US09241236B2
A method of connecting a further wireless Bluetooth node to a wireless Bluetooth node which participates in a wireless communication network, is disclosed. The method comprises: —initiating, by the further wireless Bluetooth node, a wireless network connection with the wireless Bluetooth node; —determining, by the wireless Bluetooth node, in how many slave connections the wireless Bluetooth node is involved; and —determining by the wireless Bluetooth node, if the connection initiation by the further wireless Bluetooth node is a priority connection request and —setting the predetermined number of free slave connections to one if the connection initiation by the further wireless Bluetooth node is a priority connection request and —setting the predetermined number of free slave connections to two if the connection initiation by the further wireless Bluetooth node is not a priority connection request.
US09241235B2
A system for a vehicle including: a bluetooth receiver configured to be installed in a vehicle and connected with an electronic system of the vehicle; and a phone including a long-range radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit signals to and receive signals from a cellular network and a bluetooth transmitter configured to communicate with the bluetooth receiver in the vehicle within a predetermined range.
US09241234B2
A method for transmitting data from a first User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, the first UE receives uplink data of a second UE from the second UE on a first uplink subframe of an Nth frame and transmits the received uplink data of the second UE to a base station on a first uplink subframe of an (N+1)th frame and then receives feedback information associated with the transmitted uplink data of the second UE from the base station.
US09241233B2
User experience is enhanced for Internet Protocol Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS) based rich communication services in telecommunication environments. A system receives, from a user equipment, a session initiation protocol invitation packet to commence a communication session, and as a function of the session initiation protocol invitation packet, displays an access network technology type used by the user equipment to access a network device associated with a multiple access communication network.
US09241229B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for displaying audio data are provided. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving audio data and displaying a composite image representing the audio data. The composite image combines a first representation and a distinct second representation of the audio data. Each representation is visible in the composite image and the representations appear in the composite image as if laid one over the other.
US09241224B2
An apparatus and method for providing a Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) mode in an electronic device are provided, including detecting a type of battery, and applying an audio adjusting parameter for the HAC mode according to the detected type of battery.
US09241222B2
A hearing aid system includes a first hearing aid configured to communicate with a second hearing aid, wherein the first hearing aid comprises a microphone and an A/D converter for provision of a digital input signal in response to sound signals received at the microphone, a processor that is configured to process the digital input signal in accordance with a signal processing algorithm into a processed digital output signal, the processor including a compressor, a D/A converter and an output transducer for conversion of the processed digital output signal to an acoustic output signal, and a transceiver for data communication with the second hearing aid, wherein, a gain of the compressor of the first hearing aid is controlled by a first compressor control signal with a value that is substantially equal to a value of a second compressor control signal controlling a gain of a compressor in the second hearing aid, whereby a sense of direction is maintained.
US09241212B2
The ray tracing apparatus for three-dimensional (3D) graphics includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU) for constructing a first Acceleration Structure (AS) for a static object, and creating a second dynamic object by performing a Level Of Detail (LOD) operation on the first dynamic object and a ray tracing core for performing ray tracing based on the first AS and a second AS for the second dynamic object. The CPU or the ray tracing core constructs the second AS for the second dynamic object.
US09241210B1
A mass port configured to tune a frequency response of an audio reproduction device is disclosed. The mass port includes a head portion and an insertion portion coupled to the head portion. The head portion includes a sealing structure on a rear side. The head portion is configured to attach to a rear plate of a driver at the sealing structure. The insertion portion is configured to be inserted into a speaker port on the rear plate of the driver. The head portion and the insertion portion include an air slot that runs through the head portion and the insertion portion.
US09241207B2
The present invention provides a speaker module comprising a peripheral frame and speaker units housed in the peripheral frame, and the peripheral frame is provided with sound holes in communication with the outside, a front acoustic cavity in communication with the sound holes is defined between one side of the speaker units and the peripheral frame, and a rear acoustic cavity is defined between the peripheral frame and another side of the speaker units away from the front acoustic cavity; in which the speaker units are provided in plurality, and the rear acoustic cavity is divided into the same number of rear sub-cavities as that of the speaker units, and each of the speaker units corresponds to one of the rear sub-cavities and is in communication with its corresponding rear sub-cavity. The above structure makes it easier to adjust the acoustic performance and improves the stereo effect of the product.
US09241197B2
A method is provided in one example and can include receiving a source data stream, generating a base layer sub-stream from the source data stream, and generating an enhancement layer sub-stream from the source data stream. The method further includes communicating the base layer sub-stream to a client device using a first communication protocol, and communicating the enhancement layer sub-stream to the client device using a second communication protocol. In a particular example, the one-to-many communication protocol is a multicast communication protocol and the second communication protocol is a unicast communication protocol. In another example, the base layer sub-stream is sent to the client device via a first network connection and the enhancement layer sub-stream is sent to the client device via a second network connection.
US09241196B2
Disclosed herein is a front module having a triplexer. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the front module includes: a triplexer receiving and distributing a MoCA receiving signal and a cable broadcasting signal from a coaxial cable and receiving the MoCA transmitting signal and outputting the received MoCA transmitting signal to the coaxial cable; a transceiver for MoCA removing and outputting noise from the MoCA receiving signal input through the triplexer and amplifying the MoCA transmitting signal input from the outside and providing the amplified MoCA transmitting signal to the triplexer; and a receiver for cable removing and outputting noise from the cable broadcasting signal input through the triplexer.
US09241194B2
In a content processing device, a set of media channels to be provided in a graphical user interface is identified. Each channel in a subset of the channels is assigned to a cell that is included in a set of cells in the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is provided to a display. Upon a predetermined indication, at least some of the subset of the channels are rotated through at least a subset of the cells, whereby the display shows each of the cells in the subset of cells to be including a channel other than a channel that was included in the cell before the rotating was performed.
US09241191B2
Provided is a method for auto-setting a configuration of a television (TV) based on a TV installation type, and a TV using the same. The present method for auto-setting configuration may set a TV configuration based on a TV installation type input via a GUI which receives a TV installation type. Accordingly, a TV configuration such as audio parameters may be automatically set according only to the TV installation type.
US09241190B2
In one embodiment, a video processing server including a memory capable of storing data and a processor is disclosed. The processor is configured for using the data such that the video processing server can receive a request redirected from a gateway for a video content, wherein the request is redirected by the gateway based on information contained in the request and wherein the information contained in the request includes control data used for an optimal delivery of the video content. The processor is further configured for using the data such that the video processing server can send the redirected request to a content provider identified in the request, receive the requested video content from the content provider, and generate a response to the request by modifying the video content based on the control data.
US09241187B2
An intelligent television is provided that can collect viewer information for use by a rating service.
US09241183B2
[Object] To appropriately control simultaneous presentation of broadcast content and an application.[Solving Means] The information processing apparatus includes: a broadcast content processor configured to receive and process broadcast content; and a controller configured to obtain an application information table, the application information table (XML-AIT) storing an application identification descriptor 24 as information specifying broadcast content, the broadcast content being capable of being presented with the application simultaneously, and to determine if it is possible to present the application and the broadcast content simultaneously or not.
US09241172B2
A moving picture encoding device includes a prediction signal generation method controller that determines, for each of a plurality of target blocks, a processing method. The processing method can be performed on one of a plurality of reference pictures for generating a prediction signal for each respective target block. The prediction signal generation method controller also determines a motion vector and a reference picture for each respective target block by performing motion prediction. The moving picture encoding device also includes a prediction signal generator and an encoder. The prediction signal generator generates the prediction signal for the respective target block by performing processing on the respective reference picture based on the respective processing method, and the encoder encodes information on the respective processing method on each respective reference picture together with a reference list number identifying the respective reference picture and motion vector information of every target block.
US09241171B2
A picture coding apparatus includes a motion vector estimation unit and a motion compensation unit. The motion vector estimation unit selects one method for deriving a motion vector of a block to be motion-compensated, depending on a motion vector of a block located in a corner of a decoded macroblock from among a group of blocks that compose the decoded macroblock corresponding to the current macroblock to be coded and determines the motion vector derived by the selected method for derivation to be a candidate of the motion vector of the current macroblock to be coded. The motion compensation unit generates a predictive image of the block to be motion-compensated based on the estimated motion vector.
US09241170B1
Systems and methods are provided herein relating to adaptive video streaming. Time-to-offset mapping associated with a set of video blocks can be broken up into chunks. A client can download a first set of seek index chunks and use the first set of seek index chunks to select a stream. Seek index chunks within remaining sets of seek index chunks can be ranked for relevance based on client capabilities. A subset of remaining sets of seeks index chunks can be downloaded based on the rankings and client capabilities during streaming. Chunked time-to-offset mapping can facilitate faster startup when playing streamed video.
US09241155B2
Methods and systems for displaying a three dimensional image to a rotated viewer are presented. The roll and yaw of a viewer's eyes, with respect to a display, is tracked and used to adjust the orientation of a pair of stereoscopic images so as to maintain a three dimensional image when a viewer is rotated. Adjustment to the orientation of the pair of stereoscopic images may also factor in the orientation of a plurality of viewers, each viewer with a potentially different orientation with respect to the display.
US09241137B2
An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes an entertainment source, passenger seatback displays coupled to the entertainment source, and passenger control units (PCUs). Each PCU is associated with a respective seatback display. Each PCU includes an underside PCU input device carried by an underside of a seatback tray to be accessible by a user from the underside of the seatback tray when the seatback tray is in a stored position, and a topside PCU input device carried by a topside of the seatback tray to be accessible by the user from a topside of the seatback tray when the seatback tray is in a down position.
US09241131B2
A method for video image sharing and control comprises activating video communication between electronic devices. Transmission of multiple video feeds is controlled using multiple cameras from a first electronic device.
US09241122B2
A display device includes a display module configured to output a broadcast program and a channel banner list, a communication module configured to perform a data communication with an external server, a receiving unit configured to receive a channel change signal, a memory configured to store a viewing history data of a user, and a controller configured to control an operation of the display device, the controller is further configured to output a first broadcast channel banner list including a channel banner of broadcast channels received by the display device in a screen, receive a broadcast channel change signal more than a first number within a predetermined time period, output a second broadcast channel banner list having changed a size of the channel banner of the channels included in the first broadcast channel banner list.
US09241114B1
Providing uniform universal remote configuration is described herein. In different aspects, the techniques may include sending an identification (ID) request to a remote control and receiving an ID response from the remote control in response to the ID request. The ID response may be used to configure a device to process a plurality of control signals from the remote control.
US09241104B1
A panorama photographing method is provided. Firstly, panorama focal positions required for a full panoramic image are defined. A designated shooting area is determined. The panorama focal positions within the designated shooting area are taken as plural designated focal positions. Then, plural target images corresponding to the plural designated focal positions are captured. A partial panoramic image corresponding to the designated shooting area is generated according to the plural target images.
US09241100B2
A portable device has a display, a display processor displays a magnification image on a screen of the display, and an input device. The portable device further has a display-area shift processor that shifts the magnification-image-display area in accordance to an input operation administered to the input device, and a position sensor that detects an angle of inclination of the body. Then, The display processor changes the magnification-image-display area to an image area that is inclined by an angle corresponding to the angle of inclination, and the display-area shift processor changes shift directions of the magnification-image-display area from vertical and lateral directions of the original image to directions that are perpendicular to each other and correspond to inclined vertical and lateral directions rotated by the angle of inclination.
US09241093B2
Systems and methods for generating a detail-enhanced video signal are provided. In a method for generating the detail-enhanced video signal, an input video signal is received. A first signal that is a linear transformation of the input video signal is generated. A detail signal is generated by determining a difference between the input video signal and the first signal, where the detail signal includes information that is added to the input video signal to generate the detail-enhanced video signal. A filtered detail signal is generated by removing noise from the detail signal. The filtered detail signal is multiplied by a gain function to generate a second signal. The gain function is based on an amount of variance in the input video signal. The input video signal and the second signal are combined to generate the detail-enhanced video signal.
US09241088B2
An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive data via a network, a printing unit configured to print an image based on the data received from the receiving unit, and a control unit configured to control the receiving unit to refuse a data reception based on a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) when a toner remaining amount for the printing unit is less than a predetermined value, wherein the printing unit is configured to print, in the case that the receiving unit receives page description language (PDL) data, an image based on the received PDL data even if the toner remaining amount is less than the predetermined value.
US09241084B2
Methods and devices are described for detecting boundaries of documents on flatbed and multi-function scanners on a first pass of a carriage assembly, and then performing a high resolution scan on a second pass. High resolution images of documents can then be obtained with little or no interaction normally necessary to identify areas of interest on the scanner bed. Patterns on the scanner cover or lid facilitate not only edge determination, but orientation of text and other objects, and straightening of images in preparation for OCR and related functions. Electronic images and files derived from paper documents may be automatically cropped, deskewed, subjected to OCR, and named consistent with content or other information derived from them.
US09241082B2
Scanners built in display devices that can be controlled to have a moment of see-through either entirely or on a specified portion are described. During the see-through moment, a scanning object (e.g., a currency bill) placed against the display is scanned, hence on-screen scanner. An exemplary such display device is a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). Without affecting the display functions of an LCD device, an image sensing module is provided with light sources. By controlling the liquid crystals in the LCD unit, the reflected light from an object placed against the LCD device to be imaged is projected onto an image sensor (or array) to generate an image of the object.
US09241081B2
An image processing device includes a mode instruction information obtaining section, a color determination threshold storage section, a mode determination section, and an automatic color determination threshold adjustment section. The mode determination section, using a color determination threshold, determines a mode to be a color mode when the image data belongs to a color mode range, and determines the mode to be a monochrome mode when the image data belongs to a monochrome mode range. The automatic color determination threshold adjustment section adjusts the color determination threshold so as to widen a mode range corresponding to the mode determined by the mode determination section, when the mode indicated by the instruction information obtained by the mode instruction information obtaining section is different from the mode determined by the mode determination section.
US09241078B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates enhancing connectivity associated with data communications. An interface can receive a portion of communication state data, wherein the communication state data is related to at least one of a data communication mode and a user context state. A routing component can evaluate the portion of communication state data to identify an optimized data communication mode, wherein the optimized data communication mode is dynamically linked to a virtual contact identifier. Moreover, the routing component can automatically and seamlessly employ an optimized communication session utilizing the dynamically identified optimized data communication mode based upon an activation of the virtual contact identifier.
US09241077B2
A Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Management Center (DMC) coupled to a DSL network includes a data collection module that receives information regarding the DSL network from a plurality of sources. An analysis module is coupled to the data collection module to analyze the received information and issue a command for one or more of a plurality of DSL performance enhancement devices to optimize their operation. A command signal generation module is coupled to the analysis module to receive the issued command from the analysis module and generate a corresponding command signal for transmission to one or more of the DSL performance enhancement devices.
US09241075B2
An alarm system that monitors and selectively handles incoming telephone calls at a premises in disclosed. The alarm system includes, a telephone network interface, for receiving a subscriber line from a telephone network that further includes a caller-ID decoder for decoding caller-ID information for telephone calls received on said subscriber line; and a switch for selectively interconnecting said subscriber line to a telephone feed at the premises. A processor is in communication with the caller-ID decoder and the switch to selectively interconnect calls from the subscriber line to the telephone feed at the premises, based on associated caller-ID information.
US09241072B2
A system comprises a plurality of user devices and a conference call bridge connected to the plurality of end user devices via one or more networks. The conference call bridge is configured to connect to a given one of the plurality of user devices, receive a passcode from the given user device, and authenticate the given user device using the passcode. The passcode is personal to the given user.
US09241064B2
A wireless communication device (200) and method (300). The method (300) can include: detecting (310) a motion signature in a wireless communication device; sensing (320) a location of the wireless communication device; and setting (330) a user interface experience, based on the detected motion signature and sensed location of the wireless communication device. Engagement signatures can be detected in various ways, such as by dock or cradle specific connections, seating, gestures, movements in an x, y and/or z direction and location. A desired location specific user interface experience can include: a preferred user interface experience, application, display brightness, touch lens sensitivity, input key activation, and the like, based on a user preference for a particular location.
US09241057B2
Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to receive an incoming call message via a data interface upon activation of a trigger established with a voice communication network and activated when the voice communication network receives an incoming call to a destination identified by a pre-determined subscriber account; generate a call notification in response to the incoming call message; obtain a list of set-top boxes corresponding to the predetermined subscriber account; and route the call notification to the set-top boxes on the list.
US09241056B2
A device may include an image display component to display an image that includes a subject, where the image has a header portion, and to display subject information that includes a communication identifier related to the subject, and wherein the subject information is stored in the header portion. The device may include a transceiver to contact the subject via the communication identifier. The device may include a processor to provide the image and the subject information to the display component, to receive a request to contact the subject, to retrieve the communication identifier from the header portion, and to send the communication identifier to the transceiver to cause the transceiver to contact the subject.
US09241054B1
An apparatus includes a protective case for a portable computing device and an integrated alcohol sensor module for measuring the blood alcohol concentration of a user. The apparatus also includes a breath interface, a wireless communication device, an alcohol sensor module and a microcontroller. The protective case houses and protects the portable computing device and the internal electronic components. The breath interface allows the user to provide a breath sample to the alcohol sensor module. The alcohol sensor module measures the alcohol concentration of the breath sample. The microcontroller operates the alcohol sensor module and conveys the alcohol concentration measurements to the portable computing device via the wireless communication device. The microcontroller and the wireless communication device are both mounted within the protective case. The alcohol concentration measurement is used as input for a variety of software application which promote safe drinking and driving habits.
US09241052B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for analyzing an orientation of a handheld electronic device. The method comprises: monitoring data from a first sensor in a handheld electronic device; determining an orientation of the handheld electronic device by analyzing the data from the first sensor; and when the orientation indicates that the handheld electronic device is face down, activating a first component on the handheld electronic device.
US09241049B2
A novel overlay networking method designed specifically to handle the large file transfers that constitute a large and growing portion of media-rich Internet traffic is disclosed. The proposed system and method uses large (e.g., 10 MB) packets or Media Frames (MF) and orderly concatenations of these frames into chains (MC) to achieve a considerable reduction in power consumption relative to current IP Internet routers. Transmission of each MC is scheduled, while individual MFs are routed directly in interstices within MCs.
US09241046B2
A method for providing recovery from a remote server to a client includes sending at least one data restore request to the remote server. A data block identifier are received at the client system via a network. A data block associated with the data block identifier is retrieved from a local backup server associated with the client system if the local back up server stores the data block. The data block associated with the data block identifier is received from the remote server if the local backup server does not store the data block. The data block is restored to the client system.
US09241041B2
A method for a push server to broadcast data to terminals via an interface device, the data sent by the server passing through a distribution system enabling the data to be broadcast from the server to the device. The server transmits a stream of content data and web application data to the system; the system multicasts the stream of content data and web application data to the device; a receptor in the interface device receives the data; the data are stored in a storage device of the interface device; a local wireless connection is established between a terminal provided with a web browser and the interface device; a HTTP query is transmitted from the terminal to a web server of the interface device, the query requesting the execution of an application stored in the storage device; and the requested application is executed in the browser of the terminal.
US09241037B2
A behavior information acquirer (11) acquires behavior information representing the behavior of a user detected by a behavior detector (21), and stores the behavior information in a behavior information memory (12). How the influence of the behavior of the user indicated by the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer (11) will spread over a network of mutual information is calculated from mutual information, user information, and a behavior list respectively stored in a mutual information memory (13), a user information memory (14), and a behavior information memory (12). A presentation information generator (16) generates presentation information depicting the way in which the influence of the behavior of the user indicated by the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer (11) propagates to other users, and transmits the presentation information to a terminal device (2B).
US09241035B2
Technologies are generally described for organizing inputs for an online service. It is determined that there are no updated inputs generated on a personalized page hosted on a server corresponding to the online service for a predetermined time period. The inputs may be associated with an acknowledged contact regarding the online service. Inputs previously generated on the personalized page hosted on the server are reorganized in accordance with one of multiple arrangements.
US09241033B2
A network server that includes at least a processor is configured to receive, from a first network, a trigger event received in the first network from a non web-enabled device configured to communicate the trigger event to the first network, wherein the trigger event includes a designation of at least one file to be transferred. The network server is further configured to transmit a notification that includes the designation to a second network based on the trigger event, the second network being a web-enabled network communicatively coupled to at least a first web-enabled peer node that is capable of receiving the notification.
US09241030B2
A computer system with a scanner web service set up as a local host is provided. An HTTP message is received from a client-side web application code client-side running in a web browser on the computer system by the scanner web service. A message based on the received HTTP message is sent to a scanner driver that is in communication with a scanner connected to or integrated with the computer system. Scanned image information is received from the scanner driver, and is provided to the client-side web application code running the web browser.
US09241028B2
A communication interface and a device control, management and monitoring system are provided to enable the networking of and communication between multiple devices operating under different protocols. The communication interface may act as a translator or protocol converter that reformats transmissions from one protocol to another based on protocol compatibility between the recipient and transmitting devices. The device control and monitoring system may store predefined rules that are triggered when specified conditions associated with the networked devices are detected. The rules may specify an action to take, such as transmitting a discount offer to a user or turning off a light. According to one or more arrangements, the communication interface may act as an intermediary between the networked devices and the device control system, so that the device control system is not required to understand or be compatible with the various other protocols used by the networked devices.
US09241027B2
An online social network is managed using one server for database management tasks and another server, preferably in a distributed configuration, for CPU-intensive computational tasks, such as finding a shortest path between two members or a degree of separation between two members. The additional server has a memory device containing relationship information between members of the online social network and carries out the CPU-intensive computational tasks using this memory device. With this configuration, the number of database lookups is decreased and processing speed is thereby increased.
US09241025B2
A method includes receiving, at a first device via a virtual network connection, a packet communicated from a second device over a first path, the packet including data appended thereto by one or more devices along the first path, and determining whether the first path satisfies one or more requirements of an application running on the first device, the determination being based at least in part on information from the packet received by the first device; and receiving, at the second device via a virtual network connection, a packet communicated from the first device over a second path, the packet including data appended thereto by one or more along the second path, and determining whether the second path satisfies one or more requirements of an application running on the second device, the determination being based at least in part on information from the packet received by the second device.
US09241024B2
A method for providing an interface to a service for a plurality of clients by a backend data center using a remote file system that includes receiving a first file by the remote file system from a client of the plurality of clients, determining the service associated with the first file, reformatting the first file based on the service, transmitting the reformatted first file as a request to the service, receiving a response from the service based on the request, and storing the response in a second file on the remote file system, wherein the second file is accessed remotely by the client from the remote file system, and wherein the first file is simultaneously visible to the client and the backend data center.
US09241023B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media distribution system having a controller to identify a plurality of media presentation devices of a user of the media distribution system, identify one or more distribution preferences supplied by the user for distributing media content to the plurality of media presentation devices, receive media content from one of a plurality of media sources of the user, determine a media content type from the received media content, and distribute the received media content to one or more of the plurality of media presentation devices according to the one or more distribution preferences and the media content type. The one or more distribution preferences comprise in part media content distribution arrangements assigned by the user between the plurality of media sources of the user and the plurality of media presentation devices of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09241022B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device.
US09241016B2
A telecommunications device includes an electronic memory to store at least a network address and a random number code, and a sound unit to transmit the network address and the random number code via ultrasonic sound waves. The telecommunications device also includes a network interface to communicate via a data network using the network address and a processor to establish a communication session with another device over the data network based upon receipt of a response from the other device via the data network, the response including at least the random number code. The telecommunications device does not establish the communication session with the other device if the random number code is missing from the response or if the random number code in the response does not match the random number code transmitted in the ultrasonic sound waves.
US09241010B1
Techniques for detecting malicious behavior of content or objects are described herein. According to one embodiment, a malicious content suspect is executed within a virtual machine that simulates a target operating environment associated with the malicious content suspect. A communication response object is received as a result of processing the malicious content suspect. A first behavior match result for a first sub-object of the communication response object is determined. A second behavior match result for a second sub-object of the communication response object is also determined. The first and second behavior match results are aggregated and a malicious behavior score is calculated according to the aggregated result from all matches. The malicious content suspect is classified according to the malicious behavior score.
US09240999B2
A system for providing a managed virtual point to point communication service having a verified directory and providing secure transmission and controlled delivery of electronic document images may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a verified directory of users. The interface may communicate with devices of sending and receiving users in the verified directory. The processor may be operative to receive a request to deliver an electronic document image from a sending user to a receiving user. The processor may provide secure access to the electronic document image to the receiving user. The processor may provide a delivery confirmation to the sending device of the sending user upon determining that the electronic document image was securely accessed by the receiving user. The delivery confirmation may indicate that the electronic document image was securely transmitted to the receiving user.
US09240988B1
A first machine (e.g., server VM) authenticates an untrusted second machine (e.g., new client VM) as a condition to performing or allowing a protected operation. Authentication information is written to a library using one mechanism, and then read from the library using another mechanism. One of the mechanisms is an untrusted mechanism employing the untrusted second machine, while the other is a trusted mechanism performed by the first machine either alone or in combination with a trusted management component that has privileged access to the library. If a written and read value match, it can be inferred that the second machine is authentic, because the trusted management component has accessed an existing library that is also separately accessed by the second machine.
US09240980B2
A method of adding a new device (121) to a device group (110), wherein the device group comprises at least one device (111) that hosts a trusted module (151), the method including: generating keys of the trusted modules (151, 153) and devices (111, 112, 113, . . . , 11N) in the device group and a key of the new device (121); distributing the generated keys to the trusted modules (151, 153) in the device group (110); distributing the generated keys to the devices in the device group, such that each device in the device group receives the key of the new device, the keys of the trusted modules and of all other devices in the device group, except for its own key; establishing a secure authenticated channel (130) between the trusted module (151) and the new device (121); and sending to the new device (121) the generated keys except for the key of the new device.
US09240979B2
A method and apparatus for providing an automated key distribution to enable communication between two networked devices. A monitoring device receives a request from a network device to send a certificate using a second secure connection prior to an expiration of a timeout period, wherein the second secure connection was created using a known port in response to determining that a request to create a first secure connection was rejected. The monitoring device sends the certificate to the network device using the second secure connection, and establishes the first secure connection with the network device in response to the network device receiving the public key of the monitoring device from a server system by using the certificate.
US09240978B2
A system includes a communication device configured to transmit a message to an unsecured server. A secured server is in communication with the communication device, and is configured to receive the message from the communication device before the message is transmitted to the unsecured server, encrypt the message, and transmit the encrypted message to the unsecured server.
US09240975B2
A security device for processing network flows is described, including: one or more packet processors configured to receive incoming data packets associated with network flows where a packet processor is assigned as an owner of network flows and each packet processor processes data packets associated with flows for which it is the assigned owner; and a packet processing manager configured to assign ownership of network flows to the packet processors where the packet processing manager includes a global flow table containing global flow table entries mapping network flows to packet processor ownership assignments and a predict flow table containing predict flow entries mapping predicted network flows to packet processor ownership assignments. A predict flow entry includes a predict key and associated packet processor ownership assignment. The predict key includes multiple data fields identifying a predicted network flow where one or more of the data fields have a wildcard value.
US09240969B1
The disclosure includes a system and method for recommending social activity data and social conversation to a user. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: determine one or more topics associated with a message based at least in part on message data included in the message; determine knowledge data describing the one or more topics associated with the message; determine social activity data describing one or more user activities associated with a group of one or more social users based at least in part on the knowledge data, the one or more user activities describe the one or more topics; and determine graphical user interface data for displaying the social activity data associated with the message.
US09240968B1
A method of monitoring a plurality of servers is disclosed. The method comprises a centralized provisioning system (CPS) server receiving emails from a plurality of provisioning servers, wherein the emails are auto-generated by the provisioning servers. The method comprises the CPS server transferring the emails to an email account. The method comprises a CPS email process (CEP) server accessing the emails in the email account, wherein the emails are one or more of a variety of emails. The method comprises the CEP server analyzing the emails, wherein the CEP server analyzes the subject, the time stamp, and the source of each email. The method comprises, the CEP server transferring each of the emails to a plurality of lists based on its analysis. The method comprises the CEP server generating a summary email for each list. The method further comprises the CEP server sending the summary emails to a designated recipient.
US09240963B2
A system and method allows a user to view communications exchanged between other participants within an online chat room without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room. The online chat room enables ongoing exchanges of electronic communications between two or more participants whose participation within the chat room are mutually revealed to each other. A user is enabled to perceive the existence of the online chat room without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room. Selection of the online chat room by the user is received. Responsive to user selection of the online chat room and without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room, at least some of the communications exchanged between the participants within the online chat room are made perceivable to the user as the communications are exchanged.
US09240959B2
Disclosed are a method of packet classification and a device thereof. A method for packet classification according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: partitioning the entire rule set by using key values corresponding to packet fields, into a plurality of rule subsets; generating recursive flow classification (RFC) tables for each of the plurality of partitioned rule subsets; loading, in the same cache line, both partition information and RFC table information commonly corresponding to key values of received packets; searching for a rule subset by using the partition information on the key values of the received packets, which are loaded in the cache line; and searching for an RFC table for a rule by using the RFC table information on the key values of the received packets, which are loaded in the cache line.
US09240957B2
A system and method for a symmetric switching fabric includes a first switching tier that includes a plurality of leaf switches, a second switching tier that includes one or more spine switches, and a plurality of interlinks for coupling the leaf switches to the spine switches. Each of the leaf switches includes one or more first ports configured to couple each of the leaf switches to other network devices outside the switching fabric and one or more second ports for coupling each of the leaf switches to each of the spine switches. A ratio of a number of first ports and a number of second ports is selected based on an oversubscription ratio. For each pair of a first switch selected from the leaf switches and a second switch selected from the spine switches, a same number of first interlinks selected from the plurality of interlinks couple the first switch to the second switch.
US09240942B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a packet at an upstream node in communication with a source and in communication with a downstream node through equal cost multiple paths including first and second multi-access networks, the packet transmitted on the first multi-access network and associated with a multicast group, and transmitting from the upstream node a request to the downstream node to join the group on the second multi-access network, if the upstream node is already transmitting data to the group on the second multi-access network, or a bandwidth utilization at the first multi-access network exceeds a specified threshold. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US09240939B2
One example method is provided for detecting end-to-end packet loss and retransmission occurring in a connection of a network environment. The method can include monitoring packets transmitted from a sender to a receiver and acknowledgement packets from the receiver to the sender using a probe located in a path between the sender and the receiver in the network environment; identifying, by the probe, a first packet as a possibly-retransmitted packet if the first packet has a fall back sequence number; classifying, by the probe, the first packet as a retransmitted packet using one or more conditions based, at least in part, on one or more of the following: characteristic(s) of the possibly-retransmitted packet, characteristic(s) of sequence numbers observed by the probe, and characteristic(s) of acknowledgements observed by the probe.
