US09292443B2
Fetching a cache line into a plurality of caches of a multilevel cache system. The multilevel cache system includes at least a first cache, a second cache on a next higher level and a memory, the first cache being arranged to hold a subset of information of the second cache, the second cache being arranged to hold a subset of information of a next higher level cache or memory if no higher level cache exists. A fetch request is sent from one cache to the next cache in the multilevel cache system. The cache line is fetched in a particular state into one of the caches, and in another state into at least one of the other caches.
US09292441B2
Disclosed are a cache synchronization system, a cache synchronization method and a local cache to perform synchronization. The local cache is configured to determine whether to perform synchronization for specific content on the basis of synchronization policy information, if it is determined that synchronization is to be performed, to set a dispersion parameter that defines a synchronization range for the specific content according to the synchronization policy information, and to transmit synchronization information about the specific content, which includes the dispersion parameter, to at least one neighboring local cache.
US09292439B2
A method, device and computer program for efficiently identifying items having a high frequency of occurrence among items included in a large-volume text data stream. Identification information for identifying an item and a count of items are stored in a higher level of memory and only identification information is stored in a lower level. Text data stream input is received, the increment of the count of an item is increased in response to storage in the higher level memory of identification information for an item included in a bucket divided from the received text data stream input, identification information for the item is transferred with the initial count to the higher level of memory in response to storage in the lower level and the identification information for the item is newly stored with the initial count in the higher level in response to not being stored on any level.
US09292431B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for allocating non-volatile storage. The storage device may present a logical address, which may exceed a physical storage capacity of the device. The storage device may allocate logical capacity in the logical address space. An allocation request may be allowed when there is sufficient unassigned and/or unallocated logical capacity to satisfy the request. Data may be stored on the non-volatile storage device by requesting physical storage capacity. A physical storage request, such as a storage request or physical storage reservation, when there is sufficient available physical storage capacity to satisfy the request. The device may maintain an index to associate logical identifiers (LIDs) in the logical address space with storage locations on the storage device. This index may be used to make logical capacity allocations and/or to manage physical storage space.
US09292426B2
Embodiments of the invention describe a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device that may abort a self-refresh mode to improve the exit time from a DRAM low power state of self-refresh. During execution of a self-refresh mode, the DRAM device may receive a signal (e.g., a device enable signal) from a memory controller operatively coupled to the DRAM device. The DRAM device may abort the self-refresh mode in response to receiving the signal from the memory controller.
US09292424B2
A memory controller includes: a determination part configured to determine a type of a DIMM having a different address line topology based on SPD; a slew rate setting part configured to set a slew rate of an address signal based on the type of the DIMM determined by the determination part; and a delay setting part configured to set a data delay amount when reading/writing data.
US09292419B1
A device receives code for a technical computing environment, and receives conditions for executing the code. The device performs a static analysis of the code, based on the conditions, to generate static analysis information for the code, and executes the code in the technical computing environment based on the conditions. The device determines coverage information associated with the executing code, where the coverage information provides a measure of completeness associated with the executing code. The device compares the static analysis information and the coverage information to determine confidence information associated with the coverage information, and outputs or stores the coverage information and the confidence information.
US09292418B2
The described embodiments include a program code testing system that determines the vulnerability of multi-threaded program code to soft errors. For multi-threaded program code, two to more threads from the program code may access shared architectural structures while the program code is being executed. The program code testing system determines accesses of architectural structures made by the two or more threads of the multi-threaded program code and uses the determined accesses to determine a time for which the program code is exposed to soft errors. From this time, the program code testing system determines a vulnerability of the program code to soft errors.
US09292413B2
An embodiment of the invention pertains to debugging program code associated with graphical objects, wherein the code responds to events of user interactions with the object. A menu is generated that includes user interaction events, and an associated program window is adapted to present the menu to a user when requested, wherein the user can select user interaction events from the menu. For each selected event, the method identifies a component of the program code that is responsive to that selected event. The method further includes setting a breakpoint in the program code in selected relationship with each identified program code component, wherein the subsequent occurrence of one of the selected user interaction events triggers a corresponding one of the breakpoints.
US09292401B2
Systems and methods described herein facilitate determining desktop readiness using interactive measures. A host is in communication with a server and the host includes a virtual desktop and a virtual desktop agent. The virtual desktop agent is configured to perform one or more injecting events via one or more monitoring agents, wherein each of the injecting events is a simulated input device event. The desktop agent is further configured to receive, via a display module, a response to the injecting event(s), wherein the response is a display update causing pixel color values for the display module to alter. The desktop agent is also configured to identify, via the monitoring agent(s), whether the response to the injecting event(s) is an expected response. The desktop agent is also configured to determine, via the monitoring agent(s), a readiness of the virtual desktop based on the expected response.
US09292400B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a network for a user. In use, a network-related event associated with a user is identified. Additionally, a score is calculated for the user, in response to the identification of the event. Further, a network is determined for the user, based on the score.
US09292390B2
Systems and methods for error recovery include determining an error in at least one stage of a plurality of stages during a first cycle on a hardware circuit, each of the plurality of stages having a main latch and a shadow latch. A first signal is transmitted to an output stage of the at least one stage to stall the main latch and the shadow latch of the output stage during a second cycle. A second signal is transmitted to an input stage of the at least one stage to stall the main latch of the input stage during the second cycle and to stall the main latch and the shadow latch of the input stage during a third cycle. Data is restored from the shadow latch to the main latch for the at least one stage and the input stage to recover from the error.
US09292389B2
A method of prioritizing data for recovery in a distributed storage system includes, for each stripe of a file having chunks, determining whether the stripe comprises high-availability chunks or low-availability chunks and determining an effective redundancy value for each stripe. The effective redundancy value is based on the chunks and any system domains associated with the corresponding stripe. The distributed storage system has a system hierarchy including system domains. Chunks of a stripe associated with a system domain in an active state are accessible, whereas chunks of a stripe associated with a system domain in an inactive state are inaccessible. The method also includes reconstructing substantially immediately inaccessible, high-availability chunks having an effective redundancy value less than a threshold effective redundancy value and reconstructing the inaccessible low-availability and other inaccessible high-availability chunks, after a threshold period of time.
US09292385B2
A method begins with a computing device dividing data into data partitions. For a data partition of the data partitions, the method continues with the computing device associating indexing information with the data partition. The method continues with the computing device segmenting the data partition into a plurality of data segments. The method continues with the computing device dispersed storage error encoding the plurality of data segments to produce a plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the computing device grouping encoded data slices of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices to produce a set of groupings of encoded data slices.
US09292384B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with generating erasure codes for data to be stored in a storage system. In embodiments, a method may include launching, by storage system, a plurality of instances of an erasure code generation module, based at least in part on hardware configuration of the storage system. Additionally, the method may further include setting, by the storage system, operational parameters of the plurality of instances of the erasure code generation module, based at least in part on current system load of the storage system. Further, the method may include operating, by the storage system, the plurality of instances of the erasure code generation module to generate erasure codes for data to be stored in the storage system, in accordance with the operational parameters set. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09292381B2
A method for operating a memory (28) includes storing data in a group of analog memory cells (32) of the memory as respective first voltage levels. After storing the data, second voltage levels are read from the respective analog memory cells. The second voltage levels are affected by cross-coupling interference causing the second voltage levels to differ from the respective first voltage levels. Cross-coupling coefficients, which quantify the cross-coupling interference among the analog memory cells, are estimated by processing the second voltage levels. The data stored in the group of analog memory cells is reconstructed from the read second voltage levels using the estimated cross-coupling coefficients.
US09292379B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods to manage high capacity memory devices are described. In one example, a controller comprises logic to receive a write operation comprising payload data, a namespace identifier (ID) and a first extended logical block address (LBA), compute a first system cyclic redundancy check (CRC) using a payload CRC, the namespace ID and the first extended LBA, store the first system CRC in association with the first extended LBA in a local memory, and write the payload data, the first system CRC, and a truncated LBA derived from the first extended LBA to a memory. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.
US09292378B2
An SEU protection circuit comprises first and second storage means for receiving primary and redundant versions, respectively, of an n-bit wide data value that is to be corrected in case of an SEU occurrence; the correction circuit requires that the data value be a 1-hot encoded value. A parity engine performs a parity operation on the n bits of the primary data value. A multiplexer receives the primary and redundant data values and the parity engine output at respective inputs, and is arranged to pass the primary data value to an output when the parity engine output indicates ‘odd’ parity, and to pass the redundant data value to the output when the parity engine output indicates ‘even’ parity. The primary and redundant data values are suitably state variables, and the parity engine is preferably an n-bit wide XOR or XNOR gate.
US09292376B2
A system for proactive resource reservation for protecting virtual machines. The system includes a cluster of hosts, wherein the cluster of hosts includes a master host, a first slave host, and one or more other slave hosts, and wherein the first slave host executes one or more virtual machines thereon. The first slave host is configured to identify a failure that impacts an ability of the one or more virtual machines to provide service, and calculate a list of impacted virtual machines. The master host is configured to receive a request to reserve resources on another host in the cluster of hosts to enable the impacted one or more virtual machines to failover, calculate a resource capacity among the cluster of hosts, determine whether the calculated resource capacity is sufficient to reserve the resources, and send an indication as to whether the resources are reserved.
US09292370B2
A first network device includes a forwarding controller configured to forward received data and a fault detector configured to detect occurrence of a failure in a remote second relay node. The forwarding controller includes a forwarding unit configured to forward the received data and a modifier configured to modify the received data for detection of the occurrence of a failure in the second relay node. The modifier includes a flag option marker configured to attach a flag to data, a sequence adding unit configured to add a protocol specific number to a sequence number, and a sequence subtracting unit configured to subtract the protocol specific number from an acknowledgement number. The fault detector detects the occurrence of a failure in the remote second relay node based on at least one of the flag or the acknowledgement number.
US09292368B2
An approach is provided for controlling a user device native function via a web-based application at a user device (e.g., a mobile terminal). The mobile terminal executes a web-based application and a shell application, wherein the shell application provides communication between the web-based application and a native function of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal registers the web-based application with the shell application for the communication. The mobile terminal invokes the native function of the mobile terminal via the communication based upon a communication protocol that specifies a command of a native function associated with a set top box.
US09292358B2
Users that access their personal information from a home computer typically only need access to data, and do not need to remotely control the desktops of their home computers. By providing a remote access server that coordinates access to the file system of a user device, such as a home computer, a remote device, such as a mobile phone, can send commands to the user device. The remote device sends requests including commands to the server. The user device periodically requests these commands from the server. An application on the user device processes these commands, and in response provides the requested information to the server. The server responds to the requests from the remote device with the requested information from the user device.
US09292349B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing deployment conflicts between applications executing in one or more processing environments. A first application is executed in a first processing environment and responsive to a request to execute the first application. During execution of the first application, a determination is made to redeploy the first application for execution partially in time on a second processing environment providing a higher capability than the first processing environment in terms of at least a first resource type. A deployment conflict is detected between the first application and at least a second application.
US09292347B2
A method to expose status information is provided. The status information is associated with metadata extracted from multimedia files and stored in a metadata database. The metadata information that is extracted from the multimedia files is stored in a read queue to allow a background thread to process the metadata and populate the metadata database. Additionally, the metadata database may be updated to include user-define metadata, which is written back to the multimedia files. The user-defined metadata is included in a write queue and is written to the multimedia files associated with the user-defined metadata. The status of the read and write queues are exposed to a user through a graphical user interface. The status may include the list of multimedia files included in the read and write queues, the priorities of each multimedia file, and the number of remaining multimedia files.
US09292344B2
A method of scheduling tasks for a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) in a low-power, wireless, mesh network may include receiving, at a scheduler for the RTOS, a plurality of tasks to schedule for execution by one or more processors. The plurality of tasks may include a first task; the first task may be associated with an expected execution interval; and the expected execution interval may indicate an expected length of time for the one or more processors to execute the first task. The method may also include scheduling the plurality of tasks for execution by the one or more processors. The first task may be scheduled using the expected execution time such that the first task is executed without being interrupted by others of the plurality of tasks.
US09292337B2
A program controls coalescing of outermost memory transactions, the coalescing causing committing of memory store data to memory for a first transaction to be done at transaction execution (TX) end of a second transaction. wherein optimized machine instructions are generated based on an intermediate representation of a program, wherein either two atomic tasks are merged into a single coalesced transaction or are executed as separate transactions.
US09292330B2
At least one target virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated with an existing target virtual machine in a target virtualized environment is merged with at least one source virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated with a source. The merging is carried out to obtain at least one merged virtual disk descriptor compatible with the target virtualized environment. The at least one virtual disk associated with the existing target virtual machine in the target virtualized environment is replaced with the at least one virtual disk associated with the source, in accordance with the at least one merged virtual disk descriptor.
US09292326B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to synchronizing multicast groups of a virtual machine during migration of the virtual machine. A first list and a second list, indicating multicast groups corresponding to the first port and second port respectively, are obtained in response to detection of migration of the virtual machine from a first port to a second port of a same switch. The second list is updated so that the second list contains the multicast groups in the first list. An undesired multicast group is aged. Multicast groups of a virtual machine may be synchronized in the process of migration of the virtual machine, thereby reducing or removing the time during which the virtual machine multicast service is disrupted.
US09292323B2
Methods and systems for using context data captured by a computing device to generate a virtual desktop display are described herein. The computing device along with a host device may form a remote access environment whereby a virtual machine is provided on the computing device. The computing device may capture the context data and identify contextual information. The host device may then generate content based on the contextual information and incorporate the content into composite screen display data configured to display a context aware virtual desktop screen. The composite screen display data is transmitted to the computing device, and thus, the computing device is provided with a context aware virtual desktop screen.
US09292321B2
A synchronous script lazy loader generates a plurality of virtual functions. Each one of the plurality of virtual functions corresponds to one of a plurality of script modules. The plurality of script modules may be associated with a script. The synchronous script lazy loader loads each of the plurality of virtual functions into a storage space. The synchronous script lazy loader loads a desired one of the plurality of script modules into a memory from the storage space. The synchronous script lazy loader executes the desired script module from the memory when a corresponding one of the plurality of virtual functions is requested for initial execution.
US09292320B2
A method for packing virtual machines onto host devices may calculate scarcity values for several different parameters. A host's scarcity for a parameter may be determined by multiplying the host's capacity for a parameter with the overall scarcity of that parameter. The sum of a host's scarcity for all the parameters determines the host's overall scarcity. Hosts having the highest scarcity are attempted to be populated with a group of virtual machines selected for compatibility with the host. In many cases, several different scenarios may be evaluated and an optimal scenario implemented. The method gives a high priority to those virtual machines that consume scarce resources, with the scarcity being a function of the available hardware and the virtual machines that may be placed on them.
US09292317B2
A method for providing a cloud environment for provisioning a guest virtual machine instance. The method includes selecting at least one machine from a collection of machines as a management node, wherein the at least one machine includes a hypervisor enabled with nested virtualization capability, deploying a plurality of cloud managers on each management node, selecting at least one machine from the collection of machines as a host node, deploying a plurality of level two hypervisors on each host node, forming a plurality of virtual clouds, wherein each virtual cloud contains at least one of the plurality of cloud managers and one of the plurality of level two hypervisors, and provisioning, via the at least one cloud manager, at least one guest virtual machine instance on top of the at least one level two hypervisors.
US09292315B1
For each of a plurality of different tenants configured to concurrently execute in a virtual environment, a respective class loader graph can be constructed. For each respective class loader graph, unique types of edges between nodes that affect class loading can be identified. The edges can be traversed. Based on traversing the edges of the class loader graph, a respective unique dependency identifier (UDI) can be assigned to each class loader request. Class loader requests that are assigned the same UDI can be identified in at least two of the tenants. Responsive to identifying the class loader requests that are assigned the same UDI, a shared class loader can be assigned to each of the class loader requests. Each respective class loader request that is assigned the same UDI can be configured to call the shared class loader to load at least one class required by the respective tenant.
US09292311B2
In one embodiment, a method for providing software problem solutions includes: obtaining a software problem of a questioning user; obtaining from other users multiple solutions for solving the software problem, each of the multiple solutions being provided as a recording script, and each of the recording scripts includes a user operation sequence and a corresponding semantic node sequence, wherein one or more semantic nodes in each of the semantic node sequences describes meanings of user operations; analyzing, by a computer processor, semantic node sequences in the recording scripts of the multiple solutions to determine recommendation degree information for the multiple solutions; and outputting the multiple solutions and the associated recommendation degree information.
US09292307B2
A user interface generation apparatus 1 has a memory unit 50 for storing an application program and a control unit 10 for controlling to display a stand-alone user interface object group when instructed to generate a single user interface and for controlling to perform compound processing on user interface objects extracted from the stand-alone user interface object groups and to display a compound user interface object group. The control unit 10, when instructed to generate the plurality of user interfaces, displays a user interface object for switching to display of a stand-alone user interface object group displayed when instructed to generate each of the plurality of user interfaces alone.
US09292300B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a secure boot method for an electronic device including an embedded controller and a processor. The method includes the steps of verifying a secure loader by the embedded controller, unlocking a peripheral hardware of the electronic device by the embedded controller, and executing the secure loader by the processor.
US09292298B2
A data processing apparatus has permutation circuitry for performing a permutation operation for changing a data element size or data element positioning of at least one source operand to generate first and second SIMD operands, and SIMD processing circuitry for performing a SIMD operation on the first and second SIMD operands. In response to a first SIMD instruction requiring a permutation operation, the instruction decoder controls the permutation circuitry to perform the permutation operation to generate the first and second SIMD operands and then controls the SIMD processing circuitry to perform the SIMD operation using these operands. In response to a second SIMD instruction not requiring a permutation operation, the instruction decoder controls the SIMD processing circuitry to perform the SIMD operation using the first and second SIMD operands identified by the instruction, without passing them via the permutation circuitry.
US09292294B2
Method and apparatus to efficiently detect violations of data dependency relationships. A memory address associated with a computer instruction may be obtained. A current state of the memory address may be identified. The current state may include whether the memory address is associated with a read or a store instruction, and whether the memory address is associated with a set or a check. A previously accumulated state associated with the memory address may be retrieved from a data structure. The previously accumulated state may include whether the memory address was previously associated with a read or a store instruction, and whether the memory address was previously associated with a set or a check. If a transition from the previously accumulated state to the current state is invalid, a failure condition may be signaled.
US09292289B2
Performing a transaction in a transactional memory environment for performing transactional executions, the transactional memory environment including a digest-generating transaction to generate a computed digest and a digest-checking transaction to compare computed digests is provided. Included is identifying, by a computer system, a first indicator signaling a beginning instruction of a digest-generating transaction including a plurality of instructions; suppressing committing memory store data of the digest-generating transaction to memory; generating a computed digest based on the execution of at least one of the plurality of instructions; identifying a second indicator associated with the plurality of instructions signaling an ending instruction of the digest-generating transaction, the computed digest is replicable for an error-free execution of the plurality of instructions; and saving the computed digest, as a reliability digest, based on completing the digest-generating transaction and not save the first computed digest based on an abort of the digest-generating transaction.
US09292286B2
Based on an input index sequence (702) composed of four indices (each having a bit width of 8 bits), a shift-copier generates an index sequence (902) by shifting each index leftward by 1 bit and making two copies of each index, and outputs the generated index sequence (902). An adder generates a shuffle pattern (703) by adding 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 and 0 to the indices in the index sequence (902) from left to right, and outputs the generated shuffle pattern (703).
US09292281B2
Techniques are described for identifying the ideal or preferred logging behavior to be followed in a software development project. A numerical weight is computed for each method in the source code that can be used to rank the logging behavior of that method. The numerical weight is computed in such a way that the methods whose log printing statements have been modified more frequently receive higher numerical weights. The assumption is that since most logging enhancements are done as after thoughts during code reviews or while fixing bugs, the ideal logging behavior will be exhibited by those methods whose logging behavior was modified the most frequently. Once the methods have been ranked according to the numerical weight, the highest ranking methods can be used to provide insight to developers about the ideal logging behavior for the project.
US09292265B2
Basic blocks within a thread program are characterized for convergence based on variance analysis or corresponding instructions. Each basic block is marked as divergent based on transitive control dependence on a block that is either divergent or comprising a variant branch condition. Convergent basic blocks that are defined by invariant instructions are advantageously identified as candidates for scalarization by a thread program compiler.
US09292255B2
Multi-stage crest factor reduction (CFR) techniques are provided for multi-channel multi-standard radio (MSR). A multi-stage crest factor reduction method comprises applying one or more data samples associated with at least one channel of a first technology type to a first individual crest factor reduction block; applying one or more data samples associated with at least one channel of a second technology type to a second individual crest factor reduction block; aggregating outputs of the first and second individual crest factor reduction blocks to generate an aggregated output; and applying the aggregated output to a composite crest factor reduction block. The individual crest factor reduction blocks can be implemented using a sampling rate appropriate for the corresponding technology type. The composite crest factor reduction block operates at a higher sampling rate than the individual crest factor reduction blocks.
US09292243B2
A method including providing a first image on a label printer user interface, wherein the first image is representative of a label to be printed or an object to which a label is to be applied; and providing a second image on the user interface associated with the first image, said second image representative of a dimension of the first image; enabling a user to modify a dimension of the second image; wherein as the dimension of said second image is modified, the dimension of the first image is correspondingly updated.
US09292236B2
An approach is provided for managing locked printing requests in cloud printing environments. In a cloud printing environment, a cloud printing service provider provides a platform that enables client devices to send print requests for processing by any printing device that is configured to communicate with the cloud printing service provider over a network, such as the Internet. A printing device comprises a cloud print agent that is configured to manage locked printing requests received from client devices via a cloud printing platform. The cloud print agent may be further configured to notify a user when print job data for a print job submitted by the user is approaching expiration.
US09292234B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print job data at a printing system, performing constraint checking of the print job data to detect one or more invalid print requirements and applying corrective actions upon detecting one or more invalid print requirements in order to facilitate printing of the print job data.
US09292233B2
An information processing apparatus capable of executing near field wireless communication, comprises: a display unit configured to display a screen; an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information regarding a device from a near field wireless communication tag with use of the near field wireless communication; a selection unit configured, in a case where the obtaining unit obtained the identification information, to select one of first processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and second processing for connecting to the device indicated by the identification information and sending data to the device, based on a type of screen being displayed by the display unit; and a processing unit configured to execute the processing selected by the selection unit.
US09292227B2
According to one embodiment, a method for a plurality of users to write at least one file to a medium in such a manner that the file is divisionally managed in a system environment in which an input/output control is performed on a storage system includes saving, in the medium as metadata, a user identifier (ID) for identifying a user and file attribute information about the file managed by a user associated with the user ID, and writing, as data, the file managed by the user to the medium as indicated by the file attribute information. In other embodiments, a writing program product, a reading program product, and a system are presented that allow a plurality of users to write at least one file to a medium in such a manner that the file is divisionally managed in a system environment.
US09292224B2
An computer program product, apparatus, and method for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing for an I/O operation at a host computer system configured for communication with a control unit. The computer program product is provided for performing a method including: sending a transport command word (TCW) to an I/O subsystem, the TCW specifying a location address and indicating whether the TCW directly or indirectly addresses a message; extracting the location address from the TCW; obtaining the message from the specified location address based on the TCW indicating direct addressing, the message including the one or more I/O commands; gathering the one or more I/O commands from command locations specified by a list of addresses identified by the specified location address to form the message based on the TCW indicating indirect addressing; and generating a message including the one or more I/O commands.
US09292222B2
A storage device for use with a computer is disclosed. The storage device includes a processor communicably connected to a computer through a computer interface and a system interface. The computer interface enables communications exclusively between the processor and the computer, while the system interface enables to processor to manage one or more hardware components of the computer. A network interface is also included to enable the processor to communicate over a network with select file servers to the exclusion of other file servers. A storage means is communicably connected to the processor and includes first and second designated storage sections. The processor has read-write access to both storage sections, while the computer has read-only access to the first storage section and read-write access to the second storage section. A removable media storage component is also communicably connected to the processor.
US09292219B2
Computer system is provided with a first physical computer and a second physical computer. The first physical computer is provided with a control device and a storage device coupled to the control device. The control device of the first physical computer constructs a virtual computer and can execute a predetermined guest program on the virtual computer. A part of a region of the storage device is used as a virtual storage device that is a storage device for the virtual computer. In the case in which the control device executes a live migration which is to migrate the virtual computer of the first physical computer to the second physical computer while executing the guest program in a substantial way, the control device executes a control for reducing a data writing amount in a certain period of time to a virtual storage device that has been allocated to the virtual computer.
US09292218B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a technique to manage object based tier to improve allocation of media to unallocated area. In one embodiment, a method of allocating an area of a logical volume to an unallocated area of a virtual volume for a write command comprises: calculating an object location of an object based on the write command and an object allocation information, the write command containing a virtual volume name and a virtual volume address of a virtual volume; selecting a tier from a plurality of tiers based on the calculated object location and an object and tier definition information; selecting a media type from a plurality of media types based on the selected tier and a tier and media definition information; and selecting a logical volume from a plurality of logical volumes based on the virtual volume specified by the write command, the object allocation information, a pool information, and the selected media type.
US09292217B2
Space sharing between logical volumes is achieved through a technique that enables available storage space to be flexibly consumed and released by the logical volumes. Each logical volume is associated with an address tree that defines how available storage space is consumed by the logical volume. The technique involves receiving an input/output (I/O) operation that specifies a logical address within an address tree associated with the logical volume, parsing the address tree to identify an entry therein, if any, that is associated with the logical address, where the entry stores physical address information that is associated with the logical address. If it is determined that the entry exists, then one or more translated I/O operations are generated based on the physical address information and forwarded to a physical device manager to carry out the translated one or more I/O operations.
US09292216B1
An embodiment of a computer-implemented method for use in managing allocation of a storage pool in a data storage system by calculating an allocation mode for the storage pool based on a policy is described. Also described are embodiments of a system and computer program product enabled for carrying out such computer-implemented allocation management.
US09292215B2
A method, system or computer usable program product for managing virtual disk snapshots including utilizing a processor to create multiple disk containers containing multiple snapshots on a host machine persistent memory, and combining the multiple snapshots on a guest operating system to produce a final snapshot utilized by the guest OS as a virtual disk.
US09292213B2
An embodiment may include circuitry to perform option (a) and/or option (b). In option (a), the circuitry may maintain a journal to record information that is related to a transaction that may result in writing to at least one logical address and at least one physical address of the storage. The information may be recorded in the journal via an atomic operation that may be executed prior to recording, at least in part, the information in a data structure that correlates the at least one logical address to the at least one physical address. In option (b), the circuitry may maintain another data structure that indicates a correlation between at least one other physical address and the at least one logical address. The correlation may be valid prior to completion of the transaction, but the correlation may no longer be valid after the completion.
US09292207B2
A method and apparatus for queuing FBNs of received write blocks for a file to a queuing data structure for assigning LBNs to the FBNs is described herein. A queuing data structure may comprise a modified binary search tree, such as a modified red-black search tree. Each node of a queuing data structure may comprise a base field for storing a base FBN and a range field for storing a range value comprising X bits. The range field of a single node may represent a range of two or more FBNs (“FBN range”), the FBN range being based on the base FBN. Each FBN in the FBN range may have a corresponding bit in the range field, the base FBN corresponding to a “base bit” in the range field. The value of the corresponding bit in the range field may indicate whether the FBN has been received.
US09292203B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a vertical candidate bar with an on-screen keyboard are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may display a keyboard on a touch-sensitive display screen. The keyboard may be a split keyboard that includes two panels of keys displayed on opposite sides of the display screen. The device also may display a candidate bar on the display screen, and the candidate bar may be vertically aligned with the keyboard. As character input is received via the keyboard, the device may update the candidate bar to include various candidate characters that are determined based on the received character input.
US09292202B2
A touch input device that includes a touch panel stacked with a display or integrally disposed with a display, and a controller. During a state of the display displaying a designated image, upon detecting that a specific location in the image has been touched with the touch panel, the controller detects a velocity by which a touch position changes and a direction in which the touch position changes while the touch continues, and determines an input instruction.
US09292201B2
A method and apparatus configured to control a display in a portable terminal includes sensing that the flexible display is bent, dividing the flexible display into a main screen and a sub screen, and outputting first information through the main screen and outputting second information through the sub screen.
US09292200B2
A touch-enabled terminal and a keypad providing method for the same are provided. The method of providing a virtual keypad includes activating the virtual keypad in character input mode, performing first-stage presentation by focusing a first one of characters assigned to each one of plural buttons of the virtual keypad and displaying the focused characters, and performing, in response to a touch on a button of the virtual keypad, second-stage presentation by displaying a character entered by the touched button, focusing a next enterable character related to the touched button, and focusing next enterable characters related respectively to the other buttons. The touch-enabled terminal provides visual information regarding currently enterable characters through the virtual keypad with respect to the last entered button.
US09292195B2
An electronic device, while in an interaction configuration mode for a first application, concurrently displays: a first user interface, one or more interaction control user interface objects, and an application restriction controls display user interface object for the first application. The device detects a first gesture, and in response, displays application restriction control user interface objects for the first application. A respective application restriction control user interface object indicates whether a corresponding feature of the first application is configured to be enabled in a restricted interaction mode. The device detects a second gesture, and changes display of a setting in the first application restriction control user interface object for the first application. The device detects a second input, and in response, enters the restricted interaction mode for the first application. The corresponding feature is restricted in accordance with the setting in the first application restriction control user interface object.
US09292193B2
A display device includes: a pixel array portion in which plural pixels in which display gradations are controlled based on written pixel signals are disposed in row and column directions; plural scanning lines disposed in the pixel array portion and supplying scanning pulses for the pixels in the rows; plural signal lines disposed in the pixel array portion and supplying the pixel signals for the pixels in the columns; a scanning line driver successively supplying the scanning pulses to the plural scanning lines and causing the pixels in the rows to carry out write of the pixel signals; and a signal line driver outputting the pixel signals for the pixels to the plural signal lines, and intermittently outputting a charge voltage with lower electric potential than a predetermined pixel signal voltage once or more for one frame period of time to each of the plural signal lines.
US09292184B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to interacting with a virtual scene at a perspective which is independent from the perspective of the user. Methods and systems can include either tracking and defining a perspective of the user based on the position and orientation of the user in the physical space, projecting a virtual scene for the user perspective to a virtual plane, tracking and defining a perspective of the a freehand user input device based on the position and orientation of the a freehand user input device, identifying a mark in the virtual scene which corresponds to the position and orientation of the device in the physical space, creating a virtual segment from the mark and interacting with virtual objects in the virtual scene at the end point of the virtual segment, as controlled using the device.
US09292179B2
A method for media recommendations is provided, including storing, on a peer device, a pre-existing list of media presentations including a plurality of pre-existing media presentations. A plurality of media recommendations are received from a plurality of recommending peer devices in response to a media presentation being played. Each of the plurality of media recommendations comprises an identifier that identifies a recommended media presentation. Each recommended media presentation is automatically added to the list of media presentations in a position determined based user preferences to form an updated list of media presentations. Based on the position of each of the media presentations, a media presentation is selected to play on the peer device from the updated list of media presentations. The selected media presentation is then played on the peer device.
