controls resumption and suspension of the downloading of the update data based on a result of the determination made by the determining unit.
US09201634B2
A method of controlling user experience with an application on a client device including at least two resident client entities is provided. The method includes modifying behavior of the application on the client device through negotiation between the at least two resident entities according to pre-defined rules; and rendering the application on the client device based on the pre-defined rules using at least one of the resident client entities.
US09201633B2
Method and memory medium for generating a web service. A plurality of graphical data flow programs may be provided, and user input selecting one or more of plurality of graphical data flow programs for inclusion in a web service may be received, The web service may be generated based on the one or more graphical data flow programs. Each graphical data flow program may implement a respective web method, where each web method may implement or request a respective action. The web service may be deployable to a server for hosting, where the web service is invocable over a network to perform the corresponding one or more web methods.
US09201632B2
Methods and systems for facilitating incremental software development are disclosed. For example, a method can include receiving a plurality of binary software libraries sufficient for building a software project. A request from a user to modify source code for at least one of the plurality of binary libraries is received. In response to receiving the request, the source code for the at least one of the plurality of binary libraries is retrieved. The source code for the at least one of the plurality of binary libraries is presented to the user. Modified source code for the at least one of the plurality of binary libraries is received. The modified source code is compiled to produce compiled modified code. A revised version of the software project is built using the compiled modified code and the plurality of binary libraries.
US09201621B2
An information processing apparatus manages a first printer object that has a correspondence relationship with the image forming apparatus, and a second printer object that does not have a correspondence relationship with the image forming apparatus, holds the job without transmitting the job to a specific image forming apparatus when the second printer object is selected and a print instruction is issued, and transmits, to the image forming apparatus, the job held by the second printer object in response to an access from the image forming apparatus to the first printer object.
US09201611B2
According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, a table, a command processor, and a controller. The interface transmits and receives information to and from a host. The table holds management information for managing an address in a memory space in the host. The command processor carries out a command process of accessing the memory space in the host using the management information. The controller releases the management information corresponding to the command process from the table in response to completion of the command process.
US09201610B2
A device creates a first cloud storage container in a first region of cloud storage, clears a delete flag associated with the first cloud storage container, and stores a first data object in the first cloud storage container in the first region of cloud storage. The device receives a request to delete the first cloud storage container, sets a delete flag associated with the first cloud storage container based on the request to delete the first cloud storage container, and deletes the first cloud storage container if the request to delete has not been rescinded prior to expiration of a time period.
US09201608B2
Systems, methods, and devices for dynamically mapping and remapping memory when a portion of memory is activated or deactivated are provided. In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic device may include several memory banks, one or more processors, and a memory controller. The memory banks may store data in hardware memory locations and may be independently deactivated. The processors may request the data using physical memory addresses, and the memory controller may translate the physical addresses to hardware memory locations. The memory controller may use a first memory mapping function when a first number of memory banks is active and a second memory mapping function when a second number is active. When one of the memory banks is to be deactivated, the memory controller may copy data from only the memory bank that is to be deactivated to the active remainder of memory banks.
US09201607B2
The computer system, during the course of executing an operation of dynamically allocating a storage area to a virtual volume in response to an access from a host system, detects where a balance of a storage capacity among a plurality of logical areas is disrupted, and subsequently moves a storage area among a plurality of logical areas to maintain balance of the storage capacity.
US09201599B2
A method and system for transferring frames from a storage device to a host system via a controller is provided. The method includes transferring frames from a transport module to a link module; and sending an acknowledgment to the transport module, wherein the link module sends the acknowledgement to the transport module and it appears to the transport module as if the host system sent the acknowledgement. The frames in the controller are tracked by creating a status entry indicating that a new frame is being created; accumulating data flow information, while a connection to transfer the frame is being established by a link module; and updating frame status as frame build is completed, transferred, and acknowledged. The controller includes, a header array in a transport module of the controller, wherein the header array includes plural layers and one of the layers is selected to process a frame.
US09201596B2
In the technical field of data storage and access, the invention relates to the technique of data transmission using a storage area network (SAN) in a magnetic disk storage device environment, including a method for transmitting data over a SAN in such an environment, including: determining a logical volume accessible to a server of the magnetic disk storage device; obtaining information on a logical volume accessible to a client of the magnetic disk storage device, which is determined by the client; establishing a corresponding relationship between the logical volume accessible to the server and the logical volume accessible to the client; receiving a request for using the logical volume of the magnetic disk storage device from the client; and informing the client of an available logical volume by utilizing the corresponding relationship so that a data access to the available logical volume is performed by the client over the SAN.
US09201594B2
In a method for controlling virtual keyboards using an electronic device, a first virtual keyboard, a second virtual keyboard, and a third virtual keyboard are preset, and the first virtual keyboard is preset to be a default virtual keyboard. When the electronic device enters a character input mode, the default virtual keyboard is invoked. A tilt direction and a tilt angle of the electronic device are detected. When the tilt direction is left and the tilt angle is greater than a predetermined angle, the default virtual keyboard is switched to the second virtual keyboard. When the tilt direction is right and the tilt angle is greater than the predetermined angle, the default virtual keyboard is switched to the third virtual keyboard.
US09201581B2
A computerized method for generating monitoring rules, comprising: presenting to a user a spatio-temporal data indicative of a plurality of spatio-temporal attributes of a plurality of image objects in a space during a period; selecting, by a user, at least one of a spatial pattern and a temporal pattern represented in said spatio-temporal data; analyzing said at least one of a spatial pattern and a temporal pattern to identify at least one of a spatial related characteristic of at least some of said plurality of image objects and a temporal related characteristic of at least some of said plurality of image objects; automatically generating at least one monitoring rule to track an occurrence of said at least one of a location related characteristic and a temporal related characteristic.
US09201578B2
Methods for enabling hands-free selection of virtual objects are described. In some embodiments, a gaze swipe gesture may be used to select a virtual object. The gaze swipe gesture may involve an end user of a head-mounted display device (HMD) performing head movements that are tracked by the HMD to detect whether a virtual pointer controlled by the end user has swiped across two or more edges of the virtual object. In some cases, the gaze swipe gesture may comprise the end user using their head movements to move the virtual pointer through two edges of the virtual object while the end user gazes at the virtual object. In response to detecting the gaze swipe gesture, the HMD may determine a second virtual object to be displayed on the HMD based on a speed of the gaze swipe gesture and a size of the virtual object.
US09201568B2
Tracking objects presented within a stereo three-dimensional (3D) scene. The user control device may include one or more visually indicated points for at least one tracking sensor to track. The user control device may also include other position determining devices, for example, an accelerometer and/or gyroscope. Precise 3D coordinates of the stylus may be determined based on location information from the tracking sensor(s) and additional information from the other position determining devices. A stereo 3D scene may be updated to reflect the determined coordinates.
US09201567B2
A method of indicating a location of a cursor on a flight deck of an aircraft having multiple flight displays includes detecting when the cursor is jumped from a first location on a first flight display of the multiple flight displays to a second location on a second flight display of the multiple flight displays and displaying a comet tail on at least one of the first flight display and the second flight display directed toward the second location in response to the detected jump.
US09201566B2
A portable electronic device, computer program product, and method of presenting image information on a display with combined cropping and rotation selection and auto-resizing of cropped portion of the displayed image. A processor accepts a selection of a portion of a displayed image in a selection rectangle frame over the displayed image, based on detecting a first gesture. The processor determines a request for rotation of the displayed selection rectangle frame based on detecting a second gesture. The processor then rotates the selection rectangle frame on the displayed image and resizes the selection rectangle frame while maintaining it within the outer boundaries of the displayed image.
US09201560B2
A computer program acts as a data collection, compilation, storage, and display in an autonomous and dynamic fashion. The software may be used by numerous separate and unrelated facilities working as a network on related projects with diverse hardware. A portable storage device is used to store the necessary software. This storage device will be shared between computer systems on site to collect, compile and store information from each facility. Once all sections are complete, it will be handed to a final arbitrator for review. The ultimate goal of a preferred embodiment is a portable system capable of dynamic modification capable of use in many different fields of operation.
US09201547B2
A touch sensor panel configured to detect objects touching the panel as well as objects that are at a varying proximity to the touch sensor panel. The touch sensor panel includes circuitry that can configure the panel in a mutual capacitance (near field) architecture or a self-capacitance (far field and super far field) architecture. The touch sensor panel can also include circuitry that works to minimize an effect that a parasitic capacitance can have on the ability of the touch sensor panel to reliably detect touch and proximity events.
US09201546B2
An acoustic touch apparatus that utilizes the transfer of surface acoustic waves from one surface, through the touch substrate, to another surface to enable multi-touch capabilities.
US09201543B2
An optical navigating apparatus, comprising: a displacement detecting apparatus, for determining if the optical navigating apparatus has displacement relative to an target, and for generating a displacement signal according to the displacement; and a touch control panel, for detecting a touch control operation of an user, wherein the touch control panel has a sampling rate and changes the sampling rate according to a control signal, wherein the sampling rate can be adjusted according to the displacement signal, where the sampling rate correspondingly decreases when the displacement signal indicates the displacement increases.
US09201541B2
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of drive electrodes that face a plurality of pixel electrodes in an orthogonal direction to the surface of the substrate, and extend in a direction parallel to the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend. The display device with a touch detection function also includes a scan driving unit that applies a touch drive signal to a signal line that faces, in an overlapping manner in the orthogonal direction, a drive electrode to which the touch drive signal is applied.
US09201539B2
A computing device includes a fingerprint detection module for detecting fingerprint information that may be contained within touch input event(s) provided by a touch input mechanism. The computing device can leverage the fingerprint information in various ways. In one approach, the computing device can use the fingerprint information to enhance an interpretation of the touch input event(s), such as by rejecting parts of the touch input event(s) associated with an unintended input action. In another approach, the computing device can use the fingerprint information to identify an individual associated with the fingerprint information. The computing device can apply this insight to provide a customized user experience to that individual, such as by displaying content that is targeted to that individual.
US09201533B2
An array substrate for an in-cell type touch sensor liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate; a gate line and a data line on the substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a first passivation layer on the thin film transistor; a common electrode on the first passivation layer; an etching preventing pattern covering the drain contact hole; an x sensing line and a y sensing line on the common electrode; a second passivation layer on the x sensing line and the y sensing line; and a pixel electrode on the second passivation layer.
US09201532B2
An information input device includes: an input panel having an effective photo-detectable region in which a plurality of photodetectors are arranged for detecting an external proximity object, and having a shading region located in a margin of the effective photo-detectable region; a correction section performing outermost-region correction on an outermost photo-detection signal to increase intensity thereof, the outermost photo-detection signal being obtained from a photodetector located in an outermost-region of the effective photo-detectable region; and an image processor acquiring object information about one or more of a position, a shape and size of the external proximity object based on a resultant photo-detection signal obtained from the outermost-region correction.
US09201528B2
The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing vibratory elements, comprising forming on a substrate a multilayer structure by an integrated circuit manufacturing method, the multilayer structure comprising an element susceptible of vibrating when it is subjected to an electrical signal, and electrodes for transmitting an electrical signal to the vibratory element, the vibratory element comprising a mechanical coupling face that is able to transmit to control element vibrations perceptible by a user.
US09201524B2
An optical navigation device for use with mobile telephones and the like is disclosed, which has a reduced height as compared with current designs. The navigation device comprises a laser such as a VCSEL laser, an exposed user surface and two other surfaces that provide for total internal reflection of the incident laser beam. The surfaces are constructed with shallower than normal angles, preserving the basic functionality of the device while reducing the height.
US09201522B2
An acoustic tracking system is provided that includes a mobile device including a plurality of receivers that receives an acoustic signal from each of three transmitters disposed in a fixed, non-planar relationship with respect to each other, where the three transmitters are coupled to a transmitting device. The system also includes a processing component that determines based on the acoustic signals received at the plurality of receivers a position of the transmitting device in a multidimensional space. The system also includes an application controller that affects operation of an application based on a determined position of one or more transmitters of the three transmitters.
US09201515B2
A system for interacting with a target in an operation area having a selection tool includes an operating device. The operating device senses a motion to make a decision about whether the motion has a specific motion, and confirms whether the selection tool is located upon the target according to a distance between the selection tool and the target when the decision is positive.
US09201509B2
A character input method and device based on an arrow key are provided. The method of the present invention includes: querying a letter database according to triggering of a arrow key and obtaining a letter set corresponding to the arrow key; arranging the letter set corresponding to the arrow key according to a predetermined rule, and partially or fully spreading and then displaying the letter set in a display region; displaying a selection cursor at a default position in the display region, where the selection cursor is used for identifying a currently selected letter; and inputting the letter identified by the selection cursor into a character input region according to a predetermined selection rule. Embodiments of the present invention are mainly applied to a character input process based on an arrow key.
US09201505B2
An input device and an image display apparatus including the same are disclosed. The input device includes first and second light source units arranged spaced apart from each other and configured to respectively output first light having a first color and second light having a second color, a light guide having a circular shape and configured to receive the first light and the second light, synthesize the first light and the second light and output third synthesized light, a touch sensor configured to detect touch input, and a light source controller configured to control the third light output from the light guide based on touch input detected by the touch sensor. Accordingly, it is possible to improve user convenience.
US09201499B1
The movement of an object is tracked in a 3D environment. In some cases, the object is a hand which may be used for gesture input to an augmented reality system. In a particular implementation, 3D images of the environment may be captured and 2D contours of objects within the environment may be generated. Overlap between regions defined by the 2D contours of objects in the 3D images may be utilized to determine whether an object in a first 3D image is the same as an object in a second 3D image that is captured subsequent to the first 3D image.
US09201494B1
A method and system of operating an actual or virtual desktop or server and managing such desktops and servers involves one or more cache appliances serving desktop, operating system, and application objects to a managed machine. The objects are composited together to present a normal file structure to the user, with all user configuration and data stored in the desktop object. Management requirements are minimized to maintain operating system and application objects, while users maintain distinct and customizable desktops.
US09201489B2
The present invention includes a circuit, system and method for selectively turning off internal clock drivers to reduce operating current. The present invention may be used to reduce power consumption by reducing operating current in a memory device. Operating current may be reduced by turning off internal clock drivers that deliver a clock signal during selected periods of time. According to an embodiment of clock control circuitry of the present invention, an internal clock can be selectively gated in response to a gating signal based in part on idle time and absence of a read or write burst operation. Methods, memory devices and computer systems including the clock control circuitry and its functionality are also disclosed.