US09240921B2
A method and apparatus for providing a wide area network infrastructure for providing services on IP networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. For example, an enterprise customer may subscribe to a service for obtaining a reliable wide area network infrastructure for communicating among two or more customer locations. The network service provider creates a virtual private network in the public domain and another virtual private network in the private domain to interconnect the customer locations. It then connects each customer edge router to two provider edge routers one in each domain and/or instances of provider edge functionality in each domain. Routes are then advertised via two control planes to both virtual private networks.
US09240920B2
A wireless transmitter has a digital baseband module and a radio-frequency (RF) transmitter. The digital baseband module generates a multi-mode modulated signal by using a plurality of digital synthesizers. The RF transmitter has a frequency synthesizer and a digital power amplifier (DPA). The frequency synthesizer generates an oscillation signal with an RF carrier frequency. The DPA generates a multi-standard RF signal according to the multi-mode modulated signal and the oscillation signal.
US09240915B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may generally relate to methods for processing a response matrix of a communication system. One example method may comprise dividing the response matrix into a plurality of clusters. The number of the clusters is associated with the number of subcarriers of the communication system, and the clusters are indexed in sequence as even-indexed clusters and odd-indexed clusters. The method may further comprise estimating data transmitted by a first set of transmit antennas of the communication system through a first subcarrier and a second subcarrier of the subcarriers associated with a first even-indexed cluster. The method may further comprise modifying a first receive vector of the communication system based on the estimated data transmitted by the first set of transmit antennas as a second receive vector of the communication system.
US09240904B2
A system and method for utilizing a message assistant. A contact list is updated by retrieving one or more contact lists. Preferences are received for communicating with contacts on the contact list. A message is received to be sent to a group listed in the contact list including one or more contacts at a time specified by a user. The message is sent to the group at the time specified by the user based on the preferences.
US09240901B2
Methods, systems, and products receive a request for communications service at a service provider. A subcontracted processing service is determined to fulfill the request for communications service. Packets of data are subcontracted to a different service provider to receive the subcontracted processing service. A result of the subcontracted processing service is received from the different service provider.
US09240900B2
Conventional routers employ a wired backplane that employs “long reach” serializer/deserializer (SerDes) links, but this type of architecture is complicated, costly, and uses a considerable amount of power. To address some of these issues, a new wireless backplane architecture is provided here. This wireless backplane employs direct millimeter wave links between line cards that replaces the convention, wired switching fabric.
US09240899B2
A method for implementing a virtual network interface, which is applicable for the embedded device without a physical network interface equipped, including that: the embedded device encapsulates the to-be-transmitted IP data packet as the data frame which is able to be identified by the universal interface on the device and carries a virtual network port identifier, transmits the data frame through the universal interface; after the embedded device receives the data frame from the universal interface, the embedded device delivers the IP data packet parsed from the received data frames to the application layer when determining that the received data frame carries a virtual network port identifier. An embedded device for implementing a virtual network interface is also provided, the device includes a universal interface, a determining module, an encapsulating/decapsulating module, and a sending/receiving module.
US09240876B2
The present invention provides a method, a base station, and a user equipment for feeding back ACK/NACK information for carrier aggregation. The method includes: configuring a common field preset in DCI as at least one type of command field related to ACK/NACK feedback of at least two types of command fields related to ACK/NACK feedback, where the common field can be configured as the command fields related to ACK/NACK feedback; and sending the DCI to a user equipment, so that the user equipment feeds back ACK/NACK information according to the DCI. The present invention may realize backward compatibility of the ACK/NACK information feedback with an LTE system in carrier aggregation.
US09240871B2
A multiple-access MIMO WLAN system that employs MIMO, OFDM, and TDD. The system (1) uses a channel structure with a number of configurable transport channels, (2) supports multiple rates and transmission modes, which are configurable based on channel conditions and user terminal capabilities, (3) employs a pilot structure with several types of pilot (e.g., beacon, MIMO, steered reference, and carrier pilots) for different functions, (4) implements rate, timing, and power control loops for proper system operation, and (5) employs random access for system access by the user terminals, fast acknowledgment, and quick resource assignments. Calibration may be performed to account for differences in the frequency responses of transmit/receive chains at the access point and user terminals. The spatial processing may then be simplified by taking advantage of the reciprocal nature of the downlink and uplink and the calibration.
US09240860B2
A Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) channel management in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. Operations of a base station include determining a CQI channel operation mode for a CQI channel of a terminal which enters a sleep mode; transmitting at least one message which instructs to enter the sleep mode and includes information indicating the CQI channel operation mode; and managing the CQI channel of the terminal according to the CQI channel operation mode while the terminal operates in the sleep mode. Candidates of the CQI channel operation mode include at least one of a first mode which deallocates the CQI channel in the sleep mode entry, a second mode which maintains the CQI channel in the sleep mode and forbids CQI channel allocation to other terminal during a sleep window, a third mode which deallocates the CQI channel in the sleep window entry without signaling, and a fourth mode which maintains the CQI channel in the sleep mode and allows the CQI channel allocation to other terminal during the sleep window.
US09240855B1
Implementations of techniques and systems are disclosed for detecting a fiber fault in a point-to-point optical access network based on optical time domain reflectometry (“OTDR”) measurements. The techniques include identifying loss of service between a central office (“CO”) and a given optical network unit (“ONU”) of a plurality of ONUs. In response to the identifying the loss of service, configuring a test signal distribution unit to optically couple an OTDR unit to a selected subset of the point-to-point fiber links which includes the given ONU. An optical test signal is launched from the OTDR unit into the selected subset of the point-to-point fiber links via the test signal distribution unit. Test signal reflections are received from each of the point-to-point fiber links within the selected subset as a reflection signature, which is analyzed to identify a location of the fiber fault.
US09240854B2
An OLT includes an OLT control unit that generates a control signal for controlling a power saving operation of an ONU by specifying a different idle period with respect to a first power saving operation in which an optical receiver is operated while an optical transmitter of the ONU is controlled to a power saving state and a second power saving operation for controlling the optical transmitter and the optical receiver to the power saving state, and a station-side transmitter that transmits the control signal generated by the OLT control unit to the ONU. The ONU includes an ONU control unit that receives the control signal via the optical receiver to selectively perform the first power saving operation and the second power saving operation based on the idle period specified by the control signal.
US09240843B1
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a coherent optical receiver that can receive during a first time period a set of in-phase signals and a set of quadrature signals having a skew from the set of in-phase signals. The coherent receiver can blindly determine a delay between the set of in-phase signals and the set of quadrature signals based on the set of in-phase signals and the set of quadrature signals. The delay includes an intersymbol portion and an intrasymbol portion. The coherent optical receiver can apply the delay at a second time after the first time period such that a skew after the second time is less than the skew at the first time period.
US09240827B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless and/or inductive communications are provided in connection with improving remote NFC device detection through use of an oscillator circuit connected to an NFC antenna and matching network. In one example, a communications device is equipped to monitor frequency oscillations generated by an oscillator circuit associated with a transmitter path of a NFC antenna and matching network, determine that a number of occurrences of the frequency oscillations from a reference frequency is greater than a frequency deviation threshold, and perform a NFC polling procedure in response to the determination.
US09240824B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless electronic devices. A method may comprise receiving a wireless signal with an antenna and identifying one of a wireless charging module and a near-field communication module to which the received signal is associated. The method may further comprise conveying the received signal to the identified one of the wireless charging module and the near-field communication module.
US09240818B2
The examples describe a self-protection feature in components of an authorized shared access system (ASAS). In the ASAS, radio frequency spectrum is shared by different users having different levels of priority when accessing the shared radio frequencies. Higher-tiered user equipment, such as radar systems, generate signals having significantly higher levels of power than the lowest tier user equipment. Exposure to the high power signals may damage the lower-tiered user equipment. The examples describe a lower-tiered access point device and a lower-tiered end user device that participate in the shared access system to communicate over the shared radio frequency spectrum under control of a shared access system manager. In response to a threat of high power signals, the access points and the end user devices are instructed to enter a self-protection mode. The self-protection is enabled by a local switch system within the access point and the end user devices.
US09240809B2
Methods for digital signal processing and transmission/reception systems utilizing the methods based on the use of LDPC codes, for example the LDPC code with a 3/5 code rate, in combination with a QAM modulation, for example the 16 QAM or 64 QAM or 256 QAM modulation. In transmission, a bit permutation (Demux) is carried out prior to the QAM constellation mapping function, and in reception, the bit permutation is carried out after the QAM constellation demapping function.
US09240807B2
A radio transmitting/receiving device uses a channel interleaver with turbo codes serving as error-correcting codes to convert burst errors into random errors. The radio transmitting/receiving device, in Code Block Concatenation (15), when dividing a Transport Block into a plurality of Code Blocks, performs channel coding so that burst errors that occur during transmission are distributed to all the Code Blocks. Therefore, when burst errors occur, the errors can be uniformly distributed to all Code Blocks in a Transport Block so that no unevenness occurs in error resilience between the Code Blocks.
US09240806B2
A method including generating a matrix. The matrix includes first and second portions. The first portion includes data bits. The second portion includes parity bits and has a triple diagonal structure. The triple diagonal structure includes a first central diagonal, a second central diagonal, and a last row diagonal. Bits of the first central diagonal, the second central diagonal, and the last row diagonal are equal to 1 and a remainder of bits in the triple diagonal structure are equal to 0. The method further includes: determining parity bits based on the matrix; if the matrix is generated to codify data for transmission from a first device to a second device, transmitting the parity bits from the first device to the second device; and if the matrix is generated based on a vector of bits received from the second device, generating a block of data based on the parity bits.
US09240795B2
A system and method of calibrating a phase-locked loop (PLL) having at least a phase detector, a frequency divider and a local oscillator are provided. The disclosed example includes generating a lock window signal based on a feedback signal generated by the frequency divider where the lock window signal may form an active lock window relative to each significant edge of the feedback signal, generating a sampled window signal based on samples of the lock window signal at each significant edge of a reference signal, and estimating a phase offset between the reference signal and the feedback signal based on a number of consecutive samples of the sampled window signal that are active.
US09240792B2
A periodic signal generator includes a resonant LC tank circuit that generates a periodic reference signal at a first frequency at a differential output thereof. A temperature-responsive frequency compensation module is electrically coupled to the differential output of the resonant LC tank circuit. This module includes a temperature dependent voltage control module that generates a temperature dependent control voltage and an array of switchable capacitive modules that is electrically coupled to a first node of the differential output of the resonant LC tank circuit and responsive to the temperature dependent control voltage and a plurality of switching coefficients. The array of switchable capacitive modules includes a fixed capacitor having a first terminal electrically coupled to the first node and a voltage-controlled variable capacitor having a first terminal electrically coupled to the first node.
US09240791B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of logic tiles, wherein each logic tile includes a plurality of edges and is configurable to connect with adjacent logic tile. Each logic tile includes a plurality of input/output clock paths, wherein each input/output clock path is associated with a different edge of the logic tile. The plurality of input/output clock paths include a plurality of input clock path, each input clock path configurable to receive a tile input clock signal from an adjacent first logic tile, and a plurality of output clock paths, each output clock path configurable to output a tile output clock signal to an adjacent second logic tile. An output clock path includes a u-turn circuit to receive a tile clock signal having a first predetermined skew and provide a tile clock signal having a second predetermined skew.
US09240790B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device, comprising: a first module layer having a plurality of circuit blocks; and a second module layer positioned substantially above the first module layer, including a plurality of configuration circuits; and a third module layer positioned substantially above the second module layer, including a plurality of circuit blocks; wherein, the configuration circuits in the second module control a portion of the circuit blocks in the first and third module layers.
US09240789B2
A receiver is adapted to receive an input signal having a first voltage swing and to generate an output signal having a second voltage swing, the output signal being indicative of the input signal, the second voltage swing being greater than the first voltage swing. The receiver includes a first sub-rate receiver block and at least a second sub-rate receiver block. A receiver clock is divided into a first sub-rate clock phase and at least a second sub-rate clock phase, the first sub-rate clock phase being used to drive the first sub-rate receiver block and the second sub-rate clock phase being used to drive the second sub-rate receiver block. Each of the first sub-rate receiver block and the second sub-rate receiver block includes at least one gated-diode sense amplifier.
US09240788B2
A communication interface circuit includes a register and a register setting circuit. The register holds a data value for controlling characteristics of an electronic circuit element included in the communication interface circuit. The register setting circuit changes a wire connection state on the basis of a control signal. The register setting circuit inputs a variable data value to the register to detect the data value corresponding to the characteristics of the electronic circuit element in a first wire connection state, and sets the data value detected in the first wire connection state in the register on the basis of a fixed value in a second wire connection state. A control circuit outputs the above control signal.
US09240781B2
A shift register, a display apparatus, a gate driving circuit and a driving method, the shift register comprises a plurality of stages of shift register circuits (SR0-SRn), a Nth stage shift register circuit among the plurality of stages of shift register circuits (SR0-SRn) comprises: a pre-charging circuit (1), a pulling-up circuit (2), a resetting circuit (3) and a retaining circuit, the retaining circuit is equipped with an eighth transistor (M8) whose gate is connected with a first control signal terminal (CK), source and drain are connected with each other. Not only a shift registering is realized, but also the operation period of the circuit is decreased, which can address the problem of shift in the voltage thresholds. Further, with the transistor whose source and drain are short-circuited, a control of the control signal on the pulling-down node is realized, so that a potential at the pulling-down node rises rapidly when the first control signal is in the high level and has a reduced descending range when the first control signal is in the low level, which can realize a better control of the circuit.
US09240773B1
A superconducting integrated circuit, comprising a plurality of superconducting circuit elements, each having a variation in operating voltage over time; a common power line; and a plurality of bias circuits, each connected to the common power line, and to a respective superconducting circuit element, wherein each respective bias circuit is superconducting during at least one time portion of the operation of a respective superconducting circuit element, and is configured to supply the variation in operating voltage over time to the respective superconducting circuit element.
US09240771B2
A method of generating a signal having a converted sampling rate in a communication system is provided. The method includes selecting effective input samples among S number of input samples included in an input stream corresponding to an input sampling rate, generating a filter coefficient set including filter coefficients having a length of a second tap, the filter coefficients having the length of the second tap being generated by dividing a filter coefficient having a length of a first tap configuring a low-pass filter into the filter coefficients having the length of the second tap corresponding to a number of selected effective input samples, selecting filter coefficients corresponding to each of the effective input samples among the filter coefficients included in the filter coefficient set, and outputting output samples having an output sampling rate which is converted from the input sampling rate.
US09240768B2
Duplexer with transmission and reception filters each including resonators formed on different chips
A duplexer includes a transmission filter and a reception filter having different passbands, wherein: first resonators that are series resonators or parallel resonators included in the transmission and reception filters so as to form a skirt characteristic at a guard band side are a temperature compensated type piezoelectric thin film resonator or a surface acoustic wave resonator using Love waves, and second resonators that form a skirt characteristic at an opposite side to the guard band are one of a temperature non-compensated type piezoelectric thin film resonator, a surface acoustic wave resonator using a lithium tantalate substrate or a substrate made by bonding a lithium tantalate substrate on a sapphire substrate, and a surface acoustic wave resonator using Love waves.
US09240758B2
A voltage regulator comprises a first amplifier and a biasing unit. The first amplifier has a positive input, a negative input and an output, wherein the output of the amplifier is connected to the negative input. The biasing unit generates a reference voltage by Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor transistors, wherein the positive input of the first amplifier is configured to receive the reference voltage.
US09240755B2
An oscillator circuit includes a first resonator, a second resonator, and a frequency adjusting unit. The second resonator has a frequency characteristic different from a frequency characteristic of the first resonator. The frequency adjusting unit is configured to change a ratio between a contribution of the first resonator and a contribution of the second resonator so as to adjust an output frequency.
US09240753B2
An oscillator includes a transformer, a first capacitor, a first transistor, a depletion or native second transistor, and a current control circuit. The transformer includes a primary winding configured to receive an input voltage and a secondary winding configured to boost the input voltage to generate an output voltage. The first capacitor is configured to form an LC resonant circuit together with the secondary winding to cause oscillation operation, the first transistor is connected in series with the primary winding, and the output voltage is applied to a control terminal of the first transistor. The depletion or native second transistor is connected in series with the primary winding and the first transistor, and the current control circuit is configured to adjust a control voltage applied to a control terminal of the second transistor to control a current flowing through the first winding.
US09240746B2
A driving apparatus for a vibration-type actuator that applies an AC voltage to an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and generates a driving force between a vibration member and a movable member includes a voltage amplitude command unit configured to instruct an amplitude of the AC voltage, a pulse width command unit configured to monotonically increase a pulse width command and a change rate of the pulse width command according to an increase in a voltage amplitude command, and output a pulse width command, and a pulse signal generation unit configured, when a pulse signal that directly or indirectly generates the AC voltage is generated at the same frequency as the AC voltage to apply the AC voltage to the electro-mechanical energy conversion element, to generate a pulse signal having a pulse width corresponding to the pulse width command based on the pulse width command.
US09240745B2
A system and method are described for conserving energy by decoupling a supply voltage to an electric motor operating under periodic load variations. A time segment value corresponding to a duration of periodic load variations is obtained and the supply voltage is adjusted to maintain an observed phase angle for a supply voltage and current at a value corresponding to a target phase angle. At least one off-time period is identified during the time segment value that corresponds to when the adjusted supply voltage is applied to the motor. During a remainder of the time segment value, at least one turn-on time period is provided when the supply voltage is coupled to the motor. The system may enter to a closed-loop control process after a predetermined period of time to adjust to any changes in the periodic load variations.
US09240736B2
A power converting device includes; one or more backflow preventing elements that prevent electric current from flowing backward from a load side toward a power supply; a commutating unit for performing a commutation operation for causing electric current to flow toward a different path that is connected in parallel with the one or more backflow preventing elements; a malfunction detector for detecting a malfunction of the commutating unit; and a controller configured to control the commutating unit to perform commutation operation just before the recovery current flows through the backflow preventing element from the load side to the power supply and to perform operation control related to protection of the commutating unit on a basis of detection by the malfunction detector.
US09240728B2
A control device detects zero crossings of a current through a rectifier transistor during plural cycles; generates a turn-on signal of the transistor and inserts a turn-on delay equal to a fixed first quantity from the start time of for each cycle. The control device starts counting consecutive cycles after inserting the turn-on delay; detects whether a zero crossing of the current through the transistor after turning on said transistor has occurred; if no zero crossing is detected before counting a number N of consecutive cycles, decreases the turn-on delay by a fixed second quantity for the next cycle; if a zero crossing is detected, maintains turned on the transistor; if the turn-on delay is smaller than first quantity, increases the turn-on delay o for the next switching cycle; and if the turn-on delay is equal to the first quantity, maintains the turn-on delay for the next switching cycle.
US09240727B2
A switching power supply device control circuit and switching power supply can combat fluctuation due to the input voltage in the peak current of a switching element, even when using an oscillator. A control IC is connected to a switching element and to a current detecting resistor, and controls the switching element, the control IC being configured of an OCP comparator that detects an overcurrent with respect to a load, an overcurrent level setting circuit that corrects a fluctuation occurring in the peak current of the switching element in response to the output voltage from the AC input, an oscillator having a frequency modulating function whereby the switching frequency with respect to the switching element can be modulated, and a slope compensation circuit that generates a slope compensation signal increasing monotonically in proportion to the time from the start of each cycle of an oscillating signal of the oscillator.
US09240723B2
A resonant circuit includes three resonant circuit input nodes and three output nodes and a transformer device having three primary windings and three secondary windings. The three primary windings are magnetically connected to the three secondary windings. The resonant circuit also includes a first resonant tank device, a second resonant tank device, and a third resonant tank device each connected between the respective first, second, and third resonant circuit input nodes and the respective first, second, and third primary windings.
US09240708B2
To provide a rotating electrical machine for a vehicle having efficiently increased protection strength, a protective member mounted on a facing surface facing a side member of a rotating electrical machine disposed on the inner side along the width direction of the vehicle than the side member, has a protective portion apart from the outer surface of a cover forming a facing surface of the rotating electrical machine in an area of the rotating electrical machine facing the side member, and has a space ensured between the outer surface of the cover forming the facing surface of the rotating electrical machine and the protective portion.
US09240701B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery (100) includes a positive electrode mixture layer (223) coated on a positive electrode current collector (221), a negative electrode mixture layer (243) coated on a negative electrode current collector (241), and an electrolyte solution containing lithium ions at a predetermined concentration. The number of lithium ions X in the electrolyte solution impregnated per 1 cm3 of the positive electrode mixture layer (223) and the number of lithium ions Y in the electrolyte solution impregnated per 1 cm3 of the negative electrode mixture layer (243) are both 3.75×1019 or greater.
US09240699B2
There are provided an all-in-one power supply apparatus capable of concurrently supplying battery charging power and main power, in particular, main power for driving an electric vehicle, and a power supply apparatus for an electric vehicle. The power supply apparatus and the power supply apparatus for an electric vehicle respectively including: a charging unit; a main power supplying unit; and an auxiliary power supplying unit.
US09240698B2
A switching power supply device includes a full-bridge circuit comprising a plurality of switching devices, a transformer comprising a primary coil and a secondary coil, the primary coil being connected to an output of the full-bridge circuit, and a DC/DC converter comprising a rectifier circuit. The rectifier circuit includes a plurality of diodes and is connected to the secondary coil to rectify a voltage outputted from the secondary coil. A snubber circuit includes a first snubber diode connected to an intermediate point of the secondary coil, a second snubber diode connected in series with the first snubber diode, the second snubber diode being connected to one end of an output capacitor, and a snubber capacitor connected between a node between the first and second snubber diodes and a positive side output of the rectifier circuit.
US09240696B2
The present invention provides a novel method for charging silver-zinc rechargeable batteries and an apparatus for practicing the charging method. The recharging apparatus includes recharging management circuitry; and one or more of a silver-zinc cell, a host device or a charging base that includes the recharging management circuitry. The recharging management circuitry provides means for regulating recharging of the silver-zinc cell, diagnostics for evaluating battery function, and safety measures that prevent damage to the apparatus caused by charging batteries composed of materials that are not suited for the charging method (e.g., non-silver-zinc batteries).
US09240695B2
The invention discloses an USB charger with electric power display of battery being charged and a method for electric power display of battery being charged in an electronic cigarette. The USB charger includes an USB interface, a battery unit and a charging control unit, and further includes an electric power display unit. The charging control unit, being separately connected to the USB interface, the battery unit and the electric power display unit, controls an external power supply charging a battery in the battery unit through the USB interface, tests voltage of the battery being charged directly or indirectly, and further controls the electric power display unit to show updated electric power of the battery being charged in real time to user who can know current charging state of the battery.
US09240692B2
A power storage system and a method of driving the power storage system and preventing damages due to possible erroneous operations are disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a power converter that converts power, a power storage device that stores power and a main switch that is configured to switch between a charge path and a discharge path. The power storage system controls the main switch by sensing a connection between the power converter and the power storage device.
US09240682B2
Arc flash mitigation devices are employed to protect personnel during maintenance of photovoltaic inverters. During normal operation, an alternating current (AC) output of a photovoltaic inverter is coupled to a low voltage winding of a step up transformer through a bus-bar (e.g., an electrically conductive interconnect), which has higher current rating than a fuse. During maintenance, the bus-bar is replaced with the fuse. The fuse may be employed in conjunction with a switch. The switch may be a disconnect switch that places the bus-bar in parallel with the fuse during normal operation, and decouples the bus-bar from the fuse during maintenance. The switch may also be a transfer switch that places either the bus-bar or the fuse in series with the AC output of the photovoltaic inverter and the low voltage winding of the step up transformer.
US09240681B2
A superconducting magnet apparatus is provided. The superconducting magnet apparatus includes a power source configured to generate a current; a first switch coupled in parallel to the power source; a second switch coupled in series to the power source; a coil coupled in parallel to the first switch and the second switch; and a passive quench protection device coupled to the coil and configured to by-pass the current around the coil and to decouple the coil from the power source when the coil experiences a quench.
US09240679B2
An adaptive over-voltage protection circuit includes an over-voltage protection reference voltage provider and an over-voltage signal output unit. The over-voltage protection reference voltage provider provides a voltage of an over-voltage protection level higher than that of an over-voltage protection voltage corresponding to an output voltage supplied to a load from among a plurality of different over-voltage protection levels as an over-voltage protection reference voltage when the output voltage reaches a range of a rated voltage of the load. The over-voltage signal output unit outputs an over-voltage signal indicating an over-voltage by comparing the over-voltage protection voltage with the over-voltage protection reference voltage.
US09240678B2
There is provided an electrical junction box which can improve rigidity of a case body. An electrical junction box includes a block, a case body and an inner cover which regulates a wiring path of an electric wire attached to the block. The case body is formed into a deep box-like shape having a peripheral wall, a bottom wall and an opening portion, wherein a portion of the case body adjacent to the bottom wall has a tapered shape. Cutout portions are formed at two opposing faces of the peripheral wall. A width of the cutout portion is smaller when the case body is in a natural condition in which the block is not housed in the case body than when the block is housed in the case body. The width of the cutout portion is broadened as the block is inserted into the case body.
US09240675B2
A quantum cascade laser includes a semiconductor substrate including a principal surface; a mesa waveguide disposed on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, the mesa waveguide including a light emitting region and an upper cladding layer disposed on the light emitting region, the mesa waveguide extending in a direction orthogonal to a reference direction; and a current blocking layer formed on a side surface of the mesa waveguide. The light emitting region includes a plurality of core regions and a plurality of buried regions. The core regions and the buried regions are alternately arranged in the reference direction. The core region at a central portion of the mesa waveguide has a width larger than a width of the core region at a peripheral portion of the mesa waveguide in the reference direction.
US09240669B2
A method and passive device for the coherent combination of two amplified and/or spectrally broadened optical beams using at least one bidirectional optical component (A1, A2), the device includes an amplitude division ring interferometer having optical splitting and recombining elements disposed so as to receive an incident optical beam (S0) and to split it spatially into a first secondary input beam (H1) and a second secondary input beam (H2), optical guiding elements disposed so as to define an optical path in the form of a ring in the interferometer, the at least one bidirectional optical component being disposed on the optical path of the ring interferometer, the splitting and recombining elements being disposed in such a way as to receive and to recombine spatially, temporally and coherently the first secondary output beam (H1″) and the second secondary output beam (H2″), so as to form a coherent output beam.
US09240664B2
A method and system for performing injects of halogen gas into the chambers of a two chamber gas discharge laser such as a MOPA excimer laser for allowing operation of the laser within acceptable parameters and compensating for ageing effects without the necessity of performing refills is described. A parameter reflecting efficiency of the laser is measured, and the change in the parameter with respect to the length of laser operation is estimated. The change in the parameter with respect to the pressure in one of the chambers is also measured. At a given time, the total change in the value of the parameter is estimated, and from this change in pressure that is needed to reverse the change in the value of the parameter is calculated. The pressure in the chamber is then changed to correct for the amount of time that the laser has been in operation.
US09240657B2
A socket connector includes an insulative base (2), a plurality of contacts (3) therein with an engaging portion (32) and a floating cover (5). The floating cover (5) includes a plurality of through holes (53) for receiving the engaging portions (32) extending therethrough. The socket connector includes a metallic shell (4) having a plurality of receiving holes (41) for receiving the contacts therein and electrically engaging with a metallic surface (52) formed on bottom of the floating cover (5).
US09240656B1
A connector assembly includes a cable bundle, a backshell, and a conductive gasket. The cable bundle includes a plurality of cables. The cables each have at least one inner conductor, a grounding element, and a cover layer that surrounds the at least one inner conductor and the grounding element. The backshell has walls defining a cavity. The cavity receives a terminating end of the cable bundle. The backshell has a cable end. The cable bundle extends from the backshell through a cable opening at the cable end. The conductive gasket is held within the cavity of the backshell at least proximate to the cable opening. The conductive gasket is electrically connected to the backshell. The conductive gasket extends between the cables of the cable bundle. The conductive gasket engages the grounding elements of the cables to provide electrical current paths between each of the cables and the backshell.
US09240653B2
A plug side surface of a plug housing is provided with a claw portion. The claw portion includes a plug lock surface facing in a direction away from a connector mounting surface. Each assistant fitting of a receptacle connector includes a receptacle lock surface that faces in a direction approaching the connector mounting surface and is opposed to the plug lock surface in a mated state. The plug lock surface includes a lock maintaining surface and an unlocking surface. Further an angle formed between a reference plane and the lock maintaining surface is a lock maintaining angle and an angle formed between the reference plane and the unlocking surface is an unlocking angle, the lock maintaining angle is smaller than the unlocking angle.
US09240652B2
A protection device for protecting a power cable connector includes one sensor, a separation mechanism and a processing unit. The sensor is for sensing a relative distance and a moving speed of an external object. The separation mechanism is connected to the power cable connector in a separable manner. The processing unit is electrically connected to the sensor for controlling the separation mechanism to separate from the power cable connector as the sensor senses that the relative distance is less than a separation distance and the moving speed is not zero.
US09240648B2
An implantable medical device includes a housing and a header mounted to the housing, the header including a header body having a bore with an electrical contact located within the bore, wherein the electrical contact includes a helical coil spring having an axial bore, wherein the axial bore of the helical coil spring is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the bore.
US09240642B2
A connector is disclosed having a flat cable connecting portion connected to a flat cable and a flat mating portion mated with another connector. The connector comprises a plurality of terminals arranged on the mating portion for establishing contact with terminals on the other connector, a conductive connecting portion exposed on the cable connecting portion and connected to conductive trace connecting portions on the flat cable, and a plurality of wiring lines extending from the mating portion to the cable connecting portion, each one electrically connecting a terminal to the corresponding conductive trace connecting portion. The conductive connecting portion has a protrusion formed on the wiring lines. The upper surface of the protrusion is substantially the same height as one outer surface of the cable connecting portion.