US09292167B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a display unit including a touch screen; and a controller configured to enter the touch screen into a locked state, to display a lock screen and an application program icon for executing an application program on the lock screen when entering the locked state.
US09292166B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features along with karaoke jukebox and/or photobooth features. A combined karaoke/photobooth/jukebox may enable more integrated performance-like experiences in an in-home or out-of-home location or venue. By leveraging vast audio media libraries, trusted rights-respecting network infrastructure, and on-site image/video capturing from integrated recorders and/or remote portable devices, a more sociable experience may be created for karaoke jukebox patrons, e.g., where custom content can be generated and shared in a safe and legally appropriate manner.
US09292163B2
A social media platform is provided for interacting in a three-dimensional platform. The platform leverages a social graph from a user's social network to enable the user to invite social networking friends to interact within a three-dimensional virtual social venue. The platform also provides avatars to the user and friends who enter the virtual social venue. The platform also leverages the social graph to import user profile pictures from the social network, superimpose them onto the avatars, and display the avatars with the superimposed profile pictures within the context of the virtual three-dimensional space. Alternatively, the platform imports streaming images of the users from cameras, superimpose them onto the avatars, and display the avatars with their superimposed streaming images within the context of the virtual three-dimensional space.
US09292157B1
A request is sent from a client device to a host device hosting an application capable of providing a split window view of content. Generation of a split window associated with execution of the application on the host device may include at least two split windows. Information regarding the split windows may be sent from the host device to the client device over the communication network. The client device may then use information regarding a first split window to generate an image display corresponding to the first split window. In addition, the client device may process the information regarding a second split window to stitch an image display corresponding to the second split window to the image display corresponding to the first split window. As such, upon scrolling of the display of the client device, the image display corresponding to the second split window may be displayed.
US09292140B2
A touch panel includes dummy electrodes, disposed in a transmit electrode layer or a receive electrode layer whichever is below an isolation layer. In one embodiment, an anti-reflective layer includes at least one composite refractive-index three-layer structure. In another embodiment, the receive electrode layer is disposed below the isolation layer, and the receive electrode layer and the dummy electrodes are electrically coupled to a same electric potential.
US09292138B2
An embodiment of a capacitive sensor array may comprise a first set of sensor electrodes each comprising one or more large subelements and a second set of sensor electrodes each comprising one or more small subelements. In one embodiment, each of the small subelements may be smaller than any of the large subelements, and the first set of sensor electrodes and the second set of sensor electrodes are formed from a single layer of conductive material. In one embodiment, the surface area of the capacitive sensor array may be divisible into a grid of N×M unit cells, wherein each of the N×M unit cells contains one of the large subelements and k of the small subelements, where k is greater than or equal to 2.
US09292136B2
A system for providing awareness of an interactive surface is disclosed. The system may include a processor that is communicatively linked to an interactive surface. The processor may determine a position and a velocity of an object that is within range of the interactive surface based on one or more of media content, vibrations, air movement, sounds and, global positioning data associated with the object. Additionally, the processor may determine if the object has a trajectory that would cause the object to collide with the interactive surface based on the information associated with the object. If the processor determines that the object has a trajectory that would cause the object to collide with the interactive surface, the processor can generate a notification.
US09292130B2
The present invention provides an optical touch system configured to determine an object region according to a brightness information acquired by a brightness sensing unit and to identify a block information of objects within the object region according to an image information acquired by an image sensing unit. The present invention further provides an objection detection method for an optical touch system.
US09292125B2
A touch sensing device including digital filter is provided. The touch sensing device includes a touch panel and a touch sensor configured to sensing a touch through the touch panel. The touch sensor includes a plurality of sensing units connected to the touch panel through a plurality of sensing lines. Each of the plurality of sensing units includes a digital filter configured to generate a valid filtered value at a time and invalid filtered value at other times by performing an operation on a plurality of input digital samples and a plurality of filter coefficients.
US09292124B2
A mobile terminal device includes an electrostatic touch panel, a resistive touch panel, a memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor acquires a touch coordinate detected on at least one of the electrostatic touch panel and the resistive touch panel and determines a touch mode including the presence or absence of strong touch at equal to or higher than a predetermined pressure based on the acquired touch coordinate. Then, the processor specifies a touch coordinate at which the strong touch is made when a touch mode with the strong touch is determined and the touch coordinate is detected on each of the electrostatic touch panel and the resistive touch panel.
US09292122B1
An apparatus having a processing device for calibrating a touch-sensor device with calibration capacitors is described. Methods of calibrating the touch-sensor device using the same are also described. Processing device and multiple calibration capacitors are disposed on an integrated circuit (IC) die substrate. The processing device includes a measurement circuit to be coupled to a touch-sensor device and a switching circuit to selectively couple the calibration capacitors to the measurement circuit. The processing device is configured to calibrate the touch-sensor device by applying one or more capacitance touch values from one or more of the calibration capacitors using the switching circuit. The one or more capacitance touch values simulate a touch on the touch-sensor device.
US09292120B2
An electronic device including a touch display panel, a panel touch control unit, and an image adjustment unit is provided. The panel touch control unit is electronically connected to the touch display panel. The image adjustment unit is electronically connected to the touch display panel. In operation, the touch display panel has a content display region and a touch menu region with adjustable sizes. The panel touch control unit adjusts the size of the touch menu region according to a received touch signal. The touch display panel contacts an object to be pressed and generates a touch signal according to a contact area. The image adjustment unit adjusts the size of the content display region according to an adjustment signal generated by the panel touch control unit.
US09292106B2
Provided are a 3-dimensional interface device through motion recognition and a control method thereof, and is a method of controlling an operation range and a movement speed of the interface device. The interface device includes a display unit which is a display unit, a control terminal generating an output signal output to the display unit and controlling drive of the display unit, and an interface unit connected to the control terminal, receiving a user's command from a user, and transmitting the user's command to the control terminal. The interface unit includes a detecting unit detecting a user's motion, and a control unit controlling drive of the interface unit.
US09292105B2
A pointing stick includes: an operation member, which is provided to operate a movement of a cursor displayed on a screen of an information processing device: and an attachment member, which supports the operation member to be stood, wherein an attachment leg is protruded from the operation member and is inserted through an insertion hole formed in the attachment member when assembling the pointing stick, and wherein the attachment leg is fixed to not protrude from a back face of the attachment member, which is opposite to an front face on which the operation member stands, after assembling the pointing stick.
US09292104B2
Disclosed herein is a fixed mouse. The fixed mouse includes a housing which has an insert depression, a movable body, a portion or the entirety of which is inserted into the insert depression, a direction sensing means which detects a direction in which an external force is applied to the movable body and generates a signal used to move a pointer in a corresponding direction, and speed sensing means which detects the intensity of the external force applied to the movable body and generates a signal to vary the speed of the pointer in response to the intensity of the external force. As such, the direction sensing means for moving the pointer and the speed sensing means for controlling the speed of the pointer are independently provided. Therefore, the production, maintenance and repair of the direction sensing means and the speed sensing means can be facilitated. Furthermore, the degree of design freedom for layout of a product is increased. Moreover, the fixed mouse may be configured such that a user selectively uses the function of controlling the speed of the pointer, thus making it convenient for the user.
US09292103B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing a video stream to reduce platform power by employing a stepped and distributed pipeline process, wherein CPU-intensive processing is selectively performed. The techniques are particularly well-suited for hand-based navigational gesture processing. In one example case, for instance, the techniques are implemented in a computer system wherein initial threshold detection (image disturbance) and optionally user presence (hand image) processing components are proximate to or within the system's camera, and the camera is located in or proximate to the system's primary display. In some cases, image processing and communication of pixel information between various processing stages which lies outside a markered region is eliminated. In some embodiments, the markered region is aligned with a mouse pad, desk area, or a user input device (e.g., keyboard). Pixels evaluated by the system can be limited to a subset of markered region. A simplified skintone detection process can be employed.
US09292099B1
The thumbs-free computer keyboard is a computer keyboard having circuitry to detect user input and to communicate data corresponding to such user inputs. Thumbs-free computer keyboard includes depressible keys that are supported by the keyboard body and in data communication with the circuitry. The depressible keys are laid out in a modified QWERTY configuration and positioned such that a user does not have to press any keys with his thumbs. The modified keyboard configuration includes increased space between the G and H keys. An input device that works in place of the traditional space bar is disposed within the increased space between the G and H keys, such that when a user activates the input device, a space bar function is communicated to the computer. In some examples, the input is one input device, while in other examples, two input devices are described. One or more input devices are placed in locations on the keyboard that are least disruptive of conventional typing.
US09292098B2
An input device featuring a representation means with a transparent keypad situated above a representation means, wherein the keypad consists of a multitude of transparent keys and functions are mapped to the keys of the keypad, the functions being represented by means of symbols which are displayed within an area on the representation means assigned to the respective keys.
US09292095B2
A method of controlling a photographing apparatus includes: recognizing a gesture in an input image as a previously defined gesture; if the gesture corresponds to a previously defined gesture for a zoom operation, performing the zoom operation using optical zoom; and while the zoom operation is being performed, continuing recognizing the gesture by taking into consideration the zoom operation.
US09292092B2
An interactive content delivery system (10) includes means for displaying visual content (20) to a group of individuals (14), means for detecting a collective gesture (12) of the group, and a control system (26), coupled to the means for displaying visual content (20) and the means for detecting a collective gesture (12). The control system (26) is configured to modify the content in response to the collective gesture.
US09292091B1
An apparatus and method for providing an active feedback of a position of a conductive object, manipulated by a user on a sensing device, to allow detection of a reference location on the sensing device by the user. The apparatus may include a sensing device to detect a presence of a conductive object, manipulated by a user on the sensing device, a processing device coupled to the sensing device, the processing device to determine a position of the conductive object on the sensing device, and a feedback mechanism coupled to the processing device to provide an active feedback to the user to allow detection of a reference location on the sensing device by the user.
US09292090B2
A haptic feedback device which provides haptic feedback to a user touching a panel, the haptic feedback device including: the panel; a position obtaining unit which obtains a first touch position touched on the panel by the user and a second touch position touched on the panel by the user after the first touch position; a speed calculation unit which calculates a speed of a touch starting at the first touch position and ending at the second touch position; a modulation signal generation unit which generates a modulation signal having a frequency component at a frequency that increases with the speed; a carrier signal generation unit which generates a carrier signal for vibrating the panel; a modulation unit which modulates the carrier signal using the modulation signal; and an actuator which provides haptic feedback to the user by vibrating the panel in accordance with the modulated carrier signal.
US09292088B2
Disclosed is a display device including: a display unit; a gaze detection unit configured to detect the user's gaze; and a control unit configured to control a display of a series of images, wherein in case that the user removes the gaze while the series of images are sequentially displayed, the control unit obtains first information specifying a position of an image in the series of images, which is displayed when the user removes the gaze, and instructs the display unit to continue a dynamic display of the series of images, and then, in case that the user returns the gaze, the control unit makes a judgment as to whether the control unit executes a replay process from the position specified in the first information, and in case that the control unit judges that the control unit executes the replay process, the control unit executes the replay process.
US09292082B1
Example method and systems for text-entry are disclosed. A method may involve displaying a user interface comprising a character line, the character line comprising a plurality of characters in a substantially linear arrangement. The method may then involve receiving a first input via a touch-sensitive input device, wherein the first input comprises a detected movement on a first portion of the touch-sensitive input device. Further, the method may involve, in response to receiving the first input, displaying an indication of a selected character. The method may then involve receiving a second input via the touch-sensitive input device, wherein the second input comprises a detected movement from the first portion to a second portion of the touch-sensitive input device and back to the first portion. The method may then involve displaying the selected character in a text-entry area of the user interface that is separate from the character line.
US09292080B2
Controlling background activity in a computing device or system during a low-power mode is described. In some example techniques, when a computing device or system is in a low power mode, a determination is made whether to block one or more trigger events from causing an activation of one or more respective background task operations. Based at least in part on the determination, at least one trigger event may be allowed to cause an activation of a respective background task operation during the low power mode.
US09292076B2
Fast recalibration circuitry for input/output (IO) compensation finite state machine power-down-exit
Fast recalibration circuitry for input/output (IO) compensation finite state machine power-down exit is described. The fast recalibration circuitry includes a finite state machine having a volatile memory to store an IO compensation setting and a power supply coupled to the volatile memory to provide power to the volatile memory. The fast recalibration circuitry includes a persistent memory coupled to the volatile memory and one or more circuits, coupled to the volatile memory and the persistent memory, to identify an event to enter a power-down mode, wherein the power-down mode comprises the power supply removing power from the volatile memory and transfer the IO compensation setting in the volatile memory to the persistent memory prior to the power supply removing the power from the volatile memory.
US09292075B2
An information processing apparatus operating in a first power state, a second power state, a third power state, and fourth power state includes a power control unit configured to the third power state to the fourth power state when a first shift time is measured, and a control unit configured to, when the power control unit has shifted the power state of the information processing apparatus from the third power state to the first power state, clear the measured time and not to, when the power control unit has shifted the power state of the information processing apparatus from the third power state to the second power state, clear the measured time clear.
US09292072B2
A power-management method is provided, and the power-management method includes setting a central processing unit in a first low-power state when receiving a second low-power state request requiring the central processing unit to enter the second low-power state, obtaining first idle periods of the peripheral modules respectively to determine a second idle period according to the first idle periods of the peripheral modules, determining whether the peripheral modules have not sent a data-access request during the second idle period, setting the central processing unit in the second low-power state when the peripheral modules have not sent the data-access request during the second idle period, wherein each first idle period is an interval period between two data transmissions of each peripheral module.
US09292060B1
Customers in a multi-tenant environment can obtain power consumption information for a set of resources or other computing components used by those customers, including time-accurate accounting for various components of those resources utilized on behalf of the customer. A customer can also have the ability to specify how the resources are to be operated when used for the customer, in order to manage the amount of power consumption. The accounting can be performed even when the resources are shared among multiple users or entities. Various hardware components or agents can be used to provide detailed power consumption information for those components that is associated with a particular customer. The information can be used not only for accounting and monitoring purposes, but also to make dynamic adjustments based on various changes in usage, power consumption, or other such factors.
US09292058B2
A heat sink for a processor includes: a main heat exchange zone that bears in contact with a processor; at least one peripheral heat exchange zone that bears in contact with a cooling source, and at least one heat pipe connecting the main heat exchange zone with the peripheral heat exchange zone, the heat pipe containing a cooling fluid.
US09292057B2
A system includes a support rack and a component housing. The support rack includes a pair of vertically-extending panels, and each panel of the pair of vertically-extending panels has one or more first mating members of a water coupler pair extending outwardly from the support rack. The component housing is slidably disposed between the pair of vertically-extending panels and has a front panel, a pair of sidewalls extending rearwardly from the front panel, a component water line, and two second mating members of the water coupler pair connected to each other by the component water line.
US09292051B2
A touch pad input device includes a movable element having an operation surface that serves as an upper surface, a first sensing unit for sensing a touch or proximity of an operating object on or to the operation surface, a stationary element disposed under the movable element, a rotation support mechanism rotatably supporting the movable element, a second sensing unit for sensing rotation of the movable element, and a retaining mechanism retaining the movable element. The rotation support mechanism includes fulcrum portions arranged on one of the movable element and the stationary element and abutment portions arranged on the other one of the movable element and the stationary element. The retaining mechanism is positioned under the movable element in an area covered by the operation surface when viewed from above. The retaining mechanism urges the movable element downward to hold the fulcrum portions in pressure contact with the abutment portions.
US09292049B1
A portable computer includes a base, at least one bracket anchored to the base, a display assembly, and a display bracket anchored to the display assembly. The portable computer also includes a hinge including a set of hinge components, a cam, and a shaft, the cam being connected to the at least one bracket, the shaft being connected to the display bracket, and the cam and the hinge components being connected to the shaft. A cable passes around the shaft. The cable is coupled to a point in the display assembly and to an area of the base.
US09292048B2
An electronic communication device having a touch-sensitive display panel in a display module and a keypad in a keypad module is disclosed. The two modules are connected to one another and can be moved relative to one another into an open position and a closed position. The touch-sensitive display panel is on the outside of the display module in the closed position. Guide members on both sides of the keypad of the keypad module can operatively interact with guide members associated with the display module. The keypad module has a rotatable traction member that can operatively interact with a fixed traction member of the display module. The display module is mounted on the keypad module so as to be able to slide or move. In fully slid-out position, the display module can be rotated or tilted or folded against the keypad module in a manner similar to a laptop PC.
US09292044B2
An electronic device may have a display. Inactive portions of the display such as peripheral portions of the display may be masked using an opaque masking layer. An opening may be provided in the opaque masking layer to allow light to pass. For example, a logo may be viewed through an opening in the opaque masking layer and a camera may receive light through an opening in the opaque masking layer. The display may include upper and lower polarizers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The opaque masking layer may be formed on the upper polarizer, may be interposed between the upper polarizer and the color filter layer, or may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The upper polarizer may have unpolarized windows for cameras, logos, or other internal structures.
US09292043B2
The present disclosure provides flat panel monitor stands and related systems and methods. The flat panel monitor stands can comprise a base including a pedestal and a support arm extending upwardly from the pedestal, the top portion being distally positioned with respect to the pedestal. The stand can also include a tilt mechanism connected to the top portion of the support arm. A bracket can be pivotally attached to the tilt mechanism at an off-center location on the bracket so that the bracket has a low position and a high position when pivoted about the tilt mechanism. The bracket can also be attachable to a flat panel monitor in both the low position and the high position without reorienting the flat panel monitor.
US09292039B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a timeout management application. Latency data for executing services is obtained. The used service capacity is calculated. If the service capacity is outside of a predefined range, the timeout of a selected service is reconfigured.
US09292031B2
A household energy management system for managing multiple appliances is provided. In an embodiment the system comprises a controller for managing power consumption of multiple appliances within a household; a utility meter for measuring an amount of energy usage to a household, the utility meter communicating to the controller a demand limit; and a user interface through which a user can enter a parameter of energy usage. The controller establishes a demand limit. A communication network connects the controller to the utility meter and/or to a demand server. The controller controls or operates the multiple appliances based cm communications from at least one of the utility meter, the user interface, and a demand server, such that the energy usage does not exceed the established demand limit.
US09292028B2
A control circuit can control the operation of a switching converter to provide a regulated load current to a load. The switching converter includes an inductor and a high-side and a low side-transistor for switching the load current provided via the inductor. A digital modulator is configured to provide a modulated signal having a duty cycle determined by a digital duty cycle value. A current sense circuit is coupled to at least one of the transistors and is configured to regularly sample a load current value. A comparator is coupled to the current sense circuit and is configured to compare the sampled load current value with a first threshold and to provide a respective comparator output signal. A regulator is configured to receive the comparator output signal and to calculate an updated digital duty cycle value.
US09292022B2
A system is provided for remote control of at least one operating condition of a site. The system includes a proximity detection module at a residential site, which is configured to receive a communication regarding a location of a location reporting device or a mobile device. The proximity detection module is configured to alter or adjust a current temperature setting for the site based on a distance or location of the location reporting device or mobile device relative to the site.
US09292016B2
A tool welding system is disclosed that includes a table that heats a tool. A multi-axis robot includes a welding head that is moved relative to the table in response to a command. A controller is in communication with the robot and generates the command in response to welding parameters. The weld parameters are based upon a difference between an initial tool shape and a desired tool shape. The difference between the initial tool shape and the desired tool shape corresponds to a desired weld shape. The desired weld shape is adjusted based upon initial tool shape variations, which includes thermal growth of the tool. The tool is welded to provide the desired weld shape to achieve a desired tool shape.
US09292009B2
An electromotive adjustment device for a piece of furniture having an adjustable furniture part. The electromotive adjustment device includes a housing, a drive gear motor, a control device having a device housing, and at least one drive unit having an output member connected to the adjustable furniture part. The drive gear motor is configured to be one of brought to a standstill and reversed by a safety device during the occurrence of a pinching between one or more of two furniture parts, a furniture part and a component, and a furniture part and a part of a person's body. The safety device includes a light transmitter configured such that a light beam directed against one of the adjustable furniture part and the component and the light beam is reflected to meet a light receiver.
US09292006B2
A radio-controlled timepiece includes an oscillator circuit of which an oscillation condition can be varied by an oscillation condition adjustment circuit that adjusts an oscillation frequency, a frequency divider circuit that divides the oscillation frequency and generates a time measurement reference timing signal, a frequency adjustment circuit that adjusts the period of time measurement reference timing signal, a local oscillator circuit that uses the oscillation frequency as a reference frequency and outputs a local oscillation frequency, and a control circuit. The control circuit, when the radio-controlled timepiece is performing reception operations, causes the oscillation condition adjustment circuit to operate whereby the oscillation frequency is adjust to an optimal frequency for the local oscillator circuit and the variation setting value of the frequency adjustment circuit is set such that time measurement reference timing signal has a fixed period for normal operations and for reception operations.
US09291999B2
A ratchet for winding a barrel, including an axial passage for fitting the ratchet onto an arbor carrying pivotal drive mechanism. The ratchet includes, in the axial passage, a strip spring permitting fitting of the ratchet onto the arbor, and exerting a bearing force on the pivotal drive mechanism, wherein the at least one strip spring forms a complementary drive for pivotally driving the arbor. A timepiece barrel for pivotal assembly between a bottom plate and a bridge includes a spring housed between a pivoting drum and a ratchet and hooked between, at an outer end thereof, the drum, and at an inner end thereof, an arbor, the arbor pivoting integrally with the ratchet about a pivot axis.
US09291998B2
Methods and devices for holographic imaging are disclosed. In some embodiments, a holographic imaging device is disclosed that includes at least one radiation source, a reflective surface, and an image sensor. The at least one radiation source may be configured to emit a radiation wave towards the reflective surface and an object positioned on or near the reflective surface, where the radiation wave is reflected by the reflective surface to produce a reference wave and is reflected directly toward the image sensor by the object to produce an object wave directed at the image sensor. Further, the image sensor may be configured to determine an interference pattern between the reference wave and the object wave. A holographic image representing the object may be reconstructed based on the interference pattern.
US09291997B2
A high speed hologram recording apparatus and method. The hologram recording apparatus includes: a light source for emitting coherent light; a beam splitter for splitting the coherent light emitted from the light source into a signal beam and a reference beam; a signal beam transfer unit comprising an angular deflector that changes a direction of the signal beam according to time, and irradiating the signal beam onto a hologram recording medium; and a reference beam transfer unit irradiating the reference beam at a location of the hologram recording medium where the signal beam is also irradiated.
US09291993B2
A drive transmission mechanism includes a driving coupling element having a first engaging portion and a first operating portion; and a holder having a second engaging portion and a second operating portion, wherein when the first and second engaging portion are engaged, the driving coupling element is held in a middle position to be prevented from moving therefrom to a projected position. When the driving coupling element is moved from the middle position toward a retracted position, the first and second operating portions contact each other so that the driving coupling element rotates to a second angular position where they are disengaged from each other. By the driving coupling element rotating from the first angular position to the second angular position, the driving coupling element is enabled to move to the projected position.
US09291988B2
An image forming apparatus to which a plurality of process cartridges has a safety switch for detecting opening and closing of a front cover, stroke switches for detecting positions of the process cartridges, a display portion and a speaker for notifying a state of the process cartridge, and a control portion. The control portion has a cartridge information notifying function for, when closing of the front cover is detected by the safety switch and the process cartridge is not detected by the stroke switch, notifying information of the process cartridge. Further, the control portion has a cartridge information notifying function for notifying first notification information for replacing the process cartridge, a cartridge moving function for moving the process cartridge by a moving portion, and a cartridge information notification cancelling function for cancelling notification of the first notification information.
US09291982B2
A driving transmission device includes a motor, a first pulley to be rotated by the motor, a second pulley connected to a rotating member, an endless belt wound on the first pulley and the second pulley, a dielectric layer provided between the endless belt and the first pulley and between the endless belt and the second pulley, and a power supply unit configured to apply a voltage to the first pulley. The first pulley, the endless belt, and the second pulley are connected in series. A length by which the endless belt is wound on the second pulley is larger than a length by which the endless belt is wound on the first pulley. A voltage applied to the second pulley is lower than the voltage applied to the first pulley.
US09291981B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a cylindrical base and a photosensitive layer disposed on the cylindrical base. The photosensitive layer has a photoconductive layer disposed on the cylindrical base, a charge injection blocking layer disposed on the photoconductive layer, and a surface layer disposed on the charge injection blocking layer. The charge injection blocking layer contains at least one of nitrogen and oxygen, carbon, and a group 13 element. A content of the at least one of nitrogen and oxygen contained in the charge injection blocking layer is lower on a side of the surface layer than on a side of the photosensitive layer.
US09291979B2
A printing control device includes a glossiness target value determining unit that determines a glossiness target value indicating a target of glossiness of image data as a print target, a color separation amount determining unit that determines color separation amounts of a plurality of colored color materials as amounts of the colored color materials to be allocated to the respective colored color materials based on a sum of respective amounts of the colored color materials for the glossiness target value, a color separation processing unit that executes color replacement among a plurality of pieces of colored plane data based on the color separation amounts of the respective colored color materials, and an image data generator that generates the image data based on the pieces of colored plane data on which the color replacement has been executed.
US09291976B2
An image forming system includes an option apparatus having a first conveying path; and an image forming apparatus having a second conveying path configured to be connected to the first conveying path. The image forming apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect a recording material conveyed on the second conveying path at a first speed; and a first controller configured to notify the option apparatus of a detection timing of the recording material. The option apparatus includes a second controller configured to determine whether the detection timing is different from a predetermined timing upon receiving a notification of the detection timing, and, if it is different, to determine a second speed based on the detection timing and the predetermined timing and change the conveying speed of the recording material from the first speed to the second speed.
US09291970B1
Provided is a fixing device including a fixing unit that includes a pipe-shaped fixing member which includes an outermost layer including at least one selected from a group consisting of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber and a denatured hydrogenated nitrile rubber, and heats and pressurizes the recording medium to fix an unfixed developer image on a recording medium by bringing the outermost layer into contact with a surface of the recording medium which holds the developer image, the recording medium being transported while holding the unfixed developer image, and a heating unit that is disposed on an upstream side of the fixing unit in a transport direction of the recording medium, and heats the recording medium transported while holding the unfixed developer image.
US09291960B2
The image forming apparatus includes a first control unit which controls a voltage generation unit that converts an AC voltage to generate a DC voltage, a heat generation member, and a switch which supplies or shuts off electric power to the heat generation member. The first control unit acquires information for controlling the switch, and controls the switch.
US09291933B2
An image forming apparatus including: an acquisition unit for independently acquiring image correction information on every page, the image correction information being independently preset for every page on which an image is to be formed; and a control unit for correcting an image forming condition for every page based on the image correction information acquired by the acquisition unit and controlling the image forming apparatus to form the image on a sheet based on the corrected image forming condition.
US09291931B2
Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner, including: toner base particles including a polyester resin as a binder resin; and an external additive on the surface of the toner base particles. The external additive includes silica. The silica is produced by sol-gel method, and is aspherical. The percentage of change in the specific surface area of the toner when it is stored under high-temperature, high-humidity conditions is from 25% to 45%.
US09291927B2
The present application relates to a method for concentrating an ink for an electrostatic printing process, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (a) providing the ink for an electrostatic printing process, the ink comprising chargeable particles in a liquid carrier; (b) passing the ink between a chargeable conveyor and a first electrode, wherein a potential is applied such that the ink becomes adhered to the chargeable conveyor; (c) passing the ink on the conveyor past a moving surface, wherein the ink contacts the moving surface and a potential is applied between the conveyor and the moving surface, such that the chargeable particles are disposed to move toward the conveyor and some of the liquid carrier is removed to increase the concentration of the chargeable particles in the liquid carrier on the conveyor to form a concentrated ink on the conveyor, the conveyor and the moving surface then diverging from one another, such that substantially all of the concentrated ink remains on the conveyor; (d) removing the concentrated ink from the conveyor and transferring it to a storage vessel. An apparatus for carrying out this method is also disclosed.
US09291925B2
A method for preparing a latex or dispersion, the method comprising contacting at least one resin with an organic solvent to form a resin mixture; neutralizing the resin mixture with a neutralizing agent; and subjecting the resin mixture flow to steam flow in a continuous manner to form a dispersion. A method for forming toner, the method comprising: contacting a resin to an organic solvent and a neutralizing agent to form a resin mixture; subjecting the resin mixture flow to a steam flow in a continuous manner to form a dispersion; aggregating particles from a pre-toner mixture, the pre-toner mixture comprising the dispersion, an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and coalescing the aggregated particles to form toner particles. An apparatus that can perform the methods.
US09291915B2
The present invention relates to a method for microstructuring a substrate. In the method according to the invention a substrate with a region to be structured is provided, and then by applying colloid spheres into this region, a colloid sphere monolayer is formed. The thus applied colloid sphere monolayer exhibits a certain geometrical symmetry. Said colloid sphere monolayer is then illuminated with a beam of spatially modulated intensity distribution synchronized to said monolayer, thereby performing mechanical structuring in said region in conformity with a desired pattern through concentrating beam intensity via near-field effect behind said colloid sphere monolayer in the propagation direction of light.
US09291908B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of forming a pattern, including forming a thermally crosslinkable molecule layer including a thermally crosslinkable molecule on a substrate, forming a photosensitive composition layer including a photosensitive composition on the thermally crosslinkable molecule layer, chemically binding the thermally crosslinkable molecule to the photosensitive composition by heating, selectively irradiating the photosensitive composition layer with energy rays, forming a block copolymer layer including a block copolymer on the photosensitive composition layer, and forming a microphase-separated structure in the block copolymer layer.
US09291905B2
A developing solution for photolithography in which tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAH) is used as an alkaline agent of the developing solution and deposition of TBAH is suppressed. A method for producing a developing solution for photolithography capable of suppressing TBAH deposition when producing the developing solution by diluting a concentrated developing solution containing TBAH and a production apparatus used for the production method. The developing solution includes tetrabutylammonium hydroxide and at least one of a water-soluble organic solvent, a surfactant, and a clathrate compound. The temperature of the liquid is maintained at 27° C. or higher during dilution.
US09291899B2
A resist underlayer composition and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the composition including a solvent and an organosilane polymer, the organosilane polymer being a condensation polymerization product of at least one first compound represented by Chemical Formulae 1 and 2 and at least one second compound represented by Chemical Formulae 3 to 5.
US09291898B2
There is provided an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising (P) a resin having (a) a repeating unit represented by the specific formula; a resist film formed using the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition; a pattern forming method comprising (i) a step of forming a film by using the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, (ii) a step of exposing the film, and (iii) a step of developing the exposed film by using a developer to form a pattern; a method for manufacturing an electronic device, comprising the pattern forming method; and an electronic device manufactured by the manufacturing method of an electronic device.