US09201484B2
Circuitry for conserving power in a system employing multiple electronic components of which a first electronic component operates at a first frequency and is continuously powered on by a power source. The system further includes a second electronic component operating at a second frequency different than that of the first frequency of the first electric component, the second electronic component being maintained in a powered off state in which no energy whatsoever is consumed by the second electronic component until energized in response to a power enabling signal generated by the first electronic component based on demand of the particular function to be performed by the second electronic component. The first and second electronic components may be processors, wherein the frequency of the first processor is lower than that of the second processor.
US09201483B2
An image processing unit including an always on circuit block and a non-always on circuit block is provided. When operating under a first operation mode, the non-always on circuit block receives a bias voltage from a power supply unit, so as to perform an image processing operation on an image input signal. When operating under a second operation mode, the non-always on circuit block stops receiving the bias voltage from the power supply unit, so as to stop the image processing operation, and at least a microcontroller of the non-always on circuit block is powered down. One of the always on circuit block and the non-always on circuit block controls the power supply unit to stop supplying the bias voltage to the non-always on circuit block according an event trigger signal, such that the non-always on circuit block enters the second operation mode from the first operation mode.
US09201480B2
An emulation system for determining an arbitrary charging protocol in USB charging ports and for optimally charging portable devices. The emulation system comprises a power switch for powering on the emulation system, a high-speed data switch for transferring data to and from the portable device, a USB receptacle port including data pins (DP and DM), VBUS, and GND. The emulation system further comprises a profile database that stores one or more charging profiles including one or more stimulus-response pairs for each charging profile. The emulation circuit further includes emulation circuitry for detecting stimulus generated by the portable device and for generating responses according to the charging profiles.
US09201474B2
Methods of facilitating cooling an electronic system are provided, which include: providing a heat sink(s) configured to cool an electronic component(s), the heat sink(s) including a coolant-carrying channel for a first coolant, the first coolant providing two-phase cooling to the electronic component(s) and being discharged from the heat sink(s) as coolant exhaust with coolant vapor; providing a node-level condensation module coupled in fluid communication with the heat sink(s), the condensation module receiving first coolant exhaust from the heat sink(s) and being liquid-cooled via a second coolant to condense coolant vapor before return to a rack-level return manifold; automatically controlling at least one of liquid-cooling of the heat sink(s), or liquid-cooling of the condensation module(s); and providing a control valve for adjusting flow rate of the second coolant to the condensation module(s), the control valve being automatically controlled based on a characterization of the coolant vapor in the coolant exhaust.
US09201473B2
A push button assembly disposed on a cover has a push button hole, and includes a holder, a latch, a resilient member, and pushing bracket. The holder forms a chute with the cover. The holder has an abutting plate and a retaining structure. The abutting plate and the retaining structure are respectively located at first and second ends of the chute. The latch is slidably disposed in the chute and faces the push button hole. The retaining structure can prevent the latch from leaving the chute from the second end. The resilient member is disposed in the chute and compressed between the abutting plate and the latch. The pushing bracket is connected to the latch and extends away from the cover. The disclosure further discloses a chassis applying the push button assembly and an operating method of the chassis.
US09201470B2
Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a method for controlling a 3D multi-angle view thereof. Multi-angle views of a 3D image captured by a plurality of cameras are displayed, switched (converted) and selected according to a touch input. And, a selected angle view of the 3D image undergoes a capturing or a recording. While appreciating different-angle views of a 3D image (broadcast image) captured by a plurality of cameras, a desired angle view of the 3D image may be played, recorded and stored with using a user interface. This may enhance a user's convenience.
US09201467B2
A portable terminal is provided with: a display device; a sensor configured to detect the orientation or position of the portable terminal; a data storage unit configured to store data; and a display control unit configured to display on the display device an icon or object that corresponds to the data stored in the data storage unit. The display control unit acquires information regarding the orientation or position of the portable terminal from the sensor and determines a display mode of the icon or object in accordance with a change in the orientation or position of the portable terminal.
US09201455B2
A cover for a portable terminal having a fixing part for fixing the portable terminal and a folder rotating at the fixing part to open and close the portable terminal. The cover includes an input unit and/or a display unit, and a charging unit. The input unit inputs data to the portable terminal. The display unit displays data from the portable terminal. The input unit and display unit are constructed in the folder. The charging unit is constructed in at least one of the fixing part and folder, and supplies power to the portable terminal generated using a solar cell.
US09201449B1
A source-synchronous capture unit on a receiving circuit includes a first first-in-first-out (FIFO) unit operable to synchronize a write enable signal to generate a synchronized write enable signal that is synchronized with a first free running clock associated with a memory external to the receiving circuit. The write enable sign is generated in response to a read operation by the receiving circuit. The source-synchronous capture unit also includes a second FIFO unit operable to store data from the memory in response to the first free running clock and the synchronized write enable signal, and to output the data in response to a second free running clock associated with the receiving circuit and a read enable signal.
US09201442B2
Apparatus and methods for variable capacitor arrays are provided herein. In certain configurations, an apparatus includes a variable capacitor array and a bias voltage generation circuit. The variable capacitor array includes a plurality of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) variable capacitor cells, which include one or more pairs of MOS capacitors implemented in anti-parallel and/or anti-series configurations. In certain implementations, the MOS variable capacitor cells are electrically connected in parallel with one another between a radio frequency (RF) input and an RF output of the variable capacitor array. The bias voltage generation circuit generates bias voltages for biasing the MOS capacitors of the MOS variable capacitor cells.
US09201441B2
The present disclosure provides, in one embodiment, a method of shunting a power supply to reduce output ripple. The method includes determining at least one performance parameter of a DC/DC converter circuit; generating a first reference signal, wherein the first reference signal is based on the performance parameter; comparing the first reference signal to the performance parameter; and generating a shunt current from an input power source to an output node of the DC/DC converter circuit based on, at least in part, the comparison of the performance parameter and the first reference signal.
US09201437B2
A multi-input low dropout regulator includes an amplifier, a first metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor, and a resistor. The amplifier has a plurality of first input terminals, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. Each first input terminal of the plurality of first input terminals is used for receiving an internal voltage. The first metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor has a first terminal for receiving a first voltage, a second terminal coupled to the output terminal of the amplifier, and a third terminal coupled the second input terminal of the amplifier. The resistor has a first terminal coupled to the third terminal of the first metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor, and a second terminal for receiving a second voltage. The third terminal of the first metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor is further used for coupling to a monitor pad, and the monitor pad is used for outputting the internal voltage.
US09201436B2
An adaptive low dropout voltage regulator (LDO) circuit having low power dissipation, and a method of regulating voltage while maintaining low power dissipation. Power dissipation in an LDO circuit is controlled and held to a low value using an LDO circuit that maintains a constant voltage difference between Vin and Vout; that is, ΔV=Vin−Vout is approximately constant rather than linearly variable as a function of Vin. The output voltage Vout essentially tracks the input voltage Vin with an offset equal to ΔV; Vout increases as Vin, but is kept between minimum and maximum voltage output specification limits.
US09201434B2
A system and method are provided for regulating a voltage at a load. A target current is obtained and a number of regulator phases needed to provide the target current to a load is computed based on an efficiency characteristic of the regulator phases. The regulator phases are configured to provide the target current to the load. A multi-phase electric power conversion device comprises at least two regulator phases and a multi-phase control unit. The multi-phase control unit is configured to obtain the target current, compute the number of the regulator phases needed to provide the target current to the load based on the efficiency characteristic of the regulator phases, and configure the regulator phases to provide the target current to the load.
US09201432B2
A system may include a set-top box, associated with a customer premises, configured to receive a television signal and provide the television signal to a television and a home monitoring device configured to obtain a weather forecast for a geographic area associated with the customer premises, determine a thermostat setting for the customer premises based on the obtained weather forecast, and provide a recommendation about the determined thermostat setting to the set-top box. The set-top box may be further configured to present the recommendation about the determined thermostat setting via the television; receive a selection of the determined thermostat setting; and provide an indication of the selection to the home monitoring device; and the home monitoring device may be further configured to apply the determined thermostat setting to a thermostat controller associated with the customer premises, in response to receiving the indication from the set-top box.
US09201427B2
A method is provided for controlling a valve having a spring, a pin, and an actuator for actuating the pin. A current having a specified current profile is applied to the actuator, starting from an initial current value at which the pin is in an initial position in which the pin allows the valve to move between open and closed positions. The current profile includes a section or several consecutive sections, wherein each section defines an initial current value and a final current value, a first time interval having a continuously falling current, and a subsequent second time interval having a continuously rising current. For each section, the final current value is less than the initial current value. After the specified current profile has been passed through, the pin is in a final position in which the pin prevents the valve from moving between open and closed positions.
US09201424B1
Example methods and systems for camera calibration using structure from motion techniques are described herein. Within examples, an autonomous vehicle may receive images from a vehicle camera system and may determine an image-based pose based on the images. To determine an image-bases pose, an autonomous vehicle may perform various processes related to structure from motion, such as image matching and bundle adjustment. In addition, the vehicle may determine a sensor-based pose indicative of a position and orientation of the vehicle through using information provided by vehicle sensors. The vehicle may align the image-based pose with the sensor-based pose to determine any adjustments to the position or orientation that may calibrate the cameras. In an example, a computing device of the vehicle may align the different poses using transforms, rotations, and/or scaling.
US09201421B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing supplemental identification abilities to an autonomous vehicle system. The sensor unit of the vehicle may be configured to receive data indicating an environment of the vehicle, while the control system may be configured to operate the vehicle. The vehicle may also include a processing unit configured to analyze the data indicating the environment to determine at least one object having a detection confidence below a threshold. Based on the at least one object having a detection confidence below a threshold, the processor may communicate at least a subset of the data indicating the environment for further processing. The vehicle is also configured to receive an indication of an object confirmation of the subset of the data. Based on the object confirmation of the subset of the data, the processor may alter the control of the vehicle by the control system.
US09201418B1
A servo motor drive is connected with at least two servo motors and contains: a main control unit, a power unit, and at least one servo drive module. Each servo drive module includes a communication interface unit, an input/output unit, a microprocessing unit, a field-programmable gate array, a current control unit, and a switching unit. The communication interface unit is electrically connected between the main control unit and the microprocessing unit. The input/output unit is electrically connected between the main control unit and the field-programmable gate array. The field-programmable gate array converts data of the at least two servo motors into digital data.
US09201417B2
A method of manufacturing an elongate element (10) using a punching operation assumes a polynomial relationship between punch depth (dpunch) and neutral axis, with the constants being a polynomial function of plastic deformation of the beam. Using finite element analysis, a relationship between the required plastic deformation, the second moment of area of the element and the neutral axis of the element can be derived.
US09201416B2
The present disclosure relates to various assets utilized within manufacturing and process plants for monitoring and control purposes. The asset data modules of the present disclosure include an integral near field communications (NFC) interface configured to provide access to asset data stored within memory integral to the given asset.
US09201407B2
A message is received that indicates a request for an allocation of electric current at a first electric vehicle charging station that is connected to a same main electrical circuit breaker as a second electric vehicle charging station that is presently allocated electric current. Responsive to determining that granting the request would exceed a maximum amount of electric current supported by the main electrical circuit breaker, the electric current allocation of at least the second electric vehicle charging station is adjusted such that the request for allocation can be granted and the request is granted and electric current is allocated to the first electric vehicle charging station.
US09201404B2
An alkali metal cell is disclosed, including a substrate in which is formed an opening which penetrates from one face to the other face thereof; a first transparent substrate bonded to the other face of the substrate; and a second transparent substrate bonded to the one face of the substrate, wherein an alkali metal is sealed into a space surrounded by the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate in the opening of the substrate, wherein, in the substrate and the second transparent substrate, the space is enclosed by a bonding between a first bonding metal layer formed by a first bonding metal and a second bonding metal layer formed by a second bonding metal, and wherein the second bonding metal layer has a bonding temperature higher than that of the first bonding metal layer.
US09201400B2
Method of regulating the frequency of a resonator mechanism around its natural frequency, this mechanism including an elastic return means with a balance spring or a torsion wire, wherein a regulator device acts on this resonator mechanism with a periodic motion, with a regulation frequency which is comprised between 0.9 times and 1.1 times the value of an integer multiple between 2 and 10 of this natural frequency, controlling a periodic variation in the real part and/or the imaginary part of the rigidity of this elastic return means, this method being applied to a timepiece movement comprising a resonator mechanism of this type and including a regulator device arranged to control a periodic variation in the rigidity of this elastic return means.
US09201397B2
A digital holography device (1) which is capable of measuring a subject with high accuracy by correcting intensity unevenness by accurately removing zeroth-order diffracted light, includes: a hologram generating section (26) for generating a first hologram and a second hologram each obtained by extracting components identical in phase shift amount from a polarizer array hologram which is recorded in an image capturing device (7) mounted with a polarizer array (6); a dividing section (3) for dividing the first hologram into a plurality of first regions, and dividing the second hologram into a plurality of second regions; a comparing section (4) for comparing a first average value of an intensity in a first region of the first hologram and a second average value of an intensity in a second region of the second hologram which region corresponds to the first region; and a correcting section (5) for, in a case where the first average value and the second average value differ, correcting at least one of the first average value and the second average value so that the first average value and the second average value are equal.
US09201394B2
An image forming apparatus including an intake opening from which an outside air is drawn, a fixing device disposed above the intake opening to heat a recording medium to fix an image onto the recording medium, and a flow path for the air drawn from the intake opening to direct the air onto devices or components provided near the fixing device inside the image forming apparatus by negative pressure generated by an upward current of hot air generated from the fixing device.
US09201386B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including an image forming unit that forms an image; an opening/closing member that is openable or closeable with respect to a portion of an external surface of the apparatus body; and an absorption member disposed on the opening/closing member at a side facing the image forming unit, the absorption member absorbing sound while facing a portion of the image forming unit in a state where the opening/closing member is closed with respect to the apparatus body.