US09240641B2
An electric connector to be mounted on a printed circuit board, includes a housing having an inner space into which a second electric connector is inserted in a direction in which a plane of the printed circuit board is extensive, and at least one fixer through which the housing is fixed on the printed circuit board, the fixer including an extending portion extending from a floor portion of the housing towards outside of the housing, and making contact at a lower surface thereof with a surface of the printed circuit board, the extending portion being fixed at a lower surface thereof on the surface of the printed circuit board to cause the electric connector to be fixed on the surface of the printed circuit board.
US09240635B2
In a female crimp terminal having a pressure-bonding section which allows pressure-bonding and connection of a conductor tip in an insulated wire obtained by coating a conductor with an insulating cover and having the conductor tip in which the conductor is exposed by peeling off the insulating cover in a tip side, the pressure-bonding section is constructed by arranging a conductor pressure-bonding section and a cover pressure-bonding section from a tip side to a base end side in a long length direction in this order, the conductor pressure-bonding section pressure-bonding the conductor tip, and the cover pressure-bonding section pressure-bonding a conductor tip portion in the tip side of the insulating cover, the cover pressure-bonding section is formed into a hollow shape which can surround the conductor tip portion, and the conductor pressure-bonding section is formed to have a smaller diameter than the cover pressure-bonding section, and is formed into a hollow shape which can surround the conductor tip.
US09240633B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power devices. A device may include a transmit antenna and a metallic structure spaced from and configured for detuning the transmit antenna. The device may further include a circuit for tuning the transmit antenna.
US09240631B2
A reduced ground plane shorted microstrip antenna comprising: a metal ground plane having a radius of about 0.24λ; a substrate comprising a material having a dielectric constant of at least 4 disposed on top of said ground plane; a metal top layer including a radiating patch disposed on top of said substrate; a shorting wall disposed between said ground plane and said patch; and a power feedline connected to the metal top layer such that the top layer impedance and the feedline impedance match.
US09240630B2
An implantable medical device includes a housing. An opening is present in the housing. The implantable medical device includes an antenna in the housing, where the antenna is located below the opening. The implantable medical device includes a cover coupled to edges of the housing defining the opening to close the opening. The cover enables passage of radio frequency signals at one or more communication frequencies to and from the antenna. The implantable medical device also includes an antenna shield positioned above the cover. The antenna shield reduces passage of radio frequency signals to and from at least a portion of the antenna during use.
US09240627B2
A handheld device and a planar antenna thereof are provided. The planar antenna comprises a radiator with an open terminal, a short terminal, a first feeding terminal and a second feeding terminal. The short terminal is coupled to a ground terminal. The first feeding terminal is formed between the open terminal and the short terminal, and coupled to a radio frequency (RF) signal terminal. The second feeding terminal is formed between the open terminal and the first feeding terminal, and coupled to the first feeding terminal by a transmission line and a switch element. The radiator resonates at the first central frequency when the switch element is turned off, and resonates at the second central frequency when the switch element is turned on.
US09240626B2
A mount for mounting a reflector of a satellite dish is provided. In one embodiment, the mount includes one or more first hooks and one or more second hooks located offset from the one or more first hooks, wherein the one or more second hooks are spring loaded and the one or more first hooks and the one or more second hooks fasten the reflector of the satellite dish to the mount.
US09240624B2
An integrated circuit includes a silicon-on-insulator wafer and interconnect layer providing a support for a coplanar waveguide formed above a top side of the support. A through-silicon via is formed from a back side of the support and passing through the silicon-on-insulator wafer to reach the interconnect layer. A trench is formed from the back side of the support underneath the coplanar waveguide. The trench extends over at least an entire length of the coplanar waveguide. The trench passes through the silicon-on-insulator wafer to reach the interconnect layer and may have a substantially same depth as the through-silicon via.
US09240622B2
A circuit arrangement includes an antenna port, a transmission port, and a reception port, each of which is connected to one respective 90° hybrid that splits an input signal into two output signals that are in quadrature. The circuit arrangement also includes two duplexers which are connected in such a way that the two output signals emitted by the 90° hybrid that is connected to the transmission port constructively interfere on the antenna port, while spurious signals caused by the two output signals destructively interfere on the reception port.
US09240619B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus generally comprises a plurality of pairs of differential transmission lines. The plurality of pairs of differential transmission lines includes a set of pairs of differential transmission lines with each pair of differential transmission lines from the set of pairs of differential transmission lines including at least one twist to alternate current direction. Also, the plurality of differential transmission lines are arranged such that alternating current directions substantially eliminate cross-talk across the plurality of pairs of differential transmission lines.
US09240617B2
An electrode assembly for a secondary battery comprising an adiabatic plate attached to the negative electrode plate is disclosed. The electrode assembly comprises a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode collector, a positive electrode coating, and a non-coated area on the positive electrode collector. The negative electrode plate has a negative electrode collector, a negative electrode coating, and a non-coated area on the negative electrode collector. A separator insulates the positive and negative electrode plates. Positive and negative electrode tabs are attached to the non-coated areas of the positive and negative electrode collectors. The negative electrode plate has an adiabatic plate attached to the surface of a non-coated area of the negative electrode collector that is opposite the surface to which the negative electrode tab is attached. This construction improves battery stability and prevents short circuits caused either by heat generated during overcharging or by an internal short circuit.
US09240612B2
Electrochemical devices which incorporate cathode materials that include layered crystalline compounds for which a structural modification has been achieved which increases the diffusion rate of multi-valent ions into and out of the cathode materials. Examples in which the layer spacing of the layered electrode materials is modified to have a specific spacing range such that the spacing is optimal for diffusion of magnesium ions are presented. An electrochemical cell comprised of a positive intercalation electrode, a negative metal electrode, and a separator impregnated with a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing multi-valent ions and arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode active material is described.
US09240608B2
A polyelectrolyte membrane fuel cell apparatus, includes a backing plate, a top clamping plate, at least one in-plane planar fuel cell assembly interposed between the top plate and the backing plate, and a current collector foil interposed between the planar fuel cell(s) and the top clamping plate, the current collector foil including an electrically non-conductive foil having a pattern of electrically conductive material provided thereon on the side facing the planar fuel cell. The fuel cell apparatus is held together by spot welds between the top clamping plate and the backing plate.
US09240597B2
In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for fabricating a solid oxide fuel cell is described. The method includes synthesizing a composition having a perovskite present therein. The method further includes applying the composition on an electrolyte support to form an anode and applying Ni to the composition on the anode.
US09240588B2
In at least one embodiment, a rechargeable battery is provided comprising an anode having an active material including MSb2O4 having a purity level of greater than 93 percent by weight, wherein M is a metal. The metal may have an oxidation state of 2+ and may include transition metals and/or alkali-earth metals. The anode active material may be synthesized using metal acetates or metal oxides. The synthesis may include heating at a first temperature to remove oxygen and water and reacting at a second temperature to form the MSb2O4 structure, which may be a spinel crystal structure.
US09240586B2
There is a composition comprising 1 to 17.5 wt. % ionomer composition comprising hydrocarbon ionomer and 50 to 99 wt. % carbon-sulfur composite made from carbon powder having a surface area of about 50 to 4,000 square meters per gram and a pore volume of about 0.5 to 6 cubic centimeters per gram. The composite has 5 to 95 wt. % sulfur compound. There is also a layering comprising a plurality of coatings. Respective coatings in the plurality of coatings comprise respective compositions. The respective coatings comprise at least one ionomer composition comprising hydrocarbon ionomer and at least one carbon-sulfur composite of carbon powder and sulfur compound. There are also electrodes comprising the composition or layering and methods of using such in cells.
US09240584B1
A method and apparatus for manufacturing electrochemical cells. The apparatus and method includes the modification of solid phase material used in electrochemical cells, such as batteries, into a viscous phase for ease of metering and dispensing onto a hot wall reactor to create a substantially uniform cloud of vapor to be deposited on a substrate or other stacks of cells in a continuous or semi-continuous process and having the useful advantage of depositing large volumes of materials for economical manufacturing.
US09240576B2
If a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a seal structure between a lid and an electrode terminal in which a seal member is compressed by fastening a nut, the nut may be loosened to make the amount of compression of the seal member insufficient to reduce the seal performance even if the nut is fastened enough to obtain an appropriate amount of compression of the seal member at the time of manufacture of the battery. A battery case has an opening, and houses an electrode group and an organic electrolyte. A lid is fastened to the battery case, and tightly seals the opening of the battery case. An electrode terminal is electrically connected to the electrode group. The lid and the electrode terminal face each other via an elastic member.
US09240575B2
A power supply apparatus includes a formed article having two or more separate accommodating cavities and an electrode group that comprises a rolled up laminate and is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the laminate composed of a cathode and an anode, each having a current collector and mixture layers disposed on the current collector, and a separator sandwiched between the cathode and the anode. An electrolytic solution is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the electrolytic solution, and the anode or the cathode contact the formed article.
US09240574B2
Provided is a secondary battery with improved safety through filling a polymer in a hardened state, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing a secondary battery according to the present disclosure includes preparing a polymer slurry by adding a polymer particle to an electrolyte solution, injecting the polymer slurry to a battery casing in which an electrode assembly is received, changing the polymer slurry to a polymer solution by heating the battery casing, and hardening the polymer solution by cooling the battery casing.
US09240572B2
A vapor deposition device includes a vapor deposition source (60) having a plurality of vapor deposition source openings (61) that discharge vapor deposition particles (91), a limiting unit (80) having a plurality of limiting openings (82), and a vapor deposition mask (70) in which a plurality of mask openings (71) are formed only in a plurality of vapor deposition regions (72) where the vapor deposition particles that have passed through a plurality of limiting openings reach. The plurality of vapor deposition regions are arranged along a second direction that is orthogonal to the normal line direction of the substrate (10) and the movement direction of the substrate, with non-vapor deposition regions (73) where the vapor deposition particles do not reach being sandwiched therebetween. Mask openings through which the vapor deposition particles pass are formed at different positions in the movement direction of the substrate from the positions of the non-vapor deposition regions located on a straight line parallel to the second direction, as viewed along the normal line direction of the substrate. Accordingly, it is possible to stably form a vapor deposition coating film in which edge blurring is suppressed at a desired position on a substrate.
US09240559B2
A phosphorescent compound is represented by following Formula:
US09240557B2
An amine derivative having a phenanthroimidazole group, an organic electroluminescence material, and an electroluminescence device, the amine derivative being represented by Formula 1, below:
US09240545B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving, using one or more processors, a trigger expression. The method may include processing, using the one or more processors, the trigger expression, the trigger expression comprising a first one or more terms comprising a first one or more fields, to generate a reduced trigger expression. The reduced trigger expression includes a second one or more terms comprising a second one or more fields and being logically equivalent to the trigger expression. The method may include generating, using the one or more processors, a dynamic state machine by generating a first data structure comprising each of the second one or more fields, generating, based on the first data structure, an expanded trigger expression by adding one or more additional terms for possible state transitions, and generating, based on the expanded trigger expression, a second data structure.
US09240543B2
In a method for manufacturing an electronic device, an ion implantation layer is formed at a desired depth from one principal surface of a piezoelectric single crystal substrate by implanting hydrogen ions into the piezoelectric single crystal substrate under desired conditions. The piezoelectric single crystal substrate in which the ion implantation layer has been formed is bonded to a supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric thin film is then formed by the application of heat using the ion implantation layer as a detaching interface. This heated detachment is performed at a reduced pressure less than atmospheric pressure and at a heating temperature determined in accordance with the reduced pressure.
US09240540B2
In a piezoelectric device and a method of manufacturing thereof, after an ion implanted portion is formed in a piezoelectric single crystal substrate by implantation of hydrogen ions, an interlayer of a metal is formed on a rear surface of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate. In addition, a support member is bonded to the piezoelectric single crystal substrate with the interlayer interposed therebetween. A composite piezoelectric body in which the ion implanted portion is formed is heated at about 450° C. to about 700° C. to oxidize the metal of the interlayer so as to decrease the conductivity thereof. Accordingly, the conductivity of the interlayer is decreased, so that a piezoelectric device having excellent resonance characteristics is provided.
US09240539B2
A superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SN-SPD) microelectronic circuit is described which has higher quantum efficiency and signal-to-noise than any SN-SPD's known in the art. The material and configuration of the microelectronic circuit eliminates the polarization dependence and shows improved signal-to-noise over SN-SPD microelectronic circuits known in the art. The higher efficiency, polarization independence, and high signal-to-noise is achieved by vertically stacking two tungsten-silicide (TS) SN-SPDs and electrically connecting them in parallel. This structure forms a multilayer superconducting nanowire avalanche photo-detector (SNAP). A single photon detection device employing the multilayer (SNAP) microelectronic circuit demonstrates a peak system detection efficiency of 87.7% and a polarization dependence of less than 2%. This represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement in both system detection efficiency and reduction of polarization dependence compared to conventional SNSPDs.
US09240537B2
The present invention provides a light emitting device, which includes a light emitting diode (LED) chip, a case formed of polycyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate, and a sealant that is charged into the case to seal the LED chip. In the light emitting device, a stabilizer having a melting point that is higher than a junction temperature of the LED chip by 80° C. or more exists at a boundary surface between an inner wall surface of the case and the sealant or within 300 μm of the boundary surface.
US09240536B2
A surface-mountable optoelectronic component has a radiation passage face, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip and a chip carrier. A cavity is formed in the chip carrier and the semiconductor chip is arranged in the cavity. A molding surrounds the chip carrier at least in places. The chip carrier extends completely through the molding in a vertical direction perpendicular to the radiation passage face.
US09240534B2
A light emitting package, includes a base; a light emitting device on the base; an electrical circuit layer electrically connected to the light emitting device; an optical member formed of a light transmissive material; and a guiding member guiding the optical member, the guiding member including an opening, a first portion disposed on the uppermost surface of the base, and a second portion connected to an edge portion of the optical member. The first portion of the guiding member is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the optical member, an uppermost surface of the base is closer to the first portion of the guiding member than the second portion of the guiding member, and the edge portion of the optical member is closer to the second portion of the guiding member than the first portion of the guiding member.
US09240533B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device including an active layer emitting light with a wavelength band of 200 nm to 405 nm, and a light-transmitting layer disposed on the active layer, the light-transmitting layer having a lower part facing the active layer, wherein at least one of side and upper parts of the light-transmitting layer has a surface-processed pattern portion.
US09240530B2
Light emitter devices having improved chemical and physical resistance and related methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the light emitter device includes a light emission area with a cavity with one or more light emitting chips disposed within the cavity. The device can further include a filling material at least partially disposed over the one or more light emitting chips. The filling material can include a first discrete layer of phosphor containing material and a second discrete clear barrier layer. The clear barrier layer can include a layer of glass.
US09240525B2
It is an object to provide a flexible light-emitting device with high reliability in a simple way. Further, it is an object to provide an electronic device or a lighting device each mounted with the light-emitting device. A light-emitting device with high reliability can be obtained with the use of a light-emitting device having the following structure: an element portion including a light-emitting element is interposed between a substrate having flexibility and a light-transmitting property with respect to visible light and a metal substrate; and insulating layers provided over and under the element portion are in contact with each other in the outer periphery of the element portion to seal the element portion. Further, by mounting an electronic device or a lighting device with a light-emitting device having such a structure, an electronic device or a lighting device with high reliability can be obtained.
US09240503B2
A photodiode structure includes a photodiode and a concave reflector disposed below the photodiode. The concave reflector is arranged to reflect incident light from above back toward the photodiode.
US09240501B2
A compound-based thin film solar cell which has a high photovoltaic conversion efficiency is obtained. The compound-based thin film solar cell is provided with substrate (1), back surface electrode layer (2) formed on substrate (1), p-type light absorption layer (3) formed on back surface electrode layer (2), n-type high resistance buffer layer (4) formed on p-type light absorption layer (3), and ZnO film (5) formed on n-type high resistance buffer layer (4), where n-type high resistance buffer layer (4) includes a first buffer layer (4A) formed on the p-type light absorption layer (3) and a second buffer layer (4B) formed on the first buffer layer (4A) and where the second buffer layer (4B) is formed by a material which has a lattice constant closer to the lattice constant of the ZnO film (5) than the first buffer layer (4A).
US09240491B2
A semiconductor device (100A) has an oxide semiconductor layer (11). The oxide semiconductor layer (11) has a channel region (11c), and a source region (11s) and drain region (11d) positioned on respective sides of the channel region (11c). The source region (11s) has a low-resistance source region (11sx) that has a lower resistance than the channel region (11c), and the drain region (11d) has a low-resistance drain region (11dx) that has a lower resistance than the channel region (11c). The carrier concentrations of the low-resistance source region (11sx) and the low-resistance drain region (11dx) become progressively lower from a connecting portion between a source electrode (17) and the low-resistance source region (11sx) and a connecting portion between a drain electrode (18) and the low-resistance drain region (11dx) towards the channel region (11c).
US09240486B2
A thin-film transistor, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device including the same are provided. The thin-film transistor may include a substrate, and an active layer formed on the substrate. The active layer may be made from an oxide semiconductor. A gate electrode may be formed above the active layer or below the active layer. A conductive layer may come in contact with the active layer, may be overlapped with at least a part of the gate electrode, and may be insulated from the gate electrode. A source electrode and a drain electrode may be electrically connected to the active layer. The conductive layer can reduce a channel length of the thin-film transistor and increase a capacitance between the source electrode and the gate electrode or between the drain electrode and the gate electrode.
US09240485B2
A thin film transistor comprises a substrate; a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; a gate insulating layer between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer or between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes; an etching stop layer between the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrodes having a source contact hole and a drain contact hole therein; and a source buffer layer between the source electrode and the semiconductor layer and a drain buffer layer between the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer. The source and drain electrodes are metal Cu electrodes, and the source and drain buffer layers are Cu alloy layer.
US09240483B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin-type active region; a gate dielectric layer covering an upper surface and opposite lateral surfaces of the fin-type active region; and a gate line extending on the gate dielectric layer to cover the upper surface and opposite lateral surfaces of the fin-type active region and to cross the fin-type active region. The gate line includes an aluminum (Al) doped metal-containing layer extending to cover the upper surface and opposite lateral surfaces of the fin-type active region to a uniform thickness, and a gap-fill metal layer extending on the Al doped metal-containing layer over the fin-type active region. Related fabrication methods are also described.
US09240468B2
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same. The device includes a semiconductor substrate. The device also includes a bipolar transistor on the semiconductor substrate. The bipolar transistor includes an emitter. The bipolar transistor also includes a base located above the emitter. The bipolar transistor further includes a laterally extending collector located above the base. The collector includes a portion that extends past an edge of the base.
US09240464B2
A manufacturing method of a power MOSFET employs a hard mask film over a portion of the wafer surface as a polishing stopper, between two successive polishing steps. After embedded epitaxial growth is performed in a state where a hard mask film for forming trenches is present in at least a scribe region of a wafer, primary polishing is performed by using the hard mask film as a stopper, and secondary polishing is then performed after the hard mask film is removed.
US09240456B2
A method includes forming on a first main surface of a semiconductor wafer of a first conduction type, a gate electrode of a semiconductor element, an edge termination region for forming a breakdown voltage of the semiconductor element, and a first semiconductor region of a second conduction type which surrounds the semiconductor element and the edge termination region. A groove may be formed to reach the first semiconductor region from a second main surface of the semiconductor wafer. The groove is formed so that a portion of the semiconductor wafer, that forms an outer circumferential end of the semiconductor wafer, remains and the groove is further towards a center of the semiconductor wafer than the outer circumferential end. A third semiconductor region of the second conduction type is on a side wall of the groove and electrically connects the first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region.
US09240452B2
An array or moat isolation structure for eDRAM with heterogeneous deep trench fill and methods of manufacture is provided. The method includes forming a deep trench for a memory array and an isolation region. The method further includes forming a node dielectric on exposed surfaces of the deep trench for the memory array and the isolation region. The method further includes filling remaining portions of the deep trench for the memory array with a metal, and lining the deep trench of the isolation region with the metal. The method further includes filling remaining portions of the deep trench for the isolation region with a material, on the metal within the deep trench for the memory array. The method further includes recessing the metal within the deep trench for the memory array and the isolation region. The metal in the deep trench of the memory array is recessed to a greater depth than the metal in the isolation region.
US09240445B2
A lateral semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a resistive field plate. The semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region at a surface portion, and the second semiconductor region makes a circuit around the first semiconductor region. The insulating layer is formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer and is disposed between the first and second semiconductor regions. The resistive field plate is formed on a surface of the insulating layer. Between the first and second semiconductor regions, a first section and a second section are adjacent to each other along a circumferential direction around the first semiconductor region. The resistive field plate includes first and second resistive field plate sections respectively formed in the first and second sections, and the first and second resistive field plate sections are separated from each other.
US09240437B2
A process of fabricating a flexible TFT back-panel on a glass support includes a step of providing a flat glass support member sufficiently thick to prevent bending during the processing. A layer of etch stop material is positioned on the upper surface of the glass support member and an insulating buffer layer is positioned on the layer of etch stop material. A TFT back-panel is positioned on the insulating buffer layer and a flexible plastic carrier is affixed to the TFT back-panel. The glass support member is etched away, whereby a flexible TFT back-panel is provided. The TFT back-panel can include a matrix of either OLED cells or LCD cells.
US09240433B2
A light emitting device including a light emitting structure comprising a plurality of light emitting regions comprising a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer, a first electrode unit disposed on the first semiconductor layer in one of the light emitting regions, a second electrode unit disposed on the second semiconductor layer in another of the light emitting regions, and at least one connection electrode to sequentially connect the light emitting regions in series, wherein the light emitting regions connected in series are divided into 1st to ith light emitting region groups and areas of light emitting regions that belong to different groups are different (where 1
US09240432B2
A method for forming a back-illuminated image sensor includes forming a higher doped crystalline layer on a crystalline substrate, growing a lower doped crystalline layer on the higher doped crystalline layer and forming a photodiode and component circuitry from the lower doped crystalline layer. Metallization structures are formed to make connections to and between components. The crystalline substrate is removed to expose the higher doped crystalline layer. An optical component structure is provided on an exposed surface of the higher doped crystalline layer to receive light therein such that the higher doped crystalline layer provides a passivation layer for the photodiode and the component circuitry.
US09240423B2
A display device includes: an insulating substrate comprising a first region and a second region; a thin-film transistor (TFT) formed on the first region comprising a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; and a storage capacitor formed on the second region, wherein the storage capacitor comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a first interlayer insulating film, where the first and second electrodes face each other and are made of a transparent conductive material, wherein the interlayer insulating film is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and wherein the first electrode is formed on the entire surface of the first substrate as one body and receives a common voltage, and the second electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US09240421B2
A display panel is discloses. A gate line and a gate connection line of an array substrate are disposed perpendicular to each other. A passivation layer is formed on a side of a source electrode or a drain electrode of the array substrate which is close to the color filter substrate. A first via hole is disposed in the passivation layer. A color filter substrate includes a first substrate, and a data line parallel to the gate connection line is formed on a side of the first substrate which is close to the array substrate. A protection layer, a black matrix and a common electrode are sequentially formed on a side of the data line which is close to the array substrate. A second via hole is disposed in a region of the protection layer, the black matrix and the common electrode which corresponds to the data line. A first end of a conductive spacer is connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode by way of the first via hole, a second end of the conductive spacer is connected to the data line by way of the second via hole. A method for fabricating a display panel and a display device are further disclosed.
US09240412B2
Semiconductor structures, devices, and methods of forming the structures and device are disclosed. Exemplary structures include multi-gate or FinFET structures that can include both re-channel MOS (NMOS) and p-channel MOS (PMOS) devices to form CMOS structures and devices on a substrate. The devices can be formed using selective epitaxy and shallow trench isolation techniques.
US09240405B2
An integrated circuit memory device, including a memory circuit and a peripheral circuit, is described which is suitable for low cost manufacturing. The memory circuit and peripheral circuit for the device are implemented in different layers of a stacked structure. The memory circuit layer and the peripheral circuit layer include complementary interconnect surfaces, which upon mating together establish the electrical interconnection between the memory circuit and the peripheral circuit. The memory circuit layer and the peripheral circuit layer can be formed separately using different processes on different substrates in different fabrication lines. This enables the use of independent fabrication process technologies, one arranged for the memory array, and another arranged for the supporting peripheral circuit. The separate circuitry can then be stacked and bonded together.
US09240404B2
An embedded resistor structure in an integrated circuit that can be formed in a replacement gate high-k metal gate metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) technology process flow. The structure is formed by etching a trench into the substrate, either by removing a shallow trench isolation structure or by silicon etch at the desired location. Deposition of the dummy gate polysilicon layer fills the trench with polysilicon; the resistor polysilicon portion is protected from dummy gate polysilicon removal by a hard mask layer. The resistor polysilicon can be doped during source/drain implant, and can have its contact locations silicide-clad without degrading the metal gate electrode.
US09240398B2
A method for producing an image pickup apparatus includes processes of: cutting an image pickup chip substrate to fabricate a plurality of image pickup chips; bonding the image pickup chips to a glass wafer via a transparent adhesive layer as well as bonding dummy chips to an outer peripheral region of the glass wafer where the image pickup chips are not bonded to fabricate a joined wafer; filling a sealing member between the image pickup chips and the dummy chips; machining the joined wafer to thin a thickness; and cutting the joined wafer.
US09240396B2
This disclosure provides a pixel structure of inorganic light emitting diode. A first power line is disposed between two adjacent first sub-pixel and second sub-pixel, and the first sub-pixel and second sub-pixel are electrically connected to the same first power line. Also, a first reference line is disposed on an opposite side of the first sub-pixel away from the second sub-pixel, and a second reference line is disposed on an opposite side of the second sub-pixel away from the first sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel have substantially the same length.
US09240394B1
An integrated circuit comprises a heat sink devoid of electronic components and interposed between a back side of a bottom electronic chip and an upper exterior side of an encapsulation, the sink comprising a front side placed on the back side of the bottom electronic chip. The back side of the bottom electronic chip comprises pads and the front side of the sink comprises pads mechanically fastened to facing pads of the back side of the bottom electronic chip.
US09240393B2
A semiconductor device including two or more die stacks mounted to a substrate. The first die stack is mounted, at least partially encapsulated, and then tested. If the first die stack functions within predefined parameters, a second die stack is mounted on the first die stack, and then the device may undergo a second encapsulation process. Testing the first die stack before mounting the second improves yield by identifying faulty semiconductor die before all die are mounted within the semiconductor device.
US09240391B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip; a second semiconductor chip placed such that a front face of the second semiconductor chip faces a front face of the first semiconductor chip, and being smaller in size than the first semiconductor chip; an expansion portion extending outward from at least one side face of the second semiconductor chip; a wiring board placed such that a front face of the wiring board faces the front face of the first semiconductor chip and a back face of the second semiconductor chip; and a first interconnect formed on the back face of the second semiconductor chip and a back face of the expansion portion, and being in connection to the wiring board.
US09240344B2
A method for manufacturing a SOI wafer, including a step of performing a thickness reducing adjustment to a SOI layer of the SOI wafer by carrying out a sacrificial oxidation to the SOI wafer for effecting thermal oxidation to a surface of the SOI layer and removing a formed thermal oxide film, wherein, when the thermal oxidation in the sacrificial oxidation treatment is carried out with the use of a batch processing heat treatment furnace during the rising of a temperature and/or the falling of a temperature, a substantially concentric oxide film thickness distribution is formed on the surface of the SOI layer. The result is a method for manufacturing a SOI wafer that enables manufacturing a SOI wafer that has improved radial film thickness distribution with good productivity by performing the sacrificial oxidation treatment for forming a substantially concentric oxide film and removing the formed thermal oxide film.
US09240339B2
A substrate holder is reliably transported in a state of holding a substrate. There is provided a substrate holder for holding a substrate by means of electrostatic force generated by power supplied from an external source. The substrate holder is to be transported in a state of holding the substrate. The substrate holder includes a holder body that is to have the substrate placed thereon, and a connector terminal that is externally exposed through the holder body, where the connector terminal is attachable to and detachable from an external power supply terminal. There is also provided a substrate transport apparatus for transporting a substrate holder holding a substrate by means of electrostatic force generated by power supplied from an external source. The substrate transport apparatus includes a placement section that has a placement surface on which the substrate holder is placed, where the placement section holds the substrate holder, and a power supply terminal that supplies power to the substrate holder placed on the placement surface.
US09240323B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device can be provided by forming an opening that exposes a surface of an elevated source/drain region. The size of the opening can be reduced and a pre-amorphization implant (PAI) can be performed into the elevated source/drain region, through the opening, to form an amorphized portion of the elevated source/drain region. A metal-silicide can be formed from a metal and the amorphized portion.
US09240316B2
Epitaxially coated semiconductor wafers are prepared by a process in which a semiconductor wafer polished at least on its front side is placed on a susceptor in a single-wafer epitaxy reactor and epitaxially coated on its polished front side at temperatures of 1000-1200° C., wherein, after coating, the semiconductor wafer is cooled in the temperature range from 1200° C. to 900° C. at a rate of less than 5° C. per second. In a second method for producing an epitaxially coated wafer, the wafer is placed on a susceptor in the epitaxy reactor and epitaxially coated on its polished front side at a deposition temperature of 1000-1200° C., and after coating, and while still at the deposition temperature, the wafer is raised for 1-60 seconds to break connections between susceptor and wafer produced by deposited semiconductor material before the wafer is cooled.
US09240304B2
In at least one embodiment, a specimen holder tip part comprises a specimen setting seat, a specimen mesh for mounting a specimen, a specimen holding part for holding the specimen mesh and a clamping part that clamps the specimen holding part.
US09240301B1
An electron source is made from mixed-metal carbide materials of high refractory nature. Producing field-enhanced thermionic emission, i.e., thermal-field or extended Schottky emission, from these materials entails the use of a certain low work function crystallographic direction, such as, for example, (100), (210), and (310). These materials do not naturally facet because of their refractory nature. The disclosed electron source made from transition metal carbide material is especially useful when installed in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) performing advanced imaging applications that require a high brightness, high beam current source.