US09291897B2
There is provided a pattern forming method comprising, in order, (1) a step of forming a film by using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing (Ab) a resin having specific repeating units, (2) a step of exposing the film by using an electron beam or an extreme-ultraviolet ray, and (3) a step of developing the exposed film by using an organic solvent-containing developer to form a negative pattern.
US09291889B2
An opening width of a main pattern is a width with which a transcription pattern is formed on a target member to be exposed by transmitted exposure light, and is a dimension of 0.8×(λ/NA)×M or less (where λ is a wavelength of the exposure light, and NA and M are a numerical aperture and a reduction ratio of a reduced projection optical system of an exposure apparatus). Each of a first auxiliary pattern adjacent to the main pattern and a second auxiliary pattern located outside the first auxiliary pattern to be adjacent thereto has a width with which a transcription pattern is not formed by the exposure light and generates diffracted light. A first distance between respective centers of the main pattern and the first auxiliary pattern is greater than a second distance between respective centers of the first auxiliary pattern and the second auxiliary pattern.
US09291887B2
A rollable display screen for use in electronic display systems includes a rollable screen that is mechanically coupled to a roller mechanism and has a plurality of pixel elements disposed thereon. The roller mechanism is configured as a stowing mechanism for the rollable screen, and may be further configured to deploy the rollable screen as a substantially planar viewing surface. The rollable display screen can be advantageously used for a durable and easily transported electronic display device since the rollable display screen is light-weight, durable, and compact.
US09291880B2
Incident light filter or cap assembly adapted to be attached to a mobile device equipped with a camera and software to measure light levels.
US09291877B2
An apparatus and method for the function to control the lighting direction onto an object surface, focus the light, and maintain the lighting uniformity. A ring light system takes advantage of a contoured reflector to match with the uniform, non-focused ring light source, and converting the non-focused ring light source into a focused uniform ring light source.
US09291868B2
A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel having a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A first thin film transistor is connected to the first sub-pixel electrode. A second thin film transistor is connected to the second sub-pixel electrode. A third thin film transistor is connected to the second sub-pixel electrode. A fourth thin film transistor is connected to a drain electrode of the third thin film transistor. A first gate line is connected to the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor. A data line is connected to the first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor. A second gate line is connected to the third thin film transistor. A third gate line is connected to the fourth thin film transistor.
US09291864B2
In a display panel and a method of manufacturing the display panel, the display panel includes a display substrate including a first electrode and a second electrode insulated from the first electrode and disposed on the first electrode, an opposite substrate including a third electrode facing the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the display substrate and the opposite substrate. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules, a reactive mesogen polymer, and nano-rods.
US09291859B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a light blocking member disposed on one of the first substrate or the second substrate, where the light blocking member is disposed in a display area including a plurality of pixel areas, and the light blocking member includes a plurality of extensions having a predetermined plane shape; and a plurality of first spacers disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate and contacting an upper surface of a plurality of thin films disposed on the other of the first substrate and the second substrate, in which the extensions of the light blocking member includes a first extension and a second extension, and the first extension overlaps the first spacers, and the second extension does not overlap the first spacers.
US09291857B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display device reducing display unevenness and image sticking even though employing a PSA polymerization step in which monomers are added to a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates including an alignment film and a structure consisting of an organic insulating material; a polymer layer that is formed on the alignment film to control the alignment of liquid crystal molecules; and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal material, the layer being placed between the pair of substrates, wherein the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of one or more kinds of radical polymerizable monomers contained in the liquid crystal layer, and at least one kind of the radical polymerizable monomers includes a structure which generates radicals through self-cleavage reaction by light irradiation and two or more radical polymerizable groups.
US09291854B2
A backlight assembly includes a light emitting portion, a chromaticity converter and a light guide plate. The light emitting portion generates a first light. The chromaticity converter receives the first light, and converts a chromaticity of the first light to generate a uniform light having a uniform chromaticity. The light guide plate includes an incident surface to which the uniform light is incident, and a light exiting surface guiding the uniform light provided from the incident surface and emitting the uniform light. Accordingly, a display quality of a display apparatus may be enhanced.
US09291849B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a gate line, a data line, and a common voltage line formed on the first substrate; a first passivation layer formed on the gate line, the data line, and the common voltage line; and a pixel electrode and a common electrode formed on the first passivation layer and overlapping each other with a second passivation layer therebetween, and the common electrode is connected to the common voltage line through a common contact hole, and the common contact hole is disposed for every two or more dots.
US09291843B2
A display apparatus includes a flexible display panel including a plurality of non-bending areas and a bending area between the non-bending areas, the flexible display panel being foldable along the bending area, a frame part in the non-bending areas of the flexible display panel and supporting the non-bending areas to prevent the non-bending areas from being bent, and a sensor in the bending area to sense folding of the flexible display panel.
US09291841B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate including a pixel region, a thin film transistor formed on the substrate, a light blocking member formed at a boundary of the pixel region, and a pixel electrode formed in the pixel region, the pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor. The display device also includes a common electrode formed on the light blocking member, the common electrode spaced apart from the pixel electrode with a microcavity interposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, and a roof layer comprising a color filter formed on the common electrode. The display device further includes an opening formed in the common electrode and the roof layer to expose a portion of the microcavity, a liquid crystal filling the microcavity, and an overcoat formed on the roof layer to cover the opening and seal the microcavity for each pixel region.
US09291839B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, there are disclosed a laser repairing apparatus and a laser repairing method for a substrate. The laser repairing apparatus comprises: a laser emitter; and a light transmission sheet with a light-shielding pattern, wherein a laser emitted by the laser emitter is used to cut a superfluous remainder of an electrode on the substrate, the light transmission sheet is located between the laser emitter and the substrate, and as compared with a pattern of the electrode on the substrate, the light-shielding pattern on the light transmission sheet has the same shape and a size at a predetermined ratio.
US09291837B1
An optical modulator includes a waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer having a first and a second input and a first and a second output, a feedback waveguide segment connecting the second output with the second input, and a traveling-wave electrode; wherein the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, feedback waveguide segment and traveling-wave electrode are substantially arranged at or adjacent the perimeter of a smooth curve defining a closed geometric figure, the traveling-wave electrode extending along at least 50% of the length of the perimeter of the smooth curve.
US09291835B2
Methods and apparatus for finding a bias voltage (20) corresponding to a quadrature point of an optical modulator, the modulator comprising a biasable component which is configurable to be biased by application of the bias voltage (20) such that the modulator operates at quadrature, the method comprising: providing a target for the output power of the modulator which corresponds to quadrature; applying, to the biasable component, a bias voltage (20) having an initial value; thereafter, finding a value for the bias voltage (20) that biases the biasable component such that the output power of the modulator is within a pre-defined range of the target by, starting at the initial value, alternately increasing and decreasing (or decreasing and increasing) the bias voltage (20) with gradually increasing amplitude; and identifying the found value for the bias voltage (20) as a bias voltage corresponding to a quadrature point of the optical modulator.
US09291827B2
A mobile terminal comprises a terminal body, and an image module mounted onto the terminal body to provide an externally exposed stereoscopic image. The image module includes an optically transmissive layer made of an optically transmissive material, a pattern layer made of an optically transmissive material and protruding from a rear surface of the optically transmissive layer in a shape corresponding to the image, and a reflection layer disposed to cover the pattern layer to reflect at least part of light incident onto the pattern layer toward a front surface of the optically transmissive layer.
US09291823B2
A head-wearable device includes a center support extending in generally lateral directions, a first side arm extending from a first end of the center frame support and a second side arm extending from a second end of the center support. The device may further include a nosebridge that is removably coupled to the center frame support. The device may also include a lens assembly that is removably coupled to the center support or the nosebridge. The lens assembly may have a single lens, or a multi-lens arrangement configured to cooperate with display to correct for a user's ocular disease or disorder.
US09291810B1
A magnification zoom sighting system is disclosed. One embodiment includes an objective lens group that produces an image of a distant object at a first focal plane, a zoom lens element that relays the image from the first focal plane to a second focal plane and varies an optical magnification of the image, an ocular lens group for viewing the image at the second focal plane, a magnification adjustment mechanism coupled to the zoom lens element for adjusting an optical magnification setting of the zoom lens element to adjust the optical magnification of the image, and a reticle having magnification indicia, disposed proximate the first focal plane and such that it is configured to be viewable through the ocular lens group in a field of view thereof and superimposed upon the image. The magnification indicia conveys the optical magnification setting of the zoom lens element.
US09291800B2
A lens apparatus includes, in order from an object side: a first lens unit; an aperture stop; and a positive second lens unit. The first lens unit includes, in order from the object side, a first negative lens, a second negative lens having at least one aspheric surface, and a positive lens. The second lens unit includes at least one negative lens and at least two positive lenses. The first and second negative lenses of the first lens unit are meniscus lenses having a surface convex toward the object side. The focal length of the optical system, the focal lengths of the first and second lens units, the mean values of Abbe constants of the positive lens and the negative lenses of the first lens unit, and the mean values of Abbe constants of the positive lenses and the negative lenses of the second lens unit are appropriately configured.
US09291793B2
In one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus is provided including a linkage and a balancing mechanism coupled to the linkage around a pivotal joint. The linkage couples to a support structure at a first end and support a weight applied to a second end. The balancing mechanism counter balances the weight applied to the second end of the linkage. As the linkage is deformed to vertically adjust the height of the weight with a different moment arm length, the balancing mechanism varies a cable path length to modify the compression of a spring and a tension in a cable to adjust the amount of counter balance force applied to the linkage.
US09291792B2
Embodiments of the invention include an apparatus including an optical fiber having a distal end configured to emit a beam of energy. The apparatus also includes a tube including a tube channel. The distal end of the optical fiber is disposed in the tube channel. The apparatus further includes a shock absorber disposed on the tube and a cap disposed on the shock absorber.
US09291783B2
An optical fiber attaching section, a photoelectric conversion device attaching section, and a lens are integrally formed by a light-transmitting resin material. The optical fiber attaching section is formed concentrically with an optical axis OA of the lens. A contact surface for the photoelectric conversion device in the photoelectric conversion device attaching section is formed having a tilt in relation to a plane that is perpendicular to the optical axis OA. As the photoelectric conversion device, a photoelectric conversion device is attached in which a contact surface for the photoelectric conversion device attaching section is formed in parallel with a light-receiving surface of a light-receiving element.
US09291782B2
The present invention provides a multi-channel transceiver module comprising a unitary housing having a first channel body and a second channel body. Each channel body includes a male plug end and a receptacle plug end. A bridge member is provided for joining the first and second bodies. The bridge members disposed at the receptacle end. A gap is provided between the plug ends of each channel body. The gap extends from each plug end to the bridge member to partially divide each channel so that each plug end is insertable within a separate receptacle cage.
US09291780B2
A fiber optic connector and fiber optic cable assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a fiber optic cable having a plurality of optical fibers. The assembly also includes a connector body, a multi-fiber ferrule and a protective housing. The fiber optic cable is anchored to a proximal end of the connector body and the multi-fiber ferrule is mounted at a distal end of the connector body. The multi-fiber ferrule supports end portions of optical fibers of the optical fiber cable. The protective housing mounts over the connector body. A dimensionally recoverable sleeve prevents contaminants from entering the protective housing through a proximal end of the protective housing. A dust cap and sealing member prevent contaminants from entering the protective housing through a distal end of the protective housing.
US09291764B2
A light-emitting package allowing light to enter a thin lightguide plate efficiently has a package substrate 11, light-emitting elements 2 mounted on the package substrate, a transparent resin part 12 sealing the light-emitting elements on the package substrate, a cut portion 12a formed in the transparent resin part in parallel to the package substrate so as to be able to receive a side edge surface of a lightguide plate, and a reflecting layer 13 formed on the entire surface of the transparent resin part except the cut portion.
US09291762B2
Provided is a backlight assembly and a liquid crystal display including: a light source; a light guide plate; and a bottom chassis comprising an accommodating portion, a light source cover configured to accommodate the light source, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall, the accommodating portion comprising a first accommodating portion and a second accommodating portion detachably coupled with each other, wherein the light source cover is formed on a first edge of the first accommodating portion, the first sidewall is formed on a second edge of the first accommodating portion, and the second sidewall is formed on an edge of the second accommodating portion.
US09291758B2
Nanorods assemblies that have lengths in excess of 50 microns to meters are formed from contacting rice-shaped colloidal superparticles that are aligned along the long axis of the colloidal superparticles. The rice-shaped colloidal superparticles are formed from a multiplicity of nanorods with a high degree of association that is end to end to form colloidal superparticles that are in excess of three microns in length and have a length to diameter ratio of about three or more. Methods of preparing the rice-shaped colloidal superparticles employ mixing with an additional ligand to the nanorods to bias the self assembly of the nanorods by solvophobic interactions. Methods of preparing the nanorods assemblies include the infusion of the rice-shaped colloidal superparticles into microchannels patterned on a substrate, wherein the rice-shaped colloidal superparticles' long axes align in the microchannels.
US09291754B2
A method for producing a mold includes: applying a block copolymer solution made of first and second polymers on a base member; performing a first annealing process at a temperature higher than Tg of the block copolymer after drying the coating film; forming a concavity and convexity structure on the base member by removing the second polymer by an etching process; performing a second annealing process of the concavity and convexity structure at a temperature higher than Tg of the first polymer; forming a seed layer on the structure; laminating or stacking a metal layer on the seed layer by an electroforming; and peeling off the metal layer from the base member. The second annealing process enables satisfactory transfer of a concavity and convexity structure on the base member onto the metal layer.
US09291750B2
This invention provides a calibration method and a corresponding apparatus for optical imaging lens system with double optical paths. The apparatus for optical imaging lens system with double optical paths comprises a first optical subsystem, a second optical subsystem and a calibration module. The calibration module receives a first image data from the first optical subsystem and a second image data from the second optical subsystem. The calibration module calibrates the first image data according to at least one selected optical parameter of the second optical subsystem, and calibrates the second image data according to at least one selected optical parameter of the first optical subsystem. The selected optical parameters of the first optical subsystem and the second optical subsystem are different.
US09291746B2
Lens coatings and coated lenses which offer full-spectrum protection by reducing back-side reflection of all light spanning from the UVB to IR-A region are provided. The full-spectrum back-side anti-reflective coatings disclosed herein are comprised of multiple thin-film layers of high refractive index (HighIndex) and low refractive index (LowIndex) materials. In many embodiments, the penultimate layer distal from the substrate lens is a HighIndex layer, and the final layer distal from the substrate lens is a LowIndex layer.
US09291742B2
A double pendulum gravimeter accurately measures gravity by transferring aligned mode energy between suspension points of the pendulums to establish equal arcs of oscillation of the pendulums and by sensing oscillation characteristics to establish an accurate gravity value including a correction factor which depends on the arc of oscillation, while absorbing adverse mode energy.
US09291729B2
A module is provided for processing geophysical data coming from at least one geophysical sensor. The module includes: an electronic board configured to enable the processing of geophysical data captured by the at least one geophysical sensor; and two cable sections each including, at one extremity, a connector designed to be connected to said electronic board. Each connector forms one half-shell and is arranged so as to cooperate with one other half-shell in such a way as to form a shell in which the electronic board is placed.
US09291724B2
An imaging system (100) includes a direct conversion detector pixel (111) that detects radiation traversing an examination region and generates an electrical signal indicative thereof, wherein the signal includes a persistent current, which is produced by a direct conversion material of the pixel and which shifts a level of the signal. A persistent current estimator (116) estimates the persistent current and generates a compensation signal based on the estimate. A pre-amplifier (112) receives the signal and the compensation signal, wherein the compensation signal substantially cancels the persistent current, producing a persistent current compensated signal, and that amplifies the compensated signal, generating an amplified compensated signal. A shaper (114) generates a pulse indicative of energy of the radiation illuminating the direct conversion material based on the amplified compensated signal.
US09291720B2
Embodiments of methods/apparatus can transition a DR detector imaging array to low power photosensor mode where a first voltage is applied across the photosensors. Embodiments of methods/apparatus can provide an area radiographic imaging array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix at the imaging array where each pixel can include at least one electrically chargeable photosensor and at least one transistor, row address circuits, signal sensing circuits, and photosensor power control circuitry to maintain a first voltage across photosensors of the portion of the imaging array when the detector is between imaging operations. In one embodiment, photosensor power control circuitry can maintain the first voltage across the photosensors when a power consumption of the signal sensing circuits is less than 1% of the power consumption of the signal sensing circuits during readout of a signal from the portion of the imaging array.
US09291715B2
An interference wave signal removing device that can surely remove an interference wave signal is provided. An interference wave signal remover includes a controller, a notch filter, an entire-range frequency scanner, and a local frequency scanner. The controller detects the interference wave signal based on a frequency scanning result by the entire-range frequency scanner, and sets the notch filter to attenuate the interference wave signal frequency. Based on input signals to the notch filter, the local frequency scanner frequency-scans in a local frequency band including an attenuation band of the notch filter. The controller detects a frequency drift of the interference wave signal frequency based on the frequency scanning result by the local frequency scanner, and updates the setting of the notch filter to attenuate the interference wave signal frequency after the frequency drift.
US09291711B2
A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium is provided that can utilize an undersampling method and can produce a radar image of a target. The radar image of the target can be based on a collection of waveform measurements, where the collection can be based on a significantly reduced number of transmitted and received electromagnetic pulse waveforms.
US09291707B2
A 3D avian radar sampling system comprises a 3D volume scanning radar system and an avian track interpreter. Scanning methods employed ensure that volume revisit times are suitably short and track data produce 3D target trajectories. The avian interpreter uses the track data from the volume scanning radar to create detailed avian activity reports that convey bird abundance and behavior within a 3D cylindrical volume on intervals including hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. Hourly activity reports (updated typically every 15 minutes) provide enhanced situational awareness of developing hazards and are actionable, allowing operators to dispatch wildlife control personnel to respond to threats.
US09291703B2
A terminal is provided, which has a near-field communication module suitable for receiving signals from a transponder fitted with a circuit presenting a load impedance. The terminal includes a receiver suitable for receiving a first signal relating to the load impedance of the transponder (T3). The terminal obtains a second signal from the first signal and determines a position indication of the terminal relative to the transponder and based on analysis of the second signal. The terminal delivers a third signal that is a function of the determined position indication.
US09291700B1
Systems and methods including a database storing the identifiers of cells representing residential parcels of real estate properties. Mobile devices determine the coordinates of their locations during a period of time using a location determination system, such as a global positioning system. The coordinates are converted to cell identifiers to look up corresponding residential parcels that have been visited by the mobile devices. A server generates a visitation data set for each residential parcel visited by each mobile device, including different types of frequencies of the mobile device visiting the residential parcel (e.g., night, weekend). A server filters the residential parcels based on visitation frequencies to identify home candidates and then further filters the home candidates based on the count of mobile devices having the home candidates. A home parcel, and thus its address, is identified from the filtered home candidate(s) for each mobile device.
US09291696B2
A photovoltaic system including a photovoltaic cell, and an electronic module connected to the photovoltaic cell. The electronic module is adapted to produce at least one control signal indicative of electrical power being generated by the photovoltaic cells. A tracking controller is adapted to receive the control signal(s) and based on the control signal(s), the controller is adapted to control a tracking motor for adjusting the system so that electrical power generated by the photovoltaic cells is increased. The photovoltaic system may include an optical element, adapted for concentrating solar light onto the photovoltaic cells. The electronic module preferably performs direct current (DC) to direct current (DC) power conversion and maximum power point tracking by electrical power, current, or voltage at either their inputs or their outputs. Alternatively, the tracking controller is configured to also perform maximum power point tracking by increasing to a local maximum electrical power by varying at least one of (i) current or voltage output from the photovoltaic cell or (ii) current or voltage output from the electronic module.
US09291685B2
A device for evaluating a magnetic field with an integrated circuit with a magnetic field sensor is provided, which has a first connection, a second connection, and a third connection led out from the housing. A signal conditioning circuit is connected to the magnetic field sensor. A control circuit generates a control signal for controlling the signal conditioning circuit based on a detected transmission signal with a detection circuit for detecting the transmission signal. The signal conditioning circuit generates an analog signal based on a sensor signal and based on the control signal. An evaluation circuit evaluates the analog signal and compares the analog signal to a default value to adjust the signal conditioning circuit via the digital transmission signal such that the analog signal corresponds to the default value.
US09291681B2
A monitoring apparatus and method of a battery contact point that autonomously measures contact resistances of a contact terminal for directly connecting a battery for charging/discharging and a circuit in a charge/discharge apparatus for charging/discharging a single secondary battery or a plurality of secondary batteries in series.
US09291678B2
For each phase of a controller, a pair of semiconductor switches comprises a high side switch and a low side switch. A direct current voltage bus provides electrical energy to the semiconductor switches at a test voltage level less than a full operational voltage level. A measuring circuit is adapted to measure the direct current bus voltage. A data processor determines that a deficiency in a tested, related semiconductor switch is present if the measured direct current bus voltage decreases or collapses upon activation of a particular semiconductor switch in the same phase of the controller, or if other sequential test results indicate a deficiency. If the deficiency in the related semiconductor switch is present the processor may prevent the voltage supply from providing the full operational voltage to the direct current data bus to prevent damage to the motor or the controller, for example.
US09291674B1
A scan-testable integrated circuit includes first and second flip-flops. The first flip-flop includes first and second latches and the second flip-flop includes third and fourth latches and a logic circuit. During scan-shift mode of scan testing, the first flip-flop shifts a first bit of a test pattern into the second flip-flop. The first flip-flop then shifts a second bit of the test pattern into the second flip-flop. The logic circuit deactivates a clock signal provided to the third latch, which is a master latch, when the logic states of the first and second bits are equal. The output terminals of the third and fourth latches are retained at the logic state corresponding to the first bit, thereby reducing power consumption.
US09291669B2
A semiconductor device, a test structure of the semiconductor device, and a method of testing the semiconductor device are provided. The test structure including a first pad and a second pad being separated from each other, and a first test element and a second test element connected between the first pad and the second pad, a first value of a characteristic parameter of the first test element being different from a second value of the characteristic parameter of the second test element, may be provided.
US09291666B2
A detecting device includes a detecting part configured to detect a change in an object to be detected so as to output a detection signal, an amplifying part configured to amplify the detection signal output from the detecting part to output a first amplification signal, a reference voltage supply part configured to supply a reference voltage to the amplifying part, the reference voltage being input to the amplifying part to be output as a second amplification signal, a switching part configured to switch a connection between the detecting part and the amplifying part or a connection between the amplifying part and the reference voltage supply part based on a control signal input thereto, and a comparing part configured to compare a predetermined amplification factor in the amplifying part, with an amplification factor obtained from the second amplification signal so as to output the comparison result as a comparison signal.
US09291663B2
A system is provided to determine whether an insulating layer of an implanted lead is damaged.
US09291660B2
An apparatus includes a probe card, an alpha particle source and a shutter. The probe card includes a plurality of contact elements. The contact elements define a measuring position. The shutter is arranged between the alpha particle source and the measuring position. The shutter is movable between a closed position and an open position. When the shutter is in the open position, alpha particles from the alpha particle source reach the measuring position. When the shutter is in the closed position, the alpha particles are blocked from reaching the measuring position.
US09291658B2
A device can include a radio frequency (RF) signal input, a local oscillator (LO) signal input, a mixer to receive the RF signal and LO signal and translate a frequency of the RF signal based on the LO signal, a strobe pulsing component to provide a timed strobe pulse, and a second mixer to receive a leakage signal, LO signal, and timed strobe pulse, and also to translate a frequency of the leakage signal to baseband. The device can also include a coupling component configured to allow the leakage signal to pass between the mixers. An output signal output can provide a measured value of the leakage signal.
US09291651B2
A feedthrough insulator is characterized by the fact to comprises: >-a central rod (10) which extends longitudinally with respect its longitudinal axis (10y); >-a sleeve (20) positioned coaxial around said rod of connection (10) with the respective circular shell (21) radially spaced (D-21) with respect to the central rod (10); >-a sensor (30) of electric field and/or of magnetic field, positioned in proximity of the inner surface (22) of said shell (21) of the sieeve (20); and >-a carrying body (40) formed by dielectric material able to contain and to embed said central rod (10), said sieeve (20) and said sensor (30) of electrical field and/or of magnetic field.
US09291647B2
In various embodiments, a low-cost Rogowski coil sensor including a coil wound around a flexible carrier is provided with a reliable parallel-entry closure mechanism.
US09291639B2
An apparatus and method of positioning a probe of an atomic force microscope (AFM) includes using a dual probe configuration in which two probes are fabricated with a single base, yet operate independently. Feedback control is based on interaction between the reference probe and surface, giving an indication of the location of the surface, with this control being modified based on the difference in tip heights of the two probes to allow the sensing probe to be positioned relative to the sample at a range less than 10 nm.
US09291638B2
A method for providing acceleration data with reduced substrate-displacement bias includes receiving in an accelerometer an external acceleration, determining the acceleration data with reduced substrate displacement bias in a compensation portion in response to a first and a second displacement indicators from a MEMS transducer, and, in response to substrate compensation factors from a MEMS compensation portion, outputting the acceleration data with reduced substrate displacement bias, wherein the first displacement indicator and the second displacement indicator are determined by the MEMS transducer relative to a substrate in response to the external acceleration and to a substrate displacement, and wherein the substrate compensation factors are determined by the MEMS compensation portion relative to the substrate in response to the substrate displacement.
US09291633B2
After being dispensed, a sample that needs to be quickly measured passes through another unit and is transported to an automatic analyzer. A plurality of units are provided for functions of processing including a dispensing unit that dispenses the sample stored in a sample vessel into another sample vessel. At least one discharge line discharges the sample from the dispensing unit to a transport line and a line that is perpendicular to the discharge line. A reverse direction transport line transports the sample in a direction reverse to a direction in which the sample loaded in the system is transported to the dispensing unit. The sample that is processed by the dispensing unit is transported to a storage unit located on the upstream side of the system, through the reverse direction transport line.
US09291631B2
According to the method for detecting respiratory infection associated with bacterial infection of the present invention, the measured value of soluble CD14 antigen subtype (“sCD14-ST) in the blood sample can be used to select a patient with a respiratory infection to whom the antibiotic can be administered.
US09291623B2
The present invention relates to methods and kits for identifying, quantifying and isolating regulatory T cells, to methods and kits for diagnosing or monitoring autoimmune diseases, immunoinflammatory diseases, allergic diseases, predispositions thereto, infectious diseases, cancer, cancer treatment and/or organ transplantation based on regulatory T cell quantity, to methods and kits for predicting responses to therapy for autoimmune diseases, immunoinflammatory diseases, allergic diseases, predispositions thereto, infectious diseases, cancer and/or organ transplantation based on regulatory T cell quantity, and to methods and kits for therapy using isolated regulatory T cells.
US09291618B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing porous noble metal oxide nanoparticles, comprising the following steps: a) preparing an Olea Europaea fruit extract; b) preparing an Acacia Nilotica extract; c) mixing the Olea Europaea fruit extract and the Acacia Nilotica extract for preparing a mixed extract; d) providing an aqueous solution containing a noble metal compound dissolved therein; e) mixing the mixed extract obtained in step c) and the aqueous solution of step d); f) dropping a solution of sodium chloride to be mixture of step b); g) drying the mixture, in air or by vacuum, and h) calcining at a temperature between 100 to 900° C., to get the porous noble metal oxide nanoparticles; porous noble metal oxide nanoparticles obtained thereby and their use.
US09291613B2
Sensors and detection systems suitable for measuring analytes, such as biomolecule, organic and inorganic species, including environmentally and medically relevant volatiles and gases, such as NO, NO2, CO2, NH3, H2, CO and the like, are provided. Certain embodiments of nanostructured sensor systems are configured for measurement of medically important gases in breath. Applications include the measurement of endogenous nitric oxide (NO) in breath, such as for the monitoring or diagnosis of asthma and other pulmonary conditions.
US09291612B2
In some examples, a device applies an electrical potential difference across a blood sample. The device measures an electrical signal that passes through the blood sample over a duration of time to obtain a plurality of measurements representing a measurement function of time. An accumulative property of the measurement function may be determined such that the accumulative property correlates to a blood coagulation characteristic.
US09291609B2
An exemplary sensor system for a fuel transport vehicle can comprise a fuel marker sensor positioned between a fuel storage chamber of the vehicle and an access valve for the fuel storage chamber of the vehicle. The fuel marker sensor can be configured to measure one or more characteristics of one or more fuel markers present in the fuel adjacent the sensor, such as when the marked fuel is unloaded at a retail station. The one or more characteristics can comprise concentration and/or identity of the one or more fuel markers in the fuel. Based on the measured characteristics of the one or more fuel markers, the sensor system can identify the fuel and/or can determine whether the fuel has been adulterated after the marked fuel was last measured, such as when the marked fuel was loaded into the vehicle.
US09291608B2
Methods of calibrating sensors in a distributed sensor system including a set of spatially distributed base units in communication with a central server over a data network include using a reference sensor, using a reference base unit, using crowd-sourced calibration, using sensor data collected in the same base unit, using sensor cross-sensitivity, or using sensor data from known environmental conditions.
US09291607B2
A detectable taggant is described. The detectable taggant may include at least one nano-antenna having a resonant frequency of about 300 GHz to about 800 THz. The nano-antenna is adapted to be physically or chemically associated with an article of manufacture.
US09291602B1
Herein are described methods and systems for the automatic measurement of the mass of an object. An example method may begin with detecting by a computing device (such as a wearable computing device) an action that corresponds to a mass-measurement mode. In response to detecting the action, the computing device is caused to operate in the mass-measurement mode. The mass-measurement mode may involve receiving a motion-sensor signal from at least one motion sensor, determining a difference between a frequency-component magnitude of at least one given frequency component and a predetermined frequency-component magnitude, determining a mass of an object based on at least the determined difference between the frequency-component magnitude of the at least one given frequency component from the predetermined frequency-component magnitude, and causing an output device to provide an indication of the determined mass of the object.
US09291597B2
Particular disclosed embodiments disclosed herein concern using a one or more various mass tags, which can be specifically deposited at targets through direct or indirect enzymatic-catalyzed transformation, to provide a method for identifying targets in tissue samples. The mass tags may be labeled with stable isotopes to produce mass tags having the same chemical structure but different masses. Mass codes produced by ionizing the mass tags are detected and/or quantified using mass spectrometry. The method can be used for multiplexed detection of multiple targets in a particular sample. In some embodiments, a map divided into sections representing sections of the tissue sample may be prepared, with the map sections including data corresponding to quantification data wherein the size of a mass peak is determined and correlated with the amount of a target for the corresponding tissue sample section.