US09201385B2
An image forming apparatus includes a housing including an opening to house a plurality of latent image bearing members for bearing latent images and latent image forming devices for forming the latent images, and an openably and closable holder to hold the latent image forming devices. The holder with one end thereof pivotally supported by the housing moves the latent image forming devices from an engaged position at which the latent image forming devices form the latent images to a retracted position at which the latent image forming devices are separated from the latent image bearing members as the holder moves to an open position at which the opening of the housing is opened. As the holder is opened, at least one of the latent image forming devices, which is closest to a fulcrum of the holder, is positioned at an end of the housing pivotally supporting the holder.
US09201380B2
A static eliminating device includes a light emitting part and an optical path providing part. The light emitting part emits a static eliminating light to a surface of an image carrier. The optical path providing part includes a reflecting face reflecting the static eliminating light and a radiation end from which the static eliminating light is radiated to the surface of the image carrier. The reflecting face is a matted face.
US09201374B2
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus having an image erasing function to erase an image formed on a recording medium. The apparatus has a heating unit to erase an image, a conveying unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the conveying unit, when the image is erased, and also when a heating temperature of the heating unit is lower than an erasing temperature, to make the recording medium once stand by at a position in the middle of a conveying path of the conveying unit, and then to convey the recording medium to the heating unit.
US09201370B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, endless belt, photosensitive drums, setting unit, contacting/separating mechanism, transmitting mechanism, and coupling members. The photosensitive drums are disposed in confrontation with the endless belt and are arranged in a first direction. Each photosensitive drum has an axis extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The setting unit sets the image forming apparatus to a monochrome mode or color mode. The contacting/separating mechanism controls at least one photosensitive drum to contact or separate from the endless in accordance with the set mode. The transmitting mechanism selectively transmits drive power to photosensitive drums. Each coupling member is selectively coupled to the corresponding photosensitive drum and has a coupling axis extending in the second direction. Each coupling member is uncoupled from the corresponding photosensitive drum when the contacting/separating mechanism controls the corresponding photosensitive drum to separate from the endless belt.
US09201367B2
An image forming apparatus comprising a conveyance path of recording material comprises a door, when opened, the inside of the apparatus is exposed, and an interlock circuit which detects opening/closing state of the door. The detection unit of the door is arranged on the conveyance path. At the arranged position, the image forming apparatus comprises a registration sensor for detecting presence and absence of the recording material and delivery sensor. The CPU controls pressure to the recording material S passing the fixing nip portion formed by a pair of rollers arranged on the conveyance path. Also, the CPU decides whether the recording material exists at the fixing nip portion based on the respective detection result from the registration sensor and the delivery sensor.
US09201355B2
An image heating apparatus includes: an endless belt configured to heat an image on a sheet at a nip; a heating mechanism configured to heat the endless belt; a fan configured to send air toward a predetermined region of the endless belt; a heat pipe configured to move heat in a direction of uniformizing a temperature distribution of the endless belt with respect to a widthwise direction of the endless belt; and a controller configured to operate the fan such that the air flow rate is larger during heating of the image on a predetermined sheet providing an overlapping positional relationship with the predetermined region, than the air flow rate during the heating of the image on a sheet providing a non-overlapping positional relationship with the predetermined region.
US09201351B2
An image forming apparatus includes a contact-separation mechanism configured to change over from a fully separated position in which an intermediate transfer member is separated from first and second image bearing members to a partly contacted position in which the intermediate transfer member is separated from the first image bearing member in contact with the second image bearing member to a fully contacted position in which the intermediate transfer member is in contact with the first and the second image bearing members; and a control portion configured to rotationally drive the first image bearing member when the contact-separation mechanism passes through the fully contacted position in association with an image formation for forming a toner image by only the second image bearing member in the partly contacted position.
US09201348B2
A developer discharge auxiliary tool, including a supporting section which supports a developing unit, that is provided with a discharge port to discharge developer contained therein, at a predetermined height with the discharge port down in a state in which the discharge port is located on a lateral or lower side of the developing unit.
US09201341B2
A developer container includes: a container body that stores a developer and includes a filling port for the developer; and a container terminal that is attachable to and detachable from the container body. The container body is provided with an identifier that engages with the container terminal and is caused to change own form that can be identified from an outside, by an external force that is applied to detach the container terminal from the container body. The container body is provided with a flow preparation part that separates an inside and outside of the container body before changing the form of the identifier and that allows the air to flow between the inside and outside of the container body after changing the form of the identifier.
US09201339B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing device, a magnetic permeability detecting part and a developer amount measuring part. The developing device develops an image carrier by a contained developer. The magnetic permeability detecting part detects magnetic permeability of the developer in the developing device. The developer amount measuring part calculates a duty ratio of the magnetic permeability of the developer in the developing device on the basis of detected result of the magnetic permeability detecting part and measures a developer amount in the developing device on the basis of the duty ratio.
US09201337B2
A developing roller in which the decay rate of the surface potential is high and in which an image failure caused by the accumulation of electric charge does not occur is provided. The developing roller 10 includes a shaft 1, an elastic layer 2 supported on the outer periphery of the shaft, and at least one coating layer 3, 4 formed on the outer periphery of the elastic layer. The volume resistivity of a layer on the inner periphery side of the elastic layer and the coating layer is smaller than the volume resistivity of a layer on the outer periphery side, and the difference between the volume resistivities of the elastic layer and the coating layer positioned on the outermost periphery side is in the range of 2.8 to 4.3 (Log Ωcm).
US09201333B2
Provided is a heat-shrinkable resin tube for forming a resin layer on a rotary member for an image forming part, such as a charging roller, a developing roller, or a transfer roller, a rotary member for support, or a rotary member for paper discharge in an image forming apparatus, in which a maximum depth of at least one linear scratch on a surface of the heat-shrinkable resin tube is 0.8 μm or less. A maximum length of the at least one linear scratch may be 1 mm or less, the resin tube may have a thickness of 100 μm or less, and the at least one linear scratch may extend in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the resin tube or in a direction tilted by 20° or less with respect to the axial direction.
US09201331B2
An image forming apparatus includes: at least one first image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image thereon; an image writing unit; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; a first transfer unit provided opposite to the at least one first image carrier; a second transfer unit configured to transfer the subject image to a transfer material; a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern image; a control unit configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image based on a result from the detection of the test pattern image, wherein the test pattern image is provided on the second image carrier at an area being out of the image forming area and being at the same range as the subject image in a scanning direction.
US09201330B2
A developer of the present disclosure contains: toner particles each containing a binder resin and a magnetic powder; cross-linked polyester resin particles having a particle size of 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less; and an external additive. The toner particles and the cross-linked polyester resin particles are externally treated with the external additive in the same manner.
US09201322B2
A positively chargeable toner for electrostatic image development according to the present disclosure is formed by aggregating at least binder resin-containing fine particles and colorant-containing fine particles in an aqueous medium in the presence of a dispersing agent and a metal ion to form fine particle aggregates and heating the fine particle aggregates to coalesce components in the fine particle aggregates. The binder resin used is a (meth)acrylic resin or styrene-(meth)acrylic resin having a certain quaternary ammonium group. The hydrophobicity (methanol wettability) is adjusted to a certain range.
US09201310B2
The overlay error of a target in a scribelane is measured. The overlay error of the required feature in the chip area may differ from this due to, for example, different responses to the exposure process. A model is used to simulate these differences and thus a more accurate measurement of the overlay error of the feature determined.
US09201308B2
The present invention relates to water-rich formulations and the method using same, to remove bulk photoresists, post-etched and post-ashed residues, residues from Al back-end-of-the-line interconnect structures, as well as contaminations. The formulation comprises: hydroxylamine; corrosion inhibitor containing a mixture of alkyl dihydroxybenzene and hydroxyquinoline; an alkanolamine, a water-soluble solvent or the combination of the two; and at least 50% by weight of water.
US09201304B2
A pattern is formed by coating a resist composition comprising a resin comprising recurring units having an acid labile group, a photoacid generator, and a first organic solvent onto a processable substrate, prebaking, exposing, PEB, and developing in an organic solvent developer to form a negative pattern; heating the negative pattern to render it resistant to a second organic solvent; coating a solution containing Si, Ti, Zr, Hf, and/or Al and the second organic solvent thereon, prebaking, and dry etching to effect image reversal for converting the negative pattern into a positive pattern.
US09201300B2
An additive polymer comprising recurring units derived from a fluorosulfonamide-substituted styrene and recurring units derived from a stilbene, styrylnaphthalene, dinaphthylethylene, acenaphthylene, indene, benzofuran, or benzothiophene derivative is added to a polymer capable of increasing alkali solubility under the action of acid to formulate a resist composition. The resist composition can minimize outgassing from a resist film during the EUV lithography and form a resist film having a hydrophilic surface sufficient to prevent formation of blob defects on the film after development.
US09201294B2
A laser module includes a first laser light source, a second laser light source, and a third laser light source. Laser beams of the laser light sources are combinable into an overall laser beam. The laser beam of the first laser light source and the laser beam of the second laser light source have a first polarization, and the laser beam of the third laser light source has a second polarization. The laser beams of the first and the third laser light sources are coupled into the overall laser beam with the aid of mirror devices. The laser beam of the second laser light source is split, the polarization of the laser beam of the second laser light source being changed from the first polarization to the second polarization in a splitting path. The laser beam of the second laser light source having the second polarization is coupled into the overall laser beam via the splitting path, and the laser beam of the second laser light source having the first polarization is coupled into the overall laser beam via a main path.
US09201276B2
An active matrix liquid crystal display having an array of pixels is provided. The display includes a thin film transistor (TFT) for each pixel. The TFT has a gate electrode, a source electrode overlapping with a first area of the gate electrode, and a drain electrode overlapping with a second area with the gate electrode. The display also includes a color filter layer disposed over the TFT. The color filter layer has a first via hole to expose a portion of the drain electrode. The display further includes a metal layer disposed over the color filter layer and covering the gate electrode. The metal layer is configured to connect to the drain electrode through the first via hole. The display also includes an organic insulator layer disposed over the metal layer. The organic insulator layer has a second via hole to expose a first portion of the metal layer and a third via hole to expose a second portion of the metal layer.
US09201274B2
A vertical alignment liquid crystal display device (VA-LCD) includes a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel unit includes a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, and a liquid crystal capacitor having a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The common electrode is applied with a common voltage, a first gray voltage is applied to the pixel electrode through a first TFT, and a second gray voltage is applied to the pixel electrode through a second TFT different from the first gray voltage, such that liquid crystal capacitor maintains two different gray voltages in a display frame time of the VA-LCD.
US09201273B2
In the step of curing a resin for bonding a TFT substrate and a counter substrate each having an alignment film that has been optically aligned by using UV-light, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light can be prevented without using a light shielding mask. A UV-light absorption layer is formed between each black matrix on the counter substrate. The TFT and counter substrates are sealed at their periphery by a resin that is cured by UV-light radiated from the counter substrate side. Since the absorption layer has a high absorbability to UV-light at a wavelength of 300 nm or less that degrades the alignment film, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light for curing the resin can be prevented. Thus, provision of a light shielding mask for shielding the UV-light for the display region can be saved.
US09201272B1
A liquid crystal display may be manufactured by forming a first alignment layer on a first base substrate, forming a second alignment layer on a second base substrate, disposing liquid crystal on the first alignment layer or the second alignment layer, and combining the first base substrate and the second base substrate with each other. At least one of the first and second alignment layers may be formed by forming an alignment solution including an alignment agent and a cross-linking agent on the first or second base substrate. The alignment solution is cured at a first temperature to form an alignment layer. The base substrate is exposed to light or an electron beam to align the alignment layer. The alignment layer is baked at a second temperature. The first temperature is lower than a cross-linking reaction temperature of the cross-linking agent.
US09201270B2
A directional backlight is disclosed. The directional backlight has a directional backplane that has a plurality of directional pixels to scatter a plurality of input planar lightbeams into a plurality of directional lightbeams. Each directional lightbeam has a direction and angular spread controlled by characteristics of a directional pixel in the plurality of directional pixels. A modulation layer having a plurality of modulators modulates the plurality of directional lightbeams. The directional backlight can be used to generate a 3D image with multiple views by specifying the characteristics of the directional pixels in the directional backplane.
US09201254B2
A stereoscopic image display and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display including a first substrate and a second substrate adhered to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed, black matrices formed between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate, and black stripes formed between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate to correspond to the black matrices.
US09201253B2
A display device (100A) includes a first substrate (11) and second substrate (41) that are placed so as to face each other; active color filter layers (32) which are placed between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (41), which have memory properties, and which become in a colored state or an uncolored state depending on the voltage applied thereto; and a light-modulating layer (17) for controlling the intensity or degree of scattering of light incident on the active color filter layers (32) or the intensity or degree of scattering of light passing through the active color filter layers (32).
US09201252B2
A cleaning tool is configured to remove debris from a glass surface. The cleaning tool includes an upper arm mechanically coupled to an upper pad. A lower arm is rotationally coupled to the upper arm and mechanically coupled to a lower pad. The upper pad and the lower pad are configured to clean both sides of the glass surface at once.
US09201248B2
An apparatus for adjusting a position of an optical element is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a support; a movement unit for supporting an optical element and being movable relative to the support; a magnet unit; a coil unit for generating a magnetic force for moving the movement unit when an electrical signal is applied; a sensor unit disposed in a position corresponding to the magnet unit for detecting a relative position of the movement unit with respect to the support; a locking unit for limiting or allowing movement of the movement unit; and a controlling unit connected to the coil unit for controlling the coil unit and determining whether the movement unit is in a state where movement of the movement unit is limited by the locking unit based on a signal output from the sensor unit.
US09201240B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for fiber positioning in wide-field astronomy. In one form the method and system of the present invention relate to anchoring fiber end points adjacent or against the field plate of a telescope. In one embodiment the positioning system for anchoring a fiber end point at a location on a telescope field plate collocated with a telescope focal plane, the positioning system comprising a piezoelectric positioning device for positioning the fiber end point, the positioning device comprising a chamber having an opening, the opening lying against the field plate in use defining a substantially enclosed volume inside the chamber, a pump for reducing pressure inside the enclosed volume; and a path connecting the pump and the enclosed volume so that, in use, the pump effects a reduction in pressure in the chamber thereby anchoring the fiber end point on the field plate.