US09240297B2
A touch screen panel includes a substrate having a touch area and a routing wiring area, a plurality of first electrode serials formed in a first direction in the touch area, a plurality of second electrode serials which are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction in the touch area so that the first and second electrode serials do not contact, a plurality of first routing wires which are formed in the routing wiring area and are respectively connected to one ends of the first electrode serials, and a plurality of second routing wires which are formed in the routing wiring area and are respectively connected to one ends of the second electrode serials. Odd-numbered first routing wires and even-numbered first routing wires of the first routing wires are formed on different layers.
US09240295B2
Disclosed is keypad circuitry operable to detect a pressed key while reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI). The keypad circuitry is operable to reduce EMI in two ways: a) reducing the voltage swing occurring at the row circuitry and column circuitry of the keypad, and b) reducing the number of signal transitions by restricting the signal transitions to occurring at the column and row corresponding to a pressed key. By limiting signal transitions to occurring only at the row and column corresponding to a pressed key, fewer signal transitions occur, and thus, less EMI is produced. Additionally, reduced voltage swings at the row circuitry and column circuitry results in reduced EMI.
US09240293B2
A circuit tracer for use with circuit breakers equipped with sensors capable of sensing at least a change in the power consumption of the circuit and transmitting, preferably wirelessly, such information. The information is received directly or indirectly by a circuit tracer having a display, the display showing all the circuit breakers equipped with the sensors. Upon changing the load of an electricity outlet, such as a wall outlet, a light source, HVAC, pump, electrical machinery, etc., the sensor equipped circuit breaker provides an indication of such power or current consumption change to the circuit tracer. This allows the user of the circuit tracer to associate on the circuit tracer the circuit breaker with the specific electricity outlet. The association information may be saved on a central server or database for future use.
US09240282B2
A variable capacitor includes a plurality of variable capacitor elements connected in parallel with one another, the variable capacitor elements each including a fixed electrode and a movable electrode facing each other, a beam supporting the movable electrode displaceably, and a drive electrode supplied with a drive voltage to change spacing between the fixed electrode and the movable electrode. The variable capacitor further includes a drive control unit configured to sequentially apply an AC drive voltage to the drive electrodes of the variable capacitor elements with a predetermined phase difference for each element. The sum of capacitances of the variable capacitor elements is an output capacitance.
US09240281B2
There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and having first and second main surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces; a first capacitor part including a first internal electrode exposed to the first end surface and a second internal electrode exposed to the second side surface and a second capacitor part including a third internal electrode exposed to the first side surface and a fourth internal electrode exposed to the second end surface; an internal connection conductor exposed to the first and second side surfaces; and first to fourth external electrodes electrically connected to the first to fourth internal electrodes and the internal connection conductor, wherein the internal connection conductor is connected to the first and second capacitor parts in series.
US09240274B2
Disclosed herein is a common mode filter, including: an external magnetic layer; an insulating layer formed on the external magnetic layer and having coil electrodes therein; a protecting layer formed on the insulating layer; an internal magnetic layer formed inside an opening part formed in one surface of the protecting layer; and external electrode terminals passing through the protecting layer and connected with end portions of the coil electrodes, so that there can be provided a common mode filter having excellent durability, moisture resistance, and heat resistance.
US09240273B2
An electronic component having a laminate formed by laminating a plurality of insulator layers and a helical coil provided in the laminate, the coil including first and second coil conductors, and via-hole conductors provided so as to pierce through the insulator layers. The first and second coil conductors are opposed to each other via the insulator layers in a direction of lamination. The first coil conductor has a first side opposed to the second coil conductor and having a convex portion in a cross section normal to a direction in which the first coil conductor extends. The second coil conductor has a second side opposed to the first coil conductor and has a concave portion in a cross section normal to a direction in which the second coil conductor extends. The concave portion overlaps the convex portion in the direction of lamination.
US09240271B2
An apparatus includes first core spaced from a second core. The second core has a first section with a first winding, a second section with a second winding, and a third section between the first and second sections. At least one filler is included between the first core and the third section of the second core. The operational state of the apparatus changes based on the amount of magnetic flux through the filler. When the flux is at an unsaturated level, the first and second windings operate as decoupled inductors. When the flux is at a saturated level, the first and second windings operate as a coupled inductor. The amount of magnetic flux through the filler may be determined based on the size of the current through one or more of the windings and/or the magnetic permeability of the filler material.
US09240268B2
In one implementation, the present disclosure provides a method for imparting motion to a magnetically movable object. The method includes disposing the magnetically movable object over a display of an electronic device. The method further includes imparting motion to the magnetically movable object by adjusting a magnetic field that is produced by a magnetic field source, the magnetic field being applied to the magnetically movable object through the display of the electronic device. The adjusting the magnetic field can be based on a location of the magnetically movable object over the display. Furthermore, the display can be a touch sensitive display and the adjusting the magnetic field can be based on touch input of the touch sensitive display. The imparting motion can include moving the magnetically movable object around the display.
US09240259B2
The invention relates to a liquid composition that is a mixture of at least one natural triglyceride and at least one fatty acid ester different from triglycerides, wherein the fatty acids are derived from at least one vegetable oil or another equivalent natural resource.
US09240254B2
Systems and methods for characterizing films by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) are disclosed. For example, a system for characterizing a film may include an X-ray source for generating an X-ray beam having an energy below the k-edge of silicon. A sample holder may be included for positioning a sample in a pathway of the X-ray beam. A first detector may be included for collecting an XPS signal generated by bombarding the sample with the X-ray beam. A second detector may be included for collecting an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) signal generated by bombarding the sample with the X-ray beam. Monitoring/estimation of the primary X-ray flux at the analysis site may be provided by X-ray flux detectors near and at the analysis site. Both XRF and XPS signals may be normalized to the (estimated) primary X-ray flux to enable film thickness or dose measurement without the need to employ signal intensity ratios.
US09240248B2
An integrated circuit device. The device includes an address input(s) configured to receive address information from an address stream from an address command bus coupled to a host controller and an address output(s) configured to drive address information, and is coupled to a plurality of memory (DRAM) devices provided on a DIMM. The device has an address match table comprising a non-volatile memory device configured to store at least a revised address corresponding to a spare memory location and a bad address of at least one of the plurality of memory (DRAM) devices. The device has a control module configured to process and determine whether each address matches with a stored address in the address match table to identify the bad address and configured to replace the bad address with the revised address of the spare memory location.
US09240244B2
To read multilevel data from a memory cell having a transistor using silicon and a transistor using an oxide semiconductor, without switching a signal for reading the multilevel data in accordance with the number of the levels of the multilevel data. The potential of the bit line is precharged, the electrical charge of the bit line is discharged via a transistor for writing data, and the potential of the bit line which is changed by the discharging is read as multilevel data. With such a structure, the potential corresponding to data held in a gate of the transistor can be read by only one-time switching of a signal for reading data.
US09240237B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a search memory mat having a configuration in which a location with which an entry address is registered is allocated in a y-axis direction, and key data is allocated in an x-axis direction and a control circuit connected to the search memory mat. In the search memory mat, a plurality of separate memories is formed such that a region to which the key data is allocated is separated into a plurality of regions along the y-axis direction. The control circuit includes an input unit to which the key data is input, a division unit which divides the key data input to the input unit into a plurality of pieces of key data, and a writing unit which allocates each piece of divided key data by the division unit into the separate memory using the divided key data as an address.
US09240235B2
A method includes adjusting a counter value to indicate an access operation to a first portion of a non-volatile memory. The access operation is an erase operation or a write operation. The adjusted counter value indicates that a number of access operations to the first portion have been performed since an access operation to a second portion of the non-volatile memory has been performed. The method also includes selectively initiating a remedial action to the second portion in response to a comparison of the number of access operations to a threshold.
US09240233B1
An integrated circuit comprises a first circuit portion comprising a plurality of first cells, each first cell comprising a first transistor having a first voltage value at a first node, and a second transistor having a second voltage value at a second node. A second circuit portion comprises a plurality of second cells. The second cells are individually coupled with a corresponding first cell of the plurality of first cells. The second cells are selectively controllable to supply a voltage to one or more of the first cells based on an instruction to supply the voltage. The instruction to supply the voltage is based on a determined mismatch between the first voltage value and the second voltage value being greater than a predetermined threshold value.
US09240228B1
A static memory apparatus and a data reading method thereof are provided. The static memory apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of dummy memory cells, a sense amplifier, and a discharge current adjuster. The dummy memory cells respectively include a plurality discharge ends for discharging charges on a dummy bit line. The sense amplifier is enabled for a sensing and amplifying operation according to a signal on the dummy bit line, and the sense amplifier generates readout data accordingly. The discharge current adjuster adjusts at least one discharge current on at least one controlled discharge end according to an operating voltage of the memory cells.
US09240227B2
A technique for serially coupling devices in a daisy chain cascading arrangement. Devices are coupled in a daisy chain cascade arrangement such that outputs of a first device are coupled to inputs of a second device later in the daisy chain to accommodate the transfer of information, such as data, address and command information, and control signals to the second device from the first device. The devices coupled in the daisy chain comprise a serial input (SI) and a serial output (SO). Information is input to a device via the SI. The information is output from the device via the SO. The SO of an earlier device in the daisy chain cascade is coupled to the SI of a device later in the daisy chain cascade. Information input to the earlier device via the device's SI is passed through the device and output from the device via the device's SO. The information is then transferred to the later device's SI via the connection from the earlier device's SO and the later device's SI.
US09240219B2
A hard disk support for holding a hard disk drive can include a frame, a bracket, and a plurality of arched ribs. The bracket is located in the frame. The plurality of arched ribs extends from the frame toward to the bracket, and the arched ribs couple the bracket to the frame. When the hard disk support is shaken at a first orientation, the arched ribs are deformed to reduce the shock to the bracket to relieve the shock to the hard disk drive. As a result, the hard disk drive can be secured on the hard disk support without shock absorbers to absorb shock.
US09240214B2
A computing device may receive multiple recordings or transmissions from one or more source devices. The recordings may include geo-tag information to relate the recordings to a specific event. The computing device may receive from a client device a request for the recordings. Responsive to the received request, the computing device may transmit the recordings to the client device. The computing device may receive from the client device an identification of which recording(s) are preferred over the course of the event, and may compile statistics related to the preferred selections over the course of the event as received from a plurality of client devices. The computing device may generate a “best-cut” recording or summary version of the event based on the most preferred recording at various points in time during the event, based on the compiled statistics.
US09240212B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to enabling a group of users, each at a different location, to view and control synchronized streamed media content. Users may execute trick play commands plays such as pause, rewind, and fast forward so that all users see the same media content including trick play actions. The media content may originate from streaming content servers or from network-DVR servers.
US09240203B2
Various embodiments concern a gimbaled flexure having a dual stage actuation structure comprising flexure which comprises a gimbal. The gimbal comprises at least one spring arm and a tongue connected to the at least one spring arm. The dual stage actuation structure further comprises a motor mounted on the gimbal, the motor comprising a top side and a bottom side opposite the top side, the bottom side of the motor facing the flexure. The dual stage actuation structure further comprises a damper located between the motor and the flexure, the damper contacting the tongue and the bottom side of the motor. The damper comprises one or both of elastic and viscoelastic material. Various other features of a dual stage actuation structure are provided.
US09240202B1
According to one embodiment, a spin-valve element includes a nonmagnetic unit, a first magnetic unit, a second magnetic unit, a third magnetic unit, a current source, and a voltage sensor. The current source is connected to the second magnetic unit and the third magnetic unit. The current source causes a current to flow between the second magnetic unit and the third magnetic unit via the nonmagnetic unit. The voltage sensor is connected to the second magnetic unit and the third magnetic unit. A maximum length of a contact surface between the first magnetic unit and the nonmagnetic unit is not more than a spin diffusion length of the nonmagnetic unit. A length of the first magnetic unit in a direction orthogonal to the contact surface is not more than 3 times a spin diffusion length of the first magnetic unit. The first magnetic unit does not contact an external electrode.
US09240201B2
An enlarged substrate for a magnetic recording medium used in a data storage device such as a hard disc drive (HDD). In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 3½ inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 96.9 mm to 100.4 mm. In other embodiments, an apparatus comprises a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 2½ inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 66.9 mm to 71.8 mm. In other embodiments, a data storage device has a magnetic recording medium that uses an enlarged substrate as set forth above.
US09240192B2
This invention introduces apparatus and methods to efficiently encode the quantization parameters of split multi-rate lattice vector quantization. In this invention, by doing spectral analysis on the split multi-rate vector quantized spectrum, the spectrum is split to null vectors region and non-null vectors region. For the null vectors region, instead of transmitting series of indication for null vectors, an indication of null vectors region and the quantized value of index of the ending vector in the null vectors region (or the number of the null vectors in the null vectors region) are transmitted. The indication of null vectors region can be designed in many ways, the only requirement is the indication should be distinguishable in the decoder side. The ending index or the number of null vectors can be quantized by an adaptively designed codebook. By applying of the invented method, some bits can be saved from the codebook indications.
US09240191B2
An audio classifier for frame based audio signal classification includes a feature extractor configured to determine, for each of a predetermined number of consecutive frames, feature measures representing at least the following features: auto correlation, frame signal energy, inter-frame signal energy variation. A feature measure comparator is configured to compare each determined feature measure to at least one corresponding predetermined feature interval. A frame classifier is configured to calculate, for each feature interval, a fraction measure representing the total number of corresponding feature measures that fall within the feature interval, and to classify the latest of the consecutive frames as speech if each fraction measure lies within a corresponding fraction interval, and as non-speech otherwise.
US09240180B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for reducing latency in web-browsing TTS systems without the use of a plug-in or Flash® module. A system configured according to the disclosed methods allows the browser to send prosodically meaningful sections of text to a web server. A TTS server then converts intonational phrases of the text into audio and responds to the browser with the audio file. The system saves the audio file in a cache, with the file indexed by a unique identifier. As the system continues converting text into speech, when identical text appears the system uses the cached audio corresponding to the identical text without the need for re-synthesis via the TTS server.
US09240179B2
A system and method for use with a voice-capable system, includes but is not limited to receiving a vocal input to the voice-capable system, receiving one or more instructions referential to the first speech output version of the vocal input, and creating a second speech output version of the vocal input representational of the first speech output version of the vocal input manipulated responsive to the one or more instructions.
US09240178B1
A text-to-speech (TTS) system is configured with multiple voice corpuses used to synthesize speech. An incoming TTS request may be processed by a first, smaller, voice corpus to quickly return results to the user. The text of the request may be stored by the TTS system and then processed in the background using a second, larger, voice corpus. The second corpus takes longer to process but returns higher quality results. Future incoming TTS requests may be compared against the text of the first TTS request. If the text, or portions thereof match, the system may return stored results from the processing by the second corpus, thus returning high quality speech results in a shorter time.
US09240175B1
A device and method is disclosed that provides an alerting bell that can be quickly and easily disabled when desired. The bell includes a knocker portion inside a cylindrical body that is spring loaded so that it can be pulled below the bottom rim of the cylindrical body of the bell. The knocker portion and the bottom rim of the bell are modified so that the bottom portion of the knocker portion can be securely affixed to the rim of the cylindrical main body as needed to turn off the alerting function of the bell as desired.
US09240174B2
An electric stringed musical instrument includes: a string which vibrates by a performance operation; a body which supports the string via a bridge; a pickup sensor mounted on a portion which vibrates by a vibration of the string, the pickup sensor being configured to detect a vibration having propagated from the string and output an electric signal; a supporter having a spring structure which supports the bridge with respect to the body; and a damper mounted on a portion which vibrates by a vibration of the string, the damper being configured to damp a vibration of the bridge.
US09240172B2
A musical instrument effects pedal system and related methods of use are provided. The system includes rotatable control mechanisms mounted on the side of the enclosure, easily manipulated by the foot of the user, for altering the audio signal output by an instrument.
US09240160B2
In one aspect of the invention, a driving circuit has a PCB, a transmitter disposed on the PCB for providing an input signal, first and second transmission lines disposed on the PCB and electrically coupled to the transmitter for transmitting the input signal, and a plurality of source drivers formed in a COF architecture disposed between the PCB and the display panel. The input signal is an encoded signal including first and second Gamma reference voltages control signals, and image data. The first and second Gamma reference voltages are transmitted by the PLC technology through the first and second transmission lines, respectively. The driving circuit is implemented with differential transmission of the Gamma voltages, the image data and the control signals.
US09240159B2
A timing controller includes: a top voltage generator configured to output first to third top voltages; a bottom voltage generator configured to output first to third bottom voltages; a first transmitting part configured to output a first data signal for a first data driving chip, based on the first top and bottom voltages; a second transmitting part configured to output a second data signal for a second data driving chip based on the second top and bottom voltages; and a third transmitting part configured to output a third data signal for a third data driving chip based on the third top and bottom voltages, where one of the first to third top voltages is different from another of the first to third top voltages, and one of the first to third bottom voltages is different from another of the first to third bottom voltages.
US09240157B2
A source driving device, capable of reducing stand-by period and saving power consumption, includes a plurality of source drivers connected in series, which include one or more cascade source drivers. The one or more cascade source drivers include one or more first-type cascade source drivers, each of which, at different times to other first-type cascade source drivers, is respectively activated by a pulse signal generated by a previous source driver, and after the activation, is triggered by a frame signal to receive corresponding frame data in the frame signal. Each of the source drivers generates a pulse signal after receiving the corresponding frame data to activate the next source driver.
US09240150B2
A display module of the present invention includes first through third source drivers (6-1 through 6-3) (i) which are provided for respective regions into which a display region is divided and (ii) each of which includes an analysis circuit and receives a video signal for a corresponding one of the regions but receives no video signal for the regions other than the corresponding one of the regions. The third source driver (6-3) supplies, to the first and second source drivers (6-1 and 6-2), gamma (γ) setting information (19) for generating a source signal to be outputted from each of the first and second source drivers (6-1 and 6-2). The first and second source drivers (6-1 and 6-2) output respective analysis results (5a and 5b) from the respective analysis circuits. The third source driver (6-3) outputs a PWM signal (14) for controlling the light irradiation section.
US09240138B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method are discussed. The OLED display device includes a display panel, a power supply unit for supplying drive voltages having different levels respectively corresponding to a user image display mode and an idle mode to power lines of a display panel in accordance with the user image display mode and the idle mode, respectively, a timing controller for controlling the power supply unit, to thereby control image display operations in accordance with the user image display mode and the idle mode, respectively, and a drive voltage generating unit for varying a level of a feedback voltage thereof in accordance with a predetermined feedback reference voltage select signal so that the same period of time is taken to generate the drive voltages upon a mode change to the user image display mode and a mode change to the idle mode, respectively.
US09240132B2
A nanophosphor sheet is presented. The nanophosphor sheet may include a base layer, a plurality of core-shell phosphors dispersed in the base layer, and a coating layer surrounding at least one core-shell phosphor among the plurality of core-shell phosphors. Also presented is a backlight device that includes a light source emitting light, a light guide plate receiving the light, and a plurality of core-shell phosphors positioned to receive the light and convert the light to white light. The core-shell phosphors may be incorporated into the light guide plate or be positioned on the light guide plate as a separate layer.
US09240122B2
Provided is a method for controlling multiple devices in an automatic interworking manner, by which the multiple devices are controlled, according to a set of operation mstoringodes including combined functions of the multiple devices, through one central control device without individually controlling the functions of each of the multiple devices. The method includes an operation mode setting step for setting an operation mode in which performable functions of the electronic devices are combined and performed in a specific order and for storing the set operation mode in the central control device, an operation mode selecting step for selecting an operation mode to be executed in a plurality of set operation modes, and a controlling step for controlling the electronic devices according to the selected operation mode.
US09240113B2
Disclosed are a method for measuring a acoustic transfer function of a predetermined space to be secured or monitored through a correlation between sound signals acquired from a sound source generating device and a sound measuring device and a method and a system for judging whether there is an intrusion object by using a difference between an initially set acoustic transfer function information and varied acoustic transfer function information by using the method for measuring the transfer function. In the present disclosure, when an object moves or an intrusion object is generated in a predetermined space, intrusion or no intrusion is monitored by variation of the acoustic transfer function varied by the intrusion object even though there is no noise generated by the intrusion object.
US09240111B2
Inferring building metadata from distributed sensors is described. In an embodiment multiple sensors are situated at various locations in a building detecting physical quantities (e.g. light, heat, motion). The data from at least one sensor is analyzed in order to detect events occurring in proximity to the sensor. Data about an event detected at a first sensor is compared with events detected at other sensors in order to identify correlated events from which connections between the sensor locations can be inferred and a building layout generated. In some embodiments a threshold may be applied to the data in order to filter out false events. In some embodiments the building layout may be used as part of a building control system. In some embodiments the sensor data may be used to determine if the sensor has been moved.
US09240104B2
Gaming systems, devices and methods are set forth which provide for the selection and application of modifiers to game outcomes. The modifiers confer different functionalities to base game symbols or an augmenting functionality to alter or provide an outcome. Different sets of modifiers may be accessed randomly or under different conditions and event.
US09240099B2
A simulator reproduces a game running on an electronic gaming machine using a model that implements the game rules and logic of the game. The electronic gaming machine stops at predetermined breakpoints during execution of a game session and sends data to the simulator at each breakpoint and at a conclusion of the game session. The data may include random number values, other game variables, and the result of the game session. The simulator uses the data to independently reproduce the game session. Output from the simulator is used to verify the state of internal variables and/or the result received from the electronic gaming machine.
US09240096B2
The present invention is a gaming machine such as a slot machine having a housing with a light-effect arrangement for creation of light effects. The gaming machine has at least one reflector arranged on the housing such that the reflector is positioned with respect to a remote light source to reflect a light beam from the remote light source at least partly towards the front of the housing. The housing may include a light source, which may be a strip of LED lights that emits a light beam. This arrangement is particularly beneficial in modern gaming devices. A higher degree of design freedom relative to light source arrangement is achieved through the use of reflectors and the light source.
US09240094B2
Embodiments of this concept are directed to a video poker gaming device that deals five cards to a player and selects five more cards that represent the possible cards used in a later draw. From these ten cards, the gaming device if a winning combination above a threshold amount is possible. If such a winning combination is not possible, in some embodiments, the device automatically ends the game and deals a new hand. If a win over the threshold amount is possible, the gaming device allows the player to hold and draw cards. This increases the speed of play of the poker game and focuses game play on hands where winning combinations are likely.
US09240093B2
A tablet division feeder includes a moving unit to move a tablet T, a fixing blade located in a movement path of the tablet T, and a support plate extending from the fixing blade such that divided tablets T2 on the fixing blade are transferred and kept onto the support plate. The fixing blade divides the tablet T into upper and lower divided tablets as the tablet T is moved in such a manner that the lower divided tablet T1 is discharged and the upper divided tablet T2 is transferred from the fixing blade to the support plate by the moving unit and kept on the support plate. The upper divided tablet T2 is discharged from the support plate as the upper divided tablet T2 is further moved by the moving unit in such a manner that the upper divided tablet T2 is discharged from the moving unit.
US09240092B2
Vending machines designed specifically for the sale and provision of large and potentially unusually shaped items, such as sporting goods, including an electronic system for the selection and sale of the vended items. In some examples, the vending machine includes multiple product storage areas designed for holding and vending varied goods such as hockey sticks, hockey stick blades, and related accessories, with each area separate and made accessible by the electronic system as appropriate based upon the purchased products selected by a user.
US09240085B2
A ballot processing system for processing paper ballots having one or more voting selections marked thereon. The system includes an input area configured to receive a stack of ballots to be processed, a processor operable to determine the voting selections marked on the ballots, and an output area configured to store the processed ballots. In an exemplary embodiment, a printing device is operable to print a unique identifier on each of the ballots during each pass through the system. A detector is operable to detect the printed identifier so as to verify that each of the ballots was processed during a previous count of the ballots and/or to prevent double-processing of the ballots. The system also includes a printer operable to print a report that identifies ballot information in relation to the unique identifier for at least a portion of the processed ballots.
US09240084B2
A tamper alert band is provided that includes a strap with conductive and non-conductive elements or layers. The tamper alert band includes an electronic or RFID device that is configured to communicate with RFID readers and/or exciters. The strap may be a single unitary body that has a conductive layer and a non-conductive layer.
US09240079B2
A system for triggering a specialized data collection mode of a vehicle event recorder comprises an input interface, a processor, and an output interface. The input interface is configured to receive a trigger indication from an external trigger source. The processor is configured to determine whether the trigger indication comprises an indication to enter into a specialized data collection mode and, in the event that the trigger indication comprises the indication to enter into the specialized data collection mode, to determine a vehicle event recorder associated with the trigger indication. The output interface is configured to provide a specialized data collection mode indication to enter the specialized data collection mode to the vehicle event recorder in the event that the trigger indication comprises the indication to enter into the specialized data collection mode.
US09240076B2
Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including virtual object management section (104) that manages virtual object management information of the information processing apparatus thereof on a virtual object disposed in an augmented real space shared by a group to which this information processing apparatus belongs. Communication section (107) receives virtual object management information of another information processing apparatus from this other information processing apparatus belonging to another group, the information regarding a virtual object disposed in an augmented real space shared in the other group. Reference point setting section (103) sets a common reference point based on the virtual object management information of the information processing apparatus and the virtual object management information of the other information processing apparatus, the common reference point being commonly used by the other group and the group to which the information processing apparatus belongs.
US09240075B2
A server for campaign optimization is described. An experience content dataset is generated for an augmented reality application of a device based on analytics results. The analytics results are generated based on analytics data received from the device. The experience content dataset is provided to the device. The device recognizes a content identifier of the experience content dataset and generates an interactive experience with a presentation of virtual object content that is associated with the content identifier.
US09240073B2
A file format that includes a constant section and a varying section. The constant section provides a referencing scheme that references the various components that comprise the scene, as well as a listing of attributes of the scene that are modifiable. Within the same file format, the varying section provides an overriding mechanism to modify the attributes that are available to be modified. Accordingly, the disclosed file format can access cached animated geometry directly and/or aggregate other files via the aforementioned referencing and sparse override semantics. This allows the same set of inspection, manipulation, and rendering tools to be used throughout the rendering pipeline, from asset creation to final rendering.
US09240059B2
A method, article of manufacture and system for receiving, from a user device located at an environment at which a user is viewing an event both with and without the use of the user device, image data containing an image of the environment; receiving a request from the user device for an item of information that relates to the event, for placement into the image of the environment; responsive to receiving the request, accessing a database to retrieve the item of information; generating a scaled image of the item of information based on dimensions of the environment; and transmitting the scaled image for placement into the image of the environment on the user device to generate an augmented reality image.
US09240055B1
The aspects described herein relate to replacing pixels in images in order to remove obstructions from images. In one example, an image of a scene having symmetrical features and image information identifying at least one pixel of the image corresponding to a hole to be filled may be received. This hole may correspond to an obstruction in the image. A set of symmetry axes may be identified based on the symmetrical features. A symmetry map identifying correspondences between different pixels in the image based on the set of symmetry axes may be generated. A correspondence between the at least one pixel corresponding to a hole to be filled and a second pixel of the image is identified based at least in part on the symmetry map and the image information. The at least one pixel may be altered based on the identified correspondence in order to remove the obstruction.
US09240054B1
In a method for monitoring water level of a water body, a monitoring system is configured to: capture a current image that has a portion of the water body, and a remaining portion aside from the portion of the water body; process the current image into a processed image that includes a water body region corresponding to the portion of the water body, and a background region corresponding to the remaining portion of the current image; mark, on the processed image, a plurality of virtual alert points according to a predetermined water level of the water body; determine whether at least one of the virtual alert points is located within the water body region of the processed image; and generate a monitoring result according to the determination thus made.
US09240051B2
A video camera may overlook a monitored area from any feasible position. An object flow estimation module monitor the moving direction of the objects in the monitored area. It may separate the consistently moving objects from the other objects. A object count estimation module may compute the object density (e.g. crowd). A object density classification module may classify the density into customizable categories.
US09240045B2
An image diagnosis device comprising: a positioning image collection unit configured to collect a positioning image for an object; a weight distribution estimation unit configured to estimate a weight distribution of the object from the collected positioning image; a top board sagging amount estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of sagging of a top board on which the object is placed, from the estimated weight distribution; and an alignment adjustment unit configured to perform alignment for each captured image of the object, based on the estimated amount of sagging of the top board.
US09240037B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a reduced image generation unit configured to obtain a reduced image; a gain data generation unit configured to obtain gain data; and a determination unit configured to determine a control gain required to amplify the input image based on the generated gain data, and letting first gain data be the gain data for an image having a relatively high frequency, and second gain data be the gain data having a relatively low frequency, the determination unit determines the control gain based on a first addition result and a second addition result.
US09240033B2
The present disclosure discloses an image super-resolution reconstruction method, comprising the steps of: performing an edge detection on low-resolution images to be processed to obtain edge pixel frames, amplifying the edge pixel frames so that each amplified image is the double of the original edge pixel frame in size in both horizontal direction and vertical direction, without changing the detected edge pixel information, and compensating for the interpolated interpolation pixels according to different pixel edges to obtain a high-resolution image. The method can ensure the definition and integrity of the edges, and enhance the contrast without degrading image quality. At last, the previous interpolation pixels are compensated according to optimized rules, during which influences of edge pixels and surrounding pixels are comprehensively considered, so as to eliminate the sawtooth phenomenon of the output image.
US09240031B1
Provided are methods and systems for video data processing. In an exemplary system, there is a video source and a display unit. The display unit may receive video data from the video source and display it at a first refresh rate. The video source may cause the display unit to enter a power economy mode, in which the displayed video is static. In this mode, the video source stops sending new video data, while the display unit selectively stores one or more of the previously received video frames and further displays it repeatedly at a second refresh rate, which may be lower than the first refresh rate (e.g., it may be decreased from 60 Hz to 40 Hz). In the power economy mode, the power consumed is decreased, in some embodiments, by about 10-20% for both the video source and the display unit.
US09240023B1
Processes from a set of processes for use at a second triggering event may be processed by performing a subset of the set of processes in response to a first triggering event to obtain a first result. A remainder of the set of processes may be processed in response to the second triggering event occurring after the first triggering event, and using the first result, to obtain a second result.
US09240018B2
The present disclosure describes an occupant information module that reports, to a third party, occupant information regarding a vehicle occupant.