US09291593B2
An analytical test strip can include a patterned definition layer defining two fluidically-separated sample cells having respective ports, a common electrode arranged over the definition layer and in electrical communication with each of the cells, and respective cell electrodes. Surface portions of each electrode can be exposed. A method for testing a fluid sample using such a strip includes receiving a first fluid sample in the first sample cell and detecting a first electrical property thereof. It is then determined whether a second fluid sample should be added to the other sample cell. An analyte measurement system can include such a strip and test meter to receive the strip. The test meter can detect respective electrical properties of fluid samples in the cells.
US09291590B2
Improvements in references electrodes, halogen sensors, pH sensors, TDS sensors, combinations thereof, and related methods.
US09291585B2
A technique facilitates the monitoring of thermodynamic properties of reservoir fluids. The technique utilizes a modular sensor assembly designed to evaluate a sample of a hydrocarbon-containing fluid within a cell body. A variety of sensors may be selectively placed into communication with a sample chamber within the cell body to evaluate the sample at potentially high pressures and temperatures. The sensors may comprise a density-viscosity sensor located in-situ to efficiently measure both the density and viscosity of the sample as a function of pressure and temperature. Other sensors, such as an optic sensor, may also be positioned to measure parameters of the sample while the sample is retained in the sample chamber.
US09291583B2
An X-ray fluorescence analyzer is provided which comprises: (1) an X-ray source selected to produce an intense X-ray beam, (2) a first optical element that focuses the X-ray beam produced by the X-ray source onto a sample and selects X-rays of a desired energy, (3) an energy resolving detector, and (4) a second optical element that receives fluorescent X-rays emitted from elements in the sample and focuses a selected energy range of said fluorescent X-rays onto said energy resolving detector. Each of the first and second optical elements includes a crystal component. The X-ray fluorescence analyzer is configured such that: (i) the X-ray source has a spot size dimensioned so that it is substantially in a field of view of the first optical element, and (ii) the first optical element focuses the X-ray beam emitted by the X-ray source onto an area of the sample that corresponds to a field-of-view of the second optical element. Furthermore, the field of view for an optical element is defined as the area in the source plane of the respective crystal component over which X-rays are able to be emitted and still efficiently be reflected by said optical element.
US09291580B2
Methods and systems are provided to improve prompt gamma neutron activation substance analyzers. In one aspect, a substance analyzer unit includes: a source of neutrons; an opening arranged with respect to the source of neutrons to receive a substance; and a detector housing having (i) a detector configured and arranged to receive gamma rays generated by absorption of neutrons by the substance, and (ii) electronics coupled with the detector within the detector housing, wherein the electronics are configured to receive and process analog signals from the detector and output digital detection signals.
US09291579B2
A method of estimating chordal holdup values of gas, oil, and water (εG, εO, εW) for tomographic imaging of a three-phase flow through a volume, including: providing an X-ray source for irradiating through said volume and X-ray sensors for discriminating between a first and a second radiation bands, conducting first calibration measurements (IGS, IOS, IWS) of said first radiation band, conducting second calibration measurements (IGH, IOH, IWH) of said second radiation band, arranging a mixture of two or more fluids, irradiating said volume and conducting X-ray measurements (IS, IH) in said radiation bands, establishing a relationship between a function of holdup values f(εG, εW) of at least gas and water and said X-ray measurements (IS, IH), searching holdup values (εG, εW) that minimize said function of holdup values f(εG, εW) under the constraints of the sum of said holdup values is more than or equal to zero and less than or equal to one, i.e. that 0≦εG+εW≦1.
US09291575B2
Systems and methods for inspecting a wafer are provided. One system includes an illumination subsystem configured to illuminate the wafer; a collection subsystem configured to collect light scattered from the wafer and to preserve the polarization of the scattered light; an optical element configured to separate the scattered light collected in different segments of the collection numerical aperture of the collection subsystem, where the optical element is positioned at a Fourier plane or a conjugate of the Fourier plane of the collection subsystem; a polarizing element configured to separate the scattered light in one of the different segments into different portions of the scattered light based on polarization; and a detector configured to detect one of the different portions of the scattered light and to generate output responsive to the detected light, which is used to detect defects on the wafer.
US09291573B2
Systems and methods for inspecting the integrity of a sealed package are described. A system can include an inspection station and a control unit. The inspection station can include a scanning platform, a first scanner, and a second scanner. The first scanner can measure a first distance from the first scanner to the seal and the second scanner can measure a second distance from second scanner to the seal. The control unit can move the package to a first station or a second station based on the difference between a gap distance and combined first distance and second distance. A method of inspecting the integrity of a seal using any of the embodiments of the inspection system are described.
US09291566B2
Nanocrystals having an indium-based core and methods for making them and using them to construct core-shell nanocrystals are described. These core-shell nanocrystals are highly stable and provide higher quantum yields than known nanocrystals of similar composition, and they provide special advantages for certain applications because of their small size.
US09291565B2
Various improvements to inflatable membranes for use in three-dimensional imaging of interior spaces are disclosed. These improvements include, among other things, equipping the inflatable membrane with desirable optical features, such as fiducials, optical coatings, etc., that can be used to improve data acquisition.
US09291564B2
Aligning measurements of fluorescent spectral radiance factors taken by a first instrument with measurements of fluorescent spectral radiance factors taken by a second instrument, without knowledge of the matrix of bispectral luminescent radiance factor of any sample, includes obtaining a fluorescent spectral radiance factor of a reference sample, measured by the first instrument, obtaining the fluorescent spectral radiance factor of the reference sample, measured by the second instrument, obtaining a fluorescent spectral radiance factor of a test sample, measured by the first instrument, and estimating the fluorescent spectral radiance factor of the test sample that would be measured by the second instrument, based on the fluorescent spectral radiance factor of a reference sample, measured by the first instrument, on the fluorescent spectral radiance factor of the reference sample, measured by the second instrument, and on the fluorescent spectral radiance factor of the test sample, measured by the first instrument.
US09291557B2
A mercury detection system that includes a flow cell having a mercury sensor, a light source and a light detector is provided. The mercury sensor includes a transparent substrate and a submonolayer of mercury absorbing nanoparticles, e.g., gold nanoparticles, on a surface of the substrate. Methods of determining whether mercury is present in a sample using the mercury sensors are also provided. The subject mercury detection systems and methods find use in a variety of different applications, including mercury detecting applications.
US09291556B2
An objective optical system for ATR measurement is provided with a housing, in the interior, an ATR crystal that is transparent in visible light and has a semispherical surface through which light enters; an infrared optical member for irradiating a sample with infrared light at an angle that is equal to or greater than the critical angle; a visible light irradiation optical member which is disposed in the interior of the casing and which irradiates the sample with visible light from an angle less than the critical angle; and an observation optical member which is disposed on a position that is offset from the reflection angle relative to the angle at which the visible light enters the sample and which guides the scattering light from the sample to an observation device. As a consequence, it is possible to clearly observe the position of a sample subjected to ATR measurement.
US09291550B1
A device and method for drug detection with instantaneous results by utilizing a handheld spectroscopic analysis device in an oral, nasal, and upper respiratory examination process.
US09291542B2
A particle detecting device includes: a light source that illuminates, with an excitation beam, a fluid that contains a plurality of particles; a fluorescence measuring instrument that measures, at at least two different wavelengths, fluorescence that is produced in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam; a scattered light measuring instrument that measures scattered light that is produced in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam; an interference status evaluating portion that evaluates whether the scattered light that is measured is producing constructive interference or producing destructive interference; and a particle counting portion that counts a plurality of particles depending on the measured interference of the measured light, and counts fluorescent particles that are subject to detection, from among the plurality of particles, based on a wavelength of fluorescent measured.
US09291541B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of measuring porosity and permeability of a carbon dioxide underground storage medium. Both of the porosity and the permeability are measured in the state that the confining pressure is applied once. The variation characteristic in the porosity and the permeability of the core sample according to the salt precipitation occurring when supercritical carbon dioxide is injected is continuously measured. The apparatus includes a holder receiving a core sample, a pressure pump applying a confining pressure to the core sample, a gas chamber storing gas and supplying supply the stored gas to the core sample, first to third pressure gauges measuring an internal pressure of the gas chamber and front and rear portions of the holder, and a gas flow meter measuring a flow rate of gas.
US09291539B2
A method and apparatus for estimating a rock strength profile of a formation is disclosed. A tool having a testing surface is conveyed into a wellbore in the formation. The testing surface is propelled to impact the formation at a plurality of depths in the wellbore. A measurement of hardness of the formation is obtained from a rebound of the testing surface from the formation at the plurality of depths. The rock strength profile of the formation is estimated using the obtained measurements of hardness at the plurality of depths. A parameter for drilling the wellbore can be affected using the estimated rock strength profile.
US09291532B2
An automatic thin section sample preparation device includes: a reading portion which reads the ID data; a first imaging portion which images a surface image of an embedding block; a sample preparation mechanism which prepares a thin section by thinly cutting the embedding block, fixes the thin section to a substrate, and prepares a thin section sample; a second imaging portion which images a thin section image of the thin section in the thin section sample; a recording portion which records individual data on the substrate in the thin section sample; and a control portion. The control portion includes a determination portion which determines whether or not the thin section is prepared from an original embedding block by collating the surface image and the thin section image, and a storage portion which stores the determination result from the determination portion in association with the ID data, as the individual data.
US09291528B2
A domestic appliance device includes an evaluating unit for evaluating the consumption of at least one external resource by a domestic appliance, and an output unit for outputting the evaluated consumption. In order to provide a generic domestic appliance device having increased ease of use, the evaluating unit evaluates the consumption of the external resource while taking into consideration at least one variable evaluating parameter.
US09291521B2
A hose leakage detection system includes a ring configured to be disposed within a hose. The ring has a lateral slot formed in an outer surface, defining a first slot wall and a second slot wall. A sensor is disposed on one of the first slot wall and the second slot wall and a power source is electrically connected to the leakage detection system.
US09291517B2
This disclosure provides example methods, devices, and systems for a sensor having a Helmholtz resonator. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a sensing element; a header coupled to the sensing element; a housing coupled to the header; an adaptor coupled to the housing; a screen disposed in an opening of the housing, wherein a first cavity is disposed between the screen and the sensing element and a second cavity is disposed between the adaptor and the sensing element, and the screen in combination with the first cavity and the second cavity form a Helmholtz resonator.
US09291511B2
A sensor for detecting impact is generally provided. The sensor may include a deformable beam. The deformable beam may include a first end, a second end, and an elongated body extending therebetween. At least the second end is coupled to a support structure. Further, the deformable beam may be configured to bend from a first configuration to a deformed configuration when the sensor experiences an acceleration above a predetermined threshold.
US09291507B1
An IR imaging system comprising microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) differential capacitive infrared sensors within a sensor array formed on a monolithic integrated circuit substrate, or flip chip bonded onto a signal processing chip fabricated separately, to include, a bimaterial deflectable element anchored to the substrate, a surface electrode fabricated on a top surface of the substrate and positioned below the deflectable element, the surface electrode and the deflectable element separated by a gap to form a first variable capacitor, a sealing ring surrounding the deflectable element and the surface electrode, an infrared transparent sealing cap electrode coupled to the sealing ring to form a vacuum cavity around the deflectable element and the surface electrode, the deflectable element and the sealing cap electrode separated by a gap to form a second variable capacitor and a micro-lens fabricated on the sealing cap electrode to focus the infrared radiation onto the bimaterial deflectable element.
US09291504B2
A spectrometer comprises a plurality of isolated optical channels comprising a plurality of isolated optical paths. The isolated optical paths decrease cross-talk among the optical paths and allow the spectrometer to have a decreased length with increased resolution. In many embodiments, the isolated optical paths comprise isolated parallel optical paths that allow the length of the device to be decreased substantially. In many embodiments, each isolated optical path extends from a filter of a filter array, through a lens of a lens array, through a channel of a support array, to a region of a sensor array. Each region of the sensor array comprises a plurality of sensor elements in which a location of the sensor element corresponds to the wavelength of light received based on an angle of light received at the location, the focal length of the lens and the central wavelength of the filter.
US09291500B2
A multimode configurable imaging spectropolarimeter in which the polarimetry function can be activated and deactivated on demand.
US09291498B2
The detection circuit comprises a photodiode connected to a readout circuitry. The photodiode and readout circuitry are connected by means of a transistor arranged to operate as a closed switch when the readout circuitry biases the photodiode in a predefined range and to operate as an open switch in the other cases.
US09291496B2
A sensor arrangement for light sensing and temperature sensing comprises a first sensor input (1) for connecting a temperature sensor (11) and a second sensor input (2) for connecting a light sensor (21), in particular an ambient light sensor. A sensor switch (S3) electrically connects either the first or the second sensor input (1, 2) to an integration input (41) of an integrating analog-to-digital converter (4). A reference circuit (5) connects to the integration input (41) via a first switch (S2). A first reference input (42) of the integrating analog-to-digital converter (4) is to be connected with a first reference potential (Vb1). A counter (6) connects to an integration output (43) of the integrating analog-to-digital converter (4). And a controller unit (6) connects to the counter (6) and is designed to control the first switch (S2) depending on an integrated sensor signal (Vout) integrated by the integrating analog-to-digital converter (4).
US09291486B2
The volumetric rate of flow out of a flow line (4) of a bell nipple (2) is a function of the pressure of the head of liquid (7) above the threshold of the intersection of the vertical pipe (3) and the flow line (4). A pressure which is related to that pressure is measured by a pressure transducer (10) which is mounted below the threshold. Density of the fluid (7) is inferred by using the measured pressure as an input to a trained neural network.
US09291483B2
A meter, comprising a meter unit, a visor arranged around the meter unit, a wiring board, a light source mounted on the wiring board, an annular light guiding member provided within the visor at a side of a light emitting surface of the light source so as to surround the meter unit, and a light emitting portion forwardly emitting light emitted by the light source and transmitted through the light guiding member and annually provided along an edge portion of the visor so as to surround the meter unit, wherein a protruding-length of the light guiding member is displaced to a longitudinal direction of the meter unit.
US09291481B2
An optical position-measuring device is adapted to detect the position of an object in several spatial degrees of freedom. The object is disposed in a manner allowing it to move at least along a first direction of movement and along a second direction of movement. The position-measuring device includes at least one light source and at least one first and second measuring standard which are located on the object, extend along a first extension direction and a second extension direction and include graduation regions disposed periodically along the first and second extension directions. In addition, a scanning plate is provided, into which at least first and second retroreflector elements are integrated, the first retroreflector element extending parallel to the first extension direction and the second retroreflector element extending parallel to the second extension direction, and via which, sub-beams that fall on them from the first and second measuring standard, are reflected back in the direction of the respective measuring standard. From superposed sub-beams, a detector system is able to generate position signals at least with respect to the movement of the object along the first and second direction of movement.
US09291478B2
A magnetic field sensor has internal power supply generating circuits to generate a higher operating voltage for a magnetic field sensing element, resulting in a magnetic field sensor with improved sensitivity to magnetic fields.
US09291471B2
An in-vehicle information processing device capable of efficiently processing information by extracting an event that exists outside of a travel route but can possibly reach the travel route. The in-vehicle information processing device includes a map database, a traffic information database, a vehicle position determination mechanism, a driving assist information extraction mechanism for extracting driving assist information, and a driving assist information database for storing the driving assist information. An aid information extraction mechanism includes a travel route determination mechanism for determining a vehicle travel route based on a vehicle position. The driving assist information extraction mechanism extracts the driving assist information from map information and traffic information on the travel route.
US09291466B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for defining travel paths in parking areas. In one embodiment, travel paths in parking areas are defined by connecting street networking connection points within the parking areas. In another embodiment, such defined travel paths are merged with actual paths traveled by vehicles in the parking areas.
US09291465B2
Methods are provided for updating a digital road map in which road segments having segment lengths are stored. At least two vehicles are equipped with at least one respective onboard unit generating position readings. If a first set of position readings of a first onboard unit can be associated with a road segment, a first path length is determined based on the position readings of the first set. If a second set of position readings of a second onboard unit can be associated with the road segment, a second path length is determined based on the position readings of the second set. An average path length is calculated based on at least the first and second path lengths. If the average path length deviates from the stored segment length, the average path length is stored as an updated stored segment length of this road segment in the digital road map.
US09291458B2
A fiber-optic measurement device (10) includes a SAGNAC ring interferometer (20) having a proper frequency fp. The aim is to improve response time while maintaining high precision across the measurement range. Biasing elements (130) are used to produce: a first biasing phase-differential modulation component Δφb1(t) (34) which is periodic in time-slots, having levels +π and −π, at a first biasing modulation frequency fb1 such that fb1=(2k1+1) fp, k1 being a natural number; and a second periodic biasing phase-differential modulation component Δφb2(t) (35), having extreme amplitudes +π/a and −π/a, a being a non-zero real number such that |a|>1, at a second biasing modulation frequency fb2 such that fb2=(2k2+1) fp, k2 being a non-zero natural number such that k2>k1. A gyrometer including such a measurement device and a navigation or inertial-stabilization system including at least one such gyrometer are also described.
US09291457B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device in which an inner space for housing a gyro element is formed between a base and a lid and the base and the lid are bonded includes bonding the base and the lid in which a groove is provided on a surface to be bonded with the base so that the inner space communicates with the outside by not bonding the inner surface of the groove to the base and to position the groove around a concave portion provided on a side surface of the base, and closing a communication portion by irradiating a laser beam to the lid in the communication portion.
US09291441B2
A device for measuring the depth of concrete comprising an elongated spine, a stepped blade attached at the distal end of the spine and having a plurality of bi-lateral steps having a predetermined width and height tapering toward the distal end of the spine, a depth probe slidably mounted longitudinally within an internal channel of the spine and including an indicator; and a scale aligned with the indicator. The depth probe may have a pointed or beveled distal tip which is useful for penetrating concrete or other aggregate materials. The stepped blade is provided into concrete and comes in contact with the top of the rebar grid, with the steps measuring the depth of the concrete cover over the rebar. The depth probe is plunged into the concrete until the tip reaches the bottom. The scale measures the distance between a distal tip of the depth probe and the leading edge of the blade.
US09291436B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of simulated explosive materials and Threat Screening Kits and simulated IED Circuit Kits including simulated explosive materials. The simulated explosive materials are configured to produce an output signal consistent with the presence of an actual explosive material when scanned in an X-ray scanner.
US09291431B2
The invention relates to a blast-proof chamber (1, 20, 30, 60, 70) for improved handling and transport of a detonation-dangerous object, wherein the said blast-proof chamber (1, 20, 30, 60, 70) comprises an outer chamber (2, 21, 32, 61, 71) comprising an inner storage chamber (3, 22, 33, 62, 72) for storage of the detonation-dangerous object. A characteristic feature of the invention is that the inner storage chamber (3, 22, 33, 62, 72) is arranged movably in the outer chamber (2, 21, 32, 61, 71) between an open and a closed position.
US09291418B2
A gun standoff device may include an elongated body having crenulations at a first end and an attachment mechanism at a second end. The crenulations at the first end may provide a plurality of radially disposed teeth about the circumference of the first end. The attachment mechanism may allow attachment of the elongated body to a gun barrel, a gun magazine, or other gun component.
US09291405B2
A cooling system may be operable to cool a battery pack or other device through a heat exchange operation supported, at least in part, with cycling of a coolant relative to a coldplate or other thermally conducting surface of the device and/or attached thereto. The system may include a coldplate operable to exchange heat with a battery pack; and a coolant tank operable to exchange heat with the coldplate, the tank having a channel for directing a coolant flow in a direction from an inlet of the tank to at least one outlet of the tank and an inlet accumulator between the inlet and a beginning of the channel, wherein the inlet accumulator is wider along the coolant flow direction than the channel and the inlet and having a sloped side leading towards the channel configured to pool the coolant flow prior to entry into the channel.
US09291403B2
A heat exchanger has a core case, at least one fin case disposed in the core case, and pair of upper and lower fins disposed in the fin case. The fin case has an inlet part, an outlet part, and a middle part disposed between the inlet and outlet parts. Each of the upper and lower fins has top and bottom portions. The upper and lower fins are disposed within the fin case so that the upper and lower fins are not in contact with each other at the inlet and outlet parts of the fin case and so that the bottom portions of the upper fin are in contact with respective ones of the top portions of the lower fin at the middle part of the fin case.
US09291402B2
This invention provides a heat exchanger (2) which has an elongate heat exchange element (4). The heat exchange element (4) has a substantially cylindrical structure with a first end and a second end and the length of the element (4) is greater than the diameter. A plurality of elongate flow paths extend between the first end and the second end. A first inlet (8) and a second outlet (14) are disposed in the first end and a first outlet (10) and a second inlet (12) are disposed in the second end. The first inlet (8) and first outlet (10) define a first flow path and the second inlet (12) and second outlet (14) define a second flow path. The heat exchanger is provided with a motor (16, 18) for rotating the cylindrical structure and the rotation of the cylindrical structure (4) moves the elongate flow paths from the first flow path to the second flow path.
US09291400B2
Described embodiments include a portable electronic device. The device includes a shell and a heat-generating component. The device includes a first and a second exterior heat-rejection element. Each heat-rejection element is configured to reject heat received from the heat-generating component into an environment. The device includes a controllable thermal coupler configured to regulate heat transfer to the first and second heat-rejection elements. The device includes a first proximity sensor configured to determine if a user touch to the shell is within a first zone of possible heat discomfort. The device includes a thermal manager configured to regulate heat transfer by the controllable thermal coupler to the first and second heat-rejection elements. The regulated heat transfer includes adjusting heat rejection away from the first heat-rejection element and toward the second heat-rejection element if the user touch is within the first zone.
US09291398B2
A micro vapor chamber includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate has a condensing region constituted of a plurality of protrusions. The second plate has a plurality of liquid-collecting regions and an evaporating region. The condensing region is located to correspond to the liquid-collecting regions and the evaporating region. The first plate is arranged to cover the second plate. The condensed working fluid are quickly collected on the protrusions to flow back to the evaporating region, thereby improving the liquid-vapor phase circulation of the working fluid in the micro vapor chamber greatly.
US09291391B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for drying a material or, more generally, flash evaporating a target substance having a vapor pressure threshold. The methods and systems include a conveyor conduit that receives material and within which a pressure is established that is greater than the vapor pressure threshold of the target substance. The material moves through the conveyor and is expelled into a pressure drop zone created by one or more venturi nozzles. The pressure in the pressure drop zone is far less than the vapor pressure threshold of the target substance. As the material encounters the pressure drop zone, the targeted substance in the material experiences a rapid and extreme pressure drop and simultaneously a rapid temperature increase. This causes the target substance in the material to flash evaporate virtually immediately. The resulting vapor is separated from the remaining material and the now dry material is collected for further processing or use. The vapor can be collected, condensed, exhausted, or otherwise treated depending upon the goals of a particular installation or process. The methods and systems are particularly useful for drying water from moisture laden material such as coal wash fines.
US09291389B2
A system and method for producing argon that uses a higher pressure column, a lower pressure column, and an argon column collectively configured to produce nitrogen, oxygen and argon products through the cryogenic separation of air. The present system and method also employs a once through argon condensing assembly that is disposed entirely within the lower pressure column that is configured to condense an argon rich vapor stream from the argon column against the oxygen-enriched liquid from the higher pressure column to produce an argon liquid product. The control system is configured for optimizing the production of argon product by ensuring an even flow split of the oxygen-enriched liquid is distributed to the argon condenser cores and by adjusting the flow rate of the argon removed from the argon condensing assembly to maintain the liquid/vapor balance in the argon condensing assembly within appropriate limits.
US09291383B2
An appliance such as a refrigerator receives a demand response signal indicating a peak demand period and operates the refrigerator in an energy savings mode by disabling an anti-sweat heater. A sensor on an external surface of the refrigerator enables the anti-sweat heater during the peak demand period if moisture is detected by the sensor. A preselected location can be defined where incipient moisture would form such as reducing the amount of insulation in this location. By forming a depression in the location and using an impedance-type sensor, moisture can be easily detected. The sensor signal is sent to the controller which then activates the anti-sweat heater to remove the moisture.
US09291373B2
A refrigerant cooling system includes multiple evaporator coils fed by one variable refrigerant metering device and one or more fixed refrigerant metering devices. To avoid condensed moisture on the coils from being entrained by the supply air and ultimately adversely increasing the humidity of a room or comfort zone of a building, the variable refrigerant metering device delivers refrigerant to the evaporator's lowermost coil at a superheat that is less than that of the other higher coils. To operate the refrigerant system at various loads, two or more compressors are selectively energized individually and in combination for various stages of capacity, while the variable refrigerant metering device is active at each stage. The refrigerant system may include multiple refrigerant circuits that are hermetically isolated from each other, or two or more of the circuits may be in fluid communication with each other.
US09291372B2
A closed loop temperature equalization system includes multiple flowpaths utilizing a heat exchange fluid for transmitting thermal energy of a natural thermal energy storage body to an external temperature differentiation body. The closed-loop system includes at least a heat gaining device arranged to transfer heat between the natural thermal energy storage body and the heat exchange fluid, and a heat releasing device arranged to transfer heat between the heat exchange fluid and the temperature differentiation body and also includes at least one of an auxiliary pump 1 for selectively pumping the heat exchange fluid in a normal flow direction or in a reverse flow direction and of at least one auxiliary heating/cooling device disposed in the interior or in the exterior of the fluid flowpath. A first pipeline structure carries a part of the heat exchange fluid from the heat gaining device to the heat releasing device. A second pipeline structure carries the heat exchange fluid between the heat gaining device and the heat releasing device.
US09291371B1
A heliostat optimized to be positioned near a skylight or other aperture is disclosed. The heliostat comprises a plurality of reflective elements arranged in a substantially planar array, each element being mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of rotation. A first motor rotates the array about an axis substantially perpendicular to the plane of the array; and a second motor rotates the reflective elements about their respective axes of rotation. A processor provides control signals to operate the first motor as required to orient the array such that the respective axes of rotation of the reflective elements are substantially perpendicular to an azimuth to the sun and to operate the second motor as required to rotate the reflective elements about their respective axes of rotation to position the reflective element to reflect the sun's light to a target area.
US09291369B2
A skirt for photovoltaic arrays provides a screen portion, a groove portion, and a separate coupling adapted to couple the skirt to the skirt of an adjacent photovoltaic array and to a photovoltaic module. Another embodiment provides a screen portion comprising an angled louver and is adapted to partially obscure an area substantially beneath a PV module in a PV array. A further embodiment provides an edge blocking skirt for a PV array comprising a screen portion adapted for mounting a bottom of the screen portion substantially close to a roof.
US09291359B2
A thermostat user interface for a network-connected thermostat is described. The thermostat includes a frustum-shaped shell body having a circular cross-section and a sidewall extending between first and second ends, the second end being user-facing when the thermostat is wall-mounted; a circular rotatable ring being user rotatable for adjusting a setting of the thermostat; and a circular cover including a clear circular center portion surrounded by a painted outer portion. The clear circular center portion permits a corresponding circular portion of a non-circular dot-matrix color display element to be visible through the circular cover and the painted outer portion masks a remaining portion of the non-circular dot-matrix color display element so as to create a circular graphical user interface.
US09291350B2
A system for supplying a working fluid to a combustor includes a fuel nozzle, a combustion chamber disposed downstream from the fuel nozzle, an inner flow sleeve that circumferentially surrounds the combustion chamber and a plurality of injectors circumferentially arranged around the inner flow sleeve. The plurality of injectors provide for fluid communication through the inner flow sleeve and into the combustion chamber downstream from the fuel nozzle. The system further includes an outer air shield that defines an injection air plenum that surrounds the plurality of injectors. An inlet passage extends through the outer air shield to define a flow path into the injection air plenum. An outer sleeve is slidingly engaged with the outer air shield. The outer sleeve has a first position that restricts flow through the inlet passage and a second position that increases flow through the inlet passage.
US09291346B2
The present invention relates to a gas fired infrared radiation emitter comprising a burner plate (140) acting as combustion surface and a radiant screen (160) positioned at the combustion side of the perforated tiles. The radiant screen is embossed (180) proving locally different distances between the burner plate and the radiant screen. The result is a higher performance of the gas fired infrared radiation emitter.
US09291330B2
A retrofit-style lamp is disclosed. The retrofit-style lamp includes a plurality of light sources, and a one-dimensional linear batwing lens. The one-dimensional linear batwing lens beam shapes light emitted by at least two light sources of the plurality of light sources. The retrofit-style lamp also includes a housing including the plurality of light sources, and attached to the one-dimensional linear batwing lens. The combination of housing and lens is then itself fitted with endcaps, including electrical connectors, for placement within a fixture, such as within an existing conventional fluorescent tube fixture located within a storage structure, for example a refrigeration case. Alternatively, the plurality of light sources, the one-dimensional linear batwing lens, and the housing may be formed, along with a power supply, as a standalone retrofit fixture for use in enclosed storage structures, such as refrigeration cases, where the retrofit fixture replaces a conventional fluorescent fixture.
US09291329B2
A LED signal (2) having has an element that facilitates providing a uniform distribution of light is illustrated. The LED signal (2) includes a housing (4) and a cover (6) operatively attached the housing (4). At least one LED (12) resides on at least one circuit board (14), which is affixed to the housing (4) opposite the cover (6). An optic (18) resides adjacent to the at least one LED (12) and redirects light rays emitted by the LED (12) to provide a uniform distribution of light through the cover (6).
US09291327B2
In one general aspect, the invention features an illumination source that comprises a housing and a plurality of LED illumination elements that are mounted proximate each other in a central cluster with respect to the housing and leaving a peripheral space around the cluster, with the peripheral space being significantly larger than a separation between the LED illumination elements in the cluster. A transparent housing cover is mounted with respect to the housing in front of an axis of illumination of the LED illumination elements. A tinted transparent housing cover and/or a smoothing LED can also be employed.
US09291324B2
A center high mounted stop light assembly for use in a vehicle includes a stop light housing movable in a passage located center high on a rear end of the vehicle between a first closed position and a second extended position in which utility lights coupled to the stop light housing are deployable and operable to illuminate an area near the rear end of the vehicle. A position sensor detects and signals the position of the stop light housing within the passage. The stop light housing may be manually operated between the open and closed position or may use an automated device for push button operation including of the utility lights.
US09291297B2
A thermal insulator includes a plurality of layers. At least some of the layers include phononic crystals having a phononic bandgap, wherein heat transporting phonons within a selected range of frequencies are substantially blocked by each phononic crystal layer. The plurality of layers thermally isolate a first region from a second region, wherein the first region is at one end of the plurality of layers and the second region is at the other end of the plurality of layers.
US09291293B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic coupling bush (1), comprising a bush housing (4), in particular a sleeve-shaped hush housing (4), in which a hush tappet (12), an axially movable compression sleeve (13) that surrounds the hush tappet (12) in an axially parallel manner, in particular coaxially, and an axially movable retaining sleeve (16) that surrounds the compression sleeve (13) in an axially parallel manner, in particular coaxially, are arranged in an axially parallel manner, in particular coaxially, the outer surface of the retaining sleeve supporting or releasing securing elements (18) arranged in the bush housing (4) in the dial direction and the in particular annular end face (16a) of the retaining sleeve lying at least substantially in one plane with the end faces (12a) of the bush tappet (12) and of the bush housing (4) in the decoupled state, wherein the compression sleeve is ex posed from the inside to a hydraulic fluid to be conveyed through the bush at least substantially without applying axial force to the compression sleeve.