US09201235B2
An electrowetting display device includes a plurality of pixels each including an array substrate, an opposite substrate, and an electrowetting layer. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a barrier wall defining a pixel area, a partition wall partitioning the pixel area into a plurality of sub-pixel areas, a hydrophobic layer disposed in the sub-pixel areas, and an electronic device controlling the electrowetting layer.
US09201229B2
A photo-sensor type touch device includes a screen, two light modules, a sensor, and a calculating unit. The screen has a displaying region to show images thereon. The light module emits linear invisible light to the displaying region. The invisible light is substantially perpendicular to a normal of the displaying region. The sensor senses a change of the invisible light on the displaying region when an object approaches the displaying region, and sends a signal out. The calculating unit is electrically connected to the sensor to receive the signal and calculate the signal to obtain a location of the object on the displaying region.
US09201214B2
An imaging lens includes negative first lens having a concave image-side surface, positive second lens having a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region, an aperture stop, and positive third lens having a convex image-side surface in the paraxial region, which are arranged in this order from an object side. The Abbe numbers of materials constituting the first lens and the third lens for d-line are greater than or equal to 40. The Abbe number of a material constituting the second lens for d-line is less than or equal to 40. When the focal length of an entire system is f, and the center thickness of the second lens is D3, and the focal length of the first lens is f1, the following formulas (1′) and (2) are satisfied: 1.7
US09201213B2
The imaging lens substantially consists of a first lens group, a stop, a positive second lens group which is a focusing group, and a third lens group in this order from the object side. The first lens group substantially consists of a positive first sub lens group composed of a negative meniscus lens, a positive meniscus lens, and a positive lens; and a second sub lens group including a negative lens and a cemented lens, in this order from the object side. The second lens group substantially consists of a positive single lens or a cemented lens. The third lens group substantially consists of a cemented lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens in this order from the object side.
US09201203B2
There is provided a photoelectric composite substrate including: a wiring substrate comprising a first region and a second region; an optical waveguide disposed on the first region of the wiring substrate and including: a first cladding layer on the wiring substrate; a core layer on the first cladding layer; a second cladding layer on the core layer; a wiring layer on the second region of the wiring substrate; and an insulating layer having an opening portion on the wiring layer such that the wiring layer is exposed through the opening portion, wherein the insulating layer is made of the same material as that of the core layer.
US09201190B2
A display device includes a display panel, a light guide plate (LGP), a light source, and a positioning component. The LGP is disposed on a display surface of the display panel and has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other, a light-incident surface, a first light-guiding block, and a second light-guiding block. A display area of the display panel corresponds to the first light-guiding block. The second light-guiding block extends outside the display area and has at least one recess portion. The recess portion is located on at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface and extends to the light-incident surface. The light source is disposed beside the light-incident surface. The positioning component is disposed on the second light-guiding block and located in the recess portion. Besides, the positioning component extends outside the recess portion and fixes the location of the light source.
US09201187B2
A light-emitting device used in a liquid crystal display device is provided with a planar illuminator that focuses emitted light on a predetermined light focus point, and an optical deflector that two dimensionally deflects the light from the planar illuminator. The planar illuminator switches an emission direction of the light to enable alternate switching between a first light focus state in which the predetermined light focus point is the position of a right eye of a viewer and a second light focus state in which the predetermined light focus point is the position of a left eye of the viewer. The optical deflector can modulate each of the predetermined light focus point in the first light focus state and the predetermined light focus point in the second light focus state according to movement of the viewer.
US09201183B2
An optical film, a circular polarizing plate, and a display device are provided. The optical film may exhibit a desired phase retardation property in a wide wavelength range even when it is relatively thin. The optical film may exhibit the ¼ wavelength phase retardation property. The optical film may be manufactured by a simple process. The optical film may be used in LCDs such as a reflective LCD, or OLEDs.
US09201175B2
Liquid lens cells are used in a variable power optical system. In one embodiment, the variable power optical system includes three liquid lens cell groups, wherein at least two of the lens cell groups are configured to provide a zoom function and at least one of the lens cell groups is configured to control an incident angle of light rays on an image surface.
US09201165B2
A detection circuit is provided. A detection signal corresponding to an equivalent capacitance value of a micro-electro-mechanical system is generated by an oscillator, and the equivalent capacitance value of the micro-electro-mechanical system varies with a location of the micro-electro-mechanical system.
US09201161B2
An optical detection system for monitoring a pipeline. The optical detection system includes a host node in the vicinity of, or remote from, a pipeline to be monitored. The optical detection system includes (a) an optical source for generating optical signals, and (b) an optical receiver. The optical detection system also includes a plurality of fiber optic sensors local to the pipeline for converting at least one of vibrational and acoustical energy to optical intensity information, each of the fiber optic sensors having: (1) at least one length of optical fiber configured to sense at least one of vibrational and acoustical energy; (2) a reflector at an end of the at least one length of optical fiber; and (3) a field node for receiving optical signals from the host node, the field node transmitting optical signals along the at least one length of optical fiber, receiving optical signals back from the at least one length of optical fiber, and transmitting optical signals to the optical receiver of the host node.
US09201158B2
Estimating and displaying information about the size of molecules within a substance from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) maps and/or logs. Methods include utilizing a relationship between the molecular size (e.g., mean chain length), and either a moment of diffusion or a relaxation distribution, to create a scale on a two-dimensional map. In one case, applying the relationship between the molecular size, and either a moment of diffusion or a relaxation distribution, to one-dimensional diffusion or relaxation distributions for the purpose of estimating the mean chain length of molecules within the substance. In another case, a method includes determining mean chain lengths of molecules within a substance and providing a one-dimensional NMR log showing the mean chain lengths at a plurality of depths. In some cases, the NMR log includes actuatable regions for examining two-dimensional NMR maps or chain length distributions of the substance corresponding with distinct depths of the substance.
US09201157B2
There is provided a system and method for monitoring of fractured wells and conventional wells to detect leaks. The method comprises interrogating a plurality of resonant tags using a modulated RF signal transmitted from an interrogator, wherein the plurality of resonant tags are dispersed within a channel.
US09201156B2
A system, method and device for interrogating a downhole environment in a borehole beneath a surface includes a source of electromagnetic energy, operable to transmit an electromagnetic signal in the borehole, a sensor module, including a passive resonating circuit including a crystal oscillator having a resonant frequency that varies with changes in the condition in the downhole environment to reflect the electromagnetic signal and to modulate the electromagnetic signal in response to a condition in the downhole environment in the borehole and a detector positionable to receive the reflected modulated electromagnetic signal. Embodiments include a power monitor and circuitry configured and arranged to measure an input frequency at a time when an inflection in the applied power is observed.
US09201141B1
A radar tracking method and system is disclosed that improves radar resource utilization and increases Doppler resolution. The method includes tracking a primary target and a secondary target by directing a radar transmit signal main lobe at a primary target, the radar transmit signal main lobe having associated radar transmit signal side lobes, and receiving a main lobe radar return signal and side lobe radar return signals. A secondary target proximate to a first side lobe radar transmit signal is identified. Then, the primary target is tracked using the radar transmit signal main lobe and the main lobe radar return signal, and the secondary target is tracked using the first side lobe radar transmit signal proximate the secondary target and an independent side lobe return beam formed to align with the secondary target.
US09201139B2
According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which comprises an ultrasonic transmission/reception unit configured to transmit ultrasonic waves to a scan area including a predetermined region throughout an analysis period, receive reflected waves from the scan area, and acquire ultrasonic data associated with the scan area for each phase in the analysis period, an analysis unit configured to generate a luminance time curve associated with at least one analysis area included in the scan area by using the ultrasonic data in each phase in the analysis period and analyze a stagnant time of the contrast medium associated with at least one analysis area based on the generated luminance time curve, an image generation unit configured to generate a stagnant time image for each phase in the analysis period, with different hues being assigned to at least one analysis area in accordance with the stagnant times.
US09201138B2
A photon detector is disclosed that includes, in addition to an immobilizable photon-sensitive element, a photon transmission element. The photon detector is configured such that it can vary photon intensities impacting upon the photon-sensitive element and transmitted by the photon transmission element, for example, by modifying an absorption property or a defocusing property of the photon transmission element. Also, the immobile photon-sensitive element, which can be, for example a SPAD (Single Photon Avalanche Diode), always operates close to the optimal operating range and below an immobilization range. A distancing device that includes this type of photo detector is also disclosed.
US09201132B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture make Geolocation of a source transmitter more difficult or impossible. Scatterers common to a source transmitter and an intended receiver are identified using a variety of techniques, such as iterative time reversal (ITR) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of a scatter matrix. The source transmitter then uses time reversal and knowledge of the signatures of the scatterers to focus its transmissions on one or more of the scatterers, instead of the intended receiver. The source transmitter may have multiple antennas or antenna elements. The source transmitter and/or the intended receiver may include antenna elements with Near-Field Scatterers to enable spatial focusing below the diffraction limit at the frequencies of interest. The source transmitter may be a plurality of ad hoc nodes cooperating with each other.
US09201129B2
A magnetic resonance imaging diagnostic apparatus includes a generating unit which generates a slice gradient magnetic field, a phase-encode gradient magnetic field and a read-out gradient magnetic field that extend in a slice axis, a phase-encode axis and a read-out axis, respectively, a setting unit which sets a dephase amount for weighting a signal-level decrease resulting from flows in the arteries and veins present in a region of interest of a subject, with respect to at least one axis selected form the slice axis, phase-encode axis and read-out axes, and a control unit which controls the generating unit by using a pulse sequence for a gradient echo system, which includes a dephase gradient-magnetic-field pulse that corresponds to the dephase amount set by the setting unit for the at least one axis.
US09201119B2
A system for estimating battery state of charge (SoC) includes evaluating a battery model to produce an estimated battery voltage using a previously produced SoC. Current and voltage measurements are combined with the estimated battery voltage to produce a present battery SoC. The battery model may be updated by taking battery measurements when certain conditions occur.
US09201116B1
A method of generating test patterns for testing a semiconductor processor for small delay defects (SDD) includes modifying interconnect delay values of interconnect paths by introducing values corresponding to (i) set-up and clock to Q delays of elements in the paths and (ii) latencies of associated clock networks. Critical nodes are selected and test patterns targeting the selected critical nodes are generated using timing slack resulting from the modified interconnect delays. A first selection of nodes that are critical in at-speed scan mode testing and a second selection of nodes that are critical in functional mode testing are made by static timing analysis (STA). Only the nodes featuring in both the first and second selections are selected for targeting small delay defects using at-speed scan test patterns.
US09201112B2
A method for atom probe tomography (APT) sample preparation from a three-dimensional (3D) field effect transistor device formed within a semiconductor structure is provided. The method may include measuring a capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristic for the 3D field effect transistor device and identifying, based on the measured capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristic, a Fin structure corresponding to the 3D field effect transistor device. The identified Fin structure is detached from the 3D field effect transistor device using a nanomanipulator probe tip. The detached Fin is then welded to the nanomanipulator probe tip using an incident focused ion beam having a voltage of less than about 1000 eV. The incident focused ion beam having a voltage of less than about 1000 eV is applied to a tip of the Fin that is welded to the nanomanipulator probe tip. The tip of the Fin may then be sharpened by the focused ion beam.
US09201101B2
A current sensor includes a first current path, a second current path disposed parallel to the first current path, and a pair of first magnetic sensors. The first current path has a pair of main surfaces and includes a plate-shaped first region. The second current path has a pair of main surfaces and includes a plate-shaped second region. The first magnetic sensors are arranged on the respective main surfaces in the first region such that sensing axes of the first magnetic sensors are parallel to the respective main surfaces in the first region. The first magnetic sensors are configured to sense a magnetic field generated by a target current flowing through the first region. The second region is placed such that the main surfaces in the second region are perpendicular to the sensing axes of the first magnetic sensors.
US09201097B1
Techniques for electrically testing an integrated circuit (IC) die with a partially completed and validated module (module) include providing an IC die to be tested on an IC package substrate of a validated test module, the positioned IC die and the module forming a multi-die flip-chip test assembly, and without attaching the interconnection bumps of the IC die to the package pads of the module, electrically testing the multi-die flip-chip test assembly. The method may further involve, responsive to the multi-die flip-chip test assembly passing electrical testing positioning the IC die on a production IC package substrate and attaching the IC die to the production IC package substrate. Corresponding apparatus and systems can also be used to perform the technique.
US09201095B2
In a structure of a bridging electrode, the structure of a bridging electrode applied to a capacitive touchpad, the structure comprising: a substrate; a plurality of first electrode blocks disposed on the substrate and electrically connected together in series through a first wire; a plurality of second electrode blocks disposed on the substrate and respectively disposed on two sides of the first wire; and a bridging insulation unit, which is perpendicular to and disposed on the first wire and having a bridging groove; wherein the second electrode blocks connecting electrically together in series through the bridging insulation unit having a second wire.
US09201090B2
A detection circuit is provided with a differential capacitive sensor and with an interface circuit having a first sense input and a second sense input, electrically connected to the differential capacitive sensor. Provided in the interface circuit are: a sense amplifier connected at input to the first sense input and to the second sense input and supplying an output signal related to a capacitive unbalancing of the differential capacitive sensor; and a common-mode control circuit, connected to the first sense input and to the second sense input and configured to control a common-mode electrical quantity present on the first sense input and on the second sense input. The common-mode control circuit is of a totally passive type and is provided with a capacitive circuit, which is substantially identical to an equivalent electrical circuit of the differential capacitive sensor and is driven with a driving signal in phase opposition with respect to a read signal supplied to the differential capacitive sensor.
US09201088B2
A system comprises a plurality of fans, wherein each of the fans is configurable to run at a unique fan speed that is different from fan speeds of other fans from the plurality of fans. A plurality of variable-positioned devices, capable of being positioned at various locations within the system, are physically positioned such that airflow from one of the plurality of fans strikes a particular variable-positioned device. A plurality of anemometers, each of which is connected to a particular variable-positioned device, measure airflow across the variable-positioned devices. A system controller, which contains location information that identifies a physical position within the system of each of the plurality of fans, utilizes airflow readings from each of the anemometers to identify a physical location of each of the plurality of variable-positioned devices by matching physical locations of the fans to measured airflow across the variable-positioned devices.
US09201077B2
Compositions, methods and kits for determining progesterone levels in mares are disclosed.