US09240016B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for implementing predictive query interface as a cloud service including means for exposing an interface to client devices operating remotely from a host organization, wherein the interface is accessible by the client devices via a public Internet; executing a predictive database at the host organization as an on-demand cloud based service for one or more subscribers; authenticating one of the client devices by verifying the client device is associated with one of the subscribers and based further on authentication credentials for the respective subscriber; receiving a request from the authenticated subscriber via the interface; executing a predictive query or a latent structure query against indices of the predictive database generated from a dataset of columns and rows on behalf of the authenticated subscriber, the indices representing probabilistic relationships between the rows and the columns of the dataset; and returning a predictive record set to the authenticated subscriber responsive to the request. Other related embodiments are further disclosed.
US09240012B1
The invention provides a method for performing an authentication (and a system for performing the method), in conjunction with a transaction, utilizing a primary channel and a secondary channel. The method may include an authenticating entity, such as a bank, (1) receiving from a customer primary authentication information via a primary channel; (2) the authenticating entity processing the primary authentication information, and retrieving customer information based on the primary authentication information; (3) the authenticating entity transmitting secondary authentication information to the customer via a secondary channel, the secondary channel being different than the primary channel; (4) the authenticating entity receiving from the customer at least a portion of the secondary authentication information; and (5) the authenticating entity performing authentication processing on the secondary authentication information received from the customer. Based on the successful authentication of the primary authentication information and the secondary authentication information received from the customer, the authenticating entity approves the customer for the transaction.
US09240008B2
A method and apparatus for providing a mobile service with the use of a code pattern is disclosed In one embodiment, the method comprising: taking a photograph of a code pattern image, decoding the photographed code pattern image so as to obtain code information, extracting uniform resource locator (URL) information corresponding to the code information, transmitting a content information request message to a service provider server corresponding to the URL information, and receiving content information corresponding to the URL information from the service provider server. According to embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to provide various and convenient mobile services to mobile terminal users using a mobile terminal, having a camera, and a code pattern containing the URL information.
US09240003B1
The invention relates to a method to provide product support. The method steps include storing mentor information received from at least one mentor to create a volunteer mentor network, where the at least one mentor volunteers to assist a plurality of users with a product, and where mentor information comprises a reported expertise with the product and availability of the at least one mentor to provide product support, tracking a status of the at least one mentor to determine current availability to provide product support, receiving user data, where user data comprises information concerning a focus of a user in the product, identifying an applicable mentor based on the volunteer mentor network and user data, and displaying the applicable mentor to the user.
US09239999B2
A system and method for establishing voice connections between users of a social network. User access is granted to a social network through a VoIP phone. The social network is navigated based on user input. The user is directly connected to a second user randomly for voice communications based on an authorization.
US09239998B2
An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit, a gathering place determination unit, and a correction unit. The analysis unit analyzes an action history including at least a position of a subject, in accordance with action information obtained by detecting an action of the subject. The gathering place determination unit determines a position of a gathering place where plural subjects including the subject are together, in accordance with position information indicating the position of the subject which is included in the action information. The correction unit corrects position information about the subject, in accordance with the position of the gathering place determined by the gathering place determination unit.
US09239995B2
A system and method for generating vehicle drive cycles. Information describing a path of travel and a vehicle are received from a user. A detailed representation of the path of travel is obtained. Road condition information for segments of the path of travel is obtained, and the path of travel is verified as being traversable by the described vehicle. This information is used to generate a drive cycle profile, which contains at least the simulated path traversed by the vehicle, the speed of the vehicle along segments of the path, and any ambient conditions taken into account when predicting the speed of the vehicle.
US09239992B2
Embodiments of systems and methods are described for allowing a user to purchase a ticket. In some implementations, a system comprises a data store and a processor. The data store stores one or more program instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform several functions. For example, the processor constructs first data configured to cause an application executing on a computing device to generate a three-dimensional graphical representation of a venue in a first view, receives a selection of a section of seats in the venue from the application, and constructs second data configured to cause the application to generate a graphical representation of the selected section in the first view. The graphical representation of the selected section comprises a graphical representation of rows of seats in the selected section and an image representative of a view from a selected row.
US09239990B2
A query device scans radio frequencies for visible transmitting devices. The querying device receives at least a signal strength and identifier information associated with each of the transmitting devices. The list of visible devices is used to query a database containing location information for a plurality of visible devices. The list may be sent to a locationing system that may perform a location analysis on the resulting data to return a location to the query device. The weighted average of the locations returned in the database query may be computed to determine the location of the querying device, with the weight for each of the locations being the current signal strength detected by the querying device. Neural network analysis may also be used to determine the location of the querying device. Learning and seeding operations many also be used to populate the database with location information for transmitting devices.
US09239982B2
A transponder with an antenna module having a chip module and an antenna; a booster antenna having a first antenna structure in the form of a flat coil having a number of turns, an outer end and an inner end, and a second antenna structure in the form of a flat coil having a number of turns, an outer end and an inner end; the inner end of the second antenna structure connected with the outer end of the first antenna structure. The antenna module may be positioned so that its antenna overlaps one of the first antenna structure or the second antenna structure. An antenna module having two additional antenna structures is disclosed. Methods of enhancing coupling are disclosed.
US09239978B2
A method of generating a readable matrix code image encoding a message based on an input image and a readable matrix coding specification, comprising: calculating function areas readable to comply with a function patterns specification; determining an extent of free cells and derived cells according to a code word specification; calculating decode input values for free cells such that the appearance of the free cells compared to respective areas of the input image complies with a visual perceptual similarity criterion and with the code word specification; and calculating decode input values for derived cells based on the free cells decode input values and in compliance with the code word specification.
US09239976B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a paper type to be used at the time of execution of an input print job, a determination unit configured to determine a paper type to be used for executing the input print job by using information about the paper type acquired by the acquisition unit, and a generation unit configured to generate a correction table corresponding to the paper type determined by the determination unit, the correction table being used to correct an image that is formed by an image forming unit by using a value obtained as a result of measuring a patch formed by the image forming unit on paper of the paper type determined by the determination unit.
US09239974B2
An information processing apparatus for customizing a printer driver includes a receiving unit, a detection unit, and a notification unit. The receiving unit receives a fixing instruction to fix a specific setting item on the printer driver at a specific setting through operation input from an operator. The detection unit detects a setting that is a setting of a different setting item from the specific setting item and that is in a prohibited relationship with the specific setting as a corresponding prohibited setting resulting from the fixing instruction. The notification unit notifies the operator of the corresponding prohibited setting detected by the detection unit.
US09239973B1
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that receives print data and forms an image on a sheet; a stacking section that stacks the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming section; and a notification section that issues notification prompting the user to change orientation of the sheet stacked on the stacking section in the case where an output mode, by which the sheet with the image formed thereon by the image forming section is outputted onto the stacking section, is changed between the sheet and a next sheet, wherein the notification section determines a change of the output mode based on any one of a sheet output orientation that is an orientation in outputting the sheet, on which the image is formed, onto the stacking section and a printing orientation that is an orientation in forming the image on the sheet.
US09239967B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions, and/or logic are provided for incremental image clustering. An example method for incremental image clustering can include identifying, via a computing device, a number of candidate nodes from among evaluated leaf image cluster (LIC) nodes on an image cluster tree (ICT) based on a similarity between a feature of a new image and an average feature of each of the evaluated LIC nodes. The evaluated nodes include at least one node along each path from a root node to either a leaf node or a node having a similarity exceeding a first threshold. A most-similar node can be determined, via the computing device, from among the number of candidate nodes. The new image can be inserted to a node associated with the determined most-similar node, via the computing device.
US09239958B2
Methods and apparatus to measure brand exposure in media streams are disclosed. An example method to determine brand exposures included in media content disclosed herein comprises determining whether a scene detected from a media stream corresponding to the media content matches a reference scene, identifying an expected region of interest in the detected scene based on information describing the reference scene when the detected scene is determined to match the reference scene and the reference scene is not specified to be a scene of no interest, and determining whether a reference brand identifier associated with the reference scene is included in the expected region of interest identified in the detected scene.
US09239957B2
A method of image processing within an image acquisition device comprises: acquiring an image including one or more face regions and identifying one or more eye-iris regions within the one or more face regions. The one or more eye-iris regions are analyzed to identify any eye-iris region comprising an eye-iris pattern of sufficient quality to pose a risk of biometrically identifying a person within the image. Responsive to identifying any such eye-iris region, a respective substitute eye-iris region comprising an eye-iris pattern sufficiently distinct from the identified eye-iris pattern to avoid identifying the person within the image is determined, and the identified eye-iris region is replaced with the substitute eye-iris region in the original image.
US09239950B2
An object-analysis system includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor detects the movement and positioning of a user's hands within a three-dimensional space. The processor is communicatively connected to the sensor, and receives the movement and positioning information from the sensor. The processor determines the dimensions of the object based on the detected movements and positioning of the user's hands substantially adjacent to opposing sides of the object.
US09239948B2
A method and system for generating a feature descriptor for robust facial expression recognition pre-processes a facial image using a Gaussian filter to smooth the facial image. Then, gradient based images at M scales and N orientations are generated from the pre-processed facial image. Further, a portion of an image corresponding to each action unit is selected from each of the gradient based images. Thereafter, appearance of at least one facial event in the selected portion of the image is captured. Also, a geometry of the at least one facial event in the selected portion of image is determined to obtain a feature descriptor for each action unit for robust facial expression recognition.
US09239940B2
The invention provides a chip-and-PIN reader device having a slot for accommodating a chip-and-PIN card, a set of electrodes adapted to come into contact with corresponding electrodes on the card when the card is inserted into the slot, and a means for ensuring correct registration between the electrodes on the card and the set of electrodes of the reader device. The means for ensuring correct registration may include two orthogonally disposed walls of the slot, against which the card is pushed. Alternatively, the means may include a pair of electrodes on each side of the set of electrodes of the reader, which are short-circuited when the chip electrodes are not correctly registered with the reader electrodes. The short-circuit is flagged to the user of the card. The reader may also be equipped to read an MSR-type device.
US09239939B2
A base seat structure for supporting a chip card includes a tray which is utilized to configured a chip card and capable of being formed by a reciprocally-moved type, a base frame disposed on the tray, a fastening frame disposed on the tray and having a retarding portion, and a carrier which is configured between the base frame and the fastening frame and capable of being motioned between a first position and a second position to follow the reciprocally-moved tray. When the carrier is motioned toward the first position, the retarding portion of the fastening frame presses the carrier to pass through a limitation of the base frame to motion toward the second position, thereby pushing or allowing the tray for movement. Moreover, when the tray and the carrier are motioned toward the first position, the chip card is located or electronically connected.
US09239935B2
A method for using a location-based service while preserving anonymity includes receiving a location associated with a mobile node, receiving an anonymity level associated with the mobile node, computing a region containing the location of the mobile node and a number of footprints based on the anonymity level, wherein each of the footprints from a different user, and providing the region to a location-based service to thereby preserve anonymity of the mobile node. A method also allow a mobile device or its user to specify the anonymity level by selecting a public region consistent with a user's feelings towards desired privacy.
US09239923B2
Protection of a computer system (104) against attacks using malformed files is applied to an application (106) configured to process files of a predefined Headerless format indicated by a Characteristic pattern of bytes. An incoming file's Characteristic pattern is checked by comparing its leading bytes with Characteristic patterns. If its leading bytes have such a pattern, the file (100) is subjected to a full content check; the file is discarded (100) if it lacks such a pattern or has contents considered damaging. A file is checked regarding suitability for further processing by comparing its leading bytes with the Characteristic pattern of the predefined Headerless format. A full content check of the file may also be carried out. The application (106) is permitted to process files having the Characteristic pattern of the predefined Headerless format and appropriate file contents. The method can deal with ZIP files (b) etc. starting with redundant data b1 even if polymorphic, provided that the file is not potentially damaging.
US09239922B1
An application document known to include malware (such as a document exploit) is opened and executed by its corresponding software application. Behaviors of this document (such as registry, file system, network and process) are monitored and recorded using internal software drivers and hook modules. A behavior report is generated and a baseline pattern is created including a number of regular expressions. A suspicious document of the same type as the monitored document is opened and executed by the same corresponding software application. Behaviors are monitored in the same way and a behavior report is generated. This behavior report is compared to the baseline pattern and a determination is made as to whether a document exploit is present. Known benign documents may also be opened, monitored and their behavior recorded, resulting in creation of a known benign pattern for the corresponding software application.
US09239919B2
The present invention is to enable a user to input authentication information without burden, such that the user only has to memorize part of the authentication information even when inputting lengthy authentication information in order to ensure high-level security. When an operation of inputting and arranging authentication information in an information arrangement region is performed in a state where an arrangement status of a specified portion in the information arrangement region is set in advance as partial-authentication reference information in a reference authentication information memory, a CPU detects an arrangement status of the specified portion from an overall arrangement status in the information arrangement region, and performs, as partial authentication, processing of matching the detected arrangement status of the specified portion and the arrangement status of the specified portion set as the partial-authentication reference information.
US09239915B2
In network access controlled networks, it is desirable to prevent access to the network by any non-authenticated entities. Access control may be established through a trusted agent that, in some embodiments, may be implemented with a management co-processor. In some cases, active management technology may establish a connection while a host is inactive. Then, after the host becomes active, the host can attempt to use the management co-processor connection without obtaining the necessary authentications. This may be prevented, in some embodiments, by scanning for an active host and, if such an active host is found, blocking the host from using a layer 2 authentication channel unless the host is properly authenticated and has a proper Internet Protocol address.
US09239914B2
A method for setting up an access level for use of a software system including different levels of user accesses. The method includes the steps of: using a first user login to log in to the software system, the first user login having a first access level including a first set of permissions; using a second user login to log in to the software system, the second user login having a second access level including a second set of permissions; and combining the permissions of the first set of permissions and the second set of permissions in the software system, thereby setting up the access level for the use of the software system, the access level including the combined permissions of the first set of permissions and the second set of permissions. The invention also relates to computer program products and processor means.
US09239913B2
The invention relates to a method for obfuscating a computer program.Said method comprises the following steps: a—selecting a numerical variable V used by said program or an instruction of said program using said numerical value V, b—defining at least one operation which provides said numerical value V when executed, c—substituting at least one line of said program using the numerical value V for at least one new program line performing the operation that supplies the value of said numerical variable V.
US09239910B2
There are disclosed a system and method for preventing the leaking of digital content. The system for preventing the leaking of digital content may include a digital content layer generation unit for generating a digital content layer displaying digital content, a security layer generation unit for generating a security layer including security information based on information about a user terminal, and an information display unit for displaying the security layer generated by the security layer generation unit and the digital content layer generated by the digital content layer generation unit in the display device of the user terminal in an overlapping form so that the security information looks like overlapping with the digital content. Accordingly, the illegal leaking of digital content through photographing or screen capture can be prevented.
US09239900B2
A design method of a repeater chip is provided, the repeater chip designed by using the method can implement interconnection among nodes, and implement packet sequence receiving, classifying, storing, forwarding, sorting, and transmitting functions of the repeater chip, thereby implementing effective extension of a high-speed transmission link among the nodes, so as to reduce hardware design difficulties and design risks. The structure of the repeater chip is formed by: an interface detecting unit, a sequence storing unit, a sequence forwarding unit, a sequence determining unit, and a sequence sorting unit.
US09239898B1
In some embodiments, in a method, a netlist is received. The netlist comprises a subcircuit that comprises a device and a rule check module. The rule check module specifies a plurality of terminals of the device subject to an operating space, and at least one parameter that controls a non-rectangular boundary of the operating space. The netlist is simulated to obtain simulation data associated with the terminals of the device. The operating space that has the non-rectangular boundary is formed by using the at least one parameter. The simulation data is checked against the operating space. A situation in which the checked simulation data does not fall within the operating space is reflected.
US09239894B2
Certain embodiments herein are directed to systems and methods to predict failures in power systems equipment. In one embodiment, one or more life-span models associated with power systems equipment may be received. Examples of such life-span models may include a left-censoring model, a right-censoring model, and an interval-censoring model. An accuracy of the life-span models may be determined based at least in part on statistical analysis, such as a Weibull distribution analysis. A stability of the life-span models may also be determined, in certain embodiments herein.
US09239887B2
Systems and methods are described herein for logging system events within an electronic machine using an event log structured as a collection of tree-like cause and effect graphs. An event to be logged may be received. A new event node may be created within the event log for the received event. One or more existing event nodes within the event log may be identified as having possibly caused the received event. One or more causal links may be created within the event log between the new event node and the one or more identified existing event nodes. The new event node may be stored as an unattached root node in response to not identifying an existing event node that may have caused the received event.
US09239879B2
In a method for a direct answer for search, a search query is received over a network, one or more answer candidate snippets for the search query are received, with an answer candidate snippet having at least a portion of content available over the network for an answer candidate, one or more answer entities are determined within a selected answer candidate snippet, a frequency of the one or more answer entities found within the one or more answer candidate snippets for the search query is determined, a confidence score is adjusted for the selected answer candidate in accordance with the frequency of the one or more answer entities found within the one or more answer candidate snippets, and at least one answer candidate snippet is sent for a response to the search query.
US09239878B2
The initiation of a reload event by a user of a client-side application who requests a web resource from a server is an implicit indication that the user is dissatisfied with at least some aspect of the loading of the web resource by the client-side application. Information regarding the operational condition of the application at the time of a reload event may be instructive in identifying any issues or deficiencies exist regarding the web resource, the client-side application or the server. Code for displaying the web page may include one or more detection scripts which instruct the client-side application and/or the server-side application to detect a reload event, to capture the information upon the initiation of the reload event and to transfer the captured information back to the server, where the information may be compared against thresholds or tolerances to determine whether any such issues or deficiencies exist.
US09239875B2
A method for disambiguating features in unstructured text is provided. The disclosed method may not require pre-existing links to be present. The method for disambiguating features in unstructured text may use co-occurring features derived from both the source document and a large document corpus. The disclosed method may include multiple modules, including a linking module for linking the derived features from the source document to the co-occurring features of an existing knowledge base. The disclosed method for disambiguating features may allow identifying unique entities from a knowledge base that includes entities with a unique set of co-occurring features, which in turn may allow for increased precision in knowledge discovery and search results, employing advanced analytical methods over a massive corpus, employing a combination of entities, co-occurring entities, topic IDs, and other derived features.
US09239870B1
A database is automatically configured for recovery. Operating system compatibility, system recovery compatibility, and database server compatibility is verified. If the system recovery configuration is not compatible, then the system recovery configuration is updated. If the database server configuration is not compatible, then the database server configuration is updated.
US09239868B2
Systems and methods are described that establish and maintain a virtual session between a client and one or more database servers. A database server establishes a first session with a client wherein establishing the virtual session with the client comprises associating a virtual session identifier (ID) with the first session, generates state information in association with the first session, and stores the state information in a repository in association with the virtual session ID. After the first session fails, a same or different database server establishes a second session with the client wherein establishing the second session with the client comprises receiving the virtual session ID from the client, accesses the state information that was stored in the repository in association with the virtual session ID, and associates the state information with the second session.
US09239849B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying images to a user. Mobile devices are used to provide position information that may be used to identify a set of images associated with the position information. The position information may include location, ordinal direction, and orientation information of the mobile device, all of which can be used to identify an object or location where a user of the mobile device desires an image. A data store of images is queried to identify a set of images having location information similar to that provided by the mobile device. Images from the set of images are provided to the user, such as through a display at the mobile device and/or a separate system such as a personal computer of the user. A user may select one or more images for local storage, in some cases making a payment for the received image.
US09239847B2
A method and apparatus for effectively managing image files are provided. The apparatus acquires a second image if a link information input signal is input. If a person is recognized from the second image, text information corresponding to the recognized person may be added to link information of a first image. Also, an image of the second image may be added to the link information of the first image.
US09239835B1
Providing information to a module is disclosed. A first query and one or more subject type concepts associated with the first query is received. A second query to be provided to the module based at least in part on the received first query and subject type concepts is determined. The second query is sent to the module.
US09239831B2
A data localization service is provided for a web browser residing on a computing device. Depending upon the availability of the network connection as well as the level of native support in the browser, the data localization service will support different levels of service/performance to optimize the user experience. To do so, the data localization service includes a priority handler configured to receive a request to localize data from a requesting client application and provide in response thereto a localized representation of the data to the requesting client application. The data localization service may also include a native data localizer configured to receive a request to localize data from the priority handler and localize the data in accordance with a localization preference parameter indicative of a locale. The native data localizer may be a function integrated into the script interpreter of the web browser.
US09239830B2
The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for building a relationship hierarchy from big data. The method comprises extracting a plurality of relationships defined between entities from a big data, building relationship recognition models adapted to identify different forms of generic relationships, resolving the relationships by grouping the similar relationships together and separating the relationships which are syntactically and semantically dissimilar and reconciling the resolved relationships to build the relationship hierarchy. The relationship hierarchy comprises groups and subgroups of relationships created based on generic relationship similarity based on a contextual aspect and a specialization aspect using a Language and Domain model. The method of extraction of plurality of relationships from the unstructured data is a self-learning process which uses open information extraction techniques for learning new relationships.
US09239828B2
Recurrent conditional random field (R-CRF) embodiments are described. In one embodiment, the R-CFR receives feature values corresponding to a sequence of words. Semantic labels for words in the sequence of words are then generated and each label is assigned to the appropriate one of the words in the sequence of words. The R-CRF used to accomplish these tasks includes a recurrent neural network (RNN) portion and a conditional random field (CRF) portion. The RNN portion receives feature values associated with a word in the sequence of words and outputs RNN activation layer activations data that is indicative of a semantic label. The CRF portion inputs the RNN activation layer activations data output from the RNN for one or more words in the sequence of words and outputs label data that is indicative of a separate semantic label that is to be assigned to each of the words.
US09239827B2
Technologies pertaining to computing a metric that is indicative of whether an n-gram in a large corpus of text is a collocation are described herein. The metric is computed in connection with a distributed computing framework, wherein n-grams of varying lengths can be analyzed in a single input data pass, and wherein secondary sorting functionality of the distributed computing framework need not be invoked.
US09239821B2
A data processing application uses a translation file to render a visual surface based on underlying structured data. The data processing application provides mapping between nodes associated with the visual surface and nodes associated with the structured data. The mapping is generated in two phases. In a first phase, the data processing application adds mapping functions to the translation file. In the second phase, the data processing application renders the visual surface on the basis of a specific instance of the structured data, and, in the process, executes the mapping functions within the translation file to provide specific pointer information that is embedded amongst the nodes associated with the visual surface. The pointer information points back to specific locations in the structured data, thus providing mapping between the visual surface and the structured data. The structured data can be formed using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The visual surface can be formed using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The translation file can be formed using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT).
US09239817B2
A web extension is managed through a manifest file. An application managing the web extension receives attributes of the extension from a developer or metadata of the extension. A pointer to the web extension is inserted into the attributes. The pointer can be used as a link to activate the web extension. The attributes are stored in a manifest file formatted in extensible markup language (XML). The functionality of the web extension is managed based on the manifest file.
US09239815B2
The present invention provides a vehicle control system, for example for use with an emergency services vehicle such as an ambulance, fire engine, police car or the like, and which provides enhanced security, functionality and improved fuel consumption for such vehicles when at the scene of a situation such as a fire, accident, or the like, the system being operable to permit an engine of the vehicle to remaining running while simultaneously immobilizing the vehicle. Furthermore when configurable parameters such as but not limited to battery levels and or internal vehicle temperatures are reached, such a control system, without any human interface, automatically shuts down the engine to reduce fuel burn, reduce emissions, reduce engine wear and maintenance and thereby promote a greener environment.
US09239813B2
In an information apparatus including a plurality of processing circuits connected to a ring bus, when processing speeds (throughput) of processing circuits are different or an amount of data in the processing circuit is increased or decreased, deadlock can occur or the throughput can be decreased in the ring bus. In order to solve this problem, a stall state of other processing unit is detected from a packet acquired from the ring bus and a packet is restricted from being newly generated by the processing circuit nor transmitted therefrom when other processing unit is in the stall state.
US09239812B1
A system and method of providing a universal input/output (I/O) command translation framework in an application publishing environment is disclosed. A client-server computing system includes a network of one or more host computers and an application server that further includes an application publishing service supporting multiple client devices and a translation framework that provides a set of generic public APIs. Using the translation framework, an application-specific translation layer is created and integrated into remote applications, which enables I/O commands from client devices to be interpreted by remote applications whose control functions only exist internally (i.e., controls are private). The application-specific translation layer also receives the I/O commands of the client devices that may be generated via touch-based user input. Then, the application-specific translation layer translates the client I/O commands to the native internal control functions of the remote application.
US09239805B2
The present invention includes a driverless data transfer device and method for accessing and downloading item data from an item storage unit associated with an item. The driverless data transfer device includes, inter alia, a data downloading unit configured to download the item data, an interface unit for transferring the downloaded data to an item checking unit via a communications bus, and a decoder configured to decode said stored data to conform to data processing requirements of the item checking unit.
US09239804B2
A system and method of managing requests from peripherals in a computer system are provided. In the system and method, an input/output memory management unit (IOMMU) receives a peripheral page request (PPR) from a peripheral. In response to a determination that a criterion regarding an available capacity of a PPR log is satisfied, a completion message is sent to the peripheral indicating that the PPR is complete and the PPR is discarded without queuing the PPR in the PPR log.
US09239800B2
Systems and methods for automatically generating and distributing policy information for malicious mobile traffic in a wireless network are disclosed. One embodiment of a method which can be implemented on a system includes, aggregating suspicious activity information detected across multiple mobile devices in a wireless network, generating policy information for malicious mobile traffic using the suspicious activity information, and/or distributing the policy information among the multiple mobile devices or other mobile devices in the wireless network. The policy information can, for example, be distributed to wireless operators, mobile network carriers, or application service providers.
US09239797B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced data caching and takeover of non-owned storage devices in a computer system. Each of a first controller and a second controller has a cache memory. During normal run-time, each storage device controller validates cached write data after it is written to its cache memory by reading the write data from its cache memory. If any error is detected on the read, then unit check failed storage device controller, which results in a reset of the failed storage device controller. When a storage device controller detects its dual partner controller fails, the surviving storage device controller queues host read/write operations for its storage devices already owned, and tests a cache mirrored copy from its cache memory of the failed first storage device controller before takeover of the failed controller's storage devices.
US09239792B2
Sharing cache in a computing system that includes a plurality of enclosure attached servers, including: identifying, by an enclosure, a first enclosure attached server that is not meeting a first predetermined performance threshold; identifying, by the enclosure, a second enclosure attached server that is meeting a second predetermined performance threshold; blocking, by the enclosure, access to a predetermined amount of cache on the second enclosure attached server by the second enclosure attached server; determining, by the enclosure, whether the second enclosure attached server is meeting the second predetermined performance threshold; responsive to determining that the second enclosure attached server is meeting the second predetermined performance threshold, lending, by the enclosure, the predetermined amount of cache on the second enclosure attached server to the first enclosure attached server.
US09239788B2
A method of reading from and writing to a resistive memory cache includes receiving a write command and dividing the write command into multiple write sub-commands. The method also includes receiving a read command and executing the read command before executing a next write sub-command.
US09239786B2
Exemplary embodiments for reconfiguring a storage system comprise receiving user requirement information for a storage device and automatically generating feature settings for the storage device from the user requirement information and a device profile for the storage device; and using the feature settings to automatically reconfigure the storage device into one or more logical devices having independent behavioral characteristics. Further exemplary embodiments comprise receiving feedback from the storage device regarding runtime performance data of at least one of the storage device and the logical devices; and responsive to a determination that the runtime performance data do not satisfy the user requirement information, dynamically adjusting configuration of the one or more logical devices to meet the user requirement information.
US09239785B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for stochastic block allocation for improved wear leveling for a system having non-volatile memory (“NVM”). The system can probabilistically allocate a block or super block for wear leveling based on statistics associated with the block or super block. In some embodiments, the system can select a set of blocks or super blocks based on a pre-determined threshold of a number of cycles (e.g., erase cycles and/or write cycles). The block or super block can then be selected from the set of super blocks. In other embodiments, the system can use a fully stochastic approach by selecting a block or super block based on a biased random variable. The biased random variable may be generated based in part on the number of cycles associated with each block or super block of the NVM.
US09239784B1
Systems and methods for extending the memory resources of a user device to storage resources and/or network resources associated with the user device. The cache and system memory of the user device may be utilized as a cache memory and the storage resources and/or network resources of the user device may be utilized as a storage memory.
US09239776B2
The embodiments described herein include a host that includes an operating system and a storage simulation module in communication with the host. The storage simulation module includes a pseudo-adapter configured to emulate a storage adapter and a pseudo-storage device coupled to the pseudo-adapter, wherein the pseudo-storage device is configured to emulate a storage device. The storage simulation module is configured to simulate an error event for the pseudo-adapter and/or the pseudo-storage device upon receipt of an operation from the operating system.
US09239773B1
A method for debugging a program that includes declarative code and procedural code includes presenting to a user on an output device data relating to execution of the procedural code and data relating to execution of the declarative code. The data is presented in the form of a sequence of execution events corresponding to a computational flow of an execution of the program.
US09239765B2
Systems and methods that enable migration for state of an application, from a primary machine to a backup machine in platform virtualization systems. The migration employs a hybrid approach, wherein both a hypervisor, and an application itself determine states that are to migrate from the primary machine to the backup machine. Based on a direct communication between the application and the hypervisor—without assistance of local operating system—the hypervisor arranges for migration of the required states over to the backup virtual machine.
US09239764B2
The present invention provides for the provisioning and redundancy of RFID middleware servers. Middleware servers can be automatically provisioned and RFID device/middleware server associations can be automatically updated. Some implementations of the invention provide for automatic detection of middleware server malfunctions. Some such implementations provide for automated provisioning and automated updating of RFID device/middleware server associations, whether a middleware server is automatically brought online or is manually replaced. Changes and reassignments of the RFID device populations may be accommodated.
US09239759B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a user-switchable error correction coding (ECC) engine residing on a memory die.
US09239758B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory stores a program for causing a memory controller to operate in at least one of first and second modes. In the first mode, for each of the blocks, the memory controller autonomously erases and writes data and reads the written data, and determines that the block or the semiconductor storage device is defective when a count of errors in the read data exceeds a correction capability or a threshold. In the second mode, when error correction of read substantial data fails, the memory controller reads the substantial data which failed in the error correction using a read level shifted from the present read level.
