US09283604B2
An elongated metal simulated log siding panel has a curved portion that simulates the curvature of a natural construction log. A plurality of longitudinally extending and randomly transversely spaced permanent bends in the curved portion simulate hew lines of a natural construction log, thereby creating a more natural appearance. Rotating disks compress the metal into an elastomeric roller to create the hew line-simulating bends.
US09283601B2
An apparatus (1) for cooling a bar (10) comprising: —an outer casing (3), —a passageway (2) defining a crossing direction (X) for the bar (10), —at least one drum (4) comprising a plurality of cooling lines (6) each having at least one respective through cavity (9) parallel to the crossing direction (X) and a respective cover (15) which can move between an open position and a closed position, the drum (4) being accommodated in the casing (3) and rotational about a rotation axis (Y) to move the cooling lines (6) between an operating position (11), in which the cavity (9) is aligned with the passageway (2), and at least one resting position (12), in which the cavity (9) is separated from the passageway (2), the casing (3) being shaped so as to touch and hold the respective cover (15) in the closed position when the cooling line (6) is in the resting position (12).
US09283599B2
A tube rolling plant (R) with multi-stand rolling mill having two or more rollers, for implementing a mandrel rolling process with controlled speed has a mandrel (31) which is inserted into the hollow body (39) from the frontal opening thereof by passing it first through the rolling mill (5). An opposite movement (L3) with respect to the rolling direction is imparted to the mandrel (31) by way of the hooking device (61) when rolling the hollow body (39) and the rear end of the rolled tube (42) is extracted at the end of the rolling operation.
US09283597B2
A micropump that pumps liquid using electrothermally-induced flow is described, along with a corresponding self-regulating pump and infusion pump. The micropump has applications in microfluidic systems such as biochips. The self-regulating infusion pump is useful for the administration of large and small volumes of liquids such as drugs to patients and can be designed for a wide range of flow rates by combining multiple micropumps in one infusion pump system.
US09283596B2
The invention relates to a high-pressure cleaning appliance, comprising a heatable heat exchanger for heating a liquid that is dischargeable by the high-pressure cleaning appliance, a motor having a drive shaft that defines a drive axis, a pump unit for increasing the liquid pressure, a blower wheel for generating a combustion air flow, and a fuel pump for delivering a fuel to the heat exchanger, wherein the pump unit, the blower wheel, and the fuel pump are disposed along the drive axis and are drivable by means of the drive shaft and form an assembly together with the motor. In order to fit the assembly to the appliance in a simplified manner while achieving a more compact design for appliance, the appliance comprises a half-shell housing having a first half-shell and a second half-shell which between them define an accommodating chamber in which the assembly is at least partially accommodated.
US09283594B2
A disc screen includes a shaft, a first disc mounted on the shaft, and a second disc mounted on the shaft. An interfacial opening (IFO) extends between the first disc and the second disc. A width of the IFO as measured between the first disc and the second disc varies according to a rotational position of the shaft.
US09283589B2
An assembly for screening a multilayer ceramic with a conductive paste includes a paste cartridge containing the conductive paste; a cartridge block, a top of a cartridge block being configured to receive the paste cartridge, the cartridge block comprising a paste routing section, the paste routing section comprising a flared section located at a bottom of the cartridge block; a pneumatic fitting attached to the paste cartridge, the pneumatic fitting configured to pressurize the conductive paste in the paste cartridge such that the conductive paste is extruded from the paste cartridge into the cartridge block through the paste routing section of the cartridge block by the pressure from the pneumatic fitting; and a nozzle connected to the flared section of the cartridge block, the nozzle configured to receive the conductive paste from the flared section, and screen the conductive paste onto the multilayer ceramic through the nozzle.
US09283583B2
An automated system for painting a shoe sole portion of a shoe is provided. The automated painting system is adapted to use a variety of stations and components to automatically paint a side surface of the shoe sole portion while it is secured in a jig, transition the jig to an open position, and remove the painted shoe sole portion from the jig.
US09283579B2
A dual, variable volume hot melt adhesive dispensing nozzle or die assembly is provided with a pair of choke slots within a first fluid control plate. The provision of the choke slots within the first fluid control plate effectively restricts and retards the flow of the fluid through such choke slots whereby volumes of the fluids are effectively built up and stored upstream of the choke slots so as to effectively delay the reaction of pressure spikes upon the fluid flows under both positive and negative conditions. This buildup in pressure and volume is then dispensed over time so as to cause the fluid flow to smoothly transition between positive and negative spiked fluid flow conditions and normal fluid flow conditions. Accordingly, the pressure spikes do not adversely affect the resulting fluid flows whereby, for example, under conventional negative pressure spike conditions, gaps in the dispensed hot melt adhesive would otherwise occur.
US09283573B2
A nozzle for a fan assembly includes an air inlet, a plurality of air outlets, and an annular casing having an annular inner wall defining a bore through which air from outside the nozzle is drawn by air emitted from the air outlets and an outer wall extending about the inner wall. The annular casing includes an air passage for conveying air to the air outlets. The air passage has an inlet section located between the inner wall and the outer wall and extending about the bore of the nozzle, and a plurality of outlet sections each extending across the bore for conveying air to a respective air outlet. To achieve an even air pressure at each end of each of the outlet sections, the inlet section of the air passage is arranged to convey air to each end of each of the outlet sections.
US09283565B2
A lightweight soil classifier consisting of a singular motor, a fully articulated flexible Vierendeel frame motor mount platform and conical basket lid weldment for the self-aligning and centering of a rotating shaft through a cylindrical screened classifier basket containing classified media, with an impervious conical bottom and a cylindrical bearing post incorporating a conduit, a classifier drive shaft with a semi-rigid coupling to the motor and a pumping screw extending through the bearing post conduit and submerged bearing surfaces to develop fluid dynamic bearing films of fine soils and liquid vehicle, fitted with an inverted cup-shaped classifier head consisting of outwardly projecting spirally arrayed classifier pins located within the confines of the classifier basket. Along with a rotating blade fastened to the tip of the classifier shaft below the basket bottom, the soil classifier is self-supported on feet within and on the floor of a vessel enabling a process for the deconglomeration, dispersion, particle size reduction and classification of soils all to within a common size.
US09283562B2
The present invention relates to a liquid channel device capable of easily opening the liquid channel from the closed mode, including a base plate in which a liquid channel, through which a liquid containing at least one of a sample and a reagent, flows, and a metering chamber for holding the liquid, are formed to at least one side thereof, the metering chamber has a liquid transport section for transporting the liquid inside the chamber downstream, and this liquid transport section is operated by means of external pressing on a cover plate in the area opposite the metering chamber.
US09283553B2
This invention relates to a hydrocracking catalyst for preparing valuable light aromatic hydrocarbons from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons derived from oil, which includes (i) beta-zeolite, (ii) pseudo-boehmite, and (iii) one or more metals selected from among metals of Groups VIII and VIB, and which further includes a cocatalyst component, thereby producing a maximum amount of BTX (Benzene, Toluene, Xylene) from LCO (Light Cycle Oil).
US09283547B2
Provided herein are catalytic articles and methods of making same using a single coat process. The catalytic article comprises an elongated substrate monolith having a plurality of longitudinally extending passages, each passage having at least a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first and second surfaces coated with at least a first coating and a second coating, wherein the first coating comprises a first catalyst composition and overlies the second coating on the first surface, the second coating comprises a second catalyst composition and overlies the first coating on the second surface, and wherein the first catalyst composition and second catalyst composition have a difference in surface charge. The washcoat may be applied as one slurry, which then self-segregates into two coatings.
US09283546B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel photocatalyst composition and a process of using the photocatalyst for the photocatalytic degradation of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in water. Palladium doped nano zinc oxide photocatalyst was prepared by zinc nitrate hexahydrate and an ammonium carbonate and the photocatalyst composition demonstrated more than 90-99% degradation of MTBE at room temperatures in a photo catalytic reaction conducted in an oxygen saturated aqueous medium.
US09283545B2
Efficient and recyclable heterogeneous nanocatalysts and methods of synthesizing and using the same are provided.
US09283540B2
Composite particles and methods for making the same. An absorbent material is formed into a particle. An optional performance-enhancing active is coupled to the absorbent material before, during, or after the particle-forming process, homogeneously and/or in layers. Additionally, the composite absorbent particle may include a core material. Preferred methods for creating the absorbent particles include a pan agglomeration process, a high shear agglomeration process, a low shear agglomeration process, a high pressure agglomeration process, a low pressure agglomeration process, a rotary drum agglomeration process, a mix muller process, a roll press compaction process, a pin mixer process, a batch tumble blending mixer process, an extrusion process, and a fluid bed process.
US09283518B2
Systems and methods for cooling and/or separating a component from a fluid are disclosed herein. Such systems and methods can include one or more of a separator (e.g., a dehumidifier), a chiller, and/or an expirator, each of which can include a selective transfer membrane. Such systems and methods can be used for a wide variety of applications including, for example, cooling and/or dehumidifying air.
US09283516B2
A column structure is described for the containment of high surface area packing and absorbent liquid reagent for the removal of a target gas from a gas stream. The column structure comprises a plurality of vessel column modules each having an elongate upright wall structure, each column module comprises a plurality of vertically disposed sub-modules, the modules being disposed together alongside one another in two dimensional array to constitute collectively the column structure. A column top support structure is located in the vicinity of the upper part of a column structure so assembled and each column module is mechanically supported from the column top support structure. A method of assembly of such a column and to a method of removal of a target gas from a gas phase using such a column are also described.
US09283514B2
Sulfur contaminants, such as elemental sulfur (S8), hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur components in fluids (e.g., air, natural gas, and other gases, as well as water and other liquids) are removed using a silicone-based chemical filter/bath. In one embodiment, a silicone-based chemical filter includes a membrane having a cross-linked silicone that is a reaction product of an olefin and a polyhydrosiloxane. For example, sulfur contaminants in air may be removed by passing the air through the membrane before the air enters a data center or other facility housing computer systems. In another embodiment, a silicone-based chemical bath includes a housing having an inlet port, an outlet port, and a chamber containing a silicone oil. For example, sulfur contaminants in air may be removed by passing the air through the silicone oil in the chamber before the air enters a data center or other facility housing computer systems.
US09283485B2
There is provided a game control device that allows a user, while executing or intending to execute a certain game, to know information about himself or herself in relation to another game. The game control device includes an execution means for executing a first game, a first determining means for determining whether a state of the first game satisfies a first condition when the user is executing the first game, an information obtaining means for obtaining user information of the user for a second game associated with the first game when the first condition is determined to be satisfied by the first determining means, and a notifying means for notifying the user about the user information for the second game obtained by the information obtaining means.
US09283471B2
A device for electromechanical selection of an element from a plurality of elements, according to present invention has a housing in a form of a body of a regular shape, enabling the device to take N rest positions, where N is a natural number. Each of the rest positions corresponds to one element selected from N elements, wherein the device is adapted to electrically and optically transmit data regarding trajectory of its movement and rest positions, including indications of an accelerometer connected to a position analysis and identification module. At least one proximity sensor and at least one magnetometric sensor is further placed inside the housing, and filters are connected on the signal path between the accelerometer and the sensors and position analysis and identification module. The present invention is also directed to the method of electromechanical selection of an element from a plurality of elements.
US09283466B2
The present invention provides a cover for use with a lacrosse stick that specifically interacts with the net of the lacrosse head to protect the net and the pocket from the environment and selectively maintain a certain shape or contour of the pocket. The pocket retainer is a component that may be selectively positioned within the cover and thereby retains the contour of the net particular to the lacrosse player.
US09283461B2
A fixed clamping member has a first interior surface and is constructed of a first material. A sensor unit formed on an exterior surface of the fixed clamping member detects a motion of the motion analysis device. A pivoting clamping member secured to a first end of the fixed clamping member has a second interior surface that opposes the first interior surface when the pivoting clamping member is in a secured position. A gripping element constructed of a second material different than the first material is formed over the first interior surface and the second interior surface. A tightening member having a threaded portion is secured to a second end of the fixed clamping member. A knob has a threaded interior portion with a diameter corresponding to the cylindrical threaded portion. An opening on the pivoting clamping member has a shape and a size corresponding to the tightening member.
US09283460B1
A training apparatus for stationary bicycle rollers includes a platform base with multiple panels and the panels are pivotally connected to each other and configured to fold together when not in use for ease of transportation and reduced storage space. The platform is configured to removably mate with an adjustable stabilization bar configured to provide stabilization support to a cyclist when using stationary bicycle rollers.
US09283457B2
A player training apparatus for use with a portable performance system. The portable performance system includes a processor, a memory and a display. The training apparatus includes an American-style football, at least one sensor coupled to the football, at least one transmitter coupled to the football and operably coupled to the sensor, and a non-transient computer-readable medium containing code. The code directs the processor to: receive input pertaining to motion of the football resulting from the player performing an act with the football; store information related to the input into the memory; compare the received input with previously stored celebrity information regarding similar football acts performed by a celebrity; and display information relating to the input and the comparison to the celebrity information.
US09283454B2
A sports equipment stick handle comprising a hollow tubular member with a cross section comprising at least a first wall and a second wall that intersect at a corner having a reinforcement portion (fillet, bead or diagonal; easement, wherein the thickness of the corner is greater than the thickness of the first and second walls. The reinforcement portion increases dent resistance, strength, and stiffness.
US09283437B2
A golf ball may include a UV curable coating layer that is only partially cured upon finishing. The golf ball may be used in its partially cured state in a game of golf, where the partially cured state may be advantageous for play under wet conditions. The coating layer may then further cure upon exposure to UV light, such as ambient environmental light from the sun during a game of golf in sunny conditions. As a result of this further curing, the coating may transition to a cured state that is associated with play characteristics that are advantageous for play under sunny dry conditions.
US09283430B2
A system and method for evaluating an activity includes an article of clothing provided with a sensor capable of detecting the impact of the article of clothing, such as a shoe, on a surface. A system receives and interprets the pattern of impacts made during the performance of the activity. The system compares these impacts with those of a target routine. Iterations of the same performance may be stored in the system so that ongoing progress may be measured. The system may be used to enhance class teaching, in the home, or for Internet competition. The activity may include dance, yoga, martial arts, or similar activities.
US09283426B2
The present disclosure in an embodiment provides a portable exercise apparatus. The portable exercise apparatus comprises a bar having a first end and a second end along a longitudinal axis. Further, the portable exercise apparatus comprises two frame members. Each frame member comprises a groove on top, coupled to the bar such that the bar rests on the two frame members along the longitudinal axis of the bar and on the grooves of the two frame members. The two frame members are opposite to each other at each end of the bar. Further, each frame member is coupled to a pair of wheels at a bottom portion of each frame member. Further, the bar has a grip portion, between the first end and the second end, to support stresses perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bar.
US09283422B2
A Pilates machine tension device support system for efficiently providing a tension force to a movable platform of an exercise machine. The Pilates machine tension device support system generally includes a frame, a platform movably positioned upon the frame and a tension assembly connected between the frame and the platform to provide selective tension upon the platform in a first direction. The tension assembly is comprised of a plurality of pulleys and a plurality of tension devices positioned upon the pulleys, wherein the tension devices are attached between a frame and the platform. The tension members are selectively engaged to the platform to increase or decrease the tension applied to the platform for varying levels of workouts.
US09283410B2
A method and system for providing ultrasound treatment to a tissue that contains a lower part of dermis and proximal protrusions of fat lobuli into the dermis. An embodiment delivers ultrasound energy to the region creating a thermal injury and coagulating the proximal protrusions of fat lobuli, thereby eliminating the fat protrusions into the dermis. An embodiment can also include ultrasound imaging configurations using the same or a separate probe before, after or during the treatment. In addition various therapeutic levels of ultrasound can be used to increase the speed at which fat metabolizes. Additionally the mechanical action of ultrasound physically breaks fat cell clusters and stretches the fibrous bonds. Mechanical action will also enhance lymphatic drainage, stimulating the evacuation of fat decay products.
US09283407B2
Systems and apparatuses for providing particle beams for radiation therapy with a compact design and suitable to a single treatment room. The radiation system comprises a stationary cyclotron coupled to a rotating gantry assembly through a beam line assembly. The system is equipped with a single set of dipole magnets that are installed on the rotating gantry assembly and undertakes the dual functions of beam energy selection and beam deflection. The energy degrader may be exposed to the air pressure. The beam line assembly comprises a rotating segment and a stationary segment that are separated from each other through an intermediate segment that is exposed to an ambient pressure.
US09283402B2
According to one general aspect, there is an double-balloon breast brachytherapy catheter comprising, an outer-balloon that is filled with a liquid substance or air via an out-balloon-filler; an inner-balloon that is filled with a liquid substance or air via an inner-balloon-filler, wherein the inner-balloon is inserted inside the outer-balloon; a plurality of radiation-tubes connected to an outside boarder of the inner balloon; a vacuum-tube that is wrapped around an exterior of the outer-balloon, wherein the vacuum tube is used to remove human fluids and air to create a void; and a flexible-shaft is connected to an upper-head, a proximal-tail and a distal-tip, wherein the upper-head is covered by the outer-balloon, the inner-balloon, the plurality of radiation-tubes and the vacuum-tube.
US09283400B2
The system and method provide for electrocardiogram analysis and optimization of patient-customized cardiopulmonary resuscitation and therapy delivery. An external medical device includes a housing and a processor within the housing. The processor can be configured to receive an input signal for a patient receiving chest compressions and to select at least one filter mechanism and to apply the filter mechanism to the signal to at least substantially remove chest compression artifacts from the signal. A real time dynamic analysis of a cardiac rhythm is applied to adjust and integrate CPR prompting of a medical device. Real-time cardiac rhythm quality is facilitated using a rhythm assessment meter.
US09283395B2
An implantable medical device, IMD, comprises atrial and ventricular sensing units for sensing atrial or ventricular electric events. The IMD also comprises atrial and ventricular pulse generators for generating atrial or ventricular pacing pulses. A controller controls the operation of the IMD (100) according to a first mode, in which the ventricular pulse generator is prevented from generating a back-up pulse if an evoked response detector fails to detect evoked response to a delivered ventricular pacing pulse, and a second mode, in which the ventricular pulse generator is controlled to generate a back-up pulse if no evoked response is detected following delivery of a ventricular stimulating pulse. The controller switches operation from the first mode to the second mode based on the evoked response detector failing to detect an evoked response to a delivered ventricular pacing pulse.
US09283390B2
Methods and devices for treating anaphylaxis, anaphylactic shock, bronchial constriction, and/or asthma include providing an electrical impulse to a selected region of the vagus nerve of a patient suffering from anaphylaxis to block and/or modulate nerve signals that would regulate the function of, for example, myocardial tissue, vasodilation/constriction and/or pulmonary tissue.
US09283389B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating movement disorders of a living being, a method of treating refractory gait disturbances of a human Parkinson's disease patient being affected by gait disturbances, and an apparatus for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of a living being affected by movement disorders.
US09283388B2
Selective high-frequency spinal chord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side affects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, high-frequency modulation in the range of from about 1.5 KHz to about 100 KHz may be applied to the patient's spinal cord region to address pelvic pain without creating paresthesia in the patient.
US09283385B2
The present invention relates to a seating apparatus for the diagnosis and treatment, and more particularly, to a seating apparatus for diagnosis and treatment of diagnosing and curing urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and defecation disorders which enables to diagnose symptoms of urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and defecation disorders by measuring contraction pressure and contraction duration of pelvic floor muscles, muscles of perineum and anal sphincters of a user, who puts on cloth while seated, simultaneously with curing symptoms of urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and defecation disorders throughout biofeedback exercise and training.
US09283379B2
The present invention provides a cuff electrode assembly for implantation on a target nerve. The cuff electrode assembly can include a resilient cuff body configured to be disposed about the target nerve. The cuff body includes a first end portion having a first free end, and a second end portion having a second free end. The cuff electrode assembly further includes a first arm member and a second arm member each projecting radially outward from the cuff body and spaced from one another along the cuff body. The cuff body can be configured such that a force applied to urge the first and second arm members toward one another defines an open configuration of the cuff body configured to allow the cuff body to be positioned around the target nerve. The cuff electrode assembly further includes an electrode oriented to provide electrical stimuli to the target nerve.
US09283377B1
A mouthpiece for providing non-invasive neuromodulation to a patient. The mouthpiece includes an elongated housing having a center of gravity located within a posterior region, a positioning pad attached to the top surface of the elongated housing for minimizing contact between a patient's upper teeth and the exterior top surface of the elongated housing, and a printed circuit board mounted to a bottom portion of the elongated housing, the printed circuit board having a plurality of electrodes for delivering subcutaneous local electrical stimulation to the patient's tongue. In some embodiments, the mouthpiece includes at least one locator disposed along the anterior region of the elongated housing for contacting a patient's teeth to securely position the mouthpiece within the patient's mouth.
US09283375B2
One embodiment is a stimulation lead that includes a lead body having a longitudinal surface, a distal end, and a proximal end; and multiple electrodes disposed along the longitudinal surface of the lead body near the distal end of the lead body. The electrodes include multiple groups of segmented electrodes with each group of segmented electrodes having multiple segmented electrodes disposed at a same longitudinal position along the lead. For at least one first group of segmented electrodes, a first pair of the segmented electrodes in the first group are disposed on opposite sides of the lead body and are electrically ganged together by a conductor therebetween.
US09283373B2
An active implantable medical device (AIMD). The AIMD comprises a knitted electrode assembly comprising: at least one biocompatible, electrically non-conductive filament arranged in substantially parallel rows each stitched to an adjacent row, and at least one biocompatible, electrically conductive filament having a first end intertwined with a first row of the at least one non-conductive filament, and a second end intertwined with a second row of the at least one non-conductive filament, wherein the first and second rows are spaced from one another.
US09283367B2
Cap and cleaning devices antiseptically maintain patient fluid line access valves to minimize the risk of infection via catheters. The devices have a cap that may contain a dry pad impregnated with an antimicrobial agent. The cap covers the access portion of the access valve when not in use. The devices have a hood that contains a wet pad impregnated with a cleaning solution and, optionally, an antimicrobial agent. The wet pad cleans the access portion of the access valve prior to and optionally, after the access valve is utilized to access the patient fluid line.
US09283364B2
An applicator includes a puncture protrusion disposed on an inner surface of an internal chamber of a handle of the applicator. The puncture protrusion is configured to puncture an end surface of a cartridge within the internal chamber, which cartridge contains a liquid that is resultantly allowed to flow through a passageway in the puncture protrusion toward an applicator pad for application onto a surface. Puncturing is achieved in response to rotation of an advancer including a pinion portion that tangentially engages a surface of the cartridge, which rotation is translated to longitudinal advancement of the cartridge toward the puncture protrusion.
US09283361B2
Implantable drug delivery devices are provided lo have a deployment shape for implantation in the body and a retention shape for retention in the body. The device may have one or more elongated drug reservoirs containing a drug, mid the drug reservoir may be formed from a deformable material. In one case, a first filament is attached to the first end of the drug reservoir and second filament is attached to the second end of the drug reservoir, wherein a fastener is positioned about the first and second filaments to permit shortening and prevent lengthening of the filaments with reference to the ends of the daig reservoir, as a means for transforming the device from the implantation shape to the retention shape.
US09283356B2
A guide wire includes an elongated wire body exhibiting flexibility, a distal side coating layer that covers a distal portion of the wire body and is made of a resin material, and a tubular member through which the wire body passes and possessing a distal portion positioned in the vicinity of a proximal portion of the distal side coating layer. A plurality of melted portions which are concavely deformed toward the wire body side by melting are formed in the tubular member. The tubular member is fixed to the wire body by bringing the melted portions into press-contact with the wire body The plurality of melted portions is irregularly formed along an axis direction of the tubular member.
US09283344B2
A fluid delivery connection includes a cuff to engage a port. A finger extends away from the cuff, and the finger is configured to interact with the port. A locking sleeve is movably disposed at least partially about the cuff and the finger. The locking sleeve is selectively movable between an unlocked configuration wherein the finger is movable and a locked configuration wherein the finger is secured to the port. A method of connection to a gas port includes moving a locking sleeve of a connector into an unlocked configuration. A finger of the connector is translated along the gas port and the locking sleeve is moved into a locked configuration.
US09283337B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for entraining in an airflow a medicament powder contained in a cavity having a cavity opening. Large airflow vortices are provided, for instance, by use of an obstacle in a flow passage, The airflow with large vortices is arranged to by-pass the cavity opening, thereby generating an eddy in the cavity which contributes to entraining the powder in said airflow. The present disclosure also relates to a medical dispenser, for instance an inhaler, in which the method may be performed.
US09283336B2
A dose delivery device with a mouthpiece having an inlet, an outlet, and an air path extending between the inlet and the outlet. A dose chamber having an opening may hold a dose, e.g., for inhalation by a user. A disc element may be arranged to move between a closed position in which the disc element closes the opening of the dose chamber, and an open position in which the disc opens the dose chamber to permit introduction of the dose into the air path of the device. Movement of the disc element from the closed position to the open position may be in a direction away from the dose chamber (e.g., a puller may engage the disc element and pull the element away from the chamber) and may leave a substantial portion of the dose in the dose chamber.
US09283334B2
A medical device accessory comprising an interface configured to connect the medical device accessory with a medical device for administration of a medical treatment using the medical device and the medical device accessory, a plurality of electrical contacts proximate the interface, the electrical contacts comprising a lead electrical contact adapted to receive an voltage from a power source associated with the medical device and one or more identifying electrical contacts, and at least one conductor providing an electrical connection between the lead electrical contact and the one or more identifying electrical contacts. An arrangement of the one or more identifying electrical contacts connected to the lead electrical contact identifies a characteristic of the medical device accessory.
US09283332B2
Systems and methods for sensing bubbles during fluid infusion are disclosed. An infusion device comprises a pathway, a pump adjacent the pathway, one or more bubble sensors, and first and second modules. The pump alters the pathway to pump fluid through tubing received in the pathway. The bubble sensors are configured to detect bubbles in the fluid being pumped through the tubing. The first module is configured to generate a first alarm condition when the bubble sensors detect a bubble having a first volume above a first preselected threshold. The second module is configured to generate a second alarm condition when the bubble sensors detect a plurality of bubbles over a preselected period of time having a combined volume above a second preselected threshold. A third module may be also be used to record a total combined volume of bubbles detected by the bubble sensors during an infusion event.
US09283307B2
Methods and devices for treatment of damaged tissue are disclosed, including treatment of wounds by employing non-electrically powered, reduced pressure therapy devices. Maintenance and control of the sub atmospheric pressure exerted may be provided by such devices while minimizing discomfort to the user. The devices may be configured to be worn inconspicuously underneath clothing.
US09283299B2
The present disclosure generally relates to injectable compositions. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to injectable, thermogelling hydrogels and associated methods. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides for a composition comprising a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based macromer and a polyamidoamine-based macromer.
US09283294B2
A manual contact device including an antimicrobial contact surface, wherein the antimicrobial contact surface includes sodium chloride. A method for reducing a transfer of microorganisms by manual contact with a manual contact device, including providing the manual contact device with an antimicrobial contact surface, wherein the antimicrobial contact surface includes sodium chloride.
US09283283B2
The present invention relates to hydrogels based on hyaluronic acid based derivatives, that are more resistant than hyaluronic acid alone towards chemical and enzymatic degradation and are endowed with a mix of chemical and mechanical properties such that they are of optimal use in several surgeries, for instance for injection in bone fractures or cavities and for the production of coatings of prostheses in orthopedic surgery, as fillers in cosmetic and maxillo-facial surgery, as anti-adhesion barrier in the prevention of postoperative adhesions in abdominal and abdominal/pelvic surgery, and in general surgery. These hydrogels can be loaded with several different kinds of compounds having pharmacological and biological activity, that are then released from the hydrogel in the site of intervention.
US09283281B2
A thermal triple-responsive polymer, along with methods of its formation and use, is generally provided. The thermal triple-responsive polymer can comprise poly[(2-(pyridin-2-yldisulfanyl)-co-[poly(ethylene glycol)]-co-[N-isopropyl methacrylamide], which contains both disulfide bonds and ester bonds that are labile to high redox potential and acidic pH, respectively, and temperature sensitive segments. The thermal triple-responsive polymer can be modified with 4-methoxybenzoic acid to endow tumor targeting effect. Nanoparticles and nanogels that include such a thermal triple-responsive polymer are also provided, along with their methods of formation and use.
US09283273B2
A stable lyophilized protein formulation is described which can be reconstituted with a suitable diluent to generate a high protein concentration reconstituted formulation which is suitable for subcutaneous administration. For example, anti-IgE and anti-HER2 antibody formulations have been prepared by lyophilizing these antibodies in the presence of a lyoprotectant. The lyophilized mixture thus formed is reconstituted to a high protein concentration without apparent loss of stability of the protein.
US09283272B2
The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
US09283268B2
An isolated protein or peptide selected from the group consisting of Bordetella colonization factor A (BcfA) protein and antigenic fragments thereof is described, along with an isolated nucleic acid encoding the same, antibodies that bind to the same, methods of producing an immune response in a mammalian subject in need thereof by administering the proteins, peptides or antibodies, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same.
US09283267B2
The present invention relates to novel formulations of tumor-associated peptides binding to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I or II molecules as vaccines for the use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to formulations for the immunotherapy of cancer, in particular renal and brain cancer, in particular glioma, especially glioblastoma cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumor immune responses.