US09201062B2
A method of predicting cell toxicity of a compound includes imaging cells positioned within a plurality of containers to obtain imaged cellular targets, each container being treated with a different concentration of the compound, the imaging being performed using a quantitative high-content cell imaging system; quantitatively measuring the imaged cellular targets to detect changes in multiple cellular targets associated with cytotoxicity of the compound; and analyzing measurements obtained from the measured imaged cellular targets over a range of compound concentrations to determine the toxicity of the compound.
US09201059B2
The invention relates to a microfluidic system comprising a microfluidic device having a first and a second opposite surfaces and an optical detector, the microfluidic device comprises a flow channel with a detection channel section having a length of at least about 1 mm, the microfluidic device comprises at least one aperture section comprising at least a part of said detection channel section and a transparent window into said detection channel section, the optical detector is arranged to determine at least one optical property of said aperture section as a function of time. The flow channel may have capillary dimensions and/or it may wholly or fully be arranged to drive a fluid flow by applying external forces. The microfluid device may be used to determine various properties of a sample fluid, for example it may be used to determine a samples coagulation properties and/or reactions of one or more components in a fluid sample as a function of time.
US09201052B2
A method of performing dissolution analysis on a tablet, the method comprising: irradiating a tablet with radiation having at least one frequency in the range from 40 GHz to 100 THz; detecting radiation which has been transmitted through or reflected by the tablet; determining a parameter from the detected radiation indicative of the density of a coating layer of the tablet; and determining information about the dissolution characteristics of the tablet from said parameter.
US09201050B2
A method for improving the chromatographic detection limit for an analyte including a) producing a chromatogram with a peak of the analyte, b) calculating a regression straight line for a baseline from measured values of a section without a peak in the chromatogram, c) calculating a regression function from measured values of the peak of the analyte, d) subtracting the regression function from the chromatogram, e) calculating a regression polynomial for the baseline from the values of the chromatogram which have been changed in step d), f) calculating a further regression function from the measured values of the peak in the produced chromatogram, g) calculating a peak area between the regression polynomial and the further regression function, h) repetition of step d) with the further regression function instead of the regression function and of steps e), f) and g), until the calculated peak area changes by less than a predetermined amount.
US09201031B2
A system for detecting the presence of ice crystals in a cloud comprising two thin walled semicylinder-shaped sensors, one having a concave inner surface and oriented longitudinally in a leading edge of an airfoil and the other having a convex outer surface being oriented longitudinally in the leading edge of the airfoil so that cloud water flows towards and into contact with the convex outer surface; a temperature controlling arrangement for heating the two sensors and maintaining them at a substantially constant temperature; and a comparison arrangement for finding a difference between (i) a power to maintain the temperature of the first sensor at its substantially constant temperature (ii) a power to maintain the temperature of the second sensor at its substantially constant temperature; and comparing the difference of the powers to a threshold value for evidencing the presence or predetermined amount of ice in the cloud water.
US09201030B2
A method to determine a distribution profile of an element in a film. The method comprises exciting an electron energy of an element deposited in a first film, obtaining a first spectrum associating with the electron energy, and removing a background spectrum from the first spectrum. Removing the background value generates a processed spectrum. The method further includes matching the processed spectrum to a simulated spectrum with a known simulated distribution profile for the element in a film comparable to the first film. A distribution profile is obtained for the element in the first film based on the matching of the processed spectrum to a simulated spectrum selected from the set of simulated spectra.
US09201023B2
This system for measuring the propagation of a zone of separation between a first portion and a second portion of at least one substrate includes: a module for emitting at least two incident beams each of which illuminates a separate point on the substrate, the at least two incident beams being able to pass through the first portion and the zone of separation and meet the second portion in such a way that each of them generates at least one first emergent beam Fe originating from the interface between the first portion and the zone of separation, and at least one second emergent beam originating from the interface between the zone of separation and the second portion; a detecting module for detecting light intensity values resulting from interference between the first and second emergent beams; and a computer for determining the conditions of the propagation of the zone of separation.
US09201016B2
A device for the contactless and nondestructive testing of a surface by measuring the infrared radiation thereof has one or more incoherent electromagnetic radiation sources (1) and a detector (14) arranged on a detection axis (9), wherein the radiation sources (1) are arranged at a radial distance from the detection axis (9), at a distance from a testing area (7). In this arrangement, a pulsed or intensity-modulated excitation radiation (2) can be generated by these radiation sources (1) and applied to the surface (6) to be tested in the testing area (7) at an inclination to the detection axis (9) in the testing area (7). The detection radiation emitted by a measuring area (8) of the surface (6) to be tested can be fed to the detector (14), wherein the detector (14) is arranged on the detection axis (9) further away spatially from the testing area (7) than the radiation sources (1). Furthermore, an imaging device (10, 12) is provided on the detection axis (9) for creating an image of the testing area (7) on the measuring area of the detector (14) that is arranged between the radiation sources (1).
US09201015B2
An approach is provided in which a pH-indicating compound is incorporated in a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a number of layers with the pH-sensitive indicator being incorporated in one of the layers. Conductive pathways are formed from a conductive sheet laminated onto an outer surface of the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is exposed to a pH-activating solution. Plated-through hole defects in the printed circuit board are identified by detecting a color formation at a surface location of the printed circuit board that corresponds to the plated-through hole defect. Another approach is also provided where a pH-activating compound is incorporated in one of the layers of the printed circuit board which is then exposed to a pH-indicating solution to produce the color formation that identifies the location of the plated-through hole defect.
US09201012B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for analyte sensors including methods for producing and using the analyte sensors, methods of detecting and/or measuring analyte activity, methods for characterizing analyte cellular activity, methods of detecting pH change in a system, method of controlling the concentration of an analyte in a system, fusion proteins, polynucleotides, and vectors corresponding to the analyte sensors, kits, and the like.
US09201011B2
A method for high-resolution luminescence microscopy of a sample marked with marking molecules that can be activated to excite particular luminescent radiation, including: repeated activation of a subset of the marking molecules to emit luminescent radiation; repeated imaging of the sample along a depth direction and with a predetermined optical resolution; and producing images from the repeated imaging. Locations of the marking molecules are determined with a spatial resolution that is increased above the predetermined optical resolution. Activation of the marking molecules can be through radiation introduced into multiple regions, each extending along a plane substantially perpendicular to the depth direction. The regions can be arranged so that the regions are behind one another and overlap only partially. Separate images of the sample may be recorded for activation in each of the regions in order to obtain depth information relating to the marking molecules from the separate images.
US09201004B2
An image processing apparatus capable of acquiring OCT tomographic images that can be captured by an OCT imaging apparatus configured to scan a target to be captured with low-coherence light along a predetermined main scanning line. The image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of OCT tomographic images of the target to be captured along a plurality of main scanning lines that are different in direction, and a display control unit configured to display the plurality of OCT tomographic images on a display screen using a layout that can express differences in the direction of each main scanning line so as to reflect a relative relationship between respective main scanning line directions with respect to the target to be captured in respective OCT tomographic images.
US09201002B2
Gas within a ventilation circuit (12) is analyzed by a spectrometer included in gas measurement module (16) that is inserted into the respiratory circuit. The gas measurement module includes an infrared source and a movable filter member comprising at least two filter elements. The optical path length of the spectrometer is reduced. This includes removing optical components configured to collimate or focus electromagnetic radiation within the spectrometer. However, path length of the spectrometer is reduced to the point that other enhancements associated with path length reduction outweigh losses to precision and/or accuracy caused by beam expansion in the spectrometer.
US09201001B2
Dendrimer-hydrazides are coupled to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for use in the visual detection of the presence of low levels of fluoride in a sample. The dendrimers can have a phenyl core, a first generation of aralkyl ethers, and an optional second generation of aralkyl ethers. The compounds form gels with solvents. In the presence of fluoride ion, the gels undergo color changes and/or gel to liquid phase change.
US09200999B2
A system and method of characterizing a color variation of a surface includes a device having a light source and a plurality of sensors positioned at respective viewing angles. An algorithm is stored on and executable by a controller to cause the controller to direct a beam of light at the measurement location with the light source and measure the light leaving the measurement location with the sensors at a plurality of azimuth angles to obtain respective measured color values. The controller is configured to define a color vector function F(θ, φ) to represent the color variation of the surface. The controller is configured to determine the color vector function F(θ, φ) based at least partially on the respective measured color values. The system allows for a representation of color space of a surface at any azimuth and viewing angle.
US09200996B2
Disclosed is a method for estimating porous-media longitudinal dispersion and adsorption coefficients. According to various embodiments of the invention, a method for estimating porous-media longitudinal dispersion coefficients is provided, which includes introducing a pure phase component though a porous medium, and introducing a component having a same phase as the pure phase component through the porous medium. The component includes a viscosifying agent having a non-linear viscosity-concentration dependence. The method further includes measuring, using a permeability analyzer, a pressure drop across the porous medium after each introduction at a plurality of intervals over a period of time. Further, the method includes determining, using the measured pressure drops, a pressure transition, and analyzing the pressure transition across the porous medium to determine a dispersion coefficient for the porous medium.
US09200994B2
A device for indirectly sensing tension of a chain in a railroad handbrake includes an elongated bore formed through a holding pawl of the handbrake, sensor target attached to the holding pawl and a sensor mounted in close proximity to an upper end of the housing so as to sense the sensor target. The ratchet wheel of the handbrake positions the sensor target for operative sensing alignment with the sensor during at least partial handbrake application. A biasing member moves the sensor target away from the operative sensing alignment during handbrake release.
US09200991B2
A sorptive extraction layer for immobilized liquid extraction of target molecules preferably from biological samples is disclosed. The sorptive extraction layer is mainly composed of ethylene-acrylate-copolymer. Preferably, microplate wells are at least partially coated with such a sorptive extraction layer. There is also disclosed a method of extracting target molecules preferably from biological samples. According to this method, immobilized liquid extraction is carried out with a sorptive extraction layer which is mainly composed of ethylene-acrylate-copolymer.
US09200990B2
A tissue processing system includes a plurality of processing stations. Each processing station includes a plurality of tissue receiving areas that are each configured to accommodate a tissue sample as well as physically isolate that tissue sample from other tissue samples at other receiving areas of the same processing station. Each processing station is configured to separately and individually process the tissue sample at each receiving area to either reduce or eliminate any potential for cross-contamination between the tissue samples undergoing processing at the same processing station. For each receiving area of each processing station, the system is configured to immerse a tissue sample at a particular receiving area in processing fluid for a pre-determined time according to a pre-defined protocol that is based upon parameters of that tissue sample.
US09200986B1
A system for insertion of a probe into a pressurized fluid stream by means of a threaded body formed to engage an elastomeric seal employed to form a fluid barrier thereabout. The present invention contemplates a system which effectively lessens resonance vibration effects and associated damage resulting there from in fluid sampling probes operating in high velocity fluid streams and the like, utilizing mechanical dampening properties associated with its seal(s) and insert(s), forming non-rigid attachment to support the length of the probe in a manner which facilitates resonance absorption and dampening, so as to lessen associated vibration/oscillation in the system. The threaded body forms, in effect, helical strakes to facilitate aerodynamic stabilization and reduce oscillations/vibration, as well as reduce force and deflection caused by high velocity fluid flow passing thereby.
US09200985B2
Systems and methods for evaluating individual sprinkler head performance within a turf irrigation system are disclosed.
US09200984B2
A system and methods for the condition based lifing of a gas turbine engine component is disclosed. The system and methods determine the stress and caused by fatigue and creep for each load cycle of the gas turbine engine, and use a ductility exhaustion method to combine the fatigue and creep strain rates determined from the fatigue and creep stresses to determine the remaining useful of the gas turbine engine component.
US09200983B2
A system and a process for testing a gas turbine engine or component thereof, especially for a large aero gas turbine engine, and for a process for testing a large industrial gas turbine engine that requires large flow capacity and pressure ratios. The system and process may include the use of a large compressed air storage reservoir to provide compressed air to the testing system. Further, the system and process may also include the use of a pre-heating system, which may include a heater and a heat exchange device, to warm the compressed air from the compressed air storage reservoir to a temperature suitable to simulate normal operating conditions of the gas turbine engine or component thereof.
US09200977B2
Systems, devices and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide couplings or interfaces usable, for example, in the high speed balance testing of rotors are provided. A coupling includes a main body portion having an extended thin portion therein which is configured to fit a shaft of the balancing machine and an extended insert portion which is configured to fit an opening in the rotor. A plurality of connection elements is disposed in holes in the main body portion of the coupling and a ring is disposed over the extended insert and proximate exits of the holes in the main body portion.
US09200972B2
An external force judgment method including a reference value acquisition step of acquiring a reference value of a relative position or angle of a second member with respect to a first member when a robot on which no external force is acting or on which a known external force is acting is assumed to be operated by a predetermined command in advance; a measured value acquisition step of acquiring a measured value of a relative position or angle of the second member with respect to the first member when the robot is operated by the predetermined command; and a judgment step of judging the presence or absence of an external force acting on the robot based on a difference between the reference value and the measured value and a predetermined threshold value.
US09200968B2
An accurate, cost-efficient temperature sensor may be integrated into an integrated circuit (IC) using common materials as the IC's interconnect metallization. The temperature sensor may include an impedance element having a length of metal made of the interconnect metal, a current source connected between a first set of contacts at opposite ends of the impedance element, and an analog-to-digital converter connected between a second set of contacts at opposite ends of the impedance element. The temperature sensor may exploits the proportional relationship between the metal's resistance and temperature to measure ambient temperature. Alternatively, such a temperature sensor may be used on disposable chemical sensors where the impedance element is made of a common metal as conductors that connect a sensor reactant to sensor contacts. In either case, because the impedance element is formed of a common metal as other interconnect, it is expected to incur low manufacturing costs.
US09200963B2
One embodiment of a method for aligning measurements taken by a plurality of color measurement instruments with measurements taken by an industry standard color measurement instrument includes receiving a first set of spectral data from the plurality of instruments, receiving a second set of spectral data from the industry standard instrument, generating initial profiles for the plurality of instruments (by producing, for each given instrument, a first correction that aligns the spectral data taken by the given instrument with the second set of spectral data), mathematically correcting the first set of spectral data using the initial profiles to produce a third set of spectral data, and generating new profiles for the plurality of instruments (by calculating a mean of the third set of spectral data, and producing, for each given instrument, a second correction that aligns the spectral data taken by the given instrument with the mean.