US09239748B2
This invention is time stamping subsystem of an electronic apparatus. A time stamp generator generates a multibit time stamp value including a predetermined number of least significant bits overlapping a predetermined number of most significant bits. Each client receives the least significant bits. Each client associates captured data with a corresponding set of the least significant bits in a message. A central scheduling unit associates most significant bits of the time stamp value with the least significant bits of the message. This associating compares overlap bits of the most significant bits and least significant bits. The most significant bits are decremented until the overlap bits are equal.
US09239745B1
Vulnerability testing of a web application can be done using external testing, wherein an external test system runs with permissions of a user of the web application and interacts with the web application over a network, the external test system might obtain a schedule for a vulnerability test, execute the schedule using the external test system, log at least portions of responses of the web application to interactions of the external test system with the web application, compare portions of the responses to expected possible responses associated with particular possible vulnerabilities of the web application, thereby detecting possible vulnerabilities of the web application and, for at least one detected possible vulnerability, generating a retest script that comprises at least instructions to place the web application in a state at least similar to the state at which the at least one detected possible vulnerability was detected during execution of the schedule and that comprises at least instructions to interact with the web application in an attempt to recreate the detection without requiring reexecution of the schedule.
US09239739B2
In a data processing system that is executing a parent execution entity of an application, the parent execution entity has a first affinity setting. The data processing system enables the parent execution entity to create a worker execution entity that has a second affinity setting without changing the affinity setting of the parent execution entity. Workload for the application may then be performed in parallel by the parent execution entity and the worker execution entity. In one embodiment, to create the worker execution entity with the second affinity setting, the system first creates a delegate execution entity that has the first affinity setting. The system then changes the affinity setting of the delegate execution entity to the second affinity setting. The delegate execution entity then creates the worker execution entity with the second affinity setting. Another embodiment involves a super-delegate execution entity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09239736B2
Disclosed are a system, method and computer-readable medium relating to managing resources within a compute environment having a group of nodes or computing devices. The method comprises, for each node in the compute environment: traversing a list jobs having a fixed time relationship, wherein for each job in the list, the following steps occur: obtaining a range list of available timeframes for each job, converting each availability timeframe to a start range, shifting the resulting start range in time by a job offset, for a first job, copying the resulting start range into a node range, and for all subsequent jobs, logically AND'ing the start range with the node range. Next, the method comprises logically OR'ing the node range with a global range, generating a list of acceptable resources on which to start and the timeframe at which to start and creating reservations according to the list of acceptable resources for the resources in the group of computing devices and associated job offsets.
US09239732B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for improving asynchronous programming execution at runtime. Asynchronous programming code can comprise more than one level of hierarchy, such as in an execution plan. Respective aggregation operations in a portion of the asynchronous programming code are unrolled, to create a single level iterative execution, by combining elements of the multi-level iterative execution of the asynchronous programming code. In this way, the aggregation operations are concatenated to local logic code for the aggregation operations. Thread context switching in the unrolled portion of asynchronous programming code is performed merely at an asynchronous operation, thereby mitigating unnecessary switches. Exceptions thrown during programming code can be propagated up to a top of a virtual callstack for the execution.
US09239723B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for associating one or more remote devices with one or more configuration parameters, the remote devices comprising one or more mobile devices, detecting one or more of the remote devices wirelessly, and setting, on a local device, one or more of the configuration parameters associated with a detected remote device.
US09239722B1
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for interacting with a process diagram. These mechanisms and methods for interacting with a process diagram may allow for a user's enhanced interactive experience with the process diagram. The ability of embodiments to provide such enhancements may allow for improved navigation of the process diagram, searching of the process diagram, editing of the process diagram, etc.
US09239717B1
Embodiments of systems, non-transitory computer-readable medium having one or more computer programs stored therein, and computer-implemented methods are provided to enhance redeployment of web applications after initial deployment. Access to initial deployment of a plurality of web applications can be blocked. Lists of web applications that are candidates for redeployment can be displayed. For example, a user having a developer role can have abilities to redeploy a web application that is currently in development to a test environment. A user having a librarian role can have abilities to redeploy a web application associated with the librarian's division that is currently deployed in a test environment to a production environment. Consequently, a developer is permitted only to redeploy a web application to a test environment and cannot deploy a web application to a production environment. Application lifecycle rules thereby are enforced. Additionally, human error evasion and smart recovery features are provided.
US09239712B2
Apparatuses and methods may provide for determining a level of performance for processing one or more loops by a dynamic compiler and executing code optimizations to generate a pipelined schedule for the one or more loops that achieves the determined level of performance within a prescribed time period. In one example, a dependence graph may be established for the one or more loops, and each dependence graph may be partitioned into stages based on the level of performance.
US09239707B2
A model framework is used to implement the model component of application using a model-view-controller design pattern. The model framework provides built-in functionality that defines a default behavior. Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow an application developer to modify the default behavior of the model framework in a manner that suits the data model of the application.
US09239704B2
A low-density parity check min-sum decoder including a variable node processing unit having N+1 inputs. A first bank of N+1 two-input adders each have an associated output, and at least one of the N+1 inputs go to more than two of the adders of the first bank. A second bank of N two-input adders has no adders in common with the first bank. At least one of the adders of the first bank provides its associated output to more than one adder of the second bank. The banks of adders are disposed in series. A sign module outputs a sign value produced from one of the inputs and an output from one of the adders of the second bank. N+1 outputs are provided, where one of the outputs is the sign value.
US09239698B2
An exemplary display system includes a plurality of display devices spliced together, to increase a display size of the display system. Each of the display devices includes a screen, an image processing circuit, a first data interface, and a second data interface. The first data interface receives image signals from a signal source and outputs the image signals. The image processing circuit is connected to the first data interface, receives the image signals, converts the image signals into corresponding gray scale voltages, and outputs the gray scale voltages. The screen is connected to the image processing circuit, receives the gray scale voltages, and displays images based on the gray scale voltages. The second data interface is connected to the first data interface, receives the image signals from the first data interface, and outputs the image signals to another display device connected to the second data interface.
US09239689B2
A system and method are disclosed for live migration of a virtual disk of a virtual machine between storage devices. In accordance with one example, a computer system prepares a first area of a first storage device and a second area of a second storage device for a live snapshot of a virtual disk of a virtual machine. A transaction is then executed that comprises: storing the live snapshot in the first area of the first storage device, copying the live snapshot to the second area of the second storage device, and mirroring a change to the virtual disk that occurs after the creation of the live snapshot, where the mirroring is via one or more write operations to the live snapshot in the first area and to the copy of the live snapshot in the second area.
US09239687B2
A system according to certain embodiments associates a signature value corresponding to a data block with one or more data blocks and a reference to the data block to form a signature/data word corresponding to the data block. The system further logically organizes the signature/data words into a plurality of files each comprising at least one signature/data word such that the signature values are embedded in the respective file. The system according to certain embodiments reads a previously stored signature value corresponding to a respective data block for sending from a backup storage system having at least one memory device to a secondary storage system. Based on an indication as to whether the data block is already stored on the secondary storage system, the system reads the data block from the at least one memory device for sending to the secondary storage system if the data block does not exist on the secondary storage system, wherein the signature value and not the data block is read from the at least one memory device if the data block exists on the secondary storage system.
US09239682B2
An I/O hint framework is provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can receive an I/O command originating from a virtual machine (VM), where the I/O command identifies a data block of a virtual disk. The computer system can further extract hint metadata from the I/O command, where the hint metadata includes one or more characteristics of the data block that are relevant for determining how to cache the data block in a flash storage-based cache. The computer system can then make the hint metadata available to a caching module configured to manage the flash storage-based cache.
US09239678B2
A touch-input device and an electronic device and a cell phone are described and include a touch acquisition module with an input area to execute touch acquisition operations. The input area includes a first area and a second area. A pointing object location module is used to determine the start location of the touch operation according to the data acquired by the touch acquisition module. A process module is used to calculate a first result indicating the coordinate of the pointing object according to the data acquired by the touch acquisition module when the start location of the touch operation is in the first area, and to calculate a second result indicating the movement of the pointing object according to the data acquired by the touch acquisition module when the start location of the touch operation is in the second area.
US09239673B2
Methods and systems for implementing gestures with sensing devices are disclosed. More particularly, methods and systems related to gesturing with multipoint sensing devices are disclosed.
US09239663B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for hover activation based on movement by an input device pointer. A network page associated with a network site for display by a client is rendered for display, where the network page includes a first panel. A trajectory path of an input device pointer is determined based on movement of an input device pointer. A second panel in the network page is displayed according to the input device pointer hovering over an element in the first panel. The network page is modified according to a predetermined delay and according to a current position of the input device pointer.
US09239661B2
System and methods are disclosed to selectively project individual UI elements of display images from stereoscopic HMDs as monocular or stereoscopic images. An UI element may be tagged for rendering as a monocular image or as stereoscopic images with a stereo separation to create a perception of depth. Tagging of UI elements as monocular images or stereoscopic images may be based on whether the UI elements are persistent elements. Persistent elements present information to the user but do not require the user's focused attention. Persistent elements may be rendered as monocular images to allow the user to focus on other UI elements or on the real world while maintaining awareness of information presented by the persistent elements. In contrast, non-persistent UI elements may require the user's focused attention. Non-persistent UI elements may be rendered as stereoscopic images for projection at a specific depth plane to invite the user's focus.
US09239653B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a touch-sensing circuit, and fan-out traces. The substrate has a touch-sensing region and an adjoined peripheral region. The touch-sensing circuit is disposed on the touch-sensing region. The fan-out traces are disposed on the peripheral region and electrically connected to the touch-sensing circuit. Each fan-out trace includes a first conductive line, a first dielectric layer and a second conductive line. The first conductive line is disposed on the peripheral region. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the peripheral region to cover the first conductive line, and has at least one contact window located above the first conductive line. The second conductive line is disposed on the first dielectric layer, wherein the first and the second conductive line of the same fan-out trace have the same pattern and are electrically connected through the contact window.
US09239652B2
A current conveyor circuit, which comprises: a first current transmitting route; a second current transmitting route, which has the same devices as the first current transmitting route; and at least one control circuit, to control the first current transmitting route and the second current transmitting route to enter a normal mode or a current splitting mode, wherein the first current transmitting route and the second current transmitting route are both enabled and can transmit current in the normal mode, where the first current transmitting route is enabled to transmit current but the second current transmitting route is disabled thus can not transmit current in the current splitting mode.
US09239649B2
A method for correcting a touch position and applied to an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes: receiving a current touch event; obtaining prediction information of the current touch event based on correction information of a previous touch event which is received at a previous time point before the current touch event; obtaining correction information of the current touch event according to the prediction information and a measuring position of the current touch event; and updating a position of the current touch event at a display unit by using the correction information of the current touch event.
US09239646B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device which is sensitive to touch, and an electronic note system using the same. An electronic device according to one exemplary embodiment includes a wireless communication unit to receive color information from an external touch tool via a wireless communication, a display unit to output an image object displayed with a color corresponding to the received color information, and a controller to activate an electronic note function in response to a touch input applied onto the image object, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display information with a color corresponding to the color information, the information being input by a touch input applied onto the display unit.
US09239643B2
An embodiment of a method of recognizing finger detection data in a detection data map produced by a touch screen includes converting the data from the x, y, z space into a three-descriptor space including: a first coordinate representative of the number of intensity peaks in the map, a second coordinate representative of the number of nodes (i.e., pixels) absorbed under one or more of the intensity peaks. A third coordinate may be selected as the angular coefficient or slope of a piecewise-linear approximating function passing through points having the numbers of nodes absorbed under the intensity peaks ordered in decreasing order over said intensity peaks, which permits singling out finger data with respect to non-finger data over the whole of the touch screen. The third coordinate may be also selected as an adjacency value representative of the extent the intensity peaks are adjacent to one another, which permits singling out finger data produced over a portion of the touch screen with respect to non-finger data produced over another portion of the touch screen.
US09239630B2
According to the present invention there is provided an input device (100) comprising a plurality of keys, at least one detection structure (107), and at least one display (104), wherein: each of the plurality of keys have a depressible key cap (101) with an at least semi-transparent top surface, the at least one detection structure is configured for detecting individual depression of each of the plurality of key caps, and the at least one display (104) is configured for providing image information of individual labels (103) for each key of the plurality of keys. Furthermore, the at least one display is arranged between the at least one detection structure (107) and the plurality of key caps, such that the individual labels (103) of the plurality of keys are viewable via the transparent top surfaces of the respective key caps.
US09239629B2
A keystroke determination method and a device thereof are applicable to a keyboard input device. The keystroke determination device performs the keystroke determination method including the following steps. A triggering signal corresponding to both a first circuit node and a second circuit node of the keyboard input device is received. Whether a first key definition of the first circuit node represents a null key is determined. When the first key definition of the first circuit node represents the null key, a signal specifying a second key definition of the second circuit node is outputted.
US09239627B2
The conference room automation apparatus employs a processor-based integrated movement sensor, lights, cameras, and display device, such as a projector, that senses and interprets human movement within the room to control the projector in response to that movement and that captures events occurring in the room. Preferably packed in a common integrated package, the apparatus employs a layered software/hardware architecture that may be readily extended as a platform to support additional third-party functionality.
US09239623B2
A dynamic tactile interface including a substrate including a fluid conduit, a shelf adjacent the fluid conduit, and a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit; a flap including a distal end and a proximal end, the flap extending across the fluid conduit and hinged to the substrate at the proximal end; a tactile layer including a peripheral region and a deformable region adjacent the peripheral region and arranged over the flap, and a tactile surface opposite the substrate; and a displacement device displacing fluid to transition the deformable region from a retracted setting into an expanded setting, the distal end of the flap engaging the shelf in the retracted setting, and the distal end of the flap lifted off of the shelf and the deformable region in the expanded setting.
US09239622B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling haptic feedback of an input tool for a mobile terminal. The method includes detecting, by the mobile terminal, a hovering of the input tool over an object displayed on a touch screen display of the mobile terminal; identifying a property of the object; and transmitting, to the input tool, a control signal for haptic feedback corresponding to the property of the object.
US09239620B2
A wearable device that is worn on a user body includes a motion sensor to recognize a motion of the wearable device, a bending sensor to sense bending of the wearable device, a controller to generate a control signal according to a movement that is sensed by the motion sensor and the bending sensor, a communication unit to transmit the control signal to an external device, and, when an audio reproducing operation is adjusted according to the control signal in the external device, to receive a result of the adjusting from the external device, and a display to display the result of the adjusting. Accordingly, a content of the external device is easily adjusted.
US09239611B2
The efficiency rating (ER) of each domain, in a processor, may be compared and then the power budget may be allocated, effectively, among the domains based on the ERs of the domains. The ER may indicate relative advantage among domains in terms of performance return for a given power budget, i.e., a higher effectiveness may be expected in power utilization if the ER is higher for a domain. The ER of a domain may be defined as (scalability factor/cost factor*alpha). The scalability factor may be defined as a performance increase (in %) brought about by an increase in the clock frequency (in %) provided to the domain. The cost factor may be defined as a power budget value required in bringing about an increase in the clock frequency provided to the domain and alpha is an adjustment factor.
US09239608B2
The present application relates to a computer implemented method, a computer program product and a computer system for controlling a data stream from a server computer to a client computer. The client computer comprises a data stream client and the server computer comprises a data stream server. While receiving, by the data stream client from the data stream server, the data stream, the method may comprise generating, by the client computer, a power management decrease event, receiving, by the data stream client, the power management decrease event, sending, from the data stream client to the data stream server, a first pause request to temporarily halt the data stream, and transitioning, by the client computer, from a fully working power state to a decreased power consumption state in response to the power management decrease event.
US09239607B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for obtaining file information regarding a file to be downloaded from a remote location to a computing device, creating at least one empty file in a destination storage based on the file information and communicating block information regarding the empty file to a network interface, and receiving a data packet of the file in the network interface and directly sending a payload of the data packet from the network interface to the destination storage according to the block information, while a host processor of the computing device is in a low power state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09239600B2
Method and system for supplying power to multiple voltage islands using a single supply source (SSS)
Methods and systems for supplying power to multiple voltage islands using a single supply source are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include providing power to a first of a plurality of voltage islands, and individually controlling providing of power to each of a remaining portion of the plurality of voltage islands. For example, when an electronic system is first powered on, a low current voltage source may be used to supply power to a primary voltage island. As a higher current voltage source becomes available, power derived from the higher current voltage source may be provided to the primary voltage island and to secondary voltage islands. Power to each of the secondary voltage islands may be, for example, individually controlled via a power MOS transistor. The power MOS transistor may also be configured to allow a faster blocking time than unblocking time.
US09239599B2
A combinational cooling pad structure with flash drive storage comprises a cooling pad and a flash drive. The cooling pad comprises at least three combinational pads with structural surfaces. At least two connecting portions are correspondingly disposed between the combinational pads. Limiting structures are correspondingly disposed on outer sides of the outer combinational pads. The combinational pads are connected by the connecting portions to form a structure which can be unfolded flatly; and are folded closely together to form a structural body surrounded by the structural surfaces; and are combined securely by the corresponding limiting structures. An inner hole for inserting the flash drive is defined and formed by inner surfaces of the surrounding combinational pads. A coupling portion is protrudingly disposed at an end of the flash drive, and an interface connector is disposed on the coupling portion. The coupling portion is then inserted into the inner hole.
US09239574B2
A method includes receiving a first request to execute a field device method associated with a process control field device. The method also includes initiating actual execution of the field device method with the field device and/or simulating execution of the field device method. The method further includes recording information associated with the actual or simulated execution of the field device method and recording user input associated with the field device method. In addition, the method includes receiving a second request to play back execution of the field device method, initiating subsequent execution of the field device method, and using the recorded information and the recorded user input during the subsequent execution of the field device method.
US09239572B2
A safety switching device, with which a safety-related device, can be set into a safe state. The safety switching device has a microprocessor or microcontroller, which can set an electric drive to be protected into a safe state both if an emergency circuit breaker, protective door switch, and/or two-hand switch is activated and also if there is faulty operation of the safety-related device or electric drive. For this purpose, the microprocessor is implemented such that it can determine from at least one analog signal to be measured whether a predetermined parameter lies outside a predetermined operating range. In addition, the microprocessor can be a component of a safety device which is constructed for multiple-channel control of a safety-related electric drive. In this way, the safety switching device can respond to several safety functions independent of each other in order to set an electric drive into a safe state.
US09239567B2
An image forming apparatus includes a condensation removal unit configured to perform condensation removal absorbing condensation with toner in the image forming apparatus, and a setting unit configured to set an amount of toner to be used for the condensation removal, wherein the condensation removal unit performs the condensation removal by using the mount of toner set by the setting unit.
US09239566B2
A housing for an electrostatic latent image carrier is formed with a groove in which a light emitting section of the exposure device is positioned at the usage position. The groove extends in an insertion direction of the light emitting section of the exposure device to the groove. A flexible light-shielding member includes one side fixed to a peripheral part of the groove. The light-shielding member covers the groove when the exposure device is detached from the housing. When the exposure device is attached to the housing, the light-shielding member is bent by the exposure device into the groove. A guide is provided at the upstream end portion of the light-shielding member in the insertion direction. The guide guides the light-shielding member from the closing state to the bent state upon inserting the light emitting section of the exposure device into the groove.
US09239561B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a drawer unit drawably stored in the apparatus body, a plurality of interlocked lock portions configured to lock the drawer unit to the apparatus body in a state in which the drawer unit is stored in the apparatus body, an interlocking portion configured to interlock the interlocked lock portions, and an independent lock portion configured to move independently from the plurality of interlocked lock portions and disposed so as to lock the drawer unit to the apparatus body.
US09239559B2
A fixing device includes a heat source; a fixing member looped into a generally cylindrical shape to rotate in a circumferential direction thereof and partially heated by the heat source and to heat a surface of a recording medium bearing an unfixed toner image to fix the unfixed toner image thereon in a fixing process; a rotary pressing member disposed facing the fixing member to form a nip therebetween, through which the recording medium is transported in a transport direction; and a rotation driver to rotate one of the fixing member and the pressing member. In a case in which the fixing member is halted for a reason other than the fixing process while power of the fixing device is on, electric power is not supplied to the heat source and the fixing member is rotated by a predetermined amount or more after the fixing member is halted.
US09239558B2
In accordance with the invention, there are fuser subsystems including a fuser member and methods of making a member of the fuser subsystems. The fuser member can include a substrate and a top-coat layer disposed over the substrate, the top-coat layer including a plurality of fluorinated nanoparticles substantially uniformly dispersed throughout a bulk of a fluoropolymer to provide a continual self-releasing surface to the top-coat layer.
US09239555B2
A method for manufacturing a sheet heating element includes preparing a sheet member containing a metal or alloy, and performing anodic oxidizing treatment on the sheet member until only a surface layer of the sheet member is oxidized while a center portion thereof is not oxidized.
US09239554B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a heating member configured to heat the sheet for fixing the image onto the sheet, a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a predetermined position of the heating member, a controller configured to control the heating member, a heating region control unit configured to control the heated region of the heating member, wherein the heating region control unit controls a first and a second heated region, wherein the first heated region includes the predetermined position, and wherein the second heated region in the width direction includes the first heated region and an outer heated region outside the first heated region, and a cooling unit configured to cool the heated region, wherein if the heating region control unit changes the heated region from the first heated region to the second heated region, the cooling unit cools the predetermined position.
US09239544B2
A development apparatus for an image forming apparatus includesa first sealing member provided in the supporting portion and configured to seal a gap between a peripheral surface of the development roller and the frame member at one end side of the frame member in the axis direction to prevent the developer from leaking from the frame member; and a second sealing member made of a resin and configured to seal the through hole, and the first sealing member, the supporting portion, and the second sealing member are arranged in this order on the same plane perpendicular to the axis direction.
US09239542B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming stations, each including a developing device, a toner container containing a colored or special toner, and a replaceable supply-toner conduit extending from the toner container to the developing device; and a toner type identifier to identify a type of toner used in the supply-toner conduit of each of the plurality of image forming stations.
US09239538B2
A developing device and an image forming apparatus including the developing device are provided. The developing device includes a housing, a developer carrier which is rotatably supported by the housing, and which carries developer on a circumferential surface thereof, a layer thickness regulating member which includes, a blade contacting the circumferential surface of the developer carrier along a rotational axial direction of the developer carrier, and a support member supporting the blade, the layer thickness regulating member for regulating a layer thickness of the developer on the circumferential surface of the developer carrier. The support member includes: a contact part which contacts the blade; and a pair of attachment parts which are attached to the housing. The attachment parts are provide at both sides of the contact part in the rotational axial direction and are further protruded than the contact part in a direction away from the developer carrier.
US09239534B2
A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit configured to perform cleaning while in contact with a light transmission member, the cleaning unit being movable with respect to the transmission member in a first direction and a second direction differing in orientation. The cleaning unit includes a first cleaning portion and a second cleaning portion capable of coming into contact with the transmission member, moves in the first direction while keeping the first cleaning portion in contact with the transmission member and keeping the second cleaning portion away from the transmission member, and moves in the second direction while keeping the first cleaning portion away from the transmission member and keeping the second cleaning portion in contact with the transmission member.
US09239531B2
The present disclosure describes a color single component toner with desirable fusing performance.
US09239529B2
Processes for producing toners are provided. The processes include determining the desired gloss for a given toner, and determining the desired amount of aluminum in the toner to obtain that gloss. Utilizing the processes of the present disclosure, the solids content of an emulsion utilized to produce such a toner, as well as the mixing speed utilized in the aggregation process and the temperature at which aggregation of the toner particles occurs, may then be selected to obtain toner particles possessing the desired amount of aluminum, and thus the desired gloss.
US09239523B2
An empirical diffraction based overlay (eDBO) measurement of an overlay error is produced using diffraction signals from a plurality of diffraction based alignment pads from an alignment target. The linearity of the overlay error is tested using the same diffraction signals or a different set of diffraction signals from diffraction based alignment pads. Wavelengths that do not have a linear response to overlay error may be excluded from the measurement error.
US09239522B2
Methods of determining asymmetric properties of structures are described. A method includes measuring, for a grating structure, a first signal and a second, different, signal obtained by optical scatterometry. A difference between the first signal and the second signal is then determined. An asymmetric structural parameter of the grating structure is determined based on a calculation using the first signal, the second signal, and the difference.
US09239517B2
The object is to provide a compound having high dissolvability in a safe solvent and high sensitivity, and also capable of obtaining a good resist pattern shape, a radiation-sensitive composition containing the same, and a resist pattern formation method using the composition. For this purpose, a compound (B) obtained by reaction between a polyphenol based cyclic compound (A) and a compound (C) having a particular structure, a radiation-sensitive composition containing the same, and a resist pattern formation method using the composition are provided.
US09239513B2
A laser projection light has a light blocking wall and safety sensor to prevent people from directly looking into the laser beams to harm their eyes. The laser projection light may be an AC powered laser projection light or a DC powered battery operated unit, and may also incorporate a UL listed LED light device to that provides an LED light device function in addition to the projection function in case people do not want to see the laser projection light performance and wish to switch off the laser beam.
US09239511B2
A focal plane shutter includes: a board including an opening; blades opening and closing the opening; an electromagnet supported by the board; a drive lever adsorbed to and held by the electromagnet, and swingably supported by the board; a drive arm connected to the drive lever, swingably supported by the board, and driving the blades; a first biasing member always biasing the drive lever away from the electromagnet and moving the blades; a first adjusting member that stepwisely adjusts a biasing force of the first biasing member; a second biasing member always biasing the drive arm in a direction opposite to a biasing direction of the first biasing member to such an extent that the blades are moved in accordance with the biasing force of the first biasing member; and a second adjusting member that steplessly adjusts a biasing force of the second biasing member.
US09239506B2
A semiconductor electro-optical phase shifter comprises a central zone (I1, I2) having a minimum doping level; first and second lateral zones (N+, P+) flanking the central zone along a first axis, respectively N and P-doped, so as to form a P-I-N junction between the first and second lateral zones. The central zone comprises first and second optical action zones (I1, I2) separated along the first axis. The second lateral zone is doped discontinuously along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Two electrical control terminals (A, C) are provided, one in contact with the first lateral zone, and the other in contact with doped portions of the second lateral zone.
US09239503B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed on the base substrate, and a plurality of pixel units defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines intersecting with each other. Each pixel unit is driven by a same gate line and a same data line. Each pixel unit includes a thin film transistor structure and at least two display regions. Each display region includes a pixel electrode. The thin film transistor structure drives the pixel electrodes in the at least two display regions simultaneously and causes voltages applied on the pixel electrodes in the at least two display regions different from one another.
US09239502B2
A pixel structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The pixel structure includes a substrate, a scan line, a data line, a first insulating layer, an active device, a second insulating layer, a common electrode and a first pixel electrode. The data line crossed to the scan line is disposed on the substrate and includes a linear transmitting part and a cross-line transmitting part. The first insulating layer covering the scan line and the linear transmitting part is disposed between the scan line and the cross-line transmitting part. The active device, including a gate, an oxide channel, a source and a drain, is connected to the scan line and the data line. The second insulating layer is disposed on the oxide channel and the linear transmitting part. The common electrode is disposed above the linear transmitting part. The first pixel electrode is connected to the drain.
US09239501B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The LCD device includes a substrate having at least one pixel region defined by a pair of gate lines extending in a first direction and a pair of data lines extending in a second direction. A first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate corresponding to the pixel region. A first common electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer. A pixel electrode pattern is disposed above the first common electrode. A second insulating layer is interposed between the first common electrode and the pixel electrode pattern. A pair of second common electrodes is formed on the second insulating layer and corresponds to the pair of data lines.
US09239497B2
It is an object to provide a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer which exhibits a stable blue phase. The following steps are performed: a first step of forming a thermosetting first sealant so as to form a frame over a first substrate; a second step of forming a photocurable and thermosetting second sealant on an outer side than the first sealant over the first substrate; a third step of dropping a liquid crystal material which exhibits a blue phase at a given temperature on an inner side than the first sealant; a fourth step of attaching a second substrate to the first substrate in a reduced-pressure atmosphere; a fifth step of performing polymer stabilization treatment on the liquid crystal material; and a sixth step of curing the first sealant through heat treatment.
US09239495B2
Included are a first glass substrate (20) and a second glass substrate (30) facing each other, the peripheries of the substrates (20, 30) being superposed with each other, a display medium layer (25) between the substrates (20, 30) in a display area (D), a sealing member (26) for bonding the substrates (20, 30) together in a frame region (F) between the substrates (20, 30) and enclosing a display medium layer (25) between the substrates (20, 30), a flexible resin substrate layer (7) extending outward from between the frame region (F) of the first substrate (20) and the sealing member (26), and driving electronic components (41, 42) mounted on the resin substrate layer (7).
US09239492B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display capable of reducing a texture by increasing a liquid crystal control ability. The liquid crystal display includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The first electrode includes a horizontal extension forming a boundary between adjacent subregions and a vertical extension connected to the horizontal extension, and the horizontal extension includes a portion which has a largest width at a position proximate to the vertical extension, and which has a smaller width at a position farther from the vertical extension.
US09239484B2
A thin film transistor substrate (20a) includes an insulating substrate (10a), a semiconductor layer (13a) provided on the insulating substrate (10a) and having a channel region (C), and a channel protection layer (25) provided in the channel region (C). The channel protection layer (25) is made of a multilayer film in which first insulating films and second insulating films are alternately layered. A relationship between a refractive index Ra of the first insulating film and a refractive index Rb of the second insulating film is Rb/Ra≧1.3.
US09239483B2
A display device is provided with: a display panel; a housing which has a first case member that is provided with a supporting portion for supporting the display panel and is formed of a metal material and a second case member that is provided with a facing part facing the supporting portion and is formed of a metal material; a position fixing protrusion that is formed on the facing part so as to protrude toward the supporting part and so as to position the display panel with respect to the case; and an opening which is formed in the supporting portion and through which the position fixing protrusion is inserted.
US09239474B2
A thermochromatic element includes a color element and at least one heating element configured to supply heat for the color element such that the color element changes color. The at least one heating element includes at least one carbon nanotube film. Each carbon nanotube film includes a number of carbon nanotube linear units and a number of carbon nanotube groups. Each carbon nanotube linear unit includes a number of carbon nanotubes substantially oriented along a first direction, and are spaced from each other and substantially extending along the first direction. The carbon nanotube groups are combined with the carbon nanotube linear units by van der Waals force. The carbon nanotube groups between adjacent carbon nanotube linear units are spaced from each other in the first direction.