US09283263B2
The invention provides compositions and dosage forms, e.g., in the form of dietary supplements, such as pills, tablets, beverages, or gels, that enhance recovery after surgery or after an athletic performance. An exemplary composition or dosage form comprises about 5000 IU of vitamin A, about 15 mg of vitamin B1, about 34 mg of vitamin B2, about 25 mg of vitamin B3, about 50 mg of vitamin B5, about 20 mg of vitamin B6, about 90 μg of vitamin B12, about 300 mg of vitamin C, about 500 IU of vitamin D, about 60 IU of vitamin E, about 160 μg of vitamin K1, about 5 μg of vitamin K2, about 300 μg of biotin, about 400 μg of folate, about 30 μg of PABA, about 1 mg of boron, about 200 μg of chromium, about 500 μg of copper, about 150 mg of magnesium, about 5 μg of manganese, about 100 μg of molybdenum, about 135 μg of selenium, about 100 μg of vanadium, about 20 mg of zinc, about 150 μg of iodine, about 1.2 mg of pomegranate extract, about 250 mg of bromelain, and about 250 mg of quercetin. Methods for using the compositions and dosage forms for enhancing recovery after surgery or after an athletic performance are also provided herein. The invention also provides kits comprising a composition or dosage form described herein.
US09283254B2
Provided are viral sensitizing compounds that enhance the efficacy of viruses by increasing spread of the virus in cells, increasing the titer of virus in cells, or increasing the cytotoxicity of virus to cells. Other uses, compositions and methods of using same are also provided.
US09283251B2
A composition comprising microcapsules, the microcapsules containing both live mammalian ovarian granulosa cells and live mammalian ovarian theca cells, is described. In some embodiments, the granulosa cells and the theca cells are contained in separate microcapsules in the composition; in some embodiments, the granulosa cells and the theca cells are contained together in the same microcapsules in the composition The composition is can be used for estrogen, and optionally also progesterone, delivery, and hence is preferably free or essentially free of oocytes. Methods of using the same and pharmaceutical formulations containing the same are also described.
US09283240B2
Disclosed are nutritional compositions including human milk oligosaccharides that can be administered to preterm infants, term infants, toddlers, and children for reducing inflammation and the incidence of inflammatory diseases.
US09283234B2
The subject matter of the instant invention is pertinent to the field of hormone therapy. More specifically, the subject matter of the instant invention concerns methods of treating estrogen-dependent conditions such as endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer in a female undergoing estrogen and/or selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) therapy. The instant invention is also relevant to the suppression of endometrial proliferation. The instant invention is also relevant to the treatment of pain associated with endometriosis. The compositions for practicing the methods, comprising progesterone antagonists are also disclosed. Embodiments of the instant invention also disclose methods for identifying new selective progesterone receptor modulators for practicing disclosed methods of treatment.
US09283225B2
Compounds of the formula I in which Het, R3 and R4 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are inhibitors of RON and can be employed, for the treatment of cancer.
US09283220B2
Provided are compositions comprising opioid antagonists, such as naltrexone naloxone, or nalmefene, or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and methods for treating conditions caused by the varicella-zoster virus therewith.
US09283208B2
Medicaments and methods for treating cancer are disclosed.
US09283197B1
The present invention provides pharmaceutical formulations of levorotatory-epinephrine, l-epinephrine, more potent and less toxic than existing pharmaceutical formulations of epinephrine, along with methods of producing and using these pharmaceutical formulations of l-epinephrine.
US09283192B2
In one aspect, the present invention is concerned with a treatment where it is desired that an active agent is designed to be released in a prolonged manner at a time point some time after administration of the active agent. The present invention is particularly suited to administering an agent which may be released whilst a subject is sleeping, shortly before waking and continues to administer the drug during the early waking hours. As well as treating certain conditions by a particular regime, the invention also provides novel formulations for a delayed, followed by a prolonged release of drug.
US09283191B2
A compressed chewing gum tablet includes at least a first and a second chewing gum module, the first chewing gum module including a first chewing gum composition including at least a first active ingredient and chewing gum granules containing gum base, the second chewing gum module including a second chewing gum composition including at least a second active ingredient and chewing gum granules containing gum base, wherein the first active ingredient is a pharmaceutically active ingredient, and the second active ingredient is selected from the group consisting of pharmaceutically active ingredients and enhancers, wherein the gum base content of the first and second chewing gum modules is different.
US09283184B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for delivering agents to localized regions, tissues, or organs in vivo by conjugating agent-loaded nanoparticles to cells having homing capability. The agents may be therapeutic or diagnostic agents such as cancer chemotherapeutic agents and imaging agents respectively.
US09283181B2
The present invention provides an effective and less invasive approach for direct delivery of therapeutic agents to the central nervous system (CNS). In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods including a step of administering intrathecally to a subject suffering from or susceptible to a lysosomal storage disease associated with reduced level or activity of a lysosomal enzyme, a composition comprising a replacement enzyme for the lysosomal enzyme.
US09283179B2
Embodiments of the invention provide swallowable devices, preparations and methods for delivering drugs and other therapeutic agents within the GI tract. Many embodiments provide a swallowable device for delivering the agents. Particular embodiments provide a swallowable device such as a capsule for delivering drugs into the intestinal wall or other GI lumen. Embodiments also provide various drug preparations that are configured to be contained within the capsule, advanced from the capsule into the intestinal wall and degrade to release the drug into the bloodstream to produce a therapeutic effect. The preparation can be operably coupled to delivery means having a first configuration where the preparation is contained in the capsule and a second configuration where the preparation is advanced out of the capsule into the intestinal wall. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the delivery of drugs which are poorly absorbed, tolerated and/or degraded within the GI tract.
US09283160B2
Disclosed is the Use of UV absorbers selected from (a1) diphenylacrylates; and (a2) specific hydroxyphenyl triazines for stabilizing cosmetic compositions comprising an organic UV absorber selected from (b1) a specific benzophenone derivative, (b2) a specific benzotriazole derivative and (b3) a specific triazine derivative and UV filters selected from (c1) cinnamic acid derivatives; and (c2) dibenzoylmethane derivatives.
US09283147B2
An encapsulation device includes: a fluid injection device that injects a first liquid forming a core; a liquid film holder that holds in film form a second liquid forming a shell containing the core; and a liquid contact device that makes the shell in contact with a third liquid, in which the first liquid is injected toward a liquid film of the second liquid retained by the liquid film holder to form a core, the core is wrapped with the second liquid on passing through the liquid film of the second liquid, thereby forming the shell, and the shell is made in contact with the third liquid to induce chemical reaction.
US09283146B2
Machine and method for the automatic preparation of medication, comprising:—a starting products area comprising at least one receptacle with bane products; a transfer tools area further comprising at least one transfer tool; a prepared products area comprising at least one container; and one robot with holding means for transporting the receptacle, the transfer tool and/or the container; wherein the robot, the starting products area, the transfer tools area, and the prepared products area are disposed in the same cabinet or chamber of the machine, so that the robot is adapted to transport the receptacle, the transfer tool and/or the container between the areas in the chamber. The machine further comprising a holding device between the receptacle, the transfer tool or the container and the robot's holding means, said holding device comprising elastic means for fixation to different sizes/forms of receptacles, transfer tools or containers.
US09283143B2
A mobile sauna apparatus and related methods are provided. The mobile sauna apparatus includes a mobile vehicle having a vehicle body with a floor, roof and sidewalls. A sauna is mounted in the vehicle, the sauna having a heater with a heater orifice, and an extension from the heater orifice through one of the sidewalls of the vehicle and opening to the exterior of the vehicle. A stove pipe is mounted above the heater, the stove pipe surrounded by an insulating material, wherein the stove pipe extends through at least one of: the roof of the vehicle and one of the sidewalls of the vehicle, and wherein the insulating material is positioned between the stove pipe and the at least one of: the roof of the vehicle and the sidewall of the vehicle.
US09283140B2
A medical device of the type used for assisting a user in manually delivering repetitive therapy to a patient (e.g., chest compressions or ventilations in cardiac resuscitation), the device comprising a feedback device configured to generate feedback cues to assist the user in timing the delivery of the repetitive therapy, at least one sensor or circuit element configured to detect actual delivery times, at which the user actually delivers the repetitive therapy, and a processor, memory, and associated circuitry configured to compare the actual delivery times to information representative of desired delivery times to determine cue times at which the feedback cues are generated by the feedback device.
US09283139B2
Methods and systems for dynamic compression of venous tissue enable improved blood movement in the extremities. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a pressure pad provides a compressive force to a portion of the human body. The pressure pad is successively withdrawn and re-pressed against the body. In this manner, prevention and/or treatment of various medical conditions may be achieved, for example restless leg syndrome, edema, plantar fasciitis, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, venous insufficiency, wound care, and/or the like.
US09283134B2
A system includes a vibration unit that provides independent adjustability of vibration characteristics such as frequency and amplitude and may provide a first motor that rotates an eccentric and can adjust vibration frequency and a second motor that that may move the eccentric within the vibration unit in a manner that adjusts amplitude of the vibration.
US09283127B2
A feminine hygiene absorbent personal care article includes a topsheet layer, a backsheet layer, at least one absorbent core layer positioned between the topsheet layer and the backsheet layer and a decolorizing structure positioned along the article side edges, with the decolorizing structure extending laterally beyond the lateral most side edges of the absorbent core layer.
US09283126B2
A disposable diaper is provided which includes a disposal aid containing an integrated cleaning wipe and disposal bag for convenient cleanup and disposal of the diaper after use. The disposable diaper generally comprises a diaper body having a waistband section, an upper fastening element, a crotch section, and a lower fastening element. The disposal aid is positioned adjacent to one of the fastening elements and comprises a pouch having a cleaning wipe compartment and a disposal bag compartment. The cleaning wipe compartment contains a cleaning wipe having a pull tab affixed thereto that protrudes from the wipe compartment and facilitates removal of the cleaning wipe. Similarly, the disposal bag compartment contains a disposal bag having a pull tab affixed thereto that protrudes from the bag compartment and facilitates removal of the bag.
US09283125B2
In a disposable wearing article, a first waist region is elasticized and formed of an inner sheet and an outer sheet. The non-skin-facing side of the outer sheet is formed substantially over its entire area with a plurality of thermocompression-bonded spots regularly and intermittently arranged at predetermined intervals. The outer sheet has non-thermocompressed regions surrounded by a plurality of thermocompression-bonded spots. A fibrous layer lying at least on the outer surface of said outer sheet is formed of thermal adhesive crimped fibers which are bonded together by thermocompression-bonding treatment in the thermocompression-bonded spots. The outer sheet and the inner sheet are bonded to each other by adhesive applied on at least one of respective opposite surfaces thereof so that the crimped fibers in the non-thermocompressed regions may protrude outward in a thickness direction of the outer sheet as the inner sheet contracts in the direction of the transverse axis Q.
US09283110B2
A catheter has an inner sleeve through which refrigerant circulates to and from a source of refrigerant. The catheter also has an outer sleeve surrounding the inner sleeve, including a distal end thereof. The outer sleeve is filled with a frozen biocompatible substance. The refrigerant is separated from the biocompatible substance by one or more walls of the inner sleeve such that the refrigerant is isolated from a patient in whom the catheter is positioned by both the inner sleeve and the frozen biocompatible substance. The refrigerant circulates through the catheter when the catheter is positioned in the patient to maintain the biocompatible substance frozen as heat is transferred from the patient to the biocompatible substance.
US09283091B2
A spinal implant comprises an implant body extending between an anterior surface and a posterior surface. The implant body includes a first vertebral engaging surface and a second vertebral engaging surface. The implant body includes an outer surface that defines an oblique surface. A wall is connectable with the implant body and translatable relative to the oblique surface. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US09283090B2
A spinal construct includes a first member including a surface that defines a first cavity and a second cavity. The first member is configured to engage a first vertebral surface. A second member includes a surface that defines a first cavity and a second cavity. The second member is configured to engage a second vertebral surface. The members are spaced and the first cavities are disposed in substantial alignment such that at least one first rod is disposed in the first cavities and the second cavities are disposed in substantial alignment such that a plurality of second rods are disposed in the second cavities and spaced via at least one spacer disposed between the second rods within at least one of the second cavities. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US09283085B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an intervertebral disc prosthesis for partially or totally replacing an organic intervertebral disc. The disc prosthesis includes an interbody device, a face plate and a pair of locking mechanisms for achieving dual fixation in the cephalad and caudal direction. Methods according to the present disclosure achieve such dual fixation in a single fixation step.
US09283084B1
The invention is directed to a fusion cage designed for lateral placement. The cage is roughly rectangular in shape and hollow on the inside to accommodate bone graft material. Staples can be incorporated into the fusion cage to assist in securing the cage in position in the spine. A rod can be attached to the staples to assist in positioning the staples. A cable can be attached to the rod to assist in positioning the cage and to assist in positioning the spine. A lateral plate can be used with the cage to further assist in maintaining the cage and the spine in the desired position.
US09283079B2
This invention related to a method of forming a polymer component and comprises blending polymer particles with antioxidant to form a mixture in which the antioxidant coats the polymer particles, irradiating the polymer particles to cross-link the polymer particles therein and forming the irradiated mixture into a consolidated component. The invention also relates to a method of forming an articular surface for a prosthesis and a prosthesis having a polymer articular bearing surface wherein at least one predetermined portion of the bearing surface is provided with cross-linked polymer bonds.
US09283076B2
A system and method for repairing a defect on an articular surface. An excision guide is positioned on an articular surface, wherein the excision guide includes a guide head and a guide sleeve disposed on the guide head, wherein the guide head includes a contact surface configured to locate the excision guide relative to the articular surface. A guide pin may be advanced through the guide sleeve and secured to the articular surface, wherein the guide sleeve is configured to receive the guide pin therethrough and position the guide pin at an angle β relative to an axis generally normal and central to a defect on the articular surface, wherein angle β is less than 90 degrees.
US09283075B2
An implant system for total shoulder arthroplasties, hemi shoulder arthroplasties, and “reverse” total shoulder arthroplasties including a humeral stem having an enlarged head portion with interfaces adapted to removably receive various modular interchangeable components, such as articulating liners, spacers, and adapter inserts. The humeral stem functions as a universal platform that may be used in either conventional or “reverse” total shoulder arthroplasties, as well as hemi shoulder arthroplasties, and may remain implanted in place during a revision in which the implant system is converted between the foregoing configurations, for example.
US09283072B2
Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening, leaflet valve devices and systems for transcatheter delivery having a two-piece valve body as well as methods of making and delivering the two-piece valve devices. A transcatheter valve is operable to have a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The transcatheter valve can further be operable to have an everted configuration and a non-everted configuration.
US09283069B2
An intravitreous stent includes a multi-loop single wire having a proximal end; a distal end; at least a first loop defined by the proximal end and a first portion of the single wire; at least a second loop defined by the distal end and a second portion of the single wire; wherein the first portion is joined to the second portion via a reversing loop portion.
US09283064B2
Described are implants, tools, and related methods, for use in pelvic surgery to treat conditions such as prolapse, including embodiments of methods that involve a tissue path above the arcus tendineus.
US09283056B2
A method of forming an implant to be implanted into living bone is disclosed. The method comprises the act of roughening at least a portion of the implant surface to produce a microscale roughened surface. The method further comprises the act of immersing the microscale roughened surface into a solution containing hydrogen peroxide and a basic solution to produce a nanoscale roughened surface consisting of nanopitting superimposed on the microscale roughened surface. The nanoscale roughened surface has a property that promotes osseointegration.
US09283047B2
A control device for surgical system that controls a surgical tool attached to a slave arm in accordance with manipulation input values for a position and an orientation from a remote control device, comprising a control unit that stores setting information for setting the position and the orientation of a first target portion of the surgical tool, corrects the manipulation input values in accordance with the setting information, and controls a position and an orientation of a post-correction second target portion of the surgical tool in compliance with corrected manipulation input values.
US09283043B2
A system for microsurgery includes a first assembly and a second assembly, each including: (1) a planar remote center of motion (RCM) device configured to constrain motion of a surgical instrument attached to the planar RCM device such that an axis of the surgical instrument passes through the RCM while remaining in a planar region defined based on a rotational orientation of the planar RCM device; and (2) a rotational device attached to the planar RCM device and configured such that an axis of rotation of the rotational device passes through the remote center of motion. The rotational orientation of the planar RCM device is defined about the axis of rotation. The first assembly and the second assembly are configured to be positioned such that a distance between the remote centers of motion of the first assembly and the second assembly is no greater than two centimeters.
US09283042B2
A pillow drape for use with a thermal medical treatment apparatus or device is provided. The drape includes a sterilized sheet for covering the warming medical device that covers the device body and a basin that is used to store a warming liquid. The pillow drape includes an enclosure having a support member therein to support a medical instrument, such as a surgical scope, during warming of the scope. The support member can be housed between first and second sections of the pillow drape sheet in a pocket portion. The support member can be positioned on an extension shelf added to the warming device to provide additional storage room while not taking up room in the surgical or medical room. Additionally, a cord hook can be attached to the medical device to aid in routing a power cord for the device away from traffic.
US09283032B2
An electrosurgical instrument for the treatment of tissue in the presence of an electrically-conductive fluid medium comprises an instrument shaft (10), and an electrode assembly (12) at one end of the shaft. The electrode assembly (12) comprises a tissue treatment electrode (14) and a return electrode (18) which is electrically insulated from the tissue treatment electrode by means of an insulation member (16). The tissue treatment electrode (14) has an exposed surface for treating tissue, and the return electrode (18) has a fluid contact surface so as to define, in use, a conductive fluid path that completes an electrical circuit between the tissue treatment electrode and the return electrode. The tissue treatment electrode (14) is provided with at least one aperture (14a) through which vapor bubbles and/or particulate material can be aspirated from the region surrounding the tissue treatment electrode, and the tissue treatment electrode and the insulation member are disposed such that there is a gap therebetween forming an additional suction channel (25).
US09283029B2
A method for medical treatment includes bringing an applicator, having an array of protrusions disposed thereon, into proximity with a skin surface of a patient so as to maintain a space between a plurality of the protrusions and the skin surface. Radio-frequency (RF) electrical power is applied to the applicator so as to cause electrical discharges to be generated, in response to the RF electrical power, between the plurality of the protrusions and respective points on the skin surface via a fluid medium in the space.
US09283020B2
A system for delivering a surgical tack in tissue includes a driver, including: a shaft having a slot and a channel; and a handle slidably connected to the shaft and having a driving mechanism, the driving mechanism having a driving pin for providing a downward force through the shaft; and a tack cartridge having a plurality of tacks and adapted to be received in the slot and further adapted to feed the tacks between the driving mechanism and the channel.
US09283014B2
A method for treating arthritis of a joint includes identifying a bone lesion in a bone adjacent to the joint; and implanting in the bone a reinforcing member in or adjacent to the bone lesion. A kit for conducting the method includes: (a) at least one reinforcing member having a proximal face adapted to face the joint, a distal face adapted to face away from the joint, and a wedge-shaped edge adapted to pierce bone, wherein the at least one reinforcing member is planar and sterile; and (b) a container adapted to maintain the at least one reinforcing member sterile. Another kit includes: (a) a sterile fluid; (b) a syringe for injecting the fluid into a bone; (c) a curing agent adapted to cure the fluid to polymerize and/or cross-link; and (d) a container adapted to maintain the sterility of contents of the container.
US09283003B2
Spinal implants and methods of extending pre-existing spinal implant constructs. An extension clamp may be connected to an original spinal implant including an elongated rod attached to a portion of the spine without removal of the original spinal implant. The extension clamp may include a yoke and an extension rod extending from the yoke. The yoke may include a first end and a second end, the first end having first and second rod engaging portions and a channel between the first and second rod engaging portions for encompassing a fastener, and the second end being spaced apart from the first end. The first and second rod engaging portions may be configured and dimensioned to secure the extension clamp to the elongated rod.
US09282993B1
The present invention is a Distally Assembled Steerable Cannula (DASC), a robotically-manipulated device that can be deployed and extended within a patient's body by growing from its distal end, or can be used in non-medical applications. In one embodiment, growth occurs by sequentially assembling segments that interlock to form a rigid tube with a complex 3-D shape. The segments are individually transported through the growing cannula, and then assembled at the distal end. A segment can be wedge-shaped in profile, allowing adjustment of the local radius of curvature and direction of the cannula to be controlled by relative segment orientation.
US09282985B2
Medical apparatus includes an endoscope, which includes a distal end configured for insertion into a body cavity and which includes an imaging assembly, configured to capture and output an image of a region of the body cavity in proximity to the distal end. An energy source is configured to emit pulses of energy through an energy guide. A control unit is configured to process the image so as to identify a target mass in the body cavity and to verify that an aiming beam directed through the energy guide is incident on the target mass and, responsively to so verifying, to actuate the energy source to direct a pulse of the energy via the energy guide onto the target mass.
US09282983B2
A guide device having a guide body including a bearing surface designed to bear in a glenoidal cavity of a scapula that has been prepared beforehand, the guide body including at least one through orifice emerging in the bearing surface, a reference member mounted on the guide body and including a bearing portion designed to bear on the anterior cortex of the scapula, and adjustment means arranged to adjust the position of the reference member with respect to the guide body so as to adjust the distance between the bearing portion and an axis of the through orifice.
US09282981B2
A number of orthopaedic surgical instruments for use in a surgical procedure to prepare a patient's femur to receive an orthopedic prosthesis are disclosed. The tools include guide tools, cutting tools, surgical blocks, and other orthopaedic surgical instruments configured to plan and guide the preparation of the patient's femur. A method of using the orthopaedic surgical instruments is also disclosed.
US09282976B2
A remote-controlled actuator assembly includes a guide section (3) of an elongated shape, a distal end member (2) fitted to a tip end of the guide section for alteration in attitude, an operating tool (1) in the distal end member, and a restraining tool (6) for aligning the distal end member straight with the guide section. The distal end member is altered in attitude through advancing/retracting attitude altering members (31) in the guide section by attitude altering drive sources (43), which are controlled by an attitude control unit (62). An advance or retraction position detector (45) detects an advance/retraction position of the attitude altering members while the attitude altering members applying a preload to the distal end member restrained by the restraining tool. The attitude control unit uses the detection value as information on the advance/retraction position corresponding to an initial position-attitude of the distal end member.
US09282974B2
A surgical device for clipping tissue can include a replaceable cartridge comprising a stack of clips contained therein and a firing drive configured to reciprocatingly eject, or deploy, the clips from the cartridge. After the clips have been deployed from the cartridge, a blocking member can be positioned to impede or block the firing drive. In at least one embodiment, the cartridge can include a biasing member configured to bias the blocking member into a firing chamber defined in the cartridge and/or surgical device. The surgical device can also include a crimping drive configured to deform a clip after it has been ejected from the cartridge. The blocking member can also be configured to impede or block the crimping drive after all of the clips from the cartridge have been used.
US09282967B2
A method of implanting and securing an implantable flow connector in a body of a patient for providing communication of a first space within the body of the patient with a second space within the body of the patient. The method includes providing a flow connector having a lumen having a first orifice and a second orifice, inserting a retention device into the first space within the body, subsequently inserting the flow connector through an opening in the retention device so the second portion of the flow connector extends into the first space within the body and placing the second space within the body over the retention device.
US09282963B2
An adapter assembly for selectively interconnecting a surgical end effector including at least one axially translatable drive member and a powered actuator device including at least one rotatable drive shaft is provided. The adapter assembly includes an actuation shaft configured to convert rotation of a first drive shaft of the powered actuator device into an axial translation of a first drive member of the surgical end effector. The adapter assembly further includes an elongate tube configured to convert rotation of a second drive shaft of the powered actuator device into an axial translation of a second drive member of the surgical end effector. The actuation shaft is disposed within the elongate tube, and the actuation shaft and the elongate tube translate axially independent of each other.
US09282961B2
A surgical device is provided, the surgical device including a first driver for performing a first movement function; a second driver for performing a second movement function; a first rotatable drive shaft configured, upon actuation, to cause selective engagement of one of the first and second drivers with a second rotatable drive shaft, wherein the second rotatable drive shaft is configured to drive the selectively engaged one of the first and second drivers. Third and fourth drivers may also be included. The drivers may function to rotate a shaft portion of the surgical device relative to, and about the longitudinal axis of, a handle; move a jaw portion relative to the shaft portion; move a first jaw relative to a second jaw; and/or move a surgical member within the second jaw.
US09282952B2
An endoscopic vessel harvester includes a vessel keeper for capturing a target vessel within a tunnel that has been dissected along the target vessel. A cutter member cuts and cauterizes side branches while the target vessel is slidably captured in the vessel keeper. A spray nozzle carried by the vessel keeper delivers a preservative fluid via a manual control valve and a conduit. The preservative fluid is sprayed on the target vessel proximate a respective side branch immediately after being cauterized. Thus, a harvested vessel is bathed in preservative fluid prior to being actually removed from the body, enhancing endothelial preservation from cascading events.
US09282938B2
A radiolucent patient table top including a first face sheet, a second face sheet, and a honeycomb core is provided. The first face sheet includes carbon fibers in a first radiolucent plastic matrix. The second face sheet includes carbon fibers in a second radiolucent plastic matrix. The honeycomb core is disposed between the first face sheet and the second face sheet, where the first face sheet and the second face sheet sandwich the honeycomb core. The honeycomb core includes carbon fibers embedded in a third radiolucent plastic matrix.
US09282933B2
Ultrasound data is simulated using magnetic resonance (MR) elastography. MR elastography provides tissue characteristic information, such as elastic modulus, velocity, or stiffness. This tissue characteristic information indicates a density or viscosity of the tissue, allowing simulation of ultrasound data with MR acquired data. The same MR imaging system may be used to acquire the MR elastography and pre-operative anatomy information. The actual ultrasound information may be registered with simulated ultrasound information for registration of the actual ultrasound information with the MR anatomy information.
US09282915B2
A method and system for generating and/or repairing surface models is provided. The method comprises acquiring data points corresponding to surface locations of a structure. The method further comprises generating a surface model of the structure based on the data points. The method further comprises adding additional data points to the point cloud formed by the acquired data points, and updating the model by constructing a surface model based on the added data points. The system comprises a processing apparatus configured to acquire data points corresponding to respective surface locations of a structure. The processing apparatus is further configured to generate a surface model of the structure based on the data points. The processing apparatus is further configured to add additional data points to the point cloud formed by the acquired data points, and update the surface model by constructing a surface model based on the added data points.
US09282913B2
An apparatus for self-examining whether a breast tissue is abnormal includes an examination checker configured to transmit a microwave to one side of an examinee's breast, receive the microwave that has passed through the breast and calculate a value in the microwave reception of the received microwave. Further, the apparatus includes a self-examination device configured to analyze the value in the microwave reception received from the examination checker and examines whether the breast is abnormal.
US09282907B2
A medical device system performs a method determining presence of scar tissue. Torso-surface potential signals are received by a processor from multiple electrodes distributed on a torso of a patient. The processor extracts features of the potential signal from each electrode and stores values of the features in a non-transitory storage medium. The processor determines a scar indicator index for each of the electrodes from the stored features and identifies which ones of the electrodes have an affirmative scar indicator index. An overall scar burden index is determined as a proportion of the electrodes with an affirmative scar indicator index.
US09282900B2
In an acoustic wave detection probe provided with a light guide section that guides measuring light such that the measuring light is outputted toward a subject and an acoustic wave transducer that detects a photoacoustic wave generated in the subject by the projection of the measuring light, the light guide section includes a homogenizer that flat-tops an energy profile of the measuring light entered from the upstream side of the optical system, a light condensing member that condenses the measuring light transmitted through the homogenizer, and a bundle fiber which includes a plurality of optical fibers and is disposed such that the measuring light transmitted through the light condensing member enters from an entrance end of the bundle fiber.
US09282897B2
A belt-mounted movement sensor system apparatus has a flexible belt shaped to be worn around the midsection of the user. The system has an array of accelerometers disposed on or within the flexible belt to physically associate with positions on the midsection of the user. Each array of accelerometers has a sample rate that can be configured for sensing body movement during a movement activity. A power source and a data collection system are operably connected to the array of accelerometers. The data collection system has a means for receiving data from the array of accelerometers and processing that data into a storable format.
US09282895B2
In an implantable medical device for monitoring glucose concentration in the blood, a blood-glucose concentration analysis is performed using correlations of blood-glucose concentration with measures of metabolic oxygen consumption including oxymetric, and/or temperature. Analysis of electrocardiographic data is used in a parallel method to detect and/or confirm the onset and/or existence and/or extent of hypoglycemia and/or hyperglycemia. Blood-glucose concentration calculation is enhanced by using the combination of the oxygen metabolism analysis and electrocardiographic analysis.
US09282882B2
An endoscope includes a distal end part having a round-chamfered outer peripheral edge, an observation window on an end surface of the distal end part, a nozzle which jets a cleaning fluid toward the observation window, and an observation window base part on which the observation window is placed, the observation window which is formed on the end surface of the distal end part so as to protrude from a surrounding area, and has an outer peripheral shape being formed into a streamline shape in a region facing the nozzle, with respect to a flow of the cleaning fluid jetted from the nozzle.
US09282881B2
An exemplary 3D image shooting apparatus comprises: a polarized light source; an image capturing section that sequentially captures an image of the object that is being illuminated with each of plane polarized light rays, and an image processor. The image capturing section includes: a lens; an image sensor; and an incoming light transmitting section which has a transparent area and a plurality of polarization filter areas. The polarization filter areas are arranged outside of the transparent area, generally have a concentric ring shape, and include left and right filter areas so that their polarization transmission axis directions define an angle α (0<α<90 degrees). The image processing section generates a plurality of images from light that has been transmitted through the transparent area and light that has been transmitted through the plurality of polarization filter areas.
US09282876B2
The invention relates to a dispensing system (1) for delivering at least one cleaning-agent preparation (A, B, C) into the interior of an automatic dishwasher, encompassing a dispenser (2) having a light source (4), and a cartridge (3) couplable to the dispenser (2), in which cartridge at least one flowable preparation (A, B, C) is stocked; the cartridge (3) has a width (b) to depth (t) ratio from 3:1 to 20:1 and the cartridge (3) has a height (h) to depth (t) ratio from 3:1 to 20:1, and the walls of the cartridge (3) have, at least locally, a transmittance from 75% to 99% in the wavelength region between 700 nm and 1 mm; the flowable preparation (A, B, C) has a transmittance from 75% to 99% in the wavelength region between 700 nm and 1 mm.