US09200962B1
A method includes determining a highest peak of an optical spectrum waveform contained within a wavelength window having a fixed wavelength range, the wavelength window having a beginning wavelength value and an ending wavelength value, and iteratively modifying the beginning and ending wavelength values, within the fixed wavelength range, to shift the wavelength window so the highest peak is centered at a first position within the wavelength window. The method may further include determining a second highest peak of the optical spectrum waveform and iteratively expanding or contracting the optical spectrum waveform, while maintaining the highest peak centered at the first position, to locate the second highest peak at a predetermined position within the wavelength window. The method may be used for window calibration to enable repeatable and precise harmonic analysis of optical spectra, such as Raman spectra.
US09200955B2
A demand for downsizing of a multiple optical-axis photoelectric sensor can be coped with, and various state displays are performed.An inter-optical-axis indication unit is arranged between two adjacent optical axes so as not to interfere with the optical axis located in a lower end portion of a receiver. The inter-optical-axis indication unit is capable of displaying at least one piece of information out of a control input state, a safe special function state, a synchronization type, and an interlock state.
US09200952B2
Provided is a photodetector in which narrowing of a detecting range of light is suppressed. The photodetector includes a photodetector circuit for outputting a first optical data signal and a second optical data signal in which values are determined in accordance with an illuminance of incident light, an analog arithmetic circuit to which the first optical data signal and the second optical data signal are input and in which an arithmetic processing is performed with the use of the first optical data signal and the second optical data signal, and a switching circuit for switching an arithmetic processing in the analog arithmetic circuit between an addition operation and a subtraction operation of the first optical data signal and the second optical data signal.
US09200950B2
Monitoring of a pulsed plasma is described using an optical sensor. In one example, the invention includes receiving light emitted by a pulsed plasma in a semiconductor plasma processing chamber, sampling the received light at a sampling rate higher than a pulse rate of the pulsed plasma, wherein the sampled light has a periodic amplitude waveform and the sampling rate is higher than the period of the amplitude waveform, accumulating multiple sampled waveforms to form a mean waveform, and transmitting characteristics of the mean waveform to a chamber control tool.
US09200944B2
For determining a subjective property such as loudness of a binaural sound signal left and right sound pressures in the left and right ears of a human being, resulting from the binaural sound signal, are determined. The left and right sound pressures are frequency analyzed to obtain left and right frequency spectra. In each frequency band, the diotic (common) sound pressure in the left and right ears is determined, which would result from a plane wave frontal incidence on the human being, and that would produce the same perceived loudness as the frequency bandwidth limited left and right sound pressures. In each frequency band the inverse frontal head related transfer functions are used to determine the free-field sound pressure that would produce the same perceived loudness as the diotic sound pressure. The loudness is determined as the loudness of the totality of frequency bandwidth limited free field sound pressures, preferably using the international standard ISO 532.
US09200938B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for producing micro liquid drops through fine channels which can produce a large amount of micro liquid drops at low costs in an efficient manner. The apparatus for producing micro liquid drops according to the present invention includes a fine channel substrate and a holder for holding the fine channel substrate. The fine channel substrate has a micro liquid drop discharge outlet formed at the center thereof; a plurality of micro liquid drop producing sections which are connected to the micro liquid drop discharge outlet via the fine channels and disposed on the respective circumference of M circles or polygons arranged around the micro liquid drop discharge outlet; first-liquid drawing inlets which are disposed on the circumference of a circle or polygon arranged around the micro liquid drop discharge outlet; up-to-Nth-liquid drawing inlets (N is an integer equal to two or greater, M≦N−1) which are disposed on the respective circumference of circles or polygons arranged sequentially outward; and the fine channels through which the first- to Nth-liquids are supplied to the plurality of micro liquid drop producing sections. The holder for holding the fine channel substrate has a multi-pipe structure which includes N annular channels for distributing an equal flow of the first- to Nth-liquids to the drawing inlet for each liquid in the fine channel substrate.
US09200934B2
A coil system for a magneto inductive, flow measuring device, which comprises: a coil and core sheets led through the coil. The core sheets have equal shape and size, wherein each core sheet has a first and a second leg, which are connected together to form an L shape. At least a first core sheet and a second core sheet are so led through the coil that the first leg of the first core sheet and the first leg of the second core sheet extend parallel to one another and that the second leg of the first core sheet and the second leg of the second core sheet extend parallel to one another, wherein the second leg of the first core sheet and the second leg of the second core sheet are arranged at different ends of the coil.
US09200915B2
Some embodiments provide a method, for a mobile device, for controlling an interactive communication system of a vehicle that includes a display screen. If the display screen is touch-sensitive, the method provides a first user interface display that includes a first map the presentation of which is modifiable with touch input received through the touch-sensitive screen. If the display screen is not touch-sensitive, the method provides a second user interface display that includes a second map the presentation of which is modifiable through physical controls mounted in the vehicle. In some embodiments, if the touchscreen meets a particular set of characteristics, the first map presentation is directly modifiable with gestural input received through the display screen. If the display screen does not meet the particular set of characteristics, the first map presentation is modifiable with different, non-gestural touchscreen input received through the display screen.
US09200913B2
A navigation device includes a predictive traffic data database to store predictive traffic data at a plurality of times and a map database to store mapping data. A mapping module calculates a route and an estimated time of traversal for a route between a beginning geographic location and an ending geographic location based on the predictive traffic data and the mapping data. A start time modification module monitors for a modification of a start time for the route, with the mapping module re-calculating the estimated time of traversal in response to the modification of the start time for the route.
US09200898B2
A method and a system for estimating a road gradient α by using a sensor fusion: Detect whether at least one dynamic process is affecting the vehicle. Estimate gradient α by means of the sensor fusion by joint weighting of at least two input signals to the sensor fusion. The at least two input signals include a signal based on an accelerometer and an input signal based on at least one force equation. At least one of the input signals and/or at least one weighting parameter for the sensor fusion are determined on the basis of detecting whether the at least one dynamic process is affecting the vehicle.
US09200894B2
A position detecting system with a position information providing apparatus, a transceiver, and a processor. The position information providing apparatus comprises a light emitting-out side having at least one position information region distributed on an outer surface of the light emitting-out side. The position information region comprises materials which are distributed on the outer surface and provide the position information. The light has position information from the position information region when the light emits out from at least part of the light emitting-out side. The transceiver receives the light with the position information. The processor determines a relative position between the transceiver and the position information providing apparatus according to the position information received by the transceiver.
US09200893B2
In position-measuring devices and a systems having a plurality of position-measuring devices for determining the position of an object in several spatial degrees of freedom, the plurality of optical position-measuring devices scan the object from a single probing direction, and the probing direction coincides with one of the two main axes of motion.
US09200883B2
Transferable probe tips including a metallic probe, a delamination layer covering a portion of the metallic probe, and a bonding alloy, wherein the bonding alloy contacts the metallic probe at a portion of the probe that is not covered by the delamination layer are provided herein. Also, techniques for creating a transferable probe tip are provided, including etching a handler substrate to form one or more via arrays, depositing a delamination layer in each via array, depositing one or more metals in each via array to form a probe tip structure, and depositing a bonding alloy on a portion of the probe tip structure that is not covered by the delamination layer. Additionally, techniques for transferring transferable probe tips are provided, including removing a handler substrate from a probe tip structure, and transferring the probe tip structure via flip-chip joining the probe tip structure to a target probe head substrate.
US09200879B2
The present invention provides a simple and inexpensive torpedo storage and launch system that has a sea-based buoyancy type torpedo storage and launch system that has a torpedo storage and launch apparatus that stores a buoyant rise type torpedo in vertical arrangement, and further has a torpedo launch mechanism unit that has an outer peripheral surface made of a material that minimizes electric or acoustic wave reflection, that is arranged on the sea floor, whereby automatic ship detection is performed by remote control from a radar station or the like or by a sonar and controlling means provided in the torpedo storage and launch apparatus itself so that if a ship comes into an encounter position and time then the torpedo is launched from the sea floor, rises by buoyancy, and detonates on collision with the ship, thereby torpedoing the ship.
US09200876B1
A multiple-charge cartridge is disclosed. The cartridge includes an annular casing having an interior void and a primer. A rotatable selector ring is positioned circumferentially about at least a portion of the annular casing. A cam is positioned in the interior void and includes a first charge and a second charge. The cam is coupled to the rotatable selector ring and is configured to rotate about an axis in response to a rotation of the rotatable selector ring. The cam is configured to align the first charge with the primer in response to a rotation of the rotatable selector ring to a first user-selectable position, and to align the second charge with the primer in response to a rotation of the rotatable selector ring to a second user-selectable position.
US09200869B2
The present invention aims to provide a composite optical device which includes the day-time optical device, thermal imaging optical device, laser application device and displaying device while reducing the volume and weight, further comprising attenuator that can control the amount of light for easy display on the display. The present invention also aims to provide a composite optical device with enhanced efficiency of transmitting laser and easy operability by installing the attenuator at an appropriate location. To attain the object of the invention, the composite optical device for day and night time sighting and measuring distance, having a laser application device, a day-time optical device, a thermal imaging optical device and a display, comprises a laser transmitting optical device comprising a beam shaping lens 120 for shaping and sighting the laser emitted from a laser source 110, a focus lens 130 installed in front of the beam shaping lens 120 for controlling the emitting angle of the laser, and a folding mirror 140 installed in front of the focus lens 130 for reflecting the laser passed through the beam shaping lens 120 and focus lens 130 to a first beam splitter 270, a day-time optical device installed between a objective unit 290 and a eye-piece 210, the eye-piece and objective unit being arranged seeing each other, comprising a objective lens 280 for transmitting the light reflected from the first beam splitter, a first beam splitter 270, a first attenuator 260, a second beam splitter 250, relay unit 240, eye-piece lens 230, and a second attenuator 220, which are located between the first beam splitter and the eye-piece 210 in the order described above, and a display 300 installed on one side of the second beam splitter 250 to transmit a specific image to the second beam splitter 250.
US09200868B2
Vessel of the type comprising at least one shaft for receiving at least one missile-launching container (1), characterized in that the launching container (1) is received in the shaft with controlled lateral and axial clearance; the upper portion of the side wall of the container is provided with means for centring/guiding same in the shaft; and the lower end includes a container-bearing base (8) associated with a supporting base (9) of the vessel by means of shock-filtering set-point damping means (10).
US09200864B2
An electric toy gun structure includes a casing having a room therein and a rear end with a through hole communicating with the room; a firing mechanism disposed in the room, the firing mechanism having a piston corresponding to the through hole; a guide pipe coupled at the rear end of the casing and communicating with the through hole; a hit rod movably disposed in the guide pipe, the hit rod having a first end and a second end, the first end passing through the through hole and being located in the room, the second end being coupled with a weight, a first elastic member disposed in the room, one end being against the piston and the other end being against the hit rod; and a second elastic member disposed in the guide pipe, one end being against the casing and the other end being against the weight.
US09200861B1
Provided is an auto cleaner for a gun barrel includes a main body having one end connected to a first cleaning unit and other end connected to a second cleaning unit, wherein the main body includes three shafts, a reciprocating unit, and a driving device. The auto cleaner may be used not only to automatically clean a gun barrel, but also to clean the inside of a pipe, such as a water supply or drainage pipe, or a boiler tube.
US09200849B2
Provided is an evaporator including a tank formed with a depressed part and a flow part having a refrigerant flow therein using a flow part forming member, separately from a first compartment and a second compartment to improve a refrigerant channel structure, in a double evaporator in which a refrigerant flows in a first column and a second column, respectively, thereby reducing the number of four inlets and outlets that is disposed in the first column and the second column, respectively, fixing a baffle at an accurate position, and reducing a defective rate to more improve productivity.
US09200848B2
An exemplary air heat exchanger is an engine configuration including a front heat exchange unit including a front air-to-air intercooler configured to receive a stream of air, and a front radiator connected to the front air-to-air intercooler. The engine configuration also includes a rear heat exchange unit including a rear radiator and a rear air-to-air intercooler connected to the rear radiator. An internal combustion engine is located such that the rear air-to-air intercooler is located between the engine and the front air-to-air intercooler.
US09200842B2
A device and method are provided for detecting a root moisture content of clothing in a clothes dryer. The dryer has two conducting bars situated in the dryer bin. A pulse generator circuit is coupled to the conducting bars. A microcontroller is coupled to an output of the pulse generator circuit. The pulse generator circuit generates a pulse when wet clothing contacts the conducting bars in the dryer bin. The microcontroller receives the pulses and counts the pulses that are longer than a threshold length. The microcontroller issues a termination signal based on the number of counted pulses.
US09200825B2
Described is a system (1) for controlling an artificial snow making plant (100) having a plurality of snow making apparatuses (101) positioned along a ski run and connected to a communication line (102), comprising a processing unit (2) in data connection with the communication line (102) and being designed for: receiving a status signal (S) from each snow making apparatus (101) representing the quantity of snow currently produced by the relative snow making apparatus (101); comparing the data contained in each status signal (S) with a respective predetermined single snow making value (Pf) to be reached; generating a condition signal (P) of the apparatuses (101) as a function of the comparison; —generating a condition signal P of the ski run as a function of the contents of the condition signal (A) of the apparatuses (101).
US09200820B2
In a heat pump apparatus, switching between high efficiency operation, and high capacity operation, is performed according to the state of the load. A main refrigerant circuit uses an ejector. A first sub-refrigerant circuit connects a portion between a heat exchanger and an ejector to a portion between a gas-liquid separator and a heat exchanger A second sub-refrigerant circuit connects a portion between the heat exchanger and the ejector to an injection pipe of a compressor. When the load is medium, refrigerant is circulated in the main refrigerant circuit to perform an efficient ejector aided operation. When the load is large, a high capacity injection operation is performed by flowing refrigerant to the second sub-refrigerant circuit. When the load is small, a simple bypass operation prevents degradation of efficiency by flowing refrigerant to the first sub-refrigerant circuit.