US09291273B2
A valve assembly has a valve body, a lower bushing, a valve seat, a lower stem, a disc, and an upper stem. The valve body defines a bi-directional flow path therethrough; wherein the valve body has an inner surface, two flange faces, and further defines an upper orifice and a hemispherical lower orifice along an axis perpendicular to the flow path. The lower bushing is housed in the lower orifice, and the lower bushing is configured to tilt within the lower orifice away from the axis. The lower bushing defines a bushing cavity. The valve seat has an outer surface configured to encapsulate the inner surface and the two flange faces of the valve body. The lower stem is housed in the bushing cavity, and the lower stem is configured for tilting away from and towards the axis perpendicular to the flow path. The disc has a seating surface on at outer circumference, defines a stem receptacle to house the lower stem, and the stem receptacle extends less than a diameter of the disc.
US09291271B2
Sandwiching of a foreign matter between a seal ring and a housing is suppressed, and abrasion of the housing and the seal ring is suppressed. The size of the diameter of a second seal portion 3 is set to be larger than the size d2 of the diameter of an inner peripheral face 81 so that the difference in diameter size between the second seal portion 3 and an inner peripheral face 81 of a housing 80 becomes 1.0 mm or less in a state before the ring body is provided in the annular gap.
US09291270B2
A fluid seal of the present invention is disposed between an outer surface, i.e. engine block or any other part that requires application of the assembly and a rotatable member, such as, for example a shaft, wherein the seal circumscribes the shaft and lubricated the shaft and the same rotates around the axis. The seal present a cross section with plurality of channels that allow maximum expose of the seal to a salt bath thereby improving curing process and physical characteristics of the seal. A method of forming such fluid seal is disclosed in the present application.
US09291269B2
An intershaft seal is provided for inner and outer coaxial shafts which rotate relative to each other. The seal is located in an annular space between the shafts and maintains an axial pressure differential between a fluid pressure on the first side of the seal and a different fluid pressure on the other, second side of the seal. The seal includes a first runner which extends circumferentially around a first one of the shafts and projects therefrom into the annular space. The seal further includes a sealing ring which is coaxial with the shafts.
US09291262B2
A transmission interlock assembly is described. A shift rail may include an interlock passage containing at least one interlock member. First and second gear engagement devices mounted to the shift rail may include, respectively, first and second interlock indents. The interlock member may extend into the first or the second interlock indent when, respectively, the first or the second gear engagement device is in neutral. With both gear engagement devices in neutral, as the first (or second) gear engagement device is moved to engage a gear, the interlock member may be urged out of the first (or second) indent and into the second (or first) indent, the interlock member thereby preventing the second (or first) gear engagement device from moving out of neutral.
US09291260B1
A method of controlling a downhill rolling shift sequence (DRSS) of a vehicle having an engine and a dual-clutch transmission (DCT) includes initiating a DRSS upon detecting a rolling downhill condition of the vehicle in an initial gear state, identifying an exit gear state corresponding to the initial gear state, shifting the DCT to a rolling neutral state when a speed of an initial gear input shaft is equal to an idle speed of the engine, initiating synchronization of the engine speed with the speed of an exit gear input shaft when the shaft speed is equal to the engine idle speed, and shifting the DCT from the rolling neutral state to the exit gear state when the synchronized speed of the engine and the exit gear input shaft is equal to a calibrated exit speed defined by the exit gear state. A system for controlling the DRSS is provided.
US09291252B2
An alternator pulley, a mounting structure of an alternator pulley, and an alternator for a vehicle are configured to reduce vibration by mounting an adaptor which includes a pendulum on the alternator pulley, by reacting a pendulum vibration with a belt vibration which have inverse phases to each other, and by completely press-fitting the adaptor to the alternator pulley without backlash. The alternator pulley, mounting structure and alternator may include a pulley body configured to be coupled with an alternator shaft and receiving power by a belt and an adaptor coupled with the pulley body and absorbs vibration caused by power delivery, wherein the adaptor may further include at least one pendulum for absorbing vibration caused by the power delivery.
US09291251B2
Components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for continuously variable transmissions (CVT) are provided. In one embodiment, a CVT has a number of spherical planets in contact with an idler assembly. Various idler assemblies can be used to facilitate to improve durability, fatigue life, and efficiency of a CVT. In one embodiment, the idler assembly has two rolling elements having contact surfaces that are angled with respect to a longitudinal axis of the CVT. In some embodiments, a bearing is operably coupled between the first and second rolling elements. The bearing is configured to balance axial force between the first and second rolling elements. In one embodiment, the bearing is a ball bearing. In another embodiment, the bearing is an angular contact bearing. In yet other embodiments, needle roller bearings are employed.
US09291250B2
A solitary chainring of a bicycle front crankset for engaging a drive chain, including a plurality of teeth formed about a periphery of the chainring, the plurality of teeth consisting of an even number. The plurality of teeth includes a first group of teeth and a second group of teeth arranged alternatingly between the first group of teeth. The first group of teeth and the second group of teeth are equal in number. Each of the first and second group of teeth include an outboard side and an inboard side opposite the outboard side and each tooth of the first group of teeth includes at least a first protrusion on the outboard side thereof and each tooth of the second group of teeth are free of the first protrusions on the outboard side and the inboard side.
US09291240B2
A device, which connects a gearmotor to an aircraft wheel, comprising: a casing rotatably carrying a shaft driven by the gearmotor, the shaft having a fluted portion on which a gearwheel is mounted to slide along a longitudinal axis of the shaft without rotating relative to the shaft; a toothed ring for constraining to rotate with the aircraft wheel; and structure for moving the gearwheel axially between a retracted position (disengaged from the toothed ring) and an engaged position (gearwheel meshes with the toothed ring). The structure for moving the gearwheel comprises a hollow screw-and-nut assembly extending around the shaft. One element of the assembly is axially secured to the gearwheel but prevented from rotating by an anti-rotation member. The other element of the assembly is rotatably mounted inside the casing to be driven selectively by an electric motor so that rotating the electric motor causes the gearwheel to move axially.
US09291226B2
The invention relates to a disk brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, comprising a brake pad, a brake application device for pressing the brake pad against a brake disk, a pressure plate, by way of which the brake application device presses the brake pad against the brake disk during the braking process, and comprising an inclined guide, which during braking guides the pressure plate along a path located transversely to the brake axis. The pressure plate is provided with a protrusion, and the brake pad is provided with a recess, which accommodates the protrusion when assembled.
US09291221B2
A brake dust collector for a motor vehicle for collecting brake dusk of a vehicle wheel brake has a dust collecting device with a filter element arranged in a filter receptacle. The filter element is designed as an exchangeable filter and is arranged exchangeable in a receiving space provided in the filter receptacle. The filter receptacle has a housing opening communicating with the receiving space. Through the housing opening the filter element is inserted into the receiving space and removed from the receiving space. The housing opening is located on a side of the filter receptacle that is facing away from the vehicle wheel brake.
US09291216B2
The electromagnetic clutch (X) includes a rotating shaft (1): a magnetic pole body (2) and a rotor (3) disposed to face each other along an axial direction of the rotating shaft (1); and an armature (4) capable of moving in a direction attachable to or detachable from the rotor (3) along the axial direction of the rotating shaft and forming a magnetic circuit with the magnetic pole body and the rotor. The armature is moved in the axial direction of the rotating shaft by electromagnetic suction force to press the rotor when an exciting coil (21) is in an excitation state. The rotating shaft is configured by an input side shaft portion (11) which is a non-magnetic body and formed of a material having enough strength to support rotation of the rotor and the armature; and an output side shaft portion (12) which is a magnetic body.
US09291208B2
A rotation transmitter includes: a first member, an intermediate member and a second member that are arranged coaxially with a rotation axis. The first member is formed with a first bearing surface along the rotation axis and a first direction. The second member is formed with a second bearing surface along the rotation axis and a second direction. The intermediate member is formed with a first middle bearing surface facing the first bearing surface and formed with a second middle bearing surface facing the second bearing surface. A static-pressure air bearing is formed between the bearing surface and the middle bearing surface. The rotation transmitter further includes: a preload device that biases the bearing surface and the middle bearing surface in a direction approaching each other.
US09291205B2
A clamp coupling has a slotted clamping ring seated on a first rotatable part. A clamping screw is arranged in the clamping ring and acts on the clamping ring to elastically spread the clamping ring apart and contract the clamping ring depending on the turning direction of the clamping screw. The first rotatable part has axially oriented slots that extend up to a free end face of the first rotatable part and that separate coupling segments of the first rotatable part from each other. The slots are arranged in an area surrounded by the clamping ring. The coupling segments receive a second rotating part and are clamped by the clamping ring on the second rotating part. A follower part is arranged on the clamping ring and in a spreading-apart direction of the clamping ring is fixedly connected with at least one of the coupling segments.
US09291203B2
A bearing temperature monitoring system for detecting a temperature of bearing grease within a bearing housing. The bearing temperature monitoring system comprises a housing mountable to the bearing housing, a power source selectively outputting an electrical current, and an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit includes a temperature sensor component electrically coupled to the power source. The temperature sensor component can be responsive to a change in temperature such that the temperature sensor component opens or closes the electrical circuit at a predetermined temperature even in the absence of an applied electrical current. The electrical circuit further includes an alert device electrically coupled to the power source and the temperature sensor component that outputs an alert in response to the temperature sensor component.
US09291202B2
A friction-enhancing lacquer contains a binder and hard material particles. The hard material particles include a titanium-boron compound or consist of a titanium-boron compound, such as titanium diboride. The friction-enhancing lacquer is applied to the surface of a machine part, such as a bearing component, in order to increase its coefficient of friction and minimize or prevent slippage relative to another machine part clamped thereto.
US09291201B2
A tubular bushing that is co-moldable with tubs of washing machines, the tubular bushing is engaged by a drive shaft of the washing machine, that extends along a central axis (A) and is provided with two rolling bearings, arranged at a given distance from each other along the axis (A) to rotatably support the drive shaft of the washing machine with respect to the tub. The tubular bushing further provides a containing sleeve, made of plastic material and co-molded around the two bearings; the sleeve defining an axial communication duct between two sides of the tubular bushing, the duct being closed, at least during co-molding, by a disposable cap, engaged in an annular edge of the containing sleeve.
US09291198B2
A landing bearing for use in a magnetic bearing assembly is provided. The landing bearing includes a first landing surface configured to be mounted on a shaft and a bushing having a second landing surface configured to be mounted in a housing or in a stator coaxially with the landing sleeve. The second landing surface is arranged so as to face the first landing surface. It is proposed that at least one of the first landing surface and the second landing surface is provided with at least one recess for receiving lubricant.
US09291190B2
A device fixes fittings, in particular wall or floor elements in airplanes, to a structure such that no vibrations are generated. The device has a fixing element which is configured on one end for fixing to the structure and on the opposite end for receiving the fittings. The opposite end of the fixing element is movably mounted in a spacer sleeve which can be connected to the fittings to be received and which contains an elongated hole-shaped cross-section, and the opposite end is configured for fixing to the fittings. At least one damping element is provided and disposed between the structure and the fittings. The spacer sleeve has an elongated hole-shaped cross-section, and the one end of the fixing element is formed by a stand or can be connected to a stand. The stand is configured for movably mounting in a rail section that lies on the structure.
US09291189B2
A fastener is provided. The fastener includes an elongated shank having a longitudinal axis. The fastener also includes a head portion formed at a first end of the shank. The head portion includes an annular flange extending radially from the longitudinal axis. The fastener also includes a knurled section extending along at least a portion of the shank and disposed adjacent to the annular flange. The knurled section includes a plurality of grooves circumferentially surrounding the portion of the shank. The fastener also includes a smooth section extending along at least a portion of the shank and disposed adjacent to the knurled section. The fastener also includes a helical threaded portion extending axially along at least a portion of said shank toward a second end of the shank and disposed adjacent to the smooth section.
US09291188B2
A fixture for mounting on a support structure having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a thickness, with a bore therethrough, comprising: a tubular body, having a top section and a bottom externally threaded section; a retaining sleeve with flange, having a lower portion, the bottom surface thereof larger than the bore; a drop down ring; a keeper body, having an internally threaded circular passageway, including a ring shaped upper part having an outside surface and an outside diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the bore, and a lower part having a smaller diameter than said upper part, the retaining sleeve with flange, drop down ring, and keeper body sized for placing onto the tubular body; and pivotable, rotatable ears having an upper edge and a lower end providing a stop, mounted to the upper part of the keeper body.
US09291187B2
A fastener system for composite structure providing electromagnetic energy (EME) protection incorporates a fastener having a head with an engagement surface and a shank having a threaded end. A nut is received on the threaded end of the fastener, with the nut also having an engagement surface. At least one of the head engagement surface and the nut engagement surface incorporates a reduced area portion for engagement of a first mating surface or second mating surface, respectively.
US09291184B2
A connecting device comprises a first component, a second component which can be connected to the first component by insertion one in the other, and a coupling lever which is mounted movably on the first component and which is adjustable from an open position to a closed position and has coupling elements which cooperate with coupling elements of the first and second components and are designed in such a way that, by an adjusting movement of the coupling lever out of the open position into the closed position, the first and second components can be transferred from a loose state to a fixed state.
US09291183B2
An asymmetric thread impact drivable screw and clip for use with a power impact device for penetrating wood fibers while minimizing cut fibers. The screw includes an impact head and a conical shaped tip having a ballistic insertion angle at the ends of a shank. The shank defines asymmetrical threads with an insertion flank having a long side at a slide angle peaking at a crest supported by a catch flank positioned at a grip angle. Varying tool accepting recess are taught for the head along with multiple thread sections. A mushroom compaction thread section is also taught.
US09291174B2
A power machine and a power conversion system for a power machine are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the power conversion system includes a pump configured to provide a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid and a control valve assembly to receive the hydraulic fluid. The control valve assembly includes a first valve element configured to direct hydraulic fluid to an actuator when the first valve element is in first and second actuated positions. The control valve assembly also includes a second valve element downstream of the first spool. The first valve element is moveable between an unactuated position and the first and second actuated positions and is configured to direct hydraulic fluid received from the actuator through the second actuated position to the second valve element and to direct hydraulic fluid received from the actuator through the first actuated position to bypass the second valve element.
US09291159B2
A roller assembly comprises a central section with a hub, the central section having a plurality of pivots located around the central section; a plurality of arms, each arm having a roller end and a pivot end, the pivot ends coupled to the central section at the plurality of pivots such that each arm is capable of pivoting independently with respect to the central section, the roller ends and pivot ends of each arm located a distance of at least one roller width away from each other; a plurality of rollers, one roller coupled to each of the roller ends of the plurality of arms; wherein the plurality of rollers and arms are located around the central section such that the pivot is located a distance away from the roller.
US09291148B2
An intake assembly for a wind-energy conversion system has a substantially vertical converging nozzle, an object extending into the nozzle, and a converging flow passage between the object and the nozzle. For some embodiments, the object may be another nozzle. There may be vanes in one or both nozzles in further embodiments. The object may be configured to move in yet other embodiments.
US09291134B2
A needle type fuel injector has a needle control chamber at a pressure subject to a control valve in a control valve chamber which in an opening phase is lifted from its seat to expose the control valve chamber, connecting passage, and needle control chamber to a low pressure drain and in a closing phase is urged against the seat to isolate the control valve chamber, connecting passage, and needle control chamber from the drain. The potential for cavitation at high fuel injection pressure is reduced by throttling the flow of fuel past the control valve seat when the control valve opens, thereby maintaining sufficient back pressure in the control valve chamber and upstream connecting passages.
US09291133B2
A shaft arrangement for an axial piston pump assembly to couple to a rotatable member such as a gear therewith. A shaft extends at least partially through a housing chamber of the pump about a longitudinal axis. Reciprocating pistons are disposed within the chamber radially about the shaft. A cam unit is fitted over the shaft and provides an angled camming surface to engage the pistons. Bearing assemblies are fitted over the cam unit. An adapter can be fitted over the proximal end of the cam unit. The adapter has a distal surface which may abut the bearing assembly and be axially spaced from the cam unit, and an outer radial surface to engage the rotatable member. A clamping device provides a desired clamp load path between the rotatable member, the adapter, the cam unit, the bearing assemblies and the shaft.
US09291127B2
An engine arrangement includes an engine, a charge air cooler connected to an engine inlet side of the engine, an air bypass for bypassing the charge air cooler, and including an EGR system connected between engine outlet side and an engine inlet side of the engine via one or more EGR lines. The air bypass enters the EGR system at an air-bypass port of an EGR line for mixing air with exhaust gas at the engine outlet side of the EGR system and/or upstream of an EGR cooler. An engine arrangement can also comprise an engine, a charge air cooler connected via an air line to an engine inlet side of the engine, an air bypass for bypassing the charge air cooler, and including an EGR system connected between an engine outlet side and an engine inlet side of the engine via one or more EGR lines. A control device is provided for controlling an engine inlet temperature of an air/exhaust gas mixture by controlling a ratio of cooled/uncooled air and/or cooled/uncooled exhaust gas in the air/exhaust gas mixture.
US09291125B2
A control system in a gas engine includes a water injection means which injects water toward an interior of a cylinder in the gas engine; a water injection control means which controls the water injection section; and a knocking occurrence ratio measuring means which measures a measurement value of a knocking occurrence ratio in the cylinder. The water injection control means controls the water injection means to set the amount of the water injected toward the interior of the cylinder, based on a deviation between the measurement value and a target value.
US09291097B2
A multi-paneled cooling module adapted to be mounted to an engine exterior protects electronic components such as sensors and associated wiring from heat loads of the engine and/or other heat generating engine devices. The module is formed of wall and ceiling panels having a relatively high thermal conductivity, such as aluminum. The cooling module, which includes strategically situated integral coolant passages within several of its panels, is adapted to protect all enclosed electronic components, including electronic pressure sensors, an EGR valve, and all associated wiring and wiring harnesses. For example, the sensors, harnesses, and valve components associated with and proximal to an EGR venturi may be fully protected from overheating, in spite of exposure of those components to massive heat loads generated by the venturi. Finally, the cooling module may incorporate additional cooling accommodation for hydraulic oil cooling if, for example, the EGR valve is hydraulically actuated.
US09291090B2
A two stroke engine of a particular configuration can have its power output increased by running bigger pistons and using ports in the piston skirt through which to conduct compressed air within the skirt through short passages in the cylinder housing that conduct the air from within the skirt to above the piston. As a result a larger piston can be used for the same spacing and opening size in the block to save the need to redesign the block and the crankshaft. A position adjuster for the piston moves it axially without rotation of the piston ports out of alignment with inlet ports in the housing. The piston rod is held in the crosshead using a flat to prevent rotation while an adjuster nut that is turned creates axial movement in the piston rod with a lock nut securing the final piston position.
US09291085B2
A method of estimating an ideal air-fuel ratio in an internal combustion engine, comprises receiving an output of an upstream air-fuel ratio sensor and an output of a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor, the upstream air-fuel ratio sensor being attached to an exhaust gas passage such that it is positioned upstream of a catalyst provided in the exhaust gas passage to purify an exhaust gas, the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor being attached to the exhaust gas passage such that it is positioned downstream of the catalyst; detecting a state in which the catalyst does not store or release oxygen based on the output of the downstream air-fuel ratio sensor; and deciding as an estimated ideal air-fuel ratio in the internal combustion engine an air-fuel ratio detected by the upstream air-fuel ratio sensor when the state in which the catalyst does not store or release oxygen is detected.
US09291064B2
A gas turbine engine is defined wherein the inlet guide vanes leading into a core engine flow path are sized and positioned such that flow paths positioned circumferentially intermediate the vane are sufficiently large that a hydraulic diameter of greater than or equal to about 1.5 is achieved. This will likely reduce the detrimental effect of icing.
US09291062B2
Methods of forming a blade and rendering a blade resistant to erosion includes positioning a backing plate(s) or elongated backing plate(s) adjacent at least one side of a forward face of a leading edge surface of the blade. The methods include depositing an erosion resistant material in a plurality of layers by fusion bonding the erosion resistant material to the forward face of the leading edge surface of the blade. The backing plates providing a template or guide for depositing the plurality of layers of erosion resistant material. The plurality of layers of erosion resistant material form an erosion shield and a leading edge of the blade. Methods include removing the backing plate.
US09291050B2
Formation wettability is quantifiably estimated from measurements of dielectric constant and conductivity. In particular, wettability state of formation rock in a subterranean environment is estimated from multi-frequency measurements of rock dielectric constant and conductivity. A dielectric dispersion model is used to invert the measurements and estimate the saturation exponent. The resulting saturation exponent is used to quantify wettability, e.g., by calculating a wettability index.
US09291046B2
A well completion and related method are provided for formations susceptible to simultaneous production of oil and water. In one embodiment, two closely spaced, preferably horizontal wellbores are drilled from a single well into the reservoir. The reservoir rock surrounding one leg (typically the upper leg) is chemically treated to make it hydrophobic, whereas the reservoir rock surrounding the other leg is chemically treated to make it hydrophilic. Separate production tubing and a dual completion is installed in order to enable independent flow from each leg. Drawdown pressures in both legs are controlled to be sufficiently close to each other such that only oil flows into one leg and only water into the other. The water produced is re-injected downhole or brought to the surface.
US09291045B2
In a method of hydraulically fracturing a hydrocarbon-bearing subterranean formation, a proppant stage is introduced into the fracture which contains a gaseous fluid and an ultra lightweight proppant suspended in a viscosified aqueous fluid. The gaseous fluid of the proppant stage contains at least about 90 volume percent of the combination of gaseous fluid and aqueous fluid. A pad fluid may first be introduced into the formation, the pad fluid containing a gaseous fluid and, optionally, an aqueous fluid. The gaseous fluid of the pad fluid mixture typically contains at least 70 volume percent of the mixture.
US09291041B2
An injector insert apparatus includes a body that has an inner oil passage that is configured and arranged to allow oil to pass therethrough. The body further has an annular chamber formed around the inner oil passage. The annular chamber has a chamber opening that is configured to be coupled to receive a flow of thermal gas medium. The body also has at least one injector orifice that provides a passage between the annular chamber and the inner oil passage. The at least one injector orifice is configured to inject the thermal gas medium into oil passing through the inner oil passage.
US09291022B2
There is provided a system and method for temporarily locking a wellhead component while cementing it in place within a mineral extraction system. As cement is pumped into the wellhead, its temperature may be increased, leading to thermal expansion of the cement and movement of wellhead components. Disclosed embodiments include a hold-down ring configured to cooperate with tie-down screws to temporarily lock a running tool in place within the wellhead during cementing. In another embodiment, the tie-down screws may cooperate directly with the running tool. The locked running tool then blocks other wellhead components, such as a hanger run into the wellhead by the running tool, from upward axial movement due to thermal expansion of the cement during the cementing process. After the hanger is cemented in place, the running tool may be unlocked and retrieved from the wellhead.
US09291020B2
A blowout preventer system is provided. In one embodiment, such a system includes a blowout preventer stack including hydraulic components. The blowout preventer stack is coupled to a lower marine riser package that includes additional hydraulic components. The lower marine riser package further includes a pair of control pods that enables redundant control of the hydraulic components of the blowout preventer stack and the additional hydraulic components of the lower marine riser package. Still further, the lower marine riser package also includes a third control pod that enables additional redundant control of the hydraulic components of the blowout preventer stack and the additional hydraulic components of the lower marine riser package. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US09291018B2
Systems and methods to inhibit packoff events during downhole assembly motion within a wellbore comprise a downhole assembly that includes an energy-storing structure that defines a charged state and a discharged state and is configured to generate a motive force upon transitioning from the charged state to the discharged state. A fluidizing stream is generated with the motive force from the energy-storing structure which emits the fluidizing stream from the downhole assembly to fluidize a portion of a cuttings bed that may be within the wellbore and proximal to the downhole assembly.
US09291015B2
Multiple sensors on a drill string can be utilized to perform equivalent circulation density (ECD) analysis. By utilizing multiple ones of the sensors, the pressure drop in each section of the wellbore can be classified. Additionally, the inclusion of multiple sensors in the drill string allows a wellbore to be sectioned into intervals bounded by any two sensors. Pressure events occurring in a single section of the wellbore bounded by any two sensors can be isolated and analyzed. The isolation can be achieved by subtracting the pressure measured on the shallower sensor from that measured on the deeper sensor.
US09291013B2
An apparatus and method to wipe a tubular member includes a first wiper section and a second wiper section, in which the first wiper section and the second wiper section are movable with respect to each other towards a point of convergence. The apparatus may further include a base having an aperture formed therein to receive the tubular member such that the first wiper section and the second wiper section are connected to the base and movable with respect to the base between an open position and a closed position.
US09291010B1
A guide dolly for a drilling rig, the guide dolly having: a first dolly engagement roller assembly that is to move in parallel with a drilling mast of the drilling rig. The guide dolly also having a first dolly arm pivotably connected to the first dolly engagement roller assembly. The first dolly arm is configured to attach to a top drive of the drilling rig. A movement of the first dolly arm is to change a position of the top drive over a drilling location.
US09291009B1
A method and device for moving racked tubulars, such as pipe and casing joints on pipe racks at oil and gas well sites. The pipe moving tool comprises a wheel assembly with a long straight handle. The wheels fit inside the pipe, which is then moved by simply pushing or pulling the handle forward or backward, as needed. Several wheel assemblies of different diameters may be used interchangeably with a single handle. An extension handle also may be included. The use of this tool makes moving the pipe safer as the worker's hands are not exposed to injury. Additionally, the handle on the tool makes it possible to easily and more safely reach and move shorter pipes racked above or below longer pipes in a multi-level pipe rack; it is not necessary for the worker to lean over or under the longer pipes.
US09290993B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for trenchless installation of a conduit. According to the examples herein, a conduit may be installed underground using the conduit itself for the drilling of the bore hole needed to accommodate the conduit. The conduit may be installed after a drill string has been positioned in the ground to define a pilot hole. After the pilot hole is defined and while the drill string used to define the pilot hole remains underground, the conduit may be driven underground following the path defined by the drill string. A driving force may be applied to the conduit and cutting member attached to a leading end of the conduit to cause the conduit to advance underground while the drill string, a portion of which may be interior to the conduit, remains underground. In this manner disadvantages associated with back reaming and/or pulling or dragging of the conduit underground may be avoided, as the conduit may itself be used for enlarging the pilot hole to a size sufficient to accommodate the conduit.
US09290988B2
A door facing is provided. The door facing includes a body portion, and male and female alignment members protruding from a main surface area of the body portion. Also provided are door assemblies including the door facing and methods of making the door facing and the door assembly.
US09290986B2
An insulating glazing is described, including a first pane, a second pane, and a circumferential spacer between the first and second panes. The spacer includes a hollow main body, two parallel pane contact walls, an outer wall, a glazing interior wall and a bore opening through the outer wall. The glazing further includes a hollow pressure-equalizing body, having a surrounding outer wall and a gas-permeable and vapor-diffusion-tight membrane fastened inside the outer wall. The pressure-equalizing body and a sealing compound are arranged in an outer pane intermediate space between the first pane and the second pane. The pressure-equalizing body is connected to the spacer through the bore opening, wherein a sealing material is arranged between the bore opening and the outer wall of the pressure-equalizing body. The hollow main body of the spacer contains a desiccant and at least one partition wall.
US09290975B2
The invention relates to a mounting device for fixing a furniture hinge, comprising a base plate, which is to be fixed to a furniture part, in particular a lateral wall of a furniture body, and comprising a fixing device for fixing the hinge to the mounting device, preferably in a removable manner. The fixing device is movably mounted on the base plate, said mounting device having a connecting element which is mounted on the base plate in a movable manner via at least one toggle lever and which can be fixed to a hinge part that can be moved during the opening and closing movement of the hinge, wherein the fixing device can be moved relative to the base plate via the toggle lever.
US09290973B2
A system (20; 302) comprising the unitarily molded single-piece combination of: a first portion (24; 324); a living hinge (22; 322); and a second portion (26; 326) coupled by the living hinge to the first portion and shiftable between a first condition and second condition via rotation about the living hinge. The living hinge comprises: a first end (80) at the first portion; and a second end (82) at the second portion, in the as-molded condition the second end is spaced upward from the first end.
US09290971B2
A door device for a vehicle includes a cable for connecting a handle device and a lock unit. A cable holding member mounted to the handle device is displaced between an engagement position in which the cable holding member engages with the cable and a non-engagement position in which the cable holding member does not engage with the cable. A contact portion of a door panel is configured such that when the handle device is being mounted to the door panel, the contact portion contacts the cable holding member in the non-engagement position and interferes with the assembly of the handle device to the door panel and the contact portion does not contact the cable holding member in the engagement position.
US09290967B1
A combination lock is provided, the combination lock having a rotary latch configured for rotation between a locked position and an unlocked position, the rotary latch rotating in a first plane; and a bolt configured for movement between a first position and a second position along a second plane the second plane being oriented at a different location than the first plane, the bolt engaging the rotary latch in the first position such that rotation of the rotary latch from the locked position to the unlocked position is prevented.
US09290964B2
A lock assembly includes an exterior operator assembly, an interior operator assembly, and a latch assembly. An outer spindle is operatively coupled to a latch assembly, is drivably coupled to the interior operator assembly, and has a longitudinal bore. A coupling mechanism is coupled to the outer spindle. A locking spindle assembly is rotatably received in the longitudinal bore, and is configured to selectively operate the coupling mechanism to couple the exterior operator assembly to the outer spindle upon actuation of a drive assembly. The locking spindle assembly has a fire compliant component made of a first material that melts during a fire to prevent operation of the latch assembly with the exterior operator assembly, and has a fire resistant component made of a second material and configured to block the longitudinal bore of the outer spindle to aid in preventing the spread of the fire through the door.
US09290946B1
A roofing profile installation guide includes a rectangular bottom skid having a front edge, a back edge, and opposing longitudinal side edges. A first side rail and a second side rail are attached to the opposing longitudinal side edges and a front rail is attached to the front edge of the bottom skid. A guide rail is attached to the first side rail. The guide rail is configured to contact a first roofing profile that is attached to a roof surface as the bottom skid is moved atop the roof surface to maintain an orientation of the bottom skid relative to the first roofing profile and thereby, via the second side rail, align a second roofing profile with the first roofing profile atop the roof surface. The second roofing profile is unattached to the roof surface prior to alignment of the two roofing profiles.