US09282873B2
A dish washing machine including a cabinet forming an external appearance of the dish washing machine; a washing tub arranged in the cabinet and allowing dishes to be washed therein; a dish basket arranged in the washing tub to accommodate the dishes; at least one liquid ejection unit arranged in the washing tub, the at least one liquid ejection unit to eject water; a deflection unit arranged facing the liquid ejection unit to deflect the water ejected from the liquid ejection unit toward the dish basket; and a drive unit to drive the deflection unit to be moved within the washing tub.
US09282862B2
A surface cleaning device having a steering assembly is provided. The surface cleaning device includes a foot, a handle assembly with a user manipulated handle, and a steering assembly coupling the handle assembly to the foot. The steering assembly defines an open path between the handle assembly and the foot and includes a means for biasing the foot with respect to the handle assembly. Movement of the handle assembly stores energy within the biasing means so that the biasing means exerts a corresponding force on the foot.
US09282861B2
Described is a vacuum cleaner, such as a wet/dry vacuum cleaner, having an improved vacuum hose storage assembly and dust pan assembly for use with a vacuum cleaner having a debris collection drum. The integrated pickup port in the dust pan can be formed by the shape of the product its used on or become a separate piece such as used in this design. The advantage of having the design integrated in the vacuum allows the user to pick up debris either collected by a broom or by other means into the collection chamber of the vacuum without having to remove the hose from the storage position and without having to hold the product while in use; freeing the users hands to control the broom or other device to direct additional debris to the vacuum for collection.
US09282844B2
A spring-loaded adjustable window rack for hanging window treatments. A window rack is formed from a plurality of slide members, a plurality of multi-directional connectors, and at least one spring-loaded coupler, wherein the plurality of slide members is attached to each other by the plurality of multi-directional connectors. Each of the at least one spring-loaded couplers is attached in between a specific connector from the plurality of multi-directional connectors and a corresponding slide member from the plurality of slide members. By compressing the at least one spring the window rack can be slid into a window frame, wherein the spring force holds the window rack in place. A window treatment support can be attached to the window rack for creating three dimensional window treatment arrangements.
US09282833B2
A supporting device of a display apparatus to prevent a wire from separating from a wire hanger. The supporting device to fix the display apparatus to a wall includes a wire part coupled to the display apparatus, a wire hanger mounted to the wall, the wire hanger to hang the wire part on the wall, and a separation protector provided at the wire hanger, the separation protector serving to prevent the wire part from separating from the wire hanger.
US09282832B2
A corner clamp for clamping thereof between two surfaces substantially at right angles to each other includes a first rigid element having a first outer end for supporting, optionally via a contact member which can be fixed thereto, on a first of the two surfaces; a second rigid element having a second outer end for supporting, optionally via a contact member coupled thereto, on a second of the two surfaces. The second element is coupled pivotally to the first element at a pivot point. The corner clamp has one or more placing states in which the elements are positioned such that, when clamped in the corner, the pivot point is situated between the corner and a straight line running from the first outer end to the second outer end.
US09282824B2
A collapsible and portable rocking chair includes left and right frame side assemblies collectively defining forward and rear leg portions, armrests, and back support members. The chair also includes cross-members connecting the left and right frame said assemblies and collectively defining a seat support in the set-up condition of the chair. The cross members are pivotally connected to one another as well as to the left and right frame side assemblies to facilitate folding of the chair frame to a collapsed condition. Each frame side assembly is supported on a fulcrum point for rocking movement of the chair frame. A rocker mechanism is attached to the chair frame to support the chair during rocking movement and to facilitate rocking of the chair in connection with the user's shifting weight. The rocker mechanism may be provided in connection with a front leg member, a rear leg member, or both.
US09282799B2
A hairdryer includes a handle; a body comprising a fluid outlet and a primary fluid outlet; a fan unit for generating fluid flow through the hairdryer, the hairdryer comprising a fluid flow path extending from a fluid inlet through which a fluid flow enters the hairdryer to the fluid outlet, and a primary fluid flow path extending from a primary fluid inlet to the primary fluid outlet; a heater for heating the primary fluid flow drawn through the primary fluid inlet; and a nozzle attachable to the body, the nozzle comprising a nozzle fluid inlet for receiving the primary fluid flow from the primary fluid outlet, and a nozzle fluid outlet for emitting the primary fluid flow, and wherein the nozzle is configured to inhibit the emission of the fluid flow from the fluid outlet.
US09282790B2
Embodiments related to a touch fastener and its methods of manufacture and use are disclosed. In one embodiment, the touch fastener may include a substrate with a first portion and a second portion displaceable relative to the first portion. A first fastening element may be formed in the first portion. When the first portion is displaced relative to the second portion, a force and/or moment generated by the displacement may cause the first fastening element to be deployed.
US09282788B2
A method of making an article of footwear is disclosed. The method includes the steps of designing an article of footwear via a website, converting a footwear representation into a set of two-dimensional portions, printing the two dimensional portions onto a sheet material, cutting and assembling the two dimensional portions into a finalized article of footwear. The method further includes a step of shipping the article of footwear to a pre-designated shipping address. Systems for receiving an order for a customized article of footwear are also disclosed.
US09282783B2
Embodiments of footwear, in particular, a shoe, sandal or boot, may reduce the effort and improve the performance of walking, running, hiking, marching, and various other gaits as well as jumping, hopping, and other motion involving the ankle and lower leg and Achilles tendon, through integration of force-carrying mechanisms within footwear that manage the forces and energy associated with such motion by productively harvesting and storing energy during dorsiflexion motion and releasing and returning energy during plantar flexion. One structural element of such footwear may comprise a top collar yoke having anterior and posterior gussets forming a channel and a shoe comprising a rotation zone supporting the channel and an elastomeric zone forming a tension spring via an elastomeric overlay or otherwise providing a spring-like member approximately parallel to and to assist the Achilles tendon during locomotion.
US09282770B2
The present invention provides a hand worn smoking device comprising a glove having a burning reservoir for containing substance to be smoked, a reservoir closing feature, a smoke transport pathway, and an oral interface wherein the burning reservoir is connected to the oral interface via the smoke transport pathway allowing the burning reservoir to be in smoke communication with the oral interface during use. The present invention also includes a method of smoking the substance to be smoked using this device.
US09282757B2
The present invention relates to processes for preparing compositions containing thaumatin having desired properties. More particularly but not exclusively, it relates to compositions containing thaumatin having particular organoleptic properties, and to processes for their manufacture.
US09282753B2
A device for eliminating vacuum as the plunger is returned by venting it to the atmosphere in a patty molding machine.
US09282750B1
A web-enabled standalone application may, in selected implementations, prevent received license-controlled image data from unauthorized re-use, editing, or distribution, and permits image processing, such as applying the International Color Consortium's color correction process, at the local control device. The web-enabled standalone application may further generate a printer specific byte stream based on post-image processed data, providing a color managed workflow independent of local control device operating system print drivers.
US09282748B2
The invention provides an enzymatically-prepared fat base composition which comprises a mixture of vegetable-derived triglycerides. The fat base composition has a total palmitic acid residues content of at most 38% of the total fatty acid residues, and at least 60%, preferably 62% of the fatty acid moieties at the sn-2 position of the glycerol backbone are palmitic acid residues, at least 70% of the fatty acid moieties at the sn-1 and sn-3 positions of the glycerol backbone are unsaturated, at least 40%, preferably 40-60%, of the unsaturated fatty acid moieties at the sn-1 and sn-3 positions are oleic acid moieties, and at least 6%, preferably 6-17%, of the unsaturated fatty acid moieties at the sn-1 and sn-3 positions are linoleic acid moieties. The invention also provides preparation and various uses of the fat base composition in the field of infant nutrition.
US09282745B2
Disclosed are inoculants that include Bacillus bacteria and induce production of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by a plant that has been treated with the inoculant.
US09282739B2
This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”): and processes related thereto.
US09282737B2
An agent for suppressing pollen dispersal, containing an oleic acid derivative or a linoleic acid derivative as an active ingredient, which does not influence the trunk, branches and leaves of trees, shows a sharp efficacy on the male organ and is in the form of a solution or emulsion having solution stability by diluting with water.
US09282735B2
A molluscicidal composition, comprising: a molluscicidal activity promoting additive comprising a calcium-containing salt of ethylene disuccinic acid or calcium ions and ethylenediamine disuccinic moieties, having at least 1 mole of calcium per mole of ethylenediamine disuccinic acid; and a carrier material edible to molluscs.
US09282734B2
An adjustable shooting rail device retrofittable to a conventional hunting stand or hunting blind. The device includes an adjustment mechanism having an actuator that is pivotally secured between a shooting rail and a vertical member of the hunting stand. The device further includes a pair of support collars pivotally coupling the actuator between the shooting rail and the vertical member. A locking means is provided for releasably locking the shooting rail at a selectively-desired vertical position.
US09282731B2
A present dual-bearing reel spool braking device is configured to apply a braking force to a spool that is rotatably mounted on a reel body with a centrifugal force. The spool braking device includes a rotating member, a brake shoe, a brake drum, and a selective fixing member. The rotating member rotates in conjunction with the rotation of the spool. The brake shoe is supported by a rotating member so as to be pivotal between a braking position where the brakes are applied to the spool with a centrifugal force and a non-braking position where a non-braking rotation of the spool is allowed. The brake drum is configured to come into contact with the brake shoe. The selective fixing member is mounted to the rotating member. The selective fixing member selectively fixes the brake shoe to the non-braking position by selectively engaging with the brake shoe.
US09282710B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051522. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051522. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051522 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051522 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09282706B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1W82 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1W82 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1W82 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1W82 or a locus conversion of PH1W82 with another maize variety.
US09282694B2
A rake comprising a handle with an upper portion, an intermediate portion and a lower portion; a pair of oppositely disposed frames pivotally attached to said lower portion, said pair of oppositely disposed frames having a plurality of tines; an articulating mechanism comprising a pair of brackets fixedly coupled to said lower portion; a pair of rods fixedly coupled between said pair of brackets; a handle collar slidable on said handle, said handle collar coupled to a rod collar by a pair of connecting members, said rod collar slidable on one of said pair of rods; a pair of connector rods hingedly coupled between said rod collar and said pair of oppositely disposed frames; and whereby sliding said handle collar causes said rod collar to slide in sympathy and provides a force to said pair of connector rods to pivot said pair of oppositely disposed frames towards one other or away from one another.
US09282690B2
A draft sensing mechanism for a three point hitch includes a hitch frame attached to a frame of a vehicle. The hitch frame includes left and right link supports for coupling to left and right draft links and left and right draft bars. Each draft bar has a first portion attached to a corresponding one of the link supports, and a second portion positioned rearwardly and inwardly with respect to its first portion. Draft forces applied by the draft links to the link supports are transmitted to the second portions of the draft bars. A linkage unit sums the draft forces from the draft bars and includes a draft force transducer which generates a draft force signal in response to deflection of the draft bars.
US09282689B2
The combination of a rolling basket tillage implement and a seed distribution implement is disclosed. A height-adjustable mounting system for a rolling basket soil tillage implement is also disclosed for use with a planter that enables such an implement to be raised above the soil as needed to avoid wet conditions.
US09288923B2
A field device with a housing for accommodating an electronics unit. The housing is pot shaped and composed of a non-conductive material, wherein at least one line guide passageway with a screw thread is provided on the housing, wherein the line guide passageway is provided with a conductive coating in the region of the thread, and wherein the screw thread has at least one groove in at least one region extending in the axial direction of the line guide passageway.
US09288920B1
An electronic device holder comprises an elongated main body, a handle affixed to the main body, and a U-shaped bracket for holding an electronic device. The bracket is slidably and rotatably engaged with the main body such that the bracket is selectively slidable along at least a portion of a length of the main body and such that the bracket is selectively rotatable at least between a first position that is parallel to the main body and a second position that is perpendicular to the main body.
US09288906B2
A mounting circuit board of a multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body in which a plurality of dielectric layers are stacked, an active layer including a plurality of first and second internal electrodes alternately exposed to both end surfaces of the ceramic body, having the dielectric layer therebetween, and first and second external electrodes extended from both end surfaces of the ceramic body to a portion of a lower surface thereof; and a printed circuit board having first and second electrode pads so that the first and second external electrodes are mounted thereon, wherein the first and second electrode pads are disposed in positions diagonally opposed to each other, based on the ceramic body.
US09288902B2
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same.The printed circuit board includes a light-blocking glass substrate; a negative photosensitive insulating layer formed on the glass substrate; and a circuit pattern formed on the glass substrate and embedded in the negative photosensitive insulating layer.
US09288899B2
A micro device transfer head array and method of forming a micro device transfer array from an SOI substrate are described. In an embodiment, the micro device transfer head array includes a base substrate and a patterned silicon layer over the base substrate. The patterned silicon layer may include a silicon interconnect and an array of silicon electrodes electrically connected with the silicon interconnect. Each silicon electrode includes a mesa structure protruding above the silicon interconnect. A dielectric layer covers a top surface of each mesa structure.
US09288885B2
The present invention relates to a field emission lighting arrangement, comprising an anode structure at least partly covered by a phosphor layer, an evacuated envelope inside of which an anode structure is arranged, and a field emission cathode, wherein the field emission lighting arrangement is configured to receive a drive signal for powering the field emission lighting arrangement and to sequentially activate selected portions of the phosphor layer for emitting light. The same control regime may be applied to an arrangement comprising a plurality of field emission cathodes and a single field emission anode. Advantages with the invention includes increase lifetime of the field emission lighting arrangement.
US09288876B2
Provided are a method and device for automatically controlling a state indicator of a terminal device. The method comprises: brightness of a working environment of a terminal device is detected in real time to acquire a brightness signal of the working environment of the terminal device; a current electric level value of the brightness signal is determined according to a variation of the electric level value of the brightness signal within a preset duration; the current electric level value is determined as a light-on electric level value or a light-off electric level value by using a preset threshold; and the state indicator of the terminal device is controlled to carry out a light-on or light-off operation according to the determined light-on electric level value or light-off electric level value.
US09288872B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to functional and decorative lighting. At least one control device (200a, 200b) is connected to a plurality of lighting elements (2000). The control devices (200a, 200b) are arranged to control lighting effects of the plurality of lighting elements (2000).
US09288871B2
A circuit for actuating a lighting module, comprising at least two semiconductor light-emitting elements (D1, D2) which are connected in series in a first operating mode; wherein, in the event of a predetermined threshold value for an operating voltage (101) being undershot, a second operating mode is detectable (102); and wherein, in the second operating mode, the at least two semiconductor light-emitting elements (D1, D2) are alternately actuable.
US09288860B2
Conditioning circuits are provided for driving two or more LED groups using a rectified AC input voltage. The conditioning circuits uses analog circuitry to gradually and selectively activate the LED groups based on an instantaneous value of the rectified input voltage. The circuit includes a first series interconnection of a first LED group, a first transistor, and a first resistor, and a second series interconnection of a second LED group, a second transistor, and a second resistor. In one example, the second series interconnection is connected between a drain terminal and a source terminal of the first transistor, while in another example, the second series interconnection is connected between an anode of the first LED group and a source terminal of the first transistor. The first and second LED groups are selectively activated by the rectified voltage applied across the first series interconnection.
US09288855B2
A driving circuit includes a rectifier circuit and a LED driver integrated circuit. The rectifier circuit rectifies an ac power supply into a de power supply. The LED driver integrated circuit includes a regulator circuit, a voltage detector, a buck boost LED driver, and a common ground terminal. The regulator circuit regulates the dc power supply into a regulated voltage. The voltage detector detects whether the regulated voltage meets a voltage requirement and output the regulated voltage when the voltage requirement is met. The buck boost LED driver converts the regulated voltage detected into an output driving voltage according to a remaining voltage at a negative terminal of the LED load to drive the LED load. Voltage potentials at the common ground terminal and at a load ground terminal of the LED load are the same.
US09288848B2
A method for fabricating an apparatus using radiation annealing includes forming an annealable layer on a substrate. A radiation absorbing layer is also formed on the substrate, wherein the radiation absorbing layer heats up In response to radiation, and the radiation absorbing layer is formed adjacent to at least a portion of the annealable layer and non-adjacent to a portion of the apparatus. Radiation is directed toward the apparatus to heat up the radiation absorbing layer to anneal the at least a portion of the annealable layer that is adjacent to the radiation absorbing layer without annealing the portion of the apparatus that is non-adjacent to the radiation absorbing layer.
US09288846B2
An induction heating cooker includes a boiling over detecting portion that reduces the heating output of an inverter to a predetermined value when a change amount of an electrostatic capacitance detected by a capacitance detecting portion with respect to a reference value is equal to or greater than a threshold value. The boiling over detecting portion stops a heating action or reduces the heating output to a third set value lower than a second set value when a change rate of the capacitance is equal to or greater than a predetermined change rate, and maintains the heating output at the second set value when the change rate of the capacitance is less than the predetermined change rate, during a boiling over determining period started from the time that the change amount of the capacitance with respect to the reference value is equal to or greater than the output reducing threshold value.
US09288845B2
A ceramic heater is constructed by embedding a heat-generator in a base body made of ceramics. The heat-generator has a recess in a surface thereof, the ceramics being inside the recess. Even if a great thermal stress is developed due to a difference in thermal expansion between the heat-generator and the base body, by the recess inside which the ceramics that forms the base body exists, occurrence of a gap between the heat-generator and the base body, as well as appearance of cracks in the base body, can be prevented even in the direction of the length of the heat-generator in which the thermal stress is applied heavily.
US09288843B2
Method and device for data transmission are provided. When a base station supports multiple radio access technologies, determines radio access technologies respectively supported by RE's two ports, and transmits data corresponding to the radio access technologies respectively through the two ports. With the technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention, the base station can support multiple radio access technologies and transmit service data and control data corresponding to multiple radio access technologies.
US09288842B2
A system within a single access point comprises a network management module, a virtual access point creation module and a data traffic handling module. The virtual access point creation module creates multiple virtual access points each represented by a unique service set identifier (SSID). The network management module provides at least one tunnel to accommodate the multiple virtual access points. The data traffic handling module receives and redirects data from the multiple virtual access points to and from the at least one tunnel.
US09288841B2
This application discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for sharing a local oscillator between multiple wireless devices. In certain examples, an apparatus can include a central frequency synthesizer configured to provide a central oscillator signal having a first frequency, a first transmitter, the first transmitter including a first transmit digital-to-time converter (DTC) configured to receive the central oscillator signal and to provide a first transmitter signal having a second frequency, and a first receiver, the first receiver including a first receive DTC configured to receive the central oscillator signal and to provide a first receiver signal having a first receive frequency.
US09288840B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a first sensor configured to detect a blowing action on the mobile terminal; a second sensor configured to detect an input action of a user; and a controller configured to execute a prescribed function on the mobile terminal when detecting the input of the user, detecting the blowing action on the mobile terminal, and detecting a release of the input action.
US09288837B2
A wireless device operates in a first mode, in which it relays communications between neighboring wireless devices, and a second mode, in which it does not relay communications. The wireless device periodically transmits information indicating its operating mode to the neighboring wireless devices. In the first mode, when not transmitting mode information or communication data, the wireless device stands by with its receiver powered, ready to receive mode information or communication data from neighboring wireless devices. In the second mode, the wireless device is normally in a sleep state and wakes up only at scheduled intervals to transmit and receive mode information and communication data. The wireless device stores the received mode information and selects its operating mode according to the stored mode information, selecting the second mode when this does not prevent the prevent communication with or among the neighboring wireless devices.
US09288835B2
A method, a user terminal and a network side equipment for improving network resource occupation are disclosed. A dormancy timer is set for the user terminal and a time threshold of the dormancy timer is adjusted dynamically by monitoring a resource occupation rate of the communication system, where time threshold of the dormancy timer is inversely proportional to the resource occupation rate. In this way, relatively longer time threshold of the dormancy timer may be set when a system occupation rate is low, so as to improve user experience; and relatively shorter time threshold of the dormancy timer may be set when the system occupation rate is high, so as to provide a higher capacity and provide services for more user terminals.
US09288833B2
A communication apparatus includes a connection unit configured to connect to a wireless network, a transmitting unit configured to transmit data by establishing communication with an external apparatus after connection to the wireless network, an interruption unit configured to interrupt the transmission of data, a storage unit configured to store interruption information relating to the transmission of data interrupted by the interruption unit, a search unit configured to disconnect the connection with the wireless network in a state in which the transmission of data is interrupted by the interruption unit, and then search for an external apparatus, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the external apparatus is found based on the interruption information stored in the storage unit and a search result from the search unit.
US09288831B2
Systems and methods enable alternative network access implemented by a mobile wireless communication device. The method includes receiving information associated with a mobile device, the information comprises location information associated with the mobile device. Based on the information associated with the mobile device, identifying an access point available for providing connectivity services to the mobile device, the access point is not the computing device. Information is provided to the mobile device which is associated with the access point. The information can comprise at least one of usage terms, usage conditions, usage costs, access point characteristics, connection characteristics, access point capacity, and access point security access information.
US09288830B2
An electronic device comprises a first communicating unit wirelessly communicating with the other electronic device and a controller establishing wireless communication with the other electronic device through the first communicating unit by using setting information. The controller permits the other electronic device to remotely control the operation of the electronic device within a first range if the setting information used for establishing the communication is information not-temporarily issued (for example, a permanent SSID, a permanent PW). The controller permits the other electronic device to remotely control the operation of the electronic device within a second range limited as compared to the first range if the setting information used for establishing the communication is information temporarily issued (for example, a temporary SSID, a temporary PW).
US09288829B2
Disclosed are a method for performing and supporting device to device direct communication (D2D communication) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. The method for performing D2D communication of a terminal comprises the steps of: transmitting a first message, which is a request from a terminal operated in an idle state for connecting D2D communication and the base station, to a base station; and receiving a second message as a response to the request from the base station, wherein the second message includes a C-RNTI (Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier) allocated in the terminal to be connected with the base station, a D2D-RNTI (Device to Device RNTI) allocated in the terminal for D2D communication, and/or peer discovery configuration information.
US09288824B2
A base station transmits a random access response in response to a random access request (random access preamble) of a user equipment. The random access response includes information about a time when the random access request is transmitted and sequence number information of the random access request (random access preamble). The user equipment checks whether the received random access response is the response of the random access request transmitted by the user equipment, using the information about the time when the random access request transmitted and the sequence number information included in the received random access response.
US09288819B2
A communication control apparatus including: a processor configured to set each of starting time candidates for each of data communications performed by each of wireless communication apparatuses respectively, to estimate each of finishing time candidates for each of the data communications which corresponds to each of the starting time candidates, and to set each of starting times when each of wireless communication apparatuses is to start each of the data communications to each of the starting time candidates, by performing an optimization of a final finishing time candidate which is the final one of the finishing time candidates.
US09288816B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus (e.g., a client device or a server) sends, to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network component, a request to setup a Quality of Service (QoS) bearer with a threshold level of QoS to support the communication session for the client device. The apparatus permits the client device to proceed with the attempt to setup the communication session irrespective of whether the LTE network component grants the threshold level of QoS for the QoS bearer. In another embodiment, the LTE network component rejects an initial QoS request from the apparatus due to QoS unavailability, and then receives another QoS request within a threshold period of time. Based on the two (or more) QoS requests being received within the threshold period of time, the LTE network component allocates an available level of QoS to the client device that is less than the requested level of QoS.
US09288815B2
When enabled with common reference signal interference cancellation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals.
US09288801B2
The present invention relates to a transmission of a random access in a specific cell from a plurality of serving cells in a mobile communication system using a carrier aggregation technology, and a method for efficiently transmitting uplink channels other than the random access in another cell. In particular, the method for a terminal to transmit an uplink channel to a base station comprises the steps of: confirming whether an uplink channel for a second carrier having an uplink timing different from a first carrier is included in a subframe transmitting a Random Access Preamble for the first carrier; if included, confirming whether the sum of the electric power required for the transmission of the random access preamble and the electric power required for the transmission of the uplink channel exceeds the maximum transmission electric power of the terminal; and, if exceeding, transmitting the random access preamble preferentially before the uplink channel. In addition, the terminal for transmitting an uplink channel to a base station comprises: a transmitter/receiver for transmitting/receiving a signal to/from the base station; and a control unit for confirming whether the uplink channel for a second carrier having an uplink timing different from a first carrier is included in a subframe for transmitting a random access preamble for the first carrier, and if included, confirming whether the sum of the electric power required for transmitting the Random Access Preamble and the electric power required for transmitting the uplink channel exceeds the maximum transmission electric power of the terminal, and if exceeding, controlling the transmission so that the random access preamble is preferentially transmitted before the uplink channel.
US09288796B1
Embodiments may involve the adjustment of the way in which coverage areas are included in the active set of a wireless communication device (WCD), based on the codec that is currently associated with the WCD. An illustrative method involves a radio access network (RAN): (a) determining a codec that is associated with a WCD; (b) using the associated codec as a basis for determining a value for at least one active-set parameter for the WCD; and (c) sending a message to the WCD, wherein the message indicates the determined value for the at least one active-set parameter.
US09288793B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for setting up cellular controlled device-to-device communications. A method can comprise sending, from a first device to a radio network node, a request to initiate device-to-device communication with a second device, the request comprising an identification of the second device and a first indicator indicating an intention of a device-to-device type of the communication; receiving, from the radio network node, a resource allocation; and transmitting service contents in the device-to-device communication directly between the first device and the second device using the allocated resources.
US09288790B2
A bearer processing method is disclosed. The method includes these steps: a system border node receives a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context Request initiated by a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS); the system border node adjusts a Request Bearer Resource Allocation message of a system architecture evolution (SAE) system or the PDP Context Request of the UMTS according to the received PDP Context Request to map the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the SAE system and the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the UMTS. The present invention can map the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the SAE system and the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the UMTS.
US09288786B2
A method of communicating data between a base station and a plurality of terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications system is described. The method comprises transmitting data from the base station to the plurality of terminal devices in a multicast transmission and transmitting response signals from the terminal devices to the base station to indicate whether or not the respective terminal devices have successfully received the multicast transmission. The use of a multicast transmission provides an efficient mechanism for communicating the same data to a plurality of terminal device, for example as might be desired in a machine-type communication network. In combination with this, the use of individual response signals, such as ACK/NACK signalling, from the terminal devices allows the base station, or other entity, to track which terminal devices have indicated successful receipt of the multicast transmission, and to instigate an appropriate re-transmission protocol accordingly.
US09288781B2
A downlink signaling counter management method for a communication device is adapted to be simultaneously associated with at least two subscriber identities and to simultaneously provide radio receiving capabilities to less than all of the subscriber identities. For each decoding of a paging block for a subscriber identity, it is determined whether the paging block decoding was correct and whether a previous paging block decoding condition is fulfilled. The downlink signaling counter is updated with different values depending on this determination results, and on whether the paging block decoding was based on a maximum number of paging bursts.
US09288773B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided in which at least one of a peer-to-peer transmit power or a peer-to-peer duty cycle is adjusted based on at least one of a path loss to a serving base station or a path loss to at least one neighboring base station. In addition, a peer-to-peer signal is sent with the peer-to-peer transmit power or the peer-to-peer duty cycle.
US09288770B2
The invention relates methods for maximum output level reporting by a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system. The invention is also providing apparatus for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the apparatus to perform the methods described herein. In order to allow for maximum output level reporting, a power management related power backoff value is first calculated for one radio technology by referring to a reception quality level set for communication via the other radio technology; thereafter a lower and upper bounds of a maximum output power level is calculated, then the maximum output power level (PCMAX) for communication is set within the determined lower and upper bounds and finally the set maximum output power level is reported to a base station wherein the lower bound (PCMAX—L) may be calculated using MPR=0 dB, A-MPR=0 dB, and optionally ΔTc=0 dB.
US09288751B2
A mobile computing device comprises a radio frequency transceiver, a memory, and processing circuit. The radio frequency transceiver is configured to communicate with wireless access points. The memory is configured to store position data representative of a position of the mobile computing device and wireless access point data for a plurality of wireless access points. The processing circuit is configured to select one of the plurality of wireless access points based on the position data and to initiate wireless communication with the selected wireless access point.
US09288746B2
The various embodiments enable a mobile device to determine the available services in a broadcast network based on an augmented coverage configuration file. In the various embodiments, the augmented coverage configuration file correlates the services for overlapping cells on different frequency carriers enabling the mobile device to determine the available services without having to scan additional frequency carriers.
US09288735B2
An apparatus and a method for switching a Radio Access Technology (RAT) by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes detecting an event indicating that the UE should perform a switching operation from a first RAT to a second RAT different from the first RAT occurs while the UE uses the first RAT determining whether a RAT switching operation criterion is satisfied after detecting that the event occurs and if the RAT switching operation criterion is satisfied, performing the switching operation.
US09288732B2
The present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for managing uplink (UL) interference at a base station. For example, the method may include receiving one or more reselection or handover measurements from one or more user equipments (UEs) in communication with the base station and receiving one or more load indicator values from one or more neighboring base stations of the base station. Furthermore, such an example method may include estimating an interference target value for the one or more UEs in communication with the base station based at least on the measurements received from the one or more UEs and the load indicator values received from the one or more neighboring base stations. As such, the uplink interference at a base station may be managed.
US09288731B1
Techniques are disclosed for evaluating an ongoing VoIP call over a combination of IP data communication network connections for purposes of determining when to hand it off to a circuit-switched cellular network connection. Multiple IP stream call quality values X1(i), X2(i), and Xb(i) are sampled over a time period (N) of (j) samples for an ongoing telephone call and stored. Instantaneous annoyance values a1(j), a2(j), and ab(j) for each of the stored call quality values for each of the IP streams within sampled time period (N) are calculated. Current accumulated annoyance values A1(i), A2(i), and Ab(i) are obtained by summing the instantaneous annoyance values a(j) for each IP network. The combined IP stream accumulated annoyance values Ab(i) is compared to a handoff threshold values Hb(i). A handoff of the telephone call a circuit-switched cellular communication link is initiated when the accumulated annoyance value Ab(i) is greater than the handoff threshold value Hb(i).