US09200817B2
The seasonally adjusting apparatus for collecting solar thermal energy comprises a solar thermal collector, a top panel, a bottom panel, and a frame. The solar thermal collector absorbs sunlight to produce thermal energy. The top panel and the bottom panel are positioned on opposite sides of the solar thermal collector and regulates how much sunlight is absorbed by the solar thermal collector during each season. The top panel and the bottom panel each have a shading surface and a reflecting surface. The shading surface casts a shadow over the solar thermal collector during the summer months when the sun's position is higher in the sky. The reflecting surface bounces more sunlight onto the solar thermal collector during the winter months when the sun's position is lower in the sky. The frame properly positions each component so that the solar thermal collector absorbs the appropriate amount of sunlight during each season.
US09200812B2
Adsorption heat exchangers (51, 52) are connected to a refrigerant circuit (50). The adsorption heat exchangers (51, 52) can be removed from the refrigerant circuit (50) via a plurality of joint members (64, 65, 66, 67). The adsorption heat exchangers (51, 52), removed from the refrigerant circuit (50), are pulled out to the outside of a casing (11) through maintenance openings (14a, 73a) of the casing (11).
US09200806B2
A solid particle flow distribution controller includes an extension skirt configured to be mounted to a discharge skirt at a division between an upstream solid particle conveyance pipe and a plurality of downstream pipes. The extension skirt includes a plurality of circumferential segments. Each segment is movably mounted to the discharge skirt for movement in an upstream and downstream direction with respect to the discharge skirt. The segments of the extension skirt are configured and adapted for motion in the upstream and downstream direction independent of one another to extend upstream of the discharge skirt as needed to improve solid particle distribution among the downstream pipes.
US09200792B2
A portable light or device or heat dissipater may comprise a heat sink for having a light source or other heat generating element thermally coupled thereto, and having a plurality of walls extending from a side thereof for defining a cavity and plural passages, a fluid mover in the cavity of the heat sink for selectively causing a fluid to move through the cavity and the plural passages, and a light source or other heat generating element adjacent to and thermally coupled to the heat sink. The heat dissipater may be connected to a housing in various configurations.
US09200789B2
A magnetic pivot connector structure is provided. The structure comprises a magnetic socket and a magnetic plug. The magnetic socket includes negative and positive grooves at the center. A magnet is disposed on one side of the positive and negative grooves. The positive and negative grooves are connected electrically to a first member. The magnetic plug comprises positive and negative shafts disposed aside. An iron member is disposed on one side of the positive and negative shafts. The positive and negative shafts are connected electrically to a second member. When the magnetic plug is connected electrically to the magnetic socket. The magnet attracts the iron member, which connects electrically the first and second members. Then the positive shaft is used as the axle center and the negative shaft rotates around the negative groove. Thereby, the first and second members are connected pivotally and rotate with respect to each other.
US09200786B2
The present invention relates to a wide-angle LED lamp with obliquely-placed LED boards and manufacturing process thereof. A lamp body of the LED lamp is composed of a heat radiation cup, a cylinder step, a pyramidal frustum, an inner groove, an outer circular recess, two screw holes opened at the bottoms of two opposite facets of the pyramidal frustum, a round tube molded in both the heat radiation cup and the cylinder step, and a perforation opened in the pyramidal frustum and communicating with the round tube; an annular PCB sleeves the pyramidal frustum and contacts the cylinder step; LED boards cover the pyramidal frustum, the bottom of the LED board is inserted into the inner groove of the lamp body and the top of the LED board is covered with a fixing cover; the amp body, the stopper and the base are connected by a screw.
US09200783B2
A water proof encasement for an electronic device, such as an electronic laser is used for DJ lighting, holiday lighting, video equipment, and the like. The water proof encasement of the present invention allows a user to install a laser to place outside in the elements to shine on, for example, the outside of a house for holiday lighting.
US09200781B2
Light emitting decorative panels using a light source at the edge thereof that may have a desired uniformity of light emission from a pattern thereon, and which are not subject to local shadows (shading) in a pattern part from patterns or pattern parts between the respective pattern or pattern part and the light source. The elimination of shading is achieved by the depressions of a given geometry disposed in an arc having a center at the light source, and sizes each depression or arc segment of a depression in being chosen accordance with 1), the distance of the respective depression or depression segment from the source of light, and 2), the number of depressions between the respective depression and the source of light, with a second order correction for the position of depressions between the respective depression and the source of light.
US09200779B2
An apparatus including a three-dimensional display, for displaying volumetric images, including a three-dimensional non linear photoluminescent medium defining a display volume and including nanostructures distributed throughout the display volume; and a scanner configured to scan an output volume, where a first photon flux and a second photon flux meet, in three dimensions within the display volume.
US09200772B1
A support assembly on each side of a vehicle includes a plurality of first brackets interiorly, a plurality of second bracket exteriorly, and an intermediate leg between an associated first bracket and second bracket. Each intermediate leg has a short vertical extent positioned adjacent to an associated first bracket and has a long angled extent extending outwardly and downwardly from an associated first bracket. Each long angled extent is positioned adjacent to an associated second bracket. The first brackets receive an associated lateral projection and the second brackets receive and support lamps.
US09200768B2
A light source unit includes an excitation light source, a plurality of light sources at least one of which emits a light ray in a wavelength band different from that of the excitation light source, a plurality of collimator lenses which make light rays from the light sources into parallel ones, a luminous light emitting device which receives the light ray from the excitation light source to emit a luminous light ray, a microlens array which diffuses the light rays from the light sources to a predetermined range and distributes the luminance thereof uniformly within the predetermined range and a collective lens which collects the light rays from the light sources which are emitted from the microlens array, and the light sources are disposed so that the light rays from the plurality of light sources intersect the light ray from the excitation light source at right angles.
US09200761B2
The lighting device including a reflector; a heat radiating body having a wall disposed around the reflective part of the reflector; a light emitter including a substrate disposed on a bottom surface of the wall of the heat radiating body and a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate; and a cover including a reflective surface disposed under the bottom surface and reflecting a first light from the light emitting devices to the reflective part of the reflector, and having an opening emitting a second light from the reflective part of the reflector to outside.
US09200748B1
The bag-in-box wine container a decorative structure for storing and carrying boxed wine. The stand is comprised of two identical panels, a base structure and a carrying dowel. The base of the structure supports the box of wine while the two identical panels limit the traverse motion of the box. A dowel for convenient carrying is also provided.
US09200745B2
Leveling feet have embedded castors (3) that allow the leveling of a household appliance with a plastic thread. The castors are positioned relative to the floor to allow for movement of the household appliance upon the castors. The leveling feet have a base, that is preferably metallic, and that is connected to an internal ring (6), which contains threads on an external surface thereof. An external ring is coupled to the internal ring and has internal threads for mating with the external threads of the internal ring. The external ring moves vertically on the threads of the internal ring to change the height of the appliance.
US09200737B2
A hose clamp includes a band and a worm drive mechanism. The band has a set of slots located between a first and second circumferential end of the band. The worm drive mechanism is connected to the band and causes radial contraction of the band to tighten the band. The worm drive mechanism includes a screw that engages the set of slots for radial contraction of the band. A clamping-pressure-restoring construction is provided in order to maintain a seal between the hose clamp and an underlying hose during use of the hose clamp and when the underlying hose experiences size expansion and contraction due to, for example, temperature fluctuations.
US09200731B2
Disclosed is a multi-layer tube including: A) a first layer including a first layer composition including a1) about 25 to 100 weight percent of a semi-aromatic polyamide whose repeat units consist essentially of about 60 to about 85 molar percent of repeat units of the formula —C(O)(CH2)mC(O)NH(CH2)6NH— (I) wherein m is 8 and/or 10, and about 15 to about 40 molar percent of repeat units of the formula B) a second layer including a second layer composition including b1) 50 to 100 weight percent of poly(caprolactam); with the proviso that the first layer and second layer are in direct contact; and the weight percents are based upon the total weight of the first layer composition and the second layer composition, respectively.
US09200728B2
An apparatus for clamping elongate elements in a parallel piggybacked arrangement during subsea laying of the elements is disclosed. The apparatus has opposed reciprocating jaws for forcing together clamp segments around the elongate elements to assemble a piggybacking clamp that applies clamping forces to the elongate elements.
US09200726B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a vibration damping system including a fixed element, a moveable element arranged to move linearly along an axis relative to the fixed element in response to a non-mechanical force, and an inerter element coupling the moveable element to the fixed element, and configured to convert the linear motion of the moveable element into rotational motion about the axis. The vibration damping system may be applied to many types of valves. In some embodiments, the vibration damping system may be applied to pressure relief valves. In some embodiments, the moveable element rotates to provide inertial damping. In other embodiments, the inerter element rotates to provide inertial damping.
US09200718B2
An air valve includes a valve body having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface and the outer surface defining an inlet and an outlet; a seat mounted within the valve body and having an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface facing the outlet of the valve body, the upper surface and the lower surface defining a bore extending between the upper surface and the lower surface, the upper surface further defining a first sealing ridge and a second sealing ridge; and a float moveable within the valve body and engageable with the bore of the seat.
US09200716B2
A balanced pressure regulator includes a valve body having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet connected by a fluid passageway. A valve seat is disposed within the fluid passageway. A self-aligning valve plug is at least partially disposed within the fluid passageway, the self-aligning valve plug interacting with the valve seat to selectively open or close the fluid passageway. A retainer is partially disposed within a bore of the self-aligning valve plug and operatively connects the self-aligning valve plug to a valve stem having a ball portion. More specifically, the retainer includes a recess adapted to receive the ball portion of the valve stem, such that the self-aligning valve plug automatically rotates around the ball portion of the valve stem to achieve alignment and sealing engagement between a valve disc of the self-aligning valve plug and the valve seat.
US09200715B2
Provided is a rotary passage-switching valve having a rotor with an extended service life. The passage-switching valve according to the present invention has a stator and a rotor which is rotatable while sliding relative to the stator. The stator has a plurality of ports whose ends are open on a sliding surface on which the rotor is made to rotate and slide. The rotor has a passage groove for connecting two or more of the ports. At an edge of the passage groove, the rotor is in contact with the sliding surface of the stator at a contact angle α greater than 120°.
US09200710B2
A floating seal comprises C, Si, Mn, Ni, Cr, Mo, V, and B with the remainder being made up of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The contents of the C, Si, Mn, Ni, Cr, Mo, V and B are C: 2.2 to 3.9 wt %, Si: 0.5 to 3.5 wt %, Mn: 0.1 to 2.0 wt %, Ni: 0.5 to 4.3 wt %, Cr: 7.5 to 25.0 wt %, Mo: 0 to 8.0 wt % (excluding 0 %), V: 0 to 6.0 wt % (excluding 0%), and B: 0.02 to 0.4 wt %. The content of Cr in the parent phase is 2.00 to 5.41 wt %. The content of graphite is 0.05 to 0.35% of the surface area. The content of carbon boride is 19 to 40% of the surface area.
US09200708B2
An apparatus and method for coupling a piston to a rod to form a cylinder assembly are provided. The piston has a tapped bore extending therethrough for coupling to a first threaded region of the rod. The rod end extends beyond the piston member and includes a second threaded region for coupling to a tapped bore of a retaining member. The piston member is coupled to the rod member at a low torque, e.g., up to about 1000 Nm. An external thread of each of the threaded segment of the piston bore and the first threaded region of the first portion of the rod member may be formed with a root radius of greater than 0.125 pitch or with MJ class thread. The retaining member may include setscrews offset from one another for frictional engagement with the rod end. The thread pitch between the rod and the piston may be coarser than between the rod and the retaining member. An interface and a seal region between the rod and the piston may be disposed closer to the rod end side of the piston member than the threaded coupling.
US09200704B2
A vehicle includes an engine, input clutch, transmission, and controller. The transmission includes an input member, output member, and bidirectional speed sensor. The speed sensor measures a magnitude and direction of a rotational speed of the output member. Engagement of the input clutch selectively connects the engine to the input member. The controller has a commanded gear shift monitoring (CGSM) module. The CGSM module executes a method via a processor to cause the controller to detect a requested shift of the transmission to a destination gear, and to receive the measured magnitude and direction from the speed sensor. The controller determines a calibrated maximum output speed for the destination gear using the measured magnitude and direction, and executes a control action with respect to the transmission when the measured magnitude exceeds the calibrated maximum output speed. A transmission assembly includes the transmission and controller.
US09200697B1
A dual ratio constant mesh gearbox is provided that is suitable for use with an automobile, and particularly well-suited for an electric vehicle. The gearbox, which may be configured either as a manual or automatic gearbox, utilizes a planetary gear set and a pair of clutches to shift between under drive and direct drive modes.
US09200692B2
A leaf valve structure according to this invention comprises an annular valve seat, and a leaf that is seated on the valve seat under a predetermined elastic supporting force against a pressure of a working fluid on an inner side of the valve seat. A recessed depression portion having an opening portion on both an inner periphery of the valve seat and a seating surface of the leaf is formed in the valve seat, thereby creating a site where the pressure of the working fluid on the inner side of the valve seat can act more easily on a seating surface between the valve seat and the leaf valve. Accordingly, an effect of a surface adsorption force applied to the leaf valve by the valve seat on a cracking pressure can be suppressed, and as a result, the leaf valve can be lifted under a stable cracking pressure.
US09200689B2
Flexure bearing systems and configurations guide translational motion along a single-axis in micro and macro applications such as micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices including sensors and actuators like electrostatic comb-drive actuators. The flexure bearing systems and configurations described herein provide an improved constraint against movement (i.e., stiffness) of the primary mover in non-motion axes such as a bearing axis.
US09200687B2
A connecting portion 4f to which a pushrod actuating mechanism 7 is connected is provided on an opposite side, to a disc rotor 5, of a bottom wall of a cylinder bore 4e of a caliper body 4 so as to project therefrom. An accommodation bore 4m that accommodates a pushrod 12 and an adjusting bolt 18 is formed in the connecting portion 4f. In forming the caliper body 4, the connecting portion 4f is formed so as to have the same section shapes when taken along a direction perpendicular to an cylinder axial direction. By cutting the connecting portion 4f so that a length of the connecting portion 4f in the cylinder axial direction becomes a predetermined length and processing the connecting portion 4f, a connecting surface 4n to which the pushrod actuating mechanism 7 is connected is formed on the connecting portion 4f.