US09239473B2
Improved eyewear is disclosed. The eyewear comprises a frame member and a lens. The eyewear also includes circuitry within the frame member for enhancing the use of the eyewear. A system and method in accordance with the present invention is directed to a variety of ways to enhance the use of eyeglasses. They are: (1) media focals, that is, utilizing the eyewear for its intended purpose and enhancing that use by using imaging techniques to improve the vision of the user; (2) telecommunications enhancements that allow the eyeglasses to be integrated with telecommunication devices such as cell phones or the like; and (3) entertainment enhancements that allow the eyewear to be integrated with devices such as MP3 players, radios, or the like.
US09239464B2
The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method so as to be able to obtain disparity information, without deteriorating the image quality of the image.Incident light from a subject is made to be parallel light by a relay lens unit 33, part thereof is reflected by a transmissive mirror 35, and the remaining incident light transmits the transmissive mirror 35. An imaging device 39 performs photoelectric conversion on the incident light which has transmitted the transmissive mirror 35 and images a basic image, and an imaging device 40 performs photoelectric conversion on the incident light which has reflected off of the transmissive mirror 35 and images disparity detection images. A disparity image generating unit 44 replaces pixel values of each pixel on the disparity detection images into the pixel values on the pixels on the basic image corresponding to these pixels and generates right and left disparity images. In this way, if used high-quality basic image and disparity detection image having disparity information, high-quality disparity image pair with appropriate disparity can be obtained. The present invention can be applied to a camera.
US09239463B2
An illumination device includes a light source section including a laser light source, and intermittently emitting, at a predetermined frequency, laser light emitted from the laser light source, an optical element passing the laser light emitted intermittently from the light source section, and a drive section vibrating the optical element at a predetermined vibration frequency. An expression 1 or 2 below is satisfied, where f1 [Hz] denotes the frequency, f2 [Hz] denotes a variable frequency of luminance in illumination light emitted from the optical element as a result of vibration of the optical element, n1 denotes an arbitrary integer of 0 or larger and 10 or smaller, and n2 denotes a predetermined integer of 1 or larger. |n1×f1−f2|≧20 1 |b2×f1−f2|≦3 2
US09239459B2
A scanning lens molded of resin includes: a lens portion having an elongate shape extending in a main scanning direction and having first and second longitudinal ends located opposite to and away from each other in the main scanning direction; and a flange portion extending outward in the main scanning direction from the first longitudinal end of the lens portion. The scanning lens has first and second sides located opposite to and away from each other in a sub-scanning direction, and a first protrusion is provided on the first side to protrude outward in the sub-scanning direction. The flange portion protrudes farther beyond the first longitudinal end in an optical axis direction of the lens portion. As viewed from the sub-scanning direction, the first protrusion is located at a position overlapping an interface between the lens portion and the flange portion.
US09239457B2
A display apparatus includes an array of light modulators. Each light modulator has a first actuator configured to drive the light modulator into a first state and a second actuator configured to drive the light modulator into a second state. The display apparatus also includes a control matrix including, for each light modulator in the array, a single actuation voltage interconnect. The actuation voltage interconnect is configured to apply a first drive voltage to the first actuator of the light modulator and apply a second drive voltage to the second actuator of the light modulator. In addition, the actuation voltage interconnect is configured to control application of a data voltage to a latch circuit to control the application of the first and second drive voltages to the first and second actuators.
US09239452B2
In a variable magnification optical system, consisting of a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, arranged in order from the object side, in which magnification is changed by moving the second lens group and focusing is performed by moving the fourth lens group, the first lens group consists of a positive lens and a positive cemented lens, arranged in order from the object side, the third lens group includes an aperture stop on the most object side, the fourth lens group consists of a positive lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens, arranged in order from the object side, with at least one surface being an aspherical surface, and the system satisfies given conditional expressions.
US09239451B2
The zoom lens substantially consists of a positive first lens group which is fixed while changing magnification, a negative second lens group which moves while changing magnification, a positive third lens group which moves while changing magnification, and a positive fourth lens group which is fixed while changing magnification in this order from the object side. The image formation magnification rates of the second lens group and the third lens group simultaneously pass a −1× point while changing magnification from the wide angle to the telephoto. The second lens group substantially consists of a negative second-a lens group and a positive second-b lens group which independently move while changing magnification in this order from the object side, and the third lens group substantially consists of a positive third-a lens group and a positive third-b lens group which independently move while changing magnification in this order from the object side.
US09239443B2
An optical system and method for illuminating an object under investigation with filtered light is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a linear filter array having a plurality of elongate variable bandpass filters. The variable bandpass filters each have a cam follower and are translatable along a longitudinal axis, whereby translation brings a selected filter in line with a beam of light. The cam follower of selected filter engages a cam adjacent to the array. This causes tilting of the filter to a desired angle thereby allowing precise selection of the bandpass frequency of the selected filter. Preferably, the filter can be tilted by an angle of up to 60°. Each elongate filter is preferably substantially rectangular and has a long dimension that is at least about twice the short dimension.
US09239439B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to an optical USB (OUSB) to enhance the data rate of USB by adding super-high data rate (e.g. 10 Gbps) optical communication on top of its current specification so that backward compatibility is achievable. Mechanical tolerances may be achieved by using embedded lenses to expand a beam emerging from the connector prior to entering its mating connector and using an identical lens in the mating connector to collimate the beam back onto a fiber.
US09239438B2
A disclosed optical semiconductor element includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface in which a plurality of first grooves are formed; a first optical waveguide defined by portions of the semiconductor substrate between the first grooves and having side faces defined by the first grooves; and a photoelectric converter configured to transmit or receive an optical signal propagating through the first optical waveguide. Moreover, the first grooves define part of a guide hole.
US09239428B2
The present disclosure describes, among other things, a method for attaching a fiber optic terminus of a fiber optic connector to a fiber optic cable. The method may include determining a type of epoxy to be mixed from a first material in a first barrel of the dual-barrel cartridge and a second material in a second barrel of the dual-barrel cartridge. The method may include determining a first rate at which to advance a first plunger against the first barrel based at least in part on the type of epoxy to be mixed. The method may include determining a second rate at which to advance a second plunger against the second barrel based at least in part on the type of epoxy to be mixed. The first rate and the second rate may be associated with a proportion between an amount of the first material and an amount of the second material to mix for the epoxy.
US09239418B2
A light emitting device includes: a light source; an optical component including a light incident surface, the light incident surface facing the light source; and a wavelength conversion member provided between the light source and the light incident surface, the wavelength conversion member crossing a first region and extending to a second region outside the first region, the first region being surrounded by the light incident surface and light paths of light that is emitted from the light source and enters edges of the light incident surface.
US09239417B2
An illumination device, such as a backlight for electronic display devices, is disclosed. The illumination device includes a lightguide optically coupled to a light source, and a viscoelastic layer and a nanovoided polymeric layer are used in conjunction with the lightguide to manage light emitted by the light source. The viscoelastic layer may be a pressure sensitive adhesive.
US09239415B2
Embodiments of a near-to-eye display include a light guide with a proximal end, a distal end, a front surface spaced apart from a back surface, an ambient input region on the front surface and an output region on the back surface. A display and a camera are positioned at or near the proximal end. A proximal optical element is positioned in the light guide and optically coupled to the display and the camera. A distal optical element is positioned in the light guide and optically coupled to the proximal optical element, the ambient input region and the output region. The proximal optical element can direct display light toward the distal optical element and ambient light to the camera, and the distal optical element can direct display light to the output region and ambient light to the output region and to the proximal optical element.
US09239412B2
A retroreflective member that can improve the visibility further. The retroreflective member includes a reflective layer and transparent microscopic beads 13. The retroreflective member gives a phase difference corresponding to a visible light wavelength to at least a part of incident light and recombines, emphasizes a light component having the visible light wavelength by interference, and returns coherent light having a visible light wavelength depending on the incident angle in the traveling direction of the incident light. The reflective layer includes a light-transmissive interference layer 14, and the interference layer 14 each has an optical layer thickness of 100 to 600 nm so as to generate an interference color having a visible light wavelength depending on the incident angle of light.
US09239411B2
An optical film includes a substrate, several prism bars, and several connecting parts. The substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The prism bars are disposed on the second surface of the substrate. Each prism bar has a bottom portion and a top portion. The bottom portion of each prism bar is disposed on the second surface of the substrate, and each top portion has an edge. Each connecting part includes a flexible pillar and a connecting enlarged part. Each flexible pillar has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end of each flexible pillar is disposed on one of the edges. Each connecting enlarged part is disposed on the second end of each flexible pillar. The outer width of each connecting enlarged part is larger than that of the cross-section of each flexible pillar.
US09239410B2
A photographing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface. The object-side surface and an image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface. An object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point formed on the image-side surface thereof.
US09239408B2
Disclosed is a colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition using a compound that is excellent in solubility and heat-resistance in a resin composition, and also relates to an optical filter using the colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition, specifically a color filter that does not decrease luminance and thus is preferable for image display devices such as liquid crystal display panels. Specifically, disclosed is a colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition containing (A) a dye that contains at least one kind of compound represented by any of the general formulas (1) to (4), (B) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond or (B′) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, which has alkali-developability, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator, and use of the composition. The compound represented by any of the general formulas (1) to (4) is as described.
US09239399B2
Seismic data recorded by subsurface seismic sensors placed in a borehole, such as an oil or gas well, are transformed via a process of upward wavefield propagation to pseudo-receivers at the surface of the earth. The seismic data thus transformed can be processed as though the data had been recorded by the pseudo-receivers at the surface rather than in the borehole where the data were actually recorded. This method accurately accounts for seismic source statics, anisotropy, and all velocity effects between the real receivers in the borehole and the pseudo-receivers at the surface of the earth.
US09239395B2
Methods for rapidly determining earthquake parameters of an earthquake include inputting a seismogram of the earthquake, searching concurrently in pre-established historical seismogram database and theoretical seismogram database by use of an approximate nearest neighbor search method, to find a set of seismograms similar to the input seismogram according to a preset similarity condition, and determining from the set of similar seismograms one or more seismograms matched with the input seismogram, and determining the earthquake parameters from the matched seismograms. With the present invention, it is possible to search in millions of seismograms and determine parameters for an earthquake in a few second, and thus realize rapid and even real-time estimation of earthquake parameters.
US09239394B2
A detector for detecting ionizing radiation comprises a scintillator 10 selected to emit light in response to incidence thereon of radiation to be detected, at least one detector 16 for detecting said emitted light, and at least one optical waveguide 12 for transmitting said emitted light to said detector 16. The optical waveguide typically comprises a flexible solid or hollow fiber that can be incorporated into a flexible mat or into a fiber-reinforced structure, so that the detector is integrated therewith.
US09239392B2
In the radiographic imaging device, a portion of a second effective imaging region at a first side or a second side of a sensor unit of a second radiation detection panel, and a portion of a first effective imaging region at a third side or a fourth side of the sensor unit of a first radiation detection panel, are overlapped in a radiation irradiating direction. A portion of a second effective imaging region at the third side or the fourth side of the sensor unit of the second radiation detection panel, and a portion of a third effective imaging region at the third side or the fourth side of the sensor unit of the third radiation detection panel, are overlapped in the radiation irradiating direction. The second radiation detection panel is disposed at a side opposite the radiation irradiating section side of the first radiation detection panel and the third radiation detection panel.
US09239383B2
An algorithm for deriving improved navigation data from the autofocus results obtained from selected image blocks in a wide-beam synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image. In one embodiment the navigation error may be approximated with a vector of low-order polynomials, and a set of polynomial coefficients found which results in a good phase error match with the autofocus results. In another embodiment, a least squares solution may be found for the system of equations relating the phase errors at a point in time for selected image blocks to the navigation error vector at that point in time. An approach using low sample rate backprojection (150) initially to select suitable image blocks, and full sample rate backprojection (156) for the selected image blocks, followed by full sample rate backprojection (164) for the image, using the improved navigation solution, may be used to reduce the computational load of employing the algorithm.
US09239381B2
A radioaltimeter (5) having a signal generator-receiver (10) and signal transceiver means (20) connected to the generator-receiver (10), and a display member (30), said transceiver means (20) comprising a transceiver main member (21) for sending a signal towards a ground (S) in order to determine the height (H) between said main member (21) and said ground (S), said display member (30) having main display means (31) for displaying said height (H). Furthermore, the radioaltimeter (5) includes switch means (40) together with a control unit (50), and secondary display means (32) of said display member (30).
US09239370B2
A circuit of a node in a radio network and method for transit time measurement between a first node and a second node of a radio network is provided. A frame is transmitted by the first node, wherein the frame requires an acknowledgment of reception by the second node. A first point in time of the transmission of the frame is established by the first node by a time counter. The frame is received by the second node at a second point in time. The acknowledgment is transmitted by the second node to the first node at a third point in time, wherein the third point in time depends on the second point in time by a predetermined time interval between the second point in time and the third point in time. A fourth point in time is established by the first node by the time counter when the acknowledgment is received. The transit time or the change in transit time is determined from the first point in time established by the time counter and from the established fourth point in time and from the predetermined time interval.
US09239356B2
The test board serves as an interface for testing a conference phone. The test board includes a plurality of test channel selectors. Each of the test channel selectors receives a plurality of test voltages provided by the conference phone and a first and a second control signals. The test voltages are divided into a plurality test voltage pairs, and each of the test channel selectors selects one of the test voltages in each of the test voltage pairs for generating a plurality of selected voltages according to the first control signal. Each of the test channel selectors selects two of the selected voltages for generating a first and a second output voltages according to the second control signal, where the first and the second output voltages are transmitted to a test machine for testing the conference phone.
US09239353B2
A method of testing an integrated circuit clearance distance device (“ICCDD”) having a predetermined clearance distance in air requirement and a predetermined isolation voltage limit including calculating a value of the breakdown voltage at the predetermined clearance distance for at least one gas; and selecting a gas in which the ICCDD has a breakdown voltage that is less than the predetermined isolation voltage.
US09239352B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a facilitated method for accurately measuring the earth ground resistance of a ground rod, in particular a footing of a pylon acting as a ground rod or a ground rod attached to the footings of a pylon, and obtaining an overall value for the resistance of the pylon. A method of determining the earth ground resistance of two or more pylon footings is provided according to the present disclosure, comprising conducting selective measurements of each footing of a pylon consecutively and wherein true values for the resistance of each footing measured are calculated. According to the present disclosure, the testing means is connected directly to two auxiliary electrodes which are placed at predetermined distances from the pylon, and a current measurement means which is placed around a pylon footing in order to measure the current flowing along the footing.
US09239344B2
A power-measurement device includes a power detector and a tempering device. The power detector is integrated on a monolithic chip as an integrated circuit. It converts a high-frequency test signal into a signal which displays the power of the high-frequency test signal. The power-measurement device further includes a signal input. In this context, the tempering device is arranged outside the monolithic chip on a side of the monolithic chip facing away from the integrated circuit. The signal input is connected to the power detector by a first line on a synthetic substrate. The signal input guides the high-frequency test signal to the power detector by the first line.
US09239333B2
Provided are methods for evaluating the risk of an adverse clinical outcome in a subject, deciding whether to discharge or continue treating a subject (e.g., treatment on an inpatient basis), or to initiate or terminate treatment, selecting a subject for participation in a clinical study, and selecting a therapeutic treatment for a subject that include determining a level of ST2 in a biological sample from the subject and determining a level of galectin-3 in a biological sample from the subject. Kits are also provided that contain an antibody that specifically binds to ST2, an antibody that specifically binds to galectin-3, and instructions for using the kit to evaluate the risk of an adverse clinical outcome in a subject, to decide whether to discharge or continue treating a subject (e.g., treatment on an inpatient basis) or to initiate or terminate treatment, to select a subject for participation in a clinical study, and/or to select treatment for a subject.
US09239329B2
This invention provides a method of screening or patterning a biomaterial in terms of their specificities to sugar chains by performing real-time and comprehensive measurement of an interaction between sugar chains and the biomaterial concurrently with a very small amount of the biomaterial without labeling. It is a method of measuring an interaction between a biomaterial and a sugar chain(s), the method including: bringing a solution containing the biomaterial in contact with a ligand carrier, the ligand carrier including a support whose surface includes a metal, and a ligand conjugate(s) immobilized independently on the surface, the ligand carrier carrying the ligand conjugate(s) in such a manner that 1 to 500 kinds of the ligand conjugate(s) is immobilized per cm2, and each ligand conjugate having a structure in which a sugar chain is bonded with a linker compound having a sulfur atom, and the biomaterial being at least one selected from the groups of proteins, viruses, cells, microorganisms, liposome, and micelles.
US09239328B2
An integrated semiconductor device for manipulating and processing bio-entity samples is disclosed. The device includes a microfluidic channel that is coupled to fluidic control circuitry, a photosensor array coupled to sensor control circuitry, an optical component aligned with the photosensor array to manipulate a light signal before the light signal reaches the photosensor array, and a microfluidic grid coupled to the microfluidic channel and providing for transport of bio-entity sample droplets by electrowetting. The device further includes logic circuitry coupled to the fluidic control circuitry and the sensor control circuitry, with the fluidic control circuitry, the sensor control circuitry, and the logic circuitry being formed on a first substrate.
US09239327B2
Particles comprising hollow surface-enhanced spectroscopy (SES)-active core for long wavelength SERS
Embodiments include a particle comprising a surface enhanced spectroscopy (SES)-active core and a SES-active reporter molecule associated with the SES-active core wherein said particle has a measurable SES spectrum when excited by incident light having a wavelength of at least 1400 nm. Alternative embodiments include methods of manufacturing said particle and methods of tagging a material with said particle. The particle may include an SES-active core which supports plasmon resonance at a wavelength of at least 1400 nm. The particle may comprise an anisotropic core. The particle may include an SES-active reporter molecule which is resonant at one or more wavelengths greater than or equal to 1400 nm.
US09239321B2
An egg transfer system for providing automated inspection and tracking of eggs prior to entering an egg breaker, as well as broken egg contents following breaking, and in which the transfer system includes a series of processing and inspection component interfacing with a central processor for grading and segregating the eggs into one of a number of classes including removal eggs. Removal gates are provided at intermediate locations of the egg transfer system, prior to the egg breakers, and are associated with removal of varying classes of eggs. The central processor interfaces with the various stations in order to assemble a dedicated data packet of egg related data which is assigned to a progressing location on the egg conveyor upon which a specified egg is located, and which can further include the central processor assigning the data packet to a location subsequent to the breakers holding specified shell egg contents. At least one, and typically two, manual removal locations are additionally provided, such as associated with the intermediate egg detection and removal station as well as the post-breaker station.
US09239316B2
An object information acquiring apparatus has: a holding unit which holds an object; a probe which receives an acoustic wave generated in the object via the holding unit and converts the acoustic wave to an electrical signal; a force measuring unit which measures a force applied to the object when the object is held by the holding unit; a sound speed acquiring unit which determines a sound speed in the object by using the force measured by the measuring unit and a contact area between the object and the holding unit; and a generating unit which generates object information data from the information about the sound speed determined by the sound speed acquiring unit and the electrical signal.
US09239314B2
A probe and method for detecting magnetic particles. In one embodiment, the probe includes a probe core having a first end and a second end, the probe core defining two regions for containing coils of wire, one of the regions being adjacent the first end of the cylindrical probe core; two sense coils, one each of the sense coils being located in a respective one of the regions; and two drive coils, one each of the drive coils being located in a respective one of the regions, wherein the regions are separated by a distance equal to or greater than the diameter of one of the coils and a source of a secondary magnetic drive field. In another embodiment, the frequency of the drive signal of the secondary magnetic drive field is less than the frequency of the drive signal of the primary drive coils.
US09239310B2
There is disclosed a capacitive sensor on a passivation layer of a semiconductor circuit such as an ASIC, and a method for manufacturing such sensor. The system and method may comprise: forming a bottom electrode layer and landing pad on a portion of the passivation layer located over active circuitry of the ASIC; forming a gas sensitive layer onto the bottom electrode layer and the landing pad; creating a via through the gas sensitive layer to expose a portion of the landing pad; forming a top electrode layer onto the gas sensitive layer, wherein the top electrode layer completely overlays a surface area of the bottom electrode layer, and wherein the forming process for the top electrode layer deposits a portion of the top electrode layer into the via hole, thereby forming an electrical connection between the top electrode layer and the landing pad.
US09239308B2
A humidity detection sensor includes a lower electrode provided on a board, an upper electrode provided so as to face the lower electrode, a humidity sensing film which is formed at least between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and whose dielectric constant changes in response to humidity, and a protective film provided so as to cover the upper electrode. Each of the upper electrode and the protective film has an opening through which the humidity sensing film is partially exposed to the outside. In the opening, the humidity sensing film is provided so as to reach at least a position higher than the position of the lower surface of the protective film.
US09239307B1
Methods of screening a polycrystalline diamond element for suitability for electrical discharge machining (“EDM”). The method includes providing a PCD element including a plurality of bonded diamond grains, determining at least one characteristic of the PCD table correlated to electrical conductivity of the PCD element, and EDM the PCD element if the value of the at least one characteristic correlates to an electrical conductivity above a threshold value.
US09239303B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for material discrimination. The systems and methods include a single source that generates both neutrons and photons, and a single imaging array with a common detector that detects the neutrons and the photons generated from the single source. The systems and methods allow for a determination of the contents, and/or the effective atomic number (“Z”) of the contents, of an object without physical inspection of the interior of the object.
US09239302B2
A method of analyzing particles of a material which include a constituent is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of exposing particles of the material to x radiation having a range of x-radiation energies, detecting x-radiation intensities at two different energy levels transmitted through the particles, and determining the concentration of the constituent in particles from the detected intensities.
US09239295B2
Methods and systems for variable polarization wafer inspection are provided. One system includes one or more polarizing components position in one or more paths of light scattered from a wafer and detected by one or more channels of an inspection system. The polarizing component(s) are configured to have detection polarization(s) that are selected from two or more polarization settings for the polarizing component(s).
US09239289B1
Provided is a spatially resolved diffusive reflectance spectroscopy apparatus that includes an emitter, a plurality of optical waveguides, a switch, a photon detector, and a controller, and a method for operation of the apparatus. The controller controls emitter intensity, identifies photons detected by the photon detector as belonging to a specific optical waveguide of the plurality of optical waveguides, counts the detected photons, and identifies respective optical waveguides receiving each counted photon. The emitter emits optical photons in an optically turbid medium, and a distal end of each optical waveguide of the plurality of optical waveguides receives the optical photons reflected or scattered in the optically turbid medium.
US09239288B1
An aircraft light device has a base, a printed circuit board, a reflector and a cover-lens. The reflector is comprised of a number of reflective surfaces connected together to form a spline. Light transducers on the printed circuit board are of two main types, light emitters and light receivers. Light emitters provide light for illumination, while light receivers enable detection of received light. The two transducer types can be used alone or in combination.
US09239286B2
A terahertz-based material identification system includes a terahertz source for transmitting a terahertz wave for interaction with an object. The interaction results in a resulting terahertz wave that is influenced by the object. A terahertz detector receives the resulting terahertz wave and is configured to output measurement data corresponding to the resulting terahertz wave. A processor is in communication with the terahertz detector for receiving the measurement data. The processor is also configured to calculate an object response signature based on the measurement data, and compare the object response signature to a set of known response signatures so as to identify the object. The material identification system may also be implemented as part of a sorting system that is configured to selectively separate the object from a mixture based on the identity of the object.
US09239279B1
The invention is essentially a sequential (“DMA”) apparatus using a novel arrangement of at least three electrodes and at least two block electrodes to produce a DMA apparatus having at least two sequential DMA regions between pairs of adjacent electrode walls within the same housing. This apparatus is used to improve the transfer of particles into the subsequent DMA region without a vacuum or pump, and to improve the separation of target particles from non-target particles and concentration and collection of the target particles.
US09239278B2
Systems and methods for determining concentrations of components of a multiphase fluid. A first flowmeter receives a fluid flow and generates measurements of the fluid flow. After at least partially separating the fluid flow into mixtures of its components, second and third flowmeters generate measurements of the mixtures. A data processing apparatus operatively coupled to the flowmeters receives the measurements and determines concentrations of the components of the fluid flow. In an embodiment, the measurements are mass flow and density readings.
US09239267B2
An infrared sensor for temperature sensing comprises a cap covering a substrate; an IR-radiation filtering window in the cap transparent to IR radiation; a first sensing element comprising a set of N thermocouples on the substrate covered by the cap, whose hot junctions may receive radiation; a second sensing element comprising a set of N thermocouples on the substrate covered by the cap whose hot junctions may not receive radiation; first connection modules for connecting a number N1 of thermocouples of the first sensing element, second connection modules for connecting a number N2 of thermocouples of the second sensing; connecting means for connecting an output of the first connection modules of the first sensing element with an output of the second connection modules of the second sensing element, and an output of the combined outputs of the sensing elements.
US09239265B2
The invention is an optical method and apparatus for measuring the temperature of semiconductor substrates in real-time, during thin film growth and wafer processing. Utilizing the nearly linear dependence of the interband optical absorption edge on temperature, the present method and apparatus result in highly accurate measurement of the absorption edge in diffuse reflectance and transmission geometry, in real time, with sufficient accuracy and sensitivity to enable closed loop temperature control of wafers during film growth and processing. The apparatus operates across a wide range of temperatures covering all of the required range for common semiconductor substrates.
US09239258B1
A photoelectric cell comprising: a cathode layer configured to eject electrons in response to receiving photons from a light source; a substantially-photon-transparent anode configured to receive the ejected electrons; first and second, substantially-photon-transparent, dielectric layers, wherein the first dielectric layer is disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and wherein the anode layer is disposed between the first and second dielectric layers such that the cathode layer, the first dielectric layer, the anode layer, and the second dielectric layer form a layered stack; and wherein at least a first portion of the layered stack overlaps a second portion of the layered stack.
US09239251B2
A composite material comprises a polymer matrix; and zeolite, which is bonded in the polymer matrix; wherein the percent of volume of the zeolite in the volume of the composite material amounts to at least 50%, in particular at least 65%. The polymer matrix can in particular comprise a polymer, which is selected from a group of polymers that consist of fluoroplastics, polyaryletherketones, sulphur-containing polymers and high heat resistant polymers. The zeolite comprises in particular a zeolite of type A, in particular a zeolite 4A or 3A.
US09239246B2
Systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces are provided to send a map search request including a start location and a search term to a map server, receive a number of routes, each of the routes describing a route from the start location to one of a number of potential destinations, receive a road style for rendering roads in a map extent encompassing the routes, and simultaneously display the routes based on a multiple route style.
US09239244B1
A device capable of showing both navigation and safe driving warning information includes a computer, a display unit, a video camera, and a navigation unit. The information captured by the video camera, and the navigation unit and a safe driving warning unit are processed by the computer and then can be simultaneously displayed on the single display unit, so that the driver can see sufficient information, including real time road condition, navigation information, and safe driving information, directly from the display unit without having to look at different positions to see different information, thus improving driving safety.
US09239239B2
A software product for easy-to-use naming, coding, and sharing of locations, including those with no addresses.
US09239212B1
An apparatus providing a regenerative light source capable of illuminating a large area in front of and around the barrel end of a firearm. The apparatus may be installed as a retrofit into the firearm body without any need to alter it. Moreover, the light source and the electronics powering are will be shielded from environmental hazardous associated with the operation of a firearm thus prolonging the life of the apparatus while ensuring it remains functional whenever needed.
US09239205B2
A toy projectile launching system that launches a toy projectile. A launcher is provided with a first spring loaded spool and a second spring loaded spool. The first spring loaded spool and the second spring loaded spool are disposed on opposite sides of a common open area. At least one first elastic element is at least partially wound around the first spring loaded spool. Likewise, at least one second elastic element is at least partially wound around the second spring loaded spool. A first termination is coupled to each first elastic element. The first termination extends into the common open area. Likewise, a second termination is coupled to each second elastic element. The second termination extends into the common open area. The first termination and the second termination selectively interconnect with the toy projectile.
US09239201B1
A firearm suppressor is provided. The suppressor includes a cylindrical body having first end and a second end opposite the first end. The cylindrical body includes an internal bore, the first end includes a receiving bore and the second end includes a discharge bore aligning with one another. The present invention further includes a plurality of baffles secured within the internal bore. Each of the baffles include a frusto-conical sidewall having an apex opposite a base. The apex includes an axial bore and is disposed towards the receiving bore. The base is disposed toward the discharge bore. The apex includes a semi-circular cut from the sidewall into the axial bore, forming a semi-circular protrusion. Further, a port is formed through the sidewall on an opposite side of the semi-circular cut and below the apex.
US09239193B2
The disclosure relates to a unitary heat pump air conditioner (Unitary HPAC) having a plate type hot-side heat exchanger assembly, a cold-side heat exchanger assembly, and electrically driven compressors and coolant pumps. The plate type hot-side heat exchanger assembly includes a plurality of plates stacked and hermetically sealed between an upstream end plate and a downstream end plate, defining a condenser/chiller portion having a first coolant passageway, a sub-cooler portion having a second coolant passageway, and a refrigerant receiver portion sandwiched between the condenser/chiller portion and the sub-cooler portion. The first coolant passageway and the second coolant passageway are in non-contact thermal communication with the refrigerant passageway.
US09239188B2
Systems and methods for controlling drying of ceramic greenwares accounting for the load presented to a radio-frequency (RF) source of an RF applicator to reduce the risk of overheating greenware during drying. The method includes partially drying the greenware and then substantially drying the greenware with RF radiation. The RF radiation provided to an electrode region is controlled based on the number of greenware pieces within the electrode region at a given time. The system includes a control unit electrically connected to the electrode and configured to provide a select RF voltage to the electrode based on the number of greenwares within the electrode region. The system adjusts at least one input voltage from a power supply. The adjusted voltage is stepped-up, DC-rectified to form a plate voltage, and then converted by a high-frequency DC/AC convertor to the select high-frequency AC RF voltage needed to dry the greenwares without overheating.
US09239170B2
The present invention discloses a plenum module with compartmentalized interior that is subdivided, and partitioned into separate chambers by a set of wall panels.