US09288727B2
A method for supporting Device-to-Device (D2D) communications by a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system is provided. The method includes performing a network entry procedure with a Base Station (BS) and receiving, from the BS, a BS prefix, a temporary Identifier (ID), and a valid period timer value for the temporary ID, generating a device ID using the BS prefix and the temporary ID, and performing, upon detecting data to be transmitted, communication with a peer MS using the device ID for a time indicated by the valid period timer value. The BS prefix is information unique within the communication system, and the temporary ID is information unique within a coverage area of the BS.
US09288718B2
Various embodiments provide byte caching in wireless communication networks. In one embodiment, a plurality of data packets are received through an internet protocol (IP) data flow established between a wireless communication device and at least one server. Each of the plurality of data packets are combined into a packet bundle. A determination is made as to whether a second byte caching system is available. The packet bundle is transformed using one or more byte caching operations based on a second byte caching system being available. The transformed packet bundle is sent to the second byte caching system using an IP communication mechanism.
US09288715B2
A method and system utilized in a wireless communication system transmitting and receiving a multi-user packet is disclosed. The communication system includes a transmitter and a plurality of users in communication therewith. The method and system comprise determining a lowest coding scheme for transmitting the packet; and deriving a coding rate for the efficient transmission of the packet from a standard coding rate by de-puncturing bits in the packet. A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides for an efficient utilization of packet length, and improves the reliability by improving SNR, by lowering the MCS, un-puncturing, and/or repetition. More efficient packed data rates are also provided and both Tx and Rx compute parameters independently.
US09288714B2
A method is described for adapting the size of data for a future Transmission Time Interval (TTI) by a User Equipment (UE), wherein all the Media Access Control (MAC)-d flows are grouped and stored in different lists based on a type of grants associated with the MAC-d flows, ability of a MAC-d flow to be multiplexed with another MAC-d flow from a list, and data availability in a logical channel mapped onto a MAC-d flow in the current TTI. The E-TFC is then selected by the UE for the future TTI using the MAC-d flow having the highest power offset in a consolidated list including the grouped MAC-d flows. The size of the data is thereby adapted using the selected E-TFC. Further disclosed is a method for generating RLC PDUs by the UE for the future TTI using the variation in the scheduled grant for the UE and the size of the data adapted for the future TTI.
US09288713B2
A communication device minimizes an opportunity for a queue stall during a communication session employing a reliable transport protocol by setting a current mode of operation for a Radio Link Protocol (RLP) and, based on a quality of an air interface, switching to an RLP mode of operation different from the current mode during the communication session.
US09288711B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamically adjusting drop-timer thresholds based on loading. An embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by at least one network entity in a communication system that also includes a radio access network (RAN) providing wireless service to access terminals in a coverage area, in part by enforcing a drop timer having an associated start threshold and an associated stop threshold. The method includes determining a current level of load in the coverage area, and further includes adjusting one or both of the start threshold and the stop threshold based at least in part on the determined current level of load in the coverage area.
US09288707B2
A technique for cable interface-based load balancing between first and second cells is described. Each cell comprises cable and air interfaces defining a parameter set comprising load statuses of the cable and air interfaces. A method aspect being performed in a control entity comprises the steps of determining, in the first cell, the parameter set of the first cell, obtaining the parameter set of the second cell, determining whether the load statues of the cable and air interfaces of the first cell are low, whether the air interface load status of the second cell is low, and whether the cable interface load status of the second cell is high, and reconfiguring, if a result of the determination is affirmative, at least one air interface configuration parameter of the first cell so as to off-load at least a part of mobile-originated traffic from the second cell to the first cell.
US09288694B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for partial failure handling of bearer mapping in dual connectivity are provided. One method includes, during a secondary evolved node B (SeNB) addition procedure, providing a target SeNB with an indication of SeNB change together with information on bearers that were served by a source SeNB. The method may further include receiving, by a master evolved node B (MeNB), bearer mapping for failed bearers from the target SeNB, and providing the source SeNB with the bearer mapping for the failed bearers.
US09288691B2
The present invention relates to a method for enabling a terminal to report channel state information in a wireless communication system for supporting coordinated multi point (CoMP) transmission. Specifically, the method for enabling the terminal to report the channel state information in the wireless communication system for supporting CoMP transmission includes the steps of: receiving a reference signal from a serving cell and one or more cooperated cells; forming the channel state information for the CoMP transmission on the basis of the reference signal; and reporting the channel state information through a physical uplink shared channel to the serving cell, wherein the channel state information includes channel quality indicator (CQI) information and precoding matrix index (PMI) information, and the CQI information includes a wideband CQI and a CQI for each selected sub-band of the CoMP transmission.
US09288677B2
A wireless terminal which newly joins a wireless communication system transmits a message containing its identification data to an access point in the wireless communication system at a communication parameter setting start. Upon receiving the message, the access point determines whether or not the wireless terminal has been registered. If it is determined that the wireless terminal has not been registered, the access point determines whether or not the wireless terminal is a setting target device of communication parameters based on the identification data contained in the message. If it is determined that the wireless terminal is a setting target device, the access point sets communication parameters for the wireless terminal.
US09288675B2
A distributed wireless network system includes a mobile unit capable of communicating over a Wi-Fi connection, a server that is coupled to and accessible over a global communication network, a first and a second Wi-Fi access point. The mobile unit and the first Wi-Fi access point are operated by a first user and the second Wi-Fi access point is operated by a second user. The server is configured to store user data of at least the first and the second user. The user data includes at least personal authenticity data of the user being allocated to a user login and a database of shared Wi-Fi access points. Upon transmission of identification data, the user login of the first user is transmitted to the server. It is then checked whether for this user login corresponding user data is stored at the server and whether the second Wi-Fi access point is in the list of shared Wi-Fi access points. If the checks are successful, access data from the server is transmitted to the mobile unit.
US09288665B2
An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.
US09288661B2
Methods and arrangements in a first primary device (200) and a secondary device (208), respectively, for enabling personalized usage of the secondary device by a user of the first primary device. The primary device (200) receives (3:1) triangulation information from the secondary device (208) comprising signal strength measurements of signals transmitted from a set of devices (202a-c) associated with the first primary device and forming a limited area (206) of proximity to the first primary device. When the first primary device determines (3:2) that the secondary device is located within the limited area, based on the received triangulation information, it sends (3:4) identity information of the first user to the secondary device. Functions and settings in the secondary device are then adapted (3:6) to the first user, based on the received identity information, to provide personalized usage of the secondary device by the first user.
US09288660B2
An approach is provided for presenting an activation indicator to a user. A connection with a mobile device is detected. Retrieval is caused, at least in part, of a unique hardware identifier associated with the mobile device. It is determined that the mobile device is eligible for a service based on the unique hardware identifier. Presentation is caused, at least in part, of a visual indicator of the eligibility for the service based on the determination.
US09288648B2
A method of generating a transport stream (TS) packet in a data transmitting device includes receiving a packetized elementary stream (PES) packet and generating at least two TS packets among a plurality of TS packets corresponding to the PES packet at a time on a basis of an analysis result of the PES packet.
US09288645B1
When a mobile communication device is communicating with a peer device, methods, systems, and apparatus can be used to provide enhanced services, such as call pushes and call pulls, based upon information associated with a wireless access point.
US09288643B2
Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to automated business and service dialing. According to one exemplary embodiment, a business dialing system is disclosed. The system includes a memory configured to store a plurality of business objects containing phone numbers corresponding to a plurality of business entities. The system further includes a user input device configured to detect key presses. The system also includes a processor coupled to the user input device and the memory. The processor is configured to generate a key sequence and a number sequence based on the detected key presses. The processor is further configured to search the memory for business objects corresponding to the key sequence. The system further includes a display device configured to display the number sequence and the business objects. The user input interface is further configured to detect a selection of a business object, among the business objects, or a dial command. The processor is configured to perform an action associated with the selected business object if the selection of the business object is detected, and dial the number sequence as a phone number if the dial command is detected.
US09288642B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for communicating using SMS messages between devices in different home networks, and, in one embodiment, to a method and system for assigning a local SMS number to a recipient device in a different home network such that a user is charged reduced communications costs.
US09288637B2
A mobile router comprises: a valet mode program to provide valet mode functionality in a vehicle in which the mobile router is disposed; a processor operable to execute the valet mode program; a predetermined distance limit; and a predetermined speed limit. The mobile router responds to externally generated commands from a predetermined source to activate or deactivate the valet mode. The processor is operable to determine if the predetermined distance limit is exceeded from the location of the vehicle when the valet mode is activated; and the processor is operable to determine if the vehicle exceeds the predetermined speed limit when the valet mode is activated.
US09288636B2
Feature selection is provided for geometry data in an image-based based location determination. For example, one or more computing devices may receive information collected for a particular area. The one or more computing devices may identify one or more features and associated location from the received information. Given ones of the identified one or more features are selected based on a characteristic of a user. The selected ones of the one or more features and the associated locations are used to generate a set of geometry data for the particular area.
US09288635B2
An apparatus for managing an indoor moving object based on an indoor map and positioning infrastructure and a method thereof, the apparatus including a database configured to store an indoor map and positioning information, and a controller configured to divide an indoor space into indoor partition spaces in semantic units by use of the indoor map and the positioning information, and to store and manage an index that defines a relationship between the indoor partition space in the semantic unit and a moving object.
US09288632B2
This document discloses one or more systems, apparatuses, methods, etc. for detecting precise indoor location of a portable wireless device based on a WiFi simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm that implements spatial and temporal coherence. In an implementation, a SLAM algorithm includes WiFi similarities and inertial navigational system (INS) measurements data as location estimates (i.e., references) for the spatial and temporal coherences implementations to constitute the WiFi SLAM algorithm.
US09288630B2
An approach for providing positioning services using multi-space clustering includes detecting sensor data across a plurality of sensor spaces for a device. The plurality of sensor spaces are associated with respective one or more sensor types. The approach also includes predicting a point propensity for the device to represent location data of the device based on the sensor data, and performing a clustering of the location data across the plurality of sensor spaces to generate a cluster graph of a physical space associated with the sensor data.
US09288621B2
Providing a contextual reminder to a mobile station includes determining a locus of the mobile station based on the position of the mobile station in both time and space. A first entry is read, where the first entry can be at least a task or an event. Both tasks and events can include a time, a date, and/or a location. The locus and the first entry can be compared to determine if the contextual reminder should be provided to the mobile station. The contextual reminder can be provided to the mobile station based on the comparison. The reminder can be provided when at least one of the time, the date and the geographical position of the mobile station is proximate to at least one of the time, date, and location of the entry.
US09288620B2
The various embodiments provide systems and methods for combining overlapping/geographically close geofences associated with a plurality of geofence-enabled applications operating on the same computing device into a single, blended geofence. Each geofence-enabled application may monitor the blended geofence so the plurality of geofence-enabled applications may simultaneously or near-simultaneously detect that the blended geofence has been satisfied when the computing device satisfies the blended geofence. Thus, each of the plurality of geofence-enabled application may consume the output of location-sensing radios and/or communicate with the geofence server at the same time because each of the plurality of geofence-enabled applications detects when the blended geofence is crossed at the same or nearly the same time. Thus, by blending the plurality of geofence-enabled application's geofence areas, the various embodiments may improve battery life and/or conserve resources for a small decrease in accuracy such that the overall user experience on the computing device is improved.
US09288618B1
In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
US09288614B1
Systems and methods are provided for initiating a bi-directional communication link with an implantable medical device. The systems and methods configure an implantable medical device (IMD) to detect activation fields from a triggering device when the triggering device is positioned proximate to the IMD, and to identify a field characterization of the activation field. The systems and methods further configure the IMD to establish a bi-directional communication link with an external device through a select communication initialization mode form a plurality of communication initialization modes defined by a wireless protocol in response to the field characterization of the activation field.
US09288612B2
An apparatus, method, and program product are disclosed for inviting devices to join a mesh network. A network interface is accessible by a processor and a memory stores machine readable code executable by the processor. The machine readable code includes a network module configured to establish a mesh network via the network interface. The mesh network includes one or more electronic devices. The machine readable code includes a proximity module configured to detect a first electronic device within close proximity to a second electronic device. The first electronic device is not connected to the mesh network and the second electronic device is connected to the mesh network. The machine readable code includes an invitation module configured to send mesh network connection information to the first electronic device from the second electronic device in response to determining the first electronic device is within close proximity to the second electronic device.
US09288610B2
A method for automatically changing information originating from at least either of a first user and a second user by using a mobile device includes steps of: (a) a first device searching second devices as a target to perform interaction and then selecting a specific second device among the searched second device to change the user-originating information; (b) the first device transmitting to, or receiving from, the specific second device data related to the interaction, if a touch gesture is detected in the first device; and (c) at least either of the first and the second devices allowing a server to update the information originating from at least either of the first user and the second user by referring to the transmitted data related to the specific interaction.
US09288608B2
Mobile devices often communicate with network services that require an account. Because it may be undesirable to require user interaction when creating an account, it may be desirable to automatically create an account associating a mobile device to a network service after a new application is installed on the mobile device. In an embodiment, a new application is remotely installed on a mobile device. After the installation, the device monitors itself for an occurrence of an event. In response to detecting the occurrence, the device launches the new application. After the launch, the new application automatically obtains data from the mobile device, and then sends the data to a server that automatically creates an account for the user. The server also provides a service associated with the account.
US09288592B2
An earpiece system for adapting an electronic sound producing module to an elastomeric earpiece device. The earpiece system includes an elastomeric base that mechanically snaps together with the electronic sound producing module, and a vibration dampening tube that prevents sound feedback of the overall amplification unit while also interfacing with one of a selection of elastomeric devices that fit in the ear, or a custom molded in-the-ear housing.
US09288566B2
An in-ear headphone system with cord management system. The system provide for conjugation of each headphone to provide a spool for winding and securing the cord about the spool.
US09288554B2
A broadcast service receiving method of a broadcast receiving device provided. The method includes: receiving a trigger including location information of a bookmark target object; extracting the location information of the bookmark target object from the trigger; receiving bookmark target object related information including bookmark signaling data by using the location information of the bookmark target object; extracting the bookmark signaling data from the bookmark target object related information; when the bookmark signaling data is extracted, displaying that a bookmark target object is able to be bookmarked; when a user input for bookmarking the bookmark target object is received, saving the location information of the bookmark target object; and displaying location information of a saved bookmark target object at a predetermined time.
US09288553B2
Application gadget techniques are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to initiate one or more control functions related to control of a display of content by a client. The one or more modules also provide an environment to execute one or more application gadgets such that an output of the one or more application gadgets is displayable on the display device.
US09288544B2
To share program data between a plurality of information providers, between which providers there exists a predetermined association, whereby a program schedule for each of the information providers can be acquired.The program-schedule-generating device stores program data provided by a plurality of information providers. The program-schedule-generating device specifies a subject user, who is an information provider to which program schedule data is to be transmitted, and specifies another information provider having a predetermined association with the user. The predetermined association referred to here is, for example, a condition in which users are members of an identical service (such as an SNS). The program-schedule-generating device extracts the program data provided by the information providers, generates program schedule data based on the program data, and transmits the program schedule data.
US09288543B2
Automated media programming (AMP) systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment of an AMP system, a computer server is communicatively coupled to the Internet and provides a website for enabling uploading of media content, sorting the media content, and downloading the media content. Independent users are permitted to submit, edit, rate, and consume media content over a broadcast media channel or network. In some embodiments of the AMP system, content on the Internet is automatically searched and topics from the searched content are automatically identified. The topics are preferably indicative of currently relevant news or events and are indicative of a type of media content that will be requested for uploading from producers. The AMP system publishes the topics to the producers, receives and stores media content uploaded from the producers that relate to the respective topics, and enable users to select and download the media content.
US09288537B2
A method includes creating, at a media server, a media stream that includes a group of segments of media content associated with a user-selected category. The group of segments includes a first segment corresponding to a portion of a first program and a second segment corresponding to a portion of a second program. The method also includes sending at least a portion of the media stream to a user device. The method further includes, during playback of the media stream, receiving a user input indicating the first segment, and sending a modified stream to the user device based on the user input. The first segment is replaced by an entirety of the first program in the modified stream.
US09288535B2
A method is proposed for analyzing an interlaced video signal including a first sequence of fields. A temporal regularity estimation process is applied to the first sequence of fields to compute a first metric. Inputs of the temporal regularity estimation process include pixel values from at least two fields having respective ranks differing by more than one in the sequence. The same temporal regularity estimation process is applied to second and third sequences of fields to compute second and third metrics. The second sequence is derived from the first sequence by swapping fields having ranks of the form 2k and 2k+1 for any integer k, while the third sequence is derived from the first sequence by swapping fields having ranks of the form 2k−1 and 2k. The first, second and third metrics are compared in a determination of the time arrangement of the fields in the first sequence.
US09288527B2
Device-descriptive data of a multimedia device are obtained by a remote control through a near-field communication (NFC) data exchange. The device-descriptive data of the multimedia device are received by an extended connectivity device through its wireless communication interface. A wireless link is established between the extended connectivity device and the multimedia device using connection parameters in the device-descriptive data. Multimedia data are transmitted to or received from the multimedia device over the wireless link established in accordance with the connection parameters received in the device-descriptive data.
US09288526B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for determining second content which was not selected by the user but which is related to first content which was selected by the user. For example, a system and method can be configured to receive, using one or more processors, first and second content where the first and second content are rich media (e.g., content containing audio or video elements). Systems and methods may be further configured where the relationship between the first content and second content are determined based on data or metadata of the first content (e.g., the title of the content or an episode number). Systems and methods may be further configured where the relationship between the first content and second content are determined based on scheduling data of the first content (e.g., the time and channel when the first content is transmitted).
US09288519B2
A display apparatus includes a display configured to display an image of a broadcasting program; a communication section configured to communicate with a server; a controller configured to control to transmit view information about a broadcasting program viewed by a user to the server, receive information about a broadcasting program recommended corresponding to the view information from the server, and provide schedule information of the recommended broadcasting program in accordance with a time slot in which the recommended broadcasting program is broadcasted.
US09288511B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for streaming a media includes a server side receiver for receiving a request to stream a media from a media player. The apparatus further includes a content generator, a server side transmitter, and a media stream generator. The content generator is configured to generate content information providing a plurality of presentation options to consume the media. The server side transmitter is configured to send the content information. The server side receiver is further configured to receive a selected presentation option from amongst the plurality of presentation options. The media stream generator is configured to generate a media stream comprising the media based on the selected presentation option.
US09288505B2
A video coding device may be configured to code a bitstream including multiple views plus depth information. Two of the views may have reduced resolutions, while a third view may have a full resolution. The third view may be predicted relative to upsampled versions of the two reduced-resolution views. Each view may include texture data and depth data, such that a view component may include a texture component and a depth component. Moreover, the texture and depth components may be arranged within an access unit according to a particular order, which may simplify component extraction from the access unit.
US09288499B2
A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
US09288498B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including an encoding processing unit that generates a plurality of encoded streams of different display sizes with respect to each of a plurality of picture contents, encodes the picture contents in units of predetermined blocks using the encoded streams, and generates an encoded stream of a multi-picture reproduction image to display the plurality of picture contents at the same time. When parameters regarding encoding of an original block that is a block of the picture contents corresponding to the predetermined block, which are included in the encoded streams of the picture contents, are prohibition parameters prohibited in the encoded stream of the multi-picture reproduction image, the encoding processing unit decodes the encoded streams of the original block, reencodes the streams, and sets the obtained encoded streams as the encoded streams of the predetermined block.
US09288477B2
A light path adjustment apparatus includes: a support plate with a first through hole through which light passes; a plurality of optical units, including first and second optical units, that move between an open location where the first through hole is opened by the optical units moving toward an outside of the first through hole and a closing location where the first through hole is divided into a plurality of regions by the plurality of optical units moving toward the first through hole and blocking at least a part of the light; and a rotation plate that has a second through hole corresponding to the first through hole and is rotatably disposed with respect to the support plate. The first and second optical units correspond to first and second regions of the first through hole, respectively, and are coupled to the support plate and the rotation plate, respectively.
US09288475B2
A 3D image-capturing method, a 3D camera and a level-alignment machine for a 3D camera are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: capturing a left- and a right-eye image by a left- and a right-eye camera, respectively; comparing the left- and right-eye images to observe similar columns between the left- and right-eye images; comparing the left- and right-eye images once again over the similar columns to observe similar rows between the left- and right-eye images; and, referring to the similar columns between the left- and right-eye images, vertically shifting the left- and right-eye images to horizontally align the left- and right-eye images to generate a 3D image.
US09288473B2
A creating apparatus includes a capturing unit, extracting units, and a creating unit. The capturing unit captures a plurality of video signals of images imaged at positions that are different by parallax. The extracting unit extracts a display time-period from at least one of the video signals from among the video signals. The creating unit creates, for a display time-period, a stereoscopic video signal by using the video signals of the images imaged at the positions that are different by parallax. Furthermore, the creating unit creates, for a time other than the display time-period, a stereoscopic video signal having a certain depth by using one of the video signals from among the video signals of the images imaged at the positions that are different by parallax.
US09288446B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle body defining a cargo area, a display mounted to the vehicle, a first video camera and an image processor. The first video camera is fixedly mounted to the vehicle at a first fixed location in a prescribed orientation relative to the vehicle to capture a video image of the cargo area. The image processor is operatively coupled to the first video camera and the display to process the video image captured by the first video camera and to stream a simulated video overhead view including at least a portion of the cargo area on the display.
US09288435B2
Provided are methods for switching active speakers during a video conferencing session. An image of an active speaker in a video conference is provided for presentation in a main display area of a display screen, where the active speaker is one of a plurality of users participating in the video conference over a network. When, a new active speaker out of the users participating in the video conference is detected, resolutions of available video streams received for each of the users are determined. In response to determining that the resolution of the video stream received for the new active speaker is below a threshold resolution, the image of the active speaker continues to be provided for presentation in the main display area until a predetermined period of time has elapsed.
US09288431B2
Systems and methods for re-recording content associated with popularity that re-emerged are provided. A plurality of media assets is recorded. Responsive to determining that popularity of a given one of the plurality of media assets fell below a first threshold, the given media asset is selected for deletion and the given media asset is added to a list of a plurality of media assets that have been selected for deletion. Popularity for the given media asset in the list is retrieved after selecting the given media asset for deletion. The retrieved popularity of the given media asset, which previously fell below the first threshold, is compared to a second threshold. In response to determining that the retrieved popularity of the given media asset, which previously fell below the first threshold, is now above the second threshold, an action relating to re-recording the given media asset is performed.
US09288423B2
There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.
US09288415B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel section in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, a column signal line configured to output a pixel signal from the pixel section, a column amplifier circuit configured to invert and amplify the pixel signal, a bypass circuit configured to bypass the column amplifier circuit, an AD converter, and a control unit configured to change an operation mode of the AD converter in accordance with the operation of the bypass circuit.
US09288413B2
An image capture accelerator performs accelerated processing of image data. In one embodiment, the image capture accelerator includes accelerator circuitry including a pre-processing engine and a compression engine. The pre-processing engine is configured to perform accelerated processing on received image data, and the compression engine is configured to compress processed image data received from the pre-processing engine. In one embodiment, the image capture accelerator further includes a demultiplexer configured to receive image data captured by an image sensor array implemented within, for example, an image sensor chip. The demultiplexer may output the received image data to an image signal processor when the image data is captured by the image sensor array in a standard capture mode, and may output the received image data to the accelerator circuitry when the image data is captured by the image sensor array in an accelerated capture mode.
US09288411B2
The present technology relates to an image sensor and a control method for an image sensor which are capable of measuring illuminance of each color in an image sensor. Each of a plurality of pixel units includes a pixel and a reset transistor, and the pixel includes a photoelectric converting unit that performs photoelectric conversion on light of a certain color incident through a color filter and a transfer transistor that transfers charges obtained by the photoelectric conversion of the photoelectric converting unit and is controllable for each color. According to control of the transfer transistor, the charges are read from the photoelectric converting unit through the transfer transistor and the reset transistor, and a voltage corresponding to the charges is supplied to an AD converting unit connected to the reset transistor. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image sensor that photographs an image.
US09288405B2
A shooting processing section shoots one or more users as an object to generate a shot image, an editing processing section allows the one or more users to edit the shot image, and an outputting section outputs the shot image that is edited. A display control section controls display of at least one image for compositing to be composited to the shot image, and the image for compositing based on a purpose of behavior of the one or more users, and a compositing processing section composites the displayed image for compositing to the shot image. The present invention can be applied to a photo sticker creating device, for example.
US09288402B2
An active pixel image sensor comprises a pixel array of active pixels that are capable of being random access addressed to provide pixel readout signals from the addressed pixels on N output lines, where N is a plural integer and M ADC lanes capable of performing analog-to-digital conversion of pixel readout signals, where M is a plural integer less than N. A switching arrangement is capable of selectively connecting output lines to the M ADC lanes. A control unit provides random access addressing of the pixels, and in synchronisation therewith controls the switching arrangement to connect the output lines on which the addressed pixels provide pixel readout signals to ADC lanes.
US09288401B2
A system of recognizing signal pattern for recognizing a signal pattern of an electronic device includes a determining unit coupled to the electronic device for outputting an operating command to the electronic device according to an operating state, wherein the electronic device generates a light signal according to the operating command, and an image capturing unit coupled between the determining unit and the electronic device for capturing the light signal to generate a first signal pattern to the determining unit, such that the determining unit determines whether the first pattern corresponds to the operating state.
US09288400B2
An electronic apparatus having a photographing function includes: a flash that emits light including a visible light wavelength range and an infrared wavelength range and radiates the light onto a subject; an infrared detector that absorbs light in the infrared wavelength range and generates a detection signal corresponding to the light; an image sensor that photoelectrically transforms incident light and generates an image signal; and a controller that controls an exposure time of the image sensor based on the detection signal.
US09288398B2
Provided is an action control device, including a variable-transmittance ND filter configured to have transmittance that varies according to an applied voltage, an applied voltage control unit configured to control a voltage to be applied to the variable-transmittance ND filter, and a diaphragm control unit configured to control illuminance through a diaphragm. At a time of monitoring, the illuminance is controlled such that the applied voltage control unit applies a substantially minimum voltage to the variable-transmittance ND filter, and the diaphragm control unit opens or closes the diaphragm, and at a time of imaging preparation or imaging, the illuminance is controlled such that the applied voltage control unit applies a certain applied voltage to the variable-transmittance ND filter in a state of the substantially minimum voltage, and controls transmittance, and the diaphragm control unit performs control such that the diaphragm enters a fully opened state or substantially fully opened state.
US09288390B2
A method for operating an electronic device which is in a first mode is provided. The method includes detecting a grip state of the electronic device, detecting a change in tilt when the detected grip state is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and switching a mode from the first mode to a second mode when the detected change in tilt is within a set tilt range.
US09288385B2
A computer program product includes: a receiving module for utilizing a communication circuit to receive a photographing positions distribution information; an option object generating module for utilizing a control circuit to generate multiple option objects; an arranging module for utilizing the control circuit to generate a graphic user interface including the multiple option objects and one or more reference indicators according to the photographing positions distribution information; and a displaying control module for utilizing a display device to display the graphic user interface. When the display device displays the graphic user interface, if an input device receives a shift command inputted by a user, the display controlling module controls the display device to move at least a portion of the option objects on the graphic user interface toward a same side and to change position or content of at least one reference indicator.
US09288378B2
An autofocus apparatus includes a target position calculator for calculating a focus lens target position based on a defocus amount obtained based on the signal of focus detector of a phase difference detecting type and a focus lens position, a target position memory for storing the target position, a speed calculator for calculating an object speed in an optical axis direction based on a present target position, the previous target position, and time period between calculations of present target position and prior target position, and a lens controller for setting, when the object speed changes, a focus lens drive speed based on the present target position, the focus lens position and the object speed and setting, when the object speed does not change, the focus lens drive speed based on a present drive speed, a present defocus amount, and a previous defocus amount.
US09288372B2
An illumination control process for use in a digital image capture and processing system includes illuminating an object in the field of view with different pulses of illumination over a pair of image frames, detecting digital images of the illuminated object over these image frames, and decode processing the digital images. In an embodiment, upon failure to read a symbol in one of the first and second images, these digital images are analyzed in real-time, and based on the results of this real-time image analysis, the exposure time is adjusted during subsequent image frames. In another embodiment, upon failure to read a symbol in one of the first and second images, these digital images are analyzed in real-time, and based on the results of this real-time image analysis, the energy level of the illumination is adjusted during subsequent image frames.
US09288358B2
A document management system includes an image reading unit, an image data dividing unit, an information acquisition unit, and a process unit. The image reading unit reads images of a plurality of documents and generates read image data of the plurality of documents. The image data dividing unit divides the read image data, and generates image data for respective documents included in the plurality of documents. The information acquisition unit acquires information relating to the plurality of documents. The process unit associates the information acquired by the information acquisition unit with the respective image data for the respective documents.
US09288357B2
A dual-slope light guide includes a first surface, a second surface and a curved surface. The first surface has first reflecting structures. The second surface, connected to the first surface, has second reflecting structures. An included angle between the first surface and the second surface is unequal to 180 degrees. The curved surface connects the first surface to the second surface. The first surface, the second surface and the curved surface extend from a first end of the light guide to a second end of the light guide. A light beam incident to the first end of the light guide is reflected and converted by the first reflecting structure and the second reflecting structure into linear light emitted from the curved surface. A light source module and an optical assembly for a scanner are also disclosed.