US09200685B2
A lock-up device includes a clutch part, an input plate, an output plate, torsion springs and an input plate support member. The clutch part is disposed between a front cover and a turbine, and is configured to allow or block transmission of a torque. The input plate is coupled to a clutch output member of the clutch part. The output plate is fixed to a turbine shell. The torsion springs are disposed between the input plate and the output plate, and absorb and attenuate a torsional vibration. The input plate support member is fixed to a front cover side of a turbine shell and positions the input plate in a radial direction and an axial direction.
US09200677B2
In a shaft coupling structure in which a second shaft is inserted into a cylindrical portion provided in a first shaft to be coupled with each other, with a bush being interposed between an inner circumference of the first shaft and an outer circumference of the second shaft, the first shaft and the second shaft are coupled with each other by a combination of a key coupling and a clamp coupling; the first shaft has a keyway with which the key engages and a shaft slit which is formed in the cylindrical portion by cutting off a portion thereof in the axial direction; and a fastener for the clamp coupling is mounted on a portion of an outer circumference of the first shaft in which the shaft slit is formed and the bush has a bush slit which corresponds to the keyway.
US09200676B2
A recess is formed in an outer circumferential surface of a first fitting cylinder. A flange and a second fitting cylinder are provided at one end of a second cylindrical member which is part of a dust cover. A sealing member is attached to the flange. A protruding portion is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the second fitting cylinder. The sealing member is strongly pressed by the first fitting cylinder and the flange in the state where the first fitting cylinder is fitted into the second fitting cylinder, and where the recess and the protruding portion are fitted to each other. Due to this structure, up-and-down movement of the both fitting cylinders is limited, and the sealing member is strongly pressed, thereby maintaining sealing.
US09200674B2
A fluid dynamic bearing device (21) includes: a shaft member (22); a housing (29) as an outer member which is arranged on a radially outer side of the shaft member (22) and is opened at both ends; a radial bearing gap which is formed on a radially inner side of the housing (29) and faces an outer peripheral surface of the shaft member (22); and a lid member (30) closing an opening on one end side of the housing (29), wherein the lid member (30) is fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the housing (29) with a fastening allowance which does not affect accuracy of a surface defining an outer diameter dimension of the radial bearing gap so that the housing (29) and the lid member (30) are bonded and fixed to each other.
US09200664B2
Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a wheel nut. The method includes annealing an aluminum (Al) alloy material and preheating the annealed Al alloy material. The Al alloy material is also forged to form a wheel nut. Furthermore, the method includes performing an anodizing treatment to form a primary coating on the wheel nut and performing a vacuum deposition to form a secondary coating on the wheel nut. In addition, the method includes performing a surface treatment using powder paint to form a tertiary coating on the wheel nut.
US09200663B2
A projected bolt impact protection device configured to protect a projected bolt may comprise a cap having a substantially hollow vertical shaft with a first section configured to accommodate a portion of the projected bolt. Another impact protection device configured to protect one or more projected bolts may comprise a cap having a plurality of substantially hollow vertical shafts, each shaft configured to accommodate at least a portion of each projected bolt. Yet another impact protection device may comprise a cap having a substantially hollow vertical shaft, the shaft configured to accommodate the one or more projected bolts; a disk member configured to fit within the shaft having one or more vertical ports; and support means for supporting the disk horizontally within the shaft at an axial depth configured to provide for a portion of the projected bolts to extend through and protrude from the one or more disk ports.
US09200647B2
Hydraulic valve arrangements may be assembled to provide pre-compensation or post-compensation using the same chassis body. A first type of main spool is disposed in a main passage and a first type of pressure compensator spool is disposed in a compensator passage to provide pressure pre-compensation. The first type of pressure compensator spool connects to a first pilot location and not to a second pilot location. A second type of main spool is disposed in the main passage and a second type of pressure compensator spool is disposed in the compensator passage to provide pressure post-compensation. The second type of pressure compensator spool connects to the second pilot location and not to the first pilot location. The valve arrangement may be switched from pre-compensation to post-compensation (or vice versa) by switching out the main spool and pressure compensator spool without making any other changes to the chassis body.
US09200644B2
A folding implement frame having seven sections in a use position and nine sections when folded. The frame design allows a frame having a width of greater than 27 meters to be folded into a transport position having a width of less than eight meters and a height of less than six meters. The hydraulic system transfers weight to the center frame section during folding and unfolding to enhance stability. The hydraulic system uses accumulators to minimize the amount of oil reduction in the tractor reservoir resulting from extension of the hydraulic cylinders of the implement. Implement raise and lower cycle times are minimized by a helper cylinder to lift the frame main section when the entire implement weight is on the main section and allowing a smaller cylinder to lift the frame main section in the use position for shorter cycle times to raise and lower the implement.
US09200641B2
An axial fan comprising a circular-cylindrical blower pipe configured about a center axis and comprising one or more plates that are bent and subsequently joined at opposing plate rims for forming the circular-cylindrical blower pipe; and wherein the circular-cylindrical blower pipe has two opposing ends; wherein the blower pipe is, at both its ends, bent outwards at right angles to the outside of the blower pipe for forming a mounting flange. The blower pipe comprises a rust-resistant metal plate or a steel plate which is coated with a rust-resistant material at least on the outside and the inside of the blower pipe; and in that the plate rims are joined in a rim-by-rim manner, without overlap, by soldering or welding with a rust-resistant filler material.
US09200627B2
The present invention refers to a noise muffler for refrigeration compressors capable of dampening noise generated by the intermittent flow of the compressor and at the same time a muffler that reduces the loss of load in the refrigeration system. Accordingly, a noise muffler for a refrigeration compressor (1) is described, the muffler (1) including at least one suction chamber (2), the suction chamber (2) including at least one flow entry channel (3), the suction chamber (2) including at least one flow exit channel (4), the suction chamber (2) including at least one directional duct (5), the directional duct (5) including at least one first end (70), the directional duct (5) including at least one second end (80), the directional duct (5) including at least one flow control means (300), the first end (70) including an area substantially greater than the second end (80), the first end (70) being associated to the flow entry channel (3), the second end (80) being associated to the flow exit channel (4), the directional duct (5) being capable of directing a preferred flow (200) received at the first end (70) to the second end (80), the flow control means (300) being capable of offering reduced resistance to the passage of the preferred flow (200) and being capable of offering resistance in the opposite direction to the passage of the preferred flow (200).
US09200624B2
A microsystem for converting pressure difference in fluid into mechanical displacement includes input and output nozzles, two interleaved parts, one of which is mobile part, between which the fluid flows. During displacement, the parts define an expanding fluid pocket that moves from the input nozzle to the output nozzle. The micro-system also includes top and bottom planes between which the mobile part is mounted for displacement relative to each plane, an overhanging distal portion along which the fluid flows, and a proximal portion mechanically linked to a plane via a link allowing only longitudinal translation of the proximal portion, and a reinforcement including a first side fastened to one of the planes and, a second side that is either fastened to or in sliding contact with the overhanging distal portion of the mobile part to limit its deformation in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
US09200620B2
Jacket structure for offshore constructions, particularly jacket structure for an offshore wind turbine is disclosed. The jacket structure includes a number of profiles in axial or angled alignment and a number of connecting members. A connection of the profiles and/or the connecting members is established by means of a bolted-connection.
US09200617B2
A wind turbine configured to generate electric energy and feed electric energy to an electric power grid, the wind turbine having a blade assembly; an electric machine having a stator, and a rotor connected to the blade assembly to generate electric energy; a first switch converter connected to the electric machine to control stator electric quantities (IS; VS); a second switch converter connected to the electric power grid; and a DC link circuit configured to connect the first switch converter to the second switch converter; the wind turbine being characterized by having a control device which, by at least one of the first and second switch converters, controls a direct voltage (VDC) in the DC link circuit on the basis of an operating parameter of the electric machine indicating the stator voltage (VS) of the electric machine, and on the basis of a quantity indicating the line voltage (Vlin) of the electric power grid.
US09200615B2
A vertical-axis wind turbine system includes a novel wind turbine having helical shaped blades with serrated edges that exhibit unique airfoil characteristics. Such innovative designs of blades improve the efficiency of the turbine. Airfoil characteristics of such blades make it effective at lower wind speeds than conventional wind turbines. The exemplary system is expandable for more efficiency when the number of turns in the helical shape of blades is increased. Such a design of blades in a wind turbine generate airflow and drag in the upward direction affecting other wind turbine(s) located vertically above in close proximity. This system is modularized with many smaller wind turbines sharing the same vertical axis arranged one above another in close proximity to each other. Such an incremental design of modularized wind turbines is uniquely used to scale up for increased power generation needs.
US09200613B2
Semi-submerged device for the use of the energy of the waves, comprising at least one moving assembly formed by a buoy (1) attached to a rod (2), that moves through a cylinder (4) equipped with a one-way bottom valve (6), and said moving assembly is located inside the space delimited by a fixed supporting structure comprising at least three interconnected hollow vertical tubes (14), one of them equipped with a valve (7) and another with a valve (16), and each with an air chamber (15). One of said tubes (14) is connected to the cylinder (4) through the valve (7), It also comprises a top platform (18) located on the tubes (14) on the surface of the water.
US09200608B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a starter system including a starter, capable of being in communication with an electronic control unit. The starter can include a motor coupled to a circuit and a pinion including a plunger, and a plurality of solenoid assemblies including a plurality of biasing members. The plurality of solenoid assemblies can include at least one solenoid winding capable of moving the plunger, and at least one solenoid assembly capable of holding the plunger, and at least one solenoid assembly capable of controlling current flow to the motor. Some embodiments include a first switch coupled to the circuit that is capable of being activated by the plunger to control current flowing to at least a portion of the circuit. Some embodiments include at least two power isolation switches capable of controlling a current flow within the circuit.
US09200604B2
A fuel injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines. The fuel injector includes an electromagnetic actuating element having a solenoid coil, a core and a valve cover as external solenoid circuit component, and a movable valve-closure element, which cooperates with a valve-seat surface assigned to a valve-seat body. The core and a connection pipe are fixedly connected in an inner opening of a thin-walled valve sleeve by being pressed into place, and the valve cover at the outer circumference of the valve sleeve is firmly connected to the valve sleeve by being pressed onto it. The firm press-fitted connection of in each case two of these metallic components of the fuel injector is characterized by the fact that at least one of the partner components has in its press-fitting region a structure with score marks, and/or the particular press-fitting region has an intake rounding in at least one transition to an adjoining component section. To safely contain abrasion particles produced in the press-fitting action, starting from the press-fitting region of a partner component, first a recessed region adjoins, which is followed by a press lip, which radially projects further to the outside on the outer contour of this one component partner.
US09200596B2
A rocket engine system with a fuel conversion system in communication with a gas generator.
US09200575B2
Various methods and data structures for managing transition between different firing fractions during skip fire operation of an engine are described. In some embodiments, transitions are constrained to occur when firing sequence segments of a designated length are shared by the first and second firing fractions. In a separate aspect, a data structure that uses current firing fraction phase as a first index and a target firing fraction as a second index may be used to determine a phase of the target firing fraction to enter at a transition. Is some circumstances transitions between a current and target firing fraction may be conducted as a series of steps through intermediate firing fractions.
US09200566B2
A method to limit the deposition of metals from a syngas stream on a gas turbine comprising the steps of feeding the syngas stream to a pressure swing adsorption vessel of a pressure swing adsorption system, the syngas stream comprises carbonyls, the pressure swing adsorption vessel configured to perform a pressure swing adsorption cycle: adsorbing the carbonyls on a carbonyl selective adsorbent, leaving a turbine feed stream, reducing the pressure of the pressure swing adsorption vessel to a purge pressure less than the adsorbing pressure, purging the carbonyls from the carbonyl adsorbed adsorbent to create a tail gas stream, re-pressurizing the regenerated carbonyl adsorbent to the adsorbing pressure, feeding the tail gas stream to an incinerator configured to oxidize the carbonyls in the tail gas stream to metal oxides and carbon dioxide, and feeding the turbine feed stream to the gas turbine.
US09200547B2
A hydraulic cam phaser includes at least one of an advance chamber and a retard chamber for receiving hydraulic fluid for advancing or retarding a rotational position of the camshaft. The hydraulic actuation system includes a hydraulic accumulator in selective communication with the at least one of the advance and retard chambers of the hydraulic cam phaser. A first system oil pump provides lubrication oil to the valvetrain system, and the hydraulic actuation system includes a second oil pump for supplying oil to the hydraulic accumulator. The second oil pump is controlled with a clutch device connecting the second oil pump to the engine drive system. The internal combustion engine includes a controller which controls actuation of the clutch device to actuate the clutch device during deceleration of the vehicle.
US09200543B2
In a variable valve timing device, which varies the rotational phase of a camshaft through the relative rotation of a vane rotor and a housing and is provided with a lock mechanism that releases the lock thereof in response to the application of lock-release hydraulic pressure, the crank angle CCA at which the application of lock-release hydraulic pressure is commanded is set variably in accordance with the pressure of the oil supplied for the application so that the lock-release hydraulic pressure rises at a crank angle at which the state of the cam torque becomes suitable for lock-release without relying on changes of time needed for the lock-release hydraulic pressure to raise resulting from oil temperature.
US09200542B2
A configuration of a camshaft phaser (1) having a stator (2) and a rotor (3), the stator (2) and the rotor (3) being formed as sheet-metal parts and having integral shaped sheet-metal sections (12) for receiving a spring (4) and the spring ends (5, 6) thereof.
US09200529B2
A method for measuring and adjusting gaps between a rotor and a stator of a machine using a sensor is provided. The measuring is conducted when the rotor is operated at a rotational speed below a nominal rotational speed of the machine and without the machine being in operation. The adjusting of the gap is carried out as a function of at least one gap dimension of the gap. The sensor is not resistant to an operating temperature of the machine occurring in a region where the sensor is located. After completion of the measuring the machine is operated with the sensor.
US09200527B2
Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a turbine interstage rim seal. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for sealing a turbine rotor-bucket interface. The method can include linking a first portion of one or more rim seal segments with one or more flow path seal segments. The method includes rotating the one or more rim seal segments, upon application of centrifugal force, to displace a second portion of the one or more rim seal segments; and sealing at least a portion of a gap between a rotor and a bucket associated with a turbine with at least one or more rotated rim seal segments.