US09239165B2
A combustor liner includes a heat shield, a shell, a series of trip strips, and a series of projecting walls. The heat shield has a shield cold side. The shell is attached to the heat shield and includes a shell hot side facing the shield cold side, a shell cold side facing away from the shield cold side, and a row of cooling holes. The trip strips run parallel to each other and all project from the shield cold side the same distance. Each projecting wall runs parallel to, and opposite of, a corresponding trip strip and projects from the shell hot side such that the distance to which each projecting wall projects is greater for projecting walls farther from the row of cooling holes, creating successive gaps between the projecting walls and corresponding trip strips that decrease from the row of cooling holes to create a convergent channel.
US09239161B2
A coupling for a powered search light includes a body that has a power device that provides electrical power or access to electrical power and a head coupled to the body including an lighting device which provides light when electrically powered. An end is coupled to or included as part of the body. A receiving coupling is coupled to or included as part of the head. A plurality of tabs are defined on the end and extending radially therefrom. A corresponding plurality of flanges are defined in the receiving coupling and extending radially inward therefrom. The end is arranged and configured to engage the receiving coupling by capture of the plurality of tabs by the corresponding plurality of flanges. A lock locks the plurality of tabs with respect to the plurality of flanges.
US09239155B2
Provided is a lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus includes a base unit, a first rod-shaped member, a lighting unit and a base connection unit, wherein the base connection unit includes, a rotating member rotatably coupled to the base part, a base cam fixed to the rotating member and including a base cam through-hole that penetrates a central portion of the base cam; a main shaft disposed in the base cam through-hole, capable of performing a tilt operation for rotating in one direction and the other direction on the basis of a tilt rotation central axis orthogonal to the lengthy direction of the first rod-shaped member, and having an upper portion to which the one end of the first rod-shaped member is coupled and fixed, and an elastic member that is provided to change an elastic bearing power applied to the main shaft, as the main shaft is tilted.
US09239154B2
The present disclosure relates to a combined back plate, a method for assembling the combined back plate, and a backlight module comprising the combined back plate. The combined back plate includes a frame formed by a plurality of frame strips provided with slots and a plurality of plugboards provided with bending walls that can be engaged with the slots. Through combining the bending walls and the slots, the plurality of plugboards can be mounted together so as to form the combined back plate. With the combined back plate of the present disclosure being formed by splicing a plurality of plugboards, back plates with different sizes can be manufactured in a convenient manner.
US09239153B2
A light housing is provided. Housing comprises plate with light communication for LED luminaire attached to upper surface of plate, annular base having a rim, plurality of supports connecting plate to annular base, slots in each of plurality of supports; and retention clips engaged within slots. Housing includes j-box rotatably secured by support to plate with mounting brackets which include locking detents to maintain support in upper or lower positions. Also provided is fixture assembly comprising housing with LED light attached thereto. Further methods for installing assembly are provided and include positioning assembly through hole in ceiling substantially within above-ceiling space, locking retention clips against plurality of supports to maintain assembly in position relative to ceiling; and engaging upper rim of reflector with deflection clips attached to bottom surface of plate of assembly.
US09239152B2
A holder comprises a base body, at least two terminals, a connector and at least two wires. The base body defines a receiving hole for receiving the light emitting module. The terminals are provided to the base body and each have a pressing contact portion and a wire insertion structure, the pressing contact portions extend into the receiving hole and respectively press against the contact pads of the light emitting module. The connector is provided to the base body so as to externally connect a mating connector. The wires respectively correspond to the terminals to allow one end of each wire to be detachably connected to the wire insertion structure of the corresponding terminal and the other end of the each wire to be connected to the connector so that the terminals and the connector are electrically connected.
US09239151B2
A lamp achieves high output power like an HID lamp by using a light emitting element(s) as a light source. A mount board having LED mounted thereon is provided on the surface of a base member, and there are provided plural flat plate type light source units arranged around an axial line while the back surfaces thereof faces inwards, and a support member provided on the axial line. The plural light source units are supported on the support member, and a space through which air flows is provided at the back surface side of each base member.
US09239144B2
The invention concerns a light module with a light source, a primary optical system and a reflector. The primary optical system contains a lens element that is embodied as a sector of an imaginary rotation body formed by the rotation of an imaginary rotation base surface around a rotation axis, wherein the rotation base surface is designed such that the lens element contains a light entry surface that faces the rotation axis and that surrounds the rotation axis and a light emitting surface that is located radially exterior to the rotation axis, wherein the reflector has at least one reflector zone that is embodied as a segment of the surface of a rotation symmetric imaginary associated circular cone, and wherein the axis of symmetry of the circular cone extends parallel to the rotation axis of the lens element.
US09239142B2
A light fixture and method for producing downward-propagating illumination that includes an edge-lit lightguide illuminated from its perimeter. The lightguide has a light extractor, such as a dot pattern on its bottom surface, which extracts a portion of the light from inside the lightguide and directs it to a diffuser. The fixture also includes a downlight, arranged above the lightguide and producing a downlight beam downward. The downlight beam transmits from the top face through the bottom face of the lightguide and emerges from the bottom face of the lightguide as a directional beam. The downlight beam has a downlight beam footprint. The light extractor has a light extractor area that excludes the downlight beam footprint, and the diffuser has a diffuser area that also excludes the downlight beam footprint.
US09239136B1
An LED connector half (500) mates with a wire connector half (300) to connect a light strip (100) comprising LEDs (115) to a pair of wires. The LED half includes a hinged top (700) with an opening (705) to admit an end LED on the strip when the top is closed, securing the strip to the connector half without blocking the LED. The wire half secures a pair of wires (315) to terminals (305) in a housing (310). The wire half is inserted into the LED half, connecting the Electrodes and terminals. The halves are held together by a tongue (320) and socket (800). In another aspect, a connector (1100) joins two light strips by capturing the LEDs at the ends of the strips in openings (1110) and clamping conductive electrodes (1140) against the strips by closing a lid (1105) against the body, without obscuring LED light output.
US09239135B2
An LED connector has an LED component and a heat sink. The heat sink includes a plurality of conductors having mounting pads. The conductors are formed from an electrically and thermally conductive material. The LED component is mounted to the mounting pads. The conductors define both electrical circuits and thermal heat sinks for the LED connector.
US09239127B2
The present invention provides a rotatable joint (1) comprising: a first joint member (10) for connection to a reference frame; a second joint member (20) connected with the first joint member (10) and configured for rotation relative to the first joint member (10) about an axis (13); and an adjustable stop mechanism (30) for defining limits of rotation of the second joint member (20) relative to the first joint member (10). The adjustable stop mechanism (30) comprises: a first part (40) provided on the first joint member (10) having at least a first stop (41) defining at least a first limit of rotation of the second joint member (20) about said axis (13) relative to the first joint member (10), wherein the first part (40) is adapted to be selectively positioned with respect to the first joint member (10) to set or define a limit or range of rotation of the second joint member (20) relative to the first joint member (10).
US09239123B2
Couplings and gaskets are disclosed. Couplings may include an upper housing, a lower housing, at least one fastening device coupling the upper housing to the lower housing, and a gasket positioned within the upper and lower housings, the gasket including two primary seals and a rib protruding from an inner surface of the gasket and between the two primary seals.
US09239105B2
A power transmission system for a people mover, including a transmission housing; a main shaft extending at least partially through the transmission housing for rotation with respect thereto; a plurality of gears located inside the transmission housing, the plurality of gears adapted to rotate the main shaft; and a flexible coupling adapted to secure the transmission housing to a structural support.
US09239103B2
A multi-mode continuously variable transmission in a powertrain of a motor vehicle includes a continuously variable unit connected to a planetary gear set arrangement. The planetary gear set arrangement generally includes two planetary gear sets, two brakes, and one clutch and provides multiple modes of ratio selection between the continuously variable unit and a transmission output member. The transmission output member is connected to a chain driven final having only three axes of rotation.
US09239102B2
The disclosure relates to a threaded shaft for a roller screw drive, for example for an electromechanical brake booster or an electromechanical power steering system. According to the disclosure, a helical coil with a flat, square-threaded annular cross-section is arranged on a thin-walled pipe, the pipe being formed onto a root region of the helical coil by the application of high pressure from the inside of the pipe.
US09239099B2
Inventive embodiments are directed to components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for infinitely variable transmissions (IVT) having a variator provided with a plurality of tilting spherical planets. In one embodiment, a variator is provided with multiple planet arrays. In another embodiment, a hydraulic system is configured to control the transmission ratio of the IVT. Various inventive idler assemblies and planet-pivot arm assemblies can be used to facilitate adjusting the transmission speed ratio of an IVT. Embodiments of a transmission housing and bell housing are adapted to house components of an IVT and, in some embodiments, to cooperate with other components of the IVT to support operation and/or functionality of the IVT. Various related devices include embodiments of, for example, a control feedback mechanism, axial force generation and management mechanisms, a control valve integral with an input shaft, and a rotatable carrier configured to support planet-pivot arm assemblies.
US09239097B2
The invention relates to a tensioning device comprising a back plate, on which is installed a tensioning roller provided with at least one bearing. The tensioning roller is installed on the back plate with the possibility of rotation about an eccentric axis (X6) in relation to the axis (X4) of the tensioning roller. The tensioning roller is provided with a protuberance engaged in a peripheral recess of the back plate, this peripheral recess limiting the movement of the protuberance between two abutments.
US09239096B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft configured to receive torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting changed torque, a first planetary gear set having a first sun gear, a first planet carrier, and a first ring gear as rotation elements thereof, a second planetary gear set having a second sun gear, a second planet carrier, and a second ring gear as rotation elements thereof, a third planetary gear set having a third sun gear, a third planet carrier, and a third ring gear as rotation elements thereof, and a fourth planetary gear set having a fourth sun gear, a fourth planet carrier, and a fourth ring gear as rotation elements thereof.
US09239095B1
A unique transmission based on a servo-automated gearbox is disclosed wherein each of its gear pairs is self-disengaging and self-engaging requiring only the switching of dedicated hydraulic valves to transition from the disengagement of a gear pair to the engagement of a newly selected pair. During shifting, one servo controls the zeroing of the difference between the speed of the engine and the speed of the gearbox output shaft as required by the gear ratio of the selected gear pair. Concurrently another servo, by controlling the slip of several gear pairs, maintains the current vehicle acceleration or deceleration while also decelerating or accelerating, respectively, the slip-engaged engine toward the required speed.
US09239087B2
A brake cover plate for a disc brake of a motor vehicle having a plate-like section for covering a brake disc. An annular elevation which is spaced apart from the outer edge of the brake cover plate is formed on the side facing the brake disc as a wheel-bearing pre-seal. Furthermore, the brake cover plate forms a fastening flange radially within the annular elevation in order to fix the brake cover plate to a wheel carrier or the like. A wheel-bearing pre-seal is integrated into the brake cover plate via the annular elevation, the wheel-bearing pre-seal reducing the soiling of a wheel bearing thus improving the service life of the latter.
US09239078B2
A bearing cage, including: a body fabricated of phenolic material and having an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface; and a coating of molybdenum disulfide or polytetrafluoroethylene adhered to the outer circumferential surface or the inner circumferential surface. A method of manufacturing a bearing cage, including: fabricating a body from phenolic material, the body including an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface connecting first and second sides; and adhering a coating of molybdenum disulfide or polytetrafluoroethylene to the inner or outer circumferential surface.
US09239075B2
To provide a forged crankshaft having an excellent wear resistance. The forged crankshaft according to the present embodiment includes a non-heat treated steel material. The non-heat treated steel material has a chemical composition which contains, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 0.75 to 1.30%, Mn: 1.00 to 2.00%, S: 0.03 to 0.30%, Cr: 0.05 to 0.30%, Al: 0.005 to 0.050%, and N: 0.005 to 0.020%, the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfies the following Formula (1): 1.1C+Mn+0.2Cr>2.0 (1) where a symbol of each element in Formula (1) is substituted by the content (mass %) of the each element. A matrix of the non-heat treated steel material is a ferrite-pearlite microstructure in which an area ratio of pro-eutectoid ferrite is less than 10% or a pearlite microstructure.
US09239067B2
A sway brace attachment for firmly connecting to a beam and other flanged structures, and a method for manufacturing the sway brace attachment. The sway brace attachment includes a main body and an insert that is captured within the main body by a pair of set screws which also engage the flange. Preferably, a third set screw is supported by the main body and engages the opposite side of the flange from the pair of set screws. The main body can be generally rectangular in shape, with a top wall, a pair of side walls extending from the top wall and a pair of bottom walls, which extend inwardly from respective side walls in an overlapping relationship. The sway brace attachment can be used for bracing pipes and other loads, suspended below ceilings and floors, against sway and seismic disturbances.
US09239063B2
A fluid mover includes a hollow body with a straight-through passage of substantially constant cross-section with an inlet end an outlet end for the entry and discharge respectively of a working fluid. A nozzle substantially circumscribes and opens into the passage intermediate the inlet and outlet ends. An inlet communicates with the nozzle for the introduction of a transport fluid, and a mixing chamber is formed within the passage downstream of the nozzle. The nozzle internal geometry and the bore profile upstream of the nozzle exit optimize the energy transfer between the transport fluid and working fluid. Working fluids are atomized to form a dispersed vapor/droplet flow with locally supersonic conditions within a pseudo-vena contracta, resulting in the creation of a supersonic condensation shock wave within the downstream mixing chamber by the condensation of the transport fluid. Methods of moving and processing fluids using the fluid mover are also disclosed.
US09239058B2
A rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a field magnet, and an auxiliary magnet. The first rotor core includes a first core base and a plurality of first hook-shaped poles. The second rotor core includes a second core base and a plurality of second hook-shaped poles. The first and second hook-shaped poles are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor. The field magnet is arranged between the first and second core bases in an axial direction. The field magnet cause the first hook-shaped poles to function as first poles and the second hook-shaped poles to function as second poles. The auxiliary magnet includes at least two interpolar magnet portions, which are integrally formed. Each interpolar magnet portion is arranged in a void between the first hook-shaped pole and the second hook-shaped pole and magnetized in the circumferential direction.
US09239056B2
A non-clogging type pump impeller includes: a fluid passage provided in an approximately cylindrical body and connecting a suction port to a discharge port. The fluid passage has a vortex shape as viewed from an axial direction. A first recess, which is sunk downwardly in the axial direction, is formed on a first end surface of the approximately cylindrical body so as to surround a boss. A second recess, which is sunk upwardly in the axial direction, is formed on a second end surface of the approximately cylindrical body so as to surround the suction port. At least one communication hole provides fluid communication between the first recess and the second recess. Sewage in the second recess is introduced into the first recess through the at least one communication hole to thereby effectively remove an air pocket trapped on the first end surface of the impeller and in the first recess.
US09239055B2
A cross flow fan and an air conditioner having the same are provided. The cross flow fan may include a fixing member having a plate shape, and a plurality of blades fixed to one surface of the fixing member. The plurality of blades may be arranged spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. An inner edge may define an end of a side of each of the plurality of blades, the inner edge extending toward a rotational shaft of the plurality of blades, and an outer edge may define an end opposite to the inner edge. A protrusion may protrude from the outer edge in one direction.
US09239054B2
A compressor may include a shell, a compression mechanism, a motor, a pumping mechanism, and a heat exchanger. The shell may define an internal cavity and an oil sump. The compression mechanism is disposed the said shell. The motor is coupled to a driveshaft for selectively powering the compression mechanism. The pumping mechanism may be in fluid-pumping communication with the oil sump. The first heat exchanger may be disposed external from the shell and in fluid communication with the pumping mechanism. The first heat exchanger may cool the oil prior to returning the cooled oil to the internal cavity.
US09239048B2
A peristaltic pump (2) for use in a sterilization apparatus (10) comprises: a flexible pump hose (44) having an outlet end and an inlet end, and an electrically conductive fitting (53) at each end; a motor-driven impeller (46) disposed in relation to the pump hose (44) such that when the impeller (46) is driven it will intermittently bear against the pump hose (44) so as to bring the internal walls of the pump hose together (62); a first electrode (52a) in contact with the conductive fitting (53a) at the outlet end of the pump hose (44), and a second electrode (52b) in contact with the conductive fitting (53b) at the inlet end of the pump hose (44); means (70) for applying a voltage across the first and second electrodes (52); and means (70) for measuring an electrical property between the conductive fittings (53). Other aspects of the invention provide a sterilization apparatus including the pump, and a method of using the sterilization apparatus.
US09239047B2
A bellows pump with a case member that forms an axial space therein, closed-bottomed cylindrical bellows that are arranged in the space in an axially extendable/contractable manner and axially separate the space into a pump chamber and an operation chamber, suction valves that are provided on a suction side of the pump chamber and guide a fluid to be transferred to the pump chamber, and discharge valves that are provided on a discharge side of the pump chamber and discharge the fluid to be transferred from the pump chamber, and which extends/contracts the bellows by introducing a working fluid into the operation chamber to discharge the working fluid from the operation chamber, wherein each of the bellows is configured by alternately forming mountain portions and valley portions along the axial direction and having, on a predetermined position in the axial direction, annular ring portion integrally formed therewith.
US09239046B2
An air pump that measures an air pressure including a base, a one-way valve, a pump pipe, a piezometer, a scale plate, a cylinder, a piston, and a driving stem. The base has a chamber room. The one-way valve has an inlet chamber and a vent. The scale plate has an air-guiding hole so that a cylinder hole of the cylinder is communicated with the air-guiding hole. A piston is driven to pump gas in the cylinder hole, thereby forcing the gas to enter the inlet chamber, rendering the vent to deliver the gas unidirectionally, and allowing the scale plate to display an air pressure value.
US09239044B2
A pump for pumping viscous liquid. The pump includes a body, an elongate core, and a tube surrounding the core. A stepper or servo motor mounted on the body has a selectively rotatable output shaft. A transmission operatively connecting the motor output shaft and the elongate tube reciprocates the tube between a raised position and a lowered position. An inlet check valve defining an expansible lower chamber is oriented to open during each downward pumping stroke so liquid enters the lower chamber. The pump includes a pump chamber and a feed passage connecting the lower chamber to the pump chamber. The passage has a check valve oriented to open during each upward stroke to deliver liquid from the lower chamber to the pump chamber. An outlet passage connected to the pump chamber permits liquid to flow from the pump chamber to an outlet on each upward and downward stroke.
US09239034B2
A selectively operable vacuum source designed to reduce leakage is disclosed. In one example, the vacuum source is at least partially within an engine air intake system. The approach may reduce a number of sensors required to diagnose whether or not leaks are present within the vacuum source.
US09239033B2
An ECU controls a selector valve so as to connect a first pump passage and a second pump passage, and determines whether a fuel vapor leak from a fuel tank is in an allowable range based on a pressure in the fuel tank which is detected by a pressure sensor while a pump is driven to decrease a pressure in the fuel tank. The ECU opens a purge valve, whereby the fuel vapor adsorbed by a canister is introduce into an engine through an intake passage. The ECU controls the selector valve to connect a first pump passage and the second pump passage so as to circulate an atmospheric air in the pump while the purge valve is opened to introduce the fuel vapor into the internal combustion engine, whereby a foreign matter in the pump can be removed.
US09239032B2
A fuel system, in particular of a motor vehicle, with a fuel tank and a ventilation device for ventilating the fuel tank, wherein the ventilation device has at least one separation device which has a temporary accumulator for liquid fuel. The separation device has a fill level determination device for determining the fill level of in the temporary accumulator. The invention further relates to a method for operating a fuel system.
US09239023B2
The opening control mechanism includes a frame, a support shaft, a first pulley, a second pulley, a first elastic member and a second elastic member. A position taken by the second pulley when no force acts on the grip is referred to as a second reference position. The second pulley can be rotated in a second direction of rotation, starting from the second reference position. A processing unit performs a specified operation when the second pulley has been rotated in the second direction of rotation, starting from the second reference position, by a predetermined amount.
US09239022B2
Disclosed is an internal-combustion engine controller capable of improving emission characteristics at a start of an internal-combustion engine. When injection during an exhaust stroke is controlled in a port-injection engine, the engine controller ECU performs the first fuel injection during t1 to t2 according to a memory-based crank angle as illustrated in FIG. 12(b) at a fuel injection timing before determination of an actual stroke. Thus, the injected fuel has been introduced into a cylinder during the actual stroke. If fuel is not injected during t1N to t3N within the next exhaust stroke as denoted by the solid line, this causes misfire in the cylinder, so that the engine rotation at the start cannot be smooth. Thus, the ECU clears a finished fuel injection flag (F_INJ) at an incorrect crank angle storage determination timing (tJUD) as denoted by the dashed-dotted line, thereby capable of controlling the fuel injection.
US09239021B2
An internal combustion engine with a supercharger comprises an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders; an intake passage that supplies gas to the internal combustion engine; a turbocharger-type supercharger including a turbine portion having a plurality of exhaust gas introduction passages; and an exhaust passage including a plurality of connecting passages that connect the plurality of cylinders and the plurality of exhaust gas introduction passages, wherein exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine flows through the exhaust passage. The internal combustion engine comprises a bridge passage that connects two or more of the plurality of connecting passages to each other; a branch passage connected to the bridge passage; and a first opening and closing device provided into the bridge passage to open and close the bridge passage.
US09239018B2
A fuel control apparatus (100) for an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, the vehicle provided with: the internal combustion engine (200) provided with a fuel supply apparatus (208, 209) capable of supplying, as fuel, first fuel (liquid fuel) and second fuel (CNG) in which amount of a reducing agent in an exhaust air under an rich air-fuel ratio is greater than that in the first fuel; and an exhaust purification apparatus (300, 400) disposed in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, the fuel control apparatus provided with: a first controlling device for controlling the fuel supply apparatus such that the supply of the fuel is temporarily stopped under a predetermined condition; and a second controlling device for controlling the fuel supply apparatus such that the second fuel is supplied as the fuel and such that an exhaust air-fuel ratio is the rich air-fuel ratio, if the supply of the fuel is restarted from a state in which the supply of the fuel is temporarily stopped.
US09238990B2
A muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine comprises: a casing having an inner space, an inlet pipe for sound to enter the muffler, an outlet pipe for sound to exit the muffler, and a separation wall arranged to extend from the inlet pipe to the outlet pipe and being embodied in a manner such as to define first and second acoustical ducts extending through the casing to allow sound propagating along the first acoustical duct to enter the inner space of the casing and to thereafter exit the inner space of the casing again, and to allow sound propagating along the second acoustical duct to acoustically bypass the inner space of the casing.
US09238988B2
A cylinder head mount comprising a base portion for mounting to a cylinder head of an engine; a bracket portion configured to receive and support an engine component; and a body portion interposed between the base portion and the bracket portion.
US09238987B2
The invention concerns a method and a device for testing the function capacity of an NO oxidation catalyst (5) which is used to reduce nitrous oxides (NOx) contained in the exhaust gas flow of an internal combustion engine (1) operated with air surplus. In the exhaust gas flow which is supplied to the NO oxidation catalyst (5), a change is made in the concentration of a reducing agent and the resulting change in NOx concentration in the exhaust gas flow within the NO oxidation catalyst (5) and/or downstream after the NO oxidation catalyst (5) is determined and used to test its function capacity.
US09238978B2
Disclosed are systems and methods useful in waste processing. Disclosed is the use of a regenerative thermal oxidation (RTO) unit for production of industrially useable steam. Disclosed are systems including a stripping unit associated with a regenerative thermal oxidation (RTO) unit so that the stripping unit provides fuel for the RTO unit and the RTO unit provides a stripping gas for the stripping unit. Disclosed are systems including an RTO unit providing steam to operate a vapor condensation (VC) unit.
US09238975B2
A lubrication device including a bypass valve with an inlet connected to a feed circuit, a first outlet to be connected to elements to be lubricated, and a second outlet connected to a bypass circuit. The valve includes a valve member slidable between first and second positions, and separating a cavity into first and second chambers. The first chamber is connected to the inlet. In the first position, a fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the second chamber is open, and from the first chamber to the first outlet is closed. In the second position, a fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the first outlet is open, and from the first chamber to the second outlet is closed. At least in the second position, the valve member separates the chambers in substantially leaktight manner, while the second chamber remains in fluid flow communication with the second outlet.
US09238958B2
An apparatus for estimating a rate-of-penetration of a drill bit is provided, which in one embodiment includes a first sensor positioned on a drill bit configured to provide a first measurement of a parameter at a selected location in a formation at a first time, and a second sensor positioned spaced a selected distance from the first sensor to provide a second measurement of the parameter at the selected location at a second time when the drill bit travels downhole. The apparatus may also include a processor configured to estimate the rate-of-penetration using the selected distance and the first and second times.
US09238956B2
A perforating gun apparatus includes a carrier gun body having a plurality of jet target regions. A first set of the jet target regions has a first resistance to jet penetration and a second set of the jet target regions has a second resistance to jet penetration. A charge holder is positioned within the carrier gun body. A plurality of shaped charges is supported by the charge holder. A first set of the shaped charges is oriented to have discharge ends aligned with the first set of the jet target regions and a second set of the shaped charges is oriented to have discharge ends aligned with the second set of the jet target regions such that firing the first set of the shaped charges creates perforations having a first penetration profile and firing the second set of the shaped charges creates perforations having a second penetration profile.
US09238941B2
A vehicle access system and method with retractable access means (10) e.g. ladder or stairs and a retracting mechanism (25) therefor. Force applied to the access means is sufficient to retract the access means from a fully deployed position to a partially retracted position but not sufficient to not be physically resisted by a user during at least part of the retraction. With the access means in a fully retracted position, force exerted on the retracted access means can be sufficient to hold the access means in a retracted position without the need for auxiliary restraining means.
US09238935B2
A main support frame is formed from sections of a plastic extrusion and has opposite side portions with peripheral recesses receiving an inner sash unit and outer sash unit each having a frame formed from sections of a plastic extrusion and supporting an insulated glass unit. Hinges support the dual sash units for pivotal movement between open and closed positions, and gear connected telescopic link members connect the main frame to the sash frames for simultaneous movement. A lock system includes a handle on the inner sash unit for moving straps with studs on the sash frames through a connector mechanism mounted on the main frame for simultaneously locking and releasing both sash units and for releasing only the inner sash unit. A screen and/or mini-blind may be supported between the sash units, and the window system with dual sash units may be constructed in various forms.
US09238918B2
A method of controlling a liquid movement system, such as a pool system. The method includes receiving a maximum time that an auxiliary load is to operate, receiving a minimum pump speed of a pump system that pumps a liquid through the auxiliary load, monitoring the time that an auxiliary load has been in operation, monitoring the pump speed of a pump system that pumps a liquid through the auxiliary load, and deactivating the auxiliary load if the maximum time or minimum pump speed has been met. Also disclosed are a pool system and a controller for controlling the pool system.
US09238915B2
An asphalt roof shingle sealing device comprised of a single flat non-perforated blank sheet of metal or rigid plastic, preferably aluminum or copper and having a width, length and thickness selected to substantially span the beneath the width and length of a shingle to be repaired having at least one hole, tear or puncture therein and includes a cutting edge for cutting through adhesive between shingles to be repaired and securing elements for securing the blank sheet in place beneath the shingle to be repaired thereby preventing any water passing through the hole or puncture in the shingle, or allowing any water passing through the hole or puncture to be collected by the blank sheet and drained onto a shingle below the repaired shingle.
US09238914B2
An apparatus for supporting one or more fixtures on a membrane roof has at least one bracket for interfacing with and securing the one or more fixtures, the at least one bracket coated on one side with a material compatible for heat welding to roofing membrane, a cut piece of roofing membrane having a length and width substantially greater than dimensions of the at least one bracket, wherein the at least one bracket is joined to the cut piece of membrane by heat welding and the piece of roofing membrane is then heat welded to the membrane roof.
US09238913B2
A roofing system, assembly and related methods of manufacture and installation for simulating a metal roof includes a membrane which is installed over a roof deck and aesthetic ribs installed directly on the membrane layer.
US09238909B2
In a column base joint structure, an anchor bolt and a column installed upright on a groundsel are tightly joined using groundsel-side and column-side hardware pieces. The groundsel-side hardware piece includes groundsel-embedded and upper fitting tenon portions. A fitting hole for the upper fitting tenon portion of the groundsel-side hardware piece is formed in a base of the column. The column-side hardware piece includes a lower projecting portion projecting downward from a top face portion to the inside of the fitting hole, and a column-embedded portion positioned above the top face portion. A pin locking hole in the upper fitting tenon portion of the groundsel-side hardware piece and a pin locking hole in the lower projecting portion of the column-side hardware piece are mutually aligned, a driftpin is hammered into the aligned pin locking holes, and the anchor bolt and the column are thereby tightly joined to each other.
US09238888B2
The present invention concerns a hydrocyclone for cleaning cellulose suspensions from light impurities i.e. a so called reverse hydrocyclone, having a base end and an apex end and a separation chamber having an elongated shape between the base end and the apex end, at least one inlet arranged at the base end and at least one underflow outlet at the apex end and at least one overflow outlet at the base end. The overflow outlet is provided with an additional, light reject outlet arranged concentrically to a length axis of the hydrocyclone. The invention also concerns a system and a method for producing and/or treating cellulose suspension comprising at least a reverse cleaning stage and at least a dewatering stage.
US09238876B2
A method of washing polycrystalline silicon is provided. The method includes a step of acid cleaning in which the polycrystalline silicon is cleaned with an acid solution and a step of a water cleaning in which the polycrystalline silicon is cleaned by pure water after the step of acid cleaning. In the step of water cleaning, residual acid solution on the surface of the polycrystalline silicon is removed by immersing the polycrystalline silicon in pure water held in a water cleaning bath, and replacing the pure water in the water cleaning bath at least once. The electrical conductivity (C) of the pure water in the water cleaning bath is measured. Based on the reading of the electrical conductivity (C), the timing for finishing the step of water cleaning is decided.
US09238859B2
A method produces a hardened galvanization of a continuously-running rolled steel strip. The strip is immersed in a coating tank containing a bath of a liquid metal mixture, e.g. zinc and aluminum, to be deposited on the strip, and permanently circulated between the coating tank and a preparation device. The temperature of the liquid mixture is deliberately lowered in order to reduce the iron solubility threshold and sufficiently high for initiating, in the preparation device, the fusion of at least one Zn—Al ingot in an amount necessary for compensating for the liquid mixture used for deposition on the strip. The device is implemented so that the circuit for circulating the liquid mixture is thermally optimized.