US09288356B2
An information processing system includes a relaying device on a first network; and an information processing device on a second network different from the first network, the information processing device sending a request to a power supply connection device that provides an electric device with electric power. The relaying device includes a request receiving unit that receives a request from a terminal device to the information processing device; and a request providing unit that provides the request received from the terminal device to the information processing device as a reply to an inquiry from the information processing device. The information processing device includes a request obtaining unit that receives the request from the terminal device via the relaying device; and a request unit that sends, to the power supply connection device, the request received from the terminal device.
US09288353B2
Embodiments of the invention include receiving information indicating a component of an image processing device has been installed on the image processing device. Status information associated with the component is stored, the status information indicating the component has been installed on the image processing device. Information is received which indicates an operation performed on the image processing device is completed. In response to receiving the information indicating the operation performed on the image processing device is completed, the component is identified based on the status information. A counter associated with the component is identified and it is determined whether the counter has been reset. In response to determining that the counter has not been reset, an interface element is presented in a graphical user interface on a display of the image processing device, the interface element enabling a user to reset the counter by selecting the interface element.
US09288349B2
An image processing device is provided with a first unit, a second unit attached to the first unit rotatably around a rotational axis, flat cables connecting elements in the first unit with elements in the second unit, and a guide member having wiring paths each defined between two of separations walls, the guide member guiding, from the first unit to the second unit, the flat cables laid through the wiring paths, respectively, in a state spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction thereof without contacting each other, at least one of the separation walls including a curving wall curving to surround the rotational axis, at least one of the flat cables guided to have a curving section along the curving wall, a first extension extending continuously from the curving section to the first unit, and a second extension extending continuously from the curving section to the second unit.
US09288347B2
Disclosed is a job setting registration device including: a job setting selection receiving unit to receive a selection instruction for selecting a job setting to be registered as a registered job setting for enabling the job setting to be reset by retrieving the job setting, from among job settings of a plurality of jobs which are currently executed in parallel by a predetermined image processing apparatus; and a registered job setting storing unit to store the selected job setting as the registered job setting in accordance with the selection instruction received by the job setting selection receiving unit.
US09288341B2
A method for continuous wireless transmission of image data through radio waves to an outside picture processing device and continuous capture of images on frames of camera film rolls, said method comprising the steps of providing a camera body, providing an image radio wave converter, providing a radio wave transmission attachment mounted on said camera body for transmitting image data though radio waves to outside picture processing device, providing a camera lens mounted on said camera body for capturing images on frames of camera film rolls, providing a plurality of housing compartments for receiving camera film rolls, and providing a plurality of detachable housing compartment doors operable for simultaneous removal of at least one camera film roll in a non-filming position when images are captured on all frames of the at least one camera film roll, without exposing remaining camera film roll in filming position is provided.
US09288335B2
What is disclosed is a method for transmitting DSL data including establishing a communication link between a first unit and a second unit, the communication link selectively operable according to one of a plurality of management states, each of said management states defined by at least one fixed control parameters associated with a predetermined value. The method also includes initiating operation of the communication link according to a first management state; transmitting from the first unit a request to the second unit to modify said predetermined value; and implementing the request while said link is operating according to the first management state.
US09288334B2
A network gateway is configured to facilitate on line and off line bi-directional communication between a number of near end data and telephony devices with far end data termination devices via a hybrid fiber coaxial network and a cable modem termination system. The described network gateway combines a QAM receiver, a transmitter, a DOCSIS MAC, a CPU, a voice and audio processor, a voice synchronizer, an Ethernet MAC, and a USB controller to provide high performance and robust operation.
US09288332B2
A system and method for providing a high reliability network. Context servers store information about calls in a telecommunications system. Network control elements can obtain call information from the context servers to help make call control and reporting decisions.
US09288329B2
A communications device comprises a processor, a memory device coupled to processor, one or more wireless transmitters, one or more wireless receivers, an output component, and an input component. The memory device includes executable instructions to enable the processor to perform the following steps: initiate a call with a first remote device; receive, from the first remote device, an indication of a phone number that is programmed in the communications device; initiate a call with a second remote device associated with the phone number that is programmed in the communications device; and cause the communications device, the first remote device, and the second remote device to be placed into a conference call, or to place the first remote device on hold while the communications device provides information to the second remote device. The communications device may be configured as an emergency pendant device, mobile phone, or any kind of communication device that can detect a signal to trigger either the sequence to conference call or place on hold and make a second call.
US09288320B2
A call from a caller to an interactive voice response (IVR) system may be serviced based on behavior by the caller in one or more prior calls to the IVR system. The call may be serviced by predicting information to be used in servicing the call. Predicting such information may include analyzing data reflecting behavior by the caller in one or more prior calls to the IVR system.
US09288317B2
A system for processing a call originated by a call originator to a call target. The system having an information processor configured to receive origination information for the call including identifying information of the call originator. The system further having a database storing modified call originator identifying information indexed by call modification triggers. The information processor is further configured to access the database, to determine at least one of the call modification triggers is satisfied according to the origination information, and to retrieve modified call originator identifying information indexed to the at least one satisfied call modification trigger, for transmission to the call target.
US09288308B2
The method for terminating an operation of a CPE device, which comprises a front-end component for an xDSL connection of a Central Office Equipment supplying a multitude of customers, comprises the steps of: sending a power loss information to the Central Office Equipment in case of a power loss or a switch-off operation of the CPE device and powering the front-end component for a predetermined time to avoid a termination impedance change of the front-end component, by keeping the supply power up for the front-end component, to keep the termination impedance stable as long as necessary for the Central Office Equipment to avoid introduction of non-cancelled crosstalk, which may arise in xDSL connections of other customers.
US09288307B2
Embodiments provide an apparatus, a system, a device, and a method. A method includes automatically providing data indicative of a location of a first mobile wireless communications device from the first mobile wireless communications device to a second mobile wireless communications device in response to respective human-user imitated authorizations exchanged between the two mobile wireless communications devices.
US09288303B1
The FaceBack system incorporates an automated mechanism for remotely capturing the reaction of the receiver of a text message. This mechanism is started when the texter incorporates instructions into a text message to take a photo or record a video when the text is read by a receiver. The receiving device scans the incoming text message and takes a photo or records a video of the receiving user when the user reads the text message. Once the video is recorded or the picture is taken, the video or picture is returned to the texter through the SMS system.
US09288297B2
Various embodiments are directed to a status indicator module to display a first signal strength and a second signal strength for different radio transmission signals using a single status indicator. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09288293B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for a method for hiding a camera preview feed of a mobile device application. The method may proceed by the mobile device application enabling an imaging sensor of the mobile device, where the software of the mobile device requires the mobile device application to display the camera preview feed when the imaging sensor is enabled. The method may continue by creating a camera preview surface for displaying the camera preview feed. The method may further continue by modifying the camera preview surface to be hidden from the mobile device user. The method may end by setting the camera preview feed to be displayed on the camera preview surface. In another aspect, the present disclosure further relates to modifying the camera preview surface by resizing the camera preview surface to be one pixel large.
US09288286B2
A framer interfacing between one or more data converters and a logic device is disclosed. The framer comprises a transport layer and a data link layer, and the framer is configured to frame one or more samples from the data converters to frames according to a serialized interface. In particular, the synthesis of the hardware for the framer is parameterizable, and within the synthesized hardware, one or more software configurations are possible. Instance parameters used in synthesizing the framer may include at least one of: the size of the input bus for providing one or more samples to the transport layer, the total number of bits per converter, and the number of lanes for the link. Furthermore, a transport layer test sequence generator for inserting a test sequence in the transport layer is disclosed.
US09288285B2
Techniques for recommending content to a user include identifying classified public content stored on a server appliance or a repository; identifying private content of a user stored on a client appliance or a repository, the client appliance communicably coupled to the server appliance through a network; receiving, from the user, a request for a recommendation of content; generating a representative query based on the request for the recommendation of content; determining, based on the representative query, a portion of the classified public content stored on a server appliance or the repository; determining, based on the request, a portion of the private content stored on the client appliance or the repository; and preparing, for presentation to the user, the portion of the classified public content based on the representative query and the portion of the private content based on the request for the recommendation of content.
US09288281B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a common interface for communicating with multiple back-end services via a gateway application. In an example embodiment, a gateway application receives a first web service request and a second web service request. The first and second web service requests are generated by interactions with a graphical interface provided by the gateway application. The graphical interface can access a first service and a second service using different authentication protocols. The gateway application can respond to the first and second web service requests by executing a first function provided by the first service and a second function provided by the second service. Executing the first and second functions includes transmitting respective first and second service requests to the first and second services that are respective signed using a first authentication protocol for the first service and a second authentication protocol for the second service.
US09288270B1
A cloud system that includes one or more servers for communicating with vehicles and processing information received from a vehicle and processing information sent to the vehicle is provided. The system enables establishing a communication link between a computing device associated with the vehicle and a server of the cloud system. The communication link is over a wireless network, and the communication link is established in association with a user account that is managed by the cloud system. The communication link is configured to be established for one or more sessions. Then, receiving, at the server, a plurality of actions associated with inputs made at the vehicle while the vehicle is associated with the user account, the plurality of actions being received during the one or more sessions. The server updates data associated with the user account to identify the plurality of actions at the vehicle and then generates a recommendation to apply a setting at the vehicle. One or more of the plurality of actions for the vehicle made during the one or more sessions are analyzed to identify a pattern that is indicative of a preference for a setting by a user of the vehicle that used the vehicle via the user account. Generating the recommendation to apply the setting occurs upon reaching or exceeding a predefined threshold. The system sends to the user account the recommendation to apply the setting for the vehicle. The computing device enables access to the user account to view and accept the recommendation. The computing device associated with the vehicle enables acceptance of the recommendation, such that acceptance of the recommendations causes an instruction to the vehicle to apply the setting.
US09288269B2
Devices having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a host processor, wherein the host processor is configured to execute a host client while the device is in an awake mode, and wherein the host client maintains a network connection while executing; and a network interface controller comprising an embedded processor, wherein the embedded processor is configured to execute an embedded client while the device is in a sleep mode, wherein the embedded client is configured to maintain the network connection while executing.
US09288265B2
Systems and methods for performing memory management among a plurality of devices in a network are described. In one implementation, the method for performing memory management comprises obtaining memory requirements for execution of an application. The memory requirements indicate memory space needed for executing the application. Further, the method comprises creating at least one memory pool, based on the memory requirements, by aggregating physical memories of the plurality of devices. Further, the method comprises executing the application in the at least one memory pool using semaphores and a mutex application programming interface (API).
US09288260B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for facilitating one-way ordering of otherwise independent message classes. A one-way message ordering mechanism facilitates one-way ordering of messages of different message classes sent between interconnects employing independent pathways for the message classes. In one aspect, messages of a second message class may not pass messages of a first message class. Moreover, when messages of the first and second classes are received in sequence, the ordering mechanism ensures that messages of the first class are forwarded to, and received at, a next hop prior to forwarding messages of the second class.
US09288254B2
A method of managing electronic media items includes accessing first geographic information that indicates a first geographic location of a first device; accessing second geographic information that indicates a second geographic location of a second device; determining whether the first device and the second device are within a defined geographic proximity based on the first geographic location and the second geographic location; if the determination indicates that the first device and the second device are within the defined geographic proximity, generating at least one playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a first user of the first device and a second user of the second device; and sending the playlist to the first device such that the first user is able to select one or more of the media items on the playlist to be output by the first device.
US09288251B2
A method includes receiving streaming media data having an original media frame and an original frame index referencing the original media frame; determining an optimal session bitrate, wherein the optimal session bitrate is based on the available network bandwidth between a server and a terminal; allocating a frame budget for an output media frame by estimating a frame size of the output media frame based on the original frame index and the optimal session bitrate; generating the output media frame by processing the original media frame based on first encoding parameters and, if the allocated frame budget is greater than a frame size of the processed media frame, padding the processed media frame; and providing the output media frame.
US09288237B2
A protocol conversion gateway and a method therein for enabling a client, which client does not support a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) transport protocol, to communicate with a SIP proxy are provided. The method comprises receiving a first SIP message, over a non-standard SIP transport protocol, from the client. The method further comprises inserting a SIP address of the protocol conversion gateway in at least one header of the received SIP message, and sending the SIP message to the SIP proxy over a standard SIP transport protocol.
US09288235B1
Contextually aware device management techniques are described. Identifying data is provided via a communication connection by a client device to a service provider via a network that is usable by the service provider to identify the client device or functionality of the client device. One or more contexts are received at the client device from the service provider via the network that correspond to the identifying data. Each of the one or more contexts includes management objects along with one or more triggers configured to cause the context to transition to a corresponding one of a plurality of context states and thereby cause performance of one or more actions corresponding to the context state. The one or more contexts are implemented locally by the client device effective to identify and perform the one or more actions corresponding to the context state by the client device based on identification of the one or more triggers without use of network communication by the client device.
US09288226B2
Software applications are analyzed to determine if they are legitimate applications and warnings are provided to users to avoid installation and/or purchases of unnecessary and/or potentially harmful software based on comparisons of user-interface characteristics of the software applications to visual characteristics of authentic applications to determine to what extent they match (or do not match) or are attempting to mirror the legitimate application.
US09288220B2
Methods, system, and media for detecting malware are disclosed. A network may be monitored to collect samples of the network traffic. Feature vectors may be extracted from the sampled network traffic. One or more machine learning models may be applied to the feature vectors to produce a score indicative of the presence of a particular type of malware. One or more scores obtained by applying the machine learning models may be fused by another machine learning model into a resulting score. A threshold value may be calculated to accompany a score indicating the likelihood that the traffic sample indicates the presence of malware and the likely effectiveness of planned remediation effort. An alert may be generated from the score and the threshold when the threshold is acceded.
US09288213B2
A disclosed system having a first service providing system providing a service to an apparatus and a second service providing system having an authentication infrastructure different from that of the first service providing system includes a connection destination changing unit receiving a permission request, from an apparatus operated by a first user, of requesting that a second user uses the second service providing system, changes a connection destination of the apparatus to the second service providing system, and causes the second service providing system to perform a permission process; an authority information acquiring unit receiving permission information indicating that the permission request is admitted from the apparatus and acquires post-permission authority information by using the permission information; and an authority information providing unit providing the post-permission authority information associated with the second user based on a request for a process received from another apparatus operated by the second user.
US09288211B2
A computer generates a modified list of search terms by adding synonyms of the search terms and terms that are related to the search terms to a list of search terms. The computer removes frequently used words from the modified list of search terms. The computer responds to a determination that a user has authorization to view a field of a document by adding to the modified list of search terms an encrypted version of a search term included in a list of search terms. A search using the modified list of search terms returns a result that identifies the document as a search result when either the unencrypted or the encrypted version of the search term is found in a list of index terms associated with the first document.
US09288208B1
An escrow platform is described that can be used to enable access to devices. The escrow platform can be used to sign cryptographic network protocol challenges on behalf of clients so that the secrets used to sign cryptographic network protocol challenges do not have to be exposed to the clients. The escrow platform can store or control access to private keys, and the corresponding public keys can be stored on respective target platforms. A client can attempt to access a target platform and in response the target platform can issue a challenge. The client platform can send the challenge to the escrow platform, which can use the corresponding private key to sign the challenge. The signed challenge can be sent back to the client, which can forward it to the target platform. The target platform can verify the expected private key and grant access.
US09288204B1
Provided is a process that includes: obtaining a multi-byte character set specifying a plurality of characters; receiving a knowledge factor credential encoded with a plurality of characters of the multi-byte character set, wherein the knowledge factor credential has a longer effective length than an apparent length, and wherein the knowledge factor credential has at least one character outside of a block of characters designated for a locale of the computing device; and providing the knowledge factor credential to authenticate a user.
US09288200B1
Methods, systems, and/or devices for sharing control of media presentation systems are described herein. In one aspect, a first electronic device receives, from a second electronic device, an indication of availability of a media presentation system (“MPS”) for use by the first electronic device. In accordance with detecting the indication of availability of the MPS, the first electronic device sends a request for access to the MPS. In response to sending the request for access to the MPS, the first electronic device receives, from the second electronic device, an authentication token that allows the first electronic device to access the MPS through submission of media control requests that include the authentication token. The first electronic device also sends, to a server system, a media control request that includes the authentication token and causes the server system to send a command corresponding to the media control request to the MPS.
US09288195B2
The authentication of a client to multiple server resources with a single sign-on procedure using multiple factors is disclosed. One contemplated embodiment is a method in which a login session is initiated with the authentication system of a primary one of the multiple server resources. A first set of login credentials is transmitted thereto, and validated. A token is stored on the client indicating that the initial authentication was successful, which is then used to transition to a secondary one of the multiple resources. A second set of login credentials is also transmitted, and access to the secondary one of the multiple resources is granted on the basis of a validated token and second set of login credentials.
US09288192B2
An input device with an integrated security module communicates with a processing component over an insecure medium. The insecure medium may be a wireless network, software stack, or the like. According to one embodiment, the security module is integrated into an existing chip of the input device. Data generated by the input device is encoded and/or authenticated by the security module prior its transmission to the processing device. The processing device receives the input data and processes it within its own security boundary for providing selected services or information to a user or application associated with the input device.
US09288187B2
A network that supports VPNs is enhanced to allow users in one VPN to communicate with users in another VPN in the course of executing a predefined application, such as VoIP. This capability is achieved dynamically by enabling a device that can communicate with the network elements that operate to normally prohibit inter-VPN communication to direct those network elements to enable such communication, at least for the purposes of specific applications.
US09288178B2
A clustered computing data processing system can be configured for inventory management in a highly available cluster. The system can include a cluster of computers managed by a cluster agent and providing high availability for a hosted application in the cluster. The system also can include a systems management tool executing in memory of a host computer system and coupled to the cluster agent and maintaining an inventory of data pertaining to the computers in the cluster. The system yet further can include an Internet protocol (IP) alias discover module coupled to the tool. The module can include program code executing in the memory of the host computer system so as to receive notification from the cluster agent of a change to addressing data for the computers in the cluster and, responsive to the notification, to update the inventory to reflect the change to the addressing data.
US09288172B2
An access restriction device including a processor; and a memory. The processor executes: receiving an email from a transmission source; specifying including analyzing, when a file is attached to the email, information in the file, and specifying a character string from the file; executing including specifying, from a storing unit in which a character string is associated with an access restriction process, an access restriction process that is associated with the character string specified at the specifying the character string, and executing the specified access restriction process on the file; and sending including attaching, instead of the file attached to the email, the file that has been subjected to the access restriction process at the executing to the email, and sending the email to which the file subjected to the access restriction process is attached to a transmission destination of the email.
US09288157B2
Systems and methods for scheduling data egress using a time-sensitive (TS) network switch. The TS network switch may include a functional unit, a plurality of ports, and a plurality of queues. Each port may be associated with a set of network addresses for TS packets and may be configured with a set of egress periods. Each queue may be associated with a TS packet type and a port. The functional unit may be configured to receive TS packets asynchronously from a network node via a first port, determine a second port for egressing a TS packet, determine an egress period for egressing the TS packet, determine that the TS packet cannot currently be egressed from the second port, queue the TS packet in a first queue, where the first queue is associated with the second port, and egress the TS packet in the respective time window from the second port.
US09288151B2
A power manager for a mobile device comprises a traffic shaping unit (30) and a management unit (26). The traffic shaping unit is incorporated into a networking layer (8) of a mobile device architecture. The traffic management unit spans application layer (7) and networking layer (8) of the mobile device architecture. The traffic shaping unit and management unit are connected via a feed path (73). The management unit (26) is provided with inputs (74) to receive measurements of external parameters (65 to 69). The management unit further comprises a processor (20) to process the received measurements and a traffic shaping function generator (21) to receive the processed measurements and generate a traffic shaping function. The management unit (26) inputs the generated traffic shaping function to the traffic shaping unit (30) via the feed path (73), whereby the traffic management unit controls transmissions from the mobile device.
US09288149B2
A network device including a plurality of queues configured to store respective frames of data having a priority level. The network device includes a shaper configured to transmit, during a first portion of a transmission interval, frames of data from a first one of the plurality of queues having a highest priority level, block frames of data from a second one of the plurality of queues during a blocking band extending from a first time prior to a start of the transmission interval to a second time indicating the start of the transmission interval, determine, based on the second time and a maximum frame size to be transmitted during the transmission interval, the first time, and selectively transmit, subsequent to the first time and prior to the second time, frames of data from the second one of the plurality of queues based on the second time.
US09288146B1
The present disclosure describes a system and method for reducing total batch completion time using a per-destination max-min fairness scheme. In a distributed computer system, worker nodes often simultaneously return responses to a server node. In some distributed computer systems, multiple batches can traverse a network at any one given time. The nodes of the network are often unaware of the batches other nodes are sending through the network. Accordingly, in some implementations, the different batches encounter different effective path capacities as nodes send flows through links that are or become bottlenecked. The per-destination max-min fairness scheme described herein reduces the total batch completion time by collectively routing the batches in a way that targets providing substantially uniform transmission times without under underutilizing the network.
US09288144B2
A system for scalable and predictive packet processing may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be configured to store packet processing results performed on a packet. The processor may be configured to apply the stored packet processing results to subsequently received packets that have the same flow identifier as the processed packet without performing ingress packet processing on the subsequent packets.
US09288140B2
A procedure, and an apparatus, system and computer program that operate in accordance with the procedure, for operating a dual homed communications network. In the procedure, a backup aggregation n ode is configured in accordance with a configuration of a primary multi-service router. A failure is detected in a first communication path that includes a primary multi-service router. In response to the detection, a second, backup communication path is activated that includes a backup multi-service router. In response to the activation, a router is negotiated with so that traffic forwarded by the router is provided to the second, backup communication path instead of the first communication path.
US09288138B2
Aspects of the present invention include an N-Node virtual link trunking (VLT) system comprising a set of N nodes collectively provide a logical fabric-level view that is consistent across the set of N nodes. Embodiments of the N-Node VLT system comprise a control plane mechanism to provide Layer 2 multipathing between access network devices (switches or servers) and the core network. The N-Node VLT system provides a loop-free topology with active-active load-sharing of uplinks from access to the core. Accordingly, the N-Node VLT system eliminates the disadvantage of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (active-standby links) by allowing link aggregation group (LAG) terminations on multiple separate distribution or core switches and also supporting a loop-free topology. Additional benefits of an N-Node VLT system include, but are not limited to, higher resiliency, improved link utilization, and improved manageability of the network.
US09288137B2
A system for allocating a different class of service to each network connection in a plurality of network connections, where each network connection corresponds to one or more virtual channels. The system can include a plurality of virtual channels that connect a first computer and a second computer. Each virtual channel can service at least a portion of the network traffic generated using a remote-display protocol. The system can also include a plurality of network connections, where each network connection corresponds to at least one of the virtual channels. Each network connection of the system can have an assigned port number and an assigned class of service that corresponds to a transmission priority level. The class of service assigned to each network connection can be unique from the classes of service assigned to other network connections.
US09288131B2
The present application relates to a signal combining apparatus having an input for receiving a signal from a signal generator and an output for outputting a signal to a signal analyzer. The input signal is split into a plurality of identical signals by a splitter and the signals are transmitted, to inputs a plurality of duplex combiners, each of which has an input/output port to which a device under test can be connected. Outputs of the duplex combiners are connected to a plurality of receive paths, whose outputs are connected to a signal relay which is operative to receive one or more signals received through the receive paths. An output of the signal relay is connected to the output of the signal combining apparatus, such that a composite signal output by the signal relay containing the signals received through the receive paths can be analyzed by the signal analyzer.
US09288127B2
A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource servers (2). A data collection and processing means (20) collects and processes the data sources which are forwarded to a reporting server (34) as a combined data source made available to interested parties.
US09288125B2
Web content is displayed concurrently with application content of an application that is hosting the web content. The web content includes at least some content that can be executed or run, such as a script. Performance of the web content is monitored, such as by monitoring the amount of time the web content has been executing and/or an amount of memory used by the web content. Feedback regarding the performance of the web content is provided to the application hosting the web content, and the application can determine whether and/or how to alter execution of the web content based on the performance of the web content. Execution of the web content can be altered in various manners, such as by throttling execution of the web content or ceasing execution of the web content.
US09288123B1
A social analytic system may collect social signals from different social network accounts. The social signals may be associated with different ecosystems. Time series data may be generated from the social signals and the time series data may be filtered to remove at least some generic or unrelated trends. Different data sets from the time series data may be associated with different ecosystem metrics. The social analytic system may compare different filtered time series data sets to identify different ecosystem events. For example, the comparisons may be used to identify highly correlated ecosystem metrics and ecosystem anomalies, and predict ecosystem events.
US09288113B2
A method and a device for establishing an information communication network system structure, as well as a server and a router. The method includes the steps of after establishing an initial service route, utilizing the server to periodically acquire current network resource configuration information and flow rate state information transmitted by each router node, and generating network resource view and network flow rate view; utilizing the server to acquire current real transmission performance of the initial service route according to the network resource view and the network flow rate view; including current real transmission performance and current business transmission requirement, and generating a reconstruction order when current real transmission performance does not match current business transmission requirement.
US09288107B2
Embodiments of a method and system are disclosed. One embodiment is a method for controlling operations in a mobile communication device that is enabled for near field communication (NFC). The method involves starting an NFC service in the mobile communication device, starting an initialization process of a secure element (SE), e.g., a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), of the mobile communication device in response to starting the NFC service, and once the initialization process of the SE has begun, monitoring an SE-specific session ID for an indication of the status of the initialization process of the SE. If the SE-specific session ID indicates that the initialization process is not complete, the method involves continuing to monitor the SE-generated session ID and if the SE-specific session ID indicates that the initialization process is complete, the method involves notifying the NFC service that the initialization process of the SE is complete.
US09288101B1
A method for providing network overlay services using a distributed system server system is disclosed. The method can include providing at least two servers, providing bidirectional network packet flow through input-output (IO) ports of at least two offload processor modules, providing a direct connection between the IO ports of the at least two offload processor modules, and processing network packet data corresponding to a bidirectional network packet flow and a logical identifier with at least one of the offload processor modules.
US09288095B1
A signal receiving system, a band detection method for a multi-carrier signal and a demodulating apparatus thereof. Each carrier of the multi-carrier signal has a plurality of symbols respectively corresponding to a plurality of time. The band detection method includes: defining a scan area range according to a full band range of the multi-carrier signal; obtaining a reference symbol corresponding to each of the symbols according to time and frequency offset values in the scan area range; performing an operation on each of the symbols and corresponding reference symbol to obtain calibration information of each carrier of the multi-carrier signal; tuning the full band range of the multi-carrier signal according to the calibration information thereof.
US09288085B2
A continuous-time linear equalizer for use in a receiving unit of a high-speed data transmission system for receiving an input signal includes a signal line configured to provide an equalized output voltage, and an active peaking control unit, including a predetermined first number of active peaking transistors each coupled between the signal line and a power supply rail; a peaking resistor that couples gate terminals of each of the active peaking transistors to the signal line; and a first number of first setting switches each associated with each of the first number of active peaking transistors to activate a predetermined number of the first number of transistors according to first setting signals.
US09288080B2
A system that includes a telephone adapted for connection to a data communications network. The telephone is capable of discovering other devices connected to the data communications network and using those devices to extend its own functionality. The telephone is also accessible and controllable by other devices on the data communications network.
US09288070B2
A base station and method are provided for transmitting data of a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) by the base station in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving one or more service data units (SDUs) from a core network node; receiving a control message including respective length information of the SDUs transmitted from the core network node; identifying one or more subframes impacted by a loss of two or more consecutive SDUs based on the length information if the two or more consecutive SDUs are not received; and muting the identified one or more subframes impacted by the loss of the two or more consecutive SDUs.
US09288065B2
A sink circuit for protecting connectivity of a digital multimedia interface, the sink circuit is connected in a sink multimedia device. The sink circuit comprises a sink port configured to provide a connection to a source multimedia device; a termination coupled to the sink port; and a protection component coupled in series between the termination and a power source of the sink multimedia device, the protection component blocks any direct current path through the sink port when the sink multimedia device is off and the power source of the source multimedia device is on.
US09288059B2
Methods and systems are provided for efficient and secure “Machine-to-Machine” (M2M) between modules and servers. A module can communicate with a server by accessing the Internet, and the module can include a sensor and/or actuator. The module and server can utilize public key infrastructure (PKI) such as public keys to encrypt messages. The module and server can use private keys to generate digital signatures for datagrams sent and decrypt messages received. The module can internally derive pairs of private/public keys using cryptographic algorithms and a set of parameters. A server can use a shared secret key to authenticate the submission of derived public keys with an associated module identity. For the very first submission of a public key derived the module, the shared secret key can comprise a pre-shared secret key which can be loaded into the module using a pre-shared secret key code.
US09288058B2
Systems and methods for executing compliance verification or remediation scripts. An example method may comprise: identifying, by a computer system, a compliance script to be executed; determining a value of a cryptographic hash function of at least part of the identified compliance script; identifying, based on the value of the cryptographic hash function, an installation path of a corresponding digitally signed compliance script pre-installed on the computer system, the digitally signed compliance script associated with a security context; and executing, within the security context, the digitally signed compliance script.
US09288042B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating, by a computing device, a key, wherein the key includes at least one of an encryption key and an authentication key. One or more credentials may be generated to access a Secure KeyStore storing the key, wherein the one or more credentials may include one or more stable system values, and wherein the one or more stable system values may include one or more virtual values and one or more hardware values. The one or more stable system values may be provided to the Secure KeyStore to retrieve the key.
US09288036B2
A method for controlling error resilience in network communication is described. The method includes: determining, by a receiver-side controller, a packet gap representing a packet loss of a packet being communicated over a network; projecting, by the receiver-side controller, a retransmission time-out for at least one missing packet of the packet loss; issuing, by the receiver-side controller, a retransmission request for the at least one missing packet; if the packet gap is not filled within a first time period of the retransmission time-out, then issuing, by the receiver-side controller, at least one synchronization frame request; and selecting, by a sender-side controller, to respond to at least one of either of the retransmission request or the at least one synchronization frame request and neither of the retransmission request nor the at least one synchronization frame request.