US09290945B2
The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to systems, articles, materials, and methods for roofing a structure including, for example, hybrid shingles comprising a first material and a second material. A hybrid shingle may comprise, in some embodiments, a first layer comprising a metallic substrate or a polymeric substrate and at least partially defining a headlap region of the shingle, a buttlap region of the shingle comprising one or more tabs interspersed with inter-tab openings, an outward-facing surface of the first layer, and a substrate-facing surface of the first layer; and a second layer comprising a base and asphalt, having a smaller area than the first layer, and at least partially defining a buttlap region of the shingle, wherein the second layer is fixed to the substrate-facing surface of the first layer.
US09290940B2
The present invention provides a cold formed joist that can be used in a variety of construction applications. The present cold formed joist contains three elements, each formed from sheet metal: an upper chord, an intermediate web, and a lower chord. The upper chord further contains a downwardly facing receiving channel adapted to receive the upper edge of the intermediate web, and two upwardly facing channels.
US09290936B2
A portable floor includes floor panels connected in an edge to edge relationship to form an extended temporary floor surface. Each of the panels includes a foam layer having a top face and a bottom face with a first aluminum sheet placed on the top face and a second aluminum sheet placed on the bottom face. The aluminum sheet placed on the bottom face is coated with a paint over the bottom surface while a laminate is applied over the upper aluminum sheet. Extruded edge pieces attach along the sides of the floor panels and include complementary tongues along two edges and grooves along the other two edges. The panels also include latches for securing the edges together.
US09290932B2
Fire-rated wall construction components and wall systems for use in building construction. Embodiments can include tracks for holding studs which incorporate various geometries capable of receiving fire-retardant material, including but not limited to intumescent material. The fire-retardant material can be attached to the tracks such that the fire-retardant material expands and seals gaps and/or areas between the tracks and wall components such as ceilings, floors, and drywall. Various assemblies and methods can be used to cover the deflection gap.
US09290928B2
A connector clip configured to interconnect a sill member to a stud within a sheet-metal wall assembly is disclosed herein. The innovative connector clip comprises: a piece of sheet-metal that defines a planar web; and at least a first web flange perpendicular to the web. The innovative connector clip may be characterized in that the web includes at least a first transverse web slot positioned for receiving a first sill flange of the sill member when the sill member is positioned adjacent to one of the ends of the stud, and wherein the first transverse web slot defines a right angle with the first web flange.
US09290927B1
Exemplary embodiments provide a mobile ATM that may be completely self-contained, including having its own power source and communications capability. The mobile ATM may be designed to be transported and installed so that the mobile ATM can be fully functional and ready for customer usage within approximately one hour of arrival at the installation site. The mobile ATM may be constructed of rigid, durable, weatherproof materials. The mobile ATM may include a platform and ramp that are foldable against the ATM for transportation. The mobile ATM may be ADA compliant and may include a charging station supporting the charging of portable electronic devices, in addition to providing financial transaction services.
US09290923B1
A flow control device for a storm water management system includes a storage chamber and a number of discharge openings extending through the storage chamber. Associated with each opening is a valving mechanism that opens or closes the opening in response to changes in water level in the storage chamber.
US09290920B2
A toilet vent comprising a first fluid connection and a second fluid connection. Said first fluid connection is between an upper portion of a tank of a toilet above a sanitary fluid level and a gas outlet outside of said tank. Said second fluid connection is between a supply line outside of said tank and one or more tank components inside of said tank. Said toilet vent is capable of housing said first fluid connection and said second fluid connection. A portion of said toilet vent, containing a portion of both said first fluid connection and said second fluid connection, passes through a fluid input in a bottom of said tank.
US09290919B2
An assembly for undermounting a sink to a support surface includes a central sink support supporting a front center portion of a sink. The central sink support includes an elongated block member having an upper surface, a lower surface and extending sidewalls. The central sink support also includes first and second screw holes shaped and dimensioned for the passage of screws that will be secured to a front wall of a sink cabinet and a threaded locking pin hole with a similarly threaded locking screw. The assembly also includes a mounting driver having a support bar shaped and dimensioned for positioning between an underside of the sink and a wall of a cabinet at an angular orientation relative to the wall. The support bar includes a first end and a second end.
US09290916B2
A removable hydrant nozzle with a locking arrangement for securing the nozzle in a nozzle opening. The locking arrangement includes an axially movable slide configured to selectively engage a portion of the hydrant adjacent the nozzle opening, such as a lug mouth in a quarter-turn fitting. The slide is mounted to a slide housing and is spring loaded. In use, the slide automatically retracts as the nozzle is inserted into the nozzle opening and automatically extends into locking engagement with the mouth when the nozzle becomes fully seated. Once engaged, the slide prevents removal of the nozzle until manually disengaged. The slide may be movably mounted on a pair of shoulder bolts. The slide may include a paddle that extends outwardly where it is accessible to the operator. The nozzle may include a handle and a seal fitted onto the inner axial end of the nozzle.
US09290906B2
To provide a construct ion machine in which the temperature of a battery and aqueous urea within an aqueous urea tank can be prevented from rising and high stability can be secured in the vehicle body.A small turning type hydraulic excavator (1) including: a counterweight (6) disposed at the rear of a turning upperstructure (3) provided with a front work machine (4) in the front thereof; an engine (5a) disposed within an engine room (5) in front of the counterweight (6); a heat exchanger (15) exchanging heat with the engine (5a); a fan (16) introducing outside air from an intake port (5b) formed in the exterior of the engine room (5) into the engine room (5) to cool the heat exchanger (15); a tail pipe (20) disposed on the exterior of the engine room (5); an aqueous urea tank (12) storing aqueous urea that purifies the exhaust gas discharged from the engine (5a); and batteries (13a, 13b) supplying electric power to the engine (5a), wherein: both the aqueous urea tank (12) and the batteries (13a, 13b) are disposed on an upstream side of the heat exchanger (15) in a flow direction of the outside air.
US09290905B1
The remote excavator tool fastens to a robotic arm on a remotely controlled robotic platform that includes a track drive. The tool uses high speed tilling elements rotating at about 1500 rpm to dig, efficiently, a trench using a small amount of power. The tilling elements are hardened steel, rotating counterclockwise to a conventional tiller. The tilling elements are symmetrically mounted on a polygonal shaft, and include right and left multiple couples of paired facing disks with staggered curved tines, where the tines are thick and have tapered hardened edges. Round brushes are interspaced between couples. The loosen soil is pushed forward and to the sides to help protect the robotic platform and maintain control of the tool especially as the rate of the excavation partially depends on the characteristics of the material being excavated.
US09290902B2
A dry setting installation for generating a substantially dry working space for carrying out work on part of a partially submerged structure, the dry setting installation comprising a truncated elongated angular-, oval-shaped or part-angular-part-oval-dry setting element, which with the part of a partially submerged structure is capable of forming a cofferdam round the part of the partially submerged structure; and a process for the treatment of part of a partially submerged structure, the process comprising the steps of: closing the dry setting element with the part of the partially submerged structure, sealing the dry setting element on the part of the partially submerged structure; pumping out the water thereby providing a cofferdam round the part of the partially submerged structure; cleaning the surface of the part of the partially submerged structure; curing the curable adhesive coating, filling the dry setting installation with water, removing the dry setting element.
US09290893B2
An embodiment comprises a first plate coupled to a second plate via a first joint having a first axis of rotation; and a resilient member, coupled to the first plate, including a downward bias directed along a vertical line of force orthogonal to the first axis of rotation; wherein (a) the second plate is configured to at least one of (a)(i) couple to a pavement shoe, and (a)(ii) include a lower surface that comprises a pavement shoe, (b) the resilient member, the first and second plates, and the first joint are configured to simultaneously: (b)(i) rotate the second plate about the first axis of rotation from a non-horizontal position to a horizontal position, and (b)(ii) move the first joint vertically along the line of force; and (c) the first joint is to move vertically and rotate independently of both a screed and an end gate. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09290889B2
A square-shaped deck plank fastening device is provided that connects deck planks together without the need for fasteners on the top surfaces of the planks. The deck plank fastening device is connected to a lower surface of a deck plank and includes: a plurality of first projecting surfaces formed to extend upwards from corners on one side of the fastening device in a width direction of the plank, and a plurality of second projecting surfaces formed to extend upwards from corners on an opposite side of the fastening device in the width direction. A plurality of flat, tongue-like fastening parts extend from a mid-portion of a side of the deck plank fastening device in the width direction parallel to the first projecting surfaces. A first extending part extends from a mid-portion of a side of the deck plank fastening device opposite to the tongue-like fastening parts in the width direction parallel to the second projecting surfaces. The first extending part has a plurality of slot-like insertion parts formed in the width direction to receive the tongue-like fastening parts of an adjacent deck plank fastening device.
US09290888B2
Rail-fastening system for the non-positive resilient fastening of a rail (2) on a sleeper (1) of a railway track installation, comprising at least one angle guide plate (5), which can be fixed to the sleeper (1) with at least one screw (4), and at least one clamp (3), characterized in that the bending radii of the clamp arms (3a, 3b) of the clamp (3) preferably lie in the range from 18-70 mm, wherein the ratio of mutually adjacent bending radii within each clamping arm is ≦1.9 and the ratio of the greatest to the smallest bending radius thereof is ≦3.8, and in that the ratio of weight to width of the angle guide plate is <1.3 g/mm, preferably about 1.25 g/mm.
US09290885B2
A laundry treatment apparatus may include a cabinet defining an external appearance of the apparatus, the cabinet having a laundry opening, a laundry accommodation module provided within the cabinet to receive laundry introduced through the laundry opening, a suction duct into which interior air from the laundry accommodation module may be introduced, a discharge duct from which the air is discharged into the laundry accommodation module, a connection duct connecting the suction duct and the discharge duct to each other, a heat exchanger provided in the connection duct, and a blower provided between the heat exchanger and the discharge duct to circulate the interior air of the laundry accommodation module.
US09290882B2
The present invention relates to a clutch for a laundry appliance. The clutch selectively connects a laundry vessel to a variable speed drive. A driven member is rotationally coupled to the variable speed drive and a driven member is rotationably coupled to the laundry vessel. The driven member is at least partially rotationally coupled to the driven member by friction. At least one locking element is moveable from an unlocked position to a locking position. The driven member and the driven member are rotationally coupled together once the driven member accelerates to a rotational speed above a first rotational speed, connecting the laundry vessel to the variable speed drive.
US09290875B2
A garment stretching apparatus includes a strap with an attached bracket at each end to securely fasten the strap on the desired vertical upright and a pair of clamps to secure the garment during the stretching process. The strap includes a plurality of apertures evenly spaced. Each clamp connects to the strap at the aperture selected by the user.
US09290874B2
A backing material shift system for controlling movement of a backing material through a tufting machine includes spaced, first and second backing feed roll assemblies each carrying a series of reduced length backing feed rolls. The backing feed rolls are connected in series, with their opposite ends being supported by a series of roll stabilizing blocks. The backing feed roll assemblies are slidably supported along the frame of the tufting machine and are movable or shiftable across the tufting zone of the tufting machine in a direction transverse to the path of travel or feeding of the backing material through the tufting machine by operation of a backing material shifter.
US09290872B2
A gas carrying threading device includes a clutch for transmitting power from a sewing machine motor to a drive shaft that drives a stitch forming device at the time of stitch formation or to a gas supply pump at the time of looper threading, a looper threading/stitch forming changeover mechanism for changing over the clutch so that transmission of power to the stitch forming device is interrupted and the power is transmitted to the gas supply pump at the time of the looper threading and the power is transmitted to the stitch forming device and the transmission of the power to the gas supply pump is interrupted at the time of stitch formation, and a changeover prohibition mechanism for prohibiting abnormal changeover to a stitch forming state of the looper threading/stitch forming changeover mechanism during the gas supply operation of the gas supply pump.
US09290871B2
An apparatus includes a processor and a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform processes of acquiring first pattern data and second pattern data, the first pattern data being data for sewing a first embroidery pattern, and the second pattern data being data for sewing each of at least one second embroidery pattern, identifying, based on the first pattern data, at least one characteristic point of a pattern shape describing the first embroidery pattern, setting positioning data for positioning and sewing the at least one second embroidery pattern at the respective identified at least one characteristic point, and generating sewing data, based on the first pattern data, the second pattern data, and the positioning data. The sewing data is data for sewing the first embroidery pattern and the at least one second embroidery pattern.
US09290864B2
A method and apparatus for producing fiber yarn is provided. The novel apparatus includes a first transportation and pressing element (1) and a second transportation and pressing element (5) arranged adjacent to the first transportation and pressing element (1) as well as elements for driving the transportation and pressing elements (1, 5). The first and second transportation and pressing elements (1, 5) are arranged to form a nip therebetween. The apparatus also includes a nozzle (9) for feeding fiber suspension (6), such as pulp fiber suspension, to the nip between the first and second transportation and pressing elements (1, 5).
US09290856B2
The invention relates to a method for deposition of nanoparticles made of an insulating, semi-conductive, or conductive material onto predetermined areas, made of a conductive or semi-conductive material, located on a substrate. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing electrodes. The method of the invention includes the steps of a) creating insulating material areas I around areas Z when said areas I are not already present; b) deposition, by means of electrografting, of a polymer P prepared from a diazonium salt or vinyl monomer salt, or a mixture of the above, onto the conductive or semi-conductive material that forms the areas Z; c) coating the nanoparticles with a coating material that includes a bifunctional molecule capable of creating a bond with the nanoparticles and a bond with the polymer P; d) suspending the coated nanoparticles obtained in Step c) in a solvent, preferably a coating material solution used in Step c); e) immersing the substrate S obtained in Step b) into the suspension obtained in Step d); and f) removing the polymer P. The invention is in particular useful for manufacturing electrodes.
US09290849B2
There are provided methods of suppressing corrosion of a corrodible metal surface that contacts a water stream in a water system, the method comprising: (a) introducing into the water stream a shot dose of a treatment composition comprising a corrosion inhibitor, the shot dose being introduced into the water stream over a first time period and the water stream having a first concentration of corrosion inhibitor during the first time period; (b) then reducing the amount of treatment composition that is introduced into the water stream; and (c) after the first time period, maintaining a second concentration of corrosion inhibitor in the water stream over a second time period, the second concentration being less than 25% of the concentration of corrosion inhibitor during the first time period. There is also provided, after the second time period, introducing into the water stream a second shot dose of the corrosion inhibitor, the second shot dose being introduced into the water stream over a third time period, the third concentration being greater than the second concentration.
US09290845B2
There are provided a ferrite stainless steel for a polymer fuel cell separator having excellent corrosion resistance and interfacial contact resistance under an operating environment of a polymer fuel cell, and a preparation method of the stainless steel. A stainless steel includes C: 0.02 wt % or less, N: 0.02 wt % or less, Si: 0.4 wt % or less, Mn: 0.2 wt % or less, P: 0.04 wt % or less, S: 0.02 wt % or less, Cr: 25.0 to 32.0 wt %, Cu: 0 to 2.0 wt %, Ni: 0.8 wt % or less, Ti: 0.5 wt % or less, Nb: 0.5 wt % or less, waste Fe and inevitably contained elements. A preparation method of the stainless steel having a second passive film formed on a surface thereof includes forming a first passive film on the surface of the stainless steel by bright-annealing or annealing-pickling the stainless steel; removing the first passive film by pickling the stainless steel in a 10 to 20 wt % sulfuric acid solution at a temperature of 50 to 75° C. for a predetermined time; water-washing the stainless steel; and forming the second passive film by performing a passivation treatment on the stainless steel in the mixture of a 10 to 20 wt % nitric acid and a 1 to 10 wt % fluorine acid at a temperature of 40 to 60° C. for the predetermined time. Accordingly, it is possible to prepare a stainless steel having reduced elution resistance and excellent corrosion resistance and to produce a stainless steel for a polymer fuel cell separator, which has low interfacial contact resistance and excellent long-term performance even under a fuel cell operating condition of 60 to 150° C. and various surface roughness conditions.
US09290841B2
The present invention is an organoruthenium compound for a chemical vapor deposition raw material, including dodecacarbonyl triruthenium represented by the following chemical formula, wherein the iron (Fe) concentration is 1 ppm or less. The DCR in the present invention can be produced by obtaining crude DCR by directly carbonylating ruthenium through allowing a ruthenium salt and carbon monoxide to react with each other and by purifying the crude DCR by a sublimation method. In the synthesis step, the concentration of Fe in the obtained crude DCR is preferably set at 10 ppm or less.
US09290837B2
A technique for forming an organic polymer thin film on a surface of a substrate with high film formation efficiency and excellent reproducibility and stability is provided. When a vacuum deposition polymerization for forming an organic polymer thin film is performed on a surface of a substrate repeatedly, in which a plurality of kinds of monomers evaporated in a plurality of evaporation source containers in vacuum state are introduced into a deposition chamber in a vacuum state and polymerized on a surface of the substrate arranged in the deposition chamber, each of the monomers in a liquid form is present in the evaporation source containers in a constant amount every time, at the beginning of the evaporation operation of monomers.
US09290832B2
The invention relates to a cold-rolled carbon steel comprising (in % by weight) C 0.63-0.85%, max. 0.40% Si, 0.20-0.90% Mn, max. 0.035% P, max. 0.035% S, max. 0.060% Al, max. 0.40% Cr, 0.003-0.010% N, preferably 0.005-0.008%, and a maximum of 0.12% of at least one micro-alloying element, the remainder being iron and steel production-related pollutants. Possible micro-alloying elements are Ti, Nb, V and optionally Zr. A carbon steel of the type is cold-rolled into texture-rolled strip steel with a high cold reduction degree and can be used in particular as a material for coiling springs or other components having spring properties.
US09290823B2
Described herein are a method, an apparatus, and a system for metal processing that improves one or more properties of a sintered metal part by controlling the process conditions of the cooling zone of a continuous furnace using one or more cryogenic fluids. In one aspect, there is provided a method comprising: providing a furnace wherein the metal part is passed therethough on a conveyor belt and comprises a hot zone and a cooling zone wherein the cooling zone has a first temperature; and introducing a cryogenic fluid into the cooling zone where the cryogenic fluid reduces the temperature of the cooling zone to a second temperature, wherein at least a portion of the cryogenic fluid provides a vapor within the cooling zone and cools the metal parts passing therethrough at an accelerated cooling rate.
US09290822B2
A Si-killed steel wire rod for obtaining a spring excellent in fatigue properties and a spring excellent in fatigue properties obtained from such steel wire rod are provided. In the Si-killed steel wire rod of the present invention, oxide-based inclusions present in the wire rod contain SiO2: 30-90%, Al2O3: 2-35%, MgO: 35% or below (not inclusive of 0%), CaO: 50% or below (not inclusive of 0%), MnO: 20% or below (not inclusive of 0%) and BaO: 0.2-20% respectively, and total content of (CaO+MgO) is 3% or above.
US09290821B2
Fermentable sugar useful for the production of biofuels can be produced from biomass by contacting the biomass with a solution containing at least one α-hydroxysulfonic acid. The α-hydroxysulfonic acid can be easily removed from the product and recycled.
US09290819B2
Methods for distinguishing between cotton cultivars of a specific species by analyzing a sample of mature cotton fibers from raw cotton materials or from textile goods are disclosed. DNA is extracted from the mature cotton fiber sample and subjected to PCR techniques which enable the identification of the cultivar of a particular cotton species utilized in the textile or cotton material of interest.
US09290810B2
In one embodiment, a product includes a plurality of particles, each particle including: a carrier that includes a non-toxic material; and at least one DNA barcode coupled to the carrier, where the particles each have a diameter in a range from about 1 nanometer to about 100 microns.
US09290807B2
This invention relates to the identification of modified cytosine residues, such as 5-methylcytosine (5mC), 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) and 5-formylcytosine (5fC) to be distinguished from cytosine (C) in a sample nucleotide sequence. Methods may comprise oxidizing or reducing a first portion of polynucleotides which comprise the sample nucleotide sequence; treating the oxidized or reduced first portion and a second portion of polynucleotides with bisulfite; sequencing the polynucleotides in the first and second portions of the population following steps ii) and iii) to produce first and second nucleotide sequences, respectively and; identifying the residue in the first and second nucleotide sequences which corresponds to a cytosine residue in the sample nucleotide sequence. These methods may be useful, for example in the analysis of genomic DNA and/or of RNA.
US09290806B2
A technique is provided for a structure. A substrate has a nanopillar vertically positioned on the substrate. A bottom layer is formed beneath the substrate. A top layer is formed on top of the substrate and on top of the nanopillar, and a cover layer covers the top layer and the nanopillar. A window is formed through the bottom layer and formed through the substrate, and the window ends at the top layer. A nanopore is formed through the top layer by removing the cover layer and the nanopillar.
US09290805B2
A device for controlling, detecting, and measuring a molecular complex is disclosed. The device comprises a common electrode. The device further comprises a plurality of measurement cells. Each measurement cell includes a cell electrode and an integrator electronically coupled to the cell electrode. The integrator measures the current flowing between the common electrode and the cell electrode. The device further comprises a plurality of analog-to-digital converters, wherein an integrator from the plurality of measurement cells is electrically coupled to one analog-to-digital converter of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters.
US09290804B2
A microparticle having a probe molecule able to capture a specific nucleic acid group to be analyzed is used to extract only the specific nucleic acid group to be analyzed from a nucleic acid sample and the microparticle is thereafter directly immobilized on a smooth plate, whereby a device for nucleic acid analysis is rapidly prepared. Immobilizing a single capture probe molecule onto an individual microparticle in advance and forming, at regular positions on the smooth substrate, an adhesion pad on which a functional group that binds to the microparticle has been introduced makes it possible to readily and rapidly prepare the device for nucleic analysis, where the nucleic acid sample to be analyzed is arranged molecule by molecule in a lattice shape on the smooth substrate.
US09290803B2
Provided are novel sensitive methylation assays referred to herein as Digital MethyLight, comprising stochastically distributing and compartmentalizing bisulfite-treated genomic DNA over multiple PCR reaction wells for detection of individually methylated DNA molecules in a large background of unmethylated DNA. Digital Bisulfite Genomic DNA Sequencing methods are also provided for high-resolution DNA methylation information without subcloning. Background signal and PCR contaminants are diluted, while the ratio of primer to methylated template DNA is kept high. Preferably, biological fluid (e.g., urine, blood-based (e.g., plasma and/or serum)) samples are analyzed for cancer diagnosis, prognosis and surveillance. Multiplexed PCR formats may be implemented to enhance when using small DNA amounts. Compositions and methods for diagnosis and/or prognosis of breast cancer, comprising the use of FOXE1, CLDN5 and/or RUNX3 gene markers are also provided (SEQ ID NOS: 17, 16 and 18, respectively for respective CpG island sequences), and in preferred embodiments plasma or serum samples are used.
US09290801B2
The invention provides a method for detecting miRNA based on polymerase chain reaction comprising EvaGreen dye, and the use of EvaGreen dye in elevating the binding specificity of primers to templates in PCR.
US09290778B2
A vector production system is provided. The system comprises recombinant cells designed to encode at least a first recombinase under the control of an inducible promoter and the cells include an expression vector encoding a nucleic acid of interest within the regulatory elements of the expression vector which are flanked on either side by a target sequence for at least the first recombinase. The vector production system provides an efficient one-step process for producing linear or circular covalently closed vectors that incorporate a nucleic acid sequence of interest.
US09290776B1
A novel maize variety designated PH25W1 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH25W1 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH25W1 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 PH25W1 or a locus conversion of PH25W1 with another maize variety.
US09290775B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed of the Latin type designated 41-144 RZ, which may exhibit a combination of traits including resistance against downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1 to Bl:27 and CA-I to CA-VIII, currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) biotype Nr:0, corky root race CA1, and lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) race LMV:1. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-144 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-144 RZ.
US09290770B2
A transformant obtainable by introducing one or more of the following DNAs (a), (b), and (c) into a coryneform bacterium as a host.(a) A DNA which encodes acetohydroxy acid synthase derived from Corynebacterium glutamicum and which has a mutation changing the glycine at position 156 to glutamic acid (G156E) in an amino acid sequence encoded by the DNA, or an analog thereof.(b) A DNA which encodes acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase derived from Corynebacterium glutamicum and which has mutations changing the serine at position 34 to glycine (S34G), the leucine at position 48 to glutamic acid (L48E), and the arginine at position 49 to phenylalanine (R49F) in an amino acid sequence encoded by the DNA, or an analog thereof. (c) A DNA which encodes leucine dehydrogenase derived from Lysinibacillus sphaericus, or an analog thereof.
US09290769B2
Provided is a nitrogen fixation gene island suitable for expressing in prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems, wherein the prokaryotic nitrogen fixation genes are modified using T7 promoters to make them suitable for eukaryotic expression.
US09290766B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of Adiponectins (ADIPOQ)s.
US09290757B2
Methods for identifying modified proteases with modified substrate specificity or other properties are provided. The methods screen candidate and modified proteases by contacting them with a substrate, such as a serpin, an alpha macroglobulins or a p35 family protein or modified serpins and modified p35 family members or modified alpha macroglobulins, that, upon cleavage of the substrate, traps the protease by forming a stable complex. Also provided are modified proteases.
US09290756B2
Provided herein are apparatus and methods relating to the development of instrumentation for high throughput network electrophysiology and cellular analysis. More specifically, provided herein are multiwell microelectrode arrays (MEAs) and methods for the development of such an apparatus in an inexpensive fashion with a flexible, ANSI/SBS-compliant (American National Standards Institute/Society for Biomolecular Screening) format. Microelectrode arrays are a grid of tightly spaced microelectrodes useful for stimulating and sensing electrically active cells, networks and tissue. The techniques described herein relate to the use of microfabrication in combination with certain large-area processes that have been employed to achieve multiwell MEAs in ANSI/SBS-compliant culture well formats, which are also transparent for inverted/backside microscopy compatibility. These multiwell MEAs can be used to investigate two and three-dimensional networks of electrically active cells and tissue such as cardiac, neural, and muscular in a high throughput fashion. Also being ANSI/SBS-compliant, they are compatible with machinery and robotics developed for the pharmaceutical industry for drug screening applications.
US09290755B2
This invention relates to polypeptides having aldolase activity, including pyruvate activity such as, without limitation, HMG and/or KHG aldolase activity, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In some embodiments, the invention is directed to polypeptides having aldolase activity, including pyruvate activity such as, without limitation, HMG and/or KHG aldolase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides in accordance with the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial contexts. In some embodiments, the invention provides polypeptides and biosynthetic pathways that are useful in the production of R-2-hydroxy 2-(indol-3ylmethyl)-4-keto glutaric acid (R-MP) and certain stereoisomers of monatin, such as R,R and S,R monatin, and salts thereof, as well as certain stereoisomers of monatin derivatives, such as the R,R and S,R configurations, and salts thereof.
US09290754B2
This invention relates to, in part, compositions of beta-lactamases and methods of using these enzymes in, for example, gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) disorders such as C. difficile infection (CDI).
US09290736B2
A method of generating a CD4+FoxP3+ Treg cell, the method includes administering at least one complement antagonist to a naive CD4+ T cell at an amount effective to substantially inhibits C3a receptor (C3aR) and/or C5a receptor (C5aR) signal transduction in the CD4+ T cell, induce TGF-β1 expression of the CD4+ T cell, and induce differentiation of the of the naive CD4+ T cell into a CD4+FoxP3+ Treg cell.
US09290734B2
The present invention comprises a process to produce organic products from a single-carbon substrate; microbial compositions used in the process; and a process to isolate microorganisms for the process.
US09290731B2
A filter apparatus comprises a filter having first and second opposed surfaces. A first reservoir is positioned adjacent with the first surface and in communication with the first surface, and a first inlet-outlet port is in communication with the first reservoir and spaced from the first surface. A second reservoir is positioned adjacent the second surface, and in communication with the second surface, and a second inlet-outlet port is in communication with the second reservoir and spaced from the second surface. A filter plate system comprises a reservoir plate. The reservoir plate comprises at least one reservoir well. The filter plate system further comprises a strainer plate. The strainer plate comprises at least one strainer well, which is removably receivable in the reservoir well. The strainer well comprises at least one mesh wall portion.
US09290727B2
Water-soluble pouches comprise water-soluble films coated by a composition. The composition comprises silica flow aid and an absorbent material selected from the group consisting of zeolite; over-dried zeolite; talc; starch; zinc stearate; calcium stearate; micronized calcium carbonate; sodium carbonate; micronized sodium sulphate; and combinations thereof.
US09290724B2
The present invention provides a coated lenticular or disc detergent particle having perpendicular dimensions x, y and z, wherein x is from 1 to 2 mm, y is from 2 to 8 mm and z is from 2 to 8 mm, wherein the particle comprises: (i) from 40 to 90 wt % surfactant selected from anionic surfactant and non-ionic surfactant; (ii) from 1 to 40 wt % water soluble inorganic salts; and (iii) from 0.0001 to 0.1 wt % dye, wherein the dye is covalently bound to from 1 to 4 sulphonate groups, wherein the inorganic salts and the dye are present on the detergent particle as a coating and the surfactant is present as a core.
US09290722B2
A cleaning composition comprises the reaction product of A) a chelating component and B) an acidic component different from the chelating component. The chelating component is selected from the group of methylglycine-N—N-diacetic acid (MGDA), N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)-L-glutamate (GLDA), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), and mixtures thereof. The chelating component is generally a salt or a partial-salt of the respective acid, e.g. Na3.MGDA. The B) acidic component and the A) chelating component are reacted in a molar ratio (B:A) of from about 6:1 to about 1:6 to form the reaction product. The cleaning composition further comprises a surfactant component in addition to the reaction product. The cleaning composition is useful for removing and/or preventing spotting and filming on ware surfaces in a dishwater, such as for removing and/or preventing filming and/or spotting on cookware, bakeware, tableware, dishware, flatware, and/or glassware in an automatic dishwasher (ADW).
US09290718B2
The present invention pertains to novel cyclopentanols and their unexpected advantageous use thereof in enhancing, improving or modifying the fragrance of perfumes, colognes, toilet waters, fabric care products, personal products, and the like.
US09290711B2
The coal deactivation apparatus including: a separating device that separates out a portion of the beneficiated coal deactivated in the main treatment apparatus; a main evaluation apparatus into which the sample of the beneficiated coal separated out by the separating apparatus is supplied; a blower and heater that supply air at the evaluation temperature to the main evaluation apparatus; a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the air that has heat-treated the sample in the main evaluation apparatus; and a control unit that, when the temperature of the air is at or below the lower limit on the basis of information from the temperature sensor, determines whether or not the temperature of the process gas is at or below the lower limit and if the process gas temperature exceeds the lower limit, controls the heater to reduce the temperature of the process gas by a prescribed value.
US09290708B2
A system includes a gasification feed injector. The gasification feed injector includes a first injector portion configured to inject a first fuel at a first flow rate and a second injector portion configured to inject a second fuel at a second flow rate. The system also includes a fuel circulation system configured to circulate at least one fuel and supply the at least one fuel to the gasification feed injector and a controller configured to transition the gasification feed injector from injecting the first fuel to injecting the second fuel based at least on a pressure downstream of the gasification feed injector.