US09288030B2
A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits reception quality information to a base station apparatus, the reception quality information indicating quality of a signal received from the base station apparatus, characterized in that the base station apparatus transmits information for instructing transmission of reception quality information without uplink data included in an uplink data transmission permission signal, and the mobile station apparatus transmits reception quality information without the uplink data according to the information for instructing transmission of reception quality information without uplink data. This allows a mobile station apparatus to transmit reception quality info information including a large amount of information even if there is no uplink data between the mobile station apparatus and the base station apparatus, and the transmission control flexibly responding to the amount of information and the frequency of transmissions of the reception quality information transmitted from the mobile station apparatus is possible.
US09288029B2
The present invention relates to method and apparatus for channel direction information feedback in a heterogeneous system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for channel direction information feedback in a heterogeneous system comprises: determining, for a user equipment, total feedback bits for quantization of channel direction information, based on a trade off between accuracy of channel direction information quantization and reliability of uplink feedback transmission on a predetermined uplink feedback resource, wherein coordinated multi-point transmission between a local base station and a cross base station is performed for the user equipment in the heterogeneous system; and notifying said user equipment of said total feedback bits for quantization of channel direction information that will be conveyed on said predetermined uplink feedback resource. The embodiments of the present invention further relate to corresponding base station, user equipment and computer program product.
US09288023B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving information. A User Equipment (UE) receives information related to a cyclic shift value α transmitted from a Node B. The UE obtains a reference sequence based on a Zadoff-Chu sequence and ejα. The UE transmits the reference sequence in a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbol to the Node B. The SC-FDMA symbol is predefined among a plurality of SC-FDMA symbols in a slot of a subframe.
US09288020B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) to a network in a communication system. A bandwidth allocated by the network to transmissions of one or more random access channels is determined. An SRS bandwidth configuration is reconfigured by setting a maximum bandwidth value of the SRS bandwidth configuration to a value that avoids overlapping the bandwidth allocated to transmissions of the one or more random access channels. The SRS is transmitted in accordance with a bandwidth from the reconfigured SRS bandwidth configuration. Information regarding the SRS bandwidth configuration is provided to a User Equipment (UE) by the network.
US09288019B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for jitter equalization and phase error detection. In embodiments, a communication circuit may include a data path to pass a data signal and a clock path to pass a clock signal. A jitter equalizer may be coupled with the data path and/or clock path to provide a programmable delay to the data signal and/or clock signal, respectively. The delay may be determined by a training process in which a supply voltage may be modulated by a modulation frequency. The delay may be dependent on a value of the supply voltage, such as a voltage level and/or jitter frequency component of the supply voltage. A phase error detector is also described that may be used with the communication circuit and/or other embodiments.
US09288016B2
The present specification discloses a method for making a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for a terminal in a wireless connection system supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication between terminals, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, control data for P2P communication; transmitting, based on the received control data, data from an uplink or downlink subframe, which is defined as a region for transmission to another terminal; and receiving an Acknowledgement (ACK) or not-Acknowledgement (NACK) regarding the sent data from an uplink subframe, linked to the downlink or uplink subframe, among the subframes defined as a region for reception from another terminal. The control data comprises a frame structure data used in P2P communication, wherein the frame structure data comprises an arrangement of the transmission and reception regions and HARQ linkages between subframes.
US09288011B2
An encoding method and apparatus in a data communication system are provided. The method includes inputting a source block including a plurality of source payloads, converting the source block to an information block including a plurality of information payloads according to an Information Block Generation (IBG) mode selected from a plurality of IBG modes, transmitting a delivery block generated by adding a parity block generated by encoding the information block according to a selected encoding scheme to the source block to a receiver, and transmitting information indicating the selected IBG mode to the receiver.
US09288009B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for selecting modulation coding schemes (MCS). In some aspects, the MCS is selected based on a characteristic of an electronic device and the MCS of a transmitter. In some aspects, the MCS is selected based on a power imbalance between an access point and a user terminal.
US09288005B2
A method and apparatus for multiplexing reference signals in a predetermined number of Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) groups to balance power across Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are disclosed. In a wireless communication system, orthogonal sequences used for spreading the reference signals are allocated such that the order of orthogonal sequences allocated to a subcarrier of one CDM group has a predetermined offset with respect to the order of orthogonal sequences allocated to a subcarrier of another CDM group, adjacent to the subcarrier of the one CDM group.
US09288004B2
Time division multiplexing (TDM) partitioning is one of the inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) mechanisms considered for a heterogeneous network (HetNet) ICIC in a co-channel deployment. For example, in subframes that are pre-allocated to an evolved Node B (eNB), neighbor eNBs may not transmit, hence interference experienced by served user equipments (UEs) may be reduced. Semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) grants may have various available periodicities, which may not be compatible with TDM partitioning. Therefore, a UE may miss an SPS opportunity that was scheduled for a subframe that was not usable by the UE. Hence, using SPS grants with small periodicities in a heterogeneous network with TDM partitioning may require changes which may include adjusting the periodicities of the SPS grants, rescheduling of uplink SPS messages based on resource partitioning information (RPI), and/or determining RPI based on current SPS grants.
US09287999B2
The Automated Content Upload System networks a plurality of aircraft together when they are parked at the gates of an airport. Communications among the aircraft are guided by a Content Manager, resident at or near the airport, which maintains data representative of InFlight Entertainment Content presently stored on each aircraft and the list of scheduled InFlight Entertainment Content available on each aircraft. The Content Manager guides the exchange of InFlight Entertainment Content among the aircraft, as well as from the Content Manager to the aircraft, to automatically distribute InFlight Entertainment Content to the aircraft efficiently and timely. This process includes the ability to multicast data from the Content Manager to multiple aircraft in a single transmission, obtaining content delivery efficiency, populating multiple aircraft via a single transmission from the Content Manager. Furthermore, the Content Manager can supplement this process via transmissions to the aircraft in flight over the Air-To-Ground link.
US09287996B2
A communication system, a communication device, a power supply device, and a vehicle are provided, which can suppress occurrence of communication abnormality while suppressing noise applied to a power supply line to be lower than a predetermined upper limit value of a standard, in communication such as inband communication in which a vehicle and a power supply device are connected to each other via a charging cable containing the power supply line and a control line, and a communication signal is transmitted and received using the control line as a medium. A power supply device 2 reads setting relating to an output for each frequency which is previously stored in a memory 221b, and performs a mapping process of adjusting, based on the read setting, an output waveform relating to transmission of the communication signal to an amplitude previously set for each frequency. Then, the power supply device 2 executes inverse fast Fourier transform on the mapped communication signal to convert the communication signal represented as digital data on a frequency domain into digital data on a time domain, and converts the digital signal into analog signal to be transmitted.
US09287995B2
A communication device, such as a smart phone, includes transmit/receive logic to cancel an interfering signal component. The interfering signal component may originate from a communication interface on the device itself. For example, transmissions from the communication interface may interfere with received signals at other communication interfaces on the device. Transmit/receive logic on others of the communication interfaces may use known characteristics of the interfering signal component to cancel the interfering signal component.
US09287991B2
Described is a light module interlock system comprising: an optical cable enabled to transmit light of a first wavelength and a second wavelength different than the first wavelength; a first light module enabled to provide the first wavelength to the optical cable; a second light module enabled to provide the second wavelength to the optical cable; a sensor enabled to detect the first wavelength transmitted by the optical cable, the sensor located at an opposite end of the optical cable as the first light module; and an interlock in communication with the sensor, the interlock enabled to: disable the second light module when the sensor fails to detect the first wavelength, such that the second wavelength is no longer provided to the optical cable.
US09287988B2
Techniques relating to optical communications are illustrated. In an example, a system for optical communications includes a laser emitting device including an emission surface for emission of a laser beam. An optical waveguide may be optically coupled to the laser emitting device to receive the laser beam from the laser emitting device. A fault photo-detector surrounds the emission surface. The fault photo-detector is to detect a portion of the laser beam accidentally back-reflected towards the laser emitting device.
US09287984B2
A transceiver includes an optical waveguide and a first filter optically coupled to the optical waveguide and operable to filter a first optical signal in a first wavelength band propagating downstream. A center wavelength of the first wavelength band is tunable. The transceiver also includes a first receiver optically coupled to the first filter and a second filter optically coupled to the optical waveguide and operable to filter a second optical signal in a second wavelength band propagating downstream. The second wavelength band is different from the first wavelength band. The transceiver further includes a second receiver optically coupled to the second filter to receive the second optical signal and a laser optically coupled to the optical waveguide and operable to output radiation in a third wavelength band propagating upstream. The third wavelength band is different from both the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band.
US09287962B2
A signal reproduction apparatus reproduces, from an input signal containing a weak signal which is a piece of transmission information and noise superimposed thereon, the weak signal through use of a stochastic resonance phenomenon. The apparatus includes N nonlinear elements NL1-NLN (N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) which receive N reception signals R (split signals) split to N branch lines L1-LN, and output nonlinear output signals NLO1-NLON; N delay elements D1-DN which delay the nonlinear output signals by different times, respectively; and a combiner which combines delay signals DS1-DSN output from the delay elements D1-DN. The correlation among the noise components contained in the delay signals DS1-DSN obtained by delaying the nonlinear output signal is extremely small, and the correlation of the weak signal is large.
US09287961B2
A receive-only smart antenna with a directional-point command capability for communication with geostationary satellites, allowing autonomous detection of received signals in order to allow steerage of multiple beams. An array feed is used to illuminate a parabolic reflector, with each feed element of the smart antenna associated with a unique beam-pointing direction. As the receiver switches to different feed elements, the far-field beam is scanned, making it possible to track a geostationary satellite in slightly inclined orbits, eliminating the need for mechanical tracking mechanisms while maintaining high antenna gain in the direction of the satellite. The receive-only smart antenna also features capabilities for forming multiple simultaneous beams supporting operations of multiple geo-satellites closely space in slightly inclined orbits. The designs can support orthogonal beams for enhanced bandwidth capacity via multiple beams with excellent spatial isolation. In addition, the use of toroidal reflectors with multiple linear array feeds spaced in the azimuth direction enables multi-beam operation, allowing multiple geostationary satellites spaced up to ±15 beam-widths of the terminal in azimuth, to be tracked simultaneously and independently.
US09287959B2
The present invention relates to a method for adapting the feedback rate of a quantized representation of the propagation channel in a capacity-limited feedback channel. The method comprises obtaining a reference signal from an access point; deriving a rank indication, a codebook subset selection indication and a precoding matrix index based on the obtained reference signal; sending a first feedback message conveying the rank indication and the codebook subset selection indication, and sending a second feedback message conveying the precoding matrix index, to the access point; and receiving, from the access point, data precoded by a matrix derived based on the rank indication, the codebook subset selection indication and the precoding matrix index.
US09287951B2
A method of spatially precoding data includes determining a transmission rank of a communication channel and selecting a set of one or more precoding filters derived from a single generator matrix based on said transmission rank. The method also includes precoding data for transmission to a remote device using said precoding filters in a predetermined order according to a predetermined precoding sequence. The precoding may include using different ones of said precoding filters during different precoding intervals in a predetermined precoding period of the predetermined precoding sequence. Additionally, precoding data for transmission may involve traversing an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) resource block in an alternating pattern during said predetermined precoding period.
US09287948B2
A method is provided for transmitting a downlink signal by a base station with an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements in a wireless communication system. The downlink signal is precoded using a precoding matrix for the antenna array. The precoded downlink signal is transmitted to a user equipment (UE). Each element of the precoding matrix is expressed by ∑ n = 1 N A n ⅇ j { ( n - 1 ) kd cos θ + ϕ n } , where A n = ( N - 1 ) ! ( N - n ) ! ( n - 1 ) ! , N denotes a number of antenna elements, n denotes an index of each of the antenna elements corresponding to 1 to N−1, k denotes a propagation constant, d denotes a distance between the antenna elements, θ denotes an azimuth, ϕ n ( y n ) = ϕ set ( 2 y n ( N - 1 ) d ) 2 , yn=(n−(N+1)/2)d, φset denotes a phase value to be applied to an antenna array 1, “!” denotes a symbol of factorial operations, and N! denotes a factorial of a non-negative integer N which is equal to a product of all positive integers less than or equal to N.
US09287939B2
The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a method for joint optimization of schedule and resource allocation based on a genetic algorithm, which is applied in a CoMP communication system. The method includes steps of: S1, encoding chromosome; S2, initializing setting; S3, computing fitness value; S4, determining whether the optimal solution is better than an elite: if yes, updating the elite and executing S5, and if no, turning to S5; S5, determining whether a predetermined generation of population has been generated or not, if no, executing S6, otherwise, turning to S8; S6, participating reproduction process to generate two offspring chromosome individuals; S7, determining whether a predetermined number of offspring chromosome individuals have been generated, if yes, turning to S3 to compute again; otherwise keeping on reproduction; S8, performing schedule and resource allocation according to a solution corresponding to the elite. Under the condition of satisfying schedule limitation and power limitation, the method can, by uniting schedule and resource allocation, efficiently optimize system performance with less computing complexity.
US09287937B2
The present disclosure is directed to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus may have a memory configured to store an identification information of an IC tag in association with a communication profile in a table. The information processing apparatus may also have a first communication unit configured to communicate with the IC tag using a first communication function. The information processing apparatus may also have a second communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus using a second communication function different from the first communication function. In addition, the information processing apparatus may have a controller, which may be configured to receive identification information from the IC tag through the first communication unit and to establish a connection with the external apparatus through the second communication unit based on the received identification information and the table stored in the memory.
US09287936B2
In certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a wireless sensor system is described. The wireless sensor system includes a near-field wireless power transfer component, at least one measurement sensor, and an antenna. The antenna is in communication with the measurement sensor and can transmit measurements from the measurement sensor. The near-field wireless power transfer component can wirelessly receive power to operate the measurement sensor.
US09287924B2
A method, apparatus, receiver, computer program and storage medium for joint detection are disclosed. The joint detection method includes categorizing interference signals based on level of interference so as to obtain a strong interference signal, cancelling the strong interference signal from a received signal, and performing a joint detection by utilizing a matched filtering result of a remaining signal. In one embodiment, it is to firstly determine whether a strong interference codes corresponding to an intra-frequency adjacent cell exists in an active code list or not, recovering a strong interference signal transmitted by a Node B if the strong interference codes exists, applying an interference cancellation to a received signal received by a receiver so as to obtain a matched filtering result of a remaining signal derived by subtracting the strong interference signal from the received signal, performing a joint detection by utilizing the matched filtering result of the remaining signal, and outputting a demodulated result. In at least one embodiment, the computation complexity of the joint detection is reduced, and the accuracy of the joint detection is improved.
US09287921B2
A method for soft frame synchronization in a navigational receiver is provided. A distance between bits of a sync pattern received by the navigational receiver and a known sync pattern is computed. A probability of detection value for the received sync pattern based on the distance is assigned. A confidence level for the received sync pattern using the probability of detection value is computed. The confidence level is compared with a confidence threshold. If the confidence level is greater than or equal to the confidence threshold, the confidence level of the received sync pattern is updated to generate a credibility of the sync pattern. The credibility of the received sync pattern is compared with a predetermined credibility value and, if the credibility of the received sync pattern is greater than or equal to the predetermined credibility value, synchronization of the navigational receiver is performed using the received sync pattern.
US09287916B2
A protective case can include a removable screen protector that is reusable and easily interchangeable by hand. In one example, the protective case can be part of a kit that includes a plurality of removable screen protectors, and the removable screen protectors can each have special attributes that allow a user to quickly and easily modify the attributes of the protective case by simply exchanging a first removable screen protector with a second removable screen protector. In this way, the user can quickly and easily modify the attributes of the protective case to better align with practical considerations of the user's environment.
US09287915B2
An antenna or set of antennae for a wireless device is provided by embedding the antennae into the battery case or generally the surface area of a wireless phone. The antenna connections are through the battery's connections to the wireless device. The antenna can be located at the back surface of the battery or the rear surface of a wireless phone, facing away from the user. An RF shielding device can be embedded into the battery and configured in relation to the antenna such that the RF field intensity and the consequent specific absorption rate for the user is lowered while the outgoing signals of the wireless device remain fully adequate for the function of the wireless device. This feature is preserved for a multi-band operation because a digital phase shifter is used between two radiating antennae. An external case is used as a complement to the wireless phone.
US09287912B2
One aspect of the present invention includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver having a first mixer and a second mixer. The first mixer may be an I-mixer and the second mixer a Q-mixer for downconverting the received RF signal. An impedance circuit is disposed between the first mixer and the second mixer to decouple the channels. In another aspect of present invention, the RF receiver includes a digital filter having at least one complex coefficient. The digital filter exhibits asymmetrical frequency response, and may be used to compensate the asymmetrical frequency response of another filter in the RF receiver.
US09287910B2
An electromagnetic resonance coupler according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first layer, a second layer which faces a first principal surface of the first layer, a third layer which faces a second principal surface of the first layer, a first resonator which is located between the first layer and the second layer, and a second resonator which is located between the first layer and the third layer. A dielectric constant of the first layer is lower than either one of a dielectric constant of the second layer and a dielectric constant of the third layer. A dielectric dissipation factor of the first layer is higher than either one of a dielectric dissipation factor of the second layer and a dielectric dissipation factor of the third layer.
US09287909B2
A high-speed signaling system with adaptive transmit pre-emphasis. A transmit circuit has a plurality of output drivers to output a first signal onto a signal path. A receive circuit is coupled to receive the first signal via the signal path and configured to generate an indication of whether the first signal exceeds a threshold level. A first threshold control circuit is coupled to receive the indication from the receive circuit and configured to adjust the threshold level according to whether the first signal exceeds the threshold level. A drive strength control circuit is coupled to receive the indication from the receive circuit and configured to adjust a drive strength of at least one output driver of the plurality of output drivers according to whether the first signal exceeds the threshold level.
US09287903B2
A signal transmission apparatus includes: a transmission section adapted to transmit a transmission object signal as a radio wave; a reception section adapted to receive the radio wave transmitted from the transmission section and output an electric signal corresponding to the received radio wave; and a connection section adapted to connect a first housing and a second housing of an electronic instrument pivotably around a center axis; the connection section having a radio signal transmission line formed therein by which wireless transmission can be carried out between the transmission section and the reception section.
US09287902B2
A method for sending data, a data sending device, a method for receiving data, and a data receiving device are provided. The method for sending data comprises: transmitting data bit 1 by a periodic wave with a period T1 and transmitting data bit 0 by a periodic wave with a period T2, T1 being unequal to T2; and sending continuously a corresponding periodic wave according to a bit sequence of data to be sent.
US09287900B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided to receive a set of data and in an iterative process: C1 decode all first subsets of the set of data two or more times in each half iteration using two or more C1-decoding methods when a first subset is not decoded successfully using a first C1-decoding method, determine whether to stop decoding the set of data after the C1 decoding and output results of the C1 decoding, increment a half iteration counter to indicate completion of a half iteration, C2 decode all second subsets of the set of data, determine whether to stop decoding the set of data after the C2 decoding and output results of the C2 decoding, increment the half iteration counter to indicate completion of another half iteration, and output the set of decoded data when all subsets of the set of data are decoded successfully.
US09287899B1
Methods and circuits are disclosed for forward-error-correction (FEC) decoding. A plurality of symbols are received in an interleaved format of rows and columns of the symbols. A plurality of FEC decoding iterations are performed on the plurality of symbols. Each decoding iteration performs FEC decoding of the rows of the plurality of symbols and performs FEC decoding of the columns of the plurality of symbols. After performing the decoding iterations, rows in error and columns in error of the plurality of symbols are determined. In response to the determined rows in error and the determined columns in error matching a deadlock pattern, symbols at intersections of the determined rows and columns in error are determined. Bits of one or more symbols of the determined symbols are inverted. After the inverting of the bits, one or more of the FEC decoding iterations are performed.
US09287892B2
A circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC is configured to receive an analog feedback signal and an analog input signal and generate a digital output. The circuit further includes a digital filter configured to filter the digital output and a noise shaper. The noise shaper is configured to truncate the filtered digital output and generate a noise shaper output, and to shape quantization noise generated during truncation. The circuit further includes a pulse width modulation digital-to-analog converter (PWM DAC) configured to process the truncated digital output of the noise shaper output and generate a PWM DAC output.
US09287887B2
DEM circuit (130) includes a switch (131) configured to receive an N-bit digital input signal (SD1) and shift bit positions of the digital input signal (SD1) based on a switch control signal (SC) in a circulating pattern to output the digital input signal (SD1) as an N-bit digital output signal (SD2), where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and a switch control signal generation circuit (132) including a plurality of pointers which move in an identical direction based on a predetermined rule, and configured to generate the switch control signal (SC), each time when the digital input signal (SD1) is input to the switch (131), by using the pointers in a predetermined order.
US09287877B2
A semiconductor device capable of reconfiguration, including: a plurality of logic units which configure an array and are connected to each other, wherein each logic unit includes a pair of a first and a second memory cell units, each of the first and the second memory cell units operates as a logic element when truth value table data is written in, which is configured so that a logic calculation of an input value specified by a plurality of addresses is output to a data line, and/or operates as a connection element when truth value table data is written in, which is configured so that an input value specified by a certain address is output to a data line to be connected to an address of another memory cell unit, a latter stage of the first memory cell unit includes a sequential circuit which synchronizes with a clock, and the logic units include, for each pair of the first and the second memory cell units, a selection unit which selectively outputs an address to the first or the second memory cell unit in accordance with an operation switch signal.
US09287875B2
Circuits and methods for controlling electrical coupling by a load switch are disclosed. In an embodiment, the load switch includes a pass element, level-shift circuit and low-resistance active path. The pass element is configured to be coupled to a power supply and a load, and is configured to electrically couple the power supply with the load during ON-state and electrically decouple the power supply from the load during OFF-state. The level-shift circuit includes a first transistor and pull-up resistor and is configured to generate a level-shifted signal in response to an enable signal, and enable the ON-state and the OFF-state of the pass element based on first and second voltages of the level-shifted signal. The low-resistance active path is coupled in parallel with the pull-up resistor for shunting the pull-up resistor in the OFF-state by providing a path for a leakage current of the first transistor in the OFF-state.
US09287862B2
A bootstrap circuit for a sampling transistor. A circuit includes a MOS transistor having a source terminal coupled to an input for receiving an input voltage; an output at a drain terminal of the MOS transistor coupled to one plate of a sampling capacitor; a first switch coupling the input voltage to a gate terminal of the MOS transistor responsive to an initial phase control signal; a bootstrap capacitor having a top plate coupled to the gate terminal of the MOS transistor and coupled to the first switch; a second switch coupling a bottom plate of the bootstrap capacitor to a first low voltage supply responsive to the initial phase control signal; a third switch coupling the bottom plate of the bootstrap capacitor to a positive voltage supply greater than the first low voltage supply responsive to a first phase periodic control signal. Additional circuits and systems are disclosed.
US09287855B2
A semiconductor device includes a pipe latch suitable for sequentially latching data in response to a pipe input control signal and sequentially outputting data in response to a pipe output control signal, a pipe latch control unit suitable for generating the pipe input/output control signals in response to a command signal and latency information, and resetting the pipe input/output control signals in response to a pipe reset signal, and an error detection unit suitable for receiving the pipe input control signal and the pipe output control signal, detecting a latency error, and generating the pipe reset signal.
US09287848B2
A resonator element includes a base portion which includes one end portion and the other end portion opposing the one end portion in a plan view, and a pair of vibrating arms which extend along a first direction from the one end portion of the base portion. The base portion includes a reduced width portion in which a width is gradually decreased along a second direction intersecting the first direction toward a direction side which is separated from the base portion along the first direction, in at least one of the one end portion and the other end portion, and a fixing portion is provided between the one end portion and the other end portion of the base portion.
US09287843B2
A method of fabricating a crystal unit fills an adhesive from a first opening in a front surface of a mask of each of penetration holes in the mask in a state in which the mask is set on a base, into each penetration hole, and heats, by a heating element, a sidewall region defining a second opening in a back surface of the mask, in order to cure a sidewall part of the adhesive in the sidewall region defining each penetration hole in contact with the adhesive filling each penetration hole. A crystal blank is bonded on the base using the adhesive in order to form the crystal unit, after removing the mask from the base.
US09287840B1
A method of producing accelerations without ejecting any material exhaust which relies on inducing mass fluctuations in conventional electrical circuit components and combining them with a mechanically coupled periodic thrust to produce propulsive forces without the ejection of any propellant. Ferroelectric force transducers, in particular, piezoelectric transducers, are driven by at least two phase-locked voltage waveforms so that the rest mass fluctuation and mechanical excursion needed to produce a stationary thrust are both produced in the transducer itself. Parametric amplification is used to achieve high amplitude, correctly phase-locked voltages of correct frequencies to activate the transducer by the simple addition of a DC voltage to the AC voltage of a single frequency driving signal. The driving voltage waveforms may be pulsed to maximize the thrust and reduce the duty cycle of the active components of the system.
US09287837B2
A sensor device is provided with a voltage detection type sensor unit for converting a physical quantity into a voltage value and outputting a voltage signal indicating the voltage value; a chopper amplifier unit for generating a modulation signal by chopping the voltage signal output from the sensor unit with a predetermined chopping frequency, amplifying the modulation signal into an amplification signal, then demodulating the amplification signal and outputting it as an output signal; an integration unit including an operational amplifier, an input resistor connected to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and a capacitor connected between the inverting input terminal and an output terminal of the operational amplifier; and a digital conversion unit for converting the output signal integrated by the integration unit into a digital signal.
US09287835B2
A low quiescent current amplifier and driver having multiple amplifiers (e.g. Class AB and B amplifiers) work in concert to independently amplify all or a portion of a signal into multiple amplified signals combined into a unified signal. Operation of a second amplifier is slaved to operation of a first amplifier. Each amplifier may have its own feedback loop providing the same gain transfer function to align transitions of the multiple amplified signals. Operation of the first amplifier may be detected using a replica of a signal, stage or transconductance in the first amplifier. At the same threshold, operation of the first and second amplifiers may be transitioned, e.g., the second amplifier may transition between providing increasing or decreasing current and providing zero current while the first amplifier may transition between providing constant current and providing increasing or decreasing current.
US09287832B2
A power amplifying module includes a radio frequency amplifying circuit including an amplifying circuit configured to amplify an input signal and output an amplified signal, and a bias circuit of an emitter-follower type configured to bias the amplifying circuit to an operating point, and a constant voltage generating circuit configured to generate, from a first reference voltage, a first constant voltage applied to a base side of a transistor of the bias circuit and a second constant voltage applied to a collector side of the transistor.
US09287831B2
This disclosure relates to temperature stabilization of at least a portion of an amplifier, such as a logarithmic amplifier, and/or a band gap reference circuit. In one aspect, one or more stages of an amplifier, a heater, and a temperature sensor are included in a semiconductor material and surrounded by thermally insulating sidewalls.
US09287826B2
The invention relates to a self-oscillating pulse-width modulation amplifier in the form of a sine-cosine modulator (10) comprising at least two comparators (13, 14), two integrators (11, 12), a power switching stage (15), and negative feedback coupling with a low-frequency signal input and output. To achieve a maximum modulation factor, there are provisions with the aid of the comparators (13, 14) and integrators (11, 12) for the generation of sine- and cosine-square-wave voltages and sine- and co-sine-triangle-wave voltages that drive the power switching stage (15) in part, wherein the output of the power switching stage (15) combined with an LC low-pass filter (16) forms the low-frequency signal output. This brings about a situation in which a stable natural frequency exists and the modulation factor can be increased to nearly 100%. At the same time, a very low level of distortion is achieved and no distortion components higher than K3 arise, so there is a significant improvement vis-a-vis the known pulse-width modulation amplifiers.
US09287823B1
A self-biased RC (resistor-capacitor) oscillator and ramp generator circuit includes a combined current and voltage reference circuit for providing a reference current, a first reference voltage, and a second reference voltage. The combined current and voltage reference circuit includes a circuit branch of an NMOS transistor in a diode connection, a PMOS transistor in a diode connection, and a resistor coupled in series. The circuit also has a signal generating circuit that includes a capacitor. The signal generating circuit is configured to charge and discharge the capacitor between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The self-biased RC oscillator and ramp generator circuit is configured to provide a ramp or saw tooth signal at a node of the capacitor and to provide an oscillator output signal at an output of the signal generating circuit.
US09287815B2
In a power converter, vibration and noise of a motor due to pulsation of a direct current link voltage are reduced. An inverter circuit is provided, which is configured to convert a direct current link voltage having a pulsating component to an alternating current to output the alternating current to a permanent magnet synchronous motor. A controller is provided, which is configured to control the inverter circuit by vector control and which, in a control state in which fundamental voltage vectors do not include a zero vector (voltage vector for which a motor terminal voltage is zero), performs such control that the phase of a resultant voltage vector of a d-axis voltage vector and a q-axis voltage vector of the permanent magnet synchronous motor varies depending on pulsation.
US09287814B2
An object of the present invention is to, if a frequency decrease has occurred in a power system, avoid a trip in a wind turbine generator and reliably contribute to recovery of the frequency of the power system. The present invention provides a wind turbine generator that, if a predetermined frequency decrease that requires PFR has occurred in the power system, calculates a marginal active power based on the difference between a predetermined rotational speed lower limit value, which is obtained by providing the parallel-off rotational speed with a predetermined margin, and a measured value of the shaft rotational speed, and generates an active power command value based on the marginal active power.
US09287811B2
An electric motor control device is capable of reducing vibration in a speed fluctuation range at a high frequency. The electric motor control device includes a target rotation speed setting unit that sets the target rotation speed of an electric motor, a rotation speed estimation unit that calculates an estimated rotation speed of the electric motor, and a drive command signal generation unit that generates a drive command signal for the electric motor so as to eliminate a rotation speed difference between the target rotation speed and the estimated rotation speed. The rotation speed estimation unit includes an error calculation unit that calculates an error related to rotation of the electric motor and an estimated corrected rotation speed calculation unit that calculates an estimated corrected rotation speed by taking the error as input and correcting the estimated rotation speed.
US09287810B2
In a motor control circuit, a switching element such as an FET for controlling a motor current and a current detection element for detecting the motor current are connected in series. One terminal of a temperature detection element is electrically connected to an electrical connecting section between the FET and the current detection element, and the other terminal of the temperature detection element is electrically connected to a temperature detection circuit.
US09287808B2
There is obtained a configuration capable of rapidly decelerating a motor even if a failure occurs in the communication between a controller and a motor control unit in a motor controller in which a speed command is input from the controller to the motor control unit. A motor controller 1 is provided with a main controller 2, and a motor control unit 3 configured to be communicable with the main controller 2 to drive a motor M according to a torque command output from the main controller 2. The motor control unit 3 includes a speed control unit 31 for outputting a torque command, so as to decelerate the motor M, if any failure occurs in communication with the main controller 2 while the motor M is being driven.
US09287806B2
Provided is an electrostatic chuck capable of minimizing short circuits of electrodes due to scratches generated on a surface of the electrostatic chuck, and achieving stable absorption.
US09287804B2
A power generation apparatus includes a dielectric, a movable member being opposed to the dielectric with a predetermined distance, and an electret and an opposing electrode that are formed on the surface of the movable member facing the dielectric so as to generate a fringe electric field penetrating the dielectric between the two electrodes. When the volume occupancy of the dielectric between the electret and the opposing electrode varies in accordance with a displacement of the movable member, the power generation apparatus outputs the electric charge induced in the opposing electrode as electric current.
US09287801B2
A DC-to-AC converter receives a DC power generated from a solar panel and converts the received DC power into an AC power outputted through a power line. The DC-to-AC converter includes a signal input port for externally connecting an environment sensing apparatus. The environment sensing apparatus senses environment conditions around the solar panel and produces an analog sensing signal. The DC-to-AC converter receives the analog sensing signal, converts the analog sensing signal into a digital sensing signal, and outputs the digital sensing signal the power line. A micro inverter is composed of the DC-to-AC converter and the solar panel, and the micro inverter is constructed in the solar photovoltaic system, thus eliminating unnecessary hardware devices.
US09287800B2
A system for performing ozone water treatment comprises a voltage supply circuit and a plasma eductor reactor. The voltage supply circuit includes an H-bridge controller and driver, a transformer, and an output port. The H-bridge controller and driver are configured to switch the electrical polarity of a pair of terminals. A primary of the transformer is connected to the H-bridge driver and controller. A secondary of the transformer connects in parallel with a first capacitor and in series with an inductor and a second capacitor. The output port connects in parallel with the second capacitor. The plasma eductor reactor includes an electric field generator, a flow spreader, and a diffuser. The electric field generator includes a pair of electrodes that generate an electric field. The flow spreader supplies a stream of oxygen. The diffuser supplies a stream of water. The streams of water and oxygen pass through the electric field.
US09287792B2
A method of controlling a switching mode power converter enables zero voltage switching by forcing a voltage across the main switch to zero. This is accomplished by sensing when a current on the secondary side of the power converter drops to zero, or other threshold value, and then generating a negative current through the secondary winding in response. The negative secondary current results in a corresponding discharge current in the primary winding, which reduces the voltage across the main switch. The voltage across the main switch is monitored such that when the voltage reaches zero, or other threshold value, the main switch is turned ON. In this manner, the circuit functions as a bi-directional current circuit where a forward current delivers energy to a load and a reverse current provides control for reducing the voltage across the main switch to enable zero voltage switching.
US09287791B2
A switching power-supply device, includes a first terminal; a first winding connected to the first terminal; a second winding, which is connected in series to the first winding and is magnetically coupled to the first winding; a first capacitor connected in series to the second winding; a transformer including a primary winding connected in series to the first capacitor and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding; a rectifying-and-smoothing circuit connected to the secondary winding; a second terminal, which is connected to an opposite end of the primary winding opposite to a connection end connecting to the first capacitor; a first switching element, which is connected between a connection point of the first winding and the second winding and the second terminal; and a control circuit, which controls first switching element to turn on-and-off.
US09287790B2
An electric power converter includes a capacitor, a bridge circuit that includes a plurality of switching elements, a transformer, a secondary side rectifier circuit, a smoothing circuit, a detector that detects a value based on at least one of a capacitor voltage and a current flowing from the capacitor, and a control device that outputs a primary side drive signal to turns on/off each of the plurality of switching elements at a switching frequency, the control device increasing the switching frequency when the detected value increases, the control device reducing the switching frequency when the detected value decreases.
US09287788B2
A resonant converter including: a resonant tank, a switching circuit that connects the resonant tank to a power supply according to a first switching sequence, a synchronous rectifier circuit that supplies power to an output, wherein the rectifier circuit is switched according to a second switching sequence, and a phase delay module arranged to delay the second switching sequence with respect to the first switching sequence to achieve a desired power output, and a method of controlling the same.
US09287787B2
An example controller circuit includes a feedback sampling circuit, an oscillator, a drive logic, and a false sampling prevention circuit. The feedback sampling circuit generates a sample signal in response to a sampling of a feedback signal. The oscillator generates an on-time signal that transitions from a first logic state to a second logic state during each period of the on-time signal. The drive logic controls a switch to regulate the output of a power converter. The drive logic turns on the switch to end an off-time of the switch in response to the on-time signal transitioning from the first logic state to the second logic state. The false sampling prevention circuit prevents the on-time signal from transitioning from the first logic state to the second logic state to extend the off-time of the switch until a sampling complete signal indicates that sampling of the feedback signal is complete.
US09287784B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for generating an adjustable bias current. The value of the adjustable bias current may be determined based in part on an error signal representative of a difference between an actual output value and a desired output value of a power converter. When the error signal is below a lower threshold voltage, the adjustable bias current may be set to a first value. When the error signal is above an upper threshold voltage, the adjustable bias current may be set to a second, higher value. When the error signal is between the lower threshold voltage and the upper threshold voltage, the adjustable bias current may change linearly with the error signal.
US09287776B2
A circuit and method for operating a switching mode power supply. A clock is driven by a current source to generate pulses at a fixed frequency using pulse width modulation for normal load demands. For light load demands, the current to the clock is reduced, and therefore the clock generates pulses at a lower, variable frequency and fixed duration using pulse frequency modulation. Thus, depending on the load condition, either fixed frequency pulses or fixed duration pulses are automatically provided to a power stage for conversion to an output voltage.
US09287775B2
A power supply device is provided with the following: a rectifier circuit that rectifies an alternating voltage from an alternating current source; a booster circuit that boosts the voltage after rectification, and generates an input side voltage of a voltage conversion unit; the voltage conversion unit that outputs a voltage required for reducing the input side voltage and supplying the input side voltage to a light source; a voltage current detection unit that determines whether or not the light source is connected; and an output voltage control unit that, if it is determined that a first resistor and a second resistor, which are connected in parallel with respect to the light source, and the light source are not connected, controls the voltage of the first resistor so that the voltage is no more than a prescribed value.
US09287771B2
A capacitor connected to a microcomputer voltage wiring is downsized. A series regulator on an electronic control unit for automotive includes a battery as an in-vehicle power supply, a relay, an input side capacitor, a series regulator circuit, and an output side capacitor, and is connected to a microcomputer. The series regulator circuit includes an n-channel MOSFET, a gate voltage regulator circuit as an output control circuit of an FET, and a gate voltage holding capacitor. A capacitor GND voltage (gate voltage) is adjusted by the gate voltage regulator circuit to convert an input side capacitor voltage into an output side capacitor voltage, and supply a microcomputer current to the microcomputer.
US09287759B2
In an induction motor, when dimensions of respective elements of a rotor slot are defined as TB: a shortest distance between a center side of an inner circumferential slot and an outer circumference of the rotor; TC: a circumferential width of an innermost circumference of an outer circumferential slot; TD: a circumferential width of an outermost circumference of the inner circumference slot; and TE: a shortest distance between an end side of the inner circumferential slot and the outer circumference of the rotor, and when dimensions of respective elements of a stator iron core are defined as TF: a width of teeth; TG: a width of a teeth tip end; and TH: a width of a slot opening part, the dimensions of the respective elements of the rotor slot and the dimensions of the respective elements of the stator iron core satisfy the following relationships: TF/(TG+TH)×TD/2≦TB≦TD/2; and TF/(TG+TH)×TD/2≦TE≦TD/2.
US09287753B2
An electrical generator system configured to convert an external actuation force applied by a vehicle traveling on a roadway into electrical energy is disclosed herein. The electrical generator system includes at least one electrical generator apparatus and a maintenance access assembly disposed adjacent to the at least one electrical generator apparatus. The maintenance access assembly includes a plurality of bounding walls defining a maintenance passageway for gaining service access to the at least one electrical generator apparatus. The maintenance access assembly further includes an access manhole disposed in an upper one of the plurality of bounding walls and above the maintenance passageway so as to facilitate access to the maintenance passageway.
US09287749B2
A machine having a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft supported in bearings, such that the rotor is rotatable about a rotation axis. The bearings are designed as active magnetic bearings in which the rotor is supported without contact. A respective back-up bearing is associated with each active magnetic bearing to catch the rotor when the respective active magnetic bearing fails. The respective back-up bearing has a bushing arranged on the rotor shaft and a sliding device arranged on the stator. The respective bushing has an inner ring arranged radially inside to fasten the bushing on the rotor shaft, and an outer ring that surrounds the inner ring radially outside and slides in the sliding device of the respective back-up bearing when the respective active magnetic bearing fails. The inner and outer rings are made of different materials and are connected to each other in a bonded manner.
US09287744B2
A winding structure for a rotating electric machine includes: a core including slots; and a coil including a first winding and a second winding combined by intersecting the first winding and the second winding with each other. Each straight portion of the coil is inserted into any one of two slots arranged at a given interval so that the coil is assembled to the core.
US09287742B2
An internal permanent magnet machine includes a rotor assembly having a shaft comprising a plurality of protrusions extending radially outward from a main shaft body and being formed circumferentially about the main shaft body and along an axial length of the main shaft body. A plurality of stacks of laminations are arranged circumferentially about the shaft to receive the plurality of protrusions therein, with each stack of laminations including a plurality of lamination groups arranged axially along a length of the shaft and with permanent magnets being disposed between the stacks of laminations. Each of the laminations includes a shaft protrusion cut formed therein to receive a respective shaft protrusion and, for each of the stacks of laminations, the shaft protrusion cuts formed in the laminations of a respective lamination group are angularly offset from the shaft protrusion cuts formed in the laminations in an adjacent lamination group.
US09287739B2
An axial flux stator includes a plurality of magnetically permeable members, a plurality of windings, a back iron, and an encasing. The plurality of windings is associated with the plurality of magnetically permeable members to produce a plurality of winding-magnetically permeable member assemblies. The back iron is mechanically butt joint coupled to the plurality of winding-magnetically permeable member assemblies. The encasing maintains the butt joint coupling of the back iron to the plurality of winding-magnetically permeable member assemblies.
US09287731B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery charging system. The battery charging system includes battery charging circuitry configured to provide charging current to a battery. The battery charging system further includes feedback circuitry configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of a battery charging condition, wherein the battery charging system is configured to control the battery charging current based on, at least in part, the feedback signal. The battery charging system further includes feed forward circuitry configured to adjust the feedback signal to decrease battery charging current when a decrease in battery current draw exceeds a threshold, and wherein the feed forward circuitry is configured to decrease the battery charging current faster than the feedback circuitry.
US09287726B2
A system, method, and apparatus for virtual cells for battery thermal management are disclosed. The disclosed method involves sensing, with at least one temperature sensor, a temperature of at least one battery cell in a battery pack. The method further involves sensing, with at least one current sensor, at least one current within the battery pack. Also, the method involves determining, with a battery thermal management system (BTMS) controller, if the temperature of any of the battery cells in the battery pack exceeds a temperature limit (TLimit). Further, the method involves activating, with the BTMS controller, at least one virtual cell to provide current or sink current for at least one of the battery cells in the battery pack that exceeds the temperature limit.
US09287720B2
A non-contact charging system includes: a power transmission device that includes a primary coil supplying electric power through electromagnetic induction; a power reception device that includes a secondary coil receiving electric power by being electromagnetically coupled with the power transmission device; and a control device that determines charging efficiency from the primary coil to the secondary coil and changes the current supplied to the primary coil in accordance with the charging efficiency.
US09287719B2
Power supply side equipment comprises a high-frequency power supply, a matching box, a primary side resonance coil, an output impedance variable unit, a matching state detection unit, and a control unit. By a magnetic field resonance, the primary side resonance coil transmits power in a non-contact manner to a load through a secondary side resonance coil. At least the matching box, the primary side resonance coil, the secondary side resonance coil, and the load constitute a resonance system having a resonant frequency. The matching state detection unit detects the matching state between the input impedance of the resonance system and the output impedance of the high-frequency power supply at the resonant frequency. The control unit adjusts the output impedance variable unit and the matching box according to the detection result by the matching state detection unit so that the input impedance of the resonance system and the output impedance of the high-frequency power supply match each other.
US09287714B2
An effective, yet relatively simple and inexpensive, method for detection of islanding in distributed power generation systems. Statistical analysis of the local line frequency, as measured at the distributed generator, is performed to detect when an island has been formed. The statistical characteristics of the local frequency are controlled by the grid when the distributed generator is not islanding. When an island is formed, however, frequency control switches to circuitry associated with the distributed generator. Because the statistical characteristics of the frequency control performed by the distributed generator are markedly different from those of the grid, the islanding condition can be detected and corrected.
US09287713B2
A statistical technique is used to estimate the status of switching devices (such as circuit breakers, isolator switches and fuses) in distribution networks, using scares (i.e., limited or non-redundant) measurements. Using expected values of power consumption, and their variance, the confidence level of identifying the correct topology, or the current status of switching devices, is calculated using any given configuration of real time measurements. Different topologies are then compared in order to select the most likely topology at the prevailing time. The measurements are assumed as normally distributed random variables, and the maximum likelihood principle or a support vector machine is applied.
US09287712B2
In large PV power plants, grounding of individual PV modules may lead to problems. The present invention overcomes such problems. The basis for the invention is a PV power plant comprising one or more PV generators, each comprising a PV string and an inverter with a DC input and an AC output. The PV string comprises at least one PV module and is electrically connected to the DC input of the inverter. The inverter comprises means for controlling the DC potential at the DC input depending on the DC potential at the AC output. The AC outputs of the inverters are coupled in parallel. The novel feature of the invention is that the PV power plant further comprises an offset voltage source, which controls the DC potential at the AC outputs. Thereby, the DC potential at the DC input will be indirectly controlled, and it is thus possible to ensure that the potentials with respect to ground at the terminals of the PV modules are all non-negative or all non-positive without grounding the PV modules. Ground loops can be avoided, and there is no need for the use of transformer-based inverters.
US09287705B2
A method for a contactless transmission of electrical energy includes providing a leaf fastened to a wall. The leaf is hingedly mounted about a hinge axis. Providing a hinge plate pin. Providing a primary power coil fastened to the wall. Providing a secondary power coil fastened to the leaf. The primary power coil and the secondary power coil are in an inductive operative connection with each another via the hinge plate pin. Detecting an actual secondary power voltage induced in the secondary power coil. Comparing the actual secondary power voltage with a setpoint value of the secondary power voltage. Influencing a primary power applied to the primary power coil based on the comparison of the setpoint value and the actual secondary power voltage. Detecting the primary power required to achieve the setpoint value of the secondary power voltage. Triggering a signal when a predetermined primary power is exceeded.
US09287699B2
The present application relates to a bypass control structure of a link unit of a chain circuit active power filter and a control method thereof. The bypass control structure includes a main controller, a chain circuit multilevel inverter and a reactor connected to an external electric network. The chain circuit multilevel inverter generally comprises multiple levels of link units. A state of the switch means in each link unit in a chain circuit active power filer is detected in real time, and types of detected faults are classified so as to bypass the fault of the link unit with fault by utilizing the control of the switch means without fault in the link unit with fault. Normal operating, stability, reliability, high efficiency of the active power filter are ensured. Therefore, the problem that the operation must be suspended until the fault is eliminated is solved without any additional bypass means.
US09287689B2
A method for laying a plurality of cable sections to be successively positioned in series in a buried duct, according to a flowing-pushing method using a pressurized fluid. The different cable sections are successively introduced into the duct in a single entry point comprising a laying device notably comprising an orifice for introducing a pressurized fluid, a cable section entirely introduced into the duct is pushed towards the position which it should occupy in the duct, only by the pressure of the fluid introduced by said laying device and when a cable section has reached his final position in the duct, an opening is made in the duct near to the rear of the cable section.
US09287687B2
The invention relates to an electrical low-voltage switchgear, comprising at least two power units accommodated in slide-in units or in a housing, and comprising control units assigned to the power units. The control units are spatially separated from the power units and power levers and are connected to one another via signal lines.
US09287684B2
Method and devices for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, are provided. The laser devices include multiple laser emitters integrated onto a substrate (in a module), which emit green or blue laser radiation.
US09287682B2
Disclosed is a surface emitting laser device, including a substrate; a lower reflecting mirror provided on the substrate; an active layer provided on the lower reflecting mirror; an upper reflecting mirror provided on the active layer, including an emitting region, laser light being emitted from the emitting region, the upper reflecting mirror being formed by alternately laminating dielectrics, refracting indices of the dielectrics being different from each other; and an adjusting layer formed of semiconductor, provided in the emitting region between the active layer and the upper reflecting mirror, a shape of the adjusting layer in a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate including shape anisotropy in two mutually perpendicular directions.
US09287678B2
Provided is a semiconductor laser device which can generate an ultra-short pulse light. A semiconductor laser device disclosed herein includes a semiconductor laser unit that performs a gain-switching operation using a relaxation oscillation mechanism to generate a first pulse and a following component of the first pulse, and a filter that processes an output from the semiconductor laser unit by removing a signal in a wavelength bandwidth generated due to at least the following portion in a wavelength bandwidth broadened by chirping. The filter is configured as a short pass filter which passes a short-wavelength component. Further, an apparatus using non-linear optical effect which uses the semiconductor laser device is also provided.
US09287665B2
An incorrect-insertion-prevention structure of a connector which prevents a first connector from being incorrectly inserted into a space formed within a second connector to be fitted to the first connector, wherein the first connector includes at least one first magnet, a bottom surface or a side surface at an insertion end to be inserted into the second connector, wherein the second connector includes: a shutter rotatably and pivotally supported by a rotating shaft to open and close an inlet of the space, and a shutter-rotation-prevention unit rotatably and pivotally supported by a supporting shaft in parallel to the rotating shaft of the shutter to prevent the shutter from being rotated in an opening direction, and wherein the shutter-rotation-prevention unit shutter-rotation-prevention unit includes: at least one engaging member facing a rotation end of the shutter in a closed state to prevent the shutter from being moved in the opening direction.
US09287661B2
A clip and latch device including: a mount including a securing base defining a plane, a rear end and a front end, a clip base mounted at the rear end of the securing base, a clip having a normally downward angle from the clip base towards the front end of the securing base, and a latch which terminates at the clip and normally extending so that the latch reaches to at least the plane of the securing base. The clip and latch device can be used for modular male plug, for example a male RJ plug, which may be with or without a broken tab or latch.
US09287656B2
An electrical connector that includes a terminal adapted to mate with another terminal and at least one heat dissipating element that has opposing ends and an opening therebetween. At least one of the ends includes at least one printed circuit board engagement member configured to engage a printed circuit board for electrical current transfer. The opening receives the terminal such that heat dissipating element substantially surrounds and contacts the terminal.
US09287648B2
A contact element (1) for providing an electrical contact between a first electrical device (7) and a second electrical device, wherein the contact element (1) comprises a first contact portion (2) to be electrically connected to the first electrical device (7) and a second contact portion (4) to be connected to the second electrical device. The first contact portion (2) is arranged at a distance (D) to the second contact portion (4), whereby the contact element (1) comprises further an adjustment portion (3) connecting said first and second contact portion (2, 4), wherein with said adjustment portion (3) said distance (D) between the first contact portion (2) and the second contact portion (4) is adjustable.
US09287647B2
An electrical zero-force plug connector includes a socket housing holding sleeve contacts movable between opened and closed positions and an assembly connector having connector pins. A bolt is movable against the socket housing from an unlocked position into a locked position after the socket housing and the assembly connector are joined. A slider is connected to the bolt and the sleeve contacts such that as the bolt moves the slider moves through a seal of the socket housing and moves the sleeve contacts. While the socket housing and the assembly connector are joined and the bolt is unlocked, the sleeve contacts are opened and the connector pins are inserted into the sleeve contacts. While the socket housing and the assembly connector are joined and the bolt is locked, the sleeve contacts are closed and the connector pins inserted into the sleeve contacts are held therein.
US09287639B2
A connection structure for a screw block, wherein a screw member and a bus bar are disposed in one side of an insulative screw block body, a power supply circuit is screw-connected to the bus bar by the screw member, a terminal portion of the bus bar is housed in an internal space of the screw block body, a wire-equipped terminal for power supply distribution is housed in the internal space from another side of the screw block body, and the wire-equipped terminal and the terminal portion of the bus bar are connected to each other, is provided.
US09287638B2
An improved multipolar electrical connector with spring contacts suitable for making electrical wiring for civil and/or industrial purposes, comprising a connector body inside which are arranged the spring contacts for the locking of conductors inserted in receptacles formed in said connector body, the spring contacts which lock/unlock the conductors by means of actuator pins sliding with respect to additional receptacles, the connector comprising also means for a rapid and easy access of a probe of a testing device to allow electrical measurements with the conductors blocked by the actuator pins.
US09287637B2
An electrical connector includes a split bolt having a base and first and second outwardly extending legs. A conductor receiving channel is formed between the legs. A nut threadably engages the legs and has upper and lower surfaces and an opening through it. A pressure bar member is movably received in the conductor receiving channel. A head of the pressure bar member contacts the lower surface of the nut and a body of the pressure bar member extends through the opening in the nut. A spacer is disposed in the conductor receiving channel between the base and the head of the pressure bar member.
US09287628B2
Disclosed is a circular polarized antenna structure, comprising a main body, a protruding portion and a stopping portion, the stopping portion being formed between the main body and the protruding portion. The circular polarized antenna may be disposed to penetrate through the upper and lower surfaces of a base that has a radiation conductor and a grounding conductor disposed thereon respectively, the stopping portion abutting against the lower surface of the base to prevent the main body from coming loose and being detached from the base even if the protruding portion is subjected to a great impact or squeezing pressure caused by an external force coming from the lower surface upwards.
US09287624B2
An antenna circuit is having an impedance circuit which can cancel signal leakage from the input port into the isolation port of a directional coupler. The antenna circuit further comprises a second impedance circuit for optimizing power transfer from the input port to the output port of the directional coupler. Furthermore, the antenna is tunable in order to maximize the reception strength of the antenna. The antenna circuit provides at once the possibility of tuning the antenna strength, optimizing the power transmission and reducing signal jamming by cancelling signal leakage. The antenna finds use as an effective and miniature RFID antenna.
US09287622B2
A tunable long term evolution antenna comprises a feeding portion, a grounding portion, a first radiation portion, a second radiation portion and a coupling radiation portion. The shape of the first radiation portion is a strip. Two terminals of the strip respectively are a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to the feeding portion and the grounding portion. The second radiation portion is connected to the grounding portion and the first terminal of the first radiation portion. The coupling radiation portion has a switching terminal coupled to a switch, a low frequency coupling portion and a high frequency coupling portion. The switch controls the switching terminal to be coupled to the ground or floating. The tunable long term evolution antenna operates in a LTE technology mode or a 3G mode depending on the switching terminal is coupled to the ground floating.
US09287618B2
A mobile terminal that includes a first antenna element disposed in proximity to a first side of the mobile terminal, a second antenna element disposed in proximity to a second side of the mobile terminal, and a third antenna element disposed in proximity to a third side of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal further including a switching mechanism that switches between a first connection mode in which the first and second antenna elements are feed elements and the third antenna element is a parasitic element, and a second connection mode in which the first and third antenna elements are feed elements, and a control unit that controls the switching mechanism to switch between the first connection mode and the second connection mode in accordance with a predetermined condition.
US09287601B2
The present invention relates to a public cavity input multiplexer that is used to divide broadband signals into multi-channel narrowband signals according to the frequency and includes a public cavity and at least two channel filters. The public cavity is a broadband resonator that is used to input broadband signals, and is coupled with each of the channel filters respectively. In the input multiplexer of the present invention, no electric cable or waveguide and circulator are used for connection. The integrated design is achieved by establishing the public cavity and the channel filter, which reduces volume and mass, avoids the errors caused by influence on the circulator due to temperature change, enhances reliability, saves cost, and improves the electric performance. The design of the public cavity makes the input coupling accurate to calculate, convenient tuning and optimizes the consistency of channels.
US09287599B1
Described is a miniature tunable filter, comprising at least two adjacent coaxial-type resonators coupled to one another. Each coaxial-type resonator comprises a metal-coated ceramic dielectric cavity having a tuning rod passage formed therethrough. A tuning rod is inserted through the tuning rod passage, such that the miniature tunable filter is tuned by moving the tuning rod into and out of the tuning rod passage of the ceramic dielectric cavity. A low impedance coaxial section surrounds at least a portion of the tuning rod to create an effective microwave short-circuit at a resonant frequency of the miniature tunable filter, which results in very wide tuning and low insertion loss. In a desired aspect, the tuning rod is a solid metal tuning rod. The combination of a solid metal tuning rod with a ceramic coaxial-type resonator results in high radio frequency power handling.
US09287598B2
A high-power microwave RF window is provided that includes a cylindrical waveguide, where the cylindrical waveguide includes a ceramic disk concentrically housed in a central region of the cylindrical waveguide, a first rectangular waveguide, where the first rectangular waveguide is connected by a first elliptical joint to a proximal end of the cylindrical waveguide, and a second rectangular waveguide, where the second rectangular waveguide is connected by a second elliptical joint to a distal end of the cylindrical waveguide.
US09287597B2
Embodiments of the invention are related to ionic liquids and more specifically to ionic liquids used in electrochemical metal-air cells in which the ionic liquid includes a cation and an anion selected from hydroxamate and/or N-alkyl sulfamate anions.
US09287586B1
Described herein are materials for use in electrolytes that provide a number of desirable characteristics when implemented within batteries, such as high stability during battery cycling up to high temperatures, high voltages, high discharge capacity, high coulombic efficiency, and excellent retention of discharge capacity and coulombic efficiency over several cycles of charging and discharging. In some embodiments, a high voltage electrolyte includes a base electrolyte and an additive compounds.
US09287583B2
Disclosed is an additive for a non-aqueous electrolyte, which is a compound having a double bond and at least two cyano groups, the two cyano groups being in a trans-formation to the double bond. Also, a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising the additive and an electrochemical device comprising the non-aqueous electrolyte are also disclosed. Further, an electrode comprising the cyano group-containing compound and an electrochemical device comprising the electrode are disclosed.
US09287581B2
The present invention relates to a sodium-sulfur dioxide secondary battery. The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a sodium-sulfur dioxide secondary battery and a configuration of the sodium-sulfur dioxide secondary battery manufactured using the method. The method includes preparing a cathode and an anode, and providing an inorganic liquid electrolyte containing sulfur dioxide (SO2) and a sodium salt (NaAlCl4) between the cathode and the anode.
US09287572B2
Systems and methods are provided integrating an annular pre-reformer as part of an anode recuperator of a fuel cell system.
US09287567B2
A secondary battery includes: a cathode including a cathode active material layer on a cathode current collector; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The cathode active material layer includes spherical active materials each being a secondary particle and planular active materials each being a secondary particle. The spherical active materials are each included in a region closer to the cathode current collector, and the planular active materials are each included in a region farther from the cathode current collector. Primary particles of the spherical active materials have an average particle diameter that is larger than an average particle diameter of primary particles of the planular active materials.
US09287566B1
The present disclosure relates to an improved coated copper foil that exhibits anti-curl and anti-wrinkle properties; and to methods for manufacturing the foil. Typically, the copper foil of the instant disclosure has: (a) a shiny side; (b) a matte side, wherein the matte side has an MD gloss in the range of 330 to 620; (c) a difference in surface roughness (Rz) between the shiny side and the matte side in the range of 0.3 to 0.59 μm; and (d) a difference in tensile strength in the transverse direction of 1.2 kgf/mm2 or less.
US09287551B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for manufacturing a battery terminal plate, and more particularly relates to an apparatus and method for manufacturing a battery terminal plate, in which a terminal plate for a secondary battery, such as a middle or large sized Lithium ion battery, which is applied to electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, solar cells, electric tools and so on, is processed by not pressing but forging, a shifting and supplying apparatus for shifting a material to be processed in each forming and processing step may be moved by the shortest distance through a shift-return method (one step shift-return), the material is previously processed by punching so as not to satisfy a standard of a design, and the firstly processed material is secondly processed to satisfy the standard.
US09287532B2
An electric battery including a microbattery provided with first and second current collectors and an encapsulation device including an electrically-conductive and sealing layer formed by a matrix made of polymer material including electrically-conductive particles. First and second connection pads made of electrically-conductive material are respectively electrically connected to the first and second current collectors of the microbattery. The encapsulation device also includes an additional microbattery provided with first and second current collectors, arranged opposite to and separate from the microbattery by the sealing layer. The first and/or second current collectors of the additional microbattery are electrically connected, respectively, to the first and/or second connection pads via at least a portion of the electrically-conductive particles.