US09290705B2
In an FCC process and system, a whole crude oil feedstock is directly converted into light olefins and other products. The feed is separated into a high boiling fraction and a low boiling fraction, and each fraction is processed in separate FCC downflow reactors. The catalyst, combined from both downflow reactors, is regenerated in a common vessel. The low carbon content in the catalyst particles from the low boiling fraction downflow reactor is insufficient to provide the necessary heat. By combining catalyst particles from the high boiling fraction having high carbon content helps to provide additional heat for regeneration.
US09290698B2
The invention provides for new flame retardant non-furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) based polyols; oligomers and polymers made from these new polyols with flame retardation properties; and methods of using them as a part or all of the flame retardation composition/material, such as foams and binders.
US09290692B2
Disclosed is a polymer light-emitting material for an organic electroluminescent device that displays excellent light-emitting performance and is applicable to a wet process. The polymer light-emitting material for an organic electroluminescent device is obtained by subjecting a thermoplastic resin having an Mw of 2,000-1,000,000 and containing a functional group in a unit constituting the backbone and a metal-containing phosphorescent dopant compound containing a reactive group capable of reacting with the said functional group to a polymer reaction so as to link a phosphorescent dopant moiety derived from the metal-containing phosphorescent dopant compound to the unit constituting the backbone of the thermoplastic resin. The content of the metal derived from the metal containing phosphorescent dopant compound in the said polymer light-emitting material is 0.001-20 wt %.
US09290675B2
The instant invention provides a crosslinkable coating composition, and method of producing the same. The crosslinkable coating composition according to the present invention comprises: (a) one or more polycarbamates derived from one or more polyesters comprising the condensation reaction product of one or more polyols with one or more polyacids, wherein said one or more polyols comprise at least 25 percent by weight of one or more units having 4 or more hydroxyl groups; (b) one or more crosslinking agents; (c) one or more acid catalysts; and (d) optionally one or more organic solvents.
US09290654B2
Polymer compositions with improved lacquer adhesion comprising A) 30 to 80 parts by wt. of at least one polymer chosen from the group of aromatic polycarbonates and aromatic polyester carbonates, B) 2 to 40 parts by wt. of at least one rubber-free and/or rubber-modified vinyl (co)polymer, the rubber-modified vinyl (co)polymers being prepared in the bulk, solution or suspension polymerization process, C) 0.5 to 20.0 parts by wt. of at least one rubber-modified vinyl (co)polymer prepared in the emulsion polymerization process, D) 2 to 16 parts by wt. of at least one polymer, E) 0 to 35 parts by wt. of at least one inorganic filler or reinforcing substance, F) 0.01 to 20.0 parts by wt. of at least one polymer additive, wherein the sum of the parts by weight of components A+B+C+D+E+F in the composition is 100.
US09290653B2
The invention relates to the use of polyphosphonates, copoly(phosphonate ester)s, copoly(phosphonate carbonate)s, and their respective oligomers, as flame retardant additives for polyester fibers to impart fire resistance while maintaining or improving processing characteristics for melt spinning fibers.
US09290647B2
A composition comprising a blend of a polyolefin, polylactic acid, and a reactive modifier. A method of producing an oriented film comprising reactive extrusion compounding a mixture comprising polypropylene, polylactic acid, a reactive modifier to form a compatibilized polymeric blend, casting the compatibilized polymeric blend into a film, and orienting the film. A method of preparing a reactive modifier comprising contacting a polyolefin, a multifunctional acrylate comonomer, and an initiator under conditions suitable for the formation of an epoxy-functionalized polyolefin wherein the epoxy-functionalized polyolefin has a grafting yield of from 0.2 wt. % to 15 wt. %.
US09290646B2
A molded article made from and/or containing a polymeric composition made from and/or containing a high melt flow rate polypropylene homopolymer composition, a compatibilizer, a polyethylene-based elastomer, and talc is provided. An automobile part, including bumper facias, body side-molding, instrumental panels, side pillars, and door trims, with improved coefficients of linear thermal expansion is also provided.
US09290641B2
Provided is a composite material which is in pellet form and which has particles with a core-shell structure, where the core of the particles has one or more magnetic materials, and the shell is made of silicon dioxide, and the pellet has one or more crosslinkable polyethylene and/or polyethylene-containing copolymers. Also provided is a process for crosslinking polyethylenes, by mixing the composite material, one or more free radical initiators, and at least one polyethylene, and heating the mixture inductively.
US09290637B2
A process for preparing a pigmented wax dispersion including (a) melting and mixing a dry pigment with at least one wax to form a pigment concentrate, wherein the pigment concentrate contains at least 25 percent by weight of pigment; (b) milling the pigment concentrate of step (a) to form a milled pigment concentrate; (c) combining the milled pigment concentrate of (b) with water and dispersing to form a pigmented wax dispersion comprising a plurality of pigmented wax particles comprising a pigment core surrounded by a wax shell, wherein the pigmented wax particles exhibit a particle size distribution of from about 150 nanometers to less than about 300 nanometers; wherein the melting and mixing of step (a) and the milling of step (b) is done in an immersion media mill; and wherein the combining of step (c) is done using a piston homogenizer.
US09290635B2
The invention relates to polyamide sheet silicate compositions, containing an untreated clay mineral and a water-soluble polyamide, the concentration of the clay material being greater than 30% by weight. Furthermore the invention relates to nanocomposites which contain clay minerals distributed homogeneously in a water-insoluble thermoplastic matrix. These nanocomposites are produced by mixing the polyamide sheet silicate composition and a water-insoluble thermoplastic in the melt.
US09290630B2
Polyolefin compositions, comprising (percent by weight): 1) 55-80% of a homopolymer or copolymer of propylene, said copolymer containing up to 15% of ethylene and/or C4-C10 α-olefin(s). 2) 20-45% of a copolymer of ethylene with one or more C4-C10 α-olefin(s) containing from 10 to 40% of said C4-C10 α-olefin(s); said compositions having values of MFR (230° C., 2.16 kg) up to 20 g/10 min, a total content of ethylene of 20% or more, a total content of C4-C10 α-olefin(s) of 4.5% or more, a ratio of the total content of ethylene to the total content of C4-C10 α-olefin(s) of 2.3 or more, a total fraction soluble in xylene at room temperature of 18 wt % or higher and flexural modulus, referred to the composition as a reactor grade, of more than 700 MPa.
US09290629B2
The invention relates to a process for producing an (ultra) high molecular weight polyethylene (HMWPE) article comprising: incorporating into the HMWPE resin a Hindered Amine Light Stabilizer (HALS) and cross-link the (U)HMWPE during or after molding the (U)HMWPE resin. In particular the invention relates to a process comprising the following steps: a) incorporating into (U)HMWPE resin a Hindered Amine Light Stabilizer (HALS) according to one of the following general formulas or combinations hereof: wherein R1 up to and including R5 are herein independent substituents; for example containing hydrogen, ether, ester, amine, amide, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, cycloalkyl and/or aryl groups, which substituents may in turn contain functional groups, for example alcohols, ketones, anhydrides, imines, siloxanes, ethers, carboxyl groups, aldehydes, esters, amides, imides, amines, nitriles, ethers, urethanes and any combination thereof; b) molding the (U)HMWPE resin comprising the HALS, resulting in an article; c) cross-linking and sterilizing the article via gamma radiation or electron beam radiation; d) optionally, if step b results in a stock shape, machining the stock shape into an article; wherein step c and step d can be performed in either order.
US09290623B2
A resist underlayer film that can be used as a hardmask. A resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography, includes: as a silane, a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, or a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, wherein the hydrolyzable silane includes a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1) or a hydrolyzable silane containing a combination of a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1) with a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (2) in a content of less than 50% by mole in all silanes;Formula (1): R1aR2bSi(R3)4-(a+b) wherein R1 is an organic group containing Formula (1-1), Formula (1-2), or Formula (1-3): a is 1 and b is an integer of 0 to 2, where a+b is an integer of 1 to 3; Formula (2): R4aR5bSi(R6)4-(a+b) wherein, R4 is an organic group containing Formula (2-1), Formula (2-2), or Formula (2-3): a is 1 and b is an integer of 0 to 2, where a+b is an integer of 1 to 3.
US09290610B2
The present application provides methods of producing polyanthracene including polymerization of anthracene monomers in the presence of oxidants and reaction solvents. The present application further provides polyanthracene produced by methods described herein that has higher solubility in organic solvents and better thermal stability and ablation resistance.
US09290604B2
Alkylethoxylate alcohols or mixtures of alkyl alcohol ethoxylate with an average HLB value between 10 and 15 as compatibilizers for water blown polyurethane foam formulations that are substantially free of nonylphenol ethoxylates are disclosed. The HLB is defined as the mass percent of average structure of the compatibilizer that is hydrophilic, divided by 5. The compatibilizer is mixed into the B-side of the polyurethane formulation. The B-side of the spray foam formulations comprise polyol, water, amine catalyst, and the compatibilizer of the invention such that the water is present at about 2% to about 30% by weight of the B-side formulation, and the compatibilizer is present at about 1% to about 30% by weight of the B-side formulation. The B-side of the formulation may further comprise metal catalysts, flame retardants, silicone surfactants, cell openers, antioxidants, as well as other additives.
US09290601B2
Disclosed herein is a tunable fluorescent polymer composition comprising silk and one or more polymerizable monomer provided with fluorescent probe, wherein, the said one or more polymerizable monomer provided with fluorescent probe is grafted onto the silk backbone at the a-position of the amide useful in optoelectronics.
US09290600B2
Process for providing a polypropylene composition comprising a branched polypropylene in which a polypropylene with a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) of more than 0.5 g/10 min is reacted with a thermally decomposing free radical-forming agent and optionally with a bifunctionally unsaturated monomer obtaining thereby the branched polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene composition has a F30 melt strength of more than 20.0 cN and a V30 melt extensibility of more than 200 mm/s.
US09290599B2
A method for preparing a functionalized polymer, the method comprising providing a reactive polymer, where the reactive polymer includes an oxygen anion, a sulfur anion, or a nitrogen anion, reacting the reactive polymer with carbon disulfide to form a polymer including a dithio carboxyl group, and reacting the polymer including the dithio carboxyl group with a blocking agent.
US09290594B2
The present invention provides a system and process for olefin polymerization. The inventive system and process for olefin polymerization facilitate lower operating vacuum pressures in the polymer recovery system by requiring at least two sequential condensing units, wherein at least one of the condensing units operates at significantly lower temperature ranges than the temperature ranges at which the current systems operate.
US09290587B2
A process for manufacturing terpolymers by polymerization of VDF (vinylidene difluoride), TrFE (trifluoroethylene), and CFE (1-chloro-1-fluoroethylene) or CTFE (chlorotrifluoroethylene) monomers in the presence of a radical polymerization initiator, characterized in that: i) an initial mixture of VDF and of TrFE, free of CFE and of CTFE, is fed into an autoclave, ii) the initiator mixed with water is injected into the autoclave so as to achieve, inside the autoclave, a pressure at least equal to 80 bar, in order to form a suspension of VDF and TrFE monomers in water, iii) a secondary mixture constituted of VDF, TrFE and CFE or CTFE is injected into the autoclave, then iv) as soon as the polymerization reaction starts, said secondary mixture is reinjected continuously into the reactor, so as to maintain therein a constant pressure of at least 80 bar.
US09290579B2
The invention provides a method for forming an immobilized agent gradient within a 3-dimensional porous scaffold. A 3-dimensional scaffold formed from a biocompatible material is provided. The surface of the scaffold and/or the agent is activated so as to allow binding of the agent to the scaffold. The activated scaffold is contacted with a solution containing the agent. Contact with the solution is maintained for a sufficient period of time to allow diffusion of the solution through a portion of the scaffold, thereby forming a desired gradient of the agent through the 3-dimensional scaffold.
US09290578B2
The invention provides anti-Ly6E antibodies, immunoconjugates and methods of using the same.
US09290574B2
The present invention provides methods for treating, preventing or reducing the severity of eosinophilic esophagitis. The methods of the present invention comprise administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutic composition comprising an interleukin-4 receptor (IL-4Rα) inhibitor such as an anti-IL-4Rα antibody.
US09290561B2
The present invention relates to modified nucleic acid sequences coding for coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) and for von Willebrand factor (VWF) as well as complexes thereof and their derivatives, recombinant expression vectors containing such nucleic acid sequences, host cells transformed with such recombinant expression vectors, recombinant polypeptides and derivatives coded for by said nucleic acid sequences which recombinant polypeptides and derivatives do have biological activities together with prolonged in vivo half-life and/or improved in vivo recovery compared to the unmodified wild-type protein. The invention also relates to corresponding FVIII sequences that result in improved expression yield. The present invention further relates to processes for the manufacture of such recombinant proteins and their derivatives. The invention also relates to a transfer vector for use in human gene therapy, which comprises such modified nucleic acid sequences.
US09290558B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions, and methods for detecting, diagnosing and treating cancers such as glioblastoma multiforme.
US09290553B2
An isolated peptide from skin aspartic protease (SASPase) or filaggrin-2 (FLG2), a fragment or homologue thereof, which can modify the three-dimensional shape of a complex formed by interaction between a first amino acid sequence from filaggrin-2 and a second amino acid sequence from SASPase, is described. The isolated peptide is useful as a target for screening for cosmetic or therapeutic active agents with regard to the skin and/or its appendages.
US09290549B2
The present invention relates to a chromatography ligand, which comprises Domain C from Staphylococcus protein A (SpA), or a functional fragment or variant thereof. The chromatography ligand presents an advantageous capability of withstanding harsh cleaning in place (CIP) conditions, and is capable of binding Fab fragments of antibodies. The ligand may be provided with a terminal coupling group, such as arginine or cysteine, to facilitate its coupling to an insoluble carrier such as beads or a membrane. The invention also relates to a process of using the ligand in isolation of antibodies, and to a purification protocol which may include washing steps and/or regeneration with alkali.
US09290538B2
Protein kinase inhibitors and more specifically inhibitors of the protein kinase c-Jun amino terminal kinase are herein described. Additionally, JNK inhibitor sequences, chimeric peptides, nucleic acids encoding same as well as pharmaceutical compositions for treating pathophysiologies associated with JNK signaling are herein provided.
US09290526B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds, compositions containing same and methods for inhibiting human farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase or for the treatment or prevention of disease conditions using said compounds;
US09290524B2
Methods for producing functionalized graphene from graphite oxide or graphite are disclosed in which ionic liquids are used as a reaction medium to promote chemical functionalization of the graphene through electrochemically interacted exfoliation of graphene sheets.
US09290519B2
Pyridyldiamido transition metal complexes are disclosed for use in alkene polymerization.
US09290517B2
Novel compounds of the structural formula (I) are activators of AMP-protein kinase and may be useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the AMPK activated protein kinase. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension.
US09290511B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): (Formula (I); wherein A, R1, R2, R3I, V, X, and Z are defined herein, which are potassium channel inhibitors. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I) and their use in therapy, in particular in treatment of diseases or conditions that are mediated by Kir3.1 and/or Kir3.4 or any heteromultimers thereof, or that require inhibition of Kir3.1 and/or Kir3.4 or any heteromultimers thereof.
US09290509B2
An improved, high yielding process is disclosed for making bisglycidyl ether derivatives of isosorbide, isomannide and/or isoidide, wherein up to quantitative yields overall are demonstrated. In another related aspect, a process is disclosed for making novel monoallyl, monoglycidyl ether derivatives or a combination of monoallyl, monoglycidyl ether derivatives and bisglycidyl ether derivatives via the same diallyl isohexide intermediate.
US09290501B2
The present invention discloses methods for treating bacterial infections in a subject comprising administering to the subject a sub-growth inhibiting amount of a 5′-methylthioinosine phosphorylase (MTIP) inhibitor, as well as assays for identifying such inhibitors, and compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inhibitors.
US09290499B2
Compound of Formula (I): are described, along with pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions containing the same, and methods of use thereof in the treatment of cancer.
US09290496B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Q, G, ring A, ring B, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R5a, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R16, R17, R18, R19, R20, R21, R22, R23, R24, and m are defined herein. The novel purine derivatives are useful in the treatment of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, in mammals. Additional embodiments relate to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and to methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment of abnormal cell growth in mammals.
US09290495B2
Novel tetracationic cyclophanes incorporating π-electron poor organic compounds into their ring structures, as well as methods of making the cyclophanes, are provided. The cyclophanes are able to form electron donor-acceptor complexes with a variety of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) ranging in size, shape, and electron density. Also provided are methods of using the cyclophanes in the sequestration of PAHs in liquid or gaseous samples, the separation of PAHs from liquid or gaseous samples, the detection of PAHs in liquid samples, and the exfoliation of graphene via pseudopolyrotaxane formation.
US09290488B2
The disclosure relates to Azetidine-Substituted Quinoxaline-Type Piperidine Compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof wherein the R1, R2, R3, Q, Y1, Z, A, B, a, and b are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of an Azetidine-Substituted Quinoxaline-Type Piperidine Compound, and methods to treat or prevent a condition, such as pain, comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of an Azetidine-Substituted Quinoxaline-Type Piperidine Compound.
US09290486B1
The invention relates to the compounds of formula I and formula II or its pharmaceutical acceptable salts, as well as polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of compounds of formula I or formula II; and methods for treating or preventing neurological diseases may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of epilepsy, bipolar disorder, trigeminal neuralgia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, partial seizures, adjunctive therapy for partial, myoclonic, tonic-clonic seizures and schizophrenia, neuropathic pain, seizures, Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, autism, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, mania, phantom limb syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder, neuromyotonia, intermittent explosive disorder, borderline personality disorder, myotonia congenita and post-traumatic stress disorder.
US09290475B2
The invention provides 3-deuterium-enriched 3-(6-, 7-, or 8-substituted-4-oxoquinazolin-3(4H)-yl)-piperidine-2,6-diones, deuterated derivatives thereof, stereoisomers thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, and methods of treatment using the same.
US09290474B2
Small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of parasitic diseases, in particular, semi-synthetic derivatives of the fungally-derived natural product merulin A for the treatment of African Sleeping Sickness.
US09290469B2
A system and method for the production of oxidized olefins. The system includes two or more reactors having a number of reaction tubes. A catalyst for catalytic oxidation of olefins is on a first side of the number of reaction tubes. A common supply line supplies a mixture comprising olefins and oxygen to the catalyst. Product outlet streams from each reactor are joined to a single product stream. Coolant fluid passing through the reactors flows into a single coolant drum. The single coolant drum supplies the coolant fluid at a common temperature to a number of coolant fluid inlet streams of each reactor.
US09290466B2
The present invention provides, for example, a compound mentioned below as a medicament for treating or preventing the diseases induced by production, secretion or deposition of amyloid-β proteins.A compound of the formula (I): wherein R1, R2 a, R2 b, R3, R4 a, R4 b, ring A and the dashed lines are defined in the specification, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof.
US09290463B2
The present invention relates to Radiolabeled Compounds labeled with fluorine, bromine, iodine, carbon, or tritium isotopes and methods of use thereof for treating or preventing a psychiatric disorder in a subject, for stabilizing the mood of a subject having a mood disorder, or as imaging agents for a serotonin receptor. Compositions comprising an imaging-effective amount of a Radiolabeled Compound are also disclosed.
US09290457B2
Substituted dihydropyrimidinones of formula 1 which are inhibitors of neutrophil elastase activity and which are useful as medicaments for the treatment of, inter alia, COPD. Exemplary is
US09290443B2
A process for synthesizing 4-amino-2,4-dioxobutanoate involves reacting a dialkyl oxalate with an alkoxide in ethanol to form a reaction mixture, and afterward adding an alkyl cyano acetate to the reaction mixture and allowing a reaction to proceed under conditions suitable to form a first reaction product of the formula diethyl 2-cyano-3-hydroxy-butenedioate, and then isolating the diethyl 2-cyano-3-hydroxy-butenedioate, and afterward reacting the diethyl-2-cyano-3-hydroxy-butenedioate with an aqueous hydroxide under conditions suitable to form 4-amino-2,4-dioxobutanoate. The 4-amino-2,4-dioxobutanoate may be acidified into 4-amino-2,4-dioxobutanoic acid.
US09290440B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical agent containing a compound represented by General Formula (1), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof: wherein A represents a C1-C3 linear alkylene group, in which one methylene group is optionally substituted with O or S; n represents an integer of from 3 to 5; X1 and X2 each independently represent CH or N; W1 and W2 each independently represent a carboxyl group or a tetrazolyl group; V represents a C1-C8 linear or branched alkylene group, in which one methylene group is optionally substituted with O or S; and R represents a substituted phenyl group, for example.
US09290439B2
The present patent application relates to a process for preparing, cinacalcet or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which comprises reacting 3-trifluoromethylbenzaldehyde having the following formula (II) with the phosphorus-comprising derivative having the following formula (III) in which R1 and R2, which may be identical or different, are each a (C1-C6)alkyl group. The present invention also relates to the phosphorus-comprising derivative having the formula (III), to the use thereof and to the process for preparing same. The present invention also relates to the phosphate salt of cinacalcet and to uses thereof.
US09290435B2
Disclosed is a molecular glass of a spirofluorene derivative having a molecular structure as follows: formula (I), wherein each of R1-R12 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a methoxyl group or an acid-sensitive substituent; substituents R1˜R12 can be identical or different, but on the same benzene ring the substituents cannot all be hydrogen atoms. The molecular glass has a good solubility in various polar solvents, is suitable to be made into a film; meanwhile the molecular glass has a very high glass transition temperature and meets the requirements of the photolithography processing technology. Also disclosed is a preparation method of the above-mentioned molecular glass of a spirofluorene derivative. The synthetic process of the method is simple and suitable for industrialization. Further disclosed is the use of a photo-resist with the above-mentioned molecular glass as a main material in photo-etching, wherein the molecular glass of a spirofluorene derivative with hydroxyl groups (or partly with hydroxyl groups) on the periphery thereof can be used as a negative photo-resist, and the molecular glass with the hydroxyl groups on the periphery thereof protected (or partly protected) by an acid-sensitive substituent can be used as a positive photo-resist.
US09290427B2
The present invention relates to the field of anti-invasive compounds and methods for predicting the anti-invasive activity of said compounds, as well as their use in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases associated with undesired cell invasion; in particular, this invention relates to the field of anti-invasive chalcone-like compounds.
US09290426B2
A system and a method for forming oxygenates from a non-catalytic reaction. A hydrocarbon gas and an oxygen-containing gas are fed into a mixer and then heated to form a reactant gas stream. The reactant gas stream is fed into a fluidized bed reactor where the reaction of the gases occurs by oxidization to produce oxygenates. The oxygenate products are then removed from the reactor.
US09290421B2
The present invention relates to a compound having formula (I): wherein: —X is in particular 125I Or 211At; —R1 and R′1 are independently from each other chosen preferably from the group consisting of electron-withdrawing groups and alkyl groups; —R2 is chosen from the group consisting of: H, alkyl groups, functional groups being able to bind a vector, and functional groups having targeting properties which make the compound of the invention a vector itself; —Z is a heteroatom, R5, R8 and R9 are preferably H; —Y is preferably an electron withdrawing group.
US09290408B2
Certain example embodiments relate to improved seals for glass articles. Certain example embodiments relate to a composition used for sealing an insulted glass unit. In certain example embodiments the composition includes vanadium oxide, barium oxide, zinc oxide, and at least one additional additive. For instance, another additive that is a different metal oxide or different metal chloride may be provided. In certain example embodiments, a vacuum insulated glass unit includes first and second glass substrates that are sealed together with a seal that includes the above-described composition.
US09290407B2
A glass and an enclosure, including windows, cover plates, and substrates for mobile electronic devices comprising the glass. The glass has a crack initiation threshold that is sufficient to withstand direct impact, has a retained strength following abrasion that is greater than soda lime and alkali aluminosilicate glasses, and is resistant to damage when scratched. The enclosure includes cover plates, windows, screens, and casings for mobile electronic devices and information terminal devices.
US09290380B2
A mechanism for reducing stiction in a MEMS device by decreasing surface area between two surfaces that can come into close contact is provided. Reduction in contact surface area is achieved by increasing surface roughness of one or both of the surfaces. The increased roughness is provided by forming a micro-masking layer on a sacrificial layer used in formation of the MEMS device, and then etching the surface of the sacrificial layer. The micro-masking layer can be formed using nanoclusters. When a next portion of the MEMS device is formed on the sacrificial layer, this portion will take on the roughness characteristics imparted on the sacrificial layer by the etch process. The rougher surface decreases the surface area available for contact in the MEMS device and, in turn, decreases the area through which stiction can be imparted.
US09290372B2
A fluid distributor for uniformly distributing flow of a feed onto a chromatography column in a cost-effective way defines a distribution channel of generally conical shape between a solid back plate and a packed bed in the column, wherein the fluid distributor comprises at least two circular and/or annular fluid-permeable porous disks essentially filling the volume of the distribution channel.
US09290371B2
A beverage dispensing apparatus includes a dispensing structure, a transportation mechanism linked with the dispensing structure and a staging structure linked with the transportation mechanism. A control system is linked with the dispensing structure, staging structure and the transportation mechanism. A sensor mechanism is linked with the control system. The sensor mechanism provides signals indicating the position of a cup. A cup identification system having an interactive display is connected to the control system. The display has visual characteristics indicating the position and characteristics of a cup.
US09290354B2
An installation for folding and stacking an endlessly producible web of corrugated cardboard comprises a folding device for folding a web of corrugated cardboard along predetermined folds and a stacking device which is arranged downstream of the folding device for stacking the web of corrugated cardboard, which has been folded along the folds, in stacks.
US09290353B2
In a paper money accumulation unit (paper money accumulation device) of a paper money handling device, rollers sequentially input paper money from an upper side into a paper money accumulation space. Then, a support member is arranged in a state where the height with respect to an extended line of an input direction becomes large as being away from the rollers to the input direction of the paper money.
US09290345B2
A sheet conveying device that conveys a sheet includes a sheet conveying path, a conveying mechanism, and a guiding plate. The sheet conveying path is set to include a nonlinear portion. The conveying mechanism is arranged in the sheet conveying path to convey a sheet. The guiding plate is arranged in the nonlinear portion of the sheet conveying path and has a guiding plane along which the sheet is guided. The guiding plate includes a thinned portion in an area of the guiding plane against which a leading end of the sheet being conveyed along the sheet conveying path collides so that the thinned portion suppresses high frequency components of an impulsive sound produced by the collision.
US09290339B2
A sheet feed cassette includes an end cursor, a pair of gears, and a pair of racks. The end cursor regulates a rear end position of stored paper sheets in the sheet feed direction. The end cursor is slidable in the conveyance direction. The pair of gears are rotatably provided on a lower surface of a base portion of the end cursor and have the same module and the same number of teeth. The pair of racks are provided on a bottom surface of a cassette main body in parallel with each other along a slide direction of the end cursor. The pair of racks respectively mesh with the pair of gears. This makes it possible to prevent a defect such as skewing, a folded edge, or a wrinkle from occurring, allowing the end cursor to slide smoothly with excellent operability.
US09290334B2
A working system including: a working machine having a door operated so as to be closed at a time of working and be opened at a time of non-working; an automatic changer provided so as to enter and exit from an inside of the working machine through the door to change a worked object and/or a tool; and an actuator operating the door. The actuator is a servo motor dedicated to operating the door.
US09290329B2
A transfer turret assembly is provided for transferring can bodies between process stations in a can necking machine. The transfer turret assembly includes a rotatable transfer starwheel. A plurality of pockets is formed in the starwheel that can each receive a can body. The turret assembly includes a vacuum assembly having a first zone that is under vacuum and a second zone separated from the first region by a boundary. The first zone vacuum retention force to vacuum ports formed in the pockets to retain the can bodies within the pockets. The boundary between the first zone and the second zone is adjustable to correspondingly adjust the vacuum retention force according to desired starwheel rotation speed.
US09290322B2
An article store is provided with vertical main supports, front and rear crossmembers arranged transversally to the storage and retrieval directions and fastened on the main supports, and at least one bearing profile extending in the storage and retrieval directions and supported vertically relative to the front crossmember. The upper side of the bearing profile is located in a plane higher than the upper edge of the front crossmember and forms a bearing device for the articles. The bearing profile is supported vertically on the front crossmember by a support whose upper end is connected to the bearing profile. The front crossmember is provided with form-fit structures in order to fix the vertical support of the bearing profile at least in the longitudinal crossmember direction. The lower end of the support engages form-fit structures of the front crossmember.
US09290319B2
The purpose of the invention is to provide an improved lid for covering a trash can or other waste receptacle with a removable interior liner. The lid includes a collar which fits concentrically around at least a portion of an exterior surface of a body of the waste receptacle. The collar extends the length or diameter and depth of the lid such that when positioned over the opening of the trash can, the lid conceals at least a portion of the exterior surface of the body of the waste receptacle and at least a portion of the removable interior liner from exterior view. The invention may or may not use ribs within the interior frame of the lid to allow proper positioning of the lid over the opening of the trash can body.
US09290316B2
An assemblage of containers includes a plurality of layers of containers disposed on top of and supported by a transportable platform. Each container contains a plurality of reams of paper, where each layer of the plurality of layers has a same footprint area, and where the footprint area of each layer is equal to or greater than 99% of the platform footprint area. Another assemblage of containers includes a plurality of layers of containers. Each container contains a plurality of reams of paper, and each of the plurality of layers includes nine containers, three of the nine containers having their associated longitudinal axis oriented in a first direction, and six of the nine containers having their associated longitudinal axis oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US09290315B2
Egg cartons comprising an egg-opening apparatus coupled to the egg carton are provided. The egg-opening apparatus includes any shape and/or form that is capable of opening and/or cracking an egg when the egg is struck on the egg-opening apparatus. Furthermore, the egg-opening apparatus includes any material having a hardness that is capable of opening and/or cracking an egg when the egg is struck on the egg-opening apparatus.
US09290314B2
Described is a packet for tobacco products comprising two containers of tobacco products each substantially having the shape of a parallelepiped and provided with two larger side walls, two smaller side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall, the packet has an outer wrapper having at least one connection panel and at least two additional panels, in particular the containers are connected to the outer wrapper at the at least one connection panel; the packet is provided with a lid, hinged along a first hinge to one of the additional panels, which is able to rotate between a closed position and an open position of the packet and, in the closed position, keeping each of the two additional panels in contact with a respective larger side wall of each container.
US09290312B2
A double-walled container including an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve and a base is provided. The inner sleeve is positioned within the outer sleeve. A sidewall cavity may be formed between an inner sleeve sidewall and an outer sleeve sidewall. The lower end of the outer sleeve forms an elongated loop located below a lowermost edge of the inner sleeve. A flange may extend from the elongated loop upwardly above the lowermost edge of the inner sleeve and is attached to the inner sleeve. The elongated loop may form a loop cavity. The loop cavity may be in fluid communication with the sidewall cavity.
US09290311B2
A containment tube includes a sealed tube comprising silicon carbide, first and second ends, an inner bore extending along at least a portion of its axial length between the first and second ends, and contains a radioactive material within the bore of the sealed tube. The first end has a plug residing in the inner bore to close the first end, and the second end has a distal wall that closes the inner bore at the second. At least one of the first or second ends is bonded to the sealed tube by a sinter bond.
US09290304B2
A packaging device (1) for bulk goods (3), particularly for use for foods such as coffee beans, cocoa beans, rice, spices and seeds in general, includes at least one vacuum bag (2) defining an open side (2d) for insertion of the bulk goods (3) therein and hermetically sealable at the open side (2d) subsequent to evacuation of the air contained therein.
US09290301B2
Devices and methods for packaging food cups is provided. The devices include unitary blanks with a front panel, bottom panel, rear panel, top panel, and side closures (in various forms) configured for assembly into a hollow substantially polyhedral package enclosure for 2 cups, 4 cups, or other even number of cups. Package enclosures with different side closures are designed for assembly with no glue joints, one glue joint, 3 glue joints (two cup enclosure), or 5 glue joints. Package enclosures provide visual displays that permit viewing of contents of cups secured in the enclosures. Package enclosures are structurally stable for packaging, transport, and storage. And the visual displays provide aesthetic appeal for consumers. Material and manufacturing costs and product waste are minimized with the invention.
US09290297B2
A thermally insulating transportation box, including a base part, two longitudinal side parts, two transverse side parts and at least one top part, which parts bound a transportation space and are produced from a thermally insulating material. The longitudinal side parts and the transverse side parts are pivotably mounted on the base part about pivot axes which each run parallel to the base part, so that they can be folded open from a folded-together arrangement, which extends parallel to the base part, into an arrangement which is perpendicular to this and in which they bound the transportation space, and the transportation space can subsequently be closed by the at least one cover part.
US09290288B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for storage containers that may be used with a storage assembly. The storage containers may include tabs that can be inserted into slots of adjacent storage containers to stack the storage containers. In some embodiments, the storage containers may be stored on shelves of a shelving system. The shelves may further include holes through which the tabs of the storage containers may be inserts into the slots of adjacent storage containers.
US09290279B2
A landing system of a body and a space probe provided with such a system for landing on a bearing ground. The landing system includes landing legs (5), each with a footpad (6) at the end thereof, intended for braking the landing impact of the body when coming into contact with the ground and for supporting the body on the ground after landing. The footpads (6) are not coplanar.
US09290275B2
An aircraft featuring: a fuselage with a fuselage section, an energy supply device, at least two supporting devices that are arranged on the fuselage section and serve for fastening the energy supply device, a mounting device for mounting an energy supply device on a structural component of an aircraft and an aircraft with a mounting device, as well as to a mounting device for mounting an energy supply device on a structural component of an aircraft and to an aircraft with a mounting device.
US09290274B2
An aircraft engine assembly comprising a nacelle configured to surround the aircraft engine having an inlet open to ambient air and an annular acoustic panel provided within the nacelle. Sound emitted from the aircraft engine is attenuated by the annular acoustic panel. The annular acoustic panel comprises an open framework, made from a first material, forming a plurality of cells.
US09290272B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an aircraft seat with a decoupled linear actuator. The linear actuator may activate a first adjustable feature by moving in a first direction. The linear actuator may include a decoupling mechanism. The decoupling mechanism may decouple the first adjustable feature from the linear actuator in response to loss of power to the linear actuator.
US09290269B2
In an aspect, in general, a spooling apparatus includes a filament feeding mechanism for deploying and retracting filament from the spooling apparatus to an aerial vehicle, an exit geometry sensor for sensing an exit geometry of the filament from the spooling apparatus, and a controller for controlling the feeding mechanism to feed and retract the filament based on the exit geometry.
US09290264B2
An electric taxi system (ETS) for an aircraft may include an annular output gearbox positioned between a wheel and a main strut of a main landing gear of the aircraft. The output gearbox may surround a brake piston assembly of the wheel of the aircraft. One or more selectively operable engaging assemblies, for selectively coupling the ETS with the wheel of the aircraft, may be positioned between the output gearbox and the wheel of the aircraft. The one or more selectively operable engaging assemblies may be coupled with an output gear of the output gearbox to rotate with the output gear.
US09290262B2
A method for creating a vertical trajectory profile of an aircraft by optimization of a criterion representative of a flight cost, comprises: performing a first iterative computation of a profile free of altitude constraints as long as a condition dependent on the criterion is not reached, replacing each free level of the constraint-free profile with a permitted level so as to generate an initial constrained profile comprising a plurality of permitted levels, and, for each level, an altitude change point and a plurality of speeds, and performing a second iterative computation of a profile in which the altitude levels to be reached remain constant, equal to the initial permitted levels of the initial constrained profile, as long as a condition dependent on the criterion is not reached.
US09290252B1
Systems and methods are for controlling trim position of a marine propulsion device on a marine vessel. The system comprises a trim actuator having a first end that is configured to couple to the marine propulsion device and a second end that is configured to couple to the marine vessel. The trim actuator is movable between an extended position wherein the marine propulsion device is trimmed up with respect to the marine vessel and a retracted position wherein the marine propulsion device is trimmed down with respect to the marine vessel. Increasing an amount of voltage to an electromagnet increases the shear strength of a magnetic fluid in the trim actuator thereby restricting movement of the trim actuator into and out of the extended and retracted positions and wherein decreasing the amount of voltage to the electromagnet decreases the shear strength of the magnetic fluid thereby facilitates movement of the trim actuator into and out of the extended and retracted positions. A controller is configured to adapt the amount of voltage to the electromagnet based upon at least one condition of the system.
US09290246B1
Described herein is an adjustable marine fender holder comprising: a cylindrical body comprising a hole, the hole sized to receive a rope connected to a marine fender; a rope jam coupled angularly to the cylindrical body, the rope jam comprising a channel, the channel comprising a plurality of teeth configured to grip the rope.
US09290242B2
By mooring or slowly moving the catamaran in a current through which a garage patch formed of disused plastic particles over than 90% is drifting, a heap of the marine debris flows into the bow of the catamaran and then is smashed. While the disused plastic particles that have been smashed at the bow of the catamaran is moving from the bow toward the stern by way of the tunnel between hulls of the catamaran, the plastic particles are first classified by differences of densities. These first classified plastic particles are collected and then transferred into a narrow and long inside of the catamaran, being finally classified by a triboelectrostatic action. Thereafter, these finally classified plastic particles are made to be pallets which are to be transported to a land facility for recycling or abandoning them.
US09290226B2
A straddle electric vehicle (e.g., electric motorcycle) comprising a driving motor and an electric power control unit for controlling electric power supplied from batteries to the driving motor, a case of the electric power control unit is mounted to the battery box from outward, and electrode terminals protruding outward from the case are inserted into insertion holes of the battery box. The electrode terminals protruding into inside of the battery box are connected to electrodes of the batteries via electric conductors such as bus bars. In this structure, electric connecting work between the batteries and the electric power control unit can be easily carried out, high-voltage lines can be minimized in length, and the high-voltage lines are not exposed to outside.
US09290221B2
A vehicle suspension assembly includes an axle member movable between a first position and a second position, mounting brackets adapted to couple to a vehicle frame assembly, trailing arms pivotably coupled to mounting brackets and pivotably coupled to the axle member, a lift arrangement including a pair of diaphragm chambers each having a push plate and a flexible bladder, the push plate of the diaphragm chamber dividing the associated diaphragm chamber into a first compartment and a second compartment, the first compartment of each diaphragm chamber being adjustably pressurized to move the push plate of the associated diaphragm chamber, and at least one push rod defining a single longitudinal axis and connected to each push plate such that pressurization of the diaphragm chambers cause a translational movement of the at least one push rod, thereby causing the axle member to move between the first and second positions.
US09290219B2
A locomotion system for use with a robotic device is provided. The locomotion system includes a first micropillar array including at least a first micropillar, a second micropillar array including at least a second micropillar, a control circuit associated with each micropillar of the first and second micropillar arrays, and a controller operatively coupled to each control circuit. The controller is configured to selectively activate the first and second micropillars in a sequence that causes the robotic device to move in a predetermined direction.
US09290218B2
Providing a crawler core member that can be coupled in a simple operation without employing dedicated coupling components, and that can suppress deformation due to input from a road surface.Coupling can be achieved by a simple operation without employing dedicated coupling components, and deformation due to input from a road surface can be suppressed in a crawler core member 20 that configures an endless crawler belt 13 when plural of the core members are disposed at uniform intervals along a peripheral direction S and the peripheral direction adjacent core members 20 are coupled together. The core member 20 includes a pin portion 22 extending in the width direction, a hooking groove 34 integrally formed to the pin portion 22 and hooking onto the pin portion 22 of an adjacent core member 20, and a pair of wing portions 30 integrally formed to the pin portion 22 and respectively disposed at both width direction sides of the pin portion 22, extending towards the width direction outsides.
US09290212B2
A beam sub-assembly for a vehicle includes a beam member and at least one carbon-fiber prepreg bonded to a first portion of an exterior surface of the beam member so as to cover an entire length of the beam member along the first portion.
US09290209B2
A vehicle body lower structure includes a gadget that couples a cross member and a center pillar to each other. The gadget has a first extension portion that is extended along a vertical direction, and a second extension portion that is extended from an upper end of the first extension portion toward a center axis of the center pillar, and is connected to the center pillar in the vehicle width direction. A ridgeline that extends from the cross member toward the center pillar is formed between the first extension portion and the second extension portion. The first extension portion is located only at one of a vehicle body front side of the center pillar and a vehicle body rear side of the center pillar. The second extension portion is extended at least from the upper end of the first extension portion to the center axis of the center pillar.
US09290208B2
It is a subject of the present invention to ensure foot space for an occupant and lower a side portion of a floor portion. A vehicle body lower portion structure (10) comprises: a rocker upper member (16) that configures an upper portion of a rocker (12) and has an upper wall portion (16A) that extends in a vehicle width direction, an inner wall portion (16B) that is positioned at a vehicle width direction inner side and a vehicle lower side with respect to the upper wall portion (16A) and extends in a vehicle up-and-down direction, and a connecting wall portion (16D) that interconnects a vehicle width direction inside end portion of the upper wall portion (16A) and an upper end portion of the inner wall portion (16B); a rocker lower member (18) that configures a lower portion of the rocker (12); and a wire harness (28) that extends in a vehicle front-and-rear direction along the rocker (12), with at least part (28A) of the wire harness (28) being positioned, as seen in a vehicle front view, in a cross section formed by the connecting wall portion (16D), an extension line (16E) extending inward in the vehicle width direction from the upper wall portion (16A), and an extension line (16F) extending toward a vehicle upper side from the inner wall portion (16B).
US09290205B2
A steering angle zero point detection unit 102 detects a zero point of a steering angle of a steering wheel. A zero point history holding unit 104 records a detection history of zero points. A characteristic change determination unit 116 determines whether or not a characteristic change occurs in the steering transmission system based on a width in the detection history of the zero points.
US09290204B2
A hitch angle monitoring system and method are provided. A display shows an imaged scene of a hitch connection between a tow vehicle and a trailer. A processor is configured to superimpose an overlay on the imaged scene, wherein the overlay indicates a hitch angle position limit. A hitch angle position indicator is shown on the display and visually relates a current hitch angle position to the hitch angle position limit.
US09290203B2
A vehicle system for estimating a trailer length is disclosed and includes a first sensor for measuring a wheel steer angle and a second sensor for measuring a hitch angle. A processor is in communication with the at least one sensor and is operable to determine a ratio between the wheel steer angle and the hitch angle, generate a running average of the ratio, and calculate the trailer length based on an average ratio between the wheel steer angle and the hitch angle.
US09290196B1
A method of immobilizing a shopping cart has the steps: a) providing a shopping cart braking system mountable to a forward frame member of a shopping cart, the braking system having a bracket, an axle within the bracket, an arm pivotally affixed to the axle and having a distal end pivotable about the axle between a horizontal position and a vertical braking position, with a resilient brakepad affixed to the distal end of the arm; b) mounting the braking system to a forward frame member of a shopping cart; and c) pivoting the arm from the horizontal to the braking position with the resilient brakepad acting as a brake preventing movement of the shopping cart.
US09290191B2
A method and an apparatus for an on-board train control device are provided, and are based on converting speed codes received from wayside cab-signaling devices into movement authority limits. The device determines the train location independent of the wayside train detection system, and generates and enforces stopping profiles based on said movement authority limits.
US09290190B2
A method for determining whether a defined section of a transportation track is occupied is described. The method includes inducing an audio frequency (AF) signal at a first position on the transportation track and receiving the AF signal at a second position on the transportation track. The defined section of the transportation track is located between the first position and the second position on the transportation track. The method further includes measuring a strength of the AF signal received as a function of time at the second position, and identifying an inflection point of the recorded AF signal strength. The inflection point indicates at least one of a rail vehicle entering the defined section of the transportation track and the rail vehicle exiting the defined section of the transportation track. The method further includes determining an occupancy of the defined section of the transportation track, based on the inflection point.
US09290182B2
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, brake actuators configured to slow the vehicle in response to braking commands, and a transmission. The transmission includes a plurality of gear sets each having a plurality of nodes, an input member that is continuously connected to the engine and to a node of one of the gear sets, a reverse clutch, a binary clutch assembly, and a controller. The binary clutch assembly is connected at least to the same gear set as the input member, and is applied with the reverse clutch when entering a reverse gear state. The controller executes a method to transmit the braking commands to the brake actuators in response to a requested garage shift into a reverse gear state when the vehicle is rolling above a calibrated speed threshold, and thereby slows the vehicle until a calibrated target slip is achieved across the binary clutch assembly.
US09290181B1
An autonomous vehicle detects a tailgating vehicle and uses various response mechanisms. A vehicle is identified as a tailgater based on whether its characteristics meet a variable threshold. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at slower speeds, the threshold is defined in distance. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at faster speeds, the threshold is defined in time. The autonomous vehicle responds to the tailgater by modifying its driving behavior. In one example, the autonomous vehicle adjusts a headway buffer (defined in time) from another vehicle in front of the autonomous vehicle. In this regard, if the tailgater is T seconds too close to the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle increases the headway buffer to the vehicle in front of it by some amount relative to T.
US09290162B1
An improved carwash brush carriage is provided for use with a carwash structure which includes horizontally disposed first and second tubular support arms. The carwash brush carriage of this invention includes first, second, third and fourth double-flanged rollers of the sealed bearing type which are rotatably mounted on the support arms. A conversion kit is also described for converting an existing brush carriage.
US09290159B1
An air foil system that can include a complimentary pair of inner and outer air foil elements forming an openings and exits in one cross section, the opening being from 2 and 6 inches in height in the one cross section and the exit being from between about ¾ and 4 inches in height in the one cross section. The complimentary inner and outer air foil elements may form a compression chamber between the complimentary entrance and exit edges, the compression chamber having a height in one cross section that is from ½ inch to about 3 inches. A mounting assembly may be operatively connected to the inner and outer air foil elements for aligning the opening within 5 inches of the rearmost portion of rear-facing portion and mounting the air foil elements to the rear-facing portion of the vehicle. Methods for reducing the co-efficiency of drag and clearing of a rear-facing portion of a vehicle is provided, the method comprising projecting a horizontal airstream passing over a roof of the portion as the vehicle is propelled over a roadway to provide two moving air curtains over the rear-facing portion, reducing the co-efficiency of drag of the portion, and clearing a portion of the rearward surface of the rear-facing portion.
US09290144B1
A sensor based vehicle flotation device is suitable for floating a vehicle immersed in sufficient water to activate a protected water sensor and, if desired, to confirm through auxiliary sensors whether a hazardous condition is presented. When such a device detects and verifies that the vehicle is becoming immersed in water, one or more expansible chambers, affording sufficient buoyancy to allow the vehicle to float, automatically and rapidly inflate by means of compressed, pumped or pressurized gas. Upon the successful deployment of the expansible chamber, the land vehicle will begin to float, limiting water damage to the vehicle and/or bodily harm to its occupants, and reducing the risk of the vehicle overturning. The expansible chamber will remain inflated until the land vehicle is returned to safety, and the device is detached from the land vehicle.
US09290133B1
A device is removably secured within a vehicle and allows multiple hangers to be properly positioned on the device for clothing transport. The device uses a bar member, either of fixed length or telescoping, such that a loop is positioned at a selected position along the length of the bar member. The loop is hung on either a hook or a grab bar of the vehicle such that an end of the bar member abuts the side of the vehicle proximate the hook or bar and thereby provides load support for the device with the loop acting as a fulcrum. The bar extends a short distance into the passenger compartment and the hangers are hung on the bar member on the passenger compartment side of the loop.
US09290121B2
Disclosed are a cold-charging type truck box/cargo container and a temperature-keeping box, which includes a truck box that includes one or more temperature-keeping chambers and a cold storage chamber arranged to correspond to a top of the temperature-keeping chambers, the cold storage chamber receiving therein one or more cold accumulators, wherein a wall of the truck box corresponding to the cold storage chamber is provided with a connector; and a freezer, which includes a delivery tube and a freezing system, the delivery tube having a first end connected to the freezing system, the delivery tube having a second connected to a fast connector; wherein connection is selectively made between the connector and the fast connector to allow the freezing system to supply cold energy through the delivery tube into the cold storage chamber to freeze the cold accumulators. With freezing of the cold accumulators being completed at every morning, cargos can be transported from a transfer station to a destination. Return is then made back to the transfer station, where a freezer is operated to supply cold energy to the cold storage chamber to freeze the cold accumulators for being ready for use in the next day.
US09290119B2
A trim cover assembly of extremely soft property comprises a surface cover element, a wadding cover, and a thick foam wadding sandwiched therebetween, wherein the thick foam wadding has a compressed thin end surface region sewn with the surface cover element and wadding cover. Sewing method for forming such trim cover assembly involves: pressing and collapsing an end surface of the thick foam wadding in downwardly slantwise direction to provide a compressed thin area, thereby allowing direct access thereto of a conventional sewing machine; operating the sewing machine to sew the compressed thin area with the surface cover element, thereby producing a sewn trim cover having a compressed thin end region therein; and thereafter sewing the wadding cover with such sewn trim cover in correspondence with the compressed thin end region. As such, a trim cover assembly having the thick foam wadding is easily formed by the conventional sewing machine.
US09290118B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods for a heating system with a seat having a first heating element, a floor heating panel located at least partially under the seat, and a controller operatively coupled to the first heating element and the floor heating panel and configured to implement control logic that receives at least one input and thereby control the first heating element and the floor heating panel.
US09290117B2
A lock assembly for selectively and releasably holding a pivoting armrest of a vehicle in place relative to an adjacent seat back is disclosed. The lock assembly includes a first locking element fixedly attached to the seat back and a second locking element movably attached to the armrest. Both locking elements have engagement surfaces whereby the second locking element is releasably engageable with the first locking element. The first locking element includes a cover that, together with a base, defines a pocket. The second locking element includes a spring loaded attachment assembly. The assembly provides operator-movable attachment to the armrest. The second locking element further includes an engagement portion on which the engagement surface is formed and an anchoring portion. An operator-manipulable release tab extends from the engagement portion and through the tab-passing slot of the first locking element when the first and second locking elements are engaged.
US09290115B2
A seat assembly having stanchions secured to a floor of a vehicle interior, a seatback pivotally secured between the stanchions. A seat bottom has an arm extending therefrom which is pivotally engaged to the seatback at a location offset from the seatback pivot with the stanchions. The seat bottom is pivotally connected at forward locations by a linkages extending to additional floor locations such that pivoting of the seatback results in slaved pivoting and combined displacement of the seat bottom between upright design and forward folded positions. A motor is pivotally secured to the vehicle interior, a rotatable screw extending from the motor and supporting an interiorly threaded collar in length displaceable fashion along the screw. A support arm is pivotally secured to the floor and to the screw supported collar. The support arm responds to actuation of the motor in at least a rewind direction in order to upwardly displace the seat bottom and slaved seatback to the upright design position.
US09290113B2
A reclining apparatus achieves enhanced ease of coming off of a pole from a ratchet plate and hence a better operational feeling. Of a plurality of external teeth of a pole, at least one external tooth from an end is formed in such a manner that a tooth thickness is lessened more toward a tooth tip in comparison with a tooth thickness of other external teeth. The external tooth having a lessened tooth thickness is cut in one of two tooth planes located on a side of the end. The cut tooth plane has an inclined surface parallel to a flat surface containing all tangential lines to a pitch circle of one of two tooth planes of an external tooth having a large tooth thickness and situated adjacent to the external tooth having a lessened tooth thickness located on a side of the external tooth having a lessened tooth thickness.
US09290110B2
An adjusting device for a vehicle seat includes a guide element for guiding a lever element. The guide element is in contact with a carrier rail. At least one contact region of the guide element includes a profiled chamfer in at least some sections.
US09290109B2
The invention is directed to an inverted pendulum moving apparatus that may address various kinds of disturbance forces and a control method therefor. The apparatus has one or more wheels coaxially arranged and a center of gravity of parts other than the wheel located above an axle, includes an inversion control part that discriminates a cause of a disturbance force based on a wheel rotation speed of the wheel and the disturbance force and determines output torque to the wheel based on the determination result.
US09290106B2
A power control system includes a battery, a converter which converts a direct-current voltage of the battery to a different level of direct-current voltage by the switching of switching elements, a second inverter, a second MG which is an electric motor, an engine, and an ECU which is a controller. When there is a warm-up request for the battery, the ECU causes a carrier frequency in the switching control of the switching elements to be lower than a carrier frequency in the case where there is no warm-up request for the battery. When there is a warm-up request, the ECU causes the carrier frequency at which the engine is in operation to be lower than the carrier frequency at which the engine is out of operation.
US09290105B2
An active discharging system for an electric vehicle and an electric vehicle including the same are provided. The active discharging system includes a power battery; a bus capacitor; a charge-discharge socket; a bidirectional DC/DC module; a driving control switch; a bidirectional DC/AC module; a motor control switch connected with the bidirectional DC/AC module and a motor; a charge-discharge control module connected with the bidirectional DC/AC module and the charge-discharge socket; and a controller module configured to control the driving control switch, the motor control switch and the charge-discharge control module according to a current operation mode of the active discharging system, to control the bus capacitor to continue charging the power battery after a charge is finished, and to control the bus capacitor to continue discharging after a discharge is finished until a voltage across the bus capacitor is less than a first predetermined value.
US09290098B2
The present invention discloses electric vehicles and methods to operate such vehicles, comprising an electric drive capable of moving the vehicles, together with a non-battery operative feature to enhance the performance of the vehicle, such as extending the range or increasing the power. The non-electrical enhanced feature is independent and not integrated with the electric drive, to enable the return of the vehicle design to pure electrical power with minimum modification.
US09290087B2
An open roof construction for a vehicle comprises a roof opening in a stationary roof part and a seal extending along the roof opening and a panel movable between a closing and opening position for closing and opening, respectively, said roof opening. The panel comprises a first panel part which both in the closing and opening positions is positioned inside the seal, as seen in a top plan view, as well as a second panel part which both in the closing and opening positions is positioned outside the seal. Front and rear mechanisms cause movement of the panel. At least one mechanism is provided at the first panel part. A movable element is positioned outside the seal and has a drive mechanism. The second panel part is provided with at least one drive member which is operatively coupled to the drive mechanism of the movable element.
US09290086B2
In an opening/closing mechanism of a sunroof apparatus, an engaged portion engaged with a cam groove smoothly slides on upper and lower cam surfaces of a cam groove, and stiffness to support a roof panel is increased at low costs. The engaged portion includes a first sliding portion having a convex curve facing upward and sliding on the upper cam surface of the cam groove, and a second sliding portion coupled to the first sliding portion at a front or a rear of a vehicle, having a convex curve facing downward, and sliding on the lower cam surface of the cam groove.
US09290082B1
A self-adhering sun shield fixedly-coupleable to a windshield of a vehicle system includes a self-adhering sun shield assembly having a first self-adhering sun shield removable sticker, a second self-adhering sun shield removable sticker; and a third self-adhering sun shield removable sticker. The self-adhering sun shield fixedly-coupleable to a windshield of a vehicle system includes the self-adhering sun shield assembly. The self-adhering sun shield assembly is self-adhering to the windshield via static electricity. The first self-adhering sun shield removable sticker, the second self-adhering sun shield removable sticker, and the third self-adhering sun shield removable sticker form self-adhering sun shield assembly when removably-adhered to the windshield to prevent sun glare when in an in-use condition.
US09290081B2
A ventilation cap includes a tube portion, a vent portion, and an upper portion. The tube portion is configured to releasably engage with a vent pipe. The vent portion extends from the tube portion to define a common pathway formed therein. The vent portion has at least three interconnected adjacent sides. Each of the sides includes one or more upright ribs, and multiple contiguous ribs laterally extending from the upright ribs to define openings in fluid communication with the common pathway. The contiguous ribs at one or more sides have an intermediate segment with an increased cross-sectional area. The contiguous ribs taper laterally from the intermediate segment to ends. The upper portion is disposed above the vent portion and connected to an upper end of the upright ribs.
US09290080B1
A hingeless ventilator comprises a frame defining two openings surrounded by a seating rim, which is surrounded by a door recess. A pair of upright sleeves is disposed between the openings, and each upright sleeve defines an exterior track surface. A door is disposed to face the outer surface of the frame and has a main body configured to be selectively positionable to cover and uncover both of the openings and defines a lip surrounding the periphery thereof and extending generally perpendicularly to the main body. Two door struts connected to the door extend through the frame openings and hold a handle that has rollers that are biased against the exterior track surfaces of the sleeves.
US09290079B2
A vehicle heater includes a burner arrangement (12) with a flame tube (16), a heat exchanger housing (18) with a circumferential wall (20), which surrounds the flame tube and thus defines a waste gas backflow space (26) and has a waste gas outlet (38) from the waste gas backflow space. A flow cross section provided between the flame tube and the circumferential wall in a first axial area (33) of the waste gas backflow space is smaller in an outlet area (48) than in an opposite area (50) located opposite the outlet and the flow cross section in the outlet area increases in an expansion area following the first axial area. The flow cross section in a second axial area (35) following the expansion area (52), corresponds essentially to the flow cross section in the opposite area and/or the flow cross section has a stepped increase in the expansion area.
US09290075B2
A coupled torsion beam axle type suspension system may include trailing arms respectively coupled to opposite ends of a torsion beam, and vehicle body-engaging units, each provided in a front end portion of a respective trailing arm and engaging the respective trailing arm with a vehicle body. Each vehicle body-engaging unit may includes a trailing arm bush that is coupled to a front end portion of the respective trailing arm, a link bracket disposed in front of the trailing arm bush and engaged with the trailing arm bush in a width direction of a vehicle, a vehicle body mounting bush disposed outside of the trailing arm bush and in front of the trailing arm bush, installed in the link bracket, and engaged with a lower part of the vehicle body in a height direction of the vehicle; and a damper connected to the link bracket and the vehicle body abutting the vehicle body mounting bush.
US09290074B2
An assembly for supporting a vehicle chassis on a ground engaging element of the vehicle includes a first attachment component for attaching the assembly to the ground engaging element, a second attachment component for attaching the assembly to the chassis and an adjustment component for shifting the first attachment component between a plurality of operating positions relative to the second attachment component. A suspension component is operably interposed between the first attachment component and the second attachment component is configured to regulate motion transfer between the first attachment component and the second attachment component. The suspension component functions independently of the operating position. A locking mechanism mechanically locks the assembly into any of the plurality of operating positions.
US09290068B2
A wheel position detector for a vehicle includes: a transmitter at each wheel having a first controller for generating and repeatedly transmitting a frame with specific identification information and an acceleration sensor; a receiver at a vehicle body receiving the frame from one wheel and having a second controller for performing wheel position detection; and a wheel speed sensor for detecting a tooth of a gear. The second controller acquires gear information indicating a tooth position; sets a variation allowance based on the tooth position; registers the one wheel with using the variation allowance; sets another variation allowance based on another tooth position when the receiver receives a new frame; and changes the variation allowance to a new variation allowance provided by an overlap portion between the variation allowance and another variation allowance.
US09290064B2
In a pneumatic tire, a height from a turned-up edge of a carcass layer is not more than 10 mm, a distance from a tire outer surface to the carcass layer is not less than 50% of the total gauge, a height of the bead filler is from 50% to 80% of a tire cross-section height, a cross-sectional area ratio VB/VR of the bead filler to a side reinforcing layer is not less than 0.4 and not more than 0.6, a hardness HsB of the bead filler is not less than 65 and not more than 80, and the hardness HsR of the side reinforcing layer is not less than 75 and not more than 85, a size relationship between the hardness HsB and the hardness HsR is HsB≦HsR, a value TB of tan δ is not more than 0.06, and a value TR of tan δ is not more than 0.05.
US09290062B2
A tire having two beads, with a toroidal body ply wound about the two beads to form two turn-ups, and two bead fillers, each contacting a bead and are partly enclosed inside a turn-up of the body ply. The bead filler includes a first elastomer ring, which is initially placed flat and between the body ply, and a bead, which is turned up about the bead when forming the corresponding turn-up of the body ply, to bring two opposite ends of the first elastomer ring into close proximity. The bead filler is cured, after being turned up about the bead, to connect the two opposite ends of the first elastomer ring, while at the same time eliminating the air trapped inside the turn-up of the body ply.
US09290061B2
An object is to provide a pneumatic tire with enhanced on-snow performance. On-snow performance is enhanced due to a tire 10 having a tread 12 provided with a shoulder circumferential direction main groove 16 formed with alternating narrow groove-width portions 16A and wide groove-width portions 16B having a wider groove-width than the narrow groove-width portions 16A extending in the tire circumferential direction. The tread 12 is further provided with an intermediate lug groove 32, extending in a direction so as to intersect the shoulder circumferential direction main groove 16 and having a first end portion connected to the shoulder circumferential direction main groove 16. The intermediate lug groove 32 is provided such that one of the wide groove-width portions 16B is positioned on an extension line of the intermediate lug groove 32.
US09290056B2
The pneumatic tire 1 includes a belt layer 14 that is formed by laminating a plurality of belt plies 141 to 145 including the circumferential reinforcing layer 145. Also, the belt layer 14 includes at least two belt plies on the outer side in the tire radial direction of the circumferential reinforcing layer 145. Also, the intercord distances T1 to Tk have a relationship such that T1≦T2≦ . . . ≦Tk and T1
US09290046B2
A low efficiency wheel system and method, the system includes an inner, propelled wheel and an outer wheel circumferentially adjacent the inner wheel. The system includes an efficiency reduction apparatus located between the inner wheel outer circumferential surface and the outer wheel inner circumferential edge to reduce the efficiency of the inner wheel as it transfers motion to the outer wheel. Such efficiency reduction apparatus may include a reducing drive roller assembly, reducing drive gear assembly, bearing assemblies, raceway restrictions, or combinations thereof.