US09287531B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device is provided. A plurality of anodes and an auxiliary electrode are formed on a substrate. The auxiliary electrode is separated from the plurality of the anodes. An organic layer is formed on the plurality of the anodes and the auxiliary electrode. An opening is formed in the organic layer by applying a voltage to the auxiliary electrode. The opening exposes the auxiliary electrode. A cathode is formed on the organic layer and the exposed auxiliary electrode. The cathode is electrically connected to the exposed auxiliary electrode.
US09287530B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display device capable of preventing the occurrence of cracks at corner regions of an adhesive layer. The organic light-emitting display device includes a first substrate including a plurality of pixels and a second substrate. A thin film transistor (TFT) located at each pixel of the first substrate. A pixel electrode is also located at each pixel. An organic light-emitting unit that emits light is coupled to each pixel electrode. A common electrode is electrically coupled to each organic light-emitting unit. An adhesive layer is coupled to the common electrode. The adhesive layer attaches the first and second substrates. The corner regions of the adhesive layer are rounded in order to control the creation of cracks in the adhesive layer and thereby prevent moisture from entering the active area of the device.
US09287528B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate including a pixel portion and a peripheral portion, a semiconductor layer including a pixel switching semiconductor layer and a driving semiconductor layer formed on the pixel portion, and a peripheral switching semiconductor layer formed on the peripheral portion. A first gate insulating layer is formed on the semiconductor layer. A peripheral switching gate electrode is formed on the first gate insulating layer of the peripheral portion, and a pixel switching gate electrode and a driving gate electrode are formed on the first gate insulating layer of the pixel portion. A length of a peripheral switching low concentration doping region formed in the peripheral switching semiconductor layer may be larger than a length of a pixel switching low concentration doping region and a driving low concentration doping region formed in the pixel switching semiconductor layer and the driving semiconductor layer, respectively.
US09287522B2
An electroluminescent display or lighting product incorporates a panel including a collection of distinct light-emitting elements formed on a substrate. A plurality of distinct local seals are formed over respective individual light-emitting elements or groups of light-emitting elements. Each local seal is formed by depositing a low melting temperature glass powder suspension or paste using inkjet technology, and fusing the glass powder using a scanning laser beam having a tailored beam profile. The local seal may be used in conjunction with a continuous thin film encapsulation structure. Optical functions can be provided by each local seal, including refraction, filtering, color shifting, and scattering.
US09287516B2
A carbon nanotube transistor and method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube transistor is disclosed. The carbon nanotube transistor includes a carbon nanotube on a substrate, a gate electrode deposited on the carbon nanotube, and at least one of a source electrode and a drain electrode deposited on the carbon nanotube and separated from the gate electrode by a space region. The carbon nanotube is doped at the gate electrode an in the space region to form a p-n junction.
US09287515B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence device having excellent light emission efficiency and durability, in particular, durability when driving at a high temperature. Provided is an organic electroluminescence device including on a substrate a pair of electrodes, and at least one layer of an organic layer including a light emitting layer containing a light emitting material disposed between the electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer includes at least each one of specific indolocarbazole derivatives and specific condensed ring metal complexes.
US09287512B2
The present invention relates to a novel organic electroluminescent compound, layer and an organic electroluminescent device using the same. Said organic luminescent compound provides an organic light emitting layer and/or device which has high luminous efficiency and a long operation lifetime and requires a low driving voltage improving power efficiency and power consumption.
US09287507B2
An organic electroluminescent element is provided that has high luminous efficiency, and a slow luminance deterioration rate in the initial stage of lighting. The organic electroluminescent element includes a substrate; a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate; and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, wherein at least one organic layer includes a compound represented by the general formula (1). (R11 to R15 represent hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, or silyl groups, and any one of R21 to R24 represents a group represented by general formula (1A) or (1B). Ph4 represents a p-phenylene group, and at least one of Ph4a and Ph4b represents a p-phenylene group.)
US09287504B2
The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzodifuran, benzodipyrrole or benzodithiophene, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.
US09287503B2
A display substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The display substrate includes a substrate including an active area and an inactive area, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) unit disposed on the active area of the substrate, and a transmittance measurement pattern unit disposed on the inactive area of the substrate. The transmittance measurement pattern unit includes a deposition assistant layer pattern disposed on the substrate.
US09287501B1
A resistive random access memory includes an oxygen-poor layer disposed on a first electrode layer and formed by indium tin oxide, indium oxide, tin dioxide, or zinc oxide. An insulating layer is disposed on the oxygen-poor layer and is formed by silicon dioxide or hafnium oxide. A second electrode layer is disposed on the insulating layer. A method for producing a resistive random access memory includes preparing a first electrode layer. An oxygen-poor layer is then formed on the first electrode layer. The oxygen-poor layer is formed by indium tin oxide, indium oxide, tin dioxide, or zinc oxide. Next, an insulating layer is formed on the oxygen-poor layer. The insulating layer formed by silicon dioxide or hafnium oxide. A second electrode layer is then formed on the insulating layer.
US09287498B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for increasing thermal insulation in a resistance change memory device, also known as a phase change memory (PCM) device. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a storage structure of a PCM device, the storage structure having a chalcogenide material, an electrode having an electrically conductive material, the electrode having a first surface that is directly coupled with the storage structure, and a dielectric film having a dielectric material, the dielectric film being directly coupled with a second surface of the electrode that is disposed opposite to the first surface. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09287496B2
In a method for fabricating a magnetic tunnel junction, a first magnetic layer is formed on a substrate, and a tunnel insulating layer is formed on the first magnetic layer. Subsequently, a second magnetic layer is formed on the tunnel insulating layer. In the method, the first magnetic layer is formed by periodically sputtering a magnetic target while a metal target is continuously sputtered.
US09287495B2
According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a silicon nitride layer on a metal layer, forming a plasma of a gas mixture of carbon oxide and oxygen, and selectively etching the silicon nitride layer with respect to the metal layer by using the plasma of the gas mixture.
US09287488B2
A piezoelectric actuator device includes a vibrator and a driver to vibrate the vibrator. The vibrator includes a lower vibration layer configured to vibrate and an upper vibration layer coupled to an upper surface of the lower vibration layer and configured to vibrate together with the lower vibration layer. The driver includes an upper electrode layer on a lower surface of the lower vibration layer, a piezoelectric layer on a lower surface of the upper electrode layer, and a lower electrode layer on a lower surface of the piezoelectric layer. The lower vibration layer of the vibrator is made of organic material. The upper vibration layer is mainly made of inorganic material. The lower vibration layer has a smaller longitudinal elastic modulus than the upper vibration layer. The piezoelectric actuator device has a large resistance to disturbance vibrations and a large warping amount of the vibrator without increasing power consumption.
US09287485B2
Method for joining wires using low resistivity joints is provided. More specifically, methods of joining one or more wires having superconductive filaments, such as magnesium diboride filaments, are provided. The wires are joined by a low resistivity joint to form wires of a desired length for applications, such in medical imaging applications.
US09287482B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a light emitting diode package. The light emitting diode package includes at least three light emitting diode chips; first leads comprising at least three chip mounting sections on which the at least three light emitting diode chips are mounted, respectively; second leads separated from the first leads and connected to the light emitting diode chips via wires, respectively; and a substrate having the first leads and the second leads formed thereon, wherein the at least three chip mounting sections are arranged around a center of the substrate through which an optical axis of the light emitting diode package passes.
US09287480B2
A light emitting device mount includes a positive lead terminal, a negative lead terminal, and a resin portion. Each of the positive lead terminal and the negative lead terminal includes a first main surface, a second main surface opposite to the first main surface in a thickness direction of each of the positive lead terminal and the negative lead terminal, and an end surface which is provided between the first main surface and the second main surface and which includes a first recessed surface area and a second recessed surface area. The first recessed surface area extends from the first main surface. The second recessed surface area extends from the second main surface, includes a closest point closest to the first main surface, and includes an extension part that extends outward of the closest point and toward the second main surface.
US09287475B2
A solid state lighting component comprising a layer having high reflectivity and/or scattering properties, the layer positioned about a solid state lighting component, and manufacturing methods of making same is disclosed. A method of increasing the luminous flux of the solid state lighting component, is also provided.
US09287474B2
An LED package includes a LED structure that outputs light in a pattern about an axis and an optical coupling device with a central axis. The coupling device is positioned relative to the LED structure and accepts light from the LED. The coupling device includes a first dielectric interface surface that is substantially cylindrical with respect to the central axis, and a reflecting surface. The first dielectric interface surface accepts a first portion of light from the LED structure and directs it toward the reflecting surface. The reflecting surface accepts the light from the first dielectric interface surface and directs it toward the first dielectric interface surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to the central axis.
US09287463B2
A method of manufacturing a light generating device and a light generating device manufactured through the method are disclosed. The method of manufacturing a light generating device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, includes preparing a semiconductor stacking structure including a p-type semiconductor layer, an n-type semiconductor layer and an active layer disposed between the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer; forming a metal thin film on the n-type semiconductor layer or on the p-type semiconductor layer; annealing the metal thin film to form a grain boundary at the metal thin film; applying liquid with graphite powder to the metal thin film with the grain boundary; thermally treating the semiconductor stacking structure to which the liquid with graphite powder is applied; and removing the metal thin film with the grain boundary.
US09287458B2
A semiconductor light emitting diode comprising: a support substrate; an intermediate layer including an intermediate electrode portion, a second conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, a first conductive semiconductor layer and an upper electrode portion sequentially disposed on the upper surface side of the support substrate in this order; and a lower electrode layer provided on the lower surface side of the support substrate, wherein: the intermediate layer has at least one intermediate electrode portion extending linearly or in an island-like shape; and the upper electrode portion and the intermediate electrode portion are disposed, in a view obtained by projecting these electrode portions, on an imaginary plane in parallel with the upper surface of the support substrate, respectively, in a positional relationship that these electrode portions, are offset from each other.
US09287452B2
Solid state lighting devices and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a solid state lighting device includes a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor material spaced apart from the first semiconductor material, and an active region between the first and second semiconductor materials. The solid state lighting device also includes an indentation extending from the second semiconductor material toward the active region and the first semiconductor material and an insulating material in the indentation of the solid state lighting structure.
US09287440B2
A method of making a semiconductor device, the method includes forming a first opening and a second opening in a substrate. The method further includes forming a conductive material in the first opening and in the second opening, the conductive material comprising a joined portion where the conductive material in the first opening and the conductive material in the second opening are electrically and thermally connected together at a first surface of the substrate. The method further includes reducing a thickness of the substrate from a second surface of the substrate, opposite the first surface, to expose the conductive material in the first opening and the conductive material in the second opening. The method further includes connecting a device to the second surface of the substrate.
US09287438B1
A method of manufacturing a solar cell assembly by providing a first substrate; depositing on the first substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell; mounting a supporting member on top of the sequence of layers using a temporary adhesive bonding material to form a processing assembly; removing the first substrate; and depositing a contact layer including germanium and palladium on the top surface of the solar cell at a relatively low temperature so that the temporary adhesive allows the processing assembly to remain attached.
US09287433B2
A radiation detector is provided. The radiation detection comprises a semiconductor crystal for detecting radiation. The semiconductor crystal comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, and at least one side surface. At least one anode is arranged on at least one of the top surface, the bottom surface, and the at least one side surface. At least one cathode is arranged on at least another one of the top surface, the bottom surface, and the at least one side surface. The at least one anode each has a stripe shape, the at least one cathode each has a planar or curved shape, and the at least one cathode and the at least one anode extend in parallel with respect to each other to a length substantially equal to that of the anode. Such an electrode structure can improve energy resolution and detection efficiency of the radiation detector effectively.
US09287420B2
A paste composition for a rear electrode of a solar cell according to the embodiment includes conductive powder; an organic vehicle; and an additive including silicon or a metal.
US09287414B2
An integrated circuit including a Schottky diode, and a method of making the same. The diode includes an active region bordered by an isolation region in a semiconductor substrate of the integrated circuits, a first electrode having a metal contact provided on a surface of the active region, and a second electrode having a silicide contact also provided on the surface of the active region.
US09287407B2
A transistor using an oxide semiconductor, which has good on-state characteristics is provided. A high-performance semiconductor device including the transistor capable of high-speed response and high-speed operation is provided. The transistor includes the oxide semiconductor film including a channel formation region and low-resistance regions in which a metal element and a dopant are included. The channel formation region is positioned between the low-resistance regions in the channel length direction. In a manufacturing method of the transistor, the metal element is added by heat treatment performed in the state where the oxide semiconductor film is in contact with a film including the metal element and the dopant is added through the film including the metal element by an implantation method so that the low resistance regions in which a metal element and a dopant are included are formed.
US09287400B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a fin-type transistor that is excellent in characteristics by forming a fin-shaped semiconductor portion and a gate electrode with high precision or by making improvement regarding variations in characteristics among elements. The present invention is a semiconductor device including a fin-shaped semiconductor portion having a source region formed on one side thereof and a drain region formed on the other side thereof, and a gate electrode formed between the source region and the drain region to surround the fin-shaped semiconductor portion with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween. One solution for solving the problem according to the invention is that the gate electrode uses a metal material or a silicide material that is wet etchable.
US09287397B2
A semiconductor device and method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of gate electrodes at a predetermined interval on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming spacers on sidewalls of the gate electrodes, depositing an interconnection layer conformally on the surface of the semiconductor substrate over the gate electrodes and the spacers, selectively etching the interconnection layer, wherein at least a portion of the interconnection layer that is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and sidewalls of the spacers and located between adjacent gate electrodes remains after the selective etch, and forming an electrical contact on the etched interconnection layer located between the adjacent gate electrodes.
US09287393B2
In a semiconductor device provided with a MOSFET part and a gate pad part, the gate pad part includes: a low resistance semiconductor layer; a drift layer; a poly-silicon layer constituting a conductor layer and a gate pad electrode formed above the drift layer over the whole area of the gate pad part with a field insulation layer interposed therebetween; and a gate oscillation suppressing structure, wherein the gate oscillation suppressing structure includes a p+-type diffusion region which is disposed along an outer peripheral portion of the gate pad part and is electrically connected with the a source electrode layer, and a p+-type diffusion region in a floating state and the p-type impurity non-diffusion regions which are alternately formed in the region surrounded by the p+-type diffusion region.
US09287388B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of U-shaped memory strings, each of the plurality of U-shaped memory strings including a first columnar body, a second columnar body, and a conductive connection body. The conductive connection body connects the first columnar body and the second columnar body. A plurality of first memory cells are connected in series in the first columnar body and are composed of a plurality of first conductive layers, a first inter-gate insulating film, a plurality of first floating electrodes, a first tunnel insulating film, and a first memory channel layer. The plurality of first floating electrodes are separated from the plurality of first conductive layers by the first inter-gate insulating film. A plurality of second memory cells are connected in series in the second columnar body, similally to the plurality of first memory cells.
US09287385B2
A multiple-fin device includes a substrate and a plurality of fins formed on the substrate. Source and drain regions are formed in the respective fins. A dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. The dielectric layer has a first thickness adjacent one side of a first fin and having a second thickness, different from the first thickness, adjacent an opposite side of the fin. A continuous gate structure is formed overlying the plurality of fins, the continuous gate structure being adjacent a top surface of each fin and at least one sidewall surface of at least one fin. By adjusting the dielectric layer thickness, channel width of the resulting device can be fine-tuned.
US09287381B2
A thin film transistor is provided. The thin film transistor includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a semiconducting layer, an insulating layer and a gate electrode. The insulating layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The gate electrode is located on the first surface of the insulating layer. The source electrode, the drain electrode, and the semiconductor layer are located on the second surface of the insulating layer. The gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode include a first carbon nanotube layer. The semiconductor layer includes a second carbon nanotube layer. A first film resistor of the first carbon nanotube layer is smaller than or equal to 10 kΩ per square. A second film resistor of the second carbon nanotube layer is greater than or equal to 100 kΩ per square.
US09287378B2
Provided is a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element having a low contact resistance between an n-type nitride semiconductor layer and an n-side electrode. A portion of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer is removed by a plasma etching process using a gas containing halogen to expose a surface region of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer. Next, such an exposed surface region is further subjected to a plasma treatment using a gas containing oxygen. After that, the n-side electrode formed of aluminum is formed so as to be in contact with the surface region. In the surface region, a carrier concentration is decreased from the inside of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer toward the n-side electrode.
US09287377B2
A semiconductor device includes a trench extending into a semiconductor body from a first surface. At least one of a ternary carbide and a ternary nitride is in the trench.
US09287373B2
A semiconductor device includes an active area having a source and a gate. A gate metal contact is deposited above and forms an electrical contact with the gate and a source metal contact is deposited above and forms an electrical contact with the source. The source metal contact includes a plurality of metal through contacts positioned adjacent a side of the active area, the plurality of metal through contacts being spaced at intervals from one another and arranged in two or more rows.
US09287366B2
Provided are a III nitride semiconductor device which can be operated at a lower voltage can be provided, in which device a good ohmic contact is achieved between the (000-1) plane side of the III nitride semiconductor layer and the electrode and a method of producing the III nitride semiconductor device. A III nitride semiconductor device of the present invention includes a plurality of protrusions rounded like domes in a predetermined region on the (000-1) plane side of the III nitride semiconductor layer; and an electrode on the upper surface of the predetermined region.
US09287361B2
A junction-less transistor having an reverse polarity structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor body, a gate and a gate insulation layer. The substrate has a first polarity. The semiconductor body is disposed on the substrate, and includes a drain, a source and a channel section connected between the drain and the source. The gate covers one side of the channel section away from the substrate. The semiconductor body has a second polarity opposite to the first polarity. With the semiconductor body and the substrate respectively having the opposite second polarity and first polarity, a leakage current can be reduced while also lowering element production costs.
US09287359B1
Graphene nanoribbon arrays, methods of growing graphene nanoribbon arrays and electronic and photonic devices incorporating the graphene nanoribbon arrays are provided. The graphene nanoribbons in the arrays are formed using a scalable, bottom-up, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique in which the (001) facet of the germanium is used to orient the graphene nanoribbon crystals along the [110] directions of the germanium.
US09287343B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device preventing the external invasion of water and/or oxygen and preventing the deterioration of a luminous element due to these invading substances and to provide a production method including simple production steps for producing the display device. The invention provides a display device having a sealing material on the rim of an exposed interlayer insulator for preventing the invasion of water and/or oxygen from the interlayer insulator. Further, the invention provides a display device having a barrier body on an exposed interlayer insulator for preventing the invasion of water and/or oxygen from the interlayer insulator. Furthermore, the application of droplet discharge technique in production steps for producing the display device can eliminate a photolithography step such as exposing and developing. Thus, a method of producing a display device having an improved yield is provided.
US09287336B2
An electronic device may be provided with a display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. The display may include an array of display pixels formed on a polymer substrate layer. The polymer substrate layer may include an contiguous layer of polyimide that forms a substrate layer in additional structures such as a polymer film and a flexible printed circuit. A first transition region may be interposed between the display and the polymer film, and a second transition region may be interposed between the polymer film and the flexible printed circuit. Metal traces may be formed on the polymer film and on the flexible printed circuit. A display driver integrated circuit may be mounted to the traces on the polymer film. The polymer film may form a U-shaped bend. The flexible printed circuit may be coupled to a printed circuit board in the device using hot bar solder connections.
US09287332B2
A light-emitting device and a lighting device each of which includes a plurality of light-emitting elements exhibiting light with different wavelengths are provided. The light-emitting device and the lighting device each have an element structure in which each of the light-emitting elements emits only light with a desired wavelength, and thus the light-emitting elements have favorable color purity. In the light-emitting element emitting light (λR) with the longest wavelength of the light with different wavelengths, the optical path length from a reflective electrode to a light-emitting layer (a light-emitting region) included in an EL layer is set to λR/4 and the optical path length from the reflective electrode to a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective electrode is set to λR/2.
US09287331B2
A display unit with which lowering of long-term reliability of a transistor is decreased is provided. The display unit includes a display section having a plurality of organic EL devices with light emitting color different from each other and a plurality of pixel circuits that are singly provided for every said organic EL device for every pixel. The pixel circuit has a first transistor for writing a video signal, a second transistor for driving the organic EL device based on the video signal written by the first transistor, and a retentive capacity, and out of the first transistor and the second transistor, a third transistor provided correspondingly to a second organic EL device adjacent to a first organic EL device is arranged farther from the first organic EL device than a first retentive capacity provided correspondingly to the second organic EL device out of the retentive capacity.
US09287330B2
A light-emitting device structured so as to increase the amount of light taken out in a certain direction is provided as well as a method of manufacturing this light emitting device. As a result of etching treatment, an upper edge portion of an insulator (19) is curved to have a radius of curvature, a slope is formed along the curved face while partially exposing layers (18c and 18d) of a first electrode, and a layer (18b) of the first electrode is exposed in a region that serves as a light emitting region. Light emitted from an organic compound layer (20) is reflected by the slope of the first electrode (layers 18c and 18d) to increase the total amount of light taken out in the direction indicated by the arrow in FIG. 1A.
US09287329B1
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US09287328B2
An organic photoelectric conversion device having a pair of electrodes and a light receiving layer which includes at least a photoelectric conversion layer and is sandwiched by the electrodes, the device including an electron blocking layer provided between the photoelectric conversion layer and one of the electrodes, and a hole blocking layer provided between the photoelectric conversion layer and the other of the electrodes, in which the hole blocking layer is a layer that includes a fullerene and/or a fullerene derivative and a transparent hole transport material having an ionization potential of 5.5 eV or more.
US09287316B2
An imaging system may include image sensor pixels, converter circuitry, denoising circuitry, dark current subtraction circuitry, and storage and processing circuitry. The image sensor pixels may generate analog image signals and the converter circuitry may convert the analog image signals into digital pixel values. The denoising circuitry may generate denoised pixel values based on the digital pixel values. The dark current subtraction circuitry may subtract a dark current value from the denoised pixel values. The image sensor pixels and converter circuitry may generate pixel values in multiple color channels. The image sensor pixels may include clear color filter elements for generating clear pixel values. The storage and processing circuitry may determine different black pedestal values for each color channel and may add the black pedestal values to the pixel values from the corresponding color channel to mitigate pixel value clipping in a final image generated by the imaging system.
US09287314B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a Multi-Quantum Wells (MQW) structure which combines and uses a non-Group IV lattice matching-based compound semiconductor with an absolute value of a mismatch ratio of less than 1% on a silicon substrate so as to have sensitivity to at least infrared light.
US09287311B2
It is possible to reduce resistance variations of a member connecting a through-silicon via to a line and improve wiring reliability. A hole through which the through-silicon via is to be stretched is created and an over-etching process is carried out on a wiring layer including the line. Then, by embedding copper in the hole, the through-silicon via made of the copper can be created. After the through-silicon via has been connected to the line made of aluminum through the member which is a connection area, the connection area is alloyed in a thermal treatment in order to electrically connect the through-silicon via to the line. Thus, it is possible to reduce variations of a resistance between the through-silicon via and the line and also improve wiring reliability as well. The present technology can be applied to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device.
US09287309B2
An isolation structure and method of forming the same. The isolation structure includes a first isolation structure having including an insulation layer formed in a trench in a substrate and a second isolation structure, formed on the first isolation structure. The second isolation structure includes a first impurity region formed in the substrate, the first impurity region having a first impurity doping concentration, and a second impurity region that is formed around the first impurity region, the second impurity region having a second impurity doping concentration that is greater than the first doping concentration.
US09287306B2
A sensor package structure includes a sensing die, a light-filtering sheet, and an annular pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet. An active surface of the sensing die has a sensing region and a connecting region around the sensing region. The periphery contour of sensing die is greater than or equal to the periphery contour of light-filtering sheet. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has two opposite adhesive surfaces and defines an opening. The adhesive surfaces respectively adhere to the connecting region of the sensing die and the inner surface of the light-filtering sheet, and the sensing region faces the inner surface of the light-filtering sheet via the opening. The sensing region is sealed by the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet and the light-filtering sheet. Thus, the instant disclosure provides the sensor package structure with low cost, high capacity, and high yield. Moreover, the instant disclosure provides a production apparatus for manufacturing the sensor package structure.
US09287302B2
According to one embodiment, pixels are divided by a grid set diagonally to a column direction, a green photoelectric conversion film is provided for each of the pixels and arranged to overlap a red photoelectric conversion layer in a depth direction, and a blue photoelectric conversion layer is arranged to be overlapped by the green photoelectric conversion film in a depth direction.
US09287300B2
The present inventive concepts provide methods for fabricating semiconductor devices. The method may comprise providing a substrate, stacking a conductive layer and a lower mask layer on the substrate, forming a plurality of hardmask layers each having an island shape on the lower mask layer, forming a plurality of upper mask patterns having island shapes arranged to expose portions of the lower mask layer, etching the exposed portions of the lower mask layer to expose portions of the conductive layer, and etching the exposed portions of the conductive layer to form a plurality of contact holes each exposing a portion of the substrate.
US09287278B2
A non-volatile memory cell includes a p-channel non-volatile transistor having a source and a drain defining a channel and a gate overlying the channel and an n-channel non-volatile transistor having a source and a drain defining a channel and a gate overlying the channel. In at least one of the p-channel non-volatile transistor and the n-channel non-volatile transistor, a lightly-doped drain region extends from the drain into the channel.
US09287277B2
A semiconductor device includes: a memory cell transistor which has a floating gate, a control gate, and a source and a drain formed in a semiconductor substrate on both sides of the floating gate via a channel area; and a selecting transistor which has a select gate and a source and a drain formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the select gate, wherein the source of the selecting transistor is connected to the drain of the memory cell transistor, the source of the memory cell transistor has an N-type first impurity diffusion layer, an N-type second impurity diffusion layer deeper than the first impurity diffusion layer, and an N-type third impurity diffusion layer which is shallower than the second impurity diffusion layer, and an impurity density of the second impurity diffusion layer is lower than that of the third impurity diffusion layer.
US09287276B2
A semiconductor memory cell array is disclosed that includes a memory cell unit. The memory cell unit includes an active region, a first transistor, a second transistor, a gate structure, and an interconnect. The first transistor and the second transistor are formed on the active region. The gate structure is formed on the active region and between the first transistor and the second transistor. The interconnect connects the gate structure and at least one of sources of the first transistor and the second transistor to a power line.
US09287275B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming flash memory cells and semiconductor constructions, and some embodiments include semiconductor constructions. Some embodiments may include a method in which a semiconductor substrate is provided to have a plurality of active area locations. Floating gates are formed over the active area locations, with the floating gates having widths that are entirely sub-lithographic. Adjacent floating gates are spaced from one another by gaps. Dielectric material and control gate material are formed over the floating gates and within the gaps. Some embodiments may include a construction in which a pair of adjacent floating gates are over a pair of adjacent active areas, with the floating gates being spaced from one another by a distance which is greater than a distance that the active areas are spaced from one another.
US09287269B2
One-transistor volatile memory devices and manufacturing methods thereof are provided. The device includes a substrate having top and bottom surfaces and an isolation well disposed below the top substrate surface. An area of the substrate between the isolation buffer layer and the top substrate surface serves as a body region of a transistor. The isolation well isolates the body region from the substrate. The device includes a band engineered (BE) floating body disposed over the isolation well and within the body region. The device also includes a transistor disposed over the substrate. The transistor includes a gate disposed on the top substrate surface, and first and second diffusion regions disposed in the body region adjacent to first and second sides of the gate.
US09287268B2
A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and a production method, a semiconductor packaging component and a packaging method. The production method comprises: providing a memory wafer, the memory wafer being provided with a memory bare chip which is provided with a top metal layer which is provided with a power source bonding pad, a signal bonding pad, and a micro bonding pad, and an internal bus led out of the memory bare chip being electrically connected to the micro bonding pad; repairing the memory wafer; if a yield of the memory wafer is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, rearranging the micro bonding pad to form a butt-joint bonding pad which is electrically connected to the micro bonding pad and the power source bonding pad. A structure of the DRAM is not significantly changed, a data bandwidth of the DRAM is increased, and a high yield is ensured.
US09287263B1
The present invention provides a method for forming a semiconductor device having a metal gate. The method includes firstly, a substrate is provided, and a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device are formed on the substrate, having a first gate trench and a second trench respectively. Next, a bottom barrier layer is formed in the first gate trench and a second trench. Afterwards, a first pull back step is performed, to remove parts of the bottom barrier layer, and a first work function metal layer is then formed in the first gate trench. Next, a second pull back step is performed, to remove parts of the first work function metal layer, wherein the topmost portion of the first work function metal layer is lower than the openings of the first gate trench and the second gate trench.
US09287261B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device manufacturing method comprising: forming an element isolation region in one principal face of a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity type; forming a gate electrode extending from an element region to the element isolation region at both sides of the element region in a first direction, both end portions of the gate electrode in the first direction being on the element isolation region and respectively including a concave portion and protruding portions at both sides of the concave portion; carrying out ion implantation of impurities of the one conductivity type from a direction tilted from a direction perpendicular to the one principal face toward the first direction so that first and second impurity implantation regions of the one conductivity type are formed in the one principal face in two end regions of the element region in the first direction.
US09287259B2
MISFETs after the 32 nm technology node have a High-k gate insulating film and a metal gate electrode. Such MISFETs have the problem that the absolute value of the threshold voltage of n-MISFET and p-MISFET inevitably increases by the subsequent high temperature heat treatment. The threshold voltage is therefore controlled by forming various threshold voltage adjusting metal films on a High-k gate insulating film and introducing a film component from them into the High-k gate insulating film. The present inventors have however revealed that lanthanum or the like introduced into the High-k gate insulating film of the n-MISFET is likely to transfer to the STI region by the subsequent heat treatment.The semiconductor integrated circuit device according to the present invention is provided with an N channel threshold voltage adjusting element outward diffusion preventing region in the surface portion of the element isolation region below and at the periphery of the gate stack of the n-MISFET.
